Stephen K. Bannon and Ali Velshi break down the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and the fallout from it. They also talk about Elon Musk and why he's a total phony and why the Chinese Communist Party owns a lot of tech companies.
00:05:45.420Everybody in the intel business knows this.
00:05:46.900Everybody knows that Elon Musk is 100% owned by his paymasters in Beijing.
00:05:53.080And we're going to get into that and much more about what's happening with this collapse of big tech,
00:05:59.720the economic policies that drove it, what's going to happen, how it's going to impact you.
00:06:03.700First, I want to bring in Colonel Derek Harvey.
00:06:05.340Colonel Harvey, I should say the revered Colonel Derek Harvey, was chief of staff over for Devin Nunez.
00:06:12.860Cash Patel was the general counsel, and then Derek Harvey was over there with Devin Nunez.
00:06:19.560He also worked in the White House directly for President Trump and the National Security Council.
00:06:24.060He's one of the smartest guys that we have.
00:06:28.300I want to thank him for coming in here Saturday morning, disrupting his plans and obviously his family.
00:06:33.380Colonel Harvey, just a question for you.
00:06:35.900Is there any doubt in your mind, given that you've dedicated your life to the national security of your beloved country, the United States of America?
00:06:44.560Is there any doubt in your mind that the Chinese Communist Party is at war with the United States and her citizens, sir?
00:06:54.780There is no doubt in my mind that China's goal is to dominate the world.
00:07:00.880And to do that, they have to displace the United States.
00:07:07.540And they're going to do that because they're putting all their effort into an across-the-board approach, economically, militarily, scientifically, in the information realm and diplomatically, in ways that the United States is just not competing in the last 20 years.
00:07:33.980The magnificent magnum opus of the two Chinese colonel, one which is a major general today, written in the mid-'90s about the technology of the Gulf War, but really their battle plan, their blueprint called unrestricted warfare, which essentially says if you have to fight the foreign devils kinetically, we've kind of lost.
00:07:55.280We don't need to do that because there's other ways we do this.
00:07:58.620One of the big ways is technology and capital.
00:08:00.880Given your understanding of intelligence, of strategy, of spending your career doing this, is there any doubt in your mind that the Chinese Communist Party has totally not just infiltrated Silicon Valley, right, in the venture capital funds, right, in all these businesses, but are really an active partner, an active partner, not even a junior partner, an active co-partner with much of Silicon Valley and the financial infrastructure in Silicon Valley, sir?
00:08:33.780They have really worked really hard over the last number of years, 20 years or so, to not only invest in all the startups, but to leverage their financial clout on one hand and invest in the technology areas of the United States, but also to co-opt the venture capitalists and Wall Street to underwrite their efforts in research and R&D
00:09:03.780a whole range of the world, a whole range of tech areas, to enable their efforts to militarily and economically secure the leadership role in the world.
00:09:10.780And we've got our big tech folks, everybody from Bloomberg and others working with them, Ken Griffin, Tesla, with Elon Musk, GM, all of them are working to do that.
00:09:27.360And it's just undermining our efforts across the board.
00:09:31.740They are investing in the United States to gain access to technology and our secrets.
00:09:38.200It provides a great platform for them.
00:09:40.700And they are allowing sweetheart deals for U.S. financiers and business interests, Boeing, GM, et cetera.
00:09:50.820But every time they engage with us, they use their laws and their control to gain access to more and more of our technology and our secrets.
00:09:59.600You cannot enter into the Chinese market without giving up your technology.
00:10:04.180No matter how hard each company tries to protect it, they eventually give it up.
00:10:12.560Ray Dahlia, Steve Schwartzman, Larry Fink, Ken Griffin, three of the oligarchs, four of the oligarchs on Wall Street, four of the biggest, are up to their necks in investments in China and with the CCP and cross-border.
00:10:27.860Also, Elon Musk and Tesla is a wholly owned – let me repeat this, make sure Elon Musk understands quite straightforwardly what we know about him.
