Elon Musk Finds NEW Secret Twitter Codes Used To SHADOWBAN Conservatives, MASS Layoffs Hit Big Tech
Elon Musk Finds NEW Secret Twitter Codes Used To SHADOWBAN Conservatives, MASS Layoffs Hit Big Tech Dave Rubin reveals Elon Musk's plans and discoveries inside Twitter's code.
Twitter execs lied over and over and more evidence shows just how bad it is. Rubin reveals they found MORE secret codes used to shadowban users including Dave Himself.
Big tech bias against conservatives was called a conspiracy for years until finally documents were released proving the government was conspiring to silence critics and so was big tech.
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Elon Musk has revealed new secret codes that the executives were using to censor people, says they may have to actually tear down the entirety of the code and rebuild it all from scratch, as people begin complaining that engagement is collapsing.
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Now, let's get into that first story.
In a thread on Twitter, Dave Rubin revealed that he recently went to Twitter's headquarters and got to talk with Elon Musk and see what was going on.
The most shocking revelation is that Twitter actually has more hidden censorship codes.
One of the big controversies happening over the past week is that people have realized they're getting way less engagement, and Elon apparently didn't know why this was happening.
It could be related to the fact that there are still hidden shadow ban codes placed on people's accounts, causing the algorithm to knock them down.
And Dave Rubin goes into great detail, breaking down exactly what he saw.
Now this, it could result in the system getting fixed and the narrative shifting rather dramatically.
But the media right now is saying that Elon Musk's effort to control the narrative is failing.
And that's what they feared.
That Elon Musk was going to buy Twitter so he could control the space because he's now a right-wing troll.
But you know what?
As all of the media outlets report on the failings of Twitter, on the lawsuits against him for not paying rent, how ad revenue is all drying up, There's a bigger picture here.
A historical collapse is upon us, my friends.
Big tech itself is in mass layoffs.
So while they come out and they say, aha, Twitter is failing, nah, nah, nah, what they ignore is the greater context that basically every big tech company has just laid off massive portions of its workforce.
Have you seen those videos?
There's one viral video going around right now.
It's like TikTok in the workplace.
This is what it's like to work at Twitter.
And the chick's walking around.
She's like, here's my wine dispenser and my yoga mat.
I'm gonna go sit in the relaxation pod.
We got one out of Google where this young woman is like, I work at an airport, an old airplane hangar, and there's a bunch of historical little things, and I'm gonna go land a yoga mat and get fresh pumpkin pie from the kitchen.
She put out a new video.
And she's crying.
Because she got laid off.
And the media is reporting, no more massages, no more wine bar, it's all coming crashing down.
So I wonder.
What was really going on with Twitter and how were they able to maintain this system?
Apparently from this thread, Dave Rubin explains that they view the whole system as just mangled together.
And that when they try and fix one piece of code, another piece starts falling down like a busted up Jenga tower.
How was it operating?
Perhaps it was subsidy.
How is it that Twitter gets bought by Elon Musk, the narrative shifts a little bit, we get the Twitter files expose, but then all of a sudden all these other big tech companies are failing as well?
Could it be that the operations taking place, the psyops, the intelligence operations that were manipulating us through these big tech platforms are all coming crashing down at the same time?
Maybe.
The intelligence agencies and special interests are abandoning the use of these platforms out of fear that more information will be revealed.
Already we're hearing about supposed Facebook files, more whistleblowers, and maybe, maybe it's groups like Project Veritas that has them spooked and they gotta back away.
Or, the economy's just falling apart because Joe Biden's a bad president and the Democrats' policy is destroying everything.
Honestly, I have no idea.
But I do think it's interesting to see that even to this day, we are getting new revelations about how Twitter was manipulating the conversation and still is.
Long after the wokeness was purged from Twitter, remnants and specters of their insane ideological policy persist within these machines.
And thus, Elon suggests maybe they will have to outright purge the entirety of the code and build it up from scratch.
Perhaps Dave Rubin has explained why it is that so many people are saying I'm not getting any real engagement anymore.
Or maybe.
Dead Internet Theory is the reality.
Do you know about Dead Internet Theory?
That around 2016, powerful bot farms took over, most people got banned and don't use this, Twitter's not real life, and you're talking to a computer.
Basically, there's a small handful of people who are active on Twitter, and everybody else is just a bot to make it seem like the conversations are actually happening.
And maybe as big tech begins to crumble, we're now being shown the reality.
Nobody is using these platforms.
Or at least, not to the degree that we thought they were.
People used to get millions of views on YouTube.
Now it's apparently a big deal when you get hundreds of thousands.
Why is that?
It could just be that the whole system is decentralizing.
Or it could be that these big tech platforms faked their viewership.
We've got stories about that.
In order to make people think they were relevant and to sell ads.
Yeah.
Well, but first, before we get into the collapse of all of Big Tech, which is kind of fun to watch, let's take a look at what Dave Rubin is talking about with his Twitter thread and what Elon Musk has revealed to him.
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If every single person who watched this video shared this video, we'd be big in the corporate press overnight.
Let's read this thread from Dave Rubin.
Dave says, Spent last two days at Twitter in San Francisco talking to engineers, product managers, and yes, Elon Musk.
Learned a lot about what's going on.
Before I share, I want to note that after a couple hour meeting, I asked Elon what I could share and he said, anything that's true.
Interesting.
Thread time.
Dave says, a fractal Rube Goldberg machine. That's what Elon Musk called Twitter. As they
fix the code, more problems arise. A delicate balance he likened to a Jenga tower. One wrong
move, the whole thing collapses. They're working nonstop, and both times I met him were after
midnight. He says, I met with several engineers who were doing a deep dive on why my account and
so many others seemed to be absolutely crushed after that two or three week return to normalcy
When Elon first took over.
They still have more questions than answers but they did learn a bunch of stuff.
Accounts aren't just hit with labels that are obvious to insiders.
They now found more secret labels which are causing shadow bans.
Rubin says, It's unclear so far what these strikes actually do, but for sure they suppress views and recommendations.
They are trying to figure out to what extent.
I also had many innocuous tweets labeled not safe for work or not safe for ads.
NSFA.
which affect visibility in the timeline. Also, there's an entire keyword database
so that machine learning makes sure not to promote violence, porn, etc. But it's a mess
of overreaching words. Literally, the word gay was on the keyword list, which would make you
not advertiser friendly and harm the tweet and the algorithm. That one I find fascinating.
Do you know what people have started doing?
I love this.
They've started using strange words that a human can decipher that a machine can't.
Effectively, it's called Captcha English.
Check this out.
They put these words in the algorithm so that if you say it, I'm not gonna say any of these words, the machine recognizes the word, gives you a strike.
Knocks you down, demonetizes your channel.
So what have people started doing?
They've started saying things like unaliving someone.
Unaliving!
Dis-aliving.
Right.
That's the best example.
What does it mean to un-alive someone?
Well, you get it.
Because if you said the actual human English, the machine would recognize it.
So humans adapted to counter the machines by creating what is effectively CAPTCHA English.
Language that could be understood by a human in context, but not by a machine.
It is absolutely psychotic that we're doing this to ourselves.
Rubin goes on.
Backing up for a second, they found the recent suspension strike on my account most interesting because it was from July 2022, when I was suspended for calling out Jordan Peterson's unjust suspension.
So though suspension was reversed, the action on the count remained.
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Elon was bringing people in and out constantly and seems to be aware of pretty much every issue.
He thinks maybe the entire code has to be torn down and started from scratch.
At the end, last night, he said that the whole situation is a flaming dumpster rolling down the street.
So I assure you, they are aware of the problems.
And Elon and engineers are there all night trying to unite.
I'm sorry, trying to untie this crazy knot.
Some changes they've made, like the For You tab, have confused people and hurt engagement for accounts who have gotten the not-safe-for-ads label without knowing.
Many people have been saying, why aren't we getting any notifications anymore?
Why aren't we getting any engagement?
No one's commenting.
One big change was that they created the For You and the Following.
And most people were on the Following tab, meaning when you post, I see it, I respond.
The 4U was an algorithm that gave you random stuff.
Well, you're not gonna react, you're not gonna engage with random stuff.
So, once everyone switched over to 4U, even me, I realized I wasn't even commenting on things, because I was like, boring, boring, boring, boring, boring.
Hey, wait a minute, what's going on?
These posts are old!
That's just it too.
If you see a post from yesterday, you're gonna be like, eh, we already talked about that story.
And that was a big change they made.
Ruben says, they also don't know for sure why things got so much better once Elon made the acquisition, and why it seems far worse now.
Some is probably related to excitement around Elon himself, which also coincided with the World Cup, but that doesn't explain why it feels so off right now.
We'll share more in a bit after we catch a flight.
It says Elon is funny as hell, etc.
etc.
Huge shout out to David Sachs who is helping Elon clean up this mess because he believes in the fight for free speech as much as Elon does.
One more thing says Elon really lit up when we talked about the shifting political landscape.
You know, it's fascinating.
I don't often do a lead story on my main channel that is a Twitter thread from a commentator.
But Dave Rubin going down and collecting information and disseminating it is very important journalism.
That we're learning there are more secret codes to censor people.
I just gotta ask, with the new Republican Congress, can y'all go and subpoena these people and get their documents, get their emails released, Elon, dump the communications?
We need to know to what extent they lied to the American people, to Congress.
In the meantime, the media loves to report on how Well, Twitter is basically falling apart.
But let's be honest.
I'm going to read you these stories, but it's not just Twitter.
Everything's basically crumbling.
NPR says five takeaways from the massive layoffs hitting big tech.
The cuts are historic for the tech industry.
So here's a story from the Wall Street Journal.
Elon Musk explores raising up to $3 billion to help pay off Twitter debt.
Billionaire has held talks with investors about selling new Twitter shares.
This one's interesting.
Elon Musk's team has held talks with investors about raising up to $3 billion to repay some of the $13 billion in debt tacked onto Twitter, Inc.
As part of his buyout of the company, people familiar with the matter said.
In December, Mr. Musk's representatives discussed selling up to $3 billion in new Twitter shares Mr. Musk's team has said, the people familiar with the finances of the company, that an equity raise, if successful, could be used to pay down an unsecured portion of the debt that carries the highest interest rate within the $13 billion Twitter loan package, people familiar with the matter said.
Paying off the debt would provide welcome financial relief to Twitter, which has struggled to keep advertisers on the platform.
In November, Mr. Musk said Twitter had suffered a massive drop in revenue and was losing over $4 million a day.
He also said that month that bankruptcy was a possibility for the company, although Mr. Musk later shared more upbeat prospects for the company, saying he expects Twitter to be roughly cash flow break-even in 2023, as he has slashed some 6,000 jobs.
The state of the fundraising talks couldn't be learned.
In mid-December, Mr. Musk's team reached out to new and existing backers about raising new equity capital at the original Twitter takeover price.
Mr. Musk's advertisers had hoped to reach a deal to raise cash at the initial takeover price by the end of 2022.
According to an email sent to prospective investors at the time, however, some prospective backers said they balked at the terms given concerns about Twitter's financial performance.
The Musk team didn't specify a funding amount or purpose for the fundraise email.
So.
This is from just the other day.
Elon's not giving up.
He's seeking to raise money, and based on what Dave Rubin is saying, the dude's working really, really hard.
I love this one from The Verge.
Let's talk about the political bias before we talk about the collapse.
Elon Musk thinks Twitter is real life.
