Earlier this week, I had a chance to talk with my good friend Tom Woods on his show about everything happening with Donald Trump in Washington, DC And especially the left progressive reaction to it. We thought you'd enjoy hearing about Trump from a more libertarian perspective. So stay tuned I Got Jeff Deist on the show and I feel like I can't go wrong not that I want to put too much pressure on you But there it is. I mean if if this isn't any good. It's on you pretty much is what I'm what I'm saying Okay, I want to just talk to somebody about Events of the past week or so. I just want to talk to somebody about this because I feel like The whole world has gone mental I don't know where I fit.  But at the same time there is still this cult of the presidency around Trump that I don't like So I don't really have a home, but While I'm homeless. I am nevertheless cheering for people who are As fed up and disgusted with the left as I am. So Let's let's start there. I mean, I guess we could we could say something about his inauguration speech But let's just start with your overall impression. I mean, doesn't it feel to you Like things have really accelerated in the past just year or so in terms of the divisions in the country They were always there, but it's it's palpable and overwhelming now Yeah, they have accelerated and we deserve it because this is what you get when you politicize things that shouldn't be politicized Which is 90 of what government does is extra constitutional even if you're a fan of that document But more importantly, we've put the left mostly But now the right to an extent has politicized whole areas of human life that ought not to be political like sex and sexuality and family life and Work life what happens at your workplace? So so that we deserve this and I think trump is a symptom He's a symptom of the imperial presidency that the progressives have cheered this for decades They've sought to have executive control over environmental issues over health and safety issues labor issues Uh, you know women's issues abortion, you know, they cheered An activist supreme court, which they're now terrified to think they might not control They cheered an imperial executive. They're now terrified of trump. So You know, and and I think that that really this march the other day Encapsulates the whole thing perfectly. I mean these are political people who claim to love democracy and voting as the means to organize society well We had a vote and lots and lots of women voted for trump More than voted for Hillary at least amongst the white women So they they go and have a white woman march nonetheless in washington And they do so in a way that says, you know, we don't respect the outcome of this vote I don't respect the outcome of any vote. So I don't really care. I'm agnostic But for people who claim they do care You know, the guy's been in office a day and they walk around in pink pussy hats And and we're supposed to take them seriously And and we're supposed to say that these are are good You know people because they're making their voice heard.  Well, we had a vote So look this whole thing is is an absolute farce politics is devolving Into into nasty tribalism and the left has wanted this the left has wanted this for decades They talk about a fractured that we are You know, who do I blame? I blame both sides, but The question for us is how do we rack? How do we respond as libertarians? And I think the answer is going to make a lot of our libertarian friends unhappy because they don't want to face The plain and obvious truth in front of us, which is that we need to depoliticize society And we need to break it up We need some form of secession localism Subsidiarity to deal with these intractable social issues that that have arisen Because of government because of government dividing us the only Solution to this tom short of civil war and I and I hate people who talk Ghibli about civil war, you know, as though this is ever going to be a good thing and this is ever something It's going to actually happen. It's a terrible thing and we should never even even talk about it happening So the only solution short of that is some kind of decentralized Political rulemaking in this country. I would like to see no political rulemaking. That's unlikely So given that it's unlikely. Hey, let's let's go our separate ways And of course our beltway libertarian friends. They don't want to hear this They're the libertarian centralizers. Well, gee whiz we got to have abortion legal across the land We can't have these rednecks In the south banning it or whatever it is that they think but the bottom line is the only way forward Is to ratchet back politics. The only way to do that Is to be more localized. We're seeing this in europe And I think we're on the cusp of seeing it american anybody who doesn't want to do this Is basically saying one of two things Either they want to impose upon vast vast millions of people by government force a particular viewpoint that those vast millions do not accept Or They want them to simply die off demographically I mean, those are the those are the two big choices because the right says this too The right says we can't live with the left. The left says we can't live with the right So when tom woods Says as you did in houston a couple years ago.  Look states rights Or some version thereof Is the only way any of us are going to have any slight movement towards a more libertarian society in our lifetimes Or maybe 10 lifetimes in other words, you can get a group of a million or 2 million libertarian-ish people together You can't get 320 million Libertarian-ish people together not in this in this current social political economic rubric That that we're suffering under so You know, I'm really tired of airy fairy third way tech addled libertarianism Um, I think the way forward Is for us to be good neighbors to to love one another and to go our separate ways and that doesn't necessarily mean Geographically anymore, you know secession of some kind doesn't necessarily have to mean that you physically move We have a digital world now. There's no reason you can't have You know private Retirement insurance and your neighbor can opt in the social security in fedgov. There's no there's no technical Oh reason or no logistic reason that we all have to move And segregate physically to have to live under a different political structure But nonetheless, it may be at least in the short term favorable for people to start doing that and people are doing that People are moving with their feet and they're leaving blue states because no matter what they say And no matter how they vote they actually hate taxes and regulations when it affects them personally Um, and they hate overcrowding and they hate super