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June 21, 2022 - Viva & Barnes

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TACO TUESDAY! From How Trudeau Stole Freedom to Jan 6 Hearings Cont... Viva Live!

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	Our government has done more than any previous Canadian government to get unnecessary guns off our streets.
	We have banned military-style assault weapons.
	No one should have those.
	I grew up on a farm.
	A rancher, a hunter does not need a military-style assault weapon.
	And then recently, we have gone further.
	And we have put a freeze on the sale of handguns.
	And likewise, I have to say, you do not need a handgun to go hunting deer.
	And if there are coyotes who are harassing your cattle, you're not going to go after them with a handgun.
	So these are necessary measures.
	They are not fully in place yet.
	We need to get that legislation passed.
	And by themselves, They're not going to end everything.
	You can have laws that ban something and people will still break those laws.
	That is true.
	But do we as a country have to end what I would describe as these fake fights over guns?
	Yes, we do.
	I have a huge amount of respect for people who need a rifle to hunt a wolf or a coyote that is eating their calves.
	That happens.
	I've seen it.
	That's okay.
	That's necessary.
	But you do not need military-style assault weapons for that.
	You do not need handguns for that.
	We're going to come back to that in a second.
	Let me just remove it for now.
	Is there anything more annoying than her pronunciation of coyotes?
	Now, is coyote different than coyote?
	Let me actually, before I get too far into this rant, let me just make sure that coyote is an animal.
	No, it's a coyote.
	Okay, it's a different pronunciation for a coyote.
	She sounds like my cousin Vinny talking about two utes, except she's talking about...
	Coyotes.
	And I don't know if she thinks it makes her seem more authentic, like she's a country girl talking about them coyotes that are coming onto the property late at night.
	I don't know if that's what she thinks.
	I'm just going to go out on a limb and say most people will pronounce it coyote.
	And the people who pronounce it coyote all believe it when they do it.
	And I don't believe Chrystia Freeland.
	Talking about coyotes.
	To me, it strikes me with the same lack of sincerity, total falseness, as Hillary Clinton talking about the fact that she carries around hot sauce in her purse when talking to a certain demographic that she thinks is going to like the fact that she claims to carry around hot sauce in her purse.
	This is like Chrystia Freeland trying to cozy it up with country folk who she thinks are going to like the fact that she says coyote.
	Setting aside the coyote versus coyote.
	You don't need a handgun to shoot a coyote.
	Nope.
	And nobody ever said you did.
	But let's just go back and break this down.
	Because the definition of insanity, I think it's Albert Einstein's expression.
	The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results.
	Where is it?
	This is it.
	Is this it?
	This is it.
	Insanity is doing the same thing.
	Over and over again, expecting different results.
	Let's just break this down piece by piece.
	The government has done more than any previous Canadian government to get unnecessary guns off our streets.
	Stop it right there.
	Their government has done more than any other previous government to get unnecessary guns off the street.
	To her...
	And to Justin, all guns are unnecessary because you don't need them for self-defense.
	If you need them to hunt, most Canadians don't hunt.
	Most Canadians live in big cities.
	As far as they're concerned, you know it.
	All guns are unnecessary.
	But it's their government that has done the most to get unnecessary guns off the street.
	Okay.
	Interesting.
	Let's just look at trends in firearms statistics.
	For those of you who don't know, their government came into power in 2015-2016, I believe.
	At least that's when Justin Trudeau was elected prime minister.
	2015 is when their government came into power.
	Their government has done more than any other government to get unnecessary guns off the streets.
	Oh, let's just look at that little chart right there.
	That blue line is firearm-related violent crime.
	Look at that.
	Right around 2015.
	It actually started in 2013.
	Up to 2020.
	And it's gone up this year, but I don't think they have stats that are up to date for 2021-2022.
	So, their government has done more than any previous government to get unnecessary guns off the street.
	And would you look at that?
	Using this approach, the rate of firearm-related violent crime in Canada was found to be 20% higher in the six years from 2015 to 2022 than over the previous six years, 2009 to 2014.
	Well, it's working so well what you're doing, Chrystia Freeland.
	You may want to continue doing it because if the goal is to reduce crime, Clearly, your government doing more to take unnecessary guns off the street has been working wonders.
	And then just one more point on that.
	I won't belabor this because I also see our guest is in the backdrop.
	The next point that she makes.
	We have banned military-style assault weapons.
	No one should have those.
	I grew up on a farm, a rancher, a hunter.
	Does not need a military-style assault weapon.
	Stop right there, teacher.
	Can you define what a military-assault-style rifle is?
	Is it function?
	Because if it's function, then those don't exist even under your previous ban.
	Because magazine capacity has been restricted in Canada.
	So if you're talking about style as in the appearance versus the functionality...
	I'd like you to define that for us, please.
	And then they've banned assault-style rifles under their 2020 Order and Council.
	When?
	Most people don't know this.
	Let me pull up the other stat.
	The other stat real quick.
	Who knows what type of gun violence is most predominant?
	I think you'll not be surprised by it.
	Handguns.
	We're the most serious weapon present in the majority of firearm-related violent crimes between 2019 and 2050 to 2020.
	60%, 59% rounding up.
	And spoiler alert, people, they were not lawfully procured handguns.
	They were not lawfully procured handguns that were obtained after following a course, a two-day course, getting your private acquisition, your PAL license, registering it.
	Having all the regulations that apply to a lawfully owned small arm, they were black market guns people.
	Who would have thunk?
	Who would have thunk?
	But she recognized it later on.
	Of course, criminals don't follow the law.
	These are only intended to govern law-abiding citizens in the first place.
	So that might account for why.
	Just maybe why.
	The government that has done more to remove unnecessary firearms.
	From the streets, which in their mind is all of them, banned assault-style firearms without defining it, has seen a steady increase in gun-related violence, the majority of which is committed with handguns, the majority of which, if not the vast majority of which, are black market illegally procured firearms in the first place, nothing to do with the lawfully procured, law-abiding citizens who went through the hoops to get their license, register it.
	Be regulated by all of the restrictions, etc.
	But no, obviously, if you want to achieve a result that you're not achieving through what you're doing, double down, because government is one of the few institutions that gives itself a raise with each successive failing.
	All right, rant over.
	With that said, people, speaking of Canadian failures, the man who wrote the book...
	Oh, hold on one second.
	Let me go get the...
	Amazon affiliate link, because if he's going to sell the book, Eva's going to get his Amazon affiliate cut.
	The man who wrote the book, How the Prime Minister Stole Freedom.
	We're going to get the story behind this.
	Apparently, it's like the number one bestseller for now.
	And apparently, the author, I don't believe he's had his bank accounts frozen, which is always a plus, is not in jail, which is always a plus.
	And the book is still available, which is also always a plus.
	Now, where?
	Did I have the link for this?
	This is yesterday's tweet.
	Okay, hold on.
	We're getting there.
	We'll get there eventually.
	You know what?
	No, hold on.
	We're going to do it right now.
	We're going to do it right now.
	Here we go.
	This is it right here.
	Boom shakalaka.
	People, I'm going to copy this, put it here.
	So if you haven't gotten it yet, go get it.
	The link is there.
	Derek, I'm bringing you in.
	Get ready.
	How you doing, Viva?
	Thanks for having me on the show.
	My pleasure.
	You know what?
	I might open up the backdrop so I can see what is going on in your...
	Okay, dude, where are you?
	I'm in my basement arcade slash studio.
	This is where I record on Twitch.
	This is where I do all my hobby stuff.
	And for the record, you were talking about freezing bank accounts.
	The only person who's frozen my account so far is my wife, and it's because of this.
	Virtually nothing about you.
	I don't follow you on Twitch, so I've got questions that are going to, you know, there are going to be some explorative questions at first.
	But Elevator Pitch, 30,000 foot overview for those who don't know who you are, what you do, before we even get into how you came to do what you did.
	Well, I've started out...
	Putting out books, it was like a test at first, and now it's turned into a full-blown career.
	I'm a full-time stay-at-home father of three.
	My wife wanted her career, so I decided to volunteer and say, you know, I'll stay home with the kids.
	I'm happy to do that.
	And then Twitch just became kind of a hobby for me on the side.
	So I do Twitch three nights a week over at real underscore max power and play a lot of retro games if you can't tell by what's behind me.
	Are you able to finish Contra without losing a man?
	Absolutely.
	Actually, I've done it once.
	And what's your best time?
	My best time for Contra?
	I'd put it under 20 minutes for sure.
	Okay, that's good.
	It's not bad.
	It gets played often.
	How much did you freak out the first time you finished the game without losing a life?
	I can't remember that far back.
	Honestly, I mean, it was an achievement.
	But, I mean, look, back in the day of being with friends, it was all a competition.
	It was who can do it first, right?
	So, I mean, I think I finished that without the codes for the first time.
	Probably I was about 12 or 13 years old.
	Oh, man.
	Okay, that's awesome.
	Yeah, I don't think I ever finished it on the original three men until adulthood.
	And when I did it, it was like a year ago.
	The kids heard.
	Okay, so where are you located?
	You're in Alberta.
	I'm in Alberta.
	I'm in Calgary, you betcha.
	Okay, and so it's an amazing thing.
	You decide to do the stay-at-home dad thing, and that ends up turning into its own career of sorts.
	I mean, I presume you're monetizing what you do online.
	So what I've done is I actually had...
	The idea to write a book years ago, I started putting together a novel series.
	It was kind of like a Harry Potter, but with superheroes.
	And I launched that book under my other pen name in 2019.
	I actually had help with character creation from the late Stan Lee when he was still alive.
	I'd met him at a Comic-Con in Calgary.
	And he really liked what I was bringing to the table and gave me a lot of his consulting time.
	So I tried to put that book out and then COVID hit.
	So with the restrictions, lockdowns, I wasn't able to do book tour or anything like that.
	So the book kind of took a bit of a dive.
	And it's starting to get new life, but I decided from that point I kind of wanted to get into the adult illustrated...
	Comedic books.
	And I reached out to my current illustrator who did the work on this book.
	And just before Christmas last year, we put out Let's Go Brandon, which was a play at the Joe Biden joke.
	And we wanted to just see because that joke was so popular around that time of year.
	If there was a demand for these kind of politicized humor books.
	And the book softly did okay, so we decided to kind of move into this.
	And I kind of figured, you know, with Trudeau, the jokes kind of write themselves.
	So we'll just put out a book on his gaffes and see how it does.
	And here we are.
	It's done fantastic.
	It's amazing.
	To do something like that, and I might be asking for selfish reasons because I might have a book on the back burner that I have no illustrator for.
	How long does the project take Inception to First Sail, and what's that process like?
	So, for Inception, I mean, for myself, it was during the Freedom Convoy.
	I had the idea of writing a Justin Trudeau-based book, and it was a matter of what's the catalyst to get that moving, aside from just lampooning and taking stabs at the guy.
	So during the Freedom Convoy, especially when it was coming to an end, when I seen the Emergencies Act getting rolled out and the way that the pushback was coming from the police, as a Canadian, I was embarrassed for my country because I said, I can't believe this is where we've ended up.
	I watched a number of streamers during that process.
	So it was right around the end of March, mid-March, when I decided, okay, let's focus on the Freedom Convoy and let's focus on...
	Really digging into this Emergencies Act because, I mean, I knew it had no validity.
	I knew that, you know, we were going to be questioning these things.
	Whether or not something happens, I mean, the jury's out on that still.
	But from the end of March till May, it was a matter of writing the script, fine-tooling things, again, because we have to be very careful in terms of defamation or stepping on anybody's toes.
	And then also with the drawings, we have to make sure that a lot of them don't cross any boundaries or lines.
	So it was about a three-month process.
	Two and a half.
	And then it was just a matter of, you know, shopping it around.
	I went to numerous publishers.
	None of them were interested in carrying it.
	The biggest problem, of course, when you're taking stabs at a political figure as well as COVID-19, a lot of these book carriers don't want to supply anybody with those kind of printings.
	So I decided to go the self-publishing route with Amazon.
	And surprisingly, it's been very well.
	And shockingly, the reception has been overwhelming.
	Uh, because Clyde do something on YouTube.
	Actually, I reached out to him and said, can you review the book?
	Would you mind taking a look at it?
	You know, making a short video about it if you enjoy it.
	Uh, and he put that video out a couple of weeks ago.
	Um, and his community just flew at it and, and they bumped it to number one within 24 hours.
	I literally went to bed that night thinking.
	Hey, maybe we'll sell 500,000 copies.
	And woke up the next morning to another video of his alerting me on YouTube that we'd hit number one.
	So it's been a wild ride so far, for sure.
	That's phenomenal.
	What is your, if I may ask, going back, education?
	Were you studying illustration?
	Were you studying business?
	I mean, what was your education?
	So I've been to business school.
	I assisted my father with a home-run commercial refrigeration business.
	And he required me to go to business school for marketing and sales.
	So I have two years under my belt with marketing.
	I've done all the marketing on this book on my own end, aside from plugs on channels like yours.
	So there's no team behind this book.
