Episode 2789 CWSA 03⧸25⧸25
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Drones are back in the news, and I m not talking about hobbyist drones, I m talking about possibly alien drones or possibly an advanced civilization that s always lived beneath the sea or possibly a foreign power that has technology that we can t even understand.
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Drones are back in the news, and I'm not talking about your hobbyist drone.
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I'm talking about your possibly alien drones or possibly an advanced civilization that's
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always lived beneath the sea or possibly a foreign power that has technology that we can't even
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So according to The Hill, there was some interviews with 60 Minutes earlier this month, and key
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military assets were, let's say, visited by drones that could not be explained.
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And some people say, the Daily Mail says they're coming from the ocean, maybe, but they don't
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And some people say there's a gigantic underwater, like, mothership where all the drones are coming
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And sometimes they're buzzing around our military facilities, and sometimes they're buzzing around
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And they don't make any noise when they fly over.
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Is it possible to create a hologram without people seeing where the sources of the light
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Could you create a pretend UFO that looked like really just some light in the sky, an
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orb, and then make it look like it was, you know, defying the rules of physics because
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it's just a hologram, so it doesn't have any, you know, gravity?
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And could you make your adversaries think that there were dozens of advanced aliens flying
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over your facility so they would attack the wrong thing?
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It could be some country that's better at technology than we are.
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But a silent giant craft, and they always have lights?
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Why would they have lights if they're doing nefarious things, and the only way they can be
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It seems like that would be the most optional thing you could put on a drone.
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Well, so I'm not buying anything about the drones.
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I think it's far more likely to be mass hysteria, people lying, people imagining, people dreaming.
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I'm just not a believer that there's any kind of advanced alien drone situation going on.
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Well, according to Zero Hedge, not only are your eggs half as expensive as they used to be,
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thanks to the Trump administration finding new sources of eggs in Turkey and some other places.
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Now, some of you get annoyed at the fake hate crimes where somebody makes an accusation.
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In this case, a Pennsylvania city worker has been accused of staging her own hate crime hoax
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by putting a noose on her own desk and then claiming it was somebody else.
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But every time I see that the supply of racism is so low that you have to make some up just
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So the entire country, apparently nobody was doing anything like that because the only story
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If you think of all the history of racism and all the bad things that people have done
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in every direction, it's pretty good that you have to fake one to get even a national
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Well, Hunter Biden's ex-business partner apparently met with Trump at the NCAA wrestling event and
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Now, does that mean that maybe Devin Archer is going to spill the real goods?
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Because he said something that I hadn't heard before.
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He said that Joe Biden would close deals by phone.
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And he had a little thing that he used to say, which is, if you do something for me, you're my friend.
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But if you do something for my son, you're my friend forever.
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But if you do something for my son, you're my friend forever.
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Do you think that the Trump administration is maybe secretly doing an investigation into
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Because I'd be surprised if they're not, you know, given what Devin Archer knows and what
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I'm not real enthusiastic about lawfaring the last president, because it feels like everybody
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But on the other hand, oh, my goodness, was the Biden crime family corrupt.
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You want me to talk about the big story about the Signal app and the messages that were going
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There was a group chat in which the important people in our government, from Pete Exeth to
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J.D. Vance, Mike Waltz, I think Rubio was on there and some others, they were chatting
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And somehow, we don't know the details, a journalist, Jeffrey Goldberg, was added to the Signal group.
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Now, if you heard this, if somebody said to you, they accidentally added Jeffrey Goldberg,
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Because if you follow the news at all, you would know that Jeffrey Goldberg is famous as being one
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He is the least credible person in the entire business.
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There's probably nobody who's more famous for a hoaxing as opposed to telling the truth.
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So if you want, you can go Google Jeffrey Goldberg and what hoaxes he's back, but they're the
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He writes for The Atlantic, which is barely a publication.
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It's really just narratives that are bad for Republicans.
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So what are the odds of all the people in the world, of all the people in the world,
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he would be the number one worst one that you could accidentally expose to your conversations?
