The disappearance of Savannah Guthrie s mother, Nancy Guthrie, is the latest in a growing list of mysterious disappearances across the U.S. and around the world. What could be the connection between these disappearances and the Epstein scandal? And why are the people who are actually working with Jeffrey Epstein being overlooked in favor of a broad conspiracy theory about all of society?
00:00:00.000Well, folks, Steve Bannon has now been totally exposed in the Epstein files.
00:00:03.000We're going to get into what is actually in the Epstein files and why is it that the people who are like actual conspirators with Jeffrey Epstein, like people who are working closely with Jeffrey Epstein, are being overlooked in favor of a broad, broad conspiracy theory about all of society.
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00:00:56.000There is a palpable frustration out there in American politics, pretty clearly.
00:01:00.000It's rooted in some ugly and unpleasant realities.
00:01:03.000The reality that lots of our major institutions blew up their credibility on COVID-19 and BLM and RussiaGate, for example.
00:01:09.000The reality that we don't really have any idea how AI is going to reshape the job market.
00:01:14.000The reality that a ton of people in the political class have zero scruples and are totally willing to engage in open corruption.
00:01:20.000But that frustration is turning into something else before our eyes in this country, and that thing is nihilism.
00:01:26.000And that nihilism is rooted in a gigantic lie, a truly gigantic lie, that all of our problems in the United States are intractable.
00:01:33.000That individual problems that you may have or I may have in the United States, that's all the result of an evil system, often led by cohesive groups of conspiratorial elites, that you cannot succeed unless you pierce that supposed matrix.
00:01:46.000And that all of those who call for individual responsibility and dutiful decency, those people are actually part of this evil matrix.
00:01:53.000Now, this stuff is not solution making.
00:01:58.000It's a recipe for personal and national disaster.
00:02:01.000And the result is an increasingly incoherent and unhinged politics and an entire generation of young men and women who go looking for meaning in all the wrong places and on the very fringes sometimes turn to violence.
00:02:13.000There's a story in the Washington Post from a couple of days ago that highlights this by a guy named Peter Hariski.
00:02:18.000He writes, quote, Amid a wave of high-profile killings and political violence in the United States, investigators have been confounded regularly by the absence of a recognizable agenda.
00:02:27.000The assailants in several cases, shootings, a bombing, a planned drone attack, resisted familiar labels and categories.
00:02:32.000They weren't Democrat or Republican or Islamist militant or Antifa or white supremacist.
00:02:38.000In their manifestos, according to the Washington Post, these attackers declared their contempt for humanity and a desire to see the collapse of civilization.
00:02:46.000Law enforcement officers and federal prosecutors have begun to describe these attacks as a contemporary strain of nihilism, an online revival of a philosophical stance that arose in the 19th century to deny the existence of moral truths and meaning in the universe.
00:03:00.000Well, I mean, as the Washington Post suggests right there, that isn't actually anything new.
00:03:04.000Societies that experience major dislocations are often the breeding ground for nihilism and violence.
00:03:09.000That's been true going all the way back to Dostoevsky's notes from the underground, which he wrote in 1864.
00:03:14.000But actually, if you reread notes from the underground, Dostoevsky goes further.
00:03:18.000He says that nihilism doesn't just require social dislocations or economic problems, that nihilism can arise particularly in prosperous periods where everybody seems to be doing pretty well.
00:03:28.000So he writes, quote, I, for instance, would not be in the least surprised if all of a sudden, apropos of nothing, in the midst of general prosperity, a gentleman with an ignoble, or rather with a reactionary and ironical countenance were to arise and putting his arms akimbo, say to us all, I say, gentlemen, hadn't we better kick over the whole show and scatter rationalism to the winds simply to send these log rhythms to the devil and to enable us to live once more at our own sweet foolish will?
00:03:54.000That again, says Dostoevsky, would not matter, but what is annoying is that he would be sure to find followers, such as the nature of man, and all that for the most foolish reason, which one would think was hardly worth mentioning.
00:04:04.000That is, that man everywhere and all times, whoever he may be, has preferred to act as he chose and not in the least as his reason and advantage dictated.
00:04:11.000What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead.
00:04:16.000And choice, of course, the devil only knows what choice.
00:04:19.000In other words, convince people that they don't have any choices in life.
00:04:22.000And what you are likely to get is a nihilistic retreat into barbarism, specifically because people want to lash out at their supposed lack of choice.
00:04:31.000Now, you've heard me rail on this show, a lot of other places, against what I've called the conspiracy theory of society.
00:04:37.000That's the idea that everything in life is controlled by systems you can't quite identify and that your problems are solvable only through violence or through some sort of pseudo-revolution.
00:04:47.000Philosopher Karl Popper explained this again way back in the mid-20th century.
