340-A Former Democrat Explains Why He Walked Away with Joel Rakow

We talk with author and civic tech builder Joe Rakow about why loyalty to truth matters more than loyalty to parties, and how narrative control shapes what people feel allowed to question. We connect his novel’s storyline to real-world pressure tactics, then end with a practical idea for judging public officials by constitutional alignment instead of headlines. 
• walking away from party identity after COVID-era media and January 6 reactions 
• Why election security questions deserve open scrutiny 
• Loyalty as truth seeking rather than institutional obedience 
• The novel’s plot: bioweapon discovery, info war tactics, retaliation labels 
• Writing characters that resist stereotypes and identity pigeonholes 
• Foster care insights and a model for becoming a capable adult 
• How the oppressor framework gets taught and why it narrows thinking 
• Equal opportunity vs equal outcome and individual rights under the Constitution 
• Climate change as an example of debate being replaced by messaging 
• An AI app concept that scores officials by actions and constitutional alignment 

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Transcript

Challenge The Comment Section

SPEAKER_02 0:00

Much more difficult. I mean, if you want to debate that comment section, you want to debunk that, go right ahead. There's a comment section right here. If you want to either agree with it, which is easier to do, or if you want to try debunk it, oh, it's much easier. Just watch this movie or listen to that. And I mean, feel free. Feel free to try to debunk it.

SPEAKER_00 0:18

That's in.

Welcome And Ground Rules

SPEAKER_02 0:21

Welcome everyone to politically high tech with your host, Elias. Say straight up. We could this conversation's gonna cause some trouble, okay? And this show's not a stranger to troublemakers or people who think outside the box and all that good stuff. And I'm gonna remind you, probably for the thousandth time, I don't want any kids or baby-minded adults in this podcast. I don't need you. Go listen to, I don't know, Rachel or something. Go listen to her or watch her stuff. Because you're a baby. All right. I don't need you. I'm just gonna say, but for those who are intellectually strong or have a strong spirit, welcome. And you know I don't mind being challenged or even being or criticized, because self-criticism can't help me. So welcome to the true adults. All right. That's what I'm gonna say, just like that. And I'm gonna give just an interesting introduction about how other guests. I'm just gonna spoil the name is Joel Raccoon. He calls ruckets and stuff. I'm just gonna give a little introduction here. In our world where the truth is buried under layers of deception, one soldier's discovery of a secret Chinese bioweapon on American soil ignites, a battle between government overreach, woke institutionalizes, and the fight for free speech. That's join with Joe Raccoon here, a Harvard fellow, a Secret Service advisor. Ooh, we might get some insight stuff. And the author of the gripping novel Life Woke and Well Life in Woke America, a family story of truth and betrayal under fire. This story is inspired by real events. We're gonna unpack this story. Well, most, well, I mean by we, mostly him and the character. From foster care survivor to an infobattle and a congressional whistleblower, blending faith, family resilience, and unfiltered alignment with the U.S. Constitution. So either with the U.S. Constitution or your dirty commie, in other words. What's a man to do with the institutions he serves and supports? Turn against him and his family. Let's tune in. Who's ready to wake up or stay woke? And remember, I do air quotation marks here because there is the real woke origin, the true origin that I stand by that one, not the political garbage that's been used just to ruin all of that. So enough of my yapping here. Um introduce yourself. What do you want the listeners and viewers to know about you, Joe?

