t preference is taken into this specific context of sports I don't have any problem with the women who were affected by it saying we're competing against men. To me that doesn't even feel impolite. Not even a little bit.

So I feel that that's a change. I feel like I would have been canceled just for this. Am I wrong? Even what I just said. I feel like I would have been canceled two months ago but I don't feel like that's out of bounds at the moment. I feel like we're achieving some kind of clarified understanding of the situation which is it's not all about everybody trans is good all the time and it's definitely not everybody trans is mentally ill. As long as we can get out of the binary I think we'll be okay. It can be true that it's good for some people and isn't it good that they can do what they need to do. And it could be also true that the mentally ill have taken over the category. To me it looks like a lot of mental illness masquerading as something else.

Now that wouldn't be different from any other topic would it? In almost every topic there's somebody who's mentally ill that's being mistaken for like a legitimate voice. Take racism. You know there's all kinds of I'll call it normal racism but then there's crazy racism isn't there? Isn't there crazy racism? Wait a minute that's not racism that's just mental disorder. That is just mental disorder. As soon as you call that racism it just gets confusing. You're getting lost in the binary that people are racist they're not racists. You know that little simplified world. And I would say that almost every major topic has some important people who are involved who are actually just mentally ill and they get confused with the serious people who just have different opinions.

Yeah well Greta is a good example. Greta appears to be from the outside somebody who's suffering from a mental, I won't say it doesn't look like any organic mental problem but it looks like a mental condition brought on by media forces. And there are probably a lot of young people who have the same alarmist PTSD feeling about climate change that they better act now or they'll be dead in six years we have left or whatever the crazy number is. So Greta to me looks like somebody's suffering from some kind of mental issue which doesn't mean she's wrong. The question of whether she's right or wrong is completely separate. It just doesn't look like that's the motivation from the outside. I can't read her mind. I can't diagnose her. You shouldn't listen to anything I say about anybody else's mental health. But from the outside that's what it looks like.

Liberalism is a mental disorder, Michael Savage says. But again it's a matter of degrees. Being a moderate Democrat is definitely not a mental disorder. Does anybody think it is? Does anybody think old Bill Clinton, the old Bill Clinton Democrat was a mental disorder? He looked like the most rational guy we've ever had as a president to me. But certainly there are things that you would call liberal or progressive today that in my opinion they get a little too far into mental health and not so much about politics.

So I think it's important that we can call out mental health as a variable, isn't it? And doesn't that move things forward if you can say yeah. Here's the other thing. People like me who are just tired of having to lie. I just got tired of lying so I just started saying what I was actually thinking. And of course getting canceled is very, very expensive. But I don't have a moment of regret. And I feel like it's useful for you to see people like me who took a back full of arrows. I don't have a single regret. And maybe that's good. Maybe the system needs people who are willing to run at the pillbox first. That just happened to be me this time. Next time it will be somebody else.

All right, I have a theory that the media is the root cause of all of America's current problems. And I'm going to build this into a bigger theme and it goes like this. The basis of the hypothesis is this. That when we got the internet and we learned to be able to count the number of clicks on a story, which is the first time we could know with certainty every little nuance of oh this headline gets more clicks, this story gets more clicks, which was a little bit harder to deduce back when the news was just on TV and it was three people reading the news. But once you could tell exactly what would get people excited which was correlated with profits then you had to chase the outrage. So once we monetized outrage everything else came out of that. Monetized outrage.

So at this point the media is no longer about the news. It's about monetizing outrage. The news is just the ingredients but the cake is outrage, right? They could use those ingredients to inform us, to lift us up, to enlighten us. But they don't have a business model that would support any of that crap. So instead they surf as outrage because that's where the money is.

Now as long as you have that system can you have a healthy country? I would argue it's impossible without changing something. I'm not even sure what needs to be changed but the current situation is a fast road to destruction. Let me give you an example of some of the things in my opinion the media is the sole reason for all of the problems. And if this doesn't shock you I don't know what will. And before I read them I'll give you this backup. There's some graphs that just went by in the locals platform because they can put images in with their comments. And I saw that on Twitter it was since 2010 the media massively increased headlines they use fear, anger and disgust and sadness because those things get clicks. And it's a dramatic change around 2010.

2010 is roughly when we knew exactly what worked and what didn't. Yeah roughly iPhone time. So basically you can tell that this is a clickbait related phenomenon. Would you agree that the timing in 2010 coincident with smartphones ish around that, isn't it obvious that the headlines turn negative because of a technological improvement? It's obvious, right? That part nobody doubts. I don't have to defend that any more than the obvious.

