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Feb. 6, 2025 - Viva & Barnes

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America: Land of Immigrants or Settlers? w/ Wade Stotts! Trump MAGA'ing Hard & MORE!

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	Two weeks ago, I walked out of the D.C. gulag a free man.
	After four years and six days of being held without a trial, I have now been pardoned by President Trump.
	And we want to thank the President sincerely with all of our heart.
	God has used you in a mighty way, and I hope he continues to use you because the fight is not yet over.
	We still have men left behind.
	The DOJ, this weaponized, corrupt institution, the DOJ is making sure that some of my guys, the charges at the FBI...
	I had trumped up and drummed up on them, have still been holding them behind bars.
	Jeremy Brown, 17-year Master Sergeant in the Green Beret, is still behind bars.
	Edward Kelly.
	Former U.S. Marine, father to two young, amazing kids.
	He's still behind bars.
	Dominic Box, Daniel Ball, two patriots still left behind bars.
	The pardon did not cover some of the charges related to and stemming from January 6th.
	So, Mr. President, today we're calling upon you as a community.
	Please let my brothers go immediately.
	Expand the verbiage of the pardon so that it includes all of the weaponized bogus charges stemming from January 6th.
	God bless America.
	For those of you who don't know, that is Jake Lang.
	And that's a video he put up.
	I've been sort of getting not involved, more involved, but just following up on this story.
	And I've been in touch with someone who is particularly on the Dominic Box case.
	And Dominic Box is being held in Florida.
	What I don't understand about it is that some of the people, the Jan Sixers, who are still being detained despite the pardon, are being held on separate charges, some of which are federal, and in which case they...
	get pardoned for the Jan 6 stuff, but not for the incidental stuff that was the fruits of a poison tree, but not directly related to January 6th.
	Dominic Box is a case that I don't understand, even on its face, because it seems that he's being held on potential state charges in federal prison and has not been released or allowed to post bond because it says Dominic Box was awaiting sentencing for the felony civil disorder, remains in the same Kentucky jail as Brown.
	While awaiting for his trial on January 6th, Box was arrested by a deputy who said he found him passed out in his car outside a Jacksonville restaurant.
	So I've been reaching out.
	I have sort of like a one-step-away contact from Senator Rick Scott.
	I'm obviously in Florida, and I'm trying to put this on blast because it doesn't make sense why Dominic Box, even if it's a state charge for DUI or whatever that would be, why he hasn't been released.
	Jeremy Brown, you know the story I had CanCon on Brian Lupa a week and a half ago.
	He's got another federal conviction.
	From stuff related to January 6th or resulting from the events, but not covered by the January 6th pardon.
	So put that on blast if you can.
	The link is here.
	And I just wanted to start off by raising awareness for that.
	Dominic Vox is still in jail.
	His situation I just don't understand, so I'm trying to be vocal, but I don't want to make any statements that are not founded in fact and in law.
	It seems that he hasn't been released despite a pending state charge, which makes no sense.
	Check that out, guys.
	And today, we're going to have back-to-back guests, and we're going to talk about stuff that's been in the news.
	Andrew Branca, Law of Self-Defense, is coming on at 1.15.
	Wade Stott, who you may or may not know, I got a link sent to me.
	It was great analysis of the distinction between America was founded by immigrants versus America was founded by settlers, which is a very interesting discussion that we're going to have in a second.
	Before we get into this, share the link around, everybody.
	Good afternoon.
	Good morning if you're on the West Coast.
	I know that Wade is out west somewhere.
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	All right, now we're bringing in Wade Stott.
	I was going to start off the show with his clip, but I think it's just going to be much more entertaining to discuss it.
	And then after we're done, because I know Wade's got a big interview today.
	It's going to be good.
	I'm going to play a bit of it.
	Wade, I'm bringing you in.
	Three, two, one.
	Sir, how goes the battle?
	So fun.
	We're having a great day.
	That's great.
	Someone think you're Matt Walsh when they first see you.
	Yeah, we guys with beards and glasses, Anglo guys, yeah.
	We all just kind of blend together.
	I totally get that.
	And even the delivery.
	It's great because I'm watching.
	The delivery is also equally as insightful.
	But wait, I think my crowd, we have a bit of an overlapping crowd, but I don't know to what degree.
	I try my best to introduce people, but I don't want to undersell them or misdescribe them.
	Tell the world who you are.
	So I'm Wade, Wade Stotts of The Wade Show with Wade.
	I make weekly videos talking about just what's going on in the news and hopefully trying to bring in some insights from political thinkers of the past and present.
	And so a lot of times what it is is just finding some particular thing that I think needs to be drilled down on and hopefully providing some kind of insightful but also entertaining way of presenting that.
	So like I said, about five minute long videos and try to do a sort of late night kind of format.
	It was, what's the word?
	Informative and funny, which is the best possible combination.
	Look, I don't know how much time we have to delve into childhood and everything, but I just need a bit of an origin story.
	You're doing this full-time.
	What did you do beforehand?
	And where are you?
	I mean, I know we were talking before we went live.
	Yeah, I'm in North Idaho at a company called Canon Press.
	We're a Christian publisher, and we do all sorts of content.
	We've been operating for a long time as a...
	Book publisher.
	And in recent years, we've started doing streaming.
	So we do all sorts of news and entertainment content, all that sort of.
	So we have shows for kids and we make documentaries.
	So we have recently made a...
	Documentary about Joel Salatin.
	So really, all sorts of fun stuff going on up here at Cannon Press.
	Before this, I was in Dallas, Texas.
	I worked at the Crowder Show.
	I was at the Stephen Crowder Show.
	And I was there for a couple of years, 2019, 2020.
	And before that, I was just working odd jobs around Orlando.
	So Orlando, Texas, to northern Idaho, which we've established is in fact the same state as the classic Napoleon Dynamite, but that was southern Idaho, which differs geographically and culturally from northern Idaho?
	Yeah, I assume so.
	I have heard people say that it's sort of a classic here.
	People have ownership of Napoleon Dynamite.
	They say that it's accurate, but also they feel like they're represented in media, which is, from what I hear, very important.
	Well, first of all, what you're doing in terms of the documentaries, we had on Joel Salatin a while back as well.
	I mean, amazing stuff.
	It's tough to find.
	Watchable stuff that's not offensive for children.
	And I'm not trying to be holier than that.
	Just yesterday we watched...
	What was his name?
	Pain. Major Pain.
	We watched Major Pain.
	And I hadn't seen it since I hadn't seen it last.
	I don't mind that type of stuff.
	But for kids, it's tough to find informative stuff that they can actually enjoy watching.
	And it sounds like you're in the same realm as PragerU.
	Angel Productions.
	Is that the one that I'm thinking of?
	Yeah. So we actually have a distribution deal with Angel for that Joel Salatin documentary.
	And so we've worked closely with them in the past and have been able to make stuff for them, hope to do more in the future.
	But yeah, we are trying to give people entertaining content as well as informative documentaries and things like that.
	We hope to get more and more into narrative content.
	Like I said, we've been publishing for a long time.
	So we've got a well of stuff that we've done, kids' books.
	Hello Ninja, that was a show that was on Netflix that was originally published by Canada Press.
	And so we're hoping to do something similar with some other titles that we've done, and hopefully maybe do more production in-house and get that out.
	This was not planned, but I'm going to do a little shameless promotion because it seems right on point.
	Wait, we'll talk afterwards.
	Oh, great.
	It's a short story.
	My real name is David Frye.
	I swear to you, I didn't know.
	I should have known, but I didn't know, and that was not...
	Yeah, I love that.
	Okay, we'll talk after.
	Send it to me.
	Great. So the video clip, I didn't want to play it to steal not the thunder, but to get to the point.
	There's a lot of discussion these days about, you know, America being founded by immigrants as some sort of argument, a fallacious one at that, or a specious, whatever fancy word we want to use.
	And I think, you know, J.D. Vance said it best, like, okay, even if we concede that it's founded by immigrants, it doesn't mean we have to have a stupid policy 250 years later.
	And there's two things that I've grown accustomed to.
	I'm Canadian of origin.
	We've always grown up with the melting pot argument or the melting pot theory.
	And I'd never once stopped to think that it was actually a propaganda twist of reality as opposed to an accurate reflection of it.
	You put out a video and it's an amazing dissection of the distinction between a settler and an immigrant.
	And so flesh it out.
	And I'm going to ping you with more questions as we go, but flesh that out because I think it's massively insightful.
	Well, one of the analogies I use in the video is it's sort of like there's a distinction between the person who founded Apple and the people who work at Apple now.
	So the guy who works at the Apple store doesn't have the same sort of...
	Say about what Apple is, as Steve Jobs does, even after he's dead.
	And so there's got to be a distinction between the people who start something and the people who come and join that thing later.
	And so if anybody started a movement within the Apple Corporation saying that, well, Apple was founded by Apple employees, then you would know at some level that they're trying to at least undermine the vision of it being something that was created by someone for a particular purpose, and probably trying to turn that into their own purposes.
	So, yes, the distinction between settlers and immigrants.
	Settlers are the people who founded America, the people who came to a place and built a society that didn't exist yet.
	The way that Samuel Huntington talks about it in his book, Who Are We?, is that before immigrants could come to America, settlers had to found it.
	So when settlers came...
	There were warring tribes, but it was not one society.
	And it certainly wasn't American society.
	It certainly wasn't something that was built, what it became.
	And so what they brought with them, what these settlers brought with them, was a bunch of assumptions and a bunch of cultural artifacts from Britain.
	So it comes with British cultural values, British religious values.
	And then later on, immigrants come and join that.
	Because they want to be a part of the society that the settlers built.
	And so you have to have, at some level, a distinction between those two groups of people.
	Because if we don't, then we start to think that the person who got here last week has the same say about what America is as does the people who founded Jamestown.
	It is the idea of a settler leaving.
	And the reason for which they left also was either to conquer a new world or to establish a sort of a new form of government as opposed to the one that they were living under, that a settler comes in the city.
	I was trying to look up the stats.
	It seems that the settlers came between 1600 and 1800, where as of 1800 it became known as immigration, so to speak.
	Where was the cultural-political shift in terms of identifying settlers versus immigrants?
	Well, the word immigrant, according to Huntington in his book, again, Who Are We?, was something that was adopted in the United States.
	As it became the United States.