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There's a big question about whether there were war plans discussed or whether there were
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things that were kind of close to or adjacent to war plans, but, you know, very short of
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I think the war plan was, should we bomb these hooties?
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But it's not a war plan like most people would think of it, you know, with detailed assets
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Although, I think there were some assets mentioned.
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My first impression that I posted on Axe was that it might be true, because anything's possible,
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As far as I know, and this is my working assumption at the moment, it is real.
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So, my current belief is that it is real, and that's based on the fact that there's
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There's a weak confirmation from somebody who I'd never heard of, who's a spokesperson for
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something in the government, who said, it appears to be real, appears to be, that they sent the
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spokesperson out without knowing if it were real.
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All you'd have to do is ask any one of the people who were on it, were you really talking
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And then I was looking at one of the screenshots of what allegedly they were talking about.
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And, of course, we don't see the whole conversation.
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Jeffrey Goldberg wants you to know that, oh, the stuff he's not showing us is the bad stuff.
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The most famous hoaxer and liar in the media landscape says the stuff that he can't show
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Now, every part of this sounds sketchy, doesn't it?
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I'm going to tell you what tells there were for it being fake, which apparently didn't
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work because the tells for fake news are not guarantees.
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So, the first thing I noticed was one of them used a semicolon.
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When was the last time you used a semicolon in a text message, whether it's WhatsApp or
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Now, I know how to use a semicolon because I'm a professional writer, so it's one of those
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But if you ask me when was the last time I put a semicolon in a text message, I would
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So, as soon as I saw that semicolon, I said to myself, I don't know.
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But then I remembered that a lot of the people on there are Ivy Leaguers.
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Then I said to myself, all right, all right, maybe.
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You know, your Harvard guys, they might toss in a little semicolon in there.
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But let me tell you the rule that should have indicated this was fake.
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And I've described this before, but this is a perfect application.
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The Scott Alexander rule is that when you hear a story and your first reaction is, oh,
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Your first reaction is, I can't believe that happened.
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You know, this is the 1 where, you know, 20 to 1, but the 1 is going to happen now and then.
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But it violated the Scott Alexander rule that when you hear something that's just
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Now, the fantastical part is not that they were using the signal.
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The fantastical part is that of all the people in the world, of all the people in the whole
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world, it was Jeffrey Goldberg who got included in it by accident.
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Now, I can say from my own use of apps that doing something dumb like including the wrong person,
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You know, accidentally adding the wrong person, pretty normal, especially if you're busy.
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How many of you were surprised that people this sophisticated, you know, J.D. Vance and
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Hegseth, et cetera, that the people really know security, they know what exactly is confidential
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How surprised are you that they would be using a commercial app and that they would think
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There's something important they're leaving out.
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How many of you assumed, because the news didn't say one way or the other, how many of you assumed
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that the government has a secure way of communicating so that they had an alternative?
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And do you remember her excuse for why she had her own email?
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Now, we think maybe she was doing some things that she didn't want the rest of the government
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But the base reason for why they wanted their own email is that the government email was
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Now, we've been watching Doge go into one department after another and finding out that the systems
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What do you think is this alleged secure system for the government?
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Is it specific hard-lined or hardwired phones that are in some rooms but not other ones?
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Is it something they can do on their cell phone if they had the right setup on their cell phone?
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I don't think there's such a thing as a secure cell phone conversation.
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Do you think that the government has a highly secure group chat function?
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So the reason they were using Signal and the reason it was already preloaded on their phones,
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because these are government phones, it was already preloaded on the phone.
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There's only one reason, because the government systems don't work.
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The only way that you can have a secure conversation is to be in the same room and go up to somebody's
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Now, I do believe if the president of the United States wants to make one phone call to one person or maybe a few,
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and they also have access to these secure communications, that probably works, a phone call.
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But how much work can a dozen people get done on a phone call,
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especially when they're all busy and they're running from one place to another and they're doing this or that?
