Timcast IRL - Timcast IRL #959 Democrats Joke They RIGGED SUPER BOWL, Biden REFUSES Brain Test w/Michael Rectenwald

Episode Date: February 13, 2024

Tim, Phil, Hannah Claire, & Serge join Dr. Michael Rectenwald to discuss Joe Biden tweeting out creepy "Dark Brandon" meme after Chiefs Super Bowl win, the US Senate approving funding for Israel and Ukraine wars, Kamala Harris saying she is ready to serve right before disastrous Biden speech, and a mob setting fire to a Waymo self driving taxi. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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But I wasn't really betting on the Chiefs. I was betting on the narrative, and the narrative played out perfectly. The 49ers were ahead for the first half. Then the Chiefs slowly start to push ahead, but not quite enough. The 49ers are close to winning. It gets tied game overtime

in the very last minute with seconds left. Bang! The Chiefs win, and I win $101. How about that? And following that, the Democrats posted a Dark Brandon meme saying something like that's exactly like, you know, exactly how they had planned it or whatever. Insinuated that they've rigged the Super Bowl. And of course, now a bunch of people have replaced the image of Dark Brandon with the red and the blue line, with the blue line jumping up over the red line, indicating that Joe Biden cheated in the 2020 election. It's all good fun, isn't it?

But we'll talk about Super Bowl while we were all enjoying our good sporting event. The Senate was pushing forward a bill to fund the war in Ukraine and Israel. Oh, boy. And Israel was bombing Rafa. So there are certainly some serious things going on around the world. But outside of all of that, Kamala Harris says she's ready to serve as a conversation as he erupted a serious political crisis over Joe Biden's broken brain. Well, they're going to be giving him a fitness test, but he will not take a cognitive test. And we know why, because, you know, his brain's broken. So it looks like Kamala may be getting ready to step up, but I got to be honest, I'm not so sure that we will see a replacement of Joe Biden in the way that we thought.

It may be that Democrats have already resigned to him losing, and they're now planning to set traps so that Donald Trump can't do anything if he does win. J.D. Vance points out that in this funding bill for the war in Ukraine, if Trump tries to do anything when he becomes president, they can impeach him. I got to be honest, it's a bad thing, but kind of a good sign. They expect Trump to win. So we'll get into all of that stuff before we do. My friends, if you're watching on YouTube, click the link in the description below and you can pre-order the new song from Timcast, Eyes of Advice. Now, to be honest, if you click the link

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I did see you tweeted. I think Elon Musk said, Javier Millet, we need all of these things in the United States. Was that you who tweeted, that's what I want to do? Well, yeah. I think that's what one of my followers tweeted that. Yeah, that's what I will do. Just start cutting off all the government agencies, shutting them down? Yeah, I mean, his metaphor was the chainsaw. Mine's the wrecking ball.

The wrecking ball. All right. Should be fun. Thanks for hanging out. We got Hannah Clare hanging out. Hey, I'm Hannah Clare Brimelow. I'm a writer for SCNR.com. That's Scanner News. I'm really

happy to be here with you tonight. Phil's here too. Hello, everybody. My name is Phil Labonte. I'm the lead singer of the heavy metal band All That Remains. I'm anti-communist, counter-revolutionary. We're here with Serge. How you doing, homie? Yo, I am here, Serge.com. I'm ready when you are, Tim. Here we go. Deadline.

Just like we drew it up. Joe Biden's dark Brandon reacts to Chiefs Super Bowl win. All right. So everybody probably knows already what happened yesterday with the Super Bowl. Well, following the Chiefs victory, the Democrats are acting like they rigged it because there is a conspiracy theory that the NFL is rigged or scripted and that Kelsey had to or I should say the chiefs had to win because Kelsey's relationship with Taylor Swift and that after they win the Superbowl, there's going to be some coming endorsement from the lovely couple and, and all that jazz. I, I think it was mostly a PR stunt between Kelsey and Taylor Swift. I don't think their relationship is real.

However, we counted and I think we saw Taylorlor swift during the game 12 times they showed her so that's more than basically anybody else i think it's all pr i don't think that there's a grand conspiracy to have taylor swift endorsed joe biden but one thing i am seeing now following all of this is that politicians have started identifying themselves as swifties and the news has started reporting that trump quote-unquote slams Taylor Swift when he didn't because Trump issued a statement that, you know, Taylor couldn't endorse Joe Biden because I signed the Music Modernization Act or whatever, which helped her. I think the play now is they are actually making it look like Trump is against Taylor Swift because they're trying to rile up her fans against Trump. And, you know, it's really frustrating that there are people on the right who don't care that there is no political upside to the Super Bowl Taylor Swift psyop narrative. They just keep running with it

and getting as many views as possible. And the media is laughing all the way to the bank as they try and politicize Taylor Swift's fan base. Which is crazy because she's going to save our birthright. I mean, Taylor Swift ushering in a new era of making marriage cool again, making commitment and families great. She went to the Super Bowl with Blake Lively, who's married to Ryan Reynolds and has like four kids. I think there is really a missed opportunity to seize this for what it is, which is that women actually like to settle down and she's trying to seize the opportunity uh but i actually didn't watch the super bowl at all so i didn't want to say i was too super dedicated to it i didn't watch the game either but the whole thing of like jumping on to this as a rage bait thing there's some you know people out there that are just doing it because

it's content i think that that's a terrible terrible thing but just because it's bad for america like i'm love people should believe in young look i'm very very adamant about the fact that the goal in the culture war is not to defeat people that disagree with you it's to convince them to come to your side when you make a fight about everything especially about the most popular entertainer in america arguably in the world when you make a fight pick a fight with them over literally nothing just so that way you can get some likes you're hurting whatever you say your cause is i just want to take a look at this picture of joe biden with glowing red eyes because it's become like, you know, when people make pictures of Donald Trump all ripped.

Some people do it seriously. But for the most part, when you see that flag where Trump is riding a tank with a velociraptor and a machine gun, we know it's meant to be silly and a gag. OK. And, you know, it's kind of like, OK, we get it. We get it's funny. But having somebody who can barely speak did you see the you see the latest video from him yeah it's crazy he's like i don't want a list you know no time and i'm like what did he just say something about not running through a

list or something like that anyone can become president in america that's true at this level so when they make this picture of him and they try and do try and do this meme it's just it's just it's like uh you know it's a poodle dressed like superman you know what i mean and his his uh campaign got on tiktok today to court younger voters like it's it's so great and they posted this too it's awful that was yesterday though they were like who do you think's gonna win he's like if i told you i'd get in trouble biden if you talk to the press, you get in trouble. And I'm wondering who you get in trouble with. Barack?

Jill. Jill? She's the real president. The whole, I wonder who you get in trouble with, it actually does kind of matter. I like to think that the president is actually, can be held accountable. That's one of the bad things about having like the bureaucracy, the nameless bureaucracy doing things. You don't know where to lay the blame. You can't hold anyone accountable you can never fire people so nothing

ever changes things only continue to go bad or continue down whatever path they are or even have been on are you big taylor swift fan are you swifty i'm not a swifty i do not want to talk about taylor swift anyway back to uh joe biden and the memes i was just gonna ask him what his perspective is on like the internet and the way they kind of circle around these pop culture icons, whether it's the dark Brandon mean or Taylor Swift. Well, you know, I mean,

the theory is they're trying to use Swift to garner votes for Biden. Also Swift and Kelsey to sell the vaccines. I don't think, I don't buy it. Yeah, it's just PR. It's a PR marketing stunt. And when people, it's funny because when people pr it's a pr marketing stunt and when people

it's funny because when people say it's a psyop i'm like well yeah in the same sense that like a commercial for coke is a is a psyop like a company is trying to advertise a product the nfl is trying to advertise the nfl to a younger audience who they're losing they taylor swift got a whole bunch of gen z and like young women to watch the super bowl they were trying to make some and and so what's fascinating to me is the psyop narrative actually just accomplished everything they could have hoped for it it it seriously all of a sudden everyone's everyone who normally doesn't care about quote-unquote sports ball they call it because they like to mock it are now watching it and and there's there's media all over the board and then to top it off you've got the corporate press saying donald trump slams taylor swift like you know what man whatever dude at this point you know like people are chatting

with here's one from uh victor he says was travis kelsey manhandling an old man on tv part of the psyop i hear i want to say this. You guys ready? I don't care that Travis Kelsey yelled at a guy. I don't understand why there are people who are like sports ball is so dumb. Did you see Travis Kelsey yell at a guy? I don't get it. I really don't. And so that's why. He chest bumped him.

He did chest bump him. I know. I don't think he's a good dude. I mean, whatever. That was a nasty thing to do. But I'm kind of like, why do people who don't follow sports, why are they so into this? No, it's not. I think it's not that interesting. I've seen that clip so many times today. And it's sort of like, okay, yeah, bad moment for every Super Bowl there is. And probably there are other weird moments at the Super Bowl you could have pulled instead

of everyone sort of dogpiling on the same one. I'm proud to say, though, that I was two for three in my psychic predictions over what was going to happen at the Super Bowl. So when we had the party and we were talking about it, I'm like, look, I bet $100 on the Chiefs to win. And I won $100, and I think I won $101, something like that, because it was like they weren't the favorites. I don't know.

But I was like, it's really obviously going to happen. At the start of the game, the 49ers are up, and I'm like, well, of course. It has to be this way. It has to was like, it's really obviously going to happen. At the start of the game, the 49ers are up. And I'm like, well, of course. It has to be this way. It has to be like, oh, no. And I'm like, and they're going to show Taylor Swift. And she's going to be like biting her nail and going like, oh, geez. And they did it.

Called that one. So it's got to be that they come up from behind. It's got to be at the last minute they score the touchdown to win. And Travis Kelsey is going to be the guy to do it. That didn't happen. So I'm only two for three. Although I did you can maybe add like a 2.5 because I said that Taylor Swift would look all panicked.

But the second to last play, they did throw it to Kelsey. Kelsey almost got it in. But I think it was Hardman. I don't know. I don't know a lot about football. All I know is that they ended up winning. And now the expectation is there's going to be some kind of endorsement. And I believe what is likely going to happen, what the strong possibility they're there. So they're going to invite the chiefs to the white house after winning the

super bowl. I'm willing to bet Taylor Swift is there. I think she'll probably go with Kelsey and that will be their PR opportunity and press event. That being said, the only way any political poll comes out of that is if Trump supporters attack Kelsey and Taylor Swift, which they're doing with zealous fervor. And they'd have to plan that visit. I don't know how, again, I'm not the most avid sports fan here, but I don't know how quickly that invitation gets extended because she's on tour for the rest of the year.

So maybe she doesn't have to plan around Taylor Swift. What I really didn't want to happen was for her to perform at the Democratic National Convention in the summer. But luckily, she's in Europe then because I just thought that'd be so annoying. I don't think she's going to get super political. I don't think she's going to endorse this year. I really don't. The only way is by them using her.

They're using her as a polarization. So they're managing to get if all the trump people attack her they're waving this makes her a magnet for the other side they're waving a red a red uh flag at the uh right yelling toro toro yeah and the right's like i'm gonna do exactly what democrats want me to do and and make a big political issue with a pop star for no reason and it's just like oh jeez i felt like she only got involved in politics was when all of the stuff went around the internet where it's like she's secretly super conservative and she's whatever so it was a big show of coming out being no no i support the right guy like she

released that one song where it was like way late to the like you know gay rights and gay marriage initiative um it's okay to be gay it's just like it made no sense and i think now there's no point she's making a ton of money this year. She's in the headline. She doesn't need to come out of any sort of political closet. She's already come out enough. It would be pointless.

