Timcast IRL - Timcast IRL #331 - Over 35% Of U.S. Want To Secede, Balkanize The USA w/Actual Justice Warrior

Episode Date: July 16, 2021

Tim, Ian, and Lydia host commentator and fellow YouTuber Sean Fitzgerald aka Actual Justice Warrior to look at new data showing a huge percentage of Americans who want to see state secession in the US, what Joe Biden describes as the 'greatest threat since the Civil War' and his lists of dissidents, the dissolution of the Boston Pride parade in the name of BLM intersectionality, the White Houses' admission of working with social media to censor Americans, and the scandal the Young Turks saw as they fought over who was really left enough. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Breaking news is coming out of Arizona and Georgia pertaining to what's happening with those audits. And we can't talk about it here on YouTube. And that's just reality. So I absolutely would love to. But the moment I actually report the news of what's like that, I watched a video, some testimony and it's testimony. But of course, YouTube would delete the show instantly.

So here's what I can say. We will talk about that over at TimCast.com and the members podcast. And we'll probably have some articles up about it tomorrow. The site isn't even fully launched yet. Our soft target is Monday. So hopefully by then we can actually start producing things on the site that we can't produce on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube,

or otherwise. That's kind of why we made the website. They said, hey, go build your own. I said, okay, I will. But there's other news, I guess. You know, pertaining to what's happening with these states and how people feel about it. You've got Joe Biden's constant talk about civil war ad nauseum. Recently, he effectively said that the GOP is the biggest threat to democracy since the Civil War. Now, he was specifically referring to these voting rights bills that the Republicans are

trying to pass. And of course, the Democrats call them voter suppression bills. The reason why I say he effectively said Republicans are the biggest threat is because you can't separate the GOP from the bills they're trying to pass. If the fight is now between Democrats and Republicans over how the elections should be held and neither agrees and side says, your plan for the election is wrong. When Joe Biden says it's a threat to our country or democracy or things like that, he's not talking about you or me or anybody in this room. He's talking about his group of voters against the other group of voters. And that's where things get really bad, I guess, because we have a new poll. Maybe it's bunk. Polls aren't always that good. I mean, I'm not a big fan of how these polls work, but it shows that essentially 35%, just over 35%

of this country wants their region to break away from the U.S., effectively balkanizing the country into five different regions. Now, the numbers vary in the West, California, Oregon, Washington, and Alaska. It's 39% that want to break away. In the South, it's 44%. In, I think, the heartland, they call it, it's 30%. But when you add them all up, that's a large portion of people who want this country to break apart. And I guess what do people call it? Peaceful divorce has been the conversation. So, you know, upon seeing data like this, I'm not entirely convinced the culture war will end with one dominant faction. It may

very well end with five smaller regional unions. And we'll see how that ends up playing out, if at all. Otherwise, I think there will be some very serious conflict. If Joe Biden is saying things that basically says the republican the gop is a threat to us and he's willing to use the fbi to go against trump's base you see where this is going you know it's going to be get me in power and i will use that power to crush half the country we can't have that that's getting crazy so we're going to get into that and a bunch of other stories joining us today is the actual justice warrior because social justice warrior is no good. Is that how it works?

Yeah. Well, my background is in criminal justice and I think there's one true justice and that's individual justice. All the other qualifiers are not justice. So actual justice warrior. So what do you do? So I make YouTube videos on the internet.com. Actual Justice Warrior is the channel. And I do a lot of criminal justice related stories.

I do a lot of responses to the Young Turks, everybody's favorite progressives. And I like economics, so I'll do some economics videos here and there. We also have news about the Consumer Price Index as well. So we should definitely talk about the food shortages, the price increase, inflation rates. What are they saying now? They're scared. Home buyers are not going to be able to buy homes because inflation is going up. Yeah, okay, that's the reason. I mean, sure, it's a reason, but we'll get into that. Yeah, the real reason is the black rock and stone. And stone, black stone,

are buying them up. So I got a couple of black rocks myself. I'm slowly falling in love with obsidian, you guys. That's very cool. I can't tell if it's soft or if that's my bones. I think it's your bones. I feel like it's soft or if that's my bones when I press on it. I think it's your bones. I feel like it's form-fitting to my fingers when I press on it. Yeah, it's not soft. It's just hard. You feel it. You know, if you crack it, it's like the sharpest blade.

Literally. It is. It's really dangerous. They say, what's the word? What's the word? Monoatomic? Well, if you slice it like in really, really thin, it's the sharpest substance. They used to use it for eye surgery up until the advent of lasers.

Yep. Very cool. I watched a video of a guy trying to make an obsidian sword. Not easy to do. He couldn't do it. It's brittle. That's why. So he tried to put iron into it, and it doesn't work.

Yeah, it was ceremonial mostly. Arrowheads and ceremonial. Oh, yeah. You know, I actually have a deep dive on that whole BlackRock thing, and I think you got it from the Wall Street Journal article, right? There's actually a couple different articles. It's Blackstone and BlackRock. There's two different companies doing two different things. But that's actually probably one of the most misreported stories ever. I did a 30-minute deep dive into it. And it turns out that what they ended up buying, and they may have not even bought it, they might have just

facilitated the transaction, was a rental community, like something that was built up specifically to be a rental community. I think you're mixing up that there's two different companies. You know, there's one called Blackstone and one called BlackRock. Right. And they're both engaging in this. One of the companies bought a rental company and one of them is buying up houses and then trying to put them under rental management. I don't think that's the case because I looked it up in the Wall Street Journal.

I'm not the Wall Street Journal. I looked it up in single family homes. It's something not the Wall Street Journal. I looked it up in single-family homes. It's something like only 1% of them are owned by investment firms. And they didn't buy a rental company. They bought rental properties that were already rented. Which company are you talking about? I believe this is the one that was in the Wall Street Journal, which was BlackRock. They're both in the Wall Street Journal.

This is what confused us and people in the Super Chat were like, you're wrong. It's BlackRock, not Stone. And we pulled up both stories. And I'm like, so apparently they used to be one company they split off a long time ago they became two companies and they're engaging in similar but different practices i'll just say this to the best of my understanding and i could be wrong because we'll definitely have to fact check but it was black stone was formed in 1985 then black rock one of the founders i believe uh cracked off in 1988 and started BlackRock.

And I could be mistaken on which company and all that. Like, I didn't have this, like, readily in front of me. But the single-family home purchases, it's a small portion of the market, and it's not a very profitable investment to buy it and turn it into rental property. Do you mean, like, a small portion of the market right now? Right now. like a small portion of of the market right now like right now because um do you mean like of all of the houses that are are owned one percent are owned by investment yeah around one percent that's massive actually it's it's not that unusual it was more during the end of the financial crisis and remember they couldn't manage all these properties so if you remember like 2013 2014

they were selling homes for like 30 000 or destroying them because it's like if you remember like 2013, 2014, they were selling homes for like $30,000 or destroying them because it's like if you buy up all these individual homes, then you're not – like there's no way you can assess and maintain them. I don't think we can accurately litigate this right now because I'm wondering if – is it 1% of all the purchases of the past year or is it 1% of the existing market? It's as of 2020. So like 2021, there could be a giant surge. It's just, I don't, like if you live in a neighborhood, right? And there's 20 houses in the neighborhood. The first 10 go to a company.

Like, what are you going to do when they come to offer on your house? Like, you're going to jack up the price because you're going to think there must be oil or there's some reason that they're buying all this up. This is why when investment firms typically buy single family houses, they're already designed to be rentals.

And I remember there's like a big misquote in that article where they say they paid 50% above asking price. Like some of the financial YouTubers, like the real nerds about this, they reached out to the developer and he's like, no, no, no. I got 50% gross profit because I built before the supply shortage, before the Fed cut interest rates, and I sold after all that. So it wasn't actually like 50% above asking price. I did a mathematical breakdown of that purchase, and it takes something like 18 years for that to be profitable, assuming like no interest rates and blah, blah, blah, all this other stuff. I think the biggest problem here is that there's two companies and it sounds like you're mixing

them up. But I still have my doubts of big finances buying all this because being a landlord is a pain in the ass. Well, yeah, but you don't have to actually be a landlord. You just call a rental company and then they do everything for you and it's super easy. So there's actually the Wall Street Journal talks about Blackstone and then every other outlet is talking about black rock because they're both doing similar things and they're very similar companies and people rock and stone like and don't forget go to timcast.com this is this is what the alpha looks like right now go to timcast.com

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justice warrior or steven crowder or people like stick sex and hammer you can tell those are the those are like the youtubers like i like and probably watch them always shouting them out but uh sharing is the most important thing so let's jump into this first story before we do uh one thing that didn't happen is lydia did not introduce. I did not. She is slaying it over there. Thank you. I appreciate that. You know I'm here because the show is going on. And if I weren't pushing the buttons, there would be no camera switches.

So that's me in the corner doing that. I love you, Lydia. Thank you. Thanks, Ian. I appreciate that. We can just do an audio version. Then we've got to worry about the camera. That's true.

Yeah, there you go. I'm kidding. I have to see Tim's face. All right. All right. All right. Let's talk about this story. Check it out.

Swanky site. So we got this from TimCast.com. Shock poll. Two in three Southern Republicans want to secede from the United States. And this story is actually based off of a little quote tweet I had when I tweeted it at Cenk Uygur. Cenk of the Young Turks says, according to a new YouGov poll, two-third of Southern Republicans want to secede from America. Where have I seen this movie before? But this time it's a confederacy of Southern Republicans want to secede from America. Where have I seen this movie before? But this time it's a confederacy of dunces led by King Dunce Trump. By the way,

when you want to betray America, that makes you by definition un-American. Oh man, Jake, you got those Southern Republicans. They want to secede from the union. How dumb are they? You know, anybody in any political faction that wants to must be really, really dumb. Oh, hey, let me pull up the poll that shows 47% of Democrats in the West, which includes California, want to secede from the union too. Hey, where have I heard this story before? It's like a confederacy of dunces led by who you, Cenk? Listen, listen. Okay, two thirds is a lot. 47%, a little bit less than half. But come on, we're talking about in the West, the largest faction of people that want to secede from the union, according to the poll that he cited,

are Democrats. Last I checked, Cenk Uygur is a Democrat and is within that faction that has nearly 50% of their base wanting to secede from the union. So what's the saying? You know, living in glass houses and throwing rocks. Oh, people in glass houses shouldn't throw hard stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, man, you got to love the Young Turks, though. But check this out.

So here's the actual data. Well, it is true that the Southern Republicans, 66%, are in favor of seceding from the Union. Effectively, this effectively is a balkanization where you've got the Pacific region, the mountain region, the heartland region, the Northeast, and the South. You can see that in the mountain region, 43% of Republicans want to secede, 35% of independents. Now, here's the one that really made me laugh in the heartland which is basically the midwest 43 of independence the plurality want to secede from the union so

there's something about being in the midwest where they're like we don't like republicans or democrats and i i can i get i feel that i think it might have something to do with the fact that chicago minneapolis very very democrat so the people there are very unsatisfied with democrats I think it might have something to do with the fact that Chicago, Minneapolis, very, very Democrat. So the people there are very unsatisfied with Democrats. Party politics is crap, in my opinion. People that get all tribal and they're like, I'm good because I'm part of this group. Like, come on, man. Give me a message.

Give me something. That's actually part of the analysis. When they were going through the data, they said it may be not that they actually want to secede from the u.s to form new regional unions and again this poll is literally asking people would you want to balkanize the united states it may be that they're trying to virtue signal that's what one of the researchers said like these people are asked and like i'm a proud democrat and i support the you know or i'm from the the west or whatever let me tell you something it's uh there's there. There's two different versions of how many people wanted to declare independence in the American Revolution. For some reason, for a while,

people thought it was one third in favor, one third opposed, and one third abstained. But that was based on a letter from John Adams where he was actually talking about the French Revolution. At least that's the modern historical interpretation so the best data i could find is that it's between 40 and 45 percent of the colonists wanted to declare independence wow 15 to 20 wanted were loyalists and the rest were like i don't care leave me alone i we have talked about this in the past so consider that a correction because we had bad numbers last time i said it was like 35 i heard 10 no no i've heard crazy numbers people say only three percent actually fought

i see maybe that's what it was but here's here's the other thing too so first i'll point out we're like the the the average right now is 35 of the country across all party lines and all places 35 would be in favor of balkanizing i mean that's massive and that's up right so in in the south the number i think in february was 50 now it's 66 so we are moving very very quickly if we get to 40 or 45 of the percent of the american people being like we're done with this my problem is it's a this poll like we were talking about this before the show a little bit how many people were pulled was it like a thousand people and 300 of them said i think it was 2 700 something so you've got like 600 people that said

we want to secede and they're like 30 of the country and it's like no there was 600 people but 2,000 is enough to get a representative sample i 2,750 yeah well that's more than enough you can get a representative sample with the thousand i think what it is is what you said about virtue signaling or people who are partisan like if you didn't like biden you're like i want to leave the country but does that mean you actually want to secede? Or does that mean you actually want local autonomy? Because those are two different things. And for the Midwest point, the reason why they're always torn or swing voters is they're the Reagan Democrats. They're the people who align with union politics, who are against free trade. But on social issues, they align more with the

Republican Party. This is why, you know, Reagan won, you know, I think in the second election, every state but Minnesota. And you could correct me if I'm wrong. And eventually, like, those became the swing states because Reagan was converting those voters who didn't like the excesses from the Democratic Party in the social movement, but were like mostly like working class union voters. And that's who we're fighting over now. It's the same set of voters that Reagan flipped then. So that's why I think the independents are like, I want to get out of

here because neither party is really serving them, in their opinion. You are correct. It was Minnesota. D.C. as well, but obviously it's not a state. But it was just Minnesota. Yeah. I think people are serious about balkanization. We saw there was that war game that the DNC did. It was heavily reported on before the election where Boston Globe reported. John Podesta. What's his position? He was like the chair of the DNC or some high ranking position. He was Hillary's campaign manager, right?

