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Episode Date: October 2, 2025

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Starting point is 00:00:00 CNN, I know, I know, investigates the rise of extremism in the United States. Oh, good. Let our people go! Let our people go. Let us. Trump is your president. He's so prisoners. Johnny, I'm right behind you. Ah, there we go.
Starting point is 00:00:33 This is your enemy list. This is the deep state target list. Just a portion of it. Who's tarant number one? There's a huge disconnect between the narratives and angles of the mainstream media pushes and what the American public feels.
Starting point is 00:00:50 This is like McDonald's making a show about why are people so fat? Why is everybody so fat and unhealthy now? How the hell this happened? I'm not sure yet if you are or are not on the deep state
Starting point is 00:01:14 target list because I haven't consumed all of the information that you've put forth to determine what your status should be as we ruin you as you what? What's your documentary about? Local of the city or is it about Waco? Well, it's about extremism in America. I love how
Starting point is 00:01:32 there's the implication that these different terrorist acts are being carried out by these people. Like there's any link at all between like the psychotic Waco cults and like fucking Trump
Starting point is 00:01:48 supporters. It's crazy. Like the level of messaging here is unbelievable. Okay. So you stop talking to me. My band would love her is not too out, but I can't do it. So you can make the gun.
Starting point is 00:02:04 And then you have the implication in order to create the parody of violence between a person who's willfully engaging in physical combat in a safe space in a ring with somebody else who's consented. And this is, I'm sure, going to be juxtaposed next to, like, people destroying Teslas and destroying property in order to show that, wow, look at this dangerous right-wing person. Like, I just, I have to watch more of these because somebody needs to get the information out there with how absolutely fucking deceptive this is. I am, I, I love,
Starting point is 00:02:40 lying to people. I love misleading them. I love tricking them. This is something I used to do all the time. And I would do this so much. And so I see this happen. And I'm like, oh, I know what you're doing here. I know what you're doing here. I see where this is going. Yes. And wow, I did this all the time. Yes. And so that's the thing. You still do. I never lie anymore. I never lie. Of course not. And so I can recognize a lot of this. And I think a lot of other people don't. make the gun and the suppressor on a date. Three, two, one. That's true.
Starting point is 00:03:15 I just don't like to tell you're not allowed to talk to this person. Like, why can I talk to him? There's a growing number of folks that want maximum punishment. Maximum punishment. I think most people feel, yeah. And I love how also there's like a juxtaposition of like Luigi, as if he's even talking about Luigi is probably not even about him. Like violence is justified in certain instances.
Starting point is 00:03:40 Dangerous individuals. The only people that are supporters of Luigi are mentally ill women who are attracted to him. Nobody else is a supporter of Luigi. America has responded on violent. We have to fight back. They want somebody to take on this system. Right. Misinfo Nation, extreme America.
Starting point is 00:04:08 Misinfo Nation. This is made by CNN. I can't wait to watch this. The whole story. I'm sure we're going to get the whole story. Is an extrad to the docket? Uh-oh. Uh-oh.
Starting point is 00:04:24 Of course. Of course. Back to the original sin. Yep, there we go. Something new and different. The trade our country. There we go. With the capital in the background.
Starting point is 00:05:02 Oh, the tree. They're so stupid. General Flynn on masking, impeachment, hell. 20-20 election. People losing their fucking minds. This is your, this is your enemy list. This is the deep state target list.
Starting point is 00:05:15 Just a portion of it. Some of the high-value targets, if you owe. What is this here? Biden laptop, January 6th, 2020 election, retribution tour. Oh, Mike Pence is on the list. Who's target number one?
Starting point is 00:05:35 I'd probably say Nancy Pelosi. Right. Yep. Ivan Rakelin is a far-right extremist. Of course. Yeah. Just hit the deep state right in the heart. So who do you think was ultimately responsible for the attack on the Capitol?
Starting point is 00:05:54 So I would say probably me. I'm the one. President Trump retweeted a memo from an individual named Ivan Wright. my God, it's all going back to January 6th. Am I the only person that like, can't we move past this? Everybody knows January 6 was bad. Anybody who thinks January 6 wasn't bad is just they've been completely consumed by propaganda, right? They've totally left a reality. You shouldn't be taking them seriously at all. What is this? Yeah, it's insane. I'm tired of Yes, it's like the same thing every single time.
Starting point is 00:06:43 Four years ago. Holy fuck, man. Republicans fully support January 6th. No, they don't. How many of you guys voted for Trump and you thought January 6 was stupid? Yeah, this is this total false narrative. Yeah, what the fuck are you talking about? It's their 9-11.
Starting point is 00:07:21 Eichlin entitled Operation Pence Cart. They called on the vice president to refuse the electoral college. votes from certain states that had served that called on the vice what's the wrong what's wrong with this person saying this there's nothing wrong with him saying this this is just some schizo on Twitter that wants the election to get overturned oh we're really going to act like this is some kind of like grand threat it's just some schizo on Twitter vice president to refuse the electoral college votes from certain states that had certified Joe Biden is the winner.