expensive housing prices and all these things that government does So that's the way forward. It's not happy. It's not necessarily fun Um, it is a version Of the benedict option what rod drayer talks about Um, but not for catholics for libertarians and and it's it's it's the only it's the way we have to be thinking I think libertarians are guilty Of becoming universalists A globalist in the worst sense of the word not in in the sense that mises meant globalism, which is free trade Between countries because globalism real globalism tom is based on differences between countries not similarities Differences result in comparative advantage and specialization. Okay. That's what creates favorable trade But but universalist globalism That a lot of libertarians now promote. Well, it's our job to have Saudi Arabia become, you know l magazine It's it's just not going to work And I would submit that the impulse To to have universal universalism amongst libertarians is as bad as the impulse to have it amongst progressives Well, that's interesting. I'm glad to hear you say that. I've always just I don't know why I've always been a little creeped out by some libertarian efforts to You know bring certain books all over the world. I mean, you know, great books are great. I want people to read books But man, do we have a lot of work to do here where these ideas have You know, the soil is much more fertile for these ideas.  In far flung continents around the world for for goodness sake, what are we just so happy? And then I I can think of somebody who actually goes to these third world countries Or you know recently liberated communist countries or whatever and brings the copies of the u.s. Constitution This is a libertarian as if the u.s. Constitution has been such an obvious success That everybody should want to emulate that on the secession question I would have thought even a year ago That the idea that secession was one day inevitable was a joke. Of course, it's not I mean, we might like to talk about it because it's an interesting intellectual exercise, but The idea is so toxic in people's minds because of the propaganda they get in the government schools There's no way you'd be able to persuade enough of them to think about it But I just saw a poll the other day one in three californians favor secession And I think given how drastically different a lot of people in the country are Even the left's normal inclination to impose its its rule on everybody Might be overridden by their desire to be away from what they consider rednecks I think it's quite likely maybe not in my lifetime But within a hundred years it would shock me if the united states was still had the same territory And was the same political body that it is today. Well, I hope so because let's face it politics is just is a form of war It's it's war by other means and that's what we're having right now is war and and it's it's not as bad as real war I'm not trying to be Um, I'm not trying to use hyperbole here, but it is it is a form of warfare So here's what I always say to progressive which is you can have so much of what you want right here right now If you're just willing to accept this principle Of subsidiarity, why can't california vast it? I would venture that 70 of californians perhaps Would agree to some sort of single-payer centralized government healthcare system And tiny countries like norway and sweden managed to do this with just five six or eight million people So why not have california establish this at the state level and do it go forward? Prove us wrong if if government can centrally manage health care Let california Be the the laboratory the experiment that proves it at least in the u.s. Let them do it I'm all for this now. I understand that there are some good Libertarians in california who would be harmed by this and might have to consider leaving they'd say well Jeff, you know, what are you doing? But given the range of available choices before us. I would say that's fine Uh, let let california do that. Let let's start creating, you know Look at the second amendment.   They like to have them in cops and secret service people and and the army But they don't want anybody else having them okay, well let you know Isn't there a private property regime that could permit this? I mean how hard would it be to have You know huge groups of communities. Let's say The that what we think of as los angeles is actually dotted by many many smaller cities Um, it is there not some way with the under the california constitution To to allow those cities to on some level become privatized communities that that had some sort of covenant or some kind of document that you signed And say that as as a as a covenant Call it a giant hoa rule We're going to have no guns We're not going to have private firearms and you can be fined if you're caught with one or something like that Well, a lot of people again are going to say jeff I'm a california and I the second amendment Is you know supersedes any kind of agreement california could come up with and I want to have a gun I understand that I do but I mean wouldn't that be better wouldn't that be a way for the left to have their gun free zones? It just seems to me that we've reached a point where The obvious solution is staring us in the face, which is to ratchet this thing back Stop deciding everything in washington. You see stop having these almost unbelievable amounts of psychological Torment every four years at the thought of this binary winner takes all present coming in and ruining everyone's lives You know, it's it's it's an american system that no matter what everybody says not too many people believe in anymore That's the truth. That's the honest truth and we're seeing that that women's march That's the truth of it is they don't they don't see this vote as legitimate And they which means they don't see democracy as legitimate the electoral college or any of it And that doesn't matter who got three million more votes even if trump had won by 10 million Including the popular vote Do you think that would have changed anything in that march? Come on and and let's say hillary did get three million more votes I mean that's that's a little questionable. That's not necessarily a matter of fact, but let's say that's true And let's say the electoral college is what it is, which is an anti-democratic mechanism designed to To aid and assist in federalism Let's say that's bad and wrong. Okay. So in a country of 320 odd million people 3.2 million caught one in a hundred should tip the balance between You know agony and ecstasy psychologically for this, you know, deeply entrenched 45 percent on each side I mean come on it it can't go on and it's not it look it's If the eu can't stay together Boy, you got to wonder