Clinton Lawyer NOT GUILTY In Russiagate Trial, Trump SLAMS Corrupt Legal System Protecting Democrats
Clinton Lawyer ACQUITTED In Russiagate Trial, Trump SLAMS Corrupt Legal System Protecting Democrats. Liberals argue this proves Trump wrong, conservatives point out Hillary donors were part of the jury pool.
The issue of Russiagate is particularly esoteric but one thing is certain, neither side will accept the results. Democrats cried foul when Trump won in 2016 arguing all the insane theories they could muster, theories about Russia we know to be false.
But now many are awaiting Durham to win some accountability for the right. Unfortunately it seems to not be going so well as Michael Sussman has been found not guilty.
Perhaps the issue is that the country is too divided. As red states get redder and blue states get bluer having a fair trial will be impossible
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Ex-Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussman has been found not guilty in the case where he was accused of lying to the FBI.
The Russiagate investigation did uncover some very serious claims.
One person testified that Clinton signed off on distributing bunk information about Donald Trump colluding with Russia, something we now know to be false with the media.
Will there be any accountability in the swamp?
On the left, they say this proves they were right.
On the right, they say Obama's FBI were co-conspirators and that's why they lost.
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Now, let's get into that first story.
Former Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussman has been found not guilty in the Trump-Russia
trial.
John Durham and his special investigation failed to prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt that this man, Sussman, lied to the FBI to smear Donald Trump with a hoax about Russian collusion.
At least, that's how it's being framed by the mainstream media.
If you take a look over at prominent conservative personalities, they believe the issue was a tainted jury pool.
In DC, it's overwhelmingly Democrat.
In fact, several of the jurors donated to Hillary Clinton.
One person even had a child who went to school with the child of Sussman.
Of course, people are saying, it's the swamp.
It's all corrupt.
I'll tell you the real challenge.
This story is extremely esoteric and hard to understand, and this is what has consistently benefited the swamp.
The story is complicated.
I can give you an overly simplified version.
Hillary Clinton signed off on a plan to leak to the media claims that Donald Trump was colluding with Russia with fake evidence and a fake narrative.
John Durham said, this man, Sussman, lied to the FBI, pretending that he wasn't actually, or I should say, misrepresenting who his clients were when he was working for Clinton.
The issue, however, is apparently the FBI knew the whole time.
Tom Fitton says, the Obama FBI weren't victims, they were co-conspirators.
I don't know how to break this down for the average person, and I have to be honest, I'm probably not the best person to even do so because the story is particularly complicated.
But it is scary.
Hillary Clinton and the campaign pushed an outright lie.
About Donald Trump.
Apparently they wanted an October surprise back in 2016, but Trump still won.
They then pursued the collusion angle to jam up the first term of President Donald Trump, then President Donald Trump, to make him ineffective.
I feel like our system is broken.
Completely broken.
We have a couple other stories that are falling in line with what's happening, and this story is just the best example of cultural collapse.
The culture war, corruption, and dirty politics reaching the highest level of our government.
We also have now clerks for the Supreme Court are alarmed that their phone records are being demanded over the leak of the Supreme Court Justice preliminary ruling on Roe v. Wade.
This is scary stuff.
Let me try and break down for you the story and perhaps the perspective outside of the mainstream narrative as to what was going on with Hillary Clinton and corrupt individuals.
But I want to point out something to you guys.
When Donald Trump was impeached, one of these lawyers who was pursuing the impeachment of Trump tweeted almost immediately after Trump was elected that they were going to impeach him.
Something happened.
Trump broke these people.
And in turn, it is shattering this country.
Our culture is fractured.
It is stagnant.
Now we're hearing Peter Navarro is being subpoenaed by the January 6th Committee.
He's going to be fighting with a lawsuit.
We have a bunch of stories in this vein, and another story about two men who were plotting to bomb a Democratic Party headquarters, the Democratic Party headquarters in San Francisco.
It's tough.
I feel like no one really cares about this.
You know, people I know that follow politics are like, I haven't followed the Sussman trial at all.
If we sit back and ignore this, which, you know, this stuff hasn't been that prominent in the news, what with the world seemingly falling apart, The system is broken.
I'm not sure the midterms will matter all that much if the Republican Party can't do anything about what's going on.
And more importantly, I don't think it matters which side of the fence you're falling on as it pertains to Russiagate Hillary Clinton and the lies of the Democratic and Establishment Uniparty.
What matters is that you have people who just don't care whether it's true or not.
They're going to say it was or wasn't.
Let's read the story from the New York Post and try and break down exactly what's going on.
To better help you understand where we're at, Donald Trump, of course, has responded.
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Here's the story from the New York Post.
Ex-Clinton campaign lawyer Sussman not guilty in Trump-Russia trial.
The verdict reached by jurors drawn from the nation's heavily Democratic party-leaning capital came midway through the second day of deliberations following a two-week trial on a single count of making false statements to a federal agent.
Durham left the courthouse without commenting, but issued a prepared statement a short time later.
Quote, while we are disappointed in the outcome, we respect the jury's decision and thank them for their service.
I also want to recognize and thank the investigators and the prosecution team for their dedicated efforts in seeking truth and justice in this case.
The jury was kept anonymous, but one member, a man, told the Post outside the courthouse the elements weren't met.
Another male juror said the jury took its time considering the case during the total five and a half hours of deliberations.
I wouldn't say it was quick, the juror told the Post.
There were five elements to the charge.
Everyone had disagreements.
Everyone had agreements.
We had to carefully consider all the evidence, all the elements, take all that into account.
Now maybe the story is all overblown by the right.
I don't think so.
I certainly think people on the right expect a whole lot, and it is surprising that anyone would expect anything out of this.
Maybe they really didn't.
There were a lot of op-eds basically saying, in Democrat-heavy D.C., there's no way this guy is going to be convicted, and that is That's the main issue, as far as I can see.
Look, I can't give you a trial breakdown of the extremely esoteric corruption that's been happening since 2016 because the story is so insane the average person can't wrap their head around it.
I can only tell you this.
If you are going to have a trial in a Democrat jurisdiction, and you are seeking something that makes the Democrats look bad, you will not win.
I was talking to a lawyer recently.
We've got some cases of our own in terms of civil issues.
And they said outright, depending on where you file this, Republican or Democrat, it's going to affect the outcome of the case.
And that's it.
That's crazy to me.
That if you're a right-wing personality and you try to have a case to win in a Democrat or left-wing jurisdiction, you're going to lose.
And everyone knows it.
How can our country succeed or persist if this is the case?
Durham's prosecution team sought to prove that Sussman deliberately lied to then-FBI General Counsel James Baker by claiming not to be acting on behalf of the Clinton campaign and an internet executive who the two met in 2016.
During the sit-down at FBI headquarters, Sussman handed over two thumb drives and a number of white papers that purportedly showed a secret communications channel between the Trump Organization and a Kremlin-linked financial institution, Alphabank.
The plan, prosecutors Deborah Britton Shaw said in her opening statement, was for internet researchers to find disparaging information about Trump and Russia, leak the findings to the press, and then for Sussman to lie to the FBI to spark an investigation into the since-discredited information, all in a bid to create an October surprise on behalf of the Clinton campaign.
We are here.
Because the FBI is our institution that shouldn't be used as a political tool for anyone.
Not Republicans, not Democrats, not anyone, Shaw said.
Here's what Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch had to say.
Why did the D.C. jury acquit Sussman?
Politics aside, simplest answer is the evidence which suggested the Obama FBI leadership knew
full well the Clinton gang was behind the Alpha Bank Russia smears of Trump.