Starting point is 00:08:01 So my legal strategy forced Nancy Pelosi to conduct the deliberate breach and facilitate the deliberate incited entrapment of January 6th. That is why I'm responsible exposing the Nancy Pelosi Fed's direction of January 6th.
Starting point is 00:08:16 He promotes the conspiracy theory that January 6 was a setup. Some people call it a entrapment. Well, isn't it defined that they intentionally didn't have extra people there, even though they wanted to have extra people there? And isn't it also defined that there were federal agents in the crowd?
Starting point is 00:08:37 Like, I thought both of these things were like agreed upon facts. And also, that doesn't make January 6 okay. That's the problem. And this is the issue is that, like, people like this can never have an honest conversation because they're too focused on scoring points for their side and not in engaging in a degree of like rational discourse. Like, for example, just because there aren't a lot of police there
Starting point is 00:09:09 doesn't mean that it's okay to break into the building. Just because there's a federal agent in the crowd doesn't mean that it's not your fault when you decide to break a window because the federal agent tells you to. But these things are, like, why can't people just look at reality? I don't understand this.
Starting point is 00:09:31 I don't get it at all. It's embarrassing. A parliamentary coup. Your shirt. It has a list of names of the retribution tour. And he's got a retribution list. The Biden laptop cover up, the COVID-19 pandemic. For those he believes have wronged President Trump and the American people.
Starting point is 00:09:50 Of course. Jim Clapper, right, Mike Hayden and Brian Kemp, Brad Rappensberger, the list goes on and on. I prefer the term retribution. Liz Chaney, we're coming for you. Adam Kinsinger, we're coming for you. You mentioned Pelosi. I love how, like, they create this parody between, like, this guy and, like, for example, the people that are burning down Teslas. Because, like, this guy is just swimming and, like, running around and talking.
Starting point is 00:10:17 And then, like, the people that are at, like, there's never been a single clip of him being violent, destroying anything, breaking the law. Or even being physically aggressive towards anyone. It's just simply him talking and saying, in my opinion, kind of crazy stuff, for sure. but, you know, he's not really doing anything wrong. But because you're playing this, like, scary music behind it, this is supposed to be comparable to people that are, you know, supporting a murderer with Luigi, which is, again, I think, kind of just like a schizo movement.
Starting point is 00:10:49 It's not really worth taking seriously. But the people that are destroying Teslas, I think, is very legitimate. I think it's very problematic. Is he wrong, though? I mean, like, I don't think there's anything wrong with what he's saying. Sure, he can say whatever he wants. I don't agree with all of it, but I mean, you can say whatever he thinks. What do you think she would be charged with in this scenario?
Starting point is 00:11:12 I mean, it's a simple statute. This is treason. Treason, yeah. Absolutely. And I would like to see at the end of the due process, lawful capital punishment. Will you be disappointed if in 12 months from now somebody hasn't been executed for treason? I think the nation will be furious. He says,
Starting point is 00:11:34 even I could be a target. Yeah, so that's a pretty big fucking difference. Like this is, and this is, again, this is the false equivalency that these people create, is that this person is advocating for an extreme judicial process, whereas other people are advocating for vigilante justice and terrorism. That's a very big difference. He's saying that he wants people that he thinks committed treason to be tried for treason.
Starting point is 00:12:04 Other people just want to kill. you. That's the difference. It's a big, massive fucking difference. I'm not sure yet if you are or are not on the deep state target list, because I haven't consumed all of the information that you've put forth to determine what your status should be. But we've been hanging out of us. As we ruin you. Yeah. Just like you ruined us. And eye for an eye, look up Leviticus as a Christian man. We have a problem with Jewish supremacy. We have a problem with
Starting point is 00:12:35 Here we go. Here is again, it's again the implications, right? All of the implications as in, and by the way, a lot of people hate CNN. Like a tremendous amount of people hate CNN. And it's like now you have a guy, let's take a look, how many people are watching this? Like, well, I can't even really tell because it's like super low, low quality. It says restreaming now, maybe 17K people have watched this. Oh my God.
Starting point is 00:13:08 Which occupation in our government. Technology has transformed extremism in America. It's your body, my choice. A fire hose of hate. It's served to millions of us every day. They are reviewing a reported manifesto. Mass shooters publish manifestos online. An absolute racist hate crime.
Starting point is 00:13:31 This is God's country. Election deniers stream. Again, it's January 6th again. And you'll notice this that every single clip of like this right wing violence, every single one of them is going to go right back to January 6th. And the big reason why is because when like one of these like mass shooters goes out and they like kill a bunch of people and it's turned out that they're a Nazi, nobody that's like conservative or right wing goes and makes excuses for them and says well you know you have to look at like what what his you know socioeconomic status was well you have to see you know he was
Starting point is 00:14:11 treated this way in school they're like making excuses yeah they do well i mean of course of course there's a handful of people that do of course of course you're right about that but those people are radical extremists and they don't represent anybody else and they are the very fringe minority and most everybody else pushes away from them. That's the difference. Live as they attack the U.S. Capitol. So the problem isn't, and this might sound odd, is that the problem isn't the violence itself. It's the culture that enables and justifies it. That's really the problem. Because I look at it as like, you know, it's the difference between are you against the cookie or the cookie factory?