I mean, duh, of course he does, but in a Tesla earnings call, he went into greater detail on just how much he really, truly, honestly believes that his tweets, all of them, are lawful good.
Elon Musk's not wrong.
Twitter may not be real life, but it dictates.
You have the Democrats on Twitter hearing the screeching cries of the far-left cult, so they adhere to it and they go along with it.
This results in capital being pushed in that direction.
It results in default liberals who are sitting there, minding their own business, watching TV, seeing these ads, seeing these politicians, and saying, you know what?
If I'm gonna fit in, that's what it is.
And now, you have people at high school proms dancing and clapping as drag queens strip for children.
You have books like Genderqueer being put in school libraries or given to children.
Because yes, while Twitter may not be real life today, it is real life tomorrow.
Elon Musk recognizes that, and thus, seems like he made a sound investment.
Donald Trump is returning to Facebook and Twitter if truth social doesn't stand in the way.
There is one potential solution to Elon Musk's financial woes.
And everybody knows it.
It's the orange man.
Twitter was dying.
Then Donald Trump decided to run for president.
And he started tweeting up a storm.
All of a sudden, Twitter was the place you had to be.
If Donald Trump returns to Twitter, I think the money's going to start flowing in pretty heavily.
But we'll see.
Trump says he won't do it.
In the meantime, Twitter headquarters landlord sues Elon Musk's company, alleging unpaid rent.
Dispute adds to recent legal battles between the social media company and vendors.
The landlord, SRI 9 Market Square LLC, alleged in a lawsuit that Twitter failed to make a roughly $3.4 million rent payment for December and a similarly sized payment for January.
In the complaint filed Friday in San Francisco Superior Court, the landlord said it drew on Twitter's letter of credit to try to cover the missed payments.
But that the company still owes $3.16 million.
The landlord is seeking payment for unpaid rent and other damages according to the legal filing.
The lawsuit was previously reported by the San Francisco Business Times.
Twitter faces lawsuits over unpaid rent for a US HQ and UK office.
And apparently other foreign offices as well aren't paying rent.
Elon's not covering the cost of the bills.
And of course what we heard from the left and from the corporate press that hates Elon Musk is, oh he's failing, he's screwed up, he overpaid.
Nah, I think the reality is, big tech as a whole may come crashing down.
I don't know what that means.
The World Economic Forum has long been talking about a cyber 9-11 type incident.
Maybe this retraction of investment signals something bad is to come.
NPR reports five takeaways from the massive layoffs hitting big tech right now.
They say, explosive growth has been the norm in the tech sector for the past decade.
When the COVID-19 pandemic ravaged the world and moved more of daily life online, tech hiring blazed across Silicon Valley even more.
Some major tech companies, like Amazon and Facebook parent company Meta, doubled the number of people they employed to stay apace with the new demand.
But now?
The exuberance is fading.
The industry is confronting one of its worst contractions in history, with Meta, Google, Microsoft, Amazon all announcing mass layoffs over the span of a few months.
According to techjobtrackerlayoffs.fyi, there have been more than 200,000 tech jobs lost since the start of last year.
That is a massive number.
While the extent of the pain remains to be seen, here are some key takeaways.
They say, Silicon Valley has endured major downturns before, like the dot-com bust of the early 2000s or the economic fallout of the Great Recession.
But tech has historically been a resilient industry, riding out most economic challenges thanks to its size and ubiquity.
It's been about a decade of extraordinary scaling up across the industry, said Margaret O'Mara, a Silicon Valley historian at the University of Washington.
Tech has always been a very growth-oriented industry from the very beginning, from when they first started making microchips in Silicon Valley to more than 50 years ago.
While big tech's layoffs are small on a percentage basis, they are still historic.
Facebook company Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google together have eliminated at least 51,000 jobs in recent weeks.
Analysts have been saying that Silicon Valley's growth couldn't go on forever.
But still, the extent of the cuts are surprising many now, said Carolina Milanese, a consumer tech analyst for the research firm Creative Strategies.
The cuts followed a period of rapid growth.
While Amazon and Meta doubled their headcount during the pandemic, other big tech companies scaled up less aggressively.
Microsoft and Google increased their number of workers by more than 50% during industry-wide hiring spree.
Now it could be, simply put, that the layoffs are just due to over-hiring when demand was high, demand is low, and now they gotta cut corners.
But I don't think it's that simple.
I think seeing these layoffs in such large numbers does not explain what's really going on.
Now look, my stocks, you know, I have like, I bought some Tesla stock, I've got some Rumble stock, I've got a bunch of stuff across the board, and I have some Graphene stock.
They've all done fairly poorly, until recently they started improving.
I don't quite understand why that may be the case.
I'm not a financial expert or an economist, but I'm sure there's some kind of explanation.
I don't know.
Maybe the layoff signal, there's going to be more profit.
Hard for me to say.
I can speak for Tesla.
The negative press about Elon Musk, I believe, really hurt Tesla's stock price.
And then it dropped from like $3.80 down to $1.20 or something like that.
And I'm like, that's a buy.
Now it's at like $1.60 and I'm glad that I did.
But we'll see.
They say Big Tech isn't in trouble.
Okay.
Fine.
Take Microsoft, for example.
It attempted to purchase Activision Blizzard last year for $69 billion in cash.
Yikes, that's a lot of money.
It reaped massive profits in its most recent quarter, more than $16 billion.
Meta said its profits plummeted, but it still amounted to $4.4 billion.
And Amazon pointed to a decline in profit in its most recent quarter, yet nonetheless that meant it brought in $3 billion.
I think these companies will survive.
The question is, what does the damage mean?
Well, I can tell you, those videos y'all love to mock?
We may be losing them.
Sorry to say, ladies and gentlemen, but the Daily Mail reports TikTok lays bare the devastation of the tech wreck.
Google staff, who earned viral fame by showing off their lavish offices online, posts clip of themselves sobbing after being suddenly fired as company lays off 12,000 people.
TikToker Nicole Tsai shared a glimpse behind the scenes at Google's LA office.
You know what, man?
These companies shouldn't exist.
They shouldn't exist in this capacity.
That's just reality.
The idea that people walk into these exorbitant, ridiculously expensive buildings, go to their wine bar, enjoy some couscous and caviar, and then go play with Legos on the floor just shows money is being spent on nothing.
It's kind of crazy how powerful these companies are.
So what are they doing with all the money?
Man, I got no idea.
I look to the small businesses, the local businesses, the car washes, the mechanics, the carpenters, the welders, and they make ends meet.
And then I look to the Googles where they're like, we got so much money, we installed a wine bar.
And I'm just like, wow.
That'd be fair.
TimCast is kinda like that.
We were talking about doing a joke where we have one of the employees, a gag for CastCastle, where they film their day in the life and it's like they're playing with Legos on the ground, they're playing pool, ordering pizzas and things like that.
And, yeah, it's the joke.
Things are pretty nice here.
We got a coffee maker, you got tons of meat and cheeses to choose from, but everybody does their job.
And, uh, it's interesting.
The difference, I would say, between what we do and what big tech does is that, uh, that excess money?
Sure, it makes work here more comfortable, but most of it goes into cultural endeavors.
Trying to make the world a better place and challenge the psychotic cult behavior that is burning everything to the ground.
To challenge cultures like this.
With this hokey, crank the lights in the big hangar and go have candy on the counter and go to your wine bar and blah blah blah.
I know, I keep saying wine bar.
Yeah, we want to counter that.
We want people to live more conservatively.
And I don't mean politically conservatively, though you may.
No, I just mean, like, stop dumping your money on stupid garbage.
Stop giving these entitled millennials this ridiculous life.
I mean, it's just so insane to live this way.
And then, of course, when it finally comes crashing down, they're crying, I lost my job!
When you have a guy who's a carpenter, and he goes out, and he gets calluses on his hands, and he's working all day, wiping the sweat off his brow, and he's taking home 80k.
Maybe more, maybe less.
I'm sure some of these contractors are doing six figures if they're at a higher level.
How many of these laborers, they come in, contractors, and they say, we need you to frame a building out, and they're like, okay, and they're getting paid 20, 30 bucks an hour.
It's not the worst thing in the world.
It's not working at McDonald's for a minimum wage, which may be fine for someone who's younger, but they're certainly not getting paid these wages for doing nothing.
Man, I gotta tell you.
I said it before.
I said it about Vice.
If the average American saw what life was like for these big tech employees and for these New York media employees, it'd be a revolution overnight.
Overnight!
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It's kind of insane, the different worlds that we live in.
Look, I'll even say it here.
We have issues where, like, we'll have an employee not show up.
And it's like, oh, well, you know, I'll work from home.
And it's like, mm-hmm.
The challenge is we want to be accommodating.
You can work from home physically, but we don't like it that people just abruptly don't show up and we don't know what's going on because we're trying to invest in building something powerful.
These companies, they're substantially worse.
Like we try to keep a lid on things and keep things under control.
I remember one time when I was at Vice, I had just gotten back from like Turkey or something or Brazil, landed at like midnight, get home by 2am, pass out.
I get a phone call at like 9.30 and they're like, where you at buddy?
And I'm like, uh, I'm at home in bed.
Why aren't you at work?
And I was like, is this a joke?
Like, no, I was pissed.
I was like, are you joking?
And they're like, no, you're supposed to be here at nine.
And I was like, my plane landed around midnight from Turkey.
My eyes can barely stay open.
I got home at 2 a.m.
I'm going to bed.
And they went, oh.
Oh, okay.
Alright.
Yeah.
I'm like, why are you making this phone call yelling at me, of all people, who just got off a plane?
Well, I'll tell you what happened.
Nobody showed up!
Hilarious!
Nobody showed up to the office!
Because they have this lax policy of like, well, if you don't show up, no one says anything.
So what happens is, you'll come into work, and there'll be like an empty chair at the table.
But there'll be like seven people working, and you'll be like, I don't know.
Because when the manager walks in, if John Doe ain't sitting at his chair, for all you know he's in the bathroom, you just don't think about it.
The articles are getting done, who knows.
You know what the reality was?
They're staying home.
Well guess what?
Eventually, one day, nobody showed up.
Cause everybody was just like, I can just stay home.
And apparently they had some like investor coming in.
And so, you know, the big wigs are walking through the front door and he's like, you know, the CEO, I think, I think it was Shannon.
I'm not sure.
They're like, let me show you how awesome things are here.
And they walk in empty and they were like, Hmm, how do you explain that?
We pay people who don't show up.
So of course they called me pissed off.
Where are you at, bro?
You're calling the wrong number.
I just got off a plane.
I'm not coming in.
But this is the thing.
It's how these companies operate.
It's an impossibility.
It is insane that they don't actually keep track of how these systems work.
And then the best part.
These people... We saw this in the Project Veritas expose.
This Twitter guy who's like, I come into work maybe like four hours a week.
Sometimes.
Getting paid all this money.
These people with nothing else to do who are effectively getting UBI then take their psychotic political views based on garbage and inject them into these companies and ban you.
Think about where that goes.
The people who don't have to work very hard to get all of this free stuff and think everyone must live this way are dictating what you get to say while you work your hands to the bone and struggle to survive.
Yeah, that's a system that ultimately just don't think can exist.
The Financial Times says bye-bye massages and free food.
Big tech cuts back the perks.
Companies are not just cutting staff numbers, but also the benefits they offer employees.
Well, so be it.
We're learning more and more about this stuff.
