Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the Sheep You Sheared podcast, open road edition.
I'm your host Austin Creed.
Oh, that's right.
My friends, I'm still on the road, the open road in the middle of Utah.
And my friends, you know, it's hard for me on a long road trip to not get bored, as I'm
sure you've gotten bored before on a long road trip.
But I'm sitting here in the car, looking at the open road, looking at the sites, looking
at the different trees and hills and bushes and lights, splits, all of that good stuff.
And as I'm sitting here driving, I'm listening to a lot of political commentary because it's
an election year.
It's impossible to avoid this different political stuff in an election year, especially with
the Olympics going on and the juggernaut of the DNC with all the entertainers and all
of the big tech and all that other stuff.
So I thought to myself, how can we discuss this?
That has just more normies, looking to point about things we can't control because that's
a waste of time.
Instead I thought to myself, how can we put the good old biblical bachelor spin on this
about thinking for ourselves, avoiding being exploited and opening our minds.
And I thought to myself, we need to discuss navigating through the political swamp because
let's be real.
The difference between the Democrats and Republicans are a lot of ways is very minimal.
Now I didn't say entirely now.
I didn't say entirely.
But in general, you can divide most people today in politics to like three different
categories.
Category one is left wingers who are usually more towards the communist slash socialist
side.
Then you have libertarians who are pretty indifferent.
They want to just be left alone.
And then you have the more conservatives on the right wing who, of course, there are some
people who are racist.
There are some people who are very anti immigration.
Again, I'm not here to tell you immigration is always good because it's not in the same
way that progress isn't always good because it's progress.
However, comma, I think it's important for us to understand the modern political structure.
The two party system we call a system, which is laughable when you think about how many
different political parties and representation they have in England, for example, or in other
countries that have just a wider range of political conversations, discussions, you
name it.
But my friends, it's very easy to get caught up in the trap of politics, getting trumped
up to care about things you can't do a damn thing about getting activated over things
you couldn't change.
It's so dumb, in my opinion.
Now, when it comes to political times such as this, every four years, especially arguably
over two years, depending on how activated you are in the political circus, make no mistake.
The political system is a circus.
And some of the three ring circus like P.T. Barnum had the two ring circus, arguably
a one ring circus.
All you got to do is look at who the big donors are to the Democrats and the Republicans.
And you'll notice the list of people, the list of organizations, the lists of donors
gets smaller and smaller and smaller.
And so you realize, just look at Trump.
I know I say the word Trump immediately.
I'm going to get your attention.
So when we look at Trump, for example, before he even entered politics, when I was still
a teenager and Trump was largely still just a businessman known for his show, the apprentice
known for just being that rich guy with with cool air and an attitude of I don't give a
flying fuck.
Funny enough, if you actually go back to like 20, I think it was 2012.
There was I think it was HBO or somebody, somebody did a a roast of Donald Trump.
You got guys like Snoop Dogg.
You got guys like Seth Macarland.
You got these guys who are pretty well known entities going and talking about Trump and
you know, obviously making fun of them, but all in good fun.
You go fast forward to now.
He's probably the most recognizable and most controversial person in America.
But back to his business days, he donated in his own words.
He donated to Hillary Clinton.
He donated to Nancy Pelosi.
He donated to everybody.
Why?
Because that's good business.
It's good business to not play politics unless your business is politics.
And so we understand that a lot of the political circus is driven by the ring masters, which
are the people who own pretty much everything that you read, everything that you hear, everything
that you see.
Once you realize that, they start to make a little more sense and you're less likely
to get activated and more likely to get educated on how you're getting exploited and how they
use both sides of the aisle, they being the billionaires, the guys who you never, some
of them you might know their names, others you don't know their names or you've forgotten
them.
And I'm not so much here to discuss their names as I'm here to discuss what it is that
they want.
And what they want to do is make more money.
What they want to do is they want to expand their empires.
And the best way to do that is to own both sides of the aisle to donate to both sides
so that no matter who wins, you still win.
It's almost like the military industrial complex, which Eisenhower warned about back
in the 1950s when he was president after World War Two.
He talked about the military industrial complex.
I played that speech on the show where he talked about how we must guard against the
activation of the military industrial complex because they have a natural they their business
is war.
And so when you look at when their business is war, they're going to run drum up as much
war as possible so that then they can stay in business.
That makes sense.
They're also going to try to get contracts from people in the government by putting key
figures and key positions and so on and so forth.
My friends, what you understand that the game is like the World Series back in I think the
1960 or 1968.
I don't remember the exact year.
Maybe somebody who really is into sports more than me knows.
But Arnold Rothstein fixed the World Series once.
Nobody thought it could be done when he did it.
And so if the World Series could be fixed, do you want to sit there and tell me the political
system or circus, which is a more accurate description?
Is any different?
I don't think so.
And this fits into our principles of the biblical bachelor lifestyle with understanding how
you're being exploited by the Wolfs of Wall Street, by the coyotes and the corporations
and by the hyenas and the vultures in government.
Once you understand these, you'll get less mad and more understanding of why things are
the way they are.
And you could screw it instead of seeing it how they want you to see it, which is at face
value to get you to read and react emotionally, which is the worst way to respond.
When someone's appealing to your emotions, they're trying to circumnavigate your logical
faculties, and this, my friends, is how they get you to make very short-sighted, very stupid
choices.
All you have to do is look at the lack of logic and a lot of politics, and I'm more than happy
to go into it and I'll do it right now.
