Peak Prosperity - Tesla Takedowns and Activist Judges

Episode Date: April 4, 2025

Crazy times we live in, folks. Today, Evie and I dove into the idea of a national divorce, a concept that’s been floating around for a while now. It’s about the divide between those living in a world of abstractions and those grounded in reality. This isn’t just a U.S. issue; it’s something people in Germany, Australia, and beyond are grappling with. The question is, can we part amicably, or is it time to call it quits?Mentioned:Breaking the FrameGold's New High: Exciting or Reason to Worry?Here's What Just Happened at the CMEFat Pipe March 31

The following is the audio version of a video released at peakprosperity.com. Visit peakprosperity.com to watch the video and to find other insightful content such as articles, discussion forums, and exclusive subscriber-only content. Hello everyone and welcome to this Signal Hour where you get, well, all of the news that's not fit to print elsewhere. We'll go through it. We're touring the signal that's actually out there crazy times we live in hello to everybody who's tuned in we see Germany here Australia California wherever you're coming in from welcome and we're gonna be talking today about well is it time for a national divorce this is a topic that's come up before a concept that's come up before, a concept that's come up before,

and this will apply whether you're in Australia or Germany or any other place like that, because I think we're all facing the same issue. It's between, as we've talked about repeatedly, those who live in a world of abstractions and those who live in a world of reality. Very grossly speaking, at the last election cycle in the US, it was really a vote total between those who live in a world of abstractions and

those who live in the world of reality. Those who make powerpoints and take gender studies and all of that for their livelihoods and those who have to wake up at 4 in the morning make sure the cows are milked and that the HVAC is working again. So that's the basic breakdown. And there comes a time in a relationship when it's just over. I mean, you can part amicably. It doesn't mean this has to be a bitter contested divorce

with nasty divorce lawyers. But it does mean that there comes a time where you have to call an audible and just say, maybe this is over. And if it is, then you have to sort of sort out the details. Who gets the kids? Who's paying? Who alimony? Who gets the house? Who keeps the friends? There's a lot of things to sort out in all of that. So with that, um, Hey Evie, good to see you here today. Hi, good afternoon. Yes. We're all here together and, um gonna be talking about this thing here. Let's do this Evie.

So is it time for a national divorce? Oh, all I saw was time for a divorce. You freaked me out. That would be a little callous to spring it on you here on the signal. Time for a national divorce. Yes, I think. Yeah, I think I feel that sentiment. All right, anybody else?

Well, let's talk about it. And of course, this is this is live. And so we read the comments as best we can. There's two of us in the studio. We're trolling through watching the comments when we see good ones, when we see them, that's the key part. We'll pull them up and talk about them and engage you with those and ask questions and things. This is live. So here we go into our live presentation. Evie, I wanted to start here with this idea that Gottman, a relationship, what would you

call him? Counselor, psychiatrist? I don't know. Oh yeah. The relationship guy. Yeah. And he created what he calls the four horsemen of the, of the apocalypse, the four horsemen of a relationship. And if you have these four things on the left, and I don't want to go into antidotes right now, cause that's a, that's a separate conversation. What I want to be doing here today, Evie is trying to figure out with you,

when we look at various things with other people's help in the audience, are we noticing things like criticism? Criticism? Verbally attacking personality or character? Yep. Can we detect that in anybody? Any of the clips we'll be showing today, would we detect that there's any criticism? Okay.

You know what? A relationship can survive criticism. That okay a little bit of criticism unless it's just like relentless haranguing nagging honesty you know just like somebody's always beating on you criticism alone can completely undermine a relationship but a little criticism survivable but contempt zero contempt is survivable yes I would agree with that yeah is the death of a relationship for sure yeah that little sneery thing you do with your upper lip like not you I mean but when something like you know mm-hmm right okay so I

guess defensiveness is another one victimizing yourself to ward off a perceived attack and reverse the blame Dar Darbo. Oh, yeah. Darbo. Yeah. And stonewalling, withdrawing to avoid conflict and convey disapproval, distance, and separation. So you kind of punish people with their absence almost. Yeah, that's the family structure I grew up in. We were like, full on Wasp stonewallers, professional. But these were fine. Yeah, I can see that. and wasp stonewallers, professional. These were fine, the Peruvian builders of Machu Picchu had nothing on the stone walls we could erect in our family.

It was, I'm unlearning that behavior as best I can with your help, so that's all good. But so that's what we're gonna be looking for here is those four things over there. Okay, so yeah, that stuff right there. Yep. Okay, and under contempt, that that stuff right there. Yep. Yep. All right. In under contempt, it says attaching sense of self. No, no, that's attacking. That's a typo. Sorry. All right. So you found this one, Evie, I thought this gentleman did a

really good job of sort of explaining, well, what democracy ought to be, I think the Tesla you just vandalized. Let's say that the owner is a Trump supporter. Congrats, you got your guy. Now that person probably likes Trump more than ever. Let's say actually that they voted for Kamala Harris. Now that person is way more likely to support Trump. And on top of all of this, you are now at risk for being charged with being a domestic terrorist.

It's funny how you guys call us evil, but you never have to worry about us vandalizing your property because we disagree with you. The reason you don't see that many Trump bumper stickers is because people know that Democrats are more likely to vandalize your property if they disagree with you. Y'all claim to be the side that's fighting for democracy and yet you seem to forget that democracy means coexisting peacefully with people who you disagree with. And yet here you guys are. I like that part.

Mm-hmm. Yeah, that struck me too. Democracy is coexisting peacefully with people you disagree with. It's actually, to me that's the definition of democracy. Right. I wonder what people think it means. It's actually, to me, that's the definition of democracy. Right. I wonder what people think it means. Yeah, let's, well.

I mean, just because that gets thrown around a lot. Well, you hear, oh, we have to defend our democracy, our democracy. Oh, we have to defend, we're here defending a democracy. So Evie and I will talk about how we went to, we actually went to one of those Doge protests, anti-Elon protests on- The Tesla take down. Tesla take down. That's what it was called. Nationwide, and I think it went to, we actually went to one of those Doge protests, the anti-Elon protests on the Tesla take down, that's what it was called, nationwide, and I think it went to some other countries, but it was really big in the US. That was on Sunday, this past Sunday

of this last week. So we were just there. I got a couple of clips from that that we can show. But this is the important part, because I think this is important right here. You claim to be the side that's fighting for democracy and yet you seem to forget that democracy means coexisting peacefully with people who you disagree with and yet here you guys are vandalizing other people's property not because you even necessarily disagree with their politics but because you disagree with the politics of the CEO of the car company that manufactured their car. That is insane He reminds me of Nicolas Cage Yeah, a little bit of that a little bit but but that's such an important point here that

When when this has been bandied around a lot, you know I have it like now in a almost a break out in hives when somebody says, oh, we're defending our democracy. Because they're using our in the possessive sense of the word. Right? Like this is our house. Oh, I see what you mean. Yeah.

