 May 40 here, so Saturday Night Live came after a long mass card and the most draw-dropping line according to news media came when a comic named Michael Sheet said must attempt to buy Twitter outright shows how badly white guys want to use the N word. Really? Is that why there's this 2015 energy in the room once again that we might have some semblance of a restoration of free speech to Twitter? Is it just because white guys are just dying to use the N word? I don't know about you but I don't find that white guys use the most racial slurs. In fact in my experience, my limited experience, black guys use more racial slurs than any other group of which I'm aware but pretty much all strongly identify in groups use racial slurs. So to me on a scale of 1 to 100 with 100 being the most important, Elon Musk buying Twitter so that white guys can say the N word would rank about 0.5 in importance to me. And frankly I don't see any difference between using the N word and any other racial slur. I'm not like horrified by the N word, I don't use it because I mean for many reasons I don't believe I've ever used it as a slur in my life. I've only ever used it when I'm quoting or repeating something someone else has said or repeating a rap lyric. But God forbid I was to do that. I don't see it as any great sin. Why is it any worse than saying the K-I-K-E word for Jews or the SPIC word for Hispanics or any other number of racial slurs? I'm not really sure that any group benefits by giving the N word this sacred status that just supposed to be the most evil thing ever. I don't buy it. So Richard Spencer surprised that Elon Musk bought Twitter and I am surprised that Elon Musk put it off. So are the crazy 2015, 2016 days of free speech on Twitter, are they back or does Elon Musk have something else in mind? Facebook obviously became something much different as it went global. And I remember not being terribly interested in Twitter and thinking that it was kind of stupid to be tweeting about what you just ate or I'm going to the bathroom right now or something. But I did recognize Twitter and it is undoubtedly my favorite social network. I mean I even say I'm an addict. I feel like I wouldn't really be up on the news without it. I get my kind of daily feed of news from it. And it's not, but on some level it's the most mainstream site. It's the heartbeat of the internet. It sounds like a cliche or a pitch slogan, but I think it's actually true. On some level it's the most mainstream site and then on another level it's a rather niche site. Twitter, whereas Facebook is for normies, let's be honest. Twitter is for journalist, hot take artist, people keeping up with the news. It's rather niche to want to endlessly talk about Ukraine or whatever is happening. It's also the site for press releases, for lack of a better word. There's a reason why Donald Trump, who had a huge personal fan base before he ran for president, but there's a reason why it was so important in the Trump era. And Trump was posting all this stuff on Facebook and Instagram and so on, but it really was Twitter where it happened. That's where it seemed real. That's what everyone would link to and so on. And obviously he's getting banned due to January 6th was hugely important. There's just something about Twitter that I don't think you can imagine the rest of the internet without it. And Facebook has a cordoned off quality to it due to its design, its original design even, of mutual friends. Twitter has a kind of press release or I want to say this to the world quality to it. And I think that Elon must grasp that. And once it succeeds, I mean, think about it this way. So Twitter has, according to Statistica, 76.9 let's call it 77 million users in the United States. It has some 60 million in Japan. And then it just kind of goes down from there. It is not a, you know, so it's roughly a third of the country has some connection to it. And when you go to other countries, it's less than that. Facebook has a huge impact more than 100 million more users in the United States. It has 330, I mean, there are 330 users in India. As many people as there are in the United States, obviously it's a country of roughly a billion. But an even a social network like Snapchat. So Snapchat, I would say has no effect on the culture, no effect on politics. Now, if you're a high schooler, you might love Snapchat. This is how this is how you use it. If you're whatever, you know, I mean, people obviously are using it, but I don't think it really has the kind of impact it has according to this is Omnicore, it has 320 million. That is 50 to 100 million more users than Twitter. And yet it has no impact culturally. Now, again, you could say it has a lot of impact in the sense it's being used or its newsfeed or it's curated newsfeed is just God awful. And it's, you know, subverting the minds of teenage girls or all of that is fair and true. But in terms of the wider cultural impact, I don't remember a single time that anyone linked to a snap from Donald Trump or anyone else. It just it's a kind of subterranean site, whereas Twitter at its best is a public square. And I do think that that is how Elon Musk thinks of it. And I think that's a good thing. Now, another thing I would add to this. So I was just glancing at my feet before I did this. And I saw some things like, what was it like election wizard who has 300 thousand followers? I've never heard of this guy before, but he tweeted out, you know, Rachel Levine and Leah Thomas are men. This is a fact. So people are kind of testing the boundaries. Now that Elon's in charge and that tweet was not banned for what it's worth. I noticed people questioning the legitimacy of the 2020 election on Twitter for the first time in years and seeming to get away with it. So there already seemed to be fairly dramatic pre speech improvements on Twitter, which I think is a good thing might have been banned a month ago. That person is obviously a conservative of sorts. I've seen a lot of enthusiasm heard about it on the distant right of like, you know, we can say the N word again. At last, we're free. I don't see a whole lot of enthusiasm for saying the N word again. I mean, very, very few people only anti social people are enthused about saying the N word again. We've won. I'm not sure that's ever going to happen again. Yeah, I only lose us think that we've won because we get to say the N word if indeed we do on Twitter. I think that's, that's a bizarre take. I don't buy it. And I think that's really what's going on. Yes, you could probably tweet out something like Rachel Levine is a man that's just a fact. You will probably get away with that in a way that you might not have gotten away with it. Two months ago, again, you know, get suspensions and deplatforming. It's all very, the actual regime is very opaque. You never know what is going to piss someone off. But I don't think we're going to go back to an unregulated regime. The calls of Russian disinformation from Washington during the Trump administration for what it's worth affected Twitter, the rise of the alt right affected Twitter. I mean, we had the there was a Twitter sensor board in 2016 that was the ADL involved that certainly affected things. Just the amount of bots put pushing out, you know, well, we had the major pushback on social media came post Charlottesville show Charlottesville was the major disaster for free speech on big tech that was a comprehensive dialing back a free speech after Charlottesville crypto and, you know, NFT scams and all of all kinds. I mean, that that is a real thing as well. I think Elon probably does want more free speech. I think Elon Musk probably does have some kind of libertarian conservative values that he does. So what Elon Musk wants or what Joe Biden wants or what Donald Trump wants is one thing. But what they all have in common is they have to deal with reality. And the reality is that Twitter is a global business and that there are different standards of speech in different parts of the world. And Twitter right now makes most of its income from advertising. So even if Elon Musk is pretty close to a free speech absolutists, he still has to operate within sides back to turn the winds back. Right? Elon Musk is not the boss of Twitter. The situation is the boss of Twitter. And Elon Musk is part of the situation doesn't like the blue hair sensors ruining everything. But I don't think I think we passed a Rubicon in terms of the Wild West. And I think from what I can take from Elon Musk tweets on this matter, I think he cares about something a little bit different. So I don't think he is doing this. He's not investing 40 billion or whatever it is into I want to allow no sound. I see sound. My sound is coming through. Come on, man. All the 2015 alt right to say I will allow them to say the end word again. I do not think that's what he's interested in. I do not think he's interested in allowing harassment campaigns of female journalists or whatever. I don't think that any of that stuff is and Elliott Blatt says what does the permanent administrative state want? Well, it's not just one guy. It's not just one organization. It's not homogeneous. Right? It's not unitary. The administrative state is a verbal shorthand for what exists in every advanced society. There is no other way to run an advanced society but with an administrative state. What the administrative state wants is going to vary depending on the situation. So after Chechens came into the United States and committed some terrorism, there wasn't much Chechen immigration to the United States. Right? After 9 11, there were changes to Homeland Security. Right? We even got a Department of Homeland Security getting on an airplane change dramatically. So the deep state the administrative state, they're not this all powerful cabal. They're not unitary. They don't have one agenda. There are a bunch of people doing the best they can in changing circumstances. And depending on the situation, their priorities are changing. Actually gonna fly. I think that's gonna get banned just as sure as it was banned yesterday. From what I can glean that he wants is that he has an ideal of authenticating all humans. And you know, he tweeted again before he made before after he made his first investment, we bought 10% the company tweeted something defective. You know, why don't we authenticate people? Why don't we get blue checkmarks to everyone who buys the Twitter? Was it Twitter blue? I think it is where you pay a little bit more and you get some extra features. Yeah, it's $3 a month, the Twitter blue. Does anyone here have Twitter blue? I don't see the benefits yet. He is less interested in verifying reporters for Buzzfeed than he is in verifying the humanity of users and verifying people who are actually, you know, putting money over the barrel to support the company. And I you know, he's a businessman, but I also think he cares about this. So again, I remain a skeptic, but I do think that Elon, you know, he is a human being. And okay, great. Elon's a real human being. It wouldn't necessarily get down into this information, but it would make people responsible for disinformation and just stupidity. Yeah, so Richard Spencer is now very much against trolling and anonymity. So you will likely make fun of me for the way I often start my shows, particularly my solo shows, just just talking to my iPhone with a reflection on some, you know, some craziness in my past or some bad behavior in my past or some unfortunate tendencies in my past or some compulsive or addictive pattern in my past. So I find that beginning from a place of admitting my own brokenness, admitting the mess that I've created in my own life, that kind of centers me in a good place to begin commenting on, you know, everybody else. And before making grand pronouncements on life in the world, I like to start from the place of my own brokenness. So Richard Spencer is highly opposed to trolls now and highly opposed to anonymity online because now anonymity online and trolls are 98% against him. So when Richard in 2015 and 2016 felt like a king of the troll army, when anonymity online was generally speaking working in Richard Spencer's favor, then he didn't really have a problem with it. So Richard seems to lack introspection. Yeah, I think part of his change is that he's grown older and wiser part of his change is that he's been humiliated part of his change is that trolls and anonymous accounts are doing their best to wound him. But you know, what about all the innocent people who are wounded in Richard Spencer's charge of 2015 2016 encouraging gratuitous cruelty by anonymous trolls online? That is you saying it, you can't just go spin up yet more accounts and start tweeting about all sorts of nonsense. You have to actually take responsibility for what you say and face the music. I think that's a good thing. Yeah, I don't recall Richard saying this in 2015 2016. The alt-right of 2016 2015 probably would have been impossible without an anonymity. It wasn't just me, I spoke to media and So in 2015 2016, Richard Spencer was widely regarded as the leader of the alt-right. Now more than 95% of the alt-right seems to hate Richard Spencer. So maybe that change in situation, maybe that change in the power dynamic plays a role in Richard Spencer's positioning himself in a different way. Did you know, performances of sorts on stage in colleges. But the alt-right felt like something powerful, felt like something powerful and was making headlines all on its own due to the fact that it had so much energy and numbers. And part of the energy was because of anonymity. Anonymity in and of itself is not good or bad. I'm not opposed to anonymity. I'm not pro-anonymity. Anonymity comes with huge upsides, comes with huge downsides. I am for constructing incentives to try to maximize the good that anonymity provides and to try to minimize the downside of anonymity. So Richard is now very