	So it was adopted here to distinguish between the people who were new arrivals from the people who had been here for a long time.
	And it was just a helpful word to have.
	But now, with this phrase, nation of immigrants, it's being used as a way to flatten the exact distinction it was designed to make.
	And so it's a helpful distinction.
	It's a helpful word, obviously.
	I mean, there's a difference between those things.
	But it's important to be able to distinguish that because those people who are coming are obviously...
	They're coming because they want to, because they enjoy the thing that's already been built.
	And they didn't come here, and at least initially, they came into a place that had an established culture, had values, had goals, and wanted to be a part of that.
	So there was this clear American mainstream into which the immigrants were able to assimilate.
	And so we don't look askance at the concept of immigration.
	But being able to distinguish between those helps us recognize what those people are wanting to be a part of, that there is a certain thing that we're doing here.
	In the book, Huntington uses the analogy to the melting pot.
	He says it's less like just a pot that you can throw anything into as it is a pot of tomato soup.
	So here we are.
	We're making a particular dish, and that dish is something that can be enhanced.
	There are things you can add to a tomato soup that can make it better.
	You can add cream.
	You can add, you know...
	Croutons, all that sort of stuff.
	But there are certain things that don't go along with that.
	There are certain things that you could try to put in a tomato soup that wouldn't fit in the same way.
	And so it's good and important to acknowledge, hey, we're making tomato soup here.
	We're not at a frozen yogurt bar putting gummy bears in.
	And so having a distinction helps us to recognize that America is a particular thing and a thing that people can join.
	That's part of the DNA of what America is.
	But it is something.
	It's not up for grabs.
	American identity is not something that just becomes an amalgam of whatever people decide.
	At one point, I was just trying to remember how exactly I phrased it, because I phrased a tweet a while back in a way that I wish I could rephrase, where I said that the difference between a melting pot and a powder keg is a matter of degrees.
	But someone said, no, it's not a matter of degrees, it's a matter of ingredients.
	And I said, yeah, you're right, because you could heat up something and maybe burn it.
	But you can't heat up something that's not necessarily explosive to make it explosive.
	I never appreciated that at some point, and I appreciate it now in retrospect, the concept of a melting pot just basically turned it into a toilet.
	Like, okay, except everyone and everything, and there's no threshold, there's no criteria, there's no what you're pledging allegiance to, and that's how you sort of ended up with everybody has equal right.
	to enter and remain in a foreign country even if they don't expose the underlying values and culture of that country.
	Yeah, and you've got to also recognize it's not just an amount, it's not just a numbers question.
	So a lot of discussion has been had about the 1960s change in immigration laws in America.
	A lot of that was turned up, but it was also an open call to anybody on the planet for whatever reason.
	So a lot of that change was, yes, in terms of numbers, but also in terms of where these people are coming from, what their assumptions they're bringing into America are.
	And a lot of the melting pot stuff is something that developed, again, in the early part of the last century.
	And same with this idea of a nation of immigrants.
	And so you've got to recognize that it's not the way that the founders thought of themselves.
	It's not the way that everybody who defined America thought of themselves.
	And one other analogy that I use in the video is it's like the difference between starting a band and then joining a band.
	So the Beatles had to find a new drummer, and so they brought on Ringo, right?
	Great fit.
	I'm a Beatles fan, so I guess, you know.
	A lot of people don't like Ringo for some reason.
	Look, I've liked the Beatles.
	I think I appreciate that people think that they're the most overrated band ever.
	They're good.
	I was watching a documentary on Oasis the other day, and I didn't realize that they had to bring in drummer after drummer as well to deal with their drug issues and temperamental problems.
	But yeah, you bring in something to an existing infrastructure.
	It's one thing.
	When I look at it from the outside, or at least Canadian now temporarily living in America, and I'm honest, I'm aspiring.
	I think I have something of an American spirit.
	And I've always said, coming from Quebec, people are like, I don't want to speak French.
	It's a terrible province that you have to speak French or predominantly French.
	If you don't like it, don't come.
	If you don't like it, leave.
	And there's nothing wrong with saying that.
	That's within the rights of the province or the country to establish its...
	Rules its laws.
	And if you don't like them, you don't come into the company and then demand changes right off the bat.
	If you don't like the company, don't join it.
	Don't get employed there.
	When did the shift happen in America?
	Well, it happened, I think, within the last century.
	So it happened within the 20th century.
	A lot of the undermining of this American identity happened as a result of America trying to figure out its identity.
	There was certainly a time, and Huntington goes into more detail in his book about this stuff, but There was a time right after the war where at a certain point, most of the way people talked about World War II was every World War II movie had a representative of every ethnic group because that's the way the military was.
	And so historically, the military has been a place where a lot of ethnic animosity didn't happen because these guys had a project and they were all on the same page as to what they were doing.
	They knew the flag.
	And that kind of, you could call it a sentimental attachment to a flag or a banner or a homeland or a leader or anything like that.
	You can call these things sentimental attachments, but it does a lot to alleviate a lot of natural ethnic tension.
	And so that's the kind of thing that has to be on purpose broken up.
	And it has to be done that way because...
	People don't like American identity.
	People can start to think that American identity is a bad thing.
	The people who came here were doing a bad thing by coming here.
	And that's not something that arises naturally from the people.
	It's not like one day everybody woke up and thought, what if this whole thing is a big mistake?
	What that has to happen, how that comes down, it comes from, sadly, government.
	It comes from educational institutions.
	Really, and the way you were talking about USAID, you're going to be talking about that later.
	I think that a lot of that has to do with the way that the government and the way that the educational institutions work together, the press to try to divide people, to try to make sure that no coalescence happens.
	And there's enough within the differences between people.
	There is enough of a rub naturally.
	And so you can either try to alleviate that or you can try to encourage assimilation.
	You can try to encourage welcoming growth incorporation into America.
	Or you can vary.
	It's much, much easier.
	I'm going to bring it up, but if it's controversial, I just want to use it as a segue into the question.
	White immigrants are what made this country great.
	Since 1965 Hart-Celler Immigration Act, we're only bringing in non-white immigrants.
	Now this country looks like a third world.
	The reason I bring that chat up, which might be offensive to some, Go suck a lemon if your skin is that thin.
	It was the argument I used with J.D. Vance and whoever was interviewing him.
	It was like, alright, let's just operate on the basis that you'll call settlers immigrants and you say, okay, it was founded by immigrants.
	It was founded by European immigrants with Judeo-Christian values who wanted a country different than or obviously fought for a country that was different than the England from which they came or the Germany or the Ireland or whatever.
	The sub-breaking down or the erasing of the distinction when you say, I want to treat immigrants like all one block, where this country was not founded by South Sudanese immigrants.
	It was founded by European immigrants with a vision, a quest, and a goal, and a culture.
	And then there's only so much...
	And it's not that you can't incorporate other races.
	It's an ideology that transcends skin color.
	But if you don't accept the, we're not subjects to a king.
	If you don't accept fundamental rules of Judeo-Christian values, it's not going to be a fit.
	It's not a big problem.
	Just go to another country that does.
	I don't know enough of the history of that act, but it seems to me there has been an overt shift where people looking to South Africa saying, why aren't they bringing in refugees of the white farmers from South Africa?
	They're only bringing in from Syria.
	I don't know why.
	China, South America.
	There has been a shift in the demographic of so-called immigrants that...
	Absolutely. And you have to be able to acknowledge that there's a difference between the amount of hurdles somebody would have to come over if they're coming from a place that isn't European and isn't Christian and has no concept of those sort of things.
	It makes sense.
	It's not an offensive thing to recognize that there is more of an adjustment to be made from people who have no background, nothing in common with any kind of Christian culture, any kind of...
	You know, I mentioned earlier, British traditions of law and justice.
	These are things that are just assumed and are part of the water we swim in.
	And we may not be able to enunciate what makes that great.
	We may be able to say, oh, America is, you know, it's Fourth of July and fireworks and that kind of thing.
	But there's...
	Those are all symbols of a kind of unity that we do have, and part of that has to be the DNA of the British.
	Have you ever, you may have seen this clip of Antonin Scalia, Justice Antonin Scalia, after he went to Britain for the first time.
	So Antonin Scalia, this Italian-American guy, grew up his whole life here, Justice on the Supreme Court.
	He looks like he's a big Italian guy.
	He looks like he could be on Goodfellas, right?
	So he's this obviously very Italian guy.
	And grew up in America.
	He goes to visit Britain for the first time, and he says, I felt home.
	The first time in his life, he's an adult man who grew up his whole life here, so he recognizes that America is a British place, and that's not an insult to Italy, where he's from.
	He felt home in Britain in a way that he didn't feel even visiting Italy.
	I'll make the politically incorrect joke that I bet if he went back now, he might not feel so home.
	I'm white.
	I'm Jewish by birth.
	I won't go to England.
	Actually, people think, oh, because of the Muslim party.
	It's not even that.
	I won't go to a country now that locks people up for words.
	So I won't go because of the European institutions.
	The fact that there's pretty serious crime on the streets is also a very big deterrent.
	I wonder if Scalia went back now and he would say, holy crab apples, I don't recognize this anymore.
	It's a great point.
	When I think about the relative newness of America, and similarly with Canada, most of the buildings that you look at are not...
	Older than a couple hundred years.
	If you see a building that is 200 years old, that's a historical site.
	And that's something, there's probably a plaque there.
	Whereas if you go over there, again, I haven't been there, but I have a lot of friends who say you have to go.
	I talked to Calvin Robinson.
	I talked to my friends at the Lotus Eaters.
	They're all great guys who go, you have to go to these places because you just immediately walk past buildings that are a thousand years old.
	And churches and buildings that are That have this majesty to them.
	And I, as a person who loves America and loves the history here, and I am amazed when I see a building that's 200 years old or some historical site.
	I grew up in Arkansas, so I've, like, you know, Johnny Cash's childhood home is amazing to me.
	When you say you've never been to England or to Europe in general?
	I've never been to England.
	I don't think I've been anywhere in Europe.
	I've had a stay in Belgium one time for one day.
	But, yeah, I haven't really been to Europe.
	Most of the things that I've seen that are old are things that are a couple hundred years old.
	When I see the tragedy of what's been lost there, I resonate with that.
	I can't even imagine the sense of loss that a British person might see when they're standing next to a building that's a thousand years old and there's this culture, this society, they feel dissolving.