Yeah. He said if Trump wins, the Western states should secede from the union. Cal exit, if you remember that. But not just California, also Oregon and Washington. And so when you see that 47% of Democrats there, according to a representative sample, which as you said is more than enough,

2,750, that's a lot of people. That sounds like virtue signaling that Podesta would say that people should secede. It was private. He didn't publicly say it. It was in a private dnc war game that some people who are witness to it talk to some journalists so pedessa didn't come out and say hey guys go do this privately he was like i think this is what

needs to happen and then someone went to the journalist and we're like yo this is what he's saying not that i can trust any of these journalists mind you for all i know john pedessa didn't say anything but like what do you do when they lie i've had i've had journalists manufacture quotes from me yeah one guy from i think it's the new yorker where he took two different quotes and put them together to make a different sentence amazing or like half a quote usually if you widen it out 10 words in either direction or 30 seconds in a clip and it changes completely what they say then maybe maybe shouldn't be running with that in the media there's a clever way to get around giving quotes to journalists when you know they're seconds in a clip and it changes completely what they say, then maybe maybe shouldn't be running with that. Well, there's a clever way to get around giving quotes to journalists when you know they're going to try and pull some BS.

And it's to add like breaks that are seemingly non sequitur in your sentence. So like if someone were to say, what's your favorite color? I would say my Tim Pool favorite color because I grew up in the south side of Chicago, is actually, and this is because of my birthday, green. And then what they'll have to do is they'll put my dot, dot, dot, favorite color, dot, dot, dot, and it makes it impossible. So if you're trying to make sure they can't pull things out of context, you can add things to it that forces them to put in by doing that. Otherwise, they can try and break the sentence up and it looks really weird in print when

what they usually do then is just do a paraphrase where they'll be like, he expressed to me his favorite color was green or something. If you said it in audio, they might put your face, if there's video, over the audio and just cut it together the way that they want it. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's why I don't talk on the phone.

There's phones for certain things. But anyway, back to the vulcanization. By the way, Cenk, not going to lead anything. There's phones for certain things. But anyway, back to the balkanization. By the way, Cenk, not going to lead anything. 5% in his congressional run. Let us never forget. He was going to show us how progressives could win in purple districts, by the way. But I just love how this shows that Cenk didn't actually go to the website. Like, I pulled up the article from Brightline Watch to read the data so I could do a segment about this.

And I did it earlier on my Timcast channel because I'm like, what does it mean that Republicans want to secede? The South wants to secede? And I pull them like, oh, it's actually missing the bigger picture, I guess. If you actually add all these up and average it out, it's a decent amount of people. So 35% might actually be relative. It might be incorrect because I'm adding up the totals and then dividing it by the regions. And it doesn't necessarily represent how many people in each region actually want us to see. So the heartland, I mean, I think we need to go by

population density. So I'm sure the heartland doesn't have as many people as the South. The South probably has substantially more people between Florida, Texas, Atlanta. And then you look at the Pacific, which is Alaskaaska california oregon and washington probably a lot less people so the percentages probably don't add up properly the way i'm describing it in fact it could be substantially more if we actually go by population density and did better math right i i would tend to think that it would be less at least the serious ones are definitely less i would like to see uh like, you ever seen, like, Sam Harris break down the spheres of influence of radicalization? Like, that version of this, where it's like, these people want to leave, but do they really just want local autonomy?

What's the difference? I don't understand what you mean. Well, it's like the states' rights movements under Obama. Like, they would say that Texas should secede and be its own state or break up into five states as it says in their constitution but in reality they just wanted like the governor to invoke more 10th amendment stuff against a challenge what he was doing which is similar to what happened in california so how do you know that's actually what they wanted though well because i don't think when push comes to shove these people would actually vote in like a secessionist party in their state i think they would i think i think you often see that regular people vote for the extreme version of of these things because of like especially right now as

the rhetoric is ramping up i mean do they though because they voted in biden in the primary and like he was distinctly not extreme like in the primary at least compared to who is talking to bernie who but what what what do the people say they wanted well in polls they would say that like in the top line polls this is why i don't trust polling they would say that they would want bernie sanders's positions in the top line polls but when you go into the details you realize that they think medicare for all is obamacare with the public option which is actually biden's position right which is why when the progressives were like we want on every issue so they voted for what they wanted yeah right so if an individual says they want to secede they'd probably vote for it no no but that's the top line like that that would be

your i want medicare for all but then when you ask them what what do you think this actually means okay like and you break it down like you're gonna get a way you're gonna get people who just want states rights or autonomy or maybe like an american federation where they break up some people want that but not right they don't know what they're what they want if they really like what is a secession um you attempt by military force to like the american federal government will come to fight you and kill people and burn cities to stop that state from seceding i don't think they want that it's like if you ever got into a fight with a girlfriend and she's like i want to break up with you and then you're like okay okay let's talk about this and then you talk about it and you realize she just wants you to

stop being a jerk like you know it comes down from that that top line aggressive thing it is it is because if they start saying that then you're like i you know i'm gonna start taking you at your word you got to take them at their word. I don't play games like that. If someone came up to me and they were like, you know, if someone came up to me and said, I'm going to quit because I'm unhappy, it's great working with you. What would secession look like then if

we could lay it out for people clearly? So I think Civil War won't work in this regard. We're talking about five region balkanization, right? So I will say, first and foremost, Joe Biden keeps talking about this being the greatest threat since the Civil War and blah, blah, blah. He's using the power of the federal government to go after Trump supporters and people they deem to be extreme. They're potentially – I guess it's now public.

They're compiling lists of these people. They're going to be tracking it. Jack Posubic reported it. Now there's some statements about it. So what would it look like? Well, there's there's there is a lot of power in the federal government, but that power is derived from the states. And I don't mean that figuratively, like the states chose to create the federal government.

No, like the people who are in the federal government are sent there, are voted in the Capitol Police, the National Guard, the power the federal government has all across the country from people who serve in the military and the armed forces come from states. So what would happen if somebody lives in, say, Oregon, and they're as far left as they come, and they work in some kind of law enforcement capacity, and then someone in the federal government says something we want to do x we we need your assistance but if the if the country is balkanizing they might say no i care i care more about my state than i care about going to dc to do whatever you want or if balkanization

is happening and then someone in oregon is told like we're going to be deploying you to texas they're going to be like i got to stay and defend defend Oregon. So that is a question of if we balkanize. But here's what I think is possible. If this sentiment is this widespread, 47% in the West, makes sense to me, 33% of independents and 66% of Republicans and 50% of independents in the South, that's crazy. And these are very heavily Republican states, what I think actually could happen is loss of confidence. In which case, this is what I talked about several times as to how I think a civil war could actually happen.

Not that a bunch of states get together and say, we hereby declare good, sir, and start caning someone in Congress. But actually what happens is a small town in Oklahoma puts up a roadblock and says, not welcome. And then starts saying, we're not going to abide by these lockdowns or whatever Joe Biden is saying. And then the feds have to come in and the people in Oklahoma say, we're not letting you in our town. You have no purchase here, good sir. Look at what happens in like Ohio where they,

I think they arrested an ATF agent. Those are exactly the kinds of things that start happening. Now you have Second Amendment sanctuaries popping up. And I think two thirds of the counties of the United States. That is a break of confidence at a growing scale. So Biden's freaking out. It's the greatest threat what the Republicans are doing. Because he probably sees the federal government's power is actually starting to dwindle. Ohio recently, some sheriff said, we're no longer going to be taking illegal immigrants from ICE.

Why? Because they send them here, they tell us to hold them and let them go into our towns. No dice, not going to happen. The plans they had, not working. So check this out. I'll tell you why I think Joe Biden's panicking. And I'll tell you why I think we are inching closer towards this. The Democratic base in this country is absolutely insane.

Not like the Republicans as, as a party, are doing much better. But the Democrats are split dramatically from like moderate default Democrats who don't really pay attention to the fringe far left. The far left control more of the manifesto for the Democrats than the moderates do who don't really pay attention. You can see this in the Pew research where the spike is actually further left. What does that mean? They tell Joe Biden we want open borders. We want total amnesty. But Joe Biden can't win on those positions. So what happens? In office, he says something like, OK, we're going to stop Trump's evil remain in Mexico policy. So now all the migrants come in,

it's catch and release. They get caught. They get released in the community. Now you have children sleeping under bridges in the dirt in McAllen, Texas, because Joe Biden needs to take actions the far left wants, but then can't actually deal with the influx of migrants and migrant children because the policy is insane. It makes no sense. So what does he do? The Biden administration has been smuggling, has been trafficking children into other Republican states under the noses of the leadership of those states. The Tennessee Republicans freaked out when the whistleblower came out with this video footage showing that they were using, I guess now there's a whistleblower

talking to Tucker Carlson saying they're using the Texas Air Force bases to take migrant kids and traffic them to other states because Biden can't come out and say, we're turning the children away into the desert because that was Trump's policy. Oh no, he can't come out and say, we're going to children away into the desert because that was Trump's policy. Oh, no, he can't come out and say, we're going to put these kids in the concentration camps the Democrats were complaining about for five years, although they're doing that either anyway. So he's got to shuffle it under the rug. But eventually, the Republicans in these red states find out about it.

The sheriff in Ohio finds out what they're doing. And these states are now outraged. The federal government is not actually doing anything to serve the people but is actively in a panic to shuffle the problem under the rug while actively refusing to solve the problem in fact making the problem worse you imagine biden keeps doing things like that and you're going to see states saying we will not comply okay okay so that's like a good that's a lead up to it but okay assuming that something happens and then a state does secede, like let's pick Texas. And I don't know.

Would it be organized? Would it be six states at once? Would it be one state that goes first? That has a lot to do with if it would secede or not. Because if 49 states seceded, it would secede. If one state tried, it would probably fail. But what would it look like? A state says, we hereby declare we are our sovereign country

you're too left brain on this one it doesn't need to be a bunch of guys in suits walking in and saying i hereby declare it could literally just be that a guy in texas stops taking the phone calls of the federal government because he doesn't care anymore because the the influence of the federal government has been weakening so a law enforcement officer looks at his phone and it says i don't even care what were you you saying, sir? And then over time, it just breaks apart. They'll take over a long period of time. That would be something like the governor sending their own National Guard to the border in place of the federal government, as an example. But like, we've seen this before under the Obama administration. Sheriffs were refusing this. And I think the one thing that would

actually lead to a potential civil war is something like hyperinflation or extended inflation, because once the money starts becoming less valuable, that's when you get people in the streets and everybody starts panicking. But to your point about the immigration thing, this is one of the biggest mistakes the Trump administration made throughout its entire time. The reason they were putting the kids in cages, quote unquote, was because they wanted to deter children from showing up to the border. And the Trump administration, as far as I know, never made the moral case for a harsh policy on the border. And we see what happens when you're soft on that. There's kids that are being dumped over here. Like I was at CPAC, I met guys that went to the border and they showed me photos of kids with disabilities that were just literally dumped over the fence by coyotes like they can't walk and they're being dropped off because obama sent i'm sorry biden 40 and slip

right there sent the signal to people i mean obama did the same thing if you remember the unaccompanied minors thanks pre uh trump but biden sent the signal that if your kids come here at least this is how it was translated into latin america that if your kids come here we'll take them, which is worse than saying if your families come here, we'll take them because now we have all these kids going on this dangerous journey, 7,000 miles. If you've seen it, they come up on these trains, a bunch of them fall off. It's a disaster. You have to make the moral case for strict enforcement. And we're seeing this across the country in not just immigration policy, but in San Francisco where they don't enforce shoplifting, everything breaks down.

So what's happening now? Florida is sending troopers to Texas to help secure their border, and South Dakota is sending, I think, National Guard. Because the federal government isn't doing it. Lieutenant Colonel Allen West is running to primary Greg Abbott because he says Abbott is waiting on permission from the federal government to defend its own border. And he makes a really good point. Abbott needs to take a stand. Oh, to defend its own border. And he makes a really good point. Abbott needs to take a stand. Oh, that was brutal.

Metaphorically. Also, DeSantis is running for president. That's why he's sending the troopers. Let's be honest. You think so? 100%. Oh, okay. Against Trump, though? I saw the CPAC poll.

They did one with Trump and one without Trump. Without Trump, 58%. So he's probably trying to say, hey, buddy, endorse me. And I think DeSantis would, in a lot of ways, probably be better. Way better. And people are like, oh, they'll smear him. They'll attack him in the media. Yeah, but Trump really boils liberal blood. DeSantis, they're going to be like, I don't know who that is and I don't care. You're not going to be able to rally people the same way. Well, DeSantis isn't going to wake up, shoot himself in both feet and wonder why there's blood all over the floor every day.

He's not going to be tweeting these disgusting horse faces yelling at me on the internet. No, he's a bit more tactful. But I will say we've definitely seen some of this under Obama. There was a period – I can't remember when this was. I think it may have been under Bush actually where – actually i don't know maybe it was obama we saw a wave of states asserting sovereignty they were like declaring that we are independent sovereign and and retain our rights and everything and it was like all they all started doing it 10th amendment movement right but i i think that just shows the escalation like if you a lot of people say this all started with Trump and then people, so actually

it started with Obama. Actually, it started with Bush. Well, yeah, literally they're all connected. There's no, like we're not in a vacuum. It wasn't like one day someone pressed like reset on the country and then we all woke up and said, who should be the president? It's all connected going all the way back since even probably the colonial days. Yeah, I think it tracks technologies change because no longer do we have to send a letter and send someone to go ride a horse to Washington, D.C. to tell them what I told them to tell them.