about us I'm looking right now at the text of the inaugural address. I didn't see it live But i'm looking at the text of it now and i've been reading Left libertarians all over the place saying that's the worst inaugural address ever So I thought wow, this must be just Appalling to an unbelievable degree. I mean there must be a huge exponent up there Compared to how unbelievably bad most inaugural addresses how messianic they are So gosh, what could this be? So I looked at it and yeah, okay, obviously it has trumpian nationalism in it. Well, duh You weren't expecting that so he's saying we that free trade has caused us problems and and we've been spending too much money overseas and We want to try and make america first And so it's really an america speech that We have our way of life and we're not going to impose it on on anybody And we understand that every nation has a right to pursue its own interests first and Okay, well, that's not the way I would speak But that's obviously not like the worst statement in the history of mankind. So I just i'm not getting this I understand the problems with trump the perils of trump But the idea that that was the worst speech in the world Shows first of all how tone deaf these people utterly tone deaf The point of the speech was not to lay out policy The point of the speech of an inaugural address is to set the tone Normally the tone is some banal boring piece of nothingness about hope and we'll all get together And of course, we're not going to all unite We don't agree with each other. So forget that so he didn't bother with any of that nonsense What he did say was the establishment that in other words the people seated right behind me The establishment has screwed you And I'm not going to take dictation from the establishment That was the tone and if all all you look at for At an inaugural address for is the tone and and I'm not looking for the substance when I get when I get that tone I say well If I compare it to other inaugural addresses It's vastly better. I mean, it's certainly better than any inaugural address fdr ever gave what do you mean fdr's inaugural addresses were better Than that. Are you kidding me? What is wrong with these people? That was a rhetorical question, but feel free to answer Well, did you watch it live or did you just read the transcript? No, I just read the transcript Yeah, I gotta tell you I watched it live I was a little shocked even for trump I mean, there was a Absolute lack of any conciliatory tone. None whatsoever. There wasn't an inch given There was there was no overture made towards the people sitting behind him on the stage which included some, you know Poor bob doll was back there with his wife way in the back and and Dan quail was there. We had you know, they the people they have to drag out for these things It's just absolutely hilarious like this somehow shows that we're all together But look when he says America first we expect the left to go ballistic We expect neocons to go ballistic But it's funny when some libertarians don't like that because what they're basically saying is that We agree with this impulse that that has a dark overtures and it does it I mean, jerald ford was a member of the america first committee They make it sound like it was some radical or renegade thing. It actually was From about after the civil war Up until really world war two, you know, the american foreign policy impulse, which was america first Let's not meddle too much in other people's affairs And of course one big war call it world war one world war two sort of changed all that psychologically for us So there's nothing nefarious about that You know, Walt disney supported america first, you know, frank Lloyd Wright supported america first sinclair lewis I mean, this is classic americana And if you're going to besmirch that then great you stand exposed for who you really are and i'm i'm glad you did it Unfortunately, most americans aren't educated enough to know anything about stuff like this And they think america first committee was nazis the america first committee went out of its way to make sure nazis were not involved Any historian of the subject knows this which means nobody writing about it today knows Yeah, it's true and the you know, what are you gonna say if you don't like america first and that makes it sound like Well, then who first right or what or what number do we assign to america on twitter? I was like what 28? Yeah, how about that?  I'm all for isolating the u.s. government You know, I don't want the american state involved In terms of trade or militarism overseas. Let's limit it. Let you know, it's not impose our misery on anywhere else So it's it's not isolationist america does just fine on the global stage in terms of Business and and travel and communications and trade and culture my god. We export our culture everywhere So you know isolationism is not the big danger Okay, I think the rest of the world has heard of google and ebay and tesla I don't think we have to worry about a blackout of what's happening in america anytime soon overseas what what we have to worry about is You know a An absolutely insane Resurrection of the cold war which hillary absolutely wanted and which a lot of people on the left Are so unhinged that they would prefer a new cold war to having trump in office If that was their choice, they hate trump's guts so much and trump voters so much i might add That they'd rather resurrect the cold war. Okay, here's what matters not having a cold war with russia a country that is shrinking It's it isn't its borders are being imposed upon every day as this population shrinks. Okay Not putting any boots on the ground in syria. In fact getting the hell out of syria Finding out a way to get the hell out of iraq and afghanistan Okay, and then we can start criticizing trump for oh, gee But there were provisions in the tpp that we're going to reduce some terrified percent somewhere or something We which we don't even know You know so let let's let's get to basis for the justin ramondo points this out The fact that he is the first one to actually challenge the post world war two Call it cold war call it neocon domination foreign policy is a huge thing and we shouldn't sleep on the on the fact that it's huge Uh, let's see. What else do I want to hit here now since then I mean there is some weird saber rattling going on with china And then I'm told now I don't know if this happened because I haven't had time to check But there was talk of moving and it may have already been done the or the process started moving the us embassy in israel To jerusalem, which is something that even george w bush didn't do Because it's a very controversial move because you're staking a position on a contested issue So on the other hand jeff it has to be acknowledged that there's that yeah, there's there's no question You know trump didn't win By alarming apac right he didn't win by saying that we're going to radically change Our tone and tenor with respect to israel. He's not jimmy carter part two so so there's no question about that he played to the israel lobby and and I heard shan spicer yesterday backtracking already on that jerusalem gambit I might add I think that is is actually fraught with the kind of complexity and ambiguity that donald trump is not known for handling too well So look So so far from what I've heard.  