opposed to anonymous people getting to post online. I'm not opposed. I'm not supporting. I think it's morally neutral. It's like a cell phone. Anonymity online can be used for good or for evil. And it couldn't have happened without anonymity. That being said, don't you think that the alt-right ultimately faded out and collapsed due to anonymity? Yeah, it faded out and collapsed in large part due to your bad behavior and your bad direction so that people who weren't anonymous could not associate with it. Why is it that any decent person cannot associate with the alt-right? Probably at least 50% of the reason is Richard Spencer. Right? So that's why I like to start so many of my shows with some introspection, some acknowledgement of my own brokenness, some acknowledgement of the destructive compulsive patterns that I've often been enmeshed in with acknowledgement of things that I struggle with. So as someone who's been a blogger since 1997, unfortunately, I played a role in hurting some innocent people with some shoddy writing, with some inaccurate writing, with some unfair writing through the unfair use at times of anonymous sources where it wasn't in the public good. So to some extent, I have encouraged my own destructive anonymous troll army online. And like Richard, I'm growing older and wiser. It's, it would descend into hive mind thinking, it would descend into nonsense, it would descend into textbook harassment and lawbreaking. It was ultimately about people who never. Right. So who would imagine that a group led by someone who wants to invoke the Nazis would appeal to anti social people. Right. Richard Spencer went about appeal to anti social people. Right. People have all sorts of darkness inside of them, particularly shut in particularly people who aren't married, who don't have kids, who don't have jobs with a high income, high responsibility. Much of the crowd that Richard Spencer appealed to was already predisposed to acting out online and in real life in an anti social manner. And he accelerated their destruction. Now, Richard Spencer was not operating in a vacuum. He too was encouraged and deborged and deteriorated by Donald Trump's approach. Right. Donald Trump had an effect on our society in some ways. I think the effect was great. In other ways, the effect was negative. I think Donald Trump was great because he's done more than any president since Eisenhower to reduce immigration, particularly, well, to reduce immigration. Right. So Trump has done a lot of great things. He he said some tough truths out loud. Right. But he also cautioned the discourse for had don't have the courage of their convictions and aren't really willing to stand behind what they say and take responsibility for. That's a huge problem. And that is a cement ceiling on any movement. And it's a lot easier to stand behind what you say when you a trust fund can when you have a family that's going to pick you up and and support you and give you a place to stay in Montana when when things get tough. A lot harder to stand behind edgy words when you're just struggling for survival. And Richard Spencer made it impossible for any normie to have any affiliation with the alt right through his own antisocial behavior and antisocial language. Inimity. It's a double H story. After living through this experience, to be frank, I think getting rid of anonymity would be a good thing. Yeah. So when anonymity comes back to bite Richard's ass, now he is opposed to anonymity. But think about the hundreds of people who are damaged by the anonymous troll storms that Richard Spencer probably played some role in instigating the the antisocial behavior online. It would be a good thing in terms of your right to speak in the digital public square. But I think it would also be a good thing in taking responsibility for what you say. So as you can tell, I think it's a complicated issue. But I am subscribers will enjoy. So I'm going to try to be doing these. And it's something that makes the public sphere really unworkable. So first off, a bad thing, actually. But I did want to talk a little bit about Elon Musk and Twitter and why anonymity is a bad thing, actually. And it's something that makes the public sphere really unworkable. So first off, as I am sure you know, Elon Musk is attempting to buy Twitter. So two weeks ago, let's say he bought 10% of Twitter shares. He made a very heavy investment. And there was talk of him joining the board. And he was more or less welcomed onto the board. I noted the CEO was happy about it. Jack Dorsey was, of course, no longer the CEO was happy about it. But he ran into the problem of being a, you know, contrarian. And Richard was working his way to the top of his little sphere, right? He wanted pre-speech. He wanted robust discussion. Then when people reach a position of authority or of achievement or of fame, then they generally tend to want to reduce pre-speech, to reduce the boundaries of what is acceptable discourse. So Richard brought his way up by pushing the boundaries of acceptable discourse. Now he's achieved his infamy. He wants to narrow the range of acceptable discourse. Libertarian blabbermouth on the platform. He was willing to criticize the platform itself. And you can't have a board member doing that. So that fell through. And that seemed to be somewhat mutual in agreement. But then about a week ago, Elon Musk decided that he was just going to buy the whole damn thing and take it private and offer some $43 billion to just buy all of the shares at a price that's a bit discounted from where it has been, but certainly at a very reasonable price. And this, of course, created a tumult in the media. There were claims. And Chris Orton makes a great point in the chat. Blaming Richard and Hal Gaye for the trajectory of the online alt-right is Luke's go-to. He must have heard him say this 500 times by now. Well, if I refer to Richard Spencer's commentary 500 times since then, and he never references his own role in his own troubles and the troubles of the political movement that he was the leader of, when Richard speaks, but doesn't provide any context of his own role in these things, then yes, where there is no man, let me be a man, let me step up and remind people of that context, right? It was that, you know, how can we allow this fascist to do this to our favorite journalist-friendly media platform, etc., etc., etc. I don't need to go into that. Obviously, there's a tremendous amount of hypocrisy and so on. But one thing that has interested me, Elon has made some criticisms about Twitter that are either, you know, passe, or maybe a bit goofy or things like that, edit but in and so on. But he actually said something that I think is actually powerful. He did it in these short little tweets that he put up a few hours ago. This is, I guess, nine hours ago now. So, when you don't have power, you want room to roam. You want to expand the realm of acceptable discourse. It's like terrorism. Okay. Powerful nation states, generally speaking, don't engage in terrorism. Terrorism is what groups do who don't have a nation state, who don't have that kind of power that goes with having an official nation state and official military. And so terrorism is a way to try to even the power equation. And so too with discourse, right? Those who want the edgiest social commentary, those who want the most freedom, generally speaking in what you can say on Twitter and on social media, generally have the least to lose. This is the approach of those who are fighting their way out towards power. Then once you get power, then you want to kind of slam the doors on everyone else and limit discourse, limit the range of acceptable discussion. It's like with immigration. I am an immigrant to the United States. But once I get here, once I become an American citizen within a few years, I'm thinking, hey, we need to severely limit immigration to the United States. It's just like if I meet a woman and I fall in love with her, I don't want other guys dating her. I don't want other guys boinking her. All right. I find something good. I want to protect it. In the afternoon, if our Twitter bid succeeds, we will defeat the spam bots or die trying. And you follow that up and authenticate all real humans. Very interesting. Obviously spam bots are something that was not really taken for that was not really taken seriously. I've been inspired by Elon Musk. I have come to despise spam bots. So I disconnected nightbot from my chat. So do you miss nightbot? Are you surviving without nightbot making his his repetitive comments every hour? Even a decade ago, and I don't think it was taken seriously enough during the kind of wild West period of social media when you could more or less post anything you wanted. And maybe they were taken overly seriously by some people during the 2016 to 2020 election when, you know, anything that they don't anything liberals don't like that gets promoted on Twitter becomes, you know, it's a Russian pot or something like that. And, you know, that kind of language, obviously, it can be shrill. It can be stupid. It can be hypocritical, sure. But it's actually not fundamentally wrong. And this is something that I didn't take seriously enough during 2016. It's something that's very real and right. You didn't take it seriously enough because the extent that they were these things, they were disruptions that aided your quest for power. Important. And I'm glad that Elon Musk is talking about it. Now, perhaps one of the more benign ways that these bots manifest themselves is to, you know, promote a product or something by this moisturizer cream or whatever, you know, you don't really want that on your platform. You don't want that spamming up people's feeds, but it maybe isn't the worst thing in the world. There's no doubt. So you're now here, Richard Spencer decried the pollution of the public square. So when Richard was on his way up, he was quite happy to be in the middle of feces throwing, right? That's not unique to Richard. That's what people are out of power they're willing to do things that people in power are not so willing to do. Now, I don't give spam bots the same power that Richard Spencer does because spam bots can't take you anywhere that you don't want to go. All right, we did not evolve to be gullible that you can affect voter behavior, you can affect consumer behavior. No, you can't affect voter behavior and consumer behavior substantially with spam bots, right? They may move the needle by I would wage at less than 0.1%. We did not evolve to be gullible. And we did not evolve to question our own thinking. We evolved very powerful cognitive powers to find the mistakes and the flaws and the disadvantages in other people's thinking. But we did not evolve to apply that skepticism to our own thinking because it's not evolutionarily adaptive to be going around in deep introspection and questioning our first principles. But it is evolutionarily adaptive to go around with sizable amount of suspicion when anyone else is trying to change our mind about something. When someone else is trying to manipulate us when someone else is trying to persuade us, it's to our evolutionary advantage to have considerable skepticism. And we evolve brains that do just that you're you can in effect brainwash someone through spam bots. And this can be done clumsily. And it can also that's nonsense. You can't brainwash anyone through spam bots. Did that evolve to be gullible be done quite accurately, especially when it's done on Facebook in particular, which is a different platform obviously is very similar in many ways, but fundamentally different when people can recognize who you are by what you do and what you consume. So, you know, we know that you are a middle aged white guy in the Midwest who's a boating enthusiast and purchases beef jerky on occasion. All of that kind of thing can be discovered. So grocery stores have been doing this for a very long time. They see your churn and what you buy and so on. And you can create a kind of personal profile of someone. And you can also maybe predict who this person is going to vote for that Midwestern white guy in the Midwest who likes voting is probably a Trump supporter, high percentage chance that he is. And you can also kind of get ahead his hopes and dreams and fears and fantasies and phobias, etc. And you can nudge him in certain directions through creating fake news pages on Facebook through subtle kind of ad engineering. So he buys into this, you know, this whole thing that, uh, that spambots and, you know, Russian propaganda and, and the internet is essentially Richard Spencer is telling us that the internet is radicalizing our youth. And we need to clean up the public square. We need to decry this pollution in the public square. That that's where he's at now. Jing and free speech directly immediately that you are unpersoned when you're thrown off. The other thing I hear, which I think is equally wrong, though wrong in a different way, is kind of like, fuck you, I can just say whatever the hell I want. And I have some weird, you know, frog avatar and I that that pretty much summarizes a lot of your behavior, Richard, in 2015, 2016, 2017. And hey, it summarizes a lot of my behavior, too, between say 1997 and then steadily declining after 1999. So was it such so prominent after about 2005, I would say, in my life, do some, you know, alt-right 2016 or like quasi neo Nazi nonsense. And I harass female journalists and I, you know, drop in bombs left and right. And, you know, I'm just basically a malcontent on this platform. Well, I think that's also equally wrong. And one way of cracking this nut is for there to be an elaborate censoring regime. And we have situations like the hundred Biden laptop where Twitter, I mean, somewhat successfully censored that news story. Now everyone ultimately heard about it. And there was a bit of a stri-sand effect around it. And I think even Jack