Trump Trial Update! DeSantis Suspends! Jan 6 Deleted Evidence? Live with Joe Nierman!
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We were the only Indian family in our small southern town.
I was teased every day for being brown.
So anyone that wants to question it can go back and look at what I've said on how hard it was to grow up in the deep south as a brown girl.
Anybody can look at my record and see when Walter Scott was shot down by a dirty cop, how I made sure that the Walter Scott family I
just want to pause here for one second and...
Ask the same question I asked last night on Twitter, also known as X. What in the name of sweet holy hell is Nikki Haley wearing?
Saying that I had black...
Sorry.
And I don't mean it in a judgmental way, like to be petty and...
I mean, what is she wearing?
I thought that she had missing shoulders and her shoulder skin was all leathery and flappy until I realized that this is brown.
Skin-colored shoulder pads.
And then I thought that was the same thing on her knees.
And then I realized, no, those are actually knee-high boots.
I think she's carrying a lot of ammunition in the heels.
What is she possibly wearing?
But set aside that.
That is superficial.
We're going to get to the substance of what she said at the intro part here.
But what I will tell you is saying that I had black friends is a source of pride.
Saying that I had white friends is a source of pride.
If you want to know what it was like growing up, I was disqualified from a beauty pageant because I wasn't white or black, because they didn't know where to put me.
So look, I know.
I want evidence.
I want evidence of that claim.
The pain that come with racism.
It's the reason that I fight bullies every day when it comes to racism, anti-Semitism or hate.
And I always will.
If I didn't mention slavery on that day, it's because that's an automatic.
There's always been, the Civil War's always been known about slavery.
We were the only Indian family in our small southern town.
Bamberg, South Carolina.
I was teased every day for being brown.
I want evidence of this.
And I want to highlight just something that I've been, you know, whenever I hear these types of stories to create victimhood.
To play into the identity politics that is more prevalent of the left, liberals, Democrats than of the right, Republicans, conservatives.
I mean, it's identity politics through and through, but it's so juvenile.
Can we accept one thing as a steadfast truth?
Everybody was made fun of as a child, pretty much.
There were no studs.
There were no, like, The Rock babies who were just studly, godly.
Creatures that nobody could make fun of.
And if anybody made fun of them, they'd still make fun of them for being too perfect.
The Rock, if he were The Rock as a kid, I'd make fun of him for being too strong, too chiseled, too handsome.
Every single human on earth is made fun of as a kid.
That's what kids do.
And so they'll find something to make fun of you about.
They'll make fun of your last name.
You know how many people call me like Fryfuck.
That's what they used to call me as a kid.
Oh, hey, make fun of me for being short.
Make fun of me for being too strong.
To bring that up now, in the context of stirring up identity politics, I got plenty of black friends.
I got plenty of white friends.
Holy crab apples, is it a tactic of the left, unbecoming of public discourse for what we consider to be the conservative populist right.
But I do want, I want evidence that Nikki Haley...
Was excluded from a beauty pageant because she wasn't white or black?
Dude, not to measure skin tones.
I get a tan.
I'm right up there with Nikki Haley.
I've seen some pictures.
Yes, she came from a traditional Indian family.
And by the way, people out there, Nikki is not a changed name.
It's her middle name and there's nothing...
Apparently it's totally normal to have Nimrata Nikki Haley.
But if you go by Nikki Haley and you see pictures of her alone as a...
Kid growing up.
I mean, people might know you come from an Indian family.
People might even make fun of the fact that you come from an Indian family.
People, when they realize what we ate at home, tongue.
If anybody's never eaten tongue, you see tongue get cooked.
You'll make fun of that.
Am I going to 20, 30 years down the line chalk that up to anti-Semitism, institutionalized anti-Semitism, because people made fun of the fact that we had matzo balls or gefilte fish, which is disgusting, or tongue?
My goodness.
What will I have Joe on?
Joe is sitting in the backdrop waiting, real patient-like.
Joe Nierman is coming on.
Good logic.
Although he doesn't go by the good logic anymore on Twitter.
He goes by...
Whatever.
He's going to explain himself.
If you haven't watched Chris Pavlovsky on Patrick Bet David, go watch it.
Because Rumble has some...
They've announced the big news.
They waited for the markets to close to announce some bigger news.
By the way, I'm just bringing this up and then Joe and I are going to come reminisce about old Jewish cooking.
Isn't eating tongue called French kissing?
We had a debate with a doctor.
If she's watching, she's not watching because I think politically her head would explode if she heard what I have to say.
We had a debate.
One part of the debate was when you eat a cow's tongue, can you taste the last thing the cow ate?
I was on the no, you can't, what kind of stupid question is that?
You've just boiled the tongue, peeled the skin off.
You're not tasting what the cow last ate.
And this doctor was convinced you could.
I guess theoretically it's possible.
Okay, people, we start on YouTube Rumble and vivabarneslaw.locals.com.
Should have made sure that we're live there.
We are live on Locals.
It looks good.
Oh, no, hold on.
We're live on Rumble.
Do I see my ugly face?
Okay, good.
I see my ugly face on vivabarneslaw.locals.com.
So we're live everywhere.
We're going to end on YouTube, you know, 20, 30 minutes in.
Go over to Rumble.
And if Joe's sticking around for an after party, we might have a little exclusive Ask Joe Anything.
AJA.
Joe, you ready to come in?
Booyah, sir.
How goes the battle?
Whoa.
That's close.
I'm zooming in.
I'm going to let you talk for two seconds.
All right.
Tell us what your name is, what your channel is.
Yeah, Elevated Pitch while I go to Locals to see if our audios are matched.
Hey, my name is Joe Nierman.
I have a YouTube channel.
Really, I'm going to pitch to you Locals.
It's goodlogic.locals.com.
I know that Viva basically is the king of Locals.
So if you're watching him on Locals, which is where you should be, in that case, I'm going to urge you that you're already acclimated to Locals.
I urge you to check out goodlogic.locals.com.
I'm a New York litigator, newly turned member of the press as of today.
Dude, that is – well, so first of all, you have to spell it.
It's Good Logic the way you see it on the screen.
It's L-A-W.
L-A-W-G-I-C.
There you go.
Good Logic LLC.
I was trying to mimic Trump's pose.
Oh, I get it.
Well done, actually.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Dude, so you actually...
Okay, we're going to get into all of this.
I think everybody knows who you are, but goodlogic.locals.com.
I'm also on YouTube and Rumble.
Why did you change your name, though, on Twitter?
So that was actually a family type of issue.
Because I...
Yeah, well, I see.
So I'm an Orthodox Jew, and I live in a very ultra-religious community.
And I had a son and a daughter who were on the market for getting married.
And apparently, in my circles, the idea of somebody screaming about, like, I don't know, woke alphabet community and practically grabbing the throat of my camera wasn't playing well.
And Lady Logic was not very happy with my career choices when she was hearing people say, yeah, I don't really want my son or daughter being, like, in a house with that guy who seems like he's very excitable.
So she was like, she really, she wants me to get off of social media altogether.
And I negotiate and haggle, and she's like, you know, your Twitter feed, I just, people know you as good logic.
When they Google you, they find you on Twitter as good logic.
There's so much stuff in your feed there about trans community, which is just stuff that we just don't discuss.
It's like, and no one would discuss it in my community.
It doesn't come up.
We don't talk about abortion.
We don't talk about any of this stuff.
So to them, even the fact that I'm...
Discussing it in front of thousands of people is something that a lot of them find unsettling.
And the fact that I'm sort of raging about it frequently was something that really turned a lot of potential prospective parents, not the boy or the girl who would go out, but it's the parents who are looking into my son or daughter.
And when they look into them, they look into the parents, which is me.
And ultimately, the negotiation I reached with the wife was, I will change my Twitter handle.
So that when people look up good logic, and I also took all my videos and I put them on a paywall.
And I said, anyone who's looking into our family, if they see a few videos out there, me talking to my dad, they're not going to start paying $5 just to look into other videos of me.
That's just not going to happen.
So I put everything on a paywall and I had to basically hide.
It's the weirdest thing in the world because when you know better than anyone, when you're in social media, your objective is for everyone in the world to find you.
And I basically was living this life where it's like I want everyone in the world, 8 billion people minus the people who are in my community to find me.
So I changed my name from GoodLogic on Twitter to AtTheFollowingPro because in the evening I have a show.
I call my show The Following Program.
And that was too long to fit in there.
So that's why I changed it to the following pro.
And then afterwards, now, thank God, my son got married.
My daughter's engaged.
This whole specter of my life is over.
But the name GoodLogic, someone basically six months ago took the name GoodLogic and said they were holding it for me, and I haven't been able to find them ever since.
I put out a feeler on Twitter, and I was like, you know what?
I just changed my handle, even though it's at The Following Pro, but you'll see GoodLogic up there.
So you actually went into some sort of quasi-social media hiding because your public persona was compromising your kids' abilities to get married within the Orthodox Jewish community.
And I don't know if you can imagine.
How taxing that is, psychologically, emotionally.
The idea that I'm an albatross for my kids.
And it's ironic because I think most people look at us as our job is enviable.
They look at it as something sort of prestigious for one reason or another.
But not in my community.
My community, this is like...
Well, it hasn't happened to me yet where I've been penalized in social life, extracurricular social life.
Like when I went on Saturday to judge this public speaking debate, my kid was participating, but I don't obviously judge my kid.