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Does the government provide a group chat that is secure?
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So they had this thing, this Hootie attack, and they wanted to be extra sure they were on the same page.
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Do you think they were all going to go back to Washington, go into special little rooms,
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stop what they were doing, and wait for their special secured phone call,
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Or do you think that in the normal course of business, the, let's say, asynchronous chat is the best way to go?
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Because what I imagine is that these people are working all the time.
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You know, there's no such thing as private time if you're at that level of government.
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I can imagine, you know, this is just my imagination, that it might have been off hours.
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It could have been you're having dinner with the kids.
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Once the messages are coming in, you're like, okay, here's my input.
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Somebody else is commuting, and they're on some kind of a vehicle, and they're like, okay, this is that.
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Somebody else is in a meeting, and they can't answer for half an hour.
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And when I mocked the government systems on X today, you know, I mentioned that one of the things that Doge has taught us,
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that the government systems are completely useless.
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Certainly not up to any kind of modern communication standard with or without security.
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And by the way, how do you know that the most secure part of our communication systems are actually secure?
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It would be the one thing that the bad guys would try hardest to penetrate.
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Do you think they couldn't bribe somebody who could?
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I don't think there's any such thing as a completely secure anything, except maybe standing in a skiff.
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So the Scott Alexander rule fooled me on this one.
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And then PXF was asked about it, and he did the worst job of lying I've ever seen, trying to change the subject.
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And boy, did he look like he was about to get fired.
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I wouldn't be surprised if something bad happened to some of them, but I think Trump would like to keep his team together.
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But then the real question the news is going to be talking about today is, is it war plans or was it just talking?
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And then Jeffrey Goldberg will say, oh, I've seen it.
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Nobody else can see it because it's bad enough that I saw it.
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So I'm going to save the country by not showing you.
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I'll just tell you it's the worst thing that could have ever happened.
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So what I'm adding to the conversation is that you can't tell every time when something hits all the markers for being fake.
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Every now and then one of those will be real, 20 to one, but every once in a while.
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And the other thing you need to know is that the government systems couldn't possibly have done what Signal did for them, which is quickly make sure they're on the same page.
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And it looked like it might have been important to make sure they're on the same page.
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So I don't think the news will ever cover the fact that there wasn't an alternative.
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I mean, without driving to the same building for every time they wanted to talk about something.
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And there's a reason it was preloaded on the phones.
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Obviously, everybody in that level of government must have been aware, both administrations, and really all the administrations, at least through Clinton, that the government systems just don't work.
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So you're sort of on your own to get anything done.
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And then Trump avoided the question by acting like he's just heard it.
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So, and then, anyway, so there's something sketchy about the story, but the basic idea, it looks like it's true.
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The wife of the former U.S. attorney, Matthew Graves.
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Who led the prosecution of 1,500 January Sixers.
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His wife is on the board of Indivisible, which allegedly is a Soros-backed group that is behind the Tesla protests.
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So, unbelievably, the guy who prosecuted the January Sixers by pretending that they were there for an insurrection, instead of the reality, which is they were there to stop one, or what they thought they were doing was stopping one.
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I'm using some hyperbole, but I think it's a fair characterization.
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Because if you're on a Soros-backed group that's backing the Tesla actions, that is terrorism.
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Now, did you know, and I didn't know this until I asked AI, did you know that if somebody is doing something that is meant to destroy the economic assets of a country, that's terrorism?
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Terrorism can include violence to economic assets.
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The anti-Tesla stuff has nothing to do with anything except violence against assets, economic assets, in this case, Musk's.
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So, yes, if you're an organizer of the anti-Tesla stuff, and you know that Tesla had nothing to do with anything that's Doge-related,
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it's just a separate company, employing 80,000 Americans, and you decided to take it down for political reasons, you're a terrorist.
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To me, I mean, that feels like a totally fair description.
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Anyway, so we know that our attorneys and the Department of Justice certainly has been corrupt for a long time.