I haven't heard him say anything That that sounds like he's going to ratchet that back. So You know, I'm not sure anybody at this point can be elected president in the u.s Without being sufficiently Open to what the israeli lobby wants You know look what ran paul had to do he had to go genuflect at the wall Just to prove that he wasn't his father, you know that that he wasn't some crazy isolationist like his father This is the world we live in Yeah, I mean I I understand that and that was what people said about rand and that's what they say about everybody But when you're a guy whose whole claim was I'm not owned by anybody or anything because I'm a billionaire So I can chart my own course Just seems like an odd course to chart Yeah, he's he's a billionaire, but he's not as powerful as we might imagine and that you know, thankfully so I think in a lot of ways presidents are not as powerful as we imagine and I think his his adversaries are going to prove that Very sure and the other thing here that we're missing Is that Intelligence communities have been challenged before by presidents and very bad things have happened all around them as a result I recently finished. I think I've read it twice Truman's memoirs now. He didn't do a biography. He sat down with somebody and sort of talked about his memoirs and There's some some disagreement over what he actually said about his regrets in creating the CIA He's purportedly said and it's written in this book That well, you know, I didn't realize it would become this agency unto itself And originally it was taking these briefings from all these different military agencies in the state department And consolidating them and combining them into one briefing for the president And I thought that would be a good thing every day And I never realized what a monster I created and if I could do it over again, I wouldn't have done it That's sort of the one version of history Another version is that Truman himself later on said, well, that's not exactly what I said and that wasn't transcribed Completely correctly, but I'll tell you what I bet you about 15 presidents since him wish the hell he'd never created it because It's just unbelievable their reach that that what they can reach out and touch they can touch the media They can touch your family. They can touch an event across the globe that creates a ripple effect So I'll tell you what 90% of the intelligence people don't come and go with a new administration He better be very very careful if he's smart. Well, let's see. We've we've covered. Okay. Let's let's end with this then We've talked a bit about where libertarians fit into all this and I'm I am I know it's a legitimate concern that I could get so Hung up on wanting to smash the left because they're such enemies of civilization That maybe I'll be honest. Maybe I become blind to problems on the other side So How do you recommend I maintain my sanity and my proper balance? I mean, you hear I mean, you understand When you see these these crazy marches with signs that make no sense My favorite was the I've said this on the episode the other day the one the sign about As a woman, I just hope one day to have as many rights as a gun You idiot you realize all the restrictions placed on guns I mean, you'd be like a woman in Saudi Arabia if you had the rights of guns. What are you talking about?  By the way, that's my that's not my woman voice. That's my leftist voice I'm so deeply concerned that she supports groups that oppose women's health Oppose what does she support pro breast cancer groups? What what are you talking about? They can't just come out and say abortion They can't even talk Yeah, so, you know, you just it makes you crazy Well, I I think opposing the left is something that libertarians ought to be doing I don't think it puts you at risk of becoming a closet right winger.  We know what our ideology is. It's anti-state. It's pro-freedom It's very very simple and and we know the ethics behind it. We know the arguments about it. That's not What's it issue here? Nobody nobody's going to questions tom woods is ideology. What's it question is power and For all of our concerns about where the right is bad with militarism with with nation building You know, the left has all the power in this country and let's not kid ourselves Progressives run everything that trump election doesn't change that they control media They control k through 12. They control academia. They control corporate boardrooms in all the meaningful companies This is not even debatable. Okay, this is a progressive Progressive run country and and when I say run that doesn't mean they're the majority They have power wildly beyond their numbers I would venture that Maybe 20 percent of americans are really what we would call died in the wool Progressives who want to socialize things and you know kind of view the world as birdie or patty murray does But they have power wildly beyond that 20 percent if libertarians Had as much power per capita as progressives my god We why where's the libertarian million person march? On washington. Can you imagine? You know at the federal reserve at the eckles building? Uh, I I'd love to see that day But but look that your your instinct your impulse is right. The left is authoritarian The left is in charge. They had a hiccup. They had a roadblock with donald trump getting elected They don't control some state houses. I get it people don't don't accuse me of this But the in the long run they control things So what we have to do now is understand trump as a symptom of a pushback against this 100 years of progressive juggernaut Okay That's why there's a silver lining and we have to take that silver lining. Hopefully do something with it to say Hey, look, maybe You know, what's happening? Maybe europe europe's disintegration isn't inevitable Maybe they can go back to being healthy countries with healthy currencies. Maybe America's toxic politics isn't inevitable. Maybe we can go back to some slightly better version of federalism So no, I don't think you're crazy. I think you're right. I think that The the left in this country is right now It's worse than the right