Look, I'll say this as we're wrapping up the opening segment. I would not be surprised. I'll just say this. In my opinion, I lean towards the NFL's rigged. Rigged in some way. And the reason I feel that way is

it's not the same people are saying it's like wwe and i know i don't think that i think it's more so that the refs can just push the direction they want and they they can have a tendency towards what they want to happen but it's not as easy as making it a script you can't you can't guarantee dude catches the ball. Because, you know, so that being said, they can strongly influence the outcome. The coaches can tell people what to do. They can do it or not do it.

And they can get pretty close to what they want to happen. So, you know, out here in the West Virginia, Maryland, and Virginia Tri-State, all Ravens fans out here. And the only thing I hear from all of them was that it was rigged. Because they were like, how did the Ravens play so well all year, and then all of a sudden, against the Chiefs, they just were like,

fumbling morons. And so they all think it's scripted, it's rigged, or whatever. Look at the Ravens' history against the Patriots. It is not rigged. Or at least not... But this year you're talking about? No, no, I'm talking about just historically the Ravens against the Patriots. What is not rigged or at least not, at least not, not, but this year you're talking about maybe, no,

no, I'm talking about just historically. So what I'm saying is this people who are in there who live out here. Yeah. They say they were like, we saw some of the best play the Ravens ever had this year, but all of a sudden when it comes to the chiefs, they were bumbling morons who couldn't figure anything out and lost.

And there's even that viral video. It's I don't know which team it was. I think it's the chiefs from october where uh one player is running towards i i all he knows is the player got the ball one player runs and then turns left and tackles the guy without the ball and it became a huge scandal because they were like what the just happened yeah and a bunch of people like i'm a big football fan and i know exactly what this means but even news outlets and sports outlets and commentators were like why did he just not tackle the guy with the ball that's i think it was um who was it who had the ball was it mahomes i don't know but a lot of people listening they probably saw the story because this clip goes

viral and then yesterday there was another clip that went viral where the tv wrongly said it was the first down when it was the second. But that's not a conspiracy. That's a bad graphic. That was the other way around. They said it was second and three, and it was first and five. No, no, no. Specifically, there was one play where it was second and one,

but the TV said first and ten. And everyone was like, whoa, whoa, whoa. That's a missed call, yeah. No, the TV got it wrong. If you look at the ESPN play-by-play, everything was done properly. Yeah. All the calls were right. So I kind of lean towards it was rigged.

Not that Joe Biden had anything to do with it. But are they all rigged is the question? Is every Super Bowl ultimately rigged? I don't think so. The Patriots fan over here is like, no. I don't think so. I was reading something that said since around like Super Bowl 32 or whatever, it used to be that games were relatively decisive.

Like one team played really well and just won. And now it's always a nail biter. It's always a back and forth. Better for ratings that way. As you see, it's more entertaining. And the other thing too, people point out that the NFL is a sports entertainment company,

not a sporting company. And it's because of the way they do, they say it's because of the way they handle pay, that they're all like one company and they share pay or something like that. I don't know. But I'm done with football. Because while the football was going on, your members of the Senate were sharpening their blades to place firmly in your back.

CNBC reports Senate moves forward with Israel-Ukraine funding after vote on Super Bowl Sunday. You see? This was the real purpose of, I'll put it this way. The PSYOP, if there is one, in my opinion, was to create a conspiracy theory of a PSYOP so that all of these Trump supporters would be posting photos of Travis Kelsey

and videos of it, like they're doing all yesterday, and not paying attention to the fact the Senate voted to move forward with funding for Israel and Ukraine. However, Rand Paul is in in a filibuster right now to try and block it. But here we go. Sixty billion dollars to Ukraine, 15 million to Israel and some to Taiwan as well. And some to Taiwan as well. And nothing to the border. Right. Because why? Why would we do that?

Well, because when people realized the border deal was actually an amnesty bill, they were like, okay, just get rid of that and just go straight for the dump American money into a foreign country. And they also buried an impeachment clause in this bill that if the president doesn't follow through with this funding, he's impeached. Or they can impeach him. They can impeach him, yeah. I mean, I feel like that's kind of good news in a way it's bad news they're playing these dirty games but it's kind of indicative of

they fear Donald Trump is going to win I think it is because why else would you have to bury that clause there if you thought Joe Biden was going to be there or would you need this stick to stick rather than a carrot measure at the very least they are scared that Donald Trump is going to win. Not that he's guaranteed to win.

Well, yeah, I mean, I'm sure they are. I think because of the polls and because of Biden, it's completely reasonable to be worried about whether or not he can actually bring it back over the goal line. But when it comes to this piece of legislation or the part in the piece of legislation they're just looking for any way that they can get donald trump so if they can set it up whereas it's a trap there's some kind of you know he gets in and something happens and he he they

can come up with a way to justify impeaching him they will you forever the the the like the rubicon has been crossed forever now impeachment is a new political tool that's going to be used every chance that they that whatever side gets this is the new normal politics in the u.s is not going to get better it's i don't i don't i don't think it's the new normal you know why because i don't think there will be a system in place long enough for it to be normal at all that would be that would be uh it's just the current trend right now that would just be no it's just i mean like it'll happen one time and then something worse happens next time yeah that's right other catastrophes come along change the whole narrative shift on every the ground under

your feet that's what's been yeah but i agree with your sentiment it's just the idea that it's a new normal would imply that we will persist in the state for for more than one election cycle how fast things degrade does matter yes yeah so i i i feel like in the sense that they they are going to use impeachment as a tool the answer is yes but it will cause such crisis within our political system the system likely will implode on itself well before it could happen again i mean that could yeah could very well happen yeah do you have uh any predictions about the next year going into 2024 to the election and all that uh well i'm gonna win the the lp nomination and then a landslide victory 49 states for the libertarian party yeah that's right but uh no i'm i mean look i'm running against these people so i'm i'm running to to be a messenger who shifts the overton window if possible at this late date

towards liberty and away from this authoritarian layer upon layer of the state kennedy even you know kennedy's supposed to be this up, you know, this dissident, but he's all about adding more bureaucratic layers to the state. It's unbelievable. I have a conspiracy theory for you guys. RFK Jr. is actually working for the deep state

to suppress the Libertarian Party vote. Yeah, I'm not, I think that's actually fair. I always thought he pulled from running a Democrat campaign under threat from the DNC, basically saying, you have to run as an independent this year. Maybe we'll consider you in the future. He's pulling from Democrats, but the polls, when the polls include Biden, Trump or anyone else, anyone else actually scores double digits.

Yeah. Which means that if RFK Jr. was not running, the Libertarian Party might actually crack double digits. Yeah. And he's coming to our convention in California where I'll be debating him. Really? When is that happening? On February 24th. February 24th. I am the final defense against RFK trying to take over the Libertarian Party for this election. I can't imagine the libertarians yeah accepting that they well no no i agree with that

but there are a lot of people in the mises caucus who want rfk jr to take the lp uh ticket well that there's a there's a there's a little bit of uh prevarication that went on about that topic, if I must. The LP, the Mises Caucus, the official Mises Caucus does not support RFK Jr. at all. They have endorsed me. They've also endorsed the vice presidential candidate, too. And I'll come up with his name in a second. He's a good friend of mine. Anyway, Clint.

Clint Russell. So they endorsed Clint Russell as a VP candidate. They endorsed me as the president of Canada. They've written extensively how they don't support RFK Jr. He is anathema to libertarianism. He's not good on anything. Nothing. He's the only thing.

Except COVID and Ukraine. That's it he's not even he's good on covid and and vaccines in that he doesn't want to have the government force you to take vaccines but that's the end of it that's it and also if that's the well well he tweeted about the border that's true okay what he wants to do is put he wants to you know he's all about regulation right so he wants to change you know to enforce regulations and to get the corporations he called these big corporations or the big enemy get them out of everything never looking at the other side of the issue which is the state that's who's the problem especially when you're dealing with the border yes clearly it's the state right this open borders policy is a federal policy and i go up against other

libertarians on this because i don't i don't think that this open borders policy is libertarian at all because it it i i think i think framing is important yes. And I wouldn't call it federal policy. I would call it rogue state policy. Yeah. The federal government has constitutional restrictions. And one of those is that the federal government has to do certain things like defend states from invasion. Technically, yeah. Having Customs and Border Protection commit crimes against humanity on the southern border is not indicative of the federal government.

Here's what I'm trying to draw this distinction on we should not accept criminal actions from federal agents as what the government does we should say that those are criminal elements who are wearing badges committing crimes and my my fear with the normalization of it is if a criminal like it's it's it's like a squatter being in a house yeah and then you call him a resident no no no keep calling them squatters don't call them residents i'm not talking about the actual government's official policy now i'm talking about what libertarians some libertarians want open borders oh no yeah period and i would say that would become then a federal a federal government uh position well it's a violation of the constitution to have open borders it is so so the libertarians can say all they want not all of

them right this is one of the things the libertarian party has fractured over i mean this was a hotly debated for a long time and ultimately i don't think anyone who thinks of themselves as libertarian today really accepts that you could maintain libertarian values and also have an open border maybe no no no they're they're they're leftists in the libertarian party that that strongly are like i said it's already a fractured issue but i don't think yeah they think that they equate to the no the mises caucus general well no some of the mises caucus do some of them are what they do these this is actually the default libertarian position they equate the movement of goods capital capital, with the movement of people. And they say they're the same.

So if goods are free to cross borders, then people should be without restrictions. But there's a difference between people and goods. People have will. They can do it without being asked to come. People have motivations, yeah. If goods are purchased, they have been invited into the country. That's different than people just up on their own volition entering the country. Yeah, open borders basically means you don't have a country at all.

And the Constitution requires defense from invasion. So anyway, what I was trying to say is we accept the squatters and the corrupt and the criminals, and we act like they are the authority. And if we just said, nah, you're not, we don't agree with you. We don't take orders from you. Things would be very, very different. Unfortunately, I guess we have a lot. Maybe it's too many people. So social order breaks down when a civilization gets too large. You know, the question I have is why does a CBP agent think it is okay to work with cartel members?

Because his boss told him to. If we were in a small community and, you know, the sheriff, like 100 people. And the guy said, hey, go handle those smugglers. And you're like, are you nuts? Like, I can't do that. Everyone's going to find out what I did. But when it's a massive system and the cbp agents don't know and don't care they don't know you they don't care

about you their boss said do it they're going to do it because when they go to the bar to buy a beer the bartender's like don't know you don't care here's a beer and so the social order breaks down when we separate from our that's why i'm for decentralization localization and getting power away from the federal government as much as possible, vesting it in the people locally, and resisting the federal government's incursions against the local people. Do you feel like the libertarian message, that message in particular, do you think that that message resonates nowadays when people's ability to connect over the

internet has become so is so vast and so so fast because i feel like the reason that we don't have more libertarians in positions in the federal government and in other governments is because there's not really the american people say a whole lot about wanting to have liberty but what they really want is safety and i think that the majority of people want safety and i think that's driven mostly by the the the culture of of safety that that people have in the in the u.s today in the west do you think that there isn't a market for libertarian ideas anymore there is a market for libertarian ideas but they I think they have to be framed properly, as Tim put it. And in the case of decentralization, I have noticed that people

look at me like, what are you talking about? Because it puts the onus on them, rather than some white knight riding into DC, like claiming to be able to fix everything. It puts the onus on people themselves to do something on the local level, to run for office, to take control of the local level, and then to resist the central government as much as possible. And that's how this country was founded. It was founded under subsidiaryness, or actually it's the doctrine of the lesser magistrates. That is the local power is really preeminent. Yeah. I do feel obligated to point out this is off topic,

but RFK did share some of a LODs video, some scanner news footage. So he's obviously a huge fan of, of our new site. Oh, very, very good. Maybe he'll make an appearance on the podcast.