I was kind of like, it's a fear, but every fear hides a wish.
Like thinking one day somebody's going to say, that guy is critical of the trans movement.
He can't judge my kids or he shouldn't be judging here because he's too political.
Hasn't happened yet.
I don't think it's going to happen, but you know.
And I've always lived by a motto that I...
I seriously don't care what anyone, how any individual judges me.
Like, someone in my community, I was talking with him once, and he was talking about this group of people that he was saying were judgmental.
I was like, really?
I never noticed that.
He's like, because you don't care.
You never think about it.
Most people care about what other people think of them, and I've never cared.
And all of a sudden, for the first time in my life, not because of myself, but because the thought that I'm having a negative impact on my own kids, that's a horrifying feeling.
And it's like, it was very depressing, because I was sort of torn.
Between, like, how hard do I want to push my social media presence?
And, you know, because I want to succeed, but I also don't want to be an albatross.
I mean, it was really just, like, it was a very difficult period that I went through for, like, six to nine months.
That's interesting.
I sort of knew about it, but I wasn't, actually, I kind of heard the rumors, but I wasn't sure if it was true.
But, Joe, hold on.
While we're on the subject of Orthodox Jews in New York...
What the hell's up with the tunnels?
Oh, the tunnels.
Joe, so here's the deal.
I didn't know that there was anything controversial about it.
And then, you know, when I saw myself on the Jew list and these people aren't talking about the tunnels, first of all, I mean, I was in as much as I thought I knew anything of the tunnels, you know, where they dug during COVID so they could pray.
I did not realize that there's a conspiracy theory.
And you'll tell me if there's a conspiracy theory?
That these Orthodox Jews were using it for nefarious sex, sexy time, human trafficking purposes?
Of course!
Of course there's going to be a conspiracy theory.
Of course there's going to be a theory like that.
I'll tell you, I mean, it'll take me like three or four minutes to walk you through the whole tunnel thing.
It's not something I can answer in one breath.
The tunnels, you have to understand that...
Everyone just hears Orthodox Jew.
Most people hear Jew and they just assume all Jews are the same.
That's just not true at all.
Gino is the exact opposite of an Orthodox Jew.
I'm very pleased with the fact that Gavin McGinnis adopted my term Gino for Jew in name only.
Jew in name only does not mean someone who is not religious.
That's not what it means.
What it means is it's somebody who trots out their Jewishness.
For the purposes of making a point of raising up their platform and giving a validity to their position.
It's like, I'm Jewish and I think that Israel's wrong.
For what they're doing with Palestinians.
Statements that start with as a Jew, which if anybody ever finds me ever having said one, I'll give you a hundred thoughts.
I'm sure you never have.
I'm sure you never have.
Look, I understand from all the reports, I've never met you personally, but I await that day eagerly.
But from all reports, you're not at all a religious Jew, and in no way do I think that makes you a Gino, because a Gino...
He proudly declares his Jewish, puts on a super Jew cape to make their point.
You need to listen to me now, because I'm talking to you as a Jew.
It's like this guy Berman from MSNBC, when he was talking about Marjorie Taylor Greene with her yellow, saying it's like a yellow star, saying, as a Jew, I'm offended.
I was like, who the hell are you?
No one would know you're Jewish.
No one thinks of you as being a Jew.
And it literally is a Jew in name only, because Jews will recognize the last name as being a Jewish name.
After a while, they sort of get used to it.
My point is that sojournos are very, very different.
Then you have your classic irreligious Jews.
And the more religious Jews are, the more likely they are to be conservative-leaning politically.
Because the founding values of our family, of our country, are very consistent with Torah values.
That's our guideline.
It's all very consistent with each other.
Everything about respecting people, integrity, working hard, all of these things that are foundational to how Judeo-Christians...
We're thinking when they form this country are very in line with Torah ideology.
So that's why there's a lot of consistency between the America First people, who the left portrays as being anti-Semitic and hating anyone who's not a straight white male, and Jewish ideology, because there's just a lot of overlap there.
But the reason I got to Orthodox Jews is even in the Orthodox Jewish community, that can be broken into numerous different subsections.
And to an outsider, yeah, okay, Orthodox Jew, Orthodox Jew.
But amongst Orthodox Jews, we easily recognize the different subsections that we end up self-categorizing.
And one major classification is whether or not you're an Orthodox Jew who is Hasidic or not.
You would say Hasidic.
Whether you're a Hasidic or not.
Now, Hasidic, the parable that I give, and it's not a perfect parable, but the parable I give is that you can sort of look at it as Hasidic Jews being like Catholics versus non-Hasidic Jews being Protestants.
Because even amongst each of them, there are different subsections thereof.
Joe, I'm going to tell you, you're going to get to the point soon.
I'm digging deep on this tunnel thing.
I'm sorry, you asked me about tunnels.
I'll get to the point.
I'll get to the point.
I appreciate you streamlining me.
It's good.
So basically, the largest Hasidic sect are called the Babich.
And they were led by their head rabbis, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Died like 20 years ago.
And they were very much into being messianic.
Now, amongst them, after he died, there was a split.
Because normally there's a scion that takes over and there was none in this circumstance.
And Lubavitch Hasidic is like the largest group of Hasidics in the world.
They are everywhere.
The ones you're most likely to meet are Lubavitch Hasidic.
So amongst them, there's a split.
Where some of the very, very radical, crazy ones believe he's still alive.
That he's Messiah and that he's still alive.
They carry around like those little cards with his image on it, right?
Yeah, I mean, many Lubavitch do, even the ones who don't think he's alive.
But there's a subset of them which think he's alive.
And they tend to be very young, unmarried men who basically are between the age of like 15 and 25. And there's a whole...
Now, the main section of Lubavitch is in a synagogue which is located at 770 Eastern Parkway, so everyone calls the place 770, and that's considered the main sanctuary in America for Lubavitch Jews, even though they're spread out more than McDonald's.
But the main hub...
The mothership is at 770.
So everyone calls it 770.
These meshichists, the really ultra-messianic ones, basically felt like they wanted to be able to access various facilities that were attached and were no longer being used by 770, and they dug these tunnels.
Now, were they dug during COVID?
Possibly.
No one really knows.
It hasn't really come to light.
And when they were exposed, the main...
People from Lubavitch who were far more normal were basically like, they dug a tunnel here.
This is not safe.
We want to fill it with cement.
And when they tried filling it with cement, they didn't want to leave.
So they basically were like, no, we're staying here.
So they had to call the NYPD.
And that's where you ended up seeing this thing that went viral.
That's essentially the mid-sized story.
Okay, interesting.
My thoughts on that is there's nothing too crazy that I will not entertain as a conspiracy theory.
But if one were going to engage in trafficking and all sorts of improper sexual behavior, in the sewers of New York, like ninja turtles, is not the right way.
It's probably not the most practical way to do it.
All right, dude, show us your press pass one more time here.
Yeah.
So you got this.
This is specifically for covering the Trump trial, or is this good?
This is good for everything.
I am now a member of the press, just like Rachel Maddow.
And other noteworthy reporters.
Other ginos.
Yes.
I say Rachel Maddow.
I don't know if I've ever heard her invoke her Judaism.
So, dude.
Okay, that's amazing.
So, you're pressed.
Now, we're going to talk about a few things.
They tell me I have to renew this every freaking year.
Yeah.
Every year?
I thought it'd be every two years, every five years.
Every year, you know, I have to submit six videos for them to review, and it takes them like a month to review it, that this is how you get a New York City press pass, is you have to basically do reporting that you upload or a story that you blog or whatever it is, and then share that with the link and put in all your information, obviously, and then share those videos, and then they have to spend time reviewing it.
It has to be some time done within the past two years.
And it takes like an hour.
An hour and a half to basically put everything together and label it and tell them exactly what it is.
So I shared with them my Glenn Maxwell reporting when I was applying for it because I was going in and covering the Glenn Maxwell trial while it was happening and I was dropping two videos a day.
And so I basically...
Link them to six of those.
But the next time I apply, that's more than two years old.
I'm going to have to come up with new stuff together.
Well, you're going to have the last year's inventory for this.
I'm going to bring up just a couple here.
Godspeed, Viva.
Thank you for you to spread the truth.
That is from Billy Boy.
Thank you very much.
And we got Jeremiah Dick Fitzwell.
My brother was 6 '3", 220, and built like a Greek god his freshman year.
He literally got made fun of for being the outlier.
That's not surprising.
All right, so tell us, we're going to talk Trump.
We're going to talk, I mean, maybe DeSantis.
We'll see if there's any hot takes that you might have that we didn't talk about yesterday.
And then you got up to speed on what happened in Texas with the SCOTUS.
Well, it was a short one-page thing they dropped today.
Yeah, one paragraph.
So it was basically saying that there's no longer an injunction and that Biden can go in there and cut down the razor wire.
So I'm going to probably do maybe a short talkie video from my studio afterwards.
Hold on, let me back out so everybody can see this beautiful studio and that chess table right there made by Ginger Ninja.
Yeah.
It's not a decision on the merits.
It doesn't end the underlying dispute.
What does it do?
It puts an end to the injunction that was issued by the Court of Appeals in late December and now it authorizes The border agents to cut the wire, remove it, because it was impeding their ability to do their job in apprehending illegal immigrants, which they're not doing in the first place.
Never again do I want to hear this is a conservative court.
It's ridiculous.
I mean, what was it?
Because they didn't, this is an interim order, so they didn't motivate the decision.