in the sense that not ideologically necessarily but in the sense that they've got the power You know, it's interesting. I when I I wanted to look up a couple things about the america first committee And what I found out interestingly is that because trump said america first Now There are websites like newsmax and daily caller Where now daily caller does have a variety of voices, but all the same It's not, you know, it's not tom woods dot com. You know, so To see those websites Defending the use of the america first slogan saying look at all these harmless people who were in the america first committee And they go on to list all these familiar people e e comings and all these people That wouldn't have happened under george w bush or barack obama Anybody mentioning america first would have been driven out of society But suddenly since these people want to curry favor, they're actually Despite themselves going to do some honest writing. So it's very that I thought that I thought that was very interesting to see Yeah, it is amazing. I don't think that they were Talking about america first when w was going into iraq, you know 15 years ago or whatever But look, it's it's a new world and we've got to seize the opportunities where we see them Well, unfortunately I'm just seeing that the us defense secretary has just reassured The his I guess british counterpart of the us's unshakable commitment to nato.  They're unreliable. They change all the time. You don't know which one you're going to get So You know, there's more evidence of that. Well, maybe we should we got to talk more see you were skeptical about this But I said jeff I think At least for my part I just need to talk this through with somebody and you were the perfect somebody to talk this through with I knew you would be so I appreciate uh, you taking the time to do this with me today. Thanks a lot. Okay Subscribe to mesas weekends via itunes you stitcher and soundcloud or listen on mesas.org and youtube You


what's that there is no fish or there is no fishing there ain't no fishing there ain't no fishing i'm about to say there's a few there's a few in there yo what's poppin people welcome back to another episode of kicking their bass tv we had a awesome weekend at the big daddy unlimited in nine line epic shoot we also had a meet-up you know on saturday you guys saw i was promoting that and i really appreciate everybody who came out to the meet-up and i it was really cool too because i'm pretty sure everybody that came we got to spend like a lot of time with and i really got to have a good conversation but we're going to roll a few clips from the meet-up in this weekend i hope you guys enjoy it let's get it i'm going to do something different today so i'm like we're going to go in walmart and buy some micro lures and go fish for bass bluegill crappie around in some ponds really whatever bites so we're going to hop in here and see what micro baits they got got my spinning combo i'm going to bring a baitcaster out there as well just to try to catch some fish but i want to get some little like crappie jig heads and some little baits because i have a pond that has some really big crappie in it i think that'd be a lot of fun but we'll catch some bass and you know bluegill everything really whatever bites but let's go ahead and get it in here and see what they got by the way if you guys are new to the channel hit that subscribe button share this video with a friend and comment down below hit the like button i really appreciate it it helps out the channel more than you guys know let's go ahead and get in the fishing section see what they got look at that bitsy minnow by striking look how small that this is the smallest little crankbait i've ever seen is there a comparison do they have a normal i mean uh oh there's another oh my god there's three look at this color walmart is so unorganized they got stuff everywhere look at this so we got three different colors there's only three of them but look at that color you see that like yellow on the back that looks fire dude so we're gonna go with this bitsy minnow by striking by the way if you guys want to get a discount on any of the striking baits i have the link in discount code description box down below i'd appreciate it if you guys use that it helps me out a lot if you guys are gonna buy some striking stuff i think we're gonna go with this too we're gonna get like some pre-made baby swim baits those are very small chartreuse and i think that could be pretty good it's gonna be cool today guys because we're gonna catch a little bit of everything i think we'll catch some bluegills some crappie and some bats we're gonna we're gonna catch them all so we got this we got the pre-made ones i want to get some jig heads and then get like maybe some little swim baits i think that's what we're gonna go with guys we're gonna go with a little crankbait one hardbait pre-made swim baits and then pre-made little jig heads i think that's gonna be the go today all right y'all time on the first bait we're gonna try out is just that little jig head with a curly tail pink little head on them that's gonna be the first bait we're gonna try out and then uh if we catch a few on this we'll probably switch up to one of those other ones and go from there there we go tied her home with a little uni knot dude that's gonna get munched i think we're gonna catch a bass on that and a crappie i don't know if a bluegill would get that in his mouth but we'll see i think it's i'm kind of excited for this i haven't done this in a while guys it's probably been like a year and a half so i'm excited to fish with some micro stuff today all right y'all we just made it to our first pond gonna be trying out this little micro bait we have it on the kick and the bass spinning combo if you guys want to check out any of the rods we have right hand baitcasters left hand baitcasters and also spinning combos on the website kickinthebass.com you can check it out down below you can also check out any of the merch as well um i'd really appreciate that but let's go ahead and get it started and see what we can catch not bad yeah the wind's blowing in right right to us it's a tiny jig head really not bad i mean that's a tiny jig head dude come on fishies get us started to something oh he just had me right when i said that he hit me again it might be a bluegill all right see if we can catch him yeah he's slamming right when i was saying that i'll try reeling it in really slow maybe there he is oh they're hitting it there's a bass nice that was awesome he's a tiny dude but that's so cool right on this little micro lure look at that not a big one man but that's sweet look look at it in his mouth that's awesome you see how light this bass is too man once that water