Timcast IRL - Timcast IRL #221 - CDC Says DOUBLE Mask As MSM Pushes lab Leak COVID Theory w/Matt Braynard

Episode Date: February 11, 2021

Tim, Ian, Luke, and Lydia sit down with Matt Braynard of Look Ahead America and the Voter Integrity Project to discuss the epic fail that has been Trump's impeachment lawyers, the inability of normal Americans to hire legal defense in the wake of the January 6th unrest, the changing of the ACLU, economic patriotism, and equality of outcome.  Support the show (http://Timcast.com/donate) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There's an impeachment going on, I guess. And, you know, before the start of the show, we're sitting here thinking, like, what's the big story? It's often what we ask, like, what is what is something we really need to talk about? That's really important. I mean, impact. And then at first we were like, we've got to talk about this COVID thing, double masking the Washington Post, putting out this story where they're pushing the lab leak hypothesis.

Oof. I was told by the Daily Beast that was a fringe alt-right conspiracy theory. You're not going to talk about it. Well, far be it for me to push those crazy theories. That's the Washington Post. But then we were like, I don't know, maybe the impeachment thing is kind of important. We should talk about it. So then I actually made the title about impeachment. And then we all kind of just were like, I don't know if anyone actually cares about this because it's totally meaningless. He's going to get acquitted. Nothing's going to happen. It's like they're trying to distract us from

what's really going on. So then I was just like, whatever, dude, we'll talk about it. We'll talk about what's going on with this double masking thing. It's ridiculous. They're telling people now to wear a disposal mask with a cloth mask over it. And I'm just wondering at what point they're going to start telling people to put a plastic bag over their head and just tighten a knot. Because that's the best way to keep it from spitting on people, I suppose. But they're also saying that COVID, the lockdown is not ending until winter. Like we're going to do a whole nother year. They're saying that even if you get the vaccine, nope, you got still locked down.

So what's the point of any of this? I have to wonder if they wanted the lockdown for some other reason. Because there's this tweet from Zuby where he's like, if you think the goal, if you look at this as though the goal is to demoralize and destabilize people's lives in the economy, it makes more sense. And I'm like, maybe that's why they don't want the vaccine to work. Maybe that's why the media keeps putting out these stories to scare people. Maybe that's why they're saying that even if you get the vaccine, it's not going to work because Trump actually pulled off something they didn't want to happen.

Maybe they like the idea. Now, look, I'm saying maybe I don't know. All I know is it's still going to be bad. They're telling everybody to put masks on. They're doing butt swabbing in China. And it's just absolutely nonsensical. Meanwhile, they're trying to tell us that impeachment matters. And I'm not sure it does. And we're all just kind of tired of this, of the absurdity of this news. So we're going to talk about this. But we're also going to talk about a bunch of other issues. We got the good pillow controversy, I guess. So David Hogg of Parkland Notoriety, starting a company to sell pillows. But shout out to Cameron Kasky, who basically said,

I'm sorry to all the supporters. It's come to this. And it's a really interesting situation between these kids. And we also have Gina Carano of Deadpool and Mandalorian. They're trying to get her canceled. And they've been trying to get her canceled because she's one of the few people working in Hollywood who is speaking out against a lot of this BS from the far left. And I think it's really important that we talk about it. Plus, we got Aunt Jemima. We got a lot of stuff to talk about. Aunt Jemima's gone. It's Pearl Milling Company.

Like, you're eating granite powder or something. Whatever. Anyway, we'll start talking about this stuff. And joining us today is Matt Brainerd. Again, Matt, do you want to just briefly introduce yourself? Yeah, I'm Matt Brainerd. I'm the executive director of Look Ahead America. I'm a political consultant who worked on the 2016 Trump campaign, helping him get elected by running strategy and data. And I kind of ran this little project called the Voter Integrity Project in the aftermath of the November 2020 general election.

And be very careful talking about that because I don't want to get anybody in trouble here. Yeah, because they're like, their finger is floating over the button that says ban. And they're like, come on, say it. Say it. We also have Luke Gretkowski's chilling. Today's a very important historic day. I don't know if you guys realize what it is today but today officially guys racism is over as of course aunt jemima syrup is now pearl mining company syrup milling milling whatever it doesn't matter forget about the

falling wages forget about the collapsing economy the loss of civil liberties the huge health care costs at least right now an african-american woman lily ann richards who was the goodwill ambassador to the syrup company in 1925, has been canceled. So, yes, racism defeated somehow. Well, it's because the art of her... Wait, that wasn't even her picture, though, wasn't it? Like, they changed the picture?

She was the official Goodwill ambassador. I don't know if it was officially her, but she was like a folk hero in her community and looked up by a lot of people. Well, she's gone now. Oh, she's gone now. Who wants to eat pearl milling? It's like you open the box and you're gonna get like talcum powder, you know what I mean? You're like, I don't wanna eat that. Yes. I gotta be real with everybody, though.

You really shouldn't pour refined flour, high glycemic sugar wads into a pan full of grease and then literally take a bottle of their refined high fructose corn syrup and squirt all over it for breakfast that sounds really unhealthy we should be doing more health advice welcome back beautiful and amazing human beings my name is lucratowski of we are changed at work and i release videos and sell t-shirts on we are

changed.org thanks for having me well because covet is such a very serious issue um we we've specifically requested of ian to take it more seriously than normal, and he is. What up, everybody? Welcome back to the show. Ian Crossley here. I'm just excited to be here. I don't think anyone can hear you. I can sort of hear the mobile.

I can kind of hear it. Speak up. There you go. I'm excited to talk about this Trump impeachment with Matt. I'm wearing it because Matt didn't get a COVID test, so. Okay, I think you can take it off. Morris Code. Use Morris Code with your nose.

Tim, what was that anal swab we did when I got here? Ian administered it. Don't look at me. Talk about that. You actually bought these. So I bought those. I had to do it. You know what?

So these are the space helmets this dude made and sold. And it's like, I got to be honest. They say if you're on a plane, it's more comfortable to wear that than a mask. That's actually probably true. When the ventilation is going, it's kind of nice. Yeah, it's got a fan inside and HEPA filters. It cools your head down. Yeah.

I wouldn't. It probably would suck to be on a plane for several hours wearing a mask. It does. That thing, you just go to sleep and you get fresh air blowing in. You can see the official unboxing on Tim's Instagram page. Yes. Very cool. Well, Luke gave it to you upside down and then he put it on but uh i think it's absurd to wear the thing in public just wear the mask but i can understand the plane argument so yeah we'll talk about all that too i suppose i have questions and we'll definitely talk about impeachment and we'll talk about uh the cdc double masking i wonder if you

wear a double mask if you're wearing that space that's what i was wondering probably not who do we have to ask oh dude ian you should a double mask if you're wearing that space helmet. That's what I was wondering. That's a good question. Probably not. Who do we have to ask? Oh, dude, Ian, you should wear a mask while you're wearing that. You probably should. It's safer. And then a mask over it. That's right.

Yeah. All right, everybody. We'll jump into the news. We also have, as Sarpatch Leds are pressing all the buttons. Yes, I am here in the corner laughing at these guys. This is an awesome space helmet. I've not worn one yet.

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Let's talk about impeachment first, just a little bit to go over some of these issues. More importantly, we were talking a moment ago, Matt was mentioning that there are many people who are involved in the Capitol, you know, the storming of the Capitol, who had no idea what was going on. And now they can't get lawyers. So I do want to go over that a little bit, but we'll start with, you know, the storming of the Capitol, who had no idea what was going on. And now they can't get lawyers. So I do want to go over that a little bit. But we'll start with, you know, where we're at with Trump, because the big news, I suppose, if you care about impeachment, and I got to be honest, I find it really, really hard to care about it, is that his lawyers are doing miserably, like really, really bad. And Trump is apparently really angry.

We have this story from the New York Times. It says, meandering performance by defense lawyers enrages Trump. The former president was particularly angry at Bruce L. Castor Jr., one of his lawyers, for acknowledging the effectiveness of the House Democrats presentation. Well, apparently the Democrats have put up like they're arguing over his tweets. They put up some edited video to make their case. I honestly just think it's a big waste of time because we know what's going to happen in the end, right? Yeah, it's not going to, there's not going to be a conviction.

And so the problem I think that the president's attorneys have is they don't understand what's going on, is that they are making this very narrow constitutional argument. They're almost doing this in a very bad way, as if there really is something to be decided, as if they were in a courtroom, as if it was truly a case. And it's not any of those things. This is an old-fashioned Soviet-style show trial. But unlike in the Soviet system, you actually, both sides get to do a show.

So, and I've used this term before, it's asymmetric warfare. With the left, the Democrats are rolling in here with, it's just the loudest, they know they're not going to get a conviction. It's basically just about trashing Republicans, trashing Trump, trashing his supporters. And they're just, it's full on propaganda. And they're not, they're throwing everything in there, like high impact video. Granted, it's edited and it's phony, etc. But then the Republicans walk in and they're like making like a legal argument. Like it's some, you know, Republicans are dumb. Well, you know, these attorneys, I, I'm not sure how committed they are to the party because, uh, they're

Democrats. So I'm just saying, and, uh, one of them sued the president twice just a year ago. So what? Yes. Why, why did he hire these people? You know, I, I'm not privy to that process, but I will tell you, I've heard from many people, including very prominent Republican attorneys, more than one, by the way, who have just been dumping on the performance. And the thing is, look, if it's a show trial, you fight fire with fire. You roll in there with all the instances of the left provoking riots, like serious riots resulting in people getting murdered uh cops being murdered cities being burnt to the ground democrat politicians

calling for people to stand up and fight and you go whole hog and you can you know you can go anywhere you want you can talk about chinese uh influence compromising president biden and some of the steps he's already taken with his administration so far you can do whatever you want it's like it's a blank canvas to just get in there and paint the best picture you can. But these guys, the thing is, I almost feel like they're phoning it in because they know what the outcome is. And they're thinking, you know, a year from now, this will be completely forgotten. You know, maybe that's the right thing.

And I actually respect that. It's a waste of time. We don't need to waste any time on it. They I actually respect that. It's a waste of time. We don't need to waste any time on it. They should walk in and go, Donald Trump has free speech. And, you know, he didn't do it. We rest our case. That would be brilliant if they did that.

But instead, they're doing like a real legal as if it was a real impeachment, trying to make a real case and doing a bad job of it. I remember looking through Twitter. I forgot who said this, but someone jokingly said it was definitely the deep state that made Donald Trump hire inept lawyers, which is a very interesting point. The Independent also has a very curious article that reads, Trump's inept lawyers draws comparison to Joe Pesci's character in My Cousin Vinny. If you remember that movie, that was a pretty funny movie back in the day I loved it myself but but again a lot of people are criticizing these people but more importantly a lot of mainstream media people are treating this like it's the Super Bowl like like everyone cares and in reality no one really cares what else is there a lot of energy but what else what else is there to report on and you would think they would take this opportunity to move forward with their agenda their causes but

they're stuck in this again Trump derangement but they're stuck in this, again, Trump derangement syndrome. They're stuck talking about Trump. No, no, no. And they're beating a dead horse. No, Luke, they're the dealers. They're the dealers of the drug. They're the ones dishing out the Trump derangement tablets to all the unsuspecting town's children. Have they been dipping into their own stash?

A little bit, yeah. Dang. Yeah. They're high on it. They have been, but I think now they know they're dealing. They're dealing Trump derangements. Well, here's the question we got to ask. Last time there was this phony impeachment, that was completely consuming all of Capitol Hill and the entire media.

Right at the time, this little flute-like thing was starting to spread out of China and slowly reaching other parts of the world. Just no one was really paying attention to it. President Trump made comment about fighting it in his State of the Union speech Just no one's really paying attention to it. President Trump made comment about fighting it in his State of the Union speech that Pelosi tore in half and ignored and then called him a racist for trying to limit travel to China. That was what was happening when the last impeachment trial was consuming everything. So I wonder, what are we missing now? Because this is what they're completely focusing on i mean joe biden's weird executive orders like uh the one that allows for chinese propaganda 52 of them or 52 so far wow that's a

record honestly that time that time story oh yeah i mean but they're bragging about that they're not trying to hide it now i maybe maybe it's the electrical grid rule suspension joe biden's allowing chinese made goods to be used in our electrical grid suspending a rule from trump for like seemingly no reason and i've actually heard criticism from some people who are relatively you know democrats saying i understand trump's rules may have been bad but shouldn't you review them and not shut them down first like don't suspend the rule just review it and then if it comes you come to the decision to get rid of it then you do isn't it weird to to just immediately snap your finger and say, China, you can build stuff for our electrical grid.

We're going to review if it makes sense. Or more and more U.S. military convoys going through Syria. What's the status of that? I've heard about that. I heard it was debunked. It was Syrian propaganda. No, there have been several of them at this point now, and nobody's really pushing it or asking questions.

Yes, there's been many kind of international organizations that have been detailing large convoys, 50 plus vehicles going into Syria, into, of course, the northeast region where the territory is contested between Syrians, Kurds, Russians, and now the United States that is permanently watching all the oil fields there as if it's theirs. So that's happening. And slowly but surely, the reports that are coming in is that more and more troops are on their way there. And it's always American troops coming through Iraq. Is that what it is? Well, it's not just Iraq. There's also Jordan. The United States has bases all around, not just Syria, but of course, Iran there. So there's a lot of troop mobilization and movements, not just by the United States, but also Russia in that region as well,

that is also doubling down and sending more troops in that region as well, that is also doubling down and sending more troops into that region. I wonder what they're going to do with oil when the economy is shut down and nobody's using it. Yeah, that's another big factor here economically, especially with America becoming energy independent. Now under these new restrictions by Biden, it looks like the United States is going to have more of a kind of appetite for oil. So this is why some people are saying we're going to have more of a kind of appetite for oil. So this is why some people are saying we're going to be going back into the Middle East. I think it's far beyond that.

I think it's far beyond natural resources. There's bigger things at play here, especially the geopolitical hegemonic power play that's being made between Russia, China, and the United States on the world stage. Yeah, the shipping lane through the Suez Canal is not to be understated. That's like the central blood flow of the United States shipping. Yeah, if you look at major conflicts throughout world history, they have taken place on shipping routes. So shipping routes are essential. This is why China also expanded its territory into the South Chinese Sea, because it's along a major trading route that, of course, usually sparks the largest conflicts. When we look back at history, it course, usually sparks the largest conflicts.