	It's a wound and it's a hurt that I don't think an American...
	Obviously, I can feel at some level and resonate with, but yeah, it's tragic what's going on there.
	I lived in Paris for one year in 1999 to 2000, and then I went back again for a marathon in 2015.
	When I went back in 2015, I said, I'm also never coming back here.
	There was tension and issues in 1999 that have only gotten exponentially worse, but it's true.
	My apartment, which was a...
	15-square-meter hole in the wall.
	The bed folded out.
	You couldn't open the fridge door when the bed was out.
	The building was several hundred years old.
	In Montreal, we've got a few places that are some 350-year-old buildings because it was founded in 16 and change.
	It is true.
	It's architecture in Europe, but I place as much of a value of the beauty of the history and culture of the architecture in Europe.
	I place an even greater one on the culture of America, which I now totally understand.
	Coming from Canada, Americans were always depicted as brash, crass, you know, I want to say not ill-informed, but everyone had their stereotypes.
	The American culture is one that is wildly different than the Canadian culture, even.
	And it's a thing of beauty.
	And to see it go from what was fundamental values of law, order, and ethics and philosophy to things that are fundamentally incompatible.
	Like, you can't reconcile.
	Just to take the most obvious example, religious law, and I won't even pick on any one religion, you can't reconcile some religious law with American values, period.
	Whether it's having to go to separate courts to get a religious divorce in Judaism, you can't reconcile these things.
	And to see it not being diluted down, but just being totally erased and vilified, that's the thing that is the most amazing thing.
	To vilify the origins of what made America great, it's going to turn America into the rest of the world, which is from where the people are coming.
	That was a wild rant.
	Well, that's all right.
	Like I said, I love America, and I love these.
	In a similar way, my heart breaks when these monuments were going down.
	Like I said, I grew up in the South, so I have an affection for the South.
	I have an affection for the Confederacy.
	Shoot me.
	But I love that.
	Seeing those things being torn down is a real tragedy.
	And I think that if we're going to have a revival of a good sense of American identity, it has to come from loving our history, and it can't coexist with any kind of force that would cause us to hate the kind of people who founded the country.
	And a lot of times, tearing down those statues were sort of tearing down...
	It's not necessarily just about this particular figure.
	It's not Robert E. Lee or Abraham Lincoln or Thomas Jefferson.
	It's not these people.
	It's trying to tear down their current political enemies.
	I think that if we're going to have any kind of revival of American identity, it has to start with history.
	And it has to exist in a place where we recognize what we are and that it's not a free-for-all.
	It's not whoever ends up with their hand on top of the baseball bat gets to decide.
	It really is.
	It's something particular that I love and I think that needs to be preserved.
	And I think it can be.
	I'm really heartened by the work that Trump's doing.
	And I know that I'm excited to see what's going to get melted down, what statues are going to get melted down, and what's going to be rebuilt.
	I brought up the one that says Marxism has to destroy the past.
	Every conquering force has to destroy the past.
	It's why they build structures over old structures.
	It's why they destroy monuments.
	Look, I'll tell you, I've never seen as much of a revival of American greatness in what it truly was historically that I've seen in the last, let's say, last year with the election, but certainly in the last two months.
	How psyched are you with the way America is heading as of?
	January. What was it?
	Transfer power.
	January 21st.
	As of the last three weeks.
	Just a couple of weeks.
	Yeah. Yeah.
	It's wild.
	And I love that.
	It's a huge pivot and it makes me optimistic.
	I saw JD Vance said something recently that like, get used to this pace.
	Get used to this pace of winning, and it's like, you know what?
	I think I could.
	I think I could get used to this pace.
	At some point, there's going to be no more points to score, but it's like knocking down pins, and then eventually there's fewer pins standing up, but it's going to have to slow down.
	It's just impossible to keep up with.
	Yeah, oh, and I can't imagine being on the other side.
	It's hard for me to keep up with, and I like it.
	But I'm sure Libs are just terrified to open their news apps in the morning.
	But yeah, I really hope that we can...
	Rebuild statues.
	If all of this stuff is any indication of what the next four years look like, I think the country might be set on a different track by the time this four years is over.
	What is amazing, it's the fear of anticipation that's actually worse than the event itself.
	And I'm saying this from the left's perspective.
	Like, he's going to be deporting all of the immigrants.
	Look, the reality is he's deported.
	I'm not sure how I feel about the violent criminals going to Gitmo, but I appreciate the dilemma if the countries don't want to take him back.
	But they wake up and, okay.
	He's already doing it.
	A, Obama doing it.
	Deporter-in-chief.
	It's not the end of the world, except if you happen to be one of the illegal, in this case, criminals who are being deported.
	But it's the fear, it's the fear-mongering, and then the event starts happening, and then both sides realize, well, this isn't the end of the world, so let's do the fear-mongering for something else.
	I got a question off-topic for you, but I got a few.
	Do you have a few more minutes?
	Please, yeah.
	Go ahead.
	Okay, let me see.
	I got Encryptus in our community, who's the one that we were doing our soundcheck before we went live.
	Question for Wade, entirely off topic.
	As a fan, a previously regular viewer of Crowder, I used to watch all the time Wade was part of the production.
	It was great.
	My questions, there's three of them.
	I don't want to...
	Do you mind getting...
	I did not know this is where it was going.
	Why did you leave the show?
	Okay, because I'm not looking for gossip and soundbites, period.
	No worries.
	Why did you leave the show?
	Are there any rumors of the poor working environment true?
	Are the restrictive NDAs for former employees true?
	If so, he may not be able to answer the previous two.
	I was on the fence about that.
	Oh, it's all good.
	Okay, sorry.
	Oh, no worries.
	I moved up to Idaho.
	That was why.
	I just got an opportunity here at Cannon Press.
	I've been admiring what's been going on here for a long time.
	It became a sort of dream for me to keep being able to build something that I thought...
	Again, this publishing company has been around since the 80s, so 40 years of high-quality output.
	So it was great to be able to be a part of it.
	Just found another opportunity.
	And as far as rumors and things like that.
	Yeah, Northern Idaho, yeah.
	It is geographically magnificent, so I didn't mean to cut you off.
	Oh, gorgeous.
	Oh, no, it's gorgeous up here.
	Yeah, the rumors and things like that, I don't really get into stuff like that, but I loved my time there.
	I was there from 2019 to 2020, which is just a wild time to be involved in the news.
	We were in April, I think we did two shows a day, so like hour and a half both, so like three hours of content per day, and it was a wild time, and I had a great time, so I don't regret my time there at all.
	I love those guys.
	I've still got friends who were there longer than I was.
	Yeah, good folks.
	Stephen was a friend for a couple of years.
	And we're going to say, Theo Frasin says, oh sure, I remember my great-grandfather getting a hotel room, free medical care and welfare, just like he did, and demand more.
	What blows my mind is the betrayal of citizens.
	It was a conspiracy theory of the New World Order.
	You know, the globalist thing was a conspiracy theory.
	And yet now you see that the governments of nations are prioritizing the interests of non-citizens over citizens.
	And nationalism, in that sense, has been turned into the same four-letter word of Nazi, whereas it's just responsible parenting.
	And I don't like calling the government a parent, but they're analogous in a way.
	You don't have more kids until you can take care of the kids that you have.
	You don't neglect the kids that you have to bring in more kids, period.
	So it's just a betrayal of the people.
	And if I may ask, I always do, how old are you?
	I'm 32. Young man.
	Do you have a family yet?
	Yeah, I've got four kids.
	Our fifth is due in the summer.
	Shut up!
	Are there twins in there?
	No, no.
	They came every two years.
	So we've been married for 10 years.
	So you appreciate the analogy, and I imagine, like, it's, well, also the lifestyle for family and kids up there has got to be exponentially better.
	Let's just say, of the last three weeks since Trump has taken office, what's the biggest, most smashing-est W as far as you're concerned?
	It's so hard to pick, man.
	And that's a great place for me to be, honestly.
	But just, I mean, there's a lot of the symbolic stuff, which I love, but...
	Really, it's the general direction.
	I wish I could pick one.
	But I think the spirit of it and just recognizing that these guys are prepared in a way that they weren't before.
	So this is not, we are not in 2016 anymore.
	We're not underprepared.
	We've had four years.
	It's the kind of thing, I mean, I hate that Trump left the White House in 2020, but I love that we've had four years to plan.
	We've got good people doing good work across the board.
	Well, it is like you never know what chapter of the book you're in because you don't know how long the book is going to be.
	And when people thought it was the end and the black pill of 2020, had Trump gotten reelected in 2020, he might have been less effective than what he is right now in the first three weeks.
	And who knows what we might have right now.
	It's like setting aside the survival by the grace of God of that bullet on the 13th.
	It is for the better that he lost in 2020.
	And what he's exposing now is going to clarify.
	How and why he lost in 2020.
	And I'll put lost in quotes.
	He knows why he won.
	And I think that's the big deal.
	It's not a guy who got the power and then decided just to sit on it because he's happy.
	And those four years show that he wasn't doing this for convenience's sake.
	The fact that he kept fighting even after he was nearly assassinated.
	All of this stuff...
	It shows that, okay, he really was telling the truth about this.
	He's not doing this because he just wants to be on TV all the time, which is what everybody said in the previous administration.
	People thought, oh, he didn't really want to be president.
	He just wanted to be on TV.
	It's like, no, I think he actually likes America.
	I think he actually wants it to be great again.
	And that's a good feeling to have, being an American.
	It's amazing because when you piece through his statements over the years, it was clear he always had it.
	It was also like, you don't ruin, not to say that he ruined his good life.
	He certainly could be enjoying things from a superficial level more than he is right now.
	But from a spiritual level, I can't imagine how much better a human can feel.
	But it was always in him.
	And it was forced out of him.
	And for the better of America.
	Oh yeah, I was talking to a guy recently in South Africa about a lot of the troubles that they're having there.
	And he quoted this Afrikaans writer.
	And the quote was, it's better to fight the whole world than to fight your own conscience.
	And I love that insight.
	And it seems like Trump has picked that.
	It seems like he couldn't live with not doing this.
	He couldn't live in a place where he had just given up or had just, well, I did my time.
	I tried to make America great again, but they got me.
	This seems like at least a movement that is much more committed, being okay with fighting the whole world with a huge thumb on the scale and everything.
	Rather than abandon principle and abandon the country that we love.