starts to get colder i feel like these bass get really light oh no there he is first fish today it's a little tiny guy we gotta start somewhere thank you buddy appreciate you biting there he goes what's cool about that guys i uh that was my first cast of reeling it in i was like jigging it off the bottom like a little worm and then i was like you know what let's try to slowly reel it in and that's when we got that oh oh i just had another one oh my god i'm gonna stop talking let's just get to fishing but reeling it in might be the the trick right here at least for a bass like right there dude ham dude he's going take that off always put this in your pocket guys don't don't litter you got a little fresh one money dude just think yep you think that uh pink heads actually helping out with the bite good could be it might give him something to like hone in on i don't know they were hammering the curly tail is definitely helping out with the body oh yeah that a little tiny little bit of vibration it's just such a weird bite it's gonna slowly reel it yep here's baby bass baby baby nice little micro bass and the micro lua he ate that thing good oh largey mouth i'm waiting on one of these crappie to bite it i'm telling these crappie you're big out of your guys like a couple pounds we'll get them i really need to go in this other pond but they're cutting grass so it's a little loud but second little fish today nothing big something thank you bub he's hit me oh look at that yes oh baby it's so pretty too dude look at the colors on that bluegill what a freaking slanch oh i thought you were about to monster mike said that thing dude look at this brute what a beautiful bluegill right there bro look at that thing that's a slab that's what's so cool about these micro baits you know multi species videos today i hope you guys are enjoying it if you're enjoying it this far in please hit the like button because i'm having a good time man this is sweet to catch some toad bluegill now we just got to catch a crappie oh that's a pretty good slanch you talk about a slab bro look at that big as my hand wow pretty fish thank you buddy that was cool man that was pretty dope i did well when i hooked him i saw him flash in the water and i was like i see they're a small crappie or a bass and it ended up being just a brute bluegill the bass was literally a two inch bass oh this is so funny man oh oh did you see it it's a two inch bass kody they're literally two inches i gotta get one of these there's every cast over there like they're literally two to three inches max here we go you ready we're about to see the smallest bass ever ever hold on they're like on that bank dude they're this is the craziest thing by the time it hits the water they already got it here we go watch i got them i got them i got them smallest fish of every smallest bass i've ever caught bro look at that what would you say three inches look look at the lure look how big the lure looks in his mouth that is funny dude wow what a lank what a stud what a stud bro that's crazy these things are born out the womb to be killers dude that's crazy thank you bub there he goes dude baby bass dude it blows your mind because we'll come out here with regular bass lures let's not let him release himself all right we come out here with regular bass lures and it might take us like hours to get a bite you put on something that's like this small they just munch it up if you guys end up doing this tag me on instagram i want to see you guys go out there but if you're having a problem catching fish downsize go out there try something new all right y'all we are retiring this guy i think we'll end up throwing them some more because we were catching them really good on it but i'm gonna cut them off right now and i'm actually gonna go out with the strike king bitzy minnow and give this guy a shot see if we can get a little reaction bite i'm never throwing a micro crankbait like this maybe once but not that i remember there we go that's a pond killer right there boy she's looking good there's a good bass come on now that was a two pounder how the small one bite that was a two pounder that was trying to eat me dude i was like he was going crazy on it but he's just gonna get it until now that's not him a smaller one still not a bad fish now they're turning up on this crankbait we just have to cover some water with it oh my gosh look at that all right buddy calm down i gotta catch your butt i gotta catch your friend look at that micro crankbait in his mouth man that's so cool so much fun man just doing some different stuff today guys having a good time with it well the crankbait got the biggest fish today which that's what i assumed and she an old strike king bit you know he's just the big ins right cody cody knows what did we catch our most big fish on this year strike king rage crawl old rage crawl then catches them i don't know about their little crappy baits and micro baits but i guess we're finding out right now it's actually pretty dope dude like i'm not gonna lie and i'm not just saying that because the strike king like me and cody have just been kind of laughing at it because it's just like it's so different you just got like this little crankbait going crazy in the water who needs pliers but there we go that's our best bass today and it was on that little strike king micro crank and there was another one that twirled on me that was about two pounds and let's see if i can catch them but pretty little fish had a little three incher on before him thank you baby appreciate you biting that was fun that bite was really cool let's see if i can get this other one tony i had a good one going crazy on it there's like a pipe right there and i was going across it banging banging off of it this is so funny what in the world that's so freaking cool dude why is this so much fun like actually i'm having like a blast right now like it's always hey guys today we're gonna go try to find some big fish not today i mean i don't get me wrong man what if i caught my pb on this thing i would be just don't bradley's caught a 10 pounder in here and i've hooked a few that were like eight to 10 pounds this is definitely not even eight to 10 ounces but that's probably an ounce if that that's so funny i want to see like a toad blue girl eat this oh that was a good fish that wasn't like a little twinkie hammered it he might eat it again here we go here we go oh look he's right below me what is going on that was the hardest hit you see the mud where he stirred it up dude just tank oh dude he's on it but yes that's a good one dude yes oh dude that's a good fish oh my gosh let's get it baby let's get it oh that's a nice one that's a two pounder dude that was sweet there might be another one with him look how