Starting point is 00:14:54 Well, if you want to get rid of cookies, you don't get mad at cookies. You get bad at the factory that's making the cookies, right? It's the factory that's doing this. And so the culture that enables this and justifies it and tries to run defense for it, they're the ones that are really wrong. Trump seems to enable this, though? I don't know. I've never seen Trump say that it's okay to be violent towards, like, somebody. And Trump is like multiple times. Like he, like, what are you talking about? When has he said that? Trump denounced a immediately. Yeah, he said to stop and to go home immediately on that day. The fringe is going mainstream. And Trump is here to take down those satanic cabals,
Starting point is 00:15:45 pedophiles. You know this already. With the cute military army. Save the children. Some believe we are on the brink of a totalitarian state. Who actually runs the government? Some believe our government is totally controlled by corporations or a cabal. Yeah. There's a lot of people that believe that. That's true. And some see themselves as crusaders in a fight for good versus evil. Let's be the American people spreading the word of God. So I've set out on a journey across the country to meet the Americans waging this battle.
Starting point is 00:16:26 This is basically a Mangione gun. To find out if we really are getting more extreme. He's got the right idea. Or is the extreme just getting louder? We're not finished yet. We've got a long way to go. But we're doing this in the very first day in office. And in just a few moments, I'm not only signing the release of the J6 hostages, I'm signing.
Starting point is 00:17:03 It's again, bro, like, they cannot let this shit go. They keep talking about the same exact thing. Why should we? because it's already over. It's over. It's already happened. Most reasonable people agree that it's wrong. That's it.
Starting point is 00:17:29 Like, it's done. Like, for how long are you going to keep bringing up an event that lasted for a handful of hours? What is this? Like, I mean, people are so fatigued from hearing about the same event being used to compare to 50 other things that are bad. We never reconciled with it. A lot of people do not think it's wrong. We still talk about 9-11 in Oklahoma City, W. If somebody is using 9-11 as a reason to justify extremism and military action in the Middle East at this point, they would be considered a retard.
Starting point is 00:18:14 Like, people are way past that. They are. And here's the reason why they keep fixating on January 6th. It's because they use January 6 as a comparison point for every other form of political violence. That's the reason why. It's the only really strong point that they have. So everything is referenced back to that. You're going to be happy reading newspapers tomorrow and the next day and the next day and the next day.
Starting point is 00:18:51 These those prisoners. DC Goulog, let our people go. Protest and see whatever you'd like from the comfort of the sidewalk and the park. Please do not try and come across the street. It's inauguration. Wow, look at that, trying to follow the law. What is surprise? In Washington, D.C.
Starting point is 00:19:15 And we're outside the D.C. jail where people have been gathering for almost... See, am I the only person that, like, whenever I see people that are, like, crazy and they're, not doing anything wrong. Like, I don't really see that as a problem. But whenever I see people that are crazy that are doing things wrong, that's the problem. And I just, I feel like this is like such a,
Starting point is 00:19:37 it's such a deliberate misrepresentation. Three years to campaign for the release of January 6 convicts. And for the news who wants to know, is it going to be the violent ones? It's going to be all of them, folks. I have faith in my heart, brother, that all of you are going to be getting
Starting point is 00:19:55 those calls from your attorney real soon. Sherry Hefner is one of those campaigners. She takes calls nightly from in prison January Sixers. What I can tell you guys is this. We are dressed. We have our bags packed. We are ready to go.
Starting point is 00:20:13 Oh my God. At the same time, I was receiving a call. Why are there so many American flags? It's crazy how the American flags have been used. Like, you can tell if it's a left-wing or right-wing protest. Because if it's a right-wing protest, you have American flags. If it's a leftling protest, you have a bunch of, like, identity flags and flags from other countries. From inside the jail.
Starting point is 00:20:32 It's great. Hello. This is a call for a... Rachel Powell. Are we liberal it? Rachel Powell is serving time for attacking the Capitol. Rachel Powell is serving time for attacking the Capitol with a pickax on January 6. Yep.
Starting point is 00:20:48 This is Donnie. How are you? I don't know. I don't know because I'm still in here. You know, but I was told. But not everyone here is excited for the prisoner's release. Did you ever think we'd be in a place where just hours from now? I did not think they would get out, ever.
Starting point is 00:21:14 J-Sixers are going to walk out of here free? Absolutely not. No, I could not. I would have told you you're an idiot. That's never happening. But here we are. Bree Chapman is one of the few signs of the resistance here in Washington on this inauguration. I find this to be very funny because I don't think CNN realized this. Actually, that's not true.
Starting point is 00:21:37 CNN absolutely realizes this. There's smart people that work at CNN. This is probably going to be the, this is going to create more extremism than, you know, anything else really will. It's because like, this is like the emotional framing and where it's like, okay, this one lone person that's like standing against these people,
Starting point is 00:22:01 it's like they're the resistance, etc., right? And this is the real rise of extremism is by mainstream media selective reporting and also double standards that are completely obvious, but they're unspeakable to discuss. Like, you can't discuss these obvious double standards. And that's the big issue. It's giving people a visual.