00:04:51.000He said, the conspiracy theory of society is the view that an explanation of a social phenomenon consists in the discovery of the men or groups who are interested in the occurrence of this phenomenon.
00:05:01.000Sometimes it's a hidden interest which has first to be revealed and who have planned and conspired to bring it about.
00:05:06.000The gods are abandoned, but their place is filled by powerful men or groups, sinister pressure groups whose wickedness is responsible for all the evils we suffer from, such as the learned elders of Zion or the monopolists or the capitalists or the imperialists.
00:05:18.000And Karl Popper was writing this in the mid-20th century.
00:05:23.000However, what we are experiencing right now in the United States is dangerous and stupid.
00:05:28.000Of course, there are conspiracies out there, but conspiracies generally have specific people involved and evidence of their involvement and a plan effectuated.
00:05:36.000The conspiracy theory of society, that everything in your life is out of your control, and that there is a group of manipulative elites who are getting together behind closed doors to figure out how to screw you.
00:06:06.000It is fomented by influencers and politicians who commit ideological arson so then they can pretend to be firefighters, people who manipulate their audiences into believing that their problems are unfixable unless they hand over more power and control to precisely those same influencers and politicians.
00:06:23.000After all, influencers can get really, really rich off the nihilism of crowds.
00:06:26.000Politicians can foment the change they seek by channeling nihilistic energy, at least temporarily, until they're eaten by the movement that they actually foster.
00:06:35.000I'm bringing all of this up to discuss what I think is the biggest news story of the day, the Jeffrey Epstein scandal and people we know were involved in it, because it shows the distinction between actual conspiracy and the conspiracy theory of society.
00:06:50.000I'm going to get to what the point of all of this is in just a minute because it ties into a really big thing in the news that I think most people are just sort of glossing over for convenient reasons.
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00:09:46.000In fact, he pled guilty in 2009 to state charges of soliciting prostitution from an underage girl.
00:09:52.000He was arrested again in 2019 on charges of sex trafficking of minors and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of minors.
00:09:58.000And so was Ghelane Maxwell, his longtime partner in crime.
00:10:02.000Now, we know that Jeffrey Epstein had longtime relationships with many rich and famous people.
00:10:06.000It appears, according to extensive in-depth reporting from the New York Times, that Epstein made his money through Grift.
00:10:12.000He scammed rich people into giving him money, and then he used association with those rich people to find other rich people to scam.
00:10:19.000Here's what the New York Times writes: quote, in his first two decades of business, we found that Epstein was less a financial genius than a prodigious manipulator and liar.
00:10:27.000Abundant conspiracy theories hold that Epstein worked for spy services or ran a lucrative blackmail operation, but we found a more prosaic explanation for how he built a fortune.
00:10:36.000A relentless scammer, he abused expense accounts, engineered inside deals, and demonstrated a remarkable knack for separating seemingly sophisticated investors and businessmen from their money.
00:10:45.000He started small, testing his tactics, seeing what he could get away with.
00:10:49.000His early successes laid the foundation for more ambitious ploys down the road.
00:10:52.000Again and again, he proved willing to operate on the edge of criminality and burn bridges in his pursuit of wealth and power.
00:10:58.000Wrung by wrung, says the New York Times, Epstein climbed a social and financial ladder, often using young women as a potent form of currency.
00:11:04.000His girlfriends, lovers, and even exes helped elevate his status inside a bank, got him hired to track down missing assets, and gained him entree to prestigious organizations.
00:11:14.000And says the New York Times, deliberately or not, some of them enabled him as he constructed a sex trafficking operation that would later ensnare hundreds of teenage girls and young women.
00:11:22.000Now, here has what has been alleged in the public square: that Epstein had a list of clients, like an actual list, famous and rich people to whom he trafficked underage girls.
00:11:32.000It has been alleged in the public square that he blackmailed those clients with pictures and videos of them with said underage girls.
00:11:38.000It has been alleged that he was working for foreign intelligence services online.
00:12:02.000According to ABC News, prosecution memos, case summaries, and other documents made public in the department's latest release of Epstein-related records show that FBI agents and federal prosecutors diligently pursued potential co-conspirators.
00:12:15.000Even seemingly outlandish and incomprehensible claims called into tip lines were examined, according to ABC News.
00:12:20.000The only person in this case who truly alleged sex trafficking to men beyond Jeffrey Epstein was Virginia Jufre, who was found by prosecutors to be non-credible.
00:12:29.000As ABC News reports, Jufrey acknowledged writing a partly fictionalized memoir of her time with Epstein containing descriptions of things that didn't take place.
00:12:36.000She had also offered shifting accounts in interviews with investigators, they wrote, and had engaged in a continuous stream of public interviews about her allegations, many of which have included sensationalized, if not demonstrably inaccurate, characterizations of her experiences.