Yeah. I hadn't thought about it like that, but yeah. Yeah, our democracy, not our collective democracy. Right. Our democracy, which when you peel it back is like well that democracy seems to be you taking other people's stuff and living off of it and then deciding that It all has to go your way and then you're happy with it Reasonably or you throw a hissy fit and you break stuff you burn stuff and you smash your little fists on the table That's that's again. This is a very difficult place to be in relationship with um, so

Yeah, that's the truth. And and by the way Jochen bremmer here says hello from I don't know. Dortmund in germany. Thanks a lot Of the balanced discussion and topics go on please Hello and hello Germany, so there's a lot to talk about we got a lot to talk about in Germany too at some point Um, so but this is this is the thing here Evie is um, you see this sticker a lot Oh, yeah, that's been around for a long time. Particularly. This is on a Prius hybrid sticker a lot. Oh yeah, that's been around for a long time. Particularly this is on a Prius hybrid. Coexist, man. It's like we're all going to get along peacefully. So this

is the insane part. The left here has had this sticker and this is their concept set. We're the peaceful ones. We are outraged because Republicans in their mind are the are the nasty dangerous ones but it's pure projection because they're the ones who mostly peacefully protest and burn stuff down attack cars even if they're compatriots and do other illogical things like that right yes they do all right so this was this was us pulling in I edited this EV so I just I chopped it Sorry for the crude editing. This is just me chopping it up and snag it if you know what I'm talking about It's like not the world's not a video editor. But here we are. We are even I have just driven up to Northampton out

Where I don't know where let's pull in Let's take this next. Yeah. We are the spark. We live in communist country apparently. Yeah there were a lot of people there. I'm surprised at the turnout. Wow. You hear all that beeping? All that beeping back there? So there were a lot of cars driving by. This is a this is at the four lane road that goes into script malls at big box central right you got a Michaels and Home Depot's and Dick's sporting goods and whatever right? It's the end all the heavy traffic area. Yeah, so but The beeping was non-stop It's true pretty much It seemed like people were you know honking their horn in agreement for them a spark not always but no there were a few

Middle fingers out there Yeah, yeah, we saw a few of those but um so so that's what that's what you drove into we get out of our car And and we are and the first thing is well, I mean American car made by American workers, purchased by American citizens, and hated by the American left because Elon wants to save the American taxpayers money. That's good. That's, I mean... That kind of is what it is, isn't it?

It is. I mean, that is kind of the... Anyway, it's a very bizarre thing to try and wrap your head around Logically because this is illogical and on its surface It just doesn't make sense so so if you had to guess at this point after all we've been through What is it that? They're actually protesting against Like why is Elon the lightning rod? Besides somebody told them that he was supposed to be that and they just turned the dial and

programmed two minutes of hate into these poor people's minds. But just pretending that didn't happen, what's the actual substance, like why is Elon a Nazi for digging into our payment systems in the US government? Well, I think if I had, if you, the way I see it, you know, the people that were at this protest that we went to, a lot of them are just taking their cue from those that are in positions of power. And if you remember right from the get-go, the Democrats, those on the left,

were not even cordially nice. I mean, remember at Trump's inauguration, there were people who was talking about things he was going to do. Nominally, they were potentially very good things for the country, and they were just sitting there not clapping. I mean, people in leadership positions have a big role to sort of, you know, set the tone for how people are going to treat others. And honestly, I think the divide has just only worsened since we've seen people freaking out in Washington

since this doge was enacted. And so I think it begins there on some level, but it also I think is potentially the free-floating anxiety and the other things that people are feeling at this time, whether they're feeling pinched economically or stressed out in other places of their life, this is a dumping ground for them because they haven't learned other responsible ways of handling themselves. And so this is just where they go to beat on somebody for the sake of getting that energy out But the energy doesn't seem to be dissipating seems to be sort of amplifying potentially. Yep Okay. Well Hey up very quickly before we move on. I just want to because this is Wednesday

Tomorrow is Thursday Friday is the fourth Saturday 5th Sunday 6th Evie and I are going to be down in Atlanta at the IMA conference. IMA is the Independent Medical Alliance, formerly the FLCCC, those doctors, the dissonant doctors, and I've been a big supporter and on the board and helping them out. And so we're going to be down there. And if you're there, come say hi, shake our hand. Yes, we'd love to see you.

Come grab lunch with us on one of the days and there's still tickets available for them. I think they could sneak a few people in. I think. Okay, we might. If you could sneak in at the last minute, good luck. But if you can't, sorry. But if you're going to be there, I just want to say, love to see you.

So be sure to say hi. Yeah, because we love meeting up with folks. All right. Okay. So we pull up, we park it behind that gas station. You just saw us drive past. There's all these beeping, yelling people over there. The first thing is just very obvious. Here's what we know. We are with the Elon thing. They're mad at Elon so this is this is interesting because they have blocked all of the charging stations and this even is a Prius and this is a hybrid synergy drive right this is actually a bolt EV so they like the EV concept but they are blocking the EV charging station so that the Tesla people can't actually charge. So got hybrids here. We've got, oh this looks like a Honda hybrid truck here. Is

this the electric truck? We just got a regular old Toyota here and they are, oh, an Alexis blocking all the charging stations in protest. And this is a major like throughway when you get off the highway. If you do have an electric car, this is a stop. Well, and we were there right when it was starting to break up a little bit and some of these cars had left and Tesla's had pulled in because they need to charge, right? So they can go places so very disruptive so so when the the left if I could call it that say we're going to protest they damage things they want to inconvenience you they want to block roads glue their hands to things they want to destroy things they want to put paint onto building surfaces and soup onto paintings they want to block the charging stations so you can't actually go somewhere who knows what

Daily inconvenience that leads into somebody's life who needs to charge to go pick somebody up on time or whatever And this was something a good question here. We didn't determine this I couldn't figure this out How many of those are paid protesters? I wanted to know that too and I was looking for signs You know the handmade signs to see if there were duplicates or if there was a certain phrase going around, anything to sort of help us understand who might have been funding this or behind it. We did know that the Indivisible Project. Yes, they organized this. They organize it and then also something more locally called the disruption project Was also associated with that somehow But clearly it was weird because I

Saw some other tweets about this in the days that followed and there were places all over the country that did this But miraculously like people just showed up and then disappeared. Yeah But miraculously, like people just showed up and then disappeared. Yeah, two o'clock. Oh, I'm only paid till two. I'm out of here. Which kind of makes you wonder if it actually is something where people are being paid to attend. Well, some were. I guess. I don't know about this one in particular.

I don't have any data one way or the other. Well, there are plenty of these type of people that live in this area anyway. This is where Chris and I previously lived and got out just in time. But I think this Amy's got the right phrase at the very end there. Iran's fight against fraud and money laundering is fueled to the fire of his insistence to expose the authoritarian left. Yes. Well, they are authoritarian, right? Because because what they want is they don't want

to listen to you They want to shout you down. They have no interest in your point of view, right? So I conducted two interviews there right and and with two Liberal white women just how it turned out It was a bit was kind of Well, it was a hundred percent white to begin with and it was close to fifty fifty male female Yeah, that was a pretty good split pretty balanced 100% white to begin with and it was close to 50 50 male female. Yeah Pretty balanced, but I'm gonna say the median age was definitely tipped older. Oh, yeah, it's like 60s

Like 50s 70s, maybe so I talked with these two ladies, right and and one of them said Oh, I don't know if I have anything to say and then went on a literal 15 minute I swear to God press the play button 15 minutes of Rachel Maddow talking points. Elon was, what was he doing? Remember he was, help me remember some of these. He was gonna deny women the right to vote. He was stealing people's social security checks. He was eliminating free speech. He was destroying democracy, said that several times.

Are you talking about the first woman? The first woman, yeah. Yep. But it was just this stream. Yeah. And she displayed zero what I would call interpersonal curiosity. Like, oh who are you? Why are you asking this question? Where do you stand? Help me, let's find where we have some common ground. Sure. It was just no no. I'm gonna tell you what's on my mind and if you don't share this point of view. Well, you detected it more than I did. Did you feel welcome there?

