at they need to stop doing that because it's putting me in physical danger? Have I ever said that you need to stop using your free speech because it puts me in physical danger? I've noted that it does. I've noted that it does but that's different than saying they need to stop it right? Not once. No.

When Ye said White Lives Matter was he putting himself at greater physical risk? Of course he was. Of course he was. And also the people who supported him. Did he put Candace Owens at greater physical risk by associating her with that message? Yes. Yes. I mean she already puts herself at great risk by the way. Candace Owens is one of the bravest people in the public realm. Like she is brave. Like you gotta give her that.

So look at the big picture. Number one how many of you saw the behind the scenes video of Ye preparing his little mask and his routine for Alex Jones? If you watched him preparing for it you saw somebody who did not look crazy at all. And as he was talking about wearing the mask he was completely aware that that would make it impossible to ignore. He went full rock star full Trump and he said all right if you're gonna cut me off from social media I will become impossible to ignore and then I'm going to go on there and say the most outrageous thing anybody ever said and let's see what happens.

Here's another clue. Ali Alexander who's also associated now with Ye he said on that video specifically that they were breaking the Overton window. Maybe saying it wrong but the Overton window is basically the idea that you could keep your critics or your enemies in a state of continuous spinning if you keep doing one more outrageous thing after another. They can't settle on the last outrageous thing. They have to keep up with you. So sort of what Trump did. All of his individual statements that could have ended anybody else didn't end Trump because he was already on to the next statement and that was controversial too and then the next one right.

So now that you know the following things maybe you didn't put together. Number one Kanye and his group are specifically and overtly talking about the Overton window. Everything they're doing supports that theory of operation. There's no way I could possibly believe that Ye was not completely aware of all of the reactions he would get from beginning to end. Everybody would know the reaction to everything.

Here's what I think he's up to and he might pull it off. I don't know. Now and again if you're not if you're new to my live stream I'm not supporting Ye and I said this yesterday I think Ye is making himself unlikable and I accept that. So I don't like him. I would like him if he said nice things about the Jewish community. I would like him more. I would like him if he said things that I could embrace without being embarrassed. I'd like that. That'd be cool.

But here's what I think he's up to. I think he's breaking your brain and he's going to be very close to succeeding because you can't tell where that breaking point is because he's bending us and we're bending and bending and bending. It's not until you see the whole portfolio of what he's done in the last few years that you see he is intentionally finding the most challenging thing you can hold in your mind and then making you deal with it.

Now I've said before that Ye is not somebody who just creates art. He is living art. Everything he does pushes or challenges you to reconsider the way you were thinking of things right. Everything we're watching is a challenge to the old way you were thinking from the very beginning of what is an award show right. The most basic thing that nobody would question is what is an award show? Well it's where somebody gets an award and they say thank you and everybody claps. Then Ye said how about this isn't award show. How about not. How about I go up there and make it a different show. And then he did.

So if you look at the whole portfolio it looks a lot less crazy and it looks like an artist who is breaking all of our expectations about what artists can do who can say what and he has broken maybe the most important barrier that we have for getting together which is we're not allowed to say what we think. We're not allowed to say what we think and until we're allowed to say what we think we'll never come together. The country can never come together if we can't talk and say what we actually think as bad as it is right because lots of times we think pretty ugly things. Ye is just breaking all of the rules. He's just showing you you can say everything you want to say as long as you're willing to pay for it with everything.

Now let's double back to something that you really don't see coming. You ready for this? When Ye said that there were so many more slaves than white people who were trying to control them back in slavery. He said that it looked like a choice. And then all historians and especially black historians said whoa whoa whoa whoa that was no choice. You know the group that had the weapons would have just slaughtered us right.

Here's what I think Ye would have said speculating based on everything that he's done so far. I think he'd say right how does that affect my point right? They would have slaughtered them and they also probably would have ended up winning. They might have lost 90 percent of their numbers but they could have ended up winning them because they had the numbers. You know they just had to attack where their weapons were and get the weapons and then you know. So if you ask me Ye's original controversial point that the slaves could have rebelled if they wanted to badly enough he basically proved by destroying his own career to win back freedom of speech for himself. He basically demonstrated what he thought the slaves at the time should have done which is risk everything for their freedom. And reasonable people said no you don't risk everything for your freedom. You risk what makes sense. And Ye was saying no for freedom you'd risk everything.

And so when it came to his own freedom in the United States can he say whatever he wants to say no matter how ugly it is? Can a man who feels and this is his own feeling this is not my interpretation can a man who feels that some identifiable group seems to be ganging up on him can he say it? Yeah. Does he have the right to be wrong? Does he have the right to say something that could put people at risk? He's fighting for that right and what he traded for that right was everything. He traded everything for it.

Now if you don't think this is one of the greatest shows you've ever seen you're not seeing the pattern. If you look at any individual thing he says we're supposed to be outraged by it you're part of the performance right. You're not an observer you're part of the performance. Your outrage is part of the act.

So what he says Hitler has some good things about him. I say God damn you Ye. God damn you. I'm sorry I don't want to use the lord's name in vain. I know some of you get triggered by that and I didn't mean to do it. So I don't support him because that's his message. His message to me is don't support me right because he basically said things I can't agree with and I'm not going to agree with so I don't support him. But watching this play out? Amazing.