Dorsey has acknowledged that this was not a good way of handling the situation. But it was a remarkable achievement and censorship. If you want to use that type of language. Right. So there is something to be said if people can't be anonymous in a particular space that in and of itself ensures certain levels of decorum. Right. If you do have to stand behind your words in the real world, that is going to affect how you conduct yourself. So, so there's certainly a place in some forums for removing anonymity. Actually he meant by this. Maybe he's kind of expressing an intention or not. And as Elon Musk said, that is that, you know, again, we don't quite know what exactly he meant by this. Maybe he's kind of expressing an intention and not a policy, but making someone ultimately take responsibility for what they're saying. When you enter the physical public's realm and you hold up a placard, you you have the right to say whatever, but you do have to take responsibility for it. And I think an activist for the most part do. And it is always remarkable. I mean, this goes back to my journal entry from the other night. I just find it remarkable when people like Libs of TikTok want to have it both ways. That is they want to go out and be an influencer and get a hugely, hugely popular account and be in contact with all these politicians and journalists. But then they, you know, don't dox me, bro. Everybody wants to have it both ways. We all want the good sides of, say, being on YouTube, being on social media, being an activist, right? Everybody wants it both ways. People want the good sides with doing the things that they like to do. And they don't want the downsides. So Libs of TikTok is no different. Now, the Washington Post shows to link and to highlight, right, a page that listed the Libs of TikToks, not just a real name, which I have no problem with the Washington Post revealing a real name, but they chose to link and highlight her home address. Right? That is doxing. And that is a problem. On the other hand, that page listing her home address was for her real estate license. Surely she could have done better, right? Surely she could have made a better choice. Did she really have to put her home address on her real estate license page? And I remember when Ben Shapiro complained about Breitbart doxing him because they linked to his California State Bar page where Ben Shapiro listed his home address, right? You choose to list your home address publicly on the internet. That's in large part on you, not on the media organization that links to it. Now, I don't like media organizations and finding finding out a home address and looking to it. I blame them as well, but the individual who makes that possible also deserves some blame. Well, if you take part in politics, you're going to get doxed and there's a lot more that's going to happen than just doxing. You're going to get criticized. You're going to get attacked unfairly. I mean, look, I'm just telling you my story. Enough about me. See, this is still Richard's perspective that most of the attacks on him are unfair rather than Richard saying by my choices by my behavior and by my words, I created a situation in which myself and a lot of other people would come under withering attack. And this was because I gratuitously riled that up. I gratuitously incentivize my opponents to take action against my side. I fired up my opponents 1,000 times as much as I fired up my side. And that was a strategic and a social and a moral bad choice on my part. When Richard starts speaking this way, we know that he's learned something profound and that there may be some hope. The fact is, if you enter the forum, you forgo anonymity. You have become a public figure of some kind and you need to take on that responsibility. Authenticating humans, all real humans, as opposed to unreal humans, authenticating on all real humans would be a very good thing. And I think it would be good for the platform. It would get peace of mind to people. It would force trolls to take responsibility for what they're saying. And again, we don't know what this means. Now, does this mean that all real humans get a blue check mark? So if you prove that you exist in your citizen, you get a blue check mark. Or is it that, but then there are also a lot of anonymous accounts, or is it another way of cracking that nut, is that you are entitled to some kind of account. And so as a citizen of the United States, I am entitled to a Twitter account. And maybe if I have a business, I could have another one, maybe I could have another one. But you have to take responsibility for what you say. Entitled to something. This is the language of rights that I don't really resonate with. To be all rights are conditional. They're all situational. And whatever rights that you can be afforded to depend on the situation and on the situation of your group. I don't view us as primarily individuals born into the world with rights. I understand the world as people are born into it members of a tribe. And whatever rights that that tribe can afford will vary on circumstance. So I primarily view the world in terms of nations or tribes rather than in terms of, you know, individual human liberties. And respond to. But I don't feel sorry for this woman who has been quote, doxxed and quote. It's not exactly. This is Richard Spencer. And I also think we should go a little bit deeper and think about the kind of discourse and uses and abuses of sites like this. So let me talk about that first issue first. About how I don't quite feel sorry for this woman. She is apparently a orthodox Jewish real estate agent from Brooklyn. And she is one of the millions or she was rather one of the millions of anonymous conservative Twitter accounts reading the story in the Washington Post by Taylor Taylor Lorenz, which was published today. And it's been one of the major stories on Twitter all day. She started out doing the conservative stuff of 2020 and beyond, talking about South Steel, talking about COVID, et cetera. She didn't get a lot of traction doing that. She was one of the millions putting up more or less the same. Like Richard Spencer wanted to be an actor. Didn't really work out. Richard Spencer wanted to be a theater director. Didn't really work out. Richard Spencer wanted to take an academic approach to political issues. Didn't get a lot of traction. Richard Spencer found his meteor in live streams and podcasts. Content. You can tell that she was trying to do the thing where you become a novelty account. And, you know, these novelty accounts, I remember from back in 2016 or 2017 when Trump first came into office, there were these accounts like the unauthorized state department or various Trump parodies, you know, Trump tweeting from his toilet or something. And it kind of sounds like Trump, but it's all fun. And it's all, of course, demeaning. That's what the purpose of parody is for. And she, so she started an account as Joe Biden's house plant. Seems fairly amusing, but it didn't go anywhere. But a little over a year ago, things really took off with the lives of TikTok account. She found the perfect novelty handle. And she also, I guess, tapped a resource that wasn't being fully tapped. I don't use TikTok. I don't look at TikTok. She didn't find a handle. And that's what led to millions of people following it. She found a niche, a valuable niche. So it wasn't just a handle. It was a whole concept. And then she put in a lot of hard work and made some pretty good choices that maximized the appeal of what she was doing. Millions of people do, of course. And it seems to be just such an easy vlogging platform, easier to vlog there than it is on YouTube and so on. And it's all short and horizontal video. It's just, it's perfect for our, you know, low attention span, little effort content. And it's probably the most famous for, you know, people lip-syncing. Why does Zoomers do this? I don't know. Why do nurses feel the need to do this? I do know. I won't go into nurses. Why do people do this? Because people like attention. I like attention. Rich Espenso likes attention. Now, liking attention in and of itself is morally neutral. All right? Your like for attention can lead you to doing antisocial, maladaptive, self-harming, anti, you know, social, morally destructive things. Or it can lead you to do morally uplifting things, pro-social things, and adaptive things, things that are good for you. So, Rich Espenso, overall, his thirst for fame has led him on a destructive path. It's almost destroyed him. It certainly destroyed the lives of a lot of people near to him. So, she was finding all of these testimonial videos on TikTok from Crazy Liberals. And maybe even liberal is not the right word. And maybe even leftist isn't the right word. It's a lot of people who talk about it. And I can remember one in particular. And I can't quite remember the details, but I do remember the look in this woman's eyes. It was just a crazed look of psychopathy. Not diagnosing anyone or making any accusation. That was just simply my impression. And it was basically about a not even kindergarten. It was a preschool teacher who happened to be, by the way, a preschool teacher at a private school, not a public school. And she was talking, you know, we're talking about sex with your children. We're talking about gender. You know, we talk about all sorts of different identities. And look, it's creepy. We're talking about some way in which this does push our buttons for conservatives. It's a sense of loss and innocence. It's an attack on children for liberals just by the fact that lives of TikTok did get banned. And just by the fact that it's being reported on. Right. It did get banned by Twitter for a while. So it's been another victim of this oppressive big tech crackdown on free speech. So it's hard not to have some sympathy for it. And what if it turns out that Elon Musk is inspired to buy Twitter because Twitter banned the Babylon B. It's good to see the Babylon B is back. Was absolutely influential. She's featured on Tucker. She's featured on Joe Rogan. She's featured on conservative talk radio. She was probably driving a lot. Maybe not causing, but kind of, you know, creating an account that was really good fodder for the anti-CRT protests at school board meetings for the, you know, gubernatorial election. So iron law of life. If you hurt people, they will push back. And it's not always wrong to hurt someone. All right. So I think overall that what the Libs of TikTok account does is great. I think it's good for America. But certain groups, certain individuals are hurt by it. When you hurt people, they will push back. That's how the world works. If you don't want to get hurt, if your recovery is fragile, then try to minimize the amount that you hurt people. But once you start hurting people, even if you're in the right, right, they will hurt you back. You don't get to save America. You don't get to be a cultural hero. You don't get to change the political trajectory of a state or of a country of a community without paying a price for it. Virginia for the upcoming midterms. She was absolutely doing it. And attacking this account does, whenever you want to think about it, it does affect GOP electioneering. So she did seem innocent. But to be honest, if you play this game, if you're simply, if you have a Facebook account and you're tweeting about recipes and posting pictures of your children, yes, I do find it creepy, unnecessary, bizarre and moral if someone posts your name. The Washington Post chose to highlight and post a link to her home address. To me, that's unacceptable. To me, that's really bad behavior. I have never, ever, ever consciously chosen to link or to post to someone's home address. I have, I think once I posted some legal documents that contain the home address, and I regret that. And at least links to places where people could figure out where you live. Yes, absolutely. But that's not what happened. First off, this woman, Ms. Raychik, wrote about her identity on her Twitter, public Twitter account, like we all do. I'm sure if you scan my Twitter account, you could kind of figure out more or less where I live, what I'm doing. She did that, and that has been revealed. But secondly, she played this game. And if you're going to enter the arena, you can no longer, you know, whine about being an innocent person who's docked by the evil left. And there's a lot to that. I primarily agree with what Richard's saying here. I don't believe it should be socially acceptable or journalistically acceptable to highlight someone's home address. Right? I think the Washington Post definitely crossed the line there. But there's always going to be pushback when you hurt individuals and hurt groups, hurt communities, even when you're overwhelmingly in the right, even when you're fighting on the side of the angels, if you hurt other people, they are always going to hurt you back. They're not just out there doxing happy housewives, but the hell of it, who vote Republican or like Trump or who or so on. They're voting people who are playing the game and she was when you play the game, you take some hits. And so this notion of harassment against Taylor Lorenz and the Washington Post is strange. It's not strange because Taylor Lorenz and the Washington Post chose to publish this woman's home address. Right? Most normal people are revolted by that. Okay. So I was inspired to do a 50 minute talk this morning, listening to a lecture by licensed clinical social worker Donna Bevan Lee on self-esteem. And you think 40 that's the lamest thing ever. Well, just give it, give it two minutes. When you have a conversation before you have a conversation with anyone before you look at somebody in the car next to you that you don't even know who they are. You have to determine am I better than or am I less than them? Right. So I spent much of my life stuck in that kind of thinking am I better than