Timcast IRL - Timcast IRL #231 - Democrats Say Trump Supporters Are The Country's BIGGEST Threat w/ Julio Rosas

Episode Date: February 25, 2021

Tim, Ian, Luke, and Lydia sit down with on-the-ground journalist for TownHall.com and USMC reservist Julio Rosas to discuss Democrats biggest concern going into 2021, topics related to immigration in the era of the Biden presidency, the evolving woke language, public schools attempts to indoctrinate white children, and Illinois plan to possible ban a video game due to a spike in carjackings. Support the show (http://Timcast.com/donate) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In a new poll from Echelon Insights, Republicans were asked, what is or how would you rate these issues? The most concerning issue among Republicans was illegal immigration. And that's fairly typical. We've that's that's been a big talking point for Republicans going back decades. So I'm not surprised there. When Democrats were asked the same question, their biggest concern was Trump supporters. That's new. That's creepy. That's actually really scary. But it makes sense when you think about some of the data we've gone through on this show before, such as the New York Times data showing the Democrats have fired off far to the left while Republicans have kind of stayed where they are. Or similar

data from Pew Research, which has been highlighted by tons of organizations, including us here at Timcast IRL, as well as PragerU, that shows that the median Republican has moved slightly to the right and the median Democrat has fired off super far to the left. So when you ask a Republican, what are your concerns? They say, same thing as always, illegal immigration, right? And when you ask a Democrat, they say the Trump supporters. And as you know, what, 95% of Republicans supported Donald Trump or 90 to 95. It's probably gone down a bit. But this is Democrats saying, for the most part, the other, the Republican.

The reason this is so worrying is we recently heard MSNBC, one of the MSNBC hosts, say, why don't we drone strike some of these people? We saw an article from The Root, which, according to News Whip in 2018, was the most engaged with leftist news source where they said it's time to treat Republicans like enemy combatants. And if these people were in any and any other country, we would have droned them. That's kind of rhetoric that's coming. I got to tell you, man, it's getting scary. Now we got the FBI investigating members of Congress over what happened at the Capitol, seizing congressional phone records.

Some some people are saying it's a violation of the co-equal branches of government, the executive branch going after members of Congress. Apparently Nancy Pelosi is okay with it. So we're going to talk all about this stuff. Today we are joined by journalist and Marine Reservist Julio Rosas. How's it going, man? You want to briefly just give us a really quick introduction? Yeah, no. So I'm currently in the Marine Corps Reserves part-time.

And so my main job is I'm a senior writer at townhall.com cover all sorts of stuff riots have been kind of the mainstay and then in between that immigration whole media bias yeah you were recently down at the border i guess yeah tijuana on friday yeah wow and you've also covered tons of antifa stuff i've seen a ton of your videos i think people have even like some of these antifa guys have threatened you oh yeah of course yeah Of course you're a journalist. Yeah. Right on. Cool.

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We did an hour the other day with Mike Cernovich talking about the Epstein files, the containment of truth and what really happened. This is crazy stuff. So that's up at Timcast dot com. Don't forget to like, share, subscribe. Let's jump in to the first story. So we have this post from Kristen Soltis Anderson. She says thread on the new echelon insights polling about voter priorities and what Republicans in particular are looking for. Unlike traditional top issues questions, here we ask people to rate each issue on how much it concerns them. We tested these issues with everyone. Let's just jump straight. Well, let's start with Republicans first. I want to build up to it, right? You know what the title

of the segment is. You know what we're talking about. So let me just show you the kind of, I guess, regular opinions of conservatives. GOP most concerned about police support and illegal immigration. The question was, how concerned are you, if at all, that the following are a problem for the country? The top was illegal immigration. 59% were extremely concerned. Next, lack of support for the police. 59ty nine. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. It's seventy nine percent extremely concerned. High taxes. Seventy seven. Extremely concerned. These are like fairly typical Republican things. I'm concerned about taxes and people don't like the police. And I wave my flag and illegal immigrants. They talk about liberal bias in mainstream media. Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson have been ranting on liberal bias in the media forever. And so has Glenn Beck. That's totally normal. There's not a whole lot that's new in this socialism. Of course, socialism, Antifa violence. Well, that's relatively new. But you know, left wing violence still is something that exists. And then you have abortion, tech censorship, discrimination against Christians. I swear you could do the same poll 20 years ago and find the same answers. What do you think the Democrats said? The most concerning thing with 82%

was Donald Trump's supporters, followed by white nationalism, 79%, followed by systemic racism at 77%, and then gun violence, and then health care, then domestic terror, then police brutality. You'll see a lot of these same issues that, you know, Democrats have typically been concerned about. But I think it's particularly worrying that at a time when we're seeing some of the most insane rhetoric pointed at Republicans and Trump supporters saying drone strike them, saying treat them as enemies and combatants. You don't see the same thing from Republicans. So before we throw it to everybody and get into this bigger conversation, I'll just point this out. When I do my segments on this show, on my other channels, and I say, I'm not, I may be biased, but I really do see the problem as being on the Democrat side

of things, not Republican. This is another data point that backs that up. Republicans, once again, concerned about the things they've always been concerned about. What am I going to complain about? Republicans saying the same thing they said for 30 years? Sure, I got criticisms. The Democrats coming out and saying Trump supporters are the biggest threat? That's scary. Luke, you brought up last week when that lady from MSNBC said, why don't we just drone strike them? We drone strike people in Afghanistan. Yeah, I think it's fair to say that our language is becoming a little bit hyperbolic, to say the least, especially politically. I for sure thought the top thing on that list was going to be masculinity, weights, trucks, and other inanimate objects that people are scared of and refuse to take personal responsibility on.

Well, guns is in there. Firearms, defensive tools. You know, if you're going to put guns there, you've got to put forks on there because forks are responsible for a lot of obesity, a lot of death, and a lot of horrible, horrible sicknesses that we need to be very responsible for by banning the tools that enable people to die of heart disease on such huge numbers. 300,000 people died in 2019 of obesity. Exactly. No one wants to talk about that. That's what, like almost a 9-11 every single day? Yeah. Where's the nonstop 24-7 news coverage of people stuffing McDonald's down their food

and talking about how horrible it is and showing them in the hospitals as they're down their goblets. Their gullet. Yeah, down their throats. Come on. Whatever. You know what I'm trying to say here. But again, there's a lot of bigger issues out there. And I don't know.

I don't like polls. I always question the results of polls. You could manipulate polls in so many different ways. So I don't know. I don't trust this because this proves that the mainstream media brainwashing is working. Because again, when you look at relative threats to you, it's usually a lot of the stuff that a lot of elites are responsible for that they don't want you to know about. As we were talking about obesity, cancer, you know, and other health-related illnesses that, of course, are never truly addressed. But now, again, we have a caring government that allegedly cares about our health and is willing to stop the economy and destroy everything in its doorsteps just to make us healthy. Yeah, sure.

You know, Luke and I have definitely covered our share of riots and and of various factions and uh and julio you've been on the ground for a ton of this stuff yeah do you think that it is it is fair for democrats to say or or do you think it's fair for them to be most more concerned about trump supporters than any other problem in the country does that make sense no it doesn't it's just i i would completely disagree with with that mindset i think it should even be on the list i think i I know what you're going to say. That's why I'm asking. I'm giving you the obvious questions.

Well, it's just, I mean, obviously, I think one of the factors, just because of what happened on January 6th, I was there, I covered it. But really, I mean, what we saw most of last year and what I covered from Kenosha to Minneapolis and Seattle, those were all done by left-wing.

Well, but Kyle Rittenhouse. Well, that was born out of a situation that was the result of the local and state government not getting a handle on riots that were, again, started by left-wing and BLM sympathizers and... And standing down. Yes. So this is the point I always i keep making people are like

tim all your videos are about the democrats and i'm like listen when when has there been uh a moment where a bunch of trump supporters started smashing windows breaking into a building and you know being all around all around disruptive january 6th can you tell me a time before that because i'm sure they exist you know but any anything off the top of your head, like some Trump supporters came out flags, marching through the street chanting and smashing windows, starting fires or anything like that. And that number? No, not that I can recall. Nothing. You know, so what I've seen is leftist violence and extremism. And even then, with all of the news coverage, look at look at Andy Ngo's book. You guys, Andy Ngo put out that book on Antifa.

It's like a New York Times bestseller. And Republicans are still like, yeah, we get Antifa is a problem. But illegal immigration is more concerning because there's a lot of policy ramifications to illegal immigration, economic ramifications. So Republicans, right where they've always been, Antifa going on doing their thing. Republicans know it, but they're not screaming about like it's the end of the world. Some are for sure. Their concerns are more practical policy, policy driven.

Democrats are pointing at Republicans. So this is what is worrying to me. Check out. Let me let me show this article from the root. They say Democrats are stuck with a Republican Party rife with conspiracy theorists, anarchists and terror sympathizers. The craziest thing about this. Let me just try and pull up the most the most insane.

Look at this. They say we have to view the GOP as enemy combatants because for years they have proven that Democrats are theirs. Republicans might view Democrats as like political rivals who they don't like and will call names. But Republicans aren't that concerned about general Democrats. This is the crazy thing about this, this Echelon Insights thing. On the list of things Republicans are concerned about, Biden supporters is not one of them. They don't care about what people who voted for Joe Biden. They care about problems. The Democrats literally care about Republicans. I shouldn't even say Republicans because the Republican Party is trash, but conservatives,

Trump supporters, Trump supporters are not Republicans. There's a there's a big difference, but there is an overlap, I guess. I can I can say, you know, Republicans are trash and most people be like, you mean the politicians, right? Yeah. Oh, of course. Like everybody agrees. So I'm worried about this rhetoric, man.

I'm worried about this. We also have this article. I'll pull this one up from 538. In America's uncivil war, Republicans are the aggressors. Oh. Dude, they live in a paranoid, delusional state. Would you agree with that, Republicans are the aggressors in the uncivil war? As a whole, no.

I mean, it's just, again, what I covered and what I saw firsthand, it wasn't people in MAGA hats. It wasn't people waving Trump flags. It was people that were definitely aligned with more of the radical elements of the left but I mean Antifa as as as real as they are right uh they weren't everywhere in terms in terms of all the riots they weren't responsible for every single one obviously they had a hand obviously in places like Portland Seattle where they're where they other strongholds but really it was everyday people uh especially especially when it started out on day one because then i can

say in kenosha there were antifa types that came from chicago and milwaukee but that was day three that was day two that wasn't the first so everything kind of went bad in that town was everyday people quote you know did you see did you guys see what happened in new york where there was like an suv with trump flags yeah and then regular new yorker leftists started attacking it and some woman like pepper sprayed the family including some children oh when they had that little caravan no no i i don't think it was it might have been a little caravan i don't think it was like a big parade i think it was just uh like suvs driving on the on the what was it the what's that what's the highway qe is that what it is the bqe the brooklyn queens expressway yeah and so you've got

these people are not antifa these leftists and that's crazy to me that you can have these videos that republicans conservatives trump supporters can see a video of children being pepper sprayed and still say that's not my biggest concern. Whereas on the left, you get one day where where Trump supporters act a fool. And that's the biggest concern they have. I think I think it's the fake news, the manipulation, it's going to lead to something dramatically worse. My concern is as they kind of escalate this, and I'll just throw this this this next bit in because I covered this the other day, that the FBI is treating members of Congress, they say they're treating members of Congress as suspects in the Capitol riot. What happens when you have this rhetoric where the Democrats think this is our biggest threat?

You're going to get politicians on the Democrat side who say, vote for me and I will destroy Republicans. Vote for me and I will come for them and I will arrest them and we will lock them up. And the Trump supporters are like, can I get someone to deal with the immigration issue? If the Democrats see that the biggest issue among their voter block is Trump supporters, they will use all the power they have to target them. It's what they've been doing. And it's probably creating like a downward spiral where it's going to keep getting worse. And that's why they have concerns about establishing a 9-11 style commission.

It's like, well, how truly neutral and independent is it going to be when you have people on their side saying that all 74 million Trump supporters are equal to 300 or 400 or so that agrees to capital? TSDS. Trump Supporter Derangement Syndrome. the capital which is tsds we also supporter derangements and we also have to understand the larger kind of media conditioning that has been going on within the last four years that that really was ratcheted up to levels that i haven't ever seen it before i always knew and talked about the divide and conquer agenda for about 15 years now but really the last four years were absolutely insane if you look at left wing media, they're always saying right wing terror, right wingers are going to kill you, right wingers are horrible. And then

just nonstop 24 seven coverage. And then there's also some criticism on right wing coverage where they said Antifa is responsible for everything bad underneath the sun. And sometimes they were also exaggerated. Sometimes they're also downplayed by the left-wing media. But we have to understand this cycle is spinning out of control. And when the Democrats are in power right now, there are a legitimate amount of people asking, what do you got for us? And the first thing they got is we could punish more Trump supporters. And according to this poll, that's allegedly what they want. And again, I find it hard to believe, to be honest with you, because— You don't like the poll it's i have to really i i want to deep i want to deep dive into it to see exactly how it was done

to see exactly how the questions were because i bet we're going to find some anomalies because there's no way people who are suffering so much people who have been screwed over by the establishment who have been promised two thousand dollars and they're getting nothing but military industrial complex no bid contracts for Raytheon right now. Their $2,000 is out the door. No way that their first thing is retribution. I don't know. You're wrong. I disagree, bro. That's okay. You have your opinion. I have mine. That's my own personal perspective because seeing the responses, yes, there's a lot of hyperbolic stuff on social media, but in reality, there's a lot of people seeing okay democrats you're you're

in charge what do you got for me what can you do for me i i i i'm seeing people defend joe biden setting up child migrant detention facilities okay so there there was the one in homestead which is the miami facility kamala harris literally protested there yep and all the democrats not the progressives all of like the establishment tribalists are going like, yay, Kamala. And then Trump shut it down and they go, good. It's about time, Trump. And then Biden's administration reopened it. And they're like, well, actually, you know, it does make sense that Biden is doing that.

