Timcast IRL - Timcast IRL #374 - Nicki Minaj DOXXES Journalists Over Lies, Journos Lose Their Minds w/Matt Palumbo

Episode Date: September 18, 2021

Tim, Ian, and Lydia join journalist and author Matt Palumbo to examine Nicki Minaj's reaction to the left-wing media, the Biden border crisis, an Atlantic article comparing modern America to ancient Rome and predicting a civil war that Trump supporters might very well win, the future of cryptocurrency, and Matt's latest work about George Soros. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nicki Minaj is not having it. She's arguing with journalists. They're trying to get information on her family. So she published the private details of, I think, two journalists. I've only seen one. She posted some guy's business card with his email and phone number on it. And now these journalists online are like, how dare she? Who does she think she is? We're journalists. Journalists are better than you. And I'm just laughing the whole time because these journalists are egotistical scumbags for the most part. And so they're whining and crying. So you know what? I'm not going to shed a tear for any of these people. They lie about Nicki Minaj. They go on CNN claim. She's scared of vaccines because of swollen balls,

which is not what she said. They don't give you the nuance and the actual context. They just want to make fun of people. They just want to smear them and make rage bait. Nikki is waking up to this, or maybe she already knew, and maybe she's finally speaking up, but she actually said to one woman, she called her, I don't even know if, I'll wait. YouTube has a rule on swearing in the first 30 seconds, so we'll read what she said about this journalist. And she was like basically saying, I'm coming for you, but in a more aggressive way and called her a female dog. So you know where that went. And I'm, you know what?

I don't like name calling. I don't like escalation of conflict. But it's also kind of a, there is this cathartic release seeing these journalists, you know, they're trying to go up against somebody who's one of the most famous individuals on the planet, lie about her, insult her, deride her. And she's like, she's got weight to throw around. So this is interesting. Is Nicki Minaj the hero we need to challenge the authoritarianism? She came out and said the US is becoming like communist China. And now this, wow. We got a bunch of other stories, though. There's one really interesting story that I talked about on my main channel, which is there's an article in The Atlantic where this historian

says he predicts a civil war and the Trump supporters will win. Now, that I found really interesting. He says, ultimately, an authoritarian, regressive, reactionary, you know, political system can't survive. And I'm like, what does that mean? It'll last 20 years, 30, 40,, reactionary, you know, political system can't survive. And I'm like, what does that mean? It'll last 20 years, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90. Yeah, eventually systems collapse. I get it. But bro came out and said, there's going to be a civil war and Trump will, Trump supporters are going to win. He said he thinks it might start with the indictment of Donald Trump. That would be the crossing of the Rubicon. And there's a lot to consider there. Because ultimately, I think the difference between ancient Rome and now is that the the Trump supporters are the people who are just like peaceful divorce. Take your state and go. We don't care. They don't want to take control of it.

So we'll get in all this stuff. We're being joined by Matt Palumbo. You want to introduce yourself? Yeah, Matt. I don't know what else to say besides I'm today's guest. I run a website. It was some guy outside? Some guy from the street that Tim found and was kind enough to invite me in. No, no, I'm here to talk about a new book I have out about George Soros, or is coming out, I should say. And I run Dan Bongino's news aggregator, Bonginoreport.com,

which is our competitor to the Drudge Report, which, as everyone here knows, kind of blows. Yeah, it used to be good. I mean, 20 years ago. I mean, the problem, too, was the site never really advanced. In fact, there was an article on The Onion like 10 years ago, a Drudge report, and it was like, exclusive report, Drudge has actually been hacked for the past 20 years. They're trying to make the site look like shit.

So there is, A, the site never really adapted, and then, B, there's been this weird sort of left-wing turn, starting to trump. And he might be sort of bouncing back a little, but overall it's gone left and he's hammered his audience and no one really knows what the story is behind that. Well, there you go. Word. Well, thanks for joining us.

Pleasure to see you guys. Happy to be here on a Friday. Beautiful Friday night. Amazing weather outside. Went for a walk down to the river. Happy to be back. Nice moonlight. Very sweaty. Yeah, it was nice. There you go. Went for a walk down to the river. Happy to be back. Nice moonlight. Very sweaty.

Yeah, it was nice. It was damp out there. The moon hadn't gone down yet. Yeah, because we're actually at the top of a mountain. I got some, what are those little, those needle, I'll think of the word of this plant that I got all over my feet. These little needles. Nettle.

Nettle. You walked barefoot? I walked in sandals through the nettles. Yeah, it was the nettles. Yeah, we're on top of a mountain here. I think we're like 150 feet up or more. No, I think it's way more than that. I, it was the nettles. We're on top of a mountain here. I think we're like 150 feet up or more. No, I think it's way more than that. I think it might be like 200.

When I was driving in, like every 10 foot, there was like a no trespassing sign. And I was getting progressively more nervous. If this is the wrong house, I'm totally getting shot. Well, there's two no trespassing signs. So don't exaggerate. Because after the second one, it's the auto defense turrets. Yeah, my bad. They progressively get bigger. Because after the second one. You already got me lying. After the second sign, it's the auto defense turrets. Ah. Yeah.

Progressively get bigger. That's what I saw. Someone actually once claimed that we had full auto 50 cal. I was like, cool. Like, these people are nuts. Like, no, that's not true. It's just a little sign that says, don't come in my house. But sure, we got Lydia Preston.

I loved this rumor about our auto defense turrets and 50 cal. I was like, this is cool. Why hasn't Tim told me about this? I wouldn't deny it. I would just say, yeah, yeah, totally have that. Don't come here. Let them believe it. I'm so excited for this Nicki Minaj story because it's just

progressively getting better. But also go to TimCast.com, become a member, help support our fierce and independent journalism. We got so much stuff going on with TimCast. Ian's getting ready to do a cooking show. Oh, it's making me hungry just thinking about it. Cooking show. I tell you the feedback's been great too. I think people are really excited. The people that like me are really excited to

watch the cooking show. It's going to be like a hippie, trippy, cosmic cooking show. You know, and what I'm going to do is take people's suggestions. They're going to send in recipes and I want to do recipes from fans and things too. I think that'll be really fun. Don't forget to like this video, this live stream. Subscribe to the channel.

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on purpose jezebel reports nikki minaj just tried to dox to reporters it seems like she isn't very happy about what's going on there's a question mark there i don't know i had to read it with the upward inflection uh jezebel is a bad website they're not they're they're not a good website but i thought it'd be interesting to pull up Jezebel because here's what I find fascinating. Jezebel's supposed to be like feminist, right? Supposedly feminist website. Why are they defending the Daily Mail?

Isn't that weird? So anyway, they prattle on for quite a bit, and then somewhere near the bottom, they go on to mention she hopped on Instagram and posted screenshots to her story that allegedly show a conversation between a reporter in trinidad attempting to contact some of her family members one assumes that this reporter must be doing so in order to verify the claims of swollen balls but we will likely never know the truth because also used her story to attempt to dox the reporters by posting a picture of a business card a name and a phone number and And it was a mail online business card. Like, it's a Murdoch company.

I'm Jezebel's feminist. And they're all of a sudden defending. These people have, they claim like these are bad outlets. And now all of a sudden they're journalists. Okay, sure, whatever. But anyway, for those that aren't familiar with the story, I'll give you the quick version. Nicki Minaj tweeted that her cousin's friend got the vaccine, became impotent. His balls swole up. And then his fiance left him, which is like an absolutely insane and ridiculous story. I personally, based on everything I read, I don't think that had anything to do with the vaccine.

But Nicki Minaj was just telling a story she heard. So, okay. Journalists got all angry, and they started making fun of her. She then said two things. She didn't want to travel because of her baby. She then said the Met Gala wanted people to get vaccinated. And if she was going to get vaccinated, it wouldn't be for the Met Gala. Then the narrative became Nicki Minaj refuses to attend Met Gala due to vaccine mandates and a fear of swollen balls.

Which she wouldn't really have. Right. But it's just like it's over the top. And then she's like, yo, you're lying. I didn't say that. And the media, what they do is they take what she said and twist it to the legal extent they can without getting sued. But Nicki Minaj has got 180 million followers. So she's going nuclear on these.

Let me show you what she posted. And so let's get rid of that. She says she posts one thread. I'm not going to read necessarily the conversation. It's just like a journalist, like their names and stuff. She says, threatening my family in Trinidad won't bode well for you. In Trinidad, harassing my family. I didn't want to give details, but now I will.

And this is a guy named James Fielding. We blocked out his information. They're forcing my family to have to hide out. This is what speaking up looks like. Millions of poor people are treated this way by people you think are the good guys. This is unconscionable. That one. That was surprising to me. Because she's now pointing out like these people are bad guys.

They're claiming to be the good guys or the bad guys. She said, Charlene Ramper said, bitch, your days are effing numbered, you dirty hoe. Spicy. Nikki! You know what? I'm not gonna cheer cheer for, like, that level of, you know. Behemoths.

Yeah, but I will say fighting back. That I respect. Like, I was going to say, like, I'm against doxing people, but the key word there is people, not internet hole monitors. That's the opposite of what these people are doing. And I don't know. These people, like, all see themselves as gods to some extent, and i do think it's time they sort of get some pushback

and who better than someone with a hundred million uh rapid followers to that's it that's exactly it it's like final you know there's there's a bunch of little guys out there who get pushed around and lied about there was that cnn story we're actually talking about before the show cnn's like we're gonna dox this guy he posts a meme more time. And it's like, these people are insane. They target the little guy. And now they've gone after Nicki Minaj, who is the opposite of the little guy. She's a juggernaut. Maybe celebrities we all don't really like are way forward.

It's like the secret to defeat these people. I don't know. You see all these conservatives that are cheering her on. Like, yeah, she's one of us now. And it's like, no, she she agrees on one issue. We don't have to accept them fully. But, you know, it is nice when we kind of line here and there. She is one of us because whatever this side is, we're talking about the other day, the cult and the not cult.

That is true. I don't agree with conservatives on a lot of things. And like, I always like to mention that I went on Glenn Beck's show. We're sitting in this big movie studio, basically,enn beck's the blaze offices are ridiculously massive and we have like this microphone hanging down or whatever and we're arguing pro-choice versus pro life with smiles on our faces and a handshake and like wow that was a really great conversation and we're like yeah i remember i had that thought the other day too where i'm like i think with me like if i had a you know start a new country it's more the people than the policies like i would rather have our legislature but where we can actually

talk to each other and actually converse and and instead of just you know defaming each other and you know do what the left does where they reinvent the meaning of words like i would rather have a more sane populace with a diversity of opinion than an only right-wing country because i mean i don't know what kind of right wing would be even and and whatever that what if they're people i don't like so that see what i it's important there i would say that's never going to happen there are some instances where i'll see the right do something that i consider to be disingenuous or just like exaggerated or hyperbolic you know there was one where recently happened joe biden was like wearing sunglasses and eating ice cream and he said something like he was asked about Trump and he goes, Trump said Robert E. Lee would in Afghanistan.

I don't want to talk about it or whatever. And they were like, look, he's stuttering and mumbling and he can't speak. And I'm like, no, that time it just sounded like he was sounded like he was uninterested and was being dismissive and was being dismissive. You don't need to pretend that Joe Biden can't speak. We can all hear him say, true to not a shot, but a pressure. That's what it was. But it's with, with the quote unquote,

right. Or the not cult. It's, it's a mix. It's independent voters. You've got like, look, you've got people like Jimmy door.

You know, Jimmy door is a socialist. As far as I know, I'm not, I'm not saying it to be derogatory. Like I think he actually identifies as a socialist. And I think Jimmy's fantastic. And he points out a lot of the same manipulations and lies in the media yeah so jimmy door sitting down with a conservative they're probably going to be arguing like crazy but then they're going to completely agree on the

establishment the feds the war the manipulation so when nikki minaj comes out and she's like the media lies and i'm not going to stand for it's like yes this is basically what we're talking about the people who can who who are discer, they look at the media and they question the narratives and the people who aren't, who believe whatever they're told. So Nicki Minaj tweets this thing like they're lying about me. Michael Malice tweeted at her, the corporate press is the enemy of the people. And then someone responded, Nicki Minaj is on the side of the far right. Here we go. That's the cult. I mean, that's the weird thing about the left, too, in making every common sense position far right is like you're going to actually normalize the far right, which is not necessarily something you want to do either. Right.

But it's not even far right. Well, it's not at all far right. I was thinking about how it's not a volleyball game where it's like half of us and half of us. It's more like mold toxicity has entered the system. So it's not like an aberration, like it's there and we can locate it. It hits the system and then it disperses throughout. So we've got this bits of like toxicity entered the system. So it's not like an aberration, like it's there and we can locate it. It hits the system and then it disperses throughout. So we've got these bits of toxicity in the system.

But it's a small percentage of the system, although it's affecting it. And then the rest of the system is just functioning, and now we're all kind of trying to work together. I got a crazy idea. Get the right to get on board with universal health care. Actually, it's not even my joke. It's the Babylon Bee. Trump comes out in support of impeachment, forcing forcing democrats to oppose you know that one yeah so

i'm not even going to claim the joke it's a recycled joke but yeah if the right came out and they were like we support the green new deal and aoc they back aoc is far right because you can't convert people on the right yeah politics someone did that with cnn where i think they were arguing for like paid maternity leave and then Ivanka Trump proposed not that policy but a tax credit for mothers. And then CNN wrote an article about why that was such a horrible policy. Well, it's the world we live in. That's why I call it the cult because like I can sit down and have a conversation about border policy with libertarians. And you have libertarians who are pro and against borders.

And the libertarians who are like open borders is the only true libertarian position and the other person is like no no there should be borders otherwise you don't have a country and it's like those conversations can happen yeah we've been trying to get people to come on with alex jones we want a leftist to come on they won't do it because they're scared of him not because you know you know what the funny thing? They're scared because he's going to be right. Because when Joe Rogan had him on, and Joe Rogan kept fact-checking him, and then Joe would be like, Alex, that's not true. And Alex would be like, look it up, I'm telling you.

And then Jamie pulled it up, and then, oh yeah, I found it, it's true. It's CNN reporting, 2016, some weird thing. When he was here, Alex told me that we eat cloned beef. He's like, all the beef you're eating is all clones. And I'm like, no it isn't. That's ridiculous. And he's like, look, Google it. And I typed it in and dozens of articles. All of the meat you get

is from cloned cows. And I was like, oh. So what happens is we have these leftists. Some of them are like, yeah, I'll do the show. And then later go, no, no, I'm not going to do it. Because what are they going to do when they sit down across from Alex Jones and he says something populist, like, we can't have these elites stealing money from the working class. And they're going to be like, I agree with you, Alex Jones.