Durham tried to pretend Obama FBI was a victim.
It was a co-conspirator.
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Hillary Clinton personally signed off on sharing since-debunked Trump-Russia allegations related to Alfa Bank with the media during the 2016 election, according to her campaign manager.
So hold on.
If Sussman then told the FBI, or misled them as to who he was working for, how do you get acquitted?
I suppose, as Tom Fitton put it.
The FBI knew!
They weren't being lied to because they knew.
It's remarkable when you look at Michael Flynn and how he was accused of lying.
And what the left is now saying is, see, Trump's, the Mueller indictments all got upheld.
But Trump pardoned them, and these are being just poo-pooed and knocked away.
They're being shuttered, shut down.
Clinton campaign manager Robbie Mook testified Friday that he was briefed about the Alfa Bank issue first by Clinton campaign general counsel Mark Elias in the summer of 2016.
He said the campaign leadership quickly had a meeting about whether to share the information with the media, which they decided to do so.
Also present in the meeting were Campaign Chairman John Podesta, Communications Director Jennifer Palmieri, and Policy Advisor Jake Sullivan.
Donald Trump was not colluding with Russia.
The Mueller probe concluded that Rachel Maddow is on the verge of tears, but here we are.
It's absolutely remarkable that we've come to this point where... Let me show you this.
Quote, we are here because the FBI is our institution and shouldn't be used as a political tool for anyone.
Now, Republicans, not Democrats, not anyone.
Sussman's trial was overseen by federal judge Christopher Cooper, who was nominated by former president Barack Obama.
In a pretrial ruling earlier this month, Cooper limited the amount of evidence that Durham's team could introduce to support the notion that Sussman's efforts were part of a joint venture with the Clinton campaign, noting that the defendant is not charged with a conspiracy.
Interesting.
As many as three Clinton donors, including one who also supported Rep.
Ocasio-Cortez, were among the prospective jurors, with Cooper overruling a prosecution request to disqualify one who said he would strive for impartiality as best I can.
Because of the juror's anonymity, it's unclear if any of the Clinton supporters made it onto the panel.
During the trial, Durham's team called 16 witnesses, including Baker, who said he was 100% confident that Sussman told him he was not appearing before me on behalf of any particular client.
Prosecutors also introduced into evidence a text message that Sussman sent to Baker the night prior to the night of September 19, 2016, meaning saying he only wanted to help the FBI.
I read a lot about Ukrainegate and the impeachment trial against Donald Trump.
What we are dealing with, my friends, is a civil war.
I know, I know.
A lot of people are going to roll their eyes.
But what would you call it when one side accuses the right of colluding with Russia, of lying, of manipulating their way into power?
They would call that fighting for power, infiltration, occupation, whatever.
Since 2016, the Democrats had been claiming Trump didn't rightfully win.
Some entertained the notion that Russia actually manipulated voting machines.
In 2018, Democrats came out complaining about voting machines.
What do you call it then?
When the right levies similar accusations against Democrats and Hillary Clinton, and says Obama's FBI were co-conspirators, and then goes on to make a bunch of claims about voter fraud.
Powerful elements at the highest level of our country are fighting desperately for power.
Or it's all one big sham.
I don't know.
That would be particularly conspiratorial.
No, I think they're fighting for power.
At the street level you have violence, civil strife, as Stephen Marsh calls it, the precursor to civil war.
And then we are looking at our political elites fighting tooth and nail to gain power.
Donald Trump has responded.
The Postmillennial reports Trump slams corrupt legal system following acquittal of Michael Sussman.
Our legal system is corrupt, Trump wrote.
He wrote about a lot of things.
Our borders are open.
He says our elections are rigged.
Inflation is rampant.
Gas prices and food costs are through the roof.
Military leadership is woke.
Our country is going to hell.
And Sussman is not guilty.
I think it's funny that he wrote, Sussman is not guilty, because he should have wrote, he was found not guilty.
But let's go through this.
Our borders are open.
Our elections are not rigged in the way that Donald Trump says they are.
But inflation is rampant.
Gas prices and food costs are through the roof.
Military leadership is woke.
Our country is going to hell.
I gotta address that elections are rigged one, because this is the one where YouTube just loses their mind.
Our elections are fought, are hard fought.
It's not as easy as to say you go out and you vote.
That's not true.
There are legal battles all day, every day.
The left says the right is trying to suppress the vote.
Well, I think it's fair to point out, as one meme suggests, you can't claim that you had record voter turnout and voter suppression at the same time.
You can't accuse Republicans of trying to suppress the vote while you consistently have record voter turnout.
And I do think you're seeing record voter turnout, and I do think a large component of that is universal mail-in voting.
That was all done through a legal process.
On the level.
Now, of course, in Pennsylvania, it's since been ruled unconstitutional.
But where were the Republicans?
The Republicans signed off on that deal with Democrats for universal mail-in voting.
Well, there you go.
It was all done on the level until the very end.
People should have been paying more attention.
When I say on the level, through a legal process, again, after the fact in Pennsylvania, they said it was unconstitutional.
We'll see what that leads us to in the future.
Now, here's what I find funny.
Rolling Stone.
Here's the victory lap from the left and Democrats.
Trump's crusade to prove the Russia investigation was fraudulent is collapsing.
Michael Sussman, a former lawyer for Hillary Clinton's campaign, on Tuesday was found not guilty to a single count of lying to the FBI.
It's just a big waste of our time, my friends.
It really is.
A single count of lying to the FBI?
That's it?
That's what Durham was able to muster up?
Trust the plan.
I've been saying this since the end of the election.
And I had a lot of Trump supporters who were mad at me because I said it wasn't rigged.
The enthusiasm against Donald Trump was as high or higher than the enthusiasm for Trump.
You need to understand the power of the media manipulation and the cult.
And there were a lot of people that were blaming COVID on Trump.
They were unhappy.
Now I certainly think there's nonsense that occurs during a lot of these elections.
We saw weird stuff happening with universal mail-in voting in northern Jersey.
I reported on all of this stuff.
And while I think a lot of it needs to be investigated, what I actually see is people who lost.
The Trump supporters and Trump lost.
I don't care what you call it.
Trump did not become president.
And they kept saying things like, trust the plan.
On this day, Trump's going to be reinstated.
Here's the real election date.
None of it panned out.
I don't know what to tell you about the Durham stuff, and I think a lot of people probably won't care about this.
This was a thing that I was contemplating, right?
Do people actually care about something that is overly esoteric and hard to understand?
Now the truth is, I think people would care if it was easy to understand.
And people would understand if, I don't know, we were more invested in these political issues.
I think a lot of people aren't.
I look at this, this story, and I'll put it this way.
I mentioned this last night in the Members Only Show.
Conservatives aren't going off to the border to defend the border because it's nebulous and hard to understand.
They're not going off to California and protesting that they're allowing non-citizens into the country, which gives them more congressional power and electoral college votes.
I think it gave them one in the 2010-2020 census cycle.
They're not doing it because it's hard to understand.
The average person doesn't understand what's going on.
Donald Trump is accused.
They then tell all of the people in the media they lie, cheat, and steal.
They don't tell them that.
They lie, cheat, and steal, telling the people, manipulations, and the people eat it all up.
Here's what I can tell you.
Trump's crusade to prove the Russia investigation, it's not collapsing.
It's effectively been proven.
Hillary Clinton signed off on sharing this debunked information.
The goal was to create an October surprise.
The challenge was proving that this dude lied to the FBI.
I suppose what they're saying is the evidence is the FBI knew this information was coming from the Clinton camp.