00:10:37.680He is a wholly owned subsidiary of the gangsters in Beijing and everybody in the intelligence business, everybody in the national security business, everybody in the financial business understands this.
00:10:51.740Is Sequoia Capital just essentially a front for the Chinese – one of the most powerful, if not the most powerful venture capital firm on Sand Hill Road in Palo Alto?
00:11:05.000Are they not essentially a front for Chinese Communist Party involvement into Silicon Valley, sir?
00:11:13.740We investigated Sequoia Capital at the U.S. – at the House Intelligence Committee, and we determined that it was our number one priority because of the way the Chinese government and Chinese interests – with Neil Shen working as a leadership partner of Sequoia Capital America.
00:11:36.880That partnership there between the Chinese government, Sequoia Capital China and Sequoia Capital United States was critical to China infiltrating across the board in the tech sector in Silicon Valley and then to draw in through Sequoia Capital Wall Street, big banks, other venture capitalists, and sweetheart deals to fund the efforts in China.
00:12:03.640And Chinese efforts to build their technology, to build their military, would not have succeeded as much as it has without the collaboration of American venture capitalists like Sequoia and Wall Street financiers, basically selling out America for short-term gains.
00:12:21.900Colonel Harvey, given the Chinese education system and just the way it's really about rote, the magnificence of the innovation and technology – cutting-edge technology that the United States of America is able to produce.
00:12:40.580Is there any chance that China could compete with us on a commercial basis, on a business basis, on a military basis unless they were deeply involved financially into Silicon Valley and essentially stealing our technology that the American pension funds and American finance, venture capital, American-backed private equity and the American citizens are actually paying for?
00:13:06.800Is there any chance that they could compete with us at any level unless they literally came in and stole that technology, sir?
00:13:14.780There's no chance that they could have gotten to where they are today.
00:13:19.680And going forward, they still depend upon access to our cutting-edge technology, our R&D, be it in universities or in Silicon Valley with our major tech companies.
00:13:32.280That's the critical element to them, and the minimum estimates for what they've been stealing in our intellectual property each year is about $300 billion or more.
00:13:41.020Some estimates as high as $400 or $500 billion.
00:13:46.140They would not have their stealth fighter, their newest stealth fighter that challenges America.
00:13:52.940They wouldn't have their aircraft carrier capabilities that they have without having access to installing the technology from the United States.
00:13:59.840In fact, our own government has subsidized research in China to include the Wuhan's laboratory center.
00:14:10.040Colonel Harvey, just hang on for one second.
00:14:12.120I really appreciate you taking time away from the family on a Saturday.
00:15:10.220This is what Silicon Valley Bank represents, and also this deal that was cut on Friday in Beijing, right?
00:15:16.080By our mortal enemies, the Chinese Communist Party, with the Mullahs and the Ayatollahs in Persia and Tehran, and, quote-unquote, our allies, quote-unquote, in Saudi Arabia.
00:15:26.080These are long-term output deals for their oil and gases.
00:15:31.160They're cutting long-term deals, and they're going to use the Chinese currency.
00:15:37.160They're not going to convert it into dollars.
00:15:38.800They're trying to destroy the U.S. dollars, the prime reserve currency, and in doing that, destroy the United States of America financially.
00:15:45.260Also, you've seen the geopolitics of getting sucked into the war in Ukraine as they prepare for a kinetic conflict in the South China Sea, the Straits of Taiwan, in an air and naval blockade, and maybe even an amphibious landing and takeover of Taiwan.
00:16:03.900They're at war with us and been at war with us for many, many years.
00:16:06.280Josh Rogan's book, Chaos Under Heaven, which is still the best book, he does the reported column in The Washington Post, still the best book ever done about President Trump and Xi and their fights, said that I was not part of the hardliner group.
00:16:25.120I was not part, obviously, of the accommodationist Wall Street group, that I headed up a group that was unique in American political history, particularly inside the government.
00:16:33.780It was called the Superhawks, because we questioned the legitimacy of the Chinese Communist Party to even be the government of the Chinese people, going back to 1949 and all the way through.