And that's going to get clipped and put everywhere. They're scared. They're scared because, now, I certainly think Alex has been crazy and wrong about a lot of things. Oh, he's a nut, but I like the guy. But when he talks about nobody wants to be in the room with the guy, these leftists don't, where they get a sound bite, where they're in agreement with him over basic issues.

When he's talking about 5G cell towers and mutant animal hybrids and weird stuff. The left can't agree with the right on a single issue. We can agree with a single issue with Nicki Minaj and go, yeah, we'll align with you there, but they'll find someone they agree with on everything, or even

they're canceling within their own. They'll find someone they agree with on everything and be like, oh, he said a homophobic term in Xbox Live in 2003. Yeah. Oh, what was that? The Jeopardy guy? Yeah. He posted boobs. I think it was nine years ago. And then it's so weird, too, because you can see it play out in Twitter, the whole process.

And all the other journalists are like, wow, great job transcribing this nine-year-old podcast no one knew about like great work guys yeah what he said boobs or something something it was something so I mean I already forgot what it was which gives you dude I I say it all the time but like I don't understand how people would choose to live that way like Nicki Minaj is willing to put her career on the line because she's like screw you i'm not going to do what you say how is it nikki minaj is more more punk rock than rage against the machine yeah that's the thing with the left they always have an issue no matter how obscure like i'll be friends with someone on facebook from college and they're like oh this native tribe in the middle of this place you've never heard of needs our help and i'm like how do you guys keep track of all this shit?

And I'm not saying it's bad to care. I'm just saying I don't get how you guys get. It must be exhausting. I'm looking forward to, like, Nikki doing new songs. Yeah. She might incorporate us into it. Oh, it's all going to be in it. Red pills, baby. Yeah.

And it's like, you think back to that line from Rage Against the Machine. I'm sorry. Rage on Behalf of the Machine, where they said, F you, I won't do what you tell me. And now they're lying. We should rewrite that song. F you, you better do what they tell you. And they were never

really anti-establishment. Like if you, well, they actually did a tour, I think it was sponsored by Pepsi once, but you might want to check that. But on Tamaro's guitar,

the black one, I don't know what it's called. I'm not into music, but it references The Shining Path, which is a Peruvian communist group that killed 60,000 people. So that's the kind of people he's publicly supporting. I mean, it doesn't really seem all that anti-establishment or you're rebelling against anything.

But when the establishment in the U.S. opposes communism, they're anti-establishment. Yes. So that's the funny thing, right? You've got some people who are who this this is what i've what i've found that i was having a conversation with this hacker guy relatively prominent prominent during the anonymous era occupy wall street and i was like we were arguing and i was like dude you guys changed like we didn't change we still believe in free speech we still believe in all these things and then he just was like yeah i know we used you like we were anti-establishment because we want to subvert you know the the authority and take over and install our communist utopia.

And you were willing to help us do it, so we tolerated it. Now that we have institutional authority, we don't believe in freedom, and we never did. It was just a means to an end. That's a thing in politics in general. Like, people are only really principled so long as it gets them into power. I think only the right really stays principled, but it's almost to their detriment at certain times. You'll see them be weak on vaccine mandates, for instance. It's like, well, we can't really tell business what to do.

Go ahead. No, no, no. I don't want to interrupt. I didn't want to interrupt. No, it's fine. I wanted to ask, though, because you might know this. Has Lauren Boebert proposed repealing the NFA? I mean, I assume not, but I don't know the

I actually don't really follow her that much. So, someone may have. Let me look it up. Yeah, I'm not entirely sure, but that's the National Firearms Act. It bans tons of weapons. It makes it nearly impossible to get specific guns that I think don't even make sense to be banned.

But there's a ridiculous amount of guns that are banned. People don't understand that not only is there a ridiculous amount of guns that i i i think shouldn't even don't even make sense to be banned but there's a ridiculous amount of guns that are banned people don't understand that not only is there a ridiculous amount of guns that are banned but there's also a ridiculous amount of guns that can't even be made because of the nfa and other atf regulations and rules so so it looks like senator kramer the u.s senator for north dakota introduced a bill to abolish the NFA. Senator Kramer and colleagues introduced a bill to improve firearm owners' access. When was this? This is from June 2021. Oh, hey, that's great.

So I don't know. Is that guy, he's in right now and he's doing that? Yeah. I wasn't doing that to drag Lauren Boebert by any way. It's just because she is very, very much a two-way candidate. And I'm wondering, like, are the Republicans coming out and being like, you know, we demand? Right. Seemingly not.

For the most part, no. It's the thing. The Republicans will get power, and then they'll go, well, if, you know, we use the government to enforce our principles, the left will do it when they take power. And it's like, well, they already are. I mean, it's almost like a meme that schools are left-wing. It's like, are you guys letting me get that way? But that's the point.

I'm not asking for Lauren Boebert or Mar or any or marjorie taylor green any of these ran paul to demand the government give us stuff i'm saying repeal the law and let people decide on their own but you know the issue is you got a game of tug of war with the left pulling with all their might and the right's just standing still yeah you also do tweet a lot though so you've got the fear of not getting voted back in. If they anger too many people, if they get too loud, so they're kind of like, don't want to make a noise. I didn't even know who that guy was you just mentioned.

Yeah, but there's a lot of members of Congress you don't know. But come on, look at AOC. She stomps around. I think her district is like D plus 25. Basically, you could run a dead Democrat against a Republican in her district, and the dead person would win, unfortunately.

You could run a sawhorse. Yeah. I mean, it's literally impossible. It's a Kim Klasick-level district, so it's not that real. I mean, no, that's the crazy thing, too. And this is not an exaggeration or a joke. If you put sawhorse, saw, space, horse, D, and John Smith, Rith r the saw horse would win there's because people will just see the d and then check it off regardless there's some town i don't know if

i still only saw the headline but where i think a cat won the mayoral election which maybe maybe that was just a joke on the people's part there's there's a lot of there's a lot of small towns with only a couple hundred people they'll go to the dog yeah because they're like we don't need a mayor what's the point yeah But I actually think, I wonder if this can be pulled off. I wonder what would happen if you just went to a district,

got someone who's a Republican on the ballot as a Democrat. I've had that thought. You run and you lead with your issues that are left-leaning and just, you know, kind of stay quiet on the other ones. But it doesn't even matter. If you can get, if there's like some obscure district, and

you run, and it's D plus 28, and you run as a Democrat, and you win the primary, see, the issue, I suppose, is running the primary is very activist-y, because that's where all the hardcore activists are. But what's to stop a Republican from doing, you know,

pulling an AOC and being like, I'm far left, and then getting in and then go, oof, right to the establishment. I know this is just a sheriff election, but I think that's what,

what was I, David Clark, the black sheriff, he used to be on Fox News a lot. Very conservative, but he is a registered Democrat, and I think it's sort of the same thing. He's in an area

where you kind of have to be, even though what he's saying is not that way. I think that's the answer to the problem. So a Republican runs as a Democrat in a Democrat district and then votes Republican. No one pays attention to those local politics. I mean, I know who my representative is. I don't know who any of the other ones are.

And I doubt half the people in my town even know who theirs is. So, yeah, I think it would be possible. That's the thing about AOC's district. She won the primary with, what was it, like 11,000 votes? Wow. So imagine if a Republican ran as a Democrat and told all of the Republicans, because there's, I think, how many are there, 200,000? Or it's like 120,000 Republicans in AOC's district, I think.

Is there? Yeah. Interesting. It's like 20%. So it's actually a little bit more. It's like 120,000 Republicans in AOC's district, I think. Is there? Yeah. Interesting. It's like 20%. So it's actually a little bit more. It's like 150. Imagine if you got 20,000 activist Republicans to vote in the Democratic primary for the conservative Democrat.

Although was the 11,000, was that her? I can't remember her. Didn't she have like a runoff with the incumbent or something? Joe Crowley, I think it was. AOC? Yeah. It wasn't a runoff. She won the primary.

Oh, so that's what it was. 11, for the primary and then and then and then she wins that was it and now i don't know why i must be misremembering something weird i don't know it might have been i think it might have been 17 000 and he got 14 but either either way the point is it was like in a district of 750 000 that's all you needed to win yeah okay republicans run as a run as a centrist Democrat. Just vote. And get all the Republicans to vote for you. And then once you're in, be like, oh, I'm joining the Republican Party. And then you've got New York's 14th Republican District in New York.

Like, what was it? Jeff Van Drew? Oh, yeah. You saw that guy? He was in New Jersey. Hell of a name. He was a moderate Democrat. He won in 20.

He's flipped, right? Yeah, he flipped because of the impeachment. He was like, they're nuts. Yeah. And he won again, didn't he? I think so. I think he won. I think he's from...

I think he's South Jersey, which is the more conservative half of a... Yeah, massive Trump. I'm thinking like... We were thinking like strip the D and the R off the tickets, try that, and then just vote, and you have to know who you're voting for. But then it'd be whoever the coolest name. And you'd get people who would change their names to like Lightning Smash, and then you were heading towards Camacho

and Idiocracy. Lightning Smash. Yeah. I love that person. Max Power. Maybe the age of the popularity contest should be... I'd make my name

like Election Loser so people would vote for me as a joke. Nobody. Yeah. Nobody. Nobody wins. Ian, I gotta say,

I think it's still better. Slashing the D's and the R's. We would be better off if in deep red and deep blue districts a random person won. I really don't like that people drop for the D or the R. That always bothers me.

That's all they do. There was a story of the trans-anarchist Satanist in New Hampshire. I think it was New Hampshire, right? I don't know. That ran as a Republican and won.

It was a primary, though. That's awesome. And it was because Republicans were just like, yep, yep, Republican, Republican. And then when the Republicans, these voters found out, they were like, what? I'm outraged. And the trans-anarchist Satanists said to them,

you voted for me? Are they still a Republican to me now? I don't know. I don't know. But I thought that was brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. Send a message to these people who walk in and go, oh, Mitch McConnell, he's a Republican. Lindsey Graham.

Yeah, I know. The establishment Republicans are speed bumps for Democrats, and it's intentional as far as I'm concerned. What do you guys think about having more parties? Because I've floated it in both ways where I'm like, on one hand, it allows people to be more honest because, like, actually, like within within the republican party there's probably three or four different factions um but on the other hand it could risk making the country more divided in that you know instead of one the blue team versus the red team you've got eight teams that are it would be a good thing you think but it's not possible in first past the post voting systems well that's it we would it would need to be like europe where you vote for the party and then whatever percent they get you know like the parliamentary system yeah

where basically it's like if 70 of the vote is for republicans and you whatever percent they get, you know. Like the parliamentary system? Yeah, yeah. Where basically it's like if 70% of the vote is for... Republicans, then Republicans get 70% of the seats. I'm a little ignorant on how they fill those seats. I don't know if the party

picks them or what goes on next. I think the party decides. I assume that's it, but I'm not sure, yeah. If we had 10 libertarian seats in the House, it would force the Democrats and Republicans to compromise.

Yeah, I want like a libertarian party, a nationalist party, like force the democrats and republicans to compromise yeah i want like a libertarian party a nationalist party like a i don't need like a tea party day party and the left can have their you know crazy different factions like a green party or something maybe a ringer dsa or something like that yeah because look at it this way there's uh bernie sanders is notorious for compromising and working with republicans and that's why they called kamala harris the most liberal member of the of the of Congress, which is not true. It was just based on one year's voting, I think, that particular. It was based on cooperation. Bernie Sanders was willing to cooperate and sponsor Republicans in exchange for their support on his bills. And his bills were substantially

more progressive, but he knew where his paths were. And Kamala Harris was just not talking to Republicans at all. That doesn't make her further left than Bernie, but that's how they weighed it. Yeah, and I think another thing, too, is like Bernie, there are certain policies of his that there's literally no point in proposing because they're not going to go anywhere. So obviously he has radical beliefs, but they don't show up in the record because it's just never going to pass. Do you remember when Bernie, he said this, I think it was, man, when was this? It might have been 2018. He said, he was asked at a rally, should we have open borders? And he said something like.

It's Koch brothers, right? Yeah. He went, no, no, no. That was an interview in 2015. He was asked at a rally and he went, oh, oh, geez, no. Like the poor would flood into this country. We can't do that. And so the World Socialist website called him a nationalist capitalist. Yep.

Speaking of people flooding in the country, did you see Drew Hernandez's tweet from today of that giant mob of people coming across the border? No, what happened? It's from the air. You might be able to pull up Drew's Twitter. And then after that went viral, didn't they try to ban the use of drones in that specific area?

They banned Fox News flying drones over that particular area. So the local law enforcement gave them a helicopter to fly overhead so they could keep recording. I thought it was fantastic. That's awesome. The people on the border who live there, the local law enforcement, they're like, this needs to go. Are you talking about the aerial view one? Yeah, 10,000 migrants have congregated under a border bridge after crossing illegally, reports Fox News. This is from Del Rio, Texas.

Yeah, incredible. Yeah, so these images are crazy, and the Biden administration got the FAA to shut down airspace. Apparently, they're defying it. Drone airspace, I guess. Yeah, I saw Tucker said on the air there, he was telling them, like, literally telling the guy, don't obey them.

Right. Let me tell you guys something. There's no United States anymore. Yeah. It certainly doesn't feel united. We're not a republic. We've talked about this a couple days ago with Jack Murphy. Laws are created

in this country now over the past two years as the sovereign decrees it, and then the people are given the right to challenge so long as they're impacted by it. The courts can then strike down their challenge, and the law stands. That's what's happening with all of the coronavirus lockdowns across the country. it's like they should not have the authority to

create law and even when the supreme court says so biden says i'll do it anyway yeah so now we're in we're in a government where governors and the president just say here's the law and then the people go okay i guess not only that i'll so that's why i say we're not in a republic jack is murphy is actually the one who said that but we i say we're not in a republic jack is murphy is actually the one who said that but we're not we're not a country anymore for one simple reason at the southern border in texas the migrants are going back and forth i saw them i saw it looked like that no they are they're literally it's it's this is this is the big news they're going into mexico and they're walking back and forth as if there's no border anymore yeah well

there really isn't i mean that's it yeah so when it was when we had a border you have a country it's defined by here's the border of our country where our jurisdiction extends then we started having problems with illegal immigration so we started putting up barriers and then trump says you know we get to the point now we're like we're going to build a wall because we're asserting our right to have jurisdiction that this is our country this is where where our community lives joe Biden gets in, and the crisis gets worse. But we identify it as a problem. Illegal immigration, people coming in this country are violating our borders. Now it's been a year.

