 The situation with the election is kind of hopeful in a way that it doesn't seem like there's anything gonna be too extreme happening either way, whether Trump takes the states to court and wins and then the election gets ruled in his favor or whether he concedes and Biden takes over with a peaceful power transfer. It doesn't, I don't know, what's your thoughts on it? Do you think that anything is gonna change much in terms of the economy or dollar printing or like, what do you think there? Chomsky said at the best, the party's always in power. People have an illusionary viewpoint that there's a difference between the left and the right. The left is a left when it benefits the left. The right is a right when it benefits the right. These policies are interchangeable. They switch them back and forth. Candidates go from different party to different party. So for me, I always ask a simple question regardless of who's in power, what party's in power, who controls Senate, yada, yada, yada. The regular average working person in the bell curve, like 90% of the population, no matter what, we are plebs. We get nothing, we don't benefit. We're not part of the inner circle. We're not part of the nepotysic society that they run. We're not part of this lobbyist that we get upside. No matter what, we do get more taxes. No matter what, more rights are taken away from us. No matter what, there's more privacy or I would say lack of privacy, you know, taken away from us. So like, we don't win. Like you just look at history. You look at every single year, what happens? Less privacy for us, less rights for us, less freedom for us, more taxes for us and just keeps on going, regardless of who's in power. Yeah, and the wall has definitely been pulled over everybody's eyes, like the distraction from the real issues of fighting against surveillance and pro-privacy, like hard money, sound money, like all of that stuff. Like for example, like that's all under attack and no one's watching, what they're watching. These no knock warrants, like they passed. I forget who was it that passed it, was it the, fuck, I forget who passed that law. Probably Biden. Maybe, I don't know who did it. But it's basically without a warrant they can enter your house and just take whatever they want under the guise of illicit activities. And it's the burden is on you to show them that you're not guilty. So therefore you have to foot the bill for the legal costs and the lawyers. Think about that. We as whatever you can call it, the legal establishment, the quote unquote legal establishment, police force, et cetera, all that stuff, they can come to your house and say, well, Brad, we have assumptions that you might be a drug cartel. And we're gonna take all these computers and we're gonna take your car, we're gonna take your house, we're gonna take your bank account. We don't know, we're not going through court system. We can hold that. We just don't know if you're guilty or not. But it's the burdens on you to prove your innocence. That's crazy. Yeah, that's nuts. That's all infuriating that stuff. But yeah, it doesn't seem like Biden's gonna do anything different there. I was disappointed with Trump, a lot of things that he was saying that he was gonna change, but then he became- Are you really disappointed? I was actually hopeful in 2016 that Trump was gonna drain the swamp and that he was gonna actually become, that he wasn't an establishment politician. He was gonna stop spending. Okay, okay. I was hopeful, but quickly, quickly obviously that became, he's getting spending more money on the war and spending more money on weapons. He's spending more money on, you know, he cut a few things, but he spent more money on the military than any other president. Like the trillion dollar deficit is like a new thing under Trump. He was on track to spend more than, even Obama and Obama spent more money than any other president in history. So he wasn't keeping really his problem. The only way that we can survive this is city states. That's the only way I see- I'm serious. Was it civilization six? No, we have city states now. Even Canada has city states. People forget aboriginal land is city state legally. They have their own constitution, their own police force, their own taxation policy. There are sovereign land apart from Canadian sovereign land. United States a little bit different because they have their own states and they have more legal- I don't think enough people really care though about it for that to work. People like the convenience of not having to deal with garbage collection. People are gonna, and policing and stuff. I don't think that's gonna, like what's the- What do you mean? There's still gonna be police. Yeah, I know. I'm just thinking like that's kind of altruistic, but like- It's not altruistic to happen. It would be nice if people don't even care about their online surveillance. They'll gladly give up their rights and not care about somebody like Snowden or Julian Assange because CNBC or CNN told them that they hacked Hillary's emails and now they're an enemy of the United States because they gave the election to Donald Trump or some BS like that. When they're not even