Like we have telephones and computers and we can work in a decentralized manner. The states can function in a more – we can decentralize power way easier with modern technology. And I think the consciousness is now kind of showing that, but it's coming out as, you know, secession. It's more of a decentralization. I'll tell you what the problem is. It's the absolutism of the Democratic Party and the inability of conservatives,

or I should say of the Republicans and many conservatives, to assert themselves on things. So I'll explain what that means. The Democrats demand absolute law. So they say, we should ban these guns. And then you're like that means. The Democrats demand absolute law. So they say we should ban these guns. And then you're like, dude, I live in West Virginia. We've got like coyotes and bears and stuff like, come on, you can't, you know, I mean, and also I hunt. I live in the middle of nowhere. I'm not not worried about this stuff. You live in a different place.

It makes no sense. A lot of the things the Democrats advocate for because how it affects the other half of the country who don't live in cities. But they demand that absolute law. If the city is negatively impacted, everyone in the country must be must be under the same law. Republicans don't come out and say we demand X. They say, no, wait, don't speed bumps for the Democrats. Yeah. Over a long enough period of time, the Democrats keep passing laws that are favorable for cities. Well, probably not even favorable for cities, but designed to be favorable. I'm sorry.

They're designed to appear favorable to cities, although whether or not they actually work, I think most of the time they don't. And then rural people get negatively impacted by it. But what percentage of the Democrats is it because i just had the new york city democratic primary and they elected the cop who wants to bring back stop and frisk and the anti-crime unit which is horribly named because the police are all anti-crime it should be called the anti-shooting unit but they elected the tough on crime cop and he won in the first round of voting and when they did the rank choice and they do that he finally got over the top maya wiley the bill de blasio woman who literally her campaign was like i'm a black woman vote for me i'm progressive never did anything in her life except serve as a counselor for bill de blasio like she she did worse when they ranked it up

like she was the second place which is horrible and i'm ashamed of my city but it's the democrats what are you gonna do but adams not only won but he won uh with minorities like he got 45 to 75 percent of the vote in all the majority uh black or hispanic areas that's how he won but think about how amazing it is that he still is he still wants to confiscate guns he's still very much you know except for him he can have a gun right exactly so he very much is just he's still a democrat and And so we're like, but he is pro cop. Like, think about that logic where it's like, well, at least he doesn't want to completely abolish the police. He's still he's still bad on a lot of these things.

But true. But like Giuliani was a gun grabber as mayor of New York City. Michael Bloomberg was a gun grabber and an anti-stater. Like, he didn't want you to have a big soda. So, yeah, right. But I would say New York is different. So, like, as much as I want to say oh the democrats are different the reason new york city is different and you've been to new york city is because everybody rides the subway and everybody walks on the streets so democrats actually have to live with the policies that they advocate for there they can't escape out into the burbs that's why we get tough on crime mayors and that's why i had faith in new york city and i said that this

election would determine whether or not i would consider moving or not. Because we actually do vote tough on crime. It's not Chicago. It's not Baltimore, which I drove through today. And then what happens is because they're actually not tough on crime, the extremists then protest the Democrats' own policies. They go around and they constantly obstruct the streets. They protest. New York's not a big riot place but it never ends and then that turns into a national movement so because people like uh you

know uh eric adams right yeah because he's like they call him tough on crime by new york standards no no he's he's legit he's like i'm going to bring back stop and frisk like the republicans weren't like we're going to bring back stop and frisk. Like, the Republicans weren't like, we're going to bring back stop and frisk. He's like, no, no, we're going to shake down people and crack some skulls. That's the problem, you see. What happens is then Black Lives Matter comes out and turns that local problem from Democrats into a national marketing and corporations, because New York is a hub for that. Some random dude in in in West Virginia who lives in the mountains next to his brother, Cletus, who's actually 20 miles away, has to have new laws on his guns because of the failures of New York Democrats. And it's not necessarily just Eric.

It's not like it's Eric Adams fault. It's that the people who live in these cities continually elect the same kind of people who do very similar things with very similar policies that don't work. Well, I mean, you you're you're right to a certain extent, because I mean, New York City distinctly banned chokeholds. But after George Floyd died from a maneuver that would have been illegal for an NYPD officer, we still cut a billion dollars out of our police because we had to solve the problem of Minneapolis's policing issue. People in London are protesting over George Floyd. Hands up, don't shoot, which Michael Brown didn't have his hands up. And the London police don't carry guns.

Yep. Never, never. Yeah. So, so what's happening is you have this, you know, Ian mentioned it's technology. It's the internet's communications. It's not about any of the policy. It is literally my tribe must win at all costs and we will demand power. And I'll tell you, I want to talk about the story where it gets really, really weird.

This is a sign. This story right here is a sign to me of the collapse. It's a very slow collapse. The first thing I'll say, I'll give you the story. Boston Pride, LGBT Pride, dissolves amid diversity complaints. An organization that's been around for 50 years to advocate for LGBT rights has dissolved because Black Lives Matter activists said that they didn't have enough diversity on their board. Now, I want to mention something. I say it's a slow collapse, right?

We went to a diner today to pick up some Petty Melts. We got everybody. These burgers are so good. Oh, they were good. They were delicious. And a peanut butter pie. And there's a sign on the door. And this shocked me.

It said something like, forgive us. From now on, we'll be operating only 6 a.m. to 5 p.m. as we attempt to rectify our staffing shortages. Half the diner was closed. Like they had the signs up like, you can't sit here. And they were completely understaffed. And a diner that closes at 5 p.m. Nothing to do with Pride or whatever, but it's just like the food shortages, the chaos.

Yeah, the unemployment stuff. It's just getting worse and worse and worse. We'll come back to that. I just want to mention that's part of the slow collapse. But look at the story. They say this decision was made with a heavy heart. Out of love and hope for a better future, the organization's board said in a statement, Boston Pride, the organization that has organized the city's pride celebrations for 50 years, has announced it's shutting down.

The dissolution announced Friday afternoon, and a statement on the group's website comes after the reportedly all-white board of directors had faced ongoing accusations of ignoring racial minorities and transgender people. It is clear to us that our community needs and wants change without the involvement of Boston Pride. Here's the quote. We have heard... I'm going to read the quote, okay? We have heard the concerns of the QTBIPOC community and others.

The statement continued. I don't know what that means. And I'm not trying to be mean to the... Quit the pock? Oh, cute bipock. Is that what it's supposed to be? I don't...

Look, these people are increasingly... There was a video I saw of this young woman. And she was... It's a viral TikTok where she's like, you can use new words for your non-binary parents like Zizo and she was it's a viral tick tock where she's like you can use new words for your non-binary parents like zizo and zorbda i'm not kidding she was like pom pom pina dofi

and i'm like you're just saying gibberish words what are you doing that's where we're at right now these young people are like i can make up a thing and so they make up a thing and then the people who make up a thing go to the established thing and say, you have to shut down because we made a thing up. And they go, okay. And then it shuts down. How do we function as a society? Look, I'm sure there's a bunch of conservatives

cracking cigars and laughing watching this, but I'm like, Boston Pride, 50 years of fighting for LGBT rights, and quite successfully, and now they're shut down just like that. Wow. It's like Occupy Wall Street. That was my experience at Occupy.

I went and I brought the Constitution. I was like, yo, I'm going to tell people about the Federal Reserve. I'm going to rally the troops. And when I went up, the girl was like, I was going to go speak to some news organization. And the girl was like, no, we've already had too many white people speak to the news. I was like, what? I'm about to blow people's minds, dude. Let me at it.

And they wouldn't. So I was like, well, too much racism for good stuff at the top. It's just demands for power, man. And the Fed. So weird. Long live the Ron Paul revolution. That's what we're up to, man. Repeal the Federal Reserve Act of 1913.

For the polarization among the left is ridiculous their their desire to fraction off into little pieces is crazy especially because i always thought and i could be wrong about this but i'm gonna pretend like it's authoritative uh the rainbow flag was like all colors can be uh within the lgbt community if that's not real it sounds like it makes sense and they should adopt that. But yeah, there's a desire among lefties to do what I think Thomas Sowell refers to as like mascotism. Like they want to have black mascots that aren't necessarily like they don't necessarily have anything to do with the organization. But as long as they're there and it looks nice and it's weirdly to give the illusion of fighting racism. But in reality, there's like nothing more more racist than I want a black logo.

Tokenism. Yeah, so that you can think I'm virtuous. I will say I'm actually surprised they did this, but they did add a white stripe to the new LGBT flag. What is the white stripe for the white people? Really? I would doubt. I would doubt that. I mean,

I look at a flag that's got a black and a brown stripe for black and brown people. And then there's a white stripe and then a yellow triangle. The only thing I can say is if they say the stripes represent the color of the people, well, there's a white stripe. I was either. They're like, life is not black and white.

And you know, that flag is copyrighted, right? That new one. Really? Yeah. It's owned by somebody. You mean the one with the purple circle in it?

I don't know if it's the circle, but it's like the one with the black and brown with the diamond. It looks like the rip off. Yeah, we got it. I think my biggest problem is the level of intelligence of the people that we're talking about, because people are not black and white at all. And we never have been but that people are just accepting these dumb phrases of black and white and then they're saying it anyway is concerning to me my favorite thing about the whole critical race theory stuff the critical race applied principles is that they're like whiteness doesn't mean white people we're not

saying it's whiteness it's a structure of this system. Black and brown means literally the color of your skin. It's like – Black. There's no black skin. It's like clearly they mean white people when they're saying whiteness. Well, you always got to get these people and ask them, okay, what's the difference between a white supremacist nation and a white majority nation? They won't be able to tell you. And I didn't think of that.

I got that question from Devin Tracy. Well, here's a question. What's the difference between a white supremacist nation and a Chinese majority nation? Well, they would be potentially Chinese supremacists. Well, exactly. But they would say whiteness. They would say, oh, well, I kid you not. They would say something like, well, because the Chinese population is the majority in China, they're white.

I mean, they think Asian people are white anyway. But yeah, I will say it's just... This flag, in my opinion, represents that... There was no committee vote on this. It was like someone did it, and it was a meme. And that shows that a lot of what's happening on the left is basically... I view it as kind of like... Oh, you ever see that horror movie, The Blob? Yeah, a long time ago.

Which one? There was one, it was like in the 80s, I think. That's the one I saw. John Car horror movie, The Blob? Yeah, a long time ago. Which one? There was one that was in the 80s, I think. That's the one I saw. John Carpenter's The Blob. Yeah, it lands in the meteor or something. And then it's small, but then it eats something, a rodent, and then it grows a little bigger. That's exactly what it is, right? That's what the left is doing right now.

It's just absorbing institutions and then growing bigger, but it's nonsensical. It's just a heaping mass. You can see it. It's nondescript bigger but it's nonsensical it's just a heaping mass you can see it it's nondescript and it's insane and it's ripping itself well it's ripping everything apart it's just destroying things and it's based on nonsense like the the the whole thing about black trans women being killed more uh my friend nuance pro did a video on this and he found that black trans women have a lower rate of death by homicide than regular uh black men like some biological males that just identify as male i don't know yeah yeah over explaining that you did a good job so so i want to i want to just kind of wrap this into the conversation we're you know at large is that we're talking

about we start off talking about the balkanization of this country. Why is it possible, in my opinion, that we're heading towards this? Because this stuff makes no sense. Boston Pride shuts down because Black Lives Matter accused them of not having enough diversity. So they just shut down their civil rights organization after 50 years, just like that. Bro, if it's that easy to dissolve an organization and we're at roughly 35%, probably not a fair number, but it's the best number we got. How hard do you think it's really going to be to dissolve these bonds? They did that in Toronto, remember, too. A couple years ago, they sat down in front of the gay private raid.

And then they gave them a list of demands. Where I come from, that's called taking hostages. They had a huge acronym that I was trying to read. I'm not kidding. It was like QTII39. I'm not trying to be mean. There's like a number two in it too. But no, no.

So there's LGBTQIAP2+. It's like I-A-A. Yeah, there's2 plus. No, but there's another one, which is a reference to marginalized people, not like the LGBT one is a reference to like gender identities and sexuality. And the other one is based on racial identities and, you know, race and culture. So that one is like,

you know, they do like what is it? Asian Pacific Islander, whatever it's called. Yeah, AAPI or whatever. AAPI or whatever. Yeah. There was one like that, and it was like AAPI T3 S2911. That's like a robot's name.

T2 was a way better movie than T3. I'm just throwing out that controversial opinion. No, no, but it gets crazy. My favorite one that's included in there isn't the Two-Spirit. It's the second A for ally. What? Yeah, there's one of them is ally. So if you're a straight and a –

A straight. Yeah, a straight. A straight and a – A cis heteronormative. Oh, I was thinking about cis and trans. There's trans – the Romans had trans alpine gall and cis alpine gall. I don't know if that's relevant. Trans and cis are –

It means beyond and nearer to. That's literally why they say you're a cis person or a trans person. They say cis is a reference to like... I'm glad I got that out. But like if you're straight, then like you get to be in the acronym. And it's like, dude, that's not for you. Just stop. Go.