or worse than someone else. I didn't choose to live this way. It sucks to live this way. It did me and other people no favors to live this way. But I would assume that most people who are live streamers have lived this way. It seems the overwhelming results of live streaming seem to be negative for people's lives. And so people are engaged in frequently in this maladaptive behavior out of a compulsion to try to create this imaginary superior self online because their real life self is so disappointing. So all day long I'm walking around, okay, now I'm going to check out the grocery line. Am I better than her? Am I less than her? Am I better than him? Am I less than him? I got to do this all day in order to determine where I step in and feel myself engage. My value relies on how I feel that I am in relationship to that person there. Right, you see this in most fights between live streamers that they measure their value in comparison to Ethan Ralph, in comparison to PPP, in comparison to Richard Spencer or to Greg Johnson or to Nick Fuentes. All right, these fights by the distant right, you know, tend to be over such, you know, trivial, oh, you know, this is how my life is better than your life and this is why I'm superior to you because you've got cancer. Super chat from the Mighty Puck 75. It says Modebug stuck with ideas and writing avoided the lure of power and as such destruction, he's engaged according to Vanity Fair. Why the hate? Well, yeah, Modebug did not engage in the trash talking and the gutter behavior of Nick Fuentes or Richard Spencer. So Modebug has, generally speaking, operated at a fairly elevated level and the responses to Modebug have similarly been at a fairly elevated level. We have a profound effect on how other people react to us. So to the extent that I don't understand hating Modebug, I just haven't found benefit for time. If I've invested in either reading him, reading about him or listening to him. As most autodidacts, most self taught people I've known, he seems to have an exaggerated sense of his own learning. If I'm better than them, I have more value. If I'm less than them, I have less value and then my interaction with them will be based on that. That's not self-esteem. It's not even other esteem because they don't even know they're in on it. You know, other esteem is well, how do you feel about me? And they tell you. So Modebug's main thing is that we need a monarchy. We need a CEO. And we need an autocracy. We need an authoritarian government. And we need to get away from democracy. And democracy is meaningless. And there's no difference between Republicans and Democrats. And I just think that's a useless direction. It's just intellectual masturbation. And it doesn't contribute much to understanding reality. But on the other hand, in certain contexts, I think he would probably be an engaging dinner party guest. I think there'd be certain times or places where it might be fun listening to him. He certainly loves the sound of his own voice. So I usually prefer that my girlfriends talk a lot more than I do when I often just like listen, enjoy listening to them just chatter away. It's just everything you're making up in your head. So not only is it happening and they don't know it, you've got to figure it out. Are they better than me? Are they less than me? So if you're going through life thinking are they better than me or are they less than me? You've got a problem. And that's how I've gone through almost all of my life. But the happier I am, usually the less need I have for that kind of comparison thinking. But that should be a tip-off. If you're going through life that way, that's a big problem and you're highly vulnerable to making maladaptive decisions and falling into addictions. Terminat, based on crap, I'm making up. Okay? So I'm making up. Right. So if you have this mindset, are they better than me? Are they less than me? You are very susceptible to making things up to try to elevate your false sense of self. You're very likely to seize onto a false sense of self which other people then will take great pleasure in puncturing and humiliating you. And so you see this with live streamers, just an unbelievable level of self-destructiveness. I mean, did not PPP like spread his ass cheeks on stream.me and do all sorts of absolutely ridiculous and humiliating things. Live streamers are known for making these antisocial maladaptive, incredibly self-destructive decisions in a vain effort to get more views. Andy Waski, like burning, setting fire to his nipple because when you have this algorithm running through you, are they better than me? Are they less than me? You'll be overwhelmingly compelled to alter, move outside of reality and lose touch with reality, increasingly live in a fantasy world where, you know, you're just so awesome despite all real science to the contrary. But they think that because I have this red wallet that I must be poor. So if I have this red wallet and I must be poor then they think they're better than me. So then I take my wallet, put it down here so they can't see it and then I'll be ashamed of it. When do you have time to eat? God, let alone sleep. This happens when you have these issues. You may not know it. Oh, here's a news flash for you, though. In order to get better you have to become aware. So get aware, be aware of when you are just in people's presence. Find yourself, am I doing that now? Right, and the solution to this kind of problem is instead looking for what do I have in common with other people? So instead of bemoaning all the Chinese people that you have to work around or all the blacks or Jews or Christians or evangelicals or Mormons or Latinos that you have to work around instead of bemoaning that maybe think instead what do I have in common with these other people and build off those commonalities? That is a path to greater success in life, greater competence in life, more happiness in life. You'll be more in reality this way. You'll feel less alienated from other people. So find your common connections with others rather than fixating on how am I better than or worse than others. And here is a down and dirty way to deal with this first issue. It's just you can do this. Find out. Say, okay, I'm not going to do that. I'm just going to find out what I have in common with them. I'm just going to think about what we have in common. Based on facts. We're both adults. Okay, there we go, right there. Say, we both have short hair. There is another one. So now I'm not even thinking about am I better than or less than. Okay, so that's the first. I mean, this is what self-esteem. It's not like, oh, I have bad self-esteem. Or I have, you know, it's kind of an oxymoron to even say bad stuff. You have self-esteem where you don't have self-esteem or you don't have it, right? But this is one, you can't do this on its own. I mean, you can start to say I'm going to identify the commonalities I have with people so that I'm not bouncing myself all over town every time I run into somebody and interact with somebody. So the next core issue is reality. Now, I know, and many of you have heard me say these things before, so just bear with me. Many people with greater minds than mine have tried to identify reality. And I'm going to do my best and just say that reality is how you look. So this woman is a cancer survivor. She went through some horrible amounts of humor. What you're doing, what you're thinking or what you're feeling. Now, if you don't know this part about yourself, how can you have self-esteem? If I don't know what I'm doing, if I don't know what I'm thinking, if I don't know what I'm feeling, if I don't know how I appear in the world, how am I going to know anything about myself? So I need to pay attention to this. And I'll tell you, I have these little quick ways to just deal with this on a day-to-day basis. And this one about reality, take the words I don't know out of your vocabulary now. She says when someone asks you how you're doing, how can you have yourself to reach for a real answer that just Sarah was saying? Oh, I don't know. So she's got a lot of resources here on her website. Donna Evan Lee, PhD. And she's got to talk here on her independence and addiction. Self-esteem. You didn't get that coming back to you. You didn't get the self-esteem. What you did was that when it wasn't coming to you, you said, what do I need to do to get that? So that there is the answer to why do people live stream. That's the dominant answer for why I'm doing this, why other live streamers are doing what they're doing, and why all sorts of people are doing maladaptive or antisocial or unnecessarily risky things because they didn't get that love, right? They didn't see a look of joy when they were an infant or a young child and they were looking at their parents or adults or caretakers. They didn't see love and joy smiling back at them. I grew up in foster care. Something got broken. I remember when I came to America at age 11, the number one thing people said about me is he's insecure. Everyone was saying he's insecure. So what does an insecure person do? He looks for ways to get love and coming from a somewhat desperate, needy place, right? Most of one's choices from this place are going to be maladaptive. They're not going to work out very well, and when you do find something that temporarily fills you up, you're likely to engage in it to excess, whether it's love addiction, porn addiction, food addiction, alcoholism, addiction, right? So most live streamers are coming from this place of didn't get the love, didn't see the joy when they were kids, and now feeling dysregulated, maladaptive, meaning not at ease, not happy with themselves. They have to create this altered state into the cyber world where you can create this imaginary super powerful, grandiose personality who's constantly thinking about am I better or worse than other live streamers? This is the psychology of the live streamer. This is the psychology of the addict. This is the psychology of probably a third of people in the western world. Okay, what do I need to do? What do I need to say? How can I be perfect? Oh, and if I'm not perfect, I'll never be good enough. Any perfectionists in the room? Okay, now you know. It wasn't coming to you. I've got to do it perfect. If it's not perfect, it's not good enough. I'm trying to determine, based on my anticipation of those parents' reaction to me, based on that anticipation, I have to decide what I need to do next to get that positive coming. If you grow up in an unsafe family. That's why people live stream right there. What do I need to do to get some love coming my way? You are always anticipating what your parents' next feeling would be. So, are you always anticipating what someone's next feeling would be? It reminds me a little bit of an Elliott Blatt. I mean, this guy has empathy just off the charts. He has empathy just bouncing off the walls. And then, two things happen. One is that you would try and figure out how to get that to change and make it better. Another thing that happened was that you started to mirror that and you would start to have the same reaction that they did. So that pretty soon, again, your brain is doing this, you're cycling through a cycle of emotional... It's about fundamentally being ill at ease with yourself. Just feeling like you're not enough. Feeling unhappy. Feeling angry, lonely, tired, and looking for something that has reliably made you feel better in the past. Something's coming up for them to gamble. And then, sex... Oh, don't get me started here, but I will. Sex addiction... When I was a young therapist back in the early 70s, the word didn't exist. Okay? All these other things? I kind of already knew there was something going on with a lot of them, but sex addiction and love addiction didn't happen. If you were a sex addict back in the 70s and you were acting out, you were either in San Francisco or New York or Miami and were gay men. Okay? Because they were acting out and suffered immensely for it. And of course, who's learning from that? Um... And if you were a porn addict, all right, you had to go get up out of your house, go into a store, buy a book. And now, how fast can you look at those pages and get anything out of it? I mean, really? Or it would come to your house in a paper bag thing. Nobody knew, right? What else arrives in a paper anyway? So, you know, what are you to do anything? You got to keep turning the page. Internet comes along. Click, click, click, click, click. You can put those images into your brain so fast. And you're, you know, all those neural pathways that we have that every time we do anything, we're either in an old neural pathway or creating a new one. If you're sitting there looking at internet pornography, every time you hit a new image, you click on a new image. So, yes, Richard Spencer is on a sub-stack. So, how long will he last on sub-stack? I haven't seen anything that he said or done that would violate terms of service. So, Richard Spencer certainly adapted himself to the new situation. And he actually stays within the the Overton window these days. But I would expect that sub-stack is going to get some pushback for having Richard on. A little bit more from Donna Beverly. This is what parents do. You didn't cause it. We didn't cause it. Bad people caused it. Seriously, codependent people caused it. And, honey, you're going to be okay. We aren't leaving your side. First thing, safety. She feels safe. Because the cops come in and says, don't worry, we're here. Do you feel safe? If you're a child, heaven's out. The nurse comes in and says, you'll feel safe. You're going to be okay. You don't believe anybody. Right, nothing good happens in interactions with others, particularly interactions with women until they feel safe. They come in and they say, honey, you're safe. I mean, did you all just feel that? You feel safe. Now you're not dysregulated. Now