looking at the facts of how they are fighting for privacy and fighting for everybody's rights. People will eventually care when the boots so far up their ass and the water's boiling when they have no choice but to care. And that will happen. I find it very naive, especially in Canada because we're much more calm and chill that people think stuff can happen here. I'm like, you do forget in World War II we imprisoned born Japanese. Yeah. People have a very short-term memory. You do realize, do you understand what we did to the Aborigines here with that residential schools? Do you understand like not too long ago from, you know, 1940s what we've done to our own citizens in Canada? Don't be so stupid and fucking naive. Like what we're kind of still doing even now is still some like people that, not in Canada so much, but in the U.S. like the drug war is still raging. It's still like prison population is gaining. Don't even start it for that, man. That is fucked. That's beyond it. That's not gonna change, right? I was thinking that like, because Joe Biden was one of the people that helped pass the crime bill in the 90s and was supported Clinton and like- Clinton's three strike rule? Holy fuck. Yeah, the three strike rule. Like they helped usher in the militarization of the police and three strikes are out and all these like drug war policies that just appropriate, what is that word? Disportionately affected minorities and black men in inner cities. And now 50 years or 60 years later, whatever, he's still a politician and he's, I don't think he's changed that much. So with his vice president, Kamala Harris, she was also doing some pretty shady stuff when she was DA or of California. Was she district attorney or what was she in California? I forget. She like jailed more black people than anybody else or some shit like that. Yeah, there was a lot of people that were like black men and minorities that were prosecuted by her for minor nonviolent drug crimes. That's right, nonviolent drug. Yeah, she was the DA for California and she had like civil rights groups and everything were after her. So you got like her who has a terrible reputation already for not standing up for people of color and ending these corrupt, insane drug laws and nonviolent criminals like ruining their lives, ruining families' lives. Plus she got blacked pretty much with the other, Bill Clinton and the Democrats in the 90s. It does not seem, okay, let's not be too negative though because there was a really good trend of marijuana legalization and even hard drug decriminalization in some places. Wasn't it Oregon who decriminalized most hard drugs? And there was a few states that legalized psilocybin I think it was. California in a nutshell, it's not legally decriminalized but not enforced. That's great, we're moving forward. That's great, it's good to see that but we need to see, it just sucks to see all these people in jail for nonviolent crimes and I hope Trump pardons a lot of people. If he gets pushed out, I'll be pardons. He should pardon Snowden. Snowden pardoned like 90% of the people in the for profit prison system. And get Ross out of jail. Yeah, Ross Albrecht too, get him out of jail. I don't know, can he pardon Julian Assange because Julian Assange isn't an American. Wait, he's an American or no? No, he's not, oh, then he can't. But he can give him asylum. Okay, yeah, so that would be awesome. It would be really nice if Trump did that. If he's gonna get, he does lose. Countries give asylum to most random people. Like you look at history, for example, in Africa, Uganda, it was Idi Amin. Idi Amin was a dictator, killed millions of people and Saudi Arabia gave him asylum and he died a rich man in Saudi Arabia, but he was one of the biggest sociopaths possible. Crazy. So I guess it's not bad, it's not good. It's just more sad as quo. I'm actually a little bit leaning more towards the hopeful side of things because I think when you look at it from a net perspective of just energy, there was more negative energy the last four years because of Trump. And I'm not saying Trump did these things like colluded with Putin and he was an agent of Russia and all this stuff, but the energy was there and it was fixation from social media. And like you said, the AI basically like sucked everybody down the rabbit hole, the algorithms. And these companies are making record profits, but at the same time, it drove the people to seek out unbiased information. And that- You're saying that Trump is a Manchurian candidate, that this is all Psyops and he's controlled opposition and they put him in place over there as an escape goat to create- What's that? What's that theory? I don't know, I'm just making up on the fly. Just pick it up. It makes sense to me. Like give me something. I wanna hear this. So this is a Manchurian candidate, all right. Well, there is something going around now people are saying that Trump is playing 5D chess and he was working with the DHS, the Department of Homeland Security to bait the Democrats into doing fraudulent mail and ballot rigging. So with this sort of like blockchain technology ballot printing or something like that and it was a big sting operation. I