#428 Maj Toure - The Media Is Lying to You About America

Well, we were just doing a little preamble before I hit the record button, and what are your current thoughts on the state of the USA? I know that's a massive question.

It's a massive question that demands a nuanced answer.

As someone that grew up in the birthplace of America, I grew up in Philadelphia.

I used to take tours of City Hall, and like last summer I was down at Independence Hall where the Constitution was signed.

I take tour, I like that type of stuff.

Um, we are such a far cry, and I say this with such a, like a crazy heavy heart.

We are such a far cry from the story of America right now.

We are, the story being up against tyranny, up against a, a, a repressive regime, up against the British Empire that were like, "No, y'all are gonna forever be colonies." And dudes are like, "Yo, bro, we getting taxed too much.

We're not allowed to worship the way we wanna worship." [laughs] That story is the epitome of the Rocky story.

It's like the underdog, and then we've, okay, we kinda gotta go with the slavery thing for a little bit, but we're gonna work to overthrow it, and we then overthrow it, and this and that.

And this Philadelphia in and of itself was, um, crafted by William Penn to be a place of freedom where women had rights, and all of these different things.

And knowing all of this history and traveling around the country for the last 10 years teaching people about firearms basics, teaching people about civics, teach- I mean, just the basics.

Not, not, you know, constitutional scholar stuff, but seeing that, and now to the question of how am I feeling about the state of things in the United States of America, bro, I am thoroughly disenchanted, I am disappointed with the lack of civic involvement that the general American public has, and I am disgusted by the level of propaganda and hatred and vitriol that it seems that...

And again, it's, a lot of it's online.

When you go outside, in reality, like my neighbors happen to be white, and the, I promise you it's not a helter-skelter going on between me and my neighbors.

We was, like, picking out some potatoes that we grew together, like, last week.

You know what I'm saying? Um, I'm just, the, the, the pundit class and the political class and, and, and, and the, in general the American public being so persuaded by that, I'm, I'm disappointed.

And I'm disgusted in people that I've, I've watched, that I had so much respect for.

As you know, I'm a libertarian.

I'm, I'm watching even libertarians fall victim to this race bait collectivist narrative.

I mean, I thought the guys that were, I looked at as sound, nuanced, objective, you know, non-collectivist voices, and I'm disappointed in my country, man.

I'm, I'm thoroughly disappointed, man.

We are taxed out of the wazoo.

The whole thing started based on you're taxing us too much, the whole America thing.

We are taxed out of the wazoo.