But the, it was, I don't know which circuit it was, Court of Appeals says, yes, we're issuing you an injunction, which is going to preclude.
Border Patrol from cutting down, making sections, removing the razor wire.
And the SCOTUS comes in without motivating the decision, says we're vacating that injunction from December.
That's what happened?
Yeah, which essentially implies that there's a lack of likelihood of success in the merits.
When you want an injunction, you have to assert and establish into the court's satisfaction that there's irreparable harm, which means not financial damage, but that can be...
But there has to be some sort of harm that you can never actually properly assess the financial damage that's being caused.
So your classic civil liberties violation, lack of freedom of speech, stuff like that, that's always going to be irreparable harm.
And you can see how over here, having an untold number of people streaming across the border is going to satisfy that the damages that flow from that are impossible to assess.
That's going to be irreparable harm.
Then you have to have balancing of equities.
Balancing of equities means which seems more just?
Which seems fairest as far as this?
Now, normally, balancing of equities will favor the status quo.
That's normally what we start with, that we leave things as they are.
And over here, that's essentially what they were looking for.
There's barbed wire up there.
So until this case is decided, because what the court is essentially deciding is what rules will the two parties operate by while this case is pending.
So that's why they do this.
But the third one is they have to find a likelihood of success on the merits.
What essentially they're saying when they're saying this is the court is leaning towards thinking, we don't think Texas has a right to have unilateral control over this area.
And it's very, very disconcerting.
It was a five to four decision.
The four justices who dissented were the three you expect, which are Leo Thomas and Gorsuch.
Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett.
No, I'm saying the four that dissented.
The three that signed off on taking it down were the three liberals plus Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett.
The other four were Kavanaugh and the three most based justices that we have now, which are Thomas Alito and Gorsuch.
So they must be thinking that federal law trumps that you have control over the border.
And no individual state has a right to assert their unilateral authority over it.
You can understand theoretically why that is.
Well, I mean, it's the easiest argument to make is that they're going to say the immigration is federal jurisdiction and not a state right.
And they're going to probably also argue that navigability on waters...
I don't know if they're going to raise that argument because...
The razor wire, I think, is on land and not interfering the flow of the waters.
But there was a decision that came out just recently that said that Texas couldn't impede with navigable waters.
And there was a lawsuit that Biden just filed to the effect that this is the exclusive jurisdiction of the federal government.
I mean, I can understand it.
It's an institutionalist perspective.
Isn't it?
And that's why I always say, that's how this court is divided.
There's three on the left and three on the right, and then Barrett, Roberts, and Kavanaugh tend to lean towards strong federal government.
That's why we saw that they signed off on extending certain mandates, even though Kavanaugh said, eh, it's not really constitutional, but it's going for another month, so who cares?
It's like they sort of will ignore the Constitution to the extent that they will empower.
The powers that be.
And that's where those three tend to fall out.
We should not be at all surprised if the federal government wins on this lawsuit because of that.
Well, I could steel man that argument and even make it make sense.
Yes, someone in the chat is saying immigration was a state issue in the early history of the country.
That I don't know.
So I mean, I don't know a lot of stuff about American law and history.
But I understand the argument that it's a federal jurisdiction.
So a state cannot erect its own borders and prevent.
Interstate travel and whatnot.
And so this is going to be something analogous to that.
And on the merits, they might lose.
But then, like, part of me wants to think that Coney Barrett and Roberts are setting some situation up for, like, an impeachment of Biden, where even the Democrats are going to say, OK, it's federal jurisdiction and you're not doing anything.
And worse than that, it looks like you are deliberately allowing an invasion.
For what purpose?
So maybe this leads to impeachment.
Maybe this leads to political consequences where the resolution has to be.
I highly doubt it.
I mean, I think that's wishful.
I think that's really wishful thinking.
Because I don't think they're in favor of having a lot of impeachments.
I don't think that that's what they want.
And this is consistent with your classic institutionalist perspective.
This is how your neocon tends to think of the world.
They have a very 1980s type of perspective about conservatism.
So, you know, in the 1980s, it was very different from the MAGA movement, where there was a very strong trust in the government in the 1980s.
That's what we on the right had.
I remember living through that environment, and the environment was very rocky, meaning the movie, Rocky.
Right?
Like, it's like, yeah, America is always perfect.
America is always great.
Everyone, like, cartoonishly, practically, that Russia is the root of all evil, always will be the root of all evil.
They hate children.
They hate everyone.
And they're terribly evil people.
And we have a cartoon.
And anyone who's not American, you know, in the movie, thank you for smoking.
So they made a comment about how the only people who smoke.
At that stage in our culture in a movie would be RAVS, which was an acronym for Russians, Arabs, and villains, and that no one else would be allowed to smoke a cigarette, and that the smoking industry was looking to get an actual hero smoking a cigarette after engaging in coitus.
But it's a true commentary as far as how we sort of looked at those are the bad guys.
And America is always good.
Our police are always good.
We have just blind faith in American institutions.
Our education system is the best.
Our corporations are the best.
We make everything better.
We're faster.
We're stronger.
We win all the Olympics.
That America as a hero and a protagonist, purely unadulterated, was the perspective of a 1980s conservative.
And now MAGA's perspective is not at all like that.
It's like, wait, there is just rotting corruption everywhere.
There's a freaking swamp in Washington, D.C. We know every one of our politicians is out for their own self-interest, to the public's detriment, and just a loathing, constant cynicism of all these institutions, whether it's the education system that's trying to poison our kids with DEI or turning them basically into pink frogs.
Or whether it's, you know, our health system being corrupted.
We question everything now in ways that the Republican Party never did before.
But these are old-school Republicans, the three in the center.
They're Roberts, Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett.
And they think like neocons do, like the Fay Rays of the world.
Like Chris Reyes of the world, like your Bob Kemp's of the world, like your Mitt Romney's.
That's how they think.
And that, yeah, sometimes the other side's going to win, but the other side is not evil.
The other side is okay.
And that's the uniparty type of perspective.
And that's where these three in the middle are going to fall out.
That's why I think we're going to lose on this case.
Yeah, I brought up that chat from Don Aracco.
First of all, Don Abaca.
Don Abaca, I understood that you meant they are mooted.
Texas will win because the new Texas law does not preclude.
The federal government from enforcing immigration.
I don't think that's, I mean, I don't know.
I don't think that's the measure.
I think it's of the exclusive jurisdiction of the federal, the states don't get to regulate it.
But what do I know?
All right, now, by the way, we're at 1,220 on YouTube.
That number has to go down.
Quickly, because we're going over to Rumble, whether you like it or not.
Now, I've given the last call, but I'll give the last call a second time.
This is the link to locals.
No, this is the link to Rumble.
Give me the Rumble link, and I'll add it into my locals' links.
Give me the Rumble link.
How do I do that?
Just copy and paste it into the private chat.
Here you go.
That's Rumble, and I'll give the locals to the chat one more time.
And I see the tips in the chat.
So I see the tips in the chat on...
Locals, we are going to get to all of them, guaranteed.
So here's a link to Locals and Rumble.
The number is still at 1,224 people, so it just needs to go down once to satisfy my OCD.
We're going to talk about the Trump trial, DeSantis, and basically, I've got a vlog coming after this.
So it's uploading as we speak to Rumble.
It has been on our vivabarneslaw.locals.com community all afternoon, so if you were there already, you would have seen it.
And it's about the January 6th, and it's funny.
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Nice.
All right, Joe.
How long have you been covering the Trump trial with E. Gene Carroll?
Because it just started last week, right?
Yeah, I haven't really been giving it a lot of attention.
To me, what's most interesting about these trials is when Donald himself comes to testify.
And there were rumors that he was supposed to come in today, although the trial got short-circuited because there was a sick juror purportedly.
So we're going to get into that because there's some accusations of chicanery afoot by Judge Kaplan.
Judge Kaplan, what's his first name?
Lewis Kaplan, right?
It's not a woman, people.
He's a man.
And if you thought Angeron looked unhinged, Judge Kaplan looks unhinged as well, but maybe I'm just projecting.
The trial started last week.
We're in jury selection, or what was the state of the trial last week?
No, we're in the middle of a test of trial.
Oh, shut up, I'm an idiot.
I got confused.
Eugene Carroll has already testified.
It was in this case where the judge basically already pre-gagged Trump as to what he can and cannot testify to if he ever takes the stand.
Right, right.
He is limited.
I mean, in both cases, he was limited.
He wasn't able to give closing arguments.
Unless he would promise that it wouldn't basically sound at all like any of his campaign speeches, which is just, it's asinine.
And this guy, and I'll tell you this much, I went in there today and I don't know if I'm going to go back there tomorrow.
Because despite having this hoity-toity pass over here and having a lawyer and having an attorney pass, they're not allowing me to bring a cell phone in.
So I'm like, I can't even bring...
I'm a lawyer and an attorney, and I still can't bring a cell phone, but that's the individual rules of his part, because that's how much they want to suppress.
Joe, you better go back because you got an asset that most people don't have, which is that pass to get in.
Will they let you have- Anyone can go in, though.
That's what I'm saying is anyone can go in the same way I can.
It's not doing anything.
I thought this would give me access to having a phone.
Anyone can go in there.
Is there a viewing room where you're allowed to use a phone like they had with- No.
No, they're not letting me do anything.
They're not letting me do anything.
With Engeron, they said that this is why...