think it's all BS, but like- Yeah, I think we find out tonight or tomorrow. I think Nevada is the last state for counting. I think Georgia or something said there has to do a recount. I don't know, I'm not really keeping up to date with it just whatever. But let's say Biden does when the Electoral College and gets the seats that he needs to get. Knowing Trump, I definitely see him appealing that and taking that to the highest level possible for whether it's- Last time this happened with Bush and Gore, I believe. Yeah, I remember that was like a month or something it felt like or they- No, it was, it took a while for the final results to come in from- I remember I was watching Bill Maher every night. I'd watch Bill Maher talk about it. I was 19, 20, whatever it was at the time and my friends and I would just sit down in front of the TV and watch Bill Maher. It's always the comedians that seem to- But watch this, you know, people talk about like the progressive party of Biden and Kamala. Biden's either gonna die if he's president or he's gonna have to step aside because that guy's mentally ill, not from a negative perspective, just too old, he's senile, man. The guy can speak English and can't even remember anything and the energy for you to be commander-in-chief of the world's most powerful military. So he's gonna, whether voluntarily step aside or be physically forced to step aside because he can't physically handle the stress of being president, maybe Kamala Harris becomes the first female president who knows, I don't know. But mark my words, they're gonna go to war. These guys are gonna invade Iran or the war machine's gonna continue. It's no difference. This whole idea of being progressive, this is like the most classic Machiavellian, you can go read the book. If you guys haven't read it, go read Prince. Machiavellian, fantastic book. Details as well. It's all Occam's razors, a very common sense. They'll say whatever they need to say to be voted in power. Once in power, they have power, fuck off. It's business as usual. Obama took the US from two wars to seven wars in his eight years. They killed more people with drones than any other president. Yeah, but I mean, I used to say that too, but then I heard a good argument that like, the technology for drones came up in his era. So it was just not really his initiative. It was more so just a situation he found himself in just like how the 2008 real estate bubble collapsed the economy and he had to print so much money. Well, somebody had to do something and then they were kicking the can down the road. But regardless, Obama didn't stop war. He increased the amount of theaters of war and Trump didn't stop them either. Trump kind of made some concessions here and there, but maybe he took some troops out of Afghanistan. Maybe he tried to get out of Syria and let the Middle East. The military industrial complex runs everything. That's it. Trump was no better because he sold billions and billions of dollars of weapons to Saudi Arabia who committed genocide in Yemen. So from a geopolitical standpoint, you can see why he did that though. I mean, it all goes back for me to like Ron Paul's policies of non-interventionism and why should you take tax money from the citizens to go kill people overseas? Like we're not meant, that's not what our country in Canada or the United States is supposed to be doing. We're not supposed to be just going over fighting wars over oil and lithium and resources and stealing tax money from people to go do that. It's not constitutional. And there was no votes. Like they didn't vote. Congress thinks to declare war and they haven't declared war since World War II or something like that. What was the last time Congress, let's Google that. When was the last time Congress declared war? In a long time. So Japan, yeah, World War II, yeah. So since then, it's all been illegal wars constitutionally. But yeah, whether it's Biden or Trump or Bush or Obama, I mean, the war is gonna continue because it's good for the economy. It's good for jobs. But Trump was like, Obama was a bit of a statesman about it. Obama was just like politically like a good speaker and he would have a somber tone when he talked about it and he wouldn't say things straight up. Trump would just be like, well, we need to sell them the weapons because we need the money. Like that's $400 billion, that's a lot of jobs. So like Trump would just be just openly honest about selling all these hundreds of billions of dollars of weapons. It's a little bit more complicated than that, right? So they have to control their position against Iran. Saudi Arabia's biggest threat is the middle. So you tell me why, because I didn't follow that one very much. Why is Saudi Arabia and Yemen at war and what's the justification for it? Controlling the geographical power struggle for oil production. Simple as that. Same with Iran. And this is why Iran is with Russia. And so Saudi Arabia for the longest time was a powerhouse in Middle East, right? So they controlled, this is why United States turned a blind eye for the Wahhabism of Saudi Arabia. You mean, do you know how many people or organizations Saudi Arabia probably funds