SPEAKER_01 3:15

Well, interesting. Okay. Wide

COVID Narratives And January 6 Fallout

SPEAKER_01 3:18

open. So let's see. So when we were quarantining during COVID, and I was watching how the press and whatever and and the media was not allowing the kind of investigation and analysis and discussion and conversation and exploration that allows people to find the truth, to work to find the truth. It was like the truth was not what they wanted us to know. And and then it went a little bit longer, and as you recall, there was January 6th. And my wife and I were on the ranch in a very rural part of Texas in the Panhandle. And we said, let's go to that January 6th thing. You know, we've been on the ranch for like about three months, two months or so, and let's go see. Now, as a Democrat, I had seen the the political party try and get the and actually succeed at having a presidential election re-examined to make sure that it held up. And that was the Bush Gore and the Florida, you know, the tags, you know, that uh were hanging on there. So I thought nothing of it. I said, this is a good thing. I'm a little uncertain. I don't have the data, but I know for my cybersecurity background, when I read what about the machines, I then wrote an article titled The 18 Steps Required to Secure an election run by voting machines. And I put every single one of them in there. It's still out on the internet, on our website. And at the end, I said, those 18 steps are required if you're running an election in a in a single city with a single network and it's small. You can do it and you can secure it with these steps. But they're very come some of them are very challenging to accomplish. So I knew that the machines were not, could not be secured for a national election where you've got city, county networks, you got state networks, you got the internet network, you know, they're all going together. There's just too many vulnerabilities. I thought it'd be fun to go, and when we're in Texas, we're, you know, it's only a couple-day drive, two and a half days or so. And then afterwards, I saw all these people getting arrested without a writ of habeas corpus. I mean, that was in the Magna Carta. And and so, and they were being held and they were not being tried. And they would say they're being arrested for sedition, but not a single one of them got the charge of seditious activity. So I knew that things were haywire. We weren't going for the truth, we weren't going for you know, even truth and a crime for people who were not criminals. Even if they went into the to the you know, the Congress and they want to call that a crime, then okay, that is a crime. I don't know. But they have no criminal record. You know, yeah, it's gonna be a misdemeanor, it's gonna be something, you get rid of it, you know, you take care of it. They kept these people for too long. So I said, Whoa, something's wrong. I'm out of here. And I wrote a letter of resignation. I put about, I forget what it was, about 15 things that I saw that made me not able to support the party that had developed around me. So that's what I'd like you to know.

SPEAKER_02 7:18

Well, look at that. You have a former loyal Democrat turn row. I know some of your left, ah, traitor, he that, well, you use he. You don't got the right to use that. You want to get rid of God right there. That part, I disagree with the left on that one. Um, If it comes to religious things, I'm kind of lean to the right a bit on that one. But that's just my personal opinion with that. But um, I don't want to I don't want to trade too far away because it's not just you, there's a good amount of people that left the Democrat Party. It was one of them. I think Linda Lee was one of them that she left the Democrat Party, especially how the donations were being handled. She said it was very questionable and somewhat more like criminal. It'll be nice she could bring them to justice with that. And look at the Democrats. The Democrats, as of right now, based off my analysis to try to keep up with everything, they are broke. The DNC is broke. And you know, and they did have a super big war chest when Kamala Harris, you know, Joe Biden slash Kamala Harris ran for president. They had over a billion dollars. Now they're at debt. That's insane. But so let's talk. Can we talk about loyalty? But you know, I'm just saying, you know, we get yeah, I'm gonna get to that real quick. Yeah, it's just, yeah. You know, me, I personally don't believe in party loyalty. I mean, I switched party multiple times, so I'm the last person I should talk about party loyalty. I believe in America.

SPEAKER_01 8:41

Perfect. I love it. I love it. I do not believe that we should be loyal to institutions. You're loyal to the truth. And when you feel that the truth isn't being served, then you you know, then you have to leave that institution. And if you've done it multiple times, I congratulate you. I'd like to know why, I'd like to know the different events, and I'll say, oh, I missed that one. I don't know if I would have responded that strongly, but it would be a good conversation, and I would understand more coming away from it. Now, in running a business, you've that's a mistake. You don't want to be loyal to a manager, you don't want to be loyal to you want to be loyal to the customer that's being served. Now, if you're really at a senior level, you might split that loyalty and be loyal to the shareholders and to the customers. But you're never loyal to your the management. You try and pursue the truth as you see it in pursuit of serving the customers, and you have conversations with your manager when that goes, you know, when they say, Hey, I don't want you doing that unless you get permission from me first. And then you gotta talk about whether, you know, what your authority is. But anyway, loyalty is not something you give out to institutions, you give it out indiscriminately. You

Loyalty To Truth Over Institutions

SPEAKER_01 10:05

wanna be loyal to your faith and loyal to your to truth and loyal to your family. That's kind of and then maybe loyalty then beyond that is more like be uh it wasn't fair to the to the players that loyalty they were b they were taking advantage of. So loyalt that's where I learned loyalty. And plus when you play sports, like I played till I was thirty. You know, it's a team's always changing. I mean you have to be loyal to like to the to the spirit of the game, to competition, to doing your best. I mean, you have to find a thing to be loyal because everything changes around you. The owners change, the manager changes, the coaches change, the players change. Sometimes even your field changes.

