Aftermath

hello again everyone welcome back to the underground so it looks like we're done um the last u.s forces have pulled out of afghanistan and officially the afghan war is over now of course that does not mean that the work is done there are still a lot of people on the ground that need to get out and we will continue to do the best very very minimal work that we can do to help get those people out so let's go over a few updates on the situation in afghanistan as we wrap up this situation like i mentioned the u.s centcom commander has confirmed that hundreds of americans have been left behind now the hundreds the low hundreds number that they're giving us is almost certainly higher than that because if they're admitting to hundreds of people left behind hundreds of american citizens left behind then the number is almost certainly higher than that also efforts are underway to renovate muhammad karzai international airport with both turkey and qatar qatar partnering with the taliban to reopen the airport for international flights as far as timing on this they're still in negotiations for what exactly that's going to look like but this is very much a a very destroyed third world country a timing on this they're still in negotiations for what exactly that's going to look like but this is very much a a very destroyed third world country airport now it really always has been but the resources that are going to be needed for civilian flights are are quite significant so it's going to be interesting to see how and what kind of civilian airline efforts are undertaken and how long that's going to take most people are thinking weeks at the very earliest some people are saying months we can't really speak intelligently on how long it's going to take because there's just so much destruction and it's oh you know afghanistan so it's really hard to gauge as to when civilian flights are going to open back up if they are going to open back up also the taliban is continuing their door-to-door executions of really anyone they can get their hands on that opposes them or is a threat to their regime this includes lots of women being kidnapped as wives for the taliban soldiers in addition to being sold into slavery now as far as sources for this information they're few and far between because the taliban is very uh very much a censorship uh driven organization so when you go on social m r this information they're few and far between because the taliban is very uh very much a censorship uh driven organization so when you go on social media and you find and you just try to search for information in at least in english you're not going to find very much also in the native languages you're also not going to find very much either because simply people are having their cell phones taken away and the internet is being cut in places like that so that's why you're not going to see very much but it it's a very strong you know it's kind of like a a no kidding assessment that they're going door-to-door and we have seen videos of this over the past few weeks so it makes sense that they would continue that in shockingly significant numbers also the conflict in pan pancheer is continuing the northern alliance is continuing to make well i hesitate to use the word headway because they're not really gaining any terrain they're just preventing the taliban from advancing as fast as they possibly could however we are seeing taliban using blackhawk helicopters to conduct aviation operations in the panshire valley so you know it's probably going to be uh these helicopters are probably n blackhawk helicopters to conduct aviation operations in the panshire valley so you know it's probably going to be uh these helicopters are probably not going to operate for very for very long just because maintenance is going to be very very impossible uh it takes a lot of resources to keep the helicopter going in in peace time like just ask like any civilian helicopter pilot and you'll know or any really aviation pilot and they can tell you that helicopters and really any aviation asset requires a lot of resources just to keep functioning uh so even though we are seeing video after video after video of taliban flying blackhawks and things like that unless they get the parts which is a which could happen they're going to be running out of resources out of parts out of maintenance capabilities and things like that and then also there's a technology gap there's only so many people in afghanistan that know how to fly and uh a pastime of the a a who are the people flying these blackhawk helicopters we trained uh the people who are flying these blackhawks for the for the taliban those people have a very um they have a very long history of flying into mountains so a a fatalities from he these blackhawks for the for the taliban those people have a very um they have a very long history of flying into mountains so a a fatalities from helicopter crashes was extremely high all throughout the afghan war and it really it only improved by marginal marginal means anybody who's ever had the misfortune of flying with an afghan pilot knows exactly what i'm talking about so there's definitely an expertise gap there and also we are receiving reports uh that the u.s government particularly the u.s state department is doing everything they can to stop private rescue efforts this includes things such as petitioning other bordering nations to make it difficult for private planes and aircraft to stage and refuel and resources and things like that so this makes sense we have seen is as shocking and as horrible and as biased as it may seem to say to say the cold hard truth of the matter is that the united states through every indication that we have been getting throughout this entire crisis the united states on the strategic level is doing everything they can to make sure that as few people get out of afghanistan as possible from the civilian side of things the military has military oing everything they can to make sure that as few people get out of afghanistan as possible from the civilian side of things the military has military commanders on the ground have been documented uh time and time again preventing women and children from getting on flights uh we partnered directly