WarRoom Battleground EP 746: Media Propagandizes For MS13; Zuckerberg For PRISON
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Summary
Stephen K. Bannon responds to a question from a CBS anchor about the case of an illegal immigrant who was deported to El Salvador, but is now a citizen of the United States and is demanding that he be returned to his home country.
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Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people.
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I got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people.
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I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it.
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And where do people like that go to share the big lie?
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I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
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Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
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If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
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Let's hear the question from this very low-rated anchor at CBS.
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Do you plan to ask President McAle to help return the man who your administration says was mistakenly deported?
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The man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador?
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Well, let me ask, Pam, would you ask to answer that question?
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First and foremost, he was illegally in our country.
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And in 2019, two courts, an immigration court and an appellate immigration court,
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ruled that he was a member of MS-13 and he was illegally in our country.
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Right now, it was a paperwork, it was additional paperwork that needed to be done.
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That's up to El Salvador if they want to return him.
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The Supreme Court ruled, President, that if, as El Salvador wants to return him,
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this is international matters, foreign affairs,
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if they wanted to return him, we would facilitate it, meaning provide a plane.
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Because, you know, it's asked by CNN and they always ask it with a slant
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because they're totally slanting because they don't know what's happening.
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But would you answer that question also, please?
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So, as Pam mentioned, there's an illegal alien from El Salvador.
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So, with respect to you, he's a citizen of El Salvador.
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So, it's very arrogant even for American media to suggest that we would even tell El Salvador
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how to handle their own citizens as a starting point.
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As two immigration courts found that he was a member of MS-13,
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when President Trump declared MS-13 to be a foreign terrorist organization,
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that meant that he was no longer eligible under federal law,
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which I'm sure you know, you're very familiar with the INA,
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that he was no longer eligible for any form of immigration relief in the United States.
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which meant that under our law, he's not even allowed to be present in the United States
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and had to be returned because of the foreign terrorist designation.
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This issue was then, by a district court judge, completely inverted,
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and a district court judge tried to tell the administration
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that they had to kidnap a citizen of El Salvador and fly him back here.
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And the Supreme Court said the district court order was unlawful
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and its main components were reversed 9-0 unanimously,
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stating clearly that neither Secretary of State nor the President could be compelled by anybody
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to forcibly retrieve a citizen of El Salvador from El Salvador,
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who, again, is a member of MS-13, which, as I'm sure you understand,
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rapes little girls, murders women, murders children,
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is engaged in the most barbaric activities in the world,
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and I can promise you, if he was your neighbor, you would move right away.
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So, you don't plan to ask for anything to get him back?
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And what was the ruling in the Supreme Court, Steve?
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In our favor, against the district court ruling,
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to compel the foreign policy function of the United States.
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that if this individual at El Salvador's sole discretion
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No version of this legally ends up with him ever living here
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Your questions about it, per the court, can only be directed to him.
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It's Monday, April 14th, in the year of our Lord, 2025.
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Until then, you are stuck with me, but don't go anywhere.
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I am out on my own assignment, but so much going on.
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I guess I'm already feeling, shall we say, FOMO
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from that wonderful exchange in the Oval Office earlier today.
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And look, we don't like to cast or throw stones here in the war room,
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but I will say for some of my legacy media colleagues,
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though it pains me to have to describe them as such,
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if I were to just read a blank transcript of them,
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and they probably could have been read or written by a propagandist
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it probably means that you're not asking a very good question.
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I think Caitlin Collins is probably only a few days away
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out to probably virtually all of the press corps,
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because it seems that the only time that the word immigrant,
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immigration, refugee, or any Latin American country
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can cross their mouths or enter their vernacular,
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The only time she could say the word sovereignty
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was when she was down at the border once on the campaign in Tucson,
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But the only time that these sick, twisted people want to talk
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about immigration, legal, illegal, or otherwise,
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is in the confines of trying to get a gotcha moment
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The American people do not care about deporting
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or what the lived experience of some thug, violent gang member
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is after they've been deported from this country.
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and I really don't care if they were in the right seat
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and frankly, since President Trump descended down,
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what our discussion has to be about anything related
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the righteous indignation about what was happening
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of people who probably have more stuff in common
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We want to talk about how these deportation numbers,
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how we can stop subverting this country's culture
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that entered this country under Joe Biden, right?
