Bret Weinstein and Matt Taibbi: Corruption and its Consequences
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 Published On Jul 18, 2020

Matt Taibbi is an old school journalist beating all the odds in the modern era. He has long been a correspondent for Rolling Stone magazine. Bret and Matt discuss the state of the world in the run-up to the 2020 election. Taibbi endorses Unity 2020.

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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Introductions
01:05 Matt Taibbi’s apology to Bret, and journalists failing to see the rise of the left
03:02 Bret on seeing the rise of the left early
04:22 Matt on the current state of journalism
06:12 Bret on the current state of journalism
08:27 Why the left’s strategy is spectacular but the quality of their arguments is not
10:27 Similarities with Russian history and Bolsheviks
12:08 “You don’t think that this is serious until it comes for you, at which point it’s too late.”
13:04 Is this going to be a violent revolution?
15:01 July 4th Letter at Princeton
16:38 Disrupting things for a power grab
19:03 Explosion of new administrative staff and takeover of institutions
21:00 How to resist the movement
23:28 What happens to traditional institutions when they crumble
27:08 “Even Joe Rogan is dependent on the institutions”
30:06 Alex Jones was a warning
31:38 The press got its power and independence by having its own distribution… Now we have Google
34:25 The arbitrariness of bans and cancel culture
35:37 The layers below social media that cancel
39:38 The Evergreen of the United States
41:50 What happens next and the 2020 election
45:25 The empowering of zealots by the Democratic Party
51:50 Trump and the next wave of fascists
55:07 Media coverage of Trump
58:08 Joe Biden in two years’ time…
01:00:32 Layers of vulnerability and building alternative structures
01:04:20 This movement is two things fused together: an organic rebellion against a corrupt system, and a coup
01:06:09 The way out of this mess
01:09:14 “How does a democracy get rigged against 99% of its population?”
01:11:30 Matt Taibbi on having powerful enemies
01:16:43 How has Matt survived encounters with such powerful forces?
01:21:05 Lack of humor in the movement
01:29:40 Where did all these extra administrators come from?
01:34:27 Will Matt Taibbi join #Unity2020?
01:35:28 How to support Matt Taibbi

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