SPEAKER_02 10:55

Yeah, that is so true. I'm not really a sports guy, but I have, but even I notice those changes. So they changes this player. I mean, it's always on the news. Rather, I try to ignore it. Oh, you know, this player's getting traded, and you know, all the managers get fired because they lost too many games, or you just simply hate them because some are competent, but since they don't like each other, sometimes it's petty stuff like that. And yeah, I mean, yeah, that's why I'm not as loyal to people as I used to be, but I'm only loyal to, of course, family. Now I agree with wholeheartedly. Because you gotta be loyal somewhere, in my opinion. Family is one, of course, to your beliefs. I don't those I'm not I'm not gonna argue with you there.

SPEAKER_01 11:37

Not even your beliefs. You have to be loyal to the truth. Well, it's oh your beliefs are the best you know. Yeah, it's like this is what I believe today. But if you're always pursuing the truth, when new information comes in, you go, hey, I gotta adjust.

SPEAKER_02 11:52

No, that's true, that's true. Yeah, let me readjust. That's true. Yeah, because yeah, yeah, that's like we played the old mask at this point. Although I play with the truth, although I should be loyal with the truth or I'll be loyal to my beliefs. Yeah, that leads to idolatry and all of that. Okay, I think I know what's best and I stay fixated. That's true. Yeah, I mean, if you want to grow and know the truth, you even gotta push your own beliefs and assumptions. Easier said than done since we run by eagle and all of that. But I commend those people who do that. I know it may seem weak, it may seem uncomfortable, but it's the truth. I mean, I'm not trying to make this into a spiritual development episode. Let's get to know, you know, your book and why you're such a provocateur. Let's get to let's get to that to that good stuff because I want to respect your time here. My story, that can be said in a little time.

SPEAKER_01 12:36

I mean, there would be people that would describe me uh as a provocateur. In the book, they described the protagonist as an extremist. Now, why did they describe him as an extremist? He was an orphan kid, grew up in the foster system, went to the army to learn you know big little skills that were marketable, got in with a good sergeant, master sergeant, who took him under his wing. Following orders, he discovered this Chinese bioweapon lab in California, and when he came back to the base and he reported it in the uh right off, immediately everybody was excited and thought you know and and happy for him for for discovering this and what this meant. And two days later, a group of civilians that worked for the in the in the military, and there didn't used to be civilians working in the military, but they were under the last administration. Those civilians started peppering him and telling them to not talk about what he found and what he saw. Pete Hegseth and Tulsi Gabbard, you know, they were they were put on a no-fly watch list and they were called extremists because they were talking about stuff that certain people, civilians didn't want. Well, so my guy gets that. He's put on the same list that they are the no-fly. It's not even an honest, real no-fly list. It doesn't even it didn't even exist. They call could say, put it in a newspaper, and then when they talked about him, they could say he's on the no-fly list. That's how dangerous he is. Now that's a that's a a tactic in info war. In an info war. So we're gonna use that later on. Okay? And he's just a you know, he's a kid with a high school education, but he's talented and he's driven and he pursues the truth, and he's relentless. And it's a story of a person and how they would they might marshal their life with those kind of uh pressures coming on

The Novel’s Plot And Info War

SPEAKER_01 14:55

them, on them. That's the story. It's in my opinion, and it's really so we the book's been out for about we'll say maybe five weeks now. It's got it's reads Amazon bestseller, it got um Hot Book of the Month, it got the Indie Gold Award uh finalist. It's on four categories in on the top top ten percent of Goodreads in four different categories, getting night very nice reviews. It's a beautiful story, it really is. Now I want to say one thing, one more thing. Do you know how long it has been since there has been a novel, fiction novel produced by any of the five big publishers that embraces family and the middle class and faith? Let me more than twenty-five years.