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January 16th is one of the most corrupt things I've ever seen in my life.
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And by the way, if you ever get into a conversation with somebody who thinks January 6th was an insurrection,
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what you need to do is say, you know, where we differ is the starting assumption.
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My starting assumption is that the vast majority of people were there to stop an insurrection.
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And their intentions are everything that matters.
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Because if they were there to stop an insurrection, then we would still want to jail the people who got violent, probably.
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But the people who weren't violent were there to stop an insurrection.
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But the prosecutions were based on the assumption, which they have never tested.
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Have you ever seen anyone in the news put somebody on and say,
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Was your intention to install Trump despite knowing that the election was fair and that he lost?
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It's the most basic assumption of all the January 6th prosecutions.
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Because everything that the bad guys say about January 6th,
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they start with the wrong assumption that they were there as an insurrection.
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That is an unsupported and easily debunked assumption.
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All you'd have to do is ask any one of the nonviolent people who were there,
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You could ask any one of them and they would have the same answer.
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did anybody ask to see if there was anybody in the crowd who didn't like the racists,
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but they were there because they wanted to support the statues?
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I'm the only person in the world that I know of who asked that question.
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Were there any ordinary people who were not racists who were there for their own reasons?
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So when you see this gigantic assumptions being ignored by the news,
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he's got an undercover footage of this Treasury policy advisor.
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He says that 23andMe was sharing your DNA data with big pharma,
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including in other countries like Russia and maybe China.
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So your DNA data was being sold to adversaries.
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this is the specific person and there's specific data.
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So that you could see that there's this kind of person and this kind of person.
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but it's not as bad as if they knew exactly who you were.
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So you might want to go into that app and delete all of your data while it's
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still up because the company's going out of business.
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co-author of that abundance book was on the daily show and he was advising
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what you need is you got to get some short-term wins so that people can see
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And he gave some examples of long-term projects that didn't work out.
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California had a bunch of money for high-speed rail,
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And then Biden had this big expensive budget for building all these charging
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stations for electric vehicles and almost none of them got built.
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And then there was the broadband internet for rural communities and nothing got,
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those are Ezra Klein's examples of long-term projects that don't impress anybody
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It's that they must've been either vast incompetence or some kind of corruption
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He's got some long-term things such as the tariffs,
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but he's also got some short-term stuff like all of his executive orders and the
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So Trump is really good at doing both the short-term stuff.
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but also having some long-term stuff brewing such as,
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boosting the energy production in this country,
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It's not that he knows you should do some short-term stuff.
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if you think that the Democrats had never come up with the idea of doing
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that's probably the most obvious thing that anybody thinks about.
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you wouldn't ever think of the idea of doing something that in the short-term
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we'll never think of that idea of doing some short-term things that are really
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Charlie Kirk is reminding us that apparently there's such a population move from
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blue states to red states because the blue states are failing,
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that it's going to change the 2030 congressional reapportionment.
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California will lose population and we'll lose representatives because that's how it
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And this is a good time to check in on one of my wildest predictions.
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I like to make wild predictions that are just completely against the grain.
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And eventually my wild prediction in some cases become mainstream.
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the thing that kind of put me on the map was saying,
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And his persuasion game is so strong that it's going to change everything.
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I heard some show the other day where the Democrats were saying,
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I saw it in 2015 and I could see it clear as day.
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So they couldn't see what was coming because they didn't see that,
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So that was a incredibly non-standard prediction that now everybody thinks is
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So here was another one I made that there was only like a week or two ago
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So it's not going to feel like this was a long time,
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I said that it looks like the Democrats have no path to recover.
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That they might be just done as a political party at the federal level,
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Now that would be an extremely non-standard prediction because almost
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But if you notice that even Democrats are saying,
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it went from kind of a crazy sounding prediction that the Democrats actually
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They've created a structure that they can't come back from because they've got
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this identity politics cooking and they don't have any good candidates and
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Trump is doing amazing things that if it all works out,
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it's going to be tough to say that you shouldn't do more of that.
