LLP Ep134: Politicians, Complicit In Crime

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When the guardians of justice become complicit in crime, who protects the innocent? In this eye-opening exploration of our modern justice system, Eric and Matt pull back the curtain on how law enforcement and judicial institutions have transformed into political weapons rather than bastions of public safety.

The heart of this episode centers on a disturbing pattern: career criminals released on mere promissory notes who go on to commit violent crimes, judges who face no consequences for endangering communities, and a media complex that selectively amplifies or buries stories based on political narratives. Through real-world examples like the tragic stabbing of a Ukrainian woman on public transit and Chicago's staggering weekend violence statistics, we confront the uncomfortable reality of a justice system that often prioritizes ideology over public welfare.

Personal experiences add weight to these observations, as Eric shares his own battle with social media censorship during the 2020 election cycle—an account with nearly 900,000 followers deleted without explanation, requiring congressional intervention to restore. This firsthand encounter with politically-motivated suppression illustrates how deeply these issues penetrate our society.

The conversation expands to examine the financial corruption within politics, the dangers of red flag laws, and how power swings like a pendulum between opposing factions while everyday Americans are caught in the crossfire. We challenge listeners to consider what happens when those tasked with protecting us become the very people enabling harm through their actions—or inactions.

Ready to join the conversation about real freedom and accountability? Subscribe now, and discover why LLP has become your beacon of sanity in a world gone mad.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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(00:23):
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Speaker 2 (00:36):
That's the way I look at it.
You know, if it's a duck, it'sa duck.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
That's right.
I hope everybody has had agreat week and I really
appreciate the continued supportfor LLP.
We've got a lot of great thingswe're going to talk about today
.
Today's episode is calledComplicit Crime and what we're
going to really be discussingtoday is how our law enforcement
, judicial system, the system oflaw and order that we have in

(01:02):
our country, has become a giantpolitical football, and the way
that it is wielded and oftenmishandled, I think, is probably
a good way to articulate that,matt A mishandling, a
miscarriage of justice, activistpoliticians essentially that

(01:24):
get into these positions ofpower strictly to you know, sort
of wield it as a weapon againstpeople they disagree with.
I suppose at the end of the day,matt, that's probably what
politics really is, I suppose.
But it is unfortunate that itbecomes this pendulum effect of
you know, consistently goingback and forth between two
political factions and you havethese average people in the

(01:47):
middle who are just trying tolive their lives and be normal
people and they really just wantto be left alone.
They really don't want anythingto do with either side really.
They just want to live theirlives and have fun and take care
of their families and work hardand do their thing and it seems
like there's just this peoplein the middle and this meat
grinder that sort of get chewedup and spit out, and I think a
lot of people are starting tosee this duopoly, this sort of

(02:12):
effect of push and pull andstranglehold that is on society
by these people.
And that's what we're going todiscuss today and I'm looking
forward to it.
You mentioned this idea like ohyeah, we're going to go off on
this one.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
Well, yeah, man, because it's just one of those
things that you you clearly seeit in your everyday life and
nobody ever asks the questions.
They just kind of accept it Likethis is just the way it is, um,
and I just always find it weird, like you won't see it report
any of these crimes, you don'tsee it report any of these
crimes.
You don't see it reported, oryou see it for like one day and

(02:48):
then it just disappears.
It gets kind of buriedunderneath everything else.
But you always see that happenin you know blue cities or blue
States, especially when itdoesn't fit the narrative of
that particular government.
But then you see it happen onthe opposite side where, when it

(03:09):
does fit their narrative, theytrumpet it and they blast it
from the rooftops.
It's crazy.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
It absolutely is, and we're going to definitely dive
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So this, this complicity incrime, it's like if you ignore
the crime, it's the same thingas saying that you either

(05:13):
support or contribute to thecrime at hand.
I think that the way that a lotof Americans feel is that they
are in this kind of situationwhere they're being thrown to
the wolves by the very systemthat they view is supposed to
protect them on a regular basis.
And well, first of all, now Ihave you guys know I have strong

(05:35):
feelings about this you shouldnever rely on a governmental
system to be responsible foryour safety, for your security,
for your you know livelihood, tobe responsible for your safety,
for your security, for yourlivelihood.
I strongly believe in peoplebeing self-sufficient, being
able to solve their own problems, being able to protect
themselves, own their own guns,have their own food storage.

(05:56):
I mean, that's why my Patriotsapply it's such a great
supporter of this show becausethey know where our heads are at
and they know that you guys wholisten, you know, listen to the
podcast, and if you watch hereon YouTube, uh, you know that we
are all kind of very similarlyminded in our uh ability to, you
know, really think critically,to think for ourselves and to be

(06:18):
responsible for our own safetyand take that up into our own
account accordingly.
And I think that that's veryimportant for society in general
to not overly rely ongovernment, to rely on
government as little as possible.
And when we see these situationswhere it seems like our own
government is actually complicitin crime, about that is again

(06:40):
these activist judges, thesejudges who will take violent
criminals who are what we callcareer criminals.
And that's the craziest thingin the world to me to think of a
criminal as a career criminal,as someone who can actually just
keep getting out with a slap onthe wrist and keep doing the
same thing over and over andover again, seemingly without

(07:02):
consequence.
And I know you guys and girls,you probably saw that tragic
stabbing that happened on thebus A young girl who was coming
back from her job.
She was, I think, working at apizza restaurant or something
and was coming back from her jobon the bus and got stabbed in
the neck and killed by aperpetrator that had been let go
by these activist judgesmultiple times.

(07:23):
In fact, she let that guy goalong with, I think, some like a
dozen or 16 others, with asimple, like promissory note.

Speaker 2 (07:31):
It was a promissory note.

Speaker 1 (07:32):
yes, Signed a note saying that I promise to show up
to court.

Speaker 2 (07:36):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (07:36):
And let them all go, and then now you see what
happens.
So are these judges facing anyconsequences for their actions?
Are these judges the onesriding public transport?
Are their children riding onpublic transport Transportation
Right?
Are their children going topublic schools with some of

(07:57):
these types of people that mightbe out there?
I seriously doubt it.
They're living in an ivorytower.
I seriously doubt it.
No, absolutely not, they'reliving in an ivory tower and
that's a very.
You know these judges, they'renever going to directly see the
consequences of what theiractions, you know, produce.

Speaker 2 (08:15):
No, they absolutely live in an ivory tower.
They have, you know, securitydetails that protect them.
They have people parked outsidetheir house.
You know that judge probablyhas people parked outside their
house.
You know that judge probablyhas people parked outside their
house.
That particular um guyallegedly uh, because you know
nothing has gone through um, hewas a schizophrenic and he had

(08:38):
been diagnosed as aschizophrenic.
He'd had the police called onhim multiple times long a long
sheet, rap sheet of you knowcrimes.
So I find it very odd that thesame judge would do that to
quite a few other people.

(08:58):
But promissory notes to knowhey, I promise to come back and
do my court date.
And the next thing, you know,you're just sitting on public
transit.
You have your nose buried inyour phone, like 99% of people.

(09:19):
I'm not saying that there wasanything wrong with what she did
, because most people that'swhat they do Whenever they're
traveling.
They sit down, they pull theirphone out, they're looking at
the news, they're looking atsomething to entertain them.
They don't expect to getstabbed in the throat from
behind for nothing.
It was just.
It's just.