SPEAKER_02 15:53

Oh, I would have been wrong. I was guessing between five to ten.

SPEAKER_01 15:57

Twenty-five years. The last one was a book by Marilyn Robinson called Gilead. And that's the last time. And so I thought, in this day and age, what what I could do, I could write a a nonfiction book about woke culture, but there are a lot of those. There's no fiction, and there's no fiction that shows it from a a conservative approach, not Republican, this guy's apolitical. He doesn't talk about a single candidate in the whole book, but he runs a life the way a conservative who's ambitious would run a life, and it was you know uh faithful to his uh family and faithful to the uh to his church and his religion. That's how he would run it like that. And it was really fun to write that book.

SPEAKER_02 16:51

I mean, yeah, because I mean I read some, I mean, I read like snippets of synopsis here and there, and you could tell where some of the books are heading right away, especially where the character identifies a certain way, and there's a certain agenda. Like, nothing wrong with that. I don't care if it's left or right. Just entertain me, give me a good story, and I know when it's just a poor, a piss poor political indoctrination, I either left the rest. Ah, okay, okay, okay. It's nice. Okay, this person's like, hey no, and I gotta criticize the political wokeness of Disney trying to appeal to more Captain Durag. Really? He's just a stereotype of an urban African-American young man. I mean, you think that's gonna, that is just so you see, this is why I really, this is this is I'm just gonna give you this real quick, a super quick version. This is one of the reasons why I left the Democrat Party years ago. I said, I saw they was going for it, I see the Nazis was going forward. I said, no, you're rejecting working people, you rejected all kinds, you rejected no. I said it's fine, you want a piece of that on the side, but you are losing the big picture here. They've lost a lot of working class votes, and that's what I was more advocating for. Just like don't just like you accused Republicans of doing that. You're doing the same thing. But now we got the BSA coming in, the Democrats Society of America, and they're guaranteed to win some seats at Congress. But I'm just gonna wrap it right there because I want to hear uh more about you. And then I jumped to Republican, and then I found Trump a very flawed candidate, and I left the Republican Party. I've now been an independent ever since. Because again, I just think both parties are very flawed, they're very corrupt, and I I've been independent since 2016. So, yeah, about 10 years. And I'm and I think I'm gonna stay there practice for the rest of my life, but that's just my super short version.

SPEAKER_01 18:49

I think it that's a good thing. The only trouble is your vote doesn't, you know, you don't get to vote in primaries, but that's okay. Yeah, especially. You raised a topic that I want to address. Yeah, go ahead. I have exactly the same feeling and response to this identity kind of stuff, you know, stereotyping everything. I made every one of the characters an an identity that is not easily reconciled. You cannot, they do not fit a pit like you cannot pigeonhole them. From the protagonist to his girlfriend, future wife, to the the woman who almost upsets the you know the the courtship, the the you know, the master sergeant. You may think one thing, but you're gonna find it a little bit down the way, the uh they're they're not really that. They don't, you know. That was your first thought, but that's not who they are. I had a lot of fun. I I made identity a character that runs throughout the whole the whole novel. It's a thread line.

SPEAKER_02 19:52

Get that book, people. Get that book. I'm gonna commend you right now, get that book. Different characters, come on. And for the for a conservative flair, I mean, look, I say I go for wherever is good. Political identity is not even secondary, it's probably tertiary to me if I give a rat's behind. But if it's not a good product, then I'm not gonna care about political identity and all that stuff. I say the book sucks. My curiosity is dead. You killed my curiosity with such a crap. And trust me, there's a lot of that out there for sure. Yeah, so my question is, and I always like to ask, is what's inspired, what person connected to this book? I know it's because he was dissatisfied the way the Democrats was going, especially in 2020, with the COVID coverage, which I agreed. They were starting looking for the truth. I was very suspicious. I was extremely skeptical. I listened to alternative media, I even looked at studies, good studies that could have helped fought this more effectively. But, you know, everything was political control. Dr. Fauci, I never had faith in him. I thought he was another, he was a two-time big fraudster, in my opinion, because he failed the AIDS epidemic. Why are we going to trust him with the COVID? But here we are. I was extremely not, and I ain't skeptical, I was just cynical. I didn't believe a darn thing they say, especially politicians, get medical information and medical commands. Shut up. That's a big failure. That's just wow. Let the health experts and make sure they're credible too, because some of them was just following certain guidelines just to keep their jobs, too. So that was another issue. And some people was leaving practices because the pursuit of truth.

