Timcast IRL - Timcast IRL #636 Biden Demanded Saudis Help Democrats WIN Midterms In SHOCKING Scandal w/Jim Antle
Episode Date: October 14, 2022Tim, Ian, Luke, & Serge join Jim Antle to discuss Joe Biden's insane quid pro quo with the Saudis, Snopes admitting that gas prices were lower during Trump's presidency, Russia threatening WW3 if Ukra...ine joins NATO, AOC getting roasted by her constituents during Bronx town hall, Russia inviting US states to secede and join Russia, and western Oregon counties wanting to leave Oregon and join Idaho. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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If you have questions or concerns about your gambling or someone close to you, So Joe Biden got caught in a very serious quid pro quo.
Democrats are threatening to pull military aid from Saudi Arabia
because Saudi Arabia won't help them win the midterms, which is, well, I can't say I'm surprised. They claimed that Donald
Trump was doing all of this, which he wasn't. Ukraine claimed there was no quid pro quo.
And now the gist of the story is that the Democrats went to Saudi Arabia and said,
do not halt oil production for one month, just one month. And then after that, do whatever you want.
Why just one month? Is there something big happening in the next 25 days?
So, of course, they'll deny it. But now you have Democratic members of Congress
that are putting forward legislation to basically pull aid from Saudi Arabia.
Biden is threatening Saudi Arabia, saying we're going to be looking at everything we can.
This is them basically saying quid pro quo.
You better give us what we want.
Help us win or else.
Let's see how much the mainstream media actually carries this story.
Surprisingly, CNBC is picking it up.
So we'll talk about that.
Plus, oh, I love this.
I just want to mention this.
It's kind of a passive story, but Snopes acknowledging true gas was under two dollars during Donald Trump.
We've also got on the ballot in Oregon.
It's a provision inching towards secession from Oregon.
That's it's eastern Oregon into greater Idaho, which is very, very interesting.
And oh, I love this one so much.
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Joining us today to talk about all of this and more is Jim Antle.
Good to be here. Thanks for having me.
Who are you?
I'm politics editor at Washington Examiner, author of Devouring Freedom,
Can Big Government Ever Be Stopped?
And it was more than one page.
Oh, okay. I hope the answer to that question is no.
I mean, it's yes, not no. It can be stopped.
It was yes. I don't know if I rewrote it now. I might be answer to that question is no. I mean, it's yes, not no. It can be. It was yes.
I don't know if I rewrote it now.
I might be a little more skeptical, but yeah.
I actually think, you know, as crazy as things are getting, I'm very optimistic about everything
that's happening because it's getting crazy because they're getting desperate, you know,
the thrashing around all violently and crazy, but the ratings are in the gutter.
People aren't paying attention anymore.
They're getting exposed.
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what's happening search hey guys i'm here again. I am reading the comments. If you guys
saw me yesterday or in the evening, usually just until the night is up until I feel like going to
sleep. So I'll see you guys again tonight. Later on. Take it away, Tim. Serge is pressing the
buttons. All right. Here's the first story. We got this from Timcast.com. Biden wanted OPEC.
OPEC plus cuts delayed until after the midterms, Saudi Arabia says.
Biden now faces allegations of quid pro quo, similar to alleged deal that was the basis for
impeaching former President Donald Trump. This is from Hans Monk. He says this is extremely damning.
In Trump's case, the quote victim of the quid pro quo, Zelensky emphatically denied
there was any suggestion of a quid pro quo. In Biden's case, the victim is formally accusing
the U.S. of just that quick and simple gist of the story. Biden administration goes Saudi Arabia
and says, we know you're going to start cutting the production of oil. Wait one month. Just one
month. That's conveniently just after the midterms.
Saudi Arabia said, no, we're not going to do that. And we're not going to do it for economic
reasons. Now, it was initially reported that they were siding with Russia. That's one way you can
frame it. And I think the media jumped at that because it kind of absolves the Democrats of any
kind of a responsibility that it was really about just American interests and stopping the war. Now we learned it was for one month. If the Democrats' goal was really
to help the American people with lower gas prices and stop the war with Russia, to stop Russia being
able to finance their war, they wouldn't have said, halt, halt your, keep production up for
one extra month. They would have said, do not cut your production. Do not let Russia do this. Instead, it was obvious they wanted a political advantage, a quid pro quo.
And when they didn't get it, what we see now are the Democrats threatening Saudi Arabia with
pulling military aid and other support. You know, if they really wanted to help,
they would allow domestic energy exploration and production. They're not doing that in the
name of green energy. We're shipping in oil from Saudi Arabia, all in the name of fighting climate change, which is absolutely
absurd. How many Yemenese children had to die for the U.S. petrodollar? And now we're at a
situation where the Saudi empire is just slapping Joe Biden back and forth. And if you remember
just a couple of weeks ago, Joe Biden had his landmark trip to Saudi Arabia where he was going
to turn on the faucet to oil.
And after that trip, the Biden administration literally released the statement saying Saudi Arabia is on board.
They're going to help us lower gas prices.
Saudi Arabia came out and said, no, Joe's lying here.
And now we're finding out, according to Saudi Arabia, which is absolutely just such a big bombshell when it comes to Saudi Arabia saying this on the world stage because of the petrodollar, because of Yemen, because of how connected the United States was, especially
when it came to financing radical jihadists all throughout the Middle East with Saudi Arabia.
You see the decoupling of Saudi Arabia and America. That, to me, is the biggest story here,
which will have huge ramifications on the financial economy, not just with gas prices,
but with the purchasing power of the U.S. dollar. So World War III, is that what's happening?
No, just incompetent, crazy leadership.
And this is not the first time we had a quid pro joe,
which I think it should be changed to after this latest revelation.
And Biden has a history of this.
Yeah, he did this in 2015,
especially when it came to the prosecutor in Ukraine
looking into Burisma Oil and his son's
connections to this. He bragged with the president of the Council on Foreign Relations about firing
him while holding aid money hostage to that particular country. So again, this is nothing
new. This is a quid pro joe. But this was done in such plain sight other than the one month
aspect of it. I mean, he went hat in hand over to Saudi Arabia very publicly.
He denied that he was going hat in hand, that it was about oil.
It was about the war effort, Russia.
It was about the environment, climate change, all of these other things,
that he was going to go over there and fist bump with people he had said on the campaign trail
he was going to make a pariah that he was going to isolate because of their role in jamal kashoggi's death a murder and uh now but their public
reaction even to when opec plus cut the production really felt like they felt double-crossed yeah it
wasn't so so much of this really happened it really you could just watch television
and see that this was unfolding but the one month aspect of it is really what's most damn i say good
i i am uh man hearing that joe biden is reeling from this makes it fills me with um what's that
schadenfreude yeah because joe biden has hampered U.S. energy production. Joe Biden
said that he wants to get us off fossil fuels.
He's bragged about it.
He campaigned on it. Congratulations.
You will now reap what you have
sown. You wanted to shut down Keystone. You wanted
to ban fracking. You wanted to deny permits
for energy exploration in the United States.
I get it. A lot of people are concerned about
carbon and fossil fuels and all that stuff. Great.
Now those people who are angry can go look at the pump and ask themselves why it costs
so much money.
But hey, as long as they know they're making it more expensive for themselves, I got no
problem with them advocating for something they believe in.
The problem is these people are screaming.
There's that viral video where this woman's like, it was $95 to fill up my tank.
The religious right did this.
No, you did it to yourself.
You voted for Joe Biden
who bragged about doing it.
And now because of this,
because he campaigned
on what you wanted,
he goes and he bends
the knee to Saudi Arabia
and he says,
come on, man, please,
please, we need gas.
We don't produce it anymore
because of me.
And then they laugh
and they say, no, it's OK.
We're going to work
with Russia on this one.
And then he pouts
and he has a temper tantrum
and says,
and we're going to cut off
aid from your country.
And then the media dances around the fact that this is overt corruption on behalf of the president, who has done two things.
He has hampered energy production in the U.S. for political gain.
And then he begs Saudi Arabia to give to make concessions to the United States just so we can win the midterms.
And when they don't do it, he and other Democrats threaten them.
Talk about corrupt garbage. There's also a lot of other things happening behind the scenes
geopolitically. A lot of people are saying Saudi Arabia is with Russia, but I think it's even
beyond that because Saudi Arabia makes most of their money selling oil. What has this administration
promised to do? Get off oil. This directly is going to piss off the Saudi Arabians who are
saying our whole economy
is at stake here, especially if the whole Western world gets off oil. Why are you pushing these
policies? This is going to, of course, hurt us financially. So now they're at a situation saying,
you know what, these people are not going to be dependent on us. So let's just take what we could
get right now. Let's make sure we get a good profit off of the stupid policies put on by Joe
Biden that, of course, hindered domestic energy exploration and production.
This is a deliberate action by the Biden administration that just blew back in its face.
And correctly so.
People should be pissed.
People should be angry that the government tried to bamboozle them for a month.
Tried to lie to them for a month just for a better rating, just for a better outcome when it came to the midterm elections. That's just disgusting. I want to show you this. This is CNBC reporting
Biden administration as Saudi Arabia to postpone OPEC decision by a month. And this is CNBC saying
notably the White House's request would have delayed the decision until after the U.S. midterm
elections. And just that there was no long term protection of gas prices for the American people.
It was literally just just wait one month. What would that accomplish? Let's say the election
has nothing to do with it. What does a one month delay do for anyone? Does it end the war? No.
Does it stop Russia from financing their war? No. It all would just carry on. All it does,
the one thing is it protects Democrats by keeping gas prices just
slightly, slightly down up until the midterm elections and then afterwards off a cliff.
Yeah. Rasmussen also says that there's a direct statistical correlation between approval ratings
and gas prices. So, of course, they try to bamboozle, they try to lie, they try to manipulate
the situation just so they could get more power that they're going to,
of course, use to screw you over even more, which is crazy. Let me just I want to fill in the picture
of the quid pro quo. Here's CNBC again. Biden threatens consequences for Saudi Arabia after
OPEC cut, but his options are limited. They are outright telling you right now the president is
threatening this country because they wouldn't help him his party win an election
now we have the guardian democrats issue fresh ultimatum to saudi arabia over oil production
and these people man this is dirty what do you do what do we do well one thing is to read i mean
that's one way we can we can do things but also you know become more knowledgeable on what's going
on i read the response from the saudi arabian. It's a great, it's a short read. It's like eight, 10 paragraphs.
The last paragraph says the kingdom affirms that it view, it's a typo, that it view,
or maybe it's not, it view its relationship with the United States of America. It's a strategic one
that serves the interests of both countries. It's very plainly saying, yo, we're only doing this
because it benefits us both. Don't screw us over there are they a nuclear power at this point i believe that
have we given them all the nuclear secrets they have nuclear bomb there's there's rumors that
they did get a nuclear bomb i think the u.s uh intelligence at this point i think they're very
happy to cut ties with the liberal economic order if they get screwed yep that's why they've already
been like look opec plus includes russia Right. So they're outright just like, we're good. Screw you. And remember when Anthony Blinken was
talking to the Chinese official and China said to his face, you are not negotiating from a position
of power. Man, the U.S. has come a long way. When Donald Trump was president, he really was
reigniting something about America, whether you like it or not.
There was fear that people looked at America as like Trump was a wild card. He was a madman
for, you know, in the good way and the bad way. Now under Joe Biden, it's a joke. Saudi Arabia
is laughing at him. He's trying to play dirty politics so he can win political power. I think
ultimately it's going to blow up in their face. It's the economy, stupid Republicans. I think they're going to see victory. We've now
got more polls, a new poll coming out saying that in the toss up states, Republicans are up five
points. So when you look at the generic ballot, it shows Democrats are leading, but that's polling
people in AOC's district. We don't really care about that. They have so many districts that are
so blue and so lopsided. That's why they're all talking about why everything should be decided by
national popular vote now. But that's not the way the constitutional structure of this country works
for very good reason. And, you know, they're definitely they're desperate. They're reeling.
Inflation in general has remained a problem. Gas prices are going to go up again. All of the
things that they were hoping would improve by November aren't really looking that inspiring.
You know, it's funny. There's a bunch of memes going around where, who is it? Ted Cruz tweeted
something. Did you guys see this tweet from Ted Cruz where he's like, here's a list of problems
that have occurred under Biden's administration. And it's like 12 things. And then I'm seeing all
of these tweets getting screenshot and shared where they's like 12 things. And then I'm seeing all of these tweets
getting screenshot and shared where they're like Republicans voted. There were bills to solve all
of those problems and Republicans voted no on all of them. And I'm like, imagine being stupid enough
to think that was a rebuttal. The Republicans are not in the majority and their votes are
meaningless in this capacity. What you are actually saying is that all of these problems occurred with a Democrat-controlled Congress and executive branch, meaning every attempt to solve
these problems either didn't work or actually made the problem happen in the first place.
Inflation Reduction Act, you have core inflation running at a 40-year high.
Inflation Reduction Act passed its law. President Biden signed it into into law so you can't really say that republicans voting against
right this bill caused inflation exactly but uh there are people who who fall for this stuff
i've been thinking about the cost-benefit analysis of producing carbon in uh the united states because
it's dirty it's admittedly dirty in fact i found out just a few days ago i was watching an interview
with john fetterman the guy who's running for uh congress and senate pennsylvania and uh which is a part of the congress you're right and uh he lives across
or lived at that period across street from the last steel mill in his town i mean he's just
churning out steel and he had a stroke so like was that related to living across street from
steel mill i mean i can't say it's unrelated i don't know that yeah i think it might be related
so i think any any industrial setting is going to have a negative impact.