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And it seemed like every single thing was moving in the same direction and was
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at least in terms of presidential races and probably congressional.
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even Bill Maher is saying it doesn't look like they can come back in a generation.
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So it's already gone in just two weeks from the most crazy prediction.
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Democrats are done to looks like the Democrats are done.
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so I can't claim credit yet because that would,
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but look how quickly that went from a crazy idea to,
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an especially charismatic leader could just change everything.
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They just have to be able to pull together their,
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I guess the stock market partially had a nice boom yesterday because Trump had
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And they happen to be the ones we do the most trade with.
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So it gets you most of your benefits because the 15% of the countries are the
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those tariffs will be more focused to each country.
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we can negotiate with those countries and maybe the tariffs will stick.
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maybe we'll see more countries move or more money coming to this country.
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haven't we seen something like $3 trillion flow into the United States,
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it's because the U S looks like a good place to invest,
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but also they can avoid tariffs by making their stuff here.
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we're not going to be suckers and just be paying you money on tariffs for no
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crazy tariff idea has now almost completely morphed into common sense.
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It was only a few weeks ago that even Republicans were saying,
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And we don't know exactly what he's doing and he keeps changing his mind.
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because we're seeing these big companies come in with,
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we want to build it here so we can avoid the tariffs.
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He's proven his main point that he can cause businesses to move back to the
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or at least incomprehensible to common sense in just two weeks.
00:43:14.780
Cause I feel like that's what I'm watching in real time.
00:43:18.520
And I think the stock market responded because they saw it collapse into common
00:43:26.840
And I'm pretty sure it's such common sense that it will be the standard that
00:43:35.520
I think it's that commonsensical that it will never go back.
00:43:43.380
apparently he's also put secondary tariffs on Venezuela.
00:43:50.920
a secondary tariff means that he will tariff people who are doing business,
00:44:07.320
there's always going to be some illegal pirated business.
00:44:14.420
maybe some other countries will do some sketchy things and still get their
00:44:23.760
He's definitely using the full power of the United States economy where it's
00:44:34.460
says that Doge is now inside the department of health and human services.
00:44:39.860
And here's how bad it was inside the health and human services.
00:44:44.340
Now imagine being just the new head of health and human services and trying to
00:44:57.060
we've identified extraordinary waste in my department and HHS.
00:45:00.900
The expenditures and the budget of HHS during the Biden administration went up
00:45:07.860
The employees went up by 17% and health care went down.
00:45:39.280
imagine if he tried to do that while also trying to do his job as head of health and human
00:45:56.880
we're also very close to the point where we're going from these crazy conversations about
00:46:08.940
he's trying to steal your money to reduce his own taxes,
00:46:17.300
because how can you look at 40 comms department and 40 procurements and all that and say,
00:46:39.580
the responsibility of figuring out how to simplify and,
00:47:00.080
lower expenses and get rid of the fraud and corruption.
00:47:13.900
a tour of the things we know are completely corrupt in the United States.
00:47:30.180
which we learned was largely a CIA purse where they could do things like coup other countries.
00:47:39.200
But also it seemed to be this giant piggyback that was supporting up to 55,000 other NGOs and none of it had any audit function.
00:48:09.160
And now we're finding out that a lot of the government is run by outside contractors,
00:48:20.040
because they're smart and capable and they're working with government employees who are hiring them and the government employees are neither smart nor capable.
00:48:29.400
They sign deals with these giant consulting companies for,
00:48:43.220
Now you don't have to be an expert at management to know that if you're paying people outrageous amounts of money and it's based on the hours that they spend,
00:48:59.020
that the job will never be done so that they can continue charging you billions of dollars.
00:49:12.040
They always have a reason there should be more of them.
00:49:15.120
They keep finding things that are also broken and only they can fix until eventually the consultants are like this giant,
00:49:28.060
And it just starts strangling the government because they're highly capable and the government employees couldn't do it themselves.