you can get back to the business of healing. You see? That's how important it is for when you're looking back on your own history to see how are those people acting? What was I thinking about myself? And the chat says, how long is too long to not fap? So I've been no fap for nine years. So I have not experienced any ill effects that I am aware of from nine years of no fap. Was I thinking that I was valuable that my parents were also happy to have me there? Did they think I was the most valuable asset in their lives? Did they say to me, and did they follow up honey, I am here for you. Whatever you need, I'm here. Understand there's another side of co-dependent and it's the better then. The better then has nothing to do with a lot of time and attention. And does being no fap still work? Absolutely. There's a tremendous sense of confidence that I receive from being no fap. There's greater clarity and greater self-control, so it helps me to interact with women in a better way because I've no longer trying to use the interaction to store erotic fuel for later. So I go through the day much more calmly, with more clarity, with more confidence and with more strength. Better than has to do with, well honey, you're better than everyone else. You don't have to go by the same rules. Yeah, I got a lot of that. I was raised with a lot of that. You're better than everyone else. And the chat says, well, 40 is an old guy with zero T. Look at this hair growth in just a few days of not shaving. This is not low T. You think these muscles are low T, bro? You think the hundreds of push-ups that I'm doing I'm averaging 10 miles a day or so walking and biking. You think that's low T, bro? Come on, man. Come on, man. Those rules are for those people out there who need them. You don't. Yeah, that's kind of how I was raised. You're a forward. You're better than everyone else. You're perfect. And then you as a child gets to control the family. Okay? That's a bad thing. Most of the time, that's not what people are here for. But sometimes it is. Sometimes it's the children they grow up and what are they who wants to be around this? Anybody? Yeah, I was often told that my mother, when she was carrying me in her womb, she was convinced this one's going to do something special for God. And so I kind of grew up with this messiatic complex that I was going to do something special for God. And I did. I created live streams. I'm acting like a love addict with you. I need you to be X, Y or Z in order for me to be okay. I need this off my head. So if I say though that I need a job so that I can support myself and my child, okay. So how did I do it? How did I go nine years? No FAP. Well, I recognized that fapping was not benefiting my life. I recognized that it was kind of warping my life because I was creating all these erotic hits as I'd go through the day and that would then warp my interactions with women and it would also often lead me to looking at pornography which did not serve me. So I recognized the downsides of fapping and then very quickly in the first week or so I experienced that the clarity, the strength, the self-respect and the improved communication and interactions with women that comes from no FAP. So I treasured the benefits and then I did something else that was crucial for my no FAP conquest. I started talking about it. Now, I don't recommend that you necessarily start talking about it, but for me because I'm just a weirdo, it wasn't too disconcerting for people when I talked about being no FAP. But I got my ego involved in a good way. I started telling everyone who had listened how I was no FAP and I started telling them about all the benefits that I was experiencing from being no FAP. So my sense of self and my ego got involved so it helped me to be highly incentivized to remain no FAP and to preach the gospel of no FAP. So a lot of difficult things I've been able to do by getting my ego involved and by talking it up, what I'm doing and then not wanting to humiliate myself. It works. I need eight hours of sleep. Absolutely. You don't want to see me if I don't have it. I need to eat good food. Would I like somebody to tell me the truth? Yes. It's not my job if they do or not. Because I want to have boundaries. Boundaries is a system of self-containment. Here I am. Right. What's a boundary? You hear a lot of talk about boundaries. So what the heck is a boundary? And particularly early in addiction you hear people talk about, oh this is my boundary. Or once you develop some recovery you don't have to be constantly announcing your boundaries. They start to come naturally. So most effective, successful, happy people you know have strong boundaries and they can't be knocked off course by your whims. Self-contained. My stuff is inside. I'm going to decide what I leak out on you. Or I'll decide what I tell you. Or I'll decide how I act with you. That makes me have boundaries. That makes me self-contained. The other part is you. I keep your stuff out there. I don't need to take it on. Now if you're a therapist and you don't have this. Right. So when people tell me bad things or distressing things it doesn't bring me down. You can tell me about something horrific that happened to you. I'm not going to lose sleep over it. It just like brushes off me. I get a charge that you can fight it in me. Like I feel a bond with you if you open up to me then I'm excited by that connection that we've formed. But I don't get burdened by other people's problems. You will burn out soon. If you're a nurse and you don't have this you will burn out. If you're a teacher and you don't have this you will burn out. Because when you're working with people without this can one be isolated and a no-fapper? Yes. It's a lot harder. Right. It would have been a lot harder for me if I wasn't announcing my no-fap status and providing like daily updates of the revelations that I was receiving through this new found self-respect you know inner strength and clarity from the no-fap life. Poop all day on you. You don't want that. Now people say you know it's like police officers can you imagine with no boundaries? Okay. Boundaries good. So, J.F. Guarrappi has reflected on his role with internet blood sports. Low IQ individuals. I mean it is looking with such low IQ individuals. I mean it is. Is this number one? Come on guys. Get it together. Nope. Yeah. Go to number one. Okay. Because internet blood sports should never be resurrected. The only person interested in getting it back. Okay. This reminds me of some old professor of Jewish literature. I remember from years ago he wrote this essay about how Jewish literature was dead and he got all sorts of things confused in this literature because what was really going on was that this guy was moving on from the scene. This guy was like in his late 70s or 80s. He was increasing the out of touch and so all sorts of people like to proclaim phenomena that are 10,000 times more than they are but they like to proclaim these phenomena whether it's blood sports or American Jewish literature is dead because they're no longer involved. So, J.F. Guarrappi, kind of like me, doesn't want the hassle and the bother of organizing blood sports. But there's no inherent reason why internet blood sports are dead. But J.F. proclaims the death of internet blood sports because he personally doesn't want to host them and participate in them anymore. But this is delusional. The truth is J.F. Everyone else involved is an absolute... No, I was not an orphan. I had a mother and a father but my mother got cancer about my first birthday and so my father couldn't really look after me while he was taking care of his dying wife and taking care of my older brother and sister and his job as a theologian and preacher. So, I essentially went into foster care with friends of the family for about 18 months. So between age 3 and age 4 and a half I stayed with a dozen different families and then my dad remarried about 6 months after my mother died and we all reunited and went to England and my father did his second PhD at Manchester University. So, my dad remarried in something like December of 1970 so I would have been 4 and a half. Absolute clown. You're absolutely correct. I've never said it in those... I want you all to know this, okay? Our Saturday episode got the equivalent of two months worth of J.F. views in one day. And because you got that number of views doesn't mean that the content is superior. It may mean that it's lower brow, right? It's easier to get views to tabloid content than intellectual content. J.F. gets 1,000 views a video. He peaks at around 1,300. If he gets Coach Redpill on or Dutton, he gets like 2,000. And in one day we did more viewership than he does in a whole month on Odyssey. Hey, it's good to be a clown, J.F. You should roll around. I like you, but... You're right on target. This is part of the reason why people who say we should reawaken the blood sports, they don't understand that I've carried the intellectual dynamics of the blood sports on my own shoulders. Okay, this is pure delusion. J.F. played a small role in internet blood sports, right? He wasn't the major force behind internet blood sports. He played a significant role, but still a small role. There would have been intellectual blood sports without J.F. Garopi, but he played a role. He was a role player. He's like that reserve second baseman who's thrown into a starting lineup and the team wins the World Series, but J.F. was not the be-all and end-all of internet blood sports. He was a contributor, along with many other people such as Richard Spencer and Baked Alaska and Andy Waskey. It took place on Andy Waskey's channel. Andy Waskey employed J.F. And then it completely... What a thing to say. I've carried the intellectual blood on the blood sports on my back for years. Get real, bro. You didn't do shit. It's the delusions of grandeur of how he's carried the intellectual weight of the world on his shoulders. He's just so salty. Do you see this? He's so good. He's so mad at our views, dude. Among a pool of idiots. A pool of It pays to be in the pool of idiots. Does it bother you if the pool of idiots get a thousand times more viewers and say income than you do? J.F. in comparison to other live streamers, he's an intellectual and he's smarter than them. But I do think it's J.F. the intellectual and everyone else are a bunch of idiots. The Keto casino, let's fucking go. It's real good to be an idiot. Dan feels good to be a retard. Yeah. I know. He's fucking losing his mind. Look at him here. He can't even believe that we destroy him every day. He's so easy. Complete incapable people. Incapable? It's so fucking good. They're so incapable, bro. The chances that this can stem back in any circumstance going forward are extremely low. That's not true. There's no inherent reason why they can't be compelling internet, you know, blood sports going forward. This medium does not depend on J.F. Garapy. If Mookie Betts retires, there will be no more baseball. Or if... Who's that guard for the Golden State Warriors? Who's amazing with the three-point shooting. If that little guy retires, there will be no more pro basketball. It's absurd. The game is bigger than you are. Right? There's no I in team. There is an I in internet blood sports, but there's no I in team. And IBS does not depend upon J.F. Garapy. Extremely low chance that the context, the social context that led to this form... Seth Curry is the amazing guard for the Golden State Warriors. The Warriors looking particularly dangerous this year. I just love their small team, like the death team when they just put essentially, you know, five guards on the floor. So I'm picking the Warriors to win the NBA championship this year. Math existing can ever happen again. That's absurd. The internet blood sports cannot happen again because J.F. isn't down with it. Because I don't know of anyone, including myself, who would want to carry that cross once more. It is... Yeah, it's high risk and high reward. It can go terribly wrong and it could be terribly aggravating for days after it. Right? And people can get, you know, terribly upset with you. Just like anything that's in the public eye, right? The more prominent you are, right? There are more dramatic upsides and downsides. Cross of making thousands of dollars and having fun. It is such a cross, Andy. I could not ever carry that cross of just being a celebrity, making all the money, the viewers. It is torture. Once he goes into clip two, he starts name dropping you. No, no, he doesn't. It is just torture to be working. J.F. is a similar trajectory to a lot of other distant right people. I used to do a show with all sorts of people. Now I'm primarily doing solo shows and Dennis Dow used to participate in groups of people doing a show and the extended live streams I believe is primarily solo. Godwin, Godwin, Godwin's podcast, Casey he used to participate with other people now it's solo and we were all far better off when we were participating with each other but because distant right live streamers and live streamers in general tend to be anti-social, maladjusted and dysregulated people they have a very difficult time sustaining relations with others including me. I wish I had Dennis and Casey and Rustin and Brundle and the whole gang back together again but I haven't been able to pull it off and it probably says something about me it's probably some social psychological, cultural, moral failure on my part that I haven't been able to maintain the group but all these live streamers used to be fun when they were part of a group now we've all gone our individualist ways and we're not nearly as compelling on our own as when we were bouncing off each other This torture by the way, yes it was boring, it was miserable JF is lazy I honestly think there's something wrong with him I'd be like this is gonna get so much views JF he'd be like no no, not this stupid drama I'm like