Oh, horribly dirty, dirty.
But at this point, it's recapture the carbon.
Capture the carbon as it's coming out of the smokestack.
Don't just stop producing it.
That's my opinion.
I agree.
And I've actually had a lot of conversations because of what you've said, Ian, about graphene, carbon capture from the atmosphere for the production of graphene and whether it's for the production of graphene or not it's a really interesting point because we talk about
we talk about the turn of the century in new york where they were they were scared that horse
manure would be everywhere then we invented cars and all of a sudden there was zero horse manure
look at that the problem solved it so the technology solved the problem now we have
carbon in the atmosphere a technology will come about and it will solve this problem it It will shift a new, there'll be a new problem we'll eventually solve.
I have tremendous confidence in human ingenuity and technological advancement.
Yeah, Larry Fink, the CEO of BlackRock was just talking about carbon, but he was talking
about carbon sequestration and how it's happening and it's getting the private sectors taking
it on.
It's going to be bigger and bigger deal and more important, but he still considered, referred
to it as like carbon reduction. And it's not, it's carbon transmutation. You're taking it from one form and bigger deal and more important. But he still considered referred to it as like carbon reduction.
And it's not.
It's carbon transmutation.
You're taking it from one form and turning it into another form.
But you're not reducing the amount of it.
You're just repopulating.
You're replacing it.
Luke, who is the carbon they're trying to reduce?
You.
You.
No, but the funny thing is when they talk about population reduction, and they do, they
talk about, you know, outside of any kind of conspiracies, you actually have Bill Gates saying we need to slow population growth.
They're quite literally saying the humans that they want to reduce that you are the carbon.
Yeah. I mean, once you reduce energy, you reduce human potential and human growth.
So I think that's why there's a deliberate agenda to say, hey, no, you know, we got to get off
fossil fuels. Hey, we have to get off this particular energy source. We have to get off something that, of course, has been running and
helping humans progress in society. And that is just absolutely detrimental. That's going to lead
to absolute havoc. And I think it's very fair to say that we are fast approaching a situation that
is going to tank the economy deliberately in order to bring on the central controller so they could come in and come in with their solutions
to the problems that they caused.
I want to take you back in time, my friends.
I want to give you a warm memory,
something that you can take and press to your bosom
and feel good at night.
And it is a story from Snopes.
Snopes, I know I can already hear the gasps from the crowd.
Did US gas prices drop below $2 under Trump?
They want you to forget gas was under $2 when Trump was in office, one Twitter user posted.
Claim, national gas price averages for regular fuel dropped below $2 per gallon during U.S.
President Trump's term in office.
Snopes has determined this to be true.
In early October 2022, received inquiries from readers who asked if it is true the
national average gas price fell under $2 per gallon. That's right. $1.84 per gallon in April
2020. They do want you to forget it because right now as you are being squeezed out with a near $4
average across the country and it going up, Joe Biden is desperately begging Saudi Arabia to postpone it just long enough
for them to win the midterms. So while that is going on and Joe Biden is facing, well,
we'll see if there's any real consequences, but as long as we're talking about it and calling
him out while he's facing that news story, I want to make sure everybody remembers gas dropped
below $2 under Trump. Yeah. Oh, wait, wait no wait wait i'm sorry i'm sorry
there's here's the uh i want to give a shout out because they did change the article
when i tweeted this story out the claim said national gas prices for regular fuel dropped
below two dollars per gallon during u.s president donald trump's first term in office and i tweeted
that screenshot stick sex and hammer responded pointing to first term and then said, they know.
They're implying Trump's going to win.
He's going to come back in 2024.
Well, this definitely gives them an opportunity to do so.
And as you guys know, I'm not a big fan of Donald Trump, but under his administration, imported oil dropped by 25%.
He did allow exploration.
He did allow production, which brought more oil on the
world market. And with more oil, the demand of it went down and the price of it went down as well.
So when you look at those kinds of policies, they did make a huge impact because when you
have cheap energy, you have an ability for human beings to progress. And on that marker,
Donald Trump has something to stand on and brag about since, of course, this administration is doing the opposite of that and wrecking havoc on our financial system
deliberately. It's funny. It's like we were a net exporter of fuel, weren't we,
you know, in 2020, and gas price was dirt cheap. And now we're desperately importing and gas is
very expensive. How's that? And it's just a series of self-inflicted problems. I mean,
the border is a self-inflicted problem. The energy costs are a self-inflicted problems. I mean, the border is a self-inflicted problem.
The energy costs are a self-inflicted problem.
All of the money we're spending in Ukraine is largely, I mean, obviously, it's to some
degree a Putin-inflicted problem, but it's largely a self-inflicted problem.
I want to pause there and put a note on that.
Putin did start this war, but the United States choosing to be involved is a self-inflicted problem.
That's right. Yes, absolutely.
And to be involved without any scrutiny, without any end goal, without any...
I'm sorry. How does this happen?
There's no declaration of war.
How is it that we get roped into sending billions of dollars, 100 billion?
What's the number so far?
We didn't vote on this. Congress
did. Did Congress declare war and say that we are able to do this? The 40 billion they voted on.
And but some. But yeah, the drawdown packages and all of those things, those don't come from
Congress at all. This is this is war. This is providing intelligence and resources to fight
Russia. And what they don't need to declare war in this capacity?
We're going to be dragged into it now.
I mean, if they're allowed to get away with this,
then there never will be.
I mean, there hasn't been,
they've not declared war since what, World War II?
Declaration of war has kind of become one of those dead letters.
It's sort of a nicety.
They're reducing the constitution
to really the Roberts rules of order.
The process related things of like,
how many people get to serve in Congress what their ages of eligibility are we take those
things very seriously enumerated power is not very much i'm looking at the average crude
oil price and it is true in april 2020 it was 21 bucks uh but in like january of 2020 it was 61
so it dropped massively.
Pandemic.
And then the pandemic struck.
And then it started to scale back up, up to 100.
So from like 21 in April of 2020 to 116, six times, five times the amount in June. And it's got to be correlating with inflation, which is also self-inflicted.
I think if you look at the average of his presidency, it was like $2.30 or something. So even if we were to take out that low point, it was still better under Trump. And it's simple.
When Trump is greenlighting energy exploration and production, speculation on these things are
that supply will meet demand, and so the price stabilizes. When Joe Biden comes in and starts
axing permits and
shutting down pipelines. Speculation is that we will not have a supply to meet demand. And the
price skyrockets just from speculation alone. Not to mention, we do have now a reduced supply.
And then we go, you know, Biden goes to Saudi Arabia and says we desperately need production
to go up. And they say, no. So what does Biden do? He drains the strategic petroleum reserve. He's like, imagine, I want you to imagine it this way. Your roommate quits his
job, no longer making any money. And you're like, bro, you need a job. No, no, no, no, don't worry.
I'm gonna ask my mom. My mom will give me money. My mom's gonna, my mom's good. She's gonna give
me money. And then every time that his mom says no, he goes into your rainy day fund and pulls cash and says, no, no, no, don't worry.
Don't worry.
We got to pay the rent, you know, but my mom will come through.
And now the rainy day jar is almost empty.
I'm thinking about like, well, where are you going?
The Strategic Oil Reserve is at the low.
It's one of its lowest points in decades.
So now you have to think about it.
You know, this was predominantly, I believe, correct me if I'm wrong, was created because of World War II, just so the United States has enough oil and energy to actually fight
a war.
So with these levels being low, we're not really at preparedness levels from a lot of
an analyst's perspectives to be able to fight a war.
Now, if there is a war now, we're kind of stuck in a very bad situation.
That's what exactly I was thinking is, it seems like whoever's in charge and command,
which is obviously the commander in chief, the President Joe Biden doesn't has this like,
illusion that we're invulnerable or something like the way they surrendered in Afghanistan,
like let all those people die and let all that infrastructure, however many billions of dollars
worth of equipment left over for the Taliban without you think there's no consequences
because we're America, no one's going to attack us. We're fine. Like you can't just cut off the oil that fuels the jets and the bombers and the tanks and
the planes and the factories that make the steel and the plastics that we use for all
of our phones and our roads and expect that no one's going to attack us in the meantime
while we don't have a supply.
That's when countries get attacked is when they're at their weakest. You need a defensive mechanism in place.
Well, at the same time he was doing all of this too, he was attacking domestic oil producers,
attacking domestic energy producers, and saying that they're the reason that prices are up and
it's price gouging. And he's really done this with every vaguely inflation-related topic. I mean,
all politicians to some extent do this, but Biden's really brazen. Everything going wrong in the economy
is some external factor that is outside of his control. He has nothing to do with it.
Everything that goes right in the economy is a direct result of his policies.
It's Putin's price hike, if you remember. He's been saying it's just transitory. It's great that it's here.
It's actually good that it's here.
I actually started my video off today with a compilation of Biden within the last two years saying, hey, you know, inflation, it's not here.
It's transitory.
It's crazy.
And you just see the progression, progression of it.
And now we are here with new inflation numbers that should terrify people as, of course, these are manipulated numbers.
And the real life numbers are a lot more daunting that, of course, aren't really published, aren't really talked about, but should be.
If you live long enough, everything is transitory.
That's right.
Life is transitory.
This whole war, don't worry, it's transitory.
Yeah, for 20-some-odd years, we got to experience Afghanistan.
Amazing.
Well, I want to hand it to Joe Biden.
What's the right way to phrase this he has accomplished what his detractors thought he would accomplish but boy did he do it tenfold
and did it faster than people expected i mean i knew war was coming i was saying like look you
vote for biden we're gonna get war i didn't know it was gonna be world war three wow you know
well beyond my expectations biden you you did it. It's like
bowling a perfect game of gutter balls. It's like, well, you have consistency there,
but we didn't think you'd do that bad. There you go. Yeah. I remember when Biden first got in,
I'm like, the probability and chances of us going to war is high now, especially in Ukraine.
And it's been absolutely true. Now, you know, this leads us to kind of question,
is it because he's a bad leader? Is it because he's a failed leader? Is it because he's an
incompetent leader? Or is this a part of a bigger ruse, a bigger plan in order to bring something
else in that will, of course, profit and benefit off of these problems that are being deliberately
caused right now? It could be both, because I do think he's incompetent.
Based on the Afghanistan surrender,
that is the most incompetent use of the American military I've ever heard of to lose that war that we were winning
to give up to the Taliban and let them take over like that.
I got to disagree with you.
I think that was an act of pure competence.
It was intentional.
You do not accidentally abandon an Air Force base
in the middle of the night.
That can't be an accident.
No, it's one thing. It was which is like plus the united states has the united states has military protocol to blow up and to literally send in fighter jets to destroy
u.s equipment before they go into enemies hands they failed to do that with isis in northern iraq
before isis got all the humvee vehicles and they failed to do that here in afghanistan as well
so when i when i say it was
competence it wasn't that they made a bad call it was the right call for exactly what they wanted to
happen they know what they're doing you don't accidentally say okay everybody at 3 a.m quickly
flee and let riders and looters come and take everything that just doesn't happen yeah i would
think it wouldn't nobody in their right mind would do something like that and not only that they
could have done the evacuations through the fortified air force base they could have taken eight months
they could have told the taliban to suck it we're leaving when we're leaving it doesn't matter what
day we told you it's war deal with it air support got pulled all of a sudden the the air superiority
was gone taliban started rushing in afghan security forces were getting we're getting
massacred yeah that was i I view that all as intentional.
Well, and the one foreign policy question that Biden has been right about in his entire career
was that the US Western supported Afghan government was fake, that it was corrupt,
it was fake, it wasn't real. And yet he premised, at least publicly, his entire withdrawal strategy
on that government being able to hold long enough for everybody to get out.
When his own predictions had said that there was just without U.S. support, that government
couldn't exist. Yeah, especially the air support. I mean, they were heavily reliant on the logistics
that the United States was providing. And then without the logistics, they were empty. It was
like a bunch of people that didn't know who was where. It was a Warren Zevon government,
send lawyers, guns and money.
And if you don't send those things, there is no government.
Let's jump to the story from the Daily Beast.
Ukraine joining NATO guaranteed to start World War III, Russian official says.
The war in Ukraine is guaranteed to escalate into World War III if Kiev is allowed to join NATO,
according to a Russian Security Council official.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky made a surprise announcement that he had made a first fast
track bid for membership. Blah, blah. We know a lot of this. All of NATO's 30 members would have
to approve Ukraine's bid, making full membership of the defense group a long way off. Kiev is well
aware that such a step would mean a guaranteed escalation to World War III. So, and here's a quote, here's a quote.
The suicidal nature of such a step is understood by NATO members themselves.
Maybe one NATO country is just going to say, no, we do not want to vote yes on being dragged
into a nuclear war.
But the one thing I can say is that if you are between the ages of 17 and 24,
because I don't think it'll happen right now, but you know, that draft age,
and you support this war, well, then I'm actually looking forward to you being drafted.
You go fight the war that you supported.
All of these Gen Zers with the little Ukrainian flags in their Twitter bios,
I'm actually excited to see you guys go through basic training and then
go be the cannon fodder for the wealthy elites who want to win this region of Eastern Europe.
How about that? I would go even further. If you're a politician calling for war, go fight it. You're
more than welcome to. You're more than welcome to join the armed forces. What's stopping you?
If you really want this, go and get it. And I think that's how we should be treating these
situations if we had an evolved humanity that said,
you know what, we're not fighting these stupid wars.
We're not going to die for politicians.