When we look back at history, it usually concludes first the stopping of trade. That's interesting because the U.S. is running drills right now under Biden in the South China Sea. Yeah, with Japan and Australia doing war games, of course, kind of saber rattling against China, who has been also doing a lot of consecutive war games, especially in the month of January. In January, out of 31 days, for 30 days, China ran drills and ran over the airspace of Taiwan, specifically drilling for its invasion. Sorry, guys, but this sounds really important, but we've got an impeachment. No, you're right. You're right.

Yeah, that's a good point. It's a very good point. International war is meaningless. No, no. point international war is meaningless no forget about that stuff so he's getting impeached wow you mean he already got impeached wait that's right oh he got impeached yeah now they're gonna try and convict i can't even joke about this and who is this guy you say it's they're trying to impeach the president of the united states we used to be the former president donald trump say his name with me guys donald trump it's all about donald trump he impeach the president of the United States. We used to be the former president. Donald Trump. Say his name with me, guys. Donald Trump. It's all about Donald Trump.

He's not the president. He's playing golf. And they're like, we got to convict this guy. I think that before Trump, there wasn't that much news. I feel like maybe I'm desensitized to it. I can't tell. I'm in this warp world. You got pulled into a vortex we've all been in.

Yeah, they were making so much news because his tweets. And now it's just kind of back to normal it's it's where there's not that much news well this is hillary's i'm sorry pelosi's priorities but i will tell you that if they weren't doing this right now their their fundraising would just i mean even npr was talking about this immense legal battle that's happening in florida right now with the local county trying to kick trump out of mar-a-lago saying that he can't live there permanently i'm like why are we obsessing about this why is npr talking about this and they went on for a full 30 minute segment i love

listening to npr because i love i actually really like their their science and technology uh sections when they talk about those issues but politically it's very interesting to see their perspective because i love to see how other people think and they are non-stop obsessing about this impeachment they're thinking it's the super bowl it's a major sporting event they were covering it live play by play blows and when you look online there's not even a forever no one really cares everyone's over it everyone wants to see but this is the this is the big moment that we're in because everyone wants to see what the democrats can do for them we voted for the democrats they got elected they're in there what are you going to do for me what are you going to do to make my life better people are waiting there and they're like we got trump here

we're gonna we're gonna beat this dead horse even more and people are like they're saying it's very simple yeah i know america you voted for the democratic party and we here we democrats are going to do everything in our power to get you exactly what you need in these trying times. By impeaching a guy who's not president anymore. Hey, put on the clown makeup, drop the circus tent, put on the music, and then you have a little car drive around, and people are swinging around in the trapeze, and like, ooh, Donald Trump's getting impeached. Don't look over at the decimated small businesses. Don't look over at the mass evictions that are looming, because we've got a big old pile of bread and circuses right here for you on the TV.

I mean, the American people are hurting, just like I brought up in my introduction. Failing wages, collapsing economy, loss of civil liberties, huge health care costs. I don't see any of the Democrats dealing with any of these issues. Have you ever? At all. Of course not. But there's going to be a lot of disenfranchised new voters because, I mean, how many votes did Joe Biden get? He got more votes than any other president in American history. So there's going to be a lot of people who are like, I participated. I was a part of the system. I got evil Trump out. Now things are going to be better. And now they're going to be slapped in the face with reality no here's corporate globalist america

screwing you family-friendly show i got i got all the things i want to say here we're going to say save it for the post show uh but but they're ramming you with their corporatism and you have no other thing to do than submit to them getting their own way and it's ridiculous and it's sickening we could talk about mand Mandalorian or WandaVision. I still want to talk about foreign policy. I love foreign policy. I want to talk about the vestigility of the political establishment at this point.

It seems like they're no value. You know, when a gland in your body becomes vestigial, it's no longer used or needed. It seems like they're just, like you said, meandering at some point. Well, no, they are siphoning away our money to use for their lifestyles. Partly because they're incapable of handling the money because they've given the power of the money over to a private company and they're just letting the Federal Reserve run with it. So they can't fix monetary policy.

They can't even audit the Federal Reserve. But let's not underplay when they're like, I must have $10 million for Pakistani gender programs and speedboats in Sri Lanka. Giving themselves raises. Of course, they're good at that. The raises thing, I don't really care that much about. Oh, I do. I can't stand it. That should not be their authority.

That drives me insane. What, to get a raise? To give themselves a raise with my money. Well, so the problem is there's no real way to solve the salary problem of Congress. Like Andrew Yang has said, give them a million bucks so they're not incentivized to work for lobbyists. But that wouldn't change anything. The lobbyists would just offer more money. The companies would offer more money. And some have said, make it so they can only make as much as the median American job, and then they'll be taking the lobbying. It's like, there's no real way to solve that problem. I'll tell you, the bigger

problem is when they're like, we have to help America by sending $500 million overseas during a pandemic when people's jobs are destroyed. We'll give your dollars to someone else in a different country with different rules and less lockdown or what? We desperately need a new industry. I don't want to derail this particular conversation, but I think a lot about graphing, you know. And if we can make America like the graphing industrial power of the 21st century, I think that that will allow our economy to flourish. That's just one small component. It's like the steel. It'd be like if we were the steel industry of the 1900s. Now we can be the graphene industry.

But we have to do it. With these politicians that don't understand it, it's not going to happen. No. We need new people. Well, I think impeachment is dumb. Sounds like you should run for office, my friend. Yeah.

That's right. The graphene party. I'm behind you. Let's do it. And the Fed. Key slogan. Let's do this. It'll get smeared.

But let's go back to that one thing I asked you about earlier, Matt. So this is kind of important. There were a lot of people who went to the Capitol in D.C. They went to the Capitol on the 6th, and they found their way inside the building through no storming of anything. There's videos where the doors have been opened, and people were bumbling and confused and walked in while the cops nodded and tipped their hats and even took selfies with them. Some of these people are being charged with what, like misdemeanors?

Pretty disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds, unlawful entry of a restricted building. And, you know, it goes beyond just the charges themselves because what the effect of this is it's destroying these people's lives. A week ago, I sent on Look Ahead letterhead a letter to the acting attorney general and the FBI director asking them to drop all charges against nonviolent, basically trespassers, protesters who happen to find themselves inside the Capitol building. Because this is a political persecution. This isn't just routine prosecution of crimes. This is a political persecution. This isn't just routine prosecution of crimes. This is persecution, the level that the federal government is going after these people and destroying their lives. And the test of it is simple. It's that over and over again, when the left did this, they repeatedly did this during Kavanaugh's confirmation hearings. They stormed the buildings.

All of them. Yeah, and they intimidated senators. They tried to interfere with what the senate was doing all of the people who were who who did this were if they were arrested at all they were taken off site and given a fine of 35 to 50 dollars and let go to do it again but this happens and the reaction now granted i don't i'm not talking about people who did true violent actions or really tried to destroy property. This is solely targeted at the people who happened to walk in. And all of these charges require something called mens rea.

I mean, you had to know that it was a crime to do it. You had to know you weren't allowed to go in there, into a building the public's routinely allowed to on almost any given day of the week outside of COVID period, right? It's a public building. They walked in. They took some selfies. They left. And this letter, it's on lookaheadamerica.org, the website. So I go through all the legal arguments. But here's a problem. And this occurred to me as I was researching this. I spoke to multiple Republican attorneys. One gentleman, Republican attorneys, one of the most

prominent Republican attorneys in the entire country. I said, well, you know, is anybody helping these folks out with attorneys? Because I'm hearing some of them are getting trouble. And he told me that two problems. Number one, Republican or conservative leaning attorneys don't have a lot of practice with rioters like the left does, because the left, the ACLU, they're on site. They're wearing vests, so you know who they are. The right has no experience with this. But he said, there's another problem with taking these cases. And he said there's a problem with optics. Then I talked to somebody else who was working with a conservative law professor. Many of these people, again, they just walked into a building.

They didn't know they were doing anything wrong. They thought it was a peaceful protest. That's what got them in this trouble. This conservative law professor was trying to set them up with legal representation because these are serious charges. And he said that while there were conservative-leaning attorneys who were willing to take the cases, their law firm told those attorneys, you are not allowed to take those cases. And it's been a real problem. And since I wrote this letter, about five or six of these individuals have reached out to me,

and I have been able to get them representation. But it just seems—and here's the contrast. This is the one I mentioned earlier, is that Democrat-leading white shoe firms in D.C. were cheerleading their attorneys going down to Gitmo to pro bono terrorists who set up bombs, killing civilians, killing U.S. troops to represent them. And these people, these boomers who wandered through a building they shouldn't have and took a selfie with a cop smiling with them, are now facing pretty serious charges and having their whole lives destroyed. Can't get legal representation.

And that's absolutely abhorrent. Republicans, man, sorry. It's the politicians. It's the leadership. They are pathetic, spineless losers. It's just that simple. They're like, oh, I'd like to represent them. You know, everyone deserves their day in court, it's bad optics oh okay so when you know antifa was burning down when black lives matter was

burning down cities and kamala harris the current vice president tweeted let's raise money to get these people out of jail and they and i'm what 19 people is the official death count it's actually substantially higher how many people died during the riots but as a direct result of riotous action it's like 19 you know there are cops who got shot and paralyzed and kamala harris literally can go on twitter and say hey everybody give money to these people who are committing acts of terrorism and a republican goes that that bumbling dotard of an old woman she can't have a lawyer now now just to make it clear you know at trump's inauguration over 200 people were arrested for violence like um assaulting police officers burning cars burning police cars they all had their charges dropped all dropped and and here's what perplexes and this is what frustrates me most i run look ahead america it's a voter registration organization right why am i the one

that has to write this letter huh like why i'm, you know, you have helped us out by bringing publicity to it. A few others have as well. But where's the Republican political leadership standing up? These are their people. I think you just explained it very simply by uttering an oxymoron. Republican leadership. Sorry, it doesn't work. You look at what Mitch McConnell was doing.

You know, were any of these Republicans fighting for, you know what, just outside of impeachment, outside of Trump, outside of this. When do they fight for anything their constituents actually want other than just tell people, no, wait, don't. There was only one guy who ever did that. Who was that? Trump. The president. Yeah. I mean, he looked many fair criticism of but he never sent

anybody's son off into a war that he started yep he's done a lot of drones we have this article from the hill i want to i want to i want to pull this up murkowski i don't know how trump could be elected again oh murkowski please people be look this is what i tweeted you give someone the option between a ham sandwich and you, and a lot of people are going to take it. You put up Donald Trump, who's like, I'm going to fight for you and fight for these things.

A lot more people are going to take it. That's why the guy won in the first place. He increased the amount of votes he received the second time around by what? 10 million, more than 10 million, right? Yeah. It was like 10 or 11 million,

I think maybe more historic. And that was the most votes a sitting president ever got in history in history yeah yeah so and then joe biden of course the greatest president who's ever lived sent to just a ripple wave of charisma and energy across this nation that truly inspired everybody garnering the most votes we've ever seen of any candidate ever remarkable man that that you know His YouTube page definitely reflects it. It might be signs of a trend that there are just more voters,

more activated voters now since the internet. Exactly. Look, early on, Ian, you mentioned that there was more news. And I've been talking to a lot of people. During the election, there were a ton of people I knew

who had no business in politics, like just literally have never been involved. And they were so active and they knew everything. And now they're gone once again, talking about nonsensical BS. You know, and I shouldn't be that mean. They're talking about just, you know, hokey stuff. The movie they went and saw and how their friend, you know, spilled a beer last night. And it's just normal stuff.

But during the election, it was like Trump is a fascist. We must stop him. Yeah. And everyone was just normal stuff. But during the election, it was like, Trump is a fascist. We must stop him. Yeah. And everyone was cheering and dancing. And that was one of the most one of one of the strategies of the Democrats and the left in terms of getting new votes is making it a cultural movement. So that really did help. It doesn't help when the candidate they were voting for is this like bumbling old dotard who, you know, you can't really understand when he yells true. Not a shot at a pressure.

But whatever. It's interesting times, to say the least. They took something seriously that the right has never taken seriously, which is voter registration. You know, putting aside, there's issues of illegal ballots. We're not going to talk about that. But after the election in Georgia, I went down in canvas neighborhoods, entire neighborhoods that Stacey Abrams, with the help of massive millions of dollars from people like Zuckerberg, went down and registered to vote, new voters, and turned them out. And on our side, and I say this as a nonprofit, on the patriotic side,

there's nobody doing that. I mean, that's what I'm trying to do with Look Ahead. But when people look at those astounding numbers, I used to go to a big meeting of all the people on the right, nonprofit, some partisan groups, once a week in D.C. It's a very famous meeting. I'm not going to name check it. But every year at the beginning of the year, I would get up and read the statistics. In key states, these are the number of new Democrats registered. These are the number of new Republicans registered. And the Democrats, every year, it was a substantially higher number.

And all these swing states, higher and higher, higher get and these are very the white house would be at this meeting both houses of congress and i would get up i would give that little talk i walk into the lobby so people could come chat with me nobody cared nobody paid any attention because they're all focused on you know whatever was hot at the moment or you know some minor controversy that it was long forgotten but those are the things that pay dividends in the long run that the left has been doing it for. And you're right to point it out. The left has been doing it for a very long time.

They're not only organized politically with fundraising and with getting out the vote, they're organized in terms of the ability to riot and have legal observers present. They understand when they go and riot, destroy things, they wear masks. These Trump people who went to the Capitol building were like like smiling and waving for cameras just totally oblivious to what was going on yeah really interesting insurrection where in a country where everybody can or does have an ar they didn't bring any well the karate style insurrection right open hands well not even that the smiling bumbling and respecting the velvet ropes when donald trump was being inaugurated 250 or so individuals got arrested, mostly wearing all black and smashing windows and

starting fires. And the police had no real way to charge anyone because they were wearing masks. So what did they do? They said, conspiracy. And the judge said, are you nuts? Wearing a hoodie and a mask in public is not evidence of a conspiracy. And they tried arguing it was because you know what they were doing. We all know what they were doing. But at a legal standard, they didn't have enough. And these people all basically got released, except for those who pleaded guilty. Yeah, they took plea agreements.