big his head is oh it's all right dude it's not like it's a five pounder it's kind of a five pounder for today's video though you know he was going wild on that it took me three casts every cast I threw in there he was just slamming it that was a good fight though I hate we didn't get to land them and hold them up but that was cool dude they are cody they are like i've never seen up dude they like the way that they hit it man is not like a regular bass louis like i don't they just want to destroy it like he came after it with some speed dude that's what i'm saying you should feel the bites dude it's like i'm gonna get you to cast this thing just to feel how hard they slam it yeah i mean it's like crazy even like the little guys just slam slam yep you got one they are as soon as they hit the water they're just attacking it man this thing must have some flavor to it or something that's cool i really didn't think it was going to be a good bait until i got started getting on them and i'm like man well when we saw it in walmart we kind of joked about it remember we're like look at this little thing but that thing is getting the job done quick yeah you weren't lying man these things are just even for them being this small they're just smoking it hard that's cool it's kind of fun isn't it got both treble hooks i'm telling you y'all need to go try this man i agree tag isn't it it's kind of fun something different like for the people that are just been having a hard time you know catching them right now dude go do this man because they're going crazy there we go that is a brute oh my god man oh just eat it ah dude let's get it baby that's a good one please stay pinned that's a nice one right there biggest one today he's a little smaller than that one i lost let's go dude look at that that's so much fun man i can't believe how much fun i'm having with these micro baits that's a chunk man that's a nice fish maybe this is what we need to do man is start throwing micro baits because when the fishing's tough seriously man like gosh they're like going crazy over it i'd really like like to know if we came out with bass baits today what we would have caught i don't i really don't think we would have done is done is good what's that there is it there is no fish or there is no fishing there ain't no fishing there ain't no fishing yeah well to say there's a few there's a few in there yeah i'll get out of your way then that's no problem all right i'll catch you later


internal revenue service IRS tax news most taxpayers who request an extension to file their 2021 tax return must file by October 17th oh I must mustn't tie IRS well what what if I don't huh huh IRS what if I don't I see you'll hit me on the head repeatedly with the proverbial stick of penalties and dang jerks at the IRS they found my weakness you see ever since I was a young child I've had this strange eversion to being hit on the head repeatedly with a stick proverbial or otherwise cunningly played IRS your two steps ahead of me once again with that crafty move threatening with a stick a strategical move most likely learned from the brilliant historical tactician grug who once proclaimed you give me bearskin shirt off back or me thump you on stick with head or other way round head thump head with stick you win this round IRS you win this round freeze-dried meat is amazing it's amazing so nice it's really good it keeps forever in a little water actually does bring a steak back to life and it worked love brought him back to life proving that love is more powerful than dead no Phil the cow is still dead I mean the flavor was brought back to life I know I know Phil it's wrong to eat meat you said it's wrong to eat me is he crazy no just ignorant you see your crazy friend never heard of the food chain I see Phil as the furry the cow could have been your cousin just ask this scientifician he'll tell you that in nature one creature invariably eats another to survive but wait a second you're a furry ferret Phil how can a cow be your cousin now don't kid yourself Jimmy if I however got the chance he'd eat you and everyone you care about I mean what what is it are all animals cousins at this point cousin Andrew had dinner with us two months ago you have too many cousins COVID tax tip 2022-156 October 12 2022 time is running out the clock has gotten legs it ran right out the door hope it's not raining out there cuz rain's not good for clocks the October 17th filing extension deadline is just days away most taxpayers who requested an extension of time to file their 2021 tax return must filed by Monday to avoid the penalties for filing late so they gave you the consequences here that they were kind of missing in the title I kind of think in the title they should have at least included an or else tax return must be filed by October 17th or else and you best clean your room or else there's something terrible will happen and now they've listed out the things that are going to happen which of course are the sticks of the penalties and the interest that can compile so this year the IRS received about 19 million requests for extension to file until October 17th and urges people to file electronically there's a link to that here extension filers who owe taxes should pay as much as possible to reduce interest and penalties note that those two things are basically different meaning you have kind of two things that could result in penalties and interest hitting you one would be that you filed on time the other being that you paid on time remember that when you're thinking about paying your taxes the IRS wants to be paid as or in the year generally as you earn the money so when in 2021 they would like to be paid as you are earning your money in 2021 in a perfect world when you file the tax return usually by April 15th of 2022 in this case but now extended to October 17th it should just be an information return in a perfect world if our tax code was not so complicated just saying hey look this is how much I owed you I'm recalculating how much I owe and I've already paid it either through withholdings from my paycheck or through estimated tax payments it's not a perfect world the tax code is really complex so we can't exactly pay exactly what we owe in the year that we earn it because of the progressive tax system and all the changes in the code and so on so what we try to do is overshoot a little bit for the taxes so that we can get a refund not because we just simply want to refund but because we want to avoid getting hit with sticks of penalties and interest that's that's the general process so oftentimes when you don't file by April it's because you don't have the information to file and you might think well how in the world can I pay the proper amount of tax if I don't