We're not going to die for these people that are selling arms
and making a profit off of this nonsense.
We're not there.
We're at a phase where, of course, we have a lot of lunacy.
We have a lot of insanity and a lot of escalations to this conflict
that are absolutely nonsensical. There's no to us there's no larger agenda here what's the goal
here why are we doing this can you even explain that they can't there's no rational argument for
what's happening right now let me let me ask you guys is there uh is there a circumstance where you
agree with an offensive invasion is there a circumstance where you think the U.S.
should declare war preemptively and then invade a country
before being attacked?
I mean, that's a very open-ended question.
There could be many different scenarios.
Sure, sure, sure.
I'm asking if you can think of one.
You probably can, right?
Before being attacked?
I don't know.
So the U.S. is sitting there
minding its own business.
There's another country
that's minding its own business,
but they may be engaging
in some activities.
Is there a circumstance where they don't attack you, but you think it is justified to invade that country?
Well, if you're talking about a situation where you know they are going to attack you, that can be justified.
But what we've done in Iraq and what we've seen other and what, to some degree, Russia has done in Ukraine is theoretically something is going to happen someday that will allow them to threaten us or attack us.
And we need to attack them first before that happens.
And that way lies madness.
Well, that's what Zelensky said.
He called for preemptive strikes on Russia.
He is also calling for preemptive strikes.
Yep.
Well, then he walked back.
No, I meant...
Preemptive sanctions.
Yeah, sanctions.
Which there's already a bunch of sanctions.
Right.
It wouldn't do anything to deter.
In fact, it would just exacerbate the problem.
I wonder.
I wonder if there ever really is.
I'm sure a lot of the more libertarian types are probably like, no, there is no matter what some other country is doing.
So long as they're not attacking you, you should not invade them.
I think there are instances where a military buildup could be a cause for war.
Like Germany building up the tanks that it was building up before World War II.
If France had been like, this is too risky to have that on our border.
Because what happened was they blitzkrieged and they took Paris.
Like within two weeks, it was theirs.
And that's what, if you let someone go full hog, that's why they built the liberal economic order was to prevent other countries from going full hog.
But imagine you have a neighbor and every day you say you see your neighbor buying more and more guns and he's got a massive arsenal you can see it through the window does that justify you
going over there having him arrested his property confiscated or saying that this guy is clearly
going to be attacking someone i better stop him i don't see it now but there is there
is an analogy it's it's if you saw through your neighbor's window him mercilessly beating a child
you would kick the door in and you would get physical with this man or you'd call the police
but if it was mercilessly being a child for the safety of that child to stop this act you would
invade that house right that's also why that's usually the argument used for invasions.
Exactly.
It's never just that, okay, they may threaten us,
although those arguments are usually used too.
It's about whatever humanitarian bad things are going on in that country.
And let's face it, in most of the world, a lot of bad things are going on.
A lot of governments are bad governments doing bad things.
I'd say all of them.
Yeah.
Every single one of them. It's not very much a limiting principle sorry go ahead it's not very much of a limiting principle for war if you're going to justify it on that basis but but then
there's the next level of the united states and other governments staging these kind of events
that are not true that have no basis in reality just like we saw in the first gulf war with the
baby incubator story with literally a pr team working for the government engineering a story that the iraqi
government was taking babies from incubators and just murdering them like like they were just
sociopaths that story completely made up by a pr agency that led to the first gulf war there was
public hearings there was videos all of them fake manipulated because again, they needed a justification.
So they made one up.
They had like a young girl speak to the UN about it.
Yes.
And she was the daughter of an ambassador that again was coached and staged to lie on
national television that she personally saw the babies taken out of the incubators, which
was such a horrible- It's insane.
Just visualization that it shocked people emotionally to say, yeah, we got to stop this.
Yeah, remember when they were,
I think the Russians fired missiles into Ukraine
like five or six days ago or something like that.
I think there were missiles or bombs or whatever.
And then I-
Oh, the variety of airstrikes.
Yeah, yeah.
And then all of a sudden this video
of the United States invasion of Iraq shows up from 2003, what they call shock and awe. And the idea was we're going to hit them as hard as we can, as fast as we can, so that they don't even have a defense prepared. They can't. They just surrender. And it was televised. And I remember sitting in the bar in Chicago, watching it and like getting excited because I thought they had weapons of mass destruction. That's what I was told. And I was like, good, we're going to stop a tyrant from nuking the world. And I was excited. Like the way that you can and that propaganda, man, the way that you can view bombing a city as a good thing or bombing it as a reason for war, like the crazy emotions that are involved with that.
I think for me, I was probably lucky that I was, you know, through skateboarding introduced a lot of punk rock elements, anti-war elements. So as soon as this all started, the only thing I knew was here's why it's bad.
So there was never like, I'm not going to pretend that when I was like, you know, 14, 15, 16,
I was this political genius. No, I was just some dumb kid listening to punk rock being like,
hey, war's bad. And then I got older and I started seeing the stories. I started learning
the politics because that music got me interested in,
more interested in politics.
And then I was just outright like,
yo, this is nuts what they're doing.
And then Obama comes along and he's like,
if you vote for me, we're gonna end the wars.
And I was like, okay, I dig this.
And this is like my first presidency.
And all my friends are like, he's gonna do it, man.
Bush was Hitler and we're gonna get Obama.
He's changed.
He's, you know, he's gonna be the first black president. And I was like, all right,
you know, I'll vote for this guy. And then he, right, right when he gets an office,
missile strike on a Pakistani village, killing women and children. And I was just like,
I was pissed. I was super pissed. I was like, my friends didn't care anymore. They're like,
oh, I don't know what's going on. They stopped paying attention immediately because it was all a big propaganda machine. I don't think that there was an actual anti-war movement for the most part during the Bush era.
I think it was a Democrat propaganda movement seeking to exploit the anti-war effort because they wanted to get a Democrat in office.
If you look at a lot of anti-war marches, there's a lot of recruitment for other left-wing causes that have very little to do with wars.
And it is. It's sort of a movement
building exercise to a certain extent. Yeah. Man, that was disheartening, to say the least.
Yeah, I thought there was, they made me believe that a savior was going to save me, like Obama
was the savior is what I felt like, and I could actually take a back seat. But that's not, you
know, you're the driver in this. Well this well that's almost every president especially in recent history george w bush ran on a foreign policy of non-interventionalism
foreign policy a humble foreign policy that doesn't get involved in other countries affairs
that's what he promised and then the dude just bombed a whole bunch of countries saying screw
it i'm gonna do what i want give my buddy dick cheney halliburton whatever he wants and they
lied they lied through their teeth
most wars are based on false pretenses we could go all the way back from 1898 with the uss main
we could go to the reichstag fire we could go to the gulf of tonkin we could talk about these
events on and on and on and the truth is there's probably these events happening right now that
the american public doesn't even know about oh dude all the videos coming out out of ukraine
and probably and just one last thing probably probably another event that they're preparing that the American public doesn't even know about. Oh, dude, all the videos coming out out of Ukraine.
And probably, and just one last thing,
probably another event that they're preparing for right now that's going to lead to a bigger war.
So I think that's a big possibility
that I've been speaking about
that we should be looking out for.
Every single video on Reddit or Twitter,
it's always like, yeah, go Ukraine.
And then it's like some Ukrainian soldier
like flicking a cigarette and explosion. There's another video where it's like a Russian and
Ukrainian drone got into a sky fight. Ukrainians win. And I'm just like, dude, it is like it's
propaganda. And that's why I'm annoyed by it. They intentionally want to filter out anything
that could shift morale in this. I get it. But for me, it is the most
annoying thing in the world when I'm sitting here
going like, I know you
are lying. Okay?
This maybe works on other people.
Fine. Leave me out of it. I can
look up and see what's actually going on.
I can make assumptions and inferences
based on the information received. But I'll tell
you this. 100%
of videos showing showing ukraine
winning and i'm just like spare me okay i'm tired of it they they used video game footage to promote
the the ghost of kiev yep i mean how how dumb do you think we are well the media ran with it these
people these people ran with it and it was never corrected there was never any kind of real
legitimate checks on that specific story and And again, I understand propaganda efforts during war are very, you know, clearly used against the general public because they know information
is key when it comes to winning the larger conflict here. But at least try to put on a
genuine effort and not to treat people like utter idiots here. Well, the video gamification of war
has been 30 years or more in the running. And a lot of people in comfortable countries where they're unlikely to have to serve in
any of these wars or fight in any of these wars do kind of look at it like they're watching
a movie or playing a video game and you just get to see cool explosions.
That's right.
This invasion that Russia just propagated, they basically annexed Crimea, which was old
Soviet, I think.
And then now they're trying to take
the land bridge to Crimea.
That's like what the war is about.
It's not about killing people.
It's not about genocide.
But potentially lithium oxide, I think.
In Crimea or in the Donbass region?
In the Donbass region.
I've seen some reports about that.
Well, there's a lot of untapped natural gas resources
in those specific regions
that the Russians are having under control right now that are in contention with the ukrainian army
fighting them i i think it's the land bridge though because look they blow up the crimea bridge
how is russia supposed to get access to crimea without that bridge they need another yeah those
two highways yeah they need the land bridge so i think armistice is like the only way out
is some sort of peace agreement negotiation.
But what would it be?
What would be an effective negotiation?
Do you see the peace of land?
How about we just have them sit at the table?
There's people saying, you're crazy.
You must be Putin.
You must be a Putin supporter.
You must be a peacenik.
Let's just have them sit at the table and talk to each other.
At least let's get to that step.
We're not even there.
Zelensky passed the law saying, I'm not negotiating.
Even restated it. I'm not going to be negotiating. Why? At least talk to each step. We're not even there. Zelensky passed the law saying, I'm not negotiating. Even restated it. I'm not going to be negotiating. Why?
At least talk to each other. That's
the first step. Just do that.
He must have some nasty
video of Joe Biden doing something.
I think it's funny because
people kept claiming that Putin
had compromise on Trump. And I'm
like, yeah, but what was Trump doing
for Russia? He he bombed Syria,
like, you know, a half-assed bombing. Now you're looking at a hundred billion dollars or whatever
going to Ukraine. And that sounds like somebody's got dirt on you. Yeah. Because the U.S., why are
we involved in this? Well, Trump sent lethal weapons to Ukraine as well, which was a big
escalation in this entire conflict. There was also a bigger conflict that could have unfolded with
Iran that luckily didn't unfold. But again, at the end of the day here, the fact that these people aren't
even willing to negotiate is something that should be very troubling because if you're not negotiating,
if you're not just coming to the table just to talk, let these people figure it out. I don't
have the answers. Elon Musk came up with a proposition. It wasn't a perfect proposition
for a peace deal, but at least the conversation was started.
And I think the more people call for peace,
the more likely we could actually have it.
Because right now, all you're seeing is deranged lunatics
saying war, war, war, war with absolutely no goal in sight.
And that to me is reckless.
That to me is stupid.
What's the strategic objective here?
Why hasn't anyone told us this?
Have you guys bought your burnt hair perfume
to help Elon buy Twitter? No, not not yet i've made that joke so many times and i think i should get a cut
of this money about him buying i mean burnt burnt hair i didn't know that he would have that be the
same but i think elon musk your name is musk you have to have a clone yeah elon's mask oh please
yeah i need it elon's in my nose That's not the way it sounds, Elon.
I need it.
Yeah, I agree with you, Luke.
We need some sort of diplomacy.
It could be a simple video chat with Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin that's public.
Yeah.
It'd be so easy.
Well, the United States and NATO has to be a part of these negotiations since they're a part of this conflict.
And Vladimir Putin just made a statement a couple days ago saying that he's willing to actually be open to negotiations during the upcoming G20 meeting.
Will the West respond with other negotiations?
Will they be open to sitting down and talking to him?
Because this is beyond just Zelensky and Putin.
Zelensky should be there, obviously.
Zelensky and the Ukrainian government should be sitting down with the Russian government and at least talking to each other in some kind of capacity in some kind of way. And those talks should at least be between those two countries.
What do they want? Let's let's figure out a way where they're both happy. And it doesn't have to
mean people are getting screwed over people getting lied about doesn't mean you're a Putin
agent that you just want conversations to happen. I think there's a desire, though,
to see a degradation of the Russian military, which they think is most likely to happen if this conflict continues. But the odd thing is that he called
up 300,000 troops so like if you want to see a... Conscripts. Yeah so if you want to see a weaker
military it's not by forcing them to draft 300,000 people that's... Well it also looks like...
Might not be the greatest fighters though to have. Yeah from the latest bombings that have been
happening in Ukraine it does look like the Russians are trying to take out the major air defense systems inside of Ukraine. It looks like
they're preparing for a major bombing campaign of Ukraine. There's also a ton of Russian soldiers
being shipped into Belarus, and there's a lot of rumors that Belarus will also be participating
and launch another front of this war from the north of Ukraine. So there's a lot of things
happening behind the scenes that are very much escalating the situation that are very much unfortunate for all the
innocent people caught in the middle of this because there's going to be a huge loss of life.
I think we should be doing everything in our power to try to prevent that. And sadly, we have the
opposite of that when it comes to the corporate media, when it comes to the leadership, when it
comes to the Victoria Newland, and all these other sociopathic neoconservatives that just want
blood. And that's not what I want.
I want the people of Ukraine, I want the people of
Russia to come together and
at least talk to each other.