From Reason.com, inside the Facebook files, emails reveal the CDC's role in silencing COVID-19 dissent, and the reason why I bring this up here in this context.
I have to wonder, my friends, how much of this exorbitant exuberance was government subsidy.
How much of this was the government funneling money secretly?
Now we learned that, I think it was the FBI, the executive branch, had issued some remuneration to Twitter.
They said, here's money to compensate you for dealing with takedown requests.
And the left came out and said, it's totally normal, they're reimbursing them for their time.
Let's talk about how this machine can work.
Big tech companies, the government, they can collude in other ways.
The government can buy advertisement.
Guaranteed advertisement dollars.
Hundreds of millions of dollars.
You'll see Go Army ads.
And they say, we're just buying ads.
Totally normal.
When in reality, it's they can go Say, Twitter, you don't want to lose us as a partner, right?
The government is very large.
We spend a lot of money on ads.
We have many different departments.
It's too bad that guy's spreading fake news.
And they say, no, no, no, no, he's not, no, he's not, no, he's not, we banned him.
Oh, okay.
We can have our ads resume now.
You see, the thing is, when it comes to corporations pulling their ads, it's because they're scared.
And it's kind of annoying.
You know, Toothpaste Company says, we don't want our ads appearing next to war footage.
We're pulling our ads.
You say, okay, fine, we'll make sure that doesn't happen.
The government says, we don't want anyone dismissing our war effort.
And we'll pull our ads.
It's an entirely different level of manipulation.
And I think that may be a large component of what props this stuff up.
Not to mention, look, some of it might just be secret transfers of money that we're not going to know about unless we get, I don't know, a forensic look at their hard drives to look at their financial transactions.
It's hard to make happen.
There are other ways to transfer wealth to people, to make sure the machine runs.
But seeing how Twitter is struggling right now, it makes no sense.
The advertisers all just stopped paying all at once?
That seems odd.
Seems coordinated.
What say you?
Could it be that the intelligence agencies went to advertisers and said, we warn you against being on these platforms?
How do you sue to find out?
This is what we need.
A new church commission.
An intelligence agency oversight review.
Are they putting their thumb on the scale, manipulating speech, manipulating media, manipulating the American people?
I want to know.
I'd be willing to bet that they are.
I'm willing to bet that they are, and I think so are you.
And right now, Politico reports why the Twitter files are falling flat.
Or I should say it's from last month.
Why they're falling flat.
Well, to be fair, they came out with a bang, but ultimately did start to fall flat.
Elon Musk's effort to shape the media narrative is failing.
Now, why is that?
Why is it failing?
That makes no sense.
Unless the US government, intelligence agencies, and alphabet divisions were propping up Twitter to use as a weapon around the world to change public opinion and win conflicts.
And now that Elon Musk stepped in, they've removed that subsidy and you have nothing but a garbage platform that people don't really want to use.
Maybe the reason engagement is way down is because Elon actually did get rid of the bots.
Yeah.
And it was most of it.
Dead internet theory, baby?
I don't know.
But I'll leave it there.
Next segment's coming up at 6 p.m.
over at youtube.com slash timcastnews.
Thanks for hanging out, and we'll see you all then.
Last night, Project Veritas released a video of a Pfizer director discussing the mutation of COVID for profit, preemptively mutating the virus so they can make vaccines and continue to make money.
The video is so shocking, many are saying that one, it could break the internet.
We'll see.
Already, the corporate press is ignoring the story, though Real Clear Politics has picked it up.
They're less so establishment.
They tend to actually do some real news, so at least we've got some larger outlets covering this.
But the story's absolutely crazy.
It confirms the biases of so many people.
To see a Pfizer director outright saying, you know that stuff that we're accused of doing?
Like, we actually do it.
Don't tell anyone, though.
Now the story is so shocking that many people are actually suggesting that it was a trap for Project Veritas.
This is what I find crazy.
You got people saying Ron DeSantis is a plant or whatever, or Ron DeSantis is Deep State or something like that, and it's like, yo, Ron DeSantis is giving you everything you want.
And so then you come out and you're like, must be a trick!
Well, look, I don't have to tell you, man, okay?
I'm not saying Ron DeSantis has to be your candidate in 2024.
I'm saying, if something comes out, and the simple solution, the solution that makes the least amount of assumptions is outright that this thing happened, then accept it.
I know a lot of people feel this way.
They feel if it's too good to be true, it probably is.
But yo, my friends, I understand that sentiment, but this story isn't about anything being too good for anything.
It's quite literally all of the evidence lining up and pointing in a direction that makes the most sense.
It would be like saying, You know, this guy gets murdered, and we find a weapon with the initials, you know, a knife with G.R.
engraved in it.
And then, we find a man named George Roberts, who owns the same vehicle, whose initials match the murder weapon, who was seen by witnesses there, who was known to have been in an argument with the man that died.
Now, that's too good to be true.
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All those things point... No, that can't be... It can't be him!
When the evidence points in a direction, it's probably because that's it.
And so everything we've heard about Fauci, NIAID, EcoHealth Alliance, gain-of-function research, now you got a guy on camera outright being like, yeah, we do this directed evolution stuff to make money, and that's probably how the COVID virus leaked from Wuhan.
Just basically what the guy says.
But filter down to the context.
I know this story just came out last night, we talked about it on TimCast IRL.
Let me just give you the quick breakdown from TimCast.com.
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One of the things we're exploring is, like, why don't we just mutate COVID ourselves so we could create preemptively developed new vaccines, right?
So we have to do that.
If we're gonna do that, though, there's a risk of, like, as you could imagine, no one wants to be having a pharma company mutating effing viruses.
Here's what ends up happening.
People start questioning whether or not this guy is actually who he says he is.
He's a little young to be, like, fourth in line at this company, right?
He's saying everything we want to hear.
How could that be true?
And thus, we have this post—not this one right here, this one—from Radical Media Majid Nawaz.
Did Project Veritas sting Pfizer, or did Pfizer sting Project Veritas?
Interesting question.
Interesting question.
Now, first, before I get into the conspiracy, I want to make sure I stress the importance of the actual story from Project Veritas and who they have.
Now, James O'Keefe has come out and said, we've obtained internal Pfizer documents verifying Jordan Walker as Pfizer Director, Research and Development, Strategic Operations, graduated Yale 2013, Dr. Med at U of Texas Southwestern Medical School, His supervisor reports to Mikhail Dolston, who reports to Albert Bourla, CEO.
They got a lot of documents to back this up.
So you have a guy who documented, is documented working at Pfizer, who says a whole bunch of stuff.
Here's how we transmit the virus to monkeys to make the virus change.
I think the reason people might say Pfizer stung Veritas is because the story confirms everything people feared.
Me?
In my opinion?
I'm just kind of like, oh, you got a guy on the record admitting to what basically everybody already knew about how they do gain-of-function research.
They just don't call it gain-of-function research.
I gotta slow down.
You know, the problem here is, like, there's a lot of esoteric stuff going on.
Gain-of-function research is when they take a virus, they intentionally mutate it to make it more virulent, more deadly, and for whatever reason. So this guy's saying, no, no, no,
no, we're not doing gain of function.
Okay. We're just doing directed evolution. And it's like, bro, what's the difference?
It's, it's, it's, it's, there's no difference. It's like the, the gag I, I used to, uh, the
analogy I would give is that Dr. Fauci is sitting before Congress, because this basically happened,
you know, and he's asked, were you doing gain of function research? And he's like, no,
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we were just mutating the virus to make it more virulent.
We have what we call portholes, which are rectangular holes carved out to the front of the building with a piece of wood and steel with a little knob on it, and you can turn that to open it as it rests on hinges, and you're like, bro, you're describing a door!
When you're like, hey, are you doing Gain of Function?
No.
We're just doing Directed Evolution.
This is serious.
These companies do this.
We know they do this.
We now have a guy saying they do this.
I gotta ask, why would anyone just come out and be like, did Project Veritas get taken for a ride by- So you mean to tell me, you think it's more likely- I'm gonna read this from edge of demise.
I think it's important to ask.
Because whenever I see these stories, From Project Veritas, the one thing I always do is I start digging into the background of the people that they're, the subjects of their stories.
This guy, Jordan Tristan Walker, did a curse research, didn't find much.
Apparently his information is being taken down, but other journalists have basically found this is the guy.
Veritas says this is the guy.
And James was, you know, he's very much like, look, we did our due diligence.
Here's what's funny to me, and I'll read the arguments here.
But for anybody reading Majid Nawaz's article, and I have no problem with him writing it, do you think it is more likely that Pfizer took some random guy, claimed he was a high-level employee, put him on Tinder, Then sat in wait for Project Veritas, sent him out with talking points.
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And they say, this is a tale about proceeding with caution in everything, especially when the purported story confirms your own biases.
Today, the internet has been very excited about the following story by undercover group Project Veritas.
The video is worth watching in full.
Absolutely, man.
Check the video out.
Here's a transcript, etc, etc.
They go on to mention everything we've already explained with their saying we're taking monkeys, we give the monkey the virus, we then get the most virulent strain and transmit it to the next monkey, and then you can control the evolution of the virus.
It's crazy stuff.
The counterpoint.
If you have a gut feeling that this latest Project Veritas sting on a too young and naive-seeming senior director at Pfizer is too good to be true, then note the below.
The video contains what would be damning testimony against Pfizer.
So serious is it that it could bring the entire company down, and place Big Pharma into irreparable disrepute.
Does that sound too convenient?
Well, this is precisely why the story must be verified.
Always guard against confirmation biases.
Strangely unsuspicious that he may be the target of an undercover sting, the young man, Jordan Tristan Walker, sang like a canary.
Investigative journalist George Webb has his doubts.
This is just... I don't get it.
You mean to tell me, Mr. George Webb, okay?
I watched, you can see it, you know, I watched his video here.
And he's saying, it's a Hindenburg.
He thinks Project Veritas got tricked.
And we've seen similar strategies like this before when Wikileaks was putting out a lot of information.
There was a security firm that said, let's seed false documents so that Wikileaks then dumps them and then we can say, aha!
In fact, Veritas has been accused of something similar, planting a fake story with the Washington Post.
I don't know the full details about that, apparently it didn't work out, or I don't know exactly what was happening.
Here we have this George Webb saying it's a Hindenburg.
So you mean to tell me, okay, that Pfizer thought it would be good for their bottom line to create the perception that they were committing crimes and putting the whole world at risk.
I don't quite understand why would you create the story confirming the biases of the people who already don't like you.
Why would you do it?
Yeah, I don't think you would.
Sorry, I just don't see this as being plausible or realistic.
Maybe there's a 1% chance some Pfizer guy was like, I got an idea.
Let's tear the company down.
Yeah, but I don't think so.
Doesn't seem to make sense at all.
The simple solution, the one that makes the least amount of assumptions, is that this guy is who he says he is, and he said these things.
Because, again, I'll stress this.
Imagine the alternative.
Project Veritas is on Tinder, is what they do, and they're swiping on, you know, swipe left, swipe, no, I don't want him, no, I don't want him.
Aha!
A Pharma employee, swipe right.
Pharma employee then messages this hot young girl like, yo, what up, girl?
Messages back, yo, what up?
Or I think it was a guy in this instance, so I think maybe the Trish and Walker guy is gay or something.
This is what Veritas does.
They do, they go on dates.