00:12:49.000Those inaccuracies included false accounts of her interactions with the FBI, they said.
00:12:54.000Now, listen, maybe more will be uncovered.
00:13:08.000Ms. Maxwell, were you a close friend and confidant of Jeffrey Epstein?
00:13:14.000I would like to answer your question, but on the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer this question and any related questions.
00:13:25.000My habeas petition is pending in the Southern District of New York.
00:13:29.000I therefore invoke my right to silence under the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
00:13:47.000It involved Jeffrey Epstein working with rich and powerful people to make money for himself, to boost his friends in order to ingratiate himself to them as well.
00:13:55.000Some of this involves potentially serious criminal activity, which is why the prime minister of the UK, Kier Starmer, may now lose his job because he selected as his U.S. ambassador a man named Peter Mandelson, who allegedly forwarded classified information to Epstein years before.
00:14:09.000Much of it involved untoward emails and likely trafficking of overage women to other men.
00:14:14.000But that conspiracy, you know, the one that the evidence shows, ugly and hideous as it is, is not the one that's lighting up the internet and animating the political discourse.
00:14:22.000It is the big blown-up conspiracy theory, the conspiracy theory that involves everyone at all times, child trafficking to the most powerful people in the world, blackmail allegations on the basis of foreign intelligence services.
00:14:33.000That is the big conspiracy theory that's making the rounds.
00:14:36.000That presumably is why Representative Thomas Massey, for example, keeps talking about the men he's going to name who are allegedly involved in this sex trafficking ring.
00:14:44.000Here is Thomas Massey with Rokana grandstanding.
00:14:48.000But what I saw that bothered me were the names of at least six men that have been redacted that are likely incriminated by their inclusion in these files.
00:15:27.000He is not doing that for some reason that I cannot discern if he truly believes the allegations that he is making.
00:15:32.000Presumably, this is why the deputy AG Todd Blanche is calling out Massey and suggesting that he's participating in grandstanding.
00:15:40.000It's not just obviously Thomas Massey.
00:15:42.000The sort of big conspiracy theory of society is why Democrats are suggesting that the Epstein scandal is indicative of the way our entire civilization works.
00:15:50.000John Ossoff, the embattled senator from Georgia, Democrat, he's out there suggesting that the Epstein class rules the country.
00:15:58.000But this is a government of, by, and for the ultra-rich.
00:16:23.000But there's a reason I'm talking about it today because amidst all the hubbub, amid the great conspiracy theory, the big, broad conspiracy theory, there's a person who's escaped scrutiny, which is sort of astonishing because his name is Steve Bannon.
00:16:34.000Steve Bannon, of course, is chief advisor to President Trump during the very beginning of his first term before he was kicked out on his ass by the president, being called sloppy Steve.
00:16:42.000Steve Bannon was deeply in bed with Jeffrey Epstein.
00:16:48.000And that's really important because it is emblematic of this type of op.
00:16:53.000It's not just about what Bannon did, it's about what Bannon has been doing.
00:16:56.000Bannon is a person who promotes the great conspiracy theory of society while directly benefiting from it and while being directly implicated in specifically the kinds of conspiracy he supposedly decries.
00:17:08.000So, for example, here is Steve Bannon, who knew everything at TPUSA talking about the Jeffrey Epstein scandal in the broadest possible way.
00:17:17.000Epstein is a key that picks the lock on so many things, not just individuals, but also institutions, intelligence institutions, foreign governments, and who is working with him on our intelligence apparatus and in our government.
00:17:35.000This grifty McGriff-faced grifter, my goodness.
00:17:39.000Wait until we get into the details of Steve Bannon and Jeffrey Epstein.
00:17:42.000He stands up there in front of a crowd at SAS at TPUSA last year and says that this is the skeleton key that picks all of the locks.
00:18:01.000He grifted his way up the political food chain by making crappy documentaries.
00:18:05.000First, he made a crappy documentary about then-Representative Michelle Bachman.
00:18:08.000Then he made a similarly crappy documentary about Sarah Palin.
00:18:11.000He would use one documentary to then make the next documentary.
00:18:14.000And then he used that to make a crappy documentary about Andrew Breitbart, a person with whom I was pretty close personal friends.
00:18:20.000And he happened to be giving office space to Andrew Breitbart when Andrew died.
00:18:26.000And the leadership at Breitbart decided to hand him outsized influence at Breitbart over my very strong objections at the time.
00:18:33.000He then proceeded to use Breitbart as a way to leverage himself into Trump's orbit.
00:18:37.000And then he parlayed that into his false Svengali image as chief strategist and putting himself on the cover of magazines and leaking to Maggie Haberman at the New York Times.
00:18:46.000And then he was fired by Trump and called Sloppy Steve.
00:19:03.000And Steve literally took up residence there so that he could live there rent-free.