	Your friend in South Africa, it's funny, the topic has now come up day after day from yesterday.
	I did a podcast with the Unusual Suspects, and one of the panelists was talking about what's going on in South Africa.
	How familiar are you with the farmers being murdered out there?
	Somewhat, yeah.
	Just through rumors and my friends and stories, yeah.
	Yeah, that's it.
	I talked about it, and people say, like, oh, it's not a genocide because the number's wildly exaggerated.
	Nobody can really keep track of the number, but there's...
	No, what's going on in South Africa is atrocious on its own, but also, up in Canada, when they were denying asylum claims from white farmers out in South Africa, at least under the Trudeau regime, and then you realize, like, this whole melting pot...
	Open borders immigration for the benefit of asylum seekers.
	It does seem to be designed to destroy the fabric of what that country was.
	And then when you have Justin Trudeau saying there's really no such thing as a core Canadian identity, whether or not he believes that and whether or not it's less true of America, there is a key core American identity.
	It's not religion or race-based.
	It's cultural, ideological, but it's real.
	And if you don't espouse it, what ends up happening is what we sort of saw happen over the last four years.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	And you can see on the South Africa point, I was talking to him and he said that the ruling party in South Africa openly celebrates Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe and the terrible things that happened there.
	So they're not secret about what they love and what they want and that they see their job as...
	Flattening a lot of the success that they've seen out there.
	It is a tragic thing.
	And South Africa has different sorts of problems than America does.
	I think that America does have more of a core identity than does South Africa.
	It seems like South Africa is a bunch of groups who have different languages.
	It's a strange amalgam of people.
	One state that is the size of Europe, which is very difficult to put under one umbrella.
	But yeah, America is something that I think has solidified in a certain way, is founded in a particular way, and does deserve to be treated as a thing.
	Incredible. What are you working on these days?
	I'm working on more Wade shows.
	I do have the Wade show that comes out on YouTube, and I have the podcast, the Wadecast, which is on our streaming service, which is called Canon Plus.
	I do that weekly as well.
	Canon Plus.
	C-A-N-O-N.
	C-A-N-O-N.
	P-L-U-S?
	That's right.
	CanonPlus.com.
	We have lots of fun stuff planned.
	We just finished up doing a nature documentary that just got released called The Ride of the Dance.
	Is that a...
	Oh, what's the name of that?
	Is that a capybara?
	So it's in Tasmania.
	It's hard for me to see from here.
	But yeah, that's Dr. Gordon Wilson.
	It's a big rat.
	Yeah, oh yeah.
	But we just released four episodes of a nature documentary series that's been in the works and the series itself has been going for about 10 years at this point.
	But yeah, that's our content.
	There's our public school rehab.
	Yeah, we love it.
	I love it.
	The packaging is beautiful.
	Actually, it's beautiful.
	Well, thank you.
	Canon Plus with one N. That's right.
	What's the origin of the name?
	So, Canon meaning like the group of texts, you know, so like the Western Canon, we love that.
	And we also, yeah, it's trying to, we do Canon classics and we promote a lot of stuff that's been around for a thousand years.
	All that kind of stuff.
	But also putting out new stuff that we hope fits alongside those things on the shelf.
	Okay. I got a tipped question in our locals community who says, Viva, what about the families who transplanted themselves from another country like Canada and want to become American citizens?
	Are they able to maintain the dual citizenship?
	Trump is considering citizenship by jus sui, place of birthright only, and denying jus sanguine.
	Citizenship by parental lines, not place of birth.
	Any update on this?
	Well, we know he's trying to end the birthright citizenship.
	What about Canadians who come?
	If they have an American spirit, you must welcome those Canadians with open arms.
	I'm not talking about anybody in particular.
	No, no, no, yeah.
	Wade, and you're on Wade Stott, S-T-O-T-T, at Wade Stott on Twitter?
	Wade Stott, S-T-O-T-T-S, yeah.
	Sorry, Wade Stott, S-T-O-T-T-S.
	All right, in the pinned comment afterwards anyhow, but Wade, let's do this again sometime.
	Absolutely. Loved it, Viva.
	Great to meet you.
	Good to meet you.
	All right, peace.
	All right, and now we got Andrew Branca in the backyard, in the backyard, in the backstage.
	My dog's in the backyard.
	If you don't know who Andrew Branca is, you're going to know him in a second.
	Let me just make sure.
	I've got my links set up.
	That was Wade Stotts, S-T-O-T-T-S.
	I think a lot of you already, we overlapped, or at least I should say he overlapped me because I definitely came into the scene later on.
	And I'll put up all those links afterwards, canonplus.com.
	Now we're going to have attorney.
	Law of self-defense.
	Andrew Bronco, who...
	I don't think we've been...
	We do the Friday thing with Eric Hundley.
	Let me bring him in here.
	Andrew, you ready?
	Bada bing, bada boom.
	Sir, how goes the battle?
	I'm living large, man.
	These are good days to be alive.
	Can you...
	We sort of touched on the USAID stuff.
	Andrew, it's like every day.
	You say, am I going to have something to talk about?
	Am I going to be able to talk about this stuff?
	Because so much stuff is bloody happening.
	I know everybody knows who you are, but just in case, who are you?
	Sure. Attorney Andrew Branca, Law of Self-Defense.
	Oops, got some sticky notes stuck to my book there.
	Check us out at lawofselfdefense.com.
	I do use a force law, so self-defense law.
	When is it lawful for you to use force in defense of yourself, your family, your property, that kind of stuff?
	But the last couple weeks, I mean, since the inauguration, more than half my content has just been covering Trump stuff.
	I mean, it's a constant Niagara Falls.
	And of course, it's intentional.
	He's doing this intentionally.
	One of the most enjoyable things I see is the progressive woke DEI crowd is perpetually 48 hours behind the news curve.
	I mean, they're always talking about things that everyone's already forgotten about because now we're on to the new thing.
	But what's amazing is it's not a question of chasing clicks, period.
	It's that if you don't, people need to know.
	Your audience, if you do a legal breakdown of whatever, your audience will get pissed at you because, okay, it's nice, but everybody needs to know what is the latest breaking of the USAID?
	What's the latest from the confirmation hearings?
	It's a loyalty to your audience that everybody wants to hear this, and they want to hear every respective interpretation of what's going on.
	I consider this self-defense of the nation, what's happening right now.
	It's astonishing.
	It's unbelievable how within three weeks, it's almost as though people are still going to have lingering trauma.
	It's like Joe Biden never existed.
	It's like we've already forgotten about the whole Kamala Harris failed campaign.
	I was listening to, Rogan was talking with, oh, I don't know the guy's name, but he does ancient history stuff.
	And then they talked about...
	The campaign and how Kamala Harris didn't do the podcast.
	I was like, oh my goodness, that was, what, three months ago?
	And I totally forgot about it.
	I'll ask you the same question I asked Wade.
	Thus far, what's your favorite thing that Trump has done?
	Oh my God, it's almost impossible to count.
	I heard while I was waiting, you guys talking about 14th Amendment, birthright citizenship.
	That was absolutely huge.
	That's desperately needed.
	By the way, he's not changing the law.
	The 14th Amendment, if you actually read what the writers, the authors and ratifiers of the 14th Amendment intended under the sovereignty of the United States to mean in that clause, it's people who only have exclusive sovereignty to the United States.
	Nobody who has a citizenship obligation to any other state.
	That's why the Native Americans were not covered by the 14th Amendment, because they had a So this notion that...
	Just anyone can come to America and pop out a baby and that baby is automatically an American citizen.
	That's never been the case.
	We've just been pretending that was the case for many decades because as long as the illegal immigration problem was perceived as modest and we believed that the people were coming here for a better life and to work hard and to integrate into American society, we really didn't care very much.
	But now we've got, who knows, I suspect it's something like 100 million illegal migrants in the country all living on welfare, all...
	Competing with American citizens for housing, for education, for job opportunities, for healthcare, for police services, everything.
	And now people have had it.
	We want a clarification on this.
	Well, actually, and flesh it out, because you'll be the opposing view.
	Robert Barnes, we're going to try to get John Eastman and have a debate about it.
	Barnes thinks that, as much as he understands the argument, and I think he steel-manned it well, it's going to get struck down.
	It's that catchy, or not catchy, it's that peculiar term, subject to the jurisdiction thereof.
	So, Andrew, you agree with the lawfulness or the interpretation that Trump is giving to ending birthright citizenship?
	Present that argument when it says, it's not just a question of being born here, because if it were, they could have just said that, subject to the jurisdiction thereof.
	So what's your understanding as to why this will be a lawful ban?
	Well, of course, I don't know what the courts will rule.
	The courts make crazy rulings all the time.
	But just from a legal analysis perspective, if you look at what the...
	Because the meaning of the amendment is what the ratifiers intended it to mean, right?
	That's what's controlling there.
	Otherwise, no part of the Constitution would have any meaning.
	And when you look at what they wrote, they wrote things like...
	Let's see.
	While you bring that up, someone just put up a chat here and said, if some lady has a baby in my house, that baby is mine.
	Exactly right.
	There's a difference in the analogy, but go ahead.
	So here's one of the senators during the debate for ratification of the 14th Amendment.
	He wrote, I concur that the word jurisdiction as here employed, meaning that clause in the 14th Amendment, ought to be construed as to imply a full and complete jurisdiction on the part of the United States.
	Exclusive. Completely within our jurisdiction.
	They explicitly excluded people who had nationality obligations to some other sovereign state.
	Again, and you have to keep in mind the context of why this was being passed.
	It was because we had a bunch of freed slaves who absent this would be stateless because they had no nationality, no citizenry anywhere.
	And that's the problem we were trying to address.
	But even our own Native Americans were not covered.
	It took a statute in Congress decades later before Native Americans born on American soil were considered American citizens.
	At the time of the ratification of the 14th Amendment, they were not, even though obviously they were being born on U.S. soil, but they were not exclusively sovereign to the United States.
	But now if I'm asking that question, how it's been interpreted over the years, and the question is, it's just...
	The question had never come up as to whether or not a child born of foreigners is an American citizen under the Constitution.
	Well, it's never been contested is the problem.
	So we've just, as a matter of practice, we've been pretending that anyone born on American soil is a citizen, and everyone's been going along with that.
	But that's not what the law is.
	And the only Supreme Court jurisprudence we have on this is the Wong Kim Ark case from 120 years ago, whenever that was.