Speaker 1 (09:33):
It's sad that we live in a society where people have
to be on guard constantly, um,with that sort of stuff, and
it's only because we're notstrict enough on criminals and,
you know, we let these peopleout with a slap on the wrist.
Now I'm going to probably catchsome flack here, which it
wouldn't be an episode with mein it if I wasn't catching some

(09:55):
sort of flack.
I mean, you know me like, I'mvery opinionated, but sometimes
no.
But sometimes look, sometimes myopinions don't necessarily line
up with the bulk of society,particularly on the right Right.
There are some libertariansthat agree with me and disagree
with me, there are Republicanswho agree with me and disagree
with me, and there are Democratsthat agree with me and disagree

(10:17):
with me.
So the true nuance of anargument comes from a place that
is free of insult from anyone.
Argument comes from a placethat is free of insult from
anyone.
I simply cannot be deterredbecause I'm always going to look
at things logically and withcommon sense and based on the
way I view the world and thethings that I've witnessed
happen in the world over theyears, in my 41 years that I've

(10:39):
been lucky enough to be on thisrock.
So the way I look at it is.
The nuance of the situation isyes, we should not let criminals
out with a slap on the wrist.
We should be stricter on crime.
We should lay down very stiffand extreme sentences for people
who commit violent crimesmurder people, rape people,
armed robbery, whatever it mightbe.

(11:00):
However, there's another sideof that coin as well, is what
happens when you give thegovernment full latitude to
decide what punishment someoneshould receive for what crime
and then allow them to be thearbiters of that.
Now, if, if our judicial systemwas ran by principal people

(11:21):
right, like it's supposed to beand I'm not saying that people
that are, that are judges, arenot principled people, because
there's a lot of good,principled judges out there that
do a really good job and manyof the judges that Trump has
appointed have done some prettygood things.
So we're very lucky to havesome good judges that seem to
actually have a good head ontheir shoulders.
So I'm not trying to say thatall judges are like this person

(11:43):
that let these head on theirshoulder.
So I'm not trying to say thatall judges are like this person
that let these guys off who thenstabbed this young lady from
Ukraine actually in the neck andkilled her.
She died right there on the bus.
What I'm saying is you know, thesystem only works when the
arbiters of the system are giventhe latitude to do things
according to the Constitution,according to the rule of law,

(12:05):
according to the law of the landand according to morality and
goodness and justice andactually wanting to gather
justice for someone who has beenthe direct victim of a crime,
and I don't really trust ourcurrent government.
I don't trust government ingeneral to be the arbiters of

(12:26):
that very careful undertakingand one would say, okay, well, a
person is judged by a jury oftheir peers.
Okay, that's true.
Our law system, our legalsystem that we have for
establishing guilt, our legalsystem that we have for
establishing guilt, you knowit's not always perfect, but it

(12:47):
is a pretty good overall system,right, you know it may not be
perfect, but it's okay, right?
But again, do we trust them tobe the arbiters of that?
I mean, if we have people justletting folks off with a slap on
the wrist for a crime thatreally should have an extreme

(13:09):
penalty and it doesn't, and yetyou see a situation where it was
that Marine that subdued a guyon a bus who was trying to do
something, let's just saysimilar.
Maybe that guy was going to dosomething similar to what the
guy stabbed the poor lady in theneck, right?
Yeah, so he gets put in jailfor subduing someone and
preventing them from committinga crime, but then the guy who

(13:32):
stabbed the girl in the neck gotlet off for a bunch of other
crimes, which then allowed himto do that.
So the media is quiet about theguy who stabbed the girl in the
neck, but then all you see is agiant news feed of the dude who
subdued the other guy, theMarine who subdued the guy, and
he's in prison.

Speaker 2 (13:50):
Well, I would hate to be the person that clearly
describes the difference here inthe perpetrator and the victim,
because what happens is they'reexactly the opposite.
Right in new york, it was theperpetrator.
Perpetrator was white, victimwas black.

(14:13):
And charlotte, the perpetratorwas black, victim for all
intents and purposes, was white,even though she was ukrainian,
caucasian, sure, um.
So when you look at the two andthis this was just coming after
the whole Derek Chauvin, Iforgot the dude's name.
So the guy that died knee onthe neck, that guy, so there was

(14:37):
a-.
Floyd, George Floyd, yeah, thatguy man.
I don't remember his name sowhich might get you in trouble,
sorry.
So after that there was thisbig outcry of excessive force,
so you could see why the publicwas up in arms about it.
But I agree, he simply wasdefending himself.

(14:58):
I think it was the victim atthat time was attacking people
or he was like in their face,really in their personal space,
and I'll be the first one totell you that if you come within
my personal space and I don'tknow you, I'm doing whatever I
need to do to keep you out of mypersonal space.

Speaker 1 (15:16):
Right.

Speaker 2 (15:16):
And I think that's reasonable and in this, but in
the particular case in Charlotte, there that opportunity wasn't
there, it was from behind.

Speaker 1 (15:26):
What gets me so much is if you watch the extended
video of that bus situation withthe girl and her getting
stabbed.
I mean that's tragic, extremelytragic.
But what's even more tragic ispeople's response to it.
Oh yeah the guy just walked offthe bus covered in blood.

Speaker 2 (15:41):
He's dripping all over him.
Yeah, well, he cut himselfbecause what happens a lot when
you stab somebody, especially ifyou don't have the hilt, like
when you stab somebody, yourhand will slip off into the
blade.
So apparently he cut himselfreally bad and he's like walking
up and down, he's just likedripping blood, what gets me is
no, none of the men on that busdid anything.

Speaker 1 (16:00):
Nope, and they saw it .
I saw it happen noticed that aswell, and that's so strange to
me that our society.
They just had their heads stuckin their phones and just will
do nothing in that type ofsituation, and that worries me
like what.
What's happened to manliness?
Well, what's happened tomanhood?
I mean, like there's no way.

Speaker 2 (16:18):
Like if you or I saw something like that happen, that
dude's gonna be in some seriousup shit creek, yeah I think it
was, uh, a train and I thinkwhen he he stabbed her he moved
to a different train car, so somaybe those people didn't see
the people, the people if youwatch the video, the people.
When he moved to a differenttrain car, the people in the

(16:38):
second train car were like hey,man, you're bleeding a lot like
are you okay?
Because they didn't know whathappened.
But then at the end of thevideo you can hear someone
yelling hey, he just stabbedthat girl back there.
So now people are starting tounderstand, like what's going on
.

Speaker 1 (16:53):
Yeah, what's going on ?

Speaker 2 (16:54):
But still, the people in that car watched that happen
and they didn't.

Speaker 1 (16:59):
How terrible.
Yeah, everyone with their facestuck in their phone.
We're going to talk about thatin a future Gun Grape episode
about situational awareness.
But for the purposes of today'spodcast we're going to stick to
this whole complicity of crime.
And you know, is that to saythat if you see a crime and you
don't intervene, are youcomplicit in that crime being

(17:19):
carried out?