00:19:08.000Steve is the couch surfer of American politics who has somehow grifted his way up the chain.
00:19:14.000He also then spent years subsequently allegedly defrauding people.
00:19:20.000He was prosecuted and pled guilty in a case in which he allegedly defrauded people who were supposed to have been donating money to build the wall.
00:19:32.000The DOJ prosecuted him in 2020, along with several other defendants in the We Build the Wall scheme that raised more than $25 million.
00:19:41.000The DOJ alleged at the time, defendants defrauded hundreds of thousands of donors, capitalizing on their interest in funding a border wall to raise millions of dollars under the false pretense that all of the money would be spent on construction.
00:19:52.000Well, that didn't happen, as it turns out.
00:19:55.000In truth, Bannon and his compatriots received hundreds of thousands of dollars in donor funds from We Build the Wall, which they each used in a manner inconsistent with the organization's public representations, according to the DOJ.
00:20:08.000But don't worry, there was more there.
00:20:10.000Then, of course, he had a very bizarre relationship with a person named Guo Wengai, who was suspected for a very long time of basically being a front for the CCP.
00:20:21.000He was found guilty in July 2024 on multiple charges, including fraud and money laundering.
00:20:30.000He, of course, had been close friends with Steve Bannon.
00:20:33.000They'd appeared on a boat together where they had declared that they were going to create an alternative government of China, who allegedly defrauded many, many people to the tunes of hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars.
00:20:46.000Steve was in his orbit, and that's who Steve Bannon is.
00:20:50.000And so, is it any surprise that Steve Bannon and Jeffrey Epstein were palling around?
00:20:57.000Again, the reason this is important is not just because Steve is a trash human.
00:21:01.000The reason that this is important is because Steve is a person, and there are many people in this industry, in the influencer and political industry, who will tell you that things that they themselves are participating in, Steve Bannon, that these are gigantic conspiracies, and that these gigantic conspiracies are why you should give them more power while he is actively working with Jeffrey Epstein.
00:21:25.000I mean, the sad part is that it's not crazy, but this is the op.
00:21:30.000The op is Steve Bannon working hand in glove with Jeffrey Epstein and then turning around and telling you that it's an intelligence op that encompasses all the highest levels of government and it's a child sex trafficking ring, and who knows better than Steve Bannon?
00:21:43.000What a bunch of demoralization op bullshit.
00:21:46.000Seriously, those are pictures of Epstein with Steve Bannon.
00:21:50.000You know, I know a lot of people who don't have pictures with Jeffrey Epstein.
00:21:54.000In fact, the vast majority of people that I know, even in the political industry, do not have pictures with Jeffrey Epstein.
00:21:59.000A search of Steve Bannon in the DOJ's Epstein Files library produces 2,879 unique results.
00:22:06.000A search of Epstein's email box populates 526 results for Steve Bannon.
00:22:12.000Steve Bannon was planning to produce a pro-Epstein documentary literally the day that Epstein was arrested for sex trafficking, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
00:22:23.000According to the Hollywood Reporter, the Epstein-funded doc was to feature interviews with luminaries across media, academia, and politics to reshape the narrative.
00:22:31.000Among the high-profile participants mentioned was Michael Wolf, an Epstein pal and avid chronicler of the Trump presidency, who was advising Epstein at the time on how to handle dealings with the presidency.
00:22:42.000So there is some two hours of the video have been released.
00:22:44.000He apparently interviewed Epstein for 15 hours, did Steve Bannon.
00:22:48.000Again, this is the guy who is telling you he's the skeleton key that unlocks everything.
00:22:55.000Because, of course, the solution to all of this is that you need Steve Bannon to illuminate the Matrix for you and guide you out of the wilderness as he launches a quixotic presidential run in 2028.
00:23:06.000Early 2020 or 2019, Steve Bannon sits with Jeffrey Epstein for 15 hours.
00:23:10.000We only have about two hours and 15 minutes of the tape.
00:23:12.000Here he was asking Epstein about his fiscal expertise.
00:23:16.000When I say no one understands the system better than I do, it doesn't mean I always sound like a doctor.
00:23:22.000Your friend is going to get sued for giving a thing.
00:23:24.000Yeah, you're not taking on any liability.
00:23:26.000There's no contingent liability here for you.
00:23:29.000But the word understand is the problem.
00:23:38.000No, what we just went through, I'll go through again.
00:23:40.000The hedge fund managers, the money managers, the central bankers, the commercial bankers, the heads of the investment banks, the heads of all the trading desks, the top economists, and I'll throw in the business school lectures of Stanford.
00:23:52.000Of all the top 200, 250, you can't name at the top of your head, the guys are at least at your level.
00:24:41.000We walked into that clinic where they're giving that money out to these people that are in the most dire straits of poverty and sickness and told them that the money was coming from a, what are you, class three sexual predator?
