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Lifting Weights + TRT Saved Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Life

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As societies across the Western world collapse, elder abuse is becoming more common. A 74 year old man was pushed off of a bus after asking a woman to be nice. He died.

The woman charged with murder after police said she was caught on video pushing a 74-year-old man face-first off a bus in Las Vegas has been released on bail, court records show. Cadesha Bishop, 25, of Las Vegas, was free Wednesday after posting $100,000 bond. She’s now on high-level electronic monitoring ahead of her preliminary hearing on May 23, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports.

Arnold Schwarzenegger, who I didn’t know was still alive, was attacked. He withstood the attacks due to weight lifting and therapeutic doses of testosterone replacement therapy.

Watch him get kicked and barely notice it here:

A lot of losers will say that TRT is dangerous,
because they don’t understand science.

Arnold is 71.

Tony Robbins turns 60 this year.

Naive people who live normal lives don’t know that most people their age and much younger use TRT to improve their overall health.

Many people have noticed my tone has changed over the years and that’s because I have two daughters and don’t have patience for people who think they know how the world works, but don’t.

“I read somewhere about ‘roid rage,” “Won’t TRT give me a heart attack,” and a bunch of other fake nonsense.

If you want to learn the truth about what Arnold and others are actually doing, you can listen to the best podcasts on the subject right here.

The Complete Guide to Fasting for Fat Loss, Increased Focus, and Spirituality

 

The Tony Robbins BuzzFeed Sexual Misconduct Story

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Tony Robbins finds himself accused of vague sexual misconduct allegations, and it’s helpful to sort through the three main categories of alleged misbehavior.

Before we do, what is truly bad behavior is the aggressive litigation posturing Robbins’ used. He used bottom-feeding lawyers to silence his critics. Based on what I’ve seen in the article, Robbins was being too sensitive. The allegations against him aren’t approaching the worst or “#MeToo.”

Category 1. Tony Robbins would have his security find him female fans and he would use his status to meet women. 

This is well-known, and was discussed in the Tony Robbins Playboy interview.

PLAYBOY: Why didn’t you think one woman could?

ROBBINS: After my divorce, before dating Sage, I was at a stage where I thought that would be totally impossible. I was a single, successful man. I’d taken my company public, and I was pretty intelligent—and humble, as you can clearly tell. [laughs] When I started dating again, I’d tell women, “I don’t want to be married. I’ve been there.” But I was crazy enough to bring women to my resort in Fiji for five straight days instead of going out and having lunch. I was so stupid. What most guys think would be their ultimate fantasy was the worst experience of my life. I was miserable because these women wanted to marry me after a week—my idea of hell on earth.

PLAYBOY: And did your women fans express interest in you?

ROBBINS: [Laughs] More than that. They’d send me their panties and show up at events in limousines to get through security, or turn up at my house to convince me they had an offer I couldn’t refuse.

Of course Robbins was having orgies and hooking up with women regularly. As long as these activities were consensual (and even the Buzzfeed article doesn’t suggest they weren’t), who cares?

Category 2. Tony Robbins would sexually harass his employees.

The workplace sexual harassment allegations seem vague.

Two former followers who went on to work for Robbins provided BuzzFeed News with signed statements swearing under oath that they felt he had sexually harassed them by repeatedly pursuing them after they made clear they weren’t interested. Two more women who worked as his assistants said Robbins expected them to work alone with him when he was naked in his hotel room or in the shower. And another former employee said she was fired after having a consensual sexual relationship with Robbins. The events described by all five women took place in the 1990s and early 2000s, when Robbins’ fame was skyrocketing and before he married his second wife.

If you work closely with people, there will be various times when someone is taking a shower. There’s nothing to indicate Robbins flashed his employees or sexualized the experience.

Was he weird? Probably. Most people in the self-help world have their eccentricities and non-conformist lifestyles.

Outside of the prudish United States, men and women are often naked together in non-sexual situations.

Category 3. Tony Robbins would bully abuse victims.