Get out of there. Like add a white stripe to the flag. We still don't know what it's for. It doesn't matter what they say it's for. If the black and brown represent black and brown people, the white stripe to the flag. We still don't know what it's for. It doesn't matter what they say it's for. If the black and brown represent black and brown people, the white stripe represents white people. Is the white stripe underneath the black and brown stripe? No.

It's underneath the blue and periwinkle stripe. What? I gotta look at this picture. What is this called? That may be white supremacy. I just looked up LGBT flag. If it's above it, I'm just gonna say that. Well, it is the first stripe.

Racism. Yeah? Yeah? Oh, the whites are going to be asexual. No, isn't that what the yellow is for? What is the yellow? I'm not going to say what I thought the yellow was for because that was a bad answer. Super racist.

I think they're missing the point of white. I was going to say Pikachu. Oh, yeah. The Pokemon. So my family had a cafe on North Halstead in Chicago, which is Boys Town. It's the gay neighborhood. The one where Jussie Smollett was attacked. No, no, no. He wasn't there.

He was in downtown. North Halstead is several miles north. It's by Wrigley Field. And then there's Boys's boystown and ladystown and i forgot what ladystown's actual name is but that's where the lesbians are at and then the gay men are in in boystown but i was told uh when i was there that the flag represented different aspects of the of the gay community not races or anything like that i don't know for sure though but it's weird to see that they added race to it i thought it was

just like flamboyant colors that they liked wearing crazy colors. No, they represent something. They represent something. I thought it was them being extra because normally one cause, one color, and they're like, we want all the colors. How about that?

That makes sense to me. They're like, deal with gray if you want to be opposed to us. I don't like the whites on there because when you look at a rainbow, all the colors, it's white light, and only if you look at it through a prism do you start to see all the colors of the rainbow, which is the flag. It's the colors of the rainbow.

When they combined all of the lantern rings, they created the white lantern core. There we go. You're proving my point. I'm just saying the new flag's got a white stripe in it. I think of myself as an ally. I think of myself as an ally to people in general, to these people of all kinds. But I don't virtue signal. Would you ally with the blob?

Let me put it this way. The blob consumes a Krispy Kreme. I think that would be a game time. And you like Krispy Kreme. And you're like, I'm a fan of the blob because it consumed Krispy Kreme. It's a game time decision because if – no, I probably wouldn't ally with the blob. This is what I'm trying to say. I believe in civil rights.

I'm actually fairly moderately left on a lot of the social justice causes. But when you have a blob that consumes institutions, I'm not going to pretend the blob represents those institutions. But the blob is full of people, so you can't use their language. The reason they use the term social justice, which is why I named my channel to be the opposite of that, is because it's like, oh, I'm not against societal progress and justice. But once we start adopting their language, it doesn't work. I agree with you. In terms of social issues, I'm really libertarian. But we can't use their terms. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's not. That's absolutely. So just to simplify, when the blob – when I see like an LGBT pride campaign or something or Boston pride and they're like, we believe that we should have the right to live freely and be in our homes.

I'm like, I hear you, man. Then a blob consumes them and then the blob – like a face comes out of the flesh of the blob. But it's like just like a flat blob face. I'm like, that's not Boston Pride. That's something else. I knew you once. Yeah. Remember? No longer.

Have you ever seen The Frighteners with Michael J. Fox? Nope. You've never seen it? I've heard of it, though. There's like the walls. It's like someone's pushing out through latex. That's what it looks like. That's what it would be like when the blob is rolling by, and then you see a civil rights activist come and go support civil rights.

They can be exercised from the blob. It just takes strategic surgery, mental surgery. It's also weird how these movements kind of imitate real life because there is more homophobia among the the black community in the united states of america on average obviously there's pockets of like you know evangelical christians or or actually mormons are nice to everybody they just want to play board games with you but there's like pockets of it so like for a like supposed black civil rights movement to bully out of existence a gay civil rights movement it's really like it's it's like almost like the movements are imitating their uh their base. Well, let's jump back to the

nightmare scenario that is what the government is doing, and outside of the insanity of the left. So the general idea, I guess, like, the reason I wanted to get into that is that you've got this cultural movement, which is just chaos. It's fire. It's rot. It's destructive. And you can see that at the federal level, I feel like they

really, really are panicking. This idea of balkanization is real. When the states start saying, F you, when they were like, yo, we're going to lock down in Texas and Florida, like, nah, Joe Biden said we're going to have to lock down more. Meanwhile, people are partying it up in some of these states, clearly having no authority. Check out the story from the New York Post. The White House is flagging posts for Facebook to censor over COVID misinformation. We also saw that story where the Biden administration and the DNC were talking with text message providers, phone companies, to censor text messages.

Oh, we crossed that Rubicon, baby. This is it. That's – no, no, no. We haven't crossed the Rubicon. Bro, what happened? I mean, that's... When Jen Psaki can go on TV and say, she emphasized the word for. She goes, we are flagging for Facebook. I was like, whoa.

That's not constitutional in any stretch of the imagination. When they would normally do something like this, they would go, we are not telling Facebook what to do. We are merely asking them to enforce their rules to help this country even that is questionable the government can't go to a private company and say censor this they can't she's saying they're doing it they talk about going after our text messages bro that rubicon's been crossed so who's caesar in this metaphor joe biden no no one would follow him into battle. Come on, man. I got hairy legs. Joe Biden's like, I'm both Caesar and Brutus. I don't know what to do, man.

I think the wonderful thing is there's no cult of personality here. If there was a cult leader, Democratic president that people were obsessed with, we might see a Trump. Yeah, but he wasn't the Democratic leader. Like, if there was a Democrat, if Biden was not Biden, but some crazy cult leader, we would have that would be Rubicon danger where he could turn it into an empire.

We have a we have a very strong First Amendment. So when you do stuff like this, that's not technically a formal attack on the First Amendment. That's referred to as chilling free speech. And you're not allowed via Supreme Court decisions to chill free speech in that way. No, I think this is overt. They're not saying we're going to censor it. They're trying to do an end around to censor indirectly. So that's the maneuver that they would be using.

But that's also unconstitutional. It's called chilling free speech. No, I think chilling free speech is different. I'm pretty sure if the Democrats are being sued over this in California, if the government goes to a private company and says censor this, it is the government taking an overt action, not chilling. They're literally the ones doing the censorship. The way that you phrased it, it was like we're not saying censor it, but we're flagging this for Facebook. No, no, no, no, no. I'm saying normally what the Democrats or the government would do is say the government is not in the business of censoring Americans.

We're just letting Facebook know when there's misinformation and they can deal with it as they see fit. That's not what they're doing. That's what you'd expect them to do. What they're doing now is – Psaki is literally saying we are flagging it for them to remove. Okay. So that's what I – that's what I'm saying. That's overtly – it would be like this. Imagine if the federal government was like, we hired Securitas to go detain a bunch – arrest a bunch of people who are at church because they're Christian. You're not going to be like, that's okay because a private company did it.

Well, the government hires them to do it. The government instructs them to do it. They can't. That's literally what they're doing right now this is this is like the un or maybe it will lead to the official return of operation choke point which was under the obama administration where they would target certain sketchy borderline industries and reach out to the banking companies and payment processes and all that and get them to stop doing business with them. And the whole point was like we're going to do human trafficking. But then all of a sudden people who were like legitimately actors in the porn industry would lose their bank accounts.

Right. They're like we're going to do gun smuggling. But all of a sudden federally licensed firearm dealerships would lose their bank accounts. accounts so like the obama administration in well not formally created a list of industries and like industries that they determined to be adjacent to problems in the country and they use federal power to get rid of that then trump comes into office and these companies almost continue that program in his absence and now biden's back in he's like well let's formalize what you guys have been doing already here's the next. Glenn Greenwald tweets, The White House is admitting that they're compiling lists of people who they claim are posting content they regard as problematic

and that constitute misinformation and are demanding Facebook remove them. This is authoritarianism. So how long until the White House puts out their list of extremist content producers and they say the insurrectionists were following these people, which, of course, is going to include most of the people you know and love, because people follow a lot of people. You know what they won't do? They won't point out that many of these same people will be following Brian Stelter on

CNN. Well, but that's not relevant. But you'll see Crowder's name in there. You know, Stixx and Hammer was like, I hope I make the list. What happens when they do that and then they say the the extremists those who espouse incitement to insurrection that is illegal and we're going to shut down their their accounts right yeah i mean look i was told by one of these quote-unquote insurrectionists that never went into the building that they watch my content so like oh i inspired an extremist i i somehow may have inspired somebody

that's further to the right than me much further according to to this like interpretation but yeah it's definitely a huge problem that they're that they're doing this and that they keep pushing the gas on censorship again it's it's an informal or it's i'm sorry it's the formalization of what was already happening while trump was in office, what became normal. And the Biden administration is totally cool with it. And we shouldn't be surprised because remember, when Obama played the Facebook algorithm, the Facebook guys came up to him after he won his election. And they were like, we knew what you were doing, and we thought it was so cool because we were on your side. Trump plays the Facebook algorithm.

They changed the rules completely. Reddit. Yeah, Reddit. The Donald dominated the front page of Reddit all the time. So they were like, we're going to remove the Donald from the front page, period. As soon as Republicans figured out how to use the internet, they were like, well, you know, we got to have authoritative services. So what if 95% of the mainstream media, except for Fox, is left-leaning? Don't worry about it.

It's going to be authoritative. And now they're untethered. The left is completely untethered from society because of once big tech started playing that game of we can, we'll ban the conservatives. And that's literally what they're doing. There are some people on the left who get banned. Don't get me wrong. There's a lot of them. But when people saw, and I don't think it was an intentional movement. I think it was a natural progression that you've you've got left and right and facebook and twitter and youtube say this chunk of the right is gone and this chunk of the left is gone now the whole overton window just went one and shifted far to the left you get the rainbow bleep bleep monkey i can actually i think you can say but that's

rainbow bleep butt monkey that's very interesting physically, if you had a structure of two, two pieces and you removed one of that, like the far, the far right, you said was removed. That would release the scent. Like you said, it actually said untethered. Like it's, you've removed the counterweight. Exactly. Exactly. Another way to put it is if you're, if, if your left fingertips get, get removed in an

accident, but your whole right hand is removed in accident and you're right-handed, now you're going to be left-handed. You can still use your right arm for things providing support, but all of a sudden now everything's going to shift to the left where the resources are. So long as the censorship is 80% conservative and 20% left, everything's going to shift to the left because it's untethered. There's nothing holding them back anymore. So what do you get? Drag queen story hour. Because they don't care about what Republicans say because you will get banned for criticizing these communities. If you say what your issue with it is, you're banned. Then it levels up.

Now you've got rainbow bleep butt monkey showing up at the library and the parents going, what? And screaming and freaking out. Anatomically correct someone put on yeah we can't i won't talk too much about it but they walk that back in the uk for you know the next couple months they're never going to do anything like that again but the drag queen story hour i've been on this for years because i do a partnership with the david horowitz freedom center right and that's not just in public libraries in certain districts in this country, that's in our public schools. So if you pay taxes,

you're paying for Drag Queen Story Hour for these people to come to your school, read to your kids, and all the books are about how, like, you know, you should probably think about gender transitioning. Like, kindergartner. Have you ever considered this?

Do you... You ever been to a strip club? Yes. Ian? Yeah. Lydia? No, I? Yeah. Lydia? No, I have not. But I was there because I knew somebody that owned it.

So what a lot of people don't know is that in many states, maybe even most, they don't get fully nude. In fact, in many of these... Lame. It's true, though. It's topless only. If you have alcohol, you can't have full nude a lot of times with alcohol. In a lot of states, especially a lot of red states. How are they still in business with the Internet? I'm just questioning.

People like to be there physically. But the other thing, too, is some places aren't even topless. Some states don't even allow topless. So you ask someone, what is it stripping? And they're going to assume full nude. That's actually not true. That's actually not true. There are places, sure.

Just when they take off the beanie. Yes. And here actually not true. There are places, sure. Just when they take off the beanie. Yes. Here's the point. If you went to, say, I don't know, Cenk Uygur of the Young Turks and asked them if they would support children taking off their clothes on stage as adult men. Would you support an 11-year-old boy on stage taking off his clothing while adult men gave money to him every time he did? Now, of course, the boy was still wearing shorts and a t-shirt underneath his outfit, but it was pulling off the clothes and then getting money. Do you think they would support that?

I actually think right now they wouldn't give you a straight answer because they'd be like, what are you talking about? What are you trying to say? I don't trust what you're asking. It's a straightforward question. The point is, Chan Cougar actually defended child stripping. I'm not exaggerating. This is not hyperbole.

There is, I'm not going to say the name of the child who does what they call drag shows, but drag shows are conspicuously similar to stripping, where he goes on the stage as a bunch of adults throw money to him and give him money as he takes his clothing off. And so I saw that, and I immediately was like, now that looks like stripping. Called some people I

knew who worked in the industry, asked them some questions. And they said, I didn't ask them about the drag show. I said, what would you call this? And I said, a person on stage taking off an outer layer of clothing to reveal undergarments, maybe a T-shirt and shorts, while adults in the audience are giving money as they do it. And they were like, that's stripping. And I said, as I described it, like, of course. And I was like, but they don't get naked. But you don't always get naked. And I'm like, okay, so that would be stripping.

Yes, absolutely. These are people I know who have worked, some women, in multiple states. And they explain. They're like, in Vegas, here's how it works. Vegas is like, they got brothels. In the Dakotas, it's actually like this. In red states that are more religious, oh man, you can't even, you have to be wearing a full top. So quite literally, it's indistinguishable. And Cenk Uygur has a show where he actively defends the practice.

