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Joe Rogan Experience #2198 - Bret Weinstein

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Good to see you, my friend.
Oh, good to see you, man.
Strange times we're living in.
Uh, the strangest and getting stranger.
Didn't some shit go down today?
Didn't we steal the president of Venezuela's plane?
Oh, I didn't hear about that.
Yeah, I think we just stole his plane.
I didn't.
No, not us.
Okay, good.
The United States.
Someone stole his plane.
All right.
Which is kind of an act of war.
What is that?
Was he in it?
I don't think so.
No.
I think we just stole his plane.
Just like for a joyride?
What's the story?
U.S. seizes Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro's airplane in the Dominican
Republic.
So we said, nope, we're stealing that.
How does that work?
Even if you don't get along with, like, a president of a country,
how disrespectful is it to steal their plane?
This, you're right.
It's an act of war.
Imagine if Xi Jinping landed somewhere, and we're like, we're going to steal
your fucking plane.
Yeah.
No chance.
That's a bully move.
That's a move you can only do to a country like Venezuela.
Yes.
Well, I'm trying to remember exactly what the story was, but there was a point
where Ecuador
was acting very courageously with respect to Julian Assange, and there was a
question about
whether the president of Ecuador could fly Assange out so that he could be
outside of the embassy
and inside of Ecuador proper.
And I believe the reasoning was they couldn't do it because they expected the
plane to be forced down.
Same issue.
So this says, Merrick Garland said that the Justice Department seized an
aircraft we allege
was illegally purchased for $13 million through a shell company and smuggled
out of the United States
for use by Nicholas Maduro and his cronies.
What business is that of ours, though?
This is what I don't understand.
Like, if it was purchased through a shell company, then it was purchased.
Right.
And was there a trial that established that this was ill-gotten gained?
It says smuggled out of the United States.
The plane was purchased from a company in Florida, the Justice Department said,
and was illegally exported in April 2023 from the United States to Venezuela
through the Caribbean.
So are we not allowed to sell them planes?
Is that what it is?
Like, because we have a problem with them?
Would they say how much it costs?
$13 million?
Yeah.
Okay.
So he's got this $13 million plane, a Dassault Falcon 900EX,
since been used to fly almost exclusively to and from military base in
Venezuela.
Justice Department said CNN reached out to Venezuelan government.
You asked, huh.
It seems like, though, that's like,
there's more to it than that plane was illegal.
You shouldn't have that plane.
For years, officials have sought to disrupt the flow of billions of dollars to
the regime.
Homeland Security investigations, the second largest investigative agency in
the federal government,
has seized dozens of luxury vehicles, among other assets, headed to Venezuela.
So there's a U.S.
So there's a U.S. sanction.
So there's a sanction.
This is it.
The plane was seized in violation of U.S. sanctions with Venezuela.
And other criminal matters that we're looking at regarding this aircraft,
they're going to find a reason to keep it.
Like, they stole all those boats from all those Russian cats.
Sorry, you're too rich and you know Putin, so give me your boat.
Well, that's the thing.
There's a hidden story for everything.
And this is about incentivizing the world, and we in the public don't get to
know the real story.
Don't you think now, though, most people, I feel like genuinely most people are
aware there's more to the story.
Every story.
Everything in the news.
Every time something comes up, people are like, what's the whole story here?
Well, you know, I coined this term, the Cartesian crisis.
And the Cartesian crisis basically means the point at which you can't really be
certain of anything.
And the problem is, yes, I do think people are catching on to the fact that
they never know the real story.
But the response to that is either that you start believing the bullshit that
they tell you
or that you just become cynical and stop believing anything.
And neither of those are functional ways to exist.
And both those ways are good for the people that are running scams.
Exactly.
They're good for the people who want to maintain power because it just keeps us
back on our heels.
Yeah, because if you don't know what's true and what's not true, you're like,
oh, geez.
You know, and then you get cynical, oh, it's all bullshit.
This whole system is rigged.
Then you just go fishing.
Right.
And that's the thing people don't understand is at the point that you think you're
striking
a blow by checking out of their system, you're actually doing them a favor.
Right.
It's actually beneficial to them because then you have a smaller number of
people that are voting.
So, essentially, in the 2020 elections, it was the largest ever win, right?
The Democrats got 80-something million votes, which is – so, let's say –
even if it was 50-50.
So, somewhere in the neighborhood of 160 million people.
How many people are women and – I mean, how many people are children?
Women can vote.
What am I saying?
How many people are children, rather?
Oh, geez.
I have no idea on the percentage.
Under 18.
It's probably in the 30%.
So, that's a pretty high turnout.
Yes, if that was even the turnout.
If it was real.
Yeah.
Right.
That's the problem.
We have no idea.
Therein, that's the problem with the whole cynical game because I'm not
convinced.
You know why I'm not convinced?
Because everybody wants me to be convinced.
When they, like, yell at you, if you ask a question, like, hey, one of the
things that
I've always said, and everyone sort of agrees with this, I mean, literally
everyone, even
people that think that the election was 100% legitimate, the percentage of
voter fraud is
never zero, correct?