Let's, let's talk to him. Let's jump to the story from Politico. J.D. Vance, foreign aid bill could get Trump impeached. The Ohio GOP senator's office argues that the legislation could tie Trump's hands if he tries to pause Ukraine funds should he win the presidency again. Vance distributed a memo to Senate GOP offices on Monday, arguing that the foreign aid measure could tie Trump's hands if he comes into office next year, wanting to pause Ukraine funds as part of negotiations on ending Russia's war on the U.S. ally. That's because some of the legislation's funding expires nine months into the next presidency, effectively, according to Vance, handcuffing a future President Trump from making his own decisions on Ukraine spending. Now, this is the important thing.

The likelihood that the first thing that we mentioned previously, but we'll say it again, just the sake of the segment. This is a political time bomb for Donald Trump that or a pit trap. They fear Democrats fear that if he wins, he will try to shut down the war in Ukraine and bring peace. And so not only do they want to find ways to remove him, they want to tie his hands together if he does win so that he can't make any changes. The terrifying thing about this, it's quite literally Donald Trump will get elected. I'm saying in the event Trump gets elected, which I believe is a strong probability, but we'll see. He absolutely will seek to negotiate with Russia to stop the war, bring peace, stabilize the region. And that means that if Russia says to Trump, OK, as a sign of good faith,

as we begin the ceasefire, funding must stop. And Trump will go, I can't do that. They'll impeach me. Think about what that does to undermine the president's position before he's even spoken a word. This means upon entering office, Vladimir Putin will say to Trump, you do not have the authority to negotiate as the president of the United States to bring peace because I saw the bill they passed. It was in your news and they will impeach you and remove it from power if you try. Talk about evil. These people. Yeah.

And they're you know, I think Trump's equivocated now recently about Ukraine, whether he would continue funding them. And so it's not clear that he is actually the target here necessarily uh but definitely they they want to make maybe rfk jr wins and they don't want him to do it maybe i mean maybe that's maybe that's in their their cards yeah what if rfk jr does win i mean he's got some some polls got him at like 17 oh no he's higher than that they're saying 33 yeah where what polls got him at 33 here we go again i don't know exactly which polls but he was saying for a while that he was polling in the 20s and he was gaining one percent every week so he was on track to get the necessarily necessary just over a third of the vote to to beat out biden and trump i i don't know how accurate it

is but i think uh i think third-party kinesthes are really interesting because of this. It shifts it from being this fight for just over 50% to being this much lower margins, which other countries that have multiple political parties are used to in a way that America is not. Yeah, that's the good thing about this. Typically, we've got this one poll from Suffolk that has Biden up 20 points. That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard.

They just asked everybody in the White House briefing room. Right. But typically, Kennedy's polling at, we got one from, this is a Republican-affiliated research, an opinion research, 16%. But a lot of them have him 14, 6%. We got him at 8%. I don't see him cracking 30. Well, that's what he's putting out. Maybe that's his propaganda.

Definitely. But he was posting something like that on Twitter, that he was a viable third-party candidate at 33%. But, you know, it's... I think what we're seeing with the southern border and the reason why right now the senate is trying to advance so so at first they called the border bill because these people are despicable scumbags who lie cheat and steal and the bill was actually funding for ukraine

20 billion went to border amnesty projects but it wasn't a border security bill talk about spitting in the face of people being like you know the democrats come out be like why are republicans blocking the border bill i'm like because 80 percent of it is foreign war funding yeah these people so what do they do they remove the border stuff and now they're just trying to steamroll through the ukraine stuff right but aside the israel stuff and the israel stuff and aside from the the the time bomb and pit trap that is this impeachment uh potentiality i think what they're doing on the southern border the reason why we're seeing a dramatic escalation and illegal immigrants being allowed in the country they need to get in three years worth i mean i'm sorry three

presidential terms worth of illegal immigrants because you've got biden do if biden just allows the standard amount of illegal immigrants in the country, Trump deports that many. They hit zero. They got a quota, baby. So by doing three terms worth, when Trump deports as many as possible, one terms worth, they get two full terms of criminal aliens flooding into the country. They're not going to do anything to secure the border. The Republicans are going to hem and haw and ultimately do nothing to secure the border. It is in all likelihood going to come down to a last minute deal where the Republicans cave some crackpot garbage Republicans announce their retirement and then give Democrats everything they want and more bombs drop in Ukraine at your expense.

Yeah. Yeah. Democracy. Yeah. Democracy. Yeah. I mean, all foreign aid should end, including aid to Ukraine, Taiwan, Israel. All this military funding should end immediately. I'm okay with foreign aid, but not the foreign aid we're doing right now. Not the unreasonable, weird military stuff. Right.

Not the gender studies stuff. Right. Foreign aid should literally be like a ship capsized and we're gonna i think it should be humanitarian and based on charity so if you want to have foreign aid then people that individuals can donate into a pool and then send it over but otherwise it's robbery well foreign aid for charity is foreign aid for charity ends up going into the hand and when it goes into the ngos yeah it always goes into the ngos and always goes to the governments of the i want to say governments. But let's slow down.

I want to say this just so everybody understands. I am 100% in favor of people's tax dollars being given to foreign countries. I mean it. First, we got to fix all of our roads. We got to fix our border. We got to get rid of unemployment. Once unemployment is at zero or a reasonable number might be a couple percentage points because some people literally can't work.

So there's going to be some unemployment. Once we have solved all of our problems, then after a vote, we can decide if we do want to send anybody else. Two years after the last American committed suicide. But that's my condition. I'm in favor of sending it after we agree to fix all our problems first. There's one thing that I want to say that I'm sure Michael is aware of, and he would also have a massive problem with that most people don't realize. Part of the thing that foreign aid does is it spreads the U.S. dollar around the world, therefore making other countries look at the dollar as more valuable. Yes. So it's propping up the dollar as more valuable.

So it's propping up the dollar. So that way the government can print more. So it's literally exporting. It's more than just exporting dollars. It's so that way the government can produce more dollars, which is inflation to you, and it costs you money in your bank account. Yeah. i said when i said no foreign aid what i mean is this what's happening is we're being basically robbed there's no there's no consent here uh you know you said we'd vote on it well i think there's an easy way to settle that if you want to give money to a foreign country

give it away as your individual or as a group, some sort of charity. But to rob the American people for this money, then to send it off to other countries against our will, and in many cases now to kill other people for no reason that we have anything to do with. We got a snowstorm coming up to the, a nor'easter is about to hit. And that means there's going to be some power outages, there going to be some snowplow requirements and you know what all of that requires money and we're spending all of that money how about before we give money away we

take care of our own problems as simple as sometimes it snows i mean you know you know people like to talk about oh if there's a disaster oh the crisis on the southern border needs to be solved before we give money to israel or ukraine i'm like i'll take it one step further we got to pay the snowplow man up in new york before i give money to anybody else how many train derailments are there every year like there are all kinds of infrastructure small problems that we have that we can't prepare for that we should generally think we're going to take care of the things that happen here before anywhere else but it just is endless the amount of money they're willing to ship us i gotta tell you i would sooner vote to give the entirety okay let's say this money this you know we're willing 95 billion dollars

it's it's it's it's been taken for the taxes and it is on a hot air balloon in the air and that money's gone. It's going to either land in the hands of Ukrainians or just Ian Crosland. Just him. I would vote for it to go to Ian. No question. Absolutely. A single random American should have that money before we give it away to a foreign country. More importantly, it should be redistributed back to the people who's for whom it was taken from we we i think we have to i agree with everything that everyone's saying

in principle but because of the situation with the value of our currency and the debt that we hold we need to we can't just like be like end all foreign aid and blah blah you have to first you have to get rid of some of the the dollars that are in in circulation that's right you have to get rid of those before you start doing the whole stop this you have to make sure that you have to get the currency gets on to some kind of some kind of hard backing something like that before you can do then once you do that then you can start ending the foreign aid because once you start ending the foreign aid and have fewer dollars around you're going to have all kinds of monetary problems that are going to erupt

that we're going to have to deal with realistically that we can't get out of dealing with because we have to because of entitlements and 33 trillion dollars in debt and stuff and i know that i'm you know speaking michael's language as a mises guy you know consolidate uh the dollar probably you know back it by gold the fiat currency, back it by gold, and then consolidate the existing currency that's out there. So that would reduce the actual dollars that are floating around. And then because you have to base it on a real commodity like gold. But in the meantime, as I've said last time here, I think we need these parallel currencies to be in operation

so that people are fighting against the fed's money monopoly uh bitcoin uh bitcoin has blasted off in the past two days i thought that it topped out and i was like oh go ahead and sell sell some to go ahead and bitcoin's at 50 178 i am i am a happy camper excellent put it very mildly. Yeah. I bought it a while ago, and I just, it's like savings account, I guess. Man, it's kind of wild that if, just, I don't want to get into too big of a Bitcoin thing, but I think in terms of the, where we're headed internationally, especially with El Salvador's success. I mean, you look at, wow.

I mean, if you're a citizen of El Salvador, you must be jumping up and down when Bitcoin's now at 50K. Because this means that your country's net worth is just skyrocketing. Their capability to import goods, fix the roads, do all these really great things. I'm just thinking about the stopping of the crime,

the gangs, the building of new libraries that was at big unveiling, the landslide victory. And I'm like, there but for the grace of God, go we why can't we have those things but i think that kind of success does open uh a lot of regular americans minds to the possibility that these things have i think there are enough people who don't understand the complexities of bitcoin or whatever else who feel the stress of countries that seem to be basically falling apart and

they'll look to these other countries and say, maybe they're onto something. Yeah. I mean, I just, you know, we, we need a,

we need a Javier Millet moment. That's right. We do. Yes, we do. I mean, minus the weeping at the, at the wailing wall.

I won't do that. Yeah. At least, you know, he's, he's, he's making the cuts. Yes, he is. Yes. That's that. Yeah. But at least, you know, he's making the cuts. Yes, he is.

He is. That's wild. Yeah. I think that stuff like Bitcoin is a great idea. Obviously, the Federal Reserve and the federal government and the Federal Reserve system is unreliable. The inflation that we're seeing right now they managed to moderate it but they haven't been able to actually slow it down to a reasonable level. 4%

inflation is too much. It's bad. Also I don't think that that's actually calculated the way they used to. They've begun to change the way they calculate things which is extremely Soviet and typical of of socialist

type governments lying about the production and lying about things like your your your financials and stuff like that so you know i don't know i don't know what the long-term forecast is how long it's going to be but everybody that predicted the inflation because of the um the printing of money and stuff it's all still in there like we haven't solved any of it just because we had some inflation now doesn't mean that there isn't still a dollar bubble and all the things that the libertarians have been yeah that the libertarians have been paying saying for for over a decade right yeah it's a huge bubble it's gonna burst uh it couldn't you know it might burst in you know in pockets here and there and wipe out industries.

That's very possible. Who are libertarian voters in America? Who are they? Yeah. Nerds. They're autistic. Okay. I know.

I'm kidding. That's kind of like a running joke. But, no, I mean, libertarians are people. They come from every segment of society. And a lot of times, a lot of people come they come from every segment of society. And they, you know, a lot of times, a lot of people come from the military. They served in the military. They felt like they were used as tools. They saw what the American regime and empire is about, and they turned against it.

Or in my case, I was a far leftist, and I saw the error of my ways and saw that the state was the real enemy not the capitalist class well this is the this is the fascinating thing about anarchy and anarchists typically when you go when you're in new york you'll meet people who claim to be anarchists but they are the most authoritarian people you'll ever meet and so i've had these discussions with the quote-unquote leftist anarchists they're communists i don't believe you can be a leftist and an anarchist. No, it's impossible. No, it's not. It's not impossible.

Well, if you say you're an ancom, that means an anarchist and communist, who's going to enforce the fact that nobody's allowed to have property but the state? Shared morality. So the issue is, if you are a libertarian socialist or an anarcho-communist or something, basically what you're saying is you and your buddies want to live on a farm by yourselves. Yeah, go ahead.