So this guy's on Grindr or something or whatever app he's using, and then they're swiping,
they agree to go talk. So you think that Pfizer hired a young guy, gave him credentials,
propagated credentials on the internet verifying who he was, had people independently report—had
people report to him so that they could verify it later on, and then they were lying in wait
for Project Veritas to go onto a dating app, a gay dating app, to find this guy and then go have
have dinner with them so that they could plant false information with this guy.
He would then leak to Project Veritas.
I just gotta say, you know, guys, calm down there a little bit.
As much as we are keen to hold Pfizer to account, as well as Moderna, DARPA, WHO, WVF, etc., it does seem odd after so many Project Veritas stings, even on previously un-Pfizer staff, that this young man appears totally unsuspicious.
No, it doesn't!
They all do this!
Every single time!
We talk about it!
How is it that James O'Keefe can get away with it over and over again?
Guys, If there is an attractive young woman, or in this instance, a man, and you are a frumpy, unappealing individual who works at a major corporation that is wrapped up in controversy, and the attractive date you're on keeps asking you about the corporate malfeasance you're involved in, you're dating James O'Keefe!
I love the crazy hot matrix.
You ever see it?
It's the gag where it's like, it's the grid showing how crazy a woman is and how hot a woman is.
And then like, zero crazy and nine hot.
It says unicorn.
Somebody remade it and they changed that one to James O'Keefe.
That was really, really funny.
Like, yo.
That 9 out of 10 lady ain't dating you, frumpy big tech employee, okay?
She's James O'Keefe trying to get information.
It's funny because we make the joke, we say it all the time, but I don't think it has any negative impact at all on James O'Keefe and Project Veritas.
But also, there's a couple things I do want to point out.
Imagine you do work at one of these companies now, and you go on a date, you don't know if this person is actually just trying to sting you.
And you gotta understand, these people go on several dates with each other, right?
So, when you look at these Veritas videos, you've got numerous different settings where they talk about different things.
It's not as simple to say that you were talking about corporate malfeasance the whole time.
The joke we make is that the hot chick sits down with the guy and she's like, so where do you work?
He's like, I work for Twitter.
Ooh, any corporate malfeasance you're involved in?
Actually, we're targeting conservatives.
It's not so cut and dry.
Often what happens is they may say one thing and then the conversation changes because they don't want to blow their cover.
They have more meetings, they collect a few points from different meetings and say, here's the stuff he admitted to us.
You know, we'll see, man.
Is it possible?
Sure.
But James O'Keefe says they got the documents backing up he is who he is.
And then you'd have to believe that Pfizer wanted negative press in this regard.
That, to me, would be absolutely crazy.
They say these documents don't, however, preclude from George Webb's concern above that Pfizer may have set the entire thing up for misdirection.
How?
How did they do it?
They put the guy in the grinder and then said, just sit back and wait?
That makes no sense.
On the other hand, the young man, Jordan Tristan Walker, may have thought he was on a date.
Drank too much and started flirtatiously singing like a canary.
This is what we say all the time.
It's a strategy that works.
People just start talking.
People, you know what it is?
People want other people to know.
They really do.
For one, they want to feel important.
They want to feel like a big shot.
Look, I levied a little bit of criticism at Veritas a while back because they interviewed this guy at the New York Times and he was saying, like, I can do these things and I do these things.
And they're like, we have on record this guy admitting to these things.
And I'm like, yeah, that dude's smack talking.
He's trying to get laid.
Like, come on, guys.
You know, that was a while back.
Look, I think Project Veritas does really, really good work, like this story here, like the Amy Rohrbach story.
There's so many important things.
There was the ballot harvesting stuff they did.
But I'm not here just to simp for Veritas.
When they got that dude at the New York Times talking about social media or whatever, and they were like, look what we got, my response was, I know that guy, he's talking smack.
It's like, there's a possibility.
Some of these guys are on dates and they're trying to ham it up and be like, look, I can tell you all about this because I know.
However, that's a minority of the potentialities in that most of these videos, you have people just being like, look, man, this is what we're doing.
This is why we're doing it.
And it's often because the individual interviewing them feigns ideological compatibility.
So I don't think every circumstance is a guy trying to, you know, ham up to some woman.
I think many of these are someone being like, we really need to get CRT in schools so that kids can really understand the history.
And then the guy says, that's what we're doing.
We're doing that.
Because you could argue, perhaps, they're trying to say, yes, I agree with you, now date me, like a lot of these lefty guys do.
But typically, from my understanding and my view, it's more so that they feel comfortable admitting what they're doing because they're ideologically driven to pursue these goals.
Like, if you were to undercover record me, you'd hear me being like, the corporate press lies all the time.
These people are evil.
You know, what can we do to get more people to get behind our work, to get behind the work of any other anti-establishment entity that is trying to stop the manipulation and the lies?
And I'm like, oh hey, go for the expose, I guess.
I say this stuff quite literally to the camera.
The thing is, many of these people are not public-facing individuals like me.
So when I come out and say, here's what I'm doing, well there you go.
You bring secret recording equipment in here, you're going to hear me say the exact same things I say on the camera.
I don't have a teleprompter.
I don't write scripts.
I'm quite literally telling you how I feel in real time.
That's the thing.
These people are doing the same thing.
And they're doing it to an audience they feel supports their view and agrees with them.
The funny thing is, this guy goes on to be like, don't tell anyone what we're doing.
You know, apparently when people are like, I don't know, this seems too good to be true, I'm like, my guy.
Evidence pointing in a direction is more likely to be confirmed than it is to be a conspiracy where you were set up.
I gotta say, my guy, my friends, anybody who thinks this was a setup, you're too conspiratorial.
That's what I was thinking about the Ron DeSantis thing, because people are like, Ron DeSantis is banning CRT and trying to get the gender ideology out of schools and shutting down racist curriculums and wokeness.
He must be a plant!
And it's like, okay, if you can't accept that victory, then you may as well just lay down now and just let him steamroll over you because would at any point you win the thing you're trying to get, you claim it's too good to be true and thus it must be a conspiracy?
Come on, come on.
Project Veritas hit a grand slam with this story.
This is crazy.
And this is the reality.
You have to do the work.
Do the investigations and get these people on the record.
And that's what Project Veritas has been doing.
So be it this story and the horrifying reality.
Because look, you know, Cassandra wrote this one up.
Cassandra.
It's not just about Project Veritas.
It's about them doing monkey experiments.
Cassandra likes monkeys, you know.
Yeah, it's about them doing animal experimentation.
It's about them potentially making more deadly viruses.
And this guy even saying he believes that's how COVID got out in the first place because he said there's no way this thing started naturally.
That's another big thing here.
A guy from Pfizer saying he thinks the lab leery, uh, lab leery, lab leak theory is the correct theory as to the emergence of COVID.
And thus, I will say this to you, my friends, it's not too good to be true.
Right now you have people who are saying they think the vaccine is the cause of, you know, died suddenly or whatever.
I'm not... I'm not so sure.
I don't know if I agree with that.
Right?
I think, first, I know, I say it all the time, partly because you're supposed to, but also because I do think it matters.
Find a trusted medical professional to explain any of this to you.
What I'm trying to say is, this guy comes out and claims, in an undercover camera, he thinks they were doing gain-of-function research and it lab-leaked.
In which case, is it not possible that the cause of the death is literally just COVID?
If it was an engineered virus, maybe not as a bioweapon, and then it leaked, and then people started getting sick and dying, kinda makes sense, doesn't it?
Then you're asking yourself, yeah, but then they start pushing this vaccine, how did they have the vaccine ready so fast?
My guy, this guy's explaining to you that they mutate viruses on purpose to make vaccines for them to make money.
So like, is it possible that COVID leaked from a lab accidentally because they were doing exactly this, and then they said, oh crap, well, We have the vaccine!
I think about what that means.
It's also entirely possible they said, why don't we just release the virus so that we can use the vaccine?
I do think that's less likely.
I'm sorry.
I just really, really do.
Because I don't think the world has supervillains.
I think... I don't know.
I'm not a virologist.
I can't tell you about the origins of the virus.
I don't know.
That's why I'm just like, bro, don't take medical advice from me or anybody else.
I don't want to be responsible for how you deal with your health.
Unless I'm saying something like, losing weight's probably good for you.
All I can really say is, Veritas got this guy from Pfizer saying these things.
Take it with a grain of salt, assess it as best you can, and make decisions for yourself.
I'll leave it there.
Next segment's coming up at 1pm on this channel.
Thanks for hanging out, and we'll see you all then.
Just in time for primary season, Donald Trump is back.
Facebook, meta, has lifted the suspension of former President Trump, and Donald Trump has issued a statement.
Now, as per the statement released by Facebook, they're lying.
They're saying that they banned Donald Trump for two years because he praised violent groups.
That's not true.
Now, Trump issued some statements that probably were...
But he didn't praise anybody.
He said, go home with love and peace.
He did not in any way praise violence.
In fact, several times, particularly on Twitter, he said, stop.
We are the party of law and order.
But this is the gaslighting.
Because now, here's how it works.
Facebook releases a statement saying, we banned Trump for this reason.
The media then says, Facebook says they banned Trump for this reason.
People then say, yeah, Trump got banned for praising violent groups.
That's how it works.
I've talked about this with people internally.
You gotta understand how the framing of media works and how it pertains to someone like Trump.
Let's say you're a coffee shop.
And let's say that there's some activist, a right-wing guy, waving a flag, and he's wearing a t-shirt of your coffee shop.
All of a sudden, you get Antifa screaming at you, coffee shop owner, for supporting this guy, and you're like, I have no idea what's going on.
You see, here's the tactic.
Harass the completely unrelated third-party business.
Third-party business then comes out and says, over the course of the past two days, we have been inundated with complaints and phone calls claiming that we support a white supremacist.
We do not.
We condemn white supremacy.
We are not affiliated with this individual.
You see what happened there?
This is what they do.
This could be, like, a gun rights activist the left will accuse of being a white supremacist.
The coffee shop has no idea who this guy is, so they say, we do not support white supremacy or this guy.
The media then reports, coffee shop says they do not support blank so-and-so, comma, a white supremacist.
Then, other outlets say, so-and-so, who is reported as a white supremacist, that's the game they play.
That's how they launder information and gaslight you.
Well, here's the story from Fox News, and then I want to show you the lies and manipulations from Facebook, but I want to give a shout-out to The Atlantic.
Trump and Facebook's mutual decay.
Charlie Worzel writes, at least the platform finally added a user.
Okay, I gotta admit, that's a good one.
Facebook's collapsing, and I really don't care.
Now, the one reason I probably would be, you know, kind of concerned that Facebook is collapsing is because TikTok is rising up in its place, and TikTok's a whole lot worse, and maybe they'll ban TikTok in this country.
We'll see.
I don't know.
Here's a story from Fox News.
They report, Former President Trump took to social media Wednesday afternoon to chide Facebook and parent company Meta for banning him in the first place following their announcement he would be reinstated to the platform after his two-year ban.
Quote, Facebook, which has lost billions of dollars in value since deplatforming your favorite president, me, has just announced they are reinstating my account, he wrote short after 4 p.m.
Such a thing should never again happen to a sitting president or anybody else who is not deserving of retribution.
What does that last part mean, Trump?
In his post, the former president also thanked Truth Social, his own platform, for doing an incredible job for having him and for their recent success.
Meta, who also owns and operates Instagram, announced Wednesday via a blog post that it would be ending Trump's suspicion on both social media platforms in the coming weeks.
Nick Clegg, President of Global Affairs at Meta, said the company determined Trump is no longer a serious risk to public safety, and they had guardrails in place for his return.