	But even that, even that applied, and I think that's bad law because, you know, when a Supreme Court decision explicitly disagrees with the Constitution, it's not the Constitution that's wrong.
	It's the Supreme Court decision that's wrong.
	But even that case applied to the party before them.
	The party before them was the offspring of permanent legal residents within the U.S. So even if you believe 1K Mark is good law, and I don't think it is, I think it's subject to reversal, the same court.
	That did that was also the court that passed the Plessy v.
	Ferguson, which was separate but equal based on racial lines, which is, of course, an infamous case in American law that was later overturned.
	But even if you believe Wong Kim Ark is good law, it only applies to the offspring of permanent resident aliens.
	At least they've made a permanent departure from their home nation, whatever it might have been, and have made America their permanent domicile.
	That doesn't apply to temporary aliens who, by definition, Are obligated to leave once their visa is up or their work visa is up or their student visa up.
	And it certainly doesn't apply to invaders, people who are here illegally and have made...
	There's no meeting on the minds, right, between the invader wanting citizenship and the United States granting citizenship.
	There's no contractual relationship there.
	Now, I'll only relay what Barnes' retort was to that senator who presented those arguments, and he said in the broader context, there was broader context that sort of attenuated what many people rely on in terms of the statement from that senator, because I've seen that before.
	But again, I'm not in a position now.
	I can only log in.
	It's eight pages of congressional record, and it's consistent throughout.
	Nobody made a counter-argument in that eight pages of congressional debate.
	The point that you make, which is a good one, is that some people are here on...
	Not even student visas, but vacation visas.
	And you go somewhere and have a baby in another country on a vacation visa, you might not be letting pregnant women travel anymore.
	But the even more compelling argument is you're going to say these are not even tourists or vacation visas.
	These are illegal immigrants who have crossed the border illegally, although they're going to say they're asylum seekers and asylum seekers intend to be subject to the jurisdiction thereof.
	But it would never have been intended to cover the children of I mean, just imagine if a foreign army invaded America, right?
	Like a Chinese army invades California, and then they start having kids.
	Are those kids American citizens?
	I mean, that would be crazy.
	So that's a compelling argument to analogize the illegal immigrant status or situation to an invading army.
	And I think you might actually have the sympathy or at least the agreement of a lot of people.
	Okay, very interesting.
	We'll see where, I mean, I agree with you.
	I'm not asking for how it's going to come out by way of the Supreme Court.
	Yeah, I mean, you may just say, listen, we've been doing this by practice for, if we did it my way, there's a lot of people who think they're American citizens right now who are not, by my reading of the 14th Amendment.
	So the Supreme Court may take a more practical view and just say, well, you know, sure, that's what the law says, but we're just not going to do that because it would throw a wrench into too many people's lives.
	I don't know.
	But that's a public policy decision by the court, then.
	It's not a legal analysis.
	The chat that I just brought up, what other countries recognize the soil of birth?
	You know, the UK used to.
	They got rid of it about 1981, I think.
	They did away with birthright citizenship.
	So actually, the trend in international laws, do away with it, not to adopt it.
	Well, yeah, they went away from birthright citizenship, and then they just went into...
	Just wholesale facilitating the invasion.
	Okay, so it's interesting.
	But I've lived through now a lot of things where I never thought Roe v.
	Wade would get overturned.
	I remember 20 years ago, it being the biggest fear-mongering conspiracy theory, and then you live through it.
	So, yeah, there's been a bunch of Supreme Court decisions.
	I mean, I know the Holy Trilogy.
	You got Buck, you got Korematsu, and you got Jacobson, which are the three bad decisions, which I think have yet to have been.
	Formally overturned, or at least people still invoke them.
	And of course, in the gun space, we have the Bruin decision, most recently in the Second Amendment.
	Which states are simply not following.
	Well, there's open rebellion against it, right?
	If you follow Bruin, every modern gun control law is unconstitutional.
	I mean, none of the modern gun control laws have any history or tradition at the time of the ratification of the Second Amendment.
	There were no...
	There were no concealed carry permits, and there was no limitations on what kind of firearm you could.
	People could own cannons.
	I mean, there was nothing.
	So all these modern gun control laws are facially unconstitutional under Bruin, but society is just like an open rebellion.
	They wave their hands, these are not the gun control laws you are looking for, and just pretend it doesn't apply.
	And the Supreme Court's letting that happen.
	Yeah, well, they've let...
	In the January 6th case, they've let...
	The insurrection disqualification of Cooey Griffin's stand, despite the fact that their subsequent ruling outright seemingly reversed his disqualification in the first place.
	But you're following the Dexter Taylor case out of New York?
	He constructed his own firearm, they call it a ghost arm, sentenced to 10 years in a state prison for felony gun possession because he didn't register the gun that he assembled through.
	And you had that judge in that case, her name was Judge Darke, say...
	Don't bring in the Second Amendment.
	The Second Amendment does not exist in this court.
	And I don't understand how that happens, where the Constitution is the law of the land when they want it to be, and then it's an annoying footnote on a piece of paper when they don't.
	Yeah, it's 10 years.
	We've been going back and forth, and I'm trying to raise awareness.
	I don't know what the solution is, because it's a state conviction, and a pardon won't do anything.
	I mean, a couple things to keep in mind there.
	New York is one of the most, and I lived there for many years, one of the most egregious gun control states there are.
	For New Yorkers, if they see a firearm, it may as well be a live rattlesnake on their kitchen table.
	I mean, they have a very visceral, emotional, negative reaction to it.
	So it's easy for these kinds of rulings to be perceived as reasonable in New York.
	I mean, guns are poison, right?
	Everybody. And frankly, people need to be aware.
	If you're going to be, you know...
	Attracting the attention of these kinds of tyrants, they are going to punish you for it.
	It doesn't mean it's justice.
	It doesn't mean it's right.
	But you're still in jail.
	That's what I told Dexter.
	When I say people, say, move out of the commie hellhole, and his argument was, well, communism was never satisfied with borders.
	But meanwhile, I mean, he's, for God's sake, stuck.
	He's a 60-some-year-old man.
	Maybe he's a little less.
	Maybe 50-some.
	I don't want to make him older.
	No criminal record.
	A kid, an engineer, had a podcast, and now he's sitting in frickin' Coxsackie Correctional Facility.
	And I'm told that's not how you pronounce it, but that's how I will pronounce it.
	Okay, so birthright citizenship is a biggie.
	You're following what's going on with the USAID stuff?
	That's so great.
	They're so smart.
	I mean, I don't know what happened.
	It's like the Trump administration IQ went up 40 points since the first term.
	I guess they learned from experience.
	The worst thing the Democrats ever did to themselves was steal that 2020 election from Trump, because he's clearly been spending the last four years planning his revenge.
	USAID is great, in part because it's an infinitesimal slice of the budget, right?
	How they spend the money is so obviously egregious that it's indefensible.
	If he had gone after, say, the Defense Department budget, the numbers there are way bigger of waste and fraud and abuse.
	But then the immediate counter-response is, well, aren't you an American patriot?
	Do you want our country to be vulnerable to invasion and bombing and all this kind of stuff?
	So you don't start there.
	You start in a position that's...
	The stakes are relatively small, USAID, but it's indefensible.
	Why are we spending $20 million on LGBT in Syria and all this other nonsense they're doing?
	I'm going to try to pull up.
	I have to publish it as a short first.
	That's the noise you heard.
	What's her face?
	Levitt. What's her first name?
	Is this the press secretary?
	Yeah, yeah.
	I don't know.
	Yeah, but she's been reading the list.
	Yeah, reading the list.
	Indefensible is the only way that...
	Whether it's $11,000 or $20,000 or $1.8 million, I'm going to get that clip in a second.
	I brought up a bunch that I wanted to share.
	Let's see what we got here.
	Yeah, I mean, I recorded a show on it yesterday, and there's so many examples it's impossible to cover.
	You spend hours going over it.
	Nina Jankiewicz, that's the one I wanted to get to, who was hitherto supposed to be the disinformation czar.
	They go fund her in the UK.
	They're funding the BBC.
	It's funding the Associated Press.
	New York Times, LA Times, Politico.
	The thing that struck me yesterday was when you see all this media, you know, we've been living, what was that movie?
	The Truman Show, right?
	Where the guy's living in a fake world, a completely crafted world.
	That's been us.
	We've been deceived and led to believe through all these, the media coverage, creating this environment that we live in, that, oh no, there's actually support for all these progressive DEI woke programs.
	You know, you're the outlier if you don't agree with all this stuff.
	It's all complete fabrication.
	It's all theater.
	There's no substance there at all.
	And worst of all, we've been paying for it.
	It's manufacturing consent.
	I say digital version or the version 2.0, but it's just a reiteration of manufacturing consent.
	I don't know if you've ever read the one or two good books that Chomsky ever wrote, but it's from the late 80s.
	And they're talking about cases about how they did this for the war in Vietnam.
	They did it for other stuff.
	It's the iteration 2.0 on steroids that the consent or the consensus was absolutely manufactured.
	And you had people who, whether or not they knew that they were tools in the manufacturing, were tools in the manufacturing.
	Associated Press, which means fact checkers, because AP fact check was the gold standard for fact check.
	Outlets, news, the smear campaigns.
	I was pulling off the one where, you know, going after the beat or...
	Funding the BBC, who then went after Rumble, went after Telegram, went after Russell Brand.
	They are paid assets of the propaganda machine of the deep state uni-party complex.
	They do propaganda because it works, right?
	Like, people don't know things intuitively.
	We're not born with knowledge or perceptions.
	It's the waters, the environment that we live in, and they create the environment.
	They create the environment by the news they report, by the news they don't report.
	I mean, one of the biggest changes, it's unbelievable, is simply Elon having bought X. I mean, just two, three years ago?
	We would not have been able to be saying any of this.
	We would have been immediately banned if we suggested anything negative about USAID.
	If we were effective in criticizing them, there would have been stories about us, headpieces in the BBC, in the New York Times, in the LA Times, everywhere.
	But they've lost control of the messaging because of X. And because X is doing it successfully, now you're seeing places like Facebook begin to at least claim they're going to loosen the reins a little bit.
	And once they've lost the control of information...
	They've lost the war.
	I want to pull up the top podcast because I'm biased because I'm a Rumble man.