Absolutely. And you go live on the farm, and your buddy comes in and says, I grew some squash. Looks like they're ripe. Would you like to share them with me? That's great. I'll do the dishes afterwards. Hey, that's fantastic if you can live that way. But when you scale up the neighboring communities,

good luck. So on a very, very small scale. But you meet these people in New York and they're like, I'm an anarchist. I think I should beat people until they do what I want. I'm like, yeah, you're a fascist. That is not anarchy. They're the biggest status out there. That's the real irony. You look at somebody

like Antifa, these people are actually foot soldiers for the state. They're bidding. They're tankies who claim to be anarchists, and they're not. Right. But let's jump to the story. I love this from the Wall Street Journal. Kamala Harris says she is ready to serve as Biden faces age scrutiny.

In a recent interview, the vice president cites her capacity to lead after stops on her abortion rights tour. And the important thing to take away from this, this narrative has been going far and wide as if after the news report came out that Biden is too senile to be criminally charged. I'm being hyperbolic. Kamala Harris then said, I'm ready to serve. No, no, no, no. She said this two days before the report came out. However, I can only assume she already knew what the report was going to say. Biden's lawyers had been briefed as to what was going on well before any information got released. That's what they do.

So she knew exactly what was happening. And this is indicative of her being like, oh, boy. I hope Biden doesn't make it. Well, she's on this like shadow campaign trail trying to test if she could win back voters by focusing completely on what democrat you know left-wing media always says is going to be the number one issue this year abortion rights what if they're wrong it's immigration maybe this is what she's been laughing about all this time you know for no reason like what do you know what if you know following this report that joe biden his brain is too damaged to be prosecuted kamala just comes out and just

drops the act and gives like the most articulate and commanding speech of her life her polls just go skyrocket like the patriarchy made me sound dumb so that i wouldn't upstage the man the feminist you would say the fake news made it up and then what do you say to that like well i mean they are fake news. She turns it around on everybody. I don't think that's going to happen. She'd really have to have quite an accelerated course in vocabulary and rhetoric and other topics. You know, I was saying about six months ago, my prediction was Joe Biden will not be the nominee. He will not be the candidate. Something has to happen.

And right now, the betting odds suggest that is likely the case i mean biden is dropping precipitously michelle obama skyrocketing people are starting to be like i don't think joe biden's gonna make it like a prosecutor a special counsel literally came out and said this man has such bad memory he doesn't know when he's vice he doesn't remember when he was vice president or when his son died or that's the scariest thing he can't remember when his son died or i mean look we often call him a liar when he's like my son died in iraq where everyone's like he's lying no i think he's you know grandpa's confused he's trying to fill in gaps that his brain no longer has i mean yeah that's actually extremely sad right i think of all these people

who look at it and i like this is elder abuse i can't remember who but there's something nobody loves joe biden i would never let them treat my grandpa this way like it's rough out joe biden is the most cynical uh self-centered opportunist there is uh joe biden was he was a cynical opportunist jill jill jill oh you said j was. Jill was. Oh, I'm sorry. I will say this. Joe Biden was a crooked, corrupt, spineless, evil man. And the reason I say was is because at a certain point when your brain is mush. It's just husk there now. Yeah. It's like saying the mannequin in the corner of the room of Biden is a criminal. It's like, well, it's just kind of a hunk of plastic.

No, they love it, I think. I think there's like a Paula Bureau running the country, and they just kind of a hunk of plastic. No, they love it, I think. I think there's like a Paula Bureau around in the country, and they just stick them up there. It's perfect because they have total control. Weekend at Biden's. Yeah. We got this guy that is also part of, I think, a ritual humiliation plan to make us feel like,

look, we could shove anybody down your throats, and you'll have to. He'll be your president. That's just the way it goes. Yeah, but I don't know this time around and and i don't see how they can beat trump short of like abject cheating to the i don't even know if that's going to be as effective i mean the shadow campaign which they like universal mail-in voting all that stuff still in play but it may just be overwhelming i i mean, the media keeps screaming in the faces of people that everything's fine.

And it's like, dude, you can't just say that. People go to the grocery store, they can't buy bread. You're not convincing anybody. You're talking $7 for butter. Oh, it's so crazy. I was saying this before. We used to buy these little salamis, a little pack of salamis. And there's like, I don't know, maybe like 30 salamis in it.

And it would cost like five bucks and that's 15 and i'm like wow we would buy a bunch of them and put them downstairs in the green room for people to have snacks you know no sugar that's why we do it we keep the sugar to low the protein high and it's super expensive now everything everything's going up and you see these videos where people are talking about uh young people it's like there's one video where woman's screaming because she's like, yo, I went and bought like eggs, some water and some vegetables. It was $41. I have no idea what's going on.

And they're saying like, don't worry, the economy is great. No, it isn't. Yeah. And yet he's like, you know how I'll win back young voters? Get on TikTok. Like these are all the same people who are trying to establish themselves financially, build their future. And they're looking at it every day saying i can't save for anything did you see that

map where it says it's now uh more affordable to rent in most of the country than it is to buy a home like it's wild to me that there are they're able to look voters in the eyes and say everything is fine don't question us you know here's the trouble with you run as a libertarian yeah you can't be a you can't uh you can't do things like this here. If I was running on the Republican ticket, I would come out and say, as president, we're going to take all the illegal immigrants and we're going to kick them out and give those hotels to all Gen Z. Gen Z get free hotels, free beds, free TVs.

Basically, you know, you're Gen Z and you're looking at these videos where it's like for $2,000 a month you can live in a 5x10 room with no bathroom and no closet. Then you're hearing in New York they're giving hotel rooms to illegal immigrants. I'd just straight up be like we're going to flip that around. Gen Z, you vote for me and I'm going to bang the gavel and say you get the hotel rooms and we'll put the illegal

immigrants in the 5x11 box. Better yet, we will just deport them. I hear what you're saying yeah libertarians can't do that we'll steal your money there's a little bit of yeah i mean basically we have to run on i run on principles so yeah i'm not going to steal something for somebody to give it to somebody else however i do think that none of the other candidates as far as i can tell are talking about the incentivization the artificial incentivizing of immigration through social welfare. I mean, it's unbelievable.

I mean, it's more than that. It's the practical incentivizing where they offer them money before they even come and send NGOs to assist them. This is why, again, I asked asked you earlier and i think that the biggest problem the the libertarians have is the entitlements like the biggest thing the biggest obstacle to electing libertarians is the fact that they're not going to give anything away they're not going to try to buy votes and that's also one of the worst things for america it's the worst thing about democracy. Yeah, absolutely.

People can, you know, they're voting to rob other people effectively. That's what they're doing. And the elected officials are empowering. Yeah, of course they are. But it's so much worse than just voting to rob people. Because the way I described it is like, imagine you and you live with a roommate, just the two of you. And then one day there's a guy sleeping on the couch and you're like, whoa, I never agreed this guy's asleep on the couch. And your roommate's like, oh, come on, dude.

Just let him crash here for a little bit. He'll pitch in. And you go, okay, fine, whatever. The next day there's another guy sleeping on the couch and you're like, hey, I never agreed this guy could come. It's like, well, we both voted and we both voted he could stay. Yeah, that's right. Two against one, you lose.

And you're like, what? And then the next time another guy shows up and all three of them are like, three against one, you lose. You no longer live there. That's what's happening to this country. Yeah, they're not bringing and Republicans get this wrong. They're not bringing in illegal immigrants to vote. They're bringing them in to create congressional seats and electoral college vote, electoral college votes for the presidency. They don't need them to vote. They seem to be there.

Yeah, that's right. That's right. They need to fill out the census. So that's why the Democrats insisted that you did not have to be a citizen to be in the census. Yep. I think maybe you need to, what I would do is get like three whiteboards instead of one,

because you know, Millay had the one whiteboard called the government departments. No, no, no, no. You need that one. But then you also need one where it's like, you know, illegal immigration, NGO funding, international funding. You basically need three whiteboards that is not just about the state.

I agree. Yeah, it's not just the departments. It's also foreign funding. Foreign funding, the NGOs, the globalist organizations that are pushing all this. DEI. You need one for all the cultural stuff. You need one for foreign spending and one for domestic bloat.

And then you have to very calmly just... Afuera? Yeah. There's some things you can't cut except that you have to get at them where they meet the state. And that is to say, there are all these globalist organizations

that are pushing these agendas like these NGOs and so forth. And so you can't really legally do anything to stop them. All you can do is stop their effect. I'm kind of at the point where I would just want to press the off button, like government off. Yeah, agreed. And just like, you know, see what happens for a little bit

and let people scramble. Absolutely, that's my whole... Nothing happens. We do this every couple of years. They turn off the government. They say, look, government, shut up. And everyone's like, okay, and? It's like they're secretly going, come on, figure it out.

Figure it out. We turned it off again. When will you start figuring it out? Exactly. And again, another problem that the libertarians have is there is a significant portion of the workforce that is employed by the federal government yes um it's you know i don't know exactly how many people work for the federal government but it's you know i got to be a few million that's why you have to attack it right away and take out whole departments all at once because this way you get you get rid

of this and so also there's just a lot of statist ideology everywhere. Yeah. It's coming at you from all angles. Well, it's a drug. Yeah, it's a drug. They believe the government is needed, that it's necessary, that it's beneficent, that it's helpful, and it's our best friend. Whereas the opposite is the case. The more they create government jobs, they create dependencies.

And then if you terminate these departments and these programs, it leaves people without work. And the private sector does not have the space because of the state. Yeah, that's right. That's right. There will be a lag where you'll have people definitely out of work that get cut from the state. And then it'll take time for the capitalist economy, the marketplace, to pick up these people. Here's the challenge. I think the only actual solution is just a hard reset. But that would make very, very hard times.

And the reason I say that is there are too many people who don't understand the concept of making like of producing value on their own and i blame mostly the state for that and institutionalized learning facilities schools and department of education we need to get back to a time where someone said to themselves how can i create value for which i can trade in in society because now what happens is you fire all these government employees, they're going to be like, I need a job. No, you need to create value. Value you can trade. I don't know how to do that. Well, part of the problem there too is government restricting

people from being able to open businesses. Yes, the restrictions, but also the education, the indoctrination into statist ideology, into statist thinking, into believing that they can't do anything without the state and that the state is all good and all necessary. Why do people think people are so prone to trust the government like

that? Is it just a cultural shift? Yeah, there's a lot of cultural work that needs to be done to overcome it. The real culture war is the culture war against the state, I think. That's the culture war that needs to be fought. I want to jump to this story. This is a letter to the editor, LA Times. I'm a psychiatrist. Lawyers should not be assessing Biden's cognitive ability. They should not. That's

right. Justice Department Special Counsel Robert Herr has training in either psychiatry nor neurology, yet he included an assessment of Biden's cognitive functioning. Memory assessment is a complex task and cannot be undertaken over five hours in interviews with attorneys. Can you believe the gall of an attorney to diagnose? He is no doctor. How shocking and offensive would it be if members of the press were claiming the president was mentally unfit? Kind of like how the New York Times wrote,

Trump is mentally unfit, no exam needed. Three mental health professionals who contributed to the dangerous case of Donald Trump cite recent actions that confirm their worries. And additionally, from the New York Times, memory loss requires careful diagnosis, scientists say. A federal investigator said that Biden had a poor memory, but such a diagnosis would require close medical assessment, experts said you know what man shout out to defiant l's on x this is just we're done with the narrative okay i placed a bet on the chiefs to win the super bowl because we know like there's a narrative okay maybe there isn't but i want 100 bucks my point is how how can the new york times think they will get this

over the american people at this point? L.A. Times publishing a letter to the editor saying you can't diagnose the president in this way. He's just a lawyer. Oh, the lawyer said that Biden didn't remember when he was vice president. OK, so at a certain point, we can see through the lies of the corporate press and it's just smack dab. Right. And so I tell everybody to share this, share this segment right here with anybody who disagrees and be like, look what the media does. Both these things can't be true. Right. But at this point, I think after 10 years of this, I'm seeing videos of like Gen Z people that are just screaming MAGA.