everyone on the internet is talking about it, we can make money in views no no, we're gonna get all type on to talk to this guy about religion about the 1800s time I'm like that's not gonna get views though why? with such low IQ individuals I mean it is you'd have to pay me a lot now I know that there's money to be done no sorry, we get pappa pappa paid not you JF we would have you on to insult you and then kick you off the show and laugh and make you feel bad you would reduce the show's quality buy a lot the value of the show would be permanently tainted by JF appearing however, if JF could produce Wilshire Boulevard, perhaps we could let him come on for 2-3 minutes shows online in the online sphere between the alt-right and leftists if you remember during this time Jean-François Guenapé and I joined forces and I became a drug addict and while everyone was debating I would turn my camera off and cook well JF you get out the old straw dude I use a bill bro I use a bill straight up anyway so JF was very rude to me at many points and I was really bored with the show eventually when it wasn't crazy guests on it was just a it hated drama and comedy funny and entertainment he hated everything that made the show successful this was the thing like he hated everything that actually made the show what it was this is a sewer a cultural disgrace this is a toilet let us get Sargon on Sargon is the actual fucking sewer there JF Caryon is a black hole of knowledge not to be asked but we have Richard Spencer the savior of Europa here to tell Sargon he is not as smart as he thinks that he is the high mark of the show the high mark of the show is Andy burning his nipples and then doing the handstand and the chair broke that was the high mark of horsey life and the chair broke and you fucking fell that was the fucking the peak of the show let's get real I end up one day doing something to him like snarky how about you chill the fuck out oh yeah well I quit and then he leaves and then hopped on his channel and since we had a show that was basically based on the right it was called the white ethno state everyone joined him ethno state so I fell into a spiral this is where it eventually made me a coke fly to the states aim happened I make it back three years now I'm here so it was called the public space because there was a meme with everyone oh the public space with the public space and then he ended up smashing a retarded woman this is not hyperbolic this is a multiple retarded women oh it's not just been one there's many retarded women but you're here now what's up yeah what's up so I was like watching a lot of the stuff that you're doing and the thing is I know who warski is and I know why warski is complicated but we know why warski is know why medica is I don't know why ppp is I'm not really interested in who he is but like why is ppp like what is ppp that's like I'm genuinely curious like this guy came out of nowhere like he doesn't make as he makes an amazing video that propelled him somewhere or what's going on no none of that he on new years eve 20 ppp is a talent he's entertaining he's a compelling personality he's very good at what he does that's what he gives views I want to say yeah it was new years eve 2018 there was a site called stream me that I eventually matriculated to after I got banned from youtube and they used to have a leader board and I'd win the contest every week it's pretty nice actually uh and on new years eve he started a channel over there it was kind of a no I mean not no holds barred but you know kind of close to that I guess on stream.me he spread it look you have an antagonistic edge lord thing going on where you should be more supportive of the gang that's the problem his asshole he spread his as cheeks open on air on new years eve right so what type of person does that on a live stream alright that's not a happy well-adjusted person at ease with himself with other people who you know had loving parents 2018 thank you pansy by the way for the coffee there and um he called into the show I guess a little time after there was some lore about how he fucked crowd over he didn't actually do that we just said that on air to make crowd look stupid um and then he called in and he was a faggot and basically I treated him as a loser and a bitch and I would just not have him on because he sucked and so and he's just treacherous I mean what you will talk about but anyway so then he decided to just be like a psychotic critic among pretty much just whatever he could yell and rant about every single day about me uh he would do so that's kind of how I guess he got his profile because there's always an audience for anti Ralph content basically but he was particularly known as like psycho is this another guy that Ralph made yeah no ppp doesn't get his his audience because he's anti Ralph or there's just this you know enormous you know anti Ralph uh should be easy to have streaming and audio we're supposed to hear uh well anyways um if loud and clear Sharia says there are some people hearing us I'm getting and it has disappeared today it has disappeared today um and this they have done to Richard Spencer at some point I believe pineapple plethora says how was gap verified but there you go I mean they they are stuck in using the verification badge as a badge of status and that's one thing that um that even musk wants to fix refresh your browser now most people have succeeded at getting audio that way all right um so yeah the the twitter blue badge has become a symbol of status and a symbol of leftism precisely because of this verification it's like it's like twitter didn't understand years ago that gab was going to be associated with the right wing why would they have accepted then and not now you've done further research you now understand that gab is not the success of gab is not in your interest it's absolutely ridiculous and it shows that the people at twitter are willing to use their power in arbitrary ways one moment almost everyone uses that power in arbitrary ways this is all all hype um what do you think i'll start with you mark i think you might be all hype said i don't know if he knows all the nooks and crannies of this or whatever i'm sure you probably do know a little bit about what's going on here for sure uh fuentes versus medicare the mega clash tonight at 9 p.m eastern what do you think well i really like uh jim and i really like nick i like both of them i think they're both uh great content creators i think jim's made some of the best videos i've ever had the pleasure of watching in the history of the internet i think everyone's laughed at his video piss yourself to own the libs and also his documentaries i really like his documentary on wings of redemption that was particularly wonderous and i think he's always been to me he's always been a good guy i've always enjoyed his content i'm not really sure how they sort of blew up but i think nick is obviously leading the biggest sort of nationalist group in america at the moment he is doing great work he's having great conferences he's doing some really really um great great work and i don't know i don't really want to see two people that i like going at it i i think that um both of them have done so i'm reading this book on the making of the atomic bomb and it just seems apopo here it's all about these like unstable molecules you know colliding with each other and you know bursting into magnificent explosions right that's the that's the the distant right live streaming sphere really really good stuff and ultimately the two people i'd like to see on the same side what do you think about that all hype i'll be honest i want to see nick just absolutely wreck and destroy medicare tonight i think his stream today we're going through this morning i'm biased obviously you know i think that goes without saying um but yeah that's that's what i want to see tonight well i mean i like obviously like you're in it and i think this is like a month like this is clearly like mob dynamics going on and i think the biggest sign of like the mob dynamics is the um the rape allegation i think that's like the biggest because like what you have is you have a woman telling a story putting on the waterworks and then like medicare just believes and look let's be frank about this like part of like one of the traits of like i guess the quote on right wing is like not believing claimed victims of stuff and just like sort of being skeptical and like seeing medicare just kind of believe it based on words and waterworks um makes me think something's different going on like about that that's basically my view view of this and like there's there's really it's really it really looks like there's there's a mobbing campaign and that's where i'm also wondering if like i don't know part of like the conspiracy brain of me is like nick is doing this for like um to attract people to to cozy because he's building up a platform i'm pretty successful successfully on my dad and i wonder if this is like kind of if he's kind of going all in on this just to like um not just for it but like as a as a bonus to bring people over to his platform since this is kind of a cozy adjacent event but that's my view on that now as a bonus that it's bring up yeah i mean i could see that a little bit that this like big fights happen on cozy right or you know nobody gives a fuck um but also i don't know i think i think the critiques he made are kind of cutting really just about the this his whole entire style um and then like you said of course you brought up the fake rape accusations they threw my way how they hound everybody who comes on my show they how me when i go on other shows i mean clearly their goal they talk about life or nation who's they are quite frankly behind the time medicare i'm gonna fall out with gater and warsky medicare but i mean they're involved too i mean he's pushing that they're all on the same group now basically i mean i don't have to say like they're all pushing that shit on chemo casino uh medicare is going on there trumpeting that stuff promoting their shit like i mean this is just a fact right so they're all running together basically uh and he personally uh has trumpeted that bullshit uh the fake rape allegations uh and just listen and believe for no other reason than and it's not credible by the way and it's just listening believe for no other reason than he's trying to fuck with me right and then he goes oh well ralph why aren't you taking it so seriously why aren't you getting so upset okay well you know that's a serious fucking thing right uh and some of these retards actually run with it and actually fucking believe that shit i don't know i mean i can imagine that jim himself believes that garbage but you know when so waski and ppp did like nine hours on on the uh the medica versus the quintess one point oh i started gamer gay oh yeah get the facts guys oh yeah oh shit we gotta get i love how big says this shit and then he literally did a video crying about the right wing and how he's gonna be left wing now remember felt felt felt remember baked was yang gang gang gang gang gang rap gang gang rap he was yang gang universal basic income super right wing ha ha ha ha i really amused i used my amused voice i thought i was like fake laughing next call thing so hard nick just fucking eat a dick shut up and you want to just do it you need three of you fakers at once nick you're so weak you need three people little bitch look at look at look at i'm so i'm laughing i'll read your you were just saying what types of people can don't that shit jim does we just asked him about it and he won't give a straight answer there you go about swatting big no i said i felt it like the reality is they can't even get a win against how low baked is like lamb has been getting shit on by nick route like everybody everybody gets their w against flam oba can't even get that yo but his thing is though but you can't even debate that because baked is always an L it's always an L i mean you may as well call this four on one because flam is a complete life even still jim is winning like handily he's right so there's a saying that all the world loves a lover it doesn't but all the world loves is a good fight there's nothing more compelling than a good fight okay thomas edson got a column today where does all the hate we feel come from so the story the 21st century is less the story about exponential population growth and it is a story about differential growth marked by a stark divide between the world's richest and poorest countries the population pressures are blowing the top off a pot already boiling with poor governance civil war and environmental destruction at best is on the dim hope for a peaceful future when the pot boils over countries across the globe feel the effects in the form of refugees and terrorist extremism so what we need to deal with this is more self-esteem guys if somebody asked you about yourself make yourself know you know okay don abevan lee would be something like if it's worth doing it's worth doing in the extreme take that out and say if it's worth doing it's worth doing in moderation how do I know what moderation is if I'm busy in extremes I will tell you find one or two people sponsors are good therapists are good somebody in the world that you admire that you think has a clue you watch them and say through their lives how much drama do they have in their life and even if they do have drama in their life say something happens generally speaking drama is the poor man substitute for accomplishment drama and attention to the poor man substitute for genuine connection and love back to the new york times so we've got victor abevan lee election to a fourth term you've got marina lepen's 41.5% showing in the april 24th french presidential election in the united states immigration has become a primary driver of the polarization between republicans and democrats crucial to donald