Starting point is 00:22:24 Yeah, exactly. It's gas lighting. It's massive gaslighting. Stop enabling Karens. Well, it's okay for her to do this. Proud boys, Oathkeeps, uh, Answark and Boog and Boog Boog Boys are not real threats. Who are the left-wing equivalent of McVeigh, Dylan Roof, Anders Brevick, or the 8-chan guy in New Zealand.
Starting point is 00:22:39 Well, the difference is that, so here's the problem, is that the difference is that all right-wing people can come together and condemn any of those people that you mentioned. But left-ling people can't come together and condemn the just unrepentant, regular, like, widespread violence towards Teslas and people that are supporters of Tesla or Elon Musk or Donald Trump. So, like, that's the big difference. Like, I agree with you. Yeah, there are bad actors on both sides. For sure, there's bad. actors on both sides. But what the difference is that there's only one side that's constantly playing mental gymnastics to pretend that they're not bad actors. And I think this is a great example of it, is that this person is the resistance. It's the framing of it. Nice. She's been counter protesting at Freedom Corner for years.
Starting point is 00:23:33 I would come down here with a megaphone. I got very personal. There's a lot of protests. for MAGA that will just, you know, say like, F-Trum or generic stuff. But I have spent, I think, going on three years focusing on these people. In 2022, she destroyed a memorial for Ashley Bavitt, who was killed by... This is insane.
Starting point is 00:24:05 Who does this? And this is the person who's part of the resistance, who's kicking over flowers at a dead person's memorial? This is the resistance? police on January 6 after entering the capital. Mama Mickey, we love you, honey. Ashley's mother, Mickey,
Starting point is 00:24:35 founded the nightly vigil outside the jail. Where you at, Mickey? Is the point. Who does that? And again, the problem with this is that she is being framed as the reasonable person and the other people around her
Starting point is 00:24:56 are being framed as the extremists. But I'm sorry, filming a video of you stomping on the flowers of a memorial to and then shit-talking the parent of the person who got killed. This is sick. It's sick. It's so weird. Who does this? To make their life hell. It's not to make their life hell. They're making our life hell. And they're dangerous individuals. Here comes. Who are these guys? This is Oreo Express. He was actually. He was actually. at the Capitol on January 6th. She's the one that
Starting point is 00:25:39 and this is his Ashley Babbett, I actually stopped on a memorial. Anyway, this is... Who does this? Like, I feel like, for example, if somebody had gone and, like, you know, fucked up a George Floyd memorial, I think most reasonable people could say
Starting point is 00:25:58 that's kind of fucked up. You shouldn't do that. That's not being a resistance. It's just being a fucking asshole. Is your president? There is your president. Jay Sixers are being part. Jay Sixers are being parted. There are two groups of people in this world that are the cause of all of our problems.
Starting point is 00:26:30 Jay Sixers are right. I'm good. Let them show them so. She's a psychopath. And here's Ashley Babbit's mom, Mickey. They all know that. They've been here. I know.
Starting point is 00:26:40 I've been here all day. I was in the bar with you, Mickey. He didn't even see me. Back on. I saw you drinking. Back on. I saw you drinking alcohol in the bar. The insults go back. What?
Starting point is 00:26:57 Back and forth and back and forth. Talk about stalking. Talk about stalking. Before a police officer eventually intervenes. Thank God. Is it a trespass order? You know my, you know my name. Yeah, he know.
Starting point is 00:27:15 You know my name. Yeah, he does. So this guy, now this guy. guy has to micromanage these unemployed carins. And I think this is the real, this is the real separation here, is that you have the working class and the real middle class that is set, their job is to mediate these childish, insane disputes between these overprivileged carins. So they don't go and tear each other apart. It's embarrassing. It's embarrassing.
Starting point is 00:27:55 For my own safety, that's why we're doing this. Go take care of kids! Despite Trump's orders, it's getting lace, and there are no signs of prisoners being released. We need to get the marshals! The guards inside are threatening
Starting point is 00:28:10 force against our men, and they are messaging out begging us for help. Johnny, I'm right behind you. Tony, I'm right behind you. Tony O'Sullivan, who's outside the detention center, where some people may be released
Starting point is 00:28:25 Joni Hey Anderson Yeah in the last few minutes All these demonstrators All rushed Towards the main Yeah they're rushing They're standing in front of the door
Starting point is 00:28:36 protesting outside the door Yes And you're playing the dramatic music As if like okay Oh my God They're about to siege the capital again Yes of course They've rushed the door
Starting point is 00:28:50 Listen I'm telling you Half of these people on Social Security They're not rushing anything. Door of the jail. We're not sure quite what is happening. Some of the people inside this prison are hoping to make it to the inaugural balls tonight. Oh, back.
Starting point is 00:29:08 Okay. We're going to move down here, Anderson. Everybody back up. We're back where we were. What's happening? Nothing. You're an hour and a half until this happens, guys. Back up, please.
Starting point is 00:29:23 Set it up with the grass. Back up with the grass. The night went on, but the releases never came. I was 12. Yeah, they weren't able to release everybody because of logistics. Like, it's reasonable that it would take a couple of days to release a bunch of prisoners because there's a process and a protocol for it and it would take time. This isn't some kind of crazy fucking conspiracy or anything.