have the information to file my tax return which tells me how much tax I owe that is a problem but you still need to give some kind of estimate why because you're trying to avoid getting hit with sticks of penalties and interest so you try to you try that so that's the goal so so those who have not yet filed the 2021 tax return owe tax and did not request an extension can generally avoid additional penalties and interest by filing the return and paying any tax that owed as soon as possible some groups have additional time to file so you might have even more time possibly if you're in one of these groups people who have an extension and are in or affected by a federally declared disaster area may be allowed more time to file so if you're got hit by a hurricane and you're floating out in the ocean on an iceberg and your whole house is under under the iceberg or something like that the iris is gracious enough to extend the filing deadline you still have to pay on time pretty much because you know but the filing deadline generally may they may push that out a bit so special deadline exceptions may apply for certain military service members and eligible support personnel in combat zones so if you're in the military serve in your country that's good but you got it looks like you got to actually be basically under file fire you know death on the line and in that case again iris gracious enough possibly to extend the filing deadline you know a little bit so several resources are available for service members and their families who may be eligible for these exceptions here are a few resources on irs.gov to help last-minute filers you got irs free file these are the third-party service providers the tax software providers that provide provide software for free if your income is below a certain threshold the iris somehow has kind of strangled these people into into offering their products for free if your income or if you meet certain requirements according to the software requirements but I don't think they can keep strangle holding them after the filing deadline or the extension so you really want to use software if you're not using a tax professional and if you're if you're working with a tax professional to help you prepare your taxes they're going to be using software so software is something that's quite helpful even on the low income side of things it used to be you'd say well if it's an easy tax return I remember like it you I used to be able to basically call in my taxes fill out like a postcard type form and call in my taxes over the phone I believe it you know at one point but even low income filers can't really do that as easily these days because there's the low income area is where a lot of the changes in the tax codes has happened so the tax code is not the same from year to year especially with the credits the refundable tax credits the earned income tax credit the child tax credit the prepayments and so on the health insurance you know kind of capacity possibly for credits so that means that you really want software to help you out with it so if you haven't filed that's another reason to file you want to make sure that you don't lose the capacity to get access to the software or else you'll have to pay for the software or do some other method available so it's available through October 17th IRS e-file is easy safe and the most accurate way to file taxes I'm not sure about all that but it's sure the way the IRS is pushing things so that's the way you're probably gonna have to go at some point in any case so here we go so there are eight free file products available in English and two in Spanish filing electronically can also help taxpayers determine their earned income tax credit child and dependent care credit and recovery rebate so those are big credits that are available particularly to lower income individuals making the tax returns a bit more complex there's links to all those credits here online payment there's a link to that here taxpayers can pay online using IRS direct pay there's a link to that at no cost or use a debit card credit card or digital wallet which may be subject to a payment processing fee if they're filing through tax software or a tax preparer taxpayers can schedule a payment when filing a taxpayers if taxpayers have a balance or are unable to pay it they should apply for a payment plan note if you can't pay your taxes and there's a lot of people that probably had really unusual circumstances in the last couple years here so you might be in a situation where I've always been able to do my taxes and then this year I can't pay the taxes possibly for some reason what you don't want to do is just avoid it completely because what will happen then is usually just nothing at the start but then the IRS will accumulate penalties and interest in some time down the road you're gonna be hit with this giant bill because of the accumulation of penalties and interest over time so what you want to do is file the tax return reduce the penalties and interest which you could do basically yourself even if you can't pay the tax generally and then set up a payment plan with the IRS which again you could do basically yourself online you don't have to you know you can research the whole process and then and that will reduce the amounts of penalties and interest that you're gonna oh so don't just avoid it that's the worst thing to do because just the way the IRS structure is now that that's always the worst thing to do in situation but this is in this case bad thing to do because you'll just accumulate penalties and interest over time set up the payment plan file the tax return the IRS has more information for taxpayers who can't afford to pay the taxes they owe there's a link to that here online account so there's a link to that so you can you can check out what's going on with your taxes online and set up your account becoming more and more important that is I believe individual taxpayers can log into their online account to view key information from their most recent tax return such as their adjusted gross income and their income impact payment amounts which may which may help in preparing and filing their return they can also view the amount they owe payment history including estimated tax payments their payment plan details and options digital copies of certain notices their address on file and authorization requests from tax professionals more information's at the links below you got the topic number one five three what to do if you haven't filed your tax return and you got the interactive tax assistant there's links to that there's links to the other stuff I said there was links to and there'll be a link to this in the description


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