You see what they do. So I disagree. I think you're right that there are regular Americans who are like, yo, where's my money, bro? You said I get two thousand dollars where it where it's at and you're not getting it but i think too many and and it makes sense i mean like what 80 80 some odd percent are just like trump is bad so there's two things when the media for years kept screaming at the top of their lungs orange man bad some people just ate that up and now they're shaking in their homes terrified of trump supporters but i think people are realizing Trump's not in power. The FBI is on top of all the grannies that walked into the Capitol that day.

There's no evil grannies that are going to come after them and walk into their private residency by accident. So I think people are realizing that. And there's also very interesting pushback with the Gravel Institute and AOC pushing back against Biden and this new kind of, you know, what are they calling it now? Child migrant overflow facility. Which are literally using storage containers to put children in. Which have bars on the windows. I heard there's air conditioning.

I mean, that's good. Listen, listen, listen. I got to defend Joe Biden. I got to defend Joe Biden. Oh, let's go. I do. I absolutely do. Listen, listen, listen. I got to defend Joe Biden. I got to defend Joe Biden. Oh, let's go. I do. I absolutely do. These facilities need to exist.

Yes. Separating families is awful. Yeah. But a lot of the separation occurs because they don't know who the families are. Yes. Because it's just some random guy with a kid. And then the other issue is the facility that Biden opened up, it's unaccompanied kids. So like when a kid crosses the board and they pick him up, they're like, what do we do?

We're not going to put him in an adult jail with a bunch of old dudes they put them in a facility a juvenile facility yeah and but like just like for me for me personally because i am of you know mexican descent the thing that just really irritates me is sure aoc did a tweet saying yeah it's bad in any administration but she's not going to go down there and do another photo and just i remember uh just the complete outrage at at the child separation policy which was you know well the outrage at it was good i didn't agree with it at all uh but and then it just but it went beyond that and then talk about kids in cages and and they were put they were putting photos that were

taken during bomb administration yeah and saying that oh and so basically by and large the the mainstream media and democrats view latinos as uh as a hammer to beat republicans with when it suits them and so it's just i i really see i'm just i'm really upset at how there's you know if you're gonna be if you're gonna be as outraged as you were when trump was in office then you should be equally as outraged. Oh, I just realized. Julio Rosas. You're actually a Mexican yourself. I'm

special in that I don't see these things that the Democrats like. I'm kidding. Colorblind. Totally colorblind. Another thing to really kind of be blunt here about is, especially when it comes to new immigrants that come to this country who do they serve they usually go to big cities and they serve a lot of these establishment limousine liberals and they're working in underappreciated underpaid jobs usually under

the table uh in a position that that predominantly helps them yeah it exploits uh human beings to the worst degree for the benefit of the people living in the cities who lives in the cities predominantly liberals benefiting off of it here's the point i was going to make with that is that we recently saw especially in south texas the latino community went for trump and all the board like a lot of the border counties in miami a district that was considered safe democrat flipped republican because it seems like there's first of all this idea that latinas in this country are one political body is just not not true and you could probably speak this better than i could yeah but i know people i lived in miami i know people who were from cuba and

venezuela and they're like nah like they were staunch capitalist hated those systems that you know they view as destroying their country but when you look at you know what's going on these facilities i'm really curious about who AOC is actually speaking to when it's like, ah, in South Texas, they're actually kind of pro-Trump. You know, they've gone pretty hard for the Republicans. I can't imagine they're going to disagree with the same policies that Trump had, right?

Well, it's just the fact that they live at the, you know, they live there in terms of the border. And so they are acutely aware of the issues that are plaguing the immigration system and obviously just the overall problems that we have at the southern border. And so, I mean, and that's why you see a lot of border patrol officers. They're Latino. I think the majority of the officers are Latino because they often come from those communities because, again, they see the importance of border security.

They know that you just can't have just it be open and what have you. So, yeah, I think it really I think the last election obviously didn't go Trump's way. But the fact that he was able to gain a lot within the Latino community and other minorities as well, but especially in the Latino community. I mean, you'd think that, you know, after four years of talking about how Trump was just going to go after all the Latinos and, you know, it's just this really bad dictator. Right. And he's pretty bad at being a dictator in that regard if the people that he's supposed to be victimizing is actually going for him. The worst thing he did was post that photo taco bowl. It was like, how dare you?

It's like cultural appropriation. Taco Bowls aren't even actually Mexican or whatever. It looked good. Objectively, it looked good to me. I like Taco Bowls. I don't know why. The image that just came to my head, and it's very visceral, is this kind of liberal sitting in a fancy restaurant,

tweeting that we need more immigration, as they're, of course, at a very fancy restaurant. And behind the doors are all the illegal immigrants working their butts off, you know, serving them. And to me, just seeing that kind of representation just kind of angers me, to be honest with you. One of my favorite tweets early in the Trump administration, I think it was 2018. It was from this actress. I forgot who it was, but it was in Los Angeles. And she tweeted out that,

oh, there's immigration checkpoints. And so she tweeted to her followers, tell your gardeners, tell your housemates, tell them to avoid this area. And everyone was just

like, wait, why are you automatically assuming that to tell their... But it's true because that is a majority of their set. And so when they think about immigrants,

it's, oh, it's my... It's the help. Yeah, exactly. And it's just so patronizing and it's just so fake and I'm tired of it. So I just pulled up the article because I had to make sure

I had it right. Was it Kelly Clarkson? Kelly Osborne. She said, if you kick out Latinos, who's going to be cleaning your toilet? What?

These people. Again, they just see us as a political tool to hit Republicans with and to clean their toilets and cook their food. I'm going to read this quote, and I'm going to be very precise and annoying how I read this for political purposes because they're going to cut us out of context. Kelly Osbourne said, if you kick every Latino out of this country, then who is, and this is what Kelly Osborne said, going to be cleaning your toilet. Donald Trump, you know what I mean? Osborne said in an attempt to call out the Republican presidential candidate who faced massive backlash. No, that's not no, interrupted co-host Rosie Perez, continuing, there's more jobs than that in the country for Latinos, and Latinos are not the only people who clean toilets. And she immediately backtracked. I didn't mean it like that. Come on. I would't mean it like that come on i would never mean it like that dude you totally meant it like

that and it was only when she got snapped back she was like oh oh is that wrong am i not allowed to say that i thought we're on the same page here yeah this is it think about it's not even about latinos or mexicans or people from honduras it is about cheap immigrant labor. And it used to be, who was it? Bernie Sanders. Bernie Sanders warned about how the Koch brothers supported open immigration

because it would work great for their big corporations. Yeah, you get some dude who comes in working below minimum wage, no benefits, because they're off the books, under the table. And then you basically have

an underclass. Then Vox.com, the progressive website, wrote in 2016 the democratic party has become is becoming the party of the wealthy elites so it's no surprise then the democrats are the ones who are now saying oh we got to have more immigration and open borders it's remarkable trump ran on the republican ticket saying border security no free trade and it worked because regular americans were like yeah, I like this idea of, you know,

America first. The big business special interest corporations and the ultra wealthy were like, how am I going to hire ultra cheap labor with no rights if the Republican is doing this? All of a sudden, the Democrats were now like, yeah, open borders. Even though what, in 2008, 2010, you had Democrats who were like, we have to build a border security barrier. That was the 2006, the secure fence. Yeah, Joe Biden voted for that fence. So you're calling Joe Biden a racist?

Oh, snap. I think he called himself that. And so even with all that, and that's why when they're saying, oh, you know, President Trump's not building any new fence, just replacing the old one. Well, the one that was built in 2006 was basically just glorified chicken wire. And it can be easily cut into within minutes. And so this new one that they're replacing, along with areas where there was no barrier, it takes hours.

And the whole point is to slow them down and to actually get Border Patrol agents to that area so that they can either stop them or arrest them. And so it's just a lot of misinformation, a lot of rhetoric, as it typically does. But I've been there. I've been all over El Paso, Laredo, San Diego. And it's just amazing when you're actually there and you see it and you see the difference. It's just amazing. It's remarkable how the Democrats really rely on you not knowing anything. And so they'll be like, Donald Trump didn't build new border wall.

He only replaced existing wall. If you've never seen it, you're imagining there's this giant wall, and Trump comes in and just takes out a wall and puts in a wall, and nothing changed. And then when you actually look at it, the original wall was like some fence posts with a single log log across it oh yeah that you could just like walk in limbo under yeah and then trump put triple reinforced you know barricades with beat with cbp in between and it's like yeah those are very different things yeah and then when they're like yeah but trump should be building new wall it's like but those are the hot

spots that the trump supporters wanted secured so like Trump wasn't giving his supporters a 30-foot big, beautiful concrete wall from sea to shining sea paid for by Mexico, but he was reinforcing areas with, you know, strong security and a border wall where it was most effective. Also, the conversation changed because previously before we had individuals like Bernie Sanders that were talking about how

if we have a lot of people entering the labor force, wages are going to go down on the basic understanding of supply and demand economics. That conversation is not happening anymore. That conversation about the average worker, the average person trying to make a living wage, that's not factored in anymore, and it should be, and that should be a big part of the conversation. think it's just special interests they they they want to make a quick buck they've hijacked it's really clever i'll put it this way you know it's a lot easier to to be on the side of social justice and have all these institutions supporting you but i gotta say these people who think they're fighting for you know social justice and things like that you you really think these billion dollar corporations and these meatpacking plants care about their workers?

Look, when they slap a rainbow sticker over their logo, they're doing it so that you stop fighting against them. And it works. It does. Not completely. Well, I'm not going to I'm not going to be naive enough or, you know, stupid enough to try and argue that legitimate principled left wing activists are going to stop arguing against corporations because they put a rainbow up. But a lot of the establishment Democrat voters, the people who don't investigate news, who are not particularly active, stop being active when they're like, Yay, we did it. Coca-Cola agrees with us. They told everyone to be less white. The fight's over. There you go. By the way, do you guys have any Coke?

No, we don't. Coca-Cola? No, we probably do have coke products somewhere why do you want something to drink oh no i just want to be less white oh yeah did you guys see the the g prime 85 comic oh my gosh yes the art we have on the walls is from george alexopolis and he made one where it's a white woman being baptized in coca-cola that's messed up what was the tagline with that uh i forgot the time diabetes yes and the power of diabetes i grant you away from your whiteness or something like that are you thinking about

my time in la i worked at a restaurant for a long time and had a lot of friends there that were from the central america that came over illegally and were basically extracting wealth from the country because they would get paid in cash and then they would send the money to mexico to their families and then they would work in the u.s for a couple years and then leave and go be super rich in mexico relatively rich yeah and they were super cool great friends um and it was a small business so they're basically it's not just the big corporations but the small business can't survive if they have to pay full wages. It's hard to pay taxes and rent and everything. There was a big movement for a while about local currencies.

Do you guys know about this? Like Ithaca hours was a big thing where basically there was money that was only good in the town of Ithaca, New York. So if you worked, they could be like, we could pay you in US dollars or Ithaca hours. And this was like one hour of labor equaled a one hour note. And you could trade it for food and goods in this place. So it had real value among the community. What this did was it ensured that the trade medium could not leave the city. So if you got a city like Detroit and then the auto plants closed down and leave, now there's no more dollars coming in.

People don't have anything to trade with. So with local currencies, that currency is always there. That's why I think it's relevant to bring up with what you were saying, Ian. When people come to the US, work under the table, and don't pay taxes. I'm not saying none of them pay taxes. I'm saying, but when they specifically don't, they're not giving back to the system. They're getting from. They're using our infrastructure.

Then that money is extracted from the system and sent overseas to whatever country their family is in their families then can then use that because the standard standard of living will be lower so it goes a lot further in those places but that means there is less currency in that town to circulate among the people who live there ultimately an extraction of the labor value of that area. So it's basically like the labor being brought in is being traded away to other countries and other places. Over time, it's an extraction from the U.S. You combine that with outsourcing, factories being sent overseas and open borders. And yeah, you're going to see seriously detrimental economic effects in this country.

And that's why you get a Donald Trump. Because regular Americans, look at this, when you look at the original thing we were talking about, the Democrats saying Trump supporters are bad and Trump supporters saying illegal immigration is bad. It sounds like the Trump supporters, the conservatives, the Republicans are looking at the data and thinking, what will make things better in this country? Well, we got a problem with illegal immigration for a variety of reasons. The Democrats are like, Republicans are bad.

It's like, that's not a policy problem. That doesn't mean anything. Republicans are actually saying this is an issue what do the democrats do to combat the fact that republicans are talking about a legitimate policy debate they say they're racist they just hate brown people that's the only explanation they hate brown people they're xenophobic i hate myself yeah how dare you be yeah you be conservative and and not white that's not allowed oh i've been called a race traitor multiple times it's great but i love how they tell they tell non-white people to be race traitors uh i'm sorry not to not to be race

traitors but then they call it they tell white people to be race traitors you know what i mean yeah so like they have that whiteness chart that was like we're not at that school and it said like be a race traitor and it's like okay go tell it to anybody who's not white. No. And they say, but it's not about race. Yeah, that was a principal in New York City who sent a pamphlet to all the parents in that high school. That, by the way, you know, there was, I think, I think 70%, 17% of the kids were white. That it's good to be a white traitor.

Like, yes. We could probably pull up the article, New York City Principal Hands Out Woke Pamphlet, and then you could see the pamphlet in itself. It was based off of some university professor that created a scale of whiteness, asking white people to rate themselves. And one of the better scales to be at

is to be a white race trader. Oh, that's right, because you're either complicit in white supremacy or you're against it. Exactly. I found it. We got this one from Syracuse.com. New York principal asks students' parents to reflect on their

whiteness. And there's this tweet. Christopher Rufo, who we've had, he's great, is the one who, I think he broke the story, and it's the eight white identities. I think we talked about this and that's the eight white identities i think we talked about this on the show like the other day or whatever but it's it's it's definitely worth bringing up because it literally says to be a white traitor it's like it's green you know it's like white supremacist is red bad bad red and then white privilege is like orange there's like

a there's like a wheel where it's like it goes red to yellow to green what is that white voyeurism i don't know what that means. I'm so confused. Like you like people watching. You like watching white people. That's what it means, right? I don't know. Yeah, that's what voyeurism is.