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stuff is obviously i think what we would call a
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shiny toy a distraction sort of the culture war
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stuff that they think were were a cheap date we
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think it's a good sign that they didn't settle so
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first day is already underway probably concluded
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yeah and just just briefly on that point i mean
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there's a tension between facebook's leadership
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hasn't done that so i imagine they're getting a
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still want to keep all these people banned and i
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win goodwill on the right uh but to get to your
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years it started in the first trump administration
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under their efficacy it continued under the biden
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administration and uh it basically alleges that
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under u.s antitrust laws with its acquisition of whatsapp
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and instagram and the case is going to rest on whether
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its ownership of those two platforms which i would argue are
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the healthiest platforms for meta they're much more successful
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and have more growth than facebook itself uh whether it's
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acquisition of those constitutes anti-competitive
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behavior and if the court decides that it does constitute
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anti-competitive behavior that could you know be a huge
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a hugely consequential moment for the entire tech industry
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because meta would be forced to unwind those purchases
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and just walk us through you know if it were up to me
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and all these i'm a luddite i don't like any of these social
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but obviously they're here to stay and i guess they're uh trying to do
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the the maga conversion though i always say i've seen
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transgender operations more convincing than what they're trying to do
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um but what do you think a a realistic outcome like a pro maga
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could support uh what do you think that would look like
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well i mean you know my non-profit obviously focuses on online free speech
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and what i'd like to see meta do is unban all of those accounts that we talked about
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and um you know maybe even go go to go take steps towards unbanning some of the
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smaller accounts that have been banned over the years
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you know over spurious allegations of hate speech and misinformation
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probably hundreds of thousands if not millions fell into that
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uh you even go to uh places like brazil and there were hundreds of thousands of whatsapp users being banned
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at the behest of the uh of that country's uh very politicized pro-censorship judiciary
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so hopefully what meta learns from this episode and the backlash they've been receiving over the past two weeks
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is you can't you can't take like a halfway step towards ending censorship
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you have to be serious about it and you have to be at least on x's level which has set the standard in unbanning
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some of these major political voices that were censored over the last uh decade or so
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um the other the other thing that i think meta could do and other tech companies really is look for areas of alignment
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with the uh with the present political moment which i would argue is on the anti-censorship side of things
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i think the result of the presidential election was a vote against online censorship
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there's you know there's tension between the uh the so-called tech right and the maga right and questions like immigration
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but i think there's also alignment on matters like fighting censorship abroad for example in places like brazil
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and especially in europe with their digital services act which levies enormous fines on american companies
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uh you know for again spurious spurious so-called violations like misinformation and hate speech
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and you know if if you know if the tech right if tech companies who have a lot of resources
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would actually commit some of those resources to fighting those online censorship laws abroad
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and did it publicly and vocally you know at least you know if they spent a fraction
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of the amount that the chan zuckerberg initiative spent on progressive causes over the last few years
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and you know and you know you know ballot boxes in 2020 which were pivotal to biden's victory if
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they spent a fraction on that on fighting censorship in places like brazil and europe i think that would
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win them a lot of goodwill and it would show that they're serious about fighting censorship
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alam you guys do such wonderful work at the foundation for freedom online and everything that
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you've done your your whole canon of work i think has really been pivotal on this issue which is i
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think much bigger than than just big tech or platforms or social media it is about free speech
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itself where can people go to follow you and stay up to date with everything you're working on in
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the meantime oh well thank you natalie and it's uh you can find our reports on the uh at the
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foundation for freedom online.com where you detail deep dives on the censorship industrial complex and
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especially has been funded by u.s government agencies over the past half decade um you can find us
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there you can find me on x at alan bacari uh you can find our founder at mike bends and uh yeah we'll be
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putting out many reports going forward uh as we as we try to unravel this machine of censorship that
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was built up over the last few years try to uh put the contents of pandora's back box back inside it's
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never been done but uh we will try alan thank you so much for joining us thank you natalie
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and war and posse i will be very clear i think you guys know where where we stand on all of this but
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just to reiterate for the uh haters losers and legacy media that's watching mark zuckerberg belongs
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in prison maybe we should send him to el salvador i know president trump was talking about sending
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americans to prisons in el salvador i think that would be a great idea and look i'm not even saying
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because he stole the 2020 election or helped rig it because he did and i can go over chapter and verse
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the center for tech and civic life grants that went what was it 98 percent and upwards of that
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to democratic districts yet try to explain keeping your tax-exempt status for all that work or your
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collusion with the chinese communist party like the whistleblowers that you're actively trying to
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suppress so spare me your uh free speech performative activism on that front mr zuckerberg but i would just
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look at what happened on the southern border right all the wonderful activities this time not
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necessarily emanating out of the chan zuckerberg initiative but out of forward us one of the
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foremost lobbying organizations to essentially replace you your children and your grandchildren with
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immigrant labor well believe it or not they as we exclusively reported i think a few months ago
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have financed to the tunes of millions of dollars essentially every left-wing ngo those that aren't
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funded by act blue that are involved on the southern border from cradle to grave from start to finish the
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entirety of the illegal immigration process and i'm leaving out the whole h1b discussion though i will
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certainly have that anytime anywhere anyplace but in the case of the chan zuckerberg initiative if you
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remember the long what was it 40 tweet thread that i put out showing all these various ngos that