Therefore, it didn't matter that he said it.
I think it's insane.
I think it's possible that this country has been bifurcated.
You have people in D.C.
who are not going to be impartial.
They're not going to claim it's jury nullification.
They're just going to say, we're glad they tried to stop Trump.
From the Postmillennial.
Clerks alarmed as officials request cell phone records to find SCOTUS leaker.
Sources familiar with the matter say that the exact language of the affidavits or the time period covered or content sought in the phone records search remains unclear.
As Supreme Court officials continue to escalate their search for the source of early May's leak of a Supreme Court draft opinion that would see the end of the legacy decision Roe v. Wade, those officials have reportedly taken steps to require the court's law clerks provide cell phone records and sign affidavits.
Three individuals with knowledge of these efforts told CNN that some clerks have become so alarmed over the actions that they have begun considering whether to hire outside counsel.
The actions are the most striking development to date in the investigation into who may have leaked the draft opinion document written by Justice Samuel Alito to Politico.
CNN reported that Chief Justice John Roberts met with the law clerks as a group following the breach, but it remains unclear whether individual interviews have been conducted.
Lawyers outside of the court warn that potential inquiries into phone records may be intrusive to clerks' personal activities outside of the disclosure to media, and say they may feel the need to obtain independent counsel.
Everything's just being ripped apart, isn't it?
Is that what's happening?
happening?
Mark Joseph Stern says, if any law enforcement official ever asks you to hand over your phone
or phone records without a warrant, the answer is no.
And talk to my lawyer.
Supreme Court clerks know that better than most.
But what happens when they go to the phone company and say, hand over your records?
So if you're not using encryption, well, that's where we're heading.
As the political conflict escalates, we get another story.
Former Trump aide Peter Navarro says he has received a grand jury subpoena related to January 6th.
He claims they have asked for records of any communications with the former president.
In a draft lawsuit that Navarro began circulating Monday, the former Trump trade adviser said two FBI special agents banged loudly on my door in the early morning hours on May 26 and served him a subpoena signed by Matthew Graves, the U.S.
Attorney for Washington, D.C.
Novarro declined to provide a copy of the subpoena and claimed in the draft lawsuit that it was connected to his refusal to testify to the January 6th Select Committee, which issued a congressional subpoena for his testimony in February.
The House in April recommended that the Justice Department charge Novarro with contempt of Congress.
But it would be unusual if a grand jury subpoena were related to his potential contempt case, since he would likely be the target of such a probe and less likely to be asked for testimony.
Another select committee witness, Steve Bannon, was charged with contempt last year for refusing to comply with a congressional subpoena.
He did not receive a grand jury subpoena before his charges were filed.
Navarro, who is not represented by a lawyer, said he intends to file his proposed lawsuit, an 88-page complaint that lists Graves, the select committee, and Speaker Nancy Pelosi among the defendants on Tuesday morning.
According to Navarro, the grand jury subpoena directs him to appear for June 2nd testimony and to produce any documents that would shed light on his refusal to testify to congressional investigators in February.
The demand for documents, he says, include records of any contacts he had with Trump or the former president's attorneys.
The January 6th Committee, in my opinion, the goal is to drain the resources and cause political damage.
This is a political civil war, and I believe it's possible that it will escalate to something more serious, but perhaps we're in a more refined period.
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And because of mass communication, these individuals like Navarro and like Nancy Pelosi know that they have to engage in a battle of wits, as it were.
That you can't go in enraged and just cane someone like what happened in the 18th... I think it was like 1860.
Or actually, I think it was well before 1860.
Or was it a few years before?
I'm not sure.
They know that how they appear to the public will determine how much support they have.
And until there's an actual conflict, they want to maximize their support.
To be honest, everybody wants to maximize their support.
There is a battle of elites happening.
That's what the suspect trial represents.
It represents that you're not going to win against these people in DC.
That's their territory.
Asking the supporters of Hillary Clinton to do anything to make her look bad is laughable.
Then what's the point of all of this?
I don't know, man.
But I do think it's certainly escalating to dangerous territory.
Second man pleads guilty and planned to attack Democratic Party headquarters in Sacramento.
I was reading an article that said that we are in a period not seen since before the Civil War.
Now, many people like to point out to me that I mention Civil War very often.
I do, certainly.
I mean, what would you call all of this?
Do you think this is just typical political bickering?
When I talk to older people, boomers, And even older people like Navarro himself, but not him specifically, but when I talk to older people and I say, has it ever been this bad?
And they say, no.
It's never been this bad, no.
I'm like, what about the Weather Underground?
They were bombing stuff.
Yeah, but they were a fringe group.
The country fought, but it wasn't like this!
In our lifetimes, they tell me it's never seemed this bad.
They're trying to lock up each other.
That's how you be warned about this.
The phase in which two vehicles are seen rushing towards Capitol Police, two people jump out, run up to the chief and say, arrest that man while pointing at each other.
That's where we're going.
Maybe you'll say Donald Trump started it.
He said that if it were up to him, you know, if he was president, Hillary Clinton would be in jail because you'd be in jail, he said, and everyone cheered.
But at the same time, Hillary Clinton was pushing fabricated information that Trump was colluding with Russia for an October surprise to try and win an election.
It didn't work.
But that's insane!
And since then, everything has continually degraded.
We started off with a culture war.
I think Donald Trump was a symptom of the culture war.
When I traveled around to Trump rallies and talked to young people, they said the same thing.
Political correctness.
They were tired of wokeness, they were tired of all of it, and they liked Trump.
Now where are we?
People have been killed.
The worst riots we've seen in 50 years.
Clinton lawyers acquitted, yet an admission that Clinton signed off on this stuff?
Fox 40 says the U.S.
Department of Justice announced that Ian Benjamin Rogers pleaded guilty Friday to being involved in a conspiracy to bomb the Democratic Party headquarters in Sacramento.
The DOJ said Rogers also pleaded guilty to weapons violations, including one count of possession of unregistered destructive devices and a count of possessing an illegal machine gun.
Rogers, a 46-year-old from Napa, was one of two men involved in the plot.
Jared Copeland, a 38-year-old, had already pleaded guilty to conspiracy and destruction of records.
According to court documents, Rogers was arrested in January of 2021 following a search of his home and business.
Copeland, a Vallejo resident, was arrested in Sacramento in July.
For all we know, it's bogus.
We saw what happened in Michigan.
You get a couple of dumb guys.
You tell them that, you know, the FBI contacts them and tells them stupid nonsense.
They get them to believe they're talking to someone who agrees, and they egg them on, tell them to say stuff, and then arrest them for it.
I read a story from 2017 about a guy who was a depressed Muslim.
And he was watching a bunch of Islam, you know, ISIS videos and stuff like that, and he started posting photos and videos.
He was depressed, though, and he started getting contacted by some women on social media who were trying to tell him that they wanted to commit jihad and that he should, and he kept saying, no, you can't do that, you can't hurt other people.
He said he wanted to take his own life.
And they said, no, no, you have to commit jihad, and he said, no.
He doesn't want to hurt anyone.
Well, they couldn't coax this guy into committing an act of terror, so what did they do?
They arrested him on a gun charge because he had been pulled over with a gun and with marijuana.
They were trying to set this guy up.
We know the FBI does this.
It's creepy.
I don't know what's happening to this country, but I can tell that it's being ripped apart, consistently.
I warned in 2018 when people were talking about Antifa vs. Proud Boys.
I said, what happens when this conflict reaches the highest level of government?
It is not like a Proud Boy goes to an FBI agent, shakes his hand and says, I want you to adhere to my ideology.