Yeah, yeah. Exhibitionism is when you like people watching you, right? Right, right, right. And voyeurism is when you like watching others. Yep. Really weird. So you like watching white people? I don't understand what that means.

And then there's white benefit, white confessional, white critical, white traitor, and white abolitionist. White confessional. Yeah, this is a cult, man. It's a weird race cult. Yeah. Yuck. I just want them to stop putting, making Latinx a thing. Oh my gosh.

Kleenex. Yeah, well, and then, I forgot who tweeted it, but they tweeted a picture of an article. I think it was like a food magazine, but it was Filipinx. It was just like, I mean, it's just completely insulting. I mean, well, one, it's like they're starting to realize how machismo and how actually gendered the Spanish language is. Machismo. Well, there you go. At the end of every Spanish word, it's either a male or female.

Well, romantically. Yeah, and so it goes against that orthodoxy of gender fluidity and all this stuff. And so it's just they're trying to act like, well, we're saving you from yourselves of being sexist and oppressive towards people who don't identify as that. It's just like, well, or maybe you're the ones being racist because you're literally destroying the foundation of the language of these minorities. You speak Spanish, yeah? Only a little bit. I only speak a little bit. I just love the idea of them saying Latinx,

but they don't actually know how to speak the language. Could you imagine trying to speak Spanish where you replaced the O's and A's with X's? Oh, oh. Mi perics. Well, one, they look at you weird. Yo quito. Yo quidics.

No, no. Yix, comedix, comedix. It's like pig Latin. It was like, there was a Gallup poll, I believe it was Gallup, that showed it was like 90% of Hispanics had never even heard of that. How do you even describe Latinx? Like, what does it mean? Where did it come from? Because I don't even, like, understand it. It's just to denote that you're just trying to make a gender neutral to be sensitive to to others but but like the overall

latino community just rejects it and like yeah i got it pulled up about one in four u.s hispanics have heard of latinx but just three percent use it read the next line young hispanic women among those most likely to use the term is the chicks college yep yep how do you how do you how do you so it's it's not just spanish though it's like romance languages have gendered words oh yeah so like bonjour nix what is what mussolini changed the uh mussolini the gender of the you guys have yeah yeah that's good of their the river the the great italian river uh Italian river had the female gender. He made it male. And he made it male and was like, we are a masculine country.

So there is something dangerous about making something male or female dominating, I think. You could oppress a gender that way, but I don't know if it necessarily does. You know what the argument I made was? So you do speak a little bit. You guys speak a little bit of Spanish? Yeah. What does niño mean? Little guy. What is what is Nino mean? Little guy.

Little boy. What does Nino's mean? Little boys. What is Nino mean? Little girl. What is Nino's mean? Little girls. But what if I said Los Nino's and pointed to a group of school children?

What does that mean? Boys and girls. Well, it can be. It can work. Yeah, right. Because so. Yeah. So the point I would always bring up is the word that's supposed to be for boy could actually reference girls as well.

But women get an exclusive word just for themselves. That's privilege. So if you see a group of children, boys and girls, you would say Los Ninos. But Nino is masculine, yet women get included in the masculine as well. But men don't get included in the feminine. So I'm not seriously complaining about the language, but I was actually talking, it was like 15 years ago, I was talking to this feminist who was complaining to this about me when I was a teenager in Chicago. And I was like, how is it fair that women get exclusive words to describe themselves, but the masculine words are used to describe both? So women get both words?

I was being somewhat facetious to point out the language itself is not sexist. It's just a way to describe things. But look, man, you could make something up, and someone probably could do this. Find something that could be presumably perceived as sexist, and then they'll latch onto it. I don't know. Start arguing that we should. Did you know that the modern banana was artificially selected? So it did not evolve naturally.

Humans were picking the bananas that they liked and then only replanting the ones that were better and better. Eventually, we end up with this big sugary wad that's not even got seeds in it. You know what I mean? Like original bananas used to have all these different seeds. It was very starchy and not sweet. So what you got to do now is you got to tell them that's sexist. It was the men choosing the dick-shaped fruit.

What? Yeah, because of patriarchy. Well. It's about time we start artificially selecting bananas to not be shaped like. Wieners. Wieners. No, but it's the stupidest idea ever. But you could make something like that up.

Oh, Spanish is sexist because there's gendered language. Okay, well then like basically every romance language is sexist. They're going to get there. They just want to focus on the brown people first. Yeah, yeah, yeah, because it's the white progressives who know better for you, you know? I mean, it's very kind of – I mean, like, honestly, like, I it's just done in such a completely inconsiderate and not in a serious way. It's self-defeating. You mean taking the gender out of the language?

Well, right. Yeah. Because they're signaling that we don't know that we're being sexist, and so they're coming to the rescue. But why is comida, food, is feminine? Is that fair? It's sexist that food is for women. Like, who cares? What are you talking about?

It's just whatever. I mean, that's why they don't give it a second thought. Arabic's interesting. I don't want to mis-exemplify it, but I'm pretty sure in Arabic, it's if a woman is saying something or if a man is saying something, they use different language. Or is it if you're talking to a woman, you use a different way, you use a different phrase than if you're talking to a man? Yeah, sounds possible. I would say

very strange because I'm not used to it. I grew up in a Polish area. Chicago's got a very large Polish community. Shoutouts to Kazimir Polaski. Saw a great tweet from Jack Posobiec about that. But I didn't learn this until recently, and Luke confirmed that they actually give women different last names oh yeah yeah so how does that work what is that what is that what's that

all about well it's it's feminine and male so usually usually a polish name is a ski for for when it's for a man and ska when it's for a woman so the patriarchy of poland they don't even give women the name of the man they say no no you get a different one you're a ska not a ski skis are only for men see that's the patriarchy my dad likes ska music there you go the funny thing about it though is like i don't know if that's sexist or not but you could argue it is you can say it's not fair the men refuse to give the women their full name and give them the derivative ska instead of the true ski but then you could also argue like modern feminism in america where it's like i shouldn't have to take the last name of the man anyway there's always a way to frame the argument to make it seem like someone's being bigoted when

it literally doesn't right it's just so tiring the word men is in the word women so that's sexist the word he is in the word she so that's sexist. They've tried doing that. They've tried doing that. With the Y. His story. Yeah, with the Y. Yeah, yeah. Wimixin. W-O-M-X-N. Her story.

Her story. There's a really funny meme where someone said, for a while, feminists were claiming that woe, W-O means belong to. So woe men means property of men. But that's actually not true. The original etymology, I believe, of the word is wehrman and whiffman. And so that's where werewolf comes from. So a wehrman was a male human and a whiffman was a female human.

And then over time, probably because men were the ones engaging in political affairs, the patriarchy, the wehr dropped off and just became men. And then women retained the whiff, suffix or prefix or whatever. So long story short, there's like evolution of language happens. And it's really easy to make anything seem like a conspiracy or, you know, bigoted or racist. And they exploit that. They exploit sophistry to convince unsuspecting people who have who are of good faith and goodwill into doing for them and for for those that think critically you know to the to the

chagrin of the new york times they don't fall for this stuff they end up watching shows like this you guys are great but a lot of people just fall for cnn they'll turn it on and they'll be like you know latinx and they'll go yes i saw disney also they had when they were celebrating hispanic heritage month they and that's the other thing too you can just say hispanic like like that's like that's like or latin america i mean there's just there's other options like why why do you have to go after that and again i don't want to like seem like i'm just triggered over words but it's just it's just, but it's just the deeper mindset that they have of, like, we know better than you do. And if you go against us, you're terrible people.

It's an ideology derived mostly from white leftists to tell minorities how to speak. And I'm like, how do you define white supremacy? You know what I mean? Like, a bunch of white academics of privilege telling minorities what to say and think and do i mean that sounds like you know better it sounds a bit like white supremacy to me you know i'm not gonna tell you you can say whatever you want i don't know i don't think it's about gender i don't think it's about sex or anything like that i don't think it's about gender roles i think it's about controlling the narrative and this is something we've talked about in the past we've talked about changing the language so you can change stuff like the laws. I think this is a matter of sneaky trying to force the evolution of a language to suit your own power goals.

I honestly think that's true. Like we talked about how if you can change the definition of the word gender, then every law on the books becomes a different law. So when the law was written, right, like the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and they say, you know, or derivative policies in various jurisdictions, when they say, you made it discriminate on the basis of gender. Well, back then, they specifically meant male or female. Today, the activist left at all in all these institutions has changed the definition of gender. Once people accept it, they say, look, the law says you can't discriminate on the basis of gender. Well, I'm, you know, hydro gender, says you can't discriminate the basis of gender well i'm you know hydro gender so you can't discriminate and then they show up dressed up in a full body you know jacuzzi suit or something you know more actually that'd be pretty sweet

have you seen those jacuzzi suits oh wait is it real i'm pretty i think they might be real maybe maybe it's something i saw maybe i dreamed it yeah that's that's like a fever dream right there you don't have kobe no i think i saw it on tv once i don't have covid but you know what i mean i'm just trying to be absurd like if if if the law was originally intended to address males and females and now that we've changed language you're going to argue the law is different that's a way to exploit the system to change laws without actually having the votes to change the laws it seems to be a lot of what they're doing i didn't think of it that way. I do think a lot of it is just random though. Like when they say Wemixin,

do you guys know what Wemixin is? No. W-O-M-X-N. Or Flux instead of Folks. Oh, Folks with an X. Yeah, it's Folks with an X. Yes. Why?

I don't know how that's, yeah. For no reason. I saw that pop up like a month ago. I was like, where did that come from? Because they like putting Xs on things. It's like a little kid being like, I'm going to call myself the Thunder Smasher. That's my new name. And the mom is like, Billy, that's not your name.

Your name is William. Stop calling yourself Thunder Smasher. And you can't write on your exam at school Thunder Smasher anymore because your name is William. It's like, no, I'm Thundersmasher. It's like a little kid just trying to be cool. I'm going to put an X at the end of my word because Xs are cool. You want to know what's really funny about the letter X?

X means Christ in Christianity. So I want everybody to think about that. Every time they see the word Womxn or folks, think about the word Christ. I've been thinking about religion because the people that want to crush the patriarchy or undo this, there's something to it. Because if you look at the way the Bible is written, Eve came from Adam's rib in the story. Like the man.

Everyone knows that humans are born from women. That's just the way things are. Wasn't Lilith first? Was that it? She was Satan's wife. Oh, wasn't there a woman before Eve? No. Really? Are you sure? Yeah, I'm sure yeah what was i reading yeah they wrote the books for this like mystical woman was created from a dude's rib like look the man came first the man is the center in the

beginning but like no he was born from a woman they just didn't write her into the story i was right and so these people want to kind of trash that i mean this really a bunch of old white dudes wrote the bible and like had the council of Nicaea and rewrote, took out what they wanted to make it tell a story to give men power. But the women are the most powerful. The women are the center of the family. They are the creator of the human. And so I see these people wanting to kind of bend or break things back to the way, a different way. I don't know.

I just have to interject. I was right. Go ahead. Interject. Lilith appears as Adam's first wife who was created at the same time and from the same clay as Adam. This contrasts with Eve who was created from one of Adam's ribs. Interesting. Lilith is the legend of the first woman. It's a 19th century rendition of the old

rabbinical legend of Lilith, the first woman whose life story was dropped, unrecorded from the early world, and whose home, hope, and Eden were passed to another woman. So it's not in the Bible. Right. Okay. Well, it does.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, right, right, right. It's not biblical. So maybe it's an old rabbinical legend. Yeah, so I guess she's a... Interesting tale. Interesting. How did we get here? I don't know.

We're talking about, like, gender language and, like, is it male-dominated? Did they build those languages? I don't really know I don't know. We're talking about like gender language and like, is it male dominated? Did they build those languages? I don't really know the history of romance languages. We've got another story in the similar vein of the creepy school. Check this out. We've got from the Daily Mail, Buffalo Public School claims all white people perpetuate systemic racism and force kindergartners to watch video of dead black children to warn

them about racist police and state-sanctioned violence. Fatima Morrell is associate superintendent for culturally and linguistically responsive initiatives at Buffalo Public Schools in New York. Morrell has introduced a new curriculum, lesson plans, and teacher training. The teachers are encouraged to be more woke in their efforts at anti-racism. Morell suggests teaching kindergartner classes about children killed by police, with videos featuring Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice, and others. Older pupils learn all white people play a part in perpetuating systemic racism. A whistleblower told City Journal about the new lesson plans. Morell has yet to comment on the controversial new teaching programs. I wonder

if they have some photos. So there's one post where it says, I am Ayanna. I was sleeping. I am Trayvon. I was walking. Anti-racism, a powerful collection of anti-racist policies that lead to racial equity and are substantiated by anti-racist ideas. They're indoctrinating kids. They're teaching kids this is illegal but the 1964 civil rights act says you can't discriminate on the basis of race these people they're being referred to as neo-racist i just consider them like good old-fashioned yeah it's good old-fashioned racist it's just it's the same thing it didn't change it's still racism they're literally like that race is bad okay well then you're racist they're doing it in schools. Imagine the psychology of

a small child hearing this and seeing just the traumatic imagery of death, and then that being pushed along with, of course, a big propaganda. We have to also understand they use a lot of graphic images to push this, because when you're emotionally shocked, when you're in a constant state of fear, you don't critically think and for for kids to see something traumatic and then be told hey uh if you're white you're perpetrating systemic racism no matter who you are what you do because of the way you were born that is just absolutely absurd sickening and crazy and destroying the youth of this nation so there's this image that we've talked about a bit before and i'm sure most of you are familiar with. It's the equity fence, which is this meme.

