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Dec. 15, 2022 - Viva & Barnes
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Free Kori! Hypocrites Everywhere! Fake News Liars! What Else? Viva Thursday!
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It's 100,000, Jess.
I just, just, just, just...
There you go!
Oh, I've done it!
I've done it, everybody!
Oh, my God!
100,000!
Oh, my God!
You've done it, mate!
Are you still going?
Still going?
Oh, it's amazing!
Thank you so much!
Oh, my God!
Thank you!
Well done, Captain Corey!
Thank you so much!
How do you feel?
So excited!
There's confetti everywhere!
Oh, my God!
Oh my god.
I can't believe it.
It's done it.
It's still going up.
Thank you so much.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
Thank you!
Subscribe!
You hear someone in the back whisper, subscribe.
Well, yeah, that's sweat.
That's sweat from the inside of my eyes.
Good morning, everybody.
That is enough.
It's enough to make you happy and sad at the same time, happy because of the sheer joy of a random, arbitrary, ultimately, in the grand scheme of the cosmos, what is it?
But for that kid at that time, and not just for that kid, but for adults, for people, accomplishments mean certain things to them.
I can imagine what Corey was going through at that moment.
And you know what's going to happen.
You've been waiting for it for so long.
Or, you know, it happened relatively quickly.
But it's been a dream.
And it happens.
And then you can feel the excitement in real time.
There's a sadness to the underlying elements of the story.
But, you know, you don't pick your lot in life.
And you make the best of what you have if you have that fortitude.
Corey does.
So, for those of you who don't know, Corey has a channel called Crackin' the Box.
It's...
I only heard of it a few days ago because it was, I guess, loosely tied to Captain Jack Sparrow from the Kraken, from that Pirates of the Caribbean.
Kid wanted to get to 100,000 subs.
It was his dream.
He was at like 1,000 subs five or six days ago.
Don't know how Johnny Depp gets involved in all of this.
But Johnny Depp discovers the kid's channel, sends him a custom, in-character roleplay.
And, I mean, that in and of itself is enough...
That's enough to also make you love Johnny Depp.
We live in a world now where if you say, I love Johnny Depp, or what a good thing to do, or what a hero for doing that, I don't know, Bot Sentinel might come and flag your YouTube channel or your Twitter handle as being...
What is the word that they use?
Bad, naughty, whatever.
You say you love Johnny Depp, you might get a bunch of people mass-flagging your Twitter feed, YouTube channel, whatever.
Some cynics out there will say Johnny Depp is doing it for his own self-interested reasons to, you know, public image, whatever, whatever, whatever.
We can always argue over people's intentions.
Bottom line, Johnny Depp is an amazing person for doing some of the stuff that he does, which a lot of people were largely unaware of.
Until the trial of his defamation case against Amber Heard, where we find out that he goes to hospitals in character, dressed up to entertain children, sick kids, kids who have very little time left on this planet.
Oh, 21 Jump Street.
Johnny Depp was in that as well.
So Johnny Depp sends this kid an in-character role-playing video, and it's fantastic.
Then the momentum starts.
Then the social media community gets involved and says, get this kid to 100,000 subs.
Everybody's tweeting around.
The kid wants to get to 100,000 subs on his channel cracking the box so he can get the silver play button because it would mean the world to him.
It happens.
That was the moment it happened.
And as soon as it happened, his channel was taken down yesterday.
Now I want to pull up...
I'm going to pull up...
I want to pull up Rakata's tweet.
I hope I...
I hope I brought it up.
I like Ricada because he doesn't mince his words.
Now, it's good and bad.
I don't think I have it, but I thought I brought it up because I wanted to swear today.
I'm going to get it because it's worth reading and I want to swear.
I want to gratuitously swear for no better reason.
But it's not me swearing.
I'm just faithfully and loyally quoting.
Nick Ricada, who brought my attention to the fact that little Corey's channel had been taken down.
Just scroll down through my diary of the world's descent into madness.
I know that it was before I set up the stream.
The diary of the descent into madness.
Here we go.
Here we go.
It's coming up here.
Here we go.
Raketa brought my attention to the fact that the kids' channel had been taken down for reasons that, as of now, I don't think we know.
And I look through Team YouTube's Twitter feed, and there's a happy ending to the story.
And I'm quoting.
Hey, Team YouTube, there's some fucked up shit.
I can't do it.
I can't do it.
There's some effed up shit that...
And then there's really effed up shit canceling the account of a terminal kid whose dream was 100,000 subscribers.
Right as he gets there is literal demonic moves.
F you guys, holy ass, fix this.
Now, it's not because I'm Canadian.
I take the, I will impute ill intent when I have evidence of ill intent.
Because Nick's right.
There's evil and then there's demonic level evil.
And I don't even think YouTube is demonic level evil enough that they would cancel the channel of a kid who, By all accounts, this is his story, and one cannot independently verify, but demonic would also be lying about this story.
The kid is in palliative care after having a second heart transplant.
I don't even think YouTube is demonic enough to shut down a kid's channel after he reaches 100,000K.
And I say, there's got to be something of a logical explanation to it, like...
I can understand if YouTube sees a channel pick up 100,000 subs, 150, 180 in a day or two, they might think it's a spamming account.
They might think something fishy is going on.
How they take down the channel before looking into anything is bizarre.
By taking down the channel before looking into anything, it then lends...
Credence to some people's conspiracy theories that maybe the kid and his family were lying about what was going on.
And then you have a 12-hour window where people are saying, holy crap, did we all just get duped by a sob story that might have been dishonest or inaccurate?
That's what happens when YouTube does something like this.
Algorithmically, automatically taking down a channel, it causes people who didn't have questions in the first place to maybe have questions.
So I reach out, give them the benefit of the doubt, and, you know, the way you get...
YouTube's attention, ironically enough, is by tagging them on Twitter.
Let that sink in.
Rackets gets it done, says Ross Day Murray.
Well, he does.
I don't think we can disagree with that.
What was I about to say?
So YouTube takes the channel down.
Don't know why.
I figure there's an explanation.
Anomalies, they see this channel.
Mass esteem, they think there's an issue.
Some people...
Had raised the theory, the idea that maybe the channel got mass flagged by Amber Heard stans, I believe they're called, or Amber Heard fans.
That would be also next level demonic stuff.
But then again, Amber Heard fans are the next level demonic stuff who called Child Protective Services on the umbrella guy.
So I wouldn't put that past.
The levels of evil on the internet where they think it's not such a big deal, we're just going to mass flag and, you know, it's anonymous and it's a victimless crime.
Possible.
Hadn't thought of that.
Yesterday there was a channel talking about it, saying, to the best of their knowledge, it was not a mass flagging, YouTube's looking into it, whatever, whatever.
Bottom line, everybody, little Cory got his channel back today.
Undoubtedly because of the mass awareness campaign that was waged on Twitter to tag team YouTube to fix this.
ASAP.
And maybe while they're at it, maybe while they're at it, expedite the kids' silver play button.
And maybe get one of the old school, one of the old school good, I won't say good, but the old school heavy play buttons.
So, Corey, crack in the box.
The journey is still going.
And if you haven't checked it out, check it out.
I mean, what it is, it's a channel of pure...
Elation.
Pure joy for a kid that has reached a dream that brings him immeasurable joy.
And I'm drinking sparkling water with tea in it.
And it has apparently two ounces of caffeine per can, so not that bad.
That's not the sponsor, however.
Maybe one day it will be.
Spindrift.
It's not bad.
But...
Let me make sure that I tag the button so that I don't get into problems because I don't want to get into Kevin O 'Leary problems, which we're going to talk about today.
I ticked the button.
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All right.
With that said, everybody.
Good news, Corey.
I was going to start with the bad news, or not bad news.
I was going to start with something that might make you gag.
I figured we'll start with the good news today, and then we're going to get into the rest of it.
I wanted to pull up a video of absolute fear-mongering.
Absolute divisive politics.
Absolute disinformation.
I swear to you people, no one's going to believe me anymore because I've come to the conclusion that what is typically referred to as liberalism, growing up we've always heard liberalism is a mental disorder.
If liberalism is defined by what we see on social media, it's a mental disorder and its primary characteristic is hypocrisy with lack of insight.
We're going to get into it with Elon Musk.
The people with...
Hold on a second.
The people who accuse others of disinformation spread disinformation.
The people who accuse others of divisive politics engage in politics like this.
This is Joe Biden, and we're going to get into so much, so much more of it.
We've got Elon Musk banning an account for what Elon says is Doxing by real-time identification of location of an individual.
We're going to get into the social media backlash against Elon Musk.
They love green energy, but they want to boycott Tesla.
They love open borders, but they want to deport Elon Musk.
They've been chanting prosecute Trump for the last six years.
But when someone says prosecute Fauci, it's inciting violence.
Listen to what Joe Biden has to say.
Justice Thomas went even further, and he wrote the following quote.
We should reconsider all the court's substantive due process presidents, including Griswold, Lawrence, Obergefell.
That means he thinks we should reconsider whether you've got the right to access to contraception.
And yes, we should reconsider whether you have the right to marry who you love.
And that's not only the challenge ahead.
When a person can be married in the morning and thrown out of a restaurant for being gay in the afternoon, this is still wrong.
Can we appreciate what we just heard?
I just want to make sure that we were looking at the...
Make sure we're looking at the same thing here.
We are.
Let's listen to that one more time.
Thomas went even further, and he wrote the following quote.
We should reconsider all the court's substantive due process presidents, including Griswold, Lawrence, Obergefell.
That means he's...
Okay, first of all, at least he didn't say, end of quote.
New line.
Repeat, sorry.
End of quote.
Repeat.
He quotes him, and then proceeds to say what he thinks.
Just as Clarence Thomas means.
Listen, a quote?
That means he thinks we should reconsider whether you've got the right access to contraception.
Is it me or does...
I won't say it.
He looks terrible and he looks like he's trying to look like a movie villain.
The optics are bad.
I do not like wearing sunglasses outside.
As a rule, I understand people do it because it's sunny.
The eyes are the window to the soul.
And when you block them, I don't, I mean, I understand people do it.
I don't even like wearing sunglasses outside even when it's sunny.
But the President of the United States, when addressing the people, should not be wearing sunglasses.
But he's got to give off his badass Putin-fighting Time magazine cover bomber glasses because that's, you know, Biden's a badass.
Biden is handing it to Putin.
And by handing it to Putin, handing the merchant of death to Putin in exchange for a petty criminal.
Yes, we should reconsider.
Whether you have the right to marry who you love.
And that's not only the challenge ahead.
If a person can be married in the morning and thrown out of a restaurant for being gay in the afternoon, this is still wrong.
I will invite any fact checker to correct me.
Nowhere in America can anyone lawfully kick out someone from a restaurant for being gay.
It's not America.
It's not Canada.
It's a bald-faced lie.
It is hate-filled, divisive lies.
When you can get married in the mornings, It's a lie!
Liar!
Liar!
It's a lie!
Of the highest order, of the most divisive order, disinformation coming from the mouth of the president.
No one can get kicked out of a restaurant for being gay.
No one should get kicked out of a restaurant for being gay.
It is a lie.
The debate on marriage is a separate debate as to whether or not the union between a gay couple or a lesbian couple should be referred to as marriage, which some people hold as being the union between a man and a woman.
As per the Bible, that's a debate you can have.
I happen to think, call it marriage, and they should have recognized under the law all of the rights and privileges of a married couple.
You don't want to call it marriage?
Call it civil union like we do in Quebec.
That's fine.
Some people won't say that's fine because they want the word marriage.
I understand both sides of that debate.
There are very few people out there who are saying same-sex couples should be denied the same...
Legal rights, privileges, and benefits as a married couple.
There are some who say it, think they're outright wrong.
But he's a...
Hold on.
Let's hear this.
Charlie...
Oh, hold on.
Let me expand my screen.
Viva, you 100% can kick someone out for being gay.
No one would, but you absolutely can unless your state specifically prohibits it.
Charlie Waters, I'm going to say that that is wrong.
I'm going to say that that is wrong.
And if it were to happen, we would have heard about it.
If there were even some examples where it's illegal, we would have heard about it.
And any place where it purportedly would be legal, we would hear about it.
So just lies.
Just lies.
Divisive lies.
Demonizing lies.
