The Assassination of the President of Haiti and Government Spying

Here's what I'm worried about. I'm worried that they've, that it's now been proven that someone with a lot of money who's outside the system can win and can actually become the president. The worry that I have is not just that someone worse than him tries to do it again, but someone's like really truly evil. The other worry is that the other side tries to prevent that from happening and by doing so they justify hamstring democracy. They decide, look we can't ever let this happen again so we need a concerted effort where we coordinate with the media, we coordinate with all of the different intelligence communities and we figure out a way to pick the people that we want to win and attack the person that we don't because that's how Banana Republics get started. That's how people get assassinated and that's how people justify a lot of wild shit. They justify because they think ultimately it's imperative for the future of our nation if this person doesn't win and our person gets in there and they think so, so zealously that they're willing to do wild shit and that's what happens in other countries and we were talking before this podcast about they killed the president of Haiti yesterday. When you said that I'm so disappointed in myself because I just feel like as a black person when I hear black news from a white person, like shit that I should know, I should have known before you that the president of Haiti got assassinated. Well to be honest I'm really up on assassinations. I follow all the assassination Twitter pages and I'm on assassination Twitter. There's an assassination Twitter? I don't know, I'm just guessing. Okay, I was gonna say I'm missing out. I just pay attention to new shit. A squad of gunmen assassinated, Haitian president, how do you say his name? Jovenel Moyes? What did you say? Jamie? I'm sorry, who did his wife in an overnight raid on their home on Wednesday, inflicting more chaos on the Caribbean country that was already enduring gang violence, soaring inflation and protests of its increasingly authoritarian rule? Wow. Prime Minister Claude Yousif. Well what's scary about this kind of stuff is, you know, who knows who's gonna take over now? You know when someone assassinates the president, they don't want that president in there for various reasons. So who's gonna come in now? How much worse is it gonna be for the Haitian people? What kind of person's gonna try to take over now? I feel like it's been pretty bad for Haitian people for a while. I don't know if it's ever been good. Wow. I was telling you earlier that's the first slave, that's the only slave rebellion in history that works. It says, Bochit Edman, the Haitian ambassador to the United States said the attack on the 53 year old Moyes, I'm not saying his, I don't know if I'm saying his name right, Moisei, M-O-I-S-E, was carried out by foreign mercenaries and professional killers, well orchestrated, and that they were masquerading as agents of the US Drug Enforcement Administration. The DEA has an office in the Haitian capital to assist the government in counter-narcotics programs according to the USMC. Well if drugs were legal over there, they wouldn't have had this, no that's not true. Probably been whacking people like this for a long time. But see, I be on some Game of Thrones shit, like I don't even trust this motherfucker, I'm like maybe he has something to do with it. You know? So true, you never know. It's so hard to know, by the time the news gets to someone like you or me, who the fuck knows? Yeah, it's the steel. Who knows? Well that's what's so funny to me, I feel like we're the same as China. It's just that we're all convinced that we're not being controlled, but they just have a different method of doing it. Over there the government would straight up just be like, yeah we're spying on you. And over here they're still spying on you, you're just convinced that they aren't, or that it's not so bad. But it's the same outcome. They know everything you're doing and every move you make, we just feel free. Like the shit you brought up about Edward Snowden, right? You would expect that kind of information to make people rebel. Some people rebelled, some people were furious. Well I heard Julian Assange, he had a quote that was like, I don't know the exact shit, but the sentiment was just that all people really care about is their sense of freedom, not their actual freedoms. So you can tell a bunch of motherfuckers, you can tell a bunch of motherfuckers, the government is spying on you, collecting all your messages, listening to all your phone calls, all your purchases, everything. But you feel free. And people don't give a fuck, because you feel free. More people gave a fuck about having to wear a mask than the government spying on them, because that makes you feel less free. Yes. And that's why we're lazy like that. And the thing about the government having that power, it's actually bad for them. Because it's not, it's too much responsibility, because you have to lie about it first of all, because you're not supposed to have that kind of power. You're not supposed to be able to just spy on people randomly. Because at the end of the day, the government is comprised of people, and we're people. So it's just people spying on people. And you're doing it through initials. Oh, we're the FBI, and the NSA, and the DEA, and the blah blah blah. You're just people spying on people. Reinforcing laws that were written down on paper by who the fuck knows who, and who know who the fuck knows if those laws are valid in 2021 anymore, with all the technology we have today, with the abilities to do things today are so much greater than what these laws were established about in the 1970s or 1960s, and even then. Yeah, I'm on some George Carla shit. Your freedom is an illusion. The only thing that exists is comfort and violence. You have comforts, and you either have the ability to use violence to maintain it or not. Yeah. But that's really all it is. You can create this utopia with all these rules, but if you can't enforce the rules, it doesn't fucking matter. So violence will always be a part of the world. Authoritarianism, fucking- If it just comes to violence, honestly, in this country, I'm almost less concerned. Because if it comes to violence in this country, I just can't imagine how the government is legitimately going to take over when a lot of the people that are actually in the military would have to turn on the people that they grew up with. They would have to turn on the people that they love in their communities because the government tells them to. Like the end of the day, the people that protect us, it's the military, the government of the people that direct the military. But there's a push comes to shove there. You're never really going to take over this country in a military way because the military are the people that will not want you to do that. They wouldn't trust these Weasley politicians that would try to do that. Yeah. I think at the end of the day, more people would challenge who- They'd be more attached to who is in charge of them than the who's president or who's in the government. Yeah, well that would be hard to do. It'd be really hard to get the government to control the military to the point where the military turns on regular people. Really hard because they're not- The idea is that the elites are going to control the world. But the elites are not the military. They're elite human beings. They're elite soldiers. But they're not elites in terms of the 1% of the world. They're regular folks for the most part. So getting regular folks to turn on regular folks because the elites tell them to, that's one of those weird, how do you do this things? So the way to control populations is through propaganda and reeducation of their youth, turning people on each other. If you really wanted to fuck up a future community, you distribute propaganda to their children, teach their children to feel bad about themselves and that this country and this society is a mistake and a disaster and the worst thing to ever happen. We need to burn it down. If you taught that to kids over and over and over again, those kids grow up. You have a real shot at fucking things up because you can ruin all of the structures that have kept societies together. And then if you accompany that, if you accompany that with things like defund the police, oh, and we're not going to prosecute anybody for anything less than $950. Oh. Well, that depends on where the money goes. Now you got open looting. Yeah. You got open looting. You got chaos. You cops scared arrest people. You got crime rates. Catch new episodes of the Joe Rogan experience for free only on Spotify. Watch back catalog JRE videos on Spotify, including clips easily, seamlessly switch between video and audio experience on Spotify. You can listen to the JRE in the background while using other apps and can download episodes to save on data costs all for free. Spotify is absolutely free. You don't have to have a premium account to watch new JRE episodes. 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