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Yeah, I mean, that's, that's absolutely right. I mean, it's, that's. If, if you are in a free society, if the flag stands for a free society, which is what we've all been told is the thing that you're burning. Well, if you, if you are a free society, then like objectively this just comes down to a property rights issue. That's all this is. Whose flag is it? Is it yours? You know what I mean? Like, if it's somebody else's, you don't have a right to burn their flag. You have a right to do what you want to do with your property on Your property. Now, you could get into a debate about what you have the right to do on public property or somebody. Something like that. But, yes, it's. Of course, I completely agree with you. I also think that, you know, and I say this as somebody who. I'm not a big fan of protesting in general, just don't really like protests. I think that it is something that perhaps is, like, necessary at times and should be used for those times, like, I understand where, like, if your government's launching a war that you were lied into and you're, like, out on the streets over it. I can't really argue with you for being out on the streets. I really did like the trucker protests. I kind of felt like there was something necessary about them, like when, you know, how crazy the COVID restrictions were, particularly up there in Canada. But, you know, I just always think that, like, the. The lens that I look at this stuff through. And, you know, I think some people obviously, like, I'm a libertarian, and I have some priors that I come into, you know, my. With my political, you know, outlook or worldview, but I think that they're correct. And I think that even. Even with the kind of, like, lawlessness that you saw in, let's say, the riots in the summer of 2020, or just like the crime in a lot of big cities, even that I don't really view as the. The government just failing to do something about the problem or that the government should have more power to do something about it. I mean, first of all, the government has all the power in the world that it needs to crack down on crime. And we have the most militarized police that any nation has ever had. I mean, we. We, the United States of America, makes Adolf Hitler's Germany or Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union pale in comparison to the sheer amount of, like, power that we have. Like, the amount of, like, militarism. Like, I don't know, you know, the Department of Education has a SWAT team, Rob. It's like the EPA has a SWAT team. Every goddamn local police department just. I used to joke about this when I lived before I moved to my current house in my own. If you remember. You've been there a few times, Rob. My old place that I was renting. Whereas this little town. You remember that little town, just nothing going on in that little town. There's no crime at all in it. It was like one of the. This little town knew everyone who lived there, basically. And the. I remember this. The police department had a tank. They just had A tank. And they had nothing to do with it. They had nothing. They literally probably, I'm not exaggerating. This was a thing in this little town that I used to live in, this little. Like there was no crime. It's just they, they had the police department had this tank and what they used to do with it. The only thing I ever saw them do with that was when there were birthdays. Like there were so few people in the town. And this was weird to me because I grew up in New York City, this is my first place I moved from there. But if you like, like if your 8 year old had a birthday, they would do like a drive through the town and the tank would come, like, drive, but you're the birthday boy around the town and like honk the horn and everyone would come out on their, on their balcony and be like, happy birthday. You know, and like, because they had nothing to do with that. You could call the police department and be like, hey, it's my son's birthday. They'd be like, you guys want to whip out the tank? Like, they'd all be excited. I don't know, what do we do with this thing? What do we do with the is? And you know what I'm saying, like, it wasn't exactly like a, it was like a big armored vehicle they definitely bought from the Defense Department on some type of like, you know, crony thing. But so like that's. So we have all the, we have all little local police departments already for stuff like this, let alone the nypd, which is, I forget what. One of. It's one of the biggest armies in the world. It's like, I think in the top 20 or 30 biggest militaries in the world, like the NYPD is bigger than. It's bigger than most countries militaries. And so it's not as if like you needed some new thing. But the issue with all of these areas, the issue with the riots, the issue with the crime is that it's not just like, oh, the government isn't doing what their job is or needs more power, it's that the government in all of these cases is enforcing this. I remember when I was talking to Charlie Kirk about this and I couldn't. And we were kind of having the right winger talking to a libertarian, like, well, what do you think about this? What do you think about that? And I can't remember if it was him who said it or me who said it at first, but we both agreed. But I just went like, I go, hey, what percentage of the problem with riots and crime and all of this, what percentage of it is solved by just instituting the second amendment, you know, concealed carry castle doctrine, stand your ground and just legalizing self defense. Like what percentage of this problem is solved? And me and him sat there and he went between 80 to 90%. I went, yeah, that's right. Okay, so if we already know the policy that solves 80 to 90% of this, what the fuck are we talking about? And now this. Of course I didn't have the chance, but I'd ask Charlie Kirk, what percentage does a flag burning ban solve of any of these problems? Oh, zero. Oh, that's right, zero percent. So like what are we even talking about here? And I would just think that after, particularly after, like all the COVID stuff, it's like who, what, what self respecting right winger or you know, just person who was good on stuff over the last few years, what percentage of you are actually sitting here supporting giving the government more authority to crack down on what we're allowed to do when we're pissed off at them. And not even what we're allowed to do. But essentially, Rob, as you pointed out here, what we're allowed to say, because this really is like, this is what you're allowed to say. This is speech, you know, burning a flag. However you feel about it, it is speech in the same way that writing a book is speech. Like writing a book technically is an action and technically is a object. You know what I mean? But it is speech. Obviously you write a book to say something and you burn a flag to say something. Again, that's not a comment on how you feel about what's being said, but that's what you're doing. When you burn a flag, you're something. And so that's what you want. That's after the last five years, that's what we want, more regulation on what it is we're allowed to say, have we not? You know, it's like, I'm sorry dude. And it's not even like again, Donald Trump, but between, like, like as we've said a million times, right, between the, the criminals in the war party and the criminals in the COVID regime, right? Well, we got Tulsi Gabbard and Cash Patel and Bobby Kennedy and J. Bhattacharya and all of these guys. And who's being held criminally responsible for any of it so far, you know. But we're going to crack down on someone burning an American flag? Why? Because they're so goddamn disgusted that we're giving Israel billions of dollars to kill babies or something like that. That's who we're going to crack down on. The 20 year old who's burning an American flag in protest of his, of his government being, you know, hijacked by a foreign country to inflict a genocide. Oh, good, let's get to the bottom of that one. Rob, like, what do I, what are we supposed to do here? We're supposed to pretend this is anything other than just like, I don't know, like, like I agree with what you said. I think the policy is wrong on the face of it. It. But the thing that's more disgusting is just like what a slap in the face it is to even be going down this path. All right, guys, let's take a moment and thank our sponsor for today's show, which is Monetary Metals. I've been telling you about these guys for quite a while now. I love the company. I love the people who run the company. And if you're tired of paying storage fees and exorbitant premiums for physical gold, all while it just sits there collecting dust, know that there is a better way to do it. And the better way is Monetary Metals, where you don't pay storage fees and you can even earn up to 5% annually on your gold paid in gold. 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