So they can then say the 48.6% of Arizona who voted for Carrie Lake are MAGA Republicans who have no respect for democracy.
Okay, now hold on.
I didn't check to make sure we are live on the Rumbles.
Whew, thank goodness.
And there's Rumble Rants.
Chet Chisholm.
$2 Rumble Rants says, if you haven't seen it, you should watch Andrew Brigden speak in the UK Parliament about vax injuries.
It's harrowing.
Pair that with the new study showing vax hesitancy is leading to car accidents.
Chet Chisholm.
We're going to segue right there now.
Karma.
Karma.
Karma Police, a $5 rumble around, says, Love your energy, Viva.
Glad you're taking a vacation from China Dub.
Thanks for your passion and articulate expression with a little greater than symbol and a three, which makes a heart.
Thank you very much, Karma.
I actually have been feeling a little tired these days, but that's probably just because I'm getting woken up many times a night by the freaking dog who's been peeing all over the house.
I haven't talked about pee and poo in a while.
Pudge, we gave her a trachea, like a big piece of trachea bone.
Which is supposed to last, I don't know, a week or two.
And she got through it in like an hour or two.
And that's, you know, her all-beef diet makes her poop nice and dry, nice and easy to pick up.
Her poo-poo has not been dry or easy to pick up.
And it's been a lot, as has been her urine.
And the house, unfortunately, smells like urine.
Chet Chisholm, $1 Rumble Round, says, Yesterday, the NYPD evidence warehouse burned down.
Nothing to see here, nothing at all, because it all went up in flames.
You know what?
I have that article.
I have that article in our list of things to do.
Being unvaccinated leads to car accidents.
Let's do it.
I'm going to put the link to Rumble here.
And let's move over to Rumble now.
I'm going to not worry about cutting it at a good time.
On the menu.
For we go to rumble.
The article, a study showing that unvaccinated people are statistically more likely to get into a car accident resulting in someone being taken to the hospital to justify an underlying thesis that either benefits should be given to vaccinated drivers or inverse, which they don't say in as many words.
Sam Bankman freed.
I was listening to the congressional hearings yesterday with Mr. Wonderful Kevin O 'Leary and a professor and another professor.
I'm going to talk about a couple of highlights there.
Elon Musk banning the Elon's Plane Twitter account and related discussion to that.
And what else is it?
There's a bunch of stuff.
So mosey on over to Rumble, people.
We're going to do it.
Link again.
The link is in the pinned comment.
Oh, is it in the pinned comment in the chat?
Let me see.
If it's not, I'm going to put it there right now.
Good news is I'm seeing an ad on the video at least here.
Okay, link to Rumble.
Typo will be living with it.
Rubble.
Pin message.
And let's go to Rumble now.
And I'm going to close that down.
I'm going to leave that up.
I'm going to go to StreamYard.
Everybody, Moziano.
Oh my goodness, you know what?
Before I forget.
And we're going to talk about a Norwegian artist, lesbian woman, who's under investigation right now because she said men cannot be lesbians.
We're going to talk about the article and amazing news.
She's actually going to be coming on for an interview Monday.
Monday, 11 o 'clock Eastern Time, 5 o 'clock, 1700 o 'clock Norwegian Time.
Yeah, look, Rumble, it will be, Rumble's good.
Substance over form, they're working on things.
If you have any criticisms, any constructive critiques, let me know.
Yesterday I was at the locals office talking about locals and everything related to locals.
Get your...
Recommendations, suggestions into me, and I will get them to the team at Rumble.
Now, with that said, let's end this on YouTube and move over to Rumble.
People, three, two...
Now, you know what?
We're going to wait until it's 24 minutes on the nose, just because it'll make me feel better to see a nice roundup.
Three, two, one, and now!
Oh, I missed it.
Son of a gun.
No, I didn't.
Okay, good.
Okay, what do we want to start with now that we're on Rumble?
Let's start with the article.
The story, which it's a story that's so preposterous on its face.
You say it has to be fake, but it's not fake.
And then I find it on Fox News.
I was like, okay, I'm going to cite Fox News, but maybe that's not a good place to talk about it.
Sorry, maybe that's not a legitimate story.
Maybe they got it wrong.
Fox reporter once got something wrong in Ottawa where she said that the indigenous lady who got trampled by the horse died.
Fox News gets things wrong.
Maybe it's wrong.
It's not.
Now I've been in touch with the actual artist, the actual woman at the heart of the story.
It's a true story.
And it's preposterous.
Preposterous.
Let me just get it here.
No, no, no, no, no.
Eva Barnes, Brooklyn Dad.
Oh, I've got an article about Brooklyn Dad.
Elon Musk.
Men are men.
Norwegian artists.
Facing criminal charges, potential prison sentence over gender comments.
This is the world we're living in.
And I find myself saying, not make it stop as in the world.
Make the madness stop.
Make this make sense and make people who are otherwise just too lazy and too apathetic to care, make them care.
Because my operating theory, and I've been saying it for a while, is that there are very few movements which are more fundamentally misogynist and anti-woman than the purported transgender debate.
There can be nothing more misogynist than telling biological women you must compete in competitive sports against biological males.
There can be nothing that denies womanhood and the existence of women.
And the biological differences between men and women that made it necessary to have separate categories so that women could compete at a competitive level and have likelihoods of succeeding and winning without being pitted against Some people give the examples of gymnastics.
Gymnastics, other than being based somewhat on flexibility, and women are typically more flexible than men, is also a subjective sport.
Some people point to archery, darts.
There are certain sports where I can say, yeah, I don't understand having a women's division.
Poker.
I was watching poker yesterday, and after one tournament came on, A women's event came on, and I was thinking, chess, poker, things where physical strength, physical stamina, testosterone are not biologically relevant.
I can understand that.
Where it is, there's nothing more misogynist than telling a biological woman that they need to compete with biological men who might be going through whatever medical procedures are necessary to decrease their biological, their inherent biological advantage.
There's nothing more misogynist.
Than telling a lesbian woman that she is a TERF for not wanting to engage in sexual activity with a transgender biological male.
Nothing.
Convince me that I'm wrong.
I have an open mind.
This is from Redux.
I don't know what it is, but I verified multiple sources and have now corresponded with...
I know I'm going to mispronounce her name because I'm still not...
It's either Tanya or Tange.
A woman in Norway is facing criminal charges and a possible prison sentence of up to three years for stating that men cannot be lesbians.
Tony Jevjean, if I got that right, I hope I got it right.
A lesbian artist was notified on November 17 that she was under police investigation for hate speech over a statement she posted to Facebook.
Let's go see if this links to the Facebook here.
I'm not going to be able to read that.
Is there a translate function?
The article will tell us.
It's all in a language that I do not speak.
In her post, Jevjean railed against trans-identified males who call themselves lesbians and condemned trans activists who seek to criminalize women who oppose gender ideology.
Quote, it's just as impossible for men to become lesbian as it is for men to become pregnant, Jevjean wrote.
Men are men regardless of their sexual fetishes.
Now, I would like to know if this is a translation, if it's fetishes, proclivities, preferences.
There might be a number of words that could probably substitute for whatever word was used, because I could see some people saying, it's not a fetish, it's my identity.
And for you to call it a fetish is trivializing my identity.
Therein lies your thought crime.
Therein lies your thought crime, Tonya.
Geoffrey particularly singled out the actions of prominent Norwegian trans activist Christine Gentoft.
A man who claims to be a lesbian mother and who currently serves as a representative for the nation's leading trans activist group, Foreningen FRI.
Gentoft has been at the center of a clash between women's rights activists and Norway's hate speech legislation, which was revised in 2020.
The amendments went into effect last year.
By the way, pay attention to the amendments because Jordan Peterson was raising the flags about this in Canada.
Back in 2016, back before I was too shy to express my own personal opinion on certain things, as if my opinion could not be a wholly educated and justified opinion worthy of expression on the public square thingy thing.
The amendments went into act last year included the category of gender identity or gender expression, specifically the provision, specifically the terminology that went into the recent amendments to Canada's criminal code.
A move women's rights campaigners in the nation warned would result in a chill over free speech, especially were it related to the reality of biological sex.
Let me just see how far down this goes.
This goes a little bit...
It's a longer article than the first one.
Okay.
We're not going to read through the whole thing, but let's see here.
Earlier this year, Jenshoff filed criminal charges against Kristina Ellingson, a representative of Women's Declaration International, Norway, for stating that men can neither be lesbians nor mothers.
As reported by Redux in May, a police investigation was launched into Ellingson's alleged transphobia, and like Jevjean, she is facing up to three years in prison if found guilty.
I thought I had heard, December 13, so I thought I had read somewhere that those charges were dropped.
I don't know if it happened within a day of this article.
And that's it.
We're going to find out more later.
Everybody, I'm going to give you the link to this so that you can go ahead and read it yourself.
This is the madness of the world in which we're living.
Can you imagine the idea of criminalizing a woman, a lesbian woman, from saying biological men cannot be lesbians?
And it's an amazing thing because you go through the thought experiment where you have...
Transitioners.
And you have detransitioners.
You have people who say, I'm a male who identifies as a female.
Go through, you know, a certain period of time, certain procedures.
And then at some point say, nah, you know, I'm going back to being a male.
And did I go from being lesbian?
To now being straight again?
Like, was I gay before?
And then when I became a trans, now I'm heterosexual because I'm attracted to men but I identify as a woman.
If the male goes to identifying as a female and now says I'm a lesbian and detransitions, do they become heterosexual again?
We're living through absolute madness.
We're stating that a man cannot be a woman.
Is a thought crime.
And in certain jurisdictions, an actual crime.
So the question is going to be, how far does this go?
Jordan Peterson raised the flags, sounded the alarm in Canada five, six years ago.
And we're seeing it happen in real time now elsewhere.
Navy Namvet says, has any archaeologist determined any human remains unearthed being...
Other than a man or a woman.
Well, they don't know how they identified when they were alive, Navy NAMBET.
Let's see here.
Nike7, $1 run around, says the PDGA, Pro Disc Golf, just ruled two trans women can no longer compete as pros because of when they transitioned.
Bear in mind, people.
Men can be women.
There's no difference, except there's such biological differences that they have to create rules that allow for penalizing, through medicines, the innate biological advantage that men have.
But there's no difference between men and women, and you're a bigot facing potential criminal charges if you state that obvious fact.
Please stop, who cares, says Dana36G.
Well, I care.
And Monday, we're going to have the artist on to talk about the story.
So that's the latest.
In the madness of the world in which we live.
Someone make it stop.
Not the world, just the madness.
And it's a madness that the media is complicit in manufacturing.
It's not reality.
It never would be reality and it would never have achieved the brainwashing levels of cultism that it has achieved but for the media.
If anybody wonders why I'm talking about the media, it's the segue to the next segment.
Without the help of the demonically, maniacally, diabolically evil media, because it is evil, it's evil, the media.
People say it's the enemy of the people, and I should say the mainstream media, the legacy media.
The media that spends time and all of its efforts crafting a politically motivated, an ideologically motivated narrative.
It's the enemy of the people, because if it ever did reflect the will of the people, or at least its inherent purpose of informing the people, I don't know when the last time it did that was.
I saw this on the interwebs, on Twitter, and I just so could not believe it.
I had to go.
I did not double-check all of them people.
I gave up after about five.
Because they all checked out.
You talk about reporting reality versus crafting a narrative.
You may not be able to read this, but I'll read it because I think I can.
This just goes back to media coverage, depending on ideological, political skew, slant, perspective, motivation.
Vox at one point reported, the effect of Black Lives Matter protests on coronavirus cases explained.
Relatively.
Ambiguous.
Or what's the word I'm looking for?
Neutral.
Vox.
The attack on the Capitol may also have been a super spreader event.
Washington Post.
Moving to the right.
Protests probably didn't lead to coronavirus spikes, but it's hard to know for sure.
Storming of Capitol.
This is also the Washington Post.
Was textbook potential coronavirus super spreader event?
Experts say.
Moving down.
This one's from ABC News.
Minnesota sees no rise in COVID-19 cases tied to protests.
Health officials.
Also from ABC News.
Capitol Hill riot could prove to be COVID-19 super spreader if experts say.
Forbes.
Research determines protests did not cause spike in coronavirus cases.
Forbes.