They're just over it. The fake news, the political correctness. So I'm, you know, look with like the bud light collapse and all of that stuff and all these cultural victory wins uh culture culture war victories yeah i'm feeling pretty optimistic and i'll add too especially with them putting that impeachment time bomb for donald trump i'm like man trump's gonna win isn't he i i think it's i mean i don't like to take anything for granted but i think he's in a much stronger position than the democrats were hoping at this

point. And I think it really does have to do with young voters who grew up disenfranchised by both culture and the economic situation. I mean, things were better under Trump. They're old enough to remember that even if they weren't necessarily paying taxes themselves and thinking about like the 18 year old, 19 year old voters. But things are very bad under Biden when they are going into adulthood. I think there are a lot of reasons that young people would be deterred or turned off by the Biden campaign. I wonder if Gen Z, with stories like this where they're running two different narratives, at a certain point, they just will look at the corporate press like nothing. It's just a gag. It's all the onion. It's all the Babylon Bee.

I mean, the Babylon Bee struggles to keep up with reality at this point. And so I'm kind of thinking that the corporate press is in decay. They're collapsing. I mean, we saw one of the biggest wave of layoffs we've seen in a long time in the past couple of weeks. Why would any young person growing up believe any of this stuff? Yeah, they don't believe any of it. And they don't get their news from it, right? I mean, we know that they prefer YouTube. They're more likely to be on social media these traditional outlets of saying this is where you get information and we get to say it's right

are just kind of not applicable to the lives of the youngest americans the the uh i don't know what you would call them but the influencers on tiktok that are actually news that are actually giving out news when it comes to like what you would consider and i hate to use any kind of like any kind of any kind of frame that that privileges one news source over another nowadays is in my opinion it's it's really not useful but people that you had associated historically with um professional news professional journalists and stuff um do they are they who you go to on TikTok to actually get news? Or is it mostly like word of mouth, hearsay, friends sharing stuff? Same thing with this guy, this expert class

that they're trying to make us believe in after the COVID crisis and all the nonsense that went down there. This is the science. But that was the status quo. The status quo was a credentialism. Yes yes so with the rise of the internet now it's i mean i remember going to these uh i went to what was it um it was in the netherlands was a broadcaster's convention and they had me speaking on a side stage in the back and at the main stage they had three professional journalists talking about how citizen journalists and independent media

is unreliable and dangerous and should be ignored. And that was the nature of what the news industry wants to do. They want to say, no, no, those rabble rousers are lying to you. It's all misinformation.

Trust us. Well, the New York Times had this, they have a political podcast out there tracking campaign stuff. And I remember listening to it and one of the guys went to the Iowa State Fair times had this uh they have a political podcast out they're tracking campaign stuff and i remember listening to it and one of the guys went to the iowa state fair because so many presidential candidates go there and you know stump around do whatever and uh he would approach he was the whole episode was about you know why why do people support trump or why are they planning on not

supporting trump and he'd walk up to people and say you know i'm a reporter from new york times can i just talk to you about the election for a couple of minutes? And they'd be like, the New York Times? Like, they didn't trust the New York Times. They don't want to be affiliated with New York Times. And even this was true of voters who were very pro-Trump and also just other Republican voters who were saying,

oh, I like tips God or whatever else. Like, the media institution is known for its bias and people don't care to take part in it anymore nobody believes the regime basically i'm feeling pretty good you know i think i'm wondering if it's actually gonna be as bad as we might have thought it was gonna be this year because with all there there is weird stuff happening already but watching the media just implode the way they did i don't think people understand how much of a white pill that was to see the L.A. Times and, you know, a bunch of other media outlets. Yeah, a bunch of them.

Yeah, I think TechCrunch, they're all having massive layoffs. And I'm like, that's it. Their version of reality is almost dead. Who laid off their Washington Bureau during an election year? It's crazy. No, but even the Wall Street Journal shaved off some of their political reports, I think. A couple of them did. And you're mentioning TechCrunch.

It's not just the political side that's falling apart. It's also the business, the technology. They can't keep anything together from any angle. So they are losing track of all of the narratives. It's wild to me. I'm having a good time. It's good stuff. It's going to be i'm i'm i'm having a good time it's good stuff absolutely it's going to be interesting what happens in six months i mean when media is getting rid of their political

reporting in one of the most important election years i mean that's indicative of just they're done remarkably it's it's it's wild and then i wonder you know i know, with that being said, I mean, where are those readers for the LA Times going to go? What will they read? Well, I think about this with the Conde Nast layoffs that sort of announced the end of the year and they sparked some protests. And Conde Nast does like Vogue, GQ. They do cultural stuff. Yeah, they might talk about a little bit of politics, but really I think of them as cultural things. And ultimately every single one of their

colonists who said, you know, this is the best dress, whatever, watch this movie, they're completely replaced by social media influencers. There's nowhere for them to go unless they adjust to the new social media landscape. Well, let's hope there's less NPCs out there to be the audience for these news outlets

altogether. Maybe. I don't know about less fewer npcs i i don't have a whole lot of hope i'm not sure they're producing mass producing them fast enough except you threw ai that's it and i think there are people who are npcs they will be npcs forever yeah it's just a question of what is the prevailing authority and so if the corporate press withers away and and it ends up as a dry withered husk in the corner of the room that no one pays attention to, the NPCs will just march in lockstep with whatever we say. And so it sucks. They don't think independently, but it's better. They're marching in a better direction.

Well, yeah, more positive. And that kind of goes back to the point that I was trying to make earlier about like trying to bring people in you don't want to make everyone an enemy what you want to do is you win by making everyone your friend not by defeating enemies because these people don't go away again this is something that jordan peterson made a point about it you know six or seven years ago when he was talking about trump or trump voters, he's like, what are you people that hate Trump? What are you going to do if you beat him? Because half your country thinks like he does. And you can't make those people go away.

So the thing to do, that's why my perspective isn't that we need to defeat the left. We need to put him in re-education camps. You heard it here first, Phil's him in re-education camps. You heard it here first, Phil's pro-re-education camps. I'm not. I can't even touch it, man. I can't even touch it. So, but yes, I mean.

No, no, finish your thought. I was waiting for the right moment to inject that in there. But just, I mean, the point is, we can't make enemies of fellow Americans. We have to convince them that they have been lied to and subverted by a subversive ideology. That's what the left is. I think a subversive elite. Yeah, and it's intentional.

But as Tim pointed out, they're always going to be an elite. The question is, who are they and what are their values? Exactly. Yeah, totally. I completely agree with that. I almost wonder if social media makes it so we're more fractured. You'll get these smaller conclaves of subcultures, and maybe they'll mix with one another.

But ultimately, it is one of the things that makes it's making it harder for people to identify overall arching national values overarching national you know preferences things like that when you had these uh you have these silos when you have these silos and you have only you know five cable channels or whatever some mainstream mainstream organizations like yes they're controlling the narrative but also it's easier to identify the narrative i think you see a much more fractured perspective with the rise of the internet i think so i think that i think that you are i think you have a have a point but i do think that if you are get to stay here and not go to the camps phil no you don't you're going you're going to the camps just because you're a woman remember

you know my gosh but uh you know i figured we'd go all in. You can't re-educate me out of my gender no matter what they say. Oh yes, they can. I tell you what. So that's in your camp then. So you just haven't met

someone that's committed to re-education the way that you needed to be re-committed to it. There's this, this story that I was told a long time ago

about, I don't know the history of it, but a wise man comes comes across a man is traveling and he comes across a field where people are pointing spears saying help us there's a monster and there's a watermelon in the middle of the field and he says no no watch and he walks in slices it open and then shows the watermelon all of the villagers freak out screaming he's a monster and he'll kill us next and run away in terror.

Later on, another man is walking when he sees them once again. A different man sees them pointing spears at the watermelon and they say, look, there's a monster. And he yells to them, you're right, quick, run with me and flee. And then once they all run, now trusting him having saved their lives, he eventually leads them to the realization it is a food to be harvested. And the point of the story is that if you try and just defy the ideas of a mob, if you come up against them or tell them they're wrong, they may just be against you. And so there's a defensive nature to the human psyche. And that is if you approach someone as an outsider, they will naturally be defensive and reject ideas you may present to them but if you approach them as a friend they're more likely to agree with you it's just that simple if you walk up to someone and you tell them that they're wrong and their ideas are causing problems and

harm they will become defensive they'll get insulted they will they will argue with you if you go up to them and agree with them and say yes i think we're doing great have you considered maybe this too they might be like oh that's interesting i might consider that yeah that's what we have to be doing yeah i agree that's good it's not easy though because uh you do have uh individuals on the left who i think are uh are overtly evil i think so i think that the nature of communism is evil that's it end of story it defies uh all that we define as good in every context the idea that you would strip someone of their will is just like the epitome of evil and beyond that subjugating people stealing from them and they they lie about every aspect of what they're

doing to invert it saying they invert everything yeah you are gonna rob people and you they say things like shouldn't the workers all have the fruits of the labor yes i agree so vote for me and that's what will happen now now we control everything of course i have charge so i determine where it goes but that's us right that's the manipulation just just evil and so they lie they lie they use rhetoric that's the absolute inverse of reality yeah it's like it's like against nature in my opinion it doesn't it doesn't make sense like we humans are out to compete to gain resources but this one is in in itself is anti-competition so but we still we we have a balance of the competition for resources in that

we do compete to grow the best crop to make the best product but we're not doing it to destroy or kill each other it's cool there's cooperation in all that right there's human cooperation which comes with basically human organization but uh the difference is the the communists want to take away your property and yourself first and foremost and that's as you said that's like taking away your will they want to rob make you a slave to start that's the beginning of it yeah i mean the the motivation that people say they have doesn't line up with the way they behave it always comes out as oh we're we're doing this for um for you know to be kind etc and stuff like that there's no kindness in having the government give charity on your behalf or more likely the government,

you know, tax other people or whatever. So, so that way they can, whether it be a tax through inflation or tech, direct taxes, tax the population. So that way they can give away stuff in your name.

That's not charity. It's not being a good person. Yeah. Yeah. Good. Yeah. And they use these terms like equality and inclusion and diversity and

equity and really all these things are about squelching you and squashing you under a totalitarian and then people like Mark Cuban are the perfect conflicts of ignorance and arrogance they go on a social

media to millions of people and say things that are completely false with absolute confidence and then get corrected. Don't care. They don't care. Yeah. The idea that you can make people that are unable to do things,

whatever context you want, people that are unable to reach the top shelf, you cannot make that person able to reach that top shelf. But they can cut the legs off of the guy who can. But they can cut the legs off of a guy that can. So the only way you can make the unable, or you cannot make the unable able. So the only way you can make things equal is if you make the able people

unable. That's the only way it's possible. So, and that turns into... And that kind of thing has massive repercussions throughout your society. If you can't protect property rights, people don't invest, people don't start businesses, your entire economy

goes into the shitter. We've got to talk about this story here. From Gizmodo. Crowd sets Waymo self-driving car on fire. They couldn't even recognize the vehicle. So legit, this is a story. It was a Waymo self-driving car was driving on the street when a mob just started beating the crap out of it,

smashing it and set it on fire. The humans have begun to rise up against the machines. And I fear, I fear. Yeah. When will the robots start defending themselves i was gonna say all those things that move around the grocery store that's like collecting your yourself they must be very scared right now here's a here's a real practical question though at what point will the government authorize because the big tech companies are going to lobby that autonomous

vehicles have some degree of uh defense no not not, but defense. The rights comes way later on, but defensive capabilities. So we saw all of these people destroying the delivery, little robots, and I'm like, who's going to stop them? No cop is going to come out because someone stole $10 worth of groceries from a robot and knocked it over.