Well, it's been almost a year. It's been three-quarters of a year. And Joe Biden, the problem's only gotten worse, and it's gotten so bad that the migrants are actually crossing back and forth. So people will walk into the United States, go to the camp and hang out, then walk back to Mexico for food and water and go to stores, and then walk back and then sleep under the bridge as if there is no jurisdiction at all anymore. What we're having, I think there's like a 20-year high in apprehensions. And I assume because of Biden, we not not as much effort as even going into apprehensions and despite that fact we're at 20 year highs so it's probably so much worse than we

can even imagine yeah i imagine joe biden sitting there like is the country collapsed yet well i mean the end goal is amnesty and the left is always shifting the goalposts they'll go oh i mean we have 11 to 30 million people here we can't possibly deport them all so the answer for them is to do nothing and then 30 years from now they can go hey there's 50 to 100 million illeg here. We can't possibly deport them all. So the answer for them is to do nothing. And then 30 years from now, they can go, hey, there's 50 to 100 million illegals here. We can't deport them all.

And it's just, it's endlessly moving the goalpost and then trying to end with amnesty. You know, but the amnesty is irrelevant. Illegal immigrants give electoral votes to states. Yep.

So congressional districts are drawn. I have a story about that. Just for people, because we bring this up a lot. A lot of people don't know this and it's one of the most important points. Congressional districts are drawn up by population, not by citizenry.

So the more non-citizens are in an area, which they can just keep bringing in, then the census comes out and they say, oh, look, we need more districts. California and New York, I think, are actually losing districts this time. So I don't know if you've ever had any run-ins with the fact-checkers yet, but my first was over that. I did article and i was citing you know a reputable study on how many extra votes is cal or how many extra reps does california get due to illegal immigration um and i think it was four or five was what it came out to so politifact wrote about it i think it's one well i'll show you the study um but um their fact check actually i think was two

but so they do a fact check on me their response was it's mostly false because it might actually be two or three and I went to the evidence where they debunked my claim they emailed some professor and he said

oh I think it's probably closer to two or three that was literally the fact check was some dude whose name I forget they ask an opinion piece to act as a fact check and then Facebook gives them the power to strike your business and then i think i emailed even the math i'm like well here's you know the average population of reps here's their extra population so it should be this amount and no effect i think it was the heritage foundation

said that california ends up with one extra electoral vote and college seat based on uh and and electoral college votes and congressional congressional seat based on the population of illegal immigrants? Yeah, it was Center for Immigration Studies. And to be fair, they might have also been factoring in, and I think mine excluded this, but they also did one where they put in legal permanent residents who are non-citizens, but they also count.

And it also generally benefits left-leaning states. I don't, I think, is is biden's our buchanan you know so either the united states is done already we've got sarah silverman coming out being like i think we should have a country should break up they can be usa one will be usa too and i'm like i did like she would give us one of those very nice of her it was very nice but she's independently come to this idea she doesn't watch michael malice's show and that's what he's been talking about so for her to independently come to this maybe it's time the country breaks up i'm like you know when the left and the right are basically like can we break up please yeah then what's keeping it together yeah

the only concern i have is i mean from our perspective and definitely we're all politically involved it feels like it's half the country hates the other half of the country but i think it also could be the case that 20 of the country hates the other 20 and then the remaining 60 like just want to watch the bachelor i'm definitely one of those other 60 yeah i mean yeah i don't know if uh i don't think it's that big actually i think it could be 10 and 10 even i think the fact that you know joe joe biden pulled in as many votes as he did shows that they're regular people who just believe what they're told. Now, they do just want to watch The Bachelor, but they're also scared of

the right. So it's unique to the, whatever we would call the establishment, the left, whatever you want to call it, in that I know people, and this is what I told Bannon, who had no business being in politics. These are people who've never watched a minute of news.

All of a sudden, posting videos of them dropping their, their mail-in ballots for Biden saying, we all got to vote for Biden. That kind of zealotry is unique to the left. The right doesn't have that ground game. And that's why I think, you know, like the recall effort could have, they were 1.7 million down. Uh, if you, if you analyze the data, I don't know what the exact numbers are now, but Trump supporters didn't show up to recall gavin i'm not saying they would have won but they could have come out republicans on the right don't have ground game yeah and i think there are a lot more as michael mouse would say a lot more npcs on the left and that yep i mean default liberal i think would bright people that's the thing like your blinders growing up are every musician artist mainstream tv show, comedian,

every sort of facet of the entertainment industry is all left wing. So when you only hear one opinion, you really can't blame someone for just going, oh, okay, this is, you know, I guess what I'm told. But it's not even that. It's the fear. It's like, you're not right wing, are you? And then when you're like, yes. But not even that.

You're like, no, i just think there's a viral tiktok you know from libs of tiktok oh it's like where this woman's like dancing it's like why i broke up with my boyfriend it's like unvaccinated oh so that one doesn't want the vax isn't vaccinated doesn't like science and i'm like what these people are insane i'm like you all gotta see in chemistry like what are you pretending just because you agree on the vaccine science that it's not they don't believe in science i saw this and i was like this is the These people are insane. I'm like, you all got a C in chemistry. Like, what are you pretending? Just because you agree on the vaccine science. They don't believe in science. I saw this and I was like, this is the crazy thing.

When we say science, we're talking about analysis, research, control groups. When they say science, they're talking about authority. Well, the thing, too, the phrase, I believe in science, is an unscientific phrase. You don't believe it. You accept the data or challenge it. And if you believe in it, you're not thinking. You're supposed to use science to challenge itself. There's a really great scene in Stargate SG-1. Have you ever watched that show?

Was that the show that was just on downstairs? Yeah. Oh, okay. I saw that one episode. So in one of the early episodes, they go through a portal to other worlds. They find a group of people who are highly technologically advanced. And they consider us primitive, like Earth humans you know on earth are very primitive and carter is explaining schrodinger's cat quantum physics and he laughs and he goes and he calls it

something else and then she's like wait do you know quantum physics and he goes yes we've uh we've long uh learned of quantum physics and other scientific misconceptions. And she goes, misconceptions? Are you saying you've thrown out quantum physics? And he laughs because, like, they're not supposed to share their science with less developed. But that was a really great point to be made in a show from – I think the episode was in the 90s – that we can laugh at the fact that we think we know things. And then later on, we continually better our understanding and debunk and disprove and refine our understanding. So when you have people saying, I believe the science, and I'm like, oh, which papers did you read?

Yeah. Well, Anthony Fauci said on TV, it's like, yo, don't come at me and say that our research from reading articles is wrong. When I literally read the scientific papers on these different things and you did nothing. It's a cult. And this is more medical science, but there's – I know Vox sucks, but they did an article on, like, studies proving and disproving that something is good for you. So they'll have, like, chocolate and they'll have a list of every study

that says it's good and everyone that says it's bad. And, like, for every possible thing, it's 50-50. Yep. Now, obviously, medical science is much harder to control for all that stuff so it's different than you know physics or something but it is interesting i don't see how uh because we we had this this argument the other day there was a point where i felt like we could mend the divide maybe 20 maybe 2015 2016 where where you know i'm saying like we need to make sure we're we're understanding each other and explaining things in the right way.

And if someone is saying racism is prejudice plus power, then all we got to do is break down what these words mean and try to come to an understanding. Now we're at the point where it's like people are wishing for death on each other. Well, we can see – we're at a point where we can all see the same viral video and somehow predictably you can predict someone's reaction to it. Or like you can know someone's opinions on guns and know their opinion on abortion. There's all these things that really shouldn't be that simple. But I'll tell you where the line is. And this is why I say the left is a cult and whatever you want to call this

amalgam of different factions is not. Remember the Acosta? Jim Acosta had the microphone? Yeah, and he was trying to... And the young White House intern tried to take it from him. The establishment people were arguing that she tried yanking it from him. And the young White House intern tried to take it from him. The establishment people were arguing that she tried yanking it from him. And the right tried arguing that Acosta tried yanking it back from her. And I think you can clearly see that Acosta was the one musing the force.

But my position was, I don't know exactly if Jim Acosta was trying to yank it from her or if he was just reacting. Regardless, Jim Acosta should not be fighting with an intern no matter who was in the right or wrong. Jim Acosta should have handed the microphone over. And I had high-profile personalities DM me. I'm not going to say who it was and be like, are you being serious with this right now? And I was like, serious with what? You're really saying it's his fault? And I was like, why was he standing up there talking for two minutes?

When you're in the White House as a guest, when the intern comes up to take the microphone from you, you say, well, here's your microphone back. But they don't care. They literally are like, that's why I say it's a cult. It's not about whether it's true or false. It's not about whether it was Acosta's fault or the intern's fault it's about do you agree with me or not and even if I say I don't necessarily agree with the conservatives on this one but I still think it was wrong that

Acosta was even in that situation in the first place he should have just he should have handed it right to her and they're like no you're wrong you're in a you're you're the bad guy and if it was Peter Doocy and like Biden a woman for Biden we get like a 3,000 word think piece I'm like oh the challenge is that female white house interns have always faced in this country, and what are we going to do about it? I've noticed if someone posts something, and then I'll respond like, Tim will say something, and I'll write, yeah, right, on his comment. Other people will read that, and they'll be like, he said, look at that sarcastic jerk. Yeah, right. And the age of text is very new for humanity.

Oh, I had a roommate who would always drop trolling comments on my post, and fans of mine didn't know who he was, so they would always get angry at him and he thought it was hilarious. And the problem is, if I'm not trolling, if I really mean, yeah, right, what you're saying, people will see that and think I'm being sarcastic and misinterpret, and that's caused massive confusion. You know, I tweeted we should ban

fat people from hospitals so that we can protect the healthy. It's about the vaccine it's about triage yeah it's about if you choose to be unhealthy then we will not give you a hospital bed just like with people aren't vaccinated and the tweet got thousands of retweets and i have people responding with i may be fat but i'm healthy and have never spent a penny in the hospital and then and then the guy goes you're being sarcastic like he responds again dot dot dot you're being sarcastic aren't you like it was a tweet the purpose of the tweet is that you

should understand about when you're when you when you do trolling well it was not a serious tweet i'm not literally calling for fat people to be banned from hospitals i'm constructing an argument that puts them in a principled predicament if they say well the reason we think the unvaccinated shouldn't be given hospital beds is because of triage. Then I start with fat people should be banned because of triage, like the unvaccinated, right? And it forces – often when I do these tweets, the left can't even respond because it would shatter their narrative. It applies to almost any reason you'd be in a hospital. Like you could break your leg in a skateboarding accident. Are we going to say, oh, well, you shouldn't have taken that risk

so it's your fault? It also sort of undermines their case for universal health care in that if these people were in charge of it, it seems like they're going to be sort of nitpicking who's allowed to have it. Look what they're doing with Florida. Joe Biden takes away some of the monoclonal antibodies.

Well, we've got to give it to other people. And it's like, why? The other states aren't ordering it. Florida is ordering it because Florida needs it. Why would you take them away? Because it's punishment. Let's talk about this. I want to show you this article I got from The Atlantic. This is a series. This was an article published August 13th.

It's a series on ancient Rome in the fall of the Roman Republic. And it's really, really quite interesting. Now, this guy writing for The Atlantic, it's a mainstream media thing. It's a left wing. He basically says the Trump supporters live in fantasy land and the reactionaries clearly doesn't like Trump supporters. But here's what he says. Will the Trumpist party similarly ultimately prevail once they cross the Rubicon? I have been predicting for years that something resembling a civil war will arise and something like Trumpets trumpets likely

will carry the day in the short term but a reactionary philosophy that rejects fact in favor of fantasy is economically retrograde and socially repugnant to the majority of americans can can impose its rule only for so long you know what's really funny about that when you take out the fact that the trump supporters are not the ones who believe in fantasy but typically are the ones who are critically thinking, not all of them. They have their zealots. What he's basically saying is the Trump supporters will win. Well, we hold a gun.

Yeah, but the military and the cops have guns, too. This is one thing that Wright doesn't seem to understand. You know, I see these comments all the time. They were like, how is the left going to win a conflict when the right are the ones with the guns? I don't know. The right's the one that they're leaving the military. The officers are resigning and quitting the police force and leaving in the establishment shills who are armed. But in this, if you're operating under the presumption that Trump supporters are going to win and then say, but they can't hold power for long because, you know, insert disparaging comments about Trump supporters. Okay, well, if you look at the right, if you look at the thought leaders on the right,

they're typically critical thinkers. They're biased. Like Daily Wire is a conservative biased site, but they don't post lies. Then the reality is it's the left that's retrograde and reactionary and in favor of fantasy. They think the economy is good right now. So what they're really saying is this guy, based on his assessment of ancient Rome and what's happening now, thinks there will be

a civil war and the Trump side will win. I wonder too, when people say civil war, do they literally mean for the entire country? Or do they just mean in some region of it will be taken over? It would be the entire country. So we just get to claim Alaska and Hawaii somehow? It's just included in the package?

So the problem with Americans is that their view of civil war is based on one of the most unique internal conflicts in history. The American Civil War was a union of states of different jurisdictions aligning against each other, whereas most civil wars are factions fighting everywhere in the country at the same time. So if you look at the Spanish Civil War and see like the different pockets that emerged of the Republicans versus the communists or whatever, and then they're fighting each other and then gaining more and more ground and eventually they take over. I think Spain went military dictatorship or whatever. That's like, oh, okay, that's how a civil war operates.

But Americans are like, there was the Mason-Dixon line and then west virginia became a state and virginia separated and it's like that's because each state was basically a country right with a sovereign state and so when the union got shaky states seceded of their own accord without what other states thought and then because of the conflict the confederacy joined forces to defend themselves against the union and that's why they called it the War of Northern Aggression. Was there a big call from the citizenry to go to Civil War, the American Civil War? Was that all like a government thing? I think it was a government thing. All the governors just decided, right?

Not a governor thing. I think it was a government thing. The legislatures. And I think regular people didn't want it, but nothing could be done. I mean, first and foremost, slavery. Here's the other difference between a modern civil war and the past civil war. You can argue, and I think this is I agree with this, that slavery was so morally repugnant going in to stop slavery was a cause in and to itself. Meaning if we had a state right now that was like enslaving people, I would be demanding the federal government, like we cannot tolerate in our own country.

It's a violation of all of our rights and it must be ended immediately. And so I can certainly understand why the North was like, we're not going to let these states do this. First of all, they had continually passed laws that were like, we're going to get rid of slavery and the South was mad about it

and wanted to leave the union. War breaks out. But when you have that moral issue, and I think everyone agrees, it was a good thing to end slavery. I agree. Slavery was really bad. That's the thing.