Starting point is 00:29:47 It's just logistical reality. Of course. Yeah, there's paperwork and a process. Like, they can't just, it's not like this is like in the dark night rises, and all the fucking jail cells let up, and they're like, all right, boys, time to destroy everything again. Let me add him. Yeah, it's not like it's Bain that did this. What's going on?
Starting point is 00:30:14 Is it sinking in now that, you know, you're going to be a free woman soon? Okay. Go back to when you're six years old. And it's Christmas Eve, and you know when you wake up in the morning, Santa will have left gifts. Yeah, I'd be happy if I got... The next morning, Christmas arrived. Yeah, wow, big surprise. The day after they let the people go because they weren't able to do it at night for logistical reasons.
Starting point is 00:30:44 Wow, what a shock. Hallelujah, thank you Lord. We always said you're a true patriot. Oh, my goodness. Across the country, January Sixers were set free. And not just people like... A lot of them should have been set free. Some of them shouldn't. But the people that just walked inside the Capitol building, if they had been charged for a crime and sentenced, they probably would have been in jail for less time that they spent in jail than in the first place. Like, I think that anybody can understand and agree that someone being violent towards a police officer or destroying property or stealing, well, that probably shouldn't have been released.
Starting point is 00:31:28 at least a lot of them shouldn't. But the fact is that I know what these charges are in a lot of cases. And usually it's two to five years. Four years they were locked away. Yeah, exactly. Like they act like this is some sort of like, you know, deferral of the justice. Well, there's two things, right? Number one, they act like it is a, you know, some sort of like misuse of the justice system,
Starting point is 00:31:54 which is it's not. It's simply the way that the president executes pardons. This is always how it's worked. It's literally the game mechanics. And number two, a lot of these people, yes, they should not have done that. And I think I have no problem with them spending some time in jail. But if they had been charged for this crime, they would have already been out by now. Both things are true.
Starting point is 00:32:21 Partons are just retarded. You could say that, right? But it's still the game mechanics. Right? That's still the way it works. Rachel, the leaders of extremist groups, proud boys, three percenters, old keepers. If you'll vindicated and validate it. Many would no plans of going quietly into the night.
Starting point is 00:32:42 What is the implication of that? Like, they're going to go siege the Capitol again, that they're going to go and, like, be terrorists or they're going to go destroy a bunch of stuff? Like, they wouldn't go quietly into the night? What do you mean? So what is that? What are you saying by this? The dream team, we're back. The worst thing they did was put us in prison because I'm now friends with all the gangster disciples, the bloods, crips, all those guys in prison, they love us.
Starting point is 00:33:07 Biggo's back. I hate to tell you guys this, but I had a friend that voted for Trump from prison. And there were a lot of other guys that were in prison that voted for Trump. A lot of them. Felons? Yep. Absolutely. line up to vote for Donald.
Starting point is 00:33:36 Felons can't vote. No, they can in some places, not in others. I thought that too, and then, because he's a felon. So I'm like, how fuck did you vote? And so I looked it up and I found out. People say you're the guy that puts your feet on Nancy Pogue's desk. It's just not true. I'll put it on the people's death. I got a criminal news network photographer, maybe a reporter. I wanted to ask you sir, your buddy Dony. I'm working here.
Starting point is 00:34:08 Is he still in the ER? And for at least one man, you are now on my radar. It was a sign that the retribution was about to commence. I'm going to be scrutinizing you. I just, I love how like this entire thing is that like, you know, you have Maga Roorshawk
Starting point is 00:34:24 that you have, it's basically like the entire story is built around him being this like crazy person. And like, yeah, he's kind of a fucking idiot, right? But at the end of the day, like he's not really being violent or anything like that. I mean, am I wrong? Really, am I wrong?
Starting point is 00:34:44 No, I'm not. And everybody knows it. To commence. I'm going to be scrutinizing you. But at the same time, it wasn't just those in the right celebrating violence. All women, by the way. I cannot wait to watch this. I'm sure it will be completely unbiased.
Starting point is 00:35:11 And there won't be any any ed. on this at all. Surely they wouldn't just point it in one direction and then misrepresent things. Surely the what do you call it? The video, I'll link it to you guys. And surely the entire
Starting point is 00:35:28 preview is just simply showing one side and they'll show the other side in the full thing. Sounds like a free Palestine chant. Well, if you only know one emo, you've got to use it for different reasons. Yeah, there you go. I hate the cadence. The free free fill in the blank. Bro, you sound retarded. Yeah, I know.