trump's election in 2016 also crucial to donald trump's continuing lead in the poll for the 2024 presidential nomination so back in 2006 david callman a professor of demography at oxford described what he called a third demographic transition in his book immigration and ethnic change in low fertility countries so a third demographic transition is underway in europe and the united states the ancestry of some national populations is being radically and permanently altered by high levels of immigration of persons from remote geographic origins or with distinctive ethnic and racial ancestry combination with subsistence replacement fertility and accelerated levels of immigration of the domestic population so combined low fertility high immigration and you change the composition of national populations and the culture physical appearance the social experiences and the self-perceived identity of the population so british demographer paul moorland told the bbc the huge expansion in white populations that we previously took for granted is now retreating so the west has been steadily retreating christendom has steadily been retreating in worldwide numbers as percentage of the national population and in part in influence historically majority white countries are becoming more diverse we've got mass migration into europe and america changing base of these continents so if you look at the ethnic makeup of trump voters and his slim electoral victory in 2016 it's clear he would not have been elected if america was less white no it's not clear because many latinos and black men shifted into the trump column in 2020 brazil is not a white country and yet it elected jair balsunaro so africa is about to have a huge population explosion by 2100 will likely be 7 times as many africans as europeans the world is set to become much more african boy this is going to be exciting in the 2019 book human tide this demographer paul moorland wrote if the biggest global news story of the last 40 years has been china's economic growth the biggest news story of the next 40 years will be african's population growth so the continent as a whole in 1950 had less than half the population of europe today african's population is a third larger than europe by 2100 it's likely to have quadrupled again while europe's population will have shrunk so fertility rates in europe and north america are below replacement levels among whites now what about the psychological reaction to immigration that varies across the electorate so in a 2012 paper tracing the threads how five moral concerns especially purity help explain cultural wall attitudes you've got these academics and by jonathan height who argue individuals who view illegal immigrants as weakening the us economy social conservative position might also fear that immigrants will bring in dangerous and polluting foreign elements purity and subvert american traditions and order authority so for some people immigration is akin to contamination immigration allows impure foreign elements into a sacred and pure american body politic and those apprehensions about contamination drive their resistance to immigration perhaps as much to legal as illegal i think this is absolutely correct and it's not just something unique to america this is a long human tradition so jews for example there will be a tendency among many jews to look at scants at converts because they are impurifying our vital bodily fluids so the stronger you value purity the more discomfort you're going to have with contamination the more discomfort you'll have with immigration so 2014 book democracy and other governmental systems the authors develop a germ related stress theory a logical dimension of xenophobia ethnocentrism traditionalism and authoritarianism joins to pathogen linked threats so individualism and liberalism democracy anti-authoritarianism and women's rights and freedom found more commonly in countries with relatively low health related hazard levels so when health related hazard levels rise or any hazard levels rise you get less individualism you get less liberalism you get less democracy you get more authoritarianism and you get fewer gay and women's rights and you get less freedom where people are under threat they are more interested in survival than they are in freedom so in contemporary societies you've got collectivists and individualists and they differ in their view of the social structure of the society so collectivists emphasize the boundary between in-group and out-group which is how the majority of the world sees life right 90% of the world is collectivist it's just that the largely Anglo dominated portions of the west are individualist but 90% of the world is collectivist most people do not view other people as primarily individuals most people primarily view other people as members of groups and react to them accordingly so collectivists emphasize in-groups and out-groups they are distrusting and unwilling to contact out-group members generally speaking individualists make less distinction between in-groups and out-groups they are more trusting of and show more willingness to contact out-groups also we are talking about uncertainty avoidance so collectivists and those who identify very strongly with their in-group tend to have high uncertainty avoidance that which is different that which is uncertain is tremendously threatening generally speaking to say central and eastern Europeans those with high in-group identity so there is this growing line of academic research that emphasizes the psychological motivations for disease avoidance and this is shaping opposition to immigration so over human evolutionary history pathogens and infections have constituted a central threat to our species so in addition to the physiological immune system which fights infections once they enter our body our species has also evolved psychological motivations to help us avoid coming into contact with infections in the first place so these psychological mechanisms you can call them the behavioral immune system and they operate automatically at the unconscious level they work through emotions of disgust, fear of disease and they motivate people to respond with avoidance and distance taking in the face of potential infection risk so the fear of disease may be a misperception not based on reality but it may well be a powerful psychological trait prompting oh no prejudicial judgments life happens ok so say their life is busy happening happens to them but they don't go spinning off they're able to stay grounded they know what they're feeling they know what they're thinking they know what they're doing they know how they appear even if the world is spinning around them they're like finding serenity amid the sea instead of trying to find a serene sea there is no such thing the sea is just wild find serenity there so somebody that you know has this you bump up against not knowing is this moderate or not I don't know what normal is if I have moderation issues normal baffles me ok if normal baffles you just look to look forward 40 is the embodiment of normal so in modern diverse and multicultural societies facial birthmarks which are a prominent mark of murderers murderers have far more facial texts and birthmarks and disfigurements than regular people it's one of those things you're not allowed to study but we really should be studying what are the giveaways that someone is more likely to be dangerous if only nature and color coded people so that we can kind of figure out who's more likely to be dangerous who's more likely to be fast who's more likely to be violent who's more likely to be athletic who's more likely to be cautious who's more likely to be intelligent if only nature and color coded people it would make things so much easier but facial birthmarks physical disabilities differences in skin color and ethnicity are subconsciously misinterpreted guys as cues of potential infection risk with skepticism and distance taking as outcomes well sometimes it's a misinterpretation and sometimes it's an accurate interpretation depends who you're talking about the people varying the sensitivity of their behavioral immune system so on a 1 to 10 what is the sensitivity of your behavioral immune system so some people are more prone to experience disgust in situations that involve potential risk such as drinking from another person's water bottle so have you seen the great academic paper the behavioral immune system shapes political intuitions call on why and how individual differences in disgust sensitivity underlie opposition to immigration and who can forget that other academic paper the behavioral immune system shapes partisan preferences in modern democracies disgust sensitivity predicts voting for socially conservative parties these papers support the idea individuals are more likely to be skeptical toward immigration and to vote for socially conservative political parties that prioritize social conformity order and exclusionary policies toward outgroups and unfamiliar others so someone with an elevated fear of pathogens someone who's more or less translated that fear into opposition to immigration may view liberals to open the nation's doors as a threat to his health and to his life the extreme behavioral expressions of prejudice against marginalized groups are morally motivated behaviors grounded in people's moral values and perceptions of moral violations so we got a 20 21 paper here investigating the role of group based morality extreme behavioral expressions of prejudice so this is why I love Thomas Edsall's columns they're just packed filled with the latest and greatest academic research so group level moral concerns loyalty authority and purity predict extreme behavioral expressions of prejudice even after controlling for political ideology so what is the moral legitimization of violence you have to look to the 2014 book virtuous violence hurting and killing to create sustained and and on a social relationships so while violence is considered to be the essence of evil and the prototype of immorality but if you examine a violent acts of practices across cultures throughout history you see the opposite people hurt and kill people when they feel that they ought to when they feel that it is morally right even obligatory to be violent the people are morally motivated to do violence to create to conduct protect redress terminate more on social relationships with the victim or with others so you can call this virtuous violence theory political conflict moves into the zone of morally justified violence when elected officials and candidates focus their campaigns on grievance now the news media for example has been whipping up grievance on the part of blacks of women of gays of transsexuals and should we examine the role that the news media has played in whipping up grievance among minority groups and then the astronomical rates of crime by some groups in this country maybe there's some connection between the amount of grievance that's been whipped up by the news media and by the academy and astronomical rates of violence by those groups populist political movements gain power by leveraging feelings of grievance well so do left wing political movements or political movements gain power by leveraging feelings of grievance or national groups or groups have feelings of grievance whether you're Jewish, Christian black, gay, trans Australian every group gains solidity and in group identity and a sense of power by playing up to agree their grievances it can be invigorating now if you overdo it it can become destabilizing and weakening but generally speaking groups like to evoke past grievance because it increases your in group identity rabbis will talk about you know how Jews were oppressed, how Jews were oppressed now, how Jews were oppressed 3,000 years ago, 2,000 years ago 1,000 years ago because it whips up in group identity and it gives them more passionate and devoted people that they can then lead but evoking past grievance often comes with a cost that can make you if your grievance is too intense it can make you less happy and less effective so a mild level of grievance probably serves you by giving you clearer in group out group identities but when you take your level of grievance too high it makes you maladjusted to life so evoking past grievance can be used to justify undemocratic means to gain political power and it risks initiating a self escalating cycle of interfactional political conflict and then as conflicts escalate so do the perils of grievance politics well the most prominent examples of grievance politics have been by the news media on behalf of minority groups such as women gays blacks to a lesser extent Latinos and Asians in America. Feelings of grievance lead people to feel licensed to abandon previous moral and procedural constraints so that was the danger of Republicans proclaiming that the 2020 elections were fraudulent because then you remove all moral and procedural constraints from people so abandoning moral rules such as adherence to democratic political tactics or prohibitions against violence can obviously cause explosive situations right you can foster an increased willingness to condone undemocratic means to achieve desired ends up to and including violence so partisan anger is associated with tolerance of cheating lying and voter suppression but what is voter suppression asking people to have identification that that's the example according to the media the academy of voter suppression so politicians can give action to latent attitudes and they can organize collective action or harness the power of the state so trump supporters would have a latent tendency to oppose immigration when trump comes along tells them we need to build a wall that makes them think that immigration must really be a problem and so this latent tendency is activated then the state starts building the wall aggressively enforcing immigration