00:16:45.380They are simply the most murderous dictatorship in the history of the world, and the murderous dictatorship has all been on Lao Bajing, all been on the Chinese people.
00:16:54.940And now, because we're in the beginning stages of the kinetic part of the Third World War, and you're seeing the collapse of the neoliberal financial system all around you, it is time now to call out the traitors and to call out the people that are collaborationists, because we're not going to win this war until we start looking at reality.
00:17:17.680Colonel Harvey, Colonel Harvey, we just asked about the technology.
00:17:25.980There is no chance they could be anywhere on a business basis, a commercial basis, a military basis, any basis whatsoever, and it's not stealing the technology.
00:17:37.600We essentially give them the technology.
00:17:40.380The range is $300 billion to $600 billion per year.
00:17:43.420And many of the companies we're going to get to in a second absolutely do that.
00:17:49.900And let me ask you about Sequoia for a second.
00:17:52.960These investigations at House Intelligence and other committees that look at Sequoia Capital understand they're just a front for the Chinese Communist Party and other aspects of this, of the CCP's financing and deep into Silicon Valley in our industrial base,
00:18:11.600and military industrial base, these investigations are really thwarted, most of the time, by establishment Republicans or neocon Republicans that don't want to go there.
00:18:30.160Someone like Mike Turner, the current head of the House Intelligence Committee, shut down the China investigations that Devin Nunes had undertaken to include the investigation on Sequoia Capital but also other Wall Street firms.
00:18:44.380And also, as we began to branch out to understand how the Securities and Exchange Commission and other arms of our government were not actually doing their job to pursue what we thought to be criminal activities in the marketplace.
00:19:02.540And then you look at the leadership of McConnell and others.
00:19:07.500Every step of the way, they have blocked initiatives on the Senate side and on the House side, whether it's Representative McCaul on foreign affairs.
00:19:18.620We have been blocked every step of the way to really get after the core issues.
00:19:23.000They're fine with putting out, you know, developing a shiny, you know, object for us to look at, sound bites, media clips, you know, those things are where they're willing to go.
00:19:35.820But when it comes to really getting after the issues with hard investigations, with the subpoenas and the many depositions that you need to get at the truth, they're not willing to go there.
00:19:53.000And by the way, we pray that Mike Gallagher, the Marine, has the toughness and the fortitude to do this.
00:20:28.180Is it your belief as we stand today, and even given Matt Tabian, some of these heroes are coming forward, that the Twitter files have really amounted to that much or kind of, as Lisa stands right now, with the information he's let bleed out, is essentially the classic shiny toy diversion from the heart of the matter, sir?
00:20:49.160Well, it's great that we've got there because it gives us a roadmap to where we need to go.
00:20:55.220But the Webinization Committee under Jim Jordan needs to take those issues that are developed there and follow the trail into the FBI, follow the trail into DOJ, into DHS, into the Director of National Intelligence Office, CIA, and others that were trying to shape and censor, okay, real information.
00:21:21.600And unfortunately, the Webinization Committee is not staffed.
00:21:26.460They've not brought in 30, 40, 50 people.
00:21:30.160They have not even brought in five people to lead the investigations there.
00:21:34.160And until we get after it with serious work with the depositions and the subpoenas and then going after accountability with criminal referrals, we're not going to get work to where we need to go because we need to follow these leads into each of these agencies and to hold individuals and the institutions themselves accountable.
00:21:56.260And that hard work, I'm afraid, is not being resourced, staffed, or well-led at this point.
00:22:01.340The two financiers of the Twitter acquisition, and I know this because representatives of Elon Musk reached out to me to see if I knew any hedge fund guys or high-net-worth individuals that would be interested in participating in the financing, of which I said, not interested.
00:22:22.220The deal is a terrible deal, and nobody I would know would go in, and particularly the fact it's a terrible deal, and only the CCP will finance it.