	Other than that, I'm just high school educated, and I simply just took what's in my mind and put it on paper and thought, let's see if it flies.
	Can I ask how many copies you sold?
	We just crossed the 30,000 threshold the other day, so we're ramping up there.
	And is it mostly Canadian or do you know the demographic?
	We've sold all over the world right now.
	We have sales in Japan.
	We have sales in Germany, the UK, the USA.
	I believe the US has been our second strongest market, mostly Canadian.
	But I'm actually, again, surprised to see it.
	Moving so much around the world.
	I don't know if these are Canadian citizens living in these countries or if it's people, again, after you see what happened with Trudeau overseas when he was being denounced during the UN.
	Not the UN, sorry.
	European Union.
	European Union.
	So I don't know if the interest comes from those ends.
	But, I mean, I'm happy to entertain people regardless of where they are.
	And that's what we set out to do.
	And it looks like we've done our job.
	Self-publishing, practically speaking, how does that work?
	I mean, where is it being printed, bound, and shipped from?
	So Amazon does all of that.
	Amazon has a service called Kindle Direct Publishing.
	And it's kind of like uploading a YouTube video.
	You format your book to the size that you want it in, which, again, I had to hire somebody to format.
	We had to hire somebody to make sure everything fit the pages properly and was all in place.
	And as soon as that's done, you just go to the site, you load your PDFs, you...
	Put in your information, your tax information, hit submit, and within 24 hours, it's online.
	I'd say it's very similar to uploading a YouTube video.
	I didn't think we were going to go here, but if I can ask you these questions, always from a self-interested perspective at this point, you self-publish on Amazon versus having a publisher.
	I presume it's obviously much riskier with Amazon, but the margins are better with Amazon, or do they gouge you?
	Well, I mean, the royalties are very small in contrast to what their profits are.
	But again, it was a matter of distributing the book and getting it out for people to see it and hold it.
	Any publisher, the royalties business is a very small business.
	Usually what people make money on in these situations is the back end.
	So if you do merchandising, if you do any other kind of promotion or speaking events or things like that, the royalty scale, I'd say of more than three quarters of The charge price goes to Amazon.
	And then at the end of the day, we've got to pay our taxes and everything on the side as well.
	So, I mean, we've done okay.
	I'm not going to lie.
	We're doing well in terms of if you were to compare it to a full-time job.
	But at the same time, the book business, it's more for the reward of self-fulfillment than for the profits, I'd say.
	And I don't mean profits on a personal end.
	I mean, it's good to make money from what you're doing, especially when you love it.
	Curiosity perspective, is it more risky but more lucrative to go self-publishing versus publisher?
	The benefit to Amazon is that it's print-to-order.
	So, for example, with my previous book, the Harry Potter-style book, that was done through an actual publishing company.
	And for example, when I did my first book signing with Chapters Indigo, they massively overordered quantity of stock.
	Because again, I had Stan Lee's name behind the book.
	And that was right around the time COVID was starting to be mentioned and people were a little leery about things.
	So some of those copies sat on their shelf.
	And what happens is that what Chapters Indigo does is they only have so much shelf space.
	So they'll end up sending those books back to the publisher.
	And at the end of the day, the author ends up eating up those costs for the return shipping, the logistics of the So it's very risky in terms of...
	Profit versus what you might owe at the end of the day.
	Whereas Amazon, it's strictly somebody prints it.
	As soon as it's ordered, they ship it out.
	And once it's confirmed, then it counts as a sale.
	So there's less risk or more reward, I'd say, on Amazon's end.
	That's interesting.
	I mean, it's effectively like merch.
	I mean, it's merch and you either sell it by the unit or you have to pre-order to store it somewhere.
	And my mother published a book, went to self-publishing route, but ended up having the copies.
	And trying to, you know, trying to hawk, trying to sell copies one by one from your home.
	It's impossible.
	And that is an option.
	So like Amazon does give me the option to order up to, I think it's a thousand at a time, a thousand copies.
	And I can pay whatever the cost is to manufacture and ship those.
	But if I was doing, say, a convention or a show where I want to sell them for the price that Amazon sells them at, it's then at my discretion.
	But like you said, it's almost next to impossible.
	It's a very hard game.
	But you had experience in the publishing industry before.
	What's your Twitch handle, your Twitch account?
	Twitch is www.twitch.tv slash real underscore max power with no E. It's M-A-X-P-O-W-R.
	And your name is actually...
	No, no, your name is not.
	Your name is Eric Smith.
	Did you take the max power from Homer Simpson?
	You know, it's funny.
	I've had that moniker for years.
	Ever since you could register an online name.
	I used to live with my brother-in-law.
	Before I was married to my wife, we've all known each other since high school.
	And we had a little party on New Year's Eve, and I was running around the house singing the Max Power song from Simpsons.
	And the next day, when I had to register on my console, he says, oh, use Max Power.
	And it's always stuck.
	It's always been there.
	So yes, it does come from the Simpsons.
	Let me see this here.
	Okay, now I had another question.
	Alberta?
	I don't care about the city, but are you big town, small town?
	I'm in Calgary.
	It's a big town.
	Everybody always calls us the Texas of Canada.
	But I mean, I love Alberta.
	The people are great.
	I love all of Canada.
	I've been in Ontario.
	I've been in Manitoba.
	I grew up in Winnipeg and then moved out to Calgary when I was 15. And I've been here ever since.
	And honestly, I don't think there's any part of Canada I couldn't enjoy myself in.
	How has it been?
	How has the experience of COVID been in Calgary, Alberta?
	From out east, people say it was better out west, less restrictions, but I've been seeing what was going on in Alberta.
	It didn't look much better than the rest of Canada.
	How has your experience been?
	Restrictions here were about the same as everywhere else from what I could gather.
	People were very perceptive about masks and they wanted to make sure everybody was wearing them.
	You had the usual people that would scream at you if you're not.
	It was a state of paranoia almost for the first six months of the lockdown simply because nobody knew anything about the data.
	We instantly...
	Actually, I was going to Winnipeg the day the government shut everything down.
	And I believe that was March 17th somewhere of 2020 that they shut things down.
	I was in the air with my family on my way to Winnipeg.
	When they closed everything down, we landed, everything was shut down.
	So as soon as we got home, we actually flew home early.
	Because again, this mass state of paranoia, what do we do?
	Is this thing going to kill everybody?
	We hunkered down instantly with the masks.
	We only went to get groceries if it was essential.
	And I think that was kind of the pattern for a lot of people.
	I know for my daughter, she was in kindergarten at the time.
	So she was just starting out in school.
	So she spent the rest of the year home from kindergarten.
	And then the next year, with grade one, they had the option of homeschooling.
	And of course...
	I'm home full-time.
	My wife's company was moved to work from home.
	So we both volunteered to have her stay home that year simply because we didn't know the strain that was going to be on teachers in terms of managing children or any kind of rules or regulations for how kids were going to do school.
	So for all of grade one, she was at home and it really waned on the children.
	But we weren't allowed to see anybody do anything, go anywhere.
	My mother sadly passed during COVID as well on lockdowns, and we weren't able to be there for the majority of that process.
	But it was from cancer.
	It wasn't COVID.
	But even, you know, organizing funerals or being around family, it was next to impossible to do anything.
	And rules, again, to my knowledge, were followed as much, if not the same, as everywhere else.
	It's just the thing with Alberta is it's a more conservative province.
	So people just tend to say...
	Okay, these are the rules.
	I'm going to run with them.
	Whereas I found out east with people I know in Manitoba, it was, do not come over to my house.
	Don't call me.
	Don't anything.
	So it depends, I guess, on political views and how people viewed this and their own personal situations as to how they handled things.
	Not dying from COVID, but suffering nonetheless because of it.
	People not allowed to be with their loved ones while they were passing in the hospital.
	Restricted funerals.
	That's a crime that I'm not...
	Prepare to forgive or forget.
	Absolutely.
	Politically speaking, now it's quite clear where you are now, but have you always been conservatively aligned or critical of Trudeau?
	Or like many, did you actually potentially vote for him in 2015?
	I'm, well, I can tell you I didn't vote for him, but I'm very neutral on the spectrum when it comes to government.
	One thing that I've talked about in other interviews where we've discussed children reading this book or the potential of children reading this book is that I tend to criticize all forms of government.
	There is not one that I trust indefinitely.
	They all have their agendas at the end of the day.
	They all have what they want to do for their party or to boost their deals, so to speak, when they're in Parliament.
	I usually just try to look at the platforms when it comes time for election based on what's transpired over the last four years to decide what's best for my situation, what's best for my family, what's best for those around me, and who's offering the greatest side of the coin, so to speak.
	These days, it's far than few, but I mean, I can honestly say there's been times where I have voted left.
	There's times in my life where I have voted right.
	I think that that's the benefit to having a country where you can vote is that you have the right to decide that you don't have to necessarily stick to one side of the spectrum simply because you're branded that way.
	I think people do make mistakes and I think it's good for some of those parties, especially in Alberta, to put them in check.
	That happened years ago with the NDP.
	The Conservatives were in power since I believe it was the 1970s.
	And all of a sudden you had this shift in Alberta where everybody went NDP.
	And Rachel Notley took over in the province.
	And a lot of people were upset with that.
	But at the same time, I stood back and said, well, what did you expect?
	Because, again, these guys get a thick head.
	And sometimes you need that four years of being put in check to say, hey, these guys have a voice and we got to do our job at the end of the day.
	We're here to work for them, not the opposite.
	And you said you had three kids, if I may ask, the ages?
	So I have a two-year-old, I have a six-year-old, and I've got a seven-year-old.
	All right.
	Okay, and how have they been faring under the last couple of years?
	You look chilly.
	You look like you might not have been the fear-mongering parent, but psychologically, how have they done?
	Well, it's been hard.
	I mean, it's been hard on all kids, and I've seen it especially with my daughter because, again, she was in kindergarten moving into that age where you start to make friends.
	You start to ask to go play with kids and go to the playgrounds or maybe get into swimming lessons and things like that.
	That was hard on her mentally because she's stuck in home almost like house arrest.
	Part of the reason I have this arcade behind me is actually we did all this during the lockdowns because these machines started coming out and my kids play a lot of my retro video games.
	So we kind of said, you know what, this is something where they can experience what that was without having to leave the house and it gives them something to look forward to and for us to do as a family.
	So we really tried to balance keeping them sane, so to speak.
	With activities.
	And part of the benefit that we had was, again, my wife was home working at home and I'm off the hook watching the kids.
	So ultimately, we had a lot of free time to sit down, to listen to them, to hear what was on their minds.
	And there were tough days, but I think in the end, my kids came out okay.
	I think every child should definitely look into...
	Some form of counseling, whether they're in a good or a bad state, because it's good and healthy for the mind.
	But I think at the end they turned out okay.
	They definitely don't want to go back, but they learned how to deal and we were all just as calm as we could be.
	I think that's the most important thing.
	Very interesting.
	And the book itself now?
	Yes.
	I presume mostly rave reviews, mostly positive feedback.
	Has anyone gotten mad at you?
	Friends?
	Family?
	Have you lost any friends over this?
	Well, I've lost a few.
	Again, I have always said from day one, we've got to welcome both sides of the spectrum.
	Everybody's got a right to their opinion.
	That's what makes this country great again, is that people have the right to speak their minds.
	Much like C11, we don't want to censor anybody or say that they don't have a right to an opinion.
	I have had family members who worked in the medical industry say that, you know, they're embarrassed that this is a slam against everything they did.
	And again, they're...
	I'm free to think that way because I don't live their life.
	I'm not there 24 hours a day.
	So I can't justify how they feel versus what they've seen, what they've been a part of.
	All I can tell people at the end of the day was, look, this wasn't meant to be malice.
	This was meant to be like a mad magazine slash national lampooning kind of things to kind of find the brighter side.
	Because I think over these two years, people have kind of forgotten how to laugh.
	Well, they have.
	And they've also made it impossible to laugh because everything technically offends someone, even what was otherwise the funny humor on shows like SNL.
	It's gone, which is why these shows are not funny.
	No one watches them.
	Do you have any plans after this book for another one?
	Yeah, we're currently...
	Well, we're juggling multiple books because the success of this one tells us that there's definitely a market.
	With the influx of sales, we've now started saying, okay, let's focus our attention on this.
	I've tweeted out yesterday that we have multiple books in the works.
	I wanted to work on Jagmeet Singh next, or a Jagmeet Trudeau joint book.
	But we also wanted to talk about the carbon tax and different things where, again, we're not stepping on people's toes.
	We can be a little more forward with our jokes.
	So there's definitely other books coming down the pipe.
	It's just a matter of which one we want to release first at this point.
	I'm really thinking it's going to be a Trudeau-Jagmeet Singh combination.
	Yeah, I tell you, not every fear hides a wish, and I don't want to give anybody any bad ideas.
	It's that you can make fun of some people.
	Politically speaking.
	But then people can raise all sorts of disingenuous arguments to vilify attacks on others.
	And Jagmeet Singh might be among the most politically dishonest individuals to go that route and say any attack on Jagmeet is some form of intolerance.