Speaker 2 (17:23):
I don't know, man, because, like, that's a slippery
slope, because some peoplegenuinely aren't prepared to
handle like they're incapable ofhandling, those think of, like
you know, bob, that work because, charlotte, you know they have
some tech companies and this isjust me spitballing bob.
You know, tech guy, you know alittle overweight, no fighting
ability, no way to probablynever been in a fight.

Speaker 1 (17:45):
Never been in a fight he's gonna.

Speaker 2 (17:47):
There's no way.
He's prepared, or even able,and you see a guy with a knife.

Speaker 1 (17:52):
It's probably the scariest thing you've ever seen.
I'm not saying that it's somejustification for an action.
I think that a man shouldalways view danger right in the
eye and go well, I may not bebetter ready for this danger,
but I'm as ready as I'm gonna beand I'm not gonna be a coward.
I think that should be people'smindset.
That's just me, but yeah,you're right I mean maybe he's

(18:13):
just was scared.

Speaker 2 (18:13):
Maybe he's like dang maybe never saw anything like
that before there's only onething scarier than a gun, and
that's a knife.
Dude, a knife will absolutelywreck you, yeah.

Speaker 1 (18:27):
This Fairbairn and Sykes.
I know we see this and thisstays in the, but like this
Fairbairn and Sykes, this knifedesign was developed around
World War II and a lot of theBritish OSS commandos and people
like that were using this thingin clandestine operations
because, as a general purpose,fighting knife, this Fairbairn

(18:49):
and Sykes, this is one nastylittle tool, right here.
It has one purpose, yes, and ifsomebody knows what they're
doing with this, fairbairn andSykes, you're going to have a
very bad day, because all ittakes is just getting stabbed in
just the right spot.
Yeah, and it's got the length,it's got the stabbing power
through the hilt and this kniferight here, just one good jab in

(19:11):
the kidney, you're done.

Speaker 2 (19:13):
Second and third rib right into that.
Yes, like the heart and thelung, the heart.

Speaker 1 (19:17):
So this is a very deadly piece of hardware In the
lung, the heart.
So this is a very deadly pieceof hardware.
And I know we always associatedefense with guns, but I always
carry my Fairbairn Sykes daggereverywhere I go.
When I'm traveling, I have mygo bag and you better believe I
have my Fairbairn Sykes with me.
And now it may not be theeasiest thing to get to right in
that moment, but you betterbelieve if I need it it's like I

(19:39):
love, love this knife and thisis my favorite knife design is
the fairburn sykes so I meanit's.

Speaker 2 (19:45):
I mean I've seen pictures like I went down that
rabbit hole of looking at, likeyou know, police officers that
got you know knife attacked.
I mean it just looks like afreaking yes bloodbath man I
mean, it's ruthless.

Speaker 1 (19:57):
Think about ancient battlefields and people were
hacking each other to death withswords and shields and blunt
objects and everything you canimagine.
And you know, imagine like whenyou watch a movie that shows a
medieval battle scene.
I don't think it even comesclose to capturing just how
absolutely dreadful it had to be, because you know dang well.

(20:19):
Well, there's hundreds, if notthousands, of men laying around
bleeding out to death, screamingyep, it had to have been a very
hellish place to be well, justimagine the broken bones, like
if it doesn't cut you, like youhave armor on something's broke.

Speaker 2 (20:33):
You have a broken arm broken, femur broken hips
broken like everything, you'rejust.
You're just inside of a metalarmor.

Speaker 1 (20:41):
You are just a sack of meat and those battles were
dreadful, man, and you know, alot of people don't realize it
in in ancient times.
I mean, yeah, there there wereways that they could perform
triage and they had some medicallittle bit, of basic medical
knowledge and and yeah, theycould, we could patch somebody
up if they weren't hurt too bad.
But if you lost that battle andyou were the enemy and they

(21:04):
would just go around and spearpeople to death.
It's like if you were stillalive.
You ain't going to be alivelong and they would just go
around and finish people off.
There wasn't none of this oh,all right, the battle's over.
You lost here.
Let me help you.
If you were alive and you wereable-bodied, they're going to
make you a slave or they'regoing to do something
humiliating to you and they loveto humiliate people that lost.
And it's crazy to think that youknow that deadliness, that

(21:27):
savagery that we saw in ancientwarfare, that when we look at
today, right, we see, like inthe UK maybe, a machete attack
or a knife attack, or I know inChina it happens all the time
People will go on a macheteattack and they'll knife a bunch
of people and you see withextreme prejudice and violence

(21:49):
that they act quickly andviolently and with power and
intent.
And when you see that power andintent, even in the modern world
, you think wow, like theancient times when this was the
only way people could get eachother out of here.
You know they really meant it.
I mean, you know thosegladiators fighting in the ring,
like fighting life and death,knowing that you're getting

(22:10):
thrown into this pit and thatit's you or them.
And imagine the desperation ifyou weren't a trained warrior,
you're just a slave or somebodythat they just put in there just
as cannon fodder.
And imagine the feeling if youactually came out on top, you
actually survived somehow.
Imagine the feeling like wow,like how intense that had to be,
that just really scary feelingof being in that moment and

(22:33):
knowing that if you did somehowwin against the gladiator,
you're just going to go back in.

Speaker 2 (22:37):
No, if you killed the crowd's favorite gladiator,
they're going to kill youanyways for killing their
favorite gladiator.
Imagine that you won and thecrowd's like no, and then they
still kill you.

Speaker 1 (22:49):
I'm like come on.
So I think, getting back to theoriginal kind of topic at hand,
is that, yes, knives are scaryand you should always kind of
keep some distance between youand other people.
If someone's a perfect stranger, you know we're going to talk
about this in a future gun gripeepisode but you always want to
create distance, you know.
Keep your distance, make sureyou don't ever have your back to

(23:09):
people, and I think that's justa smart policy in general, no
matter if you're a gun person, aknife person or you're just a
person who wants to be alive,hello, I mean, if you don't want
to get stabbed or shot, youprobably shouldn't turn your
back to people who you know havea clear history of shooting and
stabbing people.
I mean, I think that's prettyobvious.

Speaker 2 (23:29):
So, as far as the you know, complicit crime, I think
one part that we haven't spokeabout yet was the complicity of
the government, and in thisparticular case, it was the
mayor of Charlotte, um, askingwhen that first happened, asking
not to report on thisparticular crime, and I just

(23:51):
thought that that was very, youknow, unethical of it.
Um, because why would you notreport?
And I'll tell you why it'sbecause it didn't fit the
narrative of that particularcity.
Um, they don't want that typeof information to get out, and
she took a lot of criticism forthat.
Um, as she should, yeah, I mean.
But at this point, um, you know, how can you not, how can you

(24:15):
not, you know, report onsomething that's this heinous?
But you see this across theboard.
I mean, look at, you know so,for example, let's, you know
this happened in Charlotte, butlet's move to say, like Chicago,
you know, labor Day, let's justgo back.
I have this, I have the numbershere, I have the numbers here,

(24:35):
my man's got the receipts.
Yes, all right, Labor Day,labor Day, labor Day weekend
Chicago 54 people shot, sevenpeople killed.
Wow, one weekend, one weekendin Chicago, 54 people shot,

(24:58):
seven people killed.
That's crazy man.