Let's throw it to our good friend, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
My friends, I was saddened
and shocked at this deeply
offensive video of these belligerent
misogynists who
are yelling at poor AOC simply because she's
funding war and the Azov battalion and defending the establishment. What did she do wrong other
than all of those things? All right, here's the reality. AOC got heckled at a virtually empty
town hall in the Bronx. Protester says she voted to start this war in Ukraine and will push the
U.S. to the brink of nuclear war.
Bravo to these activists. Two guys calling her out saying they believed in her. And now she's
become a shill for the establishment, providing funding for war and Nazis in Ukraine. I love it.
And so I tweeted this out in response to these activists saying that I pulled up a story from
NBC, NBC News, saying Putin's false Nazi claims about Ukraine.
And then I pulled up another story from NBC News.
The Nazi problem in Ukraine is very real, even if Putin is lying about it.
So now they're outright just saying it, huh?
Why is AOC, the anti-fascist, the leftist voting to give money to Nazis.
Why is this?
Why is she voting to fund war?
Now, bravo for these guys speaking out and calling her out.
But I think this is the start we need.
This is probably our best avenue in that the older generation is going to ignore and probably
not care about uniparty voters, Democrats and Republicans who support war.
But the younger generation is much more disillusioned and angry about it.
AOC just knifed them all in the back by supporting all of this.
I don't know why she is.
Because she's a shill. She's always been a shill.
She's not alone, though. I mean, even when you go back to previous wars under Democratic
administrations, when you go back to Kosovo in the 90s, when you go back to Libya under Barack Obama,
there was at least a subset. They weren't the mainstream Democrats, but they were a subset of self-styled progressive Democrats who would vote against funding these wars, who
would join lawsuits against presidential wars. There really isn't anything like that going on
right now. Every single Democrat in Congress voted for the $40 billion
aid package to Ukraine. And I don't know if these activists heckling AOC mean that there is still
some grassroots anti-war left out there that is just not represented by anybody in Congress.
And if they start speaking up, maybe they will be, or if this is sort of the last gasp of that sentiment.
It's done.
I mean, Tulsi Gabbard was it.
She's gone.
What about Bernie?
Did he vote to send all the money?
All of them, yeah.
Bernie did too, huh?
Yeah, not a single one didn't.
Barbara Lee, Ro Khanna,
people who are generally very good on a lot of,
who've worked across the aisle on things like Yemen, have really been nowhere to be seen on this one.
I think Cortez is she's pretty responsive to the crowd.
And this guy, this heckler, I don't even know.
I'm not sure if heckler is the right word because he wasn't insulting her.
He was just screaming in panic that if she doesn't stop this, that we're going to die in a nuclear war.
And he's like the terror in his voice is palpable seems like he's not wrong she's she responds to emotions so yeah
i'm not encouraging people to go scream at politicians but i mean they're there to represent
us and if they're not representing us that we need to make our voices heard trump russia is a big part
of this too the fact that the whole trump russia narrative became so big on the left that Vladimir
Putin is viewed by some grassroots Democrats as the man who installed the orange man in power in
the United States. So that created a lot of anti-Russia sentiment among people who maybe
even during the Cold War, when it might have been more justified, didn't have these types of sentiments.
So I think there was more openness to hawkishness against Russia
because of domestic political disputes and domestic political tribalism
than might have existed otherwise, especially among some people on the center to hard left.
Yeah, a lot of the anti-war representatives got kicked out or pushed out or
forced out of their parties, whether it's Kucinich or McKinney. These were individuals that, of
course, were speaking out against war and their districts were moved around, shoved around in a
way where, of course, they didn't have a political career afterwards. So, you know, there is a
deliberate effort to have a pro-war message, to have a message that supports the military
industrial complex, a major lobby in Washington, D.C.
So I do believe that a lot of people who had significant voices are afraid of being pushed out of politics for doing so.
I just had a thought.
Is there, we say the military-industrial complex.
Are there multiple?
I would imagine there are multiple complexes.
There's one that the liberal economic order is utilizing.
Then there must be another one that the Chinese and the Russians.
Yeah, definitely.
That's exactly what they are.
Wars a racket.
But then is there someone at the top of those organizations that are capitalizing on both of the complexes?
Is it unknown?
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't think so.
I think you've got the Western military industrial complex that loves war because it guaranteed contracts, extremely expensive, extremely lucrative.
But I don't think that there is this grand cabal that controls the military apparatus of China, Russia and the West and then pits them against each other.
It's not like, you know, in Sherlock Holmes when Moriarty's got the book and he's trying to orchestrate World War I or whatever. Because woe is money.
Yeah, I think you're right.
I don't think there is somebody at the top.
I think the bankers are profiting off of it.
But even then, there's multiple...
They're probably selling weapons across the board.
They're playing both sides.
I mean, look, Obama was sending weapons to the cartels.
Now there's another story emerging about something similar.
Gun manufacturers being accused of sending weapons to cartels.
These manufacturers don't care.
They're just like, give me the money and the weapons are yours.
That's it. Yeah, and I don't think you can't
sue the manufacturer if someone does something
horrible with their weapon. At least I don't think you can.
Well, they're trying now.
We're talking about war even.
If we're at war with China, ain't nobody from China
going to sue the United States. What are you doing? We're at war.
Actively killing each other.
I'd like to say that, you know, we're moving away from all this stuff. But I think for a
variety of reasons, there are many people very invested in a nuclear apocalypse occurring.
Creepy people, evil people, callous people.
Tim, they bought their nuclear bunkers. They want to use them, okay? They want to make sure
that their money was well invested. And they want to make sure that their money was well invested and they want to make sure
their safe houses
in New Zealand
and in Chile
are going to be used.
Well, I mean, look,
think about it.
If you have,
if there's a publicly traded
nuclear bunker company
and you have equity in that,
when the nuclear war happens,
that stock's going
straight through the roof, baby.
That's money right there.
Now you won't be able
to trade anywhere
because there won't be
a stock market,
Wall Street apps,
electricity or food for that matter.
But everybody will want what you got.
If you bought a nuclear bunker, don't you want to use it?
Yeah.
I think the answer is no.
Hold on.
The most expensive nuclear bunker you buy is the one you buy and never use.
Yeah.
It's that old saying, you know?
But it's insurance.
Think of your bunker as insurance, not as a goal, not as a home retirement center.
You're putting it on wedding registries and baby gift registries. For sure. Rent it out. But it's insurance. Think of your bunker as insurance, not as a goal, not as a home retirement center.
Start putting it on wedding registries and baby gift registries.
For sure.
Rent it out.
You made a good point about the video game-ization of war, man.
I think the young, there's an older generation that has their nuclear bunkers and they're like, I'm ready to go.
Let's find the next iteration of humanity after this is all done.
But then there's these young people that have been brainwashed to think it's a freaking video game and it's that's why they do the video games yeah and america's army that was a specific
video game that the united states government used to train kids to want to become troops yeah like
specifically i'm watching videos from the russian side the ukrainian side from a lot of the the
battles that are taking place the majority of of killing and maining is happening because of drones.
The Russians are using Iranian suicide drones that are just flying directly into Ukrainian troops.
The Ukrainians are using these quadcopters and they're just putting grenades inside of them
and then having a button that releases them and they're literally throwing them into the Russian
trenches. And there's a whole bunch of DGI drones. There's a video that I saw of a Ukrainian drone
taking out a Russian DGI drone.
And when you look at a lot of the footage,
it's straight out of Call of Duty.
It's straight out of all the video games
where, of course, you get a drone
and you get to pilot a missile.
You get to send grenades off.
And it's exactly like all the video games
that I played as a kid.
And you could see the footage online
because I'm keeping track of this.
I want to see what's really going on.
I want to see who's winning.
I want to see who's losing. I really want to get a real perspective of what's happening there. And you have to the footage online because I'm keeping track of this. I want to see what's really going on. I want to see who's winning. I want to see who's losing.
I really want to get a real perspective of what's happening there.
And you have to see these videos.
And there's drones, predominantly drones, having huge success in these conflicts.
I had a friend that worked in the military, and he worked with some people that were operating
drones, told me this story where the guy was like, you got to see this footage, man, the
drone operator.
So he showed him, and it was the missile or the bomb was dropping on this guy who they thought was working on bombs and it comes up and you go it
goes right up to the guy you see it going right and the guy looks up and you see his eyes and
then you realize he's taking a crap and then the bomb hit and then it it goes off that's it and
but he's like i saw his eyes like i that's one way to help you poop yep it probably just went
right into the toilet as soon as he saw
that and then of course exited his body in every possible direction when it did yeah they thought
he was like going to get weapons and he was just out there defecating like taking a big old dump
but it's so easy when it's a video game to disassociate yeah we talked about that uh a while
ago about vietnam how when they send out these conscripts, they would fire
above the Viet Cong or whatever, because they really didn't want to shoot them. And so they
started implementing new, that's when I think they made the targets in the shapes of people
and stuff like that. And then now video games have become a component of this. It's interesting
because there's a distinction. Video games don't make people more violent. We've seen all the studies on this.
Someone who plays a video game doesn't all of a sudden be like, now I want to be violent.
But what video games do is they condition you so when it comes to being violent, it is easier for you to pull the trigger.
So people who already have those tendencies, when it comes to war and conflict, you're used to playing these games.
You have a simulated experience.
It's going to have an effect on you. Dude seen escape from tarkov the game it's a first person
shooters hyper realistic and you fight russians man you hear the rush they're screaming in russian
it's crazy that's like most call of duties is new yeah i was gonna say when it's from 20 in one call
of duty there's a scene where you play a child as your city in Syria is literally getting gassed.
And you're playing as the child running away from the Russian gas as they send chemical weapons.
In Call of Duty?
Yeah, one of the Call of Duty modern warfare games.
So you're literally a child running away from a Russian soldier that wants to stab you as there's a chemical weapons attack.
I love how America's adversaries are always comic book villains you know it's like when you watch the media they you know vladimir putin the evil
dictator murdered children today and it's like come on man there are adults who understand
why war happens and they want you to believe that every world leader is wearing a cloak and a top
hat with a mustache going i'm going to tie a woman to the railroad tracks. No, he's probably saying, hey, you're pushing your military alliance up upon my border.
And it's and it's it's jeopardizing my country's interests.
And I'm not going to let that happen.
And he's probably like, yo, let me ship steel down to Crimea so I can sail it over to the
United States and sell it to you.
Like, it's it's so weird.
It's so like almost disbelievable that we're creating an
enemy out of the Russian Federation when it could be our greatest trade ally and strongest partner,
military partner on earth. It's on the other side of the planet. We could together protect the
planet. Well, Ian, I've got good news for you from Newsweek. U.S. states that wish to join russia will be considered says duma member oh well good news
if you're an american state and you want to vote to join russia they're listening they say a senior
member of the state duma russia's parliament said that any u.s states that want to break away from
the country and instead join the russian federation will be considered how hilarious would it be if
russia tries pulling off something in Alaska, like Crimea?
Like, oh, the Alaskans
had a vote
and 80% want to be Russian.
And it would vindicate
Sarah Palin
because it would prove
she would have seen it
from her house.
That's right.
Well, that was actually Tina Fey.
Yeah.
Same person.
Tina Fey.
Same person, I guess.
Yeah.
The comments come only a week
after Russia declared
the four regions of Ukraine
had become Russian territory,
blah, blah, blah.
I love this one.
It's actually really funny because we're constantly talking about civil war and peaceful divorce.
And I think they actually bring this up.
They say that the U.S. was beginning to decay and that its ally, the European Union, which has also provided strong military assistance to Ukraine, was bursting at its seams.
Tolmachev said this was the result of failed American foreign policy. Such initiatives
are a signal that the citizens of the U.S. are dissatisfied with their leadership and are ready
to take extreme measures up to secession if the current policy of America continues. I mean, look,
there are a lot of people in the U.S. that actually think Russia is the good guy in this.
I think that's wrong, but people believe it. So what happens if you get enough people in a,
in a, in a, I don't know, in the pacific northwest and they're just like yeah yeah we don't want this i mean when you look at what's going on in
portland and and and seattle with the wokeness and everything you might actually start getting
sympathizers yeah la new york too la i don't think realistically i don't think anyone's going to want
to become russian in the united I mean, maybe some people might,
but I don't think that any organization would think that would be better
because the United States is pretty awesome.
Well, that's true.
It would be a military risk too.
If people did that, they'd be labeled traitors,
seditionists, and executed immediately.
Like bombed and executed.
It wouldn't make sense.
But the founding fathers also were traitors to the crown.
So there are people who think, the people who talk about wokeness and the cabal, there are many of these people who think Vladimir Putin is a traditionalist, he's Christian, and he's fighting against Satanism and evil.
There are people in the U.S. who believe that.
But the founding fathers, they just split off and formed their own country.
They didn't join, like, France or anything.
Right.
That probably wouldn't, might have flown.
I'm just saying that.
I don't think they would have got what they wanted.
There are going to be people.
I mean, hey, look, man, in war, you get separatists, you get partisans.
And in fighting breaks out.
I think Victor Orban would have more success, though, getting some people to join Hungary
than anybody in Russia.
Yeah, I mean, Hungary has really attracted a lot of people.
But I will also mention that there are a lot of people associated with the far right,
or whatever you'd call it, in the U.S. who have praised Ukraine for some time.
There's many people who have moved to Ukraine well before the conflict broke out
because they support more, you know, traditional, heavily traditional policies.
So joining Russia, I mean, not me, but man, is it a rock and a hard place. Russia,
I'm not a fan of. I'm a fan of the country, the history, the people, but the government is what
I mean to say. The United States, man, it's kind of the same thing. I would rather, I would trust
Biden and the US government only slightly more than anyone else. And that's simply because they
live here. And so at least we have some. And that's simply because they live here.