The reason I got this passed is because when Trump was testifying in the civil fraud case that Letitia Janney brought, so I wanted to watch Trump testify.
And they would not allow me as an attorney to bring a phone into the viewing room because of concerns that I would break Judge Engeron's rules about not filming, recording, anything that's happening there.
I had to be media.
To be allowed to bring their cell phone in there.
And I was screaming at the security there.
I was like, so you're telling me that my status as an officer of the court makes me more suspicious that I will come into a New York courtroom and break the rules of that court more so than the media.
I'm less trusted.
I'll follow the rules.
I'm an officer of the court and I'm considered less trustworthy to uphold the rules of this particular court than some freaking idiot with a media pass.
And they're like, yep.
Jon, I'm going to bring this up.
When I say that the dude looks unhinged, I mean, he looks like Robert De Niro playing a pervert in a movie.
And if anybody hasn't seen the John Lajoie rapist glasses bit on YouTube, go look it up.
You know who John Lajoie is, right?
John Lajoie.
I think it is.
No, dude.
Well, it's only if you don't want to pronounce it properly.
He's from Longueuil, Montreal.
Jean Lajoie, L-A-J-O-I-E.
He's the funniest guy in the world.
Oh, well, he used to be.
I think TDS gets to everybody in code.
Oh, is that what happened to him?
Back in the day, he made a bit called Rapist Glasses.
And he's like, tired of the good boy look and the girls knock.
Try Rapist Glasses.
They'll make you look like the pervert that drives women crazy.
And now try a new Rapist Band.
So that's the judge.
Have you been attending court all last week?
No, no, no.
I'm telling you, today was the first time that I was going to go in there.
And when I got to the courthouse, I walk into the lobby, and I see E. Jean Carroll walking toward me.
And she's got a little entourage walking behind her.
I was like, wait a second.
It's 10 o 'clock.
Why are they leaving?
Like, what's happening here?
I was expecting I'm going to come in there, see Trump get sworn in.
I just picked up my pass 10 minutes earlier, and I walked over to the courthouse, and I come in there, clear through security, and I see E. Jean Carroll walking out.
And I'm like, what the hell is this?
What the hell is this?
Did she have her cat vagina T fireball in her hand?
I didn't see that.
What does she look?
I mean, when you look at her, and I think she's batshit crazy, totally unhinged.
Does she come off as batshit crazy when you see her?
I'm not going to kid you.
In person today, she looked, I mean, just passing me, she didn't look anything unusual.
She looked like your classic New York liberal woman.
There's a look that older New York women have.
Which as soon as you see it, there's a sort of look of entitlement that they have where it's particularly a white female New Yorker.
That they just sort of carry themselves with this air of like, yeah, I'm going to give off my...
I'll go to my charities and do my other stuff.
But there's sort of an air of entitlement.
And I didn't see the crazy, loony woman standing in front of her stupid mouse house.
I saw a woman who was ready for court and ready to go forward.
You're going to go back tomorrow.
Don't be stupid.
Allegedly, the reason for the postponement was because someone came down with COVID.
And Trump was supposed to appear today.
Tomorrow's the New Hampshire primary.
And so there were people screaming election interference because now they're going to compel Trump or Trump, if he doesn't come to court tomorrow, he'll either compromise...
Potentially the trial, his rights in the trial, or he comes and then he sort of compromises his ability in New Hampshire.
And I'm not sure.
I think he probably was being called by the plaintiff.
Meaning in a civil case, the plaintiff can call the defendant to the stand to testify.
I don't think she wrapped up her case in chief yet, which means that...
If he's scheduled to testify, it's not like he can choose and have his attorney say, okay, we're going to fill in other witnesses tomorrow.
That he's compelled to be there by law.
So it really is compulsory.
You know, a compulsory obligation for him to appear, which is very directly interfering with his ability to, you know, go around New Hampshire and try to push for last minute votes.
There's no question.
And someone said, you know, there were people saying this is election interference.
Deliberate, overt, you could have rescheduled to next week.
Other people were saying, oh, no, it's because someone got COVID.
They say a COVID scare on Business Insider.
From what I understand, someone was diagnosed with COVID.
If it's a case of COVID, Nothing's going to be different tomorrow than today because apparently if you have COVID, it's five days.
And so the judge postponed Trump's testimony, which was supposed to be today to tomorrow.
And it smells like overt election interference.
Although the way that article reads, it sounds as if it's his attorneys who are calling him.
It's not the defense which is calling him, which means that in theory they could try to fill a day.
Let's see here.
Hold on.
I'll bring up.
Not that a business insider can be trusted from a hole in the wall.
Let's see here.
Donald Trump intends to testify at the defamation trial.
The trial was delayed Monday for a juror COVID scare.
And Tuesday is the New Hampshire primary.
If the trial isn't delayed another day, as Trump's lawyers requested, he may lose his It's really messed up if the judge doesn't push it back a day.
That's really, really messed up.
So juror number three called out sick, possibly with COVID-19.
Oh, I'm sure.
Even if it's not COVID-19, you dumbasses, if it's just a flu or just a virus, it's probably worse and more risky for people than the Rona at this point.
Facts.
Okay, so that's cool.
You better get back there anyhow.
Now, was there a crowd outside the courthouse, like people cheering?
No.
No?
Okay.
No.
No, it was completely...
And I've seen at his civil trial, there was tons of media there.
There was almost no media at this thing.
Like, nothing.
Alright.
What else are you working on these days, Joe?
So, I've been...
I actually started a new channel called The Trump Trial Channel.
Because I figure there's so much covering that I sort of want to have a place that's dedicated toward that.
So I've really been fixating on that and on the primaries.
I mean, I'll tell you that I've been studying this entire thing and just trying to analyze each of the parties here and the distinctions between each of the different candidates, which obviously now we've weeded down to just two.
And I think that, you know, DeSantis, I'm going to ask you, do you ever see a guy who politically kiboshed his career as stupidly as Ron DeSantis did over the last six months?
It's weird.
I'm more forgiving and I like DeSantis and I wouldn't have...
I wouldn't have considered it the betrayal that a lot of people consider it to be.
He was a good governor.
I think it was not the time and he should have waited, should have built the political goodwill instead of taking a gambit or taking a chance.
But, you know, he bowed out when it became clear respectfully and endorsed Trump.
Some people are pointing out not as wholeheartedly as I might have thought or some might have argued.
Very half-heartedly.
Very, very, very half-heartedly.
But the issue is not that he ran.
It's that...
And I've been saying it.
I like DeSantis.
He ran a campaign that was embarrassingly bad.
And he had some answers which were embarrassingly bad.
And some of it's not his fault.
They blame it on the political action committees and some of the online behavior, I say, is unbecoming of DeSantis.
But it's not him.
It's people online.
But the campaign was run badly.
And he doesn't think as quickly on his feet as we've seen Vivek does now.
And Vivek basically showed us, I think, What I think we haven't seen in a very long time, if ever.
And that is, he didn't just show, display leadership and ability to think for himself.
Some of the solutions that he came up with and he was postulating about, and this is why I was very torn about between Vivek and Donald until Vivek dropped down.
That just made it easier.
One of the reasons I was very torn is because a lot of people don't trust him because he's new and stuff like that.
But he came forward with solutions that are not dependent on Congress's approval.
He basically said, here's a list of problems that we have facing America today.
Here are the powers that the executive branch has individually without any blessing from Congress or needing to pass a law or anything like that.
And I'm going to use these to find solutions to those.
And he came up with one suggestion after another.
All these other politicians go out there and make these promises.
Stupid Nikki Haley saying, if Congress ever shuts down, I'm going to lock them in there and force them to knock their heads together as if any president has that authority and treating her own potential constituents like we're idiots.
Like, we don't understand the limitations of our power as a president, whereas Vivek displayed such an apt understanding of the Constitution and his constitutional powers that I was like, this guy has tremendous solutions.
And what I liked was hearing Trump actually steal some of them.
I don't mind you stealing them.
Absolutely.
And his answer when, I don't know if you saw the interview with Ezra Levant where Ezra was on a bus with him and he's like, you know, why are you running if Trump is running?
And he says, look, I think Trump is going to get taken out politically, whatever.
Someone has to be here making these points.
And that's what I've been saying.
I've been saying this for a while.
Whether or not he had zero chance, he was the only one of the five, then the four, then the three, then the two, making these points, which Trump has clearly picked up on.
The central digit, the CB...
Central Digital Banking Currency.
Trump picked up on right away and said we're going to leave Bitcoin alone.
He would never have said that particular point.
He wouldn't even know about it.
And then flip side is Trump was precluded by lawfare in my humble opinion from debating and so no one was up there to put the points out that Trump would have put out there except for Vivek.
Yeah, that's a great point.
The dude is just, he's smarter than the average politician, which is why he never got into politics.
He's freaking smart.
He can think on his feet, and it's the funny thing.
And he seems to understand cultural zeitgeist, meaning he understood intuitively that, like, that, hey, if he's kept off the bat in Colorado, I'm out of here.
That the political persecution of my political enemy...
Is not something I'm going to sanction.
And that we all must stand against this and call it out for being a persecution rather than a prosecution.
And the distinction between persecution and prosecution that the left seems to struggle with, like understanding where that line is, is if you take an action that at the time someone's doing it, no one thinks it's a crime, and then you find a way to find some statute that you can twist into labeling that, that now we can look back at that action as being criminal, that's when you're being persecuted.