	But Elon buying Twitter, Rumble existing, Bongino and Crowder and Bannon's War Room, they've got the audience that they lost when they were kicked off of the other platforms and then some.
	And it's true.
	First of all, people have lost the faith in these institutions.
	And they can't hide the truth anymore.
	And they've lost the war on the internet.
	Like, they tried.
	It wasn't that they didn't try, and they're still trying now.
	Look at what's happened, right?
	So they set up this blue sky thing, this supposed alternative to X. And it gets overloaded.
	And they all flood over.
	They all have blue sky in their handles.
	But they're all still on X, right?
	They're compelled to come to where the conversations are happening.
	They're not happening on blue sky.
	They're happening on X. I mean, Elon's really created something remarkable with this version of X. Well, I will also needle the blue sky that they got so much child what they call it child sexual abuse material.
	They got either overwhelmed with the material with the new influx of the people who left Twitter or the people who left Twitter discovered the amount of it on blue sky and started reporting it to a level where blue sky couldn't even What's the word when you moderate?
	Couldn't even moderate it effectively.
	It's true.
	You got Threads, which went bust.
	You got Blue Sky.
	Oh, Mastodon was the other iteration of this.
	And everybody comes back to the place where the discussion is being had.
	And that's Twitter.
	They go to the networks to get the news.
	And that's Rumble.
	Truth Social is doing well.
	It does feel that it's more of not a silo, but more of an audience of people who already agree with each other.
	So I go there not to criticize, but to express my discontent with certain decisions.
	But I like the fight that happens on Twitter.
	What were the other revelations?
	So you had some DEI or transgender opera in Ireland.
	There's been this whole series of, you know, we're going to acquire Greenland.
	We're going to make Canada the 51st state.
	Now he's talking about, you know, maybe we should put a Trump Tower up in Gaza.
	And people immediately lose their minds.
	And it's remarkable to me that they can't see what Trump's doing.
	This is all just his normal negotiation strategy.
	He comes in with something completely over the top.
	And everyone says, oh, that's crazy.
	We can't possibly do that.
	They lose their minds.
	And what's he end up with?
	He says, well, okay, maybe we don't have to do that.
	What's your counterproposal?
	And he gets what he wants.
	Well, the proposal of the...
	I don't know if he said Trump towers, but he did say development.
	He's highlighting...
	The historical problem in the Middle East is that you can't have mortal enemies sharing a border, period.
	Now, you'll just push Gaza further out, maybe try to pressure Jordan and Egypt to take some in, but you're still going to have that border issue, and you might have that border issue with a highly developed tourist land, but he's just highlighting the fact that you can't have mortal enemies sharing a border, let alone custody of Jerusalem.
	And he's selling a vision.
	He always does this, too.
	He sells a vision of...
	It's like if you're talking to a real estate person, you're thinking about buying a house, and they say, yeah, couldn't you just imagine you and your wife and your kids in this living room and watching this TV and looking at the window of that beautiful lake out there?
	And they're making you live in the future, right?
	He does that all the time as well.
	Just imagine, Gaza could be beautiful.
	It could be gorgeous.
	All this beach line.
	We could have hotels.
	And people think of that.
	They're like, wow, that sounds nice.
	Well, some people say that sounds nice.
	Others say that sounds exactly like the conspiracy theory that we were saying was going to happen from the day of Israel's responding to the October 7 terrorist attack.
	And some of you are saying, that sounds like exactly what, you know, if you're going to diabolically plan this with that end goal in mind.
	Some people think that that actually materializes the conspiracy theory.
	I'm not big into the whole Israel-Gaza stuff.
	That's not my area of interest per se.
	But I'll just note, you know, if there aren't warring parties...
	And one of them's getting their ass kicked in.
	There's consequences to losing.
	Let me bring this up.
	This is...
	Here, I think...
	There we go.
	Can we see this?
	This is...
	I haven't yet published it.
	I forgot I wanted to...
	Okay, so what do I do with this?
	Why Elon Musk and others have been taking a look.
	Because if you look at the waste and abuse that has run...
	You don't believe it when you hear them.
	Serbia gets a million bucks.
	47,000 for a transgender opera in Colombia.
	That's the one I want to see.
	32,000 for a transgender comic book in Peru.
	I don't know about you, but as an American taxpayer, I don't want my dollars going towards this crap, and I know the American people don't either, and that's exactly what Elon Musk has been tasked by President Trump to do.
	I'll cut it there.
	Can you just compare her?
	To Karine Jean-Pierre.
	For one second.
	And if anyone wants to racialize this, kiss my butt, okay?
	You're dealing with two women doing a job, and I don't even see them as women.
	Karine Jean-Pierre was the worst press secretary, the biggest liar, the most inept nincompoop on earth.
	So perfect for the Biden administration.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Perfect fit.
	That's why I said, like, you know, there's no race that enters into this in my mind.
	Except when it comes to Joe Biden exploiting ethnic sexual minorities so that he can use them as pawns to further his own agenda.
	Because you can't criticize them without being called racist, misogynist, whatever.
	And that's exactly why he uses them to do his bidding.
	So those were some of the...
	And it's important to keep in mind, of course, that all those things, those were just excuses to generate money flows.
	Very little of the money actually reaches those endpoints.
	The whole purpose is to have this flow of money where you have parasites all along the pipeline sucking money out.
	Everyone's getting their little 10% for the big guy, 10% for the little guy, and then a few cents on the dollar reach that whatever, the gay play in Ireland or whatever they were talking about.
	It's all a money laundering operation.
	It's fundamentally what it is.
	That's what people need to understand.
	It's sort of exactly like the homeless crisis where the more money that goes into it, the worse the problem gets because it's just a make-work project.
	You build an industry.
	It's now an industrial complex.
	At first, it's grassroots.
	Then it gets corporatized.
	Then it gets industrialized.
	Then it gets corrupted.
	Or at least it gets corrupted by the time it gets corporatized.
	Let me bring this up here.
	There's a couple of chats over on...
	On Rumble, like Canada, we can't share a border with...
	Like Canada, we can't share a border with Canada, our mortal enemy.
	But Tiffin, I don't know if it's joking, but it's kind of getting true.
	Like when you got terrorists and drugs and the news coming out of Canada now that Trump exposed the fentanyl problem, it's wild.
	It's a problem.
	King of Biltong, on the exact opposite side of Biltong, remember to order your Biltong bouquet.
	Can you imagine getting a beef jerky bouquet?
	It's like...
	Bruschetta out of beef.
	A Biltong bouquet for Valentine's Day.
	Discounted to $55.
	Includes free shipping.
	Biltong is packed with B12, creatine, iron, zinc, and much more.
	Biltong, I'm getting one.
	A Biltong bouquet.
	Oh, man.
	Okay, so USAID.
	That's the big one of the day.
	The Canada thing was great fun for me to watch.
	I mean, yeah, Trump was pissed.
	There's fentanyl super labs up in Canada.
	It's basically completely uncontrolled.
	Thousands of...
	Terrorists, people on the terrorist watch list are getting caught coming over the Canadian border, which means we only catch a fraction of them.
	So it's a multiple of that.
	More than 20,000 illegal migrants were caught coming over the Canadian border.
	So we know we're only catching a fraction.
	It's some multiple of that.
	And Trump had had enough.
	And he talked to them and said, hey, you got to do something about this.
	And they basically told him to go screw.
	So he said, all right, well, I'll just threaten to burn down 40% of your GDP.
	How about that?
	Can you imagine being Trudeau?
	With his political history, his international reputation, having just announced that he's resigning so his party can have an...
	And then him playing hardball with Trump over...
	Just so you know.
	And Andrew, you may or may...
	Let me see here.
	Here. It's amazing how...
	When is this from?
	February 5th, 2025.
	Immediately after Trump brings this attention to the International Four, you get the state-funded media reporting on it.
	A significant portion of opioids prescribed by doctor and pharmacists in British Columbia are being diverted, and prescribed alternatives are being trafficked provincially, nationally, and internationally, a Ministry of Health document says.
	It's amazing.
	The problem doesn't exist.
	But now that everybody knows about it, we better start covering our asses ASAP and reporting honestly.
	And Trump doesn't want to burn 40% of Canada's GDP to the ground.
	They're great trading partners for us.
	We love Canada.
	I just spent a month in BC on my motorcycle last summer.
	It was fantastic.
	But if that's the stick he needs to use to get what he does want, which is increase law enforcement on this fentanyl stuff and increased attention on the border to stop some of this illegal migration, well, it worked.
	It took 48 hours.
	Yeah, here, I'll bring this on.
	Canada tariffs was a move that shook up Canada, but most importantly, the WEF Liberals and NDP.
	There are people who are angry at my criticizing of the Conservative Party of Canada, saying this made the Liberals look good.
	And I was like, if you think this made the Liberals look good, then we will see the world differently, radically.
	This exposed a big problem, a real problem.
	The fentanyl, you know, they say it represents 1% of the fentanyl that they catch at the border compared to the South.
	Fine. That's 1% more than they need.
	It's like, it's only 1% like the USA.
	That's enough to cause a lot of damage and you don't need it.
	Fix it.
	Look, it's enough to kill 10 million Americans.
	And if you have two cuts, you don't bandage only one.
	You bandage both of them, right?
	So this can be addressed.
	And we were addressing Mexico too.
	It turns out Trump can walk and chew gum at the same time.
	So we were having the same conversations with them with largely the same outcome within 48 hours.
	Steps we wanted to be taken were being taken.
	And no offense to Canada, I love Canada, but we're not pure nations.
	I mean, not when it comes to economics, not when it comes to military strength.
	We're friendly neighbors.
	But America's GDP is 15 times that of Canada.
	The amount that we export to Canada is a sixth of what Canada exports to us.
	I mean, these are not the same things.
	Canada's GDP, I think it's half of California.
	I'm going to double check.
	I think it's half of California, despite the fact that California...
	It's not that bad.
	Maybe two-thirds.
	It's less than California, despite the fact that the country's...
	Yes, less than Texas, less than...
	And you feel like, yeah, we're friendly neighbors.
	It's like, I can be Mike Tyson's neighbor.
	I'm not going to pick a fight with Mike Tyson.
	I know how to be polite and keep Mike Tyson as a friendly neighbor and not piss him off.
	You went motorcycling through BC.
	Yeah, it was fantastic.
	Until I got to Vancouver.