Name a person right now. I'm sure there are some crackpot individuals and racists who are angry about it, but 99.99% of everyone agrees it turned out properly. It was the right thing. Today, we do not have that moral issue. Our moral issues are like, I live in the mountains of West Virginia and I want to own a gun. Well, I'm from New York and I think you shouldn't be allowed to have one. Could you imagine? That makes no sense.

There's no, no one's going to invade West Virginia to end the moral repugnance of gun ownership. And no one from West Virginia is going to go invade New York to stop them. They're going to be like, what's going to happen is Westia is going to go invade new york to stop them they're going to be like what's going to happen is west virginia is going to be like we out yeah i also have this thought too in my uh various streams of secession i had this thought that like i think the biggest of i too is urban rural and that even if a state were to succeed its population centers probably still going to be left wing and still have outsized influence even if you know people you know in the majority of the square mileage of it are right-wing. And I know this will never happen, but I don't know if it would make more sense to have

sort of city-states for liberals than everything else for the conservatives. They'd fall in two seconds. Yeah. They'd fall in two seconds. I think it is true that even in West Virginia, the states are blue. It's the craziest thing. People should check this out. Come to West Virginia.

Go to central West. We were in central West Virginia in some small town and the bars got the trans rainbow flag. And I'm like, we're in central West Virginia. And I'm like, I don't understand

why even small urban centers become leftist. The internet. Yeah, the internet. I mean, there's actually a really interesting book by Jonathan Haidt and he points out that conservatives and liberals actually have different brain structures.

I mean, we are just fundamentally different, and it could just be naturally people with more left-leaning and progressive views tend to congregate among other people. Weaker people who need support and want to mooch off others. And conservatives just kind of like space. There have been polls, and it's like, with conservatives, would you rather have to drive 10 minutes to get somewhere or walk 10 minutes? And most liberals will say, oh, I'll walk to the store most conservatives would prefer the drive um and those traits just kind of self-select you into that kind of lifestyle yeah um jonathan it's research is fascinating liberals have only two of six moral foundations yes care and fairness conservatives have all six and libertarians only have one what's it what's theirs liberty oh that's it. The only thing.

So you can take these tests to weigh your moral foundations. And when I take the test, it comes up left liberal. But it's because I have a little bit more care and fairness and then a slight balance across the board. Liberty, care, and fairness for me are really, really high. And I think that really makes sense. I'm left with a lot of policy issues, but I favor more liberty, which means I'm typically in opposition to the authoritarianism. And then when it comes to the other moral foundations, I do have them more than the average liberal, but watching libertarians take the test, because some of these questions,

like, I can't even say what some of the questions are like, oh man, there's's there's questions about incest yes oh yeah and so libertarians are like zero on these other moral foundations and liberty is a hundred because they're like i don't care what you do get the government out and i'm like i don't i've got yeah because there's there's purity there's authority there's loyalty there's authority fairness, I think, are the, you know. So purity is like, there's a reason for that moral foundation. Because, and I was reading about it, I think purity has a lot to do with disease. That people who didn't care about, like, debauchery would be more likely to spread diseases. So you end up with certain traditions emerging of being clean and being,. You can see that in religion, like not even shellfish. It's like, well, at that time, it actually was a pretty brilliant suggestion.

Yeah, and pork, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Which I've broken, but... Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, now we've gotten better at cleaning and cooking and everything, so it's safer, but you can see those things still exist. But I'll add one thing to this, too. I don't know exactly what will happen in terms of civil war, but I can say if we have two distinct cultures forming in this country, laws cannot be enforced, period.

So the example I give is – I don't know if you've ever seen these books. It's like Wacky Laws. The US still has – Oh, yeah. There's a million of them, yeah. But why don't we enforce those laws? Like you can't take showers on Tuesdays in Rhode Island. Yeah.

We just know intuitively it's absurd. At the time it made sense. So I'm not saying Rhode Island literally bans showers, but there are places in the East Coast that were like you can't shower on Tuesdays. Why? Well, maybe because Tuesday was the day they allotted to the farmers to get access to the fresh water so they could farm their crops and you couldn't be. And then there's some things where it's like you can't put pies on the windowsill on Sunday mornings. Maybe it's because Sunday mornings is when the church would come and it would attract animals and then there would be people around and it would cause problems.

No more putting your food on the windowsills to cool because the animals come, but now the animals are gone and people are going to church less and we have – we just don't have that problem anymore. So culturally, we just ignore that law. Now, what happens when you have two distinct cultures? And then you have a law in the books, which is... It's like guns. It happens a lot, actually. Yeah. What's that law?

It's old. That old law that they were like, are they going to invoke the Insurrection Act? Is that what it is? Some old, old law. Oh, the riots? Yeah, about like not sending a spy overseas or something. The Logan Act. The Logan Act.

The guy that the act is actually named after lobbied a foreign government after the act was passed. So it didn't even deter him when it was passed. Yeah, they tried to get Michael Flynn on it. It was a – And it makes no sense. It's never been used. Not to point my own work, but I did a book where there was a section of it with one Gino. Isn't there an argument that Mark Milley may have violated the Logan Act? He was discussing U.S. military policy with foreign adversaries.

I would say yes, but it won't matter in that it's never been enforced. And that's where it comes down to. If Republicans actually had power – no, Republicans is the wrong word. Lindsey Graham wouldn't do anything. If conservatives, Trump supporters, had power, Hillary Clinton would be indicted. Tons of the Russiagate people, all these people who lied, would be indicted just across the board for all the lies they put out. They'd find something. You got that one lawyer who lied.

The Alpha Bank thing. What's his name? Sussman? Yeah. Yeah. Wow. That's amazing. I mean, me and Bungino debunked that like four and a half years ago.

And it's just funny. Like the news cycle where I'm going, oh, we were right about all that. That's kind of cool. What's the story? So a lawyer fabricated evidence. He claimed that like there was a server in a Trump tower that was communicating with a Russian bank called Alpha Bank. And it turned out to just be complete bullshit, basically. And Hillary Clinton was tweeting it.

And John Podesta was tweeting it. And all these journalists were like, Trump's secret server. And it was fake. The whole Michael Flynn with the Logan Act, he was called while he was on vacation. The people who called him knew he was going to be getting called by a Russian ambassador. Because he was on vacation

there was no way from his call to be intercepted. So the whole thing is getting recorded. Then that's sort of led to his downfall under Trump and they started mentioning the Logan Act. And I'm going, well, why would you mention the Logan Act to take this guy down when it's never been invoked? Only if this whole thing was planned, you could try to find some sort of reason to get rid of the guy. And it worked. You look at everything we talked about already.

The border is so porous. Illegal immigrants are going back and forth. There's no border. Biden's watching it crumble. The economy is in shambles. The system of the separation of powers has completely gone. And we had in the past five years

fake indictments or, I mean, literally against a political party, a political group, for the sake of power. And we don't even really have three branches anymore because, as we were talking about earlier, the CDC is just creating

a lot of thin air in other agencies. And it's up to us to say, actually, you can't do that. And when the Supreme Court told Biden the eviction war term was illegal, he went, I'll do it anyway.

And the Supreme Court could do nothing to stop him. So you look back at the Russiagate stuff, and I think a lot of people said the country was done when that stuff came out. Michael Flynn goes to

an informal meeting at the white house and he gets asked so did you talk to a russian ambassador and he goes no no and they go okay then later they come back you lied to us that's a crime it was actually a bit more complicated than that so they bring him in for questioning as they're questioning him they have a trans i thought it was informal though like it wasn't yeah it was like two guys it was peter struck and someone else. So they bring him in for questioning. Like, he didn't know he was being investigated.

No. So they just bring him in for routine questioning. And he did admit to the call. He told all the contents of the call. And they, as they're questioning him, have a transcript of the call in front of them. Meaning, they're not asking him to get the truth of what happened. They're trying to see if he's trying to deviate. And then they report back, no, there was no irregularities.

And then somehow in the Chamber of Command, and I have no idea how, it changes to he lied about his call, even though the agents had notes saying he didn't lie. And there was that document that came out where, like, Clapper and Biden had a meeting, and they were like, how can we get this guy? It was the Democratic Party, what they did with Russiagate, and what Vindman did with Ukraine. These people are, man, I don't know the right word. It's sedition.

Honestly, when I first started writing Spygate, I was like, this will be interesting, but it can't be that crazy. And it turns out that the sort of type of politics you see in a movie is actually more real than you'd think. Let's break this down. Yeah. Donald Trump is on the phone with the president of Ukraine. And he says something off the cuff about like, you see this? What's this thing going on about Biden and this quid pro quo or something? Why don't you guys look into that?

Yeah. Trump clearly had no idea what he was talking about in this phone call. But what happened was it was a viral video where Joe Biden's at. Where was he at? It wasn't the Council on Foreign Relations. No, it was a viral video where joe biden's at where was he at it was um it was it wasn't the council on foreign relations no it was uh i can't remember so the one where you saw when biden bragged that he was able to the investigation the event he was at i can't remember the event i can't remember the event but he says yeah but he bragged about it i went to the president and said look if you don't fire the prosecutor you're not getting the money and he

said you you don't have the authority to do that. And he goes, call the president. Well, son of a bitch. Six hours later, prosecutors fired. So Trump hears about this, asks the new Ukrainian president, like, well, look at this. Joe Biden had not announced any political ambitions. And then everyone said Trump was going after his political rival. And we were like, but Biden's not running for president. This call, I think, or I think that it was in September that Trump had this call and people were saying

he threatened to withhold military aid, but the military aid was actually, had been withheld since I think January or February for other reasons. So here's what you need

to understand, Ian. Yeah, that was the Council on Foreign Relations. Council on Foreign Relations where he said it. Biden admits, brags, that he said he would

withhold foreign aid in exchange for getting a guy fired. The media said, but we do this all the time. We pressure countries for this reason. So when Donald Trump says, I want you to investigate what happened with this, they called that a quid pro quo, even though Trump didn't ask for anything. So here's what really happens. They claim that Donald Trump was abusing his power by trying to use Ukraine to go after his political opponents. What really happened was that Joe Biden shut down, whether on purpose or not, an investigation,

multiple, many investigations, but some into Burisma, where his son happened to be on the board. Mykola Zlachevsky, the founder of Burisma, fled ukraine biden comes in gets the prosecutor fired zlachevsky returns trump comes back in and says i want this investigated zlachevsky flees again but the media comes out and says trump was the criminal joe biden flew on air force 2 with his son to china to negotiate a private equity deal but trump's colluding with russia michael flynn well i think he was talking to Sally Yates, and he said... She's the one who first pitched

the maybe he voted for the Logan Act, leading me to believe she was sort of behind it. Because he said, I think China is a greater adversary than Russia. And then all of a sudden, she was like,

oh, geez, oh, no. He's colluding with Russia, trying to downplay it. The reality is, I think China, according to Mike Pompeo, has infiltrated every level of our country in the government. That's what he said.

You've got the Thousand Talents Program where they're actually hiring our own professors to give away our research back to them. You've got Chinese individuals being caught carrying infectious diseases. And creating them. And bringing them illegally through the U.S. And then strangely when michael flynn says i think china's a bigger threat all of a sudden there's alarm bells going off the democratic party and they seek to then get indictments and russia gate was fake it was

years where even i was like well this is interesting we should absolutely look into this and then afterwards it's over rachel madison the verge of tears when these listen you didn't understand when i say these people are evil dude oh and and the npc default liberals who line up behind them and and in the millions to vote for them because they're in this matrix this is a whole new this is a level of depravity that can't be described in words new paradigm after the hillary uh emails came out i was just like gobs stopped gobs smacked it like the sydney blumenthal osprey osprey Global Solutions Libya contracts that she was pushing

for her buddy, Sidney. And nothing. And I was like, wow, tyranny's real. But then Trump won. So I was like, oh, maybe tyranny's not all... And then what did they do to him? The first anti-war president of people's lives. Can I just point out that

wouldn't it be... Imagine you lived in a country and a high-ranking cabinet member in the executive branch had a nonprofit that was taking in millions of dollars from foreign governments. And the nonprofit was named after this individual in the executive branch, I mean, surely that would shock people to their cores. Imagine Saudi Arabia was giving tens of millions of dollars to this. And we'll call it the Blinton Foundation, just as, you know, while they're Secretary of State. And we'll call it the Blinton Secretary. And, yeah, you get the point. The Blinton Foundation. And then as soon uh this individual doesn't win the election the very corrupt very very corrupt and that was the first time the email scandal was the first time i saw

it very clearly very because it was very obvious if you looked at the emails and you looked up sydney blumenthal and you want to look at like she was directly instructed by obama not to work with sydney and she was just doing it because he was an old Clinton advisor. For like 30 years, he's worked with the Clintons. It's terrifying. It doesn't mean that it's impossible. But, I mean, cryptocurrency and the underground movement is very promising. But politically, it's terrifying. These are interesting times.

Yeah. And the power is in the media, which is why shows like this are so cool. Yeah, we're fighting an uphill battle, that's for sure. But I will say, the challenge the establishment faces is that they're losing control. So ultimately, I think everything might lead to some kind of balkanization, regional breakups, and they can't do anything about it. So earlier I saw you guys were doing the Fediverse meeting, and I was talking to Andreas about it. So for those that aren't familiar, we pitched this idea. Ian and the crew have been working on this with a big team.

The idea is to create an open source software that allows you to have your own website, social media presence, subscription service that's networked. So no one can ban you anymore because it's your website. But your website does connect with the network. So if you go to my site, you can see a Twitter feed. And each individual tweet comes from an individual's own private server, unbannable. And so we talked about this and I was like, sooner or later, someone's got to try to shut this down because this would, like, if we actually get to the point where we have mass adoption of, imagine you owned your

own private Patreon, where you had subscription service, you could post a video feed, you could post tweets, and it would actually link and people could follow you across different networks. The technology already exists. It's called the Fediverse. Gab is on it. And now we are ramping up and trying to create website applications that can be really easy for people to use. Imagine we get to that point where the powers that be can no longer censor the news about Hunter Biden because the network is totally decentralized. And I'm like, someone's going to have to try and stop that, right? Because it usurps Facebook's power. And then the conversation was just, how would you do it? It's a decentralized project. No one person is running it. It's open source code. Who do you go after to stop it? You can't. And because technology already

exists, they can't stop crypto either. There's nothing they can do. Ultimately, the end result is going to be that they lose the ability to manipulate the media. They lose the ability to create the propaganda. And then it's just free-for-all. The only thing I think they can do with crypto is sort of on the... I guess when you're cashing out, because you need

to go through a legitimate brokerage to convert to cash. But if you're never going to convert to cash... You don't. You use like Tether. Not Tether. I think they're kind of fraudulent. I think Bitcoin's legal. One of the pegged. Bitcoin's become a legal currency in El Salvador.