It's fairly viral, and it looks like this one got a graphical update. Look at that. Very nice. On the left, it says equality. There is a tall man, a medium-sized man, and a short, well, I don't know if they're men or women, person. And they're all standing on a crate. The short person can't see. The fence is in the way.

The medium person can see over the fence, and the short person can't see the fences in the way. The medium person can see over the fence and the tall person can clearly see. The next panel on the right says equity. Now the tall person has no crate, but he can still see he's tall. The person in the middle still has one crate, but the short person now has two. And now the short person can see the baseball game as well. My favorite response to this is from libertarians where they say they're all stealing. They are. They're all stealing because you can pay for tickets. But I want to point something out when they're teaching kids about this stuff and they show this image, what they're not explaining to the kids, because all the people here are brown skinned, they're all of the same

race. What they're not telling you is in on the side that says equity, where you have the three people standing up. Imagine the tall person is of one particular race. Then imagine someone from the government taking away from that person and giving it to someone else based on their race. Now imagine that the person who is tall is actually a black person and the person who is short is a white person. Would you justify the government coming and taking from the black community to give to the white community? Their argument is argument is well we just know who is quantifiably privileged or underprivileged but you don't know would it make sense for the government to take away from like a working class you know white family where the dad is a carpenter and the mom is is you know is an auto sales a car salesperson

and they take money from them and give it to Oprah's family? Well, this is basically a racist, meaningless. Well, this is the thing. We even had one of the head board members of the New York City Education Organization publicly come out and say, if there's a rich or middle class black person and a poor white kid, resources have to go to the middle class rich black person because of systemic historic racism. So we have literal heads of education in New York City arguing for this. And there's a third meme that's related to the meme that you have up there. And it's a third panel. And it says when government gets involved, and it shows the tall person and the middle person

getting their legs chopped off as a representation of whenever the government gets involved. I tweeted a long time ago, which I think is also perfectly representative of what actually happens when the government tries to solve a problem that usually they're the ones that perpetrated it and created it. They're usually make it a lot worse. So I can't find it. I'm trying to find it. There's a bunch of silly versions of this, though. There's like liberation. there's no fence anymore i like that one because it makes no sense because there's like so does the outfield go forever so it's like the outfielders can keep running and

there's no home runs so long as it's all an rbi yeah the rules don't matter they're teaching kids this stuff and they're not teaching kids enough to explain anything to them about what it really means. It's just indoctrination. These kids are going to grow up as dogmatic tribalists. I'll tell you what's funny. Many on the left had similar things about religion, you know, back in the day. Kids growing up with religious indoctrination. Oh, it's a problem. I don't care.

Sure, fine. I'll tell you what. It doesn't justify you becoming the dogmatic religious lunatics. But I tell you, it's really crazy. Watching this cult spread. There's an organization called Free Press. The Free Press is what it's called. FreePress.net.

I used to know these guys. I actually only a few years ago was sitting down with one of the guys from the Free Press. Talking about freedom of speech. Freedom of the press. Our ability to communicate and then in the past year two years the organization has called for banning and censoring misinformation and the far right and political ideas they don't like and i'm like how have you gone so insane with this cult that an organization called the free press would launch a campaign to censor people based on their opinions.

We saw Democrats in Congress recently write that letter talking about banning Fox News and One America. It's just it's it's really, really concerning. And Senator Carlson, he's been one of the main targets from Media Matters and what have you. And so he's really been sounding the alarm on that. And it really is becoming a big problem in terms of rhetoric that we're seeing from people in power. Yeah. And so it's just, it's completely absurd just because it's CNN and MSNBC, they do. How do you fight this kind of thing, right? It's like a religion.

Homeschool. This, I mean, reading this article really, really made me proud of understanding the larger homeschool network in New Hampshire that happens in that particular state. It's one of the largest homeschooling states and also the smartest state compared to, of course, IQs of other states, which tells you a lot. Because when you give up your child to the institution of the state for, quote, education, you're not really getting educated. You're getting indoctrinated into the propaganda. This is the newest level of propaganda that they're introducing people so they could go along with their bigger agenda, the newer agenda. But of course, there was an older agenda. The school system has failed our children. It has failed me. It has failed a large number of individuals. And it's not there to

uplift people. It's not there to help people find their skills, their passions, their loves. It's not there to help people in their journeys in life. It's there to keep them in institutions so they could be good factory workers. And that's what school systems were built on by the Rockefeller Institute, trying to, of course, rinse and repeat, create good factory workers. Was it Michael Malice who said that one of the only places a child will experience violence will be in a school? Yes, that was Michael. Michael said that?

Yeah. And I'm not sure if it was Michael who said this, but someone said they're effectively prisons. Yeah, that's what he said. Yeah. Yeah, Michael said that. And I agree. I mean, I think schools, public schools particularly.

I've been to private school. Private school, I went to Catholic school for the first, you know, up until fifth grade. And then sixth grade, I transferred to public school. Public school is just awful. There's like limited supervision. They don't care. The kids are not really learning things. It was just really, really bad. I mean, I saw extreme amounts of violence in New York City. There was a kid that got shot in my classroom. Like, I can't even go into just some of the graphic details of what I saw growing up there. But essentially, when you really look at it, it's run like a prison. The same companies that build the schools are the same companies that also build the prisons.

I remember visiting my friend in prison just a few months ago and being like, this looks a lot like my school. And then I remember like, oh, yeah, they work for the same kind of contracting organizations that build these larger institutions and it's not just the construction of these uh buildings it's also the way that they're run it's also the the way that teachers bark orders at students scream at them tell them to stay in line tell them to to regurgitate whatever they say and if they don't have the same opinions as they do they get punished and essentially even in college if you have a opinion that a professor doesn't like they're going to punished and essentially even in college if you have a opinion that a professor doesn't like they're going to give you a worse grade than if you had a you know

opinion that actually disagreed with them think about where this school stuff leads to right check it out you're going to have right now you got all these teacher unions saying we're not reopening we're not going to go back to work we don't want to go back to school but pay us sure they say but we want to make sure the schools are safe i really just don't believe you fine whatever they don't want to go back to school, but pay us. Not essential. Sure. They say, but we want to make sure the schools are safe. I really just don't believe you. Fine. Whatever. They don't want to reopen schools.

Wealthier families are just homeschooling their kids, and they're putting them in learning pods where they hire tutors. The tutor gets 20 to 30 kids. That tutor is probably making bank, to be honest. Because all these parents are now like, well, pay 100 bucks a week or something. And they got 30 kids. So these tutors are just raking in the dough, teaching a various group of kids throughout the day. These kids are getting one-on-one education in a small classroom with a professional educator, you know, educator to some degree. These kids, when they get older, they're gonna be smarter, better, faster, stronger, all of these things because they're getting, well, they're getting

invested in. These other kids are going to these schools and are being indoctrinated are going to be, well, they're being kept out of school. They're being given very awful education. They're getting these Zoom classes. Most of the kids don't even pay attention. They're not going to school. The teachers don't care. The teachers don't want to be there. The teachers are arguing, keeping the schools shut down. And then when they are there, they're getting indoctrinated with garbage. So what happens? You're going to end up with two 20-year-olds, one 20-year-old from the pods, from the learning pods,

not the dystopian pods. And they're going to be sitting there and they're going to be socially savvy. They'll have grown up around adults. They'll have learned the intricacies of normal human living. And they're going to have a conversation with an employer and say,

you know, I work very hard. I ran my family's business when I was 18. I did this. I was educated at these, you know, these institutions. I did homeschool for these years. And they're going to be like, oh, this person's articulate, you know, well thought out. I think they can bring a lot to my company. And they're gonna look at the next resume and the person's going to be like, well, I am a person of color and it means you have to hire me. And I didn't go to school because the teachers didn't want to show up. But I did learn about equity from watching MTV videos on YouTube. And they're going to be like, I'm not going to hire you. Like you don't bring value.

Now, the one thing that could change that, of course, is if we get really extreme leftist draconian woke policy where the companies like in california are forced to bring on you know women and minorities to their board so that's like if your company's of a certain size you have to fire a white guy and then hire a woman of color or something so then maybe that will actually happen where you're gonna have people show up and they're gonna be like well you have to hire me so there you go and then you end up like venezuela i mean i i know venezuela is kind of the go-to example but in venez man, they make jobs for the sake of making jobs. You know, they don't need a job. Well, we'll just make it. And just, there could be a job for one person. Let's say the job, the example I often give is when I was trying to buy a cell phone in Venezuela,

it was like five different people I had to talk to, to buy a cell phone because they just created the jobs because they need to have jobs. In the U S you walk into a t-mobile or an at&t or a sprint there's one person you're like yeah i want a phone like okay they pop the phone they sign you up you give them the credit card they say bye-bye not in venezuela the amount of mandatory signage that businesses need in venezuela is absolutely ridiculous they at least they have to dedicate an entire wall to all the permits, to all the regulations, to all the rules, and also a huge no smoking sign and a huge no guns are welcome here sign in Caracas, Venezuela, at one time the murder capital of the world. It's not anymore?

It fluctuates between other Latin American countries. But when I went there, it was the number one murder capital in the entire world. They outlawed people having firearms. And guess what? Homicides through firearms skyrocketed because all the people were disarmed and only the criminals had the firearms. Even private security, in some instances, wasn't allowed to have firearms. Even private security, in some instances, wasn't allowed to have firearms. And the police officers were working with, of course, politically motivated institutions and groups that protected each other. Meanwhile, other people were left to, of course, the gangs. And I forgot the exact name

of this one motorcycle gang that was wreaking havoc on a whole bunch of communities. But again, when you go to Venezuela, it's been wrecked by absolute violence to the point where police officers and other authorities were literally telling me, hey, if you're driving at night and there's a red light, don't worry. Don't stop. Just go right up ahead. I was a dirty smoker at the time, too. And the hotel was like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no smoke here. I'm like, OK, I'll go over there.

They're like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. You're going to get killed there. I'm like, what do you want me to do? I're like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. You're going to get killed there. I'm like, what do you want me to do? I'm going to smoke too now. Screw you, man. Like call the cops. Now I'm all nervous. Yeah, I'm even more nervous.

I don't smoke anymore. That was a bad phase that I had. Don't smoke. It's really bad for you. But again, it just shows you the utter lunacy of more government. I got to do this. I got to do this because it is more government, but it's also how the left has become the moral authoritarian. So let me start this segment by asking you guys a question.

Which political party, pop quiz everybody, was trying to get content and music banned in the 90s? Which political faction? The Republicans. It was the Republicans. I was born in 96, so I don't remember. Oh, yeah, it is now. Well, late 90s. I remember.

So Magic the Gathering, for instance. We actually have this card downstairs called Unholy Strength. Magic the Gathering, of course, is a strategic card game with fantasy themes. And there's an image of a guy with a pentagram behind him. And it was conservative religious families who complained and forced the company to remove the image of the pentagram because it was satanic. Check out this story. Illinois lawmaker seeks ban of grand theft auto game following rise in carjackings. And which political party does this Illinois lawmaker who is trying to ban a video game belong to?

What would you guess? Well, the party affiliation is not in the title, so... I know. So the rule is Democrat. Yes. That's the rule. You're correct. I think he's a statist. Is. The rule, yes. That's the rule. You're correct. I think he's a statist.

Is he a statist? Yes. I'll take that. Sure. He's a Democrat. A Democrat is trying to get a video game banned. This is it.

I'm sorry, everybody. First of all, when was the last Grand Theft Auto game made? 2013? No, no. More recent than that. No?

GTA 5, 2016? 18? Yeah. No, I think you're wrong. Don't look i remember seeing so many republicans when when one of the grand theft autos had a scene with a working woman 2013 is it really they ported it to pc later yeah yeah but i remember i remember that wait wait wait gta 5 came out for ps3? Is that really the latest Grand Theft Auto? It's been a hot minute. Yeah, it's been a while. It's been a hot minute.

So listen, listen, listen. You got a guy, a Democrat, trying to ban a video game that's, what, going on like eight years old because carjackings went up? I blame you, Ian. I see the link. Because you're the one who said— It doesn't make people want to carjack cars. It just makes it easier to do. That's what the evidence points out.

I think he watched a video with Ian describing what he said and came to that conclusion. But the one super chatter said, like, video game violence. I was like, do video games make people commit more violence? He was like, no. It doesn't make people want to do it. It just makes it easier to pull the trigger. That's why they train soldiers. Exactly.

Yeah, we talked to somebody about that. They say the military will use these... The guy from the ranch. Yeah, we talked to somebody about that. They say the military will use these... The guy from the ranch. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, Steve. It doesn't make people more likely to. It makes it easier

for those two. So that I understand. The family guy did a whole cutaway about that. About video games? Well, specifically Grand Theft Auto where Pierre loses memory

and he's like, oh, just here, play this game so you can remember how to drive and then you see him carjacking someone and it's silly money.

So this Illinois guy, Rep. Marcus Evans Jr., has introduced a bill that would amend a pre-existing law banning certain video games from being sold to minors. His amendment would ban the sale of games with subject matter including motor vehicle theft with a driver or passenger present. The amendment has yet to be voted on.

There have been renewed debates around the ban after carjackings among young people have gone up recently. The bill would prohibit the sale of some of these games that promote the activities that we're suffering from in our communities. A 16-year-old was arrested and charged with carjacking on Monday. Days ago, there were two 15-year-olds arrested. I got to just say, I really don't think these kids are playing GTA and being like, dude, I got an idea. Let's go carjack for real.

Yeah, that's so smart. And they high five and they just go outside and they're like, yo, give me your car. And that's that. I got an idea. Let's go car jack for real. Yeah, that's so smart. And they high five and they just go outside and they're like, yo, give me your car. And that's... I don't know. We live in a generation of Tide Pods. That's true. Nobody was eating Tide Pods.