SPEAKER_00 21:29

Yeah. You

Foster Care And Building Competent Adults

SPEAKER_00 21:30

gotta keep pursuing truth. And they weren't.

SPEAKER_02 21:34

All right, let me stop yaving them that you answer the question.

SPEAKER_01 21:37

So yeah, you did ask a question. What inspired the uh the book? So so so I'm a court appointed special advocate for kids in the foster system. And so I I I'm pretty close to it. I see a lot of it. I see the kids that do that can get through it and are uh, you know, like Steve Jobs. I'm drawing a blank on the guy that did ammo. Jeff Bezos. You know, they're both, you know, uh came up. I think uh one of them dods this foster system. But anyways, that's I see that there you can't stereotype those guys, a lot of them. You just can't. It's just it's a disservice to them, a disservice to the truth, and to the disservice of their future. So you've got to really look at each one as an individual and figure out where their strengths are, how they get in their own way, do they not get in their own way? Otherwise, you you you you can't help them. You can't, you know, lead lay down a path. And what once I realized that, the whole story fell in. I woke up in the middle of June two years ago, and I knew exactly what the story was. And I knew I wanted to do it in fiction because there's no real good model for how a young adult becomes a competent, capable adult with a with a a big future. It used to be easy in America, it's a it's not quite as clear the path is not quite as clear, but it's just as available. And you don't have to be brilliant. You don't have to be a superman. You can just there's a path. But a and it usually starts with yourself. And so that's what you know in the book, the kid learns where, you know, there's a lot of that going on, and he and he learns it in specific situations with the master sergeant, with the people that he keeps encountering in his home repair business that he starts when he gets back to Amarillo. Oh, yeah, and the book, the story takes place in Texas. So it's definitely a Texas culture book. But that's what inspired was just those kids and this the need. Like, remember, you know Jordan Peterson?

SPEAKER_02 24:05

Yes, I know Jordan Peterson.

SPEAKER_01 24:07

I mean, that guy has done so much to help people, but it's you have to be pretty ac intellectually oriented to listen to him and to follow. He's like created these pressures and these hierarchies, and he's dead on, right? But it doesn't, it doesn't, you have to work at it. It's like studying, you know, physics. Well, so I wanted to put it in a in a in a fictionalize it so that people could experience it with the the protagonistic Xavier and not have to study it up. And so I took a kid that kind of buys into those 12 rules and goes forward and has the ability to do it on his own.

SPEAKER_02 24:51

That's good. Definitely do we definitely need more stories like that because I do agree to find a good role model is definitely much more difficult compared to before. Oh, yeah, yeah. Much more difficult. I mean, if any if you want to debate that comment section, you want to debunk that, go right ahead. There's a comment section right here. If you want to either agree with it, which is easier to do, or if you want to try to debunk it, oh, it's much easier. Just watch this movie or listen to that. And I mean, feel free. Feel free to try to debunk it. Yeah, do that thing. You know, and this is the thing I like about some of the characters. Oh, someone's just so weak, so flat, so how am I gonna be inspired to do better? I might just double up in the victim mentality if I'm getting upset. That's all my life sucks because I'm just gonna say this, uh, because this white guy took it from me, and you know, I don't even know who he is. All right, that's just me just dumping blame, just because it's easy. It's easy. You keep going and going and going and going. And you know, you get sick and tired of being sick and tired, or unless you love being the victim. It's such an addicted drug, being the victim, because it's so easy. It's so you don't have to take responsibility. And we definitely have lost that entitlement through the roof, immaturity through the roof. It's not just so where does that come from? Where does that come from?