So when we're at that level, I don't know. I don't know what to say, man. That is untethered. That is what untethered means. That was like a haymaker to my face when I saw that. High profile, progressive YouTube channel with millions of followers. And he actively says pre-bubescent boys taking off their clothing for adult men at a bar for money is okay i'm like what no i'm sorry dude you've crossed the line you're untethered from reality because i can sit here and be like i actually think we need basic universal

health care with private supplemental insurance i'm in favor of that i'm actually in favor of universal parental leave i think we've got a big problem with parents not being there for their kids. I think if we had that some way solidified, it would be fantastic. I think we've got a huge problem that businesses are tied to healthcare. I think Andrew Yang was right about that. And I think the Young Turks have lost their minds when they defend child stripping.

Well, I mean, you better stop attacking Cenk, otherwise Anna's going to blackmail you. But, yeah, no. Cenk saying that is ridiculous. And they are better stop attacking jank otherwise anna's gonna blackmail you but um but uh yeah no jank saying that is ridiculous and they are very like weaselly about it because they'll deny it but then they'll say how they're in favor of it like that's the trick that's not happening but also you're weird and creepy for being against it even though even even under drag circumstances so i i asked around typically they leave the money for whichever

drag person is on the stage in like a jar away from that so you're not throwing them yeah you don't have the image of them flinging dollar bills up there and that's not even just a kid on a stage getting that image it's also like after midnight yeah like what are you doing without those i'm pretty sure they were drinking right i don't want i don't want to i don't want to say things unless i'm absolutely sure, so either way, it's untethered. So what happens is when you have a tribalism,

the blob, it's absorbing institutions, and now the blob is saying that these things should happen, which are horrifying, it's disgusting. Cenk is scared that if he says the wrong thing, he'll offend his audience. So he defends it and they had jordan klepper from comedy central saying isn't it so great to hear what this this kid has

to say about being an advocate and i'm like you people are nuts you've gone so far off the rails it used to be you know when i grew up that the conservatives would argue something and it was an argument oh no you can't do that safe legal and rare for abortion now it's lena dunham saying she wish she got an abortion or whatever or whatever she said yeah things like that they've untethered i've seen janket bully too he in the beginning when defund the police was becoming popular jake was smart he was like this is a stupid slogan and you know 80 of people are against defunding the police but slowly but surely because his audience is supposed to be like more on the left he started saying listed i'm gonna be this defund the police guy and now every time he talks about it he's like we're in for defund the police and then it's like a 30 second

explanation he's for it but then he gives you like the 45 minute pitch of why that doesn't actually mean defund the police he was right the first time defund the police is a stupid slogan yeah i wish i would have invented it for the democrats to use because it's tanking them across the country but yeah like so i've seen him get bullied by his audience so this might be an issue where he's like that's questionable but over time it got he got browbeat by his audience the most fascinating thing now that i see with young turks is jenks insistence that the alt-left exists. And what does that mean? Glenn Greenwald, Michael Tracy, Aaron Matei, and Jimmy Dore.

The alt-left. I love it. That's not what alt-left means. It's not what it ever meant, and it never really caught on anyway. So it's funny that he tries claiming that the people who criticize the establishment and his fake progressive movement are alt-right and alt-left. It's like, dude, maybe you've just lost the plot because you're chasing a dragon man. People who criticize the establishment and his fake progressive movement are alt-right and alt-left. It's like, dude, maybe you've just lost the plot because you're chasing a dragon, man. You want the ratings.

You want the clicks. You look at the super cuts of the Young Turks over the years, and it's really – you can really see how they've compromised over and over and over again. I saw a clip of them from – they had the new hire, and she was like three days on, and he like what career you don't have a career do you ever see that oh kim horchard kind of and he as you can tell immediately he felt horrible about it but he was so chill back then he was so much more relaxed he's so like agitated things have like tweaked him out over the last like six years i totally get it i do i feel about this We talked about this the other day, man. This is important. When I got started more actively, publicly in politics, like Occupy Wall Street, I went to Occupy Wall Street because I saw these videos of police just dragging a guy by his foot and it's like his hand's bleeding. But I also knew a bunch of hackers because I had been hanging out at hacker spaces in Los Angeles.

I knew a bunch of hackers around the world, actually, because I made some friends, got some connections. These all were on the left. All the hacking community was on the left, anti-establishment, anti-Fed, anti-intelligence agencies. They were pro-journalists, pro-information, pro-free speech. And then something changed. A bunch of these hackers all of a sudden became authoritarian and pro-FBI. In fact, some of these people were on Facebook cheering for the FBI raid on Giuliani. And I commented on the post

saying, I'm so glad to see you've finally been de-radicalized that you would now actively support the FBI. And they're like, well, I mean, well, they're doing the right thing now. Dude, these people on the left used to laugh about the trolling that Weave would do. I can't even say the name of Weave's organization. I cannot say some of the things he's done. One of the most notorious trolls, if not the most notorious troll on the internet, saying the most offensive things. A bunch of people on the left recognized the right of free speech, and they were edgy, and they were fun, and they mocked things, and they made jokes. And you had George Carlin, and George Carlin would say all of the racial slurs in the world

in his bit. Then something started to change over the past 10 years rapidly and quickly, where for whatever reason, the leftists fell in line. So imagine you're Cenk Uygur, and you're watching the transformation of your audience. I got to be honest, the last time I saw Cenk, he yelled at me because he was losing it. Before that, I was shaking his hands at VidCon. Probably three and a half years ago, maybe, talking to him about ad rates and YouTube. And then he started to lose it because, like you said, initially, he he's like defund the police is wrong. And now he's embracing it.

The left has dramatically changed. And I think there's one really easy and obvious reason. Young people who are authoritarian and pro-state were growing up, entering the public left, the political left, and influencing what was being said. And so now all of the prominent establishment leftists had to start falling in line with their changing audience. So they embrace all that stuff. I've seen some sad stories. I'm not going to get into the full details, but I know some people who I'm not going to get into full details.

I know some people who have gone through severe depression. I mean, you live with these people. You're friends with them for 10 years. You've gone through all these adventures. You've said every awful thing you can think of because you're trolls on the internet, hackers who believe in free speech. And then one day, all of your friends are saying, you can't say that anymore. Everything you've done is wrong. And we're going to cancel you unless you come out in support of us. And then you're thinking to yourself like, these people don't believe in anything we've done they hate what who we are they hate what we've

done what do you do so jank losing his mind freaking out snapping at me at politicon yeah he's trapped he is trapped in that box also it's frustrating if you're like the network and you see all this talent come through your system and then they can go be more successful on your own and you're seeing your numbers drop but your former employees doing well dave rubin i've done videos about how anna and jank have been unbelievably nasty to dave rubin talking about how like they never liked him they wanted to hire his husband and they like embarrassed him it's really nasty stuff that you should never air publicly jimmy door the only difference with the jimmy door thing is jimmy door is using jank's rhetoric more effectively.

Cenk's the big money in politics guy. He'll tell you if you take five grand as a congressman from the NRA, then you're corrupt and you want children to die by firearms. Well, Cenk took $20 million from Jeffrey Katzenberg. So when Jimmy Dore points that out, everything Cenk has been saying up until this time, Jimmy has the rhetorical advantage and it's like yeah you shouldn't have put all your eggs in the money and politics basket what we're seeing with the meltdown of the Young Turks is exactly what you were saying

it's funny that you have these people who were all part of the network in some way and they move on and find huge success Jimmy Dore is still very much saying what he's always said. He's critical of the establishment. He's critical of Democrats.

And Glenn Greenwald as well. I remember I criticized Glenn Greenwald because I thought he was being unfair to CNN because he was doing this event and he was talking about CNN. And I was like, come on, like, you know, we can rag on the mainstream media,

but hold on there a minute. Now I look at a lot of things they're doing and I've got my criticisms of Glenn Greenwald, absolutely. But I'm impressed that he stuck to his principles for as long as he did to the point where he actually leaves the intercept. Cenk Uygur is watching that. He's watching the people that used to represent – the people that do represent his values, what he actually believes deep down inside. But he knows he can't do anything because he's tethered to this contract.'s what i think 20 million who do you take it from uh jeffrey katzenberg so he can't just come out and say the things he wants to say because he has contracts he's locked in place katzenberg the disney guy yeah a former disney ceo yeah big hillary clinton bundlers

imagine you have a contract that's like you got to do x y and z and they're like they're like, don't worry. We're all about the left and progressives, right? And you're like, this works. You sign the deal. Then the progressives become authoritarian crackpot ideologues. And you're looking at former employees leaving. And your ship is sailing. And you're like, I literally can't get off the boat because of the contract I signed. So are they stuck under like a contract?

It's an investment. So like the fact that they're not profitable, like, you know, you have to make a return for your investors it's not like they bought the young i'm sure they bought a portion of it you don't give somebody 20 million dollars for no zero percent of their company but uh but you know it's a private company so a lot of the details are are hidden but yeah it's it's that but and what's funny about glenn greenwald and jimmy door being anti jank is that jank jimmy door and Greenwald were all a part of the crew that tried to kick Sam Harris out of the left years ago. So when you were saying Glenn Greenwald was unfair, not CNN, to Sam Harris, unbelievably unfair to him. Jimmy Dore, too.

And Jimmy Dore, even though I'm enjoying this, I'm not a jimmy door fan and i i can't stand people in my audience so hi guys let's say jimmy door's the correct leftist jimmy door's the good leftist like let me be 100 clear about something have you ever heard the this this idea that um the young turks inspired a police shooting i've never heard that before yeah so it's it's the baton rouge one i won't name the name for the algorithm purposes. The young Turk that inspired them was Jimmy Dore. I do remember hearing about this vaguely. And you can find the videos online.

So for me, it's a battle of the scummy. I will watch it for entertainment, but I'm not jumping on any team. I like Jimmy Dore for one reason. He'll talk to you. He'll be straight about it. So he has his opinions. He makes his videos. He talks about what we want to to talk about i disagree with him on a decent amount but i know that i can message him and he'll he's like a real human being and so i i know a lot of people have

ian and i have different opinions but if we can actually talk and you'll be honest and in your in our conversations like real people then i'm cool with that like i i could hang out with a communist so long as they were totally honest about what communism was and meant just don't lie to me and be real and i'll be like well maybe we shouldn't maybe we won't be friends but i can have a polite conversation and be like that's cool you know my thing is is that if i speculated terribly on a story and that turned out to be false and that inspired somebody to kill three cops, I would at least acknowledge it publicly. You know, let me explain the Young Turks' rage in this way.

I signed a deal with Univision's and Disney Fusion's company. It was a two-year contract. It was for a lot of money. And when they started doing bad stuff, and I didn't like it, and I didn't want to play that ridiculous woke game, they just put me in golden handcuffs, where they were basically like, sit back and do nothing because there's nothing you can do. And I tried breaking the, I said, will you let me out of the contract? They basically said no. They didn't say it outright, but they were like, well, you know, let's revisit the conversation later. And then I'm just sitting there like, I can't do anything.

Now for me, I didn't lose my mind because I had no obligations to be on camera saying these things. I literally was just like, I'm not going to be on camera saying these things. I literally was just like, I'm not going to go on camera and say these things. There was an instance where I was doing a mini doc on this, a cop watch group. And when I was talking to some woman about police brutality, and then I, uh, it was the, it was the craziest thing I brought up. We're just talking. And then I mentioned, you know, when she said, you know, growing up and being Asian in New York, you deal with a lot of police brutality. And I was like, yeah, yeah. I was like, my family absolutely dealt with a lot of this stuff too because I'm part Korean.

And then she immediately snapped at me and got really mad and said, no, you have no idea what you're talking about. Take that back. And I was like, but my family did go through this stuff. Like we had bricks thrown through our window. And then I was just like, dude, if you guys want to finish this shoot, I'm not going to sit here and take a racist insult or anything like that. I don't have to be here and I don't want to be involved in this. And I'm not going to be the person on camera who's sitting there going like, oh, I'm so sorry that I – no, I'm not doing it. So they put me in golden handcuffs.

But I didn't have to be on camera. Cenk has to host his show. And so what if he starts saying things like the establishment is bad? He did say the Democrats lie all the time. I can respect that. But what if he starts coming out and saying, you know, Trump's right about the manufacturing base leaving. It's going to hurt the investors. They're going to revolt and they could come after him for breach of contract. You're hurting the company. You are hurting the investment. You owe us. So he has no choice but to sit on this boat forever for however long it could be forever it's an investment

it could be forever he's trapped and he's watching jimmy dore and glenn greenwald and they're on the shore waving goodbye as he drifts further and further out to oblivion and and the reason jimmy has the overwhelming advantage in their dispute is because based on the ideological parameters that jank has set out jimmy's right like force the vote for medicare for all basically that's right i've disputed the polling around medicare for all multiple times but that doesn't matter they all theoretically believe that everybody's in support of medicare for all and now's the time to do it jimmy door was a hundred percent right in that progressive sphere, which is why Cenk lost publicly in the PR battle for that. I mean, I think the Young Turks are not long for this political landscape, to be equally honest.