with the taliban who and and gave them a list of people to not let through checkpoints right so it's like it's anyone who has been following this from just a casual nature knows that there's something abhorrently wrong and we hear based on what we've seen just overall the overall mood definitely seems to be that this is less about incompetence and more about an intentional act so even though again it seems biased to say this it really is a kind of simple assessment to make the to make the argument that hey look they're not really super concerned with getting survivors out because every american that gets out of afghanistan and back to the united states will have a story to tell and that story is not going to look positive for the biden regime so while they may not actively be taking measures to kill americans directly they are definitely doing everything they can to prevent people from le e so while they may not actively be taking measures to kill americans directly they are definitely doing everything they can to prevent people from leaving afghanistan like i know that might upset a lot of people to hear but it definitely seems from our side of the fence from what we have seen that at this point that definitely seems like that's taking place now of course military operations are military operations and there's a lot of clandestine stuff going on behind the scenes i'm sure uh but by and large from the diplomatic side of things this like we we have to stop like looking at this or at least we here have stopped looking at this as incompetence and more of an intentional act that's all i'm saying on that and this kind of goes into social media so we have seen over the past 24 hours significant censorship of uh the survivors of these horrendous attacks like one of the more famous ones that has come out has been the mother of one of the fallen marines uh was censored very strongly from facebook and instagram based on her posting stuff that is critical of the president um so you know that you have to remember the the white house publicly admitted through their press secreta ing stuff that is critical of the president um so you know that you have to remember the the white house publicly admitted through their press secretary just a few weeks ago that they are direct they are directing and flagging posts for facebook to remove did we just forget that somehow so of course the regime is directing or at least heavily involved in or the social media and the government which by now should be viewed as being the same entity are taking measures to make sure that their story does not get told so as bad as this sounds i i it really does seem to be the truth or at least again from what we see this is definitely happening and you know that goes into more stuff when it comes to the military so stories are coming out right now of the soldiers on the ground they actually had their last the last few soldiers that were on the ground actually had their flights delayed so that they could clean up uh feces and blood and trash and things uh and just horrendous debris for the taliban they have to they had to beautify h kaya before they left and pick up the trash um that while these attacks are going on while they're getting shot at with rockets and shot out with small arms fore they left and pick up the trash um that while these attacks are going on while they're getting shot at with rockets and shot out with small arms they're being forced to clean things up by their leadership i cannot think of anything more abhorrent than that you just had your buddies killed a couple of days ago and now you're picking up trash for the taliban like that makes absolutely no sense whatsoever now there is a counter argument to that and i will explain the counter arguments as to why this was done and i will in hopefully in explaining this counter argument i will prove that a point i guess the counter argument is that the reason that this cleaning up was directed was to not to give the taliban any uh propaganda value for u.s troops leaving behind litter like mre rappers and things like that so not giving the taliban any way to say ah the americans are horrible people look what they left behind for us and stuff like that now that's the counter argument and hopefully just by me explaining that short counter argument you realize how dumb it is the taliban is our adversary okay they're an adversary we're leaving we're not coming back right at least for any significant time lize how dumb it is the taliban is our adversary okay they're an adversary we're leaving we're not coming back right at least for any significant time well with the current regime that we have we're not coming back even if there are americans on the ground um i would be very hard-pressed to find it forever going back to that country with the current situation that we're in so the some sergeant major or some general uh coming up with this idea of you know police call you know that shows that our military leadership is completely out of touch with this little thing we call warfare like i cannot think of of any competent military leader of any rank or pay grade they would look at the situation and say you know what we need to make sure they don't have propaganda value maybe the biggest propaganda value was the american citizens we left behind that's probably the biggest propaganda value we don't need to clean up our mre wrappers in the complete and utter wasteland that is afghanistan it is the third world country the place was filthy when we got there and on top of all of that you've you're you're forcing your soldiers to be even me even more demoralized than they already are so this n we got there and on top of all of that you've you're you're forcing your soldiers to be even me even more demoralized than they already are so this again looks to be like a criminally negligent lapse in leadership and judgment which has become the term that i guess could describe the entirety of senior military leadership at this point as as to why anyone enlists in the military right now i have no clue after this after this the military recruiting is going to have a severe severely hard time getting anyone to enlist and i can't say that's a bad thing at this stage in the game because man i tell