Buzzfeed’s article shows a misunderstanding of mindset work and Robbins’ work, citing this as an example of emotional abuse:

One woman had told him through tears that she had been raped. Robbins recounted how he had “cut her off” in a “warm” and “elegant” way and informed her that she was “fucking using all this stuff to try and control men.” “I don’t support anybody fucking raping her or taking advantage of her,” he said, according to the transcript, “but I don’t support her fucking manipulating herself, men, and other people by trying to use that tool when it’s really not the primary experience of her life now.”

The following truths can exist simultaneously:

You were victimized.

You are not a victim.

A person who is victimized can let this low point in life define himself or herself.

We see this every day. Something bad happens to a person, and their life freezes.

Robbins’ work is focused on helping people overcome what has happened to them by refusing to define themselves as victims.

Ironically, one person who Buzzfeed calls a victim has posted a response video to tell them to stop using her in the story about Robbins.

https://youtu.be/xJ3kWMBJE5Y

 

Realizing the Buzzfeed article (which wasn’t even that bad) was going to hit, Robbins’ team uploaded a video to YouTube.

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https://youtu.be/FADJBqM7qqI

Robbins’ showed that “the fear of the thing is greater than the thing.”

The Buzzfeed article wasn’t even that bad.

No one who likes Robbins will read the article and think, “That’s it. He’s cancelled.”

And the people who read the article and hate Robbins are not mindset material, anyway.

Robbins like most celebrities has been coddled by the media for decades, and any criticism leads to an overreaction.

Take a deep breath, Tony, and unleash the power within.

The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics by Michael Malice

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“The New Right is of the fringe, and the fringe is where both innovation and insanity lay.” – Michael Malice, The New Right.

When a writer asked to interview me for a book, I almost declined. I was burned out of talking to media people and not interested in explaining the same events over and over again.

But a mutual friend vouched for Michael Malice, and after being impressed with his Joe Rogan interview, I sat down for the interview.

https://youtu.be/lTSsAXNKl7I

Malice’s intellectual curiosity was evident immediately. Most writer or “journalists” want to argue during interviews. It gets boring. “OK, since you brought up x, you’re not going to bring up y.”

Malice was genuinely interested in my ideas, which as my recent interview on the Rubin Report show, are often “left wing.” Example – I believe CEO pay should be capped at a ratio of 100-to-1 of median employee wage.

Rather than attack or defend anyone, Malice showcases the points of views of people ranging from controversial to persona non grata. (Gavin McInnes is not only banned from Facebook, it’s also illegal for you to say you like him on the platform.)

Malice explains positions held by the populists and others, and criticizes those views where appropriate. As one example:

Activist Mike Cernovich’s movie is titled Silenced: The War on Free Speech…. The universal claim and concern in the New Right is that attacks on our free speech are unprecedented and fiercer than ever.

They are wrong.

Virtually all the Founding Fathers, including George Washington himself, were still alive when the Fifth Congress passed the Sedition Act, signed into law by John Adams. The act made it a federal crime to criticize the government or the president, leading to the arrest and imprisonment of several journalists.

While Malice has his history correct, one central theme of Silence was, We are doing it to ourselves.

Silenced was prophetic, and showed that the real threat to free speech wasn’t the government. It was all of us, as I describe in introducing Silenced:

Things are different than they used to be. We all know the feeling of dread when posting or talking about something controversial, and this dread has silenced us. It’s not censorship. The government isn’t doing it. We are. To ourselves. Across business, education, politics, and entertainment.

One can’t blame Malice for not having examined my entire body of work, because honestly how is that even possible?

Malice’s point about free speech is well-taken, though, as people today like people of all times believe our era is unprecedented. When really we aren’t special.

Malice also takes a look at Gorilla Mindset, and unlike most in the media, gets it:

In 2015 Cernovich self-published Gorilla Mindset…. Yet despite his swagger and the book’s title, his writing is far more new age than neo-reactionary. Many of the ideas have been staples of women’s magazines for years, including the benefits of meditation and “being present.”

Cernovich has cleverly repackaged such concepts in a manner friendly for guys, and in the process has given men permission to engage in these activities without feeling stigmatized. It’s akin to when Coca-Cola was invented Coke Zero, which was conceived as a male alternative for those too embarrassed by the perceived effeminacy of ordering a Diet Coke.