Okay.
Let's read about what Facebook said, because I couldn't help but notice the lies.
Meta says, and it's about.fb.com, they call themselves Meta, it's so cheesy.
Ending suspension of Trump's accounts with new guardrails to deter repeat offenses.
Okay, alright.
Social media is rooted in the belief that open debate and the free flow of ideas are important values, especially at a time when they are under threat in many places around the world.
That's a lie.
You're a liar.
Who wrote this?
Nick Clegg.
You are evil.
You are an evil human being.
You are a cog in a machine that is a generator of evil.
I'll say it again.
On January 6, 2020, I'm sorry, 2021, I covered what was going on at the Capitol.
I did not praise.
In fact, I was critical of.
We went on Timcast IRL that night and said, look man, you can't be doing this stuff.
It's not the 1600s.
Standing in a building doesn't give you political power.
The whole show condemning.
Facebook booted me from the monetization program on Facebook for covering the news.
You despicable, evil people.
It's about the free flow of ideas.
No, it isn't.
It's about shutting down anyone who disagrees with you, you psychotic cultist.
But let's keep reading.
As a general rule, we don't want to get in the way of open public and democratic debate on Meta's platform, which means also shutting down news outlets and organizations you don't like, especially in the context of elections and democratic societies like the U.S.
The public should be able to hear what the, you know, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, right?
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Does anyone actually believe this PR garbage?
I remember, and you may have heard me talk about this, Deepwater Horizon, oil spill, you know, leak or whatever.
Do you really believe these people when they come out and they're like, you know, we're really sorry that this happened?
No, they're not.
They don't care.
Some disaster will happen.
A PR person comes out and lies to you.
Corrine Jean-Pierre comes out and she lies to you.
Jen Psaki comes out and she lies to you.
And I'm not going to give any special treatment to Spicer or any of the other press secretaries except Kayleigh McEnany, who is constantly calling out the liars in the mainstream media.
But listen, I don't mean to disparage the noble profession of PR, but that's all it is.
Spin PR, damage control, as if any of the press secretaries, any of them, Republican or otherwise, Democrat or otherwise, could actually tell you what the president is thinking.
Don't waste my time.
Now, of course, some people are more guilty than others, and we all understand that, but please understand, it's all PR.
He writes, Two years ago, we took action in what were extreme and highly unusual circumstances.
We indefinitely suspended then-U.S.
President Trump's Facebook and Instagram following his praise for people engaged in violence at the Capitol on January 6.
We then referred the decision to the Oversight Board, an expert body to establish an independent check and balance on our decision-making.
The Board upheld the decision but criticized the open-ended nature of the suspension.
Blah, blah, blah, blah.
We appointed an independent board of all of our friends to agree with us, is what they said.
My friends, I take you back in time.
Oversightboard.com.
Let's actually read why Donald Trump was suspended.
About the case.
At 4.21 p.m.
Eastern Standard Time, as the riot continued, Trump posted a video on Facebook and Instagram saying, I know your pain.
I know you're hurt.
We had an election that was stolen from us.
It was a landslide election and everyone knows it, especially the other side.
But you have to go home now.
We have to have peace.
We have to have law and order.
We have to respect our great people in law and order.
We don't want anybody hurt.
It's a very tough period of time.
There's never been a time like this where such a thing has happened, where they could take it away from us, from me, from you, the country.
This was a fraudulent election, but we can't play into the hands of these people.
We have to have peace, so go home.
We love you.
You're very special.
You've seen what happens.
You've seen the way others are treated, that are so bad and so evil.
I know how you feel, but go home, and go home in peace.
Praise?
Why?
Because he says you're special?
Now, of course, y'all know my opinion on the 2020 election.
At the time, and please understand this context, this is what frustrates me to no end about the whole election narrative.
The fraud narrative was about Dominion voting machines, servers in Germany, Chinese fake ballots, Donald Trump's secret conspiracy amongst his cohorts to watermark ballots and things like that.
It was not a narrative about ballot harvesting.
And so when I came out and said, guys, that sounds nuts, that's not true.
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People were like, you're a shill, you're a corporate, you're CIA, blah, blah, blah.
And I'm like, dude, I really don't think that China had fake ballots, blah, blah.
Now, if you tell me that they were procedural issues, and that's your argument, oh, okay, I get it.
But Trump's whole thing, when he came out and said fraudulent, That's the problem.
That's not the case.
It was, let's just, you know, because people have said it was rigged, it was stolen, and it really, you have to really define what you mean.
Because, and I will stress, when this happened, I had people coming to me being like, on March 3rd, Donald Trump will be reinstated under the real law because Trump prepared.
Do you remember all that?
And people came out and said, I was wrong for telling you, no, this isn't true.
Trump lost.
These things aren't real.
Later on, Time Magazine ran an article about the shadow campaign.
Then, the narrative started shifting.
Now we have people saying, finally coming around to our way of thinking, eh, Tim?
I'm like, bro, I have said it was a procedural change the whole time.
Ballot harvesting, COVID lockdowns, Trump, people are like, how could Biden get the votes?
People were locked down, couldn't leave their houses, sports were taken away from them, they couldn't go to the movies, they couldn't go out to eat, many of them lost their jobs, their restaurants were closed, their savings were gone, they were going negative in their bank accounts, and the media just went Trump non-stop the whole time.
That's how.
Not to mention universal mail-in voting, not to mention ballot harvesting.
So if Trump wants to give his opinion on it, fine, fine, but please, all I'm trying to say is the context back then when Trump was saying fraud is very, very different from what people are saying now.
So don't get mad at me.
Disagree with me all you want, fine, no problem.
But anyway, I digress.
I hate going off on that subject.
I want to point out, Trump said what?
He said, we love you, you're very special.
That's praise!
Come on!
He's de-escalating.
He's saying, stop, go home, we don't want anybody hurt, we need law and order.
That was a permaban?
He later said, At 6.07 Eastern time, as police were securing the Capitol,
Trump said, there are things and events that happen when a sacred landslide
election victory is so unceremoniously, viciously stripped away from great patriots
who have been badly, unfairly treated for so long. Go home and love and peace.
And this is their argument.
Donald Trump telling his fans, of which there are, what, 70 some odd million, 74, 75 million,
to stop, don't be violent and go home is not praise for violent activities.
But they needed that justification.
That's what they needed.
Let me show you Donald Trump's Facebook page.
January 6, what did he post?
I am asking for everyone at the U.S.
Capitol to remain peaceful.
No violence.
Remember, we are the party of law and order.
Respect the law and our great men and women in blue.
Thank you.
You ain't gonna gaslight me into believing he said anything otherwise.
I read his quotes.
Please support our Capitol Police and law enforcement.
They are truly on the side of our country.
Stay peaceful.
It's fascinating, isn't it?
Trump saying, please, please be peaceful.
Respect the police.
Defend the police.
And then Facebook comes out and says, actually, he was praising the other side.
That's why I say this guy, Nick Clegg, is an evil human being.
These are the kind of people, like Peter Strzok, they sit there with their smarmy smile and they say, ooh, I will lie and do anything to destroy and burn this country to the ground because I deserve it.
It's my turn.
They're either spineless, complicit, or the banality of evil.
But you don't get good out of any of it.
Spineless people.
Maybe he's a spineless guy, and he's sitting there going like, well, I know what I'm doing is wrong, but I better just do it anyway or else.
I just can't stand the cowardice, man.
The suspension was an extraordinary decision taken in extraordinary circumstance.
The normal state of affairs is that the public should be able to hear from a former president of the United States and a declared candidate for that office again on our platforms.
Now that the time period of suspension has elapsed, the question is not whether we choose to reinstate Trump's account, but whether there remain such extraordinary circumstances that extending the suspension beyond the original two-year period is justified.
To assess whether the risk to public safety that existed in January 2021 has sufficiently receded, we have evaluated the current environment regarding to our crisis policy protocol, which included looking at the conduct of the U.S.
2022 midterm elections and expert assessments on the current security environment.
Our determination is that the risk has sufficiently receded and that we should therefore adhere to the two-year timelines we set out.
As such, we will be reinstating Mr. Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts in the coming weeks.
However, we are doing so with new guardrails in place to deter repeat offenses.
What is that?
What are the new guardrails?
The public should be able to hear what a politician has to say.
Blah, blah, blah.
Our updated protocol also addresses content as... Like any other Facebook or Instagram user, Trump is subject to our community standards.
In light of his violations, he now also faces heightened penalties for repeat offenses.
Penalties which apply to other public figures whose accounts are reinstated from suspension.
Blah, blah, blah.
In the event Trump posts further violating content, the content will be removed and he will be suspended for between one month and two years, depending on the severity of the violation.
You see what they're trying to do?
Here's the challenge.
Trump needs to be on Twitter and Facebook, but they're basically saying, come on Trump, come onto Facebook, rally all your supporters, and then we will beat you over the head with a stick to make sure you don't say anything we don't like.
Why would Trump do it?
Well, I gotta tell you, Trump does need to be on these platforms.
It doesn't mean he needs to post anything, or I'm sorry, everything, but he does need to post something.
So if he wants to be spicy, he can do it on Truth Social.
If he wants to speak generally, he can do it on Facebook.
This is what we do with YouTube and Rumble, or YouTube and TimCast.com.
We put all our video content up on Rumble.
Maybe you're watching on Rumble right now.
We have the Members Only Uncensored Show, as I like to call it, the Speakeasy, over at TimCast.com.
YouTube says we don't like certain conversations.
I say, okay, we'll put them on TimCast.com instead.
Now, to be fair, I honestly don't believe that any of the conversations we've had at TimCast.com Uncensored would be banned on YouTube.
But this is the important point.
I will stress it again.
If you go and watch members-only content on TimCast.com, you're not going to hear things that would make you barf or shock you to your core.
Well, actually, you might barf on some of the stories.
What I mean is, we probably could do any one of these segments on YouTube.
We swear a lot, we're not so family-friendly, and at most, we'd probably get demonetized for the segment, but none of it's bannable.
We don't do anything that I think YouTube would ban us for.
But the issue is, I'm not gonna play games.
YouTube loses access to these conversations because they threaten us with termination.
And what that means is, the conversation and the market will split.
We can put tons of content up on Rumble.
In fact, one episode of the Uncensored per week goes up on Spotify and Apple.
Because we don't think it's violative of any of these policies.
We just don't trust YouTube.
YouTube is the kind of organization that will make up a fake reason to give you a strike.
So we don't trust them.
Now, of course, people are saying, why use Facebook?
It's a tough question.
Why should Trump be on... I'm sorry, YouTube.
Why should Trump be on Facebook?
Why are we on Facebook and YouTube?
It's the central battlefield.
Less so with Facebook.
You know, Facebook's an aging population.
That's why that joke is funny.
At least they added a user.
But YouTube is the biggest social media platform among Gen Z. I cannot cede that territory.
I gotta be honest, people are like, why not just go to Rumble and do whatever?
It's like, dude, here are my options.
One, quit and be rich for the rest of my life.
Buy property, open some hot dog stands, and not have to think twice.
Not interested in that.
I could Airbnb something or just rent properties out.
No, I don't do any of that stuff.
Two, I can go nuclear.
I can just say, I'll say whatever I want, and then the foundation crumbles around me, and I end up just making content on Rumble to a much, much smaller audience that doesn't generate enough revenue to actually reach larger crowds.
And, you know, I'd probably make a really good living, and I'd probably be very happy.