SPEAKER_01 26:14

That is woke America. I'm gonna and I got a perfect example for it. But so the woke woke America is there's an oppressor and there's the oppressed. Okay, and that's forced on our kids from it all in school now. And I can give you a perfect example. So at University of Southern California, big school, $90,000 a year in tuition. The wealthiest kids from the wealthiest families attend from there from largely from Southern California. They go into they take a writing class as a first-year student. The writing class is you need to do an essay. You can write this essay

The Oppressor Lens In Education

SPEAKER_01 27:05

on any topic you want. Sounds free, sounds good. And then you will analyze the topic in terms of the oppressor and the oppressed. That's the assignment. Now, that is dangerous. You're not teaching the kids to think, you're teaching them how to apply a pre-packaged way of looking at the world. And that it happens every semester at that school. That is the course. I'm that's not hearsay. I've been on campus enough, I've seen the documents.

SPEAKER_02 27:47

Oh, yeah, no, you won't be the first. I did trace the origins of it. It came from college campuses. That's the birth, right? Of this ideology, on which don't get me wrong, when I used to be a depressed person, it was very enticing. And I did, I used to love listening to that because it it catered to my damaged feelings.

SPEAKER_01 28:07

Yeah, well, but that's what they yeah. There's a famous saying: a young person who's not liberal has no heart. An older person who's not conservative has no brains. You ever heard that before?

SPEAKER_02 28:26

No, I didn't hear that, but I think I have some understanding of that.

SPEAKER_01 28:30

That's Winston Churchill.

SPEAKER_02 28:32

Oh, we have the famous Winston Churchill. He has a lot of famous sayings, that one.

SPEAKER_01 28:37

That's a cool insight. So, yeah, I mean, we all were attracted to the idea. Well, everybody can be equal. Everybody has the same amount. Why do we have to be doing dog eat dog kind of stuff? Well, human nature is such that that's the best model for managing a complex society. If you have 80 people, you can have a tribe, and you don't need to have a complex governing system. But if you got 300 million, you're not going to be able to have everybody be equal. Equal rights, equal opportunity, equal under the law, we can do that. We'll make mistakes. Justice is not always doesn't always work out. But that is something you can get better and better at, and you can measure it, and you can aspire to it, and you can accomplish it, you can make progress. But equal opportunity, I mean equal outcome, that is something that you do not want. And it is subversive to the Constitution. The Constitution says individual rights, not groups. Okay, not the you know, not the people who have, you know, uh Alzheimer's, not the people who have autism, not the people who, you know, their their you know legacy or their hist history that comes from other countries, ethnicities, not groups. It's the individual, and it comes from God, not from the government. Very important. Because the government can take it away and they can think that they give it. And they do. They do think that, especially the DSA. They think it's a government allocation. Your rights.

SPEAKER_02 30:34

Yeah, which I strongly oppose. Just like I'm strongly critical of Matt Goggle who strongly opposed the DSA as well, because I just think, whoa, this is not what I signed up for. Especially if DSA, you want to abolish the U.S. Senate, the courts, all that stuff. I didn't advocate for that. That's way too left for my tastes. It's just like certain, yeah, there's like certain things with.

SPEAKER_01 30:56

You haven't even proven that it's a good thing. And you're you're not out they're not out there even arguing on why it's a good thing in a in a forum so that we can all listen and hear. Is it good or is it not? Should the Senate be weakened? Should it be strengthened? Why? Why, you know, I mean, it'd be okay if it were there were a discussion, but they don't permit a discussion. There's no there's when they were in power, were there, you know, uh debates on TV sponsored by the government, allowing people to hear the different opinions about, you know, in uh climate change, you know, uh equity, different form, you know, DEI. Were there ever, did they ever have a conversation about it? No. What they did is they blamed other people, they made them out to be terrible, despicable human beings, they said what they wanted. Without ever giving a rationale on why it's better, how we can make it work, how do we measure it, why would what would be good, what would be bad about it. And we never had that. After all these years, you still can't don't know anything about climate change unless you go and actively listen and read what climatologists say, Nobel scientists say, you have no idea. You have to go dig it up. They're not presenting it.