Lawmakers sheltering during Capitol riot may have been exposed to coronavirus.
CNN.
Black Lives Matter protests have not tied to a spike.
In coronavirus cases, research says.
CNN, 36 Capitol Police officers test positive for COVID-19 after Capitol riot.
And it goes on.
Blaming protesters for COVID-19 spread ignores the bigger threat to health.
The verge.
COVID-19 cases in the Capitol are only the tip of the eye.
Can you imagine?
I'm going to stop now.
Can you imagine?
Actually, plausibly.
Seriously trying to suggest that the Capitol riot would have been a super-spreader event when the exceedingly vast majority of the people remained outside in open air.
I was talking with someone who's smart, very smart, and was not serious in the defense of the indefensible, but played devil's advocate and said, well, viva.
You do know that, you know, the Black Lives Matter, Summer of Love protest was mostly outdoors.
So some could argue that when they penetrated the Capitol, it was a concentrated and closed element of a potential super spreader.
To which I said, it's creative thinking, you devil's advocate.
You person happens to be a lawyer as well.
If that's going to be the argument, well, you remember when they took over that police station back in Chop Chas?
That would be an enclosed area that could be a super spreader event.
But by and large, even at January 6th, the bulk of the protest remained outdoors where I think it was hundreds of thousands of people stayed outside.
It is, in your face, Orwellian narrative-driven hype division.
That it's for the world to see, and it's so preposterous, it looks fake on its face when you first see it, but it's not.
MSN is truly the enemy of the people, because what they do also, if they're right, then they're putting people at risk.
And if they're wrong, then they're denying people their fundamental rights and demonizing half of the population.
Navy Namvet, $2 rump around.
No, I already got that one.
There was another one.
Pasha P. Moyer.
Okay, I'm here now.
You may start.
$1.
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Jonathan, $5 rump around says, it's not hard to do your thing and leave others alone.
This is all ideology, modern Marxism.
Now that I know what the Marxism debate looks like, I'm somewhat inclined to agree.
Media-driven rubbish, MSM, enemy of the people.
Let's move right on to the next story.
Did you know, by the way, this story poses two problems.
One is a little more subtle than the other.
Unvaccinated drivers are more likely to get into car accidents.
That's going to lead to arguments to say that we should either give discounts to vaccinated drivers or penalties to unvaccinated drivers.
That's one minor problem of the bullshit study in the first place.
You know what the other problem is?
How'd they get the data?
Is this the government now granting data so that it can be used for purposes other than any legitimate purpose that it might have been procured for?
How did they get the data of who's vaccinated and who's not for the purposes of using that information to do a study related to alleged car accidents?
It came from no less than CTV News.
Habarmush.
Call in the...
Lestie d'histoire-là.
I'm going to pull up the article in a second when I can find it, or I'm just going to have to go find a new one.
It's not that one.
Well, you know what?
Okay, we're going to...
I'm going to use this as an excuse here.
Everyone, if you want to get a shirt, go get a shirt.
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We have an entire merch store, VivaFried.com, where you can get great shirts.
Such as this one.
I'm going to use this window to go to it.
Google unvaccinated car accidents.
There we go.
Let's just pull this up.
Was it from Fortune?
I'll take the article from Fortune.
CTV News reported on this because it's real news and it's real studies and it's good science.
People who skip their COVID vaccine are at a higher risk of traffic accidents according to a new study.
I've got questions.
Oh my god, I just thought of another angle.
Oh my goodness, they don't understand the underlying potential racism of this study.
The discrimination of this study.
Who's statistically less likely to get vaccinated?
We know it.
Blacks, Latinos, Indigenous, Canadians, and Americans.
Why?
Because of the history of the government of abusing of those ethnic groups.
Who would be more likely to skip their COVID vaccines?
Blacks, Latinos, and Indigenous Canadians and Americans.
Who would be more likely to get into a car accident?
Well, if you swap out one qualification, this article is either saying that minorities are worse drivers or suggesting it is, suggesting they should be taxed more.
Or that Caucasian drivers, who are statistically more vaccinated, should get benefits on their car insurance.
Didn't think of that one until now.
Oh my God, are we living through madness.
Should not have used God's name in vain.
If you passed on getting the COVID vaccine, you might be a lot more likely to get into a car crash.
No!
No!
You know why?
Because those things have absolutely nothing to do with one another.
There's a way to make it make sense.
I'll get there in a second.
Or at least those are the findings of a new study published this month in the American Journal of Medicine.
During the summer of 2021, Canadian researchers examined the encrypted government-held records of more than 11 million adults.
16% of whom hadn't received the COVID vaccine.
They found that the unvaccinated people were 72% more likely to be involved in a severe traffic crash, in which at least one person was transported to the hospital than those who were vaccinated.
By the way, you stupid idiot.
I'm sorry.
Oh my god, there's thoughts coming into my head now in real time.
Do you know who would be statistically less likely to be vaccinated?
Like, set aside the racist argument now.
Not black Canadians, indigenous Canadians, or Latino Canadians and Americans.
Who would be less likely to get vaccinated?
Young people.
Who are most likely to get into car accidents in the first place?
Young people, you dumbasses.
Oh my gosh.
There's your explanation, by the way.
You know who gets into car accidents statistically more often than anyone else?
Young people.
Who would be more...
I'd like to know the age bracket.
Of those who got into the car accidents under the study.
Maybe we find out here.
Maybe we find out.
Maybe we don't because we're being lied to.
That's similar to the increased risk of car crashes for people with sleep apnea, though only about half of that of people who abuse alcohol.
The excess risk of car crash posed by unvaccinated drivers exceeds the safety gains from modern automobile engineering advances and also imposes risks on other road users.
Can I know the age of the bracket?
Can I know the age of the people who got into the car accidents?
The average age.
Or is it the mean or the median?
You know what I mean.
Of course, skipping a COVID vaccine does not mean that someone will get into a car crash.
Instead, the authors theorize that people who resist public health recommendations might also neglect basic safety guidelines.
Or they might just be young drivers who don't have that part of their brain fully developed yet and typically get into increased accidents regardless, which is why insurance on a young person...
is a lot more than an insurance on someone who has a proven track record of safety.
Oh, do they tell us the age?
Why would they ignore the rules of the road?
Distrust the government?
A belief in freedom?
Misconceptions of daily risks?
Faith in natural protection?
Antipathy toward regulation?
Poverty?
Misinformation?
A lack of resources and personal beliefs are potential reasons proposed by the office.
The findings are significant enough that primary care doctors should consider counseling unvaccination patients on traffic safety.
Can you understand what we're talking about here?
Sounds like you need to go to re-education camp, Mr. Unvaccinated Patient.
You don't want to get vaccinated?
Have you talked about traffic safety lately?
I might have to refer you to the government for a mandatory traffic safety course.
Holy shiit!
And insurance companies might base changes to insurance policies on vaccination data, the author suggests.
I like short articles.
First responders may also consider taking Percat.
Oh my god, I didn't even get to this part.
This is next level delusional insanity.
First responders may also consider taking precautions to protect themselves from COVID when responding to traffic crashes.
Hold on.
Oh, my goodness.
This is what I look like without my glasses, by the way.
Not good.
Okay.
Oh, my goodness.
They are suggesting, this is showing the thought process of the authors, that...
When you get into an emergency situation of a car crash and you're a presumably vaccinated first responder, you might want to take additional precautions.
You might want to take a little more time getting to that accident.
You might want to mask up the victim.
If they're lying there with their head through the windshield, maybe just put a mask on them first because you, vaccinated first responder, don't want to potentially get a virus that has...
Virtually no risk for you, given your demographic and presumably vaccination set.
You might potentially get the virus from this unconscious victim laying in their car, which might get you sick.
And even if that happens because they happen to be unvaccinated, your chances of survival are all but guaranteed.
Unless you happen to be like one of those EMTs that's 75 years old with COPD, heart condition, diabetes, one of those obese 70-year-old EMTs sweating as you run to the scene of the accident.
This is pathological insanity.
What are they going to do also, by the way?
Make people, when they drive, wear a little bracelet or a patch to identify if they're vaccinated so that first responders know their level of risk when getting to them?
I don't know.
Maybe insurance companies should make drivers wear a little medic alert bracelet if they're not vaccinated so first responders know if they have to treat them at a distance.
It's delusional.
The findings suggest that unvaccinated adults need to be careful in...
The author...
This is...
I'm going to tell you this.
This is hate speech.
As it's more likely that a driver is unvaccinated than vaccinated.
It is likely that the driver is of a dirty caste.
And by the way, if the driver is Black or Indigenous or Latino, chances are they're more likely unvaccinated.
Treat them with caution.
This is...
When we have heard about how people became willing executioners, good people...
Civilized societies descent into madness where good people did atrocious things.
Get people to believe absurdities.
You can get them to commit atrocities.
And we are right now here getting them to believe absurdities so that we can actually imply that they should commit atrocities.
The findings suggest that unvaccinated adults need to be careful indoors with other people and outside with surrounding traffic.
The authors concluded, yeah, those cars are just flying through people's houses.
Those unvaccinated drivers just...
Zipping off freeways into people's houses.
This isn't the first time that researchers have examined the link between behavior and vaccination status.
Among young adults, a 2021 study published by the blah, blah, blah finds a report between self-reported risky driving and having skipped their flu vaccine.
It examined the...
Oh, my goodness, people.
We're through the looking glass in the worst possible way.
Mahuyo $5 rumble rant.
I'm willing to bet that they didn't even do any math or check the background behind these people.
That's a $5 rumble rant.
Thank you very much.
Chisholm, a $1 rumble rant, says, in all the car accidents I've responded to over the course of my career, they have all had one thing in common.
They were outside.
I'm not worried about getting a virus in a crumpled car outside.
Just appreciate the absolute insane conclusions that they're coming to.
Treat them with...
Oh, God.
Take a few more minutes.
Put a mask on them.
Be careful.
If they've gotten into a car accident, they might be unvaccinated.
You, vaccinated the NT, might get the virus from them, especially if they're Black, Latino, or Indigenous.
Then you really have two strikes against them for being vaccinated.
Be wary.
Be careful of them.
Oh, and by the way, tax them more.
This is how you go from...
The offensive idea of Francois Legault in Quebec, the premier of Quebec, to tax the unvaccinated because of their increased burden on the healthcare system, allegedly, even though it happens to be the case now that the majority of people in the hospital with COVID are vaccinated.
Set that aside.
That's only because everyone's vaccinated.
At one point, they floated that idea.
Too many people found it offensive.
Well, let's get a little science with a little bullshit media.
Let me take that back.
Let's get a little bullshit science, backed up a little bullshit media to prime the general population.
To unequal treatment of the vaccinated in a manner that will make it palatable for them to condone atrocities, to condone discrimination against their fellow citizens.
That's how it works.
What were the ages of the people who got into car accidents on average?
You dumb asses.
I'm sorry, I'm swearing too much today.
What was the age?
What was the average mean, whatever the term is in math?
Of the people who got into car accidents.
I'm going to wager a guess.
I'm going to wager a guess and say it was under 30. I might even wager a guess to say that there was statistical over-representation in the over 16 but under 20 category.
More likely to not get vaccinated because they're young and healthy.
And in their minds, that might be enough.
I don't want to get into a Joe Rogan trouble here.
Young and healthy.
And might have certain risks that they don't want to run into with the jibby jab, like, you know, a little swollen heart.
One of the rare times in life when having a big heart is not exactly what you want.
It might be that demographic who are statistically the ones that represent a lot of car accidents in the first place, statistically are the least at risk requiring vaccination in the second place, and are statistically the most at risk for getting vaccinated in the first place.
I'd like to know.
I'd like to know.
P. Moyer, $3 rumble rants.
When I first saw the driving article, I thought of this website with other humorous correlations that are clearly not causations.
TylerVigen.com slash Spurious dash correlations.
Tyler, T-Y-L-E-R-V-I-G-E-N dot com slash Spurious, like the word, dash correlations.
For anyone listening to this on podcast tomorrow or this afternoon.
Who knows?
Okay, well, that's one fake news element story of the day.
Outrageous.
Outrageous.
Well, while we're on Canada and the media crafting narratives, for all those of you who have not heard, and it might include some of you on the east coast of Canada who might still be rebuilding from Hurricane Ian.