And Anna did black. Like, that was an attempted black vote. Yeah, well, explain that. What was that? So what ended up happening is they were going – Jimmy was hitting the Young Turks for a long time and over- the vote by name since like November, December, whenever he started. Let's start from that part. Basically, there were progressives who said the squad and progressive members of Congress

should withhold their support for Nancy Pelosi unless Pelosi agrees to have a floor vote on Medicare for all. Yeah. The Young Turks were like, no, don't do it. Don't help Republicans. And they would make up that there was a scenario where they could make a Republican speaker, which, by the way, being a speaker without a majority

is meaningless anyway. So even if that wasn't a lie, which it was, Cenk was lying about that, it wouldn't mean anything. So Jimmy was calling that out because he was a big advocate of it. And it seemed like Cenk was jealous that Jimmy thought of it or maybe he was trying to preserve relationships with the squad or something like that um over time that led into uh jimmy attacking jank as a televangelist because you get 20 million dollars from katzenberg but you're out there every day like i need money the funniest email by far and i'm on the young turks email list so i saw it

is where they said we'll get you two thousand dollar stimulus checks if you give us money the young turks will pressure people in the democratic party to get you stimulus checks wow it's yeah it's jenks fundraising is really greasy and televangelistic so jimmy's been slamming them over and over again and again the rhetorical advantage because the money and politics argument, according to Jank's own logic, Jimmy's right. So Anna Kasparian pops into Jimmy Dore's DMs and she runs down this thing. She's like, I've been letting you talk like nonstop about me and TYT and that's going to end. I'm going to bring up this time that you like harass me or apologize. And she names like one instance where he apologized in there not like

alludes to it and then she says one time you um said that you like my jeans and you wanted to buy a pair for my wife right which is his wife yeah for jimmy's wife so jimmy like if you get that message you have to come out publicly because if jimmy stopped talking about the young turks even if it was for a week anna could have said look i messaged him this he hasn't talked about us for a week therefore he knows it's true therefore he's a scumbag so it's a total setup so jimmy comes out and tells the story turns out jimmy door actually told the story months earlier oh bump the mic jimmy told the story months earlier the same exact story that he told now without naming anna so like anna tried to blackmail him in order to get him to stop and jimmy was criticizing her on policy her and jank on policy

and she tried to dig up this thing that he apologized for it was not that big of a deal i don't know you know you could listen to the videos jimmy has it just that that whole stuff gets a little bit too in the weeds of like drama between personalities it shows how nasty the young turks are that something that she jimmy apologized for and accepted the apology seven years passed by jimmy has criticisms of the young turks as a network and their policy positions and then they're like oh yeah shut up or we're gonna meet to you so that right so this is where i think in the in the greater context for those that probably if you don't care about the Young Turks and I mentioned a lot of people. Now, I'm not saying no one cares about the Young Turks. I'm saying probably people watch us or like I don't watch them.

I do. It's indicative of what's happening to the mainstream left messaging. The Young Turks, big, powerful, prominent. They were like one of the first. They're on YouTube TV. They have their own channel. And I don't think they'll last long because you can't – look, he got booted from the Justice Democrats. You can't please this crowd. I mean we just did a segment about how the Black Lives Matter activists got Boston Pride shut down. You cannot have allegiance to group of people who will just gut you and eviscerate you at a moment's notice or without even a moment's notice. So the Young Turks are continually embracing nonsensical policy positions, notably like don't push a vote for Medicare for all.

I was 100% in favor of the force of the vote. Not that I thought it could pass, but Jimmy said, I want to know who opposes it. Let the Democrats say to their constituents what they really believe. And I'm like yes i thought it was hilarious like how many democrats come out and they're like we absolutely support bernie and they know their actual core constituency are moderate and don't want it so when it comes to the vote they're going to be like no so this is where i had the in in jank jimmy logic it works this is where i had the flaw is because it's really easy to vote

yes on a bill that you know for a fact it's not going to pass anyway so you wouldn't have really gotten a good assessment of who's in favor who was opposed to it perfect example this barack obama votes against raising the debt ceiling as a senator now when he's president and the republicans are threatening to actually do that he had to come out and say, look, I was grandstanding. Like, that's what you do when you know a bill is going to pass for sure. And you think you can grandstand in voting the opposite way. That's what you do for political points. But think about the midterms when primaries happen and they could say, here's them saying yes or no. Make them put their money where their mouth is. I want honesty in politics.

So if these people are like, I'm going to lie for votes, and then when it comes to actually voting, they have to make a choice, a hard choice. None of this wishy-washy BS. Then when the primary and the midterms come up, there's going to be a video over and over again of them saying yay or nay. So I agree. Force the vote. No, I think it fits perfectly if you're in that camp. But you could also vote present, remember. That's right.

And then what happens is, as Jimmy was stating, you get to, in the primary, say they refused to support Medicare for All. They're not progressive. Let that be known. Look, I don't agree with most of what these Democrats want. But I do agree the constituents have a right to know what they actually will do. I don't want to do this, I'll just do whatever the whims and tides of the day are going to be. This came up before, man.

It shouldn't be like, I'm going to trust this person to do what they said they're going to do. It should be a smart contract built into their job. They say they're going to do it when they're running, and then they're bound, and it happens automatically whether they don't even get to choose.

There are issues with that, though. Like, what if they get in and then get handed a classified document they go oh wow too bad i would be i would be fast tell the people tell the american people they got a document tell expose it yeah that's true i would be fascinated if you had them all on record to see what would actually happen in the primaries because jimmy's theory of politics is that if you vote no on medicare for all you're losing in the primary. I don't think that's going to actually pull out in the correct way.

Like Joe Manchin, if he voted – I know he's in the Senate. But if he voted yes on Medicare for All, he'll probably win his primary. But he's losing to the Republican. Like he has triangulated his way into that Senate seat that should be a Republican Senate seat. And he's the most popular politician in West Virginia history, by the way, as a Democrat. Who is? Joe Manchin. Oh, geez. Everybody, people don't like him,

but the Democrats would not have their place in the Senate right now, if not for him. Yep. A lot of people pointing out that Jimmy spit on Alex Jones. Oh, yeah, he spit on Alex Jones' face. That's so nice. Yeah, I'm not a fan, but, you know, Alex got up in their space, and there was a whole fight. I was there, actually, you spit in Alex Jones' face. That's so nice. Yeah, I'm not a fan. But, you know, Alex got up in their space, and there was a whole fight.

I was there, actually, at the DNC. AprilWars.com. Yeah, I think that was the DNC. Was it the DNC or was it the RNC? It was the RNC. It was the RNC. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was at both.

I have so much love for Alex Jones because I was watching politics on YouTube when there were five political channels. Alex Jones, the Young Turks, which is why I know so much about them. Lee Doran, if you remember him. And a couple of others that I don't want to name. We are change. We are change. Luke Verdowski. Yeah, Luke.

Where you at? Luke. He pops in from time to time. Yeah, one of the original. I think Luke might be like the original political channel. No joke. Because he's got videos going way back. And his first video, he was yelling at Zygmunt Brzezinski, I think it was.

You're a globalist! He's yelling at him, whatever. Luke's come a long way. Still yelling about globalism. Warren 25 was pretty hardcore. He was that Canadian dude that just screamed at George Bush. He was a good friend of mine. There's an issue I know Luke more for, but I can't say it on because I'm pretty sure it's a YouTube thing.

Probably. So we'll save all that super spicy stuff for the members only bonus segment and all the election stuff, which is like some really big news. But, you know, I don't look. I don't care for most of the drama. I want to say I think a lot of the Young Turks stuff comes up simply because, you know, Cenk puts out a lot of these half-baked statements. And I don't much care for the Young Turks. I don't care to talk about them all that often, but they are a big and powerful player

in politics. They're a litmus test, if anything, of what's happening socially to news media, because they were 2008, 2007, is that when they started? No, way before that. 2005, 2006. They were making killer YouTube videos. They were on YouTube before YouTube had Is that when they started? I mean, they were way, way before that. 2005, 2006. Way, way before that.

They were making killer YouTube videos. They were on YouTube before YouTube had monetization. Oh, yeah, yeah. No, no. Didn't they have their own website before even YouTube existed? Well, so Cenk bought the domain. I know too much about the Young Turks. Cenk bought the domain The Young Turk in 1996 and The Young Turks in 1997.

Okay, so old school. And, I mean, he was very anti-war in Iraq, extremely outspoken about the corruption in the Bush administration. And I learned a lot, and I think a lot of people did because of his work. But then you see over the decades, it's kind of like he's transitioning as society's transitioning. He's like a spearhead, you know? Let me explain something to you guys. I was talking to some guys from Vice, and there was – I don't know if I told this story on air before because it's like a – you know, YouTube probably got mad at me, but whatever.

There was an article from Vice that said this disgusting app shows you what women look like topless. And it's an app where if you take a picture of a woman, it uses like an algorithm or whatever to generate a topless image, simulates it. And so I was talking to these guys from Vice a couple of years ago, and they were talking about how so many people changed. They were like, man, so many people we knew from Vice have just changed, become far right, blah, blah, blah. And so I was like, guys, you changed. We didn't.

I was like, I showed them the article. It was a recent time or something like that. I was like, you see this article? Like this disgusting app can show you what women look like topless. And they're like, yeah. And I'm like, do you know what the title of that article would have been in 2011? And they were like, oh yeah, it would have been this amazing app can show you because vice was left sort of, but they were edgy. Oh, yeah. They were punk rock, sex, drugs, and rock and roll, man. Not these stodgy suit-wearing conservatives. What? We're not going to wear those suits at CPAC.

And now Vice is moral, authoritarian, stodgy, you know, do as you're told or else. It's called Vice. They changed. They changed. So I bring that up because there's that video. There's a composite video from the Young Turks. And you can see the things that Cenk and Andy used to talk about, like talking directly about women's bodies. Yeah.

Mocking them. No censorship. They were free. It was funny, edgy. It was free speech. And now they're locked down, moral authoritarian. That's the left. That's the evolution of the left.

I should have watermarked those clips because when Cenk announced he was running for Congress, I went and I knew all the dirt, downloaded it, started uploading it to Twitter, and everybody stole it from me. But shout out to Stephen Michael Davis for starting this whole fight between Cenk and Jimmy Dore. He's the one who clipped that whole Aaron Monta thing that started this whole thing. Check him out on Twitter and on YouTube. Great man. I've been entertained for months based on that one minute long clip. You know, I'll say

this right now, and then we'll read Super Chats. The Democratic Party is trash. I detest them. The neocons, all trash. They went and joined the Democratic Party back in 2016 because of Hillary. The Republican Party, the remnants of the establishment Republicans, mostly trash. But there's a decent handful

of Republicans that I can respect. I can respect the populist right for wanting to fight back. The Libertarian Party, mostly trash as well. Party politics is trash. But, Mises Caucus, Dave Smith, now I'm starting to actually dig what's happening with the Libertarian Party. How could we do this without

parties? I think I don't mind party politics. Why? It's sort of like the problem with certain areas is how it breaks down into a single party rule. That's a problem. But when you look at how the primary process works, it serves similarly a kind of rank choice system you know so you have a bunch of different parties the people vote for who in the like so you've got progressive conservative libertarian and of the progressives which one should win and then they choose then of the libertarians which one should win and other republicans the problem is it's

devolved into two-party tribalism right it's not necessarily the party issue it's the first past the post voting system where it's one person one vote that actually doesn't make a whole lot of sense if you actually go through the math of the system because then people end up voting against instead of four because a vote for a vote against is typically more powerful than a vote for so you think with rank choice voting party politics would be less uh incisive yes absolutely but rank choice isn't even that would be less incisive? Yes, absolutely. But rank choice isn't even that perfect. There's still issues with it, but I certainly like rank choice better than, you know, I think if we had rank choice voting, Ron Paul would have won. I don't know if incisive was the right word.

The problem is everybody says, man, I'd love to vote for Ron Paul, but he's probably not going to win. So you got to vote for Ron Paul, but he's probably not going to win. So you got to vote for McCain. How come George Washington, when he was leaving office, was like, party politics is terrible. Do not do it. It will be the downfall of our system. He's right about rank choice. Because right now, if a better candidate, if Biden versus Trump, right? And then there is a third party candidate that you thought was better, but you didn't believe they could win.

Voting for them, like assuming you wanted Trump to win, like you're taking away votes for Trump, would cause your worst choice to win, Hillary, Biden, whatever. The point of ranked choice is that if your candidate doesn't get above a certain threshold or is not going to win, then they default, all the voters default to their second choice. I like that a lot. So look, Dave Smith becomes the libertarian presidential candidate. And then it's Biden, Trump, Dave Smith. I go number one, Dave Smith, number two, Trump.

Then what happens is if it turns out Dave actually can't win and he only gets 10%, my vote goes to Trump instead. So it stops me from voting in the lesser of two evils. It gives me the actual ability to choose. And then what ends up happening is it gives people the confidence to vote for who they actually want. It's not perfect. There still are circumstances where people end up panicking and voting because of the way some of these systems are designed, voting against somebody for sure.

The idea is you're more voting for who you want to win instead of voting against who you want to lose. That's very important. I think if we had ranked choice voting, we'd get a libertarian president. I do. Not that I completely agree with a libertarian... Like, I want to stress, I'm not saying I think Ron Paul has the best ideas in the world.

He's just a million times better than the establishment. Because he was like, I'm not going to go to war, and I'm like, sign me up. Leave me alone. Hey, he's the candidate for you, right? Let's go to Super Chats and see what the audience has to say. If you haven't already, give that like button a good smash. It is greatly

appreciated. And subscribe to the channel. Go to TimCast.com, become a member because you're not going to want to miss tonight's bonus members only segment where we talk about the things YouTube would ban us for, which is unfortunate. Now, I know a lot of people have said some of these segments are too important to be behind a paywall. You are completely right. I 100% agree. The issue right now is that the current version of the website doesn't actually have a function by which we can properly upload. We have new infrastructure coming hopefully by Monday. be able to actually make free, like, you know, in the proper SEO, sorted, uploaded, framed, all that stuff, and then make it free if it's really, really important, which I think this

one's going to be. So anyway. All right, let's see what we got here. C. Hennessey says, Tim, been a fan since Vice found you, again, months ago, but recently I've been getting recommended videos that are definitely hit pieces on some drama from past colleagues. Maybe that's how YouTube attacks now. I have past colleagues making drama?