You don't need to go through. If you have crypto and the crypto has value, that's it. Look, we got these little obsidian rocks that you bought. I love these things. Yeah. We all got one in our hands. If this is value enough for you, I can trade it with you. And I've got to go now.

We should make an NFT. Okay. Ian's Obsidian Stones. I'm very excited about the future of NFTs. The NFT revolution is upon us. It's like how cool Bitcoin was in 2011. So if you're paying attention to NFTs now, keep paying attention. Get involved.

I mean, it's just a new form of data transmission. Was it called ER17 or something? It's ERC170, is it? It's not ERC20. It's a different kind of ERC token. NFTs are going to be awesome because we're talking, we have a top secret project that we're creating. And the idea is NFTs are unique, non-copyable digital assets, non-fungible.

So this means that we're going to be able to create digital hard assets that are completely unique. And so we're working on some projects. As for like people posting photos and then selling it for 50 grand, I'm like that's – I just don't get who these people are buying it. Who's got 50 grand to buy a cat? I assume it could just be some guy who like made a bajillion dollars in Bitcoin and is just – Yeah, where do you spend your crypto? Well, on NFTs basically.

That's one way to spend your crypto. I think – Or to trade your crypto, basically. Just in line with what we were saying about the country breaking apart with crypto, no one needs the Federal Reserve. And not only that, El Salvador was one of the smartest things a country could have done, especially a country not as wealthy as, say, the United States, because now that they're getting all of their citizenry to use Bitcoin,

Bitcoin is going to keep going up in value. It's also helping them, too, because their economy is dollarized and they're constantly losing dollars due to imports versus exports and they can't print any more money. So this kind of also works around that problem for them. Well, they can't print Bitcoin. Yeah. But the thing is, when a citizen holds 0.1 Bitcoin

because they're playing on using it and the next day bitcoin's up 10 yeah they got richer yeah and so it's like imagine how well off the citizens are going to be now yeah because they're going to get paychecks in bitcoin they kind of get on the ground floor of uh because all the countries are going to follow a lead i assume what concerns me is when you see the entire crypto space the two trillion cap dip by 40 percent all of it over the course of three weeks. It's driven down 30%, 40%, because some big, probably governments, Chinese

governments, American governments, are selling it and selling it and selling it and make it want to drop. As soon as it drops, they buy it all. All these poor people thought they were losing their money. It's not as bad, though, as when you sell it and then it goes up 40% or 50%. Exactly. It's being manipulated heavily. That's bad for the poor people,

but these people got to learn, and we keep saying it, when there was that last big crash from 60 to 30, most of the sales were a couple hundred bucks. It was the poor people cashing out, panicking. I actually bought Bitcoin. It crashed to 30, and then Paul Krugman wrote an article

about why you should never buy Bitcoin, and I went, all right, I'm in. Yeah, well, he's wrote a lot of those. Yeah, if I took his advice 10 years ago, I would be much wealthier. Max Geiserman, he told me when Bitcoin was like at a couple bucks. Yeah, me too.

He's like, you got to buy Bitcoin. I'm telling you, Tim, you want to be rich? You hang out with me? And I was like, okay, Max. I was up on a roof in Brooklyn with Bill and a couple other guys. And one of the guys was saying, dude, the next big one's Ethereum.

You got to get into Ethereum. And we were like, what's, okay. I looked and I was like, I waited a couple weeks. And I was saying, dude, the next big one's Ethereum. You've got to get into Ethereum. And we were like, what's, okay. I looked, and I was like, I waited a couple weeks, and I was like, oh, it's $10 already. It's too late. I can't get into it. Yeah, I know.

It just didn't click until a couple years later. Bill Altman was here, I think, in like November, right? Bitcoin was at $13K. Ethereum was at $1,000. And Bill was like, you should buy Ethereum, dude. And I was like, you think? He's like, you should get some. And I'm like, okay. And then I bought a bunch, and now it's at like 335 or whatever yeah because if ethereum is worth

nfts like ethereum is ethereum is the evolution of bitcoin it covers some friends and i actually started one as a joke and it has a 1.4 million dollar market cap but it's it's so misleading because there's like 30 grand in liquidity so So obviously, it's not – you could sell through it. But on paper, it's worth like 1.5 million. So I own – I have some Doge because it's fun. I have Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Cardano. I'll explain the strategy. I own like Uniswap, SushiSwap, and then basically all the tokens that are exchanges.

Because my logic was like, well, even if the coins go down, like as long as there's volume, the exchanges are making money. Yeah, Uniswap I own a lot of. The MyStoke is really good. There's so much money in Uniswap. People don't understand. When you open like these apps like Coinbase, it's like you can earn interest on your crypto.

I'm getting like 7%. It's insane. And Gemini, it's an exchange that the Winklevoss twins started. They're giving you like 7% on their Gemini dollar. I don't get how that's even possible unless they're taking a loss. No, no, no. It's really, really simple.

So for those that don't understand, you basically have crypto. You can stake it being like, let me put my cryptocurrency into your pool, which allows them to do transactions. Yeah, that's how ours works. They need liquidity. When a transaction happens, you get a fee just like an ATM machine. So I was actually talking to my accountant, and I was like, it's kind of like an ATM. Someone comes in, and they punch in their keys, and they take cash out, and then I get a fee on it.

I get a fee on it. So this is huge. It's going to make a lot of working class people, I'm not going to say rich. But comfortable. Yeah. So like the stories of people who start small and just keep putting more crypto back into the system and they're building up that portfolio. It's kind of crazy. It's like basically the power of the central banks in the hands of regular people and decentralized.

So now the money transactions and printing and it's just mind-blowing. And day trading because it never ends. It's 24-7 trading. Like if you're a 14-year-old and you get some money, you want to day trade. If you're a gambling addict, this is the best thing ever. You can easily increase your like 30% of your profits just by looking at trends and reading white papers and seeing what's the next big cool currency. I am not advising anyone to do anything, but I would be willing to bet if there was a 14-year-old right now who was given like $100 by their grandpa and put it into one of these systems and kept putting all of their fees back in, by the time they were 20, they'd be a millionaire. Eric Finman, the guy who started the Freedom Fund, that is him. That's him.

That's exactly right. Yeah, I think he put like a grand or two in and now has like, you know, probably like 10 million. It's something very high in the millions. As if you're paying attention, you can really take the light because it's always up, down, up, down. And I mean, you just follow those leaps. You have the Bitcoin, you put it into USD coin when it drops.

It is hard. It's a giant. I mean, I think for the average person, I think it's buy and hold just because you'll go insane trying to time it. But there are some people who know what they can do. I mean, I tried that and missed out. I was day trading for a while, but it became very exhausting because it's a lot of work. The 10-hour days. The Uniswap stuff is where the real opportunity is.

There's risk because you're staking your coins to someone else's pool and it could go belly up. No, no, no. It could go belly up. Well, that's how it works. So we had to put our own money into the pool with our own token. And I mean, our own coin is sort of thus dependent on the value of Ethereum.

So you have to match it to create a value. And of course, I can just sell all the way through if I want to. So yeah, it's risky, obviously, but it pays off. So if you find a good utility token with Ethereum and you put it into Uniswap, then you're set. So it's basically, you bought an ATM. Imagine if you had 50 grand,

you bought an ATM, you need another I don't know, an ATM probably costs like 20, 30 grand. Then you need 40 grand to fill it. You're spending $70,000, you put the ATM in a bar, and then you're just getting free money. Could we get an ATM here? Technically?

We could all buy Bitcoin ATMs. Yeah. You're just getting free money. Could we get an ATM here? Why? Technically? I don't know. We could invest in it. That'd be cool. We could all buy Bitcoin ATMs. Yeah. That's why Ethereum's so cool is because the Ethereum network is very, very heavily utilized, and you use Ethereum to cover the gas fee, which is the transaction fee. So Ethereum's massively utilized.

I think, what did Max say? Like, 200K in Bitcoin by the end of the year? I'm wondering if we're still going to hit that. I don't think by the end of the year i'm wondering if we're still going to hit that i don't think by the end of this year but i think it will get there i mean the thing someone did the math and like there's not enough millionaire or what's a stat like there's so many millionaires in the world that each can't own one full bitcoin you want to something funny yeah if i invested my money in bitcoin when max kaiser told me to i would be a billionaire whoa with a b wow i'm not kidding. There was a crypto Shiba.

It was like one of those Doge. All right. So I put three grand in. Four days later, it's like 60 grand. So I'm like, yeah, fuck you. I'm going to cash out. If I held it another three weeks, it would have been like one or two million or something. Wow.

And I'm like, you know what? That's garbage. You can't be mad at yourself. No, no, no. The way I view it is this. So there's this game I saw online. It's like some gambling game where the way it works it is this so there's this this game i saw a lot it's like some gambling game where the way it works is like you put in money and then for every second that goes on you get a multiplier so it could be like after two seconds you get double your money

triple but then it will go to zero at any random point i think that analogy works for this sort of high-risk trading where it's like because it could be so easily lost you really can't kick yourself when it does take off after you sell, because if you're playing that literal gambling game, you turn a grand into 20 grand, you could kind of be an idiot to keep holding it, knowing you could easily get it to zero. So maybe that's just what I tell myself to not go criminally insane,

but that's sort of how I see it. I remember Max used to, on his show, he would talk about all the different altcoins and stuff that existed at the time, and he was very big on a lot of them. Now he hates them all. He's like, Bitcoin is the only true coin. But I've known Max for a minute. And he was pushing Bitcoin in the very early stages.

Granted, at the time, he was also pushing other coins, saying that these looked promising for certain reasons. So what happens is in the early days of Bitcoin, it was like nothing. It was this weird Internet thing people were confused by once it got its first boost of popularity people started cloning it there was a bunch of different versions that tried tweaking different things about it like it'll produce slightly more or slightly less or work slightly faster or take less energy and there was one there were a few that required substantially less energy and that seemed to make more sense. So Max was big on those. But he had been – so look, I had my savings back during those early days, and if I just put it all in Bitcoin at the time, Bitcoin was at a couple bucks.

The thing is I tell myself like, oh, I invested in Bitcoin when I heard about it in – what was it, 2012? We would have sold out. That's the thing. I would have – it would have went from $2 to $ and then i would have wanted to you know commit suicide the remaining uh 20 that's 60 000 i there was a point where i had like 20 bitcoin or whatever and i was like yeah and i cashed it all out for like 400 bucks and like i high-fived my friend yeah and then i was like let's go i'm taking you guys out to eat let's do this thing it was this twitter account it's like poorly aged things it was like a scoreboard for some video game tournament it was like first

place a thousand bucks you get it in 10th place and it's 10 free bitcoin no it was. It was like a scoreboard for some video game tournament. It was like first place, a thousand bucks. You get it in 10th place and it's 10 free Bitcoin. No, it was like first place is like a thousand, second place 500. And then it was like fourth and fifth were 25 Bitcoin.

Yeah, that was it. That was it. But you know, if people actually invested and understood investment, they'd be better off regardless. People don't understand the value of like to invest.

And they, you know know when i see my friends and they're like i got paid let's go spend it on drinks and partying and i'm like if you buy something you have that something it would be cool if you could not you don't really have to build a school but just build some sort of curriculum where you you're able to teach kids economics and the thing is so it's there's a lot of apps now kind of automated where you can just take 100 bucks at every check and put it in so you don't even have to think about it anymore you can just kind of have it be on the back end. I think this Uniswap stuff, I think Uniswap's huge.

Yeah, it's going to be. I'll say this, though. So I always say this as a disclosure. Doge, I don't think, is going to make me rich. I just think it's funny, and so I have some. Bitcoin is going to skyrocket in value. I think a Bitcoin is worth a million bucks. Ethereum, I don't know where its cap is,

but there is a finite amount of Ethereum, I believe, correct? I think so, yeah. And we have a general idea of the amount, but we don't know the exact number. So I think Ethereum can reach a certain level. Cardano is, I think there's like, what, 10 times more Cardano or something like that?

I have Cardano as well because it's also, it's one of the guys who was involved with Ethereum. And so these are evolutions on Bitcoin that are going to allow so much so i also have some cardano because i think cardano is going to skyrocket 32 billion cardanos and it looks like it's going to end up at about 45 billion somewhere there's 117 million ethereums but there's no there's no end cap for those we talked about this and i think you and i were saying we think cardano would be like 30 bucks yeah if you if you measure the value of a token, it gets... So I go to this thing called coinmarketcap.com. You look at Bitcoin and how many

18 million of them, and then you look at Cardano and there's 32 billion. So you do the math. You divide 32 billion by 18 million, and then you see... But they're different. Cardano is much like Ethereum. It's providing the backbone for a lot of new software. Right. Then you start to take into account the utility, and that's when things break the mold.

So it's not just a one-to-one ratio. But how much Ethereum exists? 117 million-ish. Right. So I think, what did we say? It's like 30 times. So it's probably going to be like 10 bucks, I think, Cardano. Oh, Cardano, what you could measure it to be valued for?

When Cardano is fully launched and operating like Ethereum, it'll be like, what, 10 bucks per token? Yeah, you'd do like 2,000. If Cardano was... I don operating like Ethereum, it'll be like, what, $10 per time? Yeah, you'd do like $2,000. If Cardano was... How do you do this? I'm on the spot. I'm not doing the math. Right, right, right, right.

The point is there's substantially more Cardano, so it's going to be worth substantially less. Way less, yeah. But it's... There's so many people who don't get that. Right, right. Because the circulation's massive. It's just how inflation works as well, or partly. So Cardano should be worth like a thousandth of a Bitcoin

at any given moment or like less than that because there's a thousand times more of that. Yeah, and an equal market cap would be one with a thousand. If they each have equal utility, but like you said, Cardano has a different utility, so you take the utility into effect. For 10 bucks. Like mine's token.

You put one token on the network, you get a thousand views. That utility adds value to the token. The other thing is with... So we had a conversation about this like a week ago. And it was like we ultimately came to like if we are going to randomly just throw darts at the board and try and think of what it might end up being based on the volume of it, utility of it, Bitcoin is going to keep going to value. Ethereum and Cardano have utility. Cardano ends up around $30. So I was like I like what they've talked about doing. I like what they're doing. I've heard a little bit about what they're

doing. And I'm like, I've got to be honest, I don't know everything about it. I know Ethereum works. I know it's made a bunch of stuff. We're working on possible. It helps what Mines is doing, makes it possible with utility tokens. And if they're going to offer up a competitor to that, I think it's going to drive up the value. The Cardano? Yeah, he did the math right.