That was not real. But when it comes to intelligence, by and large, and it comes to our education system, we are failing. That's the bigger point I'm making here. And I think that's true. But also, most importantly, especially with this Grand Theft Auto thing,

I believe it was Republicans that made it so you needed to show an id card to show that you're old enough to buy certain video games just a few years ago i remember there was such a massive outcry against gta there was one particular scene with a working woman that everyone was screaming about and they actually came pretty close in banning the video game a couple years ago. So it's just absolutely absurd to still see this nonsensical argument being made right now. But it's the perfect representation of what government is. Absurd and stupid. I don't know about that Republican ID thing.

I just tried to Google it. I couldn't find it. But I do have this story where The Verge writes, Trump and Republicans continue to blame video games for their failures on gun control. They say there's no evidence, but it's a talking point that has been repeated since Columbine. Following two, we'll call them mass tragic events. They say lawmakers and government officials offers thought and prayers to take no action.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy told Fox and friends that video games dehumanize individuals. In a speech today, President Trump pointed at video games specifically as the root cause of these events. We must stop the glorification of violence in our society, he said. This includes the gruesome and grisly video games that are now commonplace. Sounds like, Ian, when you said before that video games were leading to this, you were far right. I would like to ask Julio about this because you're actually in the military.

You're in the reserves. What branch of the military are you in? Marine Corps. And what do you think about violence in video games and how it associates? I mean, I don't think that's true in the sense that that's the cause for it. I mean, you have to look at just the whole environment

and obviously who the person is. I mean, I think in terms of desensitizing, maybe. Yeah. But in terms of it being the trigger behind it, no. Or like encouraging it. Encouraging it, yeah, because you separate the two. Well, it is an interesting point that Trump Republicans were then bringing up, dehumanizing, essentially. Like we learned from, it was the fellow from Fortitude. Is fortitude is that what were you saying fortitude range he was saying the

military so i actually i brought this up because there's this movie called the men who stare at goats yeah and it was this like project where they tried doing psychic spies is a real thing apparently yeah and in the movie you've got um what's the guy's name is it jeff bridges the actor is that his name i don't know right which one, the actor? Is that his name? I don't know. That's right. Which one? The actor in the movie The Men of Staircoats. They're talking about how he was in Vietnam, and this Vietnamese woman runs out into a field, and all of the American soldiers, they don't shoot. And then he's like, what are you doing?

Start shooting. And they shoot up to purposefully miss. And so the dude who was here said the way they combat that is using active targets. They used to just do a target. Now they do a shape like a person. And they do first-person video games. So that now it's in the people's minds of what a person looks like. So the general idea is that video games don't make people more violent.

But a violent person would... This would help them, essentially, if they were going to commit an act. They would not be averse to shooting a person right i mean i i don't know i mean i again i just i just i just have a hard time i just have a hard time believing that that that's the that's the main factor that's going to drive somebody i mean and you look at the i mean you just look at the the the history i mean you you don't want to talk about be careful when talking about mental illness but adam lanza from uh the uh the new new town i mean there's there's just so many other things although i think you did i think you did play video games though i think well i i think everybody plays video games well right right they used to play dungeons and dragons was going to

make kids go crazy and it's violence i mean i will say i mean because like from from the riots that that i've that i covered a lot i mean it was just back to back to back and and i found myself being very bored at and and so i think there's an adrenaline aspect for certain high stress events uh not necessarily school shootings but i can see that because there were some stuff that would happen that that that see and report on. And it would be sad and be tragic. But I didn't have a hard time finding emotion behind it just because I had seen it over and over and over personally. That would be the desensitization. That would be kind of the desensitization aspect. And so I would recognize that it would like, okay, this is bad and this is sad.

But it didn't have the same effect the very first. They do this to many police departments they play very violent riot footage and officers getting hurt right before they go out i've seen the many reports of this uh before they go out cover many protests or a lot of them are jacked up a lot of them are you know ready to to you know prepare to defend themselves and most protests you know usually don't don't get. They're becoming more and more violent. But again, psychologically, the video is such an important component in making people realize that there's something else bigger out there. It plays on the imagination, but it also plays

on your visceral senses, where you get to see it and you get inundated in it in such a way where you believe you're actually in it. So video is one of the biggest forms of propaganda that we should be, of course, made aware of, and especially questioned when certain traumatic videos are being played over and over and over again, especially on mainstream media. Dude, I was watching, you were watching a movie yesterday or something, and it was like a guy just hitting another guy, just beating on his face. Oh, Taken. Taken.

Taken 3. Yet another violent movie. I mean, we taken taken taken three yet another violent movie i mean we're talking about so much violence in the movie industry it is punching even all the marvel movies just punching and beating and throwing and blasting and listen everything like 90 i'm i'm just giving an exaggerated number but the overwhelming majority of content is violence guns every every marvel movie every. These are some of the biggest movies ever made. Literally all of them violence. Mandalorian. Mandalorian.

That was all violence. It was great. Game of Thrones. Violence. War. Video games. Violence. Conflict. The biggest games. Even Minecraft has violence in it to a certain degree. It's not the worst. I shouldn't rag on Minecraft. But you look at some of the biggest games. Fortnite. Violence. I don't know if people are still playing Fortnite.

Grand Theft Auto, the game where you drive around, run people over and do crazy things. There is this component of video games that conflict is one of the big components of our entertainment. I wonder why that is. I'd love to talk to a psychologist or, you know, a psychologist about this. What about violence is like such an entertaining value for us? Is it because it's conflict? It's it's risk. It's a threat. It scares you. And then you overcome it. What we've seen from this is there have been feminists who want to create what what people call walking sims, walking simulators, video games where it's like your your mission is to go and

hold hands with someone and earn points because they want to get away from that. But people don't like it. People like even if you go back to Marioio like the original mario and nes you play a dude who runs around punching bricks and stomping turtles and then kicking them it's like it's fast-paced geometric competition kind of like throwing but baseballs at each other like dodgeball but it doesn't have to be shooting someone and killing them it just is in the visage of that so like i think why people like it is because it's fast-paced geometry and you're learning how like what's that splatoon what's splatoon you are a bunch of like squid critter people and you sprayed paint on them

yeah same fast-paced geometry so that's what that's what we're really learning is how to interact um hand-eye coordination we're challenging each other to see who's got faster reflexes, but it's in the guise of a violent gun. You know, it's, it's the AR it's all these realistic guns. The graphics are getting so realistic that if you're in it in like VR, you'll, you'll really maybe start to believe you're killing someone.

Like it's possible. I got it right now. The big problem is not the Republicans for the most part. This it's a Democrat who wants to ban these video games. The only thing we have to do to make sure that nobody comes and bans our video games is make all of the bad guys have Donald Trump's face. Boom, done, nailed it. There it is.

Because think about it. Republicans might actually complain and say, I demand this game banned. But who's going to listen to the Republicans? They can't get anything done. They'll be like, I am upset about the these games got to get banned. I'll say, get out of here shut up and then if you make all the all all of the npcs any character that could die has donald trump's face the left will be like i see nothing wrong with this all violent you made the most gruesome and brutal violent video game like doom was legit like super violent but just you know make it trump and they'll look they'll allow it

they'll stop complaining but they'll immediately come to the defense someone should make a mod for gta where everyone's face is donald trump and show it to that democrat and he'll go oh oh oh you know what i think this game is actually okay i withdraw my bill i i'm a huge video game nerd as you probably know if you don't know i'm a huge video game nerd here we go probably know, if you don't know, I'm a huge video game nerd. Here we go. I got really mixed feelings about video game violence. Like, I wasn't allowed to watch violent movies growing up. Yeah, same here. Because they didn't want to twist my mind.

My parents, I saw Nightmare on Elm Street 2 when I was like 10. And I remember the veins getting sucked out of that guy. And it like stuck in my brain for years. Still to this day, I can see it. His skin turning white as his veins were getting. It was so gross. Like like just messed me up. And that was one thing that I saw as a kid. I was like, I wasn't allowed to watch Tom and Jerry or the Three Stooges or Married with Children.

Like I was and I'm so I'm aware, like the violence, man, how it can brainwash you. But I don't want to ban it. I don't know. This is this is it is interesting. I think, you know, we do have to be careful about what kids are watching and are doing. But that's not incumbent upon government. It's the parents. It's a family role thing. We were just talking about there's a video of Ron Paul that went viral.

And it is one of the most glorious videos of Ron Paul ever. Luke was like, I've seen that video a million times. I just retweeted it. I said, Ron Paul is a legend. It's basically a bunch of people who are like, ban drugs. Say no. And Ron Paul's like, government shouldn't basically a bunch of people who are like, ban drugs, say no. And Ron Paul's like, government shouldn't be the one deciding what you do with your life. But there's this really glorious moment where he's arguing with a guy.

And he goes, you're not going to get morality from the government. The government can't make you a better person. Why don't they put you on a diet? You're a little overweight. And everyone's like, oh, and I was just like, yes, Ron Paul. He's right. Look, if you're like, the government should tell us what we can or can't do. It's like, okay, well, they should tell you to put down the fork.

No, that's not the way it works. So when it comes to video games, when it comes to South Park, when it comes to Beavis and Butthead, whatever these shows are, because, you know, Beavis and Butthead, believe it or not, is coming back. You're right. And parents have complained about it. It's your fault. I'm sick and tired of this and this is this really

for for the most part uh become endemic on the left i mean i know the right used to be about banning things they're like oh these things are bad for kids and you know we got to ban this art now it's really the left it's like yo the left are the ones coming out and saying i should have no responsibility it is a cabot too what you said about adam lanza was pretty enlightening like i think it goes deeper into the the psychoactive drug system and how it's making people crazy. And then we're talking about parents taking responsibility for what their kids are consuming. But like now, you can be inundated with violence. But if you're on psychotropics, that's going to be different.

And what I'm trying to bring up specifically and focus on is you've got too many people in this country, whether it's people who have kids or somebody who just eats terrible food, who says, you should pay for my health care, even though I lay around eating double, you know, Big Macs with extra sauce and don't exercise. Or this video game made someone crazy, so we should have the government take it away from everybody else. Or a crazy person with a gun therefore no one should be allowed to have guns right it's meaningless yeah i mean and so that's why i'm adverse to when it comes to like video games because it's the same line of argument when it comes to gun control and one of the reasons why i became conservative was looking at

the various gun control arguments uh made by republicans and democrats and i was thinking well the democrats one doesn't make any sense and you know what else are they being misleading about and so that's kind of how i went down the route right right and it's it's remarkable how if you're if you're being logical and you hear the conservative argument on guns you're going to hear something typically they're going to say this like i the first memes i saw was why is this gun banned and this gun not banned and they're the same gun so one meme is the ruger 1022 i saw yep there's a wooden stock ruger 1022 and then there's a like polymer stock with a pistol grip ruger 1022 literally the same gun same capacity same firing everything you just hold it a little bit different.

One's under risk of being banned as an assault weapon and one isn't. It's meaningless. So when I would actually go to the left, the traditional liberal people and say, why is this gun banned? They say, oh, assault weapons got to be banned. And I'm like, they're the same gun. It makes no sense. And you can't get a logical answer out of these people because they don't know what they're talking about.

And so I'm just like, listen, if you can't be responsible for your own life, why should I have to pay the price? And that is a serious challenge. I am actually fairly left on a ton of policies. I totally believe in cooperative economics and systems of government. But there is a limit. We have to be liberty oriented, not authority oriented. And so what you have with these traditional liberals is they actually I love this meme from leftists. They're like Democrats are actually authoritarian right. And I'm like, yes, that's correct.

That is absolutely true. The Democratic establishment are somewhat they're not super far right all at the top, but they are in the authoritarian right spectrum. They want to take away from you. They want to dictate what you do. And they are not overtly far left, but they're close to the left. So they're like, they're I'm sorry, they're they're they're more authoritarian right. And there's a difference between libertarian right where it's like, hey, man, do your thing, be free and freely trade.

Authoritarian right are crony Democrat, corporatist Democrats, whoever adult revolving door policies prop up international corporations and big tech firms, empowering the corporations, and then also telling you what you can or can't do with your life. So I actually think the Democrats and Republicans, the Demoplicans, are fairly in the same place. You do have progressive Democrats who I think too much indulge in the woke cult stuff. And then you have a lot of good libertarian Republican candidate, black politicians, people like, well, Rand Paul, obviously, Ron Paul, he's retired now, Thomas Massey, and a few others.

You have very few actual good principled Democrats at all. But I would say it's a tiny fraction that are actually on the libertarian spectrum. So I tell you, if you believe in freedom, I don't care if you're an anarcho-communist, far left, you know, critical, race, woke, whatever. If you're on the libertarian spectrum and your whole thing is, well, I disagree with you, but I don't believe in being violent and hurting others or forcing people to do things. I'll bet we get along, man. Come over, have a beer. Let's grab some slice, grab a slice of pizza or vegan pizza.