00:22:30.480The CCP out of the Tesla joint venture, right, with his stock and his margin call, his margin loans and all that is the way he's able to do that.
00:22:38.100And his second partner is, wait for it, Sequoia Capital, a front for the Chinese Communist Party.
00:22:44.400Is Elon Musk, Tesla, and other companies – Elon Musk is the worst because he's a wholly-owned subsidiary of the CCP.
00:22:53.340But he's not alone in actually being an American corporation whose shareholders are principally American pension funds and the retirees, the MAGA, right,
00:23:02.940that has basically kowtowed to Beijing and let them have access.
00:23:08.000Elon Musk has let the CCP have all access to everything that every taxpayer, every underwritten, and the subsidies he had in the Obama administration.
00:23:16.960All of that has been transferred to the Chinese Communist Party.
00:23:19.780In addition, people shouldn't miss the fact there's no Twitter in China for Lao Baizheng.
00:23:25.260His paymasters in Beijing will not allow him to launch Twitter as a free speech platform.
00:23:36.280Am I correct in saying that he's a wholly-owned subsidiary?
00:23:38.800But there are other major American corporations that have essentially given the Chinese Communist Party all of their core technology, sir?
00:23:49.740Well, I don't think Elon Musk wants to be a wholly-owned entity by the Chinese.
00:23:55.840But that, unfortunately, is where he's at because they control his system, the production base, the technology, and they also financially control him through the financial machinations that have gone through to finance some of his other activities.
00:24:15.500But when we looked at it, if you look at Hollywood or others in the United States, China has bought into Smith's Field Foods, and they wholly own Smith's Field Foods and about 28 subsidiaries of Smith's Field Foods.
00:24:29.300The only person who's an American there is the front for them, you know, the president and the operating officer.
00:24:37.120But if you look into China, General Motors...
00:24:38.960But also, hold on, but also General Motors, Boeing, all the big Ford Motor, all of them.
00:24:44.620The who's who of American industry, sir.
00:25:13.100You know, these companies, you know, across the board are dependent upon China, and China has increasingly developed the leverage that they have sought over these companies.
00:25:22.680And when they get in there, the agreements that they have and the partnerships that they have and the board, the Chinese force Chinese people onto the boards and force these companies to share their technology.
00:26:35.820Colonel Harvey, thank you for taking time away from the family to do this.
00:26:38.800They're not talking about bailing out East Palestine, Ohio, but they're talking about bailing out your bettors in Silicon Valley with your money.
00:26:57.640I don't see that coalition coming together.
00:27:00.940I don't see Will Kahana, as much as he talks about economic patriotism, putting that coalition together to have a bailout of East Palestine, Ohio.
00:27:09.080See, you guys are going to replay 2008 and 2009 where, Louie Garment, you had a decision.
00:27:15.980Do we step in and have intervention and try to save this corrupt system by infusing it with taxpayer cash to bail out the elites?
00:27:24.260Or do we let the contagion spread and let the devil catch the hindmost?
00:27:28.480And the problem is when you're looking into the abyss, it's a very tough call for you guys to make because they're going to sit there and go, right now we're looking into an open pit.
00:27:35.820You have no idea how deep this could go, how the American financial system could collapse, how the international financial system could collapse.
00:27:42.900So you better vote to bail it out with taxpayer cash.
00:27:46.280You're going to take it from people making $45,000 a year to bail out the wealthiest people on earth, and they're going to put a gun to your head.
00:27:52.840And they're going to say, okay, if you vote no and let capitalism take its path, this contagion will spread.
00:28:20.920The government has about 48 hours to fix a soon-to-be irreversible mistake by allowing Silicon Valley Bank to fail without protecting all depositors.
00:28:31.640That's $169 billion of uninsured depositors, folks.
00:28:37.140The world has woken up to what an uninsured deposit is, an unsecured illiquid claim on a failed bank, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
00:29:32.140Elon Musk would come to the White House to beg me to get in to see Trump, and we would always say no, beg me to have all these subsidies for all of his – it's like the old Clinton Gore.