00:25:51.000This is what Steve Bannon was doing with his time after he was ousted from the Trump administration, was figuring out ways to rehab Jeffrey Epstein.
00:25:57.000They had some deep thoughts, by the way, about Bannon and Epstein on Socrates, which is what you need to hear from a guy who is trafficking in minors and a lifelong grifter.
00:26:06.000Potentially, one of the bad things to teach children is how to write.
00:26:13.000Writing, reading, and arithmetic was supposed to be, everyone's supposed to be taught.
00:26:16.000But writing forces you into a very narrow channel of thinking.
00:26:20.000You have to write in a certain form in a certain way in a certain linear pattern.
00:26:26.000So your thinking becomes somewhat narrow.
00:26:29.000The reason I brought up writing is one of the recent discoveries of mine with respect to Socrates, Plato's, and Aristotle is they never wrote anything.
00:26:38.000They spoke, and people around who could write wrote.
00:27:01.000Deep thoughts with these with these moral exemplars.
00:27:03.000By the way, there are a lot of accompanying texts, all in the Epstein files, showing the deep relationship, the abiding relationship between Bannon and Epstein, including April 2019, Bannon scheduling media trading with Jeffrey Epstein.
00:27:14.000Again, April 2019, Bannon laying out the film process, how it would work.
00:27:21.000And then again, April 2019, Jeffrey Epstein asking if Woody Allen could join his media training.
00:27:28.000And then again, April 2019, Steve Bannon coaching Jeffrey Epstein on how to handle questions from Alan Dershowitz.
00:27:37.000And then again, May 2019, Steve Bannon booking plane tickets to the island.
00:27:44.000And then again, July 2019, Bannon asking Epstein if they could film on the island.
00:27:51.000Remember, this is a person who then went out and retailed that the skeleton key to all politics was there.
00:27:57.000He knew what was there because he was part of it.
00:28:00.000This is the difference between the giant conspiracy theory that is a demoralization op where you don't have control of your life because there's a group of elite people behind the scenes controlling things and real conspiracies, meaning people combining for a nefarious purpose.
00:28:14.000Jeffrey Epstein and Steve Bannon were combining for a nefarious purpose, the rehabbing of Jeffrey Epstein.
00:28:19.000And by the way, Epstein was strategizing with Bannon on how to rehab Bannon after Bannon got his ass kicked out of the administration.
00:28:26.000In December 2018, there are texts between Epstein and Bannon, in which Epstein texts him.
00:28:31.000If you Google a picture of the word idiot, a picture of Donald Trump comes up.
00:28:35.000And Bannon texted back pop-up picture signed.
00:28:38.000Remember, this is the great Trump loyalist, the person who says Trump is going to run for a third term.
00:28:42.000Epstein wrote, if you have a moment, you should meet my friend Nicole.
00:30:34.000And the reality, of course, is that all of this was allowing Bannon to live higher on the hog than he otherwise would have.
00:30:39.000It was an attempt to rehab Jeffrey Epstein.
00:30:40.000And then he was going out just a couple of years later and pretending like he wasn't in on this and that he knew nothing about it except for the gig, except he knew everything, including the entire gigantic conspiracy theory that has now become the big ball of wax on X.
00:31:02.000It is an op that is designed to make you believe that great conspiracy theory of society, that your life is not in your own control.
00:31:08.000It's why people are ignoring the actual conspiracies that are in the Epstein files, the conspiracies between Peter Mandelson and Jeffrey Epstein, the conspiracies between Steve Bannon and Jeffrey Epstein.
00:31:20.000The conspiracies between other foreign officials like in the French government and Jeffrey Epstein, the stuff that actually there's evidence for.
00:31:28.000It's an op designed to make you believe that great conspiracy theory of society.
00:31:33.000And it is being run by literally the same people in on the conspiracy with Jeffrey Epstein in the case of Steve Bannon.
00:31:42.000Now, that con and scam aren't relegated to Steve Bannon, of course.
00:31:46.000The pool right now is really, really warm for tons of influencers and politicians who wish to promote the idea that society is rigged and that if you follow their particularly crappy advice and give them attention and therefore cash, you will somehow break the matrix and your life will become better.
00:32:52.000You should look smacked like this moron.
00:32:55.000That way you can mog people, which is to say that you can humiliate them or over.
00:33:01.000You're the alpha male if you treat yourself like an extraordinarily effeminate man at a salon 27 hours a day and then go out drinking and look depressed in the corner so that you're not gesture maxing.
00:33:17.000I know there are people who actually are doing this sort of stuff and following this sort of stuff.
00:33:21.000If you think that i'm exaggerating when I when I discuss Clavicular, who again was arrested and the reason he was arrested is because, as a 20 year old, he was apparently carrying around fake id and prescription drugs, and we'll see how the justice department works for him.