That's what you're into. And then the laissez-faire capitalist can come and, you know, and then sell us his great pizza and we can all hang out together as long as we all agree not to oppress and beat and harm each other. That's not what we're getting. We're getting tons of moral authoritarians who want to use the power of government because they think other people shouldn't do things or they want to extract the value in labor from other people because they're not responsible for

themselves. There is sometimes it's valuable like you want to stop people from pooping in the river. That's a metaphor that's come up before. Yeah, but that's not what we're talking about here. Well, like giving people addictive drugs. You kind of want to stop people from pooping in the river that's a metaphor that's come up before yeah but that's not what we're talking about here well like giving people addictive drugs you kind of want to stop that why because it's like pooping in their soul no it's it's absolutely making people crazy no that's authoritarian you think that it's authoritarian to stop shoving opioids into the schools into the shoving telling someone they can't put something in their body is authoritarian yes giving but i mean they're giving people prescriptions for these new drugs that they

didn't used to do i know what's better for you therefore you shouldn't be allowed to do it yes that's authoritarianism well that's how the family works a family is not a government i know but in some way it is yeah house economy means household management but we also have to understand with the party in charge right now this larger authority of censorship is intoxicating for a lot of these individuals and just like i said on this show they're going to go after people in politics and soon it's going to translate into art books entertainment and i think it's slowly and surely is there's a lot of pushback against this particular video game thing because how absurd it is but we also have to

understand any form of censorship is absolutely absurd it deserves to be pushed back and we are already seeing and have seen a lot of comedians hit and canceled and attacked for telling jokes and trying to make people laugh which again on the on on this on its own level is absolutely absurd and it needs to be pushed back immediately. Well, I'll tell you this. I feel the only person I – well, I feel bad for Lydia and Ian right now because I can see, you know, obviously, Julio, you're a person of color. And I am as well as my Asian background. And Luke, as a Slav, is granted that.

Born and raised. Yeah. Did you know this? The Coalition of Communities of Color said that Slavs are. Born and raised. Did you know this? The Coalition of Communities of Color said that Slavs are people of color. Really? Slavic people. Please pronounce it right, Tim. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to be offensive.

Slav X? Slav X. I think I'm going to make a T-shirt like that. Dirty, blonde, blue-eyed, luke, white skin is not in fact white. And he does not have that privilege so we're allowed

to make offensive jokes and Ian Lydia and I got the raw end of the deal I know right seriously not only do we sunburn no no

you have white privilege Scottish are you Scottish I'm Irish and Scottish white privilege not Slavic you have white privilege I'm still like reeling

from finding out that Luke is considered a person of color I know me too shocking no we did a whole thing it's true i couldn't believe it but you know i know i take that back i actually could believe because i've made the point before i actually would would talk to these people who are like white privilege and i'm like you mean to tell me that you think ukrainians have white privilege and they would go well you know no yeah come on no like these these people are not living the the wealthy american like they struggle to come to america it's actually easier for a mexican to come to america than ukrainian of course like i have privilege but my parents stayed together that's a big part of why and i had to get a job when i was 12 so that i wasn't like they wouldn't

buy me anything you know i was very lucky that we got a nintendo when i was young so that I wasn't like, they wouldn't buy me anything. You know, I was very lucky that we got a Nintendo when I was young. We should, we should all take the privilege test. Have you ever seen it? Oh, I think, I think so. Yeah.

I think it was from Buzzfeed. I'm not sure, but it's probably from Buzzfeed. Yeah. It was like, there's a slider bar and it was like, are you, you know,

Christian or not? Like how, how Christian are you? How are you? Like, and it's like a slider bar for your gender. Did you see the guy in California who took a DNA test and came back 4% black, and now he wants to qualify as a minority business owner?

Yeah. He gets all the privileges and all the special promotions. They just don't know the Pandora's box that they opened. I know. It's just, obviously, racism is bad. They're clever. No, maybe what they're doing is actually this really clever play where all of a sudden there will be Luke who's like...

I mean, come on. If you were to describe a white person, you got dirty blonde, blue eyes, Luke Rutkowski. Like, Luke, I'm sorry. They can claim that you have blonde hair, blue eyes. Come on. Listen, they said what they said. The council has spoken.

It's been determined. Stop trying to oppress me With your designations of me As you are clearly an Asian person That has triple white Classification category I say triple You're right though

I mean there's a reason Asians are lumped in with the whites Especially when it comes to the university discussion That's been happening in the country as well You're correct because I'm German,Irish, Korean, and Japanese. Triple. Triple white. I said, yeah.

Triple white. Yeah, so it's triple white. And Luke, I'm sorry for oppressing you. You better be. I will check my triple white privilege. Triple white privilege. But the point I'm saying is it's this like securitist plan towards actually, you know, doing away with racism by making

so that a bunch of white men can identify as women of color. Yeah. If this dude is 4% black, who is white as they like, they say he looks white. You can't tell. He got a DNA test. He can identify as a woman. He is now a female. You know, it reminds me of that South Park episode where everyone gets their DNA test

to check out their privilege. It's really happening. I hear South Park is coming back, their DNA test to check out their privilege. It's really an episode. It's what's happening. I hear South Park is coming back, right? They predicted this. Yeah. But listen, listen.

Are they going to deny it now? One of my favorite moments, you guys ever see this? There was a scholarship program for African Americans and a blonde-haired, blue-eyed, white kid showed up

and when they were like, this is for African Americans, he was like, I'm from South Africa. Oh, snap. And they were like, no, you have to leave. And he was like, but I'm from South Africa. And they were like, no, you have to leave. But I'm literally from Africa.

And they were like, no, get out of here. It's crazy. South Park also predicted Chaz. Did they really? Yeah, remember that episode where the hippies take over the town? Oh, yes. That's what I compare. And Cartman goes on a rampage. He's trying to stop them. Cartman's my I compare. And Cartman goes on a rampage. He's trying to stop them.

Cartman's my spirit animal. I love how they arrest him because he was targeting the hippies. And then they were like, you don't understand, Cartman. This festival will bring in a lot of money for us. And he goes, hippies don't have money. But that's how I describe Chaz. It was so surreal seeing because like again talking about we saw racial segregation uh in that and it was just like but it was being

done like with the right intentions in the right way so therefore it was allowed and it was just so weird and one of the really funny things about that well one they had a sign that said uh social distancing is anti-racism what it's like anti-racist which is like huh i'm already confused by that which which by the way they were very racist because there was not a lot of social distancing at the height of when like a lot of people were so apparently they were all being racist but but then on top of that they had a garden plot in their little chad and they killed black children they shot him well they for 10 minutes 10 that's what

i read 10 minutes where they were just unloading what was the size of their magazines and how many were they carrying no and this was what were they were they firing five five six i believe it was five five six i don't know that's a thousand dollars these days now i'm just like so they're rich yeah they're rich yeah they have a lot of money if they're gonna pop up it's like back back then is probably a lot cheaper but still If they're going to pop up, they're going to... Well, back then, it was probably a lot cheaper, but still expensive. It was still pretty expensive. It was still going on. Because they had the Corona jump sales before the riots.

And the new gun owners. Yeah. But just think about this for a second. There was a white SUV with two black teenagers, and it was just apparently some kid's joy riding. These security guards, they call themselves, walking around with rifles, panicked when they heard they saw a vehicle and someone said it was white supremacists. So they just started unloading. I read one article that said hundreds of rounds

for about 10 minutes, just firing at this vehicle. I'm wondering like 10 minutes? How many magazines were they carrying? Because if they were just unloading like boom, boom, boom, like I'm not saying they're going to like bump fire or go boom boom as fast as they can if they were all unloading they had to be carrying what multiple 60 round mags or something well it was it was it was just absurd seeing it all happened and really then they raided the vehicle and stole evidence and stripped it and took off and and the cops couldn't get in yeah the cops they couldn't even rescue the kids emts couldn't get in it's just it's just so unfortunate just how what happens when because that was only allowed to happen because the seattle mayor and the city council was just like oh we'll just have

a summer of love and we'll try to play but they're trying to placate that and it's just like no like i i was there the first night and i could already already tell this is going to end in a very, very bad way. A 16-year-old black child was killed. A 14-year-old was left in critical condition after being shot. And this is supposed to be a safe haven for minorities. And it's just like, no, that's just not the case. And then they want all these fencing and these barriers up because they wanted to keep out white supremacists it's like right because seattle i mean seattle is very white i'll give them that but it was just it's just just again the mindset that these people

operate in and they think nothing they see no irony in the fact that the people that died in chas were were african-americans how could you tell right away that it was going to go bad uh so i met uh raz simone he was the kind of the first warlord uh in that away that it was going to go bad? So I met Raz Simone. He was kind of the first warlord in that. But really it was just – because so that first night he was harassing people for graffitiing on the buildings. And there was graffiti – I mean that was the only thing. There was graffiti everywhere. So it was not like he was the only person doing that.

But he was harassing him. He was threatening him and then there was a punch thrown. And so that was problem number one. Problem number two was when this was the second night where there was this group of basically self-declared vigilantes armed with baseball bats, and they surrounded this one kid, and they were accusing him of stealing a cell phone from like a street medic.

And the kid's saying, no, I didn't steal it. I didn't do this. And they're like're like well why'd you run away from us and they're saying and and one of the guys he shoved the baseball bat in his face and he's like if you if you keep this up i'm gonna beat your uh beat you up and it was just uh it was going bad quick it was going bad really quick and then he was he was able to escape from the group and they start chasing after him and then they realized oh he didn't they found the phone somewhere else he didn't actually he didn't steal the phone so that was literally the second night uh when when all this and so i just knew it was gonna and i

know that there was like some more crimes because there was a it was kind of like occupied wall street with all the tents right and kind of the crimes that happened within the tents it was literally almost the exact same thing and i just knew it was going to escalate further and further because again it was just a free-for-all and i mean there was there was different groups in at different i mean the safest part was during the day because as typically these things go right it's generally safe uh when it's daytime but then when it became, it was just kind of who had the most kind of power, whether it's through numbers or through weapons.

Yeah. And so it just... I'm curious. It just resulted... It just ended in tears and people got hurt and people got killed and it didn't need to happen.

Yeah. I wonder what we can expect in this kind of area in the coming years. I mean, Joe Biden brought back the migrant child facilities. I can't imagine Antifa is going to be like we're cool no they're going to go nuts they were protesting in rochester just the other day and and i was in i was in portland on inauguration day and they attacked and i i was i got video of them attacking the

the democratic headquarters in in portland and it was just they they they just they just hate everybody i mean they're anti-American. I mean these – Definitely. I mean so it doesn't matter who really is in office. They just kind of see it as an excuse to do that. But right, yeah, they're not – it's just really weird. I just don't understand why Democrats – you had Jerry Nadler say, oh, the Portland riots being done by Antifa was a myth.

It's like they hate you too. Well, he doesn't want them to come beat him up and go to his office. Antifa went to CNN's offices and raised the ruckus, to say the least. Oh, yeah, in Atlanta. Yeah. So it's just like these people are not your friends. I mean, sure, they might vote for you begrudgingly because it was better than Trump. But, I mean, they will just attack you just as easily as they will attack any conservative or Republican. Yeah. All right. Well, that being said, let's jump over to super

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here fortunately i don't think youtube for some reason blocks the name of the first person. Let me see if I can try and read it. I can't. They said, hey, Tim, can you give a shout out to Wall Street bets and remind them to hold the effing line? We need to make our wives' boyfriends proud when we make it to the moon with AMC and GameStop stocks. All right. There you go. GameStop jumped, what, like 30%?

It jumped up again. It said 100%. 100%? I read that. Did you see Robin Hood say, like 30%? It jumped up again. It said 100%. 100%? I read that. Did you see Robinhood say, we're going to make some upgrades tomorrow, so there might be some disruption. I heard there's already disruptions. According to the quartering, they already stopped trading in some

instances. I'm not going to buy any of these. I'm not going to buy the AMC or the GameStop stuff. People can buy whatever they want. I am not a financial advisor. We always say that. But if people want to buy that stuff you know you do your thing a lot of people bought in when it was really high because they're like we're gonna keep buying and then it dropped and now they're holding the bag and that's probably why it's gonna go back up again because i dude if i bought in a stock at like 300 bucks and it dropped to 90 i just keep it yeah i just

i just keep that whatever i bought it you know'm not going to lose it, I guess. You only lose the money when you sell. I don't know if it's going to go back up to 300 bucks, but, you know. Alessio DeMonte says, did anyone hear what the Dems are trying to do with the U.S. nuclear arsenal? What, are they trying to launch it? I have no idea. No, I don't see that. No?

Well, keep Eric's wall all the way from it. Yeah, definitely. Ian Reichard says, hi, libertarian computer scientist and fan of your work. Saw your episode earlier about wanting to build out new social media. And I'm so upset with the current state of things and want to help. Let me know if I can help in any way. Send an email over to jobs at Timcast.com and we'll go through pitches and ideas and stuff. And yeah, I'm talking with some devs about creating open source tools that people can use to get the core functionality of

some of the biggest big tech companies so like live streaming functionality super chat functionality tweet like micro blogging stuff sharing groups that way it's like your website your deal and they can network between each other so we'll see how that stuff works out dylan elm says every dollar in the chat netted you a dollar before the live show. Out of the hundreds of people, I only got 10. Oh, well, it was fun. I'm not quite sure what you mean by that. NeverSummer160 says, Julio, get Mattis' drinking buddy here. Glad to see you finally made it to the top T-C-I-R-L.

Semper Fi. There you go, bro. Wojciech Zapatoczny. I'm probably pronouncing your name wrong. Tim, please get Adam Curry on the show to talk about his decentralized social media we will we will absolutely Mr. SlideTrip says how do you feel about Cenk Uygur naming his podcast

after the group that committed the Armenian genocide I have said I mean based on his own ideology he should change the name should have changed it a long time ago The Young Turks is a really messed up name. No joke. I understand. They're claiming that the Young Turks is just a reference to young upstarts who are challenging the system.

Sure, but it's literally a reference to genocidal maniacs. Right. It's the same thing as these group of people. Imagine if they started a podcast network called the Hitler Youth. And they're like, oh, but we don't actually like what they said. But it's like, I don't care, dude. I went to Politicon. Just change the name.

And there were people, there were Armenians protesting the Young Turks. Based. And they were saying like, dude, we don't hate you. We just think you should change the name. And you can even change it a little bit. And he won't do it. That to me is weird. Listen, I don't care

if he changes his name or not i'm saying if he's going to be true to progressive principles and you've got people protesting saying it's like really messed up how are you like going to tell marginalized people to shove off that's weird it's looking to enver pasha he was the head of the Young Turks in Turkey that established the Armenian genocide. Man. Not cool. Tammy says, Tim, re-diabetes, please distinguish between type 1 and type 2. Type 2 can be avoided through healthy lifestyle choices. Type 1 is lifelong autoimmune disease.