00:29:56.660What he doesn't want is dilution of his ownership.
00:30:01.060You basically – the subsidies protect their downside, and they keep unlimited upside.
00:30:06.800This is what's called the socialization of risk, and you're the sucker because the government continues to do this, and they're all in business.
00:30:14.480When they leave government, they all go to work on the boards.
00:30:18.320It's a corrupt, corrupt crony capitalism.
00:30:21.060I mean, Elon Musk – and by the way, when we cut him off, he went begging the CCP, and that's why they have the joint venture in Shanghai, the Tesla, which is 100% of his value, right?
00:30:33.980This guy lives on government contracts and taxpayer subsidies, okay?
00:30:38.180It's all – and we're going to get Joe Allen in here for a second.
00:30:40.880Elon Musk, once again, brother, I'm smart enough to tell you no to your face,
00:30:46.480and I'm evil enough to be able to expose you as a running dog for the greatest enemy this nation's ever had.
00:31:03.980All you are is a globalist, okay, a globalist.
00:31:07.120And you will go where everybody – anybody writes you a check, and you wouldn't – you would take it from Adolf Hitler himself because you're taking it from people that are as bad as Adolf Hitler.
00:31:17.440The murderous regime of the Chinese Communist Party, which you praised on their 100th anniversary – let me bring in Natalie Winters.
00:31:24.240Natalie, Elon Musk, he's been a fanboy of the CCP pretty intensely, has he not, ma'am?
00:31:30.280Well, I think you're letting him off easy by calling him a subsidiary of the Chinese Communist Party because I think that gives him too much power.
00:31:38.200I think a more apt comparison would be calling him a tributary state because that's exactly what you see from him.
00:31:45.060You know, it seems like every month or so he comes out with a comment effectively praising the Chinese Communist Party.
00:31:50.480Remember, he also really made waves when he said China rocks, and then he went on to disparage the United States and American workers, saying we were entitled and lazy.
00:32:00.840There's also have been a lot of reports about how he met with very high-level Chinese Communist Party diplomats, and he told them that he loved China and wanted to visit more, and they allegedly offered him citizenship, a green card, and he thought that that was a great idea.
00:32:16.140So this is someone who is not just deeply embedded in business with the Chinese Communist Party, but someone who makes it, I think, very clear publicly that he supports the regime.
00:32:27.120And it's no surprise because the regime, the Chinese Communist Party, has time and time and time again really given him special treatment.
00:32:35.340Obviously, Western companies have these sweetheart deals with the Chinese Communist Party to get access to the country.
00:32:40.680But I think Tesla and Elon Musk really represent a whole other level, and I don't just mean that because he received over $1.5 billion in funds from Chinese state-owned banks to help build that factory in Shanghai.
00:32:55.920But it was one of only a few hundred companies that was actually given authority by the Chinese Communist Party to reopen during the shutdowns that they implemented pretty draconianly throughout COVID-19.
00:33:09.200And again, you know, Tencent, which is a very important company that people should know about, it's not only been flagged by various United States federal government agencies, it's really operating as a tool of the Chinese Communist Party, but it really represents how China seeks to use technology to really expand their global hegemony, really to replace the United States in terms of the global world order.
00:33:34.540And Tencent has put, I believe it's $1.8 billion into Tesla in terms of stock.
00:33:42.940And again, it just goes to, I think, my primary point, which is that not only do the business ties that Elon Musk retains with the Chinese Communist Party really nullify his ability to act in any form of opposition to what the Chinese Communist Party wants,
00:33:59.760but it really goes a step beyond that because there really is a close relationship there that he publicly praises this country and he knows that the future of his business, Tesla, really lies in China.
00:34:11.340They make up about a quarter of the company's sales now, but China being the largest electric vehicle market in the world, he's not just going to bite the hand that feeds them,
00:34:20.940but I really think he knows better than to bite the hand that controls him too.
00:34:25.220So, Natalie, you've done more than any investigative reporter across the board, the great work you did with Rahim and National Pulse and now at War Room.