Starting point is 00:35:44 but anyway, I just want you guys to see this. Like, it just came out an hour ago, so like, I didn't even really know what it was. But, like, you know, I talk about this a lot. I think that nothing facilitates extremism as much as videos like this. I think that videos like this are massively divisive. And I think that they're divisive because of the way that they are intentionally, you know, misrepresenting the way that these things happen. And I think that they are, I think the media very rarely actually like publishes like,
Starting point is 00:36:12 you know, if they say something is blue, it's not. red, right? But it's maybe a different shade of blue or it's closer to blue or they say it's dark blue and it's light blue or they misrepresent like some other variation of it, right? And so that's what I've seen a lot with this kind of stuff. And I, when I see this stuff, I find it to be very annoying. Like I really, really hate this stuff all the time. I've always hated it. And so which guy would drive there on your side? The guy in a mass crying rivers over the switch being more expensive trying to block your path or discount Roershock. I mean, I don't, I don't, I don't, don't know. I mean, like, I just, I don't want to see any. I think people are fucking nuts,
Starting point is 00:36:50 right? I mean, that's it. And, yeah, it's that simple. But you can see it's like the most unhinged bait for no reason at all. Yeah, it is. And this is what happens. It's very crazy for me to see this, but you can see how it's completely one-sided, except for the very, very end, where they're just showing a handful of people talking about Luigi. And then that's literally, it like completely one-sided one-sided reporting for this. This was relatively neutral. Well, okay, so when you say that it's relatively neutral,
Starting point is 00:37:31 how do you, so if you're showing a preview of this, what do you think the percentage was of the reporting? Like, for the amount of time that it was, like, because, you know, like they're talking about the rise of extremism. What do you think the percentage was, percentage was between like, you know, right-wing people that are extremists versus left-wing people. Like, what would you say the percentage was? Well, yeah, they only showed right-wing extremists.
Starting point is 00:38:01 It's only a nine-minute video. So if they only showed one group, how is it neutral? How does that work? The second episode? Oh, they haven't had it out yet. Yeah, they said at the beginning, it's going to be a full video. Mostly just one demonstration. They also showed a crazy left woman.
Starting point is 00:38:36 They didn't frame people very much. You think they didn't frame people? I think they did. I think they did a lot. And I think if you go back and you watch the Vod and like the points where I emphasized, I think that they really did try to frame people as much as they could.
Starting point is 00:38:54 And so I just want you to understand. So I just want to, I want to get an understanding of like what you mean by it was neutral. It was neutral. I'm not saying it was completely neutral, but they didn't make them out to be monsters. Okay, so then what would you say that
Starting point is 00:39:11 let me actually read this here they only okay so they only showed right wing extremists so basically it was all completely one-sided so when you only show one side of extremism do you think that that's really making a criticism of extremism or making a criticism of that group
Starting point is 00:39:32 because I think that you're making a criticism of that group disguised under making a criticism of extremism that's what I think is happening. Not very much, exactly. And so, relatively neutral, 90% on one side. Are there neutral people, what do you call it, at the protest for the release?
Starting point is 00:39:59 Well, no, but they filmed multiple other protests, but they didn't even show any of that. They didn't show any of that. They didn't show any of the Tesla stuff. They didn't show any of the other political violence either. They didn't contextualize this around the BLM rallies that burned down entire cities. They didn't show Chaz.
Starting point is 00:40:18 They didn't show any of that stuff. And so when you're selectively showing one group of things and not the other group of things, you are painting a narrative that is intentionally misleading. That's what you're doing. Yeah, you're controlling the narrative using omission. Yes, not telling people something is the same as they are, of course, biased. So, but they just showed these people peacefully protesting. No, they didn't. the reason why they couldn't show them being violent is because there's not enough clips of it to fit in the video.
Starting point is 00:40:51 That's why they had to keep referencing the same event over and over and had to be about January 6th. So you're saying that they're biased. They only showed one side, but now you're being surprised that I hate CNN. Why would I not hate a, like a news website that only shows one side of a conflict and are biased? Even you think they're biased. You're the one saying it. They could have made them seem way more violent. So here's a good question.
Starting point is 00:41:36 For help. Johnny, I'm right behind you. Donio Sullivan, who's outside the detention center where some people may be released, Johnny. Hey, Anderson. Yeah, in the last few minutes, all these demonstrators, all rushed. Why do you think they started playing that music there? I think they started playing that music there in order to make it dramatic and make it seem scarier.
Starting point is 00:42:00 because that's what happens. Like that's the way it is in any game. Like you look at a horror movie, that's what happens, right? Yeah, it's, yeah, it's tense music. It's like a fast heartbeat music. Exactly. It's a look, exactly. And so anyway, so you hate Fox News?
Starting point is 00:42:16 Well, yeah, if I feel like Fox News is misrepresenting something, then, yeah, I would say it's bad too. And if I see them doing that, of course I would talk about it. Absolutely. Yeah, and also, like, because in my opinion, you are making a lot more of this than is. I think that mainstream media is probably the most detrimental and corrosive force in politics. I think that it does more to push people apart, to divide people, to confuse people, and to
Starting point is 00:42:55 mislead people than anything else. And when I see websites like this, or I see videos like this, I see the exact same thing happening. It's propaganda. It's, it's. It's. intentionally misleading. These are the same people that put a green filter over Joe Rogan because he was taking Ivermectin. And you want me to think that like, yeah, I don't like these people. I think that they're dramatically misleading. You're only just as biased as any of those news networks, who cares? Well, let me ask you something here. We can move past this. Anyway, what do you think that I'm biased about? What is like an example of? that happening. Literally everything you read. Can you give me an example? I mean, if it's everything,
Starting point is 00:43:49 you might as well be able to pick one thing, right? Why? And give me your platform to argue? Well, I think it's important to, uh, to listen to opinions from other people. Yeah, of course. I have no problem listening to other people's opinions. That's okay. Didn't you call it the cats and dog story and you made fun of the Trump rallies as well? Well, I didn't really make fun of the Trump rallies, but yeah, of course I called out the cats and dogs thing because it was bullshit. What's the logic that there's, eating cats and dogs, but they're also being given $3,500 a month on food stamps. Why the fuck would somebody want to eat a dog if they're getting that much money? They're going to eat a steak.