	Right, and it's funny you say that, because his book was going to be called The Boy Who Cried Racist, and we were going to touch on the whole, this is racist, that's racist, and then maybe even have a little message at the end explaining, this is what racism is, this isn't racist.
	The process I find, as soon as this book exploded, I was actually contacted by Preston Manning's people.
	And they said, you know, Preston would like to speak with you.
	He congratulated me on the book because, again, he's in Calgary himself.
	And, you know, he told me that he really enjoyed it.
	And the first thing I said to him was, you know, this was just after the National Post article went out.
	And that's kind of when it hit me that, hey, this is big.
	And it's kind of exploded.
	I kind of said to him, my concern is that, you know, we do have our disclaimer at the front of the book.
	But, you know, you upset or harmed the wrong people.
	Doors that opens for legal precedent or to pull the book from markets.
	And he has assured me that, you know, people in his positions, they're prone to these kind of things.
	They understand that they're going to come out.
	And he says it makes them look far worse if they're going to attack things like this than to just let it lie and let it do its job.
	If anything, it gives them press too.
	So, I mean, I can understand his perspective, but at the end of the day, like I said, this was a lighthearted jab, but also a way to...
	Kind of shine light on what happened in a humorous fashion.
	Well, the one thing we've learned, I think, throughout all of this is that tyrants have no sense of humor.
	There's a reason why historically, metaphorically speaking, the first people who were off were the Jester.
	The Jester could make some good laughs, but not too poignant to laugh.
	Otherwise, the King would off them.
	But no, they don't like being mocked.
	And it's...
	I'm not going to spoil anything about it.
	And I was going to do...
	How do you do a review?
	Without giving away the entire story.
	Well, it's funny you say that, because I'm currently under fire for...
	There was a woman on YouTube that did a review, but she called it a review, but she read the entire book and showed every page on her video.
	And I kindly asked her, look, can you pull those down?
	Because, I mean, it's not really...
	Part of my royalties...
	I did an interview with Dave over at Live from the Shed, and I asked him about the truckers, and is there anywhere I can donate to where my account isn't going to be frozen?
	And he said, you know, if you want to donate to a cause...
	Veterans for Freedom is a great organization, and I could put you through to them.
	And we will be taking a portion of our royalties and donating to that cause because, again, this was to bring light to what happened, and we want to look after those that may have been wrong during that process.
	So when I reached out to this lady, I said, could you nicely pull this down?
	I would really appreciate it.
	She didn't.
	It was up for six days, and then finally I had to issue a copyright strike and say, look, I don't want to be the bad guy.
	But you're giving away the work for free.
	I've always said I don't mind, like all over Amazon reviews, all over YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, there's pictures of the book.
	There's pages of the book.
	Rebel News showed a significant amount of pages of the book.
	I have no problem with those things because people are enjoying the book and I'm happy for that.
	But at the same time, it's difficult with YouTube and their terms of service and how you're going to do things to get things out there without pushing the envelope too far.
	So, I mean, I welcome any review.
	My only request was don't show the whole book.
	You know, the little legal side of this is that, you know, that is a form of reproduction of a copyrighted work.
	Reading it online, even if you don't show the graphics, if you read the text, it's some form of reproduction.
	You have to have authorization to do it, which is why, you know, you can only use clips of a certain duration when reviewing movies because it goes from being fair use to just being unlawful reproduction.
	So I'm thinking of a way to do it.
	I'm not going to do a read-through.
	I might just do a fun summary, a five-minute summary.
	As you wish, sir.
	Yes, so that everyone goes and gets the book afterwards.
	Good for kids, good for adults.
	I try to figure out who is it geared to the most, actually.
	If you look at, again, the adult humor genre of a child-illustrated book, the one I always compare it to is the...
	The viral book that went on the internet, the Go the F to Sleep book that Samuel L. Jackson narrated.
	It was designed to look like a children's book, but be geared towards adults that were going to get the jokes.
	People have told me they've read the book with their children.
	I mean, my kids have sat while we've read the book, but it's because I created the book.
	They don't understand the political aspect of things.
	We do have jokes in there, like the paper...
	Water bottle sort of thing and blackface and all these other things.
	So my kids get those jokes, but they don't understand the political end of things.
	I think that anybody who reads this to their kids, the important thing, again, is the book wasn't made to indoctrinate or groom children to a right-wing perspective.
	It was more, if you can discuss politics with your kids, which I think is a good thing, then it's important to iterate to your children that, hey, you have a choice when you're an adult.
	And you can put that choice wherever you want to.
	And this is the weight of a vote.
	Fantastic.
	Where can everyone find you on various social media platforms?
	So people can find me on Twitter at TheRealMaxPower.
	Again, it's always a P-O-W-R.
	But it's the same with my Twitch.
	They can find me on Twitch at twitch.tv slash real underscore max power.
	Those are my two major platforms.
	I try to stay off Instagram because I think I'm a little old for it.
	And Facebook's usually fenced off to personal friends and private family.
	I've got it kind of locked down.
	So Twitch or Twitter are probably the two best places to get a hold of me.
	Fantastic.
	The book is called How the Prime Minister Stole Freedom.
	It's fantastic.
	For what it's worth, buy the book.
	I might want to get a second copy that I'm going to not open and keep intact as a memorabilia.
	Get in touch with me after, Viva.
	I'll send you a signed copy.
	I'm reserving signed copies right now for friends and family, so I'd be happy to send you one.
	I will text you afterwards and give you my address.
	Derek, thank you very much.
	Let's do this again, and maybe one day I'll...
	We'll see who can finish Contra faster.
	Super Mario Brothers, the original, I can finish in about six minutes.
	Super Mario 3, I can finish, but it takes a long time.
	Anytime.
	Always happy.
	That'd be fun.
	That'd be a lot of fun.
	It'd be great.
	It'd be great.
	We'll be in touch.
	Thank you very much.
	Thank you for having me.
	Thank you.
	Alrighty, people.
	Let's see this here.
	So number one on Amazon, baby, we've got the best community on YouTube.
	And people don't appreciate, actually, there was an article.
	Explaining how the bestseller list, like the New York Times bestseller list works.
	And it's not always by sales.
	And they...
	Let me see if I can pull up that article.
	Thank you for the super chat.
	And actually, now that you mention it, I should probably...
	Standard disclaimers.
	No medical advice.
	No legal advice.
	No election fornification advice.
	Although we're going to be moving into streaming the January 6th committee hearings, which start in 22 minutes.
	So Viva, Kotab123 here.
	I never asked for it.
	Oh, I brought this up before.
	So Kotab123 is apparently streaming a panel Friday, 6 o 'clock.
	Check it out.
	Kotab, thank you.
	Oh, and then we got this here.
	Okay.
	I don't have mods, and I can't pin the second comment, but Kotab123, live panel Friday.
	What was I going to say?
	Oh, the New York Times.
	Let me see if I can find that article.
	Share screen.
	The way they determine how something is a New York Times bestseller, an alleged New York Times bestseller, is ridiculous.
	I'm going to try to find that.
	I'm going to try to find this here.
	Okay, let's do this here.
	We're looking at the same thing.
	How are New York Times bestsellers determined?
	Let me make sure we're looking at the same thing we are.
	Okay.
	How to get on the New York Times bestseller list.
	So Derek has sold 30,000 on Amazon.
	To achieve bestseller status on the Times, not only do you have to sell at least 5 to 10,000 copies in one week, but the sales have to be diverse sales.
	That is, you cannot sell 10,000 books to a pre-existing list.
	This was not how the corruption of the New York Times bestseller list.
	Is determined.
	We won't waste too much time on this.
	We've got to get to some Stephen Colbert.
	A convoluted world of the bestseller list explained.
	The Times bestseller list are based on detailed analysis of book sales from a wide range of retailers who provide us with specific and confidential context of the sales context.
	Context, people.
	They break it down by category.
	And so you can have the number one New York Times bestseller in...
	I don't know.
	I can't even think of it.
	Children's political works.
	And you'll be able to say number one New York Times bestseller when you might have sold...
	I don't know.
	How do I do this?
	You may have sold hundreds of copies.
	And in a certain category, you can say, I'm a New York Times bestseller.
	So 30,000 books, self-publishing on Amazon.
	It's amazing.
	It's like a video that goes viral on YouTube, except it's not a video.
	It's just a different medium, a different platform.
	But it abides by the same trends.
	Word of mouth, public interest, and then people sharing it around.
	So check it out.
	The book is there.
	And now let's move on to Colbert.
	January 6th.
	The propaganda on this, it's not just strong.
	And it's not just that...
	Let's get out of here.
	We don't need that anymore.
	It's not just that the propaganda is strong.
	And I understand people out there saying, ignore the January 6th hearings.
	It's garbage.
	It's rubbish.
	It's narrative-driven dishonesty.
	Shameless, shameless, embarrassing, cringeworthy pretentiousness.
	I think ignoring it is not the right move.
	This needs to be broadcast, put on blast, and retorted to.
	Because there's going to be a lot of people who are going to watch this and not know they're being treated like gullible, ignorant buffoons.
	And they've got the big players in this.
	It's not getting the ratings, the viewership that I think the political powers that be thought it would get.
	Their primetime day one hearing, 8 o 'clock on a Thursday night, I don't think it got the viewership they were hoping.
	I think people are tuning out of this and turning off from this.
	But there's still people who are going to watch this.
	But despite the fact that that's not getting the ratings that they think it deserves or they wanted it to get the attention, they are now Operation Mockingbird-esque using late-night comedy.
	It's so funny, I'd rather go to the dentist.
	I've laughed harder getting a cavity filled than what I saw with Stephen Colbert.
	And now, by the way, I'm going to interrupt this.
	Frequently.
	And I'm going to preface this, Colbert folk and the late night thingy things at whomever this is.
	This is quintessential commentary fair use.
	I'm not playing the five minute clip without interruption.
	I'm going to respond to each and every piece of propaganda, lie, dishonesty that came out of one man's mouth in five minutes under the pretext of comedy.
	Comedy indoctrination.
	We're going to have to call it like comedy.
	There's a word in there, somewhere in there.
	Colbert, by the way, for those of you who don't know, his team, his production team, was arrested for being unlawfully present in a Capitol building.
	I don't know which one it was, but we'll read an article on it afterwards.
	Arrested.
	Not detained.
	Not stopped.
	Arrested, processed, and released.
	Arguably for similar, not identical.
	No one's going to claim it's identical.
	There was no protest going on when Stephen Colbert's triumph, the insult dog, and whoever those other jackaninnies were.
	There was no protest going on when they were trespassing.
	When they were asked to leave the building and then came back after it was closed without credentials, without supervision, and were doing whatever the heck they thought they were entitled, entitled to do.
	Well, the arrest occurred.
	The news hit.
	The double standard hypocrisy was there for everyone to see.
	People who were invited into the Capitol building on January 6th, prosecuted and persecuted to the fullest extent of the law, some detained for non-violent crimes, some detained for trespass.
	That's them.
	These people, this team, entering the building after being asked to leave, unlawfully, after hours, To say they're going to see a...
	I don't even think they were taken off to jail.
	I think they were processed and released immediately.
	But regardless, the news broke.
	It was kind of a big story.
	You can't ignore it.
	So when you can't ignore it, what do you do?
	Lie about it.
	By the way, get ready to laugh.
	I'm trying to think of something that is inherently sad.
	It's like that episode of The Simpsons when...
	Homer Simpson's about to get up and do the roast for Burns, and then the announcer says some puppy just got run over in the parking lot.
	You'd laugh more at that than this, because this is comedy these days.
	Hey, quick question.
	Quick question.
	How was your weekend?
	Well, your team got arrested for trespassing, but let's hear how your weekend went, Stephen.
	I certainly had an interesting one.
	Because some of my staff had a memorable one.
	A memorable one.
	Getting arrested for trespassing for them is memorable.
	Tongue in cheek.
	When other people on the other side of the political aisle get arrested, and I'll have to preface this, that there was violence and there were infractions that deserve to be prosecuted fairly and justly that occurred on January 6th.
	But let's just hear how Stephen is going to justify his own illegal behavior.
	Here's what happened.
	Last week, I heard from my old colleague, Triumph the insult comic dog.
	For me to poop on!
	I mean, everybody who doesn't know this, it's kind of funny.
	I think things were funnier before they became, you know, late night shows became mouthpiece propaganda tools for the government.
	And maybe they always were, and I just never saw it.
	But OK.
	Triumph offered to go down to D.C. and interview some congresspeople to highlight the January 6th hearings.
	I said, sure, if you can get anyone to agree to talk to you because and please don't take this as an insult.
	You're a puppet.
	it.
	That's funny.
	He wanted to get some interviews.
	Why were they there after hours when there were no politicians around?
	He'll spin it.
	They were just getting some, like, B-roll stuff.
	We'll get there.
	Well, he did.
	Democratic and Republican congresspeople agreed to talk to Triumph.
	He's a bipartisan puppy.
	He's so neutral, he's neutered.