I’ve been on Malice’s show Your Welcome once or twice and am fond fo him, so you might consider this review to be PR, and that’s okay with me.

Those who know better understand that I’m a tough reviewer when it comes to books, and sometimes needlessly downgrade an excellent book as a way of antagonizing authors.

If you want to truly understand what is happening in America today, read The New Right.

As Malice observes, the new right has a largely male audience, and he asked me to explain why:

“Men are told today they’re living in a man’s world,” Cernovich told me, “and they’re looking around and thinking, Well, not for me. With men there isn’t any real help with alienation.”

Much of contemporary feminism is based on things like the relative number of male CEOs.

“It’s called the apex fallacy,” he said. “Too many men at the top. OK, what about the men at the bottom? Male suicide is four times the rate of female suicide. Look at homelessness, drug addition, and suicide rates. Men are often the biggest winners and the biggest losers.

You can get the New Right in ebook, paperback, and Audio.

P.S. While you’re there, in anticipation of my next book, I’ve discounted Gorilla Mindset by 90% for the ebook, 50% for the paperback, and the audiobook is here.

Hacked Like Joy Reid

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Hacked like Joy Reid

Far left wing outlet MSNBC had found a new star in Joy Reid. Reid is everything you’d want in a news anchor – smart, charismatic, and aggressive. She’s also a reformed Internet troll.

An anonymous whistle blower went through Reid’s old blog posts. Using Twitter, this person began revealing some offensive content from Reid.

Reid’s blog was loaded with 9/11 conspiracy theories, mean-spirited memes about John McCain, and even some homophobic jokes. I won’t repeat what Reid said directly but it’s out there.

You can run a DuckDuckGo search for Joy Reid’s old blog posts for a laugh or dose of outrage.

Nothing Reid wrote offended me, but there was more than enough on her blog to get any conservative a lifetime ban from FoxNews.

When the first batch of offensive posts surfaced in December, 2017, Reid apologized. Everyone excepted her apology, because as you’ll see throughout this book and film, there’s a different set of standards that are applied to the far left. Reid moved on, just as Seder had moved on. Or so she thought.

In April, 2018, a new batch of shocking bigotry was released. What Reid said was as bad as anything wrong thinkers like me have said, and in many cases she said far worse than I allegedly have.

Rather than apologize once again, Reid outright lied. She claimed her blog had been hacked!

Time travelers, perhaps from Russia, planted offensive content on her blog. Yet her hacking tale quickly fell apart.

In life, your wins can be your losses. In Reid’s case, the Library of Congress had made the decision to archive her blog years ago. This was a high honor, and also a back-up of her blog.

For Reid’s story to be true, the Library of Congress would have had to have been hacked.

Reid claimed she filed a report with the FBI, although no one took this seriously, because while lying to the public isn’t a crime, lying to the FBI most certainly is.

Joy Reid remains gainfully employed at NBC, despite posting bigoted content and then lying about being hacked.

When people claim I said something offensive in the past, I reply with, “No. I was hacked like Joy Reid.”

Trump 2020 and Dark Predictions for the Future

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Cernovich returned to the Rubin Report to brief the world on what’s going to happen in 2020 and beyond.

Watch the full interview here:

Let’s talk about offensive tweets, and there is a lot of them out there.

Everyone from Joy Reid (MSNBC) to Kaitlan Collins (CNN) has said some stuff. Should all of these people be de-platformed as hate speech criminals?

Joy Reid

Joy Reid lied about going to the FBI

Joy Reid hates gay people

The Young Turks

The Young Turks and women:

Mehdi Hasan

Mehdi Hasan’s homophobia:

Kaitlan Collins / CNN

Kaitlan Collins called gays f-gs and said she would never have a gay roommate

BuzzFeed is racist

James Gunn / pedophile Tweets

Read all about James Gunn here.

This list will be updated in real-time.

Bookmark it today!

P.S. You can watch Hoaxed Movie here.