Starting point is 00:44:28 It's like they cancel each other out. It doesn't even make sense. Voodoo? There's no evidence of that happening. And also, there's plenty of people that kill cats and dogs for all kinds of weird wick and reasons. That's nothing that's new or unique to Haitians. People do that.
Starting point is 00:44:50 People have been doing it. It's very common. People might not have heard this. How many of you guys have heard the advice to hide and like keep your cat inside if it's a black cat on Halloween? Because people sometimes take them and sacrifice them. Because I remember like we had two black cats and we kept that in mind for sure. Yeah. And like hurt them exactly.
Starting point is 00:45:11 And so like, yeah, this is we did. Yeah, exactly. Bro, you edge, you edge every Trump announcement. You think the tariffs are good and nuking a stock market 15%. to see it recover 5% is a good thing. Yeah, I think the tariffs are good for sure. I think that these countries, I think, have advantageous trade relationships with us. And I think that a lot of the senators and the politicians that are against the tariffs
Starting point is 00:45:35 are in most cases financially invested in the countries and also the companies that are benefiting from the unfair advantage these countries have against the United States. Yeah, that's what I think. And I think also, like, I think it even goes as far as other content creators as well. So like a really good example of this is that you had a lot of people that were meming about Free Luigi. And they were talking about like how much they hate corporations. But the moment that Trump did something that actually damages corporations, they're crying about it. It's because they were larping the entire time.
Starting point is 00:46:12 And they're just saying that to make people like them. But the fact is they're doing it for money just like everybody else. So that's that that's really what I think. The United States is being taken advantage of, but we're simultaneously the world's leading economy. It's not even close. Yeah. So here's the problem. And I'm actually going to answer your question because I think that you're approaching at least like probably 10 to 20% good faith.
Starting point is 00:46:41 Is that the United States being the leading economy is not entirely a, this is not entirely an evaluation of the country as a whole. And it's instead an evaluation of the top. 1% of capital owners in the country. So when you look at the stock market going up and up and up, especially like, you know, like 2020 onward, you see all of this growth and all of these gains and profit and money and value in capital, but these are not gains that are realized by the average American. And so that's the problem that I think that you have is that you're looking at this graph, and I'm not looking at the graph, I'm looking at people. And when I see people that can't afford food and I look at the prices of things go up all the time and then I see the prices
Starting point is 00:47:32 of people's or sorry the amount of money that people are being paid that goes up like you know every all everything goes up by 100% and people get paid 20% more money well then big fucking surprise things aren't going to go very well so it means the example is you're the richest you can't be taken advantage of well I think also like in here it's sarcasm no I understand that but like I understand that it's sarcasm but it's actually not the fact is that you have people in the United States that are also taking advantage of the United States. That's called lobbying. That's the exact reason.
Starting point is 00:48:07 That's the whole point is that these are people who have taken advantage of the country. They become multi-billionaires. They own these massive conglomerate companies that are also like dictating out like what you can and can't say, etc. That's legal bribing exactly. And so when you talk about the United States being this massively rich country, you are right on paper, but the fact is that if you look at the backslide of people's individual purchasing power
Starting point is 00:48:34 and the difference in like productivity versus wages, you look at the amount of income that's consolidated in the top 1% of people, we have one of the worst ratios in the whole world and we even have one of the worst ratios, if not the worst ratio in our own history. So yes, it's people in the United States that are taking advantage of it.
Starting point is 00:48:56 Absolutely. Genie index? Yeah, that's one indicator of that. Worse inequality since French Revolution? I don't know about that, but I know that it's worse than in like the 1920s. I thought this was a biased argument. Well, what I'm saying is that like, but these, these are objective realities, right? Like, you, like, it's an objective reality that almost all of the amount of money that was gained after like the COVID, you know, recovery was gained into 1%. Like, this is, it's a factual reality. Like, there's, there's, there's, there's, There's no, like, you can debate this, sure, right? But, like, that's debating, like, if the earth is flat.
Starting point is 00:49:31 It's just simply what happened. And so, like, that's really it. Yeah, 263% productivity wage. It's 2,000 and a 100% wage increase. Yeah, of course. That's what he called right-wing edge, by the way? Yeah, exactly. Not taking advantage of at all.
Starting point is 00:49:48 The trade deficit is on goods only. If you consider services in military trade, it's massive in favor of the U.S. Yeah, but, like, I don't think that's a good thing. Like, I don't feel like, you know, if you, if you take, take into account the military industrial complex that doesn't serve any benefit to the average American, that trade is good. Like, I don't think that's, that's not a good argument to me as, as, as an American. He replied. Okay, I'll, I'll take one more response. Average American quality of life is better than anywhere else in the world, brother.