	Like, I feel like I've lost a part of my brain that's supposed to laugh because other people...
	He's so neutral, he's neutered.
	Okay, that's hilarious.
	Bipartisan?
	I'd like to know the...
	Bipartisan individuals that Triumph the insult dog spoke with.
	I haven't seen the bit.
	Not going to go out of my way to find it.
	But if it's bipartisan, like this bipartisan January 6th committee is bipartisan, if he interviewed Cheney and the other guy there, who's the other guy?
	I don't know.
	Bipartisan.
	But throw that word in because everybody agrees that what's going on right now as relates to this January 6th hearing is justified, proportionate, and above all else, Factually correct.
	Now, Triumph and my folks shot for two days in congressional offices across the street from the Capitol building.
	They went through security clearance, shot all day Wednesday, all day Thursday, invited into the offices of the congresspeople they were interviewing.
	And that's very important.
	It is very important.
	It is very important because, by comparison, some of the January 6th people, and there's video of it, Others were literally invited in by the police.
	Some, not all.
	Some broke windows and some crawled through broken windows and knew damn well they should not have been doing what they were doing and should suffer proportionate, reasonable, fair consequences for that conduct.
	Others were invited in by police, so much so that when they raised that as a defense in one of their trials before a judge, the judge said, how could he be trespassing if he was invited in?
	And acquitted the individual.
	The other defendants have not quite been so lucky, either through trial or through pleading.
	But we'll get there.
	Now, invited in.
	Stephen Colbert says that his team was invited in on two days.
	Were they invited in when they were arrested?
	We'll get there.
	But spoiler alert, they were not.
	They had previously been asked to leave and came back without authorization and without anyone showing them around.
	Can you just imagine?
	Prancing around and thinking, it's cool.
	It's us.
	Come on.
	You have to invite Triumph in.
	He works on Dracula rules.
	I don't even get the joke.
	I feel stupid.
	I feel stupid.
	I don't even have to, like, think of something bad, like throwing up, to not laugh.
	This is so unfunny, it makes me want to throw up.
	Now, end of day two, Thursday evening, after they'd finished their interviews, they were doing some last-minute puppetry and jokey make-em-ups in a hallway.
	When Triumph...
	Last-minute puppetry and jokey make-ups in the hallway.
	This is about as dumb as the, it's a prank, bro.
	Don't tase me.
	Don't assault.
	It's a prank, bro.
	Learn the joke.
	Trespassing.
	Being in a restricted area without authorization, they weren't parading or picketing, I don't think, but they were presumably in a restricted area, or at the very least trespassing, without permission, definitionally.
	Because you're making jokey jokes does not make it a crimey crime, Stephen Colbert.
	But let's just hear how idiotic this defense is going to be.
	And my folks were approached and detained by the Capitol Police.
	Lie, by the way.
	Lie.
	They were not detained.
	They were detained and then arrested.
	They actually were processed.
	So they weren't detained, which is, stay here, what are you guys doing here?
	Okay, you're free to go.
	They were arrested.
	Period.
	How many of Colbert's laughy-gaffy buffoons in the audience are going to know this?
	None.
	And those who do know it are not going to care.
	They're going to be happy like the guy in Memento.
	They're going to be happy convincing themselves of the lie so they can go on living.
	Believing the lie.
	By the way, Memento.
	I started watching movies that I thought were classics from my childhood.
	I can't watch movies anymore.
	Maybe that is the proverbial black pill.
	I started watching Taxi Driver again yesterday.
	What's your face?
	Jodie Foster.
	12 years old in the movie.
	You don't need to have a 12-year-old in order to play a 12-year-old in a movie where a 12-year-old should have no business being in that movie, around that set, have anything to do with it.
	Sorry.
	Tangent closed.
	Which actually isn't that surprising.
	The Capitol Police are much more cautious than they were, say, 18 months ago, and for a very good reason.
	Oh, really?
	We're going to get to it afterwards.
	They're more cautious now than they were 18 months ago because something happened 18 months ago that showed them they have to be cautious.
	They have to ask trespassers who are there after hours without permission.
	Why they're trespassing after hours without permission.
	But it was January 6, 2021.
	It was the Jan 6 insurrection that made them realize this.
	How many people in Stephen's audience are going to be familiar with the Disrupt January...
	Disrupt J20.
	Yeah, Disrupt J20 from 2017.
	When violent protesters sought to interfere, interrupt, and stop the inauguration of Donald Trump.
	Violent protests.
	Car, at least one car burnt.
	Hundreds of people arrested, which means that there were thousands of protesters there.
	Oh, but no, it was January 6th, 2021, that told the Capitol Police that you have to be careful when defending the Capitol building.
	I'm going to pull up the homework for all of this afterwards.
	But yeah, Stephen Colbert says, oh, they now know they have to be careful because of January 6th.
	They didn't learn the lesson from Disrupt J20 2017 when they arrested hundreds of people for violent protests to stop the inauguration.
	It was only January 6th.
	In their mind, and I guarantee you in their spirits, they don't even know about the Disrupt J20 event.
	Violent protests, hundreds of arrests, and how all the charges were dropped, or virtually all the charges dropped, against those violent protesters.
	But they didn't go into the building.
	They just rioted violently outside to try to stop the inauguration.
	They didn't try to stop certification.
	They just tried to stop the inauguration of the president, the transfer of power.
	They just tried to stop that.
	It's different.
	It's different.
	If you don't know what that reason is, I know what news network you watch.
	People in the chat.
	Where am I going?
	Hashtag confession through projection.
	This guy right now is going to accuse Fox News viewers of being ignorant, not knowing what occurred on January 6th, 2021.
	Well, Mr. Colbert, I'm going to go ahead and accuse you of misleading your audience and then being ignorant of what happened in January 2017 because you are the pathological propagandist and liar.
	Yeah, but go ahead and make fun of Fox.
	I guarantee you Fox News viewers are more well-informed than your viewers.
	That's not to defend Fox because I go out and criticize Fox when they deserve it, but I guarantee you nonetheless that Fox viewers are more well-informed than CNN viewers, than MSNBC viewers, and than Stephen Colbert viewers.
	But less informed than Viva Frye and Viva Barnes, law.locals.com viewers.
	Hashtag shameless plug.
	Bunch of clapping seals.
	Clapping seals.
	The Capitol Police were just doing their job.
	My staff was just doing their job.
	Everyone was very...
	No.
	Unless their job is to break the law or to do whatever they want with wanton disregard for the law.
	They weren't just doing their job.
	They were trespassing illegally after hours.
	Just doing their job.
	Very professional.
	Everyone was very calm.
	My staffers were detained, processed, and released.
	That means they were arrested.
	Detained, processed, released.
	Say it, Colbert.
	Say it with me.
	Arrested.
	Your staff was arrested for unlawfully being on a premises without permission after hours after they were told to leave.
	Just doing their jobs.
	A very unpleasant experience for my staff.
	A lot of paperwork for the Capitol Police, but a fairly simple story.
	Oh, yeah, it's a fairly simple story when you lie about it.
	Let's go blame someone else right now.
	Until the next night when a couple of the TV people started claiming that my puppet squad had, quote, committed insurrection at the U.S. Capitol building.
	Oh, my.
	By the way.
	Do you...
	I gotta find...
	I gotta pull up this source.
	First of all, what?
	Hold on.
	I'm gonna do this right now.
	I gotta do this right now.
	I guarantee you that that was facetious, tongue-in-cheek, and if it's the New York Times that reported it, then I don't care that it's stupid and idiotic thing to say.
	New York Times.
	Stephen Colbert.
	Insurrection.
	Triumph.
	Well, those were the New York Times.
	I'm pulling up the New York Times article.
	And I can't because it's behind a paywall, obviously.
	Let's go to Archive.
	In the chat, if you can find out which outlet said the insurrection as relates to Stephen Colbert, I'd like to see it because I guarantee you...
	Oh, okay, no, he's talking about...
	He's quoting Tucker Carlson.
	Hold on.
	Here we go.
	Let's go.
	Remove.
	Stop.
	Yeah, I'm sure Tucker Carlson wasn't being facetious when he said it.
	He wasn't being hyperbolic or...
	Why can't I find it?
	I have it.
	I just saw it.
	Late show.
	Here we go.
	This.
	Okay.
	Okay, now we see it here.
	This is one of those times when fake news, being what fake news is, pretends not to get the hyperbolic, humorous comparison.
	Like once upon a time when Maxime Bernier...
	Tweeted out that Maoists have, what's the word, penetrated?
	Or what is the word when infiltrated?
	It was in French's tweet.
	He said, Maxime Bernier, the leader of the People's Party of Canada, the political party for which I ran last federal election, tweeted out, Maoists and communists have infiltrated the Canadian government.
	To anyone with half a brain, which probably excludes most of legacy media, It was obviously hyperbolic sort of satire, but humor.
	They cited it as though he meant it seriously, as though he was a deranged conspiracy theorist who thought that Maoists and communists, like physically, not ideologically, not sort of spiritually, had infiltrated the Canadian government.
	So when the fake news wants to do what fake news does, they pretend not to get the joke.
	Or they pretend it wasn't a joke when it clearly was a joke.
	I suspect Tucker Carlson is not dumb enough to actually think that what they were doing was an insurrection, but it was close enough in material senses to say that it should be treated as severely as the insurrection.
	By the way, an insurrection which wasn't.
	FBI confirms scant evidence of any coordinated effort.
	Only recently were some people arrested on sedition or conspiracy to commit sedition.
	Only recent charges, which allow these dishonest liars to continue with that dishonest, inaccurate description of what happened.
	It was a violent protest, for sure, or it got violent in certain pockets, for sure.
	Those who got violent, or those who destroyed property, or those who committed crimes, should be prosecuted, punished, fairly, as others have been in the past, or as everyone should be based on the severity of their crime.
	Still call it an insurrection, yada yada.
	I suspect Tucker Carlson did not think that this was identical to what occurred on January 6th, but that trespassing in a Capitol building or in a restricted area is a serious crime, got some people still detained.
	Surely they would be treated similarly, proportionately, mutatis mutandis, to their similar but not identical infraction?
	Probably not.
	Second of all, huh?
	Third of all, they weren't in the Capitol building.
	Fourth of all, and I am shocked I have to explain the difference, but an insurrection involves disrupting the lawful actions of Congress and howling for the blood of elected leaders all to prevent the peaceful transfer of power.
	I'm going to go ahead and disagree with Colbert's definition of an insurrection, but let's just go see what...
	Oh, is it live?
	It's live.
	Let's go see what the definition of insurrection is.
	Let's do this quickly.
	We can miss a few minutes of that hearing.
	Definition.
	A violent uprising against an authority or government.
	That's in the colloquial term.
	Let's just see in the insurrection United States Code.
	Rebellion or insurrection?
	Whoever incites, sets on foot, assists, or engage in any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States, or laws thereof, or gives aid or comfort thereto, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for not more than 10 years or both.
	By the way, you know what's interesting about the insurrection that they keep talking about?
	No one was charged with insurrection.
	But they keep saying it nonetheless.
	They were charged with trespass.
	Parading and picketing in a restricted building.
	And in only recent cases, conspiracy to commit sedition.
	And we'll see how those charges go.
	They keep saying it, though.
	They just keep saying it.
	Repeat it.
	Often enough, people will believe it eventually.
	This was first-degree puppetry.
	This was hijinks with intent to goof.
	Or trespass.
	Or trespass, Stephen.
	Maybe.
	Misappropriation of an old Conan bit.
	Now, it is predictable.
	Clap, Seals, clap.
	It's really Conan's fault.
	Hilarious.
	It's really Conan's fault.
	Hilarious.
	Now, it's predictable why these TV talkers are talking like this on the TV.
	They want to talk about something other than the January 6th hearings on the actual seditionist insurrection that led to the deaths of multiple people.
	The deaths of multiple people.
	Those deaths consist of Ashley Babbitt shot by Capitol Police.
	Roseanne Boyland.
	Disputes around her death, but some people believe it was as a result of police conduct.
	The other deaths that these shameless liars exploit mercilessly involve natural causes, medical emergencies, and I do believe they're including Capitol Police officers who allegedly took their own lives in the days and weeks following.
	These people, as the true malicious propagandists that they are, take A death that their own police caused.
	So there was one person who was killed that day definitively, Ashley Babbitt.
	They take her death, which was carried out at the hands of an armed police officer, point blank.
	They use that as the death to say how violent this was.
	They behave violently, therefore they exploit that death twice.
	They victimize the victim twice.
	It's like, and it occurred in different wars or uprisings in the past where Literally, the opposite side used photographs of the people that their side had done horrible things to in a previous conflict and then passed it off as alleged crimes that their enemy committed in that conflict.
	They were basically using victims of the people that they victimized, claiming that they were victims of the aggressors when they were actually the victims.
	They victimized the victims twice in this propaganda, and that's what Stephen Colbert is doing right now.
	It was the Capitol Police, I don't remember his name and it doesn't matter, who shot Ashley Babbitt point blank.
	No charges, no nothing.