you it has just been one thing after another and really that's all all that's that's really just the mood for afghanistan for right now um like i mentioned private recovery efforts are underway but they're fighting tooth and nail there's really no organization level we don't have it's not like any private contractors have reaper drones out there they're operating with no air support and a hostile nation where their government doesn't want to even bring them home so a private contracting group gets stuck in afghanistan guess what they're they're stuck there right so our government has alre even bring them home so a private contracting group gets stuck in afghanistan guess what they're they're stuck there right so our government has already made it perfectly clear that we're willing to leave american citizens on the ground in afghanistan so that means that any recovery efforts are going to have to realize the same exact thing so i know that this update is is kind of not really helpful for those dudes on the ground or or trying to get on the ground but that's because we don't really have any intelligence picture at all we're doing what we can but it's few and far between their social media is not helpful anymore we don't have as much anyone who has been in the area that has been providing us information you know without even knowing it through their social media they've already gone we've got tens of thousands of afghans literally walking on foot to the iran border we've got countless other people going off foot to the border we've got other people just trying to hunker down and hide so there's really not a whole lot when it comes to the intel picture that we can provide right now it just it and this is the part where it's horrible to be an analyst because you're just n it comes to the intel picture that we can provide right now it just it and this is the part where it's horrible to be an analyst because you're just in the dark people expect you to have the answers and there are none like we can't find anything that would be very helpful because we're just so in the dark and just because you are in the dark it also means that people still are going to be counting on you it doesn't that the the fact that you're in the dark doesn't matter so that's why this is kind of a frustrating thing and that's why it's become less about the tactical level intelligence of the ground on the ground and more about strategic issues and that's why we've gotten all we've we've kind of taken a step back from what we have have been doing and even though we are still looking at kmz's and we're still putting out kmz's and we're still building things man i mean i i myself and the rest of the team here spent what 16 hours yesterday looking for anything that we could drop on a map couldn't find a single thing not a single uh point was created yesterday because we can't find anything and that's infuriating and just being helpless as an analyst is really hard to do it's real point was created yesterday because we can't find anything and that's infuriating and just being helpless as an analyst is really hard to do it's really it's really difficult especially when we know that there are military assets out there that can share this information and can help things but they can't because their government is forcing them not to so that's why we haven't really focused so much on doing these intel braces we're not even going to go to the map today because like i said i don't have anything to show you on the map we do know that cash is running out in the country there's people are stacked up outside every every single bank in kabul and there's nothing there's no cash left so there's a problem there uh people are trying to get money for bribes to get through the taliban checkpoint for bribes for the iranian border uh crossing guards for bribes for the pakistani guys and there's just no cash uh even then how much money how much do you think the value of the afghan currency is it's probably not very much right now and again i'm sorry for going off on kind of a rant about this one today but that's really all there is left to do at least when it comes to these kind nd again i'm sorry for going off on kind of a rant about this one today but that's really all there is left to do at least when it comes to these kinds of videos a lot of people again have a lot of opinions about this and we want to do a very long series on not just the afghan war but the extraction process this disastrous uh situation and we want to at least learn from it okay because we cannot change the past but we can definitely learn from it so we're compiling thoughts but right now a lot of us just don't know what to say so we don't really have any intel to share we don't know what to say because it's just there's just so much to say you don't even know where to begin um but i do want to address one idea and that idea is the question that we have gotten over and over and over again over the past well ever since we've existed as a coherent group with a name i guess and that question is what can we do to fix this um this has been something that we have been asked and other people have been asking and we ourselves have been asking ever since well really the problems became the problems in our society became severe enough for us to get together as a group of friends and want to d ever since well really the problems became the problems in our society became severe enough for us to get together as a group of friends and want to do what we can to change it now obviously as time has gone on our our gut feeling of this situation is going to get much worse has proven to be correct unfortunately and as a result more and more people have been asking okay i've hit my limit enough is enough what can i do to fix this problem okay the the the long list of problems that are that our government our our society our culture our economy all of this stuff what can i do to help fix it okay and if i were forced like i'm some kind of authority on this i'm not i if if i were forced and if we here collectively our our answer has been to have many children raise them the right way and ask me that question again in 15 years that's the answer you want to fix our economy okay there's your answer have