While you guys rebuild on the East Coast, the government promised you I think it was $300 million to rebuild over two years.
While you guys rebuild, while Canada doesn't have enough money to properly care for its ill to the point where it euthanizes them instead for the healthy savings to the system, while all that's going on in Canada, while they neglect and more than neglect, euthanize their own citizens.
Because they're unable to care for them in a humane way?
They found another $115 million to repair Kiev's power grid.
In addition to the $2 billion in direct funding they've already given.
Canada will transfer $115 million to repair Kiev's power grid after repeated Russian attacks against Ukraine's energy infrastructure, Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland said on Tuesday.
Chrystia Freeland, for those of you who don't know.
Has strong Ukrainian ties and is very proud of them.
And there's nothing wrong with that.
Until such time as one can legitimately question when there is a conflict of interest for an elected official of Canada who seems to be prioritizing the well-being of another nation, another people she was not elected to represent, but whom she might have an affinity to representing because of her own family and historical ties to the country.
At what point does Chrystia Freeland's family ties to the Ukraine become a conflict of interest for her ability to faithfully and loyally represent the people she was elected to represent, her own damn citizens?
$150 million to repair Kiev's power grid when the East Coast is still building and there's so little money in the healthcare system that people are driven to euthanize themselves because it's...
It saves them from the anguish of being neglected by the Canadian healthcare system.
But don't worry, guys.
The money's not coming from Canada.
It's just coming from tariffs that instead of being directed to Canadian citizens is going to be directed to rebuilding a power grid in a foreign country as a result of a conflict that Canada and the international community has done nothing but exacerbate and prolong.
The money will come from tariff revenues collected on imports from Russia and Belarus, Freeland said, at the Standing with the Ukrainian People Conference in Paris.
Oh, that's nice.
Pledging Canadian dollars while in Paris at a Standing with the Ukrainian People Conference where she's dedicating Canadian resources to foreign conflict while neglecting her own people.
And this is not a question of saying, I don't have a humanitarian bone in my body.
Canada and the U.S. are not the police of the world.
And it is not up to Canada and the U.S. to resolve all of the problems of all of the peoples of the world.
And for anybody who says, Viva, you have no humanity.
If you say, don't rebuild Kiev's power grid, I will reply to you and say, you have no humanity.
If you're telling me that Canadian citizens have to off themselves with government assistance because the government can't properly care for them because the government doesn't have enough money in the healthcare system.
You're the one who doesn't have any humanity in you.
Putin and his henchmen are war criminals, and they are attempting to use the cold as weapons to break the spirit of the remarkable people of Ukraine, Freeland said.
And some might say that you, Freeland, and your political ilk are political opportunists exploiting the conflict in Ukraine to fight a proxy war against your ideological adversary, Russia.
Some.
The support from Canada will help ensure that Ukraine can secure its energy infrastructure and make it through the difficult winter to come.
You hear that, East Coast?
How are you guys doing?
I know people on the East Coast were out of power again because of a winter storm, not because of the relics, or maybe it was exacerbated by the damage from the summer.
The group of seven rich nations said on Monday they would set up a multi-agency platform to coordinate aid to Ukraine and support its repair, recovery, and reconstruction.
What percentage of that 115 million is going to make it?
Is it going to be 30% like we saw in that now-deleted CBS report?
Canada has spent $2 billion in direct financial assistance to Ukraine so far in 2022.
$2 billion while Francois Legault was telling hospitals in Quebec to cut $150 million from their budget.
And committed an additional $500 million through the Ukraine Sovereignty Bond earlier this year, the Office of Deputy Prime Minister said in a press conference.
Canada, the United States, and other Western allies have provided other forms of financial intelligence, military assistance to Ukraine.
When does it become a conflict of interest for a politician, a Canadian politician, elected to represent faithfully and loyally the Canadian citizens, diverting billions of Canadian dollars abroad to foreign conflict when Canadians are literally dying, waiting in long waiting lines in hospitals, are literally...
Ending their own lives because the healthcare system can't care for them and are literally struggling to rebuild because of natural disaster affecting infrastructure in Canada.
Does the big guy get 10%?
Says Skeptical59.
I don't know how the cut works here.
Someone's getting their 30 to 70%.
The article proves their desire to see people suffer.
Pure evil says I'm not your buddy guy.
$2 rum grant.
Thank you.
I'm not sure which article.
Are you talking about the car accident article?
Are you talking about another $115 million to rebuild Kiev's power structure while Canadians...
All right.
Well, that's that.
That's all I got to say about that.
What's next that's going to make us...
Oh, yeah.
Okay.
Let me see here.
So we got Sam Bankman-Fried.
Some testimony yesterday, which is going to loop well into Kevin O'Leary's testimony during the commission.
And then we got...
Let's just do this so I can get it off my list and narrow things down here.
Doesn't really relate to anything else.
I have been noticing on Twitter a lot of accounts that I don't follow.
Well, I notice a lot of accounts that I don't follow regardless, but accounts coming up in my feed, That I'm obviously going to engage with in a non-harmonious fashion because it's the dumbest garbage on the face of the planet.
Like, I've just noticed them come up and then I engage and then they come up more and more.
One is Republicans against Trumpism.
Another one is this person named Marsh, M-A-R-S-H, who just tweets out National Enquirer-level disinformation.
There's a couple more.
Krasenstein.
You guys know who I'm talking about.
They're brothers.
Krasenstein or something.
And another one is Brooklyn Dad Defiant.
He's been on my feed, I guess, a little bit for a little while.
But he's been coming up a lot more.
And I have to either just ignore, mute, or stop engaging because it's...
I don't think it's sincere.
And I think I found the confirmation as to why.
For those of you who didn't know...
Yesterday, Donald Trump made an announcement of an announcement.
He says, I got a big announcement coming out tomorrow, and I would not have known about this announcement of an announcement had it not been for all of the out-of-their-gourd, blue checkmark, liberal, progressive, Democrat Twitter accounts, all freaking out about it.
Here's an announcement.
He should go to jail.
Here's an announcement.
I'm a big, stinking piece of this one here.
I would not have known about Trump's announcement of an announcement had it not been.
There's another one that I follow.
T-Drick or something?
Or that I don't follow that I've seen.
I would not have known about Trump's announcement of an announcement had it not been for the blue check marks who are obsessed with Trump who brought it to my attention.
So I guess, guys, thank you very much.
Has the announcement happened yet?
I don't know.
Brooklyn Dad Defiant came out with one and said, here's my announcement.
Oh, here's my major announcement.
And I'm going to read this.
Because it's just...
It's analytical.
It's thoroughly thought out.
Well-sourced.
Well-evidenced.
Fair.
Objective, not hateful, and not defamatory.
Here's my major announcement.
Donald Trump is a weak, lying, racist, misogynist, seditious, treasonous, ass-whistle who belongs in prison for the rest of his miserable life.
Let's just walk through this for a second.
Weak is a subjective opinion.
First of all, I'm being tongue-in-cheek.
This is all obviously hyperbolic opinion.
Protected speech.
I just want to have a little fun.
Weak is a subjective assessment, and I think it's also pretty wrong.
I don't think Trump is weak physically.
Maybe spiritually, I don't know, but he's not spiritually weak either.
You might hate him, and you probably hate him because he is so spiritually strong that he defies all of this rubbish that he's been facing for the last six years.
Lying?
I don't think Donald Trump is innocent of lying.
I'm sure he has lied at some point in his life, as we all have.
Racist.
That's an opinion that is protected speech, but very dumb.
A very, very dumb opinion.
Misogynist.
I don't even know what that's based on.
Seditious is an actual accusation of a crime for which he has not been charged ever, although there has been seditious conspiracy of the Oath Keeper's conviction.
What relation Trump had to that?
Seems the FBI had a little more relation to that than Trump would have.
Treasonous.
Legally inapplicable.
Ass whistle.
Don't know why everything on the progressive left blue checkmark Dem side finds its way coming back to ass for some reason.
Ass whistle.
Don't know what that is.
And I don't want to know.
Who belongs in prison for the rest of his miserable life.
Democrats.
Lovers of freedom, due process, Free speech, tolerance, peace and love.
Peace and love.
So I read that.
I reply, look, Democrats, true to form.
The people who say love, tolerance, peace and all of that.
Due process, rule of law.
Lock him up for the rest of his life.
Oh, it's hyperbolic.
When I say lock him up, I mean metaphorically.
When Elon Musk says prosecute Trump, it's hate speech.
But I saw someone said something about Brooklyn Dad, and I had to Google it.
And again, full disclosure, this is a New York Post article.
New York Post has been guilty of some inaccurate stories, and it's been responsible for some truly accurate stories.
The Hunter Biden one in particular.
I had to go check a comment that I saw to make sure that it was mildly supported by the evidence.
And I found this article in the New York Post.
And now, by the way, just read this article, and I would operate on the basis that it's probably true of all of those accounts that look like bot accounts that do nothing but spew anti-Trump, anti-Republican rubbish on the platform and have, for whatever the reason, massive engagement.
Biden-boosting influencer Brooklyn Dadd slammed for taking PAC money, political action committee money.
A Joe Biden-boosting social media influencer known as Brooklyn Dad Defiant came out of fire Wednesday, this is from March 2021, for reportedly failing to disclose that he accepted tens of thousands of dollars from a Democratic political action committee.
Majid Padalan, who runs the nearly 900,000-follower-strong Twitter account, has been slammed previously for urging Bernie Sanders to drop out of the 2020 presidential race, allegedly accepting more than $57,000.
From a pro-Biden PAC.
Really American.
Last year, according to Refinery21, which had the tweets, just so everybody can see it, because it had a tweet of the filing.
Not my homework, and this might all turn out to be fake and false, but apparently Brooklyn Dad did not respond for comment.
There you have their evidence from...
Is that a doobie in her mouth?
That's a big...
Fat doobie right there.
No, that's a cigarette.
Okay.
All right.
So that's their homework.
Yada, yada, yada.
In his bio, Paladin says he's a senior advisor to the PAC, but followers slammed him for failing to admit he allegedly got paid to post pro-Biden opinions and theories, according to the outlet.
And then we just get into people reacting.
Some people defending him.
It wasn't immediately clear if...
Padlan was directly paid to post positive tweets about Biden.
He didn't immediately return the post's request for comment Wednesday.
That's, you know, in, Integrity is everything.
If you have integrity, nothing else matters.
And if you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.
So now I think, once you get into that level of literally paid...
Opinions?
They're no longer opinions.
They're someone else's opinion.
There's no longer any integrity.
There's no longer any purpose to interact, engage, because it's insincere.
It's paid discourse.
But that's what I found out that was interesting.
And now I wonder how many other people are doing the exact same thing.
We've seen it happen.
People do not disclose that they're getting paid to promote a product, to promote a campaign, to promote an ideology.
And you imagine people who follow Brooklyn Dad.
And say, I trust this guy.
He's telling me to abandon Bernie Sanders.
And then you find out he's paid by a political action committee that supports Biden to tell the people who are following him, thinking it's his opinion that they respect, to stop following Bernie Sanders.
Anyhow, that was an interesting article.
I will now proceed accordingly and no longer engage with...
Brooklyn Dad defined, because I don't think it's sincere discourse.
Although I'd like to hear, if he had a defense, I'd like to hear what his defense is or was or will be.
All right, that was it.
Now, let's get...
Hold on.
Yes.
Speaking of political action committees and paying to influence votes, Sam Bankman-Fried.
Arrested.
The day he was supposed to testify before Congress virtually, presumably while not playing video games like he did the day before, arrested.
Some say conveniently.
Oh, some say conveniently because he will no longer be able to testify, at least for the time being.
Some people do believe the arrest was carried out in order to prevent him from testifying because his testimony would have been terrible.
And we'll see what happens in the long run.
There's been a long rash of unfortunate events plaguing the crypto world.
And there's been a long rash of unfortunate events plaguing people who might have dirt on politicians.
And I don't like saying it because I don't like looking or even thinking like I'm wishing that in the world.
I don't like putting that juju out there.
But there's people out there who are suggesting that.
We'll see where he is in a year.
But at least for this week, he's not testifying before Congress.
So he gets arrested.
He gets sued.
And we covered the lawsuit the other day.
I put the clip of that section on Viva Clips.