	And they're using that death, that act committed by the police officer, the Capitol Police, to say how devastatingly deadly this insurrection was.
	It was a violent protest in certain pockets.
	There is no doubt about it, period.
	But to exploit the deaths that were caused by the other and say, look at this, it was so violent, this is Trump's fault.
	Look what Trump made me do.
	It's shameless.
	It's shameless.
	Speaking of shameful and grotesque insults to the memory of all of those who died, don't use the death of the individual carried out at the hands of that Capitol Police officer.
	To evidence the...
	To exploit it to show and say how violent this was.
	That is shameless exploiting of the victims.
	Exactly what you're doing, Stephen Colbert.
	But we would expect nothing less from liars because they project onto others their own sins.
	So don't get mad at me for my crime because other people committed more serious crimes?
	So to go after them now, to even say that what the team did was in fact a crime of trespass, it does a disservice to the police officers.
	How dare you?
	Ignore my crimes, because I think other people made more serious crimes.
	But who knows?
	Now that you mention it, Stephen, that is kind of fishy.
	Thank you for planting the seed.
	By the way, that's what it looks like when you have dead eyes because you've sold your soul.
	Look at that.
	If my eyes ever have that deadness and lack of Honesty?
	Please let me know.
	All right.
	I'm going to stop there because I don't know.
	I think there's music.
	Yeah, forget this.
	Okay, we don't need to see the rest.
	Plus, I believe the committee has started.
	Shall we go see what's going on in the committee?
	January 6th, Day 4 Live.
	Live!
	PBS or...
	Let's try this one.
	No, you don't see what I see.
	Sorry, here we go.
	The big lie.
	Who will make sure our institutions don't break under the pressure?
	How is the audio, people?
	We won't have close calls.
	We'll have a catastrophe.
	How is the audio?
	I have to, good spirits.
	That's why we're here.
	We'll present much of the select committee's findings on this matter.
	First, I'm pleased to recognize our vice chair, Ms. Cheney.
	Little low.
	So hold on, let's just see.
	Maybe PBS is going to be live.
	My distinguished colleague from California, Mr. Schiff.
	I see people dropping off.
	People are dropping out.
	I am sensitive, people.
	Although I would say still, let it run in the background.
	It's important to hear it even if it's frustrating.
	Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.
	Today we will begin examining President Trump's effort to overturn the election by exerting pressure on state officials and state legislators.
	Donald Trump had a direct.
	Didn't they already try to impeach him for this?
	As did John Eastman.
	In other words, the same people who were attempting to pressure Vice President Mike Pence to reject electoral votes illegally were also simultaneously working...
	to reverse the outcome of the 2020 election at the state level.
	Each of these efforts to overturn the election is independently serious.
	Each deserves attention, both by Congress and by our Department of Justice.
	I'm not sure that I can actually stomach this for very long, but we'll do our best, people.
	But, as the federal court has already indicated, these efforts were also part of a broader plan.
	And all of this was done in preparation for January 6th.
	I would note two points for particular focus today.
	First, today you will hear about calls made by President Trump to officials of Georgia and other states.
	As you listen to these tapes, keep in mind what Donald Trump already knew at the time he was making those calls.
	That he lost and there was nothing to...
	They're going to get the swear word in again.
	We took a hard look at this ourselves.
	Bullshit.
	They're going to say bullshit.
	Review of it, including the interviews of the key witnesses.
	The Fulton County allegations had no merit.
	The ballots under the table were legitimate ballots.
	They weren't in a suitcase.
	They had been pre-opened for eventually feeding into the machine.
	All the stuff about the water leak and that there was some subterfuge involved.
	We felt there was some confusion.
	But there was no evidence of a subterfuge to create an opportunity to feed things into the count.
	And so we didn't see any evidence of fraud in the Fulton County episode.
	And Acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donahue told Donald Trump this.
	And I said something to the effect of, sir, we've done dozens of investigations, hundreds of interviews.
	The major allegations are not supported by...
	Exactly the utility of that whole Dominion stuff.
	The main points he said, by the way.
	He said the main points.
	Second, you will hear about a number of threats and efforts to pressure state officials to reverse the election outcome.
	One of our witnesses today, Gabriel Sterling, explicitly warned President Trump...
	About potential violence on December 1st, 2020.
	More than a month before January 6th.
	Oh yeah, and the intelligence knew, by the way.
	You will see excerpts from that video repeatedly today.
	Well in advance of January 6th of the protest.
	The government knew, and yet they turned down additional support.
	It's all gone too far.
	Oh, I remember this at the time.
	All of it.
	Joe DiGenova today asked for Chris Krebs, a patriot who ran CISA, to be shot.
	A 20-something tech in Gwinnett County today has death threats and a noose put out saying he should be hung for treason because he was transferring a report on batches from an EMS to a county computer so he could read it.
	It has to stop.
	Who's this guy?
	I'd like to see who this guy's talking to.
	You have not condemned these actions or this language.
	Senators.
	You have not condemned this language or these actions.
	Senators?
	Are they going after the senators too?
	This has to stop.
	We need you to step up.
	And if you're going to take a position of leadership, show some.
	Are they going after the senators?
	Go after everybody.
	Go after everybody for internet talk.
	They have people doing caravans running their house.
	They've had people come onto their property.
	It has to stop.
	This is elections.
	This is the backbone of democracy.
	And all of you who have not said a damn word are complicit in this.
	Are you going after all of them?
	Anybody who dares say...
	The point is this.
	I'd like to reread that Time article magazine.
	Donald Trump did not care about the threats of violence.
	He did not condemn them.
	He made no effort to stop them.
	Really?
	He went forward with his fake allegations anyway.
	One more point.
	I would urge all of those watching today to focus on the evidence the committee will present.
	Don't be distracted by politics.
	So can you release the 14,000 hours of video footage, please?
	We cannot let America become a nation of conspiracy theories and thug violence.
	Finally, I want to thank our witnesses today for all of your service to our country.
	Today, all of America will hear about the selfless actions of these men and women who acted honorably to uphold the law.
	Protect our freedom and preserve our Constitution.
	Oh, it's him.
	He's back.
	Today, Mr. Chairman, we will all see an example of what truly makes America great.
	Oh, yeah.
	Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
	And it's me.
	And it's me.
	Without objection, the chair recognizes the gentleman from California, Mr. Schiff.
	Oh, hey, look.
	Lying Mr. Schiff is on the stand.
	Hey, Schiff.
	Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
	Got any more lies for us today?
	On November 3rd, 2020, Donald Trump ran for re-election to the office of the presidency, and he lost.
	His opponent, Joe Biden, finished ahead in the key background states of Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Georgia, and elsewhere.
	Nevertheless, and for the first time in history, the losing presidential candidate fought to hold onto power.
	Oh, really?
	First time in history.
	I think we remember Democrats challenging the certification back in 2016.
	Okay, I'm not actually sure I can deal with this either.
	Next, and when he could not stop the counting, he tried to stop state legislatures and governors from certifying the results of the election.
	He went to court, filed dozens of frivolous lawsuits, making unsubstantiated claims of fraud.
	Unsubstantiated claims, like Schiff talking about having seen the evidence of Russia collusion?
	To try to get them to go back into session and either declare him the winner, decertify Joe Biden as the winner, or send two slates of electors to Congress, one for Biden and one for him.
	Pretty sure all of this is provided for in the Constitution.
	No legitimate state authority in the states Donald Trump lost would agree to appoint fake Trump electors and send them to Congress.
	But this didn't stop the Trump campaign either.
	They assembled groups of individuals in key battleground states and got them to call themselves electors, created phony certificates associated with these fake electors, and then transmitted these certificates to Washington and to the Congress to be counted during the joint session of Congress on January 6th.
	None of this worked.
	But according to Federal District Judge David Carter, former President Trump and others likely violated multiple federal laws The desired outcome of this is criminal charges against Trump.
	For as the judge explained, President Trump's pressure campaign to stop the electoral count did not end with Vice President Pence.
	It targeted every tier of federal and state elected officials.
	Convincing state legislatures, he said, to certify competing electors was essential to stop the count and ensure President Trump's election.
	Do we watch this or do we go on to other stuff?
	Seriously, let's do a poll.
	Running through this scheme was a big lie that the election was plagued with massive fraud.
	This is actually giving me an answer.
	I think we can talk about other stuff.
	Do we continue with this crap?
	He said he told the president about these claims of massive fraud affecting the outcome of the election.
	Hold on, people.
	Hold on.
	We're going to see here.
	We're going to do this.
	Let's do a poll.
	Let's do a poll.
	I told him that the stuff that his people were shuttling out to the public was bullshit.
	Ah, here they go.
	They had to get it in.
	They had to get it in.
	Bullshit.
	They should do a remix.
	That's what they want.
	The president's lie was and is a dangerous cancer on the body politic.
	A dangerous cancer.
	That's an offensive analogy.
	You can convince Americans that they cannot trust their own elections.
	Not anytime.
	And they're allowed asking questions.
	To determine who should govern.
	This brings us to the focus of today's hearing.
	We'll get to a thousand votes and then we're going to abide by the poll.
	And it looks lopsided.
	He lost-250, 80-20 to go.
	When state legislators refused to go back into session and appoint Trump electors, he amped up the pressure yet again.
	Anyone who got in the way of Donald Trump's continued hold on power after he lost the election How many people are watching?
	We have right now 1,967 people.
	Let's get 1,000 votes and see if we leave this.
	And death.
	State legislators were singled out.
	So too were statewide elections officials.
	I know we can get to a thousand votes quickly.
	Go click a button, people.
	329, 350, 80, 20. I think it's an insurmountable lead.
	Let's do it.
	And he heard the president say peacefully.
	Peacefully march.
	Is this in front of Kavanaugh's house?
	Is this in front of Kavanaugh's house?
	Shouldn't be doing it, by the way, if that's someone's residence.
	But I'm just wondering, is this Kavanaugh's house?
	Because they tolerate this when it's a Supreme Court judge.
	You're a tyrant, you're a felon, and you must turn yourself into the authority.
	Oh, it's funny.
	Protest on Kavanaugh's front lawn.
	No problem.
	Do this.
	Problem.
	And by the way, they're both problematic.
	It's not a question.
	And then it's just, we don't know what's going to...
	The uncertainty of that was what...
	We're at 488 votes, people.
	448 votes, and it's still 78 to 22. I'm trying to put him to bed.
	And so it was...
	That was the scariest moment, just not knowing what was going to happen.
	I know it's scary when people are on your front lawn protesting, unless it's for a smush-mortion decision in its Kavanaugh.
	As you will see in this video, produced by the Select Committee.
	My name is Josh Roselman.
	I'm an investigative counsel for the House Select Committee.
	Wow, the other investigative counsel was about 12 years old as well.
	Beginning in late November 2020, the president and his lawyers started appearing before state legislators, urging them to give their electoral votes to Trump, even though he lost the popular vote.
	I represent President Trump along with Jenna Ellis.
	And this is our fourth or fifth hearing.
	OK, people.
	This election has to be turned around because we won Pennsylvania by a lot and we won all of these swing states by a lot.
	This was a strategy with both practical and legal elements.
	The select committee has obtained an email from just two days after the election.
	Legal elements?
	I thought she said it was illegal.
	In which a Trump campaign lawyer named Queda Mitchell asked another Trump lawyer, John Eastman, to write a memo justifying the idea.
	When do you remember this coming up?
	A lawyer writing a legal memo?
	In the post-election period, for the first time.
	Right after the election.
	Okay, I would start another poll.
	Do we wait until we get to 1,000 votes or do we just end this now?
	Which was circulated to the Trump White House, Rudy Giuliani's legal team and state legislators around the country.
	And he appeared before the Georgia state legislature to advocate for it publicly.
	You could also do what the Florida legislature was prepared to do, which is to adopt a slate of electors yourself.
	Is that not constitutionally permitted?
	Significant statistical anomalies and sworn evidence and video evidence of outright election fraud.
	I don't think it's just your authority to do that.
	But quite frankly, I think you have a duty to do that, to protect the integrity of the election here in Georgia.
	But Republican officials in several states released public statements recognizing that President Trump's proposal I can't even make it entertaining.
	Oh, Brian Kemp said it was?
	You mean people disagree on a legal theory?
	Oh my goodness!
	Insurrection!
	When President Trump invited delegations from Michigan and Pennsylvania to the White House...
	Either you or Speaker Chatfield, did you make the point to the president...
	Some lawyers think it's not a bona fide legal theory.
	Terrible.
	I believe we did.
	Whether or not it was those exact words or not.
	I think the words that I would have more likely used is we were going to follow the law.
	This is as authentic as an infomercial.
	Hopefully the courts and/or legislatures will have the courage to do what has to be done to maintain the integrity of our election.
	Oh, terrible!
	He can't post that?
	The CNN contact information for state officials and urging his supporters to contact them to quote, demand a vote on decertification.
	In one of those posts, President Trump disclosed Mike Shirky's personal phone number to his millions of followers.
	Well, what is this about?
	That's a problem.
	That's a problem.
	So get a new number and apologize.