Where's the ACLU on this? I mean, I know what they're tweeting. With the left. What do you mean? I know what they're tweeting. I know that they're partisan. But historically, they represented, I mean, correct me if I'm wrong, individuals and groups like the KKK. They fought for important values for free speech for everyone, regardless of that speech. And now they're tweeting about genders?

And you would think, because this is essentially a right to regress, a right to protest, that's going to be used as a way to stop other protests in the future. And if you care about protesting, if you care about speech, if you care about this huge hammer coming down on a group of individuals, whether you like them or you don't like them, yes, there are some bad apples, yes, there were some bad events, yes, there was some violence, it all gets deserved to be called out. but essentially they're setting a president here that that's going to be very dangerous for them in the future as of course predictably as i've been saying the the biden administration is going to use this orwellian power not just on the right but on the left very soon as well when have they ever learned about how it comes back for them

they've been at they've been demanding censorship for years and now youtube is cracking down on progressive youtubers yeah i remember oh no oh who could have seen this coming back in the day you know even volunteering for the aclu in new york city and being like i like this organization i like these people they stand up for free speech no matter who it is and they're fighting for individuals liberties against the government and and and literally i remember meeting with them i remember spending my time as a teenager being like, these are the good guysied around the ACLU. And then the ACLU defended the right of these alt-right individuals in Charlottesville, the right to hold their event. And the left went, how dare you, and started leaving the ACLU in droves. So the ACLU said, hold on a minute, guys. Should we uphold our principles or take money?

And they took that sweet money because they didn't want to offend all those new donors who were pumping in those bucks. So now they've gone from the american civil civil liberties union to the anti-civil liberties union literally advocating for censoring speech that's the opposite of civil liberties amazing the aclu that you were talking about in your past they got cancelled yeah cancelled and converted yeah I'm not happy about that it's infiltrate destroy rebuild they these woke cultists kick the door in slowly start taking positions of power

and then once the woke mob on the outside cancels them then the woke people inside say see here's what we have to do it's what people want we gotta do it people resign? No, it's that political pressure. They can't—look, there was—you may recall, you know, no one else was really around back then, but like there was American Nazi Party, and they would want to have a parade every year somewhere.

And locals would say, we don't really want that in our neighborhood. But then the ACLU would show up and say, hey, they have a right to political speech. We're going to defend it. That takes a certain level of courage and fortitude. That integrity from law students through law schools to practice is gone. Everybody is terrified of not conforming to what is popular at the moment. And the idea of somebody rebelling or standing up in opposition to what the the masses or the woke mob thinks it's pretty much disappeared on the left it doesn't it kind of disappeared i think with um justice kennedy because he was kind of the leader of that and well you know the problem is look i get it collectivists are going to be collectivists

the problem is there's no there's no counter to this. The Republican Party is basically the old dotard sitting in a rocking chair saying, hold on there, mister. And that's all they do. There's no one actually, there's very few, I should say. There are a lot of people that are speaking out against this. There's intellectual dark web types. There are some leftists who are anti-woke. But for the most part, there's zero opposition. And what you have is a bunch of losers who – I love it. People I know, even some of my friends, I'm very disappointed in them, will be like, I just can't stand all this cancel culture stuff and this weird – like weird – like these weird ideologies they're pushing. And I'm like, oh, have you tried speaking up against it?

Oh, no. Oh, no. Not me. I couldn't do that. Well, then shut up and don't complain. They preemptively canceled themselves because of optics. They don't want to look bad. This is crazy. Well, you know what you can do for those people that'll drive them nuts is bring back that

old metaphor and say, well, first they came for Alex Jones and you didn't say anything. But they don't care. But they love that. Love that metaphor. I've got a bunch of friends who are regular people, and they're just terrified and spineless. That's pathetic? And it's the definition of pathetic. Yeah, of course.

When you care what other people think about you. No. When you care what the audience thinks. It's not that they care what people think about them. It's that they're like, but I'll lose my job. Yeah, they're like, I can't speak out because of what they'll think. People, I love this, because I've been saying it for years. They think that as the woke mob goes door to door, kicking it in and dragging people into the street, they say, if I just don't say anything, my house will be the one they skip.

They didn't skip any of the doors. They didn't skip any of the houses. They're going door to door after every single industry. You will get canceled, period. The only problem is you had an opportunity to stand up and speak up and you didn't do it now i know a lot of people who watch this show probably did because you know if you're watching this you're probably not happy with what's going on but too many people don't they won't and that's it there was a really horrifying twitter thread from james lindsey

i think you guys know james lindsey yeah he basically said it's over they won there's no winning this fight the best you can do is defend yourself don't back down stand up what you believe in and hope it doesn't last that long but it could last centuries yeah don't fight it it's not a fight to take you can circumvent the problem and fix it from the outside without engaging in it the problem is you know even if you look at the american revolution most people like plurality, are just scared and don't want to do anything. And that's really, really sad. It is.

It's like you're watching a forest fire and there's someone saying, if you and I turn this hose on, we can make it go away. You say, but I might get burned. I'd rather back away and watch the force burn to the ground than do anything that brings risk to myself. And yet these people reap the benefits of those who are willing to sacrifice to make the world a better place. And that is one of the biggest, biggest problems we face in this country. For the longest time, it's always been, there's that meme of, there's this beautiful, like, there's this like, I guess you can call it a cliff. There's this like loving looking couple looking on this beautiful city. And then underneath, it's a bunch of soldiers in the dirt holding them up.

It's always been those who are willing to sacrifice who provide for those who aren't. And people need to accept responsibility for what's going on. That word sacrifice is muted. It's been diffused, the power of the word what it really means to sacrifice your your well-being whether it's that you're ridiculed in public or that you have to suffer trauma by seeing someone bleed out next to you like that's all alters you forever it's not even that it's that you might have to carry a rock you might have to lift something what's that you got to pick up a heavy box you don't want to do it people would rather just lay around and be like but it's so easy to

do nothing and let evil people destroy everything what's the saying all that is required for evil to succeed is good men is that good men do nothing it's martin luther king right i don't remember is that yeah i think it's older famous quote shout out to martin luther king but uh here we are that's it what's the answer luke i'm still i'm looking up chomsky and seeing what he's up to because he also, a couple of decades ago, was very strong in favor of free speech and standing up for everyone. He has this famous quote that I just looked up that I want to share with everyone. And he said, quote, Goebbels was in favor of free speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you're really in favor of free speech, then you're in favor of freedom of speech for precisely the views you despise.

Otherwise, you're not in favor of free speech. And I absolutely agree with him. And he was a major important figure that was standing up for people's individuals, liberties, and speech no matter what it was. And now he wrote an article that is comparing the coup attempt being closer to the center of power than Hitler's 1923. Chomsky did? Yes, Ch chomsky this is truth out uh i'm reading the article right now and uh i'm still trying to get to the kind of basis i was reading when you guys were talking about but essentially you know he calls what happened a coup attempt and he's comparing it to hitler rise in power. Well, you know, I don't know what to tell you, man. You know, I was talking to a friend of mine earlier who just, they don't care.

Time Magazine puts out an article where they're just laughing in the faces of everybody. And these regular people are like, well, you know, I don't care. And I'm like, have you asked yourself why it is that you're working two minimum wage jobs to try and pay your bills? Have you asked yourself why it is that your business was shut down and you lost your job for months? Have you asked yourself why it is that you're on your knees begging the government to please cut you some scraps? And there are a lot of people who aren't doing that. Do you wonder why it is there are a lot of people who are currently getting by and doing just fine and you're the one who is being subjugated? Could it be that it's because the other people have stood up and walked away from this and found a way to be responsible for themselves and take care of themselves?

But you just keep saying, please let me lick the bottom of your shoe. Okay, you know what? I'll tell you this. You're under no obligation to lick anybody's shoe. But if you really want to, far be it from me to stop you. So I'll be out in the middle of nowhere kind of just doing my thing and talking about what I want to talk about and playing games and skateboarding and all that stuff. And if you really want to live under the boots of these people and you refuse to do anything

about it, then don't expect anyone to come save you. When you get evicted from your apartment, you're living in the streets. And what's coming next? The moratorium on evictions will end soon. These people haven't paid their bills and there's been no COVID relief. Even if Joe Biden cuts these $1,400 checks, it's not going to pay the seven or eight months of back rent. These people are all going to find themselves in the street and the Democrats won't give you anything. They said they were going to give you $2,000 checks. No, no, I'm sorry. That was supplemental. That was only $1,400 because you already got $600, right?

All right. Well, that kind of makes sense. Then they said, oh, and by the way, we said everyone we actually meant means tested. So if you make more than $50,000 a year, you'll still get evicted because your cost of living probably is higher living in New York City and you make too much. Sorry. Goodbye. The street is the place for you. Are they measuring that

$50,000 based on last year's thing? So if you're unemployed right now and you make 50 grand based on last year's thing so if you're unemployed right now and you make it's just if you make if you make 50 grand they start diminishing your your uh the stimulus you're on a salary to project it to make 50 grand this year or is it like what it's probably the previous year are you sure because i swear repeatedly and over and over again biden and his whole campaign team were tweeting about no you elect me two thousand dollar checks right away right out that's a good point. Did I imagine that? No, you did not.

You didn't. No, you paid attention. And how do you say this means-tested thing about 50 grand when it's like, okay, what if you live in New York and what if you live in Omaha? My rent was $3,000 a month in San Francisco four years ago. And so the people in New York who haven't been paying it and the people in Chicago and LA who they can't pay it are sitting here licking the boots of Democrats saying, you know, we're going to cross our fingers and hope this is the time they give us what we need. No, they shut your businesses down.

They took your jobs away and then they gave you nothing. And now you're going to get kicked out. You're going to live in the street. I keep thinking about this Rockefeller. OK, I don't know enough about it to really pin this all on john d rockefeller but when they kind of re-evolved the school industry in the 1920s when they were kind of attempting the coup of the federal reserve and all this in 1910 1920 they built a new school system where we raise our hands wait for the bell we're basically learning to be factory workers might have been earlier than the 20s i don't really know the details if any of you guys do please please fill in the gaps

but it seems like they succeeded in turning us into subservient wage slaves. And now people think going to work means misery. They just have, like, I have to go to work. You're creating work. If you pay attention to what work is in science, it's energy creation. It's measured in joules. It's worse than that.

Actually, I have a nephew and I share talks with him and I speak to him a little bit. I try to undermine the conformity that gets imposed on folks like that in the public school system. I said, hey, you know the company that builds your school, if you look around at the architecture of it,

it's the same company that builds the prison and they look exactly the same. They work the same way. There was a little kid in Chicago who was thrown into a padded room and they locked the door and walked away because he was having a temper tantrum. They work the same way. There was a little kid in Chicago who was thrown into a padded room and they locked the door and walked away because he was having

a temper tantrum. They put him in solitary confinement and then the kid just like cried and then soiled his pants. That's what's going on and you know what it is? These people in cities, they keep voting for the same thing.

So I look at this data showing the hyperpolarization. The red areas get red or the blue areas get bluer. People who live in red areas who are blue move to cities because they want to be around people who are blue. And people who live in cities who are red, they move to the countryside. They get away from the blue areas. Hyper polarization is getting worse. And from this, you'll end up with Democrat controlled

super majorities in places like California, where they burn the system to the ground and people keep voting for it, thinking if we just keep sticking our hand in the fire, eventually it will stop burning. That's where we're at right now. The only thing I can see on the horizon is chaos. I know people who have been out of work for months. They can't pay their bills. And they're like, I'm so angry with the Democrats. I'm like, you voted for him. OK, look, I get it's not like the Republicans are going to do anything for you. But what do you think is going to happen? They're not going to help you. It's just going to get worse.

Eventually, it doesn't matter what side anyone's on, their heads are going to figuratively explode. Yeah, that was the punishment in my high school is it was solitary confinement from eight to three. They would just keep you in a room isolated by yourself. Can't talk to anyone. I actually held the record for the most suspensions and consecutive days of like solitary confinement in school but as you said you know they look exactly the same they are exactly the same like prisons the rockefeller thing is something important because he was in

he was instrumental in creating the modern school day which again resembles the modern day of a factory worker with exact breaks with exact work shifts. And the bell ringing. And exactly. It's just meant to teach people to rinse and repeat, rinse and repeat. And then homeschooling is something that's attacked, something that's looked down on, when in reality, homeschooled kids are getting a far better education than those in public school. Trust me, I went to public school.

There's a reason I still can't spell and mess up my words daily. It's not just the Polish. But when you compare American schools to chinese schools when you compare the intelligence levels of of chinese people compared to american people uh we have something extremely worrisome that's going to be affecting us and i think there's a reason people keep saying idiocracy is becoming more and more of a documentary because it is they're becoming real life they did a poll of young people in the U.S. and China, and they asked them what they wanted to be when they grew up. And people in the U.S. said influencers, YouTubers, Instagram,

and kids in China said astronauts. You know, I have a little anecdote. I worked for eight years as a mentor and tutor to inner-city children in D.C. And I would help them with their math and English, but also have one-on-one sessions with them. Sort of, these are kids who didn't have like an adult male in their household growing up.

Right. It's a great program. But I remember seeing in front of the classroom one day and just sort of talking about the realism of careers and choices. I said, okay, who here's going to be a, you know,

what do you guys want to do? And overwhelmingly, they were all either going to be professional basketball players or professional football players. And when you have it in your mind, you're going to be a professional athlete. Suddenly, the time you spend after school doing your homework, oh, that's a waste of time. You want to be on the court or practicing, et cetera, et cetera, not, you know, looking at the realism or the reality of how unlikely

it is, whereas getting a job as an accountant or some other professional is easily within reach if you just keep a few things in line. The problem is we used to have apprenticeship. We used to have, you know, you're a guy and you work in a factory and your kid, you know, let's say you're a blacksmith or whatever, your kid would watch and learn from you and then pick up the trade and then the business would stay in the family and expand. Then we moved into the era of the massive corporation where there are mid-level jobs that you can't really hand down to your kids.