That's when you're clearly trying to just find any way where it's show me the man, I'll show you the crime.
As opposed to someone's actually doing something wrong that this person needs to be held accountable because they're doing something that is just clearly illegal.
And especially when it comes to prosecuting a president, I'm a very firm believer.
Put aside the fact that I think he needs to be impeached before he can be criminally charged.
In general, I think that we should never be looking to go after anyone on a petty basis.
Trump or one of the most evil people ever lived in Barack Obama.
We must let our leaders lead as well or as stupidly as they can and do what they need to.
This is what people don't really appreciate.
Everybody watching appreciates this, but other people don't.
Trump is the be-all and end-all of evil, that he needs to be removed from the ballot for...
Passively, tacitly insurrecting by not calling in the National Guard, even though it wasn't his authority to do it.
That's what they're trying to remove him from the ballot for.
They tried to impeach him for tweets about the events of January 6th.
Obama literally extrajudicially assassinated two American citizens, an alleged domestic terrorist and his 16-year-old son, by drone strike.
Extrajudicial killing of an American citizen.
No one says boo.
No one even knows about it.
Trafficking guns to the cartels in Mexico, the Fast and the Furious.
I mean, these are, if these aren't impeachable offenses, they should be.
And they are.
They're criminal offenses.
Weaponizing the IRS against his political enemies.
I mean, everything that...
And all this ignores his real crime, which is the reason I consider him so terribly evil, which is that I think he stoked racial division in ways that are irreversible and have really potentially destroyed this country until it finds its own grace at a certain point in time.
I know that's not actionable.
I understand that.
I agree with you.
It's definitely not actionable.
I'm simply saying that his rhetoric that he threw out there, and one of the things he did was so insidious that he would speak, Trump speaks with, he has like a bludgeoning hammer that he's how he talks.
And the exact opposite is the insidious carving with a knife.
That Barack Obama would use in his speeches where he would just lace in there all these thoughts into his own supporters that the right isn't voting for him.
If you don't vote for him, you probably just don't like black people.
If you're against illegal immigration, some folks are not as comfortable with people who have skin that's a little bit darker than theirs.
So the thought that he planted was...
The reason they disagree with us, the reason they're obstructing me, is not because they recognize that, hey, this is security risk, hey, this is terrible for our economy, but because they're racist.
And then once you label the other side for eight years racist...
Your own constituents basically are like, we're not dealing with some Nazis.
Whoever would have been the leader of the GOP party was going to be called Hitler.
It wasn't Trump.
Trump is correct in this.
Whoever it was that beat Hillary was going to be labeled Hitler in the wake of Obama because it had to be that eight years of hearing how racist the other side is.
Think about this for a second.
When Hillary got up there and described 50% of the country as deplorables and talking to her own crowd, she knew that they all fought like her, that we are really terrible people, and that we are genuinely bad people.
If you don't negotiate with Hitler, you obliterate them.
And she knew that that's what their mindset all is.
That we're all a bunch of freaking racists, even though most of us don't give the slightest damn at all what skin color you are, whether you're gay or any of that.
That makes you racist.
If you don't see color, Joe, you're racist.
But what I'm saying is, to her, it was natural and normal to say that because that's how the entire left looks at us.
And at a certain point, we embraced it.
We're like, yeah, okay, you know what?
Fine.
Frick it.
I'm a deplorable.
Yeah, I'm a deplorable.
And we all basked in the label deplorable, right?
Because we were like...
And that was all seeded by eight years of Obama speaking that way.
And think about Ferguson riots.
Think about this.
We were promised when Obama would be elected, oh my God, the end of racism forever.
That shows America is not a racist country.
And sure enough, six years later, there's riots in Ferguson.
Don't tell me for a second that Barack Obama wanted to end racial divide in Ferguson.
In 10 seconds, you fly...
Air Force One in a stupid Air Force One helicopter.
You land down smack there in Ferguson, and you say, hey...
I got this.
I'll fix this.
And all those riots go away.
But he wanted those riots.
That's the only conclusion you can have.
Why would you have that on your watch unless you specifically are totally, completely not just okay with, but sanctioning that, hey, the racial divide here is good for our party.
And that's why I say that he's a terribly, terribly evil human being that we don't appreciate just how awful he is.
And God help us if Michelle Obama runs.
Michelle's not.
So I've heard two compelling arguments.
One for why she's going to run.
And I know people in the chat are saying, don't refer to her as a she.
Yeah, they call Big Mike.
I've heard a compelling argument for why she's going to be the one because they're going to need someone other than Biden because it's not going to be Biden.
And I've heard a compelling argument for why it's not going to be her.
And I think after having heard both, I'm more swayed by the latter.
But hold on.
I want to hear this.
I want to highlight something you said earlier.
Everybody's like, well, if it had, you know, Trump says the right thing, but he doesn't say it properly, and he's so abrasive, and that's why people hated him.
People don't understand this.
It could have been DeSantis in 2016.
DeSantis would have become the be-all and end-all of evil.
People are young enough to not remember.
They called Bush a Nazi.
They called Bush, Hitler, racist, whatever.
They called McCain a racist everything.
It doesn't matter who it is, abrasive or not.
He will be evil incarnate.
So there's nothing Trump could have done right to avoid what the media made of him.
And people say, well, he was so disruptive, we just need someone more...
No, he wasn't disruptive.
The media made him the problem so they could complain about him becoming the problem because they made that.
And it could have been a six-year-old boy.
He would have been Hitler incarnate, Hitler's youth.
So that's one point.
Now...
Okay, the arguments for why it's going to be Michelle.
Where they're holding their first primary.
Where is it, Joey?
I know it's, I want to say Chicago, but I don't want to make a mistake.
There's somebody on Rumble, and I forget who it is, and I feel bad now because it's a good theory.
Michelle wrote a book, an autobiography.
So did Obama at the time.
Something to do with where they're hosting their first convention is, I think, it's where the Obamas come from.
Illinois?
They come from Illinois.
So wherever they're holding their first one, you know, it had to do with that.
And there were some other parallels between Obama's ascension to the presidency and what Michelle is doing now.
Good argument.
The flip side?
They're worth $150 million.
They've got their house in Martha's Vineyard.
They've got the life for the rest of their lives of a celebrity.
They're not going to run for the very same reasons Trump should not have run, according to many.
It will ruin what they have for the...
You know, the perfect celebrity life that they're going to live for the rest of their lives.
Why the hell would they jump into this cesspool of politics when they've just gotten out of it?
Send in Gavin Newsom.
He might need it, you know, a little more.
So, between those two theories, I think, yeah, they've got the perfect life right now.
There's no way Michelle is going to give up all that they have, all that they're going to get for the rest of their lives, so they can get, you know, back into this world of cesspool of politics.
I think he gets off on the power.
I think he's pulling the strings down.
Wait, Obama or Newsom?
Obama.
I think Barack gets off on the power.
Yeah, but okay, I said there's no question.
And the constant fellatio that he gets from the media.
I mean, it's ridiculous how much he can do no wrong.
He's basically a messianic figure to them.
Yeah, but I don't think Obama was ever pulling the strings.
Obama was the, not the plant, but he was the mouthpiece for whoever.
He was placed there.
Perhaps.
He's very charismatic and did a good job, you know, getting people to accept extrajudicial killings.
Glenn Beck was speculating that it would be Gavin Newsom with Big Mike as his VP.
He's like, she's lazy and she doesn't want the job.
And that's why they'll get Gavin.
Look, right now, I mean, Biden is so unpopular.
I think the left is terrified.
I don't see him running.
And frankly, he looks like, Gavin Newsom looks like the star that they're trying to shine off.
And the question is how they sort of shove Kamala aside.
But I mean, look, it'll either be Gavin Newsom and Big Mike.
I'm thinking it might even be Gavin Newsom and Whitmer.
I wouldn't be surprised at all.
They seem to be shining that star up a lot.
American Psycho with Miss American Psycho.
That would be one good team.
The two looniest people.
The Joker and the Wicked Witch of the West.
It is interesting because I said it early and I said it a long time ago.
It's not going to be Biden and it's only becoming more and more clear.
I don't want to say anything like that because the fear hides a wish.
He's physically...
On his last legs.
And Father Time is...
He looks like Father Time.
He looks like my grandmother at 103.
So I don't want to put the juju out in the universe.
But I think the only one who could replace him would be Gavin Newsom.
I don't care how unpopular.
He's a decent-looking, Hollywood-ish-looking Patrick Bateman, American psychic-looking MF-er who doesn't mind lying through his teeth.
What more could you ask for from a politician?
Yeah, so that's the latest there.
It's going to be fun.
Tomorrow's going to be, what do you predict for tomorrow?
That's a really good question, because the whole issue that they have the undeclareds who are coming in there and voting, and the question is how much ground game the left managed to get to get these undeclareds, because they definitely want Nikki Haley.
I mean, there's a big push by the left in the center to get rid of Trump.
I think they're scared of Trump.
And there's a big push.
I'll tell you this.
I had a whole concern that I had internally.
I never expressed this even on my own channel.
Let's say there's a lot of undeclareds.
And it ends up being a split.
Or Nikki somehow pulls it out.
Let's say she gets a 53-47 kind of win.
The next primaries are a long time away.
That's a long time for this loss to sit there, for them to try seeding the idea that Trump is weak, he can be had, Nikki Haley is the future, or whatever the nonsense that warlord nuclear Nikki is somehow the answer for the right.