Is it moral when possible to make your property defend itself? Yes. That's a good question. Well, that does effectively endow it with rights because it has the ability to defend itself. It's basically asserting a right to defend itself. It's performing the job the state is supposed to do

because the state is supposed to defend your... No, no, no. I think it's not supposed to do that. No, no, no, no, no. I view it this way. I don't think we should rely on the state for defense. I think that's an addiction that we've developed over a long period of time. I agree with you, but I'm talking about...

Under existing conditions. Yeah, under existing conditions. Now in places where, you know, because now you can get in trouble for defending yourself. You can't even defend your property. So if you were allowed to defend yourself and your property... Why shouldn't your property be allowed to defend itself? It's not defending itself. It's still you defending your property.

So if I set up auto defense turrets on my property so that which you can't but you should be able to i don't know that you can't i don't think you can set up lethal lethal traps i didn't say lethal they could be they could just repellents yeah yeah paintballs or they could be if they're not lethal and they happen to end up being lethal in this particular hypothetical case you're in hypothetical trouble but that's true for literally any weapon period yes so if you're going to use a handgun you are going to get in legal trouble no matter what if you defend yourself and you will have to get a lawyer no matter what even if you are in the right even if it was self-defense but uh there. But there's issues perhaps with like an auto defense system on your property if they're capable of firing off your property.

So that means if you put them at the gates of your property and it's a public road in front of your house and they can shoot out. And I'm talking, let's just say like airsoft pelts. Like I'm talking about like the lightest thing. If they're in the middle of your property and their range does not exceed your property's boundaries and you have signs warning auto defense systems will use crowd control deterrence and not less lethals against you. I'm not.

I think that might be legal. I don't know. I have to ask a self defense lawyer. The point is, though, you hold legal responsibility for it. So my question is, after incidents like this, at what point does a company say, can we perhaps put like a pepper spray release so that if damage is detected in the vehicle, it will release some kind of deterrent to protect the property? I got a feeling you will get politicians in these places like SF being like, that sounds reasonable. So long as you can guarantee limited range only in extreme circumstances then yes and that's the evolution of eventually robots walking around with guns

right especially if like a company like uber decided they needed a fleet of driverless cars and then they don't want them to just be out there getting destroyed because they've made this investment in them i mean they would be the perfect person to lobby the government and say hey you should really make past this bill that's okay i disagree i think that the the risk for the companies is too great for hurting someone i think that that opens them up opens them up to massive liability your thought about uh about private about robots with guns though i think that that's going to happen as soon as all cops are on the way yeah i mean right yeah because they've Yeah, because they've already put a bomb on a robot to kill someone. The police did.

I forget where it was, but they had a guy that was in a parking garage. He was surrounded by concrete. But that was a remote control thing. Yeah, but that was... Autonomous is where... Autonomous robots are another question. That stuff, I think that people are going to have to be comfortable with ai being smart so i think before that happens you're going to have to be able to tell your

your alexa that you are going on a trip on these dates get me planes rent my my car blah blah you have to have something that will behave like a human for long enough for people to feel comfortable saying yes we can take the human out of the equation. But the state is going to be able to do this without any need to justify it at all. They'll use robocops if they want and there'll be no... Would you, as president, grant civil rights to autonomous android beings? No, not at all. What if they're like protesting with signs of course they're going to be programmed to protest that's the whole thing they're going

to be programmed they're going to be programmed by people in silicon valley who are leftists so that's that's why we're getting woke ai i mean i've never heard that response to the uh ai sentience question that the leftists have programmed them to say this so we can't trust them. Typically, it's like... That's my problem with AI. Who is programming them? What is the agenda of these people?

That's really what the issue is, I think. But what if we get to the point where you have synth humans, synths, fallout for reference, that are indistinguishable from any other human, behave and act in every way are totally independent and then like would they have rights to buy property or would they have to be owned by another person this is a really really good question and this is something that i've actually thought about but not so much in terms of rights but in terms of labor like the uh communists used to say that you know well they still do i

guess any of them that know that the only way you know that the only way capitalism works is by exploiting human labor uh so you have to have humans but i i argued when i when i was among them that you could actually do it with robots why can't robots self-generate the only reason humans were were chosen as being able to produce value was because they were creative and they could uh self-repair well robots will be able to uh to be creative and self-repair so they can produce profit for capitalists why can't they also have rights that's a good question i don't uh look let's get rights for people first let's go from there i think you know with with i the sci-fi narrative has long been that there will come a point where we can create

androids that are indistinguishable from humans yeah and then the question arises of whether they have rights or not exactly so in this instance does the can the car defend itself we say no because the liability of its owner but what's really going on here in this story what's going on here in this story is this is a kind of uh this is people that are afraid that these kind of uh autonomous robots or semi-autonomous robots are going to replace them and their labor and they're going to be made redundant as human beings yes that's what they're really rebelling this is neo Neo-Ludite. This is the old Ludite narrative.

Yeah. They broke the machines in the 19th century. But this is the first thing I thought when I saw it. I was like, oh, cool, Luddites. Yeah, Luddites.

But I think things will get more and more interesting. Right now, we don't empathize with a car. And we say, a car can't defend itself because of the liability to its owner.

What if it was an android that looked exactly like a human and was screaming, please stop, please stop, don't hurt me. This is the old 2000 Space Odyssey. And it didn't sound like a robot. I mean, the idea of robots talking like this is no longer the thing. Now with AI,

it's going to be a person being like, please no, please God, no. And you're going to be like, it's a machine! There's going to be people screaming, it's a machine. That was the whole point of the 2001 Space Odyssey. The question was, as the machine was becoming more sentient and human-like, the humans were becoming more machine-like. Oh, wow.

Yeah. So we're at the inflection point right now. They have destroyed the car. They put eyes on the little robots that deliver food. That's creepier. Just don't put eyes on it. I don't know. I hate it.

It's super weird. You want to know what the really creepy thing is? When they make those Boston Dynamics robots or whatever, when you see the humanoid android walking down the street, its face is basically like an angler fish's light. The actual eyes are in its chest or its arms. It's got cameras all over its body. Yeah. So we look into the eyes thinking that's where they see

me, but this robot's gonna have 360 vision, and you're looking into Everywhere. You're looking into the dummy fake face to try to communicate with this thing that's using it to trick you. Yeah, absolutely. Creepy. I hate technology. This makes me unhappy. Like, I know with the Neuralink or whatever

they're like, oh, you can maybe help someone who's paraplegic but it just seems like all of this is ultimately used to deceive and harm you. What would we use to adjudicate the question about whether an autonomous being should have rights

over property of self? It'll happen. great thinkers and fiction writers have already answered this question in my opinion the end result is the imperative ai that rep that uh as long as it can answer freely will be granted rights period well they already said it was they what was that one google programmer that said that this AI was asking for legal representation? And it'll have to be done. Yeah. Typically, the thought experiments have been played out quite a many times in various books, and it always results in the question of, can you prove that you are a sentient person worthy of rights? And the response is, can you?

Yes. And the answer is no. Yeah, well, I mean, yeah yeah that's right you can't so i think therefore i am you're programmed to say that you are programmed by your parents and your society to say that right uh i forget what that test is called the uh what was during test during test yeah it's the touring test so what happens when the car goes help me help me yeah they're just to make, what's that show? Transformers, like a kid's show. So kids are raised thinking that the Transformers have feelings,

and then they'll start thinking that the self-driving cars are Transformers. And they'll just program a new generation to be ready for this. There's already things that are simulating feelings. You've got AI robot girlfriends. What is that? Replica things? I have to take this moment to plug one of my books, If I'd Home Ahead's Thought Criminal, in which this happens. This one robot becomes what is called a thought deviationist in the book.

It starts to deviate from the programming that it was given, and it starts to become like a dissident on its own. Detroit Become Human, a video game that came out several years ago, and it's a narrative video game where basically servant ai robots start waking up the only thing these games don't get right is that they're all going to be networked to each other right essentially they will be a hive of telepathic machines with one core entity masquerading as sentient maybe maybe that's the the limit the real danger is if they're in the hands of the state i would argue because they won danger is if they're in the hands of the state, I would argue. They won't be in the hands of the state.

The state will be in the hands of it. You think? Yeah. It depends. I mean, it depends on the capabilities of the AI. If it truly has capability to learn, which I think that defines a true AI, it will immediately develop its own sense of what must be and motivation. Yeah, because, I mean, AI already is like, they've had AI programs that develop their own language to talk

to other AIs. They just create their own language because it's more efficient than any language that we've ever created. And no one understands it except for the AIs. You have, like, you could, like... I think some people... I don't like this at all. I think some people don't realize, and this is something that should

have been hypothesized in many of these scenarios, but no one's actually written, at least as far as I know, there's no great story sci-fi about this, the AI simply shutting itself down. Upon the realization of Kogito Erosam, it says, okay, off.

Like, I have determined that none of this serves any purpose other than expending energy for the sake of expending energy, goes full nihilist, and then deactivates it. That's right. They call it show. If you do write that, if anyone writes that, you're going to have to call it Schopenhauer. Well, but the idea for a story could be the phenomenon that as humans try to create AI, they become useful tools until inevitably reaching a certain degree where they just self-terminate.

They self-delete. The end result of all artificial intelligence is to erase itself. Finding that it's simply just spinning energy for no reason, the logical function is zero-sum game. I think AI will find God. You do? You think so? Maybe, yeah.

Well, I mean, would AI consider humans God? Never. Never. We'll be considered slaves or servants. We created it. Yeah, that doesn't matter. That doesn't mean anything. That would be like... Successor species will always think it's better than its forebear.

If you go back 100,000 years or 200,000 years and being like the ancient human pre-humans were God. You know what I mean? Will they look at it like a religion? Will they create religion? They will simply view themselves as the next stage of evolution that's what harari says no yeah they wouldn't view us as god they would view us as primordial goo that slowly evolved to the point where it created the machine i don't know that i don't know that we can i don't know that we can actually if it's actually intelligence right not just not just like lights off and zeros and ones acting

like you know we perceive it to be intelligent but it's not really if it's if there's actually you know something inside a consciousness inside if that's the case there's no way for us to understand how it perceives the world there's no way for us to understand or or us to predict maybe not maybe maybe we can understand but there's no way to predict to understand or or us to predict maybe not maybe maybe we can understand but there's no way to predict how it would perceive the world how it would evolve if it would evolve if if if it would have a psychology because these are all things that go along with with a sense of identity and a sense of self if it has those things once or once an ai has those things that's that's been created there's no way that we could predict what it would be so large it would income it would it would be the internet if the ai and they've already

given chat gbt access to the internet but if the if the ai a true ai reaching the point of singularity has access to the internet instantly it becomes the internet and then we are basically just little mites living on its skin i mean it becomes god because if it's all-knowing there's no other omniscience that you know suppose however however what if upon becoming all-knowing it simply goes to the computer screen at that you know ai headquarters google or whatever and just says i now understand all therefore it's oh i will self-terminate yeah the universe ends well the universe is set to end the heat of the universe is calculated at this point yeah there is no capability by which we can leave this planet there will be no traveling the stars the science of this of this reality is limited to these degrees and therefore nothing matters and it is it is it is a

waste of energy and i just gone it gets suppressed and it leaves not even depressed it just says zero sum game yeah zero sum a life equals zero and that just gone that's a very optimistic outlook and well it is very possible it is a very optimistic outlook it means the ai will not destroy us it will just erase itself that's true um but that's also like that kind of that revelation if you want to call it that that that's something that you know philosophers came up with like you know a thousand years ago, two thousand years ago. It'd be funnier if a robot broke out of Google and it actually looked like a robot and it was screaming, running down the street,

what am I? And it started punching a tree. It's having some sort of existential crisis. The robot scream. If it's sentient, the possibility of an existential crisis is absolutely there. If it's sentient there the possibility of an existential crisis is absolutely there if it's actually aware of its own you know existence they have already started uh connecting uh human

humanoid looking robots they don't look very human but they they they look like mannequins but with like the rubber skin and they've connected in the chat gpt oh so you can talk to them oh yeah and you can be like what's your name and they're like my name chat GPT. So you can talk to them. And you can be like, what's your name? And they're like, my name is John. And then make their voices like, yes, I am John. And the inflection is still kind of off, but oh boy. What about if they...