And so at least we have some shared interests and not one to get blown up.
But man, Joe Biden is crooked.
I do not think he's doing anything for the American people.
So the question is, how do you protect what this country is supposed to be,
the Constitution and its people, when you have crackpot corrupt cronies who are running the show?
Decentralization and personal responsibility where you don't need them and you're not
dependent on them or their money.
And I think individuals could take small actions.
I think it starts at a community level and it builds up from there.
And I think you just got to be the best example of an individual who doesn't need the state
and is there for themselves and could be fully independent.
So peaceful divorce.
You wouldn't even have to divorce.
It's just a different style of living,
living locally instead of fawning for the feds.
Just like the Amish and other communities of individuals saying,
you know, hey, we want to take care of ourselves.
You guys do what you guys want,
but as long as you're not harming anyone,
there shouldn't be any problems here.
The thing about that, it's not as a super,
I think it's not super appealing to a lot of people because it's not like a switch you flip and then get a solution.
But it's like a long term solution.
It could become a solution to overarching federalism.
I mean, in theory, you don't even really need a divorce for this to happen.
You just have to honor the terms of the marriage.
Yeah.
But we're not really honoring the terms of the marriage. It's sort of the problem on that front.
You know what it is?
Like, you know, back in the day,
the husband and the wife were sleeping in different beds,
at least on TV.
Right.
And then all of a sudden they started sharing a bed.
Well, first they slid their beds together.
Yeah.
Is that what happened in TV?
The beds were pushed together?
Yeah, that was the first.
Was that the first one?
Was that the first married couple sleeping in a bed?
Was two beds together?
Well, no, in real life they used to do that i think but anyway actually sleep in separate beds yeah
but then they'd slide them together and then they'd but anyway i didn't i'm a proponent for
that you get a lot more restful sleep when you're in a separate bed by yourself brother but this is
why king size that's why they make mattresses that you know like can adjust and go up and down
have different firmness and different temperatures but you see my point is you know the united states
used to be we all slept in separate beds and then at some point
we're all sleeping in the same bed and it's not working out oh yeah you're laying on your feet
yeah i'm waking up the blankets man it's turn the heat up they steal the blanket all the time i'm
drying out from that fan in the ceiling you know look i'm i'm over here in west virginia minding
my own business and mary and Maryland is grabbing the blanket
and spitting slowly throughout the night,
wrapping themselves up like a burrito.
I'm waking up freezing like,
dude, fine, I'll get my own blanket.
And then they're like,
you're calling for a divorce.
It's like, maybe I should just have my own blanket.
You should.
And my parents have separate bedrooms
and they love life.
I'm using it as a metaphor for, you know.
If you can do it, do it do it you know get your
own room sleep is key to recovery and health so so now let's translate that into the political
situation in the united states maybe it we're supposed to actually have these states for a
reason where the federal government should not be banning like these like weapons and guns and
restricting them if you live in west virginia
and you want a hundred round drum fully auto that's that's on you just you know i mentioned
this all the time people drive cars all day every day and they're not ramming me or chasing me down
i do not fear them i see a guy driving a car i don't think twice i saw a guy walking down the
street in west virginia with a crossbow i didn't go, he's got a crossbow. Oh, no, what do I do?
I just went, howdy.
Hey, that's it.
I don't know.
Am I supposed to be worried the guy's armed?
No.
Someone in the car could run me over.
But for some reason at the federal level, they're like,
we've thereby decided that everyone in this country can no longer have this or that
because we are scared.
Now, there's a reason for states, and we should probably start upholding that.
Maybe that would solve a lot of these problems.
In Maryland, you might be worried about the person driving toward you in a car
why is that why is like maryland drivers are kind of notorious for for bad driving well i just mean
look when i see cars i get out of the way i don't just stand there and think this car is barreling
towards me i'm i'm no you you look both ways when you cross the street but cars can kill you someone
in a car can choose to use it
as a weapon of a lethal weapon and they don't do it and there have been cases where it's not a
daily occurrence yeah right and there's occasions where people take guns and do bad things with them
but i just look at it like the average person wielding a lethal lethal force does not use it
that's it so i'm not worried about people having guns. But anyway, the main
reason I bring that up is just that the problem we're facing in this country is that if there is
going to be a national divorce, it's going to be because no one will let states be or should say
it's because the Democrat big cities will not let everyone else just be. That's usually the reason.
I think historically, if someone secedes, it's because they're getting smacked down by the
person that's trying to control them. Right. And if backed off then we'd we'd let it go we'd be like
yeah you know it's it's kind of bad but we're okay but now it's just too bad there are some
things like pollution regulations that i understand the federal government's got to get
annoying about because like you don't if you're burning a lot or dumping stuff in the water and
it goes into another state then you know then, an arbiter, needs to come in and kind of smooth things over
or take control even sometimes, which is little,
or force you to control yourself from a different perspective.
That's what the government does, Ian.
That's what they do with Monsanto.
That's what they do with all these other multinational corporations.
They just give them permission slips to poison and to release their pollutants everywhere else.
That's essentially what government's doing, Ian.
Since when?
Since the central banks in 1830?
Like since the early adoption?
I don't know when you want to go back,
but when you look at what the government's doing,
they're essentially one of the biggest
and largest polluters on the world
and the biggest enablers of pollution on the world.
And a lot of their policies are absolutely nonsensical and leading to the destruction of our planet when it comes to
destroying the national resources and just sending it off to China to let them
pollute even more because we can't handle our own trash here. It's absolutely ridiculous.
What if we removed the human element from politics and had a computer do it all?
Right?
Coming soon.
Coming soon.
That's right.
Have a computer do some of it.
Some advice, maybe.
I mean, that's probably already happening,
and it's probably going to be miserable.
The robot's going to be like,
humans like corn, make more corn.
And then you're going to be like,
okay, I guess we're making corn.
And then it's just,
humans do like corn, man.
And they're going to make a whole lot of it.
Bill Gates likes corn, apparently.
Yeah, and soy.
He really loves soy. Is he really? As you can see from his, you know. Yeah, man. And they're going to make a whole lot of it. Bill Gates likes corn, apparently. Yeah, and soy. He really loves soy.
Is he really?
As you can see from his, you know.
Yeah, absolutely.
His moobs.
Moobs.
Yep.
His moobs.
Technical term.
Yeah, I don't think humans are going to create an AI that is, like, humans are going to create an AI they think is good enough to run the show, but it's not going to be good enough to run the show.
And then it's just going to make a mess of everything.
Yeah, humans got to govern themselves.
But having machines advise us like intelligent machines can always give advice because they
can do calculations really quick and be like, well, if you if you put the factory there,
you will create this amount of pollution in these places with this amount of wind current.
But if the wind current is different, give you all these different contingent possibilities.
Let's jump to this story from the Daily Mail.
Oregonians force vote to secede from the woke state and become part of Idaho.
Two counties are set to vote on the measure after nine backed it due to defund the police,
critical race theory in schools and bail laws.
Before we get to the point where states secede from the union, before we get to the point
where anyone is trying to engage in a civil war, the first that's happening is in Oregon, they're not trying to leave the union before we get to the point where anyone is trying to engage in a civil war the first that's happening is in oregon they're not trying to leave the union they're trying to move
a portion of the state into a different state i don't know if they have a picture of the of the
whole there you go look at this greater idaho hey i'm all for it man i think it's exactly what
needs to happen oh yeah so uh portland can they can they can have their weird urban center. In fact,
this is what should happen across the board. Every major city, you can just be your own,
every major city becomes its own city state. Yeah. Back to city. What happens is the Democrats
end up with like 12 senators and Republicans end up with, you know, 60. Right. And so that's sort
of the thing is you have so many states where there are these large urban centers that control
everything and have and have the biggest population that are left wing and then all of the rest of the
state which encompasses a much bigger land mass but has fewer people rural much more conservative
and they get outvoted in a lot of cases i mean even a state like maryland which is pretty democratic
you don't have baltimore you don't have prince. You don't have Prince George's County, Montgomery County,
where all the government employees live.
It's MAGA country.
It's MAGA country.
Yeah, right now we're in Maryland and it's MAGA country.
New York.
These three counties issued a letter saying they wanted to secede and join West Virginia.
Yeah, there you go.
The problem is this stuff isn't happening and it needs to happen.
The shift, the votes should
be very easy. It prevents destabilization. It prevents civil war. If greater Idaho happened,
there would be people would feel satiated. They'd feel satisfied. They'd feel like their voices were
heard and this makes sense for them and they wouldn't be part of a state that was abusive
towards them. Instead, what's happening is greater idaho you have these nine counties and
they're saying like hey we shouldn't be here and they're like shut your mouths well what do you
think that leads to secession usually yeah eventually they're gonna be like then we're out
or just grumbling or conflict grumbling acceptance but i mean what would this do this would if this
did happen it would cut back on the amount of votes that oregon would no uh well yeah oregon
would lose votes idaho would gain votes. Well, yeah, Oregon would lose votes.
Idaho would gain votes in Congress.
But senators would stay the same.
So they're not even trying to make their own state.
They're trying to just become part of a different one.
There's a similar thing happening in Northern Colorado,
Northern California, the state of Jefferson,
Northern California.
And that should happen.
I think so.
New states.
Hey, you know, we don't need 50 states forever.
I know it's a nice round number, but let's just split up, make them smaller.
I think that might be kind of neat.
There will always be a certain number of people, though, who will live in Portland and they'll see this new expanded Idaho.
And they'll say, oh, that looks really nice.
I want to live there.
And then they go live there and they say, oh, I actually want to vote, though, for all the policies I had in Portland.
And they don't make any association between the policies and why Portland was bad and Idaho is
good. Look, there's a video from Ami Horowitz and PragerU. And he walks up to people and he's
asking them to, I think, sign a petition to allow a five-year-old to undergo a sex change operation.
And in one of the conversations, this woman i completely agree with this and then he's like
yeah you know five-year-old kids can make their own decisions they know what's right for their
body because i agree thank you so much for doing this and it's like conservatives think this is a
gotcha like they're exposing it these people genuinely believe this stuff there's you're not
like waking them up to make them realize they're wrong they're saying like no i agree i i believe
this and you're like aha i've exposed you and they're wrong. They're saying like, no, I agree. I believe this. And you're like, aha, I've exposed you.
And they're like, no, I talk about this all the time.
We have child drag shows.
We do this all the time.
You're not, what happens is conservatives can't believe
that the average person would support this.
And then when they talk to these people
and hear them saying they support it,
they're like, look, look, look, everybody,
this person supports it.
And then all of the body snatcher people turn slowly and look at you and go,
because they all agree with it.
They're all on board with it.
There is an ideological fracture in this country.
It ain't being mended.
So maybe, maybe greater Idaho needs to happen.
Yeah, I think it does.
I think Western Maryland needs to break off and become part of West Virginia.
It definitely makes more sense. But I think a lot of bureaucrats want their tax cattle to stay
because they want to treat them like cattle. And they want to, of course, siphon off all the money
and wealth that they can from them to finance their insanity. Because if the people leave,
who's going to finance a lot of this insanity? As of course, a lot of the people in the rural areas
usually are independent, usually are people working for themselves usually are people who are successful and um yeah you know they want that money so i don't i don't
see this happening yeah oregon's not gonna let you tax cattle you call them yeah slaves yeah
pretty much they're essentially you get nothing you can't do anything about it and we get money
from you why would you why we would let you leave what do we gain from it yeah and we get to impose any kind of policies we want on you so what's the incentive of portland letting them go is there
is there any incentive uh portland would get their their voting ideology more prominent in state
legislature just i just want everybody in in in eastern id Idaho to realize your life is controlled by a
crackpot 20-year-old white leftist who weighs 110 pounds, soaking wet, running around going,
America is racist, and then screaming racial slurs at black cops because they're apparently
the virtuous ones, and then setting fires and firebombing buildings, and law enforcement
won't arrest them.
And then they go and vote, and the politicians panderander to them and they are in charge of you. Congratulations. So I don't blame them for
wanting to vote to leave. The problem is the system doesn't allow it. Like it's become too
rigid. It's like you were saying earlier, when it comes to the constitution, all of these things,
like the age you have to be, we were very serious about this, but the actual enumerated powers,
it's how do we, what do we do? What do we do what do we do do we just sit back
and wait until the whole thing explodes we're not supposed to we're supposed to change it as we go
that's very very intentional convention of states new amendment a path towards shifting borders of
states very easily it should be extremely easy for this to happen not ridiculously hard
granted i don't understand why Oregon as a state
should have a voting right over a county that votes to leave.
Why would that be?
Well, because of disruption to taxes, yeah, it would be.
Too bad.
Like, imagine if, you know, you have a roommate,
and then I say, well, look, it's my house,
and I've determined you're not allowed to leave.
You've got to keep paying rent. You'd be like, not, look, it's my house. And I've determined you're not allowed to leave. You got to keep paying rent.
You'd be like, not later.
You walk out the door.
Rent's gone.
Imagine if the police said, well, hold on.
The guy who owns the house has said you're not allowed to do that.
So we're under arrest and we're bringing you back.
That's insane.
It makes no sense.
It would be more like if I'm like, no, this room that I'm renting from you is my house now.
Or I'd be like, no, this room I'm renting in your house belongs to your neighbor.
You'd be like, no, it's my room. Well, I suppose it's a little different because
we're talking about a space that's very far away and not occupied by a person. So how about a
garage? Let's say that you own the garage. And it's, I don't know how that would actually work
because if people own the land they're on, you know what I mean? It can be like... Oh, that's a good point.