What happens is that young people grow up consuming media and then become FBI agents.
And it would seem now that the latest generation of FBI agents have Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Or at the very least, the ones that don't are too scared to speak up.
Which you need to.
There have been some FBI agents who have blown the whistle to Project Veritas.
That's fantastic.
We need more people to stand up and say, no.
Because if you don't, It's gonna get worse.
I don't know how much worse it could get, but it could be full-blown conflict or civil war.
We don't want that.
We don't want this.
Yo, look, let Democrats have their party headquarters, man.
I think they're bad people, mostly.
The establishment Democrats.
But you don't do this.
This doesn't help you.
This makes everything worse.
It's like I said, the elites are engaged in a civil war.
But it's a fourth and fifth generational civil war.
As I often say, I know.
They're fighting for your mind.
They know they need to keep up appearances.
Now I think the truth, the reality has a conservative bias.
Or I should say, not necessarily conservative, but a right-leaning bias.
The left likes to call me right-wing for saying something like that, but the issue is those who hold liberal values tend to also believe fake news.
They believe Jussie Smollett.
They believe the Covington hoax.
They believe the Ukrainegate hoax.
They believe the Russiagate hoax.
And I think about this often when I see people, you know, responding to this case about Sussman.
And they're saying, look at Michael Flynn.
You know, Trump had to pardon all of these guys who were convicted.
But with Hillary, her people are being acquitted.
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I'm like, that doesn't prove what you think it proves.
Ahmaud Arbery, that's a narrative that persists because conservatives even embrace it.
It's tough to know.
It is.
The hardest thing for me is seeing this story break about Sussman and knowing that it is likely too difficult to understand for the average person.
Suffice to say, Hillary Clinton signed off on sending bunk information to the media to frame Trump.
One of the lawyers for her campaign lied to the FBI.
Allegedly, went to the FBI.
And there's text messages.
And the FBI testified that this person misrepresented themself.
But apparently, because the FBI knew.
That's why Tom Fitton said they were co-conspirators.
Man.
Dark days indeed.
Maybe it all stops now.
I don't believe it.
But maybe they're really losing.
Maybe the Sussman thing is just... who cares?
We need to get an expert on Tim Katz to talk about it because like UkraineGate and like many of these stories, they are so esoteric that the average person cannot even begin to fathom the depravity of some of these individuals in the depths of this story.
They simply just say Trump is lying.
He's desperate.
Maybe Durham is just there to placate Trump supporters.
I warned about that too.
That what's going to happen is you're going to see someone like Durham.
He's going to push the investigation.
He's going to come out with indictments.
All the people on the right are going to feel satisfied that something is happening, and then nothing happens.
But it defangs the right.
We'll see how this develops.
I'll leave it there.
Next segment is coming up at 8 p.m.
over at youtube.com slash timcast IRL.
Thanks for hanging out, and I'll see you all then.
Last night we heard from Justin Trudeau in Canada that there's going to be a bill put forward to freeze handgun ownership, meaning you can't buy, sell, trade, or import, and it would introduce mandatory gun buyback legislation.
In this announcement, Trudeau says that outside of being at the range or, you know, sports, no one needs a gun.
Okay, well, someone immediately posted a video of an encounter in Canada where a man on a snowmobile was attacked by a moose.
It's so very Canadian, right?
The moose is on the trail, the guy's yelling at it, and the moose actually jumps up and attacks the guy.
So he pulls out his gun, he fires one shot, probably a warning, probably hitting the moose, but the moose keeps charging so he unloads, disabling the moose before taking off.
So yeah, there's a real reason, outside of any political context, why someone would need a weapon.
This is outright shocking legislation, but ladies and gentlemen, I want to explain to you why you You do need a firearm.
You do need one.
And I think everybody who can have one should have one.
I think you should be trained properly to have one.
And of course, you can tell by the title of this video, you're wondering what this has to do with Batman.
Batman, my friends, is the reason why you need to have a firearm.
Okay, now that you're confused a little bit, granted, the title probably explained everything to you, we have this story from Bounding Into Comics.
Batman flees Antifa and Black Lives Matter-style riots in new comic.
These places, quote, these places all have insurance, not my job to protect their profit margins.
That's not reality.
And perhaps Batman comics don't matter all that much.
I can admit that.
That's not the point I'm trying to make.
What I'm saying is that you are seeing a clear element in our culture that is enabling violence, riots, destruction that will target you and your private business.
Because you have insurance, right?
This is what we saw during the George Floyd riots, and this is the simplest reason people need weapons.
It's fascinating when the left says, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I always do that.
When liberals, but granted there are many leftists who are prominent and anti-gun, but it is amazing when they come out and say there's no reason to have a gun as if someone else having a gun is the only reason you would need a gun.
The argument is, in contexts of violent riots, you wouldn't need a weapon because they wouldn't have a weapon either.
So if the person attacking you doesn't have a gun, you don't need a gun?
Yeah, no, that's not true.
A gun is an effective means of self-defense.
If someone has a baseball bat and is charging at you full speed, it doesn't matter what you use to defend yourself, protect yourself from someone who's attempting to cause you physical harm.
If you have a store and someone is smashing up the windows or setting fires, and they're threatening the lives of innocent people, Well, acting in defense of others is self-defense.
I will stress, the last thing we want to see are armed vigilantes going out and confronting violent rioters.
The police should be doing their job, shutting the stuff down.
But in the Black Lives Matter riots, the George Floyd riots, what did we see?
Between 20, I think it was like 26 and 32 dead.
David Dorn.
Y'all know his story.
He was responding to an alarm at his friend's pawn shop.
They put a bullet in his chest for a TV.
And this is the cultural development.
Let me read for you a little bit about this Batman stuff.
But again, the issue itself isn't Batman.
It's the cultural shift.
It's the ideas being put out that needs to be countered.
DC Comics continues to cycle not only the creative drain, but the moral drain as well with their latest Batman comic, Batman Fortress No.
1, which sees Batman flee from an Antifa and Black Lives Matter-style riot.
The comic is written by Gary Whitta, with artwork by The Boys Derek Robertson, sees Batman investigating an alien interference that causes global blackouts.
As Batman attempts to figure out what is the cause of the blackouts, he is also called on to protect Gotham City after the entirety of the prisoners in Arkham Asylum are unleashed upon the innocent citizens.
Batman's first stop is to a rooftop overlooking an electronics store that is being looted with neighboring buildings, some of them appearing to be apartments being set on fire.
The rioters are even shown waving blunt objects in the air.
Batman rationalizes that he shouldn't put a stop to the rioters because there are more than likely bigger fish to catch out in Gotham City, despite having no knowledge of where these big fish might be given the power and communication blackouts.
Witter writes Batman's interior monologue.
Quote, haven't seen a night like this in a while.
Last time it was this bad was with that damn fear gas in the water supply.
Only so much I can do.
Need to prioritize.
Hunt the big fish, protect the little fish.
These places all have insurance.
Not my job to protect their profit margins.
In my father's day, the American dream used to mean something.
An honest wage for honest work.
Food on the table.
Liberty and justice for all.
Now it's an illusion.
A carrot on a stick, attainable by a few, dangled just out of reach of everyone else.
A bigger TV, a faster car, a shiny object to keep the masses distracted while the world burns.
You want to blame them for grabbing the carrot when the lights go out?
Go ahead.
But don't look to me to stop them.
That's not why I do this, he concludes.
It's a culture war, my friends.
This is the message they're trying to send to young children.
They're just trying to get the carrots!
Look at that.
Wayne Enterprises UHD TV.