00:49:36.920
And it's not their budget and nobody was checking.
00:49:46.880
I can tell my boss that I'm doing something if I give you a bunch of money.
00:49:50.860
So we'll just hire you and you can work by the hour.
00:50:00.780
It's just going to take them longer than they thought because they found extra problems.
00:50:04.680
They were finding that there were SBA loans to kids under 11 and,
00:50:16.920
We found out that there was plenty of social security fraud,
00:50:27.140
but the public was finding ways to rip off the social security,
00:50:34.520
probably ripping off everything that can be ripped off.
00:50:40.820
the judges that have been judging all Trump related things.
00:50:45.320
And even January six related things are not just conflicted,
00:50:49.500
but almost conflicted beyond the realm of believable that,
00:50:54.740
that they literally have spouses that are activists working on one side of the
00:51:06.920
now people are looking at every one of the judges and they just keep finding the
00:51:12.580
your daughter or your spouse are really active in politics.
00:51:32.220
We know that the Soros DAs and attorney generals are corrupt.
00:51:41.380
the FBI and the department of justice were corrupt and political.
00:51:49.300
we know that the Congress has so many liars that I can call some of them,
00:52:04.180
They're so corrupt that they just will say anything.
00:52:14.340
We know that the Pentagon lost trillions of dollars and,
00:52:21.320
and whatever it was that started that war in Ukraine looks pretty sketchy and
00:52:32.380
although the soldiers I'm sure are honorable and doing the best they can.
00:52:45.220
which should have been the watchdogs to all of this,
00:52:49.520
They're just mostly just organs of the Democrats.
00:52:59.780
So every large group in the government didn't seem to be tracking their
00:53:14.000
The FBI and the department of justice until recently,
00:53:24.180
I've got this rule that I've been saying for a long time.
00:53:28.580
That anytime you have a situation that involves a lot of money and there are a
00:53:34.220
number of people involved and there's a long time involved,
00:53:42.600
try to chip away and find out where they can take advantage of something until they
00:53:47.920
So every one of these government entities fall into that category.
00:53:54.420
There's a lot of money involved and there are a number of people involved.
00:54:07.880
And I don't think there's an exception to that.
00:54:15.360
there's some new ongoing negotiations with Russia over the Ukraine war.
00:54:23.160
the Russia officials and negotiating said that the talks have been useful,
00:54:43.920
So there does seem to be maybe some possibility of something good happening.
00:54:56.240
say that we were close to signing a minerals deal with Ukraine.
00:55:00.620
Because I'm very skeptical that that's going to happen.
00:55:15.120
because Ukraine will resist it one way or the other or other events will happen.
00:55:20.140
So I don't really think any of this looks like it's going to wrap up quickly.
00:55:32.200
maybe there's something that looks like an agreement of something we could try,
00:55:54.560
you might think it should happen really quickly.
00:56:09.340
the bad guys in the media are turning it into the only thing they have to talk
00:56:15.120
which does make me think that James Carville might've been pretty smart.
00:56:23.000
if you just simply sit there and shut up and wait,
00:56:27.560
stories will emerge because the media will find something to latch onto like this
00:56:34.060
And they can blow it in out of proportion and turn it into another hoax,
00:56:38.180
or they can exaggerate it from a little problem into a big one.
00:56:58.020
there's new resolution according to the daily wire wire.
00:57:07.420
He's got a resolution that charges the cartels are a clear and evident danger.
00:57:11.600
And it would give the military more leeway on what to do.
00:57:16.980
it would allow the full force of the American military to combat the drug
00:57:21.720
Now I thought we already had the ability to do that because we said they're
00:57:26.200
but apparently there's something else you can do.
00:57:34.280
When I found out my friend got a great deal on a wool coat from winners,
00:57:43.760
Like that woman over there with the designer jeans.
00:58:19.420
you will be more trusted if you have a better microphone.
00:58:23.360
So if you're doing anything remote or anything like in a podcast or anything like I'm doing
00:58:31.140
people will think you're smarter and more capable and more trustworthy.