Sued by the SEC, two counts of fraud, and some very damning allegations in there.
That lawsuit, the SEC lawsuit, which named political contributions, it referenced political contributions, substantial political contributions, four times, without mentioning to whom, specifically, or to which party at large.
Democrats.
Lots and lots and lots to Democrats.
Whether it's 80 million to Democrats and 3.5 million to Republican for primaries, it's a lot.
And whether it's at least 70 million, as per what we know definitively, 40 million from Sam Bankman-Fried and 30 some odd million from other executives, or as Elon suggests, closer to a billion, it's a lot.
And so, although SBF has been arrested, was not able to testify before Congress, other people were.
And I pulled this clip.
I was going to pull the naked clip, but I like Robert Gouveia.
And I like his commentary.
So, Robert Gouveia, watching The Watchers, goes live every night.
I think it's 6. I get mixed up.
6 or 7 o 'clock.
Robert Gouveia, watching The Watchers.
Phenomenal.
He's got these mind maps.
Which are phenomenally interactive.
So I pulled the clip from his commentary of the hearing, but listen to this.
But what about the money that has not been recovered?
What about the family?
Is there evidence that there were other actors involved?
The answer is yes.
Mr. Ray III answers a question in Congress saying, yeah, SPF's family, yeah, they got a nice chunk of that money.
Is there any evidence of his parents' involvement in the operations?
We're going to get to this.
We're investigating that, as well as any other players.
Email, Slack, Signal.
It's billions of records.
It's a very vibrant environment.
So I hear that...
I presumed everybody knew this already, but Sam Bankman and Fried's parents, one of them is a Stanford professor, another one.
Stanford professors, well politically connected, Lawyers who draft policy or are involved in policy, so much so that Kevin O 'Leary, Mr. Wonderful from Shark Tank, said that when he invested in FTS,
when he decided to become the paid ambassador, and we're going to get to that, he was encouraged, reassured by the fact that Sam Bankman-Fried's parents, who are involved in regulatory compliance, who are lawyers, Stanford professors, well, they're in this also, so it's got to be clean.
It's got to be up to par.
Now the question is, did his parents get any money from this?
You haven't discovered that?
I mean, it would seem interesting that they didn't either give legal advice or business advice or parental advice.
I've been asking this question as well when I went through the lawsuit.
Who structured this corporate structure?
Who structured this web of companies?
FTX?
Alameda?
His subsidiary, FTX or the org, the charitable arm of FTX.
All of these other companies, these web of companies where money was going around from and to.
Who structured it?
I can tell you one thing.
I don't think it was SBF.
Sam Bankman freed himself.
SBF's parents evidently are very high up lawyers.
People at Stanford, people who are in the regulatory finance area, who've talked about cryptocurrencies, who are sort of in this industry.
And this is one of the reasons why people like Kevin O 'Leary, who is one of the...
I knew this before.
I said it before Robert did, but yes, Robert is covering it as well.
...individuals on Shark Tank, why he said that he trusted SBF and FTX.
I believe we played the clip here where he said, well, actually, I trust this organization because Sam's parents are compliance lawyers.
It can't go wrong.
So nothing could possibly go wrong with any of these cases.
Maybe.
Well, certainly, clearly, and I think in our first day papers, we indicated that...
That Mr. Bankman had given legal advice.
Okay.
Had he been an employee of FTX?
Employee is such a red herring.
The father gave legal advice.
He didn't do it for free.
Guaranteed.
And by the way, there's a good reason why he wouldn't do it for free.
If he gets a malpractice claim for the advice, well, you want to make sure that your insurance covers it.
So you want to make sure it's within the context of legal representation.
His dad gave legal advice.
You know, I don't know if he actually had an employee status.
He might have been a consultant.
It might have been a one-off.
It might have been a per-mandate.
It wasn't an employee.
It might have been an independent contractor, independent consultant.
But he certainly received payments from...
The family did receive payments.
Okay, that sounds like employment to me.
You got a payment for...
Family got payments.
I raise that because on December 8th, 2020...
Look at that little smile he's got, too.
How much money went over there?
And he kind of has a little De Niro look, doesn't he?
He kind of looks like Mr. Robert De Niro.
He sort of talks, you know?
You know what I mean?
Robert is right.
He does look like Robert De Niro.
They certainly got paid.
Mamacita.
That's not going to be good.
How much do they get paid?
There was the question, by the way, where else did SBF funnel out these monies?
The company was worth, what, 30-some-odd billion, and it's worth nothing now, and they were throwing around not just potentially a billion for political donations, research, what sort of philanthropic entities.
When the shit hit the fan and SBF goes down, Washington Post, New York Times, they're lamenting the fact that SBF just wanted to prevent the next pandemic.
When you see how the media builds up, I'm going to say an alleged fraudster, but I think it's quite clear that it's substantial fraud.
When you see how the media builds up an alleged fraudster like SBF into a philanthropist who all he wanted to do was prevent the next pandemic, do you not think they might have done something similar, mutatis mutandis, with, I don't know, another philanthropist who just wants to prevent the next pandemic and solve world population problems, Bill Gates?
If it's been done once, it's been done more than once.
It's a fundamental rule of life.
If it's happened once, it's happened before.
If somebody did it, chances are they did it before.
When a dog bites your dog and the owner says, oh, that's the first time you did it.
No, it's not.
No, it's not.
You only get to say that once.
So the family was paid.
Billions of dollars was going out of this company.
SBF, for those of you who don't know, FDX is taking in client money for the exchange.
It's either being funneled to Alameda, a research company, or it's actually just being directed directly to Alameda because they give the wire transfer information to people who want to put monies for the cryptocurrency into FDX.
Send it directly to Alameda.
Then from Alameda, it goes to personal expenses, personal properties, family payment now we know, political donations now we know, philanthropic donations we know now.
There was a question, for those of you who don't know, about his parents.
It's an amazing thing.
I didn't pull up the first article.
There was an article in Vox from 2020 that says, the Political Action Committee that you've never heard about, that raised $20 million in 2020 for the Democrats.
This is from the Stanford Daily, and it's from January 16, 2020.
Get this video out of here.
Stanford Connected Fundraising Group wants to raise $140 million for Democrats in 2020.
They didn't get there in 2020, but they got there in 2022.
How?
In 2018, the secretive Stanford Connected Democratic Fundraising Group, Mind the Gap, MTG, Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Now I'm wondering if I've seen this and I've been thinking Marjorie Taylor Greene on Twitter.
Mind the gap.
In 2018, they funneled over 20...
And by the way, they're using the word funneled, not me.
Funneled over $20 million towards competitive U.S. House Representative elections and get-up-the-vote organizations.
In 2020, MTG wants to increase that number to $140 million.
MTG is led by Barbara Freed, the William W. and Gertrude H. Saunders Professor of Law, Paul Brest and Emeritus.
Professor of Law and Director of Law.
Okay, Graham Gottlieb.
Of the three, Gottlieb has the most direct policy experience, having formally served in junior roles in President of Barack Obama.
Over the three-month period during 2018 election cycle, MTG built a donor network of over 800 people.
Something tells me that network was a little bigger in 2022.
I wonder why.
I have my theories.
They did not respond to requests for comment.
Freed, Brest, and Gottlieb wrote in the memo that MTG hopes to avoid media attention and reduce the chances of Republicans responding with early funding to counteract MTG investments in otherwise off-the-radar races.
Or maybe to not have too much scrutiny as to where those monies are coming from.
Maybe?
I don't know.
That's my just asking the question out loud.
According to the memo, MTG hopes to target states and national elections, yada, yada.
MTG intends to raise as much as $100 million for mail-based voter registration, $30 million for get-out-the-vote efforts, and $10 million for direct campaign funding, totaling $140 million.
Yeah, that's right.
Overall, with a minimum suggested contribution of $40,000.
Let me just do one thing here.
Mind the gap 2020, Vox.
I think they only got $20 million in 2020.
Let's see this.
They plan to get $140.
I think they only got $20 million.
Okay, so...
How Silicon Valley's secretive donor group plans to beat Trump.
Sounds like a cabal of well-funded people changing laws, controlling the flow of information.
They raised $20 million for Democrat causes and congressional candidates in advance of the midterms.
So I think they only had...
But the group has far greater ambitions in the presidential cycle.
Mind the Gap told prospective donors last fall that had already raised at least $35 million in political contributions.
So I don't know what they got to in 2020.
But...
Mind the Gap, 140 million, New York Post.
They got to 140 million.
They got to 140 million in 2022.
Unless I've misread everything here.
Get out of here with that video.
SBS mother, Stanford law professor Barbara Fried, also is co-founder of left-wing political action committee Mind the Gap, which has raised and reported 140 million to help Democrats win.
Throughout the same get out the vote grift.
or maybe that was in 2020.
Either way, they wanted to avoid scrutiny.
They can avoid scrutiny no longer.
They shall be scrutinized.
Maybe.
Maybe they won't.
So, that was one part of it.
Now we're finding out, at the very least now, Bankman Freed's dad got paid.
The family got paid.
We don't know how much.
We don't know for what.
But they were not the only people who got paid.
Mr. Wonderful.
The potential of these crypto technologies is astronomical in scale.
In August of 2021, nearly three years after I started allocating capital to the crypto sector, I entered into an agreement with FTX.
To be a paid spokesperson.
I was paid approximately $15 million for these services, plus approximately $3 million to cover the portion of the taxes due.
Of the remaining amounts, approximately $1 million was invested in FTX equity and approximately $10 million in tokens held in FTX wallets.
The equity is now most likely worthless and the accounts have been stripped of their assets and, interestingly, financial records.
I've written all off to zero.
Because I was a paid spokesperson...
Paid spokesperson, however, I never invested any capital from our partners...
Little cover his own ass here, that's fine.
The capital loss was from an operating company that I had 100% ownership in.
I'm using my own capital to pursue record recovery of the FTX accounts so I can conduct a forensic audit.
The truth of this situation will be discovered by following the transaction trail after obtaining the records.
I've applied for membership on the FTX creditors committee in connection with the bankruptcy proceedings, because I feel obligated to pursue the facts on behalf of all stakeholders and believe my perspective of this situation will be helpful to the other credit committee members.
So, that's Mr. Wonderful, Kevin O 'Leary, disclosing what he seems very uncomfortable to disclose.
Let me just go, if I may read a little into the body language.
I was paid approximately $15 million for these services.
He's skipping over the important part very fast.
I was paid approximately $15 million for these services.
Plus approximately $3 million to cover the portion of the taxes.
Very fast.
$15 million he was paid.
Plus $3 million to cover the taxes.
3 over 15 is a fifth.
That's 20% tax rate on that.
And this is what I don't understand.
And, Chad, you'll let me know what you think.
I've had this discussion with two people, smart people, both of whom came to different conclusions.
Of the remaining amounts, approximately $1 million was invested in FTX equity and approximately $10 million in tokens held in FTX wallets.
Of the remaining amount.
So, hearing this, it's...
He got paid $15 million.
The $3 million for taxes, was that above and beyond the $15 million to cover the taxes on the $15 million?
Or was that included in the $15 million so it was effectively a $12 million net?
Of the remaining amounts, approximately $1 million was invested in FTX equity and approximately $10 million in tokens held in FTX wallets.
Of the remaining amounts...
So my question, and it's to Kevin O 'Leary's benefit or to his detriment, $15 million plus $3 million for taxes, first question, is he talking about $12 million net and the way he got paid was $1 million in capital and $10 million in FTT tokens, so really he got zero, netted, pocketed zero because it is all probably worth zero.
Is that what happened?
Or did he get $15 million plus $3 million to cover the taxes, And he took the $15 million, bought $1 million in equity and $10 million in FTT tokens and still netted $4 million.
Or was it all of his payment as a paid ambassador invested in capital and tokens?
What does everyone think?
Because I genuinely don't know.
I'd like the clarity tweeted out.
But what does everyone think?
$15 million plus $3 million to cover the taxes.
Of the remaining, I invested 1 million in capital, 10 million in tokens that are worth zero.
I'd also like to know what he was able to cash out.
Now, real truth says 15 plus 3 plus 1 plus 10 is 29 million.
A total, but I don't know that it goes that way, real truth.
15 million plus the 3 plus the 1 plus the 10. Or did he say, here's your 15, but we're not going to pay you 15 million.