many kids raise them right ask me again in 15 years okay you want to fix our political regime okay same answer you want to fix service members dying from a totally preventable set of events there's your answer now let's walk that back because nobody wants to hear that answer and it's an bers dying from a totally preventable set of events there's your answer now let's walk that back because nobody wants to hear that answer and it's an unsatisfying answer i will admit it doesn't seem you you the answer is like you've got to be kidding me right like that's a response you know you ask what can i do to fix this and we say okay well have kids and raise them right and then we'll approach this when they're old enough and people are the answer to the the response is usually like okay well what you are you see like that's that's what that's all you got after all the stuff you put out that's really all you've got and the answer is yes um really all the stuff that we've put out previously if you want if people want our opinion and we know that people watch these videos we know that we have a a pretty significant audience like it's not just one guy out there watching our videos thousands of times we know that people watch our stuff and we know that people we just get an inbox full of stuff every day so people are looking for answers and even though we don't claim to be any have any kind of really good answer this is the one we've got and let me explain it let me explain why be ers and even though we don't claim to be any have any kind of really good answer this is the one we've got and let me explain it let me explain why because this is not this should not be the last option but it is and let me explain why so let's start with holding the military accountable because that's where everybody's at right now like why did the military leave people behind why did the military fail this mission why did the military force those soldiers to clean up a base in front of the taliban and humiliating them as we're getting ready to leave the country why why is the military gone woke you know what how can we hold these guys accountable okay well the direct answer to that is is next is is really the bigger issue holding our politicians accountable now this is a question we get asked all the time this is the big one right how do we hold our politicians accountable okay well that's not really possible right now for a variety of reasons and really the only way to hold our politicians accountable is a couple of things uh either vote them out okay remove them from office via you know democratic or constitutional republic means right or civil disobedience be enough of a bee i r vote them out okay remove them from office via you know democratic or constitutional republic means right or civil disobedience be enough of a bee in their bonnet to where they change their behavior now the first option isn't really an option anymore right like we know our voting system is corrupted to the point to where i don't know if anybody really trusts it anymore um and since nobody really trusts it does it have any authority that's that's the real question that we're asking right civil disobedience is kind of the same it's kind of the same thread like it either works or it doesn't it's either a waste of time to do a protest or or it's disproportionately the stuff you'd have to do is disproportion you'd have to burn down a city like you know blm and antifa for anybody to listen to you and even then they just pander to you like you still just burn down your own city and you're the one who has to clean it up because they're just gonna do the minimum to get you off their back so right now neither of these options works but let's just examine the vote them out option okay well okay so our election laws are either a moot point or our law or our rule of law is crumbling right oka just examine the vote them out option okay well okay so our election laws are either a moot point or our law or our rule of law is crumbling right okay well how do you change that well you change congress okay well well you see how we're getting back to the same thing like well can should we use force to change congress well no obviously that's not going to work look at january 6. that was a peaceful demonstration you know look how that look at look at how that turned out any kind of force will be immediately shut down and then now you've got all your most dedicated people either in jail or dead so now we're back to voting vote the congress people out you know the laws are bad congress people write the laws so vote them out okay we're back to the same problem okay so voting doesn't really work that that's not something that is is practical in in a large sense right so so from that we've got we're back to two options we could go back to civil disobedience or we can go to the courts to change how laws are written and how things can work in that sphere right we can say if a district is being gerrymandered we can sue and maybe do something about it okay well again the the court system in that sphere right we can say if a district is being gerrymandered we can sue and maybe do something about it okay well again the the court system is not really in anyone's favor who who values this thing called liberty anymore but let's let's just examine the civil bd civil disobedience thing for just a second again is it effective right now i would hesitate to say probably no um and the only way to to make civil disobedience more effective is to change the education system okay well to change the education system you need a lot of other things but it's it's something that is is not an easy task to do right likewise with the courts okay you want to change the courts you want to get all these liberal judges or if nothing else get the political judges out and replace them with judges who are as impartial as can be and not quite literally activists in a robe you're going to have to change the institutions that even allow someone like that to be in the position to get a judge seat right so now we're back to really the same kind of option right it how would you do that well voting well that's that's not really an option either you know so do you see how we're starting to break this ion right it how would