00:33:36.000Well, it turns out that the gesture maxing didn't work.
00:33:40.000He has now been jail maxed and anyway, here he was explaining looks max.
00:33:44.000For those of you who speak English, looks maxing means making yourself look good, but the way that you do that is apparently by hitting yourself in the face with a hammer.
00:33:51.000We live in a society so stupid and nihilistic that people who are admired by a great many young people hit themselves in the face with hammers.
00:34:05.000Well, the objective is to get better looking because that's going to allow for more opportunities, allow for better overall treatment.
00:34:12.000You know just that subconscious bias in people that you're leveraging by.
00:34:16.000You know becoming better and better looking is really worth all the effort that you put in.
00:34:22.000Yeah, the effort apparently includes taking crystal meth so that you are very skinny and also steroiding yourself to the tune of auto sterilizing uh, which is, which is apparently a thing that he did.
00:34:32.000He's self-sterilized because he took so many, so many of these uh drugs.
00:35:25.000Honestly, it's hard to say, but Newsom being that much more of a mugger and like having a president who's like fat and especially that young.
00:36:33.000The black pill is the big thing these days.
00:36:35.000The black pill, whether it's Steve Bannon or whether it's Andrew Tate or whether it's Clavicular or whether it is a myriad of influencers and politicians.
00:36:41.000The idea that you are not in control of your own life and the only way to get out of that is to give these people your money and watch their crappy content and join their crappy scams and give them more power.
00:36:51.000And then they will go out there and tell you how now you have escaped the matrix while you are legitimately giving them money to do so.
00:36:57.000I mean, it is a con from beginning to end.
00:37:00.000And again, this is very big in the world of the internet, which is why you should definitely keep your teenagers off the internet and off of social media.
00:37:09.000Andrew Tate spent this week explaining why he doesn't read books because, you know, in the real, because the real world is a big conspiracy.
00:37:15.000It's just, there's a gigantic conspiracy out there, and no one can succeed unless you give him money at his real world scam factory.
00:37:24.000If you do that, then maybe you can succeed and you can be just like Andrew Tate, a miserable man who wanders the globe trying to evade criminal charges while renting cars that he pretends that he owns and occasionally gets hit with yet another charge.
00:37:58.000There's always some broke dude who reads books, who's really upset by the fact that I have a $110 million car collection and $400 million of property around the world.
00:38:12.000I'm one of the most well-known, relevant people.
00:38:15.000I'm one of the most famous people on the planet.
00:38:22.000First of all, the inflation of the wealth is insane.
00:38:24.000There have been full investigations into how much money he actually has, but I have no doubt that he can find an enormous number of disaffected young men who believe the world is stacked against them and therefore wants to buy into what he calls the real world, which I believe is his new name for Tate University or Hustler University.
00:38:43.000You are going to wake up one day at some point in the future and you're going to hate yourself because by the time you realize how important that was, it is going to be too late.
00:39:13.000If you follow these people and they've created little media empires for themselves and they've created little echo chambers for themselves and in some cases, large echo chambers for themselves based on their scam.
00:39:22.000If you listen to what these people say and you do what they recommend, you are likely to be miserable in your life.
00:39:26.000I'm not directing this at Steve Bannon or Clavicular or at Andrew Take because I don't give a shit about those people, but there are a lot of young men, particularly young people generally, who are buying into this miserable thought process.
00:39:39.000Truly miserable, because the people you're watching are miserable losers, truly.
00:39:44.000Steve Bannon is a thrice-divorced couch surfing con artist who cannot properly wear a non-wrinkled shirt.
00:39:50.000Clavicular is a misguided 20-year-old high on drugs and apparently self-sterilized who punches himself in the face in order to look smacks while spending his evenings hanging out with low IQ, racist dullards, the very definition of hell.
00:40:02.000Andrew Tate is a career con artist who artificially inflates his own wealth in order to sucker demoralized young men into giving him more of their money and attention, and who to date has made approximately zero lives markedly better and who has to pretend that he's experiencing a true sense of life fulfillment by renting expensive cars and walking around shirtless with a cigar in a made-over Bucharest industrial warehouse.
00:40:26.000Here is what is going to make you happier.
00:40:56.000Taking care of your own kids, that's a thing you can do.
00:40:58.000Joining a church, that's a thing you can do.
00:41:00.000Bettering your skill set to get a job.
00:41:02.000Starting your own business, being a useful part of society and a fulfilled human being.
00:41:06.000The vast majority of those decisions are decisions that you can make, which makes you one of the more fortunate human beings on planet Earth in its history.
00:41:13.000Do not get taken in by this conspiracy industrial complex, much of which is being promoted specifically by people who are conning you over it.
00:41:21.000Steve Bannon just being exhibit 1A in the pantheon of con artists who are attempting to blackpill you for their own specific benefit.