Here's 1 million in capital.
Here's toilet paper stock.
And here's 10 million in FTT tokens, soiled toilet paper.
And then even if that's the case, even if he did lose 11 million, 1 million on the capital and 10 million on the tokens, did he net 3 million?
Because that's still a pretty flipping good payday.
So that's my question.
Reading some of the chat.
So I don't know.
I would love to have...
Kevin won't come on.
He probably can't come on even if I weren't an ass to him on Twitter or a relative...
If I weren't needling him on Twitter or asking questions that I'm sure he doesn't want to be asked, I don't think he would come on and discuss it anyhow because he's named in a lawsuit.
That's what's going on with SPF.
We now know.
Family was paid.
We know how much O 'Leary was paid.
A bunch of spokespeople just taking money.
Of course, they're just throwing money at them, so how can you say no?
And we're going to find out what happens.
Maybe we do find out, maybe we don't.
Let me see if that was all I had on that.
Yeah, that's all I had on that.
All right.
What do we move on to now?
Let me see here.
Let's see what's going on in the chat.
Sold a university for billions.
Get a TV show.
Pushes FTX.
Says Hooch triple zero.
Kevin always played shell games.
He has a pyramid scheme where he workshops where people would go and he would get them to invest in his plan.
Well, that's Cars 10W.
Okay.
So that's it.
We're going to follow it.
It's interesting stuff that's going on with FTX.
And as the news develops, We shall cover it.
Oh, this, I should have brought this up earlier.
Growing up, I remember liberalism as a mental disorder.
These were some of the accounts that I'm seeing.
Who else would like to see United States strip Elon of his government contracts and subsidies?
Punish.
Punish your adversaries.
I'm going to laugh so effing hard if Elon is deported.
Open border loving people.
Let's do it.
Ron Filipowski.
The billionaire oligarch mom virus is the greatest threat to normal people.
Threatening talk.
Who's this one?
Martin Vesovsky.
I used to be proud of my Tesla, but now that Elon Musk, far-right conspiracy theory spreader and bully of public health authorities, I'm embarrassed to be seen as endorsing him.
I also sold my Tesla shares.
Wow.
Okay, that was a random tweet.
Okay, let me go through my notes in the back here.
We're getting to Elon.
No.
Let me vent, people.
Let me vent.
Rachel Notley.
Rachel Notley.
For those of you who don't know who Rachel Notley is, politician, Albertan, mom to children and dogs.
Okay.
Ooh, mom.
Wife.
Those are fighting words in today's day and age to some people.
Friend, leader of the Alberta NDP, New Democratic Party.
Account run by Rachel Notley and staff.
She, her.
I wasn't sure.
I was going to call her he, him.
I mean, she said mom and wife.
She really needs to put she, her in there.
That'll set the context for what we're about to read by way of tweets.
I've lost my politeness for these people, and even when I lose it, I still remain relatively polite.
She posts a beautiful picture.
The sleuths of the internet, see if anything is going wrong in that injection.
Let's see.
Is the plunger already down?
Is there nothing in there?
I'm joking.
I'm joking.
That's what people do on the internet.
They dissect pictures.
It doesn't matter.
Mom, wife, she, her has to specify that even after saying she's a mom and a wife because you can be a he, him for a mom and a wife apparently.
Posts her jibby jab pictures.
And by the way, and then thinks she's being a hero.
In the absence of leadership.
From the UCP government, something conservative party in Alberta.
I will say it loud and clear.
Get your COVID and flu shots.
Today I got the latest COVID booster, which is designed to protect even better against news trades.
Well, good.
I hope it protects better than the one that it didn't protect against.
They are safe and effective.
Rachel Notley is giving unsolicited medical advice on the interwebs.
And I'm sorry, I lost my temper.
If someone follows you, and I'm going to say it, I know that I pick out people's tweets when they say the same thing over and over again, like that guy who says, if Putin controls the gas prices, if Biden controls the gas prices, why isn't the Republican Party thanking him?
There are some cases when repetition, contextually appropriate, is necessary.
If someone follows your advice, Rachel Motley gets the jab because you assured them it was Quote, safe and effective and suffers a vaccine injury.
Can they sue you for damages?
And I wanted to swear people, but I didn't.
If not, shut up and keep your damn unsolicited medical advice to yourself.
These people have no skin in the game.
They have nothing to gain.
They have nothing to lose.
And they only have virtue to gain by sitting out there giving unsolicited medical advice for which they can never be held responsible.
On behalf and for the benefit of a company that can never be sued or be held responsible, without knowing anything about the people that they're giving this medical advice to, with impunity and immunity, they need to shut up.
And if they're going to come out and give people medical advice, they should be willing to suffer the potential legal consequences that result if someone gets injured from that unsolicited, unlicensed medical advice.
Said mom, wife, she, her.
It didn't say doctor in her account.
And even a doctor does not give blanket medical advice on the internet any more than a certified lawyer gives legal advice on the internet.
I hear the doorbell ring.
Hold on just one second.
Hold on.
Hold on.
No, it wasn't the FBI.
It's the internet.
I don't know how the internet company just shows up unsolicited without giving warning when I can't come off the internet to fix my extender issue.
It's not the feds, people, although that is the obvious joke to make.
Although every time the doorbell rings, I do have that thought goes through my head.
Okay.
That's the end of that.
The people telling people what to do with their bodies, if they are not prepared to be held responsible, they need to keep their unsolicited advice to themselves.
Period.
Okay, let's get on to the Elon Musk drama.
It's not drama, it's legal stuff.
There's a little bit of legal in it.
Here we go.
Elon Musk tweeted out the other day.
Any account doxing real-time location info of anyone will be suspended as it is a physical safety violation.
This includes posting links to sites with real-time location info.
Posting locations someone traveled to on a slightly delayed basis isn't a safety problem, so it is okay.
And explains what happened.
Last night, car carrying Lil X in LA.
Lil X is not a rapper.
I think that's his kid.
Was followed by a crazy stalker thinking it was me who later blocked car from moving and climbed onto hood.
Legal action is being taken against Sweeney, an organization who supported harm to my family.
And then he posts the card.
And then people are faulting Elon for suggesting that this is somehow an unjustifiable...
He suspended the account of this Elon jet that was tracking his jet in real time using apparently publicly available data.
To publicly locate and identify the geolocation of Elon's jet, which resulted in a group of people swarming him at an airport.
And then the question became, is he a free speech champion or is he a hypocrite?
Does he have rules for others and then he makes special exceptions for himself when it happens?
Does online speech actually have real life risks and harm?
So yeah, it's Elon's son.
So...
Blue Smoke 2022.
Feds disguised as internet service to swap out your router with theirs.
Now that you mention it, I didn't ask for the visit.
That's a joke.
I didn't ask for it at this time.
That's for damn sure.
So people calling Elon a hypocrite for a number of reasons.
Denying that online speech can cause real-life problems.
He said prosecute Fauci.
And then he goes and shuts down an account for...
Showing the real-time location of his plane.
And then you have people saying it's public information.
It has to be tolerated.
Awful but lawful.
Although, you know, it's a little nuanced when it comes to doxing and posting.
You can go to the yellow pages or the white pages.
Not the yellow pages.
Does everybody know what the white pages are?
Back in the day, there was a book and it had everyone's address, postal code, telephone number, and name in the city.
And you could just go.
And look at it and pick out somebody's name.
Hey, what's that person's number?
Well, if I know their name or I know where they live, I can find it.
The fact that you could go to the white pages and find someone's home address, telephone number, and whatever, does not mean that you can then post it to Twitter through an account with a million followers, A, with legal impunity, and B, with terms of service impunity.
That would be whether or not it's...
People get confused on what doxing means as well as far as terms of service goes.
Doxing is not just making public illegally obtained information.
That's hacking.
Doxing is not just making public private information that might have been lawfully obtained that discloses someone's identity.
Doxing can just be publicly identifying certain people or providing identifying information online.
And I think, you know...
Disclosing the location of someone in real time without their consent, I would say that that qualifies as doxing, especially when it's done with a specific purpose.
Someone going onto Twitter to say, this is where this person is to be found right now.
I would not say that that is a legitimate or that's a pretextual exploitation of the use of free speech, arguably for other purposes.
Some people say, well, what about politicians if you say that they're here and they're there?
Well, politicians who are public officials, in their capacity as such, that's what they do.
It's like saying if someone's a police officer working at a station, you say the police officer's there now, here's the address of the police station.
They're a public function, public officer of sorts.
In the exercise of their functions, I would say that that's not the same thing.
A politician not in their public office on vacation, having their address doxed.
That would be doxing, even if they are a public official who would otherwise be able to be identified when they are going to be somewhere for political purposes.
So that happened.
And people started flipping out.
And I won't say it's nuanced.
I think the rule, setting aside all the other stuff, there's a lot of restrictions on free speech, of speech that is not unlawful.
In any event, terms of service prohibiting spamming.
It's not illegal to spam, but we make, and Elon will make, terms of service rules that make a platform usable, that make it something where everyone wants to be.
Imagine the world in which people say, hey, you can publicly just put someone's telephone number, address out there.
If it's public, go put it on blast on Twitter.
No one would use that platform.
Nobody wants it.
At the end of the day, There is lawful speech, which is still restricted under community guidelines terms of service, spamming being one, because people want a platform that is usable and that is not one where they're going to feel actually threatened, harassed, or doxxed.
And so the idea of having doxxing as a clear violation of community guidelines, real-time identification of someone's location when they're not a public official without their consent.
Someone asked a good question.
Oh, I'm at the local fair and Elon is standing right in front of me.
Oh my goodness, here's a picture.
You're getting close.
You're getting close to public disclosure of someone's current geolocation, which can put them at great risk and peril.
So again, at the end of the day, it's not whether or not you agree with each and every rule.
It's just a question of whether or not the rules are clear and evenly applied.
That's the bottom line.
But they're out to get Elon.
They're out to get Elon, and there's no question about it.
They're so out to get Elon, they will make up fake stories, obviously, because it'll make them look bad.
Let me find the tweet.
Oh, here we are.
Laura J. Nelson.
Listen to this.
We want to smear Elon Musk.
He's not allowed saying prosecute Fauci because that's incitement to violence, but we can say prosecute Trump for six years all day long.
We believe in open borders and there's no illegal immigrants.
There's no undocumented immigrants.
But we want to go dig up Elon Musk's visa application to see if he allegedly lied so we can deport him.
No one's going to accuse the left this progressive mental derangement of consistency.
Laura J. Nelson.
In an article that she wrote.
No, she did not write the article.
I'm sorry.
Someone else wrote the article.
She's a journalist.
Reporter at LA Times, Green Thumb, Kansas.
DMs open.
Okay, whatever.
Lauren Elson tweets this.
A Bloomberg article.
So, about that $5.7 billion in Tesla stock that Elon Musk gave to charity last year, it went to his own charity.
Bloomberg reports.
Well, that makes Elon Musk look like a big asshole.
That makes Elon Musk look like a fraudster who said, I'm giving $5.7 billion to charity.
Give me the charitable tax deduction.
And then he gave it to his own charity?
Which, I'm a reasonably astute reader.
I said, holy shit, that actually sounds kind of bad, Elon.
What did you do?
You wouldn't have done that, Elon, would you?
No, he wouldn't.
Nor did he.
For anybody who's going to take the extra clicks to go read the actual referenced article from Bloomberg, is this it?
Do I have to go archive this?
I do.
Damn it.
Hold on.
It's already been archived.
I posted the archive.
I just pulled the wrong one.
I say, oh, Elon wouldn't have done that.
Elon's not a fraudster bastard.
And that I know of.
Maybe he is.
Maybe he is nonetheless, but he still didn't do it here.
You got to go one click beyond the tweet.
You get a fake tweet that makes you think you hate somebody.
In order to find the truth, you got to go click the article, read through the article, because they typically bury the lead.
And then maybe, if you're able to even think clearly enough to understand things, maybe you'll get to the truth nonetheless.
Bloomberg.
Musk's $5.6 billion mystery gift.
Oh, it's a mystery gift.
Went to his own charity.
Oh my goodness, the headline says the same thing.
I don't need to read anymore, do I?
She's right, whoever that person was.
Musk's foundation had $9.4 billion in assets at the end of 2021.