He doesn't care.
Here's the reality.
This is not what the protests and the riots were.
They were targeting small businesses.
They were targeting families.
The famous moment when a firefighter who built his dream sports bar had it ransacked and destroyed, on camera crying, saying it was his dream.
And as they were interviewing him, people were looting his building and stealing his safe.
The next day, the whole building was destroyed by the riders, burnt to the ground.
Now this guy ultimately ended up raising a million bucks.
I'm glad he was able to.
He was a firefighter.
He's a good working guy.
And he saved up money to have his dream sports bar.
He wanted to hang out with his friends, have a good time, and have a laugh.
Provide a good service relief for the common man and they burnt it to the ground and this is the ideology behind it
I'm not here to protect profit margins as if all of these businesses are
wealthy You can see here, Big Buy is one of the stores, as if they're trying to make it look like Best Buy, and he's saying, I don't care.
I'm not completely opposed to the messaging to a certain degree, right?
If, look, if you are trying to save people's lives, you're not going to prioritize a Best Buy.
That I understand.
But, what you need to understand as well, they're trying to frame it in this comic as though Best Buy was the only thing being looted when the majority of businesses that were targeted were small businesses.
Which brings me to the shocking moment shoplifters ransack Sephora store in Los Angeles and fill trash bags with beauty products before calmly walking away as employees look on helplessly.
This is what's happening.
Trudeau, I don't know about what's going on in Canada.
Maybe everybody's too polite, and they don't have these problems.
Pretty sure that's not the case.
I'm pretty sure they do have problems, but the country is substantially smaller in population than the U.S.
Regardless, it's kind of laughable that they're gonna put a freeze on handguns.
They're trying to, and do a buyback for AR-15s.
When you have people who live in moose country, sure.
Here in the U.S., we need to pay attention because Canada is very similar to us, but they don't have the same protections.
Quebec probably would have been better off if they joined the original 13 colonies and declared independence, but they didn't want to do it.
Did you know that Quebec was asked to be the 14th colony?
They were a colony of Britain and the Crown.
And they were like, nah, we're good.
We ain't joining your fight for independence.
So, they could be America, too.
And they could have their own independence.
But, you know, they're more so French, so I guess they didn't really care all that much.
Well, here you go.
In Canada, you have people whose doors were kicked in by police.
They were people during COVID.
The cops showed up and they were like, how many people are in this building?
And there was like five people.
And they're like, if there's six people, and they storm in and they like grab a guy and they throw him to the ground, they're arresting people.
This is what happens with a disarmed population.
When we talk about violent riots, you have people who are ransacking stores.
Okay, fine.
Sephora.
Who cares about their profit margins, I guess, right?
That point, I will accept.
At a time of great strife, I'm not going to sit here and defend Best Buy and Sephora.
My bigger concern is, are you enabling the rioting that destroys the small business?
Most businesses are small businesses.
There's very few large chains, for obvious reason, because they're large chains.
So, when you see an electronics store, and it's in every major city, there's a lot of them, and they're one big chain.
Well, there's only one of those.
But a lot of these stores are small businesses.
What's happening is, they're destroying the ability of small business owners via COVID lockdowns, destroying the economy, and then supporting, encouraging, or defending, downplaying the extremism of the violent riots.
It results in people having their stores ransacked and looted.
And then how is a small business supposed to open?
The reality is, when these big stores get ransacked and destroyed, it trickles down.
Small businesses getting ransacked and destroyed can't reopen.
These big businesses can.
So what's gonna happen?
When Batman says they have insurance, yeah, the small businesses can't recover from that.
But the big businesses can.
So when the idea culturally is that a superhero says, I have no interest in stopping these riots because they have insurance anyway, an idea that we've seen pushed by the left and Antifa, you destroy the small business and you prop up major corporate power.
And that's the direction we're heading in.
It's kind of scary when you think about it.
And this is why I think ultimately, you do want to have guns.
Because someday, someone might try to attack you and destroy you and hurt you and your family.
And that's it.
They show these images in the comic of people with baseball bats.
Does a baseball bat mean you don't need a gun?
No.
A baseball bat means you do need one.
But again, that's the argument they make, right?
That if we ban all guns, then you wouldn't need one because they wouldn't have one either.
At least that's what they've been saying online.
It's funny because after this tragedy in Uvalde, you've got many people on the left trying to push for gun control or police reform, and you've got basically everyone agreeing the police screwed this one up royally.
In Canada, the legislation comes a week after a gunman used an AR-15 to kill 19 at a Texas elementary school and two teachers.
Trudeau's Bill C-21 would also take away firearms licenses of those involved in domestic violence incidents or criminal harassment, including stalking.
The government will also require long gun magazines to be permanently altered so they can never hold more than five rounds, and will ban the sale and transfer of large capacity magazines.
Canada making moves, following a U.S.
news story.
I wonder.
I wonder if the people of Canada are going to accept this extreme degree of gun control, especially considering how much wilderness territory there is with bears and moose and whatever else.
I think if it weren't for the Second Amendment, if it weren't for people like you or I, Joe Biden would enact his psychotic gun control legislation.
A lot of people on the left like to point to European countries and Australia and say, see, gun control works!
And I'm like, yeah, gun control works.
You also had that quarantine camp set up in Australia where they took indigenous teenagers and locked them up because of suspected COVID cases and they tried to escape and had to flee and became fugitives of these totally voluntary quarantine relocation centers.
Let me tell you why you need guns.
You do not need guns, for the most part, because there will come a time where you are fighting the government.
No, don't.
That's not why you should use guns, but there may come a time where there are instances.
Let me rephrase that.
This idea of fighting tyranny, it is not the idea that a bunch of good old boys take their guns and say, we need to fight back against the government.
No, no, no, that's not what it's about.
In the event that, I don't know, police start actually just gunning people down and you may see civil war, okay, sure, I guess.
There can be no civil war in the event that there's a disarmed population.
Well, that's actually not true.
I was going to say a disarmed population means no civil war, but that's not the case.
Civil war erupts when state-level governmental factions actually fight with each other.
Actually, I would say the opposite.
Gun rights actually are more likely to prevent civil war because it makes everybody recognize who knows who's armed.
If it's just the government and the government breaks with itself, you get civil war.
Let me tell you the real reason for why you need guns.
Outside of the Batman stuff.
It's because of the Breonna Taylor situation.
Breonna Taylor was sleeping in her bed with her boyfriend when there was a knock at the door.
At least that's the best understanding we can come up with.
We've heard from the police.
They yelled repeatedly to open the door and no one did.
Because no one did, the police then kicked the door open.
Broke the door open.
They may have used a battering ram.
Brenda Taylor and her boyfriend were standing in the hallway hearing the banging when the door busts open and her boyfriend uses his defensive weapon and fires on those police officers.
Striking one in the leg.
Causing, I believe it was a femoral bleed.
And we had that gentleman on Timcast IRL.
Could have killed him.
And he actually told us he agrees with the right of self-defense for people in their home.
He gets it.
You know, but there's, you know, you got to understand the full story.
I thought it was a great segment.
I thought it was a great interview.
The fact that police know that if they break into your home The fact that they could get shot and this guy had the charges dropped is a deterrent in and of itself that is powerful and needs to be maintained.
In places where they don't have that right, we see these videos in the UK of the police just storming in people's homes.
We see the videos out of Australia.
They're overtly violating the constitutional rights of these individuals or the legal human rights of these individuals in these countries.
And then we see people say, you violated their human rights, and they go, yeah, well, we'll see you in court.
In the United States, police are worried.
They all set up a perimeter saying, I don't want to get shot.