you do that well voting well that's that's not really an option either you know so do you see how we're starting to break this thing apart now fortunately institutions in education to change your education system and to change the institutions that enable certain groups but disable other groups well then you're coming back to the concept of strength in numbers ah okay so now we start realizing how how screwed we really are as an american people like so let's just recap right quick you know we can't hold our politicians accountable because our voting system is crap right and we can't fix our voting system because our congress people are crap and our congress people are crap because the voting system is crap and then we keep going on okay so well you know protesting doesn't work because they're inaffected by they just put up fences around themselves and laugh and cackle you know in their own little private basements right but if we keep going back and we keep going back we can realize that hey we can change that by having strength in numbers and the answer to have strengthening numbers is to have lots of kids and raise them to have a certain set of values that' y having strength in numbers and the answer to have strengthening numbers is to have lots of kids and raise them to have a certain set of values that's that's it right that's that's your answer that's how we get this answer right there's really not a whole lot we can do right now to change our institutions to change our voting to change our education system to to change even if you wanted to erase the us government and replace it with something else it's not really a feasible effort to do so to how you got to walk it all the way back to creating the smallest unit of you know freedom which is the individual you have to create an individual you have to have kids and you have to have a lot of them so that when time comes you have a society that is willing to change things and and here's the thing though it doesn't just stop with having kids right because having you know having kids and having a lot of them and raising them to have a certain set of values that's not just the end game right we might not even get that far we have to actually stay alive long enough to do this right the times we live in are very rough right they're they're not exactly they're not exactly the hardest humans y stay alive long enough to do this right the times we live in are very rough right they're they're not exactly they're not exactly the hardest humans i've ever put up with but they're not they're not easy times to live in and in order to stay alive long enough to do this to avoid imprisonment to avoid forced medical procedures right to have the best chance at making those tiny humans and you know growing them up right we have to stay alive long enough to do this and in doing so to do to stay alive we have to accept that our rights have consequences and that significant lifestyle changes are needed and that means when you realize that that that even though we do have rights okay we don't really at the end of the day because all of these little other ways of changing things are are not as effective as they could be and since we're realizing that we're at this final step of okay significant lifestyle changes are needed in order to stay alive to have kids to have strength in numbers to change the education system to change the institutions to make civil disobedience work again to make our courts work again to make voting work again to make congress work again to make to to hold our po ns to make civil disobedience work again to make our courts work again to make voting work again to make congress work again to make to to hold our politicians accountable to hold the military accountable that's how we drive our way back down through this and this takes a lot of time and this also means that our the all of those things i just mentioned are not exactly feasible options at this particular time the top three here this is what we've got this is what we should invest in heavily now we can do the other stuff too go to your local school board demand to know what your kid is is learning in school and if they're learning some stuff take them out of school simple as that it may not be easy as that but it is as simple as that right just because something is is simple doesn't mean it's easy right so there you go oh you don't like an institution don't engage in it and actively take measures to defy said institution right you can do these things but by and large it's only because the top three things here are your priority at least they're our priority and this is exactly what we're doing right now as we have spent hundreds of hours writing and filming and recording content for they're our priority and this is exactly what we're doing right now as we have spent hundreds of hours writing and filming and recording content for you guys from the original og podcast to these new youtube videos on education and things like that those top three values right there are what we're trying to trying to help with right so that's exactly what we're doing to to make to take this way forward but again these are not the only options there are other options so let's just talk about this idea of civil disobedience let's just take one of those things from the last slide and prove that we can actually still use it right if we use it right so there's this prevailing logic that uh a single protest does nothing and that's just kind of like what people see right you've got all kinds of of rallies going around and if they're if the rallies are of a certain ideology they're not going to work right you could have 12 blm activists protesting outside of a capital building and they get a law passed within 30 seconds but you've got tens of thousands of people who want freedom in the streets and it they're not only not only as a blind eye turn towards them but they're actively harmed in f thousands of people who want freedom in the streets and it they're not only not only as a blind eye turn towards them but they're actively harmed in the process right so a single protest does nothing however if you combine it with other stuff if you protest with boycotting you do some economic warfare boycotts freaking work i