So once you have that situation where the news is not trying to help, they're actually trying to hurt. They're trying to hurt you because it's profitable. And when I say hurt you I mean give you bad news that doesn't make you feel good and maybe there's nothing you can do about it anyway.

All right here are things I think the news literally destroyed. Traditional American values. And I want to say in your comments agree or disagree. The traditional American values have been destroyed by the media. Not just the news but movies etc. Now I'm not going to make an argument that traditional American values are perfect and the only thing we should consider because traditional American values that's too much racism and sexism and add other issues, lots of other issues. But would you agree with me that as an operating system for the country it worked to keep cohesion even with all of its problems? It kept cohesion and that cohesion was applied toward merit and hard work and that's what built the country.

The country was built on trust. You don't know how important trust is which I believe is a religious traditional value, right? You don't get trust unless you think God was watching. Am I wrong? If you thought there's no God you would just say well if I can get away with it I can get away with it. But if you think you're going to burn in hell forever if you lie to your business partner you might be less inclined to do it. Well I don't want to burn forever so I'll tell the truth.

So I think that the traditional American values created an operating system for the country that was super successful. And that the media has chipped away on it and in recent years usually for good reasons. Usually for good reasons. I love inclusiveness. I like diversity. I like getting rid of racism. So the reasons are all good. It's just that you don't indulge in those until you're already successful. There's a certain type of way of thinking that I don't think emerges until you've taken care of all your big problems and got the country solid. And then people have the luxury of, now I'm not sure everybody should have a job. Can you imagine those of you who are in my age range, imagine in the 80s somebody saying how about UBI? We'd just pay people to do nothing. You couldn't even have that conversation. It would have sounded ridiculous because people would have said no that's not the operating system. As soon as you pay people for not working you're going to get more not working. How's that not obvious?

So I think you have to succeed, and I'll come back to this theme, before you can be silly. Silliness is like a luxury of the successful and especially their children. The children of successful people have the greatest luxury of all because they don't know what it takes to make the money. They just know they don't need any at the moment.

All right I think traditional values was destroyed by the media. Not that it shouldn't have. I'm just saying it happened. I think the January 6 insurrection story is completely media driven. And as the media had told us well it was a bunch of people who were unhappy about the election but yeah and there was some violence and that's the end of the story. You know the media could have covered that that way, right? How did the media cover the protests when Trump got elected the first time? First time Trump got elected, two huge protests. Media covered it while it was happening and then it's not a story anymore. But this January 6 one the media, being the winged monkeys of the Democrats, decided that this needed to be the main story. You see? So is this good for you? Is it good for the country that the media decided insurrection which was literally not what happened? Is it good for the country that they made up a narrative and then sold it for two years? No it's terrible for the country.

How about racial division? Do you think racial division is being driven by media narratives? Of course. Do you think racial division got worse on its own? No. If you leave people alone they kind of say oh you're my neighbor, oh you're cool I like you. It's just when we get charged up by the media clickbait stuff. I mean how unhealthy is it that we see on Twitter every day there's a new story of black people hurting other people, right? There's no way that's representative of course. But if you see that kind of video every day it's going to make you think wow everywhere I go it's going to be this. Of course that's not the case.

How about our mental health? Of course the media has destroyed our mental health. Does anybody doubt that? Does that seem obvious to you that they've destroyed our mental health? Because they're giving us PTSD. They're making us racially afraid of each other. Just every possible negative thing that's coming from the media.

How about climate change and the way we're addressing it? Let's say energy policy. Probably the biggest economic factor in the world is energy. Don't you think we're doing everything wrong because of the news? Do you know why we don't have a robust nuclear industry in America? It's the media. If you took the media away scientists would say well you know we're good at this now and it's safe. The current models are safe. And if the media just reported that well it turns out the current models are safe, that's it. We would have a robust France-like nuclear energy but we don't. And the media did that. That was the media.

How about TikTok and banning it? Don't you think TikTok would already be banned? It's only the media that even allows this to happen. The whole story about trans athletes. Do you think that Lia Thomas would be competing if the media did not support her? Of course not. If the media reported that a man was competing as a woman it would end immediately. It's just the way it's framed. The moment that all of the media reported the story there's a man competing as a woman, which by the way is the only way to frame it. The other way to frame it is she's a woman and she has advantages. But if the media decided that they didn't want this to happen they just say oh there's this man competing as a woman and then everybody would have no problem banning it because they know they'd be safe. Well the media says there's a man competing as a woman so obviously we can ban him. They would be able to say in that case from competing. But right now the media says treat everybody according to their gender preference and so if you were to complain about it the media has worked up a bunch of people to complain about you. So that's a media problem.

How about population decline? Do you think the population in mostly industrialized countries, do you believe the population is declining because of natural reasons, just econom