I have no idea. You know, I'll be honest. I completely ignore it all. Like, there's been apparently, I guess Ethan Klein was talking about me. Of course. I think it's hilarious because I literally don't care. You know, so we talk about the Young Turks right now, and I'm always like, oh, they might respond and say something to me.

I'm not going to engage. I'm not saying this because I want any drama to exist. I have my opinions. They can have theirs about me. I'm not going to argue with them. I have no problem if I ever saw Cenk Uygur and be like, hey, how's it going, man? How's it been? It's the business.

But he's the one who yelled at me, so whatever. I'm not here for that. I just ignore it all. Ignore it all. I will say, though, something we tweeted out. We have a soft lock on a Charlie Kirk-Vosh discussion debate August 3rd. So if you haven't – I say soft. They've both agreed to it. They've both agreed to the date.

They're both cool and excited for it, and I think it will actually be a lot of fun. People are like it's going to be a shouting match. Maybe a little bit because people get heated, but I don't think it's going to be as bad. I don't think it's going to be crazy. I think it's going to be really, match. Maybe a little bit because people get heated, but I don't think it's going to be as bad. I don't think it's going to be crazy. I think it's going to be really, really interesting, actually. Are you moderating it? Like you're going to actively moderate? Probably, but there's another guy I know who's a lefty

that I might have as well because I don't want to put Vosch in a situation where he's got someone who's kind of libertarian and someone who's conservative just arguing. Steamrolling you. Yeah, I disagree with Charlie on a bit. He's conservative. We had a fun conversation with him in Will Chamberlain where I'm like, here's my position.

They're like, that's libertarian. We're conservatives. But Charlie and I will probably agree on more than we would with Vosh. So I got another guy who is a lefty who agrees more with Vosh than he would with either of us. So I'm hoping it would actually just be a big discussion. I can pull up sources and say, hey, that's not true. That's not true. But we'll figure it out. Four people just be a big discussion. I can pull up sources and say, hey, that's not true, that's not true. But we'll figure it out. Four people might be too cluttered

and I might just keep quiet. I might just not actually engage and let them talk and then actually just Google what he says and then Google what... I would get them to agree to a time because they're both... I've debated Vosh. He likes to suck up all the time and I met Charlie Kirk and I've seen him speak. He loves

speaking in those 45 second I'm running for Senate clips. So you got to like at least establish some kind of like you have two minutes. You have two minutes. That's my advice. We'll mute the mic. And then Charlie will be over. Excuse me. Pass the gorilla.

If you have the gorilla, you can speak. No, I don't know. We'll just. Those guys are chill, man. I love those dudes. They're easy to talk to. We had a four hour conversation with Bosh. We had a great two and a halfa-half-hour conversation with Charlie.

It was awesome. What you've got to watch out for, and everybody does, and I will not accept, is when people do four or five points in one go. You make a point. You've got to stop because we have to fact check it. You can't just keep saying things. And it's really annoying when someone will start saying something. They'll be like, you know that two plus 2 equals 4, and that 3 plus 3

equals 6, and then 4 plus 4... Hold on, hold on. We gotta go back to 2 plus 2, bro. You can't just gloss over and say all of these things and bring us to a different point of the conversation. But a lot of people go, you're interrupting me! You're interrupting... Can one of the debate topics be that Charlie Kirk is way taller than you imagine, and it's

huge! He's way taller than me. He's like 8 foot 50. What is he, like 6'3 or 6'4? When I met him, I shook his huge. He's way taller than me. He's like 8'50". It's true. What is he, like 6'3"? When I met him, I shook his hand. I didn't know who I was meeting. I looked up. I'm like, oh, my God, you're Charlie Kern.

You looked up? What is that up there? I mean, I looked down because I'm 6'7". Yeah, that's right. Yeah, 6'7". That's true. All right. Let's see what we got here.

Kevin Burns says, federal government should back off the states. Tenth Amendment needs to be respected. Absolutely. True that. All right. Dark Hood Order of Grace says, First time super chatting. Just wanted to say I'm glad to now be a part of the team as a TimCast membership.

Thank you all so much for being members. Oh, yeah. We have, I think, around 21 employees or so. Yeah, the vibe is good. It's getting crazy. It feels so good over here. You know what the weirdest thing is? We're at the point where stuff is happening I don't know about.

Right. You know? I don't know. I walk to the house and I'm like, oh. I was like, oh, I should introduce myself. Something happened. I kind of wasn't for days. And I was like, I really should be more personable.

Things are happening that I didn't know were happening. And it's like, oh, man. It's all these people I don't know. Yeah, there's so many people now. Stuff happens. I love it. I see an article pop up on the website and i'm like hello no they're working on that so it's going to be fantastic oh yeah all right all right let's see we got here

just some mince to garlic says three of my co-workers and i quit when they tried to force critical race courses as part of training now work for a suppressor company best change ever that sounds pretty awesome that's cool let me just stress to all of you right now. I went to the diner and they have a sign on the door. We're struggling to staff. I walked inside. A whole section of the building was you can't sit here. Understaffed.

So they only had one little dining area. They close at 5 p.m. If you work for a company and they're like, we're going to get woke. And you look your manager in the eye and say, I will quit on the spot. They'll say, please, please,

please don't. We can't hire anybody. Nobody wants to work. You have all the leverage right now as an employee. These companies are desperate. Dude, I saw a Wendy's and a big banner said,

open interviews. Anytime. Like, I could walk in right now. I'd like an interview, please, come here. There are signs on McDonald's and other fast food restaurants, $1,000 bonus.

Now, I know a lot of people are saying, I don't work for a fast food restaurant. Dude, nobody. Like, people are struggling to hire. I'll tell you this. Why is it that we're hiring? It's a high-profile show with a decent amount of resumes,

and people want to work, and we do passion projects. So maybe you work at a company that's not the same as you know like a cracker factory or a paper mill or something but i genuinely believe right now you will have a substantial amount of leverage if they try introducing you know racist trainings like they're doing with the the critical race applied principles and you just say i'll quit you know and And then what happens when you file for unemployment? It's because my boss was racist.

It's the biggest labor crunch in recent history. You got to go for it. McDonald's is giving away iPhones, too. I know. I saw that. Wow. It's crazy. And some of those high-profile jobs, because people have moved away, and they're like,

if I don't work from home, I'm not coming back. If you're just willing to go into the office, you can get a huge pay increase. Yeah. Wow. All right. OCD Wolfman says go into the office, you can get a huge pay increase. Yeah. Yeah, wow. All right. OCD Wolfman says, so last week you had been discussing storage of meat like chicken. You can typically store chicken vacuum sealed and frozen for up to two years. Wow. I watched a video where they were water glassing eggs.

You know what that is? It's like a mixture of lime and water. And you take the egg right from the coop, right from the chicken's butt, and you just you put it in i'm probably getting this wrong i'm not but there's something there's something on the egg called the bloom which is like it seals the egg so you can put it right in that lime mixture and and leave it for like up to two years or something like that refrigerated or no no no just in the bucket i gotta ask is this how they treat them in europe because i know that they do not refrigerate eggs in europe you don't have to if you don't wash them. Yeah. So because in the US they have to be washed. Right.

They become, they're porous and then eggs go bad. Yeah. Yep. All right. Track Media Only says peaceful divorce requires both sides wanting peaceful and the left wants your stuff. Or do you think China and Russia are peaceful when they want something? But that also implies that there's going to be easily dividable

state factions, which I don't think there will be, because blue cities don't agree with the rest of their red states, so what's more likely to happen is a fracture of confidence and a general dissolution. I don't think it's going to be...

Like, you might get the Enclave. Like, you played Fallout 3, right? No, I don't play Game Station. Wow, what are you talking... What? Fallout. I don't know any video games. That's what you play it on right a

game station fallout 3 no i don't play games pc what computer xbox playstation you play the last game oh yeah the last game i played was super mario rpg legend of the seven stars good game dude fantastic fallout 3 there is this very powerful faction called the enclave it's remnants of the government so there might be a very, you might see like, you know, federal, capital police like guarding a building and you're like, oh, look, those guys still are still around, huh? But who knows? MIT says by 2040. We'll see how that plays out.

Thundercat says the Timcast crew with actual Justice Warrior. Awesome. Guys, help me convince my wife to buy a gorilla shirt. We also have the don't snake Me Bro shirt, which is a skateboarding or, you know, it's a skate park reference. Snaking someone is when you cut in front of them, when it's their turn to hit a ramp

or a rail or an obstacle. Yeah, you're cutting in line. So it's the Gadsden snake with a beanie on a skateboard and it says Don't Snake Me Bro. All the skateboarders were like, yeah! They were super excited to wear the Gadsden don't snake me brochure james alford says i looked at the map i don't like being with colorado if this happens we need to separate it to two uh two north and south or east and west and give people that want freedom the time to move to the split they want and the same

with the commies i've been telling you man you gotta go somewhere else get away from the cities move to the state you want to be in people don't realize like oregon for instance these counties want to secede they voted to secede if the pacific northwest actually ever did break out break out you're a serf and then you're trapped so go somewhere with like-minded people they might be the only people and they still wouldn't be able to do it that could leave without triggering a war because if if you think about it if like louisiana were to secede uh that's the port of new orleans that's the end of the mississippi river nobody you can't give that up to another country no you're gonna end up going into war over that no coastal territory

no breadbasket state maybe a mountainous no no state like you can't give me you want a river yeah every port the feds are not going to give up a port i mean the reason andrew jackson's president is because new orleans was the strategically most important city when he won the battle of new orleans because everything had to go out through the mississippi river texas is probably one of the best bets but yeah i'm worried a bunch of the california people are moving there and we'll see what actually happens in Texas. But they have the Gulf. The California people make Texas more red.

If the election were held with just native Texans, Beto O'Rourke would be the senator of Texas. Yeah, but are those people from California? Or is that like the conservatives from all over the country who are moving in? But largely, except for Austin, which is a lefty like enclave, the people moving fromifornia are the republicans that are moving it they're keeping it red good i hope so alex on earth says secession is a surefire way to get a job cleaning ccp toilets i agree yeah that's why it worries me all right makeshift electric says hey tim recently heard you say in passing you wanted someone to make music for you on a whim i sent some of my stuff to the pitches email didn't know where else to send you played a big role in waking me up so thank you all hey appreciate it yes we're looking for a composer quite literally we need to hire someone who will

sit in a room making different music all day that's it probably a lot of a lot like i'm talking like easily like a lot of electronic production stuff and then instrumentation whatever you can do but if there was somebody who knew how to just do electronic i'd be like make the music because we can use it for everything we do i would love for that person to also if you could set up microphones all over the place you know you understand sound booms um dampening what equipment we need what pieces all that stuff like the total package bring it definitely tyler richie says hey tim what do you think of Elon shouting out Doge coins? Is this market manipulation? This week he shouted out Daddy Doge to Mars after his trial.

I do think it is, but crypto is not regulated. Isn't his kid mining Doge? Oh, Elon's is? Yeah, I don't know. I think everybody plays this stupid game. A lot of people will super chat like, this is the crypto to buy. And I'm like, I know they're saying that because they want – I mean, is word of mouth when you're famous market manipulation?

I think – Well, yes. In general sense. When you have a vested interest in the production of a product and you own a ton of it and then you start tweeting out, hey, hey, yeah, check it out. You're sketching in the legal territory whether it's technically actually market manipulation. Well, it's not. It's legally not. There's no laws.

I'm just saying we know why he's doing it. It is manipulating the market, but it's not legally manipulating the market. However that works. Brown Bear says, if we have a peaceful divorce, who gets custody of the nukes? The region where the nukes are.

The command stations for where they are. That's it. We need a technological solution here. I'm just... I'm falling flat right now. But it's not an easy solution, or someone would have figured it out already. Brown Bear says, Rock and stone to the bone.

Hey, dude, are you talking about Deep Rock Galactic? It's a game for the PC. Black Stone. It's a great game, by the way. Oregon Trail? Good game. Oregon Trail, yeah. My daughter died of cholera. It was sad. I the PC. Blackstone. It's a great game, by the way. Oregon Trail? Good game. Oregon Trail, yeah.

My daughter died of cholera. It was sad. Yeah, I died of dysentery. Twimmy says, love your work, guys. Keep it up. S.O. Ian, I'm a fairly pessimistic Canadian who's sick of living in liberal land. I've been considering immigrating to the States, but I don't know. Jack, about the process.

South Dakota seems mint. Any advice? Go where your heart is, man. I don't have any advice because I don't know how the process. South Dakota seems mint. Any advice? Go where your heart is, man. I don't have any advice because I don't know how the process works either. Yeah. Well, you get a job with an American corporation. I do know that Biden basically just lets everybody through the southern border.

Yeah. You could definitely come visit, I think. Apparently, that still works. For a while. Yeah. I don't know. Do we have policies related to the virus for incoming travelers still? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.