	Over just shy of 4,000 text messages over a short period of time.
	That is bad.
	Unless that's his congressional number.
	Loud noise.
	Loud, consistent cadence.
	We heard that the Trump folks are calling and asking for changes in the electors, and you guys can do this.
	Well, you know, they were believing things- Okay, if it's a public number- These efforts also involve targeted outreach state legislators- That's relevant!
	My name is Angela McCallum.
	I'm calling the Trump campaign headquarters in Washington, D.C. You do have the power to reclaim your authority and send a slate of electors...
	That sounds very peaceful and very democratic to me.
	From President Trump's lawyers and from Trump himself.
	And I've become friendly with legislators that I didn't know four weeks ago.
	600 votes.
	Oh, but the funny thing is, the longer we go...
	Is it mathematically possible to get to a majority state?
	We have 400 votes left.
	I don't think it's mathematically possible to get to a state.
	I had Jenna Ellis on the channel.
	Fantastic interview.
	Cutler felt that the outreach was inappropriate and asked his lawyers to tell Rudy Giuliani to stop calling.
	But Giuliani continued...
	Okay, but why was it inappropriate?
	I understand that you don't want to talk to me now.
	Why was it inappropriate?
	Why did he feel that it was inappropriate?
	He felt that it was inappropriate, the outreach.
	On December 30th, Trump ally Steve Bannon announced a protest at Cutler's home.
	We're getting on the road, and we're going down to Cutler.
	We're going to start going to offices, and if we have to, we're going to go to homes, and we're going to let them know what we think about them.
	I don't think it should be allowed, but you allowed it with Kavanaugh.
	Good for Kavanaugh, not good for others?
	Bunch of hypocrites.
	Outside of either my district office or my home, and you're correct, my son was home by himself for the first one.
	All of my personal information was doxed online.
	It was...
	My personal email, my personal cell phone, my home phone number.
	In fact, we had to disconnect our home phone for about three days because it would ring all hours of the night and would fill up with messages.
	Brian Cutler, we're outside.
	Clerks facing felony charges in Michigan.
	Not hypocrisy hierarchy.
	This is just hypocrisy.
	The Trump campaign spent millions of dollars running out online and on television.
	Picketing outside their offices is different than picketing outside their homes.
	It's never outside a home.
	It's not right.
	It's actually specifically illegal with respect to judges.
	Public pressure on state officials often grew dangerous in the lead up to January.
	Okay, people, I'm listening to the chat.
	I'm listening.
	I'm listening.
	Oh my.
	Okay, the only thing that I ask now is, I'm going to go tweet out and just let everyone know that we're no longer watching this.
	It's actually insufferable.
	I have a hard stomach.
	That's insufferable, malicious propaganda and dishonesty.
	There's no other way about it.
	I could script it for you.
	I could script it so that we don't have to do this.
	I'm going to purify my palate.
	Fecal matter that we just had stuffed in our ears.
	I just dribbled carbonated water.
	Okay, hold on.
	Let me just go tweet and just say we're going to talk about other stuff.
	Can't do it.
	And I'm not going back to it ever.
	Ever, ever, ever.
	Sorry.
	I'm going to go back to it later.
	I appreciate how it's insufferable, intolerable.
	Not covering Jan 6. It's too nauseating.
	Come back and we'll cover other better stories.
	This is endless rubbish.
	Boom.
	Oh my.
	Holy, sweet, merciful goodness.
	Okay.
	So what do we move on to now?
	I might head back to this afterwards, but no.
	Let's go.
	There's a few more stories that I want to actually talk about.
	Share screen.
	What?
	Let's get back to actually another exploitive story coming out of Tim Miller.
	Another prime example.
	This is the most important story in American history than this.
	This is the most important story in the history of the Republic.
	These January 6th hearings are remarkable.
	They are riveting.
	The hearings last night, they were searing.
	They were vivid.
	It was compelling.
	It was chilling.
	The videos were chilling, and I think it's going to be historic.
	This was a historic, compelling hearing.
	This is very compelling.
	Remember, these are the people touting.
	What is ultimately the anti-Semitic trope of the big lie, the Hitlerian concept of the big lie.
	These are the people accusing others of the big lie.
	The lie is, say something so egregious and so shocking that no reasonable person could think that someone would have the audacity to lie.
	Repeat it often enough and eventually people will believe it.
	Telling.
	I've been texting with a number of sources.
	Cross-state lines.
	Cross-state lines.
	What was the other one?
	Power through it.
	Power through it.
	Once you see it, this is called a leitmotif.
	It's a recurring theme.
	And it's done mutandus mutandus in other circumstances.
	Does everyone remember the power through it supercut?
	The across-state lines supercut?
	I was texting people live during the hearing.
	The words that I was hearing from them were stomach-turning, riveting, compelling.
	One senator told me that he had a lump in his throat as he was watching the video.
	That's called vomit from lies.
	And hearing this testimony.
	Nobody's watching this crap, and so the only way that they can tell people what happened is by lying to them.
	Stunning testimony from the House Select Committee investigating the January 6th assault.
	I love this.
	Who has the patience to put these together?
	God bless him, because somebody has to.
	Power through it.
	I want to pull up the power through it after this one.
	Cross state lines.
	It's just like, they think people are stupid.
	They think people are stupid.
	The ground of testimony from the witnesses, of course, what the committee was able to offer in terms of new materials that we had never seen before.
	This is so much worse than something like Watergate.
	I'm sorry.
	I don't know if they're talking about the hearing or the event.
	January 6th was worse than Watergate.
	I mean, the reasons for which they are serious are different in nature.
	A protest turned violent is a protest turned violent.
	The president committing crimes and then proceeding to try to cover them up is different in nature.
	I mean, one comes from the top down.
	Hold on, what's in my pocket?
	That's my license.
	Let's just keep going.
	This is so much worse than Watergate.
	This is a watershed moment for our democracy.
	What happened on January 6th is so much worse than Watergate.
	Really?
	Hold on, let me just...
	Sorry, I had a funny joke that I can't make.
	By 100 degrees.
	Orders of magnitude worse than Watergate.
	It is amazing.
	They've got their talking points.
	I remember people saying these things like...
	It's syndicated news, by and large, so they're going to have similar themes, and that's one explanation.
	But this is just orchestra.
	You know about Watergate, the history books?
	What does this have to do with Watergate?
	How is this comparable to Watergate, but for the fact that Watergate has become the term to describe government scandal?
	They need to iconically associate this with scandal.
	It's totally unrelated.
	It's not comparable because it's a different beast than Watergate.
	Compare it to Clinton blue dress gate.
	I did not.
	Compare it to that.
	Watergate is a walk in the park next to the January 6th attack on American democracy.
	Yeah, because one was a violent protest.
	The other was government corruption.
	They're just not comparable.
	Yeah, whatever.
	And the almost assassination of an American vice president at the hands of...
	I'm sorry, did they just...
	Hold on.
	I'm sorry.
	Democracy and the almost assassination of an American vice president at the hands of a mob incited by the American president.
	Are they...
	Who is that guy, people?
	Who is this man who now tops the chart of liars?
	The almost assass...
	Are they talking about Pence?
	Are they suggesting that there was a...
	Almost that?
	That occurred that day?
	The president.
	This is the most important and disturbing incident that's ever happened in the 246 years of the American Constitutional Republic.
	Grabian.
	Good work.
	Then this guy, Tim Miller.
	Who's he?
	Cock zone.
	I can't tell if things are satire anymore.
	MSNBC analyst, so no, it's not going to be satire.
	This guy, what does cuck zone mean?
	I don't understand what's going on in the world anymore.
	It doesn't matter.
	A president trying to stay in power after they lost and instigating a deadly assault when what he said was peacefully protest.
	Go home in peace, he said.
	But if you say so.
	On the Capitol is obviously worse than Watergate.
	Thanks for doing your part to Signal Boost, Tom.
	I smell sarcasm.
	My sarcasm detector is not that rusty.
	I smell sarcasm.
	Let me just go back to my response, however.
	You do realize that the two people who were actually killed that day were killed by Capitol Police, Ashley Babbitt and Roseanne Boylan.
	And I have to be fair because there is dispute around Roseanne Boylan, so I don't want to be accused of not...
	Steel manning the other side.
	The other side of medical emergencies, natural causes, Brian Sicknick, stroke, and then the people who allegedly took their lives, or who apparently took their lives in the days and weeks, the Capitol Police, in the days and weeks following.
	If I were an investigative journalist, I would be asking questions and looking into those stories.
	So you are exploiting the true victims a second time.
	Well done, Tim OCD.
	Tim ODC.
	Hashtag confession through projection.
	Okay.
	There's just no shame, but my goodness, is it pathological.
	They get these talking points no matter where you watch on MSM.
	You're getting the same variation of the same message and you're being lied to.
	Those supercuts are amazing.
	Now, there was the other supercut at one point in time about fair, accurate reporting.
	Syndicated news outlets are going to run the same message.
	So it'll make for a shocking supercut edited montage.
	But when you're a syndicated news outlet, it makes sense you're going to be running the same approved syndicated talking points.
	So that's a little less compelling.
	This is relatively compelling.
	Let's just see what people have to say about the...
	Thanks.
	I'm fascinated by CNN accusing Fox News of being a one-story news broadcast after seven years of Trump.
	What else was...
	Oh, by the way, this is funny.
	This is what I'm looking at right now.
	This is my setup.
	I found an alternative use for my Shorty Award statue.
	It is a camera.
	This is so cool.
	I'm looking at my computer screen at what I'm looking at when I look at you, the world.
	And let's just see in the background.
	Is there anything embarrassing?
	No, we're good.
	Those are my studio floodlights.
	There were some other interesting stories.
	Let's get there.
	Okay, we got that story.
	Well, let's actually...
	Let's go back to...
	Apparently, I was not seeing the last two minutes.
	You were not seeing the last two minutes of Cold Air.
	So let's just go back and see this here.
	Or not.
	Are my interwebs still working?
	Have I been kicked off the interwebs?
	Okay, there we go.
	Quick question.
	Quick question.
	How was your weekend?
	Okay, forget that.
	We got that part yet.
	For anybody who didn't see this.
	It's really Conan's fault.
	It's really Conan's fault.
	Did you guys see the guitarist?
	Is this as of where...
	As of where we left off when I thought you guys were seeing what I was seeing.
	Let me see here.
	Now, it's predictable why these TV talkers are talking like this on the TV.
	They want to talk about something other than the January 6th hearings on the actual seditionist insurrection that led to the deaths of multiple people.
	These effing liars.
	And by the way, there's some concealed projection here.
	These people, these politicians, Only want to talk about January 6th because they absolutely do not want to talk about the lamentable state of the world, of the economy, of inflation, of gas prices.
	They don't want to talk about the spike in crime across the country.
	Canada and the US.
	They want to talk about anything else.
	And so the only way to do it is to make this molehill into Mount Everest.
	and the injury of over 140 police officers, but drawing any equivalence between rioters storming our Capitol to prevent the counting of electoral ballots and a cigar-chomping toy dog This is what I told you about when I mentioned that this is just the way to shield them from any criticism whatsoever.
	If ever you accuse them of doing anything, but there was something more serious that someone else did.
	By focusing on me, you're ignoring that.
	It's what children do.
	And it obscenely trivializes the service and the courage the Capitol Police showed on that terrible day.
	Why weren't there more?
	Why were they understaffed?
	Oh yeah, COVID.
	They didn't know they needed to protect the Capitol building despite what happened earlier.
	But who knows?
	Who knows?
	Maybe there was a vast conspiracy to overthrow the government of the United States with a rubber Rottweiler.
	After all, Thursday night, the night that they were detained, was the 50th anniversary of the Watergate break-in.
	Are we supposed to believe that was a coincidence?
	Yes.
	By the way, this is what it means to actually be able to see things anew.
	This is when I said, if my eyes ever look dead, dishonest, insincere like that, please let me know.
	Is it a coincidence that it was on the 50th anniversary of Watergate?
	Hold on one second.
	Hold on one second.
	Watergate date.
	June 17, 1972.
	72, 82, 92, 02, 12, 22. That is the 50th year anniversary.
	Is it a coincidence?
	Thank you for pointing it out, Stephen.
	Um, no.
	It's not a coincidence.
	You were deliberately there on the 50th year anniversary because Watergate is the talking point.
	Let's put this all together in real time together.
	It wasn't a coincidence.
	You did it on purpose, and that's one of the reasons why they probably dated this the way they did, so they can loop it all together and make it Watergate.
	It's actually stunningly amazing.
	I didn't even know that it was the 50th anniversary of Watergate, but my goodness, what a convenient timing for all of this.
	Oh, tabernouche.
	Anyways, we don't need that anymore.
	We're done with that.
	Yeah, not a coincidence, and thank you for pointing it out, actually, Colbert.
	It was deliberate.
	It was planned.
	You actually made me realize it was by your joke that it was just an accident coincidence.
	There are no coincidences, but there are no accidents.
	Hold on.
	What does Steve Bannon say?
	There are no coincidences, but there are no...
	Ah, crap.