I think she's a disaster, my God.
I am bothered by the timing of this, that there seems to be a long gap between now and Super Tuesday.
It's not for another freaking month.
And I think that in the initial days afterwards, if she were to win, then I think there'll be a big push to sort of shake up MAGA.
But at the end of the day, I think when Super Tuesday rolls around, I think MAGA is going to come out in force.
I think they're going to blow her away.
Haley's going down tomorrow.
I hope you're right.
I hope you're right.
There's a double entendre there.
She's going down tomorrow, but I think she's going down tomorrow.
And then the question is going to be, like, what happens with all these Trump trials?
There's no way the D.C. trial is starting on the day before Super Tuesday.
No.
No, that's not happening.
And then what else do we got?
Actually, another point on the racial division, just to highlight, it had actually nothing to do with Obama being black per se.
Although...
He's as much black as he is white, and I don't know why more people don't say that.
He's got a white mother, he's got a black father.
To say that he's black because of that, I think is a form of racism, as if to say one race trumps the other.
But it's not just racially induced.
Justin Trudeau in Canada has created as much of a racial divide by playing off of the same type of politics in Canada that we've seen in America, and has created a more divided, a more racially, ideologically...
What's the word I'm looking for?
Identity politics division in Canada than I've ever seen in my life.
I remember growing up, nobody cared about race, nobody cared about religion.
It was just like, it was a non-issue.
And now, if you don't see the person for their race, religion, creed, sexual orientation, it becomes the issue.
And that's how you tokenize people.
You create the division that you're purportedly trying to solve, but it works out well for the government.
But I think, I'll tell you something, I sort of feel like...
Even amongst the left, aside from the loonies who are very vote blue no matter who type of perspective, I think that your more moderates, I think they're seeing through it.
I think that Trump calling out fake news, I think they're starting to see through the emptiness of those positions.
Well, I hope so, fingers crossed, because that's why I think Trump is going to take a lot of...
People from the left because when you have the who's the big tech of the CEO former from it was either Facebook or one of those coming out and eloquently explaining why Trump's policies are right but why his delivery is wrong and I'm listening to him saying look there was no delivery that could have been right but thank you for acknowledging the policies right you're gonna get a lot of people who are going to in the closet vote for Trump even though they've never publicly admitted and then My prediction,
my white pill prediction, fingers crossed, when the numbers are undeniable, everybody's going to realize, well, there's a lot of people who say they hate Trump that are voting for Trump, and so it's going to be enough to say, well, okay, maybe we should stop with the charade and just acknowledge good ideas for good ideas.
Well, I think we're a long way away from that, honestly.
As far as good ideas for good ideas, that's...
I think that's part of your...
That's a little white pill beyond...
That's a little too big for me to swallow.
Well, we'll see.
Fingers crossed, and we'll see what happens this year.
You're following the latest breaking story from the January 6th committee, although it's not really breaking.
Allegedly, there's sources confirming they deleted...
That they deleted files from the J6 Select Committee?
Yeah, just a cool two terabytes of data.
You saw that exchange that happened months ago between Loudermilk and Benny Thompson?
I want to say that I did.
I'm sure that I did.
But let me find it.
You explain it and I'll see if you can find it.
So Benny Thompson, as many of you may recognize, although frankly, I don't know why anyone watched it, but he was the head of the J6 Select Committee.
He got a letter from Barry Loudomilk, who's a representative from Georgia, who was complaining that when the Republicans became the majority and took over from the Select Committee, which became, I guess, the UnSelect Committee, that they...
There's a lot of files that seem to have gone missing.
A lot of these depositions that happen, they're just not there.
Benny Thompson basically responded how everything they did was in accordance with House rules and that they basically didn't bother storing stuff that they weren't going to use.
And that's completely consistent with House rules.
That's apparently what he was claiming.
It's funny, if you check the fact-checkers, which are the king of the liars, that's what I need to become.
I was thinking when I got this press pass today, I was like, alright, so I'm a lawyer, that's the most hated profession, then I went for the even more hated profession of becoming a member of the media.
I need to become a fact-checker next.
That's what I need.
You'll never get any...
Any accreditation is a fact checker.
You just have to be right.
I mean, that's what makes someone a fact checker.
No, no.
I'll be one of those bogus fact checkers.
No, there's a Twitter handle.
Mostly false when it's completely true.
Yeah, so apparently it was baked into the rules that Nancy Pelosi set up for the January 6th committee.
But the news now, it's been going around for a long time.
People are like, well, this is not new.
There was the argument that...
People were saying this, you deleted some data, but now they've got seemingly a forensic digital analysis confirming 117 files deleted or encrypted.
No, sorry, encrypted and deleted.
And they were able to retrieve some which still seem to be encrypted.
I mean, it's not, I say, where do you think it's going to go?
But what do you think we're going to get out of this?
I don't think we're going to get anything, honestly.
I think nothing's going to come out of this whole thing.
How are you going to find it?
What are you going to do?
They've given a deadline to the DHS and to whatever other White House till January 24th to provide the passwords so they can access the information and what else was deleted.
Nothing's going to happen from it.
What happened during Fast and the Furious with What's-His-Face?
Holder.
Contempt of Congress.
Nothing.
Nothing.
Now, I'll tell you this.
When it comes to Hunter Biden and stuff, I don't spend much time talking or focusing on Hunter Biden.
Okay?
And this sort of falls...
Not exactly the same.
I much more care about January 6th than I do about Hunter Biden.
But when it comes to issues...
That are exclusively looking backward, and it's difficult to see how this has much ramification going forward.
I know that on Hunter Biden, for example, we can be very confident that there's been a pardon that's been signed already that we don't know about yet, and that he's never going to face any repercussion for any of the crimes that he's committed, as it's unlikely that Joe Biden, who I think should be held for treason based on his conduct with Burisma.
And I genuinely believe that it's treasonous, that there's never going to be any accountability there.
It's just not going to happen.
So you sort of need to recognize, okay, what can happen versus what can't happen, what's likely to happen.
And I'll tell you this, on the Hunter Biden pardon, I'll tell you this, Viva, if you were president and your son was facing federal conviction, don't tell me for a second you went and signed a pardon.
Because any one of us who were in that position would be like, all right, look, especially with him being so old and afraid that he'll have a stroke any minute that they would have said, let's put this aside and then pretend that we'll never do this and try and do whatever we can to manipulate the DOJ to make these charges go away or whatever, which is certainly what we saw because it's ugly for him to give him a pardon.
And that's why, like, how much fixation am I going to have on this just so that the football will be yanked away from me the last second?
It just feels like a waste of time.
Now, when it comes to the January 6th Select Committee, I worry less about that than I worry more about...
about ramifications for things having to do with January 6th.
I don't know if you saw this.
There's a trial that's going on now, Fisher v.
U.S. This is coming for the Supreme Court.
This is something I was focusing on recently.
The obstruction charges that were raised against many hundreds of J6 defendants was under 18 U.S.C.
1512 C2, which is basically, if you look at C1, It basically makes it a crime to destroy evidence.
And these statutes, there was a few statutes in the same ballpark, 19, 20, 21. They were all created after the scandals involving Enron and Arthur Anderson, LLP.
Congress said, we didn't have a subpoena out there.
But they clearly were trying to burn their records, which is relevant to what you were just talking about as far as burning records, that they were clearly trying to burn their records because they were afraid of it coming in before court.
So C1 makes it a crime to destroy, alter, mutilate any records in advance of an official proceeding.
And then it says, or C2, otherwise obstruct an official proceeding.
Now, throughout time, in many different circuits, this was interpreted to be some other way of destroying evidence.
Instead of, let's say, papers, it could be, you know, setting a shirt on fire that you're expecting is, you know, the shirt that's going to be used by a DEA to convict you of murder.
So that would also be under 18 U.S.C.
1512 C2.
That would be how you would get that in.
Well, Jack Smith and many of these DEAs in Washington, they said that...
Or otherwise obstruct an official proceeding, that they're interpreting official proceeding as this congressional meeting on January 6th, and that was the basis of the charge.
Well, right now, the Supreme Court is trying to assess whether or not that is an appropriate usage based on the language and text, and you have the originalists in there who certainly you're anticipating would find in favor of the defendants to say that that is not a valid charge to be used for people who are...
Who are objecting to the certification on January 6th.
So I think that that's a really important case, which hopefully, that's the sort of thing which I'm much more interested in, because I was like, look, there are a lot of people who are sitting in jail for this.
And we've covered this, Barnes and I, and we've talked about it at length, that this was never what the...
According to Barnes, I can't purport to have had this knowledge until he imparted it.
Never.
Never before was he used to this.
And this is one where, this is my original thought, where you might have a chance of getting the Ketanji Jackson Brown.
Is it Ketanji Brown Jackson or Ketanji Jackson Brown?
I think it's Brown Jackson.
It's KBJ.
KBJ.
Where you might actually get her on the side of, you know...
We're not expanding interpretations of criminal laws to lock people up indefinitely.
You might get the liberals saying, A...
We don't want this to be used against us because you'd have half of America locked up for Summer of Love.
It could be used for anything.
Absolutely.
And it makes the rest of the statute meaningless because basically the rest of the statute is or in this circumstance that you do this or in this circumstance you do that.
And really obstruction would cover all of it if you're going to interpret it that broadly.
And Judge Pan from the D.C. Circuit Court who ended up fining against...