00:41:29.000All righty, meanwhile, in other news, the president of the United States has now repealed landmark climate findings from the EPA.
00:41:40.000The Trump administration, according to the Wall Street Journal, is planning to repeal the Obama-era scientific finding that serves as the legal basis for federal greenhouse gas regulation, according to U.S. officials in the most far-reaching rollback of U.S. climate policy to date.
00:41:53.000The reversal targets a 2009 endangerment finding, which concluded that six greenhouse gases posed a threat to public health and welfare, which was a way for the EPA to use the Clean Air Act to regulate carbon emissions.
00:42:04.000They said that clean air, the Clean Air Act, somehow was connected with carbon, that carbon was endangering people, which is really, really stupid.
00:42:13.000EPA Minister Lee Zeldon quite properly said this is the largest act of deregulation in the history of the United States.
00:42:19.000So this removes the regulatory requirements to measure, report, certify, and comply with federal greenhouse gas emissions standards for motor vehicles and repeals associated compliance programs, credit provisions, and reporting obligations for industries, according to administration officials.
00:42:32.000Now, this won't apply to rules governing emissions from power plants or oil and gas facilities.
00:42:38.000The reason this is good is because those regulations are costing the American taxpayer and industries legitimately tens of billions of dollars every single year.
00:42:47.000Now, that doesn't mean every company is going to take advantage of the new set of freer regulations because many of them are worried that the minute a Democrat gets elected, these things go right back in place.
00:42:56.000But for the moment, it does relieve pressure on a lot of the companies that are attempting to operate efficiently in a modern economy.
00:43:04.000So President Trump had already moved toward that.
00:43:07.000Officials say the rollback equates to more than $1 trillion in regulatory cuts.
00:43:11.000They said that rescinding the finding would result in an average per vehicle cost savings of more than $2,400.
00:43:48.000I'll tell you, if our new head of the Fed, who I think is going to be great, and he's a really high-quality person, but if he does the job that he's capable, we can grow at 15%.
00:44:07.000The United States has not grown at 15% any year that I can remember.
00:44:12.000I think historically, it's just not really possible since we're such a gigantic economy.
00:44:16.000With that said, obviously, deregulation is a huge part of what President Trump is trying to do, and that is a very, very good thing.
00:44:22.000Now, it'll be interesting to see what the newly selected Fed Chief Kevin Warsh will do if he is in fact confirmed as the new head of the Federal Reserve.
00:44:30.000According to the Washington Post, President Trump's choice to lead the Federal Reserve has spent years criticizing the central bank's enormous bond portfolio.
00:44:37.000Any push to significantly shrink the Fed's $6.6 trillion balance sheet of bonds and mortgage-backed securities could actually push mortgage rates higher, working against the president's goal.
00:44:45.000That would amount to him taking assets that the Fed currently owns and pushing them back out to the broker middlemen, which essentially leads to a sort of deflation in the dollar and higher interest rates.
00:44:57.000So the question is whether that can be solved for by generally lowering the overnight interest rates.
00:45:02.000He's sort of push-pulling with regard to the economy, and it'll be interesting to see whether that works or not.
00:45:07.000That is Warsh's entire strategy is to shrink the balance sheet of the Federal Reserve while simultaneously lowering the interest rates at which banks are lending out the money.
00:45:15.000That is the goal that he is attempting to solve for.
00:45:18.000And what that really is, is a bet that more liquidity in the economy while simultaneously divesting the Federal Reserve of a bunch of government subsidies.
00:45:27.000That what that's going to do is cause more investment in the private sphere.
00:45:31.000Again, all of this policy is having an incredibly salutary effect on, for example, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which closed at over 50,000 for the first time over the weekend and is now trending up toward 51,000, which is pretty unbelievable.
00:45:46.000And whether that's reflected in the labor markets is going to be the big question for President Trump.
00:45:50.000And this is something that, honestly, all the people who are big AI advocates, they really should start talking pretty openly about what happens to the job markets.
00:45:58.000There's an enormous amount of dyspepsia and concern about the transition of the jobs markets.
00:46:04.000People in white-collar jobs, particularly, are feeling very worried that they're not going to be able to have a job because AI is getting so good.
00:46:11.000Now, listen, this has happened before, giant technological changes.
00:46:14.000New jobs that we have never even heard of will be created and other jobs will go away because the cost of production will drop to zero.
00:46:22.000If you see some of the new video technology that's being made right now, the cost of producing a movie is going to drop so radically, it's going to shred entire industries in Hollywood, just to take a quick example.
00:46:32.000And you're seeing this with regard to the legal industry as well.
00:46:37.000Maybe it's too early for the AI experts to sort of predict what's going to happen, but if they want less dyspepsia and less risk of over-regulation, then they probably should start retailing right now what the future economy looks like in terms of jobs.