Measuring it as it stands, you'd think it'd be like $35, something like that. $2.50? $2.30, yeah. So, not advice to anybody, because we're literally just making up numbers. Correct. But I look at Bitcoin as decentralized transfer of value, which is tremendous. And then

Ethereum and Cardano and any other token are investing in the network. And I love investing in the network. And I love investing in the network because I'm not even super concerned with the value of it monetarily. It's the value of it socially. What can it do for us? How can it cut out the middleman? How can it speed up transactions?

How can it give you more reach on a social network? Those are the things I love. This is why I'll tell you this. Maybe this is what the Davos types want. They don't want a Federal Reserve. They don't want a Federal Reserve. They don't want a central bank. They want completely decentralized systems that create global currency. Look at Bitcoin.

It's becoming that. It's a global value network. So you can send money from here to China just like that. I've got a sneaking suspicion we're all going to have our own crypto in the future. Everyone will have their own, kind of like a social security number. And then if you have people buy your services, if they use your token to buy it, you can give them a discount.

I basically have that, but no one uses it. Oh, you have your own token? Yeah, it's a highly regarded token. It's a joke. I mean, our stock ticker is RTRD. So... Dude, I'm so angry. I ordered custom RTRD clothing for you guys, but it didn't ship in time. Oh, I'll wear it when it comes. RTRD clothing for you guys,

but it didn't ship in time. Oh, I'll wear it when it comes. I'm not kidding. I'll get it to you guys. It's been at like stuck in the same shipping facility two miles from my house like four days in a row. And I'm like, all right, I'll get it over somehow. Blame the COVID.

Yeah. So anyway. Yeah, you can easily make your own token. Oh, my friend did it in like 20 minutes. And then we raised money for the pool. And I don't know how we raised money. We literally put out on a Medium page like, hey, send us money at this link and we'll give you our new coin. And it looks like a scam.

Obviously, it was not. People did. We raised like $30,000 in a week. And then we just put it all into the pool. Well, so this is one of the big challenges the SEC is not happy with is people are using these tokens effectively as as like fundraising venues like shares right and so you're basically telling people you'll get not you'll get this empty thing in exchange for money yeah so that we can fund the business so all the people that bought our pre-ico i mean can sell at any time and there's enough liquidity to make all of them whole

um so like they're you know anytime they want to get out they could all you got to do is pay your sales tax on it. And you're literally just selling the digital asset. It's not an investment in the company. You pay your taxes on that. It's like if we sold these, if we made a thousand little rocks and sold them, we'd pay our taxes on it. If I can make a million tokens and sell them, you just pay the sales tax on them. There you go.

And if each token can get you a little cartoon beanie. Hell yeah. NFTs. Beanie. I think that whole market stuff is ridiculous. It's funny, but it is effective. And it feels like to me, I really, and I've said this a lot in the last week, it feels like what Bitcoin felt like in 2011. So made up, basically.

Yeah. No one understands it yet. It seems cheap, but it's going to be a trillion dollar industry. Yeah. Somehow. Digital art, man. People don't want to go out of their house. Well, maybe they do.

I'll say this, though. If I did listen to Max and legitimately listen to him, buy it and keep it, yeah, I'd be a billionaire. I'd be a millionaire if I bought an NFT of a blank space. There was this thing back in the day, I don't know if you heard of it, where a guy had a million pixels, and he sold

a pixel for a dollar each. And it was a website with a million pixels, and he sold a pixel for a dollar each. And it was a website with a million pixels, and then people would buy, like, I want 100 pixels, and they would put their art there. Guy made a million bucks. There's actually people who do, there's a whole website here where it's called, where they buy famous art pieces, like, worth tens of millions of dollars, and they issue cryptocurrency on the art. And then you can buy up. Like, shares of it? Yeah, you can buy up shares, like a famous painting, and then you get voting rights. So if they get a bid in for the painting, you guys get a vote if you're going to sell it or not.

Wow, stock on objects. Yeah, but I think, I remember I signed up for it, but I think you needed like tens of thousands of dollars, and it takes years for them to sell it. I wonder if we can issue a stock on Ian. I was just thinking that stock on people. When's that coming? AOC was who I was thinking that stock on people when's that coming no c was who i was thinking of actually there is they tried that yeah there's some guy there's an architect

who sold shares in his life and has to do whatever they sell no no no um he he they were out to vote yeah he had majority control i think oh well then you don't want anything i guess well but you know it's like he would take into consideration their votes on what he should be doing and they earned dividends so when he would get a job and it would pay him 100 bucks then he'd pay out 20 the profits if someone bought stock in your life and then as you went on you they got dividends throughout your life talk about a support they would support you forever yeah but talk about nightmarish i know that's bizarre like some young 18 year old kid he's poor and desperate. And he's like, I'll sell you 50% for $1,000.

I'm going to be homeless. And then he's like a tech CEO. And there's like this evil guy behind him. Like, I control everything. Maybe you could legally cap it so you can't sell more than 1% of your own stock. I don't think you should be able to sell any of it. Because what happens then, rich people would buy up from young people. 1% of everybody.

Creating indentured servants. Good call. Not 1% from everybody. Like I said, young, desperate people. And then when they're older. I mean, that's basically what college is servants. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Good call. Not 1% from everybody. Like I said, young, desperate people. And then when they're older, I mean, that's basically what college is doing. Yeah. There actually are services where you can get a student loan and they get a percentage of your income instead of you taking debt.

Which Stossel did a segment on it. It makes a lot more sense, but they do cap it at a certain amount. And if you're unemployed, you don't have to pay anything. That makes sense. So, yeah. Yeah, maybe that's better. Do you guys want to cover the Sor source book at all oh yeah bring it up let's talk about it yeah yeah so i'll give you kind of an overview of how it came about um and

then you know i'll go over the contents and all that um so i've been the first book i did with my current publisher was called spy gate oh yeah you should probably speak into the mic so it was called spy gate uh me damo gino and another woman named denise mcall Get close. So it was called Spygate. Me, Dan Mangino, and another woman named Denise McAllister wrote it. And it was, I mean, it covers all the Russiagate stuff. It starts pre-election and then goes into

sort of the Mueller special counsel. He made it into a trilogy, so he did two books after that on his own. One that's more old special counsel stuff, and then the last,

which is just sort of everything after that. So there's a chapter in the third book in the series called, or I can't remember the name of the chapter, but it has a lot to do with Ukraine and the whole impeachment hoax.

And there was some sort of like Soros ties into that chapter. So there's a number of Ukrainian anti-corruption organizations that are Soros-backed that were actually cited in the whistleblower complaint. And then a lot of like the sort of swampish characters in the impeachment saga

are connected to U.S. institutions, obviously, that are also sort of tiedish characters in the impeachment saga or connected to US institutions obviously that are also sort of tied in with Soros. So he pitched the idea of doing a book where that was sort of going to be our starting point was let's try to do a book based out of that section of his last book. So I put together a pretty lengthy chapter. I think it's

like 15,000 words, which is I would say half the length of a very short book. But obviously that itself is not going to be a book. And, you know, it was really as much as I could do was that much, given the content or given what was available. So it just became a question of, like, well, what do I want people to know about this George Soros guy? And I sort of settled on everything.

So I started just by making it into more or less a critical biography. So I started out by just giving, you know, an overview of this guy's life, who he is in his own words, where he came from, how he made all his money, what it was that made him want to go into politics and influence that. And then each chapter is just sort of a, I mean, I try to make it like a biography slash

novel slash reference book. So each chapter is just a different facet of life. So we'll have one called Soros and the Media. And it's just, here's literally every person in the media I could find that Soros is connected to, either that he's associated with publicly, that have worked for his foundations to varying degrees, and here's where they work today.

And it's places like the LA Times and NPR and the Washington Post, Amazon, NBC, and CNN, and pretty much every quote-unquote mainstream place you could list. And then it's just doing that for everything else. So I do one on his quest to sort of infiltrate higher education. I guess in his view, college isn't liberal enough, so he's trying to sort of – actually, this is a more recent end-of-life sort of thing he's doing,

is he's been creating his own network of colleges internationally. And this dates actually back to the 80s. He started a college called Central European University in Hungary, was later expelled from Hungary and is now in Vienna. But he's sort of starting to build a network around that in recent years. And then I just do this for everything. So I found, for instance, I have a whole chapter on leaked Soros documents from WikiLeaks and DCLeaks and just everything to be gleaned from them.

Then his connections and just randomly... What's his goal? To a large extent, it seems to be influence for the sake of influence. He is one of those people that the... Not to sound like Ted Kaczynski or anything, but the power process is very important to him. In his own words, too, he

describes himself as an egomaniac. He says he wants his views to be the conscience of the world. It just seems like, from his perspective, he just kind of gets off on influencing things. You know, the most interesting thing about the book, too, is like, you know, some people, I know it's going to be called the hit piece, but most of the negative stuff that I say about Soros

and his personality is quoted from him. I've read all the guys' books in preparation for the book, my own book, I mean. The only thing he's walked back on was, there was a very, I guess, infamous or famous interview he did with 60 Minutes back in the 90s, where he admits to working with one of the Nazis' Jewish councils back in Hungary, serving deportation papers to Jews, telling them their goods are going to be confiscated, and very sociopathically says that it's something he never felt any guilt over.

That's the one thing he sort of tried to reverse course on. And if you ever do a Google search for that interview, they're always playing cover saying, oh, it's actually not really what he said. And the interview is actually kind of hard to come by online, too.

So, I mean, I'm not saying... He's the kind of guy who's got legal resources. Yeah, I'm not saying he's censoring the internet. However, he has a lot of influence and he easily could reduce its reach tremendously. So I actually found the transcript, and it's more or less exactly what he says. And not only did I find the transcript, George Soros' father wrote an autobiography.

He talks about the same influence and said that his son seemed to enjoy it, and he tried to dissuade him from it. Do you remember when – I think it was Newt Gingrich was on Fox? Yeah. And he mentioned, like, George Soros funded these DAs. And you're out. And Fox was like, we don't accept that. You can't say that. So they had to apologize.

Yeah. The only other two people I had review the book besides Dan were Newt Gingrich and Steve Bannon, actually. And Gingrich obviously liked it. And I'm sure I'll make a joke about his Fox appearance next time I see him or talk to him. But, yeah, that was very odd. I mean, I'm actually going to be on Fox, hopefully, to talk about the book.

So hopefully they'll let me talk about it. But yeah, that's just a sort of general overview of the whole thing. Is it out now? So it should be out in December. Potentially it might get delayed because we're nervous that we're going to get sued, not like a legit case, but just to sort of F with us and cause us money. Because libel laws are such, like, I could literally accuse this guy of murder in a book, and I can't. I would win a lawsuit just because of how high profile he is.

But anyway, we're still doing a legal review just to, like, get even that possibility out of the way. And the lawyer, like, I'm sort of paraphrasing, but he was like, really good book, interesting, really well researched. You're enough of a dick where it could get you sued so i have to they highlight it all and i have to you know undickify the book but you know hopefully it won't get delayed more than a week are people able to pre-order it yeah so it's on amazon and marzanoble and then i think all those other random sites like books a million or target it's probably on there too but amazon's the big one um give me the name again so it's called The Man Behind the Curtain. The Secret Network of George Soros.

And I'll tweet about it. And I'm sure you guys will get it as well. Well, how about we go to Super Chats? If you haven't already, smash that like button. Subscribe to the channel. It is Friday night, everybody. Thank you so much for hanging out. All right.

Jordan Olson typed a bunch of Japanese, I think. Nice. Thanks, Jordan. I can't read it. But he says the left has no idea what they are dealing with and they Japanese, I think. Oh, nice. Thanks, Jordan. I can't read it, but he says the left has no idea what they are dealing with and they're pushing too far. Well, there you go. Michael Irwin says, how dare the journalists assume Nicki Minaj's gender? She seems to have bigger balls than any of those insulting journalists. That's, you know.

Redonk says, Nicki can handle her own ish, Tim. Yes, I know. That's the point. That's why I'm happy because she is. We finally have someone with power and influence pushing back. You know, I shouldn't say finally. We've got a lot of people who do, but she is a juggernaut in this space. She is the hero we need right now.

Andrea and Zachary, IFV fundraisingraising GoFundMe, says, the Kyle Rittenhouse motion hearing today went very well in his favor. Rakieta Law did a good stream for it earlier. I think you'd like to follow it. Ooh, that's very important. We should... We have Andrew Ronca back. Yeah, we should look into that. Maybe have someone come in. Look at that.

Cigars and Cigarm says, did you see the Kyle Rittenhouse motion hearing today? It seems the judge is not having any of the prosecution's shenanigans. He may yet walk. Woo! I just want to say for the record, Kyle Rittenhouse is my hero. You know, I don't know if I'd go that far because he's a young kid who was trying to do right by his community, and the whole thing was crazy.

But when you break it down, the left is trying so desperately to cover this up. I'm sort of being reactionary. Like, yes, I understand he shouldn't have been there. However, given the context of everything. I wouldn't say that. But neither should the rioters. So it's, you know. I would say hindsight is 20-20.

But when you watch a video of a 70-year-old man being bashed over the head with a brick and left bloody on the ground, and then you say, I'm coming out to protect my my community should Kyle have been there I mean I should I should rephrase it it's the gun ownership is the only thing I think legally there was some ambiguity to I we talked we've had a bunch of

lawyers on the show no no oh well good I mean I hope it's not like it's not yeah so we'll see how it plays out I've been saying for a while I think he'll get life because the

political climate there no one's gonna stick their neck out when Antifa's gonna come to your house with a brick. But hey, we'll see. All right. Let's see.

Bear XO says, I'm glad Ian is here today. After last night, I thought, Tim, I'm not going to say that. That was a very eye-opening conversation last night. I thought a lot about- Still waiting for his cooking show. I thought about semantics and what I don't want to do is be like, you said that, so you mean this. I don't want to twist you, but I like to talk about the meaning of words and how the meaning of words are perceived by different types of people. It's very important to the dynamic, I think, today.

Right on. The Praying Doula says, hey, Tim, I watch you every night, so much so my husband calls you the other man in my life. Can you give a shout out to Mr. Calvin Wiggins? Let him know he is still my number one. Love you all. You too, Ian. I like how she said you too, Ian, as if to like make sure she like, yes, I'm saying I like you. What was her name?