00:58:43.520
I would have said yes without any study whatsoever.
00:58:50.060
One of the things I noticed back in my corporate days is that the people who became executives were not necessarily the most gifted leaders,
00:58:59.040
but they all had a certain kind of voice and the voice was almost like a radio voice.
00:59:17.600
They have nice hair and they have these unusually interesting voices.
00:59:35.680
And if the microphone is changing the sound of your voice,
00:59:56.840
It does seem like what we've learned about the government being corrupt from top to bottom is just shocking.
01:00:09.880
That I'll tell you what my biggest surprises were,
01:00:23.480
I didn't think it was possible that they couldn't account for their spending.
01:00:32.260
not being able to explain where trillions of dollars went.
01:00:38.460
I also would not have guessed that the government systems are closer to the 60s than 2025.
01:00:47.840
I would have said they're probably old and they need to be updated.
01:00:55.660
And I wouldn't have guessed that there was an entire secondary government structure set up.
01:01:00.700
You could argue that it was all under the sort of Obama umbrella,
01:01:06.080
because it was an extension of things that happened during his time in office and beyond.
01:01:17.080
and then Soros getting his DAs and doing all of his dirty tricks,
01:01:26.140
And it was a shadow government that Obama had apparently set up to run the country
01:01:35.260
And it looks like it was to enrich his friends, primarily.
01:01:40.740
Basically, they just figured out that the best way to get rich is ripping off the government.
01:01:47.040
And so Democrats seem to have created a criminal organization,
01:01:51.340
at least the people who were in the know and the people who were deeply into the NGOs and stuff.
01:01:58.440
It appears that they somewhat intentionally set up a mass criminal organization
01:02:04.620
to steal your tax money and put it in their pockets.
01:02:09.440
Because everything from the Ukraine war to USAID to the Pentagon spending,
01:02:15.280
it just all seems to have the same characteristic,
01:02:19.040
which is it doesn't look like it was even designed for the benefit of the public.
01:02:24.020
It looks like it was designed entirely as a criminal enterprise and functioned as one.
01:02:30.220
So I don't know if we'll ever be able to wrap our heads around that.
01:02:34.320
And then the biggest problem is that you have to get pretty deep into the weeds
01:02:39.400
to feel that you've got a sense for the big picture.
01:02:44.440
Because I don't think there's any Democrat who's seeing the same news that you and I are.
01:02:53.040
I think we're seeing news that is informing us,
01:02:57.100
you know, sort of the Mike Benz, Glenn Greenwald,
01:03:04.280
If you looked at the things that are coming out of Doge
01:03:09.200
and the Mike Benz stuff and the Glenn Greenwald stuff,
01:03:17.020
that is insanely different from what I imagined it was even,
01:03:36.060
And it could be that our experience with the pandemic
01:03:47.520
because it was too far out of what you would think would be normal.
01:03:50.860
You know, if something doesn't belong somewhere,
01:04:00.760
But wow, once you find out some of the claims are true,
01:04:10.820
how could you ever communicate that to Democrats?
01:04:19.400
who don't know that they belong to a criminal organization
01:04:27.360
But they are a part of a criminal organization.
01:04:33.440
And there's so many moving parts to it, though,
01:04:39.660
Like, anything you did would sound like such a weak description
01:04:46.880
you know, of your time doing nothing but, like,
01:04:59.260
And I don't know if there's any way to communicate it.
01:05:06.080
probably have the best approach I can think of,
01:05:15.280
Now, that doesn't get you to the criminal element of it,
01:05:21.200
because maybe you didn't want to give your money
01:05:30.720
that might not even turn out to be exactly true,
01:05:44.780
and then people remember one or two of the anecdotes
01:05:53.680
But I feel like there's probably a better narrative
01:05:57.040
or something that could capture all the badness,
01:06:16.060
the average person doesn't know what Chicago politics is.
01:06:19.540
You know, you're really into the top five percenters