No, actually. And it was the first time I'd been around a group of people where internally had this alarm go off where I'm like, I'm not like, like they can sense that I'm not like them. And that feels a little bit dangerous. Like it, it was a little scary. Like I felt like we went in, you know, we're not holding signs, we're dressed how we normally dress, we're not trying to make any sort of statement either way. But I felt like they could somehow tell that we weren't part of the mind virus and the blob was going to eat us up and spit us out, you

know? Yeah. Well, that's in no small measure, Evie, because you are a unicorn. Oh my gosh. Really? Thank you, Maureen. Thank you, Eli. I love you, Maureen. You are. I mean, you stood out just from physical attractiveness. And I'm making a point here, which is they actually go out of their way, I feel, to dress down. Drab colors, a lot of them look like they were dressed right out of Salvation Army, right?

Not that there's anything wrong with that. No. But they have a look that's sort of how you have to look to be fit in, right? So if you'd had a butch haircut, no makeup, just maybe some, you know, some color in your hair and, and some really baggy clothes that deaccentuated that you were a gender. A woman, a woman in particular. Yeah. I think yeah, you would have gotten further. I might've. Yeah, I might've fit in. I could tell that they didn't. There was an otherness that, yep, that they sensed in us. And it was interesting that woman that you were first speaking with, she was an attorney. Yes.

And a librarian, I guess. That famous combo. Yeah. Right. But that surprised me because you'd figure somebody with that kind of degree would also understand that you can't make those sort of statements without some evidence to back it up. Well, most of them were wrong.

Remember, she said, oh, an Elon won by the thinnest of margins. without some evidence to back it up. Well, most of them were wrong. Remember she said, oh, an Elon won by the thinnest of margins. It doesn't really count, you know, because it was so thin. It's like, hmm, that's a little delusional. Actually, a lot of her stuff was fully debatable, if not factually wrong. Mm-hmm. But there was no room to have a conversation.

Maybe not the right place. I get it Yeah, all that but how did those recordings come out? Little bit little noisy cuz all the beeping much we are. Yeah, by the way There it is. This is your left wing starter set Okay If you wanted to get a car your Prius would have the coexist sticker on there Which means everything except getting along peacefully democratically with your fellow humans. Right. Oh and yeah I'm gonna have to see that one in the lower right. Yeah. We're gonna have to cross that one out because they obviously don't say no to war anymore.

There were Ukraine flags there. Like suddenly being left means. Oh hybrid cars too. You gotta get rid of that one. yeah I know suddenly like this is the astonishing if not scary part is how quickly there are so-called belief systems that they were violently emotionally attached to last week are diametrically opposed hundred percent not the same beliefs they hold this week including warfare trusting pharma all that. Now that second lady I was talking to, I said, well, I'm trying to find common ground. I'm like, well, how do you, cause obviously this is a woman who would be caring about like poisons and food and sick children. Cause

you know, they care about the children, not children with like names, but I mean the children. Okay. So I said, well, how do you feel about RFK? And she's just like, and you watched her mind do these flips. Cause she was like, how do I, okay, I have to be against him because he's part of the Trump team. So I have to be against this. She's like, well, I really feel like he should have, he's not a doctor. Like he's not qualified, not qualified. So like, how does being a doctor qualify you to head up a multi hundred thousand person agency? Because I know a lot of doctors, I would not want them running businesses for the most

part. Sorry, doctors that I know. They're very good at something. But let's just say their interpersonal human skills on balance. Not the best. Just, just saying. Okay. But again, it selects for a certain type and all that and you want your doctor. You know what? You know what? I want my surgeon to be a cocky

sob. Bring it right? You know, but um, but anyway, so that whole idea she was like, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, no, no, not a doctor. I said, well, but since he's been in office, we already got rid of red dye number three. We're working on the other ones, which are overt toxins. And so remember what she did? She said, well, that's really a problem of capitalism. So I'm thinking we should, she went into this whole diatribe about how we have to fix capitalism. Like she couldn't, we couldn't find common ground about getting poison out of kids' cereals as a common, we didn't even have that common ground.

No, we were trying and the way it started wasn't just like, because I was being nice. I was being nice about RFK Jr. It was like, what do you think about the fact that our country or our nation is one of the sickest and we spend the most on health care and we have the worst outcomes. Yep. Right. And what is going on where we all have these metabolic disorders and everybody's mess and yeah, she couldn't connect those dots. Well, I was just trying to find common ground because that's my normal sort of debate style or negotiating style is well,

where do our circles overlap? Because they don't overlap on context. We were lacking like shared context. Right? Yes. there's there's no there there how do you start like if we wanted to get to know this woman and have a decent conversation where do you find anything that you could agree on I guess we could have agreed it was sort of a gray shady day outside but uh beyond that I don't know I don't know so anyway so and we disagree on war and all kinds of things now too apparently. Okay, here's the complete left-wing package with indivisible and peacefully coexist, stuck right next to each other, on a Prius. It's perfect. Homophobia is a social disease down

there. Cross out science. Yeah, there's all kinds of things going on. I don't know at any rate. So that's... So this continues to be shocking to us. For some reason it shocks us. It shocks Chris. It shocks me too. I mean... Well this is where we grew up. We grew up in and around this. This was like home for us and now people seemingly

have lost their minds and we don't understand what's happening. Yeah. So if you can't have common ground, remember those four horsemen, right? So when it comes to contempt, when it comes to criticism, when it comes to defensiveness, stonewalling, it's really hard if you don't have any territory that you share. Can we all agree that harming children is bad? Hopefully you'd have something you could go, okay, yeah, I like clean air.

There should be something you can get together on, but if every time you're like, oh, I like clean air, if suddenly Trump had done something for clean air, they reflexively are going to be like, oh, clean air is actually a racist construct with intersectionality, gender overtonestones undertones sour tones something all right so um but remember Evie you know my um my definition of a cult is an organized system of thinking that works against your better interests so it's a negative for you you adopt this way of thinking that works against your better interests. So it's a negative for you. You adopt this way of thinking, it works against you. So I'd like to get your view on whether you think this woman's system of thinking is

doing her any favors right now. Friendly reminder, as a white American woman, yeah I will no longer be dating white men. I'm looking for anything other than a white man. Okay. Just a heads up. Okay. I don't even need to say anything. Come on, say something. She thinks that she's taking something so hot away from everybody else. It's kind of sad. Well, I did a minimum. I think somebody ought to gently tell her she kind of looks like a white dude. Oh, she does. Just saying. So I'm going to go with all four on this. I'm going to go. I think she displayed criticism, contempt, some defensiveness, some withdrawing.

Like, it's all on display here, I think, in this one spot. You're right. It is. She's doing all those things. And to be fair, I am too, you know? I'm holding her with those same feelings, which is what I'm kind of struggling with lately is like, well... But hold on, hold on. For me, I feel like I can ridicule this because

in its surface, saying, I am anti-racist, so I'm not going to date any white men, is the most racist thing you can say. Mm-hmm. Right? Yes, it is. It's judging people by their skin.