	I don't like Vancouver, but riding around in the mountains and Banff and Jasper and Revelstone?
	Is it Revelstoke?
	Revelstoke, I think.
	I was there for like three weeks riding around.
	It was gorgeous.
	Banff is unbelievably beautiful.
	It's magical.
	But then you go through Vancouver and I presume you avoided East Hastings.
	One of the realities that I never thought of, when you drive a car with the doors off, you have to worry about getting carjacked.
	Someone can just come in and take you out and take your car.
	On a motorcycle, it's the same deal.
	You're always exposed to everyone at every stoplight.
	Well, in America, I have a gun.
	Don't bring that up to Canada.
	Right. It was very funny.
	When I crossed the border into Canada, of course, I had to deal with, you know, Canadian customs.
	And the guy was very nice.
	And eventually he gets around to the question, you know, do you have any guns with you?
	And I said, no.
	I had actually left it with a buddy of mine in Montana.
	I said, here's my guns.
	I got to go over the border.
	So I was going to have the guns as soon as I came back.
	But I said, no, I don't have any guns with me.
	And he's like, you sure?
	And I said, yes.
	And he goes, do you own guns?
	And I just looked at him.
	I said.
	I own a shitload of guns.
	But I didn't bring any.
	And he just waved me through.
	It was no problem.
	But yeah, they're very concerned about the guns over there.
	Yeah, despite the fact that, you know, the stricter the gun laws get, the higher the gun crime gets.
	So the Canadian border thing was the other one.
	USAID. Confirmation hearings.
	You heard the news that they pushed off Kash Patel's for another week?
	Yeah. I mean, I gotta be honest.
	I'm surprised he's had as much success as he had.
	I thought they were...
	I thought...
	Because we have a bunch of...
	I'll watch my language.
	Weak Republicans.
	And I would have thought that more of them would have folded and rejected some of these nominations.
	And they've been pretty close, most of them.
	Not Rubio, but the other ones.
	But he's getting them through.
	Pam Bondi got through.
	Rubio got through.
	Hegseth got through.
	I've been impressed.
	So I don't know if Elon's whispering in people's ears, hey, I've got a billion dollars to put up against your opponent if you don't confirm these nominations.
	Nicole Shanahan basically said as much.
	The Hegseth, not that I was surprised that he got through.
	I'm still surprised that it required the tie-breaking vote.
	I cannot understand.
	I can understand that someone doesn't like Pan Bondi on a political level.
	To get out there as a senator and vote no against her, it makes you basically a treacherous...
	I don't want to say traitor because that's not the right word, but it means that you have no interest in democracy and that it's a purely political thing and not a competence thing, which it was never supposed to be.
	Advise and consent.
	Make sure they're not disqualified for some reasons that have not been explored.
	They're supposed to be approved unless there's something substantively defective about them, right?
	I mean, the president's supposed to be able to have the cabinet of his choice.
	Listen, I'm not a fan of Pam Bondi on a number of Second Amendment issues, but she's a competent attorney general.
	There's no question about that.
	There's no rational basis on which to vote against her nomination, except it's the theater.
	They're impotent, so they're just flailing out in their own theatrical attempts to make themselves look good to their constituents.
	Andrew, give me one second.
	This dog is driving me crazy.
	Hey, everybody.
	I'm running the show now.
	I've been saying two things.
	I said I'm going to get a new chair forever.
	I haven't done it.
	I said I'm going to put a dog door in there, but I don't know how a paralyzed dog is going to get through a doggy door.
	I'll have to just cut a hole so that she can slide through.
	Yeah, no.
	So, Bondi got through Hegsteth.
	It's great.
	I don't know what the rationale or the reasoning is or how they even go about postponing the vote on Kash Patel.
	How does that work in American politics?
	I don't understand the procedure either.
	It's one of the rules of the Senate or whatever.
	I mean, obviously, you know, the Bureau's scared to death.
	I mean, I've got friends of mine who are retired FBI agents who are, I would say, conservative.
	And they were not happy.
	They joined the Bureau, you know.
	25 years ago, when it was still a respectable organization, and they lived through the decline, the politicization of the Bureau.
	They were very unhappy about what happened to their Bureau, and even their recoiling at the wrecking ball that's being put through the Bureau right now.
	So the Bureau's terrified.
	As far as they're concerned, when Patel gets a hold of those internal files, they could all be fired.
	They've all done shit.
	They're all going to be in trouble.
	And frankly...
	They're not that irreplaceable.
	I mean, there's only about 10,000 or 15,000 FBI agents.
	The current academy could produce 1,000 a year by itself, and there's no reason we can't establish satellite academies, put out 3,000, 4,000 FBI agents a year.
	There's plenty of law enforcement officers out there who'd like to be promoted up to FBI ranks.
	There's plenty of military guys who maybe got out of the military who would love that job position.
	That's where the FBI used to recruit from, primarily.
	All these FBI special agents, they're not that irreplaceable.
	It's amazing.
	Set aside the politics, just in terms of what the FBI...
	We've seen what the FBI did in terms of the two most prominent recent...
	We'll say Jan 6, which was political, obviously, and Gretchen Whitmer, which just exposed how the FBI does things at large in non-political cases as well.
	I presume we've covered a bunch where the FBI has just falsified evidence.
	It'll all get exposed.
	Did you see the House report?
	The House Judiciary Committee report on the FBI and the Academy?
	Let me pretend I did.
	What did it say?
	I mean, it's just basically they got anonymized interviews with various FBI special agents and bureau offices and trainers in the Academy.
	And the current state of the FBI special agents, it's a debacle.
	I mean, they're hiring, as special agents, people who are functionally illiterate, people who cannot be trusted, people who lie in the interview process, the application process, get caught in the lie, and they're still required to admit them into the academy because they're checking off the DEI, LGBT, all these boxes.
	They're lending people in based on gender preferences, based on race, based on all this stuff.
	They're utterly unqualified.
	They can't fire a gun competently, and they're still...
	One of the persons interviewed said, listen, we had a cadet come through here, and she was undergoing clinical depression.
	I mean, she had broken up with a boyfriend or something.
	She was dangerous to herself, and we were putting her on a range with a Glock pistol, with a 12-gate shotgun, with an AR rifle.
	We're equipping her with firearms.
	In a sane world, when someone's in that kind of emotional distress, you take their guns away.
	You don't give them more guns.
	Now you're going to get the red flag law people on your back, Andrew.
	Disclaimer! Okay, no.
	I thought you'd find that funny.
	Listen, I think it's possible for people to have sufficient mental illness that they should not have guns.
	But to me, the solution is not to take their guns away.
	To me, the solution is that person needs to be institutionalized because they're dangerous.
	And they're not dangerous only because guns exist.
	People kill other people with cars, with knives, and all kinds of ways.
	So I don't believe in red flag laws.
	I believe that there are people who are crazy enough that they're a danger to society, and they need to be segregated for their own welfare and the welfare of the rest of us.
	Okay, what else?
	Let me see if I have anything, the other news items of the day or the week confirmation.
	What's coming next?
	We're waiting for the votes on RFK, Tulsi.
	Cash is put off, although we don't know when those are.
	RFK is so great.
	I mean, I just love how Trump is, there's such polarizing figures that, you know, which is great because normally they pick these kind of flat rhino kind of people, you know, just get along to go along kind of people and nothing ever changes.
	He's picking just wrecking balls here.
	RFK Jr.
	Did you see this?
	Oh my God.
	Okay, so, I don't know, because I don't understand what the reason is for the people who are posting it.
	What's RFK putting it?
	Not everybody's in California.
	It's been viral for some reason.
	And I noticed the people who are, like, I follow the people.
	These are, he's a MAGA-ish guy, I think.
	Let me see him.
	Posts are not, I seek the truth.
	Hustle bitch.
	I think I know hustle bitch, but I've seen a lot of, you know.
	Maga-ish posted the video, and I don't know if it's just a joke, if they know what he's putting in his drink.
	Oh, I took down the tweet.
	It's called Methylene Blue, and apparently it's good for memory.
	It's good when you travel.
	Apparently it might protect you from radiation.
	I don't know which is why he's taking it on a plane.
	So I don't know if they're trying to defame RFK or if they're trying to highlight the fact that he's into alternative therapeutic type things.
	How do you feel about RFK?
	I mean...
	People have trouble with them because of the science thing, but we've been trained in recent years to just believe there's a science god, and the science god just tells us what the correct science is and everything else is wrong.
	That's not how science works.
	Science is a never-ending process of...
	Coming up with hypotheses, coming up with reasonable explanations that can be disproven with counter evidence at any time.
	There's a lot of stuff that we just accept as being true as the scientific consensus.
	The word consensus in science should never be in the same sentence.
	They're opposites of each other.
	So does RFK believe a lot of things that many people find unsettling or inconsistent with what they've been told the correct sciences?
	Yeah. Does that mean he's wrong?
	No. Something like 40% of the scientific studies paid for by our government cannot be reproduced.
	The results cannot be reproduced by another lab.
	It's trash.
	It's a lot like USAID.
	We give them all this money.
	They spend the money to run studies that don't produce anything useful, that can't be reproduced by other people.
	It's make work for over-credentialed academics.
	I'm trying to find the, I wanted to compare it to, you know, when they talk about settled science and the food pyramid, I'm trying to find an accurate food pyramid from the 80s, which had like, you know, eat 30% of your healthy diet should be breads, cereals, and pasta.
	And it is widely acknowledged now that what was passed off as settled science for the decades that they pushed that thing.
	Was bought and paid for by various interests in the agricultural or medical community.
	Because it's so easy.
	First of all, you can't do dietary studies in humans.
	Long-term dietary studies.
	They can't be done.
	Unless the human's in a gulag.
	Because people just lie about what they eat.
	They lie to themselves about what they eat.
	They lie in those little diaries about what they eat.
	You can't trust anything they say about what they eat.
	We all know chocolate's not healthy food, right?
	But we all eat it.
	So all these dietary studies, long-term diet...
	Dietary studies in humans, they're all trash.
	They're 100% trash.
	And if they're trash, why shouldn't Kellogg's fund a study that says eating Kellogg's is good for you?
	It's the most obvious thing to do in the world.
	If I ran Kellogg's, that's what I would do.
	It's funny.
	My grandmother always used to say, Grandma, what do you have for breakfast today?
	She's like, just a grapefruit.
	I was like, all right.
	Are you sure?