SPEAKER_02 32:22

No, yeah. You see, that was my thing. My lack of transparency was always suspicious to me. I think you're just bringing your idea and shutting it down at those, you don't open it to questions and scrutiny. That's always been my issue with that. Um, especially when I read a little bit, I didn't read his whole book, but I already know that it was bull crap. I think Imran Candy, he was one of those REI professors. And by the time I heard him real carefully, he said it doesn't make sense. And when people getting criticism, he stopped. And then he was being called a hypocrite because he was to be inclusive with his team, and he was being so mean and being verbally abusive. So don't preach when you're not practicing, man. And so thank goodness I never put a single dime into him. I mean, my instinct told me not to buy it because I just and my head was hurting because it was so nonsensical. So I think I feel like I lost 10 IQ points just trying to understand this nonsense. Don't get me wrong, I'm for fair fairness and all that, but you gotta also do the work and some of you know, I gotta give credit to minorities, some of them are doing the work and being successful, but it's definitely a lot, and even some white people that's falling for this, you know, this oppress oppressor mentality. So that's all I can say about that.

SPEAKER_01 33:48

So if if you're really gonna be DEI, it would seem to me that you would uh say, oh, Clarence Thomas, what a wonderful guy. He came out of nothing and he became one of our best Supreme Court justices. Thomas Sowell, a brilliant economy, you know. They never talk about these guys. They never mention them because they won't say what they want them to say. Now, here's a fact, okay, for the climate change thing. Six hundred years ago, there was a thing called the Little Ice Age that hit the central part of the country in the north. Six hundred years ago, so six hundred years ago, it was very cold. So cold that mastodons, you know, the big uh the sort of the ancient elephant, the predecessor to the elephant, came down into the panhandle of Texas, and we find mastodon skeletons in the ground and spears stuck in their bones. And so we know that there was humans and there were you know mastodons, and we of

Climate Change Claims And Missing Debate

SPEAKER_01 35:05

course we know that there's there was an ice age then. For that was 600 years ago. So for 600 years it's been getting increasingly warmer because you don't want it to be an ice age, you can't live in it. Cold is much more difficult for us to deal with than heat. All of the charts that Al Gore presented for the inconvenient truth started like in around the 1850s with the Industrial Revolution. And so as we got more and more industrialized, we created more and more temperature. We heated the earth, and it's gotta be carbon. Now, carbon is the the earth has never been greener than it is now with the carbon. And carbon dioxide is one is not a poison, it's healthy. But they said that it that it creates this zone that kind of wouldn't let the heat escape. It's all BS. It wasn't, it was the earth. The earth is actually cooling, but the climate got what created a uh an ice age, and so it's been gradually getting warmer, and at some point, and we can't control it anyway. But that that was never part of the conversation. You probably heard that here for the first time.

SPEAKER_02 36:32

Yeah, I definitely have because you're right about that, and I was forced to watch that as a high school student, by the way, the inconvenient truth. That was my assignment. You see, so so I'll just be very transparent. That was my assignment at the analyzers, and of course, you know, at the time I didn't know, but I was just learning about whatever. That was my starting point of learning climate change. I'm sure a lot of other people too. So I'm part of the interview on that one. And no, and the thing is, this is when I start to notice that this is not right away, of course. I'll probably say like six years after that. I wonder, how do we know if we actually this is normal or not? Have we studied climate from millions of years ago? You see, I started thinking that I started just zooming out. This is and this is me, you know, not being while I was semi-indoctrinated, but I never got fully indoctrinated. I started on start on learning some of these things. But how do we, you know, we did went through ice ages. Maybe this is just a phase we're going through. I don't know. I'm not a scientist, but that's the theory I put. Maybe you're going through the heating phase and go through a cooling phase, and then whatever. I mean, I I'm no scientist, so you could debunk me or whatever. I'm not gonna be, I'm not gonna die on that hill. But, you know, I'm sure things have gotten a bit, you know, because I'm sure we got some influence of some on blueprint. But how do we know if that's the cause of why things are heating up a little? Yeah, of course I was called, you know, a right winger and all that because I started questioning that, you know, but I didn't have anything to either the book.

SPEAKER_01 38:05

It was never presented to you as, you know, this might be true. Let's understand it. And have people come in with pros and cons for it and have give enough time so that you could look at the background of these people and see whether they were crackpots or whether they were, you know, esteemed, you know, logical scientists. I'm so you and I see the same thing. We've kind of found ourselves in the same place, and we've never talked to each other before. Yep.