Yeah, it's taking all white men and lumping them in one spot and what this lady seems to be unaware of is is that I could find her from every single race creed color a bell curve of people some of whom are awesome Some of whom are complete Church useless. Yeah should not inhabit the face of the planet people and it's and it's just distributed evenly. Welcome to humans It's just a bell curve, But she's basically saying to camps, there's good types of people and bad types of people. So this whole, I hate white men is also her saying, um, as a white person, I kind of hate myself too. So this self hating, where did that come from? That's an organized system of thinking. It's very negative. And she just cut her pool of

potential dates as a woman in age where it gets more difficult maybe to find a mate because of the odds, more women than men because of biology and death rates and things like that. So she's just taken herself out of the dating pool if that was going to be a source of contentment or enjoyment or satisfaction for her. So that's an organized system of thinking that's negative for her I Say agree. I agree. I'm just saying like I I find myself Just soul-searching because I feel towards these people the way they probably feel towards me like I'm not the victim of them Yep, in other words and I and I'm just trying to sort of parse through that and understand if if I'm a part of the problem,

right? Because I feel, I just feel this gross, like I want to get away from these people. Like I don't really want to be around them. I don't want to spend time with them. I don't really want to hear them go on and on about all this BS that doesn't really matter. You know, and I'm not interested in getting to know them. And it's okay to feel that way. I know. But anyway, but I'm going to guess I'm just going to project here, do my own projecting that, again, my context overlap with this woman is going to be low. Right? Like, hey, here's my evidence for

why not just the past election, but all elections since the adoption of electronic voting machines have been illegitimate. Right? Statistically, impossible, improbable to the point of impossible. Like you have to be really, you have to be a special, you have to put your last $10 into Powerball kind of irrational, right? I'm going to make it. Right? I know that woman actually that we spoke to, one of the women that we spoke to was talking about that, remember? Oh yeah. She was saying something about the elections and how... Oh, I was trying to find common ground with her. I was trying to say, could we agree that having election integrity is important? Because I

was kind of hoping she was going to like, that was common ground because I was hoping she was going to default into, yeah, Trump stole the last election. The other one before that was totally fair, but if she could at gonna default into yeah Trump stole the last election the other one before that was totally fair but if she could at least admit one of them wasn't fair yeah then we could work off of that as a starting point no we can work off that she's like oh no the machines are pretty good like oh gosh okay all right how about this so this is Heather Hay and she's talking it is the wife of Brett Weinstein talking at Portland State University and she's saying to me what are very uncontroversial biological

facts and then we get to see the reactions. James argues, accurately, that there are differences between men and women. This is a strange position to be in, to be arguing for something that is so universally and widely accepted within biology. What is not as widely accepted is that culture is also evolutionary, but I'm going to argue that biology and culture are both evolutionary. Let's look at differences between men and women that are explicitly anatomical and physiological. Are men taller than women on average?

Does anyone take offense of that fact? Are you... So I would say you could be irritated by it. You could be irritated by the fact that women have to be the ones to gestate and lactate. You could be irritated by a lot of truths. But taking offense is a response that is rejection of reality. So men and women are different on height, they're different on muscle mass, they're different on where fat is deposited on our bodies, right? Our brains are also different.

So they're- Security! This is what happens, oh, did they shut off the volume? Can you hear? Can everybody hear? Really? You could use the shit, that is not okay. It should not be tolerated in civil society. Nazis are not welcome in civil society.

Okay, okay, okay. Wait, what? What? That went off the rails real quick. We jumped the chart pretty quick on that. So noticing that men on average are taller than women, and that muscle mass is different, and that we deposit fat, thankfully, differently on our bodies, and all of that makes you a fascist, and Nazis are not welcome in civil society.

Hmm. How do you make that jump? How do you go from there to there? Think of the level of brainwashing that has to happen. By the way, you remember that woman's complaint? Did you make that jump? How do you go from there to there? Think of the level of brainwashing that has to happen by the way you remember that woman's that woman's complaint. Did you hear that? That's the complaint The women have been brainwashed Who's been brainwashed. Who's been brainwashed? If you've gotten yourself cornered into the point where you can't notice the objective reality that men are taller than women and stronger without that being a Nazi and saying I must be brainwashed for observing those things,

it might be that you're the one who's having the brainwashing issue here. I mean, but this is the world we live in now. It's projection everywhere. Isn't that crazy? Yeah, it is crazy. How does this end? Oh, yeah. Well, let's go. It should not listen to fascism. It should not be tolerated in civil society. Nazis are not welcome in civil society.

By the way, that's the meeting call of the beta male right there. You just heard that in all its glory. All right, well we're going to raise our voices. The conversation is going to go on. Let me be crystal clear. Let me be crystal clear. People do not have the right to tell you what you can and cannot listen to. People do not have the right, fringe elements of society do not have the right to hold you hostage to discourse. This is a university. If we cannot have this conversation here, we can't have it anywhere. We have to be able to talk about it. No issues will solve themselves. That sort of behavior is unacceptable.

How about that? I agree with that. Yeah, and by the way, so this is, I think, part of the reason that the left, those people, we'll call them the protesters, they're actually scared because they just found out they're not in the majority, but they'd been such bullies, such tyrants, such emotionally explosive, voluble people that people

just sort of backed up from and they never got any pushback and they mistakenly thought in their delusion were in the majority. I think they thought they were in the majority but they're not in the majority and they're finding that out and it's driving them cray cray. Well it's hard to tell right? I mean if you're just watching things online, you could mistakenly think that this is what's raging all around the world when maybe that's not true. You know, it just rises to the top because that's how the algorithm works. You know, whatever's the most extreme, whatever's the hottest topic, that's what gets elevated,

not because it's more important or because it's right even or correct Right. Yeah, actually. Yeah, we did we saw full cognitive dissonance on display Daisy said this is why I'm homeschooling right here. Yeah teenagers and will not be sending them to university Well, I could understand that if you know, you're sending them to university where you have to spend a quarter million dollars Then I get brainwashed to get brainwashed that you have to spend another quarter million fixing that um, that's not a good investment That does not work out All right, so Let me go on to this then so so Evie. I think we saw defensiveness, right? They had to victimize

Themselves, right? Oh, this is Nazis. Whoa. We saw the stonewalling that obvious withdrawingiveness, right? They had to victimize themselves, right? Oh, this is Nazi's! Whoa! We saw the stonewalling, the obvious withdrawing themselves, right? They have to walk off. So these are these sorts of behaviors. I saw contempt, too. Yeah. Yeah, I think we could include that in there. Mm-hmm. Yep. But I like the idea. These are, this is the fringe, right? We just have to know that somebody has to stand up against the fringe so so congrats to Heather Haying the way she

she goes about that she's just calm just delivers the facts and and these people walk out and this is several years ago no yeah so how about this one let's listen I'm not say that somebody that I work with is a conservative and he's somebody who's really intelligent and he's somebody who's really intelligent and he's somebody who works in climate tech as a super smart guy, somebody I would never have thought was conservative and apparently he is. And it's surprising and it's disgusting. But what's most surprising to me is the level of sudden hatred that I have for him. Sudden hatred for this man who I used to respect.

Suddenly just went boop, went boop, and I hate him now. Whoa. All right. Went from mental illness. Respecting and you know, like kind of a nice guy, accrued his job to hating.