	She wasn't lying.
	She just actually forgot what she had eaten for breakfast.
	No, it's true.
	I never even thought of this.
	I guess the best studies you can get are from wartime gulag-type studies where you know exactly what they've been eating, how much time they've been getting.
	You have absolute control.
	They got gruel.
	These are the results for the gruel diet.
	But the other thing is, I don't know if it was a guerrilla marketing campaign for that mystic...
	What was it called?
	Mystic Blue.
	If it's a guerrilla marketing campaign...
	Congrats, because it's well done.
	Everybody's now Googling.
	What's he put in his drink?
	Mystic Blue, 1% solution, and it's good for cognitive, whatever.
	This is what I want to bring up, Andrew, because this is what brought us not in contact recently, but this.
	Do I play the whole thing?
	I'm going to play a portion of this, because this is...
	What I may not have thought of is that there's a lot of people who can't move on on this, because that's the people who transition their own children.
	Those people are going to be like, you know, the Japanese soldiers who were on Pacific Islands and didn't know the war was over.
	Right. They've got to fight forever.
	This is another reason why this is the worst, worst, worst social contagion that we'll ever have experienced.
	A lot of people have done the worst thing that you could do, which is to harm their children.
	Okay, we can pause it there, but I don't get to see your comment in the bottom.
	I said this applies equally to the parents who gave their kids the COVID shot.
	And then you replied it applies equally to the abortion argument.
	I think so.
	I think there's a lot of...
	And let me preface this by saying I think modern women have been grotesquely misled and abused by this modern feminist movement.
	So I'm not making personal judgment calls about the women involved.
	They've been conditioned and trained to believe that this is right, what they did.
	But I think a lot of women have abortions when they're younger.
	Having the child would be an inconvenient time.
	They're told it's perfectly normal.
	It's just...
	Reproductive health.
	They have the abortion.
	Then they get a little older.
	They meet a man.
	They get married.
	They have their own children.
	They have children that they keep.
	And they look at those kids when they're 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 10 years old, and they always know.
	They had another one.
	They had another one.
	But they killed it in an abortion.
	And I think to myself, what if we just reversed the genders?
	What if we say it was a dude in college?
	And he finds out, well, you got a baby coming, and he decides, you know what?
	This isn't a good time.
	And it's not Roe v.
	Wade, it's Joe v.
	Wade. It says, oh no, infanticide is fine if it's an inconvenience to you to have that child.
	And he just shoots the child through the head and he goes about his life.
	And then when he's 35, he's got a couple kids in elementary school and he's thinking to himself, oh my God, I had a third child.
	And I shot it through the head.
	How would you live with that?
	And I think a lot of women really can't.
	And it drives them crazy.
	I think that's why we have a lot of...
	Crazy modern women out there because of this trauma that they were told would not be traumatic for them.
	Yeah, that is, I always go to, I'm not in the middle, you know, I say like it's a reality that you have to deal with to allow it up to a certain point, and then I think most people agree with that.
	It's just a question of what that point is.
	But I always go to the Rwandan genocide documentary, and I forget what it was called, but where they say, you know, like, these children soldiers kill more and more and more, not because It doesn't mean anything, but because they want to make the first one feel like less and less, like it's just very casual, and so we can commit this, and it's not a big deal, because look how much of it we're doing.
	And which, you know, the whole discussion around abortion should be, you know, rare, safe, and rare, I forget what the third one was.
	But in order to rationalize it, they've got to make it into nothing, so that it can be given out like cotton candy, like up in Canada, promoted like it's the alternative and not the last alternative.
	Yeah, I'm not even speaking to the legality of it or when it should be allowed or not allowed.
	I'm just speaking to the psychological aspects of it.
	No, I think you're definitely right because of the people out there who are celebrating the amount that they've had.
	That is an indication of trauma, not an indication of lack of trauma.
	Andrew, I love this.
	I may ask, are you out west now or are you out east?
	I'm still outside of Denver, but we're in the process of moving.
	Where are you going?
	Probably Knoxville, Tennessee.
	That's a good place.
	Although, well, I see there's a lot of crime there, but it's...
	My number one, the first thing I look for is intentional homicide rate, and then make decisions from there.
	But Tennessee is beautiful.
	Well, intentional homicide's not always a crime.
	I want to make a meme out of that.
	But yeah, you shoot someone in self-defense.
	That's an intentional homicide, right?
	But it's not a murder.
	Before you forget, speaking of which, so you got a conference or is it a webinar?
	It's a webinar.
	So it's a class I teach periodically.
	We call it our Hard to Convict webinar.
	It's 100% free.
	It doesn't cost a penny.
	But we spend about an hour, an hour and a half teaching you how to be hard to convict if you're ever compelled to use force in defense of yourself, your family, or your property.
	We have one coming up at the end of the month.
	It's 100% free, but you do have to sign up because we have a limited number of seats.
	And the URL would be lawofselfdefense.com slash hardtoconvict or HTC, either one.
	Lawofselfdefense.com slash hardtoconvict.
	Is it a defense of an S or a defense of a C?
	S, because we're in America.
	We're doing spelling with my kid.
	We're spelling my favorite.
	I said, you know, describe your favorite parkour move.
	And he's like, well, and we're deciding, do we do OU or own?
	It's like, we're going to go with the American spelling.
	It's also easier.
	So yeah, that's interesting because when I was a kid, I lived in Belgium for two years and I used to get all these English language books, but they were all from the UK.
	And then when I moved back to the US, I was using all the British spellings for everything because that's how I learned it when I read.
	Listen, man, I had a great time here because I got a conference call to go to, but thank you so much.
	Andrew, it's great to see you again.
	We will talk sooner than later.
	Yeah, I'd appreciate that.
	Awesome. Take care, man.
	Bye-bye.
	Bye-bye.
	All right, and this is perfect timing.
	We're going to go over to the VivaBarnsLaw.locals.com afterparty.
	Let me see something here.
	There are tips.
	Rumble France.
	Let me share here.
	I like Andrew.
	That was great.
	Now I like Wade also.
	I like people.
	Do they like me?
	Tipinal. Tipinal says, FBI used to recruit accountants.
	You don't understand how true...
	You don't understand the true original purpose of the FBI to find corruption...
	And accountants find it faster than you, than guys with the guns.
	Stop the police force, military recruit.
	No, no, first of all, I understand the origins of the FBI, and it was always intended to corruptly prosecute your political ideological adversaries.
	And then Tiffinall says, yes, Canada is currently our mortal enemy.
	290% tariffs on dairy from America.
	American banks cannot operate in Canada.
	Canadian actors all over Hollywood.
	Canada needs a serious spanking.
	Tired of weak.
	That's funny.
	Bronca is classic.
	Great choice, Viva, says Harbinger21.
	It's good.
	I like the guest shows are fun because there's so much more to talk about.
	Yeah, Bronca, we were tweeting about it.
	I forget.
	It was that discussion.
	There was another one on Twitter.
	We're like, hey, man, what are you doing later this week?
	Sir? One of the fish is dead in the water fountain thing.
	Is it a molly?
	An orange one.
	It's not the big guy.
	It's not the parrotfish.
	Okay, get a net.
	Or let the fish...
	Okay, fine.
	I'll get it.
	One of our mollies.
	We are now into like the third...
	For those who...
	Oh, let me get my face out of here.
	Remove. We have a fish tank.
	I'll show you that afterwards.
	And we're now entered like third generation of the mollies.
	Like the mollies are the...
	We got mollies, guppies, cherry barbs, whatever.
	They die.
	Fish die.
	The Mollies reproduce in captivity, and so apparently we have a tragic loss of a Mollie who's currently stuck behind the water fountain.
	So I'm going to have to go take care of that afterwards, but not until after the Rumble afterparty.
	Oh, we're still cross-platform on all of the platforms here.
	Let me see if I didn't miss anything over in Commitube.
	So stay tuned, by the way.
	Tomorrow we'll be live.
	I'm just going to go to the chat here before we go.
	Nice guest, Viva, says, oh, snap.
	Viva. Oh, that's the link to law of self-defense.
	Okay, there you have it.
	Andrew's amazing.
	A situation so crazy the greatest lawyers can't even argue it at this point.
	Now, I forget which one that was.
	I have at least a modicum of respect for the accountants that bailed and detached their names from that matter.
	Ghosts of Rwanda, Viva.
	Thank you, MVC.
	I'm writing it down because everyone should watch it.
	It was Ghosts of...
	And it was Jack Posobiec who also got it once, and then I forgot.
	Ghost of Rwanda.
	And it's funny, like, you watch a movie, it was decades ago that I watched this, that line, that principle, that psychological phenomenon stuck with me ever since.
	Okay, what we're doing, oh, I had starred one other comment here that I wanted to bring up.
	These old flapping lips says, Viva, there was a group of Mormons that fled the United States to Mexico and renounced citizenship, then slunk back in.
	Sluck back into the country.
	In the early 1900s, that group of Mormons were re-given citizenship.
	I thought that said Mexicans, but then I understood now they went into Mexico.
	Mormons going to Mexico, then coming back.
	That's almost as weird as Scheinbaum being president of Mexico.
	Oh god, the dog just came in here and she did something.
	Alright, let's get on our butts over to vivabarneslaw.locals.com and because we're using StreamYard today and not Rumble Studio because I had a couple of guests that I'm not sure they would be familiar with Studio, we can have the Locals Afterparty will not be for supporters only.
	So get your butts one all and one over to vivabarneslaw.locals.com and if you're not doing it, don't worry.
	I'll see you tomorrow.
	How do I do this?
	I'm going to end it on Commitube.
	See you tomorrow.
	Peace out.
	Remove. I'm going to end it on Twitter.
	Twitter, thank you for being here.
	Peace out.
	See you tomorrow.
	And then, to make sure that I don't kill the locals, Rumble.
	Oh, I'm such an idiot.
	I forgot to plug my own book.
	Viva! Here, guys.
	Louie the Lobster.
	Go get one.
	Booyah. Amazon.
	That's it.
	We're going to go over there.
	I'll give you the link one more time.
	Rumble, come on over.
	And if not, much like 8088Ydigital, or that is Booby Digital, or Bobby Digital, says later, skaters.
	Go. Enjoy the day.
	And I will see you all on the Rumble series.
	No, on vivabarneslaw.locals.com.
	Ending it.
	See you later, peeps.

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