You know, like the famous accountant brought his kid to work to learn to be an accountant. It doesn't really happen. Then life stopped becoming about your passions and what you were good at. And it became about finding some menial task to build a machine. As we hyper specialized everything, it made less sense to have our children be an apprentice. And they went to school to work to essentially learn to be factory workers with shifts and the bell would ring and they'd get up and they moved to the next room. And that's where we're at now where these people, a lot of these people, and I can understand this, are snapping because they find no meaning in these menial tasks a lot of these people, and I can understand this, are snapping because they

find no meaning in these menial tasks. Many of these people are becoming communists thinking that while someone else is doing work, I should get a piece of it. I'll tell you what you need to do. You need to roll up your sleeves, go in the backyard, start chopping lumber, get fire going, cook your own food, grow your own food, and just be responsible for yourself for once in your life. But not only that, not only do the jobs that are available are are they cruddy do they suck but but there's very little of them available for the average person and if they do have them there they usually have to be countered with social government programs like welfare which of course companies like amazon exploit heavily which of course mcdonald's also does as well, which actually subsidizes their workforce by American taxes.

And the local workforce that actually does make a little bit of money that is still out there. But when we look at robotics, when we look at immigration, when we look at work visas, all of this is eliminating any opportunity for economic growth and economic prosperity in this country. And there's none left. But maybe there's a plateau. Like, is everyone going to be Elon Musk?

Of course not. But when we're talking about jobs and opportunities, it used to be looked upon as something that you were proud of. Now, a lot of people hate their jobs, hate what they're doing, and they don't want to be doing it, and they're not fulfilled. Whether that is because of our emotional manipulated state state or whether that is because of the larger socioeconomic conditions i think it's both of those things and i think there might be even a third factor that we're not even considering here uh that we don't even know of yet but essentially what we're seeing is

is a miserable class of working people that have been beat up that have been assaulted and have been thrown behind left behind by the corporate establishment that doesn't give a damn about them. Well, you know what's driving this, as you hit on it, is basically corporations leaning on Washington to allow essentially unlimited illegal labor across the border, which is cutting away a lot of those initial jobs that people might have. You say Americans don't want any more. Okay, fine. You know what job Americans love doing that they're told to learn to do is code. And yet you have these mega corporations bending the rules every which way to get every possible H-1B visa worker in here, et cetera, et cetera, which are doing two things. It's driving down the wages.

And you have people at Disney World who are running the IT systems having to train their own replacements. And their own senator, Marco Rubio, doesn't do anything about it doesn't raise an issue and those not only is it driving wages down but it's also driving housing costs up which is one of the biggest expense people's people have and you can sort of see this explosion in uh work visas for professional jobs coming to this country and a steady decline of the median income of middle- Americans just going down and down and down. While at the top you have people like Bezos, et cetera, exploding. Why? Because they're exploiting this beautiful market by bringing in people who essentially did not help create it to sort of more or less exploit them.

It's essentially slave labor. The most insidious thing about the learn to code narrative, which they still pursue. Now they're talking about union jobs going, well, maybe we can learn to code narrative, which they still pursue when now they're talking about union jobs going, well, maybe we can learn to code. Make solar panels. They're telling you, when they say learn to code, they're saying compete with people who live in Poland, Romania, Ukraine, places where the cost of living is substantially lower. And the amount of money that you need to pay to somebody who works in who's working out of Ukraine is very, very low relative to someone who doesn't live in the United States.

The cost of living in the U.S., an apartment in New York City, like you said, Ian, like three grand. That's the average cost of an apartment in New York City. I'm pretty sure. Well, now it's probably collapsed. But for a while it was. Let's say you're only renting a room and in a three bedroom, three bedrooms going to cost like thirty five to four grand. So you're going to be spending like a thousand twelve hundred a month. You could pay half that to someone who codes in ukraine and they would be getting an average wage

making 600 bucks 600 bucks a month so when these companies are outsourcing and you mentioned h1b visas it's worse than that you can just hire all digital work for any company anywhere in the world it's that easy and it's there's a big time value of it because you want people working while you're sleeping. You need 24 seven access on your, especially for tech. You need like an Indian branch so that they can go 6 p.m. to 6 a.m.

We used to hire night shifts. Or you just need people to work the night shift. Yeah, we call it the graveyard shift. But what's making me think is that, what is the Americans like the 1% wealthiest people in the world? We have been, if you have making $30,000 1% wealthiest people in the world? We have been. If you have making $30,000 a year, you're in the top 1%. That's shifting now.

That 1% is coming from other countries. So these people in America are swiftly becoming left behind and may find themselves in the bottom 98% if they're not already. Regular Americans. The rich are getting richer. Yeah, like people whose parents were totally fine. We're in the 1%. They're not now. Well, look.

Right. I mean, this is one of the things that is in second phase for Look Ahead America, but where we're going to start pushing is something that's been forgotten in this country, I think, by so many is economic patriotism. You need to think about who you're hiring and what kind of world

that's going to bring in the future. Do you want to have a strong America for your children and generations to come? That means buying American. That means hiring American. That means paying a little bit more so that we, as a country, can continue to remain strong. I almost don't think there is an America anymore. I mean, obviously—

That's what I'm fighting. That notion, it is incredibly pervasive and poisonous and difficult to fight against it. But, you know, torpedoes be damned. The issue is the media is completely fractured. The Daily Beast says that it is an alt-right conspiracy, this lab leak hypothesis. They criticized Bill Maher and Brett Weinstein and Heather Hine for even talking about it. And a month earlier, you actually had the New York Mag putting out the big story about the lab leak hypothesis.

So it's like if the Daily Beast and the New York Mag are both prominent mainstream outlets, and they're both telling us totally different things, that you're a Nazi if you believe it, or it may actually be true, no one has any idea what to actually believe. And there's no unified culture. I was looking at Gallup polls. We go back to approval ratings to say Eisenhower to JFK. And the divide between Democrats and Republicans in approval was like 30, 32, 28, meaning yes, 65% of Republicans would approve and then 30% of Democrats, but it was fairly like,

you know, everybody was kind of now it's Joe Biden. It's worse than it's ever been. 87 is the gap. Donald Trump was 76. The hyperpolarization is getting to the point where there is not one but two different Americas right now. Because of that, I don't think that there's an actually cohesive America. It's split into two different entities. And right now you have, you know, CNN and all these outlets. Like I mentioned, the Daily Beast could tell you it's an alt-right conspiracy theory. And the Washington Post can literally put an article saying it's a strong hypothesis we must consider. So which one do you pick? Which side are you on? Which

America do you fall in? Because you can't be in both at the same time. Either you're an alt-right Nazi for believing it, or even Washington Post is pushing the idea, and so is Bill Maher. But it's not even about a clear divide. It's about mass confusion. And I know cue all the super chats about Yuri Bezmenov. Hey, we're here. How can there be a functioning America if no one can agree on any set of facts?

And it's almost intentional on the part of the media. You know, there was a great line in President Trump's first inaugural address that I kind of hang on to is that through love of country, we'll again learn to love each other. And I think that the solution to this, and look, I'm not saying I'm going to win. I'm not saying it's going to prevail. I'm saying the fight only ends when we stop fighting it. And that is basically patriotism. We've got to unify again around love of country. And that's why we have to speak out so loudly when we see people disrespecting the symbols of the country, like kneeling at a football game when they're doing the national anthem, etc, etc.

I mean, you're right. It's a battle. And I know I see people on Twitter saying, oh, we've lost the country. It's over. But it's only over when we stop fighting. You know, I value the U.S. Constitution heavily. But I wonder if I see automation on the horizon in a way we've never anticipated. And if – it's not so much about the borders of the United States, but if it's about the constitution and proliferating that concept globally.

I mean the news organizations are already global. They've fractured us. Our economy is global. It's been – poverty is fractured so more than it's ever been in this country. And it seems like it's expanded. The wealth gap is expanding so what rather than at least the way i'm trying to go into it is is like some sort of economic parity like that's why i love andrew yang and i don't know how you guys feel about his his you know monthly fee or whatever they call it ubi universal basic income doesn't work well neither do what is what we're doing so maybe it doesn't work less than what we're doing now texas is working great florida's working great but what

do you mean it's new york that's in the i can't in the crapper in the crapper california's the crapper the government's making is fiscally solvent is that what you mean working great yeah jobs are exploding people are happy kids are going to school but there's a lot of poverty through at least throughout there's way more way more homeless more homeless in California than anywhere else in the developed world. Poverty is a relative thing. It depends on your definition of developed world. I'll clarify that. But poverty is sort of a relative thing.

Somebody who's relatively poor today would be essentially a king 50 years ago in terms of what they've got. But it's not the poverty per se. It's the ability to get out of it. And if you set your mind to it, what obstacles do you have to surmount? And again, you look at a state like Florida or Texas or some of these other successful red states, but you look at New York or you look at California, yeah, it's a dumpster

and you have to start thinking about why. So if we're thinking about equality of opportunity, giving them the ability to get out of the poverty state, that's where UBI, I like, but it doesn't have to be money. You just need access to opportunity. You just need will and a government that's out of your way. And basically a community for you to grow up in where people basically support each other.

And there's trust. And it's easy to work through that society. It's very difficult in a place where basically neighbors all hate each other. There was a meme going around that said only crazy people believe government should solve the problems that government caused. And when we look at the larger problems, I mean, when we look at what we're dealing with, it has the direct blueprints of our government selling out to the special interests in a way that, of course, is not capitalistic, that is not free enterprise, in a way that is collusion, that they're colluding, in a way that they're doing it secretly, in a way that they're conspiring, that's screwing everyone else over.

And if you think the government could take more money from its citizenry and redistribute it fairly accurately, you got another thing coming. You know, we wouldn't need UBI if we didn't have these corrupt worker visa programs and unlimited illegal immigration. There would be no need for it. You would be able to get a decent job. You would be able to start a family in your mid-20s and be able to get a house.

All those things would be feasible. This has been taken away from us by our government that is serving these international globalist corporations. The problem is they're simultaneously, well, as you mentioned, it's not just illegal immigration, it's immigration in general. That means you're adding to the labor market in very very large numbers but business isn't developing that fast and it's outsourcing so if if one person's and outsourcing like i mentioned

the coding thing the digital world is going to rapidly change this in a lot of in a lot of crazy ways uh automation is going to change this and that means we're you combine that with with with immigration the labor market's going to explode and there's going to be no jobs for people. I've often like fancifully thought that we're evolving out of a monetary society in general, that money is kind of like a transition period. And we're almost post, not post scarcity, but post money. Maybe, you know, they say currency, I make the metaphor that like electricity is current

currency. And that may be the future of currency is your access to electricity that you can build and make the things you need to succeed in life you don't really need we don't have replicators man not yet it's not true but well i don't know if we're it feels like we're on the cusp of something like that and we're trying to solve this problem with money but the problem is the money the problem is you've got people who propose ubi well that would basically mean people in cities get free money and don't have to work and people live in the countryside have to still farm and do a lot of backbreaking work so like free what work free electricity

maybe if you could give people free electricity but how would you give them free electricity there's no such thing as free yeah somebody has to do the labor to produce it no matter what that labor is and that means the cost is always there. Be it, I'll give you this bottle of water in exchange for your labor, you pay the cost for it. So give someone the opportunity to create their own electricity. How? Riding a bike every day.

I don't know. So who's going to make the bike? Who's going to make the generator? Specialists. And then you've got to pay them. So it's not free. Maybe you don't. Maybe you don't need money to pay people.

You just need electricity. No. I don't know, man. I'm just trying to solve this in a different way. Something we see very often on the left is the idea that money is a thing, that money is the driver when money is just an idea that allows transactions. It doesn't matter if you're giving someone a bottle of shampoo or a sandwich. That's what you are paying.

I could pay you in seashells if you valued seashells. I could pay you in old shoes if you valued shoes there will always be a cost for producing something because things need other things to exist if you want to make a bike you need rubber you need metal you need someone to make the gears you need the labor of putting all together and you can't just have people do it for free unless you have a gun i suppose slavery well there's nothing free and the government has to take it from someone else and then give it to someone else. There's nothing that the government does that is free. Well, you know what money is, though. It's just a temporary store of value.

So let's say I had a bicycle and it broke and you said, well, I'll fix your bicycle for you. And I said, well, I'll tell you what, that sounds good. I'll have a cow give you a gallon of milk, but I'll give you a gallon of milk a week from now. But, you know, just to keep track of things, I'm going to give you like a little note that says, this note is good for one gallon of milk a week from now, I hand it to you.

And then you give it to him to pay for some cabbages. That's all money is. It's just a reflection of a value that we had already. It's a placeholder. Yeah. And they've kind of decommodified it. So it's like a general placeholder for any. I like it works.

And it's a fantastic evolutionary process that we've come across currency that it was invented and that we use it. But this is what I said. I need to be the way i think that's what i said during the lockdown that only after the last supermarket has closed the last dairy farm has dumped all of their milk into the ground and the last farm has you know shoved all the crops back underground will these leftists realize you can't eat money it's an it's a plan an old saying about only after the last river is polluted and the last forest destroyed. It's a Native American saying, I believe. And all these leftists got really mad at me for saying it because, I mean, it's a very simple bit of logic. The money isn't

the food. UBI doesn't give you anything. What is that value in that check? It's nothing. It's basically saying someone did work somewhere and you should have access to it. Sure. But does that mean there are people who are willing to work in exchange for nothing or for less? It creates a massive inequality. You'll have people who live in big cities and you already do who don't work and get access to the resources produced by farmers who do work and live out in the middle of nowhere. The general idea for many of these leftists is that you shouldn't be allowed to own what you make. That's it. The means of production are controlled by the people and what you produce belongs to everyone. So you start seeing these really messed up scenarios with the system. In North Korea, for instance, if there's a family,

a community, I'm sorry, it's not a family. There's a community that has access to cows. Now the cows belong to everyone, to the people. So what happens is, one day the cow dies, and all the people in that community look at it and say, we should eat this. You can't, because it belongs to everyone. So what happens is, the guards will come and take the meat, and it gets distributed across the entire nation, which is ridiculous, really hard to do, and results in some people getting spoiled meat. So sometimes, when the cow is dying, they'll have no choice but to secretly steal and eat it. And you get sent to the gulag for that. The problem is if you want to create a society where everyone's equal and everyone gets

access no matter where you are and what you do, you create a wildly inefficient system that can't transport resources properly. And it ends up with people doing a ton of work and some people doing literally no work. You have people in North Korea. This is amazing. I love this. Their job is to be a skateboarder. It sounds like magic to most skateboarders in the United States. They have skate parks in North Korea where there are kids who skate and their job is you must be good at skateboarding so that we can produce good skateboarders and make good videos because other people in the world want to buy that access to videos. They want to buy the content. They want to buy the product and we want to be competitive. So they don't do any work other than just going skating. And that sounds like paradise to a lot

of people until you realize that once you develop that system, they're not going to make you the skateboarder. They're going to make you go mine sulfur and there's going to be 10 skateboarders and your teeth are going to fall out of your mouth. That's what you get when you get these systems. It doesn't work. And we've seen it over and over again. But you get a large enough population of dumb people to scream and demand it. They get their fingers into the institutions. And then you are left with a bunch of spineless, fat, wealthy or well-off Americans. And I don't mean the general wealth. I mean of the world. And so long as they are fed, they will not stand up and they will not defend their values. And that's

what allows these lunatics to take over and destroy everything. Do you support unemployment insurance, social security? Yes. So like government handouts, basically? The government supplies you with something? You pay for those things. That's not a government handout. I don't. You don't support that? Especially not social security.