The Praying Doula. Thank you, the Praying Doula. And shout out to Mr. Calvin Wiggins. It would seem that your wife very much cares about you. So much so, she gave me 20 bucks. That's love. It's worth $20. There was a funny meme where some guy was tweeting, a couple asked me if I would leave my window seat

so that they could sit together. And I said, your love is not as important as me watching the airplane take off. And I'm like, yeah, but it's a funny way to put it but like bro you're gonna sit in a plane for a couple hours it's a good 4chan post but yes in real life you might not want to you know come on man tim johnson says you were right i was wrong the cops are a central problem they could stop this god bless don Donald J. Trump. Yeah. So here's what's happening.

Freedom-loving cops are resigning. And I get emails all the time. They're like, Tim, I had to quit. I couldn't do it anymore. I won't do this. We have this story. 11 of 15 restaurants that were surveyed by New York Post wouldn't enforce this. Apparently, Libby is telling us, she was here on the show, cops won't even enforce this.

So there's still a lot of good cops, but a lot of the freedom-loving ones are resigning. Then you've got people in the military, officers, who are resigning. So what's going to be left in five years? Well, that's the unintended consequence, too, of Black Lives Matter is generally speaking, when cops are demonized, it's the good ones who know, hey, if I'm ever in a tough situation, I might have to, you know, behave in a certain way that might not be popular. They're the ones who leave, and you're left with all the crappy cops who are sort of going to end up perpetuating their narrative. Yeah, man. The people willing to join

and the people willing to stay will be establishment shills. They'll be the fascists. It'll be the banality of evil. And so when people are like, if a civil war happened, the right has all the guns, and it's like,

and the left will have the institutional guns, and you will have the civilian guns, and so bad things happen. Brett says nikki was blacklisted years ago been working against the industry machine and their plants e.g. fraudy b she's the donald trump of hip-hop i thought that was kanye wow well i i like nikki minaj more and more i i haven't actually listened to her music you know I gotta be honest I bet if you played her music I'd be like

oh I heard that song it's not good it's not good it's not good of course beauty is in the eye of the beholder I like The Weeknd there was a time

whenever her songs whenever her songs would come on I would turn off the radio because I'm like if I die in a car crash this can't be the last thing I hear

people like it I appreciate that I'm you know like I remember like didn't Ben Shapiro have this thing where he was like, rap isn't music or something? Yeah, 75% of crap. I mean, it's a boomer joke, but I think he made that comment as well.

Zoomy changed his mind. Oh, really? He did, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, music's music, man. Oh, yeah, you can raise and lower the pitch of your voice as you're talking. It's definitely music. Yeah, it's definitely music.

It's great. And there's some really good stuff. I was just, I was, you know, I always really liked the more political, older rap stuff where they're actually saying stuff. And it's good. It's good beats. It's good music. It's good sampling.

And now, like, we got that period in the 90s and 2000s where it was just like, you know. Opioid music. Yeah, just, I'm rich, I'm rich, I'm rich, I'm rich. And I'm like, this is, like, I get it. You can dance to the beat, but man, there's no substance. Give me the heart. Give me the grind. Yeah, that's why there's like some pop musicians where I'm like really disappointed sometimes

when they'll come out with a song that's actually really great in terms of composition, but the worst possible lyrics you can imagine. Yeah. And I'm just like, wow, imagine if they actually, you know, Adele's good. Needs both. Oh my gosh, yeah, she's great.

Yeah, fantastic. All right, let's, okay. Busted Knuckle says, Tim had a powerful quote today. It's not about my opinion

or making this stuff up. It's about watching everybody else getting ready. Tom McDonald and Nicki Minaj collab. OMG, let's make it happen. That'd be great. I think I was basically saying like

the issue of Civil War and the cult and everything. I said this a lot in various ways. It doesn't matter if you think you're right. It doesn't matter if I'm right or they're right. What matters is both sides are adamant they are right and they're continually escalating the conflict. Now I will say, as I often do,

I think the cult are the ones who are actually pushing it. Donald Trump did not invoke the Insurrection Act. Donald Trump did not start these riots. And Donald Trump didn't even stop the riots. But when it comes to Joe Biden and the executive decrees and Cuomo murdering 15,000 people,

the left is right there empowering them the entire time. It's crazy. You can, like, kill 15,000 people, the left is right there empowering them the entire time. It's crazy. You can kill 15,000 people, but if you make a few women uncomfortable, that's where they draw the line. That's where they draw the line, yeah. I'm not saying what he did was right, but it's just of the two things. Obviously, one is quite a bit worse than the other. Socrates was huge on questioning himself and advising

other people to question authority and question themselves. I think we should definitely keep that in mind. Do it. Peppy Clown says, Tim, I'm going to start calling you Three Dog from Fallout 3. My super chat is about you claiming we have no culture on the right. Just look at Adam Calhoun, Ryan Upchurch, and all the other creakers and rednecks. We got culture, bud. We just don't got a media presence. So what I mean is mainstream culture, there's like almost no right-wing presence

obviously people have culture obviously there's they don't talk about it well it's just the mainstream is owned by the like the establishment culture it's all owned by the left it's like it's like five percent of it is right wing and they don't talk about it like i mean like i think actually norm mcdonald who recently passed away is actually sort of an example of that where he's you know he when he rarely talked about politics, it was right-wing, but it was just, you know. He, like, didn't he have a thing where he talked about going to a Trump rally and how he, like, he loved it or whatever? Well, he had this one joke where he was talking about

how a transgender woman came up to him and was, like, questioning, like, how can you possibly believe in God, how ridiculous it is? And he goes, well, I have to pretend you're a fucking woman. Which is, you know, a pretty ballsy joke from any comedian nowadays. But I mean,

it was from something within the past few months. But he gave no fucks, which was awesome. But it's funny that, you know, he goes on this radio show and actually pushes back woke talking points.

This was the bit we've been talking about for a while where he pushes those talking points where, you know, about... He was on a radio show with this woke woman and he said that black people are poorer than white people and poor people are dangerous.

And they all got offended by it. But the problem is that was actually their talking point. He just said it in a way that came off as crass and they were offended by it. And it's like it really makes you think that many of these people are offended not by the substance of the idea or the fact, but by the way it's put to them. Yes. Like put to them. Yes, the tone. Like, learn to code. The thing, too, they want to know your motivation by arguing something. Where you can say something sympathetic, but if they suspect it's for the wrong reason, that's also a sin.

True. Norm was a master of the tone. He was the greatest ever. He's so good. There's never going to be anyone funnier than him. I hope there will be. I want to carry his torch, man. I hope there is, but yeah.

Norm. Yeah, he's got, there's so many videos that are popping up of him when he was on The View talking about Bill Clinton. He killed a guy.

I was just thinking about that. Wow. That was the one like saving grace of his death and I'm like, I'm glad everyone's

getting exposed to all this. This is the dumbest thought. I always thought like, oh, only I listen to this guy because I'm clicking

through YouTube and of course millions of people do. I loved him on the weekend update. Yeah. Best ever weekend update. He was so good. All right.

Let's see. C. Hennessey says, a house divided against itself cannot stand. I do not expect the union to be dissolved. I do not expect the house to fall. But I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all other. Lincoln. I don't think it will be united.

I don't think it's possible. It's just absolutely not possible. Because it's not about facts. It's about that I can sit and ask someone a question and they will change their opinion just to oppose me. That's the problem.

You'll sit down and have a conversation with one of these people on the left and you'll say something and they'll just say the opposite. Well, there's a whole Twitter account called defiant l's and literally the entire feed no matter who you are as a liberal he will find you saying one thing and then four days later magically having the opposite opinion in the opposite circumstance oh oh yeah he's an

all-star as ezra klein had like the really famous moment where he was like you know um we we we should have uh appointments for the supreme court for life it makes sense it's part of this country and then when you know uh kavanaugh comes around i can't remember who it was jk then kavanaugh comes around he goes well we really should consider limits people should be out at a certain point and it's like well the big one is the vaccine which is i mean now getting pushed on us as if you don't take this you want everyone to die and you should have no rights. A year ago, it was God, why is Trump trying to rush this? What kind of idiot would take

this? And literally every mainstream public, including Frank 55021 from Twitter, every single person did a 180. And it's incredible to see. There's no way to mend when you can literally sit down next to someone and be like Trump wants this vaccine to be put

out. And they'll go, that's a stupid idea. you're wrong and um well biden got elected oh the vaccine's a good thing now it's like okay so are we arguing that drake meme well joey reed tried to defend it by saying well under trump it was just a different regulatory process so now that's under biden and literally nothing has changed since you know i still i always seem still fine that when people come face to face it's a different story. One-on-one, not when mobs come together. Well, especially online, too.

I mean, A, there's a divide, and then also there's the acknowledgement that on Twitter, your odds of convincing someone of your opinion in 100 characters is 0%. Right, yeah. Text is not,

it's really disrupting society right now, this text communication. Yeah. Yeah, I've thought about going off the grid once I'm no longer doing politics. Dude, just walking to the river today was incredible. Yeah. I picked up my phone this morning. I was like, I think thought about going off the grid once I'm no longer doing politics. Dude, just walking to the river today was incredible.

Yeah. I picked up my phone this morning. I was like, I think I don't want to be on the internet today. I think if I had everything now

but limited to like an hour a day, it would be fine. Yeah. I think that's a good, but I will never get the willpower to enforce that. You can do it.

You can do it! That's Rob Schneider. Josh, oh my gosh, says, Hey Tim and crew, what do you think of forcing politicians' wages to be the same as the median between the lowest wages

and the middle class wages in their areas? How would this affect those who seek power in government? They would become desperate and then pony up to establishment power to get a good job after they left after two years? So Thomas Sowell made that point. He actually made a case, and I don't agree with it going this far, but for paying everyone a million a year. That was Yang to the same thing.

Yeah, and his logic was, A, the cost per taxpayer is like, you know, probably less than a penny when you divide it between everyone. And then, you know, his argument is it would make them less susceptible to corruption. Now, obviously, you could be, you know, super greedy and want the million plus everything else, but that was his argument. Yeah, money doesn't solve greed. Yeah. I think it should

be that maybe we pay really, really well. Like Andrew Yang said, you get paid a million bucks or whatever. Thomas Sowell apparently said the same thing. But then what if after you got out, you could no longer work in the private sector? That would be interesting because you can't – that seems to be the number one job is just like, oh, this random senator is down on Walmart's board for some reason.

How did that happen? Yeah. So how about you can't – you can only work in the public sector? That would be interesting. But what if we paid a million bucks a year and then – I guess the challenge is there's no simple answer to this problem. Paying a million bucks won't solve anything. It'll just make people want to win so they can get $2 million. There's always a workaround. Like in India, lobbying is banned, but bribery and corruption is extremely common.

So it's like you just find a different form for it. And people don't understand what lobbying is. You know, typically younger leftists will tell you that lobbying is like, here's a big check. No, they go to dinner with the guy. Yeah. Lobbying literally means argue to person. It comes from people standing in the lobby and waiting for Congress the day session to end when they would come out and they'd be like, hey, hey, hey, you want to come? Look at this.

And they're in the lobby, lobbyists. Yep. And come to dinner with me. Which to some extent we need, but just not for every hour of preparation. I really don't like it. People really don't understand how simple things can be. Like we talked about gerrymandering. Gerrymandering is one of the most important things that we have in this country when it comes to our political system.

They just don't get it. They show a map and it's like, here's Dan Crenshaw's district. And it's got like weird lines and it's like oddly shaped. And I'm like, yes. Would you prefer it if half his district covered the water or if it covered large swaths of empty farmland? No, they're drawn over where people live. So, of course, they're not solid blocks some guys actually had a really solid explanation of how you can how everyone thinks that's what

gerrymandering looks like but he created his own hypothetical map where every box just looks like oh it's an evenly made district and it was more gerrymandered than the most gerrymandered districts but it's just the placement of it doesn't have to be the shape basically was his point people seem to think that like, Chicago is a giant square. And you can just draw a square over it and be like, that's a district. They don't realize that in Chicago, there's big commercial industrial areas. Like on the south side where it's literally like five square miles of factories. Wrigley Field, for instance.

Yeah, so it's like we're going to – people don't live there. And then there's also mountainous terrain, swamps, places that are not incorporated. So, yes, districts are drawn where people live. And the problem is whether intentionally or not,

you will end up with a with a favorable districting, redistricting. And so people accuse each other of both sides of corruption for doing it. The problem is, I think, we have first-past-the-post voting one person one vote is what is a really dumb idea

i can talk all day about the founding fathers were brilliant but this was one of the dumbest things they did but i don't blame them what does it first pass the postal to you one person one vote it doesn't make sense because we end up with a system where people are voting against each other right right as opposed to like a rank choice system where you rank choice is it 10 and then if the first person is off the table it goes to your second vote. Didn't New York try that?

I don't know how that went. Yeah, I think they do it now. They do ranked choice. I think Nebraska might or Maine might do ranked choice for all their elections as well. Interesting. You look at the parliamentary system

where I think that's actually in a lot of ways better. I would actually prefer it compared to what we have. As I said earlier, I want to see more parties right so you know i'm a republican but i'm in a faction that i think 20 of republicans are in so it's you know yeah with uh with if if we had a parliamentary style voting system in the u.s you would end up with what is what is the libertarian party like uh five percent yeah probably get five percent of the seats so you

would end up with what like like, what would that be, like, a couple, two or three libertarian congressmen? 20 in the House, I guess. It'd be 20. What was it,

what, 435 seats? Oh, yeah, right. There you go. Yeah, about 20 and then you'd have, yeah, one or two in the Senate. Yeah.

So the way that would work is any legit recognized political party automatically gets. So then most European countries, I think it's your party has to get like 5%, although the threshold might differ. But then once you're above that, then they get distributed based on that. And then coalitions have to form. So Republicans would probably.

You'd have like a Republican Party, a Libertarian Party, a Nationalist Party, and they might be a coalition. Then the Democrats and the DSA might be a coalition and the Greens or whatever. And what would happen is the Republicans would come out and be like, we want to cut taxes on the billionaires and the millionaires. And libertarians are going to be like, you bet. And the national populists are going to be like, we're not going to get on board with that. We don't see how that serves the working class in this country. But the libertarians would often be like, anything having to do with shrinking government, we're going to say yes to.

And then when the national populists agree on certain regulations, the Republicans do. The libertarians are going to be like, nope. So it forces – but then they could go to the Green Party and say, hey, this regulation – so then they would actually have to meet with more different perspectives on the left and the right to solve things. I don't know if it would solve all the problems though. But I will say first past the post results in locked districts and voting against people. So now it's like, we have the epitome of anti-elections.