00:34:36.020Isn't this the emblematic of what our problem is in that you have a regime in Beijing that has made it its number one priority to take down the United States of America and her citizens and subjugate them?
00:34:47.840And you have at every level, right, our elites that are in business with them, affiliated with them, helping them promote their program and Elon Musk being one of the worst, if not the worst.
00:35:01.440But isn't it – what he's done is difference in degree because it's so intense and, like you said, even to the fact of, hey, give me a green card.
00:35:12.720But across the board was the tech elite.
00:35:16.280We've seen this in Silicon Valley Bank, which, you know, I said probably a third of the companies somehow have relationships or either owned by really the Chinese Communist Party.
00:35:23.840He said, hey, I think it's 50 percent.
00:35:25.080Isn't this emblematic of a deeper cancer that we have in this country that's metastasizing, ma'am?
00:35:32.420And the Chinese Communist Party is a very, very strategic investor, and they expect, obviously, a very high form of ROI on their investments.
00:35:40.260But I think where it really gets interesting and really, I think, dangerous in terms of threatening America's national security is what exactly does return on investment look like to the Chinese Communist Party?
00:35:51.540Because you're not just talking about monetary interests there.
00:35:55.160People have to understand that the Chinese Communist Party is and has been at war with the United States for decades.
00:36:01.300And the way that they go about doing this is not through boots-on-the-ground kinetic warfare.
00:36:11.880These are aspects and tactics of modern, you know, really 21st-century warfare that are enshrined within the code of the People's Liberation Army.
00:36:20.860And one of the primary ways that they go about doing this is, of course, economic warfare and really the idea of infiltration as opposed to invasion.
00:36:29.140And when they can have people like Elon Musk, right, the figureheads of these companies, really acting as sort of proxies of their interests, like I said, tributary states paying tribute to them,
00:36:39.580it's a very, very, very, very high ROI in a way that not only advances their financial interests, but really allows them to broaden their control over the United States politically, but really through certain vessels, right?
00:36:54.720Think of Elon Musk sort of as a Hunter Biden-type figure in the sense that the Chinese Communist Party has really selected him as sort of one of their golden children and plowed a ton, a ton, a ton of money into him.
00:37:08.580And like I said, they expect a very, very, very high ROI.
00:37:12.620The Chinese Communist Party is not a fool when it comes to who they identify.
00:37:16.340And on that, you know, you talk about Sequoia Capital, right?
00:37:20.540They put in about $800 million to back his purchase of Twitter.
00:37:26.700And Sequoia Capital is one of these companies that gets thrown around a lot and rightly so branded as sort of a proxy of the Chinese Communist Party.
00:37:35.080But this is a company who, among their investments, is, you know, the parent company of TikTok, ByteDance.
00:37:41.620They have DJI, which is a sanctioned drone maker because it collaborates with China's military.
00:37:47.220They also have Alibaba and Ant Financial, which are really the backbone of a lot of China's social credit score system.
00:37:55.020And, of course, the genomics firm BGI, which used COVID tests here.
00:37:59.240They tried to deploy it in the United States to gather genetic information on Americans.
00:38:03.620And that's who comprises the investments of Sequoia Capital.
00:38:07.560And it's no surprise because the figurehead of that company is an individual by the name of Neil Shen,
00:38:12.920who not only is obviously deeply tied to the Chinese Communist Party,
00:38:17.280but this is someone who used to serve on the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
00:38:21.820And I know that's a mouthful, but this is the oversight body of what's called the United Front Work Department,
00:38:26.960whose sole purpose is to basically identify Westerners and Western elites to compromise
00:38:32.520and to have pushed the policy lines and the agenda of the Chinese Communist Party.
00:38:37.460So when you give it the fact that his company gave Elon Musk $800 million to purchase Twitter,
00:38:42.660and you see the way that Elon Musk acts and refuses to let on actual harsh critics of the Chinese Communist Party
00:40:51.860Joe Allen's going to be in next in the war room.