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zuckerberg himself the organization that he founded so spare me the stupid defense that they i think
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attacked the show for saying that oh well he doesn't control all the money he doesn't know where his money
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goes bro you founded the organization so you're all about masculinity then be a man and take some ownership
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and a real man wouldn't just send some half-ass two-page letter to the house judiciary committee
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saying oops i think i maybe stole the election but like i don't totally think i did sorry would go a long
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way not long enough to keep you out of prison per se but maybe that would be a good start but some
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of these ngos one of them was the border angels initiative the kino border initiative while those
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groups were involved with supplying water and food and resources to illegal aliens on their trek to the
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united states and then all of the catholic charities and their lutheran counterparts were funded you
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guessed it extensively by foreign us and groups like that to help facilitate every single instance every
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single section of the mass invasion of illegal immigration into this country groups that are
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actively opposing president trump's immigration agenda groups that are operating ice hotlines doxing
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ice agents trying to stop ice raids swearing that till their dying breath they'll oppose president
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trump's deportation raids those are groups that are funded directly directly by a group that mark zuckerberg founded
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and now this man has the nerve using all the money that he got from trying to destroy this country
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social media the negative impacts on children aside to buy what was a 25 million dollar house in dc so he
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could go grovel and try to kiss the ring of president trump so his stupid companies can somehow avoid being
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broken up you know it's the people like mark zuckerberg and jeff bezos they're weird space
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expeditions that are probably all just a tax write-off to begin with it's those people who i guess for so
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long they've been used to being prioritized by who's ever been elected whoever's been the president
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or i guess selected in the case of joe biden maybe that's why they had to rig it because they know
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for once president trump actually puts you first
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right the day that he launched those tariffs you know i know the ukraine aid was really so great for
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america's industrial base did you guys feel that yeah i don't i don't think so thank you scott
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pelly you're very convincing in your presentation but unfortunately the facts do not comport
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uh with your propaganda but that was the first day in a very long time in this country where the
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working class the people who mark zuckerberg thinks are dumb enough that if he just sends a stupid
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apology letter to house judiciary saying that i promise i won't rig elections and the center for tech
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and civic life well we're we're out of the political space yeah but all of my i guess fellow
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co-founders of facebook and all my silicon valley friends they're still going to be in it they'll just
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say they're like pseudo maga yeah okay president trump put you first and put you over him and i would
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strongly implore and encourage this administration to keep doing that when it comes to this whole meta
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case because for me and i think for a lot of people watching this show that the zuckerberg issue is a
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red line in the sand and like i'm telling you you know i live in dc you know i i know all the people
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all the influencers there is a massive massive effort going on at the hands of meta to try to
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direct dare i say smear the narrative about zuckerberg about his maga come up you know do a
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couple of rounds of jujitsu and now all of a sudden you're a real strong tough man apparently that's what's
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going to go over with the maga crowd now maybe just say you don't support open borders and that
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would go a little bit further but they are spending a bunch of cash to try to influence the influencers
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into not talking and not calling out mark zuckerberg for who he is now i think i have very clearly
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demonstrated that i despite their best efforts i'm not on their payroll but be very very clear-eyed
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about the people who shows you're watching this week frankly since a while back who are not talking
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about this issue or who are talking about it very euphemistically and very vaguely because i can
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guarantee you that those people are somehow caught up in some weird form of a meta lobbying campaign
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and meta influence orbit and speaking of influence orbits you guys know we've been really honing in on
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the people who are opposing the tariffs and a lot of these think tanks you saw over the weekend all
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the so-called experts emanating out of the brookings institution the center for american progress the
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center for security and international studies the atlantic council the carnegie endowment and then all of
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the so-called elite institutions the harvards of the world well unfortunately whatever you have to say
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on tariffs doesn't matter because you guys are nothing more than cheap made in china knockoffs of what
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academics and think tankers should be since you guys have taken so much cash that is the cash that
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you've reported since you purposely lobbied for the loopholes to make it so you don't have to disclose
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what foreign money you're taking but you guys couldn't even put america first if you wanted to
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and you know what i think the grand irony if not outright laugh and spit in your faces of this whole
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situation is that these same people these same think tanks the same elitist ruling class who believe
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me thinks and thinks they're better than you well the reason why we have to write continue supporting
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ukraine the united states of ukraine are that's our 51st state it's not canada the reason why we have
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to keep doing that is because we have to do that to keep china in check right yeah alienate russia into more
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of their sphere of influence to be china make that make sense you can't but that aside president
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trump does the one thing that this country has left in their toolkit their tool belt to take on
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the chinese communist party abandons the equity mindset of global politics where we have to negotiate
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as if we're some third-rate country like somalia where we have no leverage instead we actually show
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that muscle on on the world stage and say you know what china we're going to slap you with triple
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digit tariffs and i don't know about you but i've only heard what from these guys that the chinese
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communist party is an existential threat and that's why we have to keep funding ukraine right
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then president trump treats them like the existential threat that they are
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suddenly no one supports it it's quite interesting and it's quite telling right that it's all one big
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lie so get rid of your fact checking program meta there's a lot more when it comes to information
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warfare the fact checkers were 0.0001 of it mark zuckerberg i'm not buying it and i never will and
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this audience never will i know you might think you're really smart and that all we care about
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is masculinity dropping dei and getting rid of the fact checkers it's a nice start it's an opening bid
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but we're not going to buy it so i suggest that you get ready for your companies to be broken up and
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maggot will be there celebrating and applauding and maybe you should just sell your house while you're
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at it too get ready for your prison sentence because in a just world that's where you would be headed
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