Purposefully migrate over to Rumble.
Seed the territory that is YouTube, Facebook, etc., Spotify, Apple.
It's the same thing that would happen if I get banned.
So it's not, it's not easy.
But I'll put it this way.
There are rebels inside the box and outside the box.
Many people said The Daily Wire is trying to be rebels inside the box.
I think The Daily Wire serves a very important purpose in the culture war, and it's good that they're doing what they're doing.
We need to push back from within the battlefield, and then set up the speakeasy over at TimCast.com, where you can then come hang out and get access to other individuals.
But more importantly, On TimCast IRL, we have Steve Bannon.
He's banned.
We have Alex Jones.
He's banned.
It is a corridor.
It is an opportunity for you to explore and try and hear more things.
It's not perfect.
We're not perfect.
We try our best.
But this is the challenge, and it's why Trump needs to be on Facebook as well.
Trump can go on Facebook.
He can say everything he needs to say about his policies that don't break the rules, and then say whatever he wants on Truth Social that may break the rules.
Facebook then loses access to premium, top-tier content and the most relevant content.
YouTube does the same.
So be it.
And maybe that is what's going to cause them to eventually collapse.
But it is still a large space.
Now, the big place right now is TikTok for young people.
We're banned from TikTok.
No joke.
Tim Kestirel got banned.
For no reason.
They did not allow our conversations to be had.
We didn't bring any rules.
No kidding.
We broke no rules.
They just said, you're gone.
So you know what?
If TikTok gets banned, I'll say good riddance.
It is an influence operation of the Chinese Communist Party, in my opinion.
And is causing damage to this country and to the world.
And so I wouldn't be too upset if they just said, we're gone.
You know?
You're gone, sorry.
And they get rid of it.
For the time being, we have to figure out the best way to communicate.
And Twitter's it.
True, social is good.
The engagement is incredible.
But Donald Trump needs to be on Twitter.
It's the unfortunate reality.
He's got to do it.
He's got to get on Facebook.
I don't know exactly when they're going to bring him back.
These platforms are dying as well.
Twitter was already dying before Elon took over.
Now, without the support of the CIA, it's doing much worse.
I'm half kidding, by the way, because I assume the CIA probably was providing some kind of guidance and funding.
But now they're struggling.
So who knows where this is all going to go.
The World Economic Forum has been talking about Cyber 9-11 and what that'll look like.
And it's going to be scary.
I hope you have chickens.
I hope you got out of the city.
I hope you've got resources.
I hope you've been prepping to a certain degree because they keep saying it.
Listen to these people when they tell you what is happening.
They're saying there's going to be some kind of major cyber attack.
And we already saw what happened with, you know, big banks getting shut down, things like that.
Ransomware can shut it all down.
And that'll be scary.
We all make our money off the Internet.
They get all the business up on the Internet.
It all gets knocked out.
Everything collapses.
You end up owning nothing.
And you're gonna be pretty damn unhappy.
I'll leave it there.
Next segment's coming up at 4 p.m.
over at YouTube.com slash TimCast.
Thanks for hanging out, and I'll see you all then.
Deep within my soul, there exists a passion, a desire, to record a segment about the fart that erupted on The View.
But this segment is not about that.
Because to be honest, there's not much to say other than apparently someone moved in their seat, made a fart noise, and now you got Fartgate 2.0 over at The View.
But, uh, that's the news there.
So at least I got to bring it up, because I really didn't want to let that one go.
But no, this segment is about UBI.
Why Universal Basic Income does not work.
And James Lindsay has an interesting thread explaining what would happen if the government gave everybody $100 to buy groceries with.
Now, I somewhat disagree with James Lindsay.
I agree it wouldn't work.
I agree universal basic income, the practice by which the government just gives you money, would not work.
But I agree for different reasons.
And I see something different happening than James Lindsay sees.
Let me read you this thread, and we'll talk about the issue.
James Lindsay says, I'm so glad you brought this up.
I've been meaning to do a little thought experiment on the government giving everyone, say, $100 a week for groceries.
A universal basic income but through grocery coupons, not just cash.
What would happen?
Oh man.
Already a lot to break down.
My friends, I have been on EBT in my life.
I appreciate the programs.
They helped me.
I have received unemployment benefits.
Saved my life.
That's why I don't think we just throw out these programs, but they do need hard reform and restrictions.
There were periods where I've lost my job through no fault of my own, was embroiled in lawsuits, and had no income.
Couldn't find a job.
Unemployment benefits saved me.
Only giving me a teeny bit of money.
Like, I think at one point it was like 50 bucks a week.
But hey man, I got to eat.
But anyway, let's read more.
James Lee says, So your grocery store knows you have your usual grocery budget plus 100 bucks from the government.
What are they gonna do?
Everything they can to capture that $100 from the government plus as big a percentage of your usual grocery budget as possible.
No.
No, I completely disagree.
Dr. James Lindsay.
I'm pretty sure James Lindsay is a doctor.
The evil corporation is not going to go, nah, people have a hundred extra dollars, let's steal that from them.
I'll explain why.
Let me read more.
James says, you can go to any grocery store you want, obviously, but the incentive is now firmly in place for all of them to marginally increase prices on everything.
Unless you demand price fixing, too.
And to sell you packaged deals that cost around $100 to $125, but that don't have everything.
If everything stays clean, We just end up with more expensive groceries and most of the $100 a week per capita going into the coffers of the grocery stores, mostly as scammed for profit.
But what if people get fat or sick and the government starts issuing more specific coupons to fix it?
So Nabisco and Coke cut a completely above-board deal with the politicians so that $40 of your $100 can be directed to their products because they're giving you coupons for those and not other things.
Maybe, maybe not.
But it's a risk that wasn't there before.
Then, the Klaus Schwab gets Greta to tell the world that beef is bad for the environment, so you can't really spend that much of your grocery subsidy on beef.
The coupons contour your buying.
Maybe, maybe it just stays corporate grift.
It's a great reason.
I'm wrong.
Truth prevails, response.
Grocers would increase the price so as to capture the $100 while giving less goods for it.
Unless there is significant local competition that keeps prices in line.
Even if so, they still want as much of that sweet, sweet government cheddar as they can get.
Editing tweet, blah, blah, blah.
Y'all are wrong.
Y'all are wrong.
I'll tell you simply why this will not work.
I, in my many years, also worked at a grocery store.
They'd be like, okay, you have aisles two, three, and four.
I then have to pull all of the products to the front of the shelf.
My guy, replace these people with spring mechanisms and you will save yourself money.
But okay, they would rather employ 20 teenagers to go through the aisles and take the box of Raisin Bran from the back and bring it to the front.
That's facing.
The issue is, when people are looking down the aisle, and they see empty shelves, they don't walk down the aisle, even though the groceries are there, they're just pushed to the back.
Why am I telling you this?
I got paid, I think, uh, what was it?
Maybe like $8 an hour.
It's pretty impressive for 20 years ago.
Gettin' 8 bucks an hour.
Only worked, like, four hours a day for three days, though, and they had a bunch of people, and they made you join the union.
It was so dumb.
Here's what will happen if you give everyone $100 for groceries.
Do you know why I worked such a crummy job?
I certainly wasn't paying my rent with this money.
It was barely any money!
I needed food!
I needed to eat!
So I went to the grocery store, and I said, please give me some work so that I might buy food.
Now, what would happen if the government gave me $100?
I'd say, Yo!
I don't need to work here!
I already got $100!
I'm gonna go buy food.
What happens?
The grocery store needs stockers and facers.
Okay?
If you don't have the facers, people buy less, revenue goes down.
That's why they pay for the people to go down the aisle and pull the groceries forward.
This is why UBI does not work.
You would end up with an indivi- Now, now hold on.
I suppose there's an argument if we automate the whole process and make every job automatic and everything's a vending machine, maybe we have to do some kind of subsidy in the future, but for the time being, no bro.
The evil corporation grocery store, as the left would like to believe, is not going to be like, we're going to raise the price of beef because we know you can afford it.
They're going to say, um, we can't get anybody to work here.
Nobody wants to work because they're getting a hundred bucks for free.
What can we do?
Offer more money, I guess.
Okay.
Hey, young man, we were going to pay you 12 bucks an hour to do this job.
You said no, because you now have leverage in negotiations.
You see how that works?
Young man walks into grocery store and says, I have nothing.
I need work to make money.
And they say, it's a low skilled job.
Here's how much we can afford to pay you.
I say, okay, 10 bucks an hour.
The government then says, hold on there, buddy.
I'll give you a hundred bucks guaranteed for no reason.
I say, thank you very much.
Thanks for the job offer.
I don't need it.
You were going to give me 30 hours a week at 10 bucks.
I know it's 300 bucks after taxes.
It's like 220 something.
But to be honest, with this hundred bucks, I get all the food I need, and I don't need to work here, so I'll go play music, you know, on the street somewhere for supplemental income, because the money's free.
The choices.
I get money no matter what, and I can eat food, so I don't need to do anything.
Or, spend my week working at a grocery store, and then just have extra money for what?
Nah, I'd rather hang out with my friends.
I already got food, my needs are covered.
So the grocery store then says, okay fine, how about 15 bucks an hour?
And I go, 15 bucks an hour, huh?
Okay, well I'm getting that 100 bucks, what did he say, 100 bucks a week for free.
I'm gonna work 30 hours, so now we're talking 450, huh?
Oof, take home after that.
Now I'm looking at like $3.75, maybe $3.50.
Yo, I can buy those Pokemon cards I really wanted.
Alright, I'll do this for a little bit.
$15 an hour?
Good call.
The grocery store then says, okay, we had to just increase the cost of our labor by 50%!
Split that up amongst all the goods.
You now walk into your grocery store and you say, how did the cost just jump 12% on all these products?
And they say, the only way we can hire people is if we pay them more.
Well, uh-oh, what now?
Homeboy walks up and says, dude, I was getting 100 bucks from the government for food, but now I can't afford to buy anything because the costs are too high.
All of the food that I was gonna buy this week is up by 12, 20%, Then, the government says, hey, or I should say Democrats come out and go, this $100 isn't cutting it.
People can't survive on this.
The prices and inflation are too high.
We need to increase it to $200.
Rinse and repeat.
Hyperinflation will ensue as the government mass prints money to just guarantee people get free stuff.
Somebody's gotta make that stuff.
Somebody's gotta work.
And the more you give free money, you are giving free leverage to people to say, pay me more or else, causing the businesses, through no fault of their own, to be forced to raise prices to compete, and thus, the system just comes crumbling down.
By all means, my friends.
I would love it if there was a solution to the UBI problem.
Or I should say, the automation problem, whatever you want to call it.
And I think there may be.
The solution right now is not to give everyone $100 a week.
The solution may be a stipulation that controls for leverage gains that provides access to resources as we move heavily towards automation.
That is to say, Automation should be reducing prices at the same time as UBI or some kind of guarantee is slowly increasing them, stabilizing something.
I don't think it ultimately works, because no matter what, you will need a human to do work.
No matter what robot you create, let's talk about facing.
Let's say this shelf, and many stores do have this, They have a spring mechanism, where you load all the boxes, you put them in, and you push it, and it goes all the way back.
When you pull a box out, it pushes it forward, automatically facing.
Simple spring mechanism.
One-time investment, don't gotta hire any humans.
What happens when we get rid of all of those?
Okay, well now there's room for competition, business leverage.
The store then says, look, we replaced all of our staff with spring mechanisms.