Viscerally hating. Wait, can I have your phone there for a second on my phone? Yeah sure yeah, so so this this is the behavior Okay, here's how I take that again not quite the right attitude okay, here's how I feel about this attitude. Okay, here's how I feel about this. I know it's this so on display. It's so neurotic, narcissistic, self centered, absorbed all of that stuff. But just the whole went to instant hatred, high emotions, contempt, all of that stuff now hates this guy because she found out he's a conservative. Guarantee she has no idea actually what his positions are and hasn't really thought through some of those positions. She's just absorbed this idea that this is the correct way to think and this is the incorrect way to think. And if you think this way, you're part of the in crowd and you get to belong. Of course she lives with that underlying existential terror, which

is what if my friends, what if I accidentally say something wrong in front of my friends? I get excommunicated. Instant shunning, you know, and you're out. That's terror to live in that construct, I think. But. But this also goes to show what, you know, what they programmed underneath. Like to go from zero to I effing hate him. Like he is a smart, intelligent, kind kind guy and all of a sudden like that Yeah to me is indications that we're we're being manipulated and messed with yeah on a level that we we can't fully appreciate

Yeah, it's been hidden from all right, so so but we're getting to the concept of the national divorce so so in in this How do you begin to reform, repair, how would this conservative gentleman, for instance, knowing nothing about him, begin to repair that relationship with this person? I mean is it on him? Well assuming it was, assuming it shouldn shouldn't be obviously, fair question. But what do you what are your first steps? What do you do?

I got nothing, honestly. I don't know where to start. That's why that's what it's just time to say, hey, this isn't working out between us. We got a we should live in we should not live in this under the same roof. We should something. Yeah, but what are we going to do? Like we're all intermingled. It's not like, like, at least when we have had the Civil War before, there was north and south. There was a delineation where you knew where each side was. This is, this would be hellacious. How could we break up? I don't understand it. I mean, we are all interspersed with each other and we might be in our own little bubbles, you know, it might be blue and red dotted around our neighborhood

There's no I don't think it really follows. I Guess there are maps that show that maybe more rural it tends to be more conservative and and The opposite but I Don't know. How do you divorce? I don't know. How do you divorce people you live next to? See what Jason says there? Oh, Jason said she's broken and beyond repair, it seems. I would agree.

Yeah, that's a walk away situation. You just sometimes just got to walk away. Like you can't fix that. No. There's some things that, and it's not your job to fix it either, right? Well, that's the thing. Like you could spend a lot, like there's some- It's codependent.

There's some home rehab projects where the right answer is the bulldozer, right? Well that's the thing. Like you could spend a lot like there's some codependent. There's some home rehab projects where the right answer is the bulldozer right? It's just not worth trying to repair every termited stud. Yeah. You know and all of that so. But it's hard it like I'm an empathic person and for me when I see somebody like that I can tell that they're in some kind of distress and it telegraphs to me in my body like I can sense that she's uncomfortable but it also is I have to watch it that I don't go down a codependent place of trying to placate that you know I think a boundary is efficient in these instances and to say no come back to me when you when you can

be calm and collected and talk. Here's an example of somebody I think Evie could be potentially, she's trying to go for context. Let's listen in. I have a theory that Trump supporters have not traveled much in their lives or do not even own a passport. I would love to see a survey taken of Democrats versus Republicans and the number of countries that each person has traveled to and for how long they've spent out of the country. Because I think that the Trump supporters seriously lack understanding of how the rest of the world lives and think that the way things are done in America is the way that things are done in the rest of the world. No, America is in the minority. For example, the way that

laundry is done here. Most of the world do their laundry by hand. Clothes are washed by hand and then they're hung out to dry. Even in England most people don't use dryers, they air dry. She's not starting out strong, I don't think. Most of the people in the world do their laundry by hand? Really? In Germany? Maybe not Germany. No, I've been there. They have washers and dryers. What about Spain? Same thing, yeah. Italy?

Same. France? No, totally. Russia? Yep, washers and dryers. Yeah. No, it's kind of... China? Yeah. Japan?

Totally. They are the cleanest people on the planet. Shoot. I can't think of any. I mean, I'm sure people do try to save money by not using dryers and hanging things out on the line. I see somebody here from Australia, so I'm going to blame Australia. She must have gone to Australia. It's all hand washing laundry down there. I know nothing about it because I haven't been to Australia yet, so I'm blaming Australia for this one. I want to go. I want to go. Would we be arrested if we went there do you think That's a good question Cuz I said some mean stuff about Dan Andrews well accurate oopsie, but potentially mean I know

Don't know all right. It's all about the laundry okay? Alright reformable though. She was reaching for context like okay You know that because you've gone to a foreign country like Club Med, that means you've been to the Dominican Republic, potentially. So you know something about it because you had a black server. Right? So anyway, by the way, Evie, we talked about stochastic violence before, which is when people out there in CNN, MSNBC, Rachel Maddow, etc. sort of suggest wouldn't it be terrible if something happened to Elon? And then next thing you know, you have these people firebombing cars.

But you also get situations like this one, right, where this person is driving along and it's a Tesla. So they have all those different car cameras on there, right? You got a side front, left, know all that and then this car wheels up decides oh no this is a Tesla person angles off what cuts them off they try to come around cut some further and then hops out the car right because they're that angry now, okay Pounding on the car You're gonna see that maybe this person should get a laundry. Oh, no. I'm sorry. Oh jeez

Yeah, he's a plumber obviously like doing damage to her car right now. Yes banging away on it and damage to her car right now? Yes, banging away on it. And then somebody else comes along to try and say, hey, can you just settle down, buddy? Because there's a 61 year old widow, a woman in the car, right? And then... Oh, was that the woman doing it? No, no, that was the guy. See the guy over there on the left? He's all angry and everything. So I'm gonna submit to you that at some point this happens and somebody in a Tesla has a gun. Right. And very rightly says So I'm going to submit to you that at some point this happens and somebody in a Tesla has a gun. Right. And very rightly says I'm protecting myself from a deranged, angry person and things are going to escalate from there. And then we get like the BLM riots all over again.

Yeah. Some poor fool who decided to assault someone who refused to take it. Yeah. And if this guy was the martyr, I mean, just the protest signs right themselves, just a big crack on a... The cracks are showing in our democracy. This is where we are. It's fairly deranged.

We're now seeing arson attacks out there as well. Fire crews responded just before 6 a.m. today, containing the blaze, but not before it scorched the building's entryway and filled the headquarters with smoke spray painted across the scene. Ice equals KKK Republican chairwoman Amy Burr. Borella called it a politically motivated act of hate and part of a growing wave of anti-gop violence Borella that's the GOP headquarters in Albuquerque

Really? Yeah Borella a direct assault on our freedom our values freedoms and right to political expression Federal investigators from the FBI and ATF are now involved the Democratic Party of New Mexico Condemned the attack calling for those responsible to be held accountable Yeah All of the curfew at any rate. That's insane the the memes just write themselves Hey the coexist people are burning shit again. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Um, speaking of the last one Say no to crack. Just say no to crack me

Row graven. I love it Yeah Hip and hypnicity says my sister has a Tesla. I worry about her Well, you should yeah, You should worry about that because. Because that's how it is. So very very. So let me just from that let me move into this. I call this a quick peek at the week at peak.

We have a lot of content about this crazy world we're in. And so if you look at any thing. crazy world we're in. And so if you look at anything, so yesterday I just had to report on 108 tons of gold left, comics that if you don't know what's going on in the gold market and you want to know I'm covering this. Well, I've been a been covering gold for a long time. So I understand the market pretty intricately and that's happening. That's the top one. I have a piece of content comes out a couple times a week called the Fat Pipe, which is just a collection of this kind of news where I'm just assembling things and I put it into nice little organized blocks.