Speaker 1 (25:01):
It's such a daily occurrence in some of these
leftist controlled cities thatit's almost just not even worth
reporting anymore for them,because it's such a common
occurrence that it would be inthe news daily, and wouldn't
people kind of start to go waita minute?
This is happening every day.
This is some sort of problem.
But of course the media iscomplicit because they choose to
, just they don't really reporton it or they report super soft,

(25:25):
like maybe just a quick mention.
Ah, there was a shooting todaydowntown and then all right onto
other news, the weather.
like they don't, they don't wantyou to really have the details,
they just kind of mentioned itin passing.

Speaker 2 (25:35):
Here's the wild part.
Their answer part.
Their answer the governor ofillinois.
The answer was more gun control.
They want to institute more guncontrol for that and I'm like
how you can't, you can'tlegislate crime out of it.
It's just not going to happen.
No, because guess what?

(25:56):
Those 54 people that were shot,majority of them were probably
criminals and they had themillegally anyways.

Speaker 1 (26:02):
Right, and I mean one would say okay, and this is
just me being sort of criticalhere.
One would say, if it's badpeople that are just shooting
each other every day and there'snot a lot of good people
involved in it, well then youknow, maybe society's better off
if they just if they kill eachother every day.
I'm not saying that's thereality.
I'm sure there are plenty ofinnocent people.
I mean, you can't even get gasin some places in Chicago

(26:25):
without someone trying to robyou when you get out of the car
or try to carjack you or holdyou up or do something or, if
anything, panhandle for money orbother you or harass you if not
worse.

Speaker 2 (26:36):
Well, there are certain things that I don't do
in Atlanta Like.
So.
We travel a lot for mydaughter's wrestling tournaments
, which means we have to go tothe airport a lot.
The fastest way to get to theairport is MARTA.
Marta, the train goes directlyinto the airport.
It literally pulls inside ofHartsfield Jackson airport open,

(26:59):
really, yes and you walk intobaggage, claim.
You are right there.
Nothing is faster.
However, I refuse to do thatbecause Marta is not a pleasant
experience.
It's not.
It smells like urine.
There is homeless peoplepanhandling on every train.

(27:19):
The crime is out of control.
Everything smells like weed,people blasting music in the
open.
My daughter, in her youthfulinnocence, loves to ride the
train.
She's like can we take thetrain?
I'm like absolutely not.
We are not doing that.
So you park and ride?
Yes, so as the law-abidingcitizen that I am, I get taxed

(27:46):
because I have to drive to theairport and pay $30 a day for
parking.
Just to feel adequately safe, Ido the park and ride also.

Speaker 1 (27:59):
It is what it is which I have to do the park and
ride because I, you know, it iswhat it is which I have to do
the park and ride because I livefar, you know, further away
from the airport than you do.
Yep, I will say, as the parkand ride goes, it is a pretty
freaking good experience, likeevery time I go Very good, the
parking lot's secure, the peopleare fast and efficient.
They fast and efficient, theyknow exactly where to take you.
They're very friendly.

(28:20):
So, yeah, it costs money, but Iknow that when I'm gone no
one's going to mess with my car.
One time I even got back to theparking ride and my battery was
dead.
I don't know how.
There was some current draw onmy on my vehicle and my truck
died and it was cold, it waslike 28 degrees.
When I got back and sure enough, um, I called and I was like
hey, can you guys help me?
And they showed up with thishuge big old rechargeable jump

(28:43):
box like in the back of a truckand they jumped me off.
Very nice, and they were reallycool about it and the guy
wouldn't even take a tip.
I tried to give him a tip, hewouldn't take it.

Speaker 2 (28:52):
So I will say my experience with them has been
extremely good.

Speaker 1 (28:55):
Yeah, they charge $30 a day, but that's a peace of
mind to know that no one's goingto mess with your car.
If you have a problem, when youget back they'll make it right.
And so far, the park and ride.
Hey, big shout out, park andride over there, over there in
College Park.

Speaker 2 (29:08):
Good people, and they can even wash your car if you
want them to.
Really, yeah what they offercar detailing no Car detailing.
You could I don't do it, butthey do offer that.

Speaker 1 (29:19):
What a smart business model.
Think about it Like, yeah, leaveyour key with us, whatever
You're going to be gone anyway,and it keeps you from having to
take your key when you travelright, so you don't have to
worry about losing your key.
You know they have it and theydetail your car.
Come back nice and clean, readyto go, go about your day.
So I respect that.
I respect that.

(29:41):
I understand that there aresituations where you don't want
to put yourself in harm's way.
Why go out of your way topotentially be a victim?
It's sad that in society wehave to perform this triage of
danger when it comes to the waythat we associate the public and
being out in public places.
I do love Atlanta.
I love going to Atlanta.
I was born here, I was born inAtlanta, I've lived here a long

(30:03):
time.
I love my city.
Atlanta is my city and I lovevisiting Atlanta.
I love going to the Varsity.
I love going to the World ofCoke.
I love going to the Aquarium.
I love going over there to oh,what do they call that place?
It's not Peachtree Commons,it's, uh, you know that that
little area over there wherethey have the bodies exhibit and
all that.

(30:24):
I forget the name of it.

Speaker 2 (30:25):
You know that.
Uh, well, I mean they have likethe high museum and stuff yeah,
I mean I love all that.

Speaker 1 (30:30):
I love the culture of the city.
You know I love going torestoration hardware and looking
at all the furniture.
You've been over there, yeahit's cool.
I like it, you know, and um, andI enjoy Atlanta.
There's some really nice eatingplaces up in Buckhead, I mean,
and never in Atlanta do I everfeel unsafe.
But that's because I also don'tgo to shady areas where you

(30:50):
would be like, wow, thisprobably took a wrong turn.
You're not going to Bankhead,no, you're not going to Stewart
Avenue, or even Peachtree Streeton a late Saturday night can be
a dangerous place to be JosephE Lowry Boulevard guys.

Speaker 2 (31:03):
The places that we're naming don't go.

Speaker 1 (31:06):
I mean look, boys and girls, if you're leaving the
Claremont Gentleman's Lounge attwo o'clock in the morning on a
Sunday, well, Monday technicallyexpect to be absconded.
I mean, you're going to getsomething's going to happen.
If you walk down PeachtreeStreet long enough, you're going
to run into something crazy, ahundred percent.

Speaker 2 (31:27):
It's all about tempering your expectations.

Speaker 1 (31:29):
Yep Right.
If you know the place you'regoing has a history, well then,
why are you going there unlessyou're expecting?

Speaker 2 (31:36):
something to happen.
That and something to happen.
That's right.
You don't expect something tohappen and then complain when it
does.