It's a scam. Well, but that's not the same thing as UBI because Social Security is basically – it's worse than you paying for it. It actually was stolen from you, and you could have put that money into almost any other investment and come out like a millionaire with wealth you could give to your kids. Instead, the government steals it and gives you a pittance of a percentage of interest. So unemployment insurance is actually –'s it's not it's funded by people paying it like we all have to pay it because we're again nothing's free you pay social security and if you were able to invest that money even independently you would get way more money than the little bit that the government gives back to you that you paid into but and then anyway they're in the united states that are taking that money and literally investing it into the stock

market and and it's screwing people over on on levels that are just absolutely crazy to the point where we're at right now where there's even some people saying that there might not be enough money for other people's social security even though if they paid for it they've been saying since the 90s and they've been and and we've had past presidents raid social security for use in other areas but if let me clarify I support the ideas. Yeah, me too. We all pitch in, and then when someone falls on hard times, we pick them up. So Jack Murphy was talking about this on one of his shows recently

about the U.S. Constitution being written for an agrarian society in the 1700s, and it reflects that, a lot of the things in the Constitution. Like what? You know, right to carry a weapon. You can't do it in New York City, but you can do it when you're walking on the farm. What's that got to do with an agrarian society? And you could bear arms in New York City. It had nothing to do with farms. You just can't walk around't do it in New York City, but you can do it when you're walking on the farm. That's not got to do with an agrarian society. And you could bear arms in New York City.

It had nothing to do with farms. You just can't walk around with an AR in New York City. You used to be able to. Yeah, you used to be able to. You used to be able to have a warship in the docks. You used to be able to

when we were mainly an agrarian society. But it has nothing to do with agrarian. Philadelphia and New York were not agrarian when the Constitution was signed. But the entire society was

that they built the Constitution around. More or less. I mean, it was like pastoral. Literally, it was absolutely not. There was some But the entire society was that they built the Constitution around. More or less. I mean, it was like pastoral. Literally, it was absolutely not. There was some industry, but it was set late in the 90s. And you can still walk

with a firearm around Dallas or Houston. Yeah, but we've had to alter it slightly as our society changes. We have to. It's a 220-year-old document. You've got to alter it as we go. No, no, no. Hold on, hold on.

That's not going to be a Second Amendment. People in 1776 had private warships. They could literally lay siege to New York if they chose to alter it as we go. No, no, no. Hold on. Hold on. People in 1776 had private warships. They could literally lay siege to New York if they chose to do it. You can't have warships anymore. You could also have slaves in 1780 because it made a lot of sense. You can't do that. And we amended the Constitution. Yeah, we changed it.

The point is the right to bear arms had nothing to do with agrarian society. Okay, well, let's talk about the slavery clause then. You're fine. Slaves were fine in 1780. They're not fine anymore. We changed. So maybe we should rewrite a bill of rights for the internet age

where we give ourselves these unalienable opportunities access to electricity access to running water access to a place to live who provides those things we would provide it to ourselves

through taxes whatever you want call it taxes or something like that someone has to do that labor as opposed to UBI it would be something more like you have these things.

Who is going to build the system and maintain it to give you water? You know, I actually went to a country where they intended to do that. They tried to do it and ensure equity. And I saw equity with my own eyes. It was a tower of skulls, five stories high,

the killing fields of Cambodia, the aftermath of the Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot, trying to execute exactly this vision. So I know it sounds good and sounds appealing. Equity of what? Equity of life? Equity of outcome. No, but opportunity, you're talking about outcomes. I'm talking about opportunity.

No, you're talking about outcome. You've got to have gas, you've got to have internet, you have to have water, health care, et cetera. As a basic opportunity. That's not an opportunity. If you don't have clean water, you said you got to have gas, you got to have internet, you have to have water, health care, et cetera. As a basic opportunity. That's not an opportunity. If you don't have clean water, you're done. But that's not an opportunity. It is an opportunity to survive. And that's already kind of, our local communities have passed laws to ensure that.

Thank God. And if they hadn't, you wouldn't stand a chance. Who drinks tap water anyway? We're going to Costco buying it from them. Well, a lot of people drink tap water and they filter it and et cetera, et cetera. Okay, so they get a filter from Costco. What if you didn't have electricity in this society and you couldn't get it? You'd be done. What, you'd be chopping

wood for a living? Come on. Here's the problem. You think that we have electricity because of the government and we don't. We have a centralized electric grid that we kind of work together to fund. We have electricity because of the ingenuity and entrepreneurship of the American people. Yeah, we don't need a government to do this stuff. I just want the opportunities.

How do you guarantee someone water and electricity if they're homeless? You know, you can provide the opportunity. You can't make them take it. How do you give someone the opportunity to drink water and have electricity if they're homeless? Create water stations, electrical chargers. Who's going to build the water stations?

Who's going to build the electrical stations? Me, Tim. Me and a bunch of robots. No, no, no, come on. You have no... And we'll hire people to do it. Who's going to build the water stations? Who's going to build the electrical stations? Me, Tim. Me and a bunch of robots. No, no, no. Come on. You have no. There's no. It doesn't work.

And we'll hire people to do it. Who pays for it? We can. That's meaningless. It's utopian nonsense. I mean, when you get into politics, that's why you get into politics. You say tax money. That's the answer.

If you want to do social programs, you get the people to pay taxes and come together and do it. I want to take from you, Ian, so I can give to Matt. That's basically what you're saying. I would like to produce so we can all have, Tim. You mentioned that slavery should be wrong. It's wrong and it should be illegal. Yet we still have a system. First of all, the 13th Amendment, as Kanye West pointed out, still allows for slavery with prisons. And we saw Kamala Harris take advantage of that in a

very disgusting way, having people fight wildfires at their own, risking their lives. That's what, that's, that's a significant thing about it. But taxation is a particular problem, not in and of itself. It's the fact that you have a corrupt government that takes from people to spend on nonsense overseas. Now, the concept of taxation, I'm not one of these laissez faire capitalists who thinks that taxation is theft. I think the manipulation of our current political system is, for the most part,

theft. Because they're taking from us, from our labor at a time when we are most desperate, and giving it to Pakistan for gender studies programs. They're giving it to Sri Lanka for speedboats. And regardless of whether you agree with it or not, they're giving it to other countries. They're putting it in Afghanistan, Iraq. They're putting it in Israel. They're putting it in Yemen. They're putting it in Sudan for military purposes because we support or oppose certain regimes. They're spending money in Syria. Why? We are losing. We are bleeding jobs. Our economy's in the gutter. People are desperate for any amount of money to pay their bills. Now that's theft. When you've got someone who's on their knees begging, please, I just need to drink water. I need a building I can live in. And they say, well, we're going to take some of your money and give it to Syria and Yemen. That's theft. It's brutal. It is. I agree. I

don't like paying taxes and not knowing where they go, not having control over it. But if we could focus energy and money or whatever into a program together that's transparent, that'd be cool. Yeah, I think the problem is always corruption. The left tries to claim that what's going on right now is the intended consequence of capitalism of capitalism that's not true and when people point to what happens in these communist countries these things are also deviations from what the ideology ideology dictates perhaps it's because it's impossible to have a communist system as the ideology dictates and perhaps given a long enough period of time maybe it's a short period of time maybe it's longer capitalism devolves into a corrupt crony system where people manipulate

the system for personal gain and strip your resources away using power yeah power force yeah power corrupts absolute power corrupts absolutely you would be way better off instead of asking and demanding the government to do something than you doing it with private enterprise voluntarily with other people around you that say hey there, there's this project. Let's fund it. Let's do it. Let's do something entrepreneurial that will actually help people and incentivize people to do the right thing. You have a way better chance of getting success that way than beating at the doors of big

government that's infiltrated by big tech, by the corporate globalist monopolies and saying, hey, take more money from these people. What are they going to do with that money? They're going to take it for themselves, and they're going to give you a half-ass program that doesn't work, that doesn't do anything. You look at all the basic social services in the United States, so many of them are corrupt. So many of them provide inadequate services, to say the least. And for them to get more money, more power, to be incentivized on their corruption, on their middleman gangster-like activity is just pointless. You're better off doing it on your own.

I agree with you to a point because I think if we started like a private, quasi-private public enterprise that was able to raise money to build electricity and water and housing for people, if it was a profit, then we would start to make money. And then when do we prevent ourselves from becoming corrupted? We need like a government oversight. We need some sort of protection so that we or whoever we pass the company to doesn't. You know, it's just corruption happens. And given a long enough period of time, you'll start to see corruption.

So I agree. I think we need I'm in favor of a mixed economy with with certain regulations. But then what happens when the system just becomes more and more corrupt and nobody wants to actually deal with the tough questions and the hard problems? One of the issues I think we have as a country is that we're extremely wealthy, all of us, every single one. And so we're, to put it simply, fat and happy. We got our food. We got our McDonald's. We got our chicken wings.

We got our Super Bowl. Now, the ratings are down, mind you. But people were just sitting around saying, why bother? It's so easy to just sit. Look, it's so easy to be a middle manager at a cracker factory and not have to think about any of this stuff and just go home and eat your ice cream and watch a football game. It's easy. Why ask the hard questions? Why put yourself at risk? You've got it made. Now things are getting harder. We saw in 2008 with the destruction of people's lives. This sparked a populist uprising. It was fractured by

identity politics. We're still in that mess. People started losing and life started becoming harder. Now with COVID, as things become harder and harder, I think we're on the verge of people just basically having their heads explode because now they're actually becoming desperate. Now they're actually going to lose their homes. Now they don't actually have jobs. Now they're actually going hungry. Now you're going to see angry people. I don't know when. A lot of people are just sitting here with their fingers crossed. I love that song because there was a meme someone posted that Leonard Cohen, he warned us with that song. Everybody knows. Everybody knows the dice was loaded, but they all rose with their fingers crossed yeah right

come on we know it's coming up it's coming up for the establishment they're going to keep extracting our resources they're going to solve none of our problems and to me it feels an awful lot like the political establishment in this country knows probably since 2008 we are doomed so extract as much as you can transfer it to foreign companies so that that value will survive after the the implosion and now here we go i wish they didn't do that because there's like resilience is kind of a natural phenomenon of humanity of life in general you know you see that meme of the plant growing through the cracks and the cement and breaking cement apart so that it can life can flourish so like to intentionally sabotage it and destroy it quicker makes doesn't make sense to me i think that it

there is a natural tendency to thrive and survive so these people these people extracting as much as they can as the ship goes down i think they're just trying to make the ship go down when maybe it wouldn't go down i think if everybody was bailing water the ship would survive but a lot of people are like well nobody else is bailing water so I better just take as much as I can and get out of here. The only antidote, and I know that this affected a liberal might chafe at this, but the only answer we really have here is nationalism, is patriotism. Because that's the only thing that compels together because money is not going to do it. Just pursuit of cash and wealth. There's no unity there.

There's nothing, because America faces a very unique challenge, and a very unique challenge, because when you look at other countries, fundamentally what almost every other country in the world is, is an extended family. Those people are all related to each other. They all kind of Irish, Ireland, they're a bunch of counties, but they're essentially all related. So they all have a lot in common. And you'd no sooner steal from your neighbor in one of these countries than you would from your own family because you're that close. America

historically has not really had that central... We're not a descendant of a single people. And with this, you know, with our stratification, if everybody has a different origin story coming here, you have American descendants of slaves, and then you have people like Kamala Harris,

who are like a slave somewhere else, and then came here, and folks from all over the world here. That's what our challenge is. And the only solution to bring that together, because you don't have this divisiveness in these other countries that are formed in the more traditional way, like Poland. They're all related.

They're all family. We have to overcome that here. And the way you overcome that is through patriotism, through nationalism, through love of country. Because if we're going to get out of it, out of this, that's the only way out of it. There's no other way out of it. Otherwise, everything else is just continued division, fractionalism between red and blue states among divisions and race and everything else. The only thing we have to pull us together is this sense of nationalism and national unity. So that's basically what Look Ahead America is all about, fighting for and reminding people. And we have precedence for this. We have precedence for this in places like Singapore or India, which is actually even more diverse than the United States is. People don't realize that. In terms of languages, in terms of religions, et cetera, et cetera, it's far more fractured

than the United States is and has much more deeper conflicts built within it. So they have a challenge, too. So we're not alone, I guess, in terms of facing this challenge, but our challenge is unique. And the path out of it, I really just see one way. I don't see anything else. How do you define love of country? I define it in the same way that you love your mother, that you would never want to see any harm come to your mother.

Like there's few relationships that people have that's any different from the way they love their mother. And it's a very powerful love. And we need to find that for our country. And when it's a country that's unified, like, I'll pick one out at random, Latvia, pretty much everyone there is related. So to love a country as you love your mother, those things go hand in hand. But we need to be able to find a way to do that here.

Because that's what keeps us together. We're all part of this nation. But if we don't have that common ancestry through blood, we have to find it somewhere else. And it has to be basically through our values, through our culture, through our history. And that's why, again, it's so dangerous where you see these people pulling the names of founders off of schools because they did something that we don't consider favorable, or they made the most of things that they could in the time. But I guess by our standards, we consider them criminal or something like that.