And then we have Dave Fairtex, where it's a market update and also a weekly news collection. So if you like to stay on top of things, that's what's going on back at peak prosperity for my subscribers. And then most importantly, last Friday, also from the same week, but it's from Friday. So I'm going back.

This is Wednesday, trying to go back a week. I talked about breaking the frame, which is really important. Something really big is happening. I think it explains in part why so many people are freaking out. And that frame is the US dollar for us here in the United States, but it's your fiat currency, wherever you happen to live. All of them have been untethered from gold since 1971. We've all been participating in this massive delusion that you can print forever and borrow forever and you can always kick the can down

the road and debts can always grow faster than income and it never really comes home to roost. It's coming home to roost now. So the frame is we have to understand that our frame of reference, if it's our fiat currency, that's the wrong frame. We need a different frame, which is, what is the relationship between an ounce of gold, a barrel of oil, a house, a car, an orange,

that that's the correct frame to have with the currencies all sort of like bouncing against that those are in the process of breaking down right now so that's what we were discussing and by the way the people who have the context in this story that was part two of this so the part top one you see there that's public and then for the subscribers was part two it kind of continues it's one long story because I have to have long form stories but the worst is yet to come the people who are gonna survive survive this, we're going to thrive through it. Are going to be those who have context and take action or take action.

You have to know what's happening. You have to see that this unfolding as it is. And by the way, the most recent period of time you just came through is not a good form of. Context, because what we were doing with debts and all of that we can't do that going forward as a globe right so this is a big global story big giant macro story but what do you do individually and you can see she sh or s hi-fi hi-fi thanks Chris as usual this

is aptly summarizing the topic the fiat money system is beautifully Crafted to steal people's wealth and keep them enslaved. Yes corporations for their entire lives a World with real money would definitely be a better place. Absolutely Yeah, absolutely. So with that that's the kind of stuff we talk about all these things we're talking about here in the signal hour are all the sort of the dots in the context of our day, but they have to be put against a frame of backdrop. So that's what peak prosperity is all about. So Evie,

I now want to talk to you. Look, can we go through this? I love this. I think this is the most powerful doge ad ever created. Okay. And thankfully it was created by Jon Stewart To like him the left guy the lefty guy. This is phenomenal. He's talking with Ezra Klein Ezra Klein is a journalist He wrote a book the book was about Crazy stuff going on in the government. This is just a piece of what's in that book. They're discussing 42 billion dollars that was spent by the US government to hook people up to the internet. Nobody got hooked up to the internet and so we're just going to find out why

that happened. We have to issue the notice of funding opportunity within 180 days. That's step one. Step two. So all these different steps are the steps that states have to take to begin the process to start the process to begin to figure out if they're eligible for any of this money. And it has to do with what? solar no why for internet? Oh for internet Yeah, which all 56 state Applicants completed is states who want to participate must submit a letter of intent after they do that They can submit a request for up to five million dollars in planning grants Then the NTIA step four has to review and approve an award. Again, planning grants,

not broadband grants, planning grants. And it's still at the NTIA. It's still at the first step. All right. So the NTIA must issue a NOFO within 180 days. States who want to participate must submit their letter of intent. Step three, they can request up to five million dollars in planning grants. Just planning. Just planning. Step four, the requests are reviewed, approved, and awarded by the NDIA, which currently all 56, you know, three years later, all 56 applicants had passed through at least step five. It took more than three years. So it's a long time. States must submit a five-year action plan.

So the states kind of go back and they kind of think about how they're going to do this. And they don't just say, okay, you know, thank you for the money. We're going to spend it and you can see how it worked out later. Yeah, that'd be smart. We're like, here's our five-year action plan.

Then the FCC must publish the broadband data maps before NTIA allocates funds. So having done the NOFO, the letters of intent, the request for planning grants, then the review, approval, and awarding of the planning grants, then the five-year action plans, in between that the federal government has to put forward a map saying where it thinks we need rural broadband subsidies. And then of course, the states need an opportunity to challenge the map for accuracy. And you can imagine this doesn't all happen in like a day. Okay. So, so they've, they've 56 applicants, $ $5 million each 180 day review processes maps all this

stuff. How many challenging the map like I added this up carefully. Oh zero people have gotten a single byte of information of broadband broadband. So far not done. No, it's totally not done. There's more I know but I just I had to take a break to see Jon Stewart doing his deflective nervous chuckles like it's just too insane. There's more. I know, but I just I had to take a break too. You see John Stewart doing his deflective nervous chuckles like it's just too insane. And now he's actually breaking down a little. So then the NTIA step seven has to use the FCC maps to make allocation decisions. Then having already done their letter of intent, the request for planning grants, it's hard even to talk about this man.

Step seven is NTIA must use the FCC maps that were already challenged for allocation decisions. Then having submitted all this, I think this one is actually quite amazing. Having submitted their five-year plans or letters of intent, step eight is states must submit an initial proposal, an initial proposal to the NTIA, then... Is that the result of their $5 million planning fund? This initial proposal? I assume, but then what was the five-year plan? And what the fuck did they apply for? What was their NOFO?

Like, if the five-year action plan isn't the initial proposal, then what's the five-year action? Forget NOFO, MOFO. Step nine, NTIA must review and approve each state's, again, initial proposal. By my read, we have had at least two initial proposals here, but that's a different issue. Step 10, states must publish their own map and allow internal challenges to their own map. So the government has published a map, they have invited the states to challenge the map. Then states have submitted

initial proposals and they then have to publish their own map and allow challenges. Wait, who's challenging it within the state? Well, you know, organized interest groups, environmental groups, like I don't know who specifically, but any, literally anybody. This is, I want to say something because it's very important I say this. This is the Biden administration's process for its own bill. They wanted this to happen. That's the important point here. This is the Biden administration's. And it goes on from there and it's just,

but this is the process they wanted. So this is what Doge is attacking. This is what all those people are like, oh no, protest, Elon, what terrible. Like they want this. The process is the punishment. Like the whole idea is to consume all the money in the process

The idea is not to get people You know broadband that's like an ancillary thing that might happen accidentally on the back No, it's the people that get to administer all of that. Yes Every step you're hearing you should I hope you're hearing a cha-ching a cash register. These are high price consultants. Maps were made. Powerpoints. Oh, you know that's just $100 bills flying away. Oh, just flying out the window. This is how liberal government works now. This is something. This is how liberal government works now. That's the point. That is the point. I'm going to have to go watch the end of this if you're not going to play. Let's get there because it's crazy for this bill

for their bill. This is a bill passed by Democrats with a regulatory structure written by Democratic administration. Okay, right. Step 11, the NTIA must review and improve the challenge results and the final map. So the NTIA has put forward a map, the states have challenged that map, then the states have put forward their maps, had other challenges, and now the NTIA must review and approve the challenges to the state maps. Okay, so step, we've done step 11, NTIA must review and approve challenge results and final map. We've lost nine of the applicants at that point. Step 12, states must run a competitive sub-granting process. Oh my fucking God! At step 12, after all this has been done. Yeah, none of that could have happened along the way here. We have now lost 17

more applicants, so now 30 of 56 have completed step 12. Step 13 states must submit a final proposal. All the proposals weren't enough to NTIA. Now that goes to three of 56. So we've gone in the last couple steps from 56 had gone to this point to three of 56. Step three. The NTIA must review and approve the state's final proposal. And that is three of the 56 jurisdictions and states are there. In summary, Colin, states are nearly at the finish line. And it says to stop their progress now, or worse, to make them go backwards would be a stick in the spokes of the most promising broadband deployment plans we have ever seen.