In fact, I don't care if they cancel me for this because all of this is true.
Let's take, for example, the lie, like, for example, how many times do you hear an ism
or a phobia from especially the left wing in America?
The right wing does it too, but especially the left wingers, they talk about, oh, they're
Nazis, they're they're they're homophobic, Islamophobic, sexist, racist, all that, the
pluribals, you name it, all that type of stuff, right?
Well, my friends, when you look at the insults that are often flung, like monkeys fling their
feces at people, what do you realize that a lot of the insults are actually just projection?
What do you realize and you would dig through anything?
Okay, what are the policies that they're talking about?
What is the legislation they're talking about?
What is the actual policy being discussed here?
Not oh, he called him a racist.
Oh, he must be evil.
Oh, they must be bad.
No, no, this is a diversion tactic.
I attempt to manipulate you into not focusing upon what was said, but how what was said
is supposed to make you feel or how they interpreted what was said into how it makes you then feel.
That is what the media does in my estimation.
Because again, going back, the media is supposed to be the watchdog, the fourth branch of government.
Instead, they've become largely lap dogs and a fifth column, the fifth column referring
to the Mexican American war, where the generals I forget the name of the general.
My memory is great, but I have lapses once in a while.
I forget the name of the general, but he was standing outside the fort.
All outside the city with four garrisons ready to be sieging began the siege of the city.
And they said that his the general sat down, waited in his his officers came to him and
they said, why are we not starting the attack?
What are we waiting for?
And then the general pointed up at the city on the hill and it was already on fire.
The fifth column was the one inside the city gates.
And it was Cicero, a fourth century Roman historian who discussed the idea of the enemy
within.
The enemy within, meaning the people who speak the language, they understand their ideas
are talked about in the halls of government.
They are not foreigners.
They speak in in ways and dialects, familiar to their victims and everything.
And what happens, my friends, is before you know it, you've been cheated out of your birthright.
You no longer have what was given to you by your father or your grandfather, because instead
of thinking through things logically, you reacted emotionally.
And my friends, this is exactly what has led to the situations we find ourselves in this
very day.
Also, throughout this show, I apologize that the audio sounds bad.
I'm in the car right now.
I'm going to try to tweak it to make it sound as good as possible.
Trust me if this is your first time tuning into the show, my audio is usually a lot
better than it is right now, because I'm traveling and whatnot.
But my friends, this is how we navigate the political swamp.
It's all too easy to get caught up in the garbage and the sewage that saturates the political
landscape.
And instead of focusing on actual issues, we focus on what this person said, what this
pun didn't implied.
And it gets us in a downward swirl spiral that is only going to lead us to more rhetoric
and not looking for real solutions.
Ones that not only affect the nation, but ones that can help affect your life for the
better.
Because a lot of things don't always directly impact you.
So therefore you are inclined to ignore it or push off as somebody else's problem.
So my one piece of advice, my friends, would be not to dismiss what's happening in politics
necessarily, but to understand it for what it is, which is an active attempt to get you
activated so that the people who fund their campaigns, the people who own the corporations
who are benefiting and benefactoring these individuals, these entities and these organizations,
that they are trying to make more money off of your back by using your emotions to get
you to a react.
I know a lot of you, or at least some of you have told me that you're not really that
politically interested anymore, which is good.
But I think it's important for us to know what we are willing to negotiate on and what
we're not willing to and understand that politicians are largely paid liars.
The showmen, a lot of ways they're better entertainers in Hollywood because they get
you to buy into a fantasy that's not actually real or that they have no intention of actually
bringing about.
My friends, let me know how you've navigated elections in the past and how you plan to navigate
the one now because right now there's a lot of speculation and a lot of funny business
happening already.
And I don't always think it's a point to discuss politics on the show because there's
so much more to life than politics.
But when we were living an election year in a very politically turmoil nation, it's
very hard to not address it as we're looking at the overall big picture and a holistic
lifestyle.
My friends, let me know what you think.
Let me know how you navigated the past and how you plan to navigate not only this election,
but the one after.
Are you what where you aligned politically and what led you there?
All of these are very important questions that I look forward to hearing you answer
because I want everybody to sound off on this, even if you've been really disagree with
me or you think you will.
I'm not going to I'm not going to tell you you're an idiot if we disagree.
Now if you're an idiot, I'll call you an idiot, but you're probably not.
You're probably just misguided or you fundamentally are just an idealist, which everybody's been
at that point.
But it's understanding that you are an idealist and then trying to find a way towards being
more of a cynical realist that will lead you to having a more balanced mindset and not
just see things the way you want to see them, but you see them for how more they truly are
from a lot of different perspectives, especially ones you don't like.
That's why I sometimes quote Karl Marx on the show.
Why not?
Because I agree with him.
In fact, I vehemently disagree with almost everything he's ever said.
But does that mean that I'm not going to pick up little nuggets of things here and there
that I think are worth discussing, of course not.
My friends, let me know what you have to say.
I hope you answer the question asked.
And again, this is a conversation.
This isn't just a lecture from me.
I'll put you understand that and that you're willing to pitch in and that you know your
voice matters to me.
My friends until next time, take care of yourselves.
I might do more of these when the inspiration hits because I have many hours on the room
still ahead of me.
Take care of yourselves.
I look forward to hearing more from you about this and many other topics.
Take care.
I'm out.
Peace.