She's the same judge who is harassing Trump's counsel in the whole issue as to whether or not impeachment must precede a conviction when you're going after the president, that issue, which is likely going to end up before the Supreme Court once we get a decision from the D.C. Circuit Court.
And the decision from the D.C. Circuit Court, that's another thing that I'm actively covering.
Is likely to be against Trump with respect to whether or not these indictments can proceed or whether you need to have a conviction of impeachment before you can bring an indictment against it.
I don't have confidence that the courts are going to come to this conclusion, but it seems obvious, especially it seems obvious that you need to have the.
It seems even more obvious.
You cannot possibly try a criminal conviction after there's been an acquittal on the impeachment.
That seems even more obvious.
And Colorado has said, screw it.
Yeah, sure, he was acquitted on his second impeachment for the very same acts for which we've concluded self-executing insurrection clause.
Disqualified.
So they've got to come down on that.
I don't see how they could possibly come down any other way.
So they've agreed to take it up.
They're taking it up on an expedited basis.
Well, there's two different things.
I don't want to glom together because they're very easily confused.
There are two different issues.
One is that right now before the appellate court, the D.C. appellate court, where they've not issued a decision yet, is this legal question as to whether or not you must have impeachment before Jack Smith can go forward with...
With having a trial.
That was the one that the Supreme Court said, it's going to go through the Court of Appeal first.
That's the one that's going to put the wheels in the space of a fast trial in D.C. Correct.
Then the second thing is what the Colorado State Court did, which is that the Colorado Supreme Court found that Article Section 3 of the 14th Amendment serves as a self-effectuating way of justifying a Secretary of State removing him from the ballot, which Maine signed off on also.
And yeah, that finding is...
It's ludicrous.
Now, that's going to the Supreme Court.
That one we know will go to the Supreme Court.
We don't know for certain that the other issue will ever end up getting before the Supreme Court, although there's good reason to believe that that issue about impeachment being a condition precedent to a criminal indictment will likely end up before the Supreme Court, but we don't know that for certain at this point.
Alright, so...
And then, what else is...
So, you got all the Trump stuff.
I got a lot of Trump stuff.
I got Fanny Willis.
You following what's going on with Fanny Willis?
Oh, dude.
I put out one of the car vlogs yesterday, and the only reason I care about the number, because it means that a lot of people on YouTube are looking...
It got 173,000 views in a day.
And this is breaking down Big Fanny's latest developments there.
It's...
It's fucking wild.
I don't want to upset...
You're not going to upset my Jewish community.
Don't worry.
My kids are engaged.
I don't need to worry about that.
I threw a party when she got engaged that you wouldn't believe.
It's wild.
I'm telling my wife.
She follows it, but she hears me yelling at my phone.
She's like...
It's just amazing.
It's not just that they're degenerates and that they are like...
Oh yeah, you made a video on this.
I saw that.
I saw that video.
They're stupid about all of it.
But her stupid church thing, where she goes into church.
She's like, child, let me tell you.
Lordy, why are they picking on me?
Oh, the journey is hard.
Oh, the journey is hard.
I was going to say, you know, this is part of the thing that is driving divides among racial harmony.
It's when you have...
These prosecutors that are being weaponized by other forces because you have Alvin Bragg, Kim Gardner, Fannie Willis.
Who's the one out of...
There's another one.
Okay, hold on one second.
You've got Georgia, the Rico.
Oh, Leticia James out of New York.
All of whom seem to be Soros-funded directly or indirectly.
So you've got a number of racially dividing stereotypes that are being played into here.
But then when they invoke racism...
When Fannie Willis gets up in front of a church and says that she's being prosecuted, she's being picked on for racism.
I hired three people, two white, one black, and they didn't pick on the two whites.
A, you paid one of the whites who has more Rico experience less than the man you're boning, and we're not picking on him because he's black.
We're picking on him because you're boning him, illegally paying him, and now all this other stuff about the marriage is coming out.
But when people invoke identity politics to claim victimhood when they are clearly the aggressors, That is the most destructive force for racial harmony that you can possibly imagine.
It is.
It is.
And it's so gross.
And the people it hurts most, if it hurts anyone, if anyone, would be the blacks themselves.
Because you're basically, you know, one of the things I couldn't stand is, you know, I can't stand the ADL.
I consider, I call Jonathan Greenblatt Jonathan Goebbels because I think he's such a bad, I think no one, no one in the last 70 years has created as much.
Anti-Semitism as he has.
Because this constant harping, anti-Semitism, anti-Semitism, all the stupid nothing.
Let's take down Twitter because we have the ADLA, politicized, weaponized group, to take down what everybody wants in this world.
And by the way, just so everybody understands, this is, I'm going to say this also.
Soros funding these individuals, these prosecutors, it very much reflects poorly on...
People equate Soros with Judaism, even though...
I don't know if he's a Gino, but I don't...
He definitely...
He hates his Jewishness.
He can't stand it.
He can't stand it.
A kapo.
The dude was literally a kapo.
That's like the opposite of being Jewish.
Basically, he's worse than a Nazi.
You mean the kapo, like what he was assisting the Nazis in collecting stuff?
He's practically ripping out gold fillings from dead Jews.
I could forgive him for what he had to do as a child to survive.
I mean, I could forgive him.
I still ask some moral questions.
13 year old kid you know does know things um but his lack of apology and his almost And I can understand how people draw broader conclusions from the Soros representatives.
China was terrible.
than the vivas of the world.
I look at it as people like you and me are a reminder to Americans as to how culturally diverse Jews are.
You know what I'm saying?
I think that people recognize that there are some...
And it's just the reality of the beast.
In any race or in any gender or in any grouping that you're going to have, you're going to have very disparate type of people.
And it's a reminder to judge people as individuals rather than as a part of their collective.
The problem is...
Human brain is meant to make patterns, and when you see statistical over-representation on something that is the bad side, even if you have the analogous statistical over-representation on the good side, bad is more bad than the good is good, in my view.
So the bad is going to traumatize people.
This is true.
You can't ignore the Adam Schiff's, Harvey Weinstein's, say politically, Schiff, Nadler, Feinstein, Vin Min.
I mean, you can't...
Ignore the over-representation.
Vindman's Jewish?
Dude, Vindman's Jewish.
Some of them you never even knew.
And I say, you can't blame people for drawing broader conclusions, even though you think, I know that it's wrong, but I can't blame them for noticing.
Nor can you deny it.
At the end of the day, it's...
That's it.
It's terrible.
It reflects poorly on all of us.
My father always said, we represent, whether you like it or not, you represent a community.
And when you act badly and you do bad things and you are politically subversive, people aren't going to parse who the good ones are.
They're going to come to bad conclusions.
At the end of the day, for every Mark Zuckerberg, there's Jeff Bezos also.
Do you know?
No, I don't know.
Those are both bad people.
Right.
And that's my point.
Zuckerberg is Jewish and Bezos isn't.
Bezos is Greek.
I think you might have just made a mistake here.
Hold on.
Don't tell me Bezos is Jewish.
Dude, I'm pretty sure Bezos is Jewish.
I'm almost positive he's not.
Dude, Jeff Bezos.
That dude has foreskin.
Tell me, please.
Did you know that Jeff Bezos is Jewish?
I'm going to go to Wikipedia.
Let me just see here.
They always seem to point out the Jew.
Okay, so Jew does not come up in Wikipedia.
Thank you.
Hold on, hold on.
You're just assuming.
You're assuming because...
I've never said it publicly, so I just...
I did just assume.
I should have said Jack Dorsey.
I should have just said Jack Dorsey.
That would have been easier.
Hold on.
The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Jack Dorsey.
Dorsey is a last name.
No, dude.
Hold on.
This is from the Philadelphia...
Dude, I'm not joining.
Let's just go to the archive.
Everybody who doesn't know this trick, now you know it.
You can get around paywalls.
Now I'm going to perpetuate other stereotypes.
Anti-Semitic attacks on Jeff Bezos are a wake-up call.
As a Holocaust survivor who still retains faith in humanity...
Okay, so hold on.
Is he Jewish?
Okay, Myra...
What's going on here?
Bezos...
Oh, crap.
Dude, I think...
I saw a question that said, who knew that Bezos was Jewish?
My reaction is this.
Who knew Bezos was Jewish?
As it turns out, he's not.
Okay.
Wow!
Okay.
Thank goodness I didn't...
You know what?
If he were, he would have been on that list.
If they put me on that Jew list and they didn't put Bezos, if he were, he would have been on it.
Were you on the Jew list?
Oh, yeah, of course.
With my short hair.
I'm growing my hair out so nobody can recognize me.
Oh, lordy.
Okay, so what other fun stuff is going on here?
What was the big news of the day today?
You got the deleting of the evidence.
Big Fanny.
Well, I plan on doing Big Fanny.
I plan tonight on covering.
I livestream every night for two hours, basically.
What time?
From 10 to midnight Eastern time.
Far too late.
Yeah, I know.
I know.
And next week, I'm going to have you on for my 24-hour stream.
Oh, yes.
Tell the world why you're having a 24-hour stream.
I'm having a 24-hour stream because my primary income comes from YouTube.
And the last day before the last check, we get paid.
As you know, we get paid today on the 21st of the month is when we get paid from YouTube.
And that is my primary source of income.
And they basically collate your money from the previous month.
And then they wait three weeks and pay to you on the 21st.
So my daughter's getting married near the very end of February.