So that's the only way out, even if we have to invent it. If it doesn't exist, we have to invent it in ourselves. You know, I probably just being a bit pessimistic, but that James Lindsay tweet, I think he made a really important point when he's talking very much about critical race theory i mean i don't see a a way we get a unifying front to shut that kind of thing down which results in the red states will get redder the blue states will get bluer and then eventually maybe maybe it will force some kind of peaceful you know collapse or divorce when you have say the removal of marjorie Taylor Greene from her committees, what's the point of voting for someone if they're just going, if the Democrats who are in the majority just say, you have no voice here? Then people who are in that district are like, we have no representation. What happens when they then say, we're going to expel anyone who supported

the constitutional efforts by Trump's, by the Republicans to object to the electoral vote? It's in the Constitution. They say, we don't care. We're going to vote to expel these people. Eventually, you'll have states with no representation. They'll say, we're not part of the union anyway. Well, look, we can still fight this through voter registration. And again, this is hard stuff. You can't go home and watch your Super Bowl and eat your Dunkin' Donuts and just let life slip by. By engaging and lobbying the state legislatures where you have power, by registering new people to vote who share our worldview and getting them to turn out. The other ways out of this are arms insurrection or just slit your own wrists. Those are the two other options.

And I'm choosing, and I hope others choose this option, is to just to fight for our country through the democratic process we have. And, you know, that's the worst thing about this voter fraud thing, and it's the way it demoralizes people from believing in the system or from engaging with the system. I got an email from somebody today, and she said, well, I'm never going to vote again. And, okay, now what?

It's either arm's instruction or just slit your wrists and get it over with. The Republicans are bleeding voters. I saw that again. Speaking from a nonprofit point of view, that doesn't, as long as you show up and vote in the general for the patriotic causes,

that's the party doesn't, is secondary. I will tell you though, I did see those numbers. Those are very tiny numbers. I think that's just the media inventing a story. And remember, I met a ton well go ahead sorry sorry i was just gonna say because we were talking earlier i mean president trump i've we've seen presidents screw up and lose re-election

george w uh hw bush jimmy carter um you can go back further in history they actually have their vote totals go down i mean mean, President Trump went up substantially. And we can talk about why he still lost, but that's substantial. And the momentum's there. I think right now the Republican Party is sort of suffering from a lack of unity and vision. And I've been here before. I was in here in 2009. We lost everything then, too.

I was here in 1993. We lost everything then, too. I was here in 1993. We lost everything then, too. And the Democrats have been in this position, too. It's not uncommon. It's very different. Well, it's true. When you look at the gap between approval ratings, it's never been higher. I would agree.

Republicans overwhelmingly despise Joe Biden. And the media is inflaming this. And so I'm not saying that there's going to be armed insurrection or people slitting their wrists. Quite the opposite. I think it eventually gets to a point where it's a bunch of people in one state or the state legislature says, well, seeing as our senator was expelled and we're no longer represented by

the union, we no longer consider ourselves to be a member of the union. I put that in the armed insurrection category because that's essentially what it is. It's declaring a civil war. Our politics is meant to divide us if intentionally if that if if you have democrats in congress who are like we vote to expel these members then what's the resolution when they're just like okay well then they stop the state has to succeed and well california already defies the laws like of the federal

government to an extreme degree i mean they've they've always basically, well, not always, but they've for a very long time defied federal drug laws. They completely defy immigration laws. So they defy the laws of the federal government while then demanding benefits of the federal government and the right to vote out anybody from other parts of the country. The system doesn't make a lot of sense right now. You have these sanctuary states and cities

that are acting in complete defiance of federal law. Yet now we're moving towards this position where they're going to vote to remove representation from other people from states that do abide by federal law. Yeah. And again, the solution that I'm advocating is through organization and taking advantage of the democratic process that has rescued us from these types of problems, not exactly this problem historically, because that is the only way out of it. And I think it's within reach, to be honest with you, because if you look at the past election, look at the House elections, the Republicans became very close to flipping

the House, very close. And the Senate was kind of a mess. We had horrible candidates. In 2020. Yeah, yeah. The Senate was a horrible scenario. Trump was on the ticket. True, true. So 2018, when Trump wasn't on the ticket, they lost it. And then when Trump wasn't on the ticket with Georgia, they lost Georgia. Historically, though, he wasn't on the ticket in 2010. He wasn't on the ticket in 2014. Those

were high mortar marks years for Republicans. And I think it's dependent on candidate after candidate following the model of an America first platform. And I think that will that that will allow us through the system to address those sanctuary cities, et cetera, et cetera. I can respect and appreciate the, you know, the optimism and what you're doing. But the the phrase America first has been completely demonized by the media as alt right white nationalism. So, I mean, do you think in two years there's going to be a politician who's allowed to say that? No, they'll get banned from social media instantly.

It's up to us. It's up to me and this effort. You may be right. And I'm not trying to seem optimistic. I'm not necessarily optimistic. I'm just like, look, this is the hill I'm going to die on. I've decided. And I'm content with it. And I don't think I'm alone. And I don't necessarily think I'm going to die on it either. And neither the rest of us who stand with it. I was thinking, as you guys were talking that politics, I don't think is a unifying force. I think the whole idea of politics is to divide us so that we don't create a uniparty totalitarianism. So we've created this system that will, we constantly fight and or argue. And so looking for a unity there isn't the way, but science. We had this physicist on.

But the Democrats and Republicans are a uniparty. Yeah, well, you know. The uniparty controls the system. Two faces of the same coin, maybe, or multifacial. The Democrats call for things, and the Republicans say, slow down there, mister. Yeah, I don't think we're going to find unity in that process. But we had this scientist on a couple nights ago, and it was like such a unifying feeling. And the people were hitting it for days afterwards.

Like, this is so great. Talking about unifying field theory and like something that everyone can get behind. Something that will save our lives and our species. And the politics will always be there. But that's good. So that we don't have some science totalitarian. It's built into politics because politics is a zero-sum game. You can only win when the

other side loses whereas in business you know we even may be competitors but we don't necessarily have to my gain doesn't have to come at your loss but I mean there's there are 100 seats in the Senate when you gain one somebody else loses one so it's it's unfortunately that and

that's it's just democracy. Do you think we should change that? I am working within the system and that's my highway. Yeah, that'd be cool if it was not a zero-sum game. It's not possible because there's always and only two parties. You can throw different labels on there will always and only be two parties. Even in a country like the UK where you have multi-parties and parliamentary systems there's always two parties the party that's in power and the party that's out of power the second the second strongest party do you ever

look at uh what's that type of voting where you rank choice voting same situation it's there's two parties the one in power and out of power what about libertarian and green still two powers still two parties the one in power and out of power what about libertarian and green still two power still two parties the one in power and out of power libertarian and green what it basically just fractionalizes votes i mean look i think that having a primary system where you have libertarian candidates within the republican party making their case and we have some they're fantastic rand paul right fantastic or you have green oriented candidates running in the Democrat Party. I can't think of any off the top of my head. I know all the Green New Deal people. Right. Well, they're not. I think the Green Party and them kind of don't mesh completely.

Sure. But like the Green Party, they're more like Democratic Socialist Party. Just just because the way mathematics works, it's just a math matter. If you are a green candidate, you're probably better off picking one of the two parties that exists and running within it as a caucus and trying to win primaries. Like Bernie Sanders? Sure. The problem with that, why I will never participate in that again, is because you look at what happened when the Democrats, when the moderate Democrats won in 2018. Nancy Pelosi said, you do as you're told. And it said, yes, ma'am. So these moderates who said, we're not going to play culture, we're politics, we're not going to get in this fight.

We're going to work on kitchen table issues like health care and jobs. And then as soon as they walked in the door, Nancy Pelosi says, you do as you're told. And they said, yes, absolutely. No, no questions asked. Remember, except for Jeff, Jeff Van Drew. He was like, I'm out. Well, remember, though, I mean, if they got reelected in 2020, that's what the people were. That's that's what the voters chose.

And that's the damnedest thing about democracy. Well, no, but that's who they chose. They elect, they reelected them. They won their primaries a second time. So that's, that was who the voters, and that's the problem with democracy is that ultimately people get, get the government they deserve. Well, uh, a lot of these people who did that lost. A lot of moderates ended up losing.

That sounds appropriate. And that's the, if, if you said you were going to go to Washington to do something and you don't do it, the appropriate thing to happen is your voters to hold you accountable. And then you get the next guy who comes in who says, I'm not going to be like him. And they do the same thing on the other side. Yeah, but eventually you get some folks like Paul Gassar or Matt Gaetz or Rand Paul. And we just need more of them. And it's just a matter of courage on the individual level. I think it's definitely fair to say that times are bad. And I think what Tim is kind of

alluding to is that we're kind of on a ship that's sinking, and people are just ransacking it, correct me if I'm wrong. And when that happens, it's going to get ugly. I think it's fair to say that things will only get worse from here. But essentially, I think things will resolve itself. It might be the way that you're saying. I think that also might be a long shot. But essentially, I think things will resolve itself. It might be the way that you're saying. I think that also might be a long shot. But I think it's also going to be a lot of people realizing that if they're relying on other people and politicians to solve their problems, that they're always going to have problems. And I think we're moving into this new day and age where even though we have the censored internet, we have to remember, even when the

printing press came out, there was major movements by governments and religions in order to stop the printing press. And essentially, they weren't able to do it. And I think we're in a similar phase with cryptocurrencies. We're in a similar phase with the internet. And eventually, more people will find out, more people will educate themselves

and understand that truly, the problems that they need solved, they need to solve them themselves. And I think when that happens, there's going to be a big awakening and things are going to get a lot better. And just like, you know, our lives are a big roller coaster. It goes up and down. Right now we're at the down phase, but I think eventually we're going to go up there and hopefully it's going to be peaceful. Hopefully it's going to be done the way that you're describing, but I think it's going to be done in a non-political way that's going to have more severe ramifications for our lives and our children's lives that

we don't even know of yet. Well said, Luke. And that being said, how about we take some super chats and see what the audience has to say. If you have not already, smash the like button, subscribe, the notification bell, and go to TimCast.com, become a member, because we do have content only for members. Some people seem to think we're just uploading the same content. That's not true. There is a members only section with a comment section. Those videos are exclusively at Timcast.com. Let's read what we

got here. We have C. Hennessey who says, Hey, Tim, I had an idea pop in my head that if a third party really wanted to make a difference, they would only focus on Senate seats. Getting five from both parties would force compromise. Your thoughts? Senate seats are extremely hard to win. I'd say they should win a handful of congressional seats. I don't know. What do you think, Matt? I think that as a party, you can't quite do that. Individual candidates with a lot of charisma and money can decide I'm going to be an independent. But then when they get to Washington, they still have to vote one way or the other. So they're going to naturally fall into one of the two parties. Bernie Sanders is an independent. He fell on the Democratic side. I would say that if people have an agenda, they should just pick which party you think they're going to be most

successful in. Here's the thing. If you can't win a party primary, it's much more difficult to win a general as an independent than it is to win a party's primary. Yep. Yeah. It's tough. All right, let's see.

Phineas says, commander W Adama. There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemy of the state. The other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people from Battlestar Galactica.

Good show. Excellent show. I'm fearful of this remake. Because the last one, Ron Moore, was so good. Again? Third remake? Yeah. You can't do it, man.

The last one was amazing. Flimsy Fox says, I've never understood why blocking people on Twitter works the way it does. If you don't want to see someone's posts, that's fine. But I've never understood why I am the one who gets to choose who doesn't see my posts. I don't want to see someone's posts that's fine but i've never understood why i'm the why i am the one who gets to choose who doesn't see my posts i don't know it's a combination of factors i can't respond to either brandon schroeder says you guys should have someone from the meat eater crew on to talk about hunting that would make a great podcast that sounds cool steve ranella on he's so cool yeah let's see terry but says, are you all wearing your masks and double layering?

I don't want to get infected while I watch. Well, Ian's got the space dome. Oh, you're making me bring it out. Yep. Where is it? So I saw an ad for these things. I think I saw an article for it. So cool.

And I had to have it. They're ridiculous. They're expensive. But I think it is. Upside down. Oh, there you go. Upside down again. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So these things are one I think it isn't... Upside down. Oh, there you go. Upside down again. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So these things are one of the most absurd things I've ever seen. Yes. They're stylish. I honestly... But I think you're not allowed to wear them because the rule is specifically a cloth mask. I couldn't hear you. That's too bad. And what happens if you sneeze?

Oh, no. You guys, leave a comment on the video. Yeah. What happens when you sneeze? That should be the title. comment on the video. Yeah. What happens when you sneeze? That should be the title. Yeah, I know. All right. Let's see what we got.

Whoa. Petty says, internal migration is actually making Texas slightly more red. Governor Abbott had a study done on it. It's a foreign migration that's the issue. Most Hispanics who are citizens want the drawbridge lifted. Interesting. Declan Lyon says, the CCP are trolling us now. They aren't really swabbing arses. They're just seeing how long it takes for us to start doing it hello from dublin

like i said it feels like their people are just poking us to see how far they can push it before people finally snap really poking us that's right i tell people man look i left the big cities i went to the middle of nowhere we can walk outside without masks on we can do whatever we want in fact there's a ton of all the businesses there, there are some, it was really weird, where they make you wear masks. But I'll tell you, out here, this is going to trigger the left. You ready for this? You walk into a building and they'll go, take off your mask. Or they'll look at you and be like, you don't got to wear that. And I'm like, you have a sign on the door. And they're like, eh. And I'm like, I don't care to wear it, whatever. But there are some stores where they're like, no, I don't wear those in here. Some shops that sell weapons are like, we don't allow that because we sell guns.

We don't want people coming in we can't identify. And I'm like, that I understand. But it's very different. Like in Florida, there's this viral video of people just doing their thing. No masks, like no one cares. And the leftist media was like, oh, no. Well, you don't live there what are you worried about connor o'shaughnessy says what do you think about the impending retirement crisis and how in 2023 the boomers will have reached peak retirement rates i don't know

what's the retirement crisis like everyone's gonna retire from their jobs and then you're gonna have a bunch of woke millennials who don't know how to do the job is that what's happening or like people hoping for social Security to get them through. Oh, right. But inflation. And there's not enough people to pay into it to pay off the Social Security for the people that actually did spend their money on it. The real Civil War will be armies of boomers going up against millennials on the streets. That'll be good.