Yeah.
The landowners should be able to decide what state they're a part of.
Right.
They should...
To a point.
And then they all vote as their county.
And if the county votes, why should Oregon, why should Portland be able to be like,
no, you can't leave?
And what would their mechanism really be at that point?
Now, obviously, we can think of some pretty horrible things that would be their mechanism,
but I don't think that would be the first thing out of the gate that would happen.
So there'd be lawsuits.
But they have no police.
They can't enforce any laws in Portland.
That's very true.
If Eastern Idaho, if they vote for this and then decide it is, it is.
Period.
Portland can then, the Oregon government can be like, we do not recognize the secession of Eastern Oregon.
And they can be like, what are you going to do about it?
What are you going to do about it what are you gonna do you're gonna go to every single county and every single family and then occupy their neighborhoods at gunpoint never going to happen if the confidence of the
people of greater idaho of the people of eastern oregon is that we do not recognize the state of
oregon anymore there is literally nothing anyone can do to stop them it would be like a civil
disobedient act they would, we're not paying taxes
to the state of Oregon anymore.
We're paying them to the state of Idaho.
And then Oregon would be like, no, pay us your taxes.
And they're like, well, we're Idahoan now.
And then the Idaho would send out the National Guard.
If it escalated, the Idaho would put the National Guard
in the new territory.
If Idaho accepted it.
Yeah, yeah.
And then say, this is our state.
But what I'm saying is, let's say Idaho says,
look, we don't want to get involved in this.
Oregon as a state then says,
these regions aren't allowed to secede.
But you can look on the map
where you can see all of the areas
that have voted in favor of joining Idaho.
I mean, it's there.
It's like almost the entirety of Eastern Oregon.
If they all,
if all the people there simply said,
my government is, you know, this person. If these all, if all the people there simply said, my government is, you know, this person.
If these people, these counties all have their county commissioners or whatever, and they
say, the laws that I follow come from the county commissioner, not from a state we don't
recognize.
Oregon can do nothing.
The feds can do nothing.
The feds cannot go.
People need to understand this.
There are not enough federal agents to actually go into
an entire state and enforce the law. They would have to occupy every city corner. They would have
to go door to door. They would have to arrest everyone. It will never happen. That's only if
the majority of these people stop abiding by state government and decide they're their own state. The
feds have no choice but to recognize it. Otherwise, there's just nothing that you can't do anything about it. That's just it.
You were saying something before and I cut you off. I'm sorry about that.
I would just tend to think that in Oregon or any place like that, the tax enforcement authorities
would be the last police that would be defunded. Those would be fully funded. So civil disobedience acts by not paying taxes,
I think they do have a response to.
But what I mean is if every single person there
just stopped abiding,
they couldn't do anything about it.
I mean, by all means,
go ahead and arrest every single citizen of this county.
It's just not going to happen.
It's a form of implosion.
It would just destroy the purpose.
Well, there's not enough law enforcement officers.
Look, in New York City, I think there's, what, like 40,000
cops? Is that the number, Luke?
I think 30,000. It's pretty big.
Tens of thousands.
Tens of thousands. Out of a city
with, what, 9 million
in city borders? 9 million
people? If 9 million
people in New York just stopped paying their
taxes, what are the cops going to do about it?
So that's not something I'm advocating for.
I'm saying if that were to occur, the government can't do anything.
It's the government exists due to the confidence of the people.
If the people believe the government has the authority or is justified, then they follow along.
But if these people are voting to say we're no longer a part of Oregon, we're getting to that point where they're going to say, Oregon, you do not represent us.
Like, imagine if, you know, California tried passing this bill, I don't know if they did,
where they can tax someone 10 years after they leave the state.
Did you guys hear about this one?
Imagine you're living in Texas and California knocks on your door and says, you owe us taxes.
You'd be like, get out.
I don't live in California.
Go away.
What gives you the right?
That's how people here are going to feel.
So New York City has 36,000 police officers and 19,000 civilian employees.
So right.
That's 36,000 officers.
Think about how small that number is.
Oh, it sounds big.
36,000.
How many people are in the New York Metro?
You want to look it up?
Is it 12 million?
I think it's like 9.5 or something i thought it was 18 is it nine well in in the in the metro you've got other police outside of that
so let's just say city proper in the in the in the in the city proper jurisdiction what's the
population 20 million in the city yeah no new york metropolitan area population the metro includes
like jersey city and and things like that outside of new york yeah yeah yeah so city population proper i think is like nine or something i can i can pull it up i'm looking at
let's let's get it let's get it nyc let's look up the uh the official city 8.4 million
8.8 as of 2013 it was 8.4 8.8 as of 2020 i got it here from w April 1st, 2020. 8.8 million. That's, wow, that went down.
Yeah, man, crazy.
I'm pretty sure it was higher than that before, but whatever.
Yeah, it's in decline.
So 8.8 million people.
If, let's say, 1% of the population of New York just, let's say they got infected, they got zombie virus.
They're running around.
88,000 people.
There's not nearly enough police officers to deal with that.
1%.
If 1%.
Now let's go back in time.
And let's go back to a time when New York had 100 people living in it.
If 1% went nuts, no problem.
One guy?
One guy running around, they'd just tie him up.
Then you get to the point where there's a million and 1%. Now you've got thousands and that's getting much, much more
difficult to deal with. With 8.8 million people, 1% of the population outright just going out and
saying, you know, hey, we're going to riot. The police can do literally nothing. And that's why
in 2020, the police could do literally nothing.
Too many people rioted to overwhelm the police force.
Doesn't work.
So what do you do?
I'm open to new ideas.
You know, the United States is an experiment.
It's one of the most experimental governments maybe to ever have been tried.
Well, I don't know if that's, I can't claim that. But its government is experimental.
And to think that we could split up states and move them around and move around counties,
that's fascinating.
And it could be fantastic for communication and for the peaceful settlement.
Let's talk about the New York metro, 20 million.
The New York metro is 20 million.
So this includes just north of Westchester and Jersey City and Union City and Long Island a little bit.
Dirty Jersey, I think.
Dirty Jersey and all that and Long Island a little bit. Dirty Jersey, I think.
Dirty Jersey and all that stuff.
Bayonne or whatever.
20 million people.
If 1%. Wow.
If 1% of that.
Are we looking at, is that, that's 200,000 people.
If 1% of the New York Metro went into Manhattan in a rage, 200,000 people running through the streets,
smashing and riding,
the police would be on the first boat,
helicopter or car out of the city and say,
I ain't dealing with this.
It's impossible.
Did you see what happened
during the Black Lives Matter protests?
A lot of them were like,
we're just not gonna do anything.
We're just gonna sit back and stand back.
That's what I've talked about.
The more massive the population, you need a massive number of law enforcement to deal with it imagine if one
percent of new york citizens were just like we are no longer complying with government
the police would be unable to do anything about it and that's literally what's happening mind you
the reason crime is skyrocketing did you guys see this uh brawl mart video they're calling it
yes people in walmart they're just fighting like crazy.
The reason why people tended not to fight is like, I don't want to get arrested.
Like, you know, I get it.
Now, no one is getting arrested.
They know they're not getting arrested.
So they're like, what do I care?
Now you've got a dude buck naked running around the subways of New York.
New York City subway killings are 25 year high.
People being pushed onto the tracks.
Young women being murdered because they know they're not getting arrested.
The police cannot deal with it.
So it's a cascade effect.
When 36,000 cops can deal with the crime and people believe the police can deal with the crime,
crime is lower because people are worried.
Criminals are like, you got to be careful. The cops will get you. Now that confidence is being shattered, it's going to
create a snowball rolling down a hill effect where more and more criminals are like, cops aren't
going to do anything. Yeah. This is why, according to some estimates, ridership in the New York City
subway system is down significantly because a lot of people are afraid to go on the New York City
subway system. It's also one of the main reasons why people are fleeing New York City
and escaping a lot of these failed policies that were implemented
and, of course, bought for by George Soros
that, of course, planted a whole bunch of district attorneys
and woke individuals into government that, of course,
are pushing policies that are absolutely nonsensical.
Obviously, there's a legitimate conversation to have about criminal justice reform, yes.
But when you have that same criminal justice reform being turned to punish people for political
thoughts and ideas, when you have the Manhattan district attorney focusing on Donald Trump
as violence is engulfing that entire city, there should be someone saying, hey, you should
get your priorities straight.
Hey, we shouldn't be letting criminals off into the streets that are extremely violent
that are going to be hurting people. Maybe we should stop focusing on punishing people for their political ideas
and maybe we should actually start serving and protecting the the population of the country
this is really cool check this out this is the uh a map of the new york metropolitan area
so you can see that you've got you know like new york down here but it goes up to putnam
it goes up to pike county sussex more so it Pike County, Sussex, more. So it's massive. Suffolk, all of Long Island is basically included in it.
This is, it's massive and just put it simply. And I don't know, we know there's 36,000 police
in New York city proper for 8 million people. I wonder what the total police population of the
entire New York Metro would be. I would imagine it's not relative. It doesn't scale. The amount of police you need
in Somerset is substantially less per person, per capita, than you would need in a very dense
New York City. So my view is going to be it's 50,000 for the entire Metro, maybe.
Yeah, but at least we're going to have 87,000 IRS agents, according to the Inflation Reduction Act
that was, of course, promptly promoted by Bill Gates,
who's openly bragging how he was the one
that came forward with this bill. So,
who cares about real law enforcement?
You could have IRS agents walking around
armed with guns. They just gotta do the
robot drone. Stealing your money. The dog drones.
You know what I mean?
So, when you act a fool, the drone
flies to your house and then dispatches the
little dog guy with the gun on his back.
And it, citizen, you have violated the law.
And then you're like, ah, crap.
Ever punched a dog?
No.
Me neither.
I think that you're right.
Not a metal one.
It doesn't scale.
Plus, the streets are too small.
So even if you had 10 times the cops, they couldn't even fit to stop the crowds.
So this is why they're going into anti-terrorism laws.
They want strategic defense against this kind of stuff.
They look for ringleaders.
They want to take it out of the source so that big crowds don't proliferate.
And drones.
I'm very concerned about the use of mechanical drones in police defense, like they're doing in China.
They literally quadcoptered in a Boston Dynamic.
It wasn't a Boston Dynamic robot, but it was a similar model like that the dog robot with a machine with a gun on its back
and the drone drops it yeah like that's one way really small drone police force it's terrifying
though because it can be co-opted and hacked and stuff terminator scenario could very well happen
and i know like in the movie it's this it's this fanciful AI that like, I guess Skynet declares war on
humanity or whatever, robots fight humans.
It could be something as simple as we program robots for law enforcement.
We give them specific parameters, but humans are imperfect and the programming is imperfect.
And then all of a sudden, all of the robo dogs think they're enforcing the law perfectly
and they're just targeting anyone.
It could be as simple as this, right?
I'll give you an example. I talk about this, the Doctor Who episode where they go to this planet,
everyone's dead. And there are robots that have these screens with smiley faces.
And what they discover is that the robots were programmed to keep people happy.
When an old woman died, a member of the colony, everybody got sad. The robots tried as hard as
they could to make people happy, but it wasn't working. Then they found that if a sad person came into contact with a happy person,
the happy person became sad. Why? Sad person told them old person died. The robots then started to
view sadness as a contagion and decided for the sake of happiness, it had to kill anyone who was
spreading negativity like a virus. Of course, that made everybody freak out
and very, very unhappy
to the point where they just killed everyone.
That's a good example of what happens.
We'll make these robots and be like,
assist law enforcement.
The robot drone will be like,
detainment protocol, suspicious activity.
It'll approach a person and they'll be like,
yo, get that dog away from me.
Then it'll be like, suspect is fleeing.
Suspect is fleeing.
Deploy countermeasures. This causes the person to get tased, trip, fall, hit his head
and die. A bunch of people in the area then go, that thing just killed that person for no reason.
They all start screaming. And now the robot goes assisting a criminal, assisting criminal. All of
these people are now targets. And then all of a sudden the robo dogs are attacking every random
person and the AI runs amok. We think we're beyond that.
But these things can happen because humans who program these machines are fallible.
And of course, the programming will be as well.
And then before you know it, you'll have that other Black Mirror episode where the RoboDogs
are going around hunting people.
And what was it like?
Amazon was delivering things that they didn't want to them.
The AI was just giving them things.
Man, that was a crazy episode i don't remember that
part of it they were robo dogs like patrolling and there was a factory that just mass-produced
goods for humans and there was like a resistance and then yeah and then it turns out that the
humans were already extinct and that the people you thought were humans were actually robots
created by the ai gosh because the ai needed humans to fulfill its purpose of delivering goods oh god it's so crazy yeah the the robots will be networked and i think it's important to
not start calling them dogs keep always remember these things are robots they're not animals um
and so keep that in mind don't get tricked into speaking their language and they're going on
networks and networks can be hacked and viruses can cause things to malfunction but but you know look ian like you gotta admit everybody's got like part
of you knows how exciting it would be to like live in a post-apocalyptic world where you have like a
baseball bat on your back and you're foraging for food and then the robot comes and then you get
into this epic video game like battle fighting with the robot at least that's what people probably
assume until they actually get into a life or death situation.
Adrenaline kicks in and they're begging for safety
and a savior to come.
You know, it's funny when people think,
there's an old joke my friend posted a long time ago.
He said, I want and encourage a zombie apocalypse.
And it's like people actually have fantasies
about being in this scenario.