We can sell this box of cereal for $4 instead of $5 and people will stop going to the Kroger and start coming to the Savon.
You see how that works?
Prices then go down.
If you don't have to hire people, there's not a big reason for prices to go up.
So, there may be a possibility through automation that there's some kind of balancing act that can take place.
However, someone still has to work at the store to load the goods.
They're still going to need to spend money.
There's a potential way to do this, but I'm not going to pretend to be the expert to tell you how it's done.
As it stands right now, you cannot make UBI.
It's not because corporations are greedy.
That's an overly simplistic view.
But, I appreciated the thread from James Lindsay.
We'll see how it goes, my friends, as the future changes everything, and we will see systems you never thought imaginable.
Like, no one predicted cell phones and how that would change everything, but it did.
So we'll see.
I'll leave it there.
Next segment's coming up in a few minutes.
Stick around, and I will see you all shortly.
From NBC News, TikTok's Girl with the List inspires more honest conversations about the pitfalls of pregnancy.
Quote, I was not prepared for what happened to me, and the school system didn't tell me either, one TikTok user wrote.
When TikTok creator and then-new mother Sarah Biggers Stewart opened up about her postpartum experience and difficult pregnancy in a video last year, one viewer's comment caught her eye.
Where's the girl with the list?
The list refers to a crowd-sourced file titled, Uni's Pros and Cons List of Having Children, in which arguments against getting pregnant vastly outnumber reasons for having children.
The cons range from common pregnancy symptoms like nausea and bloating to lesser-known issues like their tiny foot might get stuck in your ribs and you may crack a rib.
While some of the critics say the list fuels fear-mongering and misinformation, other creators have praised the list for inspiring more honest discussions about pregnancy and birth.
My friends, I will simplify it for you.
Humanity is being domesticated, not unlike dogs or cats.
And that's the truth.
You've heard me talk about it before, but I want to go through this list, which is insane propaganda against pregnancy, and I think ultimately is just another indicator that everything is going to start collapsing.
But maybe, the agenda we're seeing among the powerful elites is to treat humans in the same way they treat dogs and cats when it comes to domestication.
A wolf.
A fierce predator, who hunts down the deer!
Kills them.
Keeps everything in line, right?
Wolves are fiercely independent, have hierarchical structures, and working with a wolf is very, very difficult.
I watched this documentary on a guy who, like, lives with wolves, and he's like, you gotta be the alpha, you gotta be in charge.
They need to know you're the boss and why you're the boss.
Dogs?
Dogs love you no matter what.
Dogs will do what you say no matter what because we genetically, artificially engineered them through breeding practices to make them do what we wanted them to do.
Suffice to say, dogs are essentially permanent wolf cubs.
The behavior of a dog is very similar to a young wolf.
But at a certain point, the maturity of the dog and the wolf, the dog stops, the wolf keeps going.
We have bred out adulthood from wolves and kept the puppies.
They're smaller, they're weaker, but they're doofy and they love us.
And don't get me wrong, some dogs are very dangerous and have been bred to be better fighters than wolves and things like that.
But dogs are essentially... Dogs are domesticated.
So that they're basically wolves.
But for the most part, controllable.
Little loyal soldiers who will do as they're told.
And cats?
Well, cats we find cute and we tolerate.
A lot of people think cats were bred to hunt mice and rats.
That's not true.
Terriers were.
And either way, to put it simply, we chop all their balls off.
The boys, the boys are cats, the boys are girls, snip them balls right off.
The girls, spay them.
So what's happening now with humanity?
We're seeing something similar.
This Uni's pros and cons list of why not to have children or about having children is 350 cons and 30 pros but of course all the pros actually cons.
It's one big viral meme saying, don't have babies, don't have babies.
Now, Why would they spread this around?
I don't know.
People don't want to have babies.
But I'll put it simply.
Permanent childhood.
That's what I'm talking about.
Dogs are permanent wolf children.
What's happening to us is we are becoming permanent children.
You have entitled, whiny individuals being raised.
They don't want to work hard.
They think they're owed everything.
Boy, they are a lot like cats!
But you know what?
We still bring the cat into the vet and the vet goes snip, snip, takes away the cat's balls.
No more babies!
But isn't it so cute to have the cat?
Well, with humans, you don't so much do that.
And I'm not saying that there is a group of individuals quite literally advocating and creating these systems and conspiring.
I'm saying humans are just doing these things.
Maybe domestication is a natural process through the development and expansion of a species once it grows too large or whatever.
I don't know.
But take a look at this.
I'm not going to read every single con, but here's the first one.
Baby equals parasite.
Stupidest thing I've ever heard and quite literally not a con.
Okay?
Why shouldn't you get pregnant?
Because the baby's a parasite.
What are you saying?
You're saying you shouldn't get pregnant because the baby is growing in you?
That's quite literally what it means to be pregnant.
That's like saying a con.
When you're pregnant, you're pregnant.
You're saying outright pregnancy itself is a con.
That's not an argument.
Some of these are absolutely insane.
You can be allergic to a pregnancy.
Sure, you can get hit by a car tomorrow.
You can fall down the stairs literally in 10 minutes.
Some of you, if you're walking down the stairs right now, listening to this video, pay attention.
Look at the stairs first, because some of you might be falling down the stairs right now as you're listening to me.
Stupidest argument.
You get rashes on your body, morning sickness, your legs swell up, brown marks all over the body, preeclampsia, UTIs, fever, back pain, bleeding gums, constipation, painfully ejecting the baby, diarrhea, gas and bloating.
Oh man, all these things are really, really awful.
Gain weight, lose weight, stretch marks, maternity clothes, get a child, what does it say?
Lose a tooth?
Gain a child, lose a tooth?
You lose teeth?
What?
What is this?
Some of these aren't even real.
You may still get your period for nine months.
You may.
Can't change a cat's litter.
Not good for pregnant women.
That's true.
You don't want taxoplasmosis.
For sure.
Can't eat sushi.
Listen.
This is the crazy thing about seeing a story like this.
As the old legend goes, I don't know if it's true, A Spartan could only earn a gravesite in one of two ways.
And in fact, those ways could only be attained exclusively by a male or a female.
That is to say, a man only earned a gravesite if he died in battle, and a woman only earned a gravesite if she died in childbirth.
Otherwise, congratulations, you're average.
Or, I guess technically, if you're winning the battles, you're legendary.
I don't know if that's actually true.
But it makes an interesting point about what it means to be a mother.
It is a battle.
It is difficult.
It is one of the most important, powerful things you will ever do.
I'm a guy.
I don't understand what it might be to have breast tissue grow in your armpits, which I don't think is actually a very common thing, but sure.
If you drop something it no longer exists, what is this?
Fake cons to dissuade women from having children.
You might cook a whole meal and not be able to eat it?
Okay.
Loss of hunger?
What?
You can pass hormones to the baby that can make the baby lactate.
These things are like saying you might get struck by lightning.
You know, I think what we see from this, from this list, obviously people who hate kids, trying to encourage people not to have kids.
But, look, I don't have kids.
I want to have kids.
I like the idea of teaching people how to do things.
So, like, I go to the skate park.
I do a trick.
People say, how do you do that?
It makes me feel good to be like, yo, let me show you how to do this.
It's fun to explain to people how you do a thing, to teach people, especially young people who are interested.
It's this, it's a crazy feeling and most of you probably know it.
When a young kid says, whoa, how did you hit the three pointer?
You're playing basketball and you explain.
Stand like this, put your hands like this, jump, and then watching that little kid make the free throw, it feels good.
You're like, yeah!
Watching that little kid do the kickflip, you're like, all right, little man!
And then 10 years later, you're watching Lil' Homeboy.
He's now 18, and he's doing big flips down 12 stairs.
He did a fakie backside salad down a 12-stair rail, something you've never seen before.
I know, you don't know what that means.
I'm saying he's doing an amazing thing, and you're like, wow, dude.
I can't believe it was 10 years ago I was teaching Lil' Homey how to do a kickflip.
Now he's one of the best in the world.
Talk about a crazy thing to see.
That's something that's so powerful.
Now, I'll tell you the ultimate pro that these people don't bring up.
Here, look, they say, like, pro, special treatment, not guaranteed.
What else do they say?
Like, possible MILF!
Okay, these are weird, I guess.
You can fart and blame it on them.
That one's pretty funny.
Okay, I like that one.
You can't get drafted while pregnant.
Yo, you can't get drafted.
Shut up.
Women can't get drafted.
They are like a pet you can name or you can get a pet.
You can have pregnancy kinks.
Okay, I don't know.
That's, that's what?
Tiny everything?
What does that mean?
Random I love you's, random hugs.
They can be your wing person, your number one fan.
They see you as part of them.
You can do things in your childhood you never got to do.
You get to buy them toys you never got to play with.
Some of those are actually kind of cute.
I'll tell you the most important one.
As you lay dying in your old age, and you're scared, and it hurts all over, There will be a younger version of you holding your hand saying, Thank you for everything.
Don't worry.
We will make sure everything stays stable.
I'll make sure everyone is safe.
You will leave nothing in the wrong hands.
And we will do everything we can to keep what you hold dear safe.
Not always.
Or, you can be childless and old, like so many people may be, and you'll be lying on your deathbed, cold, scared, thinking to yourself, what did I do?
Was it worth it?
You'll press the button in your bed, nurse, nurse, I feel cold, I'm scared, and the nurse will come in and say, let me up your morphine, and then walk out.
No, I know, I know, you'll have doctors, you'll have nurses who will be like, we're here with you, as you go.
But man, I couldn't imagine.
I couldn't imagine.
Let me tell you a quick story as I wrap this up.
It's an old Reddit post I saw.
A guy said something to the effect of he was with his grandmother, him and his brother or whatever, and she was showing him old photos of their dad and their uncle.
And she was like, this is when we went to the Grand Canyon.
And then she stops and pauses.
Looking at a picture of a bunch of rocks.
And then she says, I don't care about the Grand Canyon.
Why did I take a picture of this?
I care about your father and your uncle.
And he said, in his comment, from that point forward, whenever he does anything, he makes sure the pictures are of him and the people he cares about and not things and places.
Man, that one nearly brings a tear to my eye.
So I want you to imagine what it would be like to look back on your life, childless, and say, I sure did own a lot of stuff.
It was really cool.
I got to look at that giant rock.
Or you can choose the difficult path, which is having kids, which is very, very tough.
And again, I don't have any.
So don't ask me about how hard it might be.
It might be harder than I realize.
I bet.
I know it's hard.
But I'll tell you this, what I look forward to?
Yes, I want to have kids.
We'll keep it personal and private, but I'll just say this.
You can look back on somebody who knows and cares about you, and all the hard work you've done, and everything you care about, and they will say, don't worry, we will never forget you, we will miss you always, and we will protect what you care about most in this world.
Thank you for everything.
I just can't imagine that people would put stock in objects over other humans.
But by all means, be on your deathbed looking around your cold, sterile room because you're not going to be in a house surrounded by loved ones.
Don't get me wrong, some people have good friends and the good friends will be there.
But as you get older and you age, your friends start to die.
It's an amazing, it's a crazy thing, honestly.
I remember when I first started experiencing this, I'm only 36.
People who I knew started dying.
And it's like, medical problems, car accidents, drug overdoses.
But when I was 15, I could not imagine any of these people dying.
And I'm 20, and it's like, hey, remember so-and-so?
They're dead.
For real?