Now you want some more mind benders? I got more. Do you think he can make his money back? Do you think he could ever make his money back? Well one of his projects which is still live unless something's changed recently is you know he had intended to build communities that were designed communities so they'd be better places to live and would solve a number of problems that our current social situation doesn't solve. Now he's only been messing around with the prototypes but you know the size of that market is bigger than all the things he's ever done right. The potential size of that is basically Elon Musk sized opportunity and nobody's really competing because other people who want to build homes are just going to be home builders and they would build something boring that didn't move your soul. Ye potentially could bring what he's brought to other fields to the housing field and make you excited about it and then suddenly every community he builds or licenses he makes a hundred million dollars and you know a hundred million here a hundred million there it adds up over time. You know he could be the richest man in America in 20 years and it's because he's entered the market that would allow that to happen and he's the right person for it. He's the right person for the market.

So here's the other possibility. You know that in my opinion Trump has become not viable. Is there any way that Ye could come back from all of this? Could he come back from the things he said? Could he get back into the public good graces? Nobody else could but he could. He could yep. Now I'm not going to predict that he will. I'm just going to say I look at his talent stack and I look at what you would call his mental illness or whatever's going on there and I don't see that's going to stop him. It doesn't look like that would stop him. He knows exactly what it would take right. Don't you think he knows what to take? Because he knew exactly what would get him in trouble. You don't think there was any surprise about that. He knew exactly what he was doing. You don't think he knows exactly how to get out of it?

Let me tell you how. Do you think I could model it? Do you think I could give you a thing he could say that would just totally get him out of trouble? I think he could. Here's me modeling it. You know I think that my comments about the Jews were out of place and I was acting on my feelings at the time. However the bigger issue is can people say what they feel when they feel it and still survive in this country? Because we can't have a country if I can't say something out of anger and still have a job. And I'd like that for you as well. I want us all to live in a country at work and say what we want to say and we'll figure out a way to be okay with it. We shouldn't be doing things that make it too dangerous for other people but be aware that all speech comes with a little bit of danger right. It's built into free speech. You can't make it go away. You've watched me say every possible thing that you're not supposed to say and so far I'm still alive. Free speech won't kill you. I just proved it.

Now can we stop saying bad things about each other as a group? Can you join me and let's not treat black people like they're one group or white people like they're one group or Jews like they're one group or Christians like they're one group. Can we just stop doing it? Because I'll go first. I'll go first.

Now if he said that and you said to yourself huh he actually sounds like he means it. He actually I could hear his actual regret and the way he phrased it. He's giving us a reason why it happened. He was upset about his situation. He's told you what he's going to do to correct it and then he tried to bring you to a higher ground where we all don't have that problem and we don't have that kind of problem with each other and we figure out how to talk while being a little bit offensive because that's just how talking works.

Now you don't think he could sell that? Again I'm not predicting he will try to do anything like that because he's hard to predict right. You can't really predict him. If you could predict him he wouldn't be Ye. But he could.

Now when I said that did you say to myself oh my God that will never work. Nobody would ever accept that. Have you ever heard the well there's a couple of analogies that come to mind. If you've ever worked at a restaurant you know or any retail you know that the following thing is true. The best way to get a repeat customer is have a bad experience for your customer and then they complained and then you fix it. If for example you go to a restaurant and something was wrong and they comp you the meal your odds of eating there again are pretty high. You know if it's a good restaurant you just have one little issue right. So yeah we do have a soft spot as humans for people who admit their mistake and try to fix it. In fact that's some of our favorite people. A lot of movies and books are about somebody who is flawed and then the process of the movie they redeem themselves right. The redemption story is one of our strongest most built-in narratives that run our lives.

So if he could turn into the reformed person who becomes the story of who you don't want to be or becomes the reason that we should value free speech or something like that you can imagine he could make it work. You can imagine that.

Does it blow your mind that he's a black man who says White Lives Matter and he's working with Nick Fuentes and Milo? Doesn't it look like he chose he chose his group to be the most offensive group he possibly could? And Ali Alexander was one of the organizers of the January 6 event. He's not charged with anything because he didn't do anything illegal but still his name is associated with that right. Doesn't it look like he intentionally chose the least publicly acceptable people?

Here's the weird thing. They're not all the same person. So he's got person of color, person who's gay, person who's the most extreme right-wing person. I mean he's really got a little pirate ship. It's a pirate ship. His little pirate ship. Do you know what makes people comfortable? People get comfortable when they see that you're the captain of a pirate ship because they go well he's not going to kick me out for being weird because I'm just a pirate like all the pirates are different. One has one leg one has one leg but we're all just pirates you know. The pirate ship metaphor or analogy I forget which it would be a good way to bring the country together wouldn't it? You know instead of saying you're a bad pirate and I'm a good pirate how about just saying you know we're all kind of pirates but we're on the same ship.

That's what I liked about Trump. You know of course his critics say oh you're a big racist but he had no problem hanging out with literally anybody right. If you look at the people Trump has personally associated with it was everybody. No limits at all. I love that. The people I'm worried about is people hanging around with people who look like them. I'm not comfortable with that.

What is one piece? I don't know what that is. Are you giving him the benefit of the doubt to talk about Ye? Am I giving Ye the benefit of the doubt and assuming his intentions are good? Yes yes I am doing that explicitly. I'm assuming that Ye's intentions are good because I also believe that his religious faith is real. Does anybody doubt his religious faith? That's a lot of work. I mean if that's a trick it's a lot of work to put into a trick. No I think he's completely sincere about the religion stuff which suggests he's sincere about creating a better world. He's just doing it in a way that we've never seen anybody do anything unless you think Trump did.

All right. Now is there any way that I can say what I've said without getting smeared by the left? I think they'll probably drag me now won't they? Do you think I'll get dragged by this afternoon? Because I think the media is desperately looking for somebody who makes a mistake of defending Ye right. Like the classic trap is the first person who looks like they're defending him is going to get dragged in so that you know not to defend him. That's how it's played.

Now I don't know if I can avoid that by saying I dislike him because he is going out of his way to make all of us dislike him. So I accept. I accept his message.

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