through their Wahhabi ideology? Like a very twisted form of Islam. And United States since fuck, since the Ottoman Empire got kicked out and what, 19 World War, I think what the final remnants for there was like, what, World War I, they left Saudi Arabia, Britain came in, BP came over there, United States came over there. And ever since that, United States pretty much gave, I think United States biggest military base outside of United States is in Saudi Arabia. It wasn't Turkey. As I said, we're a Turkey, but they have to, United States to have the relationship of Saudi Arabia has to provide them. And it's all part of the deal, provide them the military means. Obviously they make money from it, but the military means to have the might to go against Iran within the Middle East. It's a power struggle there. So it says the biggest military base outside of the USA is bigger than New York city. Holy shit. Is this Saudi Arabia? I'm trying to find which one it is. Or was it Turkey? I think it's Iraq. No, I know they built like a multi-billion dollar. I don't think so too. I don't think so too, Iraq. One overseas base is vastly larger than others. It's so large that its footprint is bigger than the entire city of New York. It covers 303 square miles. Is this legit? What am I reading here? Yeah. Wikipedia. So where is it? It won't tell me. Secret location. Base, yeah, it's on a need to know basis. I think I'm reading some clickbait here. Yeah, because it's making me read the entire thing and showing me a bunch of ads. Okay, let's see here. America's largest base. Oh my God. I can't find this. I believe you. There are big bases. There's lots of bases all over the world. And I remember that one that they built in Iraq was pretty a political sort of football that they were thrown around because it was massive and they spent so much money on it. And I think they ended up... Here's a classic example. Weapons of mass destruction with Bush. Let's go to Iraq. And my wife's family is Kuwaiti and Iraqi and I have firsthand experience from their family there. So this isn't me reading the internet. This is me talking to people who've born and raised there right from the horse's mouth. And yes, Saddam Hussein was a CIA agent, highly intelligent, operative, was with the United States for the very longest period of time. They had economic treaties with the United States and his bath party was sadistic. Like, don't get me wrong. So I'm like, I'm not here clapping and celebrating Saddam Hussein. But he was the crazy motherfucker that was so fucking crazy. The other crazy motherfuckers were crazy of him because he was the most craziest motherfucker. He was the head of the Hydra there that even the other so-called clans and quote, warlords would not fuck with him with the bath party. So he held this very fine, delicate balance of power in Middle East. And then when you chop off the head of the pyramid there, you create a vacuum. This is exactly what Hillary did with fucking Qaddafi in Libya. What Iraq is right now and what Libya is right now, it's fucking, I can't even describe how bad it is. And it's not like Libya, there's open slave trading happening right now. That wasn't happening when Qaddafi was in power. Qaddafi was the same. Qaddafi was do not fuck with him. I read afterwards that I was trying to find to get to the truth of that because there was that viral thing that went around when during the 2016 election when Hillary was laughing about it. Like we came, we saw he died and she was cackling about it. And it was kind of like, okay, is that a joke or is that literally how she is? But regardless, they didn't care about Qaddafi or Libya until they threatened the US dollar and they threatened to create the African petro dollar and create a unified African currency. And afterwards I had read like people like Nelson Mandela supported Qaddafi. Like people that we respect as thought leaders and stuff supported Qaddafi. So they didn't, I'm sure he wasn't a good guy either but they missled his entire family and evaporated his grandchildren. It was disgusting and she's laughing about it. But it just, I was talking to my wife about this the other day because she was listening to a podcast with somebody who escaped North Korea. Like North Korea is insane right now. And if they really did care about people and suffering and ending suffering and all this stuff that they'd set a sell war on they would do something about North Korea because that's a crazy situation that's happening in North Korea right now. There's people starving and like- Yeah, I'll give you a better example. Like I met, but I was at the DMZ zone. So I had a good three days to chat with people who escaped North Korea. So I was right- You were in South Korea? Yeah, I spent a bunch of time in South Korea and I spent a while at the DMZ demilitarized zone there and I personally spent the two to four days speaking with people that escaped North Korea and got the inside scoop of how it is. And so I'll give you a better example than North Korea. The fucking shit happening in China. Right. Like legitimate concentration camps. Not like make believe, like we're talking about a full blown concentration camp