I'm betting on the boomers. Yeah? Yeah, for a lot of reasons, huh? Chantel Levitt says, Matt, I hail from California. Attended the first LAA grassroots course. Excited for the second course on voter integrity. Are you interested in teaching about redistricting? Can I use this as a segue to pitch my?

Do it. Okay. So, look, I want everybody who's watching to please sign up for our next grassroots training course on how to lobby and organize in your community to target your county government and your state government to get them to fix our voter our election system that's going to happen on february 18th from 8 p.m to 10 30 p.m eastern you can register at lookaheadamerica.org slash training. Also, we look at America's now opened up a Discord server for gamers who are of the America First persuasion to come together and play games and be among the and share, you know, share some time together. That's at discord.gg slash lookaheadamerica.

To answer the redistricting question, redistricting is a little bit outside the field of Look Ahead America's mission, but I'd like to, it's a very challenging topic, and maybe sometimes I'll come back and talk about it, because redistricting is sort of the secret war that happens behind politics that you never read about, but it's the most bloody and brutal of all. You know why I love your work, Matt? Big part of why. Along the boat metaphor of that we're on a sinking ship what it seems like what you're doing is you're corralling the people to come together and start bailing the ship and taking control of the vessel whereas people like me are thinking about the structural integrity of the boat where's the hole i'm gonna go start working on the hole and we need both of these things to happen at the same time absolutely i think there's people who profit from the boat

sinking you know it's like it's kind of like a similar to what happened with the game stop thing but people shorting the stock wanting the company to fail and then they build wanting the company to succeed to screw to succeed to screw over the people shorting it if there are people who are like as soon as this boat sinks, the treasure is mine, and they see you trying to fix it, they're going to be like, what are you doing?

I'm getting ready to ransack this thing. If the boat gets upright, they're going to come after me for stealing all this stuff. Yeah. Good one. Yeah. We have a script.

Well, there we go. Stairs into Space Gaming says, on graphene, I'm an investor, company named Talga that's going to sell graphene anodes for the battery market and will fund broad applications elsewhere that's really cool we have some of these uh you guys have probably seen those batteries you buy the external batteries you can beat them in store and you charge them up plug them in we have some graphene ones they're

graphene composite batteries they charge in 10 to 15 minutes full charge and they can recharge your phone two and a half times so imagine if like your phone's about to die and you're like, oh no, what do I do? I got to leave in 10 minutes for work. You plug in one of these graphene batteries. It fully charges in like 10 minutes. You walk out the door, you plug in your iPhone, and then over the course of 30 to 40 minutes, your iPhone or cell phone will charge. These things are awesome.

Daniel Welch says, Matt, what are your thoughts on work like Dr. Shiva, Edward Solomon's showing concerning mathematical indications of how the election system works and how votes are tabulated election night. All my efforts have been focused on people who cast ballots or had ballots cast in their name that were illegal. And those are things I can document. Right now I actually have a team of 30 volunteers going through Georgia work. We're not done. And we'll be, not this week, but the end of next week or the Monday after, we'll be releasing our Georgia report, which will show fairly conclusively our interesting findings. But there are a lot of people in this field. And honestly, I've worked in this since the mid-90s on every angle. I've worked for counties and towns and states on redistricting

and election administration and how voter registration works. I don't buy a lot of the other stuff I see. I'm not going to name check anybody. What I buy is the stuff that we've been producing through VIP, which is basically ballots being cast that were not legal and absentee ballots being requested that were not truly requested, etc., etc. And to segue a little bit more, we did release our voter integrity reforms, which are going to encourage people to lobby for their state legislature, that we believe these six reforms will solve the problems that we had. And

they're very achievable, and they're all in... None of them are crazy, like blockchain or facial recognition. These are all very simple and achievable, and we look forward to pursuing them in all 50 states. Right on. And we're... Again, we're going to pursuing them in all 50 states right on and we again we're going to have a bonus segment coming up at uh timcast.com after the show it'll probably be around 11 or so because we got to record it and then upload it but become a member if you

want to get access we have sheldon s says tim you're on fire and on point and ian actually had a good point about schools love luke thanks fellas hey there we go there's some positivity for the night some optimism optimism. Thank you. Clay Moore says, grab your brooms and call shenanigans. Oh, wait, they have a fence now. Oh, there you go. All right, what else we got here? Lucy Lurker says, let's talk about Tom McDonald fake woke removed from iTunes, Amazon Music,

and Panorama after topping the charts. Was it really removed? I heard that. I didn't check myself though i i haven't verified this but if that happened wow yep well what would be the basis for hate speech lyrics were too racy or something well the critical race theorists have won and they won a while ago it's like what look i don't want to speak for james lindsey but he has this big thread that people are retweeting where he's like there's no winning it's happened it happened a while ago now they're just tolerating you i guess guess, as a pressure. Well, I don't want to put words in his

mouth. I'm saying right now, I agree with the gist of what he was saying, and I'll add this. They won a while ago. This show is allowed to exist as a pressure release valve for those that hate it and are angry about it. It is a milk toast lukewarm opinion show. Where we complain about the establishment. And that's it. You know. They tolerate the fact that we talk about these things. It's a pressure release valve. That's the way I would describe it.

Yeah. Plus I can go on and on and on about this one. I mean I think we're offering solutions a lot of ways. We're having thought leaders on. It's a very positive force yeah uh and it feels like we're desperately pulling on this rope as we're getting dragged like i imagine like the bus flew off the clip at cliff and we're holding on the rope to the back of it slowly getting dragged off as well waiting for superman to come and help us maybe maybe there will be a superman who swoops in some truly charismatic leader who challenges

the system inspires the nation and wins more votes than anyone else. Such a fantasy. You have to be the Superman. You have to be the Superman. That's right. You have to be the Superman. Haley Elkin says, love you guys so much. Thanks for doing what you do.

P.S. iTunes removed Tom McDonald's fake woke from their directory. Man, that's crazy. I'm trying to look it up. Eric Miller says, if you bribe a cop, it's a crime. If you bribe a politician, it's a lobbying. Class privileges? We still have the mafia. It just went corporate.

Oh, they realized this. They were like, man, why are we operating outside the system? We just operate within it. Make more money. Just control the politicians. All right, let's see what we got here. Sean Seenan Cummins says, Tim, I'm 19. I make bamboo fishing rods and boats.

The quarantine that effed NYC gave me the opportunity to pursue my dream love the show appreciate it man that's cool good cool story louis castagliola says tim could it be that the left is still scared of trump because nothing they plan to do will actually fix the problems that drove people to trump if they've truly won why do they seem so afraid of him? It's not that they're afraid of him. Partly they are, yes. But I think it's because they're afraid they have nothing to offer the American people other than Trump is bad. I mean, Biden got a bunch of votes because they just screamed how awful Trump was. Not because Joe Biden was good. Joe Biden wasn't campaigning. He was in his basement calling a lid. But orange man bad. And so there was, you know, a lot of conservatives pointed out there was no enthusiasm

for Biden. That was true. But there was a ton of enthusiasm against Trump. Many of the same polls showed that. So they got nothing to offer, to be completely honest. Tristan SZ says, counter argument. I'm an international student from Mexico going for electoral and computer electrical, sorry, and computer engineering, aspiring to work, spend and live in the US. I love American values that 90% of I love American values that 90% of Democrat voters. And then I think maybe he said, don't. I'm not sure. Mark Shapcott says, Ian, how can you promote UBI but say abolish the Fed? Do you even know what you are saying?

Oh, well, I should say specify I wasn't really promoting universal basic income in the way Andrew Yang suggested it, but that we develop some sort of like, you know, basic living standard for humans. The Fed, I don't know. I don't like private banks issuing us our own money. I think we could issue our own with like a blockchain. So there's a set amount of it. And then we could always create new currencies if we need to co-intermingle currencies. Well, we have crypto. Tons of tokens.

That's kind of doing that. Navy Sooner says, Ian is starting to really grow on me. One question for Tim though. Have you thought about contacting Collian Noir? He's not just a huge two-way advocate, but he used to be a very successful lawyer. I have, but he's a busy fella. So, Collian, feel free to come on the show whenever you want.

We'll, we'll, we will reach out again. A couple of super chats ago, someone mentioned they were from out of the country and they were an engineer, I think, and very excited about American values. And it made me think, what about what's happening? Are we getting the best humans in the world coming to the United States and displacing the complacent Americans? And if they were, is that a bad thing? Not necessarily.

I don't know. It's a complicated question. You've got people whose families have shed blood, sweat, and tears for this country on the battlefield to secure it and help it grow, and they wanted their children to have a better life. Those kids might grow up and be lazy layaboutsabouts but it was reaping the rewards of their of their sacrifices of their ancestors you have people come here who sacrifice themselves from the countries they they they were in but a lot of people are critical because when you look at say honduras nicaragua and um what's

the other country i can't think of right now no no no what's the uh honduras belize you have a lot of these people who are coming from these countries and they're leaving their countries not sacrificing to make those countries better coming here to reap the rewards of you know the people who came before us who shed blood sweat and tears there's a really amazing quote that i referenced a while back from ulysses s grant about why states aren't allowed to secede and it's because he says the people of this country shed blood and treasure to make sure that those states could join in the union for them to leave now would be essentially like a theft so for the americans who want to reap the rewards of their parents and live better lives or just be comfortable to lose that because someone else

wants to reap the rewards from your parents well that offends a lot a lot of people. I'm not saying it's right or wrong, but I think it's something to consider. Well, you also have to consider, too, is that if you take a country that's maybe going through a difficult time, and the only people still in that country are the people not smart enough to figure out a way to leave, how does that country ever recover? If a country's going downhill, and everyone who's smart enough to get out there comes to the United States or the UK or some other prosperous country, what's the future for that country? What is it going to face? And you end up, I think, with something like Haiti.

Brain drain. Yeah. So, like, decentralizing the intellect is probably better for the species. You know what I think the future holds for us? I think a strong possibility is that smart people will pull off some kind of ayn rand like system where they was it called gulch but i but it's not going to be uh it's not going to be the way atlas shrug depicts it like these people get really angry and just leave and then the government's confused and industrialists in the country are like what's

happening everything's falling apart no no no the smart people are all going to agree we need a place where we can do whatever we want because we are the smart, better people and the poor people can live. It's kind of like Elysium. You ever see Elysium? The space station in the sky of all the wealthy and the elites and the people on the planet who live are poor. works with the four tigers with singapore with hong kong macau taiwan you have these areas notably like hong kong macau where ultra wealthy chinese individuals can live like capitalists while the people on the mainland are basically treated like slaves i think the future holds something that at a global level for us we have to be careful because if you centralize too much power in one spot if that spot gets devastated you lose the power it's not it's not about one spot it's about like having a passport it's like there will be a world where there will be certain people like it already is this way to be completely honest the ultra wealthy can do whatever they want

covid lockdowns happened and rich people got in private jets and flew without passports to germany and it was like people complained about it's like what are you gonna do they're the they're the global elites they're the industrialists of the wealthy they live by a different set of rules this this thing i'm i'm i'm saying probably already exists and i think most of us realize thought yeah it's exactly how it works right now rich people get to do whatever they want whenever they want they buy beachfront property while telling you to give everything up because of climate change they fly in private jets to accept their awards for environmentalism in ayn rand it's not just rich idiots. It's like the intellectual elite of the earth, right?

Well, Ayn Rand's novel, I'm a huge fan of her work. But it's important to remember that Atlas Shrugged and her other stories, too, they're written in a romantic style. And that's why so many little literary critics who will never amount to anything in their lives hate her is because they don't grasp that it's written in a true romantic style so but in theory i mean the rich have always lived that way to be honest with you yeah they always have right i mean what's the point what's the point of being rich if you can't do stuff like that yep yeah they they can speed and they don't care they can violate laws and when you're talking about creating high citizenship intellectual society i agree kind of parlaying from what we were talking about that centralizing that would be dangerous because like if you if everyone moved to mars and you have this

intellectual community on mars or in a space station and the space station blew up yeah there it goes you're making a small small error here in that i think it's important not to confuse iq with character those two things don't necessarily go in hand in hand and if you know you want to just bring some high iq thing you end up with you know some university where everybody's a supposed genius but i mean they can't even create a pillow company on their own so well we'll see i think they'll be successful uh the way i described it earlier is it's woke capitalism it's tribal capitalism it's a little different they're going to sell pillows from people who just want to own the cons they're not going to

be particularly good pillows they're gonna be particularly expensive but they'll sell the company be around in five years how many jobs will it create um how much wealth long term will create uh i'm maybe not getting much five years well anybody can grift for a couple minutes you know as they say that the whole you know what uh that uh parkland survivor every great movement eventually becomes a business before devolving into a racket. Yeah. Now we're in the racket phase where they're making pillows, guys.

Wow. All right, we got a big old Super Chats. It's a series of Super Chats. A Google user says, people think the Boston Tea Party was the revolution. It's 20 years later in 1775, King George ordered the colonists hung and snubbed the olive branch petition. However, the Boston Tea Party left the crew and all right, let's see if I can find the next one.

Cargo alone. Only one lock was damaged, which was promptly replaced. And the one member violated their principles was reprimanded and turned in. Unlike the Jacobin Revolution in France, the American Revolution was a conservative reaction to reclaim, and now we scroll down. Here we go. Let's see if we can find the next one. Reclaim what? Where's the super chat? Suspense is killing me. Yes.

There we go. Oh, it just jumped on me. There we go. Alright, so the super chats do this where it's like when you scroll too much, it just flips the whole thing up. And reclaim what? Reclaim what? Rights recognized under the 1600s glorious revolution read the spirit of laws and the two treaties uh treaties treatises treatises of government you will find uh you will find it's the definition of american conservatism

love your show show also do more history i mean that'd be fun i think there's one more in the it was supposed to be five tweets. Maybe it was only... There we go. Oh, there's a fourth one missing. Yeah, where's the fourth one? Well, hey, sorry, buddy. Looks like YouTube didn't make it function properly. We'll read this one. Jerome Moro says, Ian, anything of value to

us that does not occur naturally in the wild requires some human to do some work. To create that value from nature, money can only work if it's a credit for a specific amount of value someone else created from the natural world. Yeah. Laura says, Tim, your attitude is awful. Well, you know, sometimes, sometimes I have a bad attitude.