00:46:50.000I mean, on the negative side of the ledger, the president did threaten on Monday not to allow the opening of a new bridge connecting Canada with Detroit, which that I don't get.
00:46:58.000Seems like if you build a bridge, it should probably be open.
00:47:00.000The Gordie Howe International Bridge is close to completion after nearly eight years of construction paid for by Canada.
00:47:05.000That cable state bridge, according to the Wall Street Journal, running 1.5 miles, marks a new piece of trade infrastructure to alleviate congestion at the Detroit-Windsor-Ontario Gateway, which is the busiest commercial land crossing in the United States.
00:47:17.000And President Trump says that he's basically going to keep that bridge closed until he's able to leverage some concessions out of the Canadians.
00:47:26.000And this seems counterproductive to me.
00:47:29.000It is cutting off your economic nose to spite your face.
00:47:32.000And at a time when you're seeking economic growth, cutting off our chief trade partner, because Canada is our number one trade partner, that still seems like an own goal for no apparent reason.
00:47:41.000And meanwhile, it seems that, as I've been saying for years at this point, any party that wishes to win, all they have to do is just be normal.
00:47:50.000And yet, that seems like a very difficult thing for every party.
00:47:53.000I don't know why it's so tough, but apparently it's very tough for any of these parties to program into Normie Land.
00:48:00.000Texas right now looks to be shaping up as a real doozy, the Texas Senate race.
00:48:06.000So that one could theoretically tip the position of the Senate in 2026.
00:48:10.000Right now, if you were to sort of give odds, you would suggest that Democrats are the favorites in North Carolina.
00:48:15.000They are the favorites in Maine, and they are the favorites likely in Ohio.
00:48:20.000And then they need to pick one more off.
00:48:21.000And so is that going to come from Texas?
00:48:22.000Will it come from Iowa where Joni Ernst is stepping down?
00:48:25.000Is it going to come from Alaska where Dan Sullivan is seen as somewhat vulnerable?
00:48:29.000Texas, the Democrats seem to be on the verge of nominating possibly Jasmine Crockett as their Senate nominee, which Republicans can only pray for.
00:48:37.000She would be an awful, awful Senate nominee.
00:48:40.000It's pretty astonishing that she is even competitive.
00:48:44.000According to a new poll from the University of Houston's Hobby School of Public Affairs, she has 47% support ahead of state rep James Tallarico, who's sort of the latest hot thing for the donor class.
00:48:55.000He's like the beta ork of this election cycle.
00:48:59.000Crockett has strong favorability among likely Democratic primary voters.
00:49:04.000The chances, by the way, that she wins a general election pretty low, but could only be boosted by Republicans then embracing a candidate with a lot of dirt to him.
00:49:13.000That candidate would presumably be Ken Paxton, the attorney general of the state, over John Cornyn, the multi-term senator.
00:49:22.000There's a three-way primary that is occurring right now in Texas between John Cornyn, Representative Wesley Hunt, and Ken Paxton.
00:49:32.000That same hobby school poll showed Paxton holding a seven-point lead over Cornyn, 38% for Paxton, Cornyn at 31, Hunt at 17%.
00:49:43.000Now, the reality is that the polls seem to consistently show that if it were Tallarico versus Paxton, for example, that is a much closer race than Tallarico versus Cornyn.
00:49:52.000Again, it is possible that this just ends up being another bear trap for Democrats, and they pour billions of dollars into a race that they can't win.
00:49:59.000At the same time, why Republicans would seek the less electable candidate for the Texas Senate seat?
00:50:07.000That is a move that I do not fully understand.
00:50:09.000Then again, again, the Democrats are doing the same thing.
00:50:11.000The Democrats refuse to divide off from their more insane positions.
00:50:15.000Kentucky Governor Andy Bashir, who wants to run for president in 2028, no one understands why.
00:50:20.000He continues to be radical on the trans issue.
00:50:22.000It is amazing to me that Democrats cannot divide off from the single most toxic issue in their portfolio.
00:50:39.000Most of the decisions I make are based on that golden rule that says we love our neighbor as ourself.
00:50:44.000And that parable of the Good Samaritan that says everyone is our neighbor.
00:50:47.000And so when I've taken actions like vetoing the nastiest piece of anti-LGBTQ legislation that ever came through my state, I described it in those terms.
00:50:55.000I said, my faith teaches me that all children are children of God.
00:50:59.000And I didn't want people picking on those kids.
00:51:03.000Now, again, what he is talking there is about the transing of the children.
00:51:05.000Good luck to Democrats if they decide to embrace this position.
00:51:08.000All Americans want is some semblance of normalcy.
00:51:11.000They are begging for it, and no one will give it to them.
00:51:13.000And that is why, among many other reasons, there is so much political dyspepsia at the moment.