Speaker 1 (31:41):
Yes, you got to stay out of those situations?
Yes, Now these things are hardenough to deal with as it is.
It's even harder when thegovernment is complicit in it
and I guess that's really to gofull circle and go back to this
complicity.
The media Now I know wediscussed the government and
their actions and everythinglike that, but the media too,
this machine that exists, thatis, the social media complex,

(32:03):
the mainstream media complex andthis sort of talking head
influencer complex.
That seems to be a huge part ofeveryday society, especially
for it's normie society.
When we look at normie society,what does that mean?
When we say normies, we meanpeople who rely on the media and
mainstream media and socialmedia pretty much for all their

(32:26):
news and they take whatevertheir favorite talking head says
as the gospel.
They're following theirfavorite Democrat people on
Twitter or on wherever andwhatever they say they take as
narrative about race orrelations or religion or
vaccination, status or whateverhot button topic that you might

(32:48):
be able to just put in the blank.
They will take whatevernarrative they're fed as the
gospel.
And I think that the media isvery complicit.
When I say the media, itincludes all these people,
because they're essentially allcontrolled, kind of.
In the same way, when I say themedia, it includes all these
people because they'reessentially all controlled, kind
of.
In the same way, the media iscomplicit in how you view the
things that go on in yoursociety, whether it's a negative
opinion or a positive opinionor anything in between and they

(33:11):
absolutely are complicit in theway that we view these things.
When they happen, either theyfail to report them at all or
they choose to only reportthings in a very kind of
specific juicy sort of way.
Like, okay, this situation withthe girl getting stabbed on the
bus, girl gets stabbed by manon bus There'll be some generic

(33:35):
reporting where they're going topurposely go out of their way
to make it to not like, make itgo against the narrative.
Now, if it were, let's sayagain I hate to report it this
way, but y'all, it is what it is.
Okay, look, if a white manstabbed a black girl, what would

(33:55):
?
What would?
What would the article the nextday read?

Speaker 2 (33:59):
probably something about a race-induced hate.

Speaker 1 (34:03):
Evil white guy stabs innocent young valedictorian
prom, queen, everything it canbe black girl.

Speaker 2 (34:15):
I mean, that's just the.
They're never gonna report itwhen it's the other way.

Speaker 1 (34:18):
So it's not.
And look, it always getslabeled as racism, matt.
It always gets labeled See, ifyou bring it up, oh, you're a
racist.
But they're not a racist foronly showing one side of the
equation to benefit whatevernarrative they might want, which
in itself is racist, they areguilty of the very racism they
accuse you of by simply bringingup.

(34:39):
Well, hey, why don't you reportit when it happens either way?
But they don't.
They only report it when ithappens in the way that they
want to use that as theirnarrative, and that, by
definition, is racism.
If you only report one side andnot the other, who's the racist?
Me for mentioning that youdidn't report when it happened
from other side, or you for onlyreporting one side.

(35:01):
And then you, you try todeflect that argument on me
because I mentioned that.
Oh well, by the way, thishappened.
Oh, you racist, you did thislike.
Really, you have the audacity.
Do you think that people arethat mentally, you know,
unstable or or intellectuallyincapable of seeing what you're
trying to do?
Right, that's what gets me.

Speaker 2 (35:21):
Well, if you look at it that way, that is true as
well as if you look at.
Another example is if you lookat the Catholic school shooting
that just took place in what wasit?
Minneapolis.

Speaker 1 (35:36):
Mm-hmm.

Speaker 2 (35:38):
You know, nobody brought up the fact that that
was a, you know, a transgendered.
You know everybody kept sayingmisgendering.
I use misgendering in quotes.
They're saying he, he, he, whenthe manifesto and everything
clearly was like she.
So it was a transgendered girl,if that's what they call.

(35:59):
I'm not 100% sure how they.
I don't know the verbiage, Idon't play the game and it is a
game, yeah.
I don't play the game so I'm not100% sure on the correct
terminology.
I'm just going by what I see.
Transgendered girl that wasleft-leaning, hated Trump.
The manifesto had all kinds ofstuff about like anti-trump,

(36:22):
anti-government, uh-huh, but howdid you even see that in the
news, eric?

Speaker 1 (36:26):
no, now.
Now, what kind of hardware arewe talking here?
An ne an audi is it the sackthing like what?
What kind of hardware are wetalking?
Still talking about femalehardware or what kind of
hardware do we know I I'm boobschopped off.

Speaker 2 (36:42):
I'm not sure it looked like.
It looked like a boy thatidentified as a girl.

Speaker 1 (36:48):
That's what it was how terrible so that people,
people put themselves in thatsituation like I mean, it's not
my place to be sorry for anybodyor to have you know opinion
either way, but it's kind oflike the way I look at it, I
kind of I kind of feel sorry forsome of those people, cause you
know that society has reallygot them confused and got them
in a bad way.
And you know, there there was atime where I kind of openly

(37:12):
like supported them and kind offelt like like hey, you know,
treat them this way, that way,treat them as equals, and
there's a bit of that.
I mean, I don't have somecomplex against people that are
that way, right, right.
But at one point you have tokind of look at it and go
there's something clearly wronghere.
There's a point, yeah, whetherit's a combination of SSRIs or

(37:35):
mental situations.
It's not that I have a problemwith treating them equally, of
course.
I have no problem with that.
I'm down, I try to be afriendly guy, that sort of thing
.
But once a certain patternstarts to emerge, you have to
eventually call it what it isand go all right.
Well, do these people?
Do they need help?

(37:55):
Is it medication they're on?
Is it just that they'rementally unstable?
What is it?
What is causing them to act ina certain way?
So it's not about whether ornot someone chooses to be that
way or not.
It's what they do with it.
It's how they act.
It's what they put out insociety, it's what they do in
the world over.

(38:16):
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So let's talk a little bitabout the Trump administration
and where they're sort of Bondiand the DOJ and everybody, and
where they're sort of pivotingon this issue.
Since we happen to be on thesubject, absolutely All right,
complicency in crime, okay.

(40:25):
So let's go on the other end ofthe spectrum, matt, where the
government tries to step in andintervene in some way that they
think will reduce crime.
All right, is that a bad thing?
Okay, maybe, on the surfaceit's not right, because people
view the government as beingresponsible for law and order.
Right, most people agree withlaw and order.
They agree that they don't wantto have a society full of
craziness and danger, and theyagree with law and order.

(40:47):
So, therefore, when they seethe Trump administration, pam
Bondi, kash Patel, doj and allof that sort of mechanism saying
, well, maybe we should bantransgender people from owning
firearms, right, that's whatthey're floating the idea right
now and one issue I have withthe Republican Party is that
they really have always beenvery, very big proponents for

(41:09):
red flag confiscations, and it'ssomething I could never
understand.
Pam Bondi was real big onpushing for red flag laws in
Florida when she was, I guess, adistrict attorney in Florida
and she's taken that now to herrole as the AG, and I can't say
I necessarily agree with thepractice.
It puts officer safety at risk.

(41:30):
It puts civilians and averagepeople at risk.
So this is something that iswithin the vein of red flag
confiscation, where they go.
Well, if a person who istransgender has guns and we know
they have guns well, now we'regoing to use some sort of red
flag confiscation scheme toessentially go after them and

(41:50):
disarm them.
That's essentially more or lessthe idea that's being floated,
yeah.
I disagree with it.
I disagree with that as well.
I disagree with it.
And okay Is that to say thatwhen you look at the pattern,
matt, that emerges from all ofthese mass shooters, right,

(42:12):
what's one of the mostdistinctive modern patterns that
is emerging with all of theseshooters in recent memory?
Okay?
Ssris behavioral medicines, orthey're either homosexual,
transgender or both, Whatever.
Whatever you want to call it.
Both of those are true.
Those things are all very muchmutually exclusive to each other
.
When we look at all theshootings back in the 90s, okay,
we had some school shootingslike Columbine, which was very

(42:35):
tragic, especially to happen inthe 90s.
No one expected that to happenin the 90s, right, when
Columbine occurred, it turns out, yeah, those kids were on some
crazy SSRIs and depressed andthey were being bullied and
there was a lot of that going on.
Okay, so we have to have aserious talk about the drugs
that we're pumping into people,right, all the preservatives

(42:57):
that they're putting into food,the food.
Now, not to get on a grandstandabout this in this conversation
, but rfk just tore him a newone, you know, in a
congressional hearing the otherday.
Like you know, he was tearinghim a new one about the vaccines
and about autism rates andthings that are causing autism
and all these behavioral issuesthat they're correcting with
medications.