SPEAKER_02 38:36

And just for time's sake, I don't even want to talk about the AI product as as well. Yeah, just give us a little taste about what you're doing with that and see how we could. And I agree to I don't know, be an antidote possibly against political wokeness. Um that's how I'm gonna frame it.

SPEAKER_01 38:55

Well, so what it is is it uses AI to go and look at the policies and the actions of uh public-facing government officials and assess that against their alignment with the Constitution. A Democrat can be aligned with the Constitution and have lean to the left. A Republican can be aligned with the Constitution and lean to the right, but they can also go so far that they're no longer aligned with the Constitution, and that's the point at which as voters and citizens we should object. So what this does is you take the little app, you point it at some person, and it will go and get their picture, and it'll go and look at all the evidence. It doesn't look at opinions, it what laws did they vote for, if they're congressmen, what bills did they put up there, if they're a Supreme Court justice, what what rulings did they make, if they're the superintendent of your local school, what's their policies? Okay, and then it it so it looks at all that and it gives them a score between one and a hundred. And if they're up in the nineties and eighties, they're pretty much aligned with the Constitution. If they're in the twenties, they're kind of oppositional, they actually oppose it, they don't want the Senate. You know, that's that would get them down to the low score. And so now it produces a meme, their picture, their score, the reasons, and you can then from the app, you can post it to your social media platform,

An AI App For Constitutional Alignment

SPEAKER_01 40:50

you can share it via email or text, and of course you can save it. That's it.

SPEAKER_02 40:57

So the AI essentially just gives like a little bit of score to see how aligned they are with the Constitution. And that's great because I like that's very substance. It's not based on media headlines and all of that. That's actually great, to be honest. Not so already. Oh, that's fine. I'm about to anything else you want to add before I wrap that up. That's a very good AI too. People I don't know when it's gonna be out. Is it out already? I think that's really basic question.

SPEAKER_01 41:28

Yeah, it'll be out in about five weeks.

SPEAKER_02 41:31

Well, that's one reason for you, the listeners, follow them, get that book. Just keep up with it because you got interesting stuff coming up. And I think as voters, we should do that. Because look, we lazy, I get it, we bombard all the media distractions and the headlines. It's not even looking at that, it's looking at what their track record. And that's what we need to pay attention to. Now, what they say is what they do, what they vote for, what they voted against, and what and how they're well, I don't think it attracts money, but there's a site for that one as well, a different site to track what what money they're getting, if it's corporate pack or it's donors. There's sites for that people. And you need to know this because this is what truly influenced the politicians, not what they say. They can you can give beautiful speeches, but they could be duping you. And a lot of times they do. Politicians lie at both sides of the aisle. So once you look into that, you know, oh, should I vote for this guy or this guy or a girl or not? So that's something to look at to see if they really align with the constitution or they're anti. If they're anti-constitution, well, if they're below for me, uh uh 80, I have a problem. I don't care, I don't care where you lean politically. You're kind of, well, maybe 70 if I'm gonna be a little nice. Maybe 70.

SPEAKER_01 42:44

70 is fair. If it can still be good.

SPEAKER_02 42:46

Yes, I'll say like 70. No, actually 70 or higher, I'll put it into consideration. But you're below, but if you're 69 or lower, to me, I'm gonna say this as blunt as I can. You're not getting my vote. Hell no, I'm locking you out of my vote for sure. Because I think you're a problem from there. But you know, we'll we'll see. But that's just my general impression of what I'm hearing. So again, follow him, get his book, and wait for that AI product. Anything I know I'm gonna be annoying with this question. Anything else you want to add before I really grab? Okay.

SPEAKER_01 43:19

Well, yeah, so the it's not a website, it's actually an app. And then you know, you and your friends, it makes your voice more easily heard with and it does the research for you. So it takes the real hard work that AI can do clearly, and then empowers you to have your a more clear statement when you want to support a candidate or not. So, anyway, that's it.

SPEAKER_02 43:45

It's pretty good.

Feedback Requests And Closing

SPEAKER_02 43:46

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