00:40:54.160I really believe that you are helping deliver that exciting future for X and for others.
00:41:05.580I mean, I'm trying my hardest to do so.
00:41:07.640I love humanity, and I think that we should fight for a good future for humanity, and I think we should be optimistic about the future and fight to make that optimistic future happen.
00:41:17.500I'm very confident about Tesla's future in China.
00:41:23.020The Chinese economy, I think, is going to do extremely well over the next decade and will become the biggest economy in the world.
00:41:29.420And it's also committed to a sustainable energy future, and Tesla is doing both of those things.
00:41:36.580China, I think, long-term will be our biggest market, both where we make the most number of vehicles and where we have the most number of customers.
00:41:43.640Do you think there will be, basically, like, say, 2050 or whatever, like a robot in most homes is what there will be, and people will love them and count on them?
00:41:54.360Yeah, you'll have your sort of buddy robot, probably, yeah.
00:42:33.540The obsession with truth is why I studied physics, because physics attempts to understand the truth of the universe.
00:42:45.540And you see where things are going with virtual reality, and augmented reality, and if you extrapolate that out into the future, with any rate of progress at all, then eventually those games will be indistinguishable from reality.
00:43:01.880They'll be so realistic, you will not be able to tell the difference between that game and the reality as we know it.
00:43:07.340Well, how do we know that that didn't happen in the past, and that we're not in one of those games ourselves?
00:43:13.380Welcome back to maybe the not-so-smart-but-pure-evil of Stephen King, according to Elon Musk.
00:43:22.060Elon, just understand something, brother.
00:43:24.000We know more about your financial situation than you actually know yourself and how you are owned.
00:43:46.040I mean, it's been almost two years now that we've tried to drill into people's heads that the transhumanist ideology that Elon Musk is running on is over and above any of the sort of cultural elements and over and above any of the sort of political allegiances that he's forming.
00:44:04.140Breitbart famously said that politics are downstream of culture.
00:44:07.860I would say that culture is downstream of worldviews.
00:44:17.400And although he has never used the word transhumanist, much like Yuval Noah Harari, he undoubtedly is the transhumanist that Yuval Noah Harari describes.
00:44:27.620You know, there's been a lot of talk about AI.
00:44:30.920There's been a lot of talk about how, on the right and the left, how you have to adopt AI in order to compete going forward.
00:44:37.560Whether it's a chatbot or whether it's financial analysis or whether it's art generation or whether it's for warfare, the idea is that human beings have to have AI to compete.
00:44:47.980And Elon Musk, being someone who is very familiar with evolutionary theory, in fact, that seems to be one of his motivating principles, about two weeks ago tweeted, AI plus human versus AI plus human is the next phase.
00:45:05.440But the human part will decrease in relevance over time, except perhaps as will, like our limbic system is to our cortex.
00:45:15.240And what he means by that is that the next phase of human evolution will be cyborgs, the sort of cyborgs that he would like to see created using devices like Neuralink, and that no human being will be relevant in that milieu, in that environment, unless they are linked to AI.
00:45:34.200It will just be cyborg versus cyborg in the future.
00:45:37.900And maybe most importantly there, he talks about how human beings will be less relevant going forward, just as our limbic system or our mammalian brain is less relevant in comparison to our cortex.
00:45:51.600Like when you look at a dog as compared to a human, and we will be, in essence, in his worldview, dogs as compared to the cyborgs.
00:46:00.320That is the worldview driving him to create the culture that he's had an enormous impact on, right?
00:46:09.760And that culture then is bleeding over into politics.
00:46:12.740And you see all these conservative ink guys, you know, bending over backwards to ingratiate themselves to him because they're going to get a few extra likes on Twitter, I guess.
00:46:24.100For me, Steve, for him to call you smart and evil, he's a man obsessed with intelligence.
00:46:30.960So he knows intelligence when he sees it.
00:46:32.940But ultimately, in his worldview, that intelligence means nothing compared to artificial intelligence.
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