know it doesn't seem like they do but they really do especially if you combine them with changing education systems right you don't have to you don't have to put up with propaganda you know you can educate and you can create content and you can push true education instead of indoctrination man that really does help too likewise strikes nobody can make you be a good worker right strikes do work and guess what most of the most of the systems and institutions that make this world go round are run by people who are freedom minded right i highly doubt i really highly doubt that a one of the largest you know uh concrete pouring companies in the united states which pours the foundations for skyscrapers i highly doubt that the dudes working on that crew the hundreds of guys they've got working around these experts right are i highly doubt that they are supportive of that the dudes working on that crew the hundreds of guys they've got working around these experts right are i highly doubt that they are supportive of woke ideology i really don't think they are so there you go i highly doubt that the best paid welders in this country voted for joe biden right it's it's pretty clear that the systems and institutions that make our world go around not the leaders of these kind of these companies and things like that because that's that's another argument but the actual dude on the ground the dude with a stick welder in his hand the dude with a shovel in his hand who do they support okay what values do they have okay and more importantly what power do they have when they don't do their job kind of a lot right likewise if you're if it's not necessarily a manual labor type thing no one can make you think no one can make you think up better ways of tyrannizing them no one can make you innovate on behalf of a company so if you are working in a company where ideas and thoughts are the main commodity right the main way your company is making progress well guess what who says you have to have a great idea maybe you can just have a mediocre idea an idea that' main way your company is making progress well guess what who says you have to have a great idea maybe you can just have a mediocre idea an idea that's mediocre enough for you to keep your job but not enough for them to continue continue their their tyrannical reign likewise we can even engage in social and cultural pressure you know we can change the cultural norms we can make it so that it's it's not a cool thing to do certain stuff right social and cultural pressure is definitely a huge factor maybe not on its own but when you add all these things up together and you add in an element of timed and coordinated uh organization for maximum effect man you're starting to get into some stuff that's really really effective now granted an organized citizenry is lethal to tyrants look at just look at it this way right look at all of the groups out there that have a name associated with their group and they are conservative groups okay look at how many of the leaders of those groups turned out to actually be either fbi agents or fbi informants okay so it's pretty clear that organization is very much a hazard it is a risk to the regime so they go through a lot of efforts the fbi's main goa ts okay so it's pretty clear that organization is very much a hazard it is a risk to the regime so they go through a lot of efforts the fbi's main goals right now is to prevent citizens from organizing against the government that's their main goal and it's been that way for years but it's really come out lately however you can prevent this or at least make it a little bit less effective here's the thing american citizens are much more hardened normally than these than the tyrants are and if you live a hardened lifestyle if you live a hard lifestyle it's going you're going to be less affected right nancy pelosi can't live without her 65 pint ice cream right she just can't like they can't live without going to the beauty salon they cannot live without going to their clubs or their vacation spots or martha's vineyard okay but can you but you can live without power and water and sewage and other public utilities right if you harden yourself so the people that are harder the people that are harder physically mentally emotionally those people are the ones who have the advantage right especially in the long run and if you harden yourself you're not as vulnerable as they think you are righ le are the ones who have the advantage right especially in the long run and if you harden yourself you're not as vulnerable as they think you are right they have the ability to cut your utility off okay they have the ability to cut your power off they can do like like california did and they directly called the utilities and told the utilities to shut off power and water to individual houses which disobeyed their coveted guidelines okay well here's the thing the reverse is not true you can't call up and say hey shut the power off to the governor's mansion because they passed a tyrannical law okay but here's the thing though if you are prepared to live without water to live without power to live without sewage to live without utilities of any kind they don't have any power over you so what can they do okay well they can take your property from you they can evict you right for not following covet guidelines well okay if you're prepared for that and if you can live in another area if you can have other property elsewhere again they have less power over you and that's really what this is all about is just being able to decrease a person's power over you which in essence increases your less power over you and that's really what this is all about is just being able to decrease a person's power over you which in essence increases your own power we also have to be aware of the idea of time all of this takes a lot of time okay this is going to this is not something that is going to happen quickly okay raising a kid is it takes a very long time and it takes a very long time before they ever before they are a contributing member to society or potential contributing member to society but we also have to remember the time is not an excuse for inaction right we have to be aware of those people in groups and organizations