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Joe Rogan Experience #2269 - Bret Weinstein

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What's up? Good to see you, my friend.
Great to see you, Joe.
Wild times.
Almost unbelievable.
Yeah. The last time you were here, we were really worried about what was going
to happen.
And now it seems like we're in a completely different timeline.
Yeah, I have to say, in addition to being just overarchingly worried about what
was going to happen to the republic and to the globe,
I was personally worried about what would happen to people like you and me if
we lost.
Yeah. Probably wouldn't be so good for business.
They probably would have cracked down.
There's that. But I must say, on my darker days, I had concerns even beyond
that.
You probably should.
Yeah.
Yeah. In light of what we now know.
You know, it's this USAID thing that's going on.
You know, Mike Benz has been on that like a pit bull.
And I've been following him on X and he's going to come back on here and kind
of explain everything.
But he explained it the last time he was here.
And I don't think I really grasped it until Elon's six wizards.
They brought in some young wizards to go in there and go over the books and
they are just finding crazy shit.
It's great.
And it's so interesting.
I was listening to a left wing podcast today.
I like to mix it up.
You know, I listen to all kinds of different stuff.
And it was like I was listening to a different world.
Like they weren't even talking about all of this corruption and all this
obvious buying of influence.
Instead, they were talking about aid overseas and how people are going to
starve.
It's mind boggling.
And there's also I have to say I'm just I'm upset at the general pattern of a
failure to recognize how right those of us who hypothesized that there was a
racket that had overtaken our entire governance structure.
We turn out to be absolutely right about this and no one's going to mention it.
That that's mind blowing.
It's very strange that the media is ignoring it, especially the left wing.
I mean, it's just too big of a win for the right.
And so they're just ignoring it.
And then they're just highlighting the good things that USA did, which I'm sure
that probably did probably had to do some good things to like at least justify
its existence.
Well, as a cover story, I'm not even sure.
Maybe it doesn't change anything.
Obviously, this was a mechanism used to funnel money to all sorts of things
that we didn't vote on that don't make sense in light of our constitutional
structure.
And I'm, you know, I obviously have concerns like everybody else about where
this train takes us.
But seeing that structure broken up is it's a huge relief.
They gave $27 million to the George Soros Prosecutor Fund.
So our own government is funding this left wing lunatic who is hiring the most
insane prosecutors who are letting people out of jail who commit violent crimes.
And that's exactly how this racket worked is that the ability to tax the
American public and then effectively get us to pay for being propagandized, for
being surveilled.
That that that's the game.
And I don't know what era we currently live in.
Obviously, there's a lot that's confusing about what the Trump administration
is up to.
But I don't think any reasonable person could be unhappy that we are exiting
that era.
I'm going to read off some of the things that this guy Ken Akota the Great on
Twitter listed.
And this is off the Jesse Water Show.
USAID, $20 million for Iraqi Sesame Street.
$2 million for Moroccan pottery classes.
$11 million to tell Vietnam to stop burning trash.
$27 million to give gift bags to illegals.
$27 million.
$330 million to help Afghanis grow crops.
Crops.
I wonder what those crops are.
What's their biggest crop, Brett?
It's going to be the poppy seeds for bagels, I'm thinking.
Opium!
$300 million, oh, $200 million on an unused Afghani dam.
$250 million on an unused Afghani road.
This is wild.
I mean, some of this stuff is really, really crazy.
Well, yes.
And, you know, USAID is, of course, riddled through whatever international
madness it is
that caused us to open our southern border and facilitate an invasion through
the Darien Gap.
So, you know, seeing that structure laid bare is, it almost feels like it can't
be real.
Like, it can't have been this close to the surface.
And yet, here we are.
They were spending, is this number correct?
I think the number that I read was $600 million every two months to ship in
illegals?
Sounds right.
I don't know the number offhand, but...
What the fuck?
Well, you have to realize that basically we had a shadow apparatus functioning
and it involves
all kinds of things.
It involves payoffs to people who didn't deserve them.
It involves contracting to entities that were necessary to get the work done.
So, I don't think we can properly understand what these numbers mean and what
they're actually
being used for, but it was a racket.
Well, we were always wondering, like, why is our debt so high?
Why is the national debt so high?
Like, why is our deficit so insane?
Well, this is it.
I mean, how about the one where they paid $236 billion, like, for chargers?
Do you know that they were trying to set up chargers?
You mean car chargers?
Car chargers.
And they only built a couple of them?
Oh, excuse me.
$40 billion for electric car ports.
Eight ports have been built.