You know, I can tell you this.
If there's one thing to point out with the Uvalde shooting, these police officers who were refusing to go in because they could get shot, well, that's sad and pathetic.
But there's something else that needs to be pointed out.
If the police are unwilling to get shot, they would be unwilling to enforce the suspension of an individual's rights if they're armed.
That's it?
The police are called to go and seize a man's guns without due process and they say, No way!
We might get shot!
Hey!
How about that?
The police are told to go and maybe seize property of any type without due process.
And they say, The guy's armed.
We're not going in.
There you go.
It doesn't mean they won't try to enforce.
It doesn't mean that they won't cut off supplies or surround the property.
But you know what's fascinating is you take a look at Waco.
I actually went down to Waco this past, not this last weekend, the weekend before, to Mount Carmel, where the ATF and the FBI massacred a bunch of kids, burned buildings down, killed a bunch of people.
And, uh, they were worried about getting shot, sort of, but they weren't that worried because they knew it was a risk to the job.
Granted, they went nuts and massacred a bunch of women and children, and men, women, and children.
But nowadays, I wonder if something like that could happen.
Ruby Ridge or Waco.
Because law enforcement is gonna be like, yeah, we're too scared that we'll get shot, so we're not gonna go in.
Maybe the real problem is, though, they were scared they would get shot, so that's why they burned the place down.
Now it's disputed as to whether or not they burned the place down.
I think most people believe they did.
The FBI's argument is that the people in those buildings set fire to themselves.
Now that I'm hearing great things about Top Gun Maverick, I'm kind of feeling like, man, I should have gone see Top Gun Maverick.
But anyway.
I didn't care to see it.
I've not seen Top Gun.
And we went to the movies and nobody was there.
No joke.
Nobody was there.
The building was basically empty.
I think I saw like 10 people total on a Saturday night.
We walk outside.
It's this big shopping center.
We played billiards before.
We went to Pool Hall.
Nobody was there.
Maybe like 20 or 30 people in this massive pool hall that has a capacity of several hundred.
And then I'm just like, where is everyone?
We went to an ice cream shop.
And we were asking the hours.
Like, one day we showed up and you were closed.
Even the hours say that you were open.
They're like, we're short-staffed.
We can't be open.
Wow.
So where is everybody?
I was like, where are the people to work?
Where are the people to go to the movies?
No, seriously.
We went down to Winchester, Virginia to Old Town.
That was cool.
Bought a bunch of old retro games.
It was a bit more crowded there.
A lot of people were just sitting outside.
And I wondered to myself, where is everyone?
This doesn't make sense.
Where are the people?
If they're not working, because they don't want to work, because there's not enough money, why aren't they going out and seeing movies?
Or doing anything?
Maybe they have no money, I guess, so they're all at home?
Wouldn't they be outside doing something?
And then I thought about it after seeing all this stuff, you know, maybe people are.
Maybe they're out at the park.
Maybe they don't need money.
Maybe they're just like, I don't need to work because I have enough money saved up.
I don't know.
You know, this is what doesn't, what doesn't make sense to me is that you still got to pay rent and you still got to eat.
So where are the people who are working to pay rent and eat?
No idea.
Some people have mentioned different areas of their towns are crowded or whatever.
Everything seems desolate.
Are people just sitting inside their houses playing video games and wasting away?
Maybe.
Maybe that's what's happening, I honestly have no idea.
But I think what we need in our civilization is to get away from the material gluttony and to get back to physical activity.
We should be finding joy in... play some Ultimate Frisbee.
Go for a hike.
Don't go and get a TV and a video game.
Don't riot and loot.
I think we have a lost generation coming.
I was reading an article about Leah Thomas, the transgender swimmer who says that they just want to be their true selves and they're going to compete and they don't care about anybody else, blah, blah, blah.
And I said, this is an example of the egotism and narcissism plaguing the younger generation.
I tweeted about it.
Hopefully I triggered a bunch of weirdos, I guess.
I was seeing that, and then I saw this article about Batman, and I'm just like, man, we are facing extreme cultural decay.
Burn it down.
Destroy it all.
I wonder what's going to happen to people.
We have a drought in California.
They're saying water rationing.
We have a major energy shortage.
Diesel is going to go up to six bucks.
There's a food shortage, a baby formula shortage.
I wonder if people are going to lose their minds in riot.
I wonder what that means for you, with the food shortages, with now the housing markets collapsing, so I hope you're ready for this one.
I wasn't so sure, you know, because the cost of materials being so high, but what's happening is that nobody can buy houses, so the prices are dropping, which means people are going to lose a lot of their investment.
We'll see how this plays out.
But I have to wonder a few things.
Is it surprising to anybody that the people who are advocating for Lowering the population growth.
Also advocate for things like sterilizing kids.
Vote for people who enact policy that destroy the economy and stagnate growth.
I'm not surprised by it, whether intentional or otherwise, right?
So I wonder what this will mean for us come August, right before the midterms.
If it does fall into chaos, if you, you know, you do find yourself in a city disarmed and being threatened by rioters, will you vote Republican or Democrat?
I don't know.
But I do think it's funny that this Antifa narrative has seeped into Batman.
I'll leave it there.
Next segment's coming up at 1pm on this channel.
Thanks for hanging out, and I'll see you all then.
You will own nothing, and you will be happy.
Man, I couldn't believe it when I saw this story.
Kids to explore eating bugs to gauge appetite for alternative protein.
Well, I'll tell you this.
Ian and I explored alternative protein.
We ordered cricket flour, and we made a bread with it.
Suffice it to say, it was not delicious.
But if I had to eat it, I'd eat it.
I'll tell you this, man.
When there's no food, you're going to enjoy eating the bugs because you will have no choice.
Now, for this segment, I was torn between a story about some guy pleading guilty to wanting to bomb a Democrat office, which was shocking, or the continued collapse of our supply chain and economy.
And I gotta be honest, it was a difficult choice.
The challenge with this segment is that there's just too much.
I didn't know what to talk about.
Violence, perhaps?
Well, the thing about the violence segment is that there's actually big developments politically around Sussman, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, Peter Navarro.
And I thought that that angle all goes together.
And civilizational collapse.
We've got we've got many, many stories.
Joe Biden says job growth may diminish by two thirds as economy transitions to a period of stable growth.
Stable growth, he says.
Okay, let me spell it out for you.
With the COVID lockdown, the suspension of our economy, the economy tanked.
It did not recover fully.
It is now going to diminish once again and not recover fully.
It has been stunted.
We have gas prices through the roof, fuel shortages underway.
So when I tell you that they are going to have children eat bugs, This is a trial for all of us, and for you.
So I hope you're prepared to eat the bugs, because you will own nothing, and you will be happy.
You know, I made this point last night.
I tweeted about it.
Have you noticed that everyone is moving towards subscriptions?
I tweeted about that because I went to the movies, and at the movie theater, it said, subscribe to the movie theater and see unlimited movies every month.
21 bucks or something like that.
It might have been 14, maybe it was 21.
And I just thought, man, why would you subscribe to the movies?
How often do you go to the movies?
I go to the movies, like, once every few months.
But then I thought about the subscription model.
Everything's going subscription.
People are growing accustomed to owning nothing.
and they'll be happy. We used to own music. We used to buy CDs. And then everything went digital.
Then people would buy MP3s. Now you just spend 5-10 bucks a month for your online streaming
music service and you just get access to the entirety of the library. Interesting, isn't it?
People are growing accustomed to having a monthly deduction from their account in exchange for the services as they see fit, as opposed to point-by-point sales.