The three-director organization donated to St. Jude's Express.
Oh, so we're getting a little bit of a nuance on the headline.
It had $9.4 billion.
The Musk Foundation, which is a charitable foundation, gathers assets so it can then...
Oh, what's that?
Donate them to other charities?
Oh, interesting.
The $5.6 billion of Tesla Inc.
shares that Elon Musk donated to an unnamed organization at the end of 2021 went to his own charitable arm, making it one of the largest foundations in the US.
The Musk Foundation held $9.4 billion in assets at the end of 2021, according to a tax filing.
It sent...
About $160 million to nonprofits last year.
By far, the most of the world's richest person has donated.
By far, the most of the world's richest person has donated from his organization in a calendar year.
That means he's donated more in previous years.
Not more.
He's as well donated in prior years.
The billionaire's largest gift during the period was $55 million to St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital.
That's pretty nice.
Followed by $54 million to the XPRIZE Foundation, which he partnered with in 2021 to create a prize for carbon removal projects.
Oh, that seems pretty good too.
Remember those people who want to save the environment but also want to boycott Tesla?
Who want to save the environment and love immigrants but they want to deport Elon Musk and complain that he's donating $54 million to the XPRIZE Foundation?
Other donations listed there.
Okay, fine.
So you know what the bottom list is?
Musk, if you want, has a personal fortune of $167 billion.
Okay.
You know what their problem was?
They think he should just give $5 billion to their charity so they can go piss it away with their own corruption and administrative costs, fundraising costs.
Instead, Elon does what any normal person would do.
Get the tax benefit for the donation.
Put it in a foundation where you can make sure it then goes out.
To a number of different charities responsibly.
To good charities who are not going to piss it away on administrative fees and salaries.
Do you know how much the CEO of the Red Cross gets paid?
I don't know if anybody's ever looked at this.
Do you know how much the CEO of the Red Cross gets paid?
Let me pull up.
Sorry, I've got an itch in my eye.
This is my favorite tweet ever, by the way.
The people who spent years screaming prosecute Trump now say it's violence for Elon Musk to tweet prosecute Fauci.
The people who say they want clean energy now want to boycott Tesla.
The people who chant open borders now want to deport a U.S. citizen.
Democrat standards.
CEO Red Cross salary.
Elon, why don't you just donate?
You selfish bastard.
You should have gifted those stocks to the Red Cross.
You jerk.
You gave it to your own foundation, you selfish bastard, so that you can then pick various charities, including green charities and children's hospitals.
You should have given it to the Red Cross.
Listen to this.
This is for the Red Cross.
It's from Pad...
I don't know where...
Executive Compensation at the American Red Cross.
You should have given your $5 billion to the American Red Cross, Elon.
Expenses totaled...
$2.8 billion.
Hold on, what year are we in?
In 2021, American Red Cross raised $3.1 billion, with most revenue coming from the sale of biomedical services, gifts, etc.
Although contributions and gifts only comprise 33% of total revenue, it is important to...
To remember, the revenue stream of biomedical services is dependent upon donations.
Fine.
Expenses totaled $2.8 billion, with the largest expense reported to be co-pension salaries, pension benefits, and payroll taxes.
They have a lot of employees, so don't jump to any conclusions yet.
18,000 employees received at least $1.3 billion, or an average compensation of $76,000.
The 15 most highly compensated employees were reported to be.
Listen to this.
The chief operating officer, $781,000.
President, $751,000.
Chief transformation officer, $723,000.
President and CEO, $640,000.
Chief financial officer, $630,000.
Donor, senior vice president, $535,000.
General Counsel, nearly 500.
Chief HR Officer, nearly 500.
Chief Development Officer, 468.
Training Services, 451.
Biomedical Sales and Marketing, 444.
Chief Medical Officer, 410.
Chief Intelligence Officer, I don't know what that is, CIO.
You get the picture.
That is about, that's 1.5 million.
You can do the math.
That's a lot.
And by the way, I'm not an anti-capitalist.
This is not a question of saying people are not entitled to as much salary as they can possibly negotiate for and on their own behalf.
I am just a believer in the fundamental principle that if you want to drive a Porsche, you don't go become a schoolteacher.
And if you want to become a schoolteacher because it's going to bring you lasting fulfillment in life, don't expect to drive a Porsche.
You want to run a charity?
You shouldn't get rich running a charity.
You should get rich so you can donate to charities.
Chief Information Officer.
Thank you.
Mike TV Dub.
You want to get rich?
You should not expect to get rich working for a charity.
You want to work for a charity?
You should not expect to get rich working for that charity.
That's a lot, by the way.
That's a lot.
So, fault Elon Musk all you want if you want to be hypocrites for not donating $5 billion to the American Red Cross so their executives can pay themselves nearly a million dollars a year.
Fault him for that.
I suspect...
You know, I say that.
Let's go do it and see if I'm an idiot in real time.
Was it St. Jude's Hospital?
Oh, boy.
Let's see here.
St. Jude's...
Hospital CEO salary.
Jude one point.
Oh boy.
Let's see.
Oh, an error occurred.
Okay.
Let's see.
This executive compensation at St. Jude paddock test.
When people think of St. Jude's, they often think of the organization with children's hospital.
St. Jude is actually two organizations.
St. Jude's Children's Research, St. Jude.
American-Lebanese serious...
Oh, I didn't know this.
Mamacita.
Compensation from St. Jude.
Ex-officio director, 1.5 million.
How'd that go?
Did that go as planned, Viva?
No.
Let me make sure that this is actually...
Oh, that's interesting.
Elon Musk Bloomberg charity.
Here we go.
Auto News.
St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital.
Let's see.
Let's see.
Okay.
Hospital CEO salary.
We're getting to...
Jude, it looks like the same thing.
Hold on, let's do this here.
But that doesn't look good.
But that doesn't look good.
St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital executive compensation is $226,000.
The average.
James Dowling, uh-oh, I think his is a little more than that, though.
Well, doesn't look good.
The average is a quarter of a million dollars, which means there's going to be some that are a lot more.
James Downing, CEO.
James Downing, CEO.
Thank you.
$1.3 million a year.
Well, that's a lot of money.
All right, well, now we know.
And knowing is half the battle.
All the large charities are scams.
Check out Cancer Charity.
Only 15% goes to research.
Real truth.
I find that shocking.
There goes my theory as to why he would have done it.
Nonetheless, well, I'm going to have to reassess that, the rationale.
But the bottom line of the article, nonetheless.
He did not gift himself the money to his own charity.
It's going to his own foundation, and he's picking who he chooses, and maybe he thinks St. Jude's is worth it, and $1.3 million to their chief executive officer is worth it.
Okay, Rachel Motley, we have covered this.
I think we're almost done on the stories for the day.
I don't know why I keep having to close a window to bring up the new story.
Let's see here.
It looks like...
What is this?
What is this that I have bringing up here?
Taxing the unvaccinated, we covered that as well.
Car accidents.
Show me the average age of the people in those car accidents cited in that study, and I will be.
Oh, okay, so here's a fun one.
That's just, the world's gone mad.
Virtue signaling will be the death of the West.
It will be the death of science.
It will be the death of knowledge.
I run into this guy, Dr. Brian Goldman, Night Shift MD.
The world seems a lot less kind these days.
I see irritation, impatience, and anger everywhere.
I know it's not just me.
I can feel it like the entire planet's frontal lobes have been taken offline.
Did I get it here?
Oh, yes.
Maybe I was too angry.
These idiot virtue signaling hypocrites think we are stupid and don't have two fingers to Google their own history.
The world is less kind these days, and you are the reason.
Hypocrite trash.
The world seems a lot less kind these days.
Let's go see Dr. Brian Goldman.
Trump paid more taxes to India than the U.S. What do you think of that, Trump supporters?
You're being played for fools.
This is the best thing I've read on Twitter in ages.
There was something remarkable about Carl Reiner being 98 years old and living to needle Donald Trump relentlessly.
I hoped he would live long enough to see Trump out the door.
Many of his memory...
May his memory be a blessing to his family.
Because he was...
Oh, sorry.
What was the...
I have a Karl Reiner story.
The world's a lot less kind.
And I love the fact that Rob Reiner, Karl Reiner, was just endlessly mocking the president.
Trump's shirt collar is covering up his accessory muscle.
I think that's a dick joke.
He's a dick.
That's the old joke.
The turtlenecks hide the foreskin.
The best thing I've read on Twitter in ages.
We've already gotten that one.
It was the one under it.
There was a fourth one in there.
Whatever.
And then he blocked me.
Because nobody likes having their hypocrisy rubbed in their faces.
When they're trying to be virtuous better than other people.
And then it comes out that they're not just as bad but worse because they are just as bad but try to pretend that they're better.
Nobody likes that.
Nobody likes that.
Nobody likes the pest on the internet who goes and Goes and digs up their history.
It's so easy.
You don't even need to have followed them to know what would be some words that I would have to Google or look up in prior tweets which might show a certain degree of rampant hypocrisy of these individuals.
And it's very easy to find, especially if they're prolific tweeters.
Okay, we talked about the...
Oh, another, you know, Matt Gertz.
The people who, when it comes to doxing...
Elon Musk.
Now they're all for it.
When it comes to misgendering someone online, hate speech.
Speech on this website can lead to real-world violence was literally the argument for banning Trump post-January 6th.
Trying to make Elon Musk look as much of a hypocrite as Vijay Gad.
Oh, dude, I think we've gotten to everything.
Hold on.
Present.
Let me see if I have any more links in the backdrop that I should be looking at.
Tech CEO.
What is this one?
Oh, Nate the Brody is in the news.
I almost forgot the most important one.
Nate Brody.
Currently being represented by Ron Coleman of the Dillon Law Group.
This is so good.
Nate Brody, for those of you who don't know, is suing Christopher Boozy, the alleged founder, creator of...
Thought Sentinel, that website that would rate people's Twitter accounts based on good to disruptive to decide whether or not they got deplatformed and worked with...
He had a Rolling Stones article cover him because he's like, you know, the savior of Amber Heard and Meghan Markle.
Well, he, for those of you who don't know, went out of his way, found time in his busy schedule to defame Nate Brody.
And when I say defame, like, I don't use the word lightly.
When he went out of his way to actively defame Nate Brody by suggesting that he, by spreading the rumors that Nate Brody was not a real lawyer, that he was not actually a cop, and that when he finally admitted he was a cop that he planted evidence on people that he arrested and admitted to it in a live stream where he played a 30-second video clip out of context to actively and maliciously promote the lie.
That Nate Brody admitted to planting evidence on people that he busted.
He's suing bot Sentinel dude, Christopher Boozy, and it made MSM.
It made Daily Mail.
.uk for some reason.
Exclusive tech CEO who slammed Twitter and trolls in Meghan and Harry's Netflix finale is being sued for calling New York lawyer the son of two crackheads as his company is labeled Digital Attack Dog.
Christopher Boozy, 47, appeared in the New York...
I must have missed him in the documentary, but I really wasn't watching it very thoroughly when I watched it.
He came out and said, you know, that troll accounts are coming out to...
Harass and insult Meghan Markle, I presume because she's black or half black and that was like the operating theory of the documentary that everyone hates Meghan Markle because of racism.
When I actually didn't even know that...
I think I've known Meghan Markle from that show with the briefcases.
I never had any idea of her race or ethnicity and I never played a role in any part of my assessment of anything in the world.
I think I only knew about it when...
She got engaged to Harry and then the media made it into this big issue, which it might very well have been for the family, but I don't think many other people care about people's race these days except for the media.
Anyhow, technology CEO who lashed out at Twitter in the Duke and Duchess of Sussex new documentary is being sued by a lawyer over claims he tweeted false and defamatory statements.
Christopher Boozy appeared in the Netflix documentary after his company bought Sentinel, issued a report saying the couple was on the receiving end of millions of trolls.
They got mean tweets on Twitter?
Mean tweets that were not actually identifying their public locations or disclosing private information or threatening actual harm or organizing actual campaigns of harassment?
Okay, so we know what Bot Sentinel is.
Then you got Christopher Boozy, yada, yada, yada.
Here.
But Boozy, who previously tweeted that he thought the Princess and Prince were...
The aging in bananas, I don't know what that means, has been accused of being a troll himself over a series of nasty posts.