Virus attacks pancreas. Insulin needed lifelong. That's true. I have read evidence that fasting can help reverse the symptoms of type one as well. I would suggest reading into it. I would also suggest reading into for people with type two ketosis. I don't know a lot about it. I've only read certain medical websites. That's why I say read it because I know there's a lot of fad dieting around keto and people don't know what keto actually is. But look at this stuff because I knew a guy whose kid had epilepsy and he got put on a ketogenic diet, cured it right up.

So they tried everything, all these medications. And he said the doctor told them, have your kid on a ketogenic diet. And then that was it. No more seizures. Yes. For whatever reason. Keto was used to control epilepsy in children. And it was also used, I believe, the Navy SEALs to train their divers.

There's a condition called diabetic ketoacidosis that is very bad. You do not want that at all, so watch out. Watch your blood sugar. Word. A.G. on RTS Gaming says, Be advised. GME stock is going up. Well, you know, if people want to buy it and they like the stock, they should, but you should recognize

what was going on with that news. Mr. Brownstone says, Luke is my meme lord and tea hustler. Watched Grey State and good to see your contribution to the documentary. Good times. What was that? The memes? There was a lot of memes. Grey State was, there's a big story behind that.

Crazy story behind that, to say the least. But I don't know if they actually went forward with the movie or not. think they did in some ways i have to check on that it's been a long time oh ian hall says sharing my game stop tendies with lydia's cat and luke's worthless puppy diamond hands rocket to the moon i'm up 20k today oh congrats he says whoopee worthless puppy i can't believe uh believe Atlas is so big. Yeah. It's only been a few weeks. The second ear flopped up.

Oh. She's great. Second ear flopped up. I'm going to make a post soon about it on Instagram. That's a huge moment. In the German Shepherd. Have the second ear flopped. Yes.

It's a milestone. She's great. Lamont Cranston IV says, ban assault cutlery. They're doing that in the UK. Yes, they are. Actually, yes. El Diablo says, WTF? Luke doesn't like polls?

WTF? Oh, Luke doesn't like polls. Oh, yeah. Different polls. Yeah. This poll never lies. Oh, yeah. Sean Rufus Oh yeah Jim Doc

I got hairy legs That's a Biden quote mind you Sean Rufus says I'd like to support Luke But Jason blocked me from commenting As I commented Jason was a crazy conspiracy nut Thought you didn't block people Luke Jason I don't block people I block people

You reached out to me on twitter luke we are change uh and let me know your username and i'll make sure you're not blocked i'm you i'm you people yeah i meet people tyrannosaurus hunting club says luke reminds me of bartender from boondock saints semper fidelis to julio keep it the great work everyone right you're looking them up now yeah i remember uh well i'll just read some more uh mh says kelly osborne may have said that but i think the tweet you are looking for was from amber heard yes that one she was the one who was like protect your your gardener protect your gardeners and your mates yes yes thank you for for these are the worst people oh absolutely yeah i know that's what that's what i

was saying like they don't really care they only care that when it affects them personally yeah adam gines gines guinness i don't pronounce it right politics is downstream of culture but culture is downstream of media people jump but the establishment still steers the ship msm has to go i think it's i think it's happening whoa newtonian says check the m1 money supply it's about to hit 20 trillion oh no i'm gonna buy bitcoin you know like bitcoin went down and everyone's like i see all the media saying oh no but bitcoin's going down i'm like oh thank god it's coming down i can buy more now oh man but every time it goes up it's crazy because like i remember when it hit 200 bucks i'm like oh i can't buy now it's at 200 then it went to a thousand and i was like i should have bought a 200 i remember looking at it when it

was like a thousand i'm like, I can't do this. This is a lot of money. But what about Dogecoin? Yeah, come on. Nah, I'm not going near that. Bonk. Listen, listen. I couldn't find my computer where I had my old Doge wallet.

And I know I had some Doge on there. And it lost a lot of money. That was back in the day. Listen, listen. Back in the day. In November, what? Bitcoin was $13,000? Yeah.

So it's like up three and a half times or whatever. You put $1,000, you'd have $3,500. Man. Jesus. Crazy. But it went to $56K. It's going to go back up. It's going to keep going up because more and more corporations are putting some of their balance sheets on Bitcoin, especially with the mass printing of U.S. dollars.

You know what's really funny? I was reading something from Peter Sch US dollars. You know, it's really funny. I was reading something from Peter Schiff. And man, that guy really hates Bitcoin. And he was like, okay, so even if I did buy in now, what's my exit strategy? And I saw one person say, what's your gold exit strategy? Like people buy gold to not sell it. It's a store of value. You don't do it.

You buy it. You just leave it. You put your closet. So you buy Bitcoin, you put in cold storage put in your closet you walk away yeah and there's other currencies meant for smaller transactions that have quicker uh transactions and smaller fees that are you know used for cash or you know or like a silver comparison yeah all right we got javi j says stop telling people to move i run a custom plant and if one more jack wagon asks if i buy the whole cow can you do half ribeyes and half tri tips i'm going to cancel my subscription to the beanie broadcasting network love love what

y'all do understandable i apologize if they can you do what half tri tip and half yeah tri tips black lion grunt says tim walls have worked since 130000 years ago in Theopetra, and they will continue to work even when humanity is so advanced. Our walls are made of energy. Walls are forever. Yeah. The Death Star was protected by a wall. Did that stop the rebels from destroying it a second time? No.

I didn't think so. The first one wasn't protected by a wall. So, hey, they learned, right? It was like a Mary Willison. We'll have a wall of energy. A wall of energy't really acoustic vibration that's right matthew sage says if you want to grow some banana like fruit and work towards the shape you uh you want i'll ship you some pawpaws they grow natively in pennsylvania oh cool we actually have pawpaw trees yeah we do we do. Yes, we have many. We didn't find one, did we? No, they're just babies.

Oh, okay. So they're not producing fruit, but... Ah. Yeah, so, I mean, it's like East Coast, Appalachia, there's pawpaws all over the place, I think, right? Never heard of them. They're cool. Yeah, a lot of people.

Until someone was like, oh, hey, you got pawpaw trees. I was like, what? Yeah. And they're like, it's a fruit, you know? Yeah, I looked up the foliage. Alexander Thomas says, Ian is right. Arabic has gender in the second person, you. Also in Semitic languages, Hebrew and Arabic, male is unmarked and female is marked.

Interesting. Dad teaches, says in Russian, some names like Michka can be a woman and man's nickname. So the last name makes it easy to see what gender they are. Oh, interesting. Cool. man's nickname so the last name makes it easy to see what gender they are oh interesting cool oh so you could have mitchka and with with like last name you know ski they know it's a guy interesting i always thought that was that was kind of crazy when i heard because like what would happen if they come to america like do they have different last names yeah it's on the it's on your documents as wow crazy archangel says semper fi always good to see a

fellow jarhead on timcast irl there you go yeah a lot of marines great yeah everyone's stuck on it boosted 300 says if you think the romance languages are bad arabic is an extremely gendered language and the gender of nouns are determined by if it is able to reason. Ooh. What, really? Wow. Interesting. Bold. Yeah, some people do some things. I mean, yes. Zach 2007 says,

Sour Patch is beautiful. Tim, thoughts on SecDef requiring military to address extremism in the military. Great work, y'all. Lydia, you are gorgeous. Well, then,

I'll ask you, Julio, this, like, vetting they're doing of the military to, like, weed out extremism. What do you think about it? Because we've talked about it. I mean, from what I can say from, Julio, this vetting they're doing of the military to weed out extremism. What do you think about it? Because we've talked about it. I mean, from what I can say from my personal experience, it is against the UCMJ to be part of extremists. I believe it's the UCMJ or Marine Corps policy. I can't remember. It's been a while.

But you can't be part of these groups, and obviously you shouldn't, because the whole point of these units are to be cohesive and so so so so with that being said i do have some of my friends who are in the active duty side and really it's just kind of they're just very concerned about how yes like we it's just under the guise of yes extremism bad but then it's like well what is yes extremism and and we've seen uh on the political stage well extremism is just simply as, you wear a MAGA hat or you're a Trump supporter. X, Y, Z. Right. Or come and take it.

Right. It's like, well, no, that's not extremism. That's actually pretty normal. on whether or not it is legitimate to actually weed out extremists wherever whatever side it is or if it's just specifically target yeah conservatives which would be obviously concerning so i'll just ask real quick uh how so you mentioned you have active duty friends how does it work being in the reserves uh so so uh the reserves is basically you do one week in a month you show up to drill show up your duty station for your job or whatever for one week a month, and then two weeks out of the year is when you...

And then two weeks out of the year, you do that instead of one weekend. That actually sounds kind of fun. It is nice. I enjoy it for what it is. What's your job, if you don't mind me asking? Yes. So I am a 0511 Marine Corps... Or Marine Air Ground Task Force Planning Specialist.

Huh. Mouthful. What is that? So basically, it's large scale logistics. They say you don't call it the travel agent of a Marine Corps, but that's kind of what we are. It's not a very big MOS and actually the unit that i'm attached to uh because i i enlisted out of illinois and when you're signing up for the reserves you you pick your job necessarily on your asvab score but based on what the units are around local because you you're going to live there uh but so when i moved out here i kind of assumed because that is kind of like a big level job figure with all the units out here at the pentagon like there has to be a slot for me it

turns out there wasn't and so and so the the the unit that I'm attached to now is a debt PRP, personnel retrieval and processing. So it is the body baggers of the Marine Corps. And so actually during the early days of the pandemic, we were put on standby. And actually this was the closest I was to actually being deployed in any sense. Because basically we were looking at going at New York City when they were, when they hit very hard.

Because there was already a National Guard unit that's their mortuary affairs. And a crazy governor that was sending sick people to the hospital. Well, yeah. No wonder that they probably needed us because Governor Cuomo wanted to get rid of all the... The same governor who's in very hot water and has very serious allegations against them right now

that the mainstream media, and large is ignoring. Abusing women. So it's good for what it is, although it became a bit of an impairment or it hamstringed me a little bit in terms of my civilian career just because like I said, riots were happening

almost every other week. And so I knew my annual training those two weeks was going to be in July training those two weeks uh was going to be in july and i knew i was going to miss something and i was like okay well it's just a matter of what am i going to miss and lo and behold portland the federal courthouse that was the national story and so i missed the beginning of it but after as soon as i was done with training i hopped on a flight to portland and so i covered that last week uh before they finally were able to have the Oregon State Police provide the security so that they could pull the extra federal officers out there. So I

was able to see kind of like how it was before and after that. So I'm not reenlisting just because my civilian career has obviously taken kind of an upward trend. And so I like having the freedom and flexibility of being able to just leave at a moment's notice to cover whatever it is but i i very much enjoy i'm gonna miss it obviously but it's it's great for you make it for what it is you enlisted yeah yeah so i'm a corporal so when when uh when you enlist you go through like basic training yeah yeah so so for and this is for any reserve component for any so you go through the same initial training. The only difference is that as soon as I was done, once I became a MAGTF planner,

everyone else then left for their duty station. And then I went home. And so it's funny because kind of the joke is, you know, all reservists are, you know, reservists are their weekend warriors and stuff like that. He's like, okay, that's fine. You can insult me. You can call me whatever you want, but when you do, make sure you call me at home. Yeah, exactly.

Burn. I love it. It's fine. I enjoy it. But it's also kind of weird because when people do find out I'm a Marine, they're like, oh, thank you for your service. I haven't done anything. And so I don't try to make it out more than what it is. And there is a little bit of kind of an inferiority complex, but it's just kind of like, yeah,

because a lot of my sergeants and staff sergeants and gunnies that are in the reserves, they were active duty, and they've been in some crazy... One of my gunnies was in Fallujah. Uh, and so he, he actually met Mattis, uh, briefly, uh, during, during that time. But so it's just kind of like, all right, yeah. And I'm a corporal now, but like, it doesn't, I mean, I didn't do anything. And so it's, it's, it's kind of a weird stage, but again, you,

you make it of what you make it, what is and and so i enjoy for what i enjoy it i like it a lot i'm gonna miss it but i obviously gotta focus on what the thing that's actually making me money right right so we're getting a lot of people correcting us about the censorship stuff they say tipper gore was her name and she was a democrat so uh yeah bobbert says tipper gore was a republican wow news to me So, yeah, I guess the reality is it was never just the Republicans. It was Democrats, and it's still Democrats. There you go. Moral authoritarianism.

How about that? Like I said, I don't remember. I don't remember. I was barely walking. Spring chick. Elaine Bennis says, Federal Reserve payment system crashed today. Yeah, did you guys see that? That was crazy.

It's like $3 trillion in payments did not move. They said it was like a clerical error, but it was kind of unclear. Sure. Sure it was. Yeah. What happened? Uncultured Barbarian says GTA 5 and GTA Online are still incredibly popular and receive regular updates even seven years later.

Actually, the reason GTA 6 is taking so long to come out is because they still make insane amount of money off 5. That's right. Yeah. Yeah. I know people who have been playing GTA 5 nonstop. I mean, it's a great game. It is.

It really, really is. It's fun. But here's the thing. Like, do we just rest on our laurels now? Or do we, like, can we just get a VR game that's, like, better than ever? You know? It's great that we reach this point where the game's just so good, we stop. No, we got to make even better games.

We got to make GTA better games. No. We got to make GTA 10, where you can actually feel the objects and pick them up. The haptic feedback's going to be nice. Yeah. Mark Dello Russo says, question for Tim and Luke. What books and or digital news magazines do you recommend? Digital news magazines? Are those a thing? They are.