And they're always like, yes.
No one can say it's zero.
It's not zero.
There's a bunch of slippery people that get arrested on both sides of the aisle,
Republicans
and Democrats get arrested for election fraud.
It's a real crime.
The idea that they commit all these other acts of fraud and deception, but when
it comes
to elections, Brett, that's a sacred institution that we don't violate at any
cost.
Yep.
Well, and the way they maintain that story is by ruthlessly punishing anybody
who questions
it, even though questioning it is the obvious thing to do.
Right.
Because for one thing, elections used to be different, as you remember, right?
First of all, you used to vote in person and voting by mail was something you
were very reluctant
to do because you knew that if your vote got counted, it was going to be very
late in the
process.
It wasn't really going to matter.
It was mostly for soldiers serving overseas.
Right.
Exactly.
It was for people who just simply couldn't vote in person and it never really
mattered,
except in very rare cases.
The disappearance of that and the normalization of voting by mail, the normalization
of voting
across a period of time so that you're not all voting on the same day and the
absence
of exit polls, right?
When everybody's voting from home or wherever, you can't detect fraud by virtue
of the fact
that the count that came in from that precinct didn't match what the exit pollers
registered.
And so, you know, I don't think we are wrong to imagine that we have lost the
ability to
check whether an election is fair and that that's not an accident, that that
leaves the
possibility open to cheat.
And as you point out, they cheat in every other way.
Are we supposed to believe that they won't do that because their patriotism is
so deep?
I don't see any patriotism to them at all.
Well, not only that, they've established this narrative that it's imperative
that the
Democrats win to save democracy.
Right.
So the Verde made all of these statements that it's more important for them to
win than anything.
More important than anything.
More important than having primaries.
More important than letting the people decide who the representative is.
More important than having, like, live actual conversations, interviews that
aren't edited on CNN.
Instead, they have a 40-plus minute one that's edited down to 18 minutes.
Like, what?
Well, and we just went through this with them over COVID.
Yeah.
We know that when they think they're in the right, they feel entitled to lie
about everything.
They feel entitled to coerce.
Right.
And so the idea that we're supposed to imagine that our elections are somehow
different to them,
I can't imagine how that would even work.
It doesn't make any sense.
And it's one of those things, again, that you're forced into agreeing with just
out of fear
because people get very aggressive with it, just like people were super
aggressive about the vaccine.
You know, I hate seeing people die because they made a poor choice.
But there's something insane about how many people were, like, pro-vaccine
advocates that were shaming people and angry at people.
And now they're dead.
And they're not dead because they ran their time and they got old and they died.
And, you know, it's unfortunate, but it happens to all.
Uh-uh.
No, they're dead young.
Like, a lot.
A lot of people.
Not one.
Not 20.
We don't even know what the real numbers are because it's not something the
mainstream media covers because they've all been vaccinated, too.
And they're probably freaking the fuck out, too.
Yeah.
It's a huge number of people.
We can detect that statistically.
The trouble is that it's hard in any individual case to know whether or not you're
looking at something that would have happened anyway.
Right.
So, you remember John Ritter?
Yes.
From Three's Company.
Sure.
Died of a-
I worked with him.
Ruptured.
Oh, you did?
Yeah.
Did an episode of NewsRadio with him.
Super nice guy.
Good guy?
Yeah.
I got that impression.
Anyway, he died of a ruptured aorta, if I remember correctly, long before there
was COVID vaccines.
Right.
So, the point is, if that had happened last year, we'd all be saying, come on.
Of course.
He's in Hollywood.
He got faxed.
And now look at him.
Yep.
So, it happens.
100%.
Right?
But the rate at which it's happening has changed radically.
Exactly.
And the very people who say, oh, that's not the vaccine are very uninterested
in figuring out what it is.
So, you know, let's put two and two together.
Well, they don't even want to consider the vaccine, which is so crazy.
If you called it anything else, if it wasn't called the vaccine, if it wasn't
for COVID, okay, let's – because COVID became so – it became so politicized
and it was like culturally so polarizing.
Let's pretend it was for something else and there was some medication and the
people that were taking that medication were dropping like flies.
They would 100% make a correlation and they would make it publicly and it would
be in the news.
Of course, it might not actually be in the news today because this is part of
the problem with what we're dealing with with advertising and the media is that
there's so much revenue that comes from pharmaceutical drug companies that
there's just a reality about them reluctant to print or put any stores on
television that are negative.
There's too much money involved.
Right.
There's too much money involved and it becomes impossible to override this
narrative.
The narrative takes on a reality of its own even though it is contradicted by
the facts and we – you know, our scientific tools are – they're
tremendously powerful at discovering patterns like this.
It's not difficult to do.
Right.
And yet we deliberately avoid using them in the ways that they were intended.
Do you think in the future we'll look back on this and there'll be some sort of
a – some sort of a shift in the way we discuss it?
You know, there's a lot of things in history that during the time where they
were happening, I'm sure people were all – like the 