N-scene. N-scene. I'm speechless, Ezra. Honestly, like, it's A, far worse than I could have imagined. But the fact that they amputated their own legs on this is what's so stunning. Again, but you know, John Stewart is stunned because he's holding the wrong frame, which is that the point of all of this

was to deliver broadband to American citizens whose taxpayer money was being- Well, allegedly, that was the point. Thrown into this furnace, right? That's not the point. It's just like think it'd be the mistake would be thinking, oh, the FDA is there to make sure that our drugs are safe.

The CDC is there to make sure we have an appropriate like pandemic response. Yeah, like that's not that's not the point. The point is for the maximum number of people to attach themselves and their paychecks to that machine and for the machine to never actually deliver on the results. It's kind of like when you pay people in California to cure homelessness

and you pay them $250,000 a year, you know what you get? More homelessness. Right. Because that's how they keep their $250,000 of your paycheck. That's right. That's like if you hire somebody and you pay them by the hour and they have no incentive to finish because then their money goes away instead of paying them for the project. Correct. Yes. That's incentives. All right. So, Funky Wanderer always asking the good question.

How many Starlings could that have delivered? That is a great question. So why don't we go, why don't we take a quick peek at that? Oh my gosh. So here's Grok to the rescue, right? So just look at number three there, equipment, $5.99, right? Plus a year service. One year of service, $1,440 equals $2,039 per household. That's what it would cost for one of these. Yeah, so $42 billion divided by that, 20.6 million households. Wow, that's a big number. 20 million.

Why didn't we just do that? Look, look look if you look down below your picture there look for reference. Oh my goodness. We have 14 million households were in poverty so we could have done all of them hundred percent of poverty. Yeah that's crazy. Or no you have to pay for your own internet otherwise it's 70 million households right? so i think i think this is a mark of anyway obviously we could have this is why empires fail it is you get to this point where it's so extravagant it is lose the plot line we've lost the plot line correct speaking of the plot line um what is that one definition Definition of a socialist. Someone who wants everything you have.

That's wrong. That is not that is an over characterization because you have to add that. Accept your job. Oh boy. Correct right? I mean, that's just that's just where we are. And by the way, just as a quick aside, in El Salvador with Bukele came in, stopped all their socialism, went and brought the military in, took out their gangs.

You can see that homicides in El Salvador per 100,000 went from 103 and 81, then 60, then 50, then 35, then 21, 18, 7, 18 7 2 2 1.15 vastly safer to be in El Salvador now than Baltimore Chicago DC lots of places Wow in the so-called Democratic paradise of America this is what happens when you take the people doing the crime off the streets That's what happens. That is what happens But they're very upset that people are losing their jobs in HHS 10,000 people lost their job the jab or lose your job is totally fair, but do your job or get fired is tyranny

Make it make sense. Well, here's here's yet another highly emotionally charged interaction. I won't subject you to the. So this guy pulls up in a Tesla. You touch that shit again, I will break your fucking face! Okay, come on, bring it on! Bring it on, bring it on! Fucking nasty! Fuck you! Nasty!

Go fuck yourself! Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame!

Shame? I feel very, very sorry. Shame? Shame? Yes. Shame. Shame. Shame. That's what they were shouting there. Shame. Shame. You and I are both thinking the same thing. You know that. You need that. That's

why I wanted the bell. All right. I threw these down. Obviously this woman's being very critical. She's verbally attacking the character. Nazi double fingers, right? Contempt. Shame. Shame. Shame shame what I'm telling you shame. I have contempt for your whatever you did was shameful is a contemptuous Thing so they have contempt for this guy simply because he's in a in a Tesla That's not okay. It's just it's just not okay. I'm so embarrassed by my fellow humans They've lost the plot line here. I'm embarrassed. I know I'm sad for them. I'm so embarrassed by my fellow humans. They've lost the plotline here. I'm embarrassed. I know. I'm sad for them. I'm angry at them. I'm just gross. Yeah. I just, how many people just want to like, this isn't the world I signed up for. Can we just not do this? How about not? Right? So that's why, you know, in my, in my COVID coverage, I kept

ending with a sort of semi cryptic but true statement which was it doesn't have to be this way. It doesn't. Like it doesn't have to be this way. Like we have some serious issues right now in this country around energy, around too much debt, deficits, things we really have to solve our educational system is geared people for something that's not ready for a world of AI let alone a world of manufacturing competitiveness with the rest of the world. Our food system is a disaster. We really need to think about how we're farming. What happened to the honeybees this year? How to do that regeneratively? I don't know. That's terrifying. We have some big things that are not being solved by this crowd, obviously. I'm not saying we're the bastion of solving all things, but

this is wasted energy wasted wasted deflective but if we want to see this on display we could do no better no worse oh i used to like him than john kusak really enjoy taking this uh this guy down and the stock down and because of the example it will set you know i'm really going to enjoy taking this guy elon down in his stock down right so what we're going to do is, is we're going to, yeah, that's what he's going to really enjoy taking the stock down and Elon. And what why is that, John? I think it's gonna, we are in an old dark country that's, that's, that's fascist and becoming more fascist every day. And that means people are going to

die, and it's going to get as ugly as we can think. And the only way to stop that is if the people who have the money are afraid of us, 99%. And it's the people who own the society, the owners, those people, we have to make them really afraid. And what's happening now with Musk is making them very afraid. And that's a good thing.

The only way to stop that, which is this attack on our democracy, is if the people who have the money are afraid of us. Okay, John, I just got a note. John, you are one of them. You're not in the 99%. Yeah, sorry, buddy. Not even close. Okay.

You want to throw your hat in the ring, you better own up to the idea that you are definitely his hat. You mean his culturally appropriating do rag. Yeah. What is that he's wearing? Getting ready to be in karate kid. Another horrible remake of a perfectly good movie. Don't know. Don't know. But anyway, he's displaying one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse of relationships. But speaking of which it there is some good news here too. It is Fafo time. And here this is going to be very loud. Let me make sure I control the volume on this before I let this one out of the gate. I'm not hearing it like you are. Oh, you're not. Something must be different about mine. Oh, well, you got to have it all the way in the ear canal there. You got to really poke it in. Yeah It's not loud. All right. Let's here's this person

So remember Evie when the when the truckers in Canada got taken down It turned out that all these people not just the truckers but people who gave to the truckers to support them I'm a straight you they gave money through give-send- go and the whole list got doxxed out and then the Canadian government used that to go after and freeze people's bank accounts and do some very highly illegal immoral unethical things and all of that. It turns out that this is the person who is taking credit for having done the doxxing who hacked hacked into the give send go system Come at me! What are you gonna do? What are you gonna do to me, huh? Oh, yeah. Taunting.

What are we gonna do to him? Oh! U.S. Attorney's Office from Western District of Texas released, the Department of Justice announced the unsealing of charges against Canadian national Aubrey Cottle, 37 of Oshawa, Oshawa, excuse me, Ontario in connection with the theft of data relating to the Texas Republican Party in 2021. Canadian authorities arrested Cottle on Wednesday and are pursuing charges under Canadian law. Oops. That's terrible. So that's what it was for this though?

Yep. Yep. Yep. Hacked in and Texas obviously can't charge him because Canadians were harmed. They found that people inside the Texas Republican Party had been part of that data dump. So they had to file the charge within the jurisdiction. I see. Right.