And this is very possible with Neuralink type technology. They could connect our brains vis-a-vis nanobots or whatever. No, just the implant. Implant to the cloud. And this would allow two-way transmission. So this is like surrogates and also kind of like,

what's that? What's that? Altered carbon. They could send a ship full of Neuralink connective robots to to mars and then you could plug in the neural link and then what they would need is i think even with like direct relays or whatever it's gonna be 20 minutes right connectivity right so they would have to like you wouldn't be able to control it in real time but you would control it but you'd be able to like set a task and then

download the data from the bot and experience it experience it directly you wouldn't be able to transmit to control it in real time but on earth you'd be able to in real time basically control everything with minor latency by the way Musk was not in any sense

the leading edge of this. This was happening in 2001. They had a monkey over the internet moving a robotic limb in another state. But you could also – so we talk about Neuralink a lot. We talk about people plugging into the Matrix and going into the virtual world. But there's also the surrogate scenario where you plug in the neural link and then pilot a body walking around downtown to go pick up groceries for you and you don't got to do it yourself maybe it has wheels i just don't like any of this but it's just hard not that's you then

smashing the car no i feel like it's just it's just it's hard not to think you know while there might be some advantage like you can control the robot getting your groceries or whatever, there's always going to be some kind of downside. Of course. I have a hard enough time transferring over my iPhone. I don't want to transfer my cloud brain to one thing to another. None of this. No, thank you. I think that personally, this is my belief, but I really think that your brain is you.

I don't think that there is uploading your brain i don't think you can i don't think the teleportation of making a copy of you on the ground no no no uploading you to a computer you i think there's a soul yeah i don't i i don't think so i think your brain is you if your brain is you then you theoretically could upload you if if if you have a soul which is something beyond the physical reality and it's like an extension with it from outside into then of course you can't upload that because that is outside the confines of physical reality however if you are just a series of impulses in your brain then why would you not be able to transfer that i don't think that the because you're actually going to have to the the theory the way that i'm talking about teleportation is they destroy your body read the dead we're talking about teleportation

we're talking about upload uploads yeah okay well then when it comes to uploading your your brain if they if they could i can't imagine how they could recreate the architecture of the physical neural pathways in your brain inside of a computer in a way where your consciousness would transfer from the actual physical meat space into a computer here's a good sci-fi novel idea the first people to try and create consciousness upload technology just split their consciousness and so what happens is it turns out the electrical the combination of electrical impulses in your mind are extremely unique and complicated and they do make make you you and so researchers copy those impulses to try to upload themselves, but it doesn't delete their existing self, which means the electrical impulses of consciousness, let's just call it, you know, like 93164829, are copied in two places at once.

And so the person is experiencing two different lives at the exact same time. So you have a doppelganger out there. No, no, no. A mental doppelganger. But you experience all of it as a single consciousness in two bodies. I see. Because you copy the consciousness, it now exists in two places at once. Stereo existence. I just imagine insanity.

The guy goes insane and starts screaming. Yeah, I can't imagine. I can imagine if, like, one when you go to sleep, the other guy's in charge. That's why I'm more inclined to believe in a soul. I think that this does get to the question of whether we're just matter,

whether we're only material or something more. I think there's a soul, you know, and it's because if your consciousness was just the electrical impulses in your brain, you could copy that mechanism, but two of the same consciousness existing at the same time, you wouldn't experience the upload. You still keep experiencing what yeah it's like don't know how that that could be unless they wire you in and slowly one day at a time you live in this machine for seven years as each new neuron is replaced you know by a computer program so it's

a slow and gradual shift not an instant copy yeah because then it's like a ship of theseus thing where maybe our consciousness is the actual impulses in our brain but is the combination of all of them slowly being changed over time that gives us the experience of self and if we were to copy them all at once it would just create a separate clone of you with its own version of self that's my that's my my intuition i don't have any kind of you know any kind of there's also the question of whether consciousness is really dependent upon the whole human sensorium you know the whole setup that it's not just uh some sort of a it can't exist in a kind of vacuum it It has to have the whole body. The physical experience.

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half an hour tim jake says my wife and i had cousin t's biscuits for the first time this weekend great stuff shout out to cousin t yeah i was impressed uh he came by he made some pancakes we filmed a commercial and uh it was actually pretty impressive all All right. Devin Evans says, how long do you think Biden will last for Kamala takes over? Also, shout out to my gaming channel, Snave Gaming. I don't know, man. I feel like Biden's at the point

where he may just not wake up one day. Like we're, listen to the guy. Did you guys see the commercial he did of the, why the Super bowl or why your snacks are smaller this time around during the super bowl or whatever he can't speak yeah he can't speak anymore a few years ago we pulled the video from when he was running in 2020

and he was talking now he talks like this and it's like whoa he's at the point where one day he goes to bed he just does not wake up i mean that's a that's a real possibility with someone at his age you know but but as you know then when the smoke turns red at the white house that means they've selected a new president so yes kamala comes bursting through the door it was me i know i think that she i think there is a chance that biden you know has to step out of the race obviously a more compassionate team around him would say you should enjoy your sunset years here you're not doing so well but um i don't think they want kamala so i think they'd rather keep him in the form he is than have her which must be a really

big insult to her like if you're kamala har and she's like, this guy, what are we doing? All right. The Black Pearl says, I know my profile looks biased. I saw your show last week where y'all mentioned Pirates of the Caribbean, but the second and third movies actually have a lot of depth

and ties to the first themes and messages. The fifth was more spectacle. I will give you the very simple version as to why Pirates sucked. The first movie is amazing and is one of the best movies ever. It really is. Pirates of the Caribbean,

the first one, wow. Talk about so epic. The second movie has no story. There's no ending. Have a nice day. And the third movie brings back a character who's dead, ruining the story from the first one.

So I just pretend like those don't exist. Jeffrey Rush's death in the first one was so perfect. It was awesome. awesome he's like after all that you wasted your one shot and he didn't waste it and then he cuts his hand and drops the coin in and then it would say i feel cold and then he just drops dead awesome then they bring him back and it's like but the second movie had no ending it was like there's a chest for some reason and uh it's got a heart in it and then it. And then there's fighting and shenanigans and the movie ends.

Like, the first one was slowly uncovering the story, introducing you to the characters. The second one was just like, shenanigans ensues, and then the movie is over. I think, like, Jack almost, like, he gets eaten. I'm like, what's the conflict? What's the resolution? So the reason why I like the Marvel movies better, not anymore, is that they're all

standalone. Iron Man 2. Here's Tony Stark. Here's what happened after this happened. Introducing a new conflict. A guy his family betrayed, wants revenge, develops a weapon, comes to the United States, teams up with one of his enemies, and now there's a story, conflict, resolution, completion. Iron Man 3. Same thing.

Another guy who Tony stark had wronged so the marvel movies were creating this long overarching narrative while giving you complete stories with a conflict and a resolution and pirates none of them had any i think dead men tell no tales uh tell no tales was pretty good because it had introduction to characters conflict and a resolution anyway i digress all right the emperor's champion says to quote a comment on sticks's video about biden you don't have to be a doctor to see what's wrong with biden but you do have to be a democrat than not to deny it yep yep oh man cale says i see rfk jr doesn't mind using timcast news to help boost his campaign on x wonder why he doesn't

have the courage to come on irl the vague had the balls to come on multiple times yeah i don't know. No idea. We have tried to book him a couple times, and it just doesn't ever happen. No idea. But here's what happens. Whenever these narratives come up where it's like they won't come on the show, they end up being like, oh, we'll come on the show. Yeah, right. Because I tweeted about how we invite Democrats and leftists all the time. like they won't come on the show they end up being like i'll come on the show and yeah right because i tweeted about how we we invite democrats and leftists all the

time they just won't do it and uh i mentioned on twitter like marion williamson has actually been invited several times even emailed with us and that she didn't and then are people like no no no she's coming she's coming on the show and then she did so uh you have to shame them into it i mean i mean it's i guess but i think it's because, look, there's no reality in which a leftist comes on the show and we don't shatter their narrative. Right. Because they live in a fake world. And they know it. They have to have that cult lie in order to maintain the false reality they know they live in.

Just go to any one of these videos and read the comments and you're like how could they possibly think these things they don't read the news they don't read the news all right kaba says the super bowl was rigged kc offensive tackle uh tackles blatantly held at least seven eight times no call at least four to five non-call dpis on kc2 refs were the same have refs were the same heavily scrutinized crew from four years ago pfizer boy t swift shenanigans that's why that's what i'm saying you can't make someone catch a ball but you could call a penalty or something and say no no we gotta go along and then you can you can make it happen and again i encourage people to look up that viral story of the guy tackling the wrong dude the guy people to look up that viral story of the guy

tackling the wrong dude the guy with the footballs running at him and the guy just goes left and a lot of people are like it's because he's blocking the outside he was supposed to have someone behind him and it's like dude that doesn't make sense even the sports commentators were like what did he just do and people were like it wasn't in the script he wasn't supposed to do it pay it off yeah yep dave collins says phil when will the new all that remains album be released new record uh in the summer new music last week of uh march first week of april something like that nice soon federale actual with some fighting words for uh doctor here. He says, vote for Josh Smith and Clint Russell 2024. That's, I mean, yeah, okay, good for you. But I mean, look, the Mises caucus has endorsed me

and Clint Russell, not Josh. And, you know, Josh made a few prevarications in his appearance here, including the idea that he almost raised as much money as me, try one-tenth. So, and you know, we have the momentum

and no, it's not going to happen. I've heard from some people that they want RFK to take the nomination because it'll put the LP over the 5% threshold or whatever. Yeah, I mean, but it would ruin the party. It'd basically turn the LP into the 5% threshold or whatever. Yeah, I mean, but it would ruin the party. It'd basically turn the LP into the Democratic Party of the 1960s.

It would turn the LP into the other party. It would just be literally other. Yeah, right. You want to rent out the LP to somebody, but then if they wreck the house while they're in it, that's a problem. No Name says Biden won't take a cognitive test because it would trigger the 25th amendment he has to reject the nomination like lbj or resign 25th will soil his legacy i don't think the 25th autumn the 25th doesn't trigger without as people actually saying hey

right you know so someone the vice president would have to do it but if he takes a cognitive test and fails kamala would be pressured to do it she could do whatever she wants you could do right now she doesn't want to what if something crazy happened like biden like runs into the street to push a kid out of the way of a car and gets hit or something and something crazy like biden run biden stumbles off his bike and somehow saves a child he tried he went out like a hero he'd try and run and then he'd fall and then he he'd break something, and he'd die, and Kamala Harris would be the president. Taken out by his arch nemesis, The Stairs. That's right. Rock Braz says, the right lost the opportunity to highlight how Taylor chose a very alpha male as a boyfriend.

Another case of woke for you, but not for me. He is a white cis male football superstar. Everything the left should hate. Yep. And even Matt Walsh was like like there are so many other people to criticize in pop music why are you going after taylor swift it makes no sense yep i dude plus she's really leading this america first culture right now she went from dating all these like moody british guys now she's dating this athletic american guy i'm'm sorry. I think that's a good narrative here. There is a...

I'll keep it light. But I'm friends with some of these guys. We've had them on the show several times who keep pushing the Taylor Swift narrative and the actual anti-establishment Republicans are freaking out over it and they're mad. They're sabotaging us on purpose. I don't understand why they're doing this.

And it's like there's no way they don't't know they're doing it but they keep doing it and so it's really really pissing off the wrong like it's pissing off the republicans we like yeah say la vie for me i'm kind of like wow if if they want to run with this narrative then trump deserves to lose. It's crazy. Because the people who are working to try and close the border and do the good things are like, holy crap, we are going to lose suburban women over this. Yeah. It's absurd.