Starting point is 00:50:17 Yeah, it's only gotten better over time, regardless of what conservatives are trying to rest to make it worse at every point. So I use this example, and I can go ahead and show it again. So if you look at, where is the, was it on here? No, I don't think it was. But anyway, I don't think this is true. And I think that if you ask a lot of people in America, was their life better, you know, like, let's say eight years ago versus now? I think the majority of them would say that it was better eight years ago.
Starting point is 00:50:50 And also when you can see like old TV shows where it's like one guy with like a high school education that was able to support a whole family on a Florida house. I don't know how you can reconcile this viewpoint with the resounding frustration and anger that a lot of young people have because they have no purchasing power in the economy and there's never a light at the end of the tunnel. So how is it that you can have all of these young people that were groomed into indentured servitude through student loans
Starting point is 00:51:22 who have no future of any sort of career because it's being replaced by technology as rapidly as possible. And then they're just being told too fucking bad, you live in the best economy ever. How does that happen? You're being outsourced? Yeah, I think that's exactly it. Those people have a skill issue?
Starting point is 00:51:47 Well, if there are so many people that have a skill issue, maybe the country has a skill issue, right? If your country creates outcomes that are not beneficial for the majority of people at a high enough ratio, maybe the skill issue is you. It's kind of like if you have a video game and people keep getting stuck at one part of the game, maybe the reason is because that part of the game is badly designed.
Starting point is 00:52:10 What do tariffs have to do with income inequality? I think that basically the lack of like middle class jobs I think primarily came through the removal of manufacturing and the ability to like basically get a job without having like a four year degree. And so like you need people. that can have like a 90 IQ and have a good job. And now I don't think that's possible.
Starting point is 00:52:36 Destroyed the middle class? Yeah, exactly. Did you really ask that? Yeah. And so this is the, this is the big issue that I think a lot of people have is that, like, they keep referencing like graphs and shit like this, but the truth is that a lot of these graphs are just simply not representative
Starting point is 00:52:54 of what an average person experiences. Jobs won't even pay your degree worth anymore? Well, yeah, because they don't need to. and why would they? That's really the reason why. I think it just makes sense. So, yeah, that's the way that I see it. And I don't think, by the way,
Starting point is 00:53:12 I don't think that I talk about things in like a right-wing perspective. I actually think that a lot of this, especially like when I'm talking about economics, if you listen to what I say about the economics, the closest person to what I'm saying is Bernie Sanders. So how am I right-wing here? It doesn't even make sense.
Starting point is 00:53:30 what, because I don't like people burning down Teslas? What a ridiculous thing to say? However, the way Trump goes about it, isn't professional. It's very hard to justify. Sure, I think you can make that argument. Yeah, sure, that's fine. The issue isn't, and Trump isn't wrong, wanting to bring manufacturing back to America.
Starting point is 00:53:49 Most reasonable people agree with that point. But if force that to occur in a time building infrastructure, if it's still a change, you're doing at the expense at the same time with the same class that was disenfranchised. I feel like they're already disenfranchised. And I think also he's doing it and incentivizing them. That's why all those companies are talking about building factories in the U.S. And also, by the way, I don't think manufacturing jobs are going to come back.
Starting point is 00:54:12 I think that really it's like kind of a, it's like a smokescreen problem. It's not real because it's a mirage. Because the closer that we get to like manufacturing jobs, the closer we're going to get to automating manufacturing jobs. Machines will take over? Yeah, exactly. I think you came off as overly defensive about the video. Um, yeah, I, I am. I find it to be like, maybe, maybe this is like just a personal thing, but I really, really hate the, um, what do you call it?
Starting point is 00:54:44 What's the best way for me to say this? Um, I, I hate rhetorical manipulation. I do. I, I really, really, really hate it. And so whenever I hear it being used, I, like, it's the same as like, you know, the, uh, you know, clean, beautiful coal and stuff like that. it's disingenuous behavior. Yeah, it is. Exactly. But yeah, the video is total propaganda. Yeah, I think so. It's insult to intelligence. Yeah, I think so too. Automation manufacturing isn't 100%. Yeah, but it's enough to where you can't rely on a job to get in that industry, right? That's what I would say. You claim to conduct yourself in that manner? You're criticizing? No, I don't think that I do that. Yeah, I don't think that I do. I mean, and again, if I did, I think you'd have an example of that rather than just saying it in like some abstract sense. an insult to people that think that won't see through the propaganda. Yeah, yeah, a little bit, right? Definitely. You have a weak spot for right wing manipulation against the left, take their videos
Starting point is 00:55:45 at face value. It would be overly critical about videos like this. No, I think actually, like, that's not true. But one thing that I probably could emphasize more that's like to your point is that I think that, like, for example, like the Doge stuff, I think that there's a, like, I don't think that it's just Democrats that are cheating the government, right? It's like, oh, Democrats are doing all of our money. Of course that's not what's happening. It's a lot of people doing it collectively. And so, yeah, that's really what I see in most cases. But yeah, I know I think that I could do a better job at saying that like anybody who is doing this like regardless of like any affiliation is still bad, right? And that's, I think, the biggest difference.

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