restrictions and that brings power and action to these otherwise latent tendencies so hostility to immigration needs to be tightly related to a person's large world view person that tends to be right wing will also tend to have hostility to immigration person is left wing will tend to be more open people on the right according to many academics see the world is threatening and they described as having a closed world view so openness is strongly correlated with immigration attitudes openness strongly moderates the relationship between inflows of migrants into one's area and self-reported well-being of existing residents so openness captures the degree to which people are attracted by novel stimuli and entails a preference for variety in new experiences for people comparatively low on the personality trait of openness so that's one of the big five openness conscientiousness extroversion introversion neuroticism for people low on openness demographic change and all it entails from exposure to new cuisine music and amenities not to mention crime may be a daunting prospect but people with high scores on openness demographic change offers the potential for exciting new experiences so there's a new book open versus closed partisan conflict is extended to cultural and lifestyle issues engaged citizens have organized themselves by personalities called this dispositional sorting those with closed personality traits have moved into the republican column over the past few decades those with open traits become democrats open citizens now take their economic policy cues from trusted elites on the cultural left or close citizens adopt the positions of those on the cultural right and so I'll just ask I know that sounds really simple it is but you know these are simple things that you can do you can decide I'm going to look for commonalities with everybody I see so that I'm not zinging myself around to determine where I fit in this world where my value is I'm going to stop saying I don't know if somebody asks me how do you feel I will say give me a minute and then I'll go through and say okay so my feelings pain, my feeling I am feeling alive and engaged and looking forward to getting on my exercise bike and watching the end of season 5 of Better Call Saul so that's what I'm feeling right now so there's a new collection of essays called a research agenda for political demography and at one extreme in high and middle income countries the most recent transition is to extremely low fertility and low mortality leading to a shift in the composition of various age groups far more elderly than youth, planning proportions of those in the middle age, the world's most developed countries national goals of economic growth and more than 2% are mismatched with shrinking populations for the idea of infinitely expanding economies is rubbing up against demographic reality some states with low fertility immigration is eroding the advantages of long-time ethnic majorities, political tensions are high historical examples of majority ethnic groups being displaced and they're not being tremendous conflict and tragedy rising support for anti-immigrant far-right parties of populace particularly in the US and Europe demonstrate the connection between demographics and politics lower income countries fertility remains high but declining mortality means these populations are growing exponentially so politics is about organizing fear, democracies that break down and republics dissolve when fear is used too often as a motivating tool as a partisan issue issue now is where the political system can begin to organize our fear of one another in a constructive fashion that resolves rather than exacerbates conflicts Good evening and welcome to Tucker Carlson tonight happy Wednesday it's depressing to say it out loud but it's true there's probably never been an institution in this country more thoroughly discredited in the field of quote public health is right now at this point it's almost impossible to take any of these people seriously and that is not a good thing it's a bad thing we need credible public health authorities but we don't have them actually we do they've done a decent job they've been basically right and when new information comes in they change their minds and they're faced with a very difficult task they have to simplify the situation so that regular people with 100 IQs and below can grasp what's going on in fact after all we've seen ask yourself who would you be more likely to trust some guy selling discount timeshares in Cabo or a self described epidemiologist appearing on MSNBC it's not even close the timeshare guy might be sleazy obviously he is but is he the one who shut your kids school down for two years for no reason is he the one who forced you to take untested drugs that you didn't want is he the one who demanded you stay home in fear even as he applauded unmasked BLM rioters torching buildings and cities okay now it's been forced to take untested drugs vaccines were highly tested across America no he's not the timeshare guy whatever his obvious faults didn't do any of that the people in lab coats did it and they were the exact people you're supposed to be able to trust but you couldn't because they lied to you a lot and they still are lying to you guess what everybody lies at times everybody has to deal with multiple incentives if someone else was in Anthony Fauci's position he would not have behaved that much differently he would not have behaved that more admirably but you obviously have to be a political type of person to achieve Anthony Fauci's level of power here's Tony Fauci from yesterday we are certainly right now in this country out of the pandemic phase namely we don't have 900,000 new infections a day and tens and tens and tens of thousands of hospitalizations and thousands of deaths we are at a low level right now so if you're saying are we out of the pandemic phase in this country we are we're out of the pandemic says Fauci and that means you are now free to transfer the hate you once felt for your unvaccinated neighbors directly to Vladimir Putin and by the way please do Dr. Fauci's orders okay thank you but wait a second even if you're one of the many people who has recognized for many months that the coronavirus pandemic was indeed over and who hasn't known that since when did Tony Fauci come to the scene we don't know we don't know the direction of the virus right Fauci like other epidemiologists are doing the best they can changing circumstances with often contradictory information conclusion now the tape you just saw is from yesterday okay but it was just last week days ago that this very same Tony Fauci was scolding a federal judge for daring to end the airline mask okay this is a mandate without his express permission in other words just days ago this pandemic was raging raging so intensely that you had to cover your insolent little face the useless paper mask is a signifier of your terror and obedience those are the rules Fauci demanded it watch this is a public health issue and for a court to come in and if you look at the rationale for that it really is not particularly firm and we are concerned about that about courts getting involved in things that are oh so yeah we should just allow the government bureaucrats to make all these decisions right there's that one who's no group that's always wholly or always right whether it's government bureaucrats, scientists, courts unequivocally public health decisions I mean this is a CDC issue it should not have been a court issue no democracy here this is public health this is a CDC issue federal courts have no power we'll tell you when you can have your freedoms back peasant that's what Fauci just said and again that was just last week and now suddenly this same guy tells us that the dreaded pandemic that ruled our lives for two full years is just gone disappeared without even a press well that's what the evidence seems to be right now let's get a little bit more nick point as versus mr. medica breakdown from waski and ppp so much I'm having a lot of fun with this now I'm getting a little bit like this is too much nick for one sitting by the way right yeah it's too much you're spamming the same thing spam spam spam spam I'm sorry I'm sorry you're shooting me I'm sorry I'm sorry I can't hit good numbers hug box buy more bots is it working I'm pressing the funny button but wait wait let me try another one I've been listening to you for an hour and I haven't laughed once isn't that your thing you're hollering you're hollering Jim got you hollering I got her hollering and off of this subject and off of this back to your fingers up Ralph's ass that's your fingers up Ralph's ass and you're smelling I like how scared you are and you're licking them around and you're licking it out this is disgusting is this really the time step somebody I did this joke on the destiny stream somebody's like you're Ethan Ralph it's just a joke I feel like I'm losing my mind right now by the way this is like fucking purgatory or something I apologize Catholics purgatory is real and it's this stream and then medicar comes you gotta love me because you're all about Ethan Ralph I hear silence because everything that you tweet about it's so silent in here it's silent because I think we should bring Ethan Ralph yeah I mean six and a half are right he's supposed to be the guy into the occult he's supposed to be the satanist but like compared to what Nick Fuentes has turned into six and a half is positively christlike I mean how can Nick Fuentes blame christ as king and speak this way yes please we can get live updates right here we can just cut out the middle no it doesn't I guess if the link got leaked so we have a few uh randos Nick are you acting as a middle man is that what you mean no I'm saying your twitter is the middle man we could cut that out and we could have Ralph we could have Ralph say things and then you could just tell us what he said we could bring Ralph in and then you could just tell us what he said because you're like the Ralph news network so it's like Ralph says something you could just be like Ralph just said this it's funny because he called him a pig again get it I don't imagine like living in his body and having his brain that's purgatory that's kind of fucking scary he did a juvenile main pop I don't see Ralph but I see I see baked if you want me to drag him in and that's just the thing like he refused to allow him to bring up that Ralph was gonna smear Gator as a white nationalist go to his hometown he just refused to let that point and Jim honestly should have just kept pressing him on it and honestly because they would just make him look so bad he's to defend that like it's a shame that Nick was able to deflect that away but at this point Jim knows like he's already felt that these fuckers completely and by the way the entire chat I'm sure you guys have seen has been knives and I agree with you I think there's like a bot in there that changes the name and puts the same knives it has to be I wanted to come in earlier so drag him in Destiny if you're still listening Destiny left a while ago because I waited too long Destiny is in bed like you just brought a bad shit to do again I don't know if he's watching it still if Flameco are you done have you made your point Michael next time when you see Destiny in the fucking call you bring him in without even asking anyone okay just a little heads up I can't believe Flam like I'm just treating Flam like his fucking stop sign or some shit you know okay let's get a little more talk about the release it is buried in the distant past stricken from polite conversation like a bad starter marriage we can all pretend it never happened that was Tony Fauci's position yesterday in that pbs interview and then today we woke to sunny skies on the east coast in a brand new version of Tony Fauci because in fact Tony Fauci explained in yet another interview this one to the Associated Press that the coronavirus pandemic is not over not at all instead we're merely in what he called a different moment of the pandemic but Fauci emphasized with total self-confidence not a hint of self-awareness quote by no means does that mean the pandemic is over following this so yesterday was over today it's back on that's America yeah when people speak spontaneously they frequently are less than coherent and they frequently contradict themselves so I didn't know anyone else in Anthony Fauci's position who would have been you know that much better and shopper I mean the guy's like 85 years old right is public health establishment making it up as they go along and yelling at you ceaselessly as they do and as they have for years remember this clip from December when Joe Biden informed you gravely that you probably weren't going to make it through the long winter Merry Christmas everyone tear now and spreading and it's going to increase for unvaccinated we are looking at a winner of severe illness and death for unvaccinated for themselves their families and the hospital they'll soon overwhelm severe illness and death for the unvaccinated ring around the rosy all fall down you're screwed pal whoa five months later you look around and honestly it's hard to find a single pile of corpses in the street what you see here are a lot of yeah we've got three million dead Americans right the academic consensus is about 3.5 times the official number of COVID deaths is probably more like the real number of deaths we've had the first dramatic decline in average life expectancy in since World War II so yeah I think something real has happened that the COVID has been real I have no idea of the future speaking our elites our public health elites did the best they could in a difficult situation and overall I think that they did better than average and the crowning achievement in my view was the fast creation testing and distribution of the vaccines that's it for me