that claim uh that just make the claim of just wait the plan is in place just wait and see there's a secret organization out there and people are going to rise up and take care of it just wait right one of the most effective ways to prevent a group of people from rising up is to approach them as a friend and convince them that there is some kind of secret society that is working to further their own goals so just sit back and trust a plan right does that sound familiar to anybody again none of us here have one solid answer to help ease the pain of the wor just sit back and trust a plan right does that sound familiar to anybody again none of us here have one solid answer to help ease the pain of the world today nor do we have a solid answer as to how to move forward um we really i mean we don't know we're just some people on the internet at best we can point out what obviously will not work based on history or our own personal experiences and and we can offer a handful of things that seem like good ideas and for now that's a good start even though it's an unsatisfying one and perhaps that's a reflection of the times in which we live unsatisfying that's really why we have gone through so much effort to lay at least some groundwork from moving forward in our previous content all of our other stuff that's really one of our main goals to lay the groundwork everyone wants the quick and easy answer especially when they're angry and and people don't like it when ourselves and others point out that it's too late for any simple and easy fix our options have been reduced we've either done this ourselves or let others do it to us to the point to where the only things that can really get us going in the right direction even are the non-sexy and urselves or let others do it to us to the point to where the only things that can really get us going in the right direction even are the non-sexy and boring options the american spirit is ripe with the attitude of revolution and the removal of tyrants like that much is clear american the american spirit is a revolutionary one but directly this this is not going to work right we've proven that this is not going to work not only are direct actions not something that's going to work on a strategic level but even if it succeeds like what are you what are you going to do with it if you win if you ever throw the government what are you going to do you're just going to replace one tyrannical system with another right now our government is a reflection of society not the other way around we have a problem with cause and effect in today's world but if we raise a new generation of children that will grow up to be good human beings and that are educated moral and active leaders in their communities well that government will reflect that society because that society will not tolerate anything else and they will also be equipped skilled and knowledgeable enough to make sure that that's the cas because that society will not tolerate anything else and they will also be equipped skilled and knowledgeable enough to make sure that that's the case but while we're doing that while we're changing the next generation we've got to make it we we can't help anybody if we ourselves are either in jail for the rest of our lives or if we're dead we just can't help anybody if that's the case and as angry as we are here i don't i think i speak for all of us here when i say that the actions of the past couple weeks especially but really the past i would say several several months have made us more angry than anyone could possibly imagine but again anger doesn't really solve any problems it's a good motivator to getting to a point to where you can solve problems but it doesn't solve problems in and of itself we want to provide options in a world where the options are reduced and where people want to make you think that certain options don't exist right they will it's either get this experimental medical procedure or you can't work okay get this experimental medical procedure or we're gonna take your kids from you okay life in and of itself is never that black and white there's always anoth is experimental medical procedure or we're gonna take your kids from you okay life in and of itself is never that black and white there's always another option there's usually very a lot of other options so we're trying to highlight those and offer more and more options as we move forward and we encourage others to do to do the same providing options maintaining capabilities when others can't and being an asset to your local community and to your family and to your team rather than a liability is what's going to help us get out of the situation that's how we're going to survive the next 10 to 20 years and regardless of what happens these such these things are not a bad thing to do sure other options might open up we might get a chance at changing our political systems without some kind of you know catastrophically bad event right we might get a chance at that and we can take that we can re-examine that when the time comes and of course local level on local levels things are different on state levels things are different and even within the federal government there are little ways that we can get ahead and beat them at their own game and all that kind of stuff but by and large what n the federal government there are little ways that we can get ahead and beat them at their own game and all that kind of stuff but by and large what we're going to have to do is start from the ground up we're going to have to build a society that can then build a government they can then build a a culture they can then build an economy that's going to work and to do that we've got to make it so let's make it so let's not sweat the small stuff but let's also start small the only way to change the world is to start one step at a time and if that one step at a time involves changing one mind at a time that's perfectly fine because every mind that we can change now every person that we can encourage to be a good human being right now will help us in the future so let's keep moving forward and let's continue to do good things in the best way that we know how even if that means that at least for right now we might have to fight in the shade