Digital news magazines. Yeah, I mean. Jacobin. Yeah, that those a thing they are digital news magazines yeah i mean jacobin that's a thing jacobin yeah you sure about that well i i would say jacobin for the sake of understanding what your what your political rivals think i'm not a fan of socialism but i did get a subscription to jacobin for for one reason their defense of free speech on more than one occasion i respect and i they hate the democrats so i want to see their perspective on why they hate the democrats it was what happened they wrote an article saying everybody hates the democrats and i was like yes correct yes this is true and i wanted to read it it was a scripture member only but i thought you know what i shouldn't enter looking at that magazine as though i'm going to

be completely at odds with everything they say i should read it and try and figure out what we disagree on and why they think those things and what we do agree on. So, I mean, for that matter, I mean, I don't know what conservative magazine, I don't subscribe to any other magazine, to be honest. I just saw that and I was like, they're the actual non-establishment political faction that I typically disagree with, but we agree on a lot of things. I should probably see what they're talking about because if there's something they're saying about hating Democrats i'm like i wonder where we can agree and like go against the establishment political class you know what i mean yeah i don't really like magazines but uh just to kind of answer your question a little bit i do like john pilger

even though i don't always agree with him i really love his documentaries and i think they're very thought-provoking doctor doctor tries to make a south park reference i'll read it anyway so you guys being into the magic the gathering are you guys into the hardcore cock magic scene some pretty intense stuff from what i hear supposedly there's this one rooster named gadnuck breaker of worlds who is undefeated south park's great these guys are funny they did a really i don't i don't know why they did an episode of magic the gathering but it was really funny and it didn't make sense they make fun because it was just like they i get it they didn't want to actually learn the rules of the game but it was like they were roosters playing magic the gathering and it was like you know cockfighting and so the cops were involved and

then oh yeah it was funny it was funny that's funnyfighting and so the cops were involved and then oh yeah yeah a lot of people mentioning tipper gore was this moral authoritarian so uh we stand corrected absolutely tipper gore was the founder of the pmrc the parental advisory tags luke booing at the australian open the crowd was a let the crowd allegedly was predominantly serb and russian because of the lurgy got the indomitable Slavs. I'm sorry, go the indomitable Slavs. There you go. They were booing. That's great.

We like to express our opinions. I like that. Stoned Krampus says Ian constantly conflates his own mental experience and status with everyone else. I've been watching non-horror violent movies and playing violent video games since I was four. I learned to shoot at four, started martial arts at five, not once

violent in 30 years. There you go. DJ Madero says, Tim, Lydia, Ian, Luke, you should read Arthur C. Clark's 3001. Especially the sources and acknowledgements at the back of the book. It will blow your mind, the part about vacuum energy.

I recently learned something really crazy today about a new communications technology that is confidential and I can't talk about that made me say, no way, and they're like, yo, something revolutionary on the horizon. So it's like Einstein-level stuff. I wonder if aliens are real. And the reason I say that is because normally I'm like, Einstein-level stuff. I wonder if aliens are real. And, you know,

the reason I say that is because normally I'm like, eh, it's probably military technology. And then I had a conversation earlier with a confidential source, and I'm like, I don't believe this. I don't believe the stuff

they're talking about. But we saw, we covered these segments where the UFO technology stuff, the warp drive stuff. I think we're getting close to a breakthrough in some kind of technological component.

I'm not really saying it's aliens. But you have to imagine, like, at the turn of the century of the 1800s and 1900s, you had, like, the invention of the telephone coming out. You had photographs. Like, could you imagine what it must have been like to have to communicate by carrier pigeon? And then all of a sudden, some dude's got a piece of metal wire, and you can hear his voice from the other side of the building. You'd be like, whoa. And then they lay the transatlantic cable. And then all of a sudden, one day you wake up,

you could talk to people in London. Boom, like that. It's crazy. I think we're due for some kind of major expansion of technology. It's been gradual, but we'll see. Coach J says, much love, IRL crew. Rosa, speak in truth. Luke, get new curtains, not plaid.

Ian, couldn't seem to fit graphene into conversation yesterday. Much love, IRL crew. Rosa, speak in truth. Luke, get new curtains, not plaid. Ian, couldn't seem to fit graphene into conversation yesterday. Lids on fire. Owen, Tim, old in... Skate years. Skate years, that's right. Awesome work, IRL. Oh, I'm a senile old fumbling bumblebee. I like my plaid background when I make my videos.

I might change that out there. Oh, I see. Tovin Benson says, Amp for life. Join the Ampire. Look at the Flexa network and collateral altcoins. Is amp, is that a coin? What?

Sounds right. I did not understand that. Yeah, I missed all of that. D Blaze 25 says, Hey, Tim, first time super chatter. I am an up and coming luthier and would love to build a free guitar for you. What I'm specializing in is video game replica guitars.

I've built a Zelda Zora replica guitar. Let me know. Dude, I would love a custom-built guitar. What's a good video game? You already said you did Zelda. I'm not entirely sure what video game, but feel free to... I don't know what the easiest way to communicate with me is, honestly. already said you did zelda i'm not entirely sure what uh what video game but uh feel free to um i

don't know what the easiest way to communicate with me is honestly uh send an email to which which which emails you do spin the ufo i took that one you spin the ufo at gmail.com mention the guitar and we'll we'll uh that'd be awesome because then we could actually have it we could use it for shows and stuff yeah cool maybe we can get a i don't know an irl themed guitar of some sort oh yeah like a ufo or something yeah like color scheme and i have no idea you know i don't know like the zeppelin the harumph zeppelin yeah yeah that's cool that's cool stuff something like that it's kind of steampunk chris logan says julio i was in the usmcr too i remember my command specifically not wanting us to get involved in

anything political how do you get away with it in this political environment also boot yes i am a boot yeah boot poe reservist yeah no it's just the worst of all um so there there are a little bit so if you're active duty there is a little bit there is a lot more restrictions on you on you as a person but like for example i mean you have uh senator dan sullivan from alaska he's still he's still in the marine corps reserves and he's a colonel uh so basically there is a little bit more gabard right tulsi gabard yeah she was i mean she uh adam kinzinger i mean he makes he's making news all the time right now these days but he he's still in the air national guard so that there are ways to to do it uh just for me personally,

obviously, the main thing is, I was actually telling you guys earlier, just don't, you can't do obvious political endorsements of any particular candidate. Unless yourself? I guess so, yeah, because then... Like, Tulsi was a major in the National Guard.

Yeah, that's you. Even though she really didn't have much of a chance, but there was that discussion. If she did become president, she would be the commander-in-chief. So what would happen to her rank? She gets a promotion, I guess. Yeah, yeah. Could she appoint herself as a general?

That was a little bit of an interesting discussion. But yeah, so that's why I stick to when it comes to really hot topics that's why when i cover riots and on the ground coverage it's just it's just neutral it's just it's just record what i see because not only just because like i think that's just what journalism should be um but obviously when you know when you have all these detractors and all these people in the media that want to discredit your work you don't want to give them an excuse because they say oh well he's an ideologue he's just there so and you're like

yes i work for a conservative website but i specifically make it a point to do just neutral coverage and and and really that's what because that's what people want number one and so i'm serving the readers and also too when it comes to those types of events i don't need to inject my opinion as it's happening now i do provide provide analysis and opinion after the fact, after I've had time to actually digest what I've seen, what I report on. And that really came in handy with the Rittenhouse shooting because I saw the second half of that. And at the time, I had no idea what this guy did. I didn't know the context of what led to the first set of shootings because I'm really good friends with Richie and he was there. I don't know.

You guys had him on? Yeah, of course. So that really came in handy because then when I was able to look further into the evidence and seeing that I could have a bigger picture so then when I was interviewed I could give a clearer image on what I saw and what my friends saw. And so it's just very important in my view to have it that way. Now, I do have opinions. I do have facts. But I make sure I kind of fall within the line of the regulations. very important in my view to to have it that way now i do have opinions i do have facts but i make sure i kind of fall within the line of the regulations could could i have a question i

don't know if you know the answer to can the president choose any does he appoint generals he does right yeah he does nominations yeah so he he nominates and then they get confirmed excuse me well they kind of go through it well i'm not entirely sure if but like they he does he does appoint generals i'm wondering if he like just pick a random person do they have to be in the armed forces or something well yeah they have they would have to be because so they're he's like the commander in chief you know but they have to be in the military well i was thinking this because i was uh you know i saw this tweet from jack posobic about casimir pulaski who was like this amazing dude and people from chicago

know the name pulaski it's like a name of one of our biggest streets. And we got train stations named after him. And he founded the American Revolutionary Cavalry. Came from Poland. I think it was like the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth at the time. I'm not sure. And then they like lost some conflict. And then he came here and aided the Americans.

And he's honored. He's one of only eight people who are honorary American citizens. He was awarded it posthumously. But I think about the American Revolution, and there were many circumstances where somebody was just given a commission. Like some ranking officer was like, congratulations, sir, you now have rank over all these men. Yeah. It's like, does that happen in the modern military where like, yeah, I didn't think so. No, yeah, no, that was back in the ye olden days.

Yeah. It was when anything goes back. Now it's like, if you want to, now they'll just contract someone, but you can't have any command or anything like that right or how would that work what do you mean like so let's say they hire a private military contract oh a contract oh okay yeah so like you know what is blackwater called these days ages or academy or z well let's say you've got paramilitaries hired by the u.s government and they're operating in say iraq and there are american military units also in a similar position how does that work you know does the contractor who's being paid by the government

to complete a task are they able to tell the american you know combat you know infantry whatever to back off or to move in or anything like that i don't know if you know the answer no no that i don't know like i said i haven't deployed or i haven't had to deal with any of that i'm sure someone else can can provide some more context to that. I mean, I'm sure there's like rules of engagement and chain of command stuff. But I mean, I just don't have experience in that. Yeah, word. All right, we got Kristen Larson says, Matt Larson, quote, the father of modern combatives

is awesome. And you try to have him on your show. The left tried to cancel him. Your name is Kristen Larson. You're promoting someone named Matt Larson. Are you related to this individual? I'm trying to promote that. Conflict of interest.

Yeah. All right. Let's see. Politically Defiant says, Tim, in your 10 a.m. video, you spoke of Trump and Musk. Questioning why they themselves don't create a social network, banking along with digital and physical infrastructure required to be free of big tech. Answer is simple. They themselves are insulated.

Yep. Day Delis 62 says, Adam gave his rib for Eve. When they come together they become one. They complete each other. Interesting. Very nice. Well, let's just read one more Super Chat here. Well, we're going to read two because someone, just for some reason,

Nombot says Chrono Trigger. Oh! Oh, Chrono Trigger for a guitar. That's a cool one. Chrono Trigger is one of the best games ever made. I don't know if I'd be super into it, but maybe. It's a good game. Yeah. Elcazawarudo says, Tim, what's your favorite anime slash manga?

I love when you talk about One Punch Man and no one else knew what you were talking about, but I can appreciate a man of culture. Have you watched JoJo's Bizarre Adventure? I haven't, but man can appreciate a man of culture. Have you watched JoJo's Bizarre Adventure? I haven't, but man have I seen the memes. My favorite anime manga? Man, I don't know. None. That's tough. You say you guys say none? No, Mega.

No anime. No anime? No. No anime. Nope. You guys aren't cultured and refined? I mean, I appreciate it. Elon Musk posted pictures of anime cat girls. Don't care. That's weird. That is weird. It's a little weird. I liked, what was the one about, were they going to the video game?

They go into the, there's a bunch. Oh, Underworld? There's a bunch. There's a ton of them. Yeah, it is. It's like they go to the video. Sword Art Online? Do you have any idea how little that narrows it down?

I liked Sword Art in the first season, but then it just got repetitive, I thought. I was a big fan for a really long time of Bleach and Naruto, but those are obvious picks. Those are like the top tier anime. I never watched one of these. There isn't technically Pokemon anime, too. Yeah, and when I was a kid, I really liked it. But man, was that show not good. Like, wow.

That's just, I look back, I'm like, what is it about this where I was excited to watch it? I was a little kid, I guess. The theme song. Pokemon! Yeah, that's right. I'll admit the theme song is good. Yeah. Right now, there's a couple that are really well.

Black Clover is really good. What's the one about the doctor? Or the going around making stuff? Dr. Stone. Yeah. Dr. Stone is cool. That one's cool. My Hero Academia is probably my favorite right now.

That one's good, yeah. But I don't really keep up with a lot of these shows as much as I used to when I was younger because I don't really watch TV anymore. What would you pick if you had to pick one? Right now, if I was going to turn on Crunchyroll, if you're going to be like for all the humans to come here, let me throw one at you guys. So you have it forever. Now, if I had to, like, give someone a historical anime to watch, I have no idea, man.

Dragon Ball, the whole Dragon Ball arc. I mean, just because it's the classic and it laid the foundation for a lot of these elements. Yu Yu Hakusho, probably I would I would I would say that if i was telling someone like i would say watch yu haku show for sure but i would say right now if i was going to turn on crunchyroll and watch an anime it would probably be my hero academia um maybe i don't know there's another one i can't remember what it's called but that you know black clover and probably my hero academia they're very similar you want to watch dragon ball it's just a classic the original dragon ball then dragon ball z are just like the

the classic elements of a lot of the anime that you know that are now really popular these days so i thought um cowboy bebop's pretty spectacular oh man i can't believe i missed the music especially definitely there's just so much about it if i had to tell someone like the one anime you had to watch for like the historical record if i was going to put on a golden disc and blast off in outer space cowboy bebop really that would be it over dragon ball oh definitely really well if you want to explain like anime tropes you want to do dragon ball but if you want to show like the best people like people like luke he's got this look on his face me and julia he's like the main guy Me and Julio are like, what the freak? I've spaced out for the past five minutes. Cowboy Bebop is about sci-fi bounty hunters.

And the main character is like, he knows Jeet Kune Do, and he's a big fan of Bruce Lee. And it's like gangster. It's like almost 1930s style gangster, but in sci-fi space. It is one of the best shows ever. Like Firefly. You ever see that movie? Yeah, dude. And the jazz music is just incredible stuff.

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