And the last check I'm going to get is from earnings.
That I get in January.
So January 31st, the last day of the month, I did this for my son when he was getting married that the last month before he got married, I did a 24-hour stream.
So for my daughter, I'm doing a 24-hour stream to celebrate her wedding.
I'm planning on having tons of guests, doing reviews of different videos.
It's going to be a great time.
And yeah, I'm looking forward to being able to chill with fine folks like Vivo.
Yeah, I'm not doing anything that's after 10 o 'clock or before 8 o 'clock.
You can come whatever time.
You come in the afternoon.
That's 24 hours.
You pick your time.
I'm fine.
There was the other big news of the day, by the way, and anybody who's following the stock noticed, Rumble was up.
What was it up today?
Oh, yeah.
That's right.
It was up Rumble.
Hold on.
Barstool!
Yeah, they announced, but Rumble was up 36% today.
Gosh darn it.
After hours, it's up another...
Viva's portfolio is looking good!
I do not own one share because I never even wanted to be accused of walking a line of pumping up the price of the mile.
I do not own one share of Rumble.
Period.
And now Truth, by the way, was also up 70%, I think?
Hold on.
Oh, wow.
Truth stock.
Is it Truth?
Ah, that's not it.
Truth Social Stock.
I would never talk to Truth Social Stock.
But hold on.
Truth Social Stock.
What is it?
What is the trade?
Oh, no.
Okay, hold on.
It doesn't matter.
So Rumble announced Barstool is now...
I'm not announcing anything that's not public information because Chris Pawlowski was on with Patrick Bet-David and explained it.
They've partnered up and Barstool, David Portnoy, has agreed to a deal which is part shares, equity in the company.
So he believes in it in the long run.
And that's a good sign.
I believe it in the long run as well.
I just do not want to be accused of doing anything to impact the stock price of Rumble.
And then they also announced that their Rumble Studio, which I've tinkered with, I did the test trial and I asked for a number of recommendations to make it better, which they've incorporated, it's going to be available tomorrow to everybody.
And so I'm going to expect me to be doing my streams with Rumble Studio and not StreamYard because it's fully integrated.
You can...
Oh, they're doing something even cooler.
I feel like it's far...
This is what I want to ask you.
I feel like it's far less interactive with the audience.
Meaning, I will get...
A percentage of my audience that's watching that will click like is much higher on YouTube than it is on Rumble.
And you would think that if anything, it would be like Rumble, like, you know, I'm giving a pretty base message.
You would think, and I find that Rumble rants, I, you know, basically, if I had to live off of Rumble rants, which I'll have now at any given time, like my channel is much smaller than yours.
I'm not Viva Frye size, but I'm saying is at any given time, I'll have between 300 and 500 people watching me on Rumble.
And I'll tell you right now.
On YouTube, if I have between 300 and 500 people, and I have 2,000 people on Rumble, I'll likely make much more.
Much, much more in Super Chats than I will in Rumble Rants.
And I blame that on the interface.
I don't blame that on the Rumble people.
I blame it on the interface.
I'm not sure that I do.
I would say go look at Salty Cracker.
It's someone who has an audience that is wildly, wildly engaged and throwing Rumble Rants out the wazoo.
But they are working on it.
But let me just see this.
Now that he mentioned it, we got 5,100 people watching on Rumble, but only 440 thumbs up.
So let's see if the calls to action actually work.
All right.
Hit the thumbs up, people.
I assume that they insert a thumbtack where you have to push your thumb into a thumbtack and have your finger bleeding in order to hit the like button there.
I was teasing my Rumble crew at one point.
I was like, I feel bad for you guys.
I appreciate those of you who are willing to sacrifice and bloody your thumbs in order to hit the like button.
Because it's so hard.
Rumble, they're working on everything.
So they've announced the studio is going to be launched tomorrow to the general public.
And there was something else.
The Rumble Advertising Centre, the RAC, it's an amazing idea.
Chris Pawlowski announced it publicly today.
That they've applied for a patent.
Basically, as far as I understand it, it's for a technology that allows effectively for real-time advertising.
What's the word when everyone tries to outbid each other?
Auction.
Auction.
So it allows effectively for either a real-time advertising auction or real-time advertising.
So you're live on a stream and you got, for whatever reason, another Ottawa Truckers protest.
50,000 people are watching.
And Pepsi, Coke, whomever says, "Holy crap, I want to advertise on this stream right now." And there's going to be a way in real-time to engage in advertising.
On like an ad hoc per stream basis, as far as I understand it, which is an amazing idea.
Because you don't have to, no contracts, no nothing.
Someone sees a popular stream, hey, let's go advertise there.
And it'll be amazing for advertisers, creators, and the platform.
That's what the big news of the day was, which explains Rumble's popping in the markets.
Look, I think that Rumble has a great deal of potential.
A great deal of potential.
And let's face it, everyone thought at one time MySpace was going to be the end-all and be-all, and they got overtaken by Facebook.
And I think that it can only be hurting YouTube the way they operate with censoring everyone all the time.
So that's a niche that Rumble has, which I would love to see them Supplant YouTube as a place that content creators like ourselves would be able to make a living off of there without needing a contract from Rumble directly.
But for anyone to basically start a channel, be successful, be sufficiently entertaining that you can develop an audience and actually develop a livelihood out of it.
And I think at this stage, it still is at a point where you need a contract from Rumble if you're going to have a livelihood out of it.
And I wait for the day.
I wait for the day, and I think I'm actually perfectly positioned.
I have roughly 10,000 followers on Rumble right now.
And I think I'm really positioned to basically see whether that ever evolves and to find when that day evolves for Rumble.
I lost the chat.
Oh, here.
Shilomang says, would love basic things like, I don't know, putting a video upload date on videos.
They have an upload date.
If you go, it's right above the avatar, and it says one day ago, two days ago, and I think it gives the accurate date past that.
But people, not that I want to get inundated with recommendations.
If there's anything, find me on Twitter, reply in a tag, and let me know what it is, and I'll bring it to the attention of Pavlovsky.
All right, dude.
This is amazing.
Well, an hour and a half at what time?
Oh, my gosh.
I don't know where my kids are.
All right.
Well, you need to remedy that.
Do you want to take off?
I'm going to go over to Locals.
Do you want to come over?
Sure.
You offered up an Ask Joe Anything thing.
Yeah, we're going to do that.
I'm happy to oblige.
AJ, so now hold on.
There was one Rumble rant that I didn't get to from...
Try Fenia, who says, you're a cutie, not ugly face.
I think if I were an asshole, I would be ugly.
I think if I were a mean-spirited, nasty person, look at this, look at these bags and this wrinkly, they're like, oh, that stupid kid with his uneven beard and his stupid shirt.
Do you think face or body is more important for a person's appearance?
Well, if I go physiologically, body is more important.
You mean like being healthy or how you're born?
I'm saying looking fit versus having a good face.
Which do you think is more important for someone to be deemed attractive?
Oh, I think a body for two reasons.
Physiologically and ideologically.
If you are...
Physiologically healthy, you're going to have a longer lifespan.
It's going to be a more attractive thing.
And if your healthy body, it does show something of a psychological strength as well.
And those are two very important things that I think impact one's attractiveness.
A good face, first of all, we're all going to get old.
We're all going to get pimples.
You see that pimple right there?
We're all going to get old and wrinkled and our physical beauty is going to fade.
But if your body is healthy, it shows discipline of spirit and longevity of life.
What do you think?
I initially went face, and I think it might depend on whether you're talking men or women.
I think that might be a distinction.
I'm putting it in the chat.
In Rumble, what do you think?
Body or face?
There's an expression, butter face, which comes from what people prioritize.
I'll tell you this.
The most important thing for a human is to smell good.
Yeah.
Yeah, no, that's definitely...
More important than physical beauty, more important than smell good.
Smell bad, and...
Oh, that's a...
Okay.
Yeah.
Okay, so what I'm going to do here, I'm going to give everyone on Rumble.
So tomorrow, I've got someone in the back, someone lined up for an amazing interview, so stay tuned.
Tomorrow is Tuesday.
It's going to be good all week long.
For those who are watching and wondering where Robert is, Barnes is working this week.
He's an actual working attorney, and he might not be able to do the bourbon with Barnes.
I said I'll try to do something exclusive to Locals to make up for it, but Rumble, if you're coming over to Locals, to AJA, Ask Joe Anything, and we'll do an AJMA, Ask Joe or Me Anything.
There you go.
This is the link to Locals.
There's some questions there for you, Joe.
Oh, you know what?
Hold on.
Nah, forget it.
We're going to go over there.
We're going to end this on Rumble.
If you're not coming over, I'll see you all tomorrow.
Nothing but good stuff.
Joe, where can people find you for the Rumble people who might not come over?
Goodlogic.locals.com.
You can also find me on Rumble or YouTube under Good Logic or on Twitter at TheFollowingPro.
All right.
You've got to change that name.
But Goodlogic.locals.com.
L-A-W-G-I-C.
Everyone get your butts over to the locals.
We're going to do a little AJMA right now.
Peace out, peeps.
All right, Joe.
On locals.
All right.
I'm going to go to the tipped.
I'm going to go...
Uh-oh.
Why is it not loading?
Just the tip.
Hold on.
Just a minor...
The tip of the incursion.
View tipped.
I'm going to refresh and I hope I don't lose all of the...
I don't think you do.
You can still click view tipped, I think, even if you refresh.