Dailymail.com reveal that an ex-New York police officer turned lawyer, he's also a turned YouTuber, filed a lawsuit.
He says he's son of two crackheads and other false statements.
Nate does have a very, very amazing history for those of you who missed the first interview ever that I did with Nate.
I'll share it in Locals afterwards.
Nate sued.
Boozy also publicly identified Brody by his real name, which the attorney was trying to keep private.
The complaint alleges.
In several tweets, he claimed that Brody was not a real lawyer or a police officer before later admitting that the claim was false.
He also admitted he knew the claim was false when he made it.
Then Nate gives an interview.
Yada, yada, yada.
Twitter is a dirty place.
We always scream at each other, which is fine, but you can't just start openly lying to hurt people's reputations or sick a crowd on them.
Boozy was saying Nate admitted to framing people.
Go after him.
Nate did not...
There are a few people who...
Whether I agree or disagree with some of his politics, his judgment and ethics, I do not question.
Hold on, dog barking.
Oi!
Bye.
All right, and it's not much more interesting than that.
Although they took a picture of Nate, Joe Nierman, Ian Runkle of the Bailey, and I don't know who the guy with the hat is, although I know I should.
And I believe, if I'm not mistaken, that that was at Alita's wedding.
If I'm not mistaken, I think that's, yeah.
So Nate's actually suing him.
Everybody, if you want to follow Ron Coleman, because he does interviews on his channel.
He did one with me.
He actually had Count Benkelon.
Ron Coleman.
Not the bodybuilder.
Ron Coleman, lawyer.
Here it is.
9.2 thousand subscribers.
That's something we'll be talking about.
So, you know, talking to you now, talking a little bit before the show, it seems like this is a case that really means a lot to you, right?
What is your favorite thing about being a lawyer?
There you go.
He was on Michael Malice.
You're welcome.
Go check him out.
He's a good guy.
Let me see what's going on in the chat here.
Now I think we've officially covered all the stories of the day.
Unless I'm mistaken.
Nate Brody.
Someone in the chat said it's a bogus lawsuit it's going to lose.
Or he said it's a bad lawsuit.
I think as far as it goes, you've got to prove damages.
But I think it's going to be quite easy to prove the defamation if it's not defamation per se.
The defamation, and even if you have to argue actual malice because Nate's a public figure.
Admitting you knew it was a lie when you said it, but tweeted it nonetheless, you make the job very easy.
So I'm not convinced it's a frivolous lawsuit.
In fact, I'm actually relatively not comfortable.
I'd say it's a pretty damn strong lawsuit on the allegations.
He's not a lawyer.
Calling someone who's a lawyer Not a lawyer and suggesting that they're not a lawyer and causing people to think that he's not a lawyer and a liar, although most lawyers are liars, but not...
damages reputation.
And it's very tough to come back from that because there's people online on Twitter who probably still think Nate is not a real lawyer or who think Nate actually admitted to planting evidence on people that he busted.
Black people.
They played the race card.
Christopher Buzi said, you know, Nate's framing his own community.
Can't get much more damaging than that.
Okay, then we got one last one.
Justin Trudeau.
Justin, CTV News.
Canada is not broken.
Canada is not broken.
Let's see what Justin Trudeau, the man who broke Canada, has to say.
Canada is not broken.
Trudeau goes hard at Poitiers in speech.
Do we have a video?
Do we want to puke?
Mr. Poliev might choose to undermine our democracy by amplifying conspiracy theories.
He might decide to run away from journalists when they ask him tough questions.
Can you believe the amount of projection?
Can you believe the amount of projection in this?
He might undermine democracy by beating the shit out of protesters and freezing their bank accounts in the absence of a court order.
He might choose to run away from journalists when they ask him tough questions, like the way Justin Trudeau Fled Ottawa during the protest to avoid discussing anything with the protesters.
That's how he brands himself.
Oh yeah, that's his choice.
But when he says that Canada is broken, that's where we draw the line, he said, clapping to applause.
And I made a funny, Canada's not broken, but the clavicle of the 81-year-old Indigenous woman that you stompled on with your police certainly is.
Oh, we should not have ended on that.
We should not have ended on Justin Trudeau being Justin Trudeau.
But we have to.
Canada sure looks broken, says Real Truth.
He destroyed it, says Maple Syrup.
One, two, three.
Undermine democracy.
I mean, can you believe it?
They see it in everybody else because it's who they are.
Undermining democracy and what was the other one?
Running from questions.
Holy shit.
Does he not remember?
Pretending to have COVID during the first...
Oh, sorry.
I don't know if he was pretending.
Having COVID again during the first week of the protest, then fleeing to British Columbia during the second part.
White pill?
Flamingo lady wants a white pill.
The white pill?
Monday?
I'm going to have...
I'm not going to be able to get her name, but the artist in Norway who is now standing up to the system and saying...
Enough is enough.
A woman is a woman.
A man is a man.
Do what you want.
Be who you are.
But do not tell me that as an actual lesbian woman, I've got to call you, a biological man, a lesbian.
Do not erase me and do not tell me what to say.
And she is standing up to it now.
And maybe I don't know how the procedure works in Norway if they're going to contest the constitutionality of the law.
You know, void for vagueness.
Void for undemocratic compulsion of speech.
The white pill is people are starting to speak up.
And once upon a time, you know, Tim Poole used to say it.
If women don't stand up for themselves in the leagues, in the sports, and say, no, we don't think it's fair to have to compete against biological males.
I don't care that they've been taking estrogen or testosterone blockers for three years.
They hit puberty.
Tim Pool is saying, until they do it, it's not up to us to do it.
Tim Pool says that he doesn't have kids.
He doesn't have daughters.
I've got daughters.
At some point, it's up to me as well.
I'm not doing it for me.
I'll be doing it for them.
But they're starting to do it now.
And more vocally, more proudly, and with less fear and with less reluctance.
That's the white pill.
Every avalanche starts with a snowflake.
Every tsunami starts with a...
Well, I don't know that tsunami starts with a drop of water.
And you know what?
I'm not even sure that every avalanche starts with a snowflake.
Every avalanche might start with, like, an earthquake.
You know what I mean, people.
Courage is contagious.
As much as cowardice is contagious.
So you're going to have to pick one.
Second Amendment or die.
$5 rumble rents.
Viva, do you have a plugin that automatically collects the rumble rents without you having to screenshot them?
One of Arcata's viewers created it.
Rackets can send it to you.
I will take it if it's easy to use.
I do not have one, and I would love one.
And I've been, in as much as you guys, everybody has their request for what they'd like with Rumble, I would like to be able to live stream on Rumble.
I can live stream by bypassing StreamYard.
That's easy.
I would love to be able to bring up and highlight comments so that it overlays on the screen.
People would love that, and it would be great.
So, Second Amendment or Die, I'm going to go message Nick and see if I can get that, because it needs to be easy to use.
I have a very, very short attention span.
Okay, other white pill.
Get out there and exercise.
I say I'm giving the white pills, but I'm having trouble swallowing them these days.
The world is going batshit crazy, and it's tough to...
It's tough to see it getting better, but it will get better.
It has to get better because we are a species that are prone to panic.
We're prone to collective thought, collective reaction, collective madness.
At some point, though, it's going to get too absurd to even ignore anymore.
And I think we're quite quickly getting there.
Did the dog pew-pew on Viva today?
Real Fringe.
No, he didn't.
I'm not even taking a chance anymore.
I just want to chat to work in the Rumble app for Android.
I'll ask Chris about that.
Viva, the world is bad, says DVR down market.
Gotta fix it.
Gotta fix it.
There's no alternative.
Like the heron that wastes its afternoon perfectly still, just waiting to get one frog so it can eat and survive another day.
We, too, have no choices.
We, too, have no choice but to continue the righteous pursuit of sanity, but in a way that makes our parents, our children, and our pets proud.
Because you can do no wrong when you do it that way.
When you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares back.
So do not become the monster that you are battling while battling that monster.
You don't win anything.
You don't win the battle if you've sacrificed your integrity.
So with that said, people, what time is it?
It's 1.10.
I'm going to go for a jog, exercise.
And I think you should all do the same.
Get out there, get some exercise, get some sunlight.
And see you tomorrow.
Monday.
It's going to be a good one.
Sunday, we got our stream.
Lots of stuff coming, people.
DVR Denmark says, yes, we have to find our equilibrium.
Who's doing it, Viva?
Mark LG.
Chat is critical for the phone app.
Let me screen grab that.
Okay.
What else?
Become the bigger monster?
Nope.
You can't do it.
Become the bigger monster.
What's the point?
All right.
Go.
Oh, hold on.
I got to play out with the video.
Hold on.
Let's see here.
What are we going to do today?
I had a good GoPro one.
Viva Fry GoPro.
There was another good GoPro one.
This is not a disguised unpaid ad, people.
GoPro has never sponsored me, but they don't need to sponsor anybody.
Let me see what is a good short GoPro video.
Oh, yeah.
Okay, this is a six-minute video.
It's a little long, but it's going to be good.
It's a fat...
It's funny.
There's a GoPro ad before my video.
1600 horsepower speedboat.
Right after I got the hero black.
This was in San Diego, I think.
It's fun.
It's another family vlog.
I guess that'll also be something of the white pill.
Here.
Hold on.
I gotta share my screen.
Window.
Here.
And skip.
Okay, battery's full.
Getting ready to go on the...
Kind of nervous.
Everybody?
It's an America boat.
Enjoy.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
I don't remember this.
We'll be back, maybe children.
Let's get ready to roll.
America style!
America!
Gate two.
You guys excited?
You know what the great thing is?
If you have to pee, you can just let it go on the boat.
Nobody's going to notice.
Have a good afternoon, everyone.
So really, the only reason why we're doing this is because we're testing out the GoPro 7. We got the new GoPro.
We got to see how the stabilization works.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Stable, stable.
Will it be stable on a boat that is going 100 miles an hour and flipping over three times in the water?
We need to get on the front of the boat.
Go straight to the front.
Straight to the front.
There is no cart that is more or less safe on this boat.
We're not taking the picture.
Unless it's free.
Safety Nancy over here wants to know if she can have a life jacket to wear on the boat.
There's life jackets underneath this.
Is this some...
Can we paper that off, please?
You have the option of purchasing.
Just take the photos for everyone.
Okay, do you want to take the picture?
All right, guys, let's take the picture anyhow.
Get in there.
Okay.
Oh, sorry.
Oh, there's a roll of three.
Go get the roll of three in the front.
Go, go, go.
Poncho!
Keep it for the ring, just in case.
Go, right there, right there, right there, right there.
Yeah, you're brave.
You know what?
I just got it.
Everyone needs to remain seated at all times.
Seated at all times.
Seat felt fast.
No getting up out of that seat for any reason during the trip today.
You're nervous?
However, if you have some kind of emergency and you need our assistance, we have a safety sign that is to pack the top of your head.
Just so everyone is aware, we will be getting wet today.
Everyone is going to get a taste of that San Diego Bay.
Who knows how fast this thing goes?
It's gonna go fast.
Welcome aboard the high-speed vessel, the flagship.
Hold it, they're gonna tell us now.
This video is going to be amazing!
See how easy it turns?
That's why you can be home.
We will, we will, we will.
Oh, boy.
It's hard.
And running, and running, running, and running, running, and running, running, and running.
Don't think you'll make too much shit.
Don't think you'll make too much shit.
If you have, if you have, if you have, you want to watch it.
Get started.
This game is starting here!
This is...
Oh my god!
That's amazing!
*Squeak* *Squeak* *Squeak* That is amazing!
*Squeak* *Squeak* *Squeak* 5 9
the the the the the the the
the the the the the
the the the the the the the the the the
the the the Excuse me.
The aircraft carrier is midway.
Okay, so that aircraft carrier is the USS Midway.
That's beautiful.
Our children, this was a cultural tour, as you may not have guessed.
Not for the price, unfortunately.
Would you do it again?
All right, guys.
That was awesome.
Daddy, the church, they were like crazy.
Where's mom?
Marion?
Oh, there they are.
Well Mommy, we saw a cereal.
It was sitting on the gooey thing.
We're going to the pool.
We're going to the pool.
Okay, people.
Let's just get around to high fives.
High five.
I want to go get a really good coffee over there.
No.
Let's go.
Let's go.
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