	I'll find it in a second.
	Two super chats that I missed.
	Reketa620 stream blocked Canada.
	Is this the start?
	We're going to go see that if that's the case.
	I didn't know about that.
	And this is for dropping the garbage propaganda.
	Am Chotrod.
	Thank you very much.
	Hold on.
	We're going to do two things right now.
	First, I'm going to get rid of that super chat.
	Thank you.
	Give me the hair there.
	YouTube.
	Can't go back to it.
	Avoid the temptation.
	Reketa.
	Law.
	And let's just see.
	January 20 is yesterday.
	Kato Law.
	Got it.
	Thank you.
	And let's just see.
	How do I get to videos?
	Videos here.
	One year ago.
	Ten days ago.
	How do I just find yesterday's stream?
	What is my problem?
	Sort by...
	Date added newest.
	Dude.
	Am I not...
	Are we not seeing it because...
	Okay, I'll have to figure that out.
	I don't know what that means.
	I'll have to figure out what that's about.
	But let's go back.
	Stephen Colbert, thank you for making us realize it wasn't a coincidence.
	You were there on the 50th anniversary for a reason.
	And that is conveniently, I guess, why the...
	Worse than Watergate, talking point, is making the rounds.
	It all makes sense.
	Colbert and his lies about his team getting arrested.
	Where's the article?
	Where is the article?
	If I didn't link the article, that would be my problem.
	Do we care about this article?
	Let's just go get the article, and we're going to go.
	Colbert, team arrested.
	I think it's this.
	Okay.
	Hmm.
	Let's see here.
	Trespass.
	The Guardian.
	Yeah, I think it was in The Guardian.
	Okay.
	Yes, I'm happy.
	Seven staff members from The Late Show with Stephen Colbert were arrested, arrested, not detained, arrested for allegedly trespassing, and I appreciate allegedly, they haven't been convicted yet, trespassing in a Capitol Hill building.
	I thought he said they weren't in the Capitol building.
	On Thursday night, authorities have said all seven were each charged with unlawful entry.
	We don't care about that.
	The building was closed to the public at the time, and Capitol Police said they had asked the group to leave the grounds earlier in the day.
	The group were unescorted and without congressional ID in a hallway on the sixth floor, the United States Capitol Police said.
	Yeah, but they went through security during the day, so therefore they must have gone through security then.
	It's atrocious.
	But we want to look at Roseanne Boyland and the situation surrounding her death.
	Which one do we...
	Let's go to CNN fact check.
	And see what they have to say.
	Was protester Roseanne Boyland crushed to death during the events of January 6th, criticizing inaccurate initial reports on the cause of Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick's deaths?
	Heiss then attempted to counter the narrative that pro-Trump supporters were the ones causing the violence on January 6th.
	In fact, it was Trump supporters who lost their lives that day, not Trump supporters who were taking the lives of others.
	Heiss.
	Who do we know who Heiss is?
	Heiss.
	Okay.
	Conclusion.
	While initial reports claim Boylan had been crushed to death among the crowds of the Capitol, the D.C. medical examiner ultimately ruled her death was an amphetamine overdose.
	Let's see another one.
	Daily Beast.
	Drug overdose.
	Um...
	Thank you.
	Humanity Fair, January 5th.
	This is...
	All running the same story.
	Trampled in a crowd.
	Oh, how do I get this out of here?
	Trampled in a crowd.
	Her family investigates how Boylan's embraced for...
	Oh, boy.
	Anyways, there is...
	As the crowd retreated, many fell on top of the other.
	Anderson got crushed under a pile of about 30 people, he said.
	Next to him was the woman he had seen earlier.
	She was screaming a little bit and yelling for help, he recalled.
	But then she went quiet.
	And there's videos out there.
	But the fact checkers conclude that she passed away from an amphetamine overdose.
	It's impossible to know.
	You can never know.
	You can just read from as many sources as possible.
	And hope to be able to come to some sort of remote assessment of the truth.
	But the media, I mean, they're so happy that people did in fact die because now they get to exploit those victims yet again to say, look how violent it was, look what we had to do.
	And this was my response in as much as anyone's going to read it.
	So much wrong with this.
	This is Colbert's video.
	There was no insurrection.
	Exhibit A. And again, let's just do this so I can get back to it more easily.
	Don't trust me.
	Don't trust me.
	Verify me.
	You might end up trusting me.
	Scant evidence.
	FBI insurrection.
	Don't trust me.
	But you'll end up trusting me.
	But verify nonetheless.
	This is Reuters.
	Remember everything they're saying.
	Insurrection.
	Coordinated.
	Violent.
	What's the date?
	August 20th.
	So this is a year ago.
	So if anybody wants to say, well, now there's charges of conspiracy to commit submission, therefore, we'll choose to believe.
	Exclusive.
	FBI finds scant evidence U.S. Capitol attack was coordinated sources.
	The FBI has found scant evidence that the January 6th attack on the Capitol was a result of an organized plot to overturn the presidential election results, according to...
	Four current and former law enforcement officials.
	Okay.
	Though federal officials have arrested more than 570 people, the FBI at this point believes the violence was not centrally coordinated by far-right groups or prominent supporters of then-President Donald Trump, according to sources.
	I don't like sources, so I'll take that with a grain of salt as well.
	Who have been either directly involved or briefed.
	But we have a name.
	90-95% of these are one-off cases, said a former senior law enforcement official with knowledge of the investigation.
	Then you have 5% maybe of these militia groups that were more closely organized, but there was no grand scheme with Roger Stone and Alex Jones and all of these people to storm the Capitol and take hostages.
	Not only was there not, by the way, anonymous source, Alex Jones was out there and said, don't go, it's a setup.
	He was there on video and lucky for him.
	Don't go, this is a setup.
	I guess you leave it for people to have lived long enough, to have seen things, to maybe rightly and sometimes maybe wrongly see things, but he saw something that led him to say that.
	So, no evidence.
	Scant evidence.
	And the only evidence that there is now, who was it?
	Who was it that was charged?
	I'm going to do this in real time.
	Conspiracy to commit sedition.
	Jan 6. Who was it?
	It was that guy.
	Here we go.
	Just on the eve of this hearing, by the way, it's surely just a coincidence.
	Surely it's just a coincidence.
	It's not.
	And stop calling me Shirley.
	Surely it's just a coincidence.
	On the eve of the hearings, they come up with these charges.
	How many days later?
	January 2021 to January 2022 is a year.
	That's 360 days plus five months.
	But a year and a half later, they come up with these charges.
	And just a coincidence, I'm sure the timing is, you know, 50th year anniversary of Watergate, which I didn't know, but thanks for letting me know.
	Proud Boys leader and top members charged with seditious conspiracy over January 6th.
	I went through the indictment.
	It's not to say that the indictment is not serious.
	The indictment is serious.
	Conspiracy to commit sedition.
	The allegations in the indictment are serious.
	The charges, I do wonder if anyone has ever been charged, how many people have been charged with conspiracy to commit sedition?
	The Justice Department on Monday charged the head of the Proud Boys, Enrique Tarrio, and four other leaders with seditious conspiracy in the January 6th attack on the Capitol, escalating the criminal case against the far-right extremist group.
	These are the most aggressive charges brought By the Justice Department against the Proud Boys and their first allegations by prosecutors that the group tried to oppose by force the presidential transfer of power.
	By the way, you know, the Department of Justice should probably not be proud of aggressive charges.
	You probably just want just and proportionate charges.
	I mean, if it's the Department of Justice and not the Department of Injustice or the Department of Political Prosecution.
	The most aggressive charges that they tried to oppose by force the presidential transfer of power.
	Oh!
	Oh, you mean like...
	You mean like...
	This?
	You mean like this?
	Disrupt 2020?
	Was an organization that protested and attempted to disrupt events of the presidential inauguration of the 45th president of the United States, which occurred on January...
	2017.
	It's interesting.
	The most aggressive charges.
	Where was the paragraph?
	Most aggressive charges of a group that tried to oppose, oppose by force.
	Do I want to order that?
	I don't need a bikini.
	Oppose by force the transfer of power.
	Let's just fast forward.
	Disrupt 2020.
	It was an organization that protested and attempted to disrupt events of the presidential inauguration.
	It attempted to disrupt the transfer of presidential power.
	Did they face aggressive charges?
	Did they face political persecution, solitary confinement, 500 days pretrial detainment?
	I don't know.
	Let's just see here.
	Let's just see.
	Disrupt 2020.
	No, disrupt.
	It was a J20.
	Disrupt.
	Charges.
	Charges dropped against all.
	No, no, no.
	Not paying.
	Not paying.
	Sorry, dude.
	J20 case ends in dropped charges after a prosecutor caught hiding evidence.
	Interesting.
	Here we go.
	Let's see what's going on here.
	This is learning in real time, people.
	I don't know how well you can see this, but on July 6th, Assistant U.S. Attorney Rizwan Qureshi quietly filed a motion to dismiss all 39 remaining Inauguration Day J20 charges.
	This is pre-January 6. Remember J20 to disrupt the inauguration transfer of presidential power.
	Charges dropped quietly.
	I want to see something.
	I want to see who appointed Rizwan, and I want to see what evidence was withheld.
	The motion simply said, after further review, the United States...
	In the exercise of its discretion, here their discretion is to drop the charges.
	In January 6, 2021, it's to find the most aggressive charges.
	Has determined that these matters should be dismissed without prejudice.
	Okay, meaning they can refile.
	DC such...
	Oh, sorry.
	This is a sentence, so I can't.
	Without prejudice means the prosecutors can refile charges at their discretion at any time within the statute of limitation, which appears to be six years for felonies in D.C., yada, yada.
	The motion being filed on Friday afternoon was not surprising since the prosecution had a lot of reason to want these cases to fade away, namely the fact that the lead prosecutor had been caught hiding evidence.
	Let's see this.
	As I reported at the end of the second J20 trial, the prosecutors once again failed to secure any convictions at trial.
	These failures were despite the lead prosecutor, Jennifer Kirchhoff, making melodramatic claims that the participants in the anti-capitalist, anti-fascist march to contest Trump's inauguration had acted as a sea of black to terrorize and destroy downtown D.C., etc., etc.
	We just see one thing here.
	Let's just see something here.
	This is the prosecutor that dropped the charges.
	Who appointed?
	So I guess the individual is no longer...
	We'll get to that later.
	Let's actually see.
	What was the evidence?
	What was the evidence?
	Evidence.
	Hiding evidence.
	The prosecutor maintained this story until pretrial motions for upcoming trial blocks were heard in the courtroom while the May 14th trial was underway in another.
	These motions forced the prosecutor to admit facts that exposed their hiding of evidence in violation of Brady obligations.
	Turns out, they had also edited out a conversation that the undercover operative had with an unwitting activist about how the leaders didn't know anything about the upper echelon stuff, which seemed to mean violence or property destruction.
	The statement clearly was not advantageous to the state's claim that the video established the conspiracy to riot and commit property destruction.
	The judge was feared.
	Okay, it's fascinating.
	This is January 2017.
	Now, what were we doing here?
	No, that was not it.
	It's almost too much to be able to comprehend, to fathom, to keep in your mind.
	The most aggressive charges ever being brought against 570 individuals.
	Charges dropped?
	Hell no.
	They've pleaded.
	Jake Angeli, the QAnon shaman, 41 months in prison.
	Oh.
	So that was the...
	There was no insurrection, scant evidence from the FBI.
	They were invited in, people.
	We've seen the evidence.
	We've seen the acquittal.
	And Capitol Police needed January 6th to know to be on alert.
	They learned nothing from the January 2017 protests.
	Virtually all charges dropped.
	Some people went to trial.
	Doesn't look like they got convicted.
	And the prosecutors had to quietly drop the charges.
	How many charges have been dropped in the January 6th insurrection?
	This insurrection, they have congressional committee hearings, 500 days of investigation.
	They're on their fourth day of wasting government resources on this.
	If this was an insurrection, so too was what happened in January 2017.
	It wasn't in the certification process where the protests took place.
	It was to prevent the inauguration, which is the formal transfer of presidential power.
	Crickets.
	Capitol Police lived through that.
	Apparently didn't learn their lessons such that they were understaffed.
	This day, they let people into the building.
	You know what?
	Trust but verify, people.
	Hold on.
	Trust but verify.
	I don't want you to believe me.
	Capitol Police let protesters in acquittal.
	Which one do we trust here?
	We'll trust an enemy.
	Because if they have to admit it, a man claimed police let him into the Capitol on January 6th.
	A judge found him not guilty of all charges.
	Way to state BuzzFeed liars that the judge said, I believe that the police let you in.
	I believe there's video evidence of it.
	Don't join the two.
	Just...
	Announcing his decision from the bench, U.S. District Trevor McFadden said that although prosecutors argued there were numerous incidents when Martin would have been aware that he wasn't allowed on Capitol grounds or inside the building as he walked past the fences, yada, yada, yada, those were outweighed by Martin's plausible belief that he had permission because officers didn't try to stop him from entering.
	I believe, actually, it was a little bit stronger than that.