I think so, yeah. I think the borders are still restricted. Staunch Unionist says, Tim, do you think the establishment wants to balkanize the U.S., or do you think the Dems just want a civil war because they think they can win and take all the power? Personally, I can't stand the idea of a peaceful divorce. That's what Jack Posobiec was saying,

that the Democrats have the solution, but they need a problem. They need some kind of catalyst so that they can then crack down and just become the CCP. So Jack Posobiec was saying that the Democrats have the solution, but they need a problem. They need some kind of catalyst so that they can then crack down and just become the CCP. He was making a really he made a really great point that when these when these politicians went over to China and saw how they can snap their fingers and create a financial district and just create an amusement park and then boom, there's Disney World. They were like, how do we do that? Well, you got to be authoritarian. How do you do that? You've got to get rid of they were like how do we do that well you got to be authoritarian how do you do that you got to get rid of the constitution how do you do that you need a civil war politicians always have more solutions than there are problems and those solutions tend to

create more problems so um i wouldn't be surprised if they have a lot of ideas they want to implement that they're waiting for something remember COVID is an opportunity to remake the country. Splinter 191 says, you asked what a ward room is. It refers to the officers of a ship. It's also where they eat their meals on fancy dishes and silverware. Navy nuke sub-vet. Right on. Very cool.

Oh, okay. Tarzan Jungle Kung Fu says that white stripe is actually for the Seven Nation Army. That's what I was thinking. Yeah. Yep. It's Jack Black. Check this out. So this is Spencer Rangel says,

Tim, the white in the flag does not represent whites. The combination of blue, pink, and white is representing the trans flag. Yes, but it's not the trans flag. So there's a white stripe on the LGBT flag. The pink and the blue I understand, but the black and brown, there's no like black and brown flag. You know what I mean? That's kind of weird though.

The black flag is the anarchist flag. Yeah. They got their fist one, right? What is black and orange? Is that just like anarcho-centrist? What's Black Hammer's flag look like? I don't know. Is that an organization?

Have you ever heard of it? No idea. It's a Ghazi Kodos organization. Geez. All right, let's see. Caliber Neutral says, I've looked on the old site, but will Ian's nude model calendar

where he makes graphene sexy again be on the new site? Yeah, we actually shot some footage today, Andreas and I. Oh my God. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Was it nude? Finished up the year.

Was it nude? No, the year. Was it nude? No, the calendar will be on my website if I end up going nude. I was thinking about doing nude yoga. Maybe we could put that on TimCast.com. Nude hot yoga. I'm loving that. TimCast.com. This company is going.

Thank you, Ian. BlackRockBeacon says, Biden is more like Nero trying to cross the Rubicon. Nero was a kid that was like inbred or something, right? Emperor Nero. And he went psychotic and had all this hate and rage, but he was an emperor. So at age 12, he would have all these orgies. He had these huge boats built that he would...

No, I'm thinking of... What's the sex kid? The Roman sex emperor. I'm thinking of Caligula. Nero was the one who played the fiddle while Rome burned. They think that maybe he actually lit Rome on fire. Cool. And like false flagged it.

Relentless Hemi says, just subscribe to TimCast.com. Yes. You're legit, Relentless. Thank you so much. Welcome. All right. AileAld says, P.S. Love you guys. Huge fan. you made me turn democrat to center of

right tim and also i'm the only republican libertarian in my whole family oh no is that the radicalization that biden's been talking about yeah i guess so it's funny because like i could actually you know have a good conversation about um libertarian policies. The problem, the reason why I would rather have Ron Paul as like a more right libertarian is because under a right libertarian system, you're allowed to have your left libertarian system. And so I'm kind of like, you know, leave me alone and let me do my thing. And if me and my, you know, homies can have a farm where we like grow our own food and I'll share it and everything and do our little left libertarian hippie stuff,

I'm all right. I'm cool. So, you know, that stuff. I'm all right. I'm cool. So, you know, that's what I'm all about. The problem is when they try to scale it up, the only way to scale up left-libertarianism is to become authoritarian. There's literally no big school left-libertarianism. Or if you become Christian. Have you ever seen the studies of the communes? The Christian ones outlast way more than the Marxist ones. Makes sense to me.

They ask for a collective sacrifice, and there's a religious basis for it. Marxist communes are like the one that Bernie Sanders was in, where they're like, dude, you're not working. Get out. They kicked him out for not working. They kicked him out for being too lazy to be in the commune. I love that story. It's my favorite story. It's amazing.

All right. Travis Condict says, First ever Super Chat. I just want to invite everyone to come together and have a good time every Saturday for the Million Doge Disco Decentralized Dance Party. We're 100% about fun and love. Excellent. Bliss says, Hey, Tim, two things.

One, could you point me to where I could apply for a job on your site? 20-year-old mill worker, but I really don't fear repercussions from the left. Two, you ever try Pop Corners? What is that i really don't fear repercussions from the left two you ever try pop corners what is what is that i don't know um jobs at timcast.com and man i think probably by next year we might have like 52 even 100 employees yeah we already need like more space yeah but we are growing really really quickly the news that's going to launch and then we're going to it's going to go real fast and it's going to slow down a bit because it's a big investment. So that basically means like the people we're hiring, there's no guarantee it actually becomes sustainable.

But some things are worth doing regardless of whether or not they have direct monetary returns. Like basically the vlog, for instance, we do, definitely not profitable right now. But it could be, more importantly, it's excellent marketing value for the company and it's excellent culture building. So there's real value to that i'm sure you got

like a legal team but you need to look into where that employee cutoff is in this state oh yeah i know it's like 51 employees is usually what it is so this is the thing people need to realize about why companies eventually take on that 20 million dollars because jank probably hit a point where he crossed the threshold and then immediately got slammed by massive regulation. And then in order to become compliant, didn't have the money to do it because you crossed that threshold and all of a sudden your business is now in a different territory. Going from 51 to 52 employees is like going from 25 to 51. That's how much more expensive when all those regulations kick in.

Yep. Yeah. There's a whole bunch of really crazy regulations that happen once you cross in most places i think it's 50 employees once you get to 50 all of a sudden everything lights up and then man that's the biggest bummer so i'm wondering if what makes more sense is to actually um somewhat compartmentalize and keep companies focused like if we're going to do something like we're developing a video game, that should probably be spun off into its own company. Because there's no point in cluttering up a system with something that's more peripheral to what everyone else is doing.

But, you know. Alright. Good luck on your expansion. Also, I would say we should utilize contractors. I don't know what you feel ethically about that. Yeah, of course. We do. They're not considered employees, though, right? Right. So you could have a million of them?

No, no, no. I mean, there's limits, but the idea is a contractor would be someone who submits an article, and then we're like, hey, it's cool. We'll buy it off you. You can't have permalancers where you contract someone and have them work every day, basically. Can you not? You cannot. No.

YouTube. That's what we are on. According to YouTube, we're freelancers that no they say they're royalty payments oh yeah yeah probably that's the reason joshua vote says hello from nj instead of balkanization how would y'all feel about a mass cleansing of federal government by that i mean anyone who has been in for more than 15 years in politics are gone also how do y'all feel about term limits for all politicians i'm not i don't know enough about term limits we've had really good arguments on the show about why they're good

and why they're bad i think they're great and people say if somebody wants to vote for someone let them vote for them and it doesn't matter if they're a career politician or not they're going to be supported by the machine all the same so they'll just find more people so i i don't know how about this theory that I heard today, actually? Should we pay politicians in the House and the Senate $10 million a year? Andrew Yang was talking about that. He said that if they're paid a ton of money, then they're going to be very loyal to that system that makes them rich

and not to – that still makes no sense, so the answer is no. Well, it's actually because they manage trillions of dollars of money and they're making less money that they can make on any like reasonably high wall street job so should we pay them enough to attract people who are talented from those fields to run for office how we create a bonus structure yeah if they can uh reduce the deficit they'll get a percentage as their salary for the year otherwise Otherwise, their salary is $1. If the economy improves, they get a percent. They get the raise based on it. I like the idea of politicians getting paid what

the middle class median is. Then their incentive is to make sure the middle class median is very high. There you go. It'll work. But we don't want Congress controlling what the median income is. We don't want them setting wages. Sean B says, Tim, it's not lime. It's a liquid silicate product. Literally, liquid glass. Been want congress controlling what the median income is like we don't want them setting wages ah sean b says tim it's not lime it's a liquid silicate product literally liquid glass been used for many

years as a concrete sealant oh interesting there you go jm says you should try to get patrick more on he helped founded greenpeace and he's pretty cool we have reached out to him in the past i think covid really jammed everything up but we'll definitely reach out to him he is really awesome i'm a fan he's very pro nuclear energy and has been. And he, I looked into him after I worked at Greenpeace and I was wondering why they weren't looking into nuclear and why they opposed it so much. And then I read about the history and I was like, well, look at that. All right.

Let's see. We had a YouTube did the famous super chat jump. Super damp. So, all right. Frankie Sherratt says, Tim tim how can our company sponsor you there should be an email listed in the about section of this youtube channel i guess because we have we have a manager who does the ads for us um should be there i guess all right let's see where we're at john hemmelman says i'm from i'm from a small town in minnesota the people here are mostly too minnesota nice to express or even hold strong political opinions.

Not watching the news is considered a virtue. It's very frustrating. Also, Reagan's 1984 opponent was from Minnesota. Ah, so that's why Mondale won Minnesota. And I believe it was one point Reagan lost by. Wow. Wow. Yikes.

Crazy. And then what was the other 49 state landslide? That was Nixon 2, maybe? Was it Nixon 2? Which is weird because that's the one where he broke into the thing. Oh, wow. That thing. Alright, let's see. We'll get a couple more super chats

here. I love you guys, by the way. Super chats. Mayor Mercules says, I just sent you an email to info at timcast.com about the musical composer audio engineer job. Let me know if you would like samples of my work. Please send samples to info at timcast.com about the musical composer audio engineer job let me know if you would like samples of my work please send samples to jobs at timcast.com and absolutely so we would really just i knew one guy who would literally sit around all day and just make electronic music of like different kind of genres but just on his computer and he had like thousands of them i'm like that's what we need because we need to be able to be like hey can

you make a song like this? Like, we need it for the show, we need it for this show, we need it for that show. Or we want to actually make the music and release it as a song or something like that. Make some music.

Plus, I got a million and one songs that need to be recorded and produced and released as well. So we want an in-house music producer. We also have a pretty sweet drum kit, but what we don't have is a drummer. So, hope you play the drums. Bring the noise. Eh, you know, I think people can play the drums. Let's get L don't have is a drummer. So I hope you play the drums. Bring the noise.

You know, I think people can play the drums. Let's get Lashley Tim's drummer. Yeah, I've been playing drums since I was like seven. Yeah, you're a drummer. I want a metal. Yeah, I want a gold metal. Get a drum off. Did J.K. Simmons like yell at you while you were learning to play?

No. No. But the best part was I got to leave class to go to drumming practice that's beautiful so i'd be sitting to look at the clock when i was in like fourth grade and then it would like hit it was like some obscure number like 10 10 a.m so like everyone's in class and all i'm just like i get up and i walk over and i grab my snare drum and i just leave all right what is this bells nickel says you guys need to canoe the Shenandoah steps at Harper's Ferry and go tubing on the Shenandoah some weekend.

Andreas bought a bunch of these giant rubber duckies to go float down the Shenandoah on giant rubber ducky tubes. It's still hot. Yeah. Could be good vlog content. I will say, though, as an aside, you mentioned the heat, Ian. Yeah. So this morning when I was going to get eggs for my breakfast, I noticed something.

Do tell. One of the eggs was fertilized. Oh, that chicken. The rooster been busy. Yeah. Robbie Bobby. And now it's at 90 degrees. It's 94 degrees outside for the next couple weeks.

You're going to let him have some babies. He getting busy. He is. So what did you do? You crack it open and there was like a... There's something called a germination disc or something. Oh, Rooster getting it on. So I'm just going to leave those eggs.

How do you know which ones are... Because we have two chickens that are laying and I cracked them both open and I saw the one that was fertilized. So we'll just let the babies happen. Does that make you an uncle or a grandfather? How does that work in the chain of command? Godfather.

When you own a creature and it has kids, what do you call it? I don't know. I have dominion over them. Yeah, you do. Pick your title. Go with God, King of North Korea. Yeah, I like that. Yeah, that's good.

So it's one's... What's the black and white one? The Bard Rock? Bard Rock. Yeah, Plymouth Bard Rock. Plymouth Bard Rock and Rhode Island Red are going to have babies, and they're going to look funky. It's going to be hilarious.

I'm so happy for him. I'm happy for all of them. Living the dream, man. That's right. Living the dream. And we're going to give them a big Chicken City that's being built out in the next couple of weeks. And then we're going to...

So a lot of people are like, where's Chicken City? We're trying to do the website. We are focusing everything on getting this website done as fast as possible. And then we're going to have the Chicken City channel. I spent some time with chickens today. Got a little vlog content. I don't know if it'll be on the vlog. Chickens.

I don't know if it'll work out. All right, everybody. If you have not done so, smash that like button. Subscribe to the channel. Go to TimCast.com. Become a member. The very important election bonus segment will be coming up. Make sure to follow us on Facebook and Instagram at TimCastIRL.

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There you go. You can also hit me up at IanCrossland.net and at Ian Crossland on social media. I want to shout out Eric Thinman's Freedom Phone. You guys see this new phone? Yes, we do. He was here. We met him. He came with Alan Bakari one night and showed us this new phone he's been working on.

I mean, he was the youngest Bitcoin millionaire. That's right. And now he's paying it forward and he's built this awesome new phone. I'm really excited to find out more about that. I tweeted it out a little while ago. Awesome. I'm glad Ian brought that up because I had a conversation with Eric the other day. I'm very excited for where he's going with that little Freedom Phone thing.

Facing all this censorship, seems like a great time to get into some freedom stuff. You guys are more than welcome to follow me on Twitter at SarahPatchLids as I attempt to gain more followers since SarahPatchKids is very important to me. Please do so. We will see you all over at TimCast.com. Thanks for hanging out. Bye, guys.