You know how crazy that is?
$40 billion.
I do.
For car ports.
But I have to say, as much as this is shocking, I wasn't surprised.
I thought that effectively our entire system had been turned into a racket and
that we were
basically being fed a cover story from it.
And it's weird to now have the evidence of this.
But I think it was apparent that whatever had taken over our system wasn't
interested in
the well-being of average people, that it was interested in the power of the
state to take
people's resources and redistribute them.
And that that really is what's been going on for most of our adult lives.
And it's also important to note that this progressive left-leaning, like,
radical left arm of the government, of the country, was manufactured.
Yes.
It's all manufactured.
It's all manufactured and supported.
It's not organic, which is really fascinating about the other side, because the
other side, the reaction to it is organic.
Like, say what you want about the, you know, the Trump administration and what
you think about him.
That was an organic shift where people were like, e-fuck enough, enough.
Yes.
It was an overdue reaction.
Yeah.
The cover story that what we were up to was righting past wrongs was so pernicious
and pervasive that it was hard to get our footing to challenge it.
Right.
But it shouldn't really be surprising that that movement wasn't organic.
Of course it was induced.
It was a cover story for theft.
And we're going to be waking up to the magnitude of that theft for quite some
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I think this is going to take years.
I think this is going to take years.
Chamath said that it's going to be like, I ran contra on steroids.
That's what he said.
He said, when you get to the bottom of all this, it's going to be insane
because they haven't even got to the Medicaid yet.
They haven't even got to the medical stuff.
There's so much they haven't even tapped into where they think the real mother
load of fraud is.
Yes.
And I must say that there is also another aspect to this, which we have to be
careful about, which is that the justifiable anger at discovering what it is
that we've been dragged into as a nation is going to make it hard to see where
the limits ought to be in terms of upending this stuff.
In other words, at the moment, I'm cheering for the wrecking ball.
Right.
Break this stuff up.
Yeah.
Never again.
But there are.
What's that, Jamie?
Was I ever read an article about the spending on the Chargers?
They said that they haven't actually, according to this, they haven't actually
spent all that money yet.
What do they do with it?
They've spent some of it to make some of those things, but it's just that hasn't
been allocated yet.
It's a long article going through all the spending that's been done.
It's on factcheck.org.
Factcheck.org.
Who runs that?
I don't know.
Some of the Chargers have been made.
Some of them are on the way to be making.
They've built 61 at 15 stations since mid-August or through mid-August.
14,900 more are currently in some stage of development, but that's where it
goes into where they are, what they have to be done, and who's getting the
money from them has to be done through a long process from each state.
Yeah.
The question is, how can we get a proper accounting, as you point out?
Who the hell is factcheck.org?
Well, that's the problem with fact-checking organizations.
That should really be illegal.
I think if you're a fact-checking organization, we should have stringent rules
on what influence is being peddled, like who's paying for these fact-checkers,
who's behind the scenes.
It should be very transparent.
How did you determine whether or not this was true or false?
You know, because there are a lot of things that get said.
Like, I don't know if you saw this, but Elizabeth Warren got confronted, and it's
on Twitter this morning.
She got confronted about the amount of money that she's received from
pharmaceutical drug companies.
She said she's never received any money from pharmaceutical drug companies and
never received any monies from any PACs.
And then, of course, underneath it, community notes strikes again.
And, of course, she received millions.
Yeah.
She's a fucking liar.
Well, and, you know, it's an arms race.
You know, how can pharma cloak the money that it's giving so that there's
plausible deniability at the point that Elizabeth Warren is confronted or
Bernie Sanders?
Bernie Sanders was hilarious.
Only $1.5 billion.
Only $1.5 million out of $200 million.
Only $1.5.
Yep, that's what I saw as well.
She's trying to say nothing.
Only the hardworking people, the hardworking people in this country gave me
money.
Well, I don't think the Democrats understand that it's over.
And that there was a vast infrastructure that made their feeble arguments
viable.
And that infrastructure is now collapsing.
People are far more aware.
And their lives aren't going to function anymore.
Well, it makes sense now that we're seeing these numbers because, okay, this
was what was funding the infrastructure.
Now we get it.
Because it wasn't otherwise it's organic.
This is the will of the people.
This is how people are moving.
It's not.
It wasn't that at all.
This was all organic.
And it was really about control and money.
It had nothing to do with helping people, making people better, giving aid to
foreign countries.
That's all a cloak and dagger bullshit show.
The reality was it's about money.
Yeah.
It's, well, it's always, it's always about power an