(43:18):
That it's all the this crapthey're putting in the food
preservatives and hormones andall these sorts of things, and
they're pumping kids full ofthese SSRIs and society is
indoctrinating all these kidsthat think they need to chop
their genitalia off and Godknows what else.
Of course, that's enough tomake a person crazy and that's

(43:38):
the greater discussion thatneeds to be occurring is not
should we just disarm thesepeople and then allow them to
still be hurt and crazy insociety?
We have to fix the crazy.
The gun is not what's causingthe issue, it's the actor, it's
the person who is using the gunthat's causing the issue.
So this is really a mentalhealth kind of crisis that is

(44:00):
far more complicated than simplysomeone just being disturbed.
This is not even so much thatthey're disturbed, matt.
They may not actually even bemorally disturbed.
People like an evil person.
It's not because they're evil,they're just misaligned.
There's some chemical imbalanceor some imbalance of social
chemistry that they're lackingin their lives that's causing

(44:21):
them.
I mean, if we had JordanPeterson here, he could explain
a lot better than me, but that'sessentially I mean.

Speaker 2 (44:27):
I'm no behavioral scientist, but that's yeah.

Speaker 1 (44:29):
There's a social chemistry that is lacking, a
molecule here, and it's causingthem to act this way.

Speaker 2 (44:35):
Well, you'll have to.
Maybe you know the answer tothis, but I thought that there
was the ability for someone thatis selling they work at a gun
store.
Let's say you're working thecounter at a gun store and
someone comes in and they wantto buy a gun, can't the person
refuse to sell them the gun?
I thought I read that there wasa rule or a law that allowed

(45:00):
that.
Like if that person was kind ofcoming in and just being a
little shady or you just hadlike a feeling that this person
was kind of up to no good, wouldthat person be able to deny the
sale?

Speaker 1 (45:17):
Yes.
So, if you work in a gun storeand this has always been
standard practice for any gunstore if someone walks in a gun
store now look, it is not a gunseller or gun merchants place to
decide who should or should notown a gun.
But if you sell guns, if youhave an FFL and you're

(45:39):
conducting an over-the-countergun transaction and let's say,
now, look, I'm not judging.
Okay, listen, this is Eric here.
Okay, I'm pro-gun as hell.
You're never going to catch melacking.
All right, I got the receipts,baby.
Now, look, I'm just saying thereality.
Okay, say, you run a gun shopand someone walks in and smell
like reefer and you don't wantto sell them a gun because they

(46:01):
smell like weed.
Or they come in and they smelllike alcohol and you can tell
they're drunk as a skunk, theystumble in the front door,
they're physically intoxicated.
You don't have to sell thatperson a gun.
Or maybe a person comes in,they're acting shady and they
said oh, I just had an argumentwith my neighbor and I need a
gun because I think I'm going todo something.
Do you have to sell that persona gun?

(46:28):
You don't.
You can say, sir, I don't feelcomfortable with this.
I think you need to maybe chill.
Go think about this for a dayor two and come back.
I'll be more than happy to helpyou.
It's not a gun salesman's placeto be the arbiter of morality
or principles or morals, or eventhe law for that matter.

Speaker 2 (46:44):
But it's okay to have morals and have a conscience.

Speaker 1 (46:49):
It is okay to have that view if you want.
If a transaction feels weird,you don't have to conduct that
transaction.
Nothing says you have to do it.
You have the full backing to beable to say I don't think, I'm
comfortable with thistransaction and that's okay.
You can say that it's fine.

Speaker 2 (47:07):
If you have the guy, the all too famous hey, I want
that shotgun, okay, great, youwant a box of shells?
No, just need one Then thatguy's probably going to be like
I don't think I'm gonna sell youthis shotgun, sir, um.
So yeah, I just wanted to makesure because I've I've never

(47:27):
worked a gun counter.
I know you had, so I was kindof leaning on you to to have
that, uh, experience in that, inthat front.
but that just goes to show you,like they while I agree they
shouldn't be the arbiter, whilethey most definitely shouldn't
deny gun sales based off oftheir own personal views that if

(47:49):
something feels off that, theydo have the ability to do that
correct because I mean some,like some people will just come
in there and they'll just bewild, like I've been at a gun
range that sells firearms andI'll just be waiting for the
ammo, because sometimes, likethey don't let, I'll bring ammo
that they don't want you toshoot.

(48:10):
So I have to like lead, so Ihave to buy ammo and I'll just
be waiting for them to fulfillmy, my ammo order.
And you'll just see thecraziest jokers in there, like
doing some wild and what about?

Speaker 1 (48:21):
people who, you know, go to a range and they want to
rent, like there's lots ofsituations where people will go
to a range and rent a gun andthen, yeah, use it on themselves
in range.
It happens, you know.
Society in general, you know,has disturbed people in it.
Society is full of disturbedpeople, it happens, and some

(48:43):
people are self-destructive.
Some people want to destroyothers and hurt others.
Some people gather some form ofgratification in hurting others
.
So there's a huge spectrum hereof behavioral tendencies that
people have in society.
And again, I'm no psychologistbut it's just, I think, my view
of it from just, you know,recognizing human behavior and

(49:05):
just looking how people act andobserving people's behavior, we
obviously do have a really bigissue with people's, you know,
status of mental decay.
It's bad.

Speaker 2 (49:19):
It is bad, it is bad and look it's.

Speaker 1 (49:20):
either someone is based and normal and average,
and maybe they're justwell-grounded people like I.
Would consider you and I to bepretty well-rounded and
well-grounded people who handleour stuff.
We pay our bills, we'reresponsible, we work hard, we
make money, we take good care ofour family.

(49:40):
We're average people who lovelife and are happy and don't
need anything crazy to be happy.
We don't need to pump ourselvesfull of a bunch of crap to be
happy.
Now, I'm not going to lie.
I kind of like sometestosterone, but other than
that I'm a pretty normal guy.

Speaker 2 (49:59):
Well, I look at it like this and it still is.
There's currently a shortage ofmedication for ADD, adhd and I
think that what?
And I get that.
I only know this because I have, you know, parents of our Jiu
Jitsu academy that are alwayslike complaining about it.

(50:20):
So I hear about it all the timebecause some of the kids that
you know, part of jujitsuteaching jujitsu is you run into
kids that are you know theyhave ADD or ADHD and they have
to constantly be stimulated.
Jujitsu is great for that.
So lots of parents bring theirkids in because that keeps them
moving.
It gives them something to doall the time.
So I'm a huge advocate of that.