I don't agree with that. Well, I mean, I do agree with that statement. What, my attitude being awful? No, sometimes, but not tonight. Not right now. Okay, here we go uh ew ew says ian for the love of god please learn basic economics also tim i was a registered gop since 98 i changed to independent last month because i'm done with spineless gop they don't listen has nothing to do

with january 6th events i've heard that a lot well Well, you know, if you decide you're in a state where you have to be GOP to vote in the primary, and you don't like the direction the party's going in, you're going to like it a hell of a lot less if you stop voting in that primary, because suddenly you lose what little sliver of influence you have. So I would just warn the person that the party is determined by whoever shows up.

And if you don't like the way it looks, and you decide to react to that, not by bringing more people who look like you into it, but by leaving, you're going to like it even less. You're warned. I don't know, man.

I didn't vote. I voted in 2008 and then I didn't vote. How do you like how things are going, Tim? Not well. I'm not happy with it. But then I voted in 2020 and it's still worse. So it's kind of like, man, uh, I don't like the Republicans. I don't like for the most part

having to vote for them because all they are essentially is a stop gap. They, they, the way to describe it is they're the ones sitting in the rocking chair saying, slow down there, Mr. As the Democrats run, run wild and go crazy. And there's no political party with any power that actually fights for strong individualist values. The Republican Party certainly doesn't do that. And they don't even fight. The things they do fight for, if they even do fight for it, certainly are not individualism. And the Democrats are the exact opposite. They're just destroying everything. You look at California and it's just like, wow, there's a saying that California is a few years ahead of the rest of

the country. Now, help us if that's true a few years ahead of the rest of the country. Now, help us if that's true, because that's going to get real gruesome. What would Thomas Jefferson tell you to do? Run for office. Well, Thomas Jefferson said a bunch of stuff you can't say on YouTube these days. But if he was here right now, what would he tell you? Something I can't repeat on YouTube. Okay, tell me in the bonus segment.

Yeah, we'll mention it in the bonus segment. No joke. We will open literally in the bonus segment with what Thomas Jefferson said to do. And I think a lot of people know and you can't see it on YouTube. Is it about a tree? It might be. It might be. I can't recall. I think I know what you're talking about. Yeah. But he also said something to the effect of like purging

and rewriting the Constitution and the people need to like be active in the process. And it's true. We need an amendment process but there's no guarantee you're actually going to get it uh we got a super chat just says go luke there you go he's just sitting there going yeah go where where we go go get out get out of here florida yeah rachel says you laugh but nikola tesla wanted the same thing free electricity for all it's possible he did he did what's what he got here uh mythic rouge shallor says there

is a song with a simple message from a band i like it's by the band called may what is this maybe she will maybe she will the song is called not for a want of trying interesting we'll check it out aw says no matter the system, capitalism, socialism, communism, it will always become corrupt. We will go through cycles of resetting each system when need be. Interesting. Alejandra says, the solution to corruption and transparency of taxation is the blockchain. Bitcoin is perfect for the job with its decentralized public ledger

that's actually a really good point i often talk about how bitcoin is going to make everyone's transactions public and someone with a strong enough computer and not particularly strong can track all of your transactions they do it now same thing is true for government accounts the government wants to transact bitcoins we can all watch watch it happen. That'll be fun. Wasn't it like a bunch of FBI agents took the money from Ross Ulbricht and like spent it or something? A few corrupt ones that were involved in a case that, you know, they got caught stealing. Wow. Well, there you go. Release the craggle says read Jefferson's letter to William Smith.

It talks deeply about a government who isn't motivated by its people. Interesting read if you catch my drift interesting slain hope says we argue about the morality of giving poor people money when we give it to the rich like they owe the own the printing press you are for the double standard no i'm not i've been calling out government welfare corporate socialism from the very beginning, especially with the big banks, especially with all the big tech companies, especially with all the special interests and startup groups and money that has been intermingled. And I think that's way more important than even the basic welfare. Jake Dean says, English Timcast dot com member here. Love you guys. I watch you during my graveyard shift every night.

Also, I really admire Ian's optimism. Well, that's a good thing. Keep it up. Pseudoscience has question for Ian and Tim. Many people say they care about social security nets. Why not choose to give to nonprofits instead of forcing all to pay? Why use government? What do you think, Ian?

I was actually doing a little research on Battelle, who Jeremy Riss brought up, the scientist that kind of is a, it's actually a nonprofit that oversees and manages all of our science institutes, all of our laboratories in the United States. A nonprofit. So that's not the kind of nonprofit I want to fund. I think just the fact that someone is a nonprofit doesn't mean they can't become immensely corrupt and profitable. They're all corrupt. Yeah. And they're all profitable. You can pay yourself any amount of money.

All right. They're not all corrupt. Matt's not corrupt. Matt's organization is not corrupt. Well, so yourself any amount of money. All right. They're not all corrupt. Matt's not corrupt. Matt's organization is not corrupt. Well, so here's, I'll tell you this. I have a very simple, I actually have a very experienced answer for your question. I was a fundraiser for nonprofits, many of them, some of the biggest in the world, and they were all corrupt, every single one of them.

Some of the small ones that I worked for, totally corrupt. Some of the bigger ones, oh, absolutely corrupt. You see, they call it a nonprofit, but they're profits. They're for profits. They're corporations. They're private entities. And there's no guarantee that the money you give goes to what you think it's going to go to. They use clever accounting and word tactics to make it seem like the money you give goes to a cause. But for the most part, I've found small nonprofits of a small handful of people tend to be okay and try. They're legitimate. Big nonprofits, medium-sized nonprofits, and even small nonprofits that still have several million dollars to their yearly bottom line, all corrupt. Because what happens is a legitimate nonprofit that grows to

a certain size, eventually they start paying their executives a certain amount of money, and then in order to maintain that amount of money, they have to use strong arm fundraising tactics to survive. Once the mission is complete, a nonprofit should cease to exist. That never, never happens. And I have lived through this. I have worked for these companies. Hey, you solved the problem you were fighting for. Now what? Well, that wasn't the real problem. I need a job and they won't give it up. The other problems that many nonprofits are just masks a way to launder money essentially i donated a million dollars to save the environment the million dollars went to my own personal non-profit where i pay myself a salary of half a million

dollars a year over the next two years and then dissolve the company so no i don't really you know donate to anything there are a lot of problems in the non-profit industry and there's nothing you can really do about it non-profits are private corporations, and I don't trust them the same as I would trust any other private corporation to take money, and they're supposed to give it out to help people, except for some small ones. Like this one, maybe. How many employees do you have? We have exactly one paid employee, and it isn't me. Within the next month, we should have two. I like to put myself on salary by the end of the year.

If we raise the money to do that, I will be paid a salary of 60K plus health benefits. What do you use the money for when it comes in? To hire people. So right now, the one employee that we have paid is our research director. So he's overseeing and training all of the researchers, the volunteer researchers, who are going name by name through folks to establish with fortified information whether or not they actually lived in the state of Georgia when they cast ballots, whether or not Wisconsin voters who claimed indefinitely confined status to vote without IDs were in fact indefinitely confined, that kind of work. Additional staff would be moved into states like Virginia to stand outside and organize volunteers to stand outside Costco for 18 hours a day registering voters

or to walk into churches and stand at the pulpit and explain why it's important to register to vote, get those people registered, and then put on events like bring in speakers to talk about issues and hire local bands to play songs, to draw a crowd, to share the message that we have, and then to turn them out to vote on election day by knocking on the doors, calling them, showing up at major public events, reminding people to go out and vote. So all of the work we do is very transparent. And it's also very measurable.

I mean, a lot of nonprofits, they say they're doing something right. But how do you measure what they're doing? Look ahead, America. We can tell you exactly how many people we registered vote. We can even give you their names, how many people who stopped voting that we reached out to who then started voting again. So everything is measurable. We have to file and we'll be filing this year. We're working with our treasurer to do this, a 990 form, which tells you how every dollar was spent and how much all of the employees were paid, the top three

people, whatever money they were paid. So that's exactly what we spend our money on. Field offices. So we'll be renting places like church basements for like $500 a month so we can have a place to organize our employees and do our on-the-ground training, et cetera, et cetera. You got Voter Integrity Project. Is that actually organized? We folded Voter Integrity Project into Look Ahead America because originally Voter Integrity Project was a spur-of-the-moment thing, which wasn't part of anything. It basically functionally was my firm was contract for hire. And again, in that instance, I took the pledge. I was not going to take a single penny of that for myself at all, and I did not, much to maybe my wife's chagrin.

But no, I didn't take a nickel of that, and all of it was spent on buying data, paying for data analysis, paying for phone centers, et cetera. But we folded that into Look Ahead America. So now at least when people make a contribution, it can be tax deductible. And it can be more easily accounted for. And it's just sort of a natural home for it now. They can donate on your website? Lookaheadamerica.org. They can donate.

Or if you can't donate, sign up to volunteer. You got to – unless you're one of these fat and happy people Tim was describing earlier who just don't care because life is comfortable enough, you either got to donate or you got it unless you're one of these these fat and happy people tim was describing earlier who just don't care because life's comfortable enough you either got a donor you got a volunteer you got to do one of the two yep i love you see donating is a simple way to if you don't have the time you can help someone else have the time because that money you provide is the resource someone else can use to eat to live and then do that work i had a friend in south america pulling plastic out of the attire river and i donated a couple thousand i had all this crypto money and i was like i'm just gonna donate it felt so good she was able to buy plastic

bags because the community needed bags to to put the trash in like what an amazing just an amazing feeling it was i didn't just throw money at something i i specifically targeted an organization that i knew could use it i knew what they were using it for good for you man let's uh we'll do one more super chat here proud american says since the time article how are we ever supposed to believe the dems and establishment they did it once successfully that we know of was in quote elite cabal behind russiagate chop the capital COVID? What do you think? Look, we have to organize. We have to organize smart. We have to work hard, work smart and combat that. The left is going to do what the left is going to do. They always will. All we can control is what we're

going to do about it. And that's it's in our hands. Well, the one thing you can do right now, the easiest thing to ensure that the fight rages on is smash that like button support this channel subscribe at the notification bell i'm only half kidding thank you for your support for this channel go to timcast.com become a member because we're gonna have a bonus segment and uh it'll probably get off the rails to be completely honest we'll see what happens we'll probably still get in trouble i don't know we'll talk about what we feel like talking about so if you really do want to see that unfiltered uncensored conversation then uh check it out at timcast.com we do this show live show live Monday through Friday at 8 p.m. You can, so come back for sure.

Leave a good comment. If you're listening on the podcast, then leave us a good comment there as well. You can follow me on Twitter, Instagram, and Mines at TimCast. My other YouTube channels are YouTube.com slash TimCast and YouTube.com slash TimCast News. Thank you all so much for hanging out and matt you want to i know you mentioned look ahead america several times already but you know what else you want yeah sign up for training next uh thursday 8 p.m to 10 30 p.m eastern um at look

ahead america.org big red banner at the top can't miss it and if you're kind if you're a gamer you like discord come hang out with us um at discord discord.gg look ahead america and join our server we have a contest for emoticons we're going to give away a free t-shirt oh right free t-shirts people like t-shirts right yep and it's made in the usa yeah that's real quick something funny there was a scientific study they did where the actual research was it was a trick the actual research was at the end they said if you do this, you know, fill this questionnaire, you get a free t-shirt. They had one group

choose a color of t-shirt. Do you want red, green, or blue? And then people would choose their shirt. And then they would be asked again as they left, are you satisfied

with your choice? The next group was given just a free shirt. It was yellow. The people who left the yellow shirt, they said, how satisfied do you feel

with the whole experience? They were very satisfied. They said, I love it. This is amazing. The people who got to choose were upset they said, how satisfied do you feel with the whole experience? They were very satisfied. They said, I love it. This is amazing. The people who got to choose were upset. They felt they chose the wrong color. Henry Ford had it right.

What was that? You can have the Model T in any color you want as long as it's black. Right. Did someone say t-shirts? How oddly coincidental. I actually just started a t-shirt giveaway two hours ago, right before the show. And I'm doing it right now on twitter.com forward slash LukeWeAreChange. LukeWeAreChange is my Twitter handle, and if you send me your meme,

I will be picking ten people that I will be giving whatever you want from our store that is available on thebestpoliticalshirts.com. Enter right now by going to Twitter, and of course, check me out on my YouTube channel, We Are Change, which I'm already getting into a lot of trouble for having. We Are Change is the YouTube channel. Thanks for having me on. You guys can follow me at Ian Crossland on the internet at YouTube. You can

follow my YouTube channel. Hit me up on Instagram and Twitter, where I will be posting updates about when I go live on Twitch at twitch.tv slash Ian Crossland. I stream from day to day. I have not set a schedule yet, but it will be most likely in the afternoons, Monday through Friday. I'm very excited to get that rolling on a daily basis, and I'll see you there. Very cool.

Very cool hearing about Ian's Twitch. And I was thinking about Look Ahead America's Twitch, and that's so cool that you guys are kind of getting into the gaming culture. I love the idea of having these events with music and stuff. And I know that your training is during our show, but I really think that our show is recorded. You can go back and check it out later. You should go check out Matt's training.

I'm Sour Patch Lids on Twitter and Mines and Real Sour Patch Lids on Instagram and Gab. Were you going to say something? I was going to say that if you happen to see Tim Pool's show instead, now they realize we're in a little bit of a conflict here. But our training will also be available on YouTube. So if you have other reasons for not being able to make it. So maybe you can just dual stream them.

Just have them at the same time. There you go. Do you have a Twitch? No. He's lost the communication. He's got a Discord server, which is another program that integrates with Twitch. My bad. Sure. But he's got a discord server which is another program that integrates with twitch my bad sure but he's also a hardcore gamer i don't know are you a gamer i play world of warships from time to time there you go that's some physics well we're gonna we're

gonna record a special bonus segment coming up uh just later in the hour because we're gonna record it right now basically so thank you all so much for hanging out if you want to watch it it should be up again in about an hour at timcast.com. Become a member now, and we'll see if it gets spicy. Thanks for hanging out. We'll see you all then. Bye, guys.