Remember that dude you used to hang out with every day after school?
He killed himself.
Wow, man.
I don't care about the Pokémon cards.
I care about them.
I'll leave it there, man.
Next segment's coming up in a few minutes.
Thanks for hanging out, and I'll see you all then.
I saw this story from the Daily Mail.
Woman 37 candidly admits that she no longer recognizes herself in the mirror revealing how weird aging phenomenon has left her struggling with her appearance as thousands admit they've had the same issue.
Texas woman Natalie Thomas shared her experience with aging at 37 years old.
The marketing consultant said she was really struggling to recognize herself.
Thousands praised her TikTok saying they were going through the same thing.
You know, at first, I kind of laughed.
I'm like, so some woman is getting old and taking pictures of herself, and she's like, I don't recognize myself anymore, and I'm like, lady, you're getting old.
It happens to everybody.
And then I thought about it.
And actually, I really thought about it.
And I thought to myself, you know what this is a remnant of?
I should say this is caused by?
Yo, older people, they did not have the absurd amounts of photos and videos of themselves.
And that's a crazy thing.
You know, I think back to, like, my parents showing me old photo albums, and it's like, here's 50 photographs from my life.
I'm like, 50?
Wow.
You know, when I'm a kid, I'm looking through these photos, and I'm like, that's what you looked like when you were young?
Crazy.
And they're like, I know, right?
And you look back on these old photos of yourself and you're like, man, I looked very different.
There's like YouTube videos of me from 10 years ago and I'm like, I weighed 160 pounds, I weigh 170 now.
I don't know, you just get older, you fill out, I guess.
I've been eating better, I've been losing weight, you know, but kind of like stable around here, 170-ish.
Went a little under.
But I don't know.
I think I just... I don't know.
It just happens, I guess.
You get fat when you get old.
I started eating better.
I lost a lot of weight.
But you look different.
And I look very different.
I'm like, wow, man.
I was like kind of gaunt when I was 18.
I was really gaunt.
I was barely eating.
But here's the deal now with what's happening to us.
We have access to videos of ourselves from basically every single day.
I mean, get this.
You could go through my video library.
This is the crazy thing.
Check this out, check this out.
I make videos every single day.
Except for the weekends.
You could be an arduous process.
In fact, maybe I should hire someone to do this.
Make a video montage of me going back five years, and probably further, but five years is the easy one.
Because I put out videos every single day, you could take... You know, let me put it this way.
You ever see those videos where they're like, I took a picture of myself every day for ten years, and then you see them like slowly changing?
I've recorded a video of myself every day for the past seven years.
That's crazy.
Maybe not seven, because it was like the end of 2016, I started making more content, it was like weekly.
2017 went daily.
So, you could take a picture of me from every day.
So, this is seven years, we're talking a few thousand videos to go through, and then you can make the evolution of Timple.
You'll see my beard grow out, you'll see me get fatter and shrinker, but it's every, fatter and then smaller, shrinker, you know, thinner.
Several times actually, like.
But it's a crazy thing.
And then what happens to a person like this is she, one day, looks in the mirror, she looks at a photo of herself on her profile, and then she looks at the mirror and she's like, that's... that's me?
It was an interesting thing that, you know, I was looking at a... I can't remember what... I had a photo on my Facebook profile or whatever, and I forgot about it.
Because I just, like, uploaded it and I just don't care.
And then I saw some dude on Twitter, and everyone was talking about how his Twitter profile pic was like 10 years old, and he was much fatter and balder, and they were like, nice try.
And then I was like, huh.
It's like, I never actually looked at my... And so I went and looked at the profile picture, and it was from like five years ago, and I was like, I just never cared to change it.
But think about what that means.
It means the average person who's just now experiencing you for the first time is seeing a photo from a long time ago, you didn't realize, I was like, I better update my photos.
Then I did, and then, you know, at some point I was like, I better lose weight.
I mean, it wasn't so much that, it was like I started just cutting out the sugars, and then weight started just coming off.
And so then I lost 30 pounds.
And then I'm like, okay, maybe I should just be healthier.
But now it's like someone sent me a video making a reference to a point I made in the past from like 2020 and I'm much, much bigger.
At the end of 2020, I started cutting out the sugars, got a lot thinner.
Probably will end up losing like 10 more pounds in the next year or so because of the way I've been eating.
It's like I don't eat anything.
I have a cup of coffee with cream in it and then have a light dinner.
It depends though.
It's like if we keep doing these parties, man, eating these.
You ever go to BJ's Brewhouse?
Everybody loves BJ's, you know?
And they have this thing called the Pizookie.
That thing has been causing me problems because I'm supposed to not be eating sugar, but it's like you got a baked cookie with ice cream all over it and they put the Oreo cream.
Yikes!
Yeah, but I'll knock that off.
I'll knock that off.
Anyway, let me read a little bit.
Let's give you some context.
She talks about, quote, it's this just really weird phenomenon that happens when you don't recognize yourself, and you're trying to look like you always have, and not in an age way, but just in recognizing yourself.
So I'll do my eyebrows, and I'm like, well, that didn't do it.
Okay, maybe I need just more concealer.
And then that doesn't do it.
And then you realize you've lost volume in your face.
Natalie turns 30 on Friday, cuz I'm gonna say that her features have also hollowed.
All these things have changed that makeup can't change.
I guess plastic surgery or like augmentation injections can maybe fix it, but it's just odd to see yourself in the mirror or on camera and not be able to find it and having to become okay with this new person.
Like, I swear, it's just like one day you're like, oh, I look like this, and then you wake up and you're like, oh, I don't look like that.
She said, it really hits me when my phone shows me old pics.
I think I look fine, and then I see old pics, and I'm like, damn, that's gone.
So, I'll say this.
For one, yo, you're aging.
Aging happens.
That's the weirdest thing to me.
People who desperately want to look younger.
I'm just like, look, I'm starting to get white right here, whatever, and some guy commented on IRL, he's like, Tim, get rid of those white beard hairs or something like that, and I'm like, bro, I just don't care.
I've had people say the real argument for getting that Just For Men stuff to make your beard look like one color is because sometimes it looks like you just have food or garbage in your beard, unless you do.
And I'm like, actually a fair point.
You have like one weird white hair and someone's like, you've got something here.
And you're like, no, I just, I'm going gray.
Your hair's changing colors.
But for me, I just never really cared.
I've had people be like, Tim, fix your teeth.
You have money.
And I'm like, I don't know.
I don't know if I care about my crooked teeth and weird, I have a genetically missing tooth.
I don't know if I care to actually go and spend a hundred grand to change that.
I just don't care.
You know?
I don't know, I wear the beanie all the time, but that's just kind of like a skate thing.
Have any skateboarder over the road wearing beanies?
But anyway, anyway, here's my point.
This lady says it really hits me when I look at old pics on my phone, and it's like, how many of you don't do that thing?
Like, most people aren't taking pictures of themselves every day for one of these YouTube videos.
But, you probably can go on your phone and start going back in time and looking at yourself de-aging.
Go to your phone, because you probably have, at this point, your phone backs up all your photos, you could have 10 years of photos.
You go all the way back and you go, whoa, what did I look like?
How did this happen?
Is that me?
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Then you look in the mirror and you're like, oh, what have I become?
Like the reason I don't really care is because I'm a dude.
And I wonder if it's more impactful for women because looks are a large component of their experience.
Like...
You have, women do makeup.
They do their, guys wake up, greasy as garbage, slap on a shirt and a hat and say, good to go.
Like, I know dudes who'd wake up and just shuffle out of bed, throw in a baggy shirt, brush their teeth, all ready, and I'm like, you smell bad.
And they're like, don't care.
I'd be like, huh.
Women don't do that.
I mean, some women do, don't get me wrong, but it's like a tendency not to do that.
One woman said, Totally experiencing this at 34, it's very surreal.
Not just my face, but my body is different, hair, etc.
Yep, hair texture, my arm skin is more stretchy.
It's all new and weird to me.
How?
Haven't you, like, been in your body every day?
Did you, like, go to sleep for seven months and then wake up Van Winkle style and be like, Whoa, I'm old now!
Like, don't you live in your body every day?
These changes are going with you.
Ashley says, I'm 36 and just starting to experience this myself.
Something that has helped is to explore new ways of doing makeup.
OMG yes!
Thanks for sharing.
I've been going through this at 32 to 34.
I don't recognize myself and I've been grieving my younger self.
The beauty I resented.
Isn't this what people call, like, the wall?
I'm 34 and the pandemic aged me.
Being stuck and locked in my apartment, I never aged at all before then.
Bro, you're 34!
It's been 3 years!
Of course you're aging!
Maybe this is it.
Maybe what's really happening is these women have their whole lives thought they would be young forever, and it's like, yo, you get old.
Women have half the collagen in their skin as men.
They have less muscle mass, less bone density.
So, the saying goes, and I'm not trying to be a dick, men age like wine and women age like milk.
That's a saying.
And I know a lot of people may say like, how dare you say such a thing, and I'm like, no, no, no, it's a little crass, don't get me wrong.
I wouldn't agree with saying things like that, right?
But, in terms of how the average person views attractiveness, I mean, this is why the saying exists.
Because whether you want to accept it or not, whether you think it's mean or not, people legitimately feel that way.
So I might say, guys, little crass, don't phrase things that way.
Doesn't change the fact that people think it.
You can try and cover this stuff up.
As guys get older, they get rugged, chiseled, and there's societal perceived value in that.
As women get older, their skin gets looser, they get wrinkles, and there's less societal value in that.
This is a reality of human existence.
So maybe what we're really just seeing is that a normal experience women go through, millennials who use the internet are now being like, whoa, I'm aging, what's happening?
And two things.
One, the older generation didn't have access to millions of photos of themselves from their whole lives, and also, they didn't have social media to post on when they noticed gray in their beard, or wrinkles on their skin, or crow's feet, or whatever.
They had no one to complain to about it, so they didn't.
Now, people do, so they're going, Ah!
I'm aging!
What's happening?
Welcome to being a human, I guess!
Eventually, it'll be hard for you to walk, keep exercising, eat right, otherwise one day you'll find yourself in a wheelchair.
It happens to people.
You know what I think about?
And I want you to think about this.
Two things.
I like to walk around and, or I should say, I like when I'm visiting places and I see something old and dilapidated.
I like to imagine what it was like when it was brand new.
And I think to myself, when the building was first built, and there's a young couple, smiling and holding hands, their first house, the newest, shiniest house, today I look at it, and it's just falling apart.
I like to imagine what that must be like.
I was in Ukraine.
And I saw all these old cars.
And I'm like, what must it have been like when that car was brand new?
Fresh off the lot.
And some guy was just like, oh boy!
And now it's a junker.
Now it's someone's trash.
It's crazy how that happens.
It's sad, right?
Now think about people.
I remember, well I shouldn't say I remember, but I'm seeing a guy at the casino and he's got a cane and he's walking very, very slow.
And I'm like, This guy's gotta be 70, right?
40 years ago, he was 30 years old.
What was he doing?
Was he, like, wearing suspenders and pants pulled up real high, carrying a briefcase with a fedora?
I mean, 40 years ago was the 80s, so maybe he was wearing neon hot pants or something, rollerblading around.
And, uh, that's crazy to think, isn't it?
Some dude.
You watch an old video from the 80s.
Slick suspenders guy or hot pants rollerblades guy.
Now it's old guy struggling to walk.
And I think to myself when I see that old person, what were they like when they were younger?
