WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:04.560 Okay, so I want to go over my resume not because I'm bragging or anything, but because I want to 00:04.560 --> 00:08.380 establish some kind of credentials for what I'm about to do, which is to put the libertarian 00:08.380 --> 00:15.820 pate in its place as the worst, most ineffectual form of liberty activism that there is. I have 00:15.820 --> 00:23.080 led marches where we push guillotines up to the Dallas, Texas county courthouse. I have carried 00:23.080 --> 00:29.360 weapons to keep the police away from us while we feed homeless people. I have run a campaign 00:29.360 --> 00:35.200 for not governor of Texas in the libertarian party where I sought the Mises caucus endorsement 00:35.200 --> 00:43.060 years ago. I have tried just about, I have a YouTube channel, like I have tried just about 00:43.060 --> 00:48.760 every type of liberty activism that there is. And again, I'm not saying this to brag. I'm 00:48.760 --> 00:55.100 saying this to establish, look, I've tried it all. And by far the least effective way to wake 00:55.100 --> 01:02.840 people up is party politics. The biggest waste of my entire lifespan in since I started working 01:02.840 --> 01:06.940 towards liberty for the sake of my children was the time I spent in the libertarian party. 01:07.860 --> 01:13.160 Let me tell a story. We have this thing that we did called feed the need. It's illegal to feed 01:13.160 --> 01:19.040 the homeless in the state of Texas without a license. There were for a time hundreds of homeless 01:19.040 --> 01:24.940 people literally sleeping on the concrete in sub freezing temperatures in downtown Dallas. 01:25.380 --> 01:31.600 They were starving. They were freezing. So rather than go and spend an entire weekend 01:31.600 --> 01:39.180 shitting away thousands of hours of human lifespan in Robert's rules fueled nonsense. 01:39.920 --> 01:46.380 We got 40 people together. We raised some money. We bought some food. We got donations of some 01:46.380 --> 01:51.040 tents and we went to where the homeless people were carrying weapons because it was illegal. 01:51.720 --> 01:57.380 And we fed those hungry people and we gave them what they needed to survive the winter nights. 01:57.880 --> 02:02.500 And when they came at me and they're like, why, why y'all carrying them guns? You don't need 02:02.500 --> 02:06.720 them guns. We're not going to hurt you. And I was able to look them in the eye and say, 02:06.960 --> 02:10.680 ma'am, we're not carrying the guns because we're worried about y'all. 02:11.020 --> 02:14.780 We're carrying the guns because the government doesn't want us helping you. 02:15.730 --> 02:23.900 The guns are to keep the supposed good guys away. The number of eyes I opened to libertarian ideas 02:23.900 --> 02:31.260 doing that just it's completely it's just a completely different game from what the party's 02:31.260 --> 02:38.320 doing. The libertarian party is as close as I can figure almost an absolute net negative 02:38.880 --> 02:47.020 for our cause. They suck well meaning people in with free time that really want to make a difference 02:47.020 --> 02:51.480 in the world. They suck them in because that's what normies think. Like your parents teach you 02:51.480 --> 02:54.320 since you're a kid. If you want to make change, if you want to make things better, 02:54.520 --> 02:59.880 go get involved in politics, go find a candidate, support people, knock on doors, donate money, 03:00.060 --> 03:05.480 raise money, call people, blah, blah, blah, get out the vote. So they do and the libertarian 03:05.480 --> 03:10.400 party benefits off that they suck these people in these well-meaning people with the there's 03:10.400 --> 03:16.740 something there's nothing more precious in any form of activism than the time that you get from 03:16.740 --> 03:22.200 people that want to donate to make things better. The people's time and libertarian party sucks 03:22.200 --> 03:28.800 those people in and they stuff them into hotel conference rooms for entire weekends doing 03:28.800 --> 03:35.820 this Roberts rules garbage and getting the vote and electing delegates and organizing votes and 03:36.300 --> 03:40.480 playing stupid political games like we just saw with the last national presidential 03:41.420 --> 03:47.920 clown show. It is such an absolute waste. Like I am on the fence of just outright saying this 03:47.920 --> 03:54.740 is a net negative. We need to just walk away from it entirely. They waste so many resources 03:54.740 --> 04:01.540 and so much time. The point of everything I'm just saying is look, they don't get to take credit 04:01.540 --> 04:08.420 for the wins because politics is downstream of culture. All the other activism and nondescript 04:08.420 --> 04:14.800 that's an excellent example of what I'm trying to say. There's street activism, there's philosophy, 04:15.000 --> 04:20.120 there's media, there's charity. There's all these mechanisms which we're out here in the 04:20.120 --> 04:25.280 world doing good, talking about our ideas, waking people up to how the government interferes with 04:25.280 --> 04:32.100 our liberty and freedom, waking people up and then at the very end years later the libertarian 04:32.100 --> 04:42.060 party says we freed Ross. Are you kidding me? Millions of people have been organizing 04:42.060 --> 04:49.220 to help free Ross for years. Christian and I sit on the board of a non-profit charity 04:49.220 --> 04:55.940 organization that was attempting to help Ross's mother raise money through selling NFTs in a way 04:55.940 --> 05:03.640 that she wouldn't lose 40% of it to taxes, okay? We were doing that years ago and now that the 05:03.640 --> 05:08.900 movement has gotten to the point where a presidential candidate is knowing that Ross exists and 05:08.900 --> 05:13.780 might want to be freed. Oh, now Angela is like, oh, by the way, I put the bug in a zero, so 05:13.780 --> 05:21.060 you know, that's a libertarian party. When we got, we freed Ross. That's us. No. No, you did 05:21.620 --> 05:29.600 almost nothing. The party does almost nothing and a lot of negative. That's what I wanted to say 05:29.600 --> 05:35.380 about that. You're not the leaders and we're not the ones sitting on the sideline. We're the 05:35.380 --> 05:41.820 ones doing most of the actual productive work towards liberty. You guys are sitting at the 05:41.820 --> 05:47.260 finish line, moving the ball from one pixel to the left of the finish line to one pixel to the 05:47.260 --> 05:54.860 right of it and only almost never do they even do that. So sit the fuck down. I want to say one 05:54.860 --> 05:59.160 more thing because I forgot to mention it. I do not care who takes credit for freeing Ross. 05:59.520 --> 06:04.060 Free Ross. I'm not trying to like claim credit. I don't care about that. I don't have an ego 06:04.060 --> 06:09.900 on who gets credit for freeing Ross. It was just part of the narrative that's being sold to 06:09.900 --> 06:15.580 us. Okay. Free Ross. I don't give a shit if no one knows I had ever anything to do with it ever. 06:15.740 --> 06:21.260 I don't care. Free Ross. Okay. But also y'all didn't do it. Okay. Now I'm done. Sorry.