(50:42):
If your kid is ADD or has ADHD,put them in martial arts.
It'll get them moving.
But from the parents I hearlike, hey, I have a hard time
finding medication becausesometimes the kids get really,
really wild in class and it'snot because they don't have
their medication.
The parents are saying, hey, weweren't able to fill our

(51:04):
prescription, so I apologize inadvance for little Timmy.
He might act a little crazy andthat's just something that we
have to deal with.

Speaker 1 (51:12):
Well, things didn't used to always be like that.
Right.
Like back in the old days, youdidn't have all the medicines
for kids.
They had plenty of things to doto keep them occupied.

Speaker 2 (51:20):
Well, how many kids are on this medication?
That there is a nationwideshortage, that there's no other
medication that I know of, thatis extremely hard to get, but
yet something that these kidsneed to take daily, multiple
times a day.
They're running out of and theycan't fill prescriptions.
That's a lot that's sketchy foran entire country to be having

(51:44):
a shortage of this medication,whether it's adderall or
whatever other medicationthey're on, um, and it's been
like that for like a year.
Yeah, so they can't make it.

Speaker 1 (51:55):
I can't make enough to handle all of the mentally
deranged people that are outthere.
And then what's?

Speaker 2 (52:00):
the next step on this , like okay, so they have adhd
and then they just keep them on,keep escalating with medication
further and further, up untilthey're on ssris and all kinds
of stuff.

Speaker 1 (52:11):
So let's go back to the trump administration for a
minute and let's talk a littlebit about this, uh, this
potential like they're talkingabout wanting to take guns away
from transgender people.
We'll talk about that a littlebit.
So what is the danger in that?
Is that, again earlier in thein the podcast I discussed, you
know, this pendulum effect ofthe swinging back and forth.

(52:33):
Well, one day it's theRepublican saying that
transgender people shouldn'thave guns and the next day it's
going to be the Democrat sayingthat, oh, veterans shouldn't
have guns, or, you know,whatever group of people we deem
to be mentally incapable ofhaving a gun shouldn't own a gun
.
Well, do you really want twoopposing political factions that
are on very, very differentends of the of the political

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spectrum?
Do you want them to havecontrol of that ability to take
people's firearms so easily?
Because eventually, Democratscan be in control again.
And when they are, they'regoing to be.
Oh well, the Democrats are, I'msorry, the Republicans went
after transgender people, sowe're going to go after veterans
and whoever else.
And, oh, you're right wing.

(53:16):
You posted, you know, anti-vax,whatever it is.
I mean, look at what's going onin the UK.
They will literally come toyour freaking house and arrest
you for a social media post.
Yeah, that's crazy and I tellyou, if you gave that right to
the Democrats, you betterbelieve they'd be showing up to
your house to arrest you for asocial media post that they

(53:36):
don't like.

Speaker 2 (53:36):
They've already tried .
There's been numerous timeswhere you know, back when
Twitter was Twitter and not X,that you know government
officials went after people forposting memes.
They were like oh yeah, youposted a meme.
We're going to try to sue youfor defamation.
Like it's a meme, it's satire.

Speaker 1 (53:52):
They came after me.
Yeah, you know early on it was.
It was during the I guess itwas the 2020 presidential
election.

Speaker 2 (53:59):
Was it in 2020?
.
Yes, yeah, so yeah, 2020, 2024.
So yeah, 2020, 2024.
2020, yeah.

Speaker 1 (54:06):
In 2020, they banned my Facebook account.
They pulled my Facebook accountcompletely.
And I had almost 900,000followers on my Facebook account
and I was posting pro-Trumpstuff.
I was like, hey, I'm pro-Trump,pro-this.
One day I woke up, account wasgone and what happened was that
they got the call.

(54:26):
Facebook got the call to pullme down because all the
pro-Trump stuff I was posting.
And then, of course, fastforward to what happened in the
inauguration or whatever.
And, yeah, I got a visit laterthat year from the FBI.
They show up right on mydoorstep.
Oh well, where were you on the7th?
Yeah, where were you doing?
Where were you?

(54:47):
Were you in DC?
Were you doing this?
Were you doing that?
Oh, and, by the way, whathappened to your Facebook
account?
It's like they knew they weretrolling you.
Man, yeah me, because they knew, by mentioning that that that
was their way of putting that inmy wheelhouse to say, yeah we
got rid of your.
Facebook account it would be ashame if something happened to
one of your other accounts andthey knew that that is a huge
part of my livelihood.

(55:07):
I was making a lot of money onaffiliate links at that time not
to get into the business sideof things, y'all, because I try
not to let the kids know Y'allare like my kids, we're not
going to pull a car over, don'tworry, it's okay but the truth
is that, yeah, part of mylivelihood was that Facebook
page and I was making aconsiderable amount of money
blessed enough to make decentmoney off of my affiliate posts,

(55:30):
and I was posting spicy memes.
I was posting pro-Trump stuffand it was great.
Everything was cool, getting alot of traction, doing really
well and really what they sawwas that I was changing hearts
and minds.
I was changing people's mindsand attitudes about Trump and
about the Republican Party andabout guns, and they saw that
the political needle was movingmore towards Trump and away from

(55:52):
the other person.

Speaker 2 (55:54):
It was Hillary that he was running against Kamala.
Was it Kamala In 2020, it wasHillary, wasn't it 2020?

Speaker 1 (55:59):
it was Right In 2024, it was Kamala, was it Kamala?
Yeah, you know, in 2020, it wasHillary, wasn't it 2020?

Speaker 2 (56:02):
it was Right In 2024, it was Kamala.
Oh my God.

Speaker 1 (56:05):
But anyway, the point is is they saw that this
political needle was moving in away that they didn't deem it to
be appropriate.
And again, going back tocomplicit crime, what more of a
complicit crime is there whenthe government orders a social
media company to take down afamous influencer's page because
it doesn't line up with thepolitical narrative that they

(56:27):
want to see put forth?
And now, if I was some extremeleft-wing person with 900,000
followers on Facebook and poststhat were going viral every day,
oh, I'd get left alone, in fact, oh, they would boost those
posts, they would accelerate thegrowth of those posts, but it's
like they couldn't find any wayto shut me up or shut me down,
so they literally just had toget rid of me.
They deleted the account, theycompletely got rid of it with no

(56:50):
explanation.
They would never tell me whatit was.
And I ended up finding thatthere was a subpoena from the
government about activities thatthat page was involved in, and
Facebook's answer was well, wedon't want to be involved in
said activities, we're justgoing to delete the page instead
of telling me what it was.
And they never would tell me,even to this day.
I have a couple of Facebookengineers I'm really good

(57:11):
friends with and they're likedude.
We looked in the back of youraccount and at the time they
were like this is so locked downthat it requires admin like
high level admin approval toeven look and see.
Like, we can't even look withour level of access man.
And then I wound up talking toanother guy who was way higher
and even he couldn't get to.

(57:32):
He's like dude.
It is not normal for me to notbe able to see what's going on
on the back.
This has never happened before.

Speaker 2 (57:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (57:46):
So let me tell you, you know, how I got my Facebook
account back.
It was, oh my gosh, oversightcommittee.
What's that gentleman's name?
Oh man, I'm going to feel sobad if I can't thank him in this
video because it's not Chip Roy.
The other gentleman is the guythat we really all wanted to run
for for the speaker of thehouse.
Okay, that guy and, and hewanted to have another role.
He wanted to be over theoversight committee.