with Uighur Muslims. The no human rights policy. They have, they are first, then Iran. They have the most executions. Then Iran has the second execution. These are public executions. But yeah, it's okay. Well yeah, the problem with China is that they've got a military and they can't really just go in and take over like they took over Libya or Iraq or whatever. But even the case, like if they were legitimately genuine about their concerns about Saddam Hussein and Gaddafi, they would go in and fix that situation in North Korea because North Korea can't stop America from going in and overthrowing Kim Jong-un or whatever, you know in his harem. I think that's the way to do it. There's too much second order and third order effects when it comes to stuff like that. I know, but if they really cared about it, they would go do it. So I'm just saying like, they don't actually care about ending suffering and all the stuff that they try to sell us on and then manipulate our emotions and stuff. What they really care about is the resources. Libya was a threat. Gaddafi was threatening to challenge the hegemony of the US dollar and create an African backed currencies to trade oil in. So they had to take them out. Iran and Iraq have oil reserves. And so they had to go and take the oil and prevent them from getting a monopoly on the oil. And even Syria, like the whole reason why the war in Syria happened was because of the gas, the pipeline that they were trying to build through Syria. Like Russia has the main pipeline that goes through Syria that connects to the rest of Europe. And Russia has the like the gas prom bank has the monopoly on the stranglehold of the power in that region. And so Saudi Arabia is trying to build a pipeline through Syria. And that's when everything became, oh, we care about the Syrian people now. And then look what happened. They destroyed an entire country fighting over a gas pipeline telling us it's about like Assad is gassing his people and they care about that. Meanwhile, Kim Jong-un or Il or what is it, Un now he's starving his people and has them all brainwashed. And like they don't care about suffering. And like you said, like the Uighur Muslims and there's like any religious organizations that start up in China, they end up sending them to concentration camps because they don't want anything to challenge the CPP. The power, yep. That's exactly it. You know, like in one way it's kind of fun, it kind of funny or whatever the word is, it's kind of a relief for somebody in China that is just going along obeying the traffic laws and trying not to get their social credit score dings, you know, taking up the garbage, being polite, respecting the Communist Party because they don't even have to think about Biden versus Trump. They don't think about politics. Like everybody is just Communist Party. It's just the Communist Party and it's a brainwashing, but it frees up your mind from all this divisiveness because you just, you don't have an option. China looks alive. I'm not saying I like that. I'm just, it's an interesting observation. China will collapse like any other nation through its own internal power struggles. It's the Orborus, the snake eats its own tail. So we're injuring Peng finally, I don't know, probably has to die before because he's pretty much president for life for the CCP. Same thing with Putin. Though I read something that Putin has Parkinson's and he's considering step, I don't fucking know. But you'll see eventually that through the mechanism of the Orborus and the different ethnicities within a country, the snake eats its own tail. There's only, you can only keep power for so long until your own power system and structure collapse on itself. Like time is against you. Yeah, you were telling me before in a podcast that we did a while back that like the Chinese strategy of one of the war strategies of war is just to send a million people over the border. Like they don't care about people. That was one of the Cold War strategies in World War. Yeah, yeah. Just overwhelm the enemy with having to take care of their citizens. Yeah, and the paper's a million people that would send over and like here. Yeah, I mean, that's like, that just shows you that the way that the Communist Party thinks about the individual. You know, I find it's hilarious. I wanna say hilarious, not hilarious. It's actually sad that you have people here and they're so brainwashed. You have people over here clapping and you know, they are supporting socialism, whatever you definition you want to label it as. But yeah, you look at the history of China through Mao. Mao Zedong was a fucking sociable. Do you know how many people Mao killed? Yeah, wasn't it something like 20 million or 100 million or this conservative 34? Like proof of salvation, right? Yeah, starvation camps, forced labor. That was the great, you know, he had this policy of the Great Leap. Yeah, and it was to try to get people out of poverty, but it actually caused a lot of death through starvation, right? The Great Leap forward, yeah, killed 45 million. Stalin was involved in that economic mix because Russia couldn't produce a lot of food. So China was producing all the grain to