That makes sense. They have to have standing. So the jurisdiction. I see right or make sense. You have to have standing So the standing is Texans were involved Right. Don't mess with Texas. That was the Fafo time and then we're gonna close I this is coming into this to home stretch here so in Wisconsin they had an election for Supreme Court and it was between a Republican and Democrat and Supreme Court. And it was between a Republican and Democrat. And the Democrat won. I have questions about that. But Susan Crawford. So here she is in, you know, here's what you want in your Supreme Court justice. You want to know that they're balanced, that they are composed, that they are... But like did you see during Trump's inaugural speech and the whole that whole proceeding there were Supreme Court justices there

Not all of them. None of them stood up. None of them clap. That's by convention Right. They're supposed to just be oh, I'm just you know, they wouldn't do it for either side Okay, right because that's what you want. Justice is impartial. That's right See if you can hear any possible hint that there's sort of an activist in Let's call it partial flavor to Susan. So today Wisconsinites fended off an unprecedented attack on our democracy. An unprecedented attack on our democracy. That's called voting.

I mean, I'm, I mean, I'm not kidding. No, that is what it is. But they perceive it as an attack. Our fair elections and our Supreme Court and Wisconsin's stood up and said loudly that justice does not have a price. Our courts are not for sale. Look at that. Look, that's gross. That is smug. That is smug. That is a smug look. I am so sorry, Wisconsin. You are about to put up with, I predict, my prediction. What's your prediction? Well, first of all, just a little context. Let's remember this is Wisconsin in 2020 with that, that mysterious little like, so I have my questions about the Wisconsin voting system.

I do. And, uh, yup. Uh, yeah. So, uh, candy farming garden says, uh, yeah, rigged outcome. Totally agree. It's a good chance of that. It's I have questions, right? How could you not have questions?

They, that's what happened. was anything fixed or changed no therefore. It's still a problem, but here's a prediction You're gonna get some legally untethered is the politest way I can say it those are activist decisions because We have to talk about the fact that that liberal. Can I just say it straight up liberal white women? There's a there's a problem here that we need to talk about at some point and have a larger discussion around. There's something wrong with like, there is no room for activism in judiciary. As soon as you get activism, you end up with Brazil. And we talked about that last time,

where there was a woman who just painted on a statue with lipstick and got a 14-year sentence, a $6 million fine, two young children, never is not going to know their mom during their childhood years, because that's what you get with activist judges, right? We just saw this in France with Marine Le Pen sentenced to two years in prison.

Why? They had trumped up charges, which we could go into some other time, but mostly it was because she was the front runner. And this is what an activist judiciary gives you, not even the appearance of the rule of law, let alone the actuality of it. What you get is lawlessness with a judge's robe wrapped around it and that I unfortunately predict is part of what's coming to Wisconsin so that's why it brings us to this whole concept of a national divorce right because in a

national divorce you have to just say okay if you want to run your own lives that way feel free run your own lives that way. Feel free. Run your own lives that way, but maybe we should carve out pieces of the country for that. Wisconsin, parts of Washington state, Oregon, California. Pick your places. Maybe there are places where we just go, okay, okay. Have at it. You be you. Good luck with that. But if you look at what's happened to activist judges and how it's delivering a absolute destruction of prosperity prosperity say in the UK Hmm. It's now completely obvious that it's a very destructive way to go forward And for those of us who don't want to participate in that what's the choice you either submit to it or you fight it

You know what the relationship isn't working out So it's time to call it call an, and maybe there's an amicable separation. That is what we're calling for here on this show is this idea that maybe we have to have that conversation because at a minimum the conversation says, okay that's too much, we have to think of the children, maybe we should go to counseling, maybe we have to find some way to work this out. But I submit that when the left figures out that the right wants to walk away, that is the abstractionist, find out that the right wants to walk away that is the abstractionist find out that the people who fix everything and make everything

no longer want to support them in their delusions they may wake up a little bit and suddenly have a different realization about how this all has to go that's the conversation we need to have I know I'm painting with a very broad brush and it's not entirely true but but on a on balance I think that's a fair statement there's people who live in reality. They get the oil out of the ground. They make sure the transmission lines are operating. They make sure the food is grown. They make sure that you know the electrons come out of the wall socket when you eat it and all that. And then there are the abstractionists who think in terms like our democracy you

know the greatest assault to democracy ever people voting. That's like, oh, no, people on January 6th to the way that got spun. Absolutely. The greatest, you know, insurrection of all time when it was people just going out to protest and actually being less violent than people are being right now with Tesla.

Yep. Do you know what I mean? Like it's unbelievable. Yeah, and maybe it's state by state, right? Clarence saying maybe New Hampshire needs to divorce, you know? Yeah, and Count Don, that was an interesting one. Are we at official civil war yet, or are we all still pretending it's not happening? There's a little pretending going on right now.

I think there might be. Because there's the Civil War where you put on different color uniforms and you shoot at each other, that's what we think of, but it's more than that, right? It's when you have an ideological divide that's no longer crossable, right? So I think we already have that one in place.

I think so too, sadly. Don't know, I mean, gotta call it like you see it, right? You do. And so, yeah, and this goes way back. You're right, Christopher. This goes way back. So, it's an old story. It's a very, it's a very old story. So, Evie, what do you got? Well, I got a couple things. And then I have one slide to end this whole thing. What? No. Just one.

No, I get the, all right, fine. I got one. This is from a book called Nature and the Human Soul by Bill Plotkin. He's an excellent writer who talks a lot about, what would raising healthy people look like. He's very much somebody who believes in the natural world as being a fantastic teacher for people. And I was particularly taken with talking about like the disappearance

of elders from our landscape, which is a kind of a different thing, but it's also not like we're talking about all these liberal white women who are like our younger people are looking at what they're doing and learning from them right now. And they actually have a different obligation to our society, which is to be a good example of how to coexist and it's not happening. Right. Right. So I'm just calling on eldership here. And he, Thomas Aquinas, I think that's how you say it, says, in addition to the catastrophic loss of species and habitat in recent centuries, we have witnessed the correlated disappearance of authentic elders. I asked Thomas, so this at the moment is Bill Plotkin speaking, why so few of our senior citizens become true elders.

For him, deficits in human development and environmental devastation both are tied to our individual and collective alienation from the natural world. And Thomas Aquinas says, one reason for the lack of personal development is that we live in a society where there's almost universal effort to be what a person is not. There's constant effort to adapt to the circumstances in which we find ourselves, and this diminishes the capacity for authenticity. The times have changed so much. It's almost impossible now to grow up with any integral sense of who we

are. We have to adapt to so many situations that are to some extent not natural. We don't have contact with the natural world. We don't know what the natural world is. We are adapting to an invented world, to a manipulated world. We learn manipulation, and we are manipulated. And we learn to manipulate in order to survive. And much of our education is learning how to survive in a world of mutual manipulation and mutual exploitation,

all under the guise of assisting people to advance their careers or to develop a way of life. And another quote that I pulled from this same book was by somebody named Terry Tempest Williams who says, the eyes of the future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time. They are kneeling with hands clasped that we might act with restraint, that we might leave room for the life that is destined to come.

To protect what is wild is to protect what is gentle. Perhaps the wildness we fear is the pause between our own heartbeats, the silent space that says we live only by grace. Wilderness lives by this same grace wild mercy is in our hands So it speaks to that um Nature is real but we live in our manipulated world of obstructions. Mm-hmm. Yeah I'm gonna come back

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