And then it's just like, man,
anyone who's ever been in a real life or death situation is going to tell you that you really, really don't want anything like that.
No way.
Nope.
Have you been close to stuff like that, Serge?
A few times in my life, yeah, unfortunately.
Just being in South Africa, it's kind of the nature of it.
And also living in L.A. for the last three years just kind of puts you up against it, whether you like it or not.
What did you notice in L.A.? The change in. for the last three years just kind of puts you up against it, whether you like it or not. What did you notice in L.A.?
The change in the city the last three years?
I'd say for everyone living in L.A. right now can definitely say that after the pandemic, after 2020, things definitely got a lot worse.
You kind of can remember L.A. before the pandemic started.
I guess the lockdown started.
The before times.
Yeah, the before times.
I've literally said that before.
But it kind of just hit the fan more so than it already was hitting the fan and it seems like to me it's almost unrecoverable at this
point i don't want to say that it is but it definitely seems that way i agree it's a snowball
rolling down a hill what was crazier south africa or la that is a great question uh i kind of
realized when i was hearing about carjackings uh home invasions uh people just being mugged on the
street for their money and their jewelry and etc that i was like all right my parents brought me to this country to take me away from that
it's time for me to like you know make my next moves oh that was the stuff that was going on
south africa yeah that was going on south africa yes but uh when i started seeing that in la and
living there in la i was like okay this is this is time for me to start just like debating my
next moves because just it's not what i it's not what i'm here for you know it's not what i want
to be around you know so yeah it's definitely gone worse since
the pandemic i bet anyone else in the chat can rip and yeah we gotta get away man gotta get out
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since you plan on playing cartoons at Freedomistan, one that I recommend is a Netflix series oddballs
by YouTube animator Theo is that that Fiat D Stout?
Fiat Fiat is out.
I don't know what that means.
Not only is it great for all ages,
but it has subtle anti-woke ism.
Episode eight villain is clearly Fauci.
Really?
It's on Netflix called Oddballs and the villain is Fauci.
You want to write that one down?
Well,
we'll see if I'll send you a trailer of it.
Netflix series Oddballs.
Episode eight villain is
fauci wouldn't surprise me but yeah raymond g stanley juniors in the chat he says tim it's
great to see folks wake up to the grift that is aoc spirit fingers then the cult pledge at um
medical school the fight will be long grueling but victory is in our sights for the line less
than 25 days now to vote these people out do you guys see the university of i think it was it was at minnesota where they're all chanting mindlessly about supporting
indigenous medicine and health equity and stopping white supremacy yeah this is cult stuff dude i
did not see that very very creepy man alex maggiore says, I probably pronounced your name wrong.
On your 4 p.m. show, you said keeping gas low is to help with midterms, but I disagree.
I think they're trying to keep it low long enough for Republicans to take control to salvage the 2024 election.
I don't know what you mean by that.
I don't understand how that would work.
All right.
KPTM Captain Marvel.
Oh, that's what it is.
Tim, I know Bill Gates is the moob master, but you should check out Microsoft's open source election guard tech.
It's a way of cryptographically verifying the integrity of election results.
Really?
Is that true?
54 20 USD super chat.
Well, interesting.
Rocket Sauce says Tim got the notification today.
However, today my feed has been inundated with TimCast IRL segments from two years ago.
Algorithm has clearly changed.
Interesting.
I wonder why that is.
I wonder why.
Maybe they want to make sure people don't watch our modern episodes during the midterm.
And then you only get outdated information that won't help you.
There you go.
Pup Shepherd says,
Did you see the gaffe?
CNN Weather's Twitter liked a not safe for work ABDL tweet today.
It was weird.
It was up for three hours.
Took screenshots and everything.
What is that?
ABDL?
I don't know what that is.
Let's just say it was naughty.
Triton says,
Luke, thank you for sharing Johnny's story.
I'll raise my glass to this young man.
Though you may have lived as a man for only a few short months,
your final moments showed the courage of 100 men's lifetimes.
Cheers, mate.
Yeah, Johnny's an incredible human being.
He deserves to be remembered.
And his story is just absolutely insane.
Again, he saved a lot of people from a mass shooter. He's a hero,
without a doubt. And then what happened? The police responded. A police officer,
even though he didn't meet the description of the shooter, even though he was, he bent down, he took down the mass shooter. He took away his firearm. He went to a corner and he was kneeling
down in a corner, taking the magazine and bullets out of the gun.
He wasn't pointing it to anyone.
An officer opened the door and behind the door shot six times, shot him once in the butt.
And then they let him bleed out for 40 minutes and they didn't call.
And they didn't, the EMTs didn't get him in over 40 minutes as he bled out and died as he stopped a mass shooting in Colorado.
It's absolutely disgusting. I was
just there in Colorado. I talked to his friends. I talked to his family members. I released the
YouTube video. It's on the YouTube channel right now. We are change. Murph tries DIY says if Trump
was elected as House Speaker, would that give him a better understanding of the rot inside the
administrative state? Perhaps a lot of, I mentioned this earlier, that
if Trump, if they impeach Biden, people are like, oh, but then Kamala Harris becomes president.
And then it's like, what if he, what if they're both impeached? Well, then it's Nancy Pelosi.
It's like, no, no, no, no. Any kind of impeachment will only come after Republicans take the House,
in which Kevin McCarthy would probably be speaker. If the House then impeaches Biden over this
quid pro quo and Harris, then you'd need a conviction, which is not going to happen.
But let's just say it does, then you'd get a Republican president.
I think they absolutely should nominate Trump to be Speaker of the House.
The Republicans wouldn't do it, though, because Republicans are terrible.
It'd be fun, though, wouldn't it?
Speaker of the House, Donald Trump.
Does he have to be in the Senate for that to occur?
It's Congress, but in the House, he doesn't have to.
No.
So they can choose anybody, but they typically just pick somebody who's in the House.
Yep.
I think that'd be great.
Camel of the Mojave says, on this show, they blame corrupt politicians and corrupt private
businesses.
And the answer is the corrupt people voting for endless warfare.
On this show?
I'm not sure I understand. The answer is the corrupt people. Are you warfare on this show i'm not sure i understand
the answer is the corrupt people are you saying all the people are corrupt i don't think they
are i think there are corrupt people which they have to hope that there's more not corrupt people
who are voting against it there we go all right let's see what we got here let's grab uh let's grab another super chat mike giovanni says pronounce nuclear
correctly luke no don't tell me what to do a lot of people are pointing out that uh drew miller is
on the show he's a phd in uh nuclear wartime nuclear he kept saying nuclear and people were
like he's got a phd in this stuff like he's saying nuclear maybe we have it right and everyone else
has it wrong.
Nuclear.
Where does that word even come from?
I never understood that.
I don't know.
I think Bush was saying it
for a while back in the day.
Nuclear.
My parents would always hate that.
Yeah.
It's nuclear.
Nuclear.
It's unpronounced.
Kaiser C says,
I just had to put
my little buddy Tanner,
a cat,
down an hour and a half ago.
He doesn't have to suffer anymore.
Thanks, guys.
You make life more bearable despite the sad parts of it.
Sorry to hear, man.
These things are a part of life.
But you got to have a good little buddy Tanner for a long time.
Tanner.
Yeah.
We got Bocas.
I think Bocas is going on three or four years old.
I think he might be four.
And he's out doing bokeh
stuff he has a cat he's just outside chilling looking smug so cats do yeah thank him for being
cool he's a little terrorist i don't like him he just killed he just killed a squirrel there's a
poor squirrel downstairs again yes he loves eating and he has blood all over himself and then he tries
to go on the kitchen counter oh no yes i'm no. He goes into the skate ramps because nobody can get him
and then he just sits there for hours eating squirrel body.
And the squirrels are like, compared to him,
they're like a third of his size or maybe like a fourth.
So he's like carrying this squirrel in his mouth,
just trotting along all proud of himself.
I'm proud of him because for a while he was going after baby rabbits
and it's like, come on, dude, be a man.
That's a much more sympathetic victim too as a baby rabbit baby come on like imagine a dude like this ripped 220 pound
hunter guy going like i'm going hunting for baby deer like what that's not impressive that's sad
give me a buck a big win you know win victory in your hunt and feed the family not just killing
babies you're supposed to let the babies grow up that's why it was like we all made fun of him.
Maybe Bocas got the message when we were mocking
him for killing a baby rabbit and he
graduated to adult squirrels.
Okay, that's more acceptable. Those are bigger.
F in the chat for Tanner, though.
Yeah.
Kerry Green says, had
twatter for less than 90 days, been banned
again for making fun of VP Harris's ability to
drive a stick shift. You guys are awesome. Keep up the up the good work yeah that's how they do it huh maybe elon
musk will actually uh actually take over at some point and then this will all be uh just a horrible
horrible nightmare in the past let's grab another super chat aoc's birthday today she's 33 i last
from reading so birthday today happy birthday alex? Happy birthday, Alex. Wow, happy birthday
Ocasio-Cortez.
David H. says, what are the odds that
Zelensky has dirt on the Bidens, and that's why
the U.S. is giving Ukraine so much money in support?
I think
there's a probability, that's for sure.
A lot of people, you know,
a lot of people are spreading these memes. It's really funny. They claim
AOC is super rich, and they claim Tulsi Gabbard
is too, and I just never understood that.
Yeah, there was a thing that went around saying that her net worth,
Cortez's net worth is 22 million.
And then she responded to it.
She's like, dude, I still have student loans.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's just weird.
It's like, I'm sure she's making good money now.
And she's probably making more money than you realize.
But come on, 22 million.
And then there's a meme going around saying Tulsi Gabbard owns a 10 million 10 million dollar mansion and a 400 000 car and i'm like i just don't really believe that fake news yeah
don't believe everything you read those websites where it's like they tell you someone's net worth
those are all fake they'll be like you know one of them said ian was worth like five million dollars
12 it's a 12 it's 12 and then the next next week it was 1.2. And then it was like, I don't know.
$12 million.
Yeah, I don't know where they got the numbers.
Unless Ian's secretly lying.
I have stock in mines, which is worth, I don't know what mines is calculated at.
It's a private company.
Oh, there you go.
That's probably worth a lot.
Ian's a secret billionaire.
Billions.
Billions.
The judge says gas was $1.59 a gallon the week of the presidential election.
Wow.
Jeez.
That's crazy.
Those were the days, man.
Those were the days man those were the days all right beep boop says tim if you're looking for a good new show you should
you should watch arcane i say this because you're constantly saying there's no new good shows
am i saying that i just finished watching better call saul that wrapped up the last season this
year and uh i give the whole series a 10 out of 10. But the ending really was like, eh, I guess.
Did it feel forced?
No, it felt like nothing.
Don't spoil it.
Okay.
You're watching it?
Yeah.
The ending, I just was unenthused.
I was like, oh, okay, whatever.
I'm in YouTube clip phase on that one.
That's pretty much how I do most TV now is I sample it on YouTube.
If I watch enough clips, I say, okay, maybe it's worth watching a series.
And then I watch the whole series in like a weekend and just binge it.
YouTube shorts, you mean?
I usually watch YouTube shorts.
That's right.
Oh, I watched She-Hulk.
I can now definitively say with the finale out, it is possibly one of the worst shows I have ever seen.
And I am going to spoil it for you because I hate it that much.
And I have no respect for the show.
There's no season finale.
The last episode breaks down into, okay, there's an AOC scene.
Seriously, She-Hulk.
There's a scene where this woman, okay, so a bunch of dudes, misogynists, are trolling
She-Hulk because women, I guess.
And so someone, to bait them, the friend of She-Hulk posts She-Hulk dancing in college
and she's wearing thick black glasses with her hair down.
And it's very obviously an AOC thing.
And that's like, and they're like, sick find. And then for some reason,
the Hulk is there, the abominations fighting, Titania's fighting. And then she'll just look
at the camera and says, this is a really stupid story. It makes no sense. And then she, and then
it cuts to a fake picture of the, of the Disney plus streaming menu. And she punches through it.
I'm not kidding. And she goes, ah, here we go and jumps into a different movie.
And then for the next 15 minutes,
it's her walking around Marvel Studios in real life.
And then she meets Kevin Feige,
who's actually an AI.
And she just says, the story's bad.
And he says, okay.
And then she goes back to the story
and the story's over.
She goes back and it's like,
that's the end of the story.
And she's like, there we go.
And for all, like, I was just like, what?
They call that the Greeks would call it deus ex machina, where the very end of a movie,
there's some godlike creature just appears and tells you it was all a dream and everything's
solved now.
I mean, well, deus ex machina, what does it mean?
The god from the machine?
Yeah, yeah.
Or god in the machine.
It basically means that as the writer of the show, you can make anything happen.
And so deus ex machina is then like, oh, Superman, he died, but he's alive now because a meteor came and it reignited his Kryptonian blood and he's alive.
So this was worse than that.
This was like, I know, let's end the show by not concluding any elements of the story, resolving none of the lingering issues and telling you outright it doesn't matter
you will never know and it was all one big waste of your time yeah such lazy writing if anyone
wants to watch uh i think shouts out what's his name uh it's a gundam i forget his name anyone
know that guy he's done a whole serious breakdown on it for the last while now she hulk it's a
gundam is the guy's name uh i think so. I took something like that. I just know Gundam is like his title on
YouTube that everyone refers to him as.
Alright, Asiri Design says, Rick Santorum.
Oh no, we can't impeach him.