feed the Russian army. That was in what, the fifties or sixties or something? Something like that. So yeah, a lot of people came out of poverty from his policies, but it was one of the biggest mass murders in history. And now you got a lot more people that are doing better, like hundreds of millions or maybe even a billion people are probably doing better now because of his Great Leap forward, but it's almost unsustainable that they can continue like this. Or is it because United States opened up the door with what's his face, the beer kraken Kissinger. When Kissinger went to China and they opened up economic policies. And so if China wasn't, so United States became the buyer's market. You know, the deal was to go there and get cheap slave labor and pretty much it is slave labor, different now, but it was slave labor. And United States became the vacuum. They became the buyers of everything being made in China. So if it wasn't the buy, sell marketplace that United States created, China wouldn't be here. Yeah, so much investment went into China. Huge. The last, what, 30 years or something. It's just insane how they've grown. And we've all heard stories of the ghost cities and all that where they just had this massive infrastructure rollout that helped employ a lot of people and do these amazing architectural construction epochs, really, that it had so many people employed and then they built these beautiful cities and then no one's in them. So it's a big waste just to stimulate the economy, but what's gonna happen with President Biden with the China situation? Because President Trump was very in your face about how China's manipulating their currency. China's taking advantage of the manufacturing. They're taking advantage of the trade deficit and all that stuff. So everything he said is true though. They are taking advantage. Yes, and he was actually standing up against China. He was the first president to challenge the one China policy, like he took a call from the Taiwanese president and acknowledged that they were a legitimate, like there was a leader of China. He also publicly acknowledged that Hong Kong isn't a free country anymore. Yeah, I mean, one thing about Trump is that like if you're following the real situation, he's not this evil racist dictator that the mainstream news has you lead to believe, but he isn't a great president. Like I'm actually happy to see that I'm not gonna have to listen to Trump's voice anymore or see his face. You're jumping the gun. Maybe, maybe not. I'd be happy to see that. Regardless, I'm not really like, I know I'm not brainwashed into thinking that Trump is a racist. Like you see that Trump just got more votes by black and Latino and Spanish or not black Latino and what was the other demographic he did super well with? Women. I just don't have a lot of Latinos, yeah. It's in general women. So more black people voted for Trump this year than any Republican in 60 years. So Trump's obviously not this Nazi, like Hitler racist guy that CNN and New York Times make you have to believe, but he is like a crude, poor speaker, bad example for children, not very statesman like rude. Like he is all these things and it is kind of annoying to have to listen to him speak. And I always have to put it on at least 1.5X or 2X whenever I hear him saying to get through it. But if Biden wins, which it looks like he will, I won't be too sad that Trump's, I'm not gonna have to listen to him anymore and I won't have to listen to the made up, like ridiculous things that they say about him. Like I'm not a fan of him and I'm also, I don't wanna be his devil's advocate. I'm such a centrist. I'm like, okay, listen, I have to jump in when people are on Facebook, whatever and say, this isn't accurate. This isn't accurate. You're kind of brainwashed here. I do it a lot less now, but I'm glad I won't have to do that because he won't be talked about anymore. That's gonna be all. So in a way it's good that this is, I'm hoping there's gonna be less divisiveness online. And I'd think that just like the Tea Party kind of faded away in their fervent sort of like it's time in the limelight. I think that the Trump, like the really hardcore Trump supporters are gonna kind of fade away too. And that it's not gonna go to like civil war or some kind, it's not gonna continue to grow as divisive as it has been. I think sure people are gonna talk about it, but I feel like it's good for public discourse, even though for privacy, for the economy, for the value of the dollar, it's bad that another establishment politician is in power, but in a way it's good. So I'm just kind of like neutral on it, but slightly leaning towards positive that Biden looks like he's gonna win. But I also don't wanna see Biden president because I know all the crazy shit that they did. You know, they kind of like are not gonna change anything. People's lives aren't gonna material change under Biden. Not like people are gonna get healthcare or they're gonna see their taxes go down or their quality of life's not gonna go up. It's still gonna be more insiders getting richer and the linear- Listen, the name of the game is status quo, and let's say keep the machine going.