Joe Biden is an anti-president. He was not elected. Trump was anti-elected. People went in hard, like, I don't care about Joe. We don't know or care who he is. Typically it was the lesser of two evils now it's quite literally anything anything but trump that was their vote i think too i think

the mail-in voting probably also helped tip the scales and that like if you're in a swing state and you're some college like it's i'm working with the premise that the people that were the most anti-trump were the youngest people who were also the least likely to vote in the first place um so like when you have mail and mass mail-in voting in any swing state, you have all these college kids who would never in a million years go to a polling place, can now just check a box. Now people are going to say, Matt, are you saying college kids shouldn't vote? Maybe.

No, no. Here's the way I'll put it. If you want to vote, there should be at least some responsibility, some requirement. It shouldn't be that you can sit there with your eyes half closed. Someone knocks on your door and says, can you check that box for me real quick? People think it's a virtue getting more people to vote. I'm like, well, what if they're idiots? I mean, it's not bought in by...

They wouldn't think that if it was more Republicans. So what happens is, this is what the Democrats have been doing. I do not believe we're going to find any widespread fraud. I don't think so either. I think like believe we're going to find any widespread fraud. I think like Bill Barr said, there's fraud but it's not that crazy and I think it's correct. I do think we need security.

I think it'd be ridiculous to reduce security. We need open source code in these voting machines. But what's happening is with universal mail-in voting, Democrats have all of these non-profits to go door to door knocking on every door and saying, did you vote yet? Did you vote yet? Did you vote yet? It's right there. Before they had that, they would knock on the door and say, make sure on September 14th, you go vote. And they go,

yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever. And then September 14th, they'll come around and they'll be like, I'm not going anywhere. But now with a month of print out your own ballots, they have that in California, if you mail-in universal mail-in voting now that the democrats have a month to go door to door to all of these people and say can you fill that out right now just fill it out right now you know you got to fill it out and they'll go okay fine fine i'll fill it on you don't recall here done i'm done right what do i do with it just put in your mailbox mailman let's come take it okay that's what they've been doing and the republicans don't have this ground game so there's a lot's a lot of Trump supporters who think they were making fake ballots.

And I'm like, dude, they're real. They're mail-in ballots. The Republicans helped them do it in Pennsylvania. And then the Republicans did not go on the ground. And that's why Republicans disproportionately vote in person. Because no one in the Republican districts, and you know what the other thing is? It's harder to do. When you're a Democrat and you walk into an apartment building with 1,000 people in the massive building,

and you go, knock on one door, vote, vote, vote. You walk 10 feet, knock on the door, vote. Republicans got to go house to house to house. It's a lot harder to do. That's why I think universal mail-in voting is bad, because it disproportionately favors dense populations. And we can't have that. That's a really good point. Because they make very, very bad voting decisions.

Regardless of whether you think their vote's right or wrong, if you're giving an advantage to those who live in dense populations, then you're going to continually pressure left victories, right? All right, let's see. There's a good one. Jacob Kruger says, It's funny and scary that Alex Jones has been right about so much, yet still seen as a whack job.

What's the difference between conspiracy theory and fact now? A few weeks, get Nicky on the show. Well, Alex has said a bunch of crazy things. That's why.

He said a bunch of things that turned out to be true, and that's fair. But when he was on it, like Rogan, and he was saying like the towers and the interdimensional beings

and all this stuff, I'm like, dude, the frogs are gay now. When he said, they're turning on the freaking frogs, that was hyperbole. So he's also hyperbolic,

which I think has given him kind of tainted his persona to a lot of people because it was making them hermaphroditic, this enzyme or whatever it was. Atrazine. Atrazine.

But not gay. No, not gay. He's admitted that. We've had Steve Bannon a couple times and we get so many comments from people being like, wow, I didn't realize

he was actually kind of a normal dude. Oh, I've met him a few times. He's the coolest guy I've done but people think he's this fringe crazy far-right neo-nazi guy because of the media yeah and for a lot of the people i think that's why steve likes me like he came on the show twice he saw me on a show in like december of 2019 and then like eight months later someone just sends me a clip of he's like yo yeah right i saw the show with matt palomo he did a great job and i was just i don't i was kind of blown away that

he remembered who I was. I think he came on twice. After the first time, he was like, I'll come back. And I think it's because there's a lot of people who watch us who are fairly moderate who have maybe only ever heard of him from the mainstream media. And then when you actually hear him talk, it was funny. He said he was far right. And then he says he wants to tax the rich. And I'm like, Steve, that's not far right.

That's pretty left. And he goes, no, I'm far right. And I'm like, no, that's not. He goes, well, I'm a populist. And I'm like, Steve, that's not far right. That's like pretty left. And he goes, no, I'm far right. And I'm like, no, that's not. He goes, well, I'm a populist. And I'm like, right, right. You're a populist. And so when the media says far right and you think it's true, I'm like, people don't understand what that means. But for Steve Bannon to be like, tax the rich.

We're getting ripped off. I'm like, that sounds more like Bernie than anything. And it is more common of the European far right, where they're big on anti-immigration. But when it comes to taxes, they're more liberal on that. But yeah, he's not completely one-dimensional or anything. Yeah, he's really grounded. Yeah, I don't know. Very nice guy.

It's just weird, the image that's been created around him. If I met him and didn't know a single thing, I'd just be like, oh, he's a nice old man. You know what I love about him is he's excited for the future. It's great to be around him. Victor Dimitrov says, any plan for TimCast to make games? We are in desperate need for more game devs that aren't woke and aren't in the hellhole cities.

Too many games have sacrificed quality in favor of pushing an agenda. We have two video games in development. They've been in development for some time. It's difficult. It takes a long time. We're going to be incorporating very interesting new technologies into these games to make them alive

outside of the game as well. It's going to be awesome. We're working on a roguelike game. I've actually posted a video of it. We should probably... I think we should maybe make an announcement at some point about one of the games. Let's talk about it after the show. Yeah. Because it's a roguelike.

It's a normal game. And it's going to be really, really fun. And we're going to make it an immortal living game where we have regular updates, different levels, procedurally generated stuff. And we've got a bunch of crazy ideas that are going to make probably one of the most fun games you'll ever play.

The industries are combining, I've found. All these industries, the movie industry, the video game industry, the economics, it's just becoming one. VR, you know, you're going to be in this world of reality, sub-reality. So we're stepping into that. Alright, Dragon Lady says,

Dang it, haven't been able to be around the last few days due to a hospital stay. Maddening. No internet reception available. I feel so relaxed now being able to tune in to Tim and Lydia and I'm even glad to hear Ian. I love you. Seriously, hugs to Ian. Who said that? I love you. Dragon Lady. I don't think Dragon Lady is a fan of me.

Thanks, Jim. She'll get to know you. Excellent. Rick Ortiz says, Tim, not financial advice, but do you have faith in both AMC and GMC stonks? Also, you're a nerd, Ian. That is true. I both AMC and GMC stonks? Also, you're a nerd, Ian. That is true. Yeah, definitely. I have AMC stock.

And I didn't actually buy it when the whole thing started, because I was like, I don't want to do that. But I actually bought it because of cover restrictions. Because I was thinking two things. What is the one thing I want to do when they lift restrictions? I want to go to the movies, man. That was my logic.

I bought it, and then the first meme wave I just sold when it was like 20 or something. I got it for like three, and I was like, whatever. I'm not going to sell it because my concern isn't making money off of it. My thing was like, I love going to the movies, and I haven't been able to. And now we've gone to the movies a couple times, and it's fun. And also, that says to me it's a good investment. You know why? I bet a lot of people feel the same way.

So there's a lot of the super stonk stuff where they're like, buy MC, the short people, the mother of all shorts. And they have all this extra cash on their balance sheet now that they can just kind of diversify if they need to or use it to do anything. Makes it an even better investment. Have you guys ever been to an IMAX theater? Yeah. Oh, my.

Oh, gee. I saw Avatar in the IMAX. Yeah. Dude, go see an IMAX theater? Yeah. Oh, my. Oh, yeah. Oh, gee. I saw Avatar in the IMAX. Yeah. Dude, go see an IMAX movie. What did I see? I think I saw Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull in IMAX. I haven't seen any of it. What's the Paradox movie?

I can't remember what the hell it's called. Joseph Gordon-Levitt? Oh, yeah. Inception. Inception. Yeah, I saw that in IMAX. It was very good. Whoa.

That must have been twisted. IMAX is fun. I still don't know what happened, but yeah, it was good. I fell asleep during that movie. I don't think it was my fault brewmaster monk says nft is not like a great way to prove you were at an important cultural event like imagine getting one from attending a concert and being able to display these badges on a dating profile that's a really good idea we should rip this guy's idea off but

but that but you don't need you don't need nfts for that like so we're planning an event and we're going to be sorting out the details it's probably going to be october 23rd we could just issue a token and there's only 300 of them so they're fungible yeah but they're there's just 300 right they don't got to be nfts um you could issue utility tokens yeah but i guess you could do 300 nfts the event. Probably, yeah. I think you can, yeah. Yeah, that actually makes sense because then you have, it'll be called like,

and the data within them will be one of 300, two of 300, three of 300. And then someone will be like, I went to the event and I got the NFT three of 300 or one of them. And then the person's going to want that number one. Yeah. Big time.

And then what do you, is that all it is? Yeah, it's basically an art project. Yeah. At least right now it is there might be better uh utilities that come out for it all right let's see there was a super chat and it just disappeared and it was about cardano and i want to read it oh there you go goblin hand says tim you promised us charles hoskinson what happened there when he's probably in he's probably the

coolest billionaire you will ever meet and you can talk not only crypto with him but liberty as well he's a wyoming guy i mean we we have an open invite yeah we run in the same circles come on charles you can come on whenever he wants to come on wyoming's got great crypto laws i've talked to him about it oh but say wyoming yeah oh isn't their senator really into it? Yeah. Yes. He's cool. Speaking of secession, why don't we just take over a state like that? It would be really exciting to start a new community somewhere. They tried to do that in New Hampshire, the libertarians, I think. They're working on it. Yeah.

Lord of Avion says, Tim, how do you feel about the quartering saying you want a civil war? He doesn't listen to my videos. Because, like I've consistently said said one of the worst possible things for us in the world would be if we fracture, then China wins and China is our greatest adversary. But it's funny that he uses

the leftist talking point that by talking about something happening, you want it to happen. That's like, it's kind of a, it's a weird thing to say because it's completely irrelevant to the conversation, completely irrelevant to the argument.

If The Atlantic writes a story saying a historian says we're tracking like ancient Rome and we will have a civil war and we've had a Princeton professor say it. We've had numerous articles about security experts saying it. We have leftist pundits and right-wing pundits saying it. We have Sarah Silverman saying secede. New Hampshire is trying to secede. And then I go, man, it sounds like civil war. Tim wants it to happen. Let me, let me offer a little counterpoint. Cause if a kid, say for instance, is holding a knife and you're like, Hey, put that down. You're going to hurt yourself.

Then the kid starts thinking, I'm going to hurt myself. I'm going to hurt myself. And then might end up hurting themselves. I think that's psychotic. I know it is psychotic. No, I think what you're arguing right now, if you tell someone it's kind of the way you phrase things, I think ultimately not you particularly, but just the way things are phrased to people can kind of guide them towards ways and maybe you've said things like it's going to happen so i think that means you want it counterpoint though is that it really hurts stabbing yourself yeah as opposed to like put that down it's safer if you put it down yeah people have you know i just i don't i don't think that makes sense but the point is Imagine seeing a fire

And then being like That fire is going to spread He wants the fire to spread What? It's the worst possible thing It's going to destroy the neighborhood And then the rival high school is going to take over And they're like

He just wants the fire to happen It's like okay I guess I'm done telling people There's going to be a fire You've warned us but now it's like okay uh i guess i'm done telling people there's going to be a fire you've warned us but now now it's your job is to help us solve it that's the crazy thing too is like a lot most of what i do is kind of just like observational like a lot of my my videos uh on conflict in china it's funny when they're like tim pool so biased and i'm like have you ever like watched one of my videos that gets substantially more views, I will get way more views talking about if I did a segment on Biden

and the drone strike, and it's just like a drone strike was ordered here. I did one segment talking about 30 minutes. The military was reducing contracts in desert theater warfare ordinance and military gear and stuff like that, and was shifting to Pacific theater,

which was indicative of a greater threat from china and now that especially with uh it also was a sign that of the withdrawal with afghanistan and it was ridiculously dry there wasn't me going like i can't believe these democrats are going but it was me literally saying joe biden announced the pentagon would be reducing its purchasing of and it's just 30 minutes of really dry stuff and they accused me of wanting war by literally reading military reports and purchasing reports and saying like, guys, it really does sound like the US is going to be shifting in this direction. And this will put pressure on China, Thucydides trap, blah, blah, blah.

I think it's a ridiculous argument. Also, I think Jeremy is a very much a person-oriented show. So for me, when I'm like, take a look at this report about conflict, and the segment is literally about the allusions to ancient Rome and potential conflicts and history repeating itself, and then you have other channels like Jeremy where he talks about people and what people do, it's just very different jeremy's not going to make a video talking about the merits of civil war because he's a people channel you know what i mean like they're they're channels that focus on like individuals and individual culture and then we talk about that's why i usually don't name people when i'll be like we did it several times today i don't say their names because i'm more interested in the ideas that's being conveyed by

the person and not getting into petty drama about them. Also, I didn't know he said that anyway, so I'm assuming he did, but whatever. It's what the left says over and over again. Like the Princeton professor can come out and say it, and he gets a free pass. Is he like Kevin Cruz's douchebag? Who? Oh, it's the Princeton professor that I hate, but no, go ahead. No, some Princeton professor came out several years ago and said we're in a cold civil war.

And then I go, hey, guys, look at at that he said like you want a civil war don't you and i'm like no i really don't because china will then take over sarah silverman seems to want balkanization though so that's good for her yeah all right let's see we'll grab a couple more jim pina says you have a game project i have 20 plus years in the industry, so I'll keep an eye on this in case I could contribute. We need a lead dev. Like a full stack dev. Well, full stack. I don't know if they're going to do the game stuff for us.

Oh, okay. We need a lot of people. Let's go slow. One dev at a time. We need a legit game dev who knows... What are we using? Game Maker? Yeah.

Game Maker? Yeah. It's not even that complicated. It's just mostly tedious. But we need someone who can streamline through these projects because we got too much on our plates. Jobs at TimCast.com. And I think we might already have a ton of people who applied. But feel free to email us.

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