I don't know if that means anything.
Maybe it's a natural phenomenon, because subscriptions are a lot better.
You can budget better.
I mean, we do subscriptions at TimCast.com.
We don't charge you per members-only video you want to watch.
We just say, subscribe, and we'll put all the content up there.
But I think we're heading to a place where you will own nothing and you will be happy.
Here's the story from Metro.co.uk, and then we'll get into all of the crisis stuff.
The fuel shortage, the lack of food.
School children are used to eating hot dinners, such as fish and chips, spaghetti, bolognese, and lasagna.
But children at four primary schools in Wales are set to take part in workshops organized by scientists and teachers to inform them about the benefits of eating alternative protein, like bugs.
These will include plant-based foods and may involve edible insects depending on whether they have received novel food approval by the Food Standards Agency.
These will be in the form of conventional mints, which combine plant-based alternative protein.
A study in the Journal of Cleaner Production found insect farms emit 75% less carbon than poultry farms.
As people in the UK look towards more sustainable diets, doubters of an insect-based diet will be pleased to know edible bugs are rich in protein, antioxidants, vitamins, and other nutrients.
The project starts this week and aims to better understand children's understanding of alternative proteins.
It will use surveys, workshops, interviews, and focus groups to explore this.
Researchers have teamed up with teachers and hope that 4 to 11 year olds will be willing to try just some of the more exotic foods.
Ah, look at this.
The diet is already popular across many countries in Europe.
Yes, everybody's doing it.
Don't you remember when everyone was eating the locusts?
Don't you want to pluck a bug off the side of your garage and just pop it in your mouth?
I would strongly recommend against that.
I saw a story once of this dude who, on a dare, ate a slug.
Haha, it was funny.
I think he, like, dropped it in his beer and then chugged it or something like that.
Yeah, he died.
He got a parasite.
I think the parasite went into his brain, and he didn't realize, and no one knew why he was sick, and then he died.
I think he became, like, sickly and paralytic first, and then the parasite killed him.
Or maybe it just paralyzed him, I'm not sure.
Maybe he didn't die.
So, uh, you don't want to be eating bugs off the ground.
When the whole cicada thing was going on...
There was a restaurant not too far away from where we are here in the Tri-State, the Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia area, where this guy was serving cicada tacos, and everyone was like, this is so great, and they were eating them.
And then someone filmed him showing how he prepared it, and he went outside and was just plucking the bugs off the side of his building, and then frying them.
And what was it, like the FDA or something said, or maybe it was the USDA, I don't know.
You can't just serve bugs off the ground to people at your restaurant.
Sorry, you're not allowed to do that.
They gotta get it normalized.
And they know it's very, very difficult.
So here we go.
Although edible insects are, for now, not sold widely in the UK, they form part of the diet of around 2 billion people worldwide.
Yes, 2 billion poor people.
So what they're saying is, you will loan nothing, and you will be happy.
But perhaps you're saying, Tim, this will not happen here.
We have a culture that enjoys the finer cuisines.
I believe you're incorrect.
We've seen the spiking fertilizer costs.
You're like, I'm not gonna eat the bugs, I'll just eat the vegetables.
Maybe there won't be any.
Maybe we won't have any vegetables.
Maybe you're going to have to eat the bugs.
So let me give a shout out to the sponsor of today's segment, SafeAndReadyMeals.com.
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I'm not a big fan.
Personally of doing a lot of promos for emergency food, but considering I- I- I- You know what guys?
It was really difficult to decide on what was the lead story for this segment.
Is it the major fuel shortage that's coming?
And the lack of diesel and the spiking prices that will result in a food shortage and crisis?
Is it the lack of fertilizer from the war?
Is the banning of Russian oil?
Or is it the fact that children are eating bugs?
I had to go with the kids eating bugs one, I guess.
But I'm just looking at all these stories, and we've already had food shortages.
We've got a local sports bar out here.
Well, I shouldn't call it local, but it's a small chain.
And I went there a few months ago and ordered wings.
And I was politely informed they didn't have any.
I said, sorry, we don't have chicken wings.
And then I said, why?
And they said, well, there's a shortage.
I was like, what do you mean there's a shortage?
Like, well, there's, you know, I think, what was the shorty I just, uh, is it this one right here?
Tens of thousands of chickens killed in Wright County egg farm fire.
Well, it's just tens of thousands, yes, but there were also millions of chickens that were culled due to disease.
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They store for up to 25 years.
You put them in your closet.
You forget about them.
I have a ton.
I recently bought a ton more.
People always yell, Tim, don't tell anybody you have any... Okay, yeah, I don't know, man.
We also have security.
But I bought the stuff, so I genuinely think it is fair to shout it out.
Now, I want to give a shout-out to all of my good friends, the naysayers, the urban liberals, who don't garden, don't farm, don't have chickens, and mock the idea of having emergency food.
This I just do not understand.
We got chickens over in Chicken City.
We got a bunch of them.
They lay eggs every day.
We eat them.
It's great.
Now, we're giving the chickens feed.
You know, you buy the layer feed or whatever, but you could also just give them bugs.
You put wood on the ground, planks, and then every day you pick them up and the chickens run and eat all the bugs.
You let them graze in a field for a little while and they basically collect little bugs and grass and other vegetables that, you know, like plants and clover or whatever they eat, and they make eggs for you every day.
That's fantastic.
Who are these people in these cities who are like, everything's fine, you got nothing to worry about?
This is what is truly shocking to me.
Have you seen enough yet?
I'm not telling you you have to buy this, I'm just saying I have some, I recommend it, and when you buy from Safe and Ready Meals, you're helping support the work we do here.
But let me show you more.
Joe Biden says job growth may be diminished by two-thirds as economy transitions.
Is that what he's calling it?
A transition?
Fuel prices are already at record highs.
I don't know what will happen.
I mean, it is funny that you see California, Illinois, and New York have it the worst.
West Virginia is fairly neutral, but $4.68 to $4.43 in West Virginia, Virginia, and Maryland.
That's what we're dealing with.
Pennsylvania is a little bit higher.
In Illinois, it's over $6.
In New York, between, I'm sorry, not over $6, it's between $4.80 and $6.
This is, oh man, it's getting crazy.
I think it was end of 2020.
We were in New Jersey.
That's where we had our studio in South Jersey.
And when the COVID lockdown stuff happened, we started talking about how do we get out of here.
So I was looking at buying a facility for expanding the business in New Jersey.
I was like, come on, you know, we got to do something.
New Jersey, you can do this!
Millennials were leaving like crazy.
Well, New Jersey was a bad idea in the first place.
But I was trying to stay close enough to big, you know, East Coast cities so that, you know, for industry purposes.
We ultimately decided to come out to Western Maryland, West Virginia area.
And this was because the lockdowns had gotten so serious that we were like, we shouldn't be here anymore.
And we were intending on heading down here.
Once we got everything set up, we had no internet.
We had just really crap, like 10 megabits up or something really low.
And then I decided, you know what?
I'm going to come out anyway.
And we had to do some recon to see if we would be able to do Timcast IRL here.
And so we built a studio very quickly over a weekend and we came out to get away from basically everything falling apart.
It has been two years since the beginning of this crisis and it has not improved, which is what is the most shocking thing to me, is that we're now being told From the New York Post, U.S.
summer fuel shortages could be worse than the 1970s oil crisis.
It's funny when, you know, I'll make some hypothetical prediction, you know, if so-and-so does X, then we might see Y. We could actually see a 50-state landslide for Trump if X, Y, and Z. And for sure.
Maybe a little hyperbolic, maybe way off.