Okay, well, Rick came
on the show, and it was
great to have him. You know, people, a lot of disagree, and
he said we shouldn't impeach Joe Biden
because he should only be impeached
for things he's done while president, not for past
things. Well, now we got it. We got a quid pro quo. So they should impeach him. All right. The
moment they win, they come in on what, January 3rd or something. They should immediately be like,
okay, articles of impeachment, all in favor. There you go. Vote, do it. He should be impeached over
this. I am not confident Republicans will do it because while you'll get Marjorie Taylor Greene
for sure, and many Republicans will sign on, you're going to get another half.
We're going to be like, no, come on, guys.
You know, we have to be above all this and the Democrats will reject it.
And then there will be a majority in opposition to impeaching Joe Biden.
Welcome to the modern era.
Dracona Force says the NFL just aired a commercial about Election Day and how important it is to get educated and let your voice be heard.
I'm sure they hit the demographic they were looking for here.
I mean, what if they're getting a bunch of who is the kind of person who likes football?
They're probably more likely to vote for Trump, right?
Yeah.
So good.
Whatever.
I don't know.
I think, though, that one of the ads said that if you vote in this election, it will decide all of the issues that matter most to you. So this was clearly has to be the person who wrote this ads very first election,
if they believe that. All right. Travis Tolbert says, Tim, Trump literally threatened to drop
thermonuclear bombs on Moscow and Beijing. Your stance is tantamount to opposing World War Two
lend lease that kept our allies from falling to the Nazi regime. I actually criticized Trump threatening nuclear weapons, saying it's really bad.
But at the very least, the fear of Donald Trump actually prevented the escalation of war.
So it's like, you know, is it perfect?
No.
Is it good?
It's kind of not that good that Trump had this behavior about him.
But it's certainly better than Joe Biden and the Democrats or whatever, and many
Republicans getting the U.S. involved in a border dispute with Russia and Ukraine that could result
in World War Three. I just don't see the reason for it. I don't get it. Yeah, the Lend-Lease
program was after the Nazis had conquered Paris. It was very overtly that they were attempting to
take over the world. Alkis SB says, Tim, bring Elad Eliyahu to debate with Luke about Ukraine.
Oh, yeah.
Have you met Elad yet?
No.
Oh, we got it.
We got to do that.
Elad, we'll have you back on so you can debate with Luke.
It'll be the loudest and most raucous show we've ever had.
What's his stance?
He believes in an American unipolar world, that the United States should be expanding
and actively the world police
to prevent a multipolar world,
which would be more dangerous.
And so when we were arguing about war,
he's very much in favor of US operations
and expansion and all that stuff.
I was getting, I got triggered.
I got so mad.
I think we should have Cassandra here as well too.
Yeah, Cassandra would be great.
I would prefer Cassandra and this other guy. Cassandra here as well too. Yeah, Cassandra would be great. I would prefer Cassandra and this
other guy. Cassandra could handle herself just by herself. She's a very strong woman who I think
could handle the conversation a lot better than I can. But with that being said, Elad's fantastic.
He does ground field reporting for us on the ground. He's really, really great. And I actually
respect that we can have these arguments. And I got really mad and I apologize for getting super mad,
but it's cool that we can have those conversations
and keep working together.
But I just, you know, war.
Yeah, I just don't believe we need war to stop war.
That doesn't make any rational sense to me.
Well, I got pushback on that.
I mean, people say fighting fire with fire
when they do controlled burns,
they'll burn a strip of like,
of the ground.
Yeah, but if there's no fire,
why in the world do you need fire? To the fire that doesn't make any sense and i think
essentially that that's the core of the argument for a war i just think the issue is as a farm
and there's a small farm next to it and they're fighting and so we're two miles two three miles
away and you were like i know let's bring weapons to one of those farms for some reason and it's like why dude like neighbors are fighting let's not be involved in that you know what and world
war three great great that's what i want no no thank you all right andrew says don't underestimate
joe biden's ability to f things up obama apparently that's right yep quote all right comment uh command thur says question for ian are you
excited for victoria 3 um i have crusader kings 2 i think it's paradox game i haven't gotten into
victoria series or the uh universe europa universalis which i also have but i was looking
at some gameplay footage of it it looks pretty pretty cool. It's very diplomatic, which is pretty cool.
I like the conquering aspect of Crusader Kings.
I guess short answer is no, but I'm going to keep my eyes on it.
Thank you.
All right.
Tim Jake says, Luke, are you saying the coalition would not have liberated Kuwait under UN Charter Article 51 if the baby story was not there?
The UN would have gone home and left Kuwait under Iraqi control?
No, the situation is far more complicated. And the geopolitical perspective and picture
was more than just, hey, they kill babies, we've got to go in there. So there's a lot of things
that happened behind the scenes, especially when it came to a lot of the secret discussions between
Saddam Hussein and George W. Bush, and the promises that the US government made to Saddam Hussein,
as of course, the United States was working with Saddam Hussein in order to fight the Iranians as well. So the picture is
far more complicated. But for an emotional standpoint, the war was sold to the American
public as going after these baby killers. And it allowed emotionally for the United States
people to be like, OK, I understand this. I'm not going to protest this war. This is a war that we need to fight.
Trace Ventura says,
was Linda raptured or banished to the Shadow Realm?
Raptured, actually.
You may also notice that Seamus isn't here either.
So all the good people have left.
It's just us.
They both are at a monastery now,
and they pledged for virginity,
and we wish them luck.
It was a banishment to the Shadow Realm, actually.
Lydia inadvertently activated Luke's trap card,
and it sent her to the Shadow Realm.
The portal is still open.
Yeah.
Yep.
We miss you, Linda.
All right, what do we got?
Miss Mary says,
I want to know what Luke thinks about Tulsi Gabbard
being on the forum of young global leaders
created by Klaus Schwab.
Seems a bit sketch IMO.
Yeah, we talked about that in yesterday's video.
Now, I think it's important to point out that she says that she was put on there without
her permission.
But there's other people countering that saying, well, if you're implementing policies that
they really like, that's also something that we should keep a close eye on.
Yeah, and like Zuckerberg's on it.
Yeah, and Crenshaw's also on there.
His defense is, I didn't do anything they used my
photo without permission yeah well i think he was saying is that it's like an editorial thing
where it's not like they come to you so i was featured in uh in the time 100 nominations so
there's there's 200 people chosen and then 100 get selected for the time 100 i was a nominee
no one told me one day i woke up and time magazine said
time 100 nominee tim pool that's what they're basically saying that the editorial board
would just says it now her her relationship with the cfr i think is is definitely worth looking
into benjamin dover says good name by the way as a truck driver i completely agree maryland
drivers are probably the worst i've encountered on the road followed closely by delaware illinois Why do you think that is?
Proximity to D.C.? What do you think?
Yeah, I think it's a little of that.
I mean, Rhode Island used to have the bad reputation, too,
because they didn't require people to own auto insurance.
So you could get into an accident with a Rhode Island driver,
and you might get yourself into some trouble.
Wow.
Yeah, Utah's had a bad reputation for that for a long time.
All right, Archimedes says,
First Super Chat,
Instead of or in addition to states breaking away from other states,
what if states passed legislation to form their own electoral college
for their state that elects state positions such as governor?
I think, I don't know, could work.
You guys want to hear a joke yeah so i went to a restaurant and the waitress came up and said can i get you something
to drink well me being clever i said whatever floats your boat water right when she came back
she brought me an empty cup except for a piece of paper in it that had archimedes law of water
displacement on it haha cool explanations for dinner cool. Oh, explanations for dinner.
That's an old joke from the internet I heard a long time ago.
Archimedes' law of water displacement.
That was him, right?
Is that it?
I don't know. Let's find out.
Yeah.
Whatever floats your boat.
Ah, I thought I was going to get a cup of ice cold water.
How clever.
Kevin Bergman says, I'm fourth gen state of Jefferson.
Our flag is two X's representing rejection of Salem and SAC.
PDX full of first generation progs who don't respect the rest of Oregon.
Looks confirmed.
Archimedes principle.
Archimedes principle states that the upward buoyant force that is exerted on a body immersed
in a fluid, whether fully or partially, is equal to the weight of the fluid that the
body displaces.
And, you know, gas is also a fluid.
Interesting.
Yeah. You ever see the video where the Mythbusters float stuff on you know, gas is also a fluid. Interesting. Yeah.
You ever see the video
where the Mythbusters
float stuff on top of,
what is it,
sulfur or hydroxide
or something like that?
Sodium hydroxide?
What's the gas?
Sulfur, maybe.
But it's a really dense gas.
It's invisible.
And they pour it.
And it looks like
nothing's happening.
And then they put like
a paper boat
and it's floating on it.
Right, I remember this one.
It's the thing that,
you want to look it up
when you inhale it. it makes your voice really deep
yeah yeah that's the one i remember that sounds pretty cool yeah dj madero says tim i live in
bend oregon we have five different police forces in the city limits wow sulfur hexafluoride there
you go sulfur hexafluoride that sounds about about right. Voicel Satan gas. Is that what it is? Because it makes your voice really deep.
Yeah.
Super low.
All right.
Slavkai Nikki says, Ian, I've punched a dog before when I was a kid in order to protect
my little brother who was being attacked.
He doesn't like me, but I'd do it again.
Well, that's not unreasonable.
If a dog's attacking you, you have every right to defend yourself.
Yeah.
I mean, you can punch a person if they're attacking you and you're defending yourself you're supposed to do it right dj montalvo says it if you could
get it's a gundam on as a guest it would be great he offers very funny commentary on cultural issues
yeah funny guy well there you go let's take a look richard adams says if you vote for me all
of your wildest dreams will come true. Vote for you for what?
No idea.
Dog catcher races are getting wild now.
That's right.
All right.
What do we got here?
Dan Ines says, I think the comment about keeping gas down until Republicans take over was implying
that Biden plans to blame the cost increase on our Republican Congress.
Yeah, but if they win in November,
it's not, they're not going to be actually in until January. So there's a gap there. No,
this was about them winning. They needed gas prices to stay low so they could win.
Let's see. Booty Sexful says, New Hampshire general election is November 8th. Just filled
out an absentee ballot. I will be out of the country for reasons, but will be hand delivering soon.
Don't forget to vote.
It's important.
What did I read?
I read somewhere that New Hampshire's draft registration rate is 100%.
That sounds kind of odd.
That doesn't sound like New Hampshire, you know?
No, it doesn't.
They do have a huge state legislature, though.
Yeah.
You know, maybe.
All right.
DD Megadoodoo says,
Tim's Law.
If the conversation goes on long enough,
Tim will almost certainly use
having chickens as an analogy.
P.S. Jimmy Akins has a full episode
on those pixies from yesterday.
He would also make a good guest.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
That Arthur Conan Doyle believed in pixies is that
that's what it was yeah i think so or fairies in particular fairies yeah great username by the way
you're on fallen angel says tim it would be like the movie chappy where south africa uses robots
to augment their police department then a rogue employee rewrites their code to make the public
afraid of robots that's true yeah or maybe like district nine
when aliens come and then a guy gets sprayed by alien gunk which turns him into an alien for some
reason that i did not understand i didn't get that part it was like it was like a battery or
something well i don't even know but have you seen it yeah in the theater it was very weird movie
yeah i mean i liked it but i don't understand why like he was putting a battery together and
then the gunk from the battery sprays him, turning him into an alien.
Like, what is it?
I don't understand.
I didn't get that part.
I mean, South Africans will know it's actually a reference to District 6.
I just flipped it over to District 9.
It's a whole thing.
I'm not going to get into it right now.
Yeah, it's like about segregation and apartheid and stuff, right?
Yeah, exactly.
Exactly.
Yep.
Tina Collette says, Black Mirror, LOL.
Last week, I received a package from Amazon.
I neither ordered or paid for it it was a seven pound faux marble toothbrush holder ugliest thing i have ever seen what the
hell we've had that happen before but it's rare where we've gotten a weird package delivered to
us we didn't order and we just like we don't accept it like i don't know this is or why
yeah but it was like i can't remember what it was we've gotten weird stuff like books
i'm just like i don't know what this is weird yeah but uh we know for a fact that it was like i can't remember what it was we've gotten weird stuff like books i'm just like i don't know what it's just weird yeah but uh we know for a fact that it was like
somehow you know you know it is i think recently we ordered something and they gave us the wrong
thing so someone in the warehouse probably put the wrong thing in the box and gave it to us true
yeah let's grab one more what do we got steve smith says all right hear me out if la new jersey can
have two teams why can't chicago have two teams at least one in the afc they can actually root for
i don't know sure i guess that'd be cool all right my friends smash that like button if you
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Jim?
Absolutely. I think everybody
needs to not vote
if they're going to vote
the wrong way. But I'll leave it up going to vote the wrong way.
But I'll leave it up to you what the wrong way is.
Hey, that's good.
You got social media or anything or a website? Yeah, definitely.
You can follow me at Jim Antle, which is not Mickey Mantle,
but it's J-I-M-A-N-T-L-E on twitter.com.
Well, it lasts.
Right on.
That's true.
Wow, we still have some kind of voice.
Thank you so much for coming on, Jim.
Appreciate you.
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Oh, definitely, Luke.
I'm glad to have hosted you tonight. Bye, everyone. Ianan crossland you hate catch me at iancrossland.net
or just follow me on social media anywhere jim's great to see you man good to be here and tim you
weren't wrong according to usa today from 2019 a registration dates were varied from this is a
selective service 100 in new hampshire to 63 in Dakota. Wow. And just 51% in district.
I can't confirm if that's true,
but you probably did read it.
All right.
Yeah.
Thanks guys.
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I do respond.
It is actually me in the chats as surge.com.
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