(58:07):
Okay, well, anyway, he's stillover the oversight committee now
.
But it took literally, literallyhad to reach out to the house
oversight committee and it washis office that called facebook
and said you, sons of bitches,better bring this account back
right now.
It took literally him callingthem directly and saying we

(58:32):
don't know why you have the, youdeleted this guy's account but
you need to bring it back.
And they did.
James comer, no, no, the otherfellow.
Oh my God, I feel so bad.
Maybe I'll try to put down inthe lower third here in the
video, but what is thatgentleman's name?
I'm going to go crazy if Ican't remember his name, but he
called him and he sorted it out,and it took them literally

(58:55):
having to go and get it sortedout for me, isn't that?

Speaker 2 (58:58):
crazy.

Speaker 1 (58:59):
I'm just a well-known average guy that shoots guns on
the internet Like.
I'm not some social mediainfluencer or paid talking head,
like some of these people are.
I'm just a guy with an opinionthat just happens to have a huge
audience and they didn't likethat.

Speaker 2 (59:17):
Well, let's look at that.
You had one political figurethat stepped up to help you and
do the right thing.
And then now, if you look atanother political figure, if you
look at Minneapolis, ilhan Omar.
Complicit crime here, crimehere.
And the complicit crime here isthat when Ilhan Omar first was

(59:43):
elected to Congress, they allhave to file financial
disclosures.
It is required, it was.

Speaker 1 (59:50):
Jim Jordan's office.

Speaker 2 (59:52):
Sorry to interrupt Jim Jordan.
Jim Jordan contacted Facebookand said sons of bitches, what
are y'all doing?
And they're like, okay, notgiving me my account back.
Well, he did the right thing.
Yes, he did so, thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:00:03):
Jim Jordan, and thank you to the house oversight
committee.
It was a rare example of thegovernment actually doing their
job.
Anyway, I digress, go ahead andcontinue, Sorry.

Speaker 2 (01:00:12):
When, when she filed.
And so Minneapolis is a crimeridden cesspool at the moment.
That is where you started tosee the gang members take over
the local hotels.
You have the whole quote, andI'm using quotes here.
They're eating the cats andthey're eating the dogs stuff

(01:00:33):
going down.
So Ilhan Omar, on her financialdisclosure, reported a negative
net worth when she first ran.
Negative which means she was indebt.
Her net worth was so bad sheowed money.
She had nothing to her name.
Literally Fast forward to herlatest financial disclosure,

(01:00:57):
from 2025.
Eric, how much do you think hernet worth is?

Speaker 1 (01:01:04):
20, 30 million, something like that $30 million
Wow.
How surprising.

Speaker 2 (01:01:12):
Complicit crime.
Y'all Went from negative networth to $30 million.

Speaker 1 (01:01:20):
Don't even get me started on all the PACs that
funnel money and all of thissort of treachery that goes on,
that is bonkers dude, and howbought and paid for these
politicians seem to be.
And you know I have personallynever met anyone who serves in
Congress.
That's poor, Never.

Speaker 2 (01:01:37):
And if they are, they're not poor for long.
Never.
It doesn't exist.
Looking at you, Dan.

Speaker 1 (01:01:43):
I mean, look his trades on his first year as a
junior congressman.
His trades on the first yearwas like rivaling Nancy Pelosi.
What does that tell you?
Who was giving him the gas?

Speaker 2 (01:01:56):
He was getting the inside juice.
He was getting the textmessages from Nancy, yeah maybe
he was on Nancy Pelosi's textthread or something.
Yeah, a group chat.

Speaker 1 (01:02:05):
I'm going to tell you it was a group chat, but Dan's
trades were on point, a littletoo on point, and look, I'm not
blaming somebody, for, hey, youknow, some legislation's coming
up related to something.
I'm like, all right, maybe I'llbuy some stock.
Maybe you don't know theplayers know who it is, maybe
there's still some mysteryinvolved, and you go all right.
Well, I think it may be thesepeople, but if you get the gas

(01:02:28):
from the inside and they say buythis stock at this time, at
this specific time of the day,at 1145 am on this day, you're
going to purchase this stock,wink, wink, because we told you
to and they manipulate itsomehow, short sell it somehow.
They know there's some internalmanipulation of the stock

(01:02:53):
market that they're doing topurposely benefit these people.
That's where I have an issuewith it, because it's theft,
it's unfair, it's usury.

Speaker 2 (01:02:57):
I don't like that shit.
It's true.
It's usury.
I don't like that shit.
It's true and I agree.
I think somebody put in theywanted to legislate that you
couldn't trade stock in Congress.

Speaker 1 (01:03:11):
Unless you have their family members, do it.

Speaker 2 (01:03:13):
Yep, but here's the thing real quick.
I know we're running short ontime.
I remember a time and I'm not afan of Jimmy Carter I think
Jimmy Carter did morepost-presidency than he did
presidency.
Jimmy Carter's problem was thathe was too honest.
He was a peanut farmer fromGeorgia.
He owned a peanut farm.

(01:03:34):
He had to sell his peanut farmwhen he became president.
He left the White House usingthe bus.
He wasn't picked up by a limo.
He wasn't taken home on anairplane.
He took the bus.
He came in a man of meagermeans and he left a man of

(01:03:55):
meager means.
He probably could have donewhat all people in high office
have done and utilize that tomake money, and he did not.
Again, I'm not a fan of hispresidency, but I think that he
lived the way that you wouldimagine someone that ran for

(01:04:16):
public office and held publicoffice would be.
They just, they just did whatwas they thought was right, and
that was it.
That the sole purpose was.
He was, he lived to, to for thepeople, to serve the country,
and then he went home.

Speaker 1 (01:04:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:04:32):
That's a rare trait in today's world for these
people to actually To a fault,to a fault.

Speaker 1 (01:04:38):
Yeah Well, I think that today's show we definitely
got into the nuanced bin of whatit is for these people to be
complicit in these crimes, and Ithink it's a shame that we
allow in our society, thesepeople to have so much control
over not only the narrative buthow people within the justice
system are purposely treated inorder to push that said

(01:05:00):
narrative, and it ends up peopledying, businesses getting
burned down, looting, riotingcrime running rampant and
there's a group of people who'sspecifically responsible for
allowing these things to happen,and I take issue with that.
I think we should be much more,you know, stringent and, you

(01:05:21):
know, really punish these peoplefor what they're doing.
There needs to be justice and Ithink it's a huge miscarriage
of justice against the peopleand I hope that in time, that we
will see justice served for theservers of justice who are
misusing and misappropriatingtheir power, and that is clearly
happening.

Speaker 2 (01:05:41):
They just need to be held accountable.

Speaker 1 (01:05:42):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (01:05:42):
Right now, there's zero accountability for anybody.

Speaker 1 (01:05:46):
Well, I'm not going to hold my freaking breath.
I'll tell you that much, and Idon't think for one second
they'll ever see accountability,because they're all.
It's a giant club and you ain'tin it, just like George Carlin
said, and it's true.
But anyway, look, uh, I hopeeverybody has a fantastic week.
Not to start off on a drollmoment, but anyway, I hope
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