That's fine.
But when you live in two years of crisis, I don't understand how there are people in cities who are telling me I'm crazy for promoting safeandreadymeals.com.
That's their mockery.
They're like, oh how the mighty have fallen, Tim Pool not promoting emergency food supply.
I didn't come out as a prepper when things were going fine.
When the economy was booming, I wasn't like, you never know.
But I mean, even then, you'd have been better off.
If I was doing promos for Safe and Ready Meals in 2019 with the booming economy, you would have gotten it way cheaper.
You'd have more buying power on your dollar, and it lasts 25 years.
That's what really freaks me out.
That's why I bought a whole bunch.
Because I'm thinking, you know what?
The worst case scenario is, you eat it.
It lasts for 25 years.
Well, I should say the worst case economic scenario for you is that you made a mistake.
But the real worst case scenario is... Yo, we're dealing with major fuel and food shortages.
Do you know what you're gonna eat?
Are you gonna eat the bugs?
The New York Post reports...
The United States and Europe could experience fuel shortages this summer that could be worse than the 1970s oil crisis.
When the main holiday season starts in Europe and the US, fuel demand will rise.
Then we could see shortages, for example, in diesel, petrol, or kerosene, particularly in Europe.
Everything else is going to become extremely rare and extremely expensive.
In California, they're talking about diesel at $10.
They're talking about shortages.
Where are the drivers?
We have a truck driver shortage.
We have a fuel shortage.
We are dealing with food shortages.
And we already saw it during COVID.
Now it's expected to get worse.
Birol said that the current energy crisis could be worse and longer lasting than the shocks of the 1970s.
Back then it was just about oil.
Now we have an oil crisis, a gas crisis, and an electricity crisis simultaneously.
Oil prices spiked sharply as a result of the outbreak of the Yom Kippur War in 1973, as well as the Islamic Revolution in Iran in 1979.
I heard some stories about farms, where the government is coming in, in the Western United States, and paying farmers not to farm, and paying them to set up solar plants, solar panels.
Made me wonder, why would they do that?
Well, we need food.
Maybe we're a bit gluttonous, we don't need as much food.
Maybe they know the energy crisis is going to get bad, and if we don't start producing energy here, we're in trouble.
If that were the case, however, why would they be setting up solar plants and not removing restrictions on oil production?
Then it makes you wonder.
The people who have power right now, the Democrats, These are the people of climate change.
These are the people who believe that carbon emissions are destroying the planet and that we need to do something about it.
These are the people who believe there are too many people on the planet and we need to reduce population growth.
Do you genuinely believe that Bill Gates is satisfied by saying we should have slow population growth?
Or is it more likely that what Bill Gates is really saying is that we should have population recession because there are too many people?
If these people truly believe this, then it makes sense.
Joe Biden comes in and enacts policy that destroys the economy, harming growth so that people can't have kids, targeting the fuel and oil industry.
Now prices are skyrocketing.
And you look at what these people promote outside of this.
Sterilizing kids.
The economy is in crisis.
They're producing solar farms.
I don't have a problem with the solar farms, to be honest.
I do have a problem with them destroying the lives of individuals in this misguided attempt at saving the world.
I thought about this deeply.
If the world really was headed towards catastrophe, implosion, I asked this of Alex Jones actually.
I said, what if they're right, Alex?
What if carbon emissions are getting worse and worse?
What if the planet is on the verge of collapse and we are but yeast in a bottle farting ourselves to death?
And Alex said, I know.
I think about that all the time.
Even Alex Jones.
Contemplating what if they are right and we need hard authoritarianism to stop what's happening.
The problem is, what if they're wrong?
That's right.
What if they're wrong?
It's really easy to say, you know, we should have some smarter, better men ruling everything and telling us to eat the bugs and taking away our fuel so that we don't destroy ourselves.
But what if they're wrong?
Why should we believe they're right?
As far as I can tell, it's a coin toss as to whether they're right or wrong.
They don't know.
They think they're right, but they could be wrong.
So what if they end up destroying people's lives for nothing?
And therein lies the challenge.
I suppose then there is no legitimate answer other than pick your side.
Do you believe in individual liberties and freedoms in the hope that a decentralized civilization can solve these problems?
Or, do you believe the despots are right, and that we are headed towards a crash of epic, monumental proportions that we cannot stop?
I choose decentralization every time.
But I've thought about it.
I'm like, man, maybe you do just need people who can see the big picture to come in and be like, if you don't stop, we are doomed.
But I think there's a difference between us and yeast.
I believe that humans have continually innovated themselves out of these crises.
And what we're seeing now is a man-made crisis in an effort to manipulate.
Joe Biden shut down Keystone Pipeline.
Why?
Climate change.
Joe Biden enacted new oil regulations.
Climate change.
This is not a secret.
It's not a conspiracy theory.
They're overtly saying these things.
So let me break it down for those.
I'm sure there are some liberals saying, well these are good things then.
I didn't say they were bad things.
I'm saying I just don't trust that they have the answers right.
And I would prefer decentralization.
But perhaps they are.
Maybe.
The fact remains.
Our economy was hurt.
Our energy sector was hurt.
Because of people like Joe Biden and their zealotry towards climate change.
It's a fact.
So when you are asking yourselves, why do I have to eat bugs?
Why can't I fill up my gas tank?
It is because Democrats fear climate change.
That is not saying they're wrong to fear it.
They may be right.
If you don't agree, then you should vote against it.
If you do agree, then congratulations.
Stop complaining.
But this is where we are headed.
What does the EU oil ban mean for gas prices?
It means it's gonna get worse.
Finally, because of the war with Russia and Ukraine, the EU says they're gonna be banning some gas coming from Russia.
Gazprom is already cutting off gas supplies to the Netherlands.
Now, this doesn't stop ground-based.
It's only, I believe, water-based.
Only delivered by sea, not pipeline.
Okay, so only delivered by sea.
I wonder why.
Is this Sea Pipeline?
No?
Not Pipeline Oil?
Hmm.
I wonder if what they're doing is just shutting down freighters.
Big, massive vehicles that consume insane amounts of energy to transport all these goods.
I wonder.
The metaverse seems like a good bet if you believe these people will win.
I don't know if they'll win outright, but I do believe we are seeing cultural changes, like I mentioned with subscriptions.
I do believe that we are going to see more and more people start changing their lives.
I believe COVID forced this change.
So maybe they never let a good crisis go to waste.
Maybe we're in the rat hope experiment.
They lock us down from COVID, everyone loses their minds, they riot, and then the lockdowns ease up.
But now maybe they bring them back.
In different ways, for different reasons.
Businesses get shut down, but this time people are used to the changes.
I don't know for sure.
I cannot see the future, nor could I read minds.
But I can tell you that chicken farms are... well, this one's burnt down, but many of them are culling their chickens due to chicken flu.
They mention, specifically, in this article about eating bugs, that bugs produce less carbon emissions than poultry farms.
Surprise, surprise!
Now they've got to cull all these chickens.
I heard a story from one farmer that the government came to him and said they were going to pay him to kill all his chickens.
And he said, but my chickens aren't sick.
And they said, we don't care.
It's all, we're all, we're worried they will get sick, so kill them all.
I don't know if he ultimately took the deal.
So, my friends, maybe emergency food, maybe not, right?
But perhaps you will eat the bugs and you will be happy, along with owning nothing.
Maybe one day, you'll go into your backyard, flip over a stone, and smile at the delicious bounty that is the centipedes and crickets that you'll be forced to eat.
I don't know, man.
But they're trying it, and the fuel shortage is coming.