	The crux of Martin's defense in his own words that he was let in by two Capitol Police officers who were standing in the doorway when he entered and made no attempt to stop him.
	He argued that one of the officers waved him through and his lawyer showed a zoomed-in video that appeared to show the officer making gestures with his hands.
	It appeared to show.
	The video that they showed appeared to show officers waving him in.
	And the judge agreed with the defense.
	McFadden said he wasn't convinced that one of the officers actually weighed Martin in, but his interpretation of the video was that Martin had waited to enter while the officer leaned forward to speak with another person and then leaned back, reopened the passageway.
	Martin tapped the officer on the shoulder and the officer leaned back further.
	The judge said he found Martin largely credible in his description of events, although he also thought the defendant shaded his testimony at times to minimize his actions.
	The spin is strong with this one.
	The judge in this particular case believed, based on the video, that the officers waved them in, let them in, and how could they then find them guilty of anything when the police let them in?
	It's a very difficult process to keep up to speed with all of the nonsense because you have to know when you're getting lied to, which means you have to either know to ask the question or have the knowledge of what's being withheld from you and then just hope.
	Just hope that you reach somebody with this.
	Okay, let me pull this away and see what's in the chat here.
	They did wave them in.
	There's video.
	In certain places, they waved them in.
	In other places, there were broken windows and forced entry.
	In certain areas, they were let in willy-nilly.
	In other areas, they pushed and there was violence, period.
	It would be disingenuous and discrediting to assert otherwise.
	It was not a purely peaceful...
	Ottawa protests.
	Was it characterized by violence?
	Was it an insurrection?
	Well, I mean, that just depends on what your perspective is.
	Do not believe your lying eyes.
	I watched live.
	They let them in and slowly walked inside.
	There were obviously places where the cop fell over and struck her head, the first witness on day one.
	The crowd pushed.
	Why in the name of God's green earth or God's blue earth, whatever the earth color is, why in the name of all things that are holy?
	They would have been understaffed, knowing what was coming, and used bike racks.
	In January 2017, let me just show you the images.
	Disrupt January 20 images.
	They had, first of all, look at these images.
	They had proper barricades.
	They barricaded off the inauguration, which was one of the issues as to why there weren't that many people or there was a lesser amount of people at the inauguration because it was barricaded off.
	Let's see if I can find pictures of the barricades here.
	And they were like the tall, proper riot barricades, not bike fences of an understaffed police force who knew or ought to have been aware That these protests were coming because they got permits for these protests.
	January 6th, protest permits.
	FBI advanced knowledge.
	Washington Post.
	Let's just see if the word permit is in here.
	At one point, Milley suggested locking down the city and revoking permits for protests.
	And Acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller said he feared a bloody...
	The protesters had permits.
	Intelligence knew in advance of what they thought were people mumbling about doing things.
	They did nothing.
	They were understaffed because of COVID, turned down the National Guard, and...
	Conveniently now get to weaponize this entire thing the way they're doing right now.
	And the only thing they want out of this is to find a way to indict Donald Trump on some charges.
	Doxing.
	Looks like they're going after doxing.
	Fraud.
	Defrauding the US.
	They want to go after him on the...
	Actually talked about it with Barnes and Jenna Ellis about the fraud committed for fundraising.
	Because they were fundraising on the basis that the funds would go to support legal challenges.
	And it seems that maybe the GOP that were doing the fundraising didn't use all those funds for constitutional challenges.
	And there might have been a grift in there.
	It's just a question of who's responsible for it and whether or not it's unlawful.
	As Barnes mentioned during our last stream, Apparently there was verbiage in the donation that you donated for this, and the monies can be used for any other purpose, the committee or whoever the GOP determines appropriate.
	So there was probably a catch-all that will absolve them of using the funds for reasons other than constitutional challenges.
	So that's it.
	What time is it?
	Two o 'clock.
	What else was there?
	So Armchair.
	Armchair Warrior.
	Livestream tomorrow night.
	And it's a sidebar tomorrow night.
	It's going to be phenomenally interesting.
	Didn't know he wrote a book.
	Apparently he wrote a book.
	It's like an animated sort of comic book.
	Tomorrow night's sidebar is going to be fantastic.
	Armchair Warrior.
	Yesterday's stream was phenomenally interesting as far as I'm concerned.
	But yep.
	Taxi driver.
	12 years old.
	And I'm not even sure I can finish the movie because I just...
	I can't...
	Don't ever meet your heroes and don't ever learn how your favorite movies were made.
	All right, people.
	I think that should be good for the day.
	We don't have...
	Well, you know what?
	Let's go with this, actually.
	One last one.
	A tweet from Sam Street.
	Sam Street, sports journalist and Watford FC fan.
	Tweeted out yesterday.
	Ukraine has permanently banned the opposition party in Ukraine.
	And I responded to that and someone said, the tweet's misleading.
	The tweet is misleading because they banned a party with ties to Russia.
	And I said, you know, if anything, the tweet is misleading because they banned 11 opposition parties allegedly with ties to Russia.
	But it's just another example, another illustration of either the hierarchy or the hypocrisy, depending on how you want to look at it.
	It's literally violating democracy to preserve democracy.
	When Putin bans journalists, it's authoritarianism.
	When Justin Trudeau and Zelensky do it, it's preserving democracy.
	And that was in respect of banning outlets.
	That oppose Zelensky.
	Zelensky can do it because it's to preserve free speech and it's to preserve democracy.
	Ukraine can ban opposition parties and it's to preserve democracy.
	It's fine.
	But they're opposition parties with ties to Russia.
	And I guarantee you one thing.
	I don't guarantee it.
	I suspect it.
	It is only going to be a matter of time before Trudeau tries to do something similar here.
	Ban opposition parties or ban candidates if they have ties to Russia, if they have extremist views, if they have hate speech online.
	Ban them.
	Ban them in the name of democracy.
	Okay, let's do it.
	We'll end the day now.
	Tomorrow night is going to be fantastic.
	The week after, we've got another one lined up for the afternoon.
	And I actually now realize I have a meeting this afternoon.
	Don't forget, it wasn't insurrection when rioters attempted breaching the White House on May 29, 2020.
	Secret Service having to move President to bunker.
	Nor was it when they tried to interfere with the Kavanaugh hearings.
	Nor was it when they tried to interfere with the inauguration.
	it goes on and it goes on and it goes on and there's no end to it um um But there will always be...
	Thank you very much, Beth Noyes.
	Thank you.
	Great chat, Viva.
	I'll go back and listen to that torturous stuff now, just so I can know what's going on and know if there's a clip to do something interesting with.
	It is too much to listen to because it's an insult.
	It's an insult to intelligence.
	It's an insult to honesty.
	But now, Kavanaugh hearings, interrupt those.
	No harm, no foul.
	All charges dropped.
	Interrupt Trump's inauguration.
	No harm, no foul.
	All charges dropped.
	Interrupt a certification.
	Insurrection.
	500 days investigation.
	Four days of public hearings.
	Demonize.
	Divide.
	Squander government resources.
	Protest in front of delegates' homes.
	You know, January 2021.
	That's terrible.
	That's illegal, unlawful protest.
	People felt threatened.
	Protest on the front lawn of Justice Kavanaugh?
	You could break the law so long as you do it peacefully.
	Coming out of the words of, what's-her-face, press secretary and the president.
	Can you believe in this January 6th hearing, they're complaining about protests on the front lawns of policymakers or lawmakers while simultaneously sanctioning in the sense of authorizing, permitting, condoning protests on the front lawn of Kavanaugh?
	While they're waiting on perhaps one of the most important decisions in the history of America to be issued.
	Nothing to see here.
	It's totally normal.
	It's bad kabuki theater.
	The fro is on fire.
	Oh yeah, drop a thumbs up before you go.
	So what else?
	So tomorrow I'm going to be in Ottawa.
	Live streaming.
	I'm not sure exactly how it's going to work.
	I'm going to meet James Topp.
	We're going to do an exclusive interview.
	I don't know where we're going to do it.
	Some other people might pop in if I can get some interesting guests to pop in, but I'll walk.
	I'll walkie-talkie.
	It'll be fun.
	And then tomorrow night, Armchair Warrior.
	It's going to be good.
	Dennis Kearney, super sticker.
	Thank you very much.
	Get some air.
	Go to the post office, dude.
	Oh, yes!
	I have something waiting at the post office.
	I will go to the post office.
	I will get an energy drink, but it will not be a Red Bull.
	It'll be something healthy.
	Mata Yerbe.
	Mata Yerbe.
	Mate Yerba.
	Whatever that...
	You know what I'm saying.
	Whatever that drink is.
	Yeah, I'm going to do it.
	Dislike and unsubscribe.
	Alt-right propaganda has no place in civil society.
	Carly Ellison, thank you very much for your thoughtful, factually-based comment.
	Everyone is welcome here, even you, Carly.
	But if I have made any mistake on any factual element today, I invite you sincerely and openly to say where, when, and if I, in fact, made a mistake...
	I will correct myself, as I always do.
	Watching from Ireland, keep up the good work.
	Thank you very much.
	Let's see here.
	Viva.
	The Jan 6 coverage was puking coverage.
	Just think about those.
	No, people are still in jail.
	Pat King, still in jail.
	Pat King is up to 118 days in Canada for mischief.
	Some of these people, what is it?
	500 days in jail?
	There's nothing that can make it make sense, given the disparate treatment from similar circumstances.
	I would not have tolerated.
	I would have been publicly and vehemently opposed to even the protesters in the Disrupt January 20 being held under these conditions.
	Bail where appropriate, speedy trial, proportionate fair punishment for Disrupt J20 and for anyone who broke the law on January 6th.
	I would not tolerate this injustice against my worst enemies because that would make me worse than my enemy.
	And it's...
	They listen to these people at that committee just sit there and stroke each other's egos, say how important they all are, make themselves important.
	Libs and their media want everyone to watch Six Hearing.
	Why anyone falling for their wishes?
	I don't think they...
	You know what?
	I got to tell you, the fewer people that watch it, the better in a way, but not the better.
	Because...
	I left you a super chat May 20...
	I'm going to Google what this...
	I'm just going to screenshot this and go look it up.
	I think I know what you're talking about, but I don't know enough offhand to actually say anything about it.
	Oh, God.
	Stomach turning, stomach churning, vomitus, vomitus.
	Okay, people.
	So, I will see you all tomorrow.
	And see you tomorrow night.
	So, it'll be a big day tomorrow.
	And we'll carry on with the week.
	Viva Clips for clips.
	Viva Family for random stuff.
	VivaBarnesLaw.locals.com for support.
	If you want to support the channel.
	Merch, VivaFry.com.
	And there's some great merch there.
	Thanks, Viva.
	Top's interview will be great, historical.
	It's going to be beautiful.
	And I love your dog, by the way.
	I'm going to guess.
	That is a male.
	11 years old and beautiful.
	You're not going to justify Barnes' tweet.
	Don't try.
	What tweet?
	What tweet are we talking about?
	I'll go look.
	I don't know.
	What tweet could I have to...
	First of all, I don't have to justify anything for Barnes.
	Barnes is a big boy.
	He can justify himself.
	And nor do I run to the defense reflexively even of...
	Friends or allies if I think they've made a mistake.
	Nor do I throw enemies under the bus if I don't think they're wrong.
	Principles, conscience, a fear of a cosmic overwatching eye.
	I want to see the tweet too.
	Okay, hold on.
	Hold on.
	We're not leaving yet.
	We're not leaving yet.
	I got time before my next meeting and I want to see what this tweet is.
	What tweet?
	Yerba Mate.
	Yerba Mate is what it's called.
	Do we see this?
	Okay, we see this here.
	Let's go to the Twitter.
	And I think we go to Robert underscore Bench.
	Bench!
	No, that's not...
	You know what?
	Hold on.
	We're going to exit.
	Dude, I'm going risky.
	I'm going not an incognito.
	No, that's still incognito.
	Oh, gosh darn it.
	Taco Tuesday.
	So here, this should not be incognito.
	Okay, that's me.
	Okay, that's me here.
	Go to Twitter.
	Let's go to Barnes, and let's see if Barnes...
	Oh, it's Barnes underscore law.
	Okay, so he has not been suspended.
	Let's go through his tweets, people, and see if nothing disabuses you of reference to the Ivy League than actually attending the Ivy League.
	Surely that can't be the tweet.
	Putin's price hike is such a comically dumb phrase, like he's hiding behind the shelves in a grocery store making up the price of oatmeal.
	Okay, what could have been the tweet?
	Democracy.
	That's it?
	Okay, no, that can't be it.
	And it can't be a retweet, so I presume it has to be a tweet.
	Alright, you know what?
	Can't do it.
	Whoever knows what tweet we're talking about, let me know, and we'll see.
	What Robert Barnes?
	Okay, peeps, go.
	Get some sunlight.
	It's a beautiful day out there.
	I'm going to go walk a dog, squeeze another dog, and off to Ottawa tomorrow.
	So I will see you all on the flip side, dudemeisters.
	Enjoy the day.

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