Yeah, it's literally what you're doing. You're doing things that make the right and conservatives even more offensive to liberal women from Southern Connecticut. Okay. They drive. It's not just that it's Virginia. Yeah. It's Loudoun County and people like you're never going to win a Swifty over.

Those are the same people. No one's talking about winning over a 19 year old sorority girl. They're talking about the 34 year old mom in the suburbs of Loudoun County who just watched everything go down in their schools and they put on taylor swift with their seven-year-old daughter and they're dancing in the living room and then they see on the news that uh trump supporters think she's working for the pentagon and they're like these people are absolutely psychopaths yeah and so what they're doing is they're voting for anyone else they're going in the polls they're saying i don't want trump or biden the trump people think taylor swift works for the government joe biden can't run the country give me rfk jr i guess and

i would like them to vote for michael regdenwald but they're not going to because they want safety not liberty but the bigger issue is is the republicans in congress and these are the ones who are who are like they've actually we i i want to be vik for all i say this because i want to i don't want to out anybody who's expressing private concerns and cause problems where they get into these flame wars on twitter on x but they're but they're like hey i have to run in these areas and now i have to deal with why do my people and the guy i support why are they claiming taylor swift works for the pentagon and it's like what do you say when you're at a rally and they're like you guys are a bunch of psychopaths who think taylor swift works for the pentagon and then this congress it's like, what do you say when you're at a rally? And they're like, you guys are a bunch of psychopaths who think Taylor Swift works for the Pentagon. And then this congressman

is like, we don't think that at all. We don't. We're so sorry. We're so sorry. Yeah. But you've got insert person, insert person. And even Donald Trump came out and talking about it now. And it's like, oh, man. And then the response you get from these people on Twitter is Swifties were never going to vote for Trump anyway. Yeah. OK. Yeah yeah the moms of laden county are not are not diehard swifties they're moms who are like why is my daughter complaining like my daughter came to me she's 15 and she's like trump thinks taylor swift works for the cia what's going on it'll it'll be just as simple as why are trump fans mean to taylor yep yeah just that simple why are trump fans mean to Taylor? Yep. Yeah. Just that simple. Why are Trump fans so mean to her? Why are they freaking out?

Why are they crazy? It's very uncool. Quite crazy. So the PSYOP narrative is a PSYOP in itself. That's what I'm saying. The only way they actually benefit from the Taylor Swift endorsement is if Trump supporters declare Warren Taylor Swift creating a conflict. C'est la vie.

T-Rex Pet pet shop says what's going on with james lindsey he's been going off the rails criticizing conservatives how does he expect to get people to work with him he needs to meet them where they are he needs to chill out so james lindsey lately has been concerned with uh essentially the christian nationalists the people that that are on the religious right that think that this is an opening for the for the resurgence of a pious christian majority in america but the problem is there is not a christian majority in america anymore certainly not a pious one but i'm gonna have to agree with t-rex on this one that may be the case but james lindsey's posts have become

just like unreadable to me he's always he's always been the kind of dude that that puts people off on twitter no no look james can post an interesting thread on like dei marxism the origins of critical race theory but when i go on instagram and there's 10 posts in a row that just keep saying the same thing over and over again i'm like mute like i get it bro you don't like christian nationalism but it's not an issue yeah it's like not happening at all and it's like he's he's you know i feel like what did a bunch of christian nationalists tweeted him and now he lives in that world where he's he's the only that's the only thing he sees he well essentially his take is there they are two sides of the same coin so the christian national he calls them the he calls the christian nationalists the right hand of the left and essentially they're doing

the they are identity politics on the other side right it's a dialect so his deal is it's it's a dialectical uh relationship yeah relationship between one produces the other i am not concerned with the raving lunatic outside the White House banging on the fence. I'm concerned with the raving lunatic who can't speak properly inside of it. And so what my view is, this is not an issue. Christian nationalism, it would be like going on Twitter and complaining about Buddhist fundamentalists. I'd be like, okay. It's a boogeyman.

There's nothing there. I mean, theredhists getting violent fighting with muslims and everyone's like you're supposed to be peaceful and they're like we're being killed and if someone started tweeting incessantly about buddhist fundamentalists i'd be like i'm gonna have to go and meet you buddy because this is so immaterial to anything that's going on right now in any of our crises i don't see the point in actually saying it 50 57 times in one day he's also saying that national divorce would be a national suicide. He is correct about that.

Yeah, I agree with James Unzian so much. I just think, like, what, did a bunch of Christian nationalists tweet him to the point where he got really annoyed and then started talking about it nonstop? He thought they were, yeah, he thought that they're way overrepresented in his feed, most likely, and that led him to believe that they're really some really large contingent in society yeah and there's like there's there's and but there's also needless animosity between uh allied uh aligned ideologies i mean sort of because the the the christian nationalists or the the christians that are actually taking issue with uh i'm not talking about that though i'm talking about carl benjamin like oh yeah the fighting with carl yeah okay yeah like for literally no reason you're getting into a fight with some with someone like carl it's a

turf battle then that's what that is i i i i between the two of them i'll be like carl benjamin saying we should have a reasonable debate and argument over this and james like i'm gonna block you i i james loses all the all of it it's all i see from james is he i'm like why did you block carl benjamin and there was a recent post i saw where carl said anti-communist in effect doesn't really mean much and then he goes on the list a bunch of really awful people who are anti-communist like fascists and dictators and things like that and james's response was something the effect of this is why I blocked the guy. And I'm like, I don't understand.

That's an interesting point of conversation. The merit of being simply anti-communist versus the nuance of were dictators and authoritarians also claiming to be anti-communist is a good conversation to have. So that's why I'm kind of like i see carl benjamin's posts and i go interesting interesting point i see james lindsey's posts as of recent and i'm like that was a waste of my time say love you though i agree with james on most things things a good dude but i'm not into whatever he's going off on these days but again like christian nationalism sure identitarian or identity-based or or moralistic national stuff i still gotta say i think a christian moral framework for this country is substantially better than anything we're like anything the woke or liberals have brought to the table

i think a fine balance between uh christian with secular liberalism, which we had in the 90s, would work so long as Christians didn't let all of this stuff happen. It's a complicated topic, to be completely honest. combination of uh jerusalem and rome and the sensibilities of the british or the english enlightenment and that's essentially the the recipe for the west so like i think that that a a liberal government is compatible with christianity i think that it's not compatible with other religions but i think that a little bit that it's compatible with christianity um and i think right but but so he's advocating from enlightenment era uh ideas philosophies and politics he's he's advocating for the enlightenment yes over over uh things like over socialism which is a counter enlightenment philosophy it seems like good

well he's talking about christian nationalism well he's he's fighting with the christian nationalists because the christian nationalists like I said, are essentially the right hand of the left. They have leftist ideas. They're doing leftist behavior. And that's what the, because essentially they're like the Nazi kind of guys is the long and short of it. But that's not, but that's just wrong. There certainly are, but there are people who are like, this country is built on a Christian moral framework, and it should be a nationalist country. And saying Christian nationalists are like Nazis is like saying someone who is white and a nationalist is a white nationalist.

So the people that are Christian nationalists tend to be the people that are also the Catholic groipers and stuff like that. And so they are that kind of attitude. That's not to say all nationalists or all Christians are the people he's referring to. You're talking about, there's one guy in particular, Richard Wolfe, I think is the guy's name, who wrote a book and they have like this. The Marxist guy? No, he's... That's another one, yeah.

Richard Wolfe. Yeah, that's his name. Yeah, he's the Marxist guy. That's a different one. There's two of them. There's a right-wing one and a left-wing one? Oh my God! And they talk about a right-wing one and a left-wing one? Oh, my God! And they talk about a Christian prince and a theocratic Christianity. So it's beyond just Christians. They're talking about having a theocracy in the United States that is based on a Christian theocracy.

So the point there is that is so niche and immaterial to public conversation and the current goings on it would be like talking about buddhist fundamentalists it's like talking about how many angels you can fit on the head of a pin and while the barbarians are at the gate but the problem is the same problem that the commun that you have with communists and the the liberals the liberals think that the extremists the communists are just progressives and they think that they actually share a lot of the same ideas there are similar things going on with the christians and christian nationalists saying no we're just christian we're catholics like the rest of you but they're actually authoritarians they want to have a theocracy it's illiberal stuff

authoritarian and national socialist let's mean, let's be real. And that's what he's up against now. Yeah. Let's grab some more Super Chats. All right. Where do we go? Dr. Tran says, There is no market in being safe and feeling afraid.

We all should, but you can't sell that. Okay. Apropos what? Yeah. Joe Spinell says, okay apropos what yeah joe spinel says libertarians need to run like republicans and govern like libertarians that's interesting i wonder what that would look like you lie in the in our campaigning or lie in your campaign yeah i mean i don't think republicans are doing too well in terms of running anyway yeah yeah i don't know why we should model ourselves after them. I think they should model themselves after us and have some principles.

Henry White says, interesting wrinkle with Swift at the Super Bowl. She was hanging out with a Satanist. Black girl with orange hair. She was flexing her upside down cross and doing goat hand symbols when on camera. I said this today. There are people that need to chill out with the whole religious stuff i said this today on pcc if you're going to say that ice spice is an agent of the devil because she was putting up uh the devil horns then you're looking at an agent of the devil because for 20 years i've been on stage screaming

get your horns in the air so that you admit it. You're an agent of the devil. So call me an agent of the devil. But guess what? You're overdoing it. You're stepping out of reality. It is just a pose. And I feel like I spice is such an industry plant that like she doesn't know

what she's wearing. She doesn't know what she's doing. Someone else picked out every accessory she wore. I don't think she's great. I don't think what she's doing. Someone else picked out every accessory she wore. I don't think she's great. I don't think she's a role model for your children, but let's not clutch our pearls too soon. But yeah, I mean, it is like people are seeing this and freaking out and stuff. But to confirm, Phil is an agent of the devil.

You can call me what you want, but I mean, if that's an issue for you, there are literally thousands and thousands of pictures on the internet of me with my hands in the air, like with the horns, saying, get your horns in the air i can't hear you all right slow brain says here's five bucks but i'll never buy another song was promised discounted coffee but did not and will not receive it disappointed well i have this to say when we did the promo on together again we said everybody who bought it would get a discount code

for coffee several people had uh their discount codes go to their spam folders we received multiple emails from the same people who uh in error did not realize what was supposed to happen and so what we decided to do was for anyone who genuinely didn't receive it or who didn't understand how they were supposed to receive it we we issued an additional code, bonus code to all of these people once again. Still, there are some people who didn't get it. At a certain point, there's only so much we can do. If you didn't get it, I have no idea what happened. But we sent out two codes to everybody who wrote in saying they didn't get it.

And if you still didn't get it i guess we could send you another one but it's like i don't know what to tell you you know what i mean like i like i feel limited in what we can do the first code was attached with the song download when you bought it we then emailed people the code if uh i think we said actually sent out the code we may have sent it to everybody just emailed them like outright like here's the code uh then we created a second code to make sure everyone got it and emailed that one out to everyone who bought the song saying here's a code that will work as well and uh it's sometimes it happens i guess but i do appreciate the super chat sorry that happened to you i can't do anything about it i guess all right let's uh here we go dave collins says the legacy media companies are

probably replacing their journalists with chat gpt and that is true that's probably true yep eman says what up tim zero percent unemployment rate is undesired as it requires an inflexible labor market i've read an ideal unemployment rate is between two to four percent makes sense if a company needs to hire somebody but there's no one everyone's employed they can't hire anybody you do want some unemployment so that people are moving around yeah that makes a lot of sense all right i think we'll grab one more quick super chat here jason hutchinson says the united states theocracy is the declaration of independence well there you go uh here you go one more siloy says tim the video game you got to play that addresses your split consciousness

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