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Glenn and Stu are back in a bad mood, and it's Friday, which means it's screwing off day! This week, they're joined by Dr. Robert Epstein, who is actually tracking what Google is doing in real time, and he'll blow your mind on today's podcast. Also, Mike Lee joins us, and Gold, at least during the time of the recording, was up 50 bucks. Why do you suppose that is, Kamala Harris? All this and more, on today s podcast.
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Did you know that Google can flip up to 25 million votes this next election?
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They're talking about this, what I believe is misdirection from Google of the Kamala Harris playing with those sponsored ads.
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Well, that's a problem because they're in charge of misinformation and they're sending misinformation.
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But it's not the thing to worry about with Google.
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We talk about it with Dr. Robert Epstein, who is actually tracking what Google is doing in real time.
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And gold, at least during the time of the recording, was up 50 bucks.
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Stu's in a mood today, so I'm going to drag the show down yet again.
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In fact, his mood is the exact opposite of my mood.
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I think their country's going in a good direction.
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We're supposed to do what every good American does on Friday, and that is screw off.
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And then Monday, we also have to screw off a little bit.
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Yeah, but recover from the weekend so you don't really put in the full effort.
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You can't really be expected to do good work on a Wednesday.
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So really, a Tuesday is a good—you're going to get a good show for at least once a week.
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But let me tell you that we have the Montana Attorney General on with us, Austin Knutson.
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So, Austin, you're going to talk to us about Biden bucks.
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And he said, that could apply to a myriad of programs they're doing.
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This one specifically goes to the executive order on getting people out to vote.
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And a pleasure to contribute to your screw-up show.
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You can kind of get a little loose with them today.
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Yeah, so we picked the name Biden bucks because this is like Zucker bucks.
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What you have here is the Biden administration wanting to get involved in what sounds kind of innocuous, right?
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So what this executive order back in 21 did is Joe Biden and Kamala Harris directed the administration and all their executive agencies to every time there was a federal touch on a citizen,
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to provide them voter registration information and ways to get registered to vote and information about voting.
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And no directive, really, if this was between just federal elections or state elections or local elections and some really egregious stuff here.
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That's not a constitutional power given to the federal government.
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That's been longstanding constitutional jurisprudence.
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This is a job that your local election offices and, more importantly, your state secretary of state's office handles.
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Well, I got with eight of my Republican attorney general colleagues and we've sued.
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It took us a little while to get all the information and to do the homework on this one.
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But this was egregious enough that we decided the only thing we could do is sue in federal court.
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Oftentimes, that's the only arrow in our quiver, Glenn.
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We've asked the federal district judge to block this executive order, to enjoin it, and ultimately to throw it out.
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So did you get a chance to actually read the executive order?
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Because Congress has been asking for this executive order from almost the day that it was issued, which was the first week in office.
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But what we have seen is some of the federal agencies' own implementation policies for this executive order.
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I mean, this goes back all the way back to House Resolution 1.
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But specifically since Donald Trump got elected.
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The idea here with Democrats in D.C. is, well, we'll just take over national elections.
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People might not know that, but that's a state function.
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So some really disturbing stuff we've seen in the implementation.
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Probably the scariest one, the Department of Justice, the federal Department of Justice, is registering felons to vote.
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Well, the problem with that, Glenn, is that's illegal in Montana.
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So we've already got a conflict here between this executive order on the federal level and our state law.
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So, Austin, tell me how this is going to work out.
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Because, I mean, because they've stonewalled for so long and we couldn't find any information on what they were doing.
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I mean, I've been on this since the first week of the Biden administration.
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By the time you get into federal court, September maybe?
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Well, we're hoping to get a rapid injunction here.
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That's the hope, is that we get this in front of a federal judge and we can get a restraining order and an injunction quickly here before too much damage is done.
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But that's what we're asking this federal judge for.
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It is really hard to believe in our system of voting.
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Because it seems to me that everything that can be done to, I mean, if you were designing a program to convince people that your vote didn't matter, I think you'd pretty much do everything that they have done in the last eight years.
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We were penalized by social media because we, six months ago, talked about, hey, there are back doors in these voting machines.
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And we were penalized and said it was false news, fake news, you know, misinformation, yada, yada.
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And then the group that always does these, you know, every year they do a, what do you call it, when they get all the hackers into one place and they try to hack into the voting machines.
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And they said it's easy and it's happening and reported the same thing we reported.
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But now, conveniently, it's too late to do anything.
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The good news about it, Glenn, for me is people are paying attention.
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I mean, and people are really concerned about this.
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I can't go anywhere and do any kind of a talk, an event, a speech, a rally.
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This is what people are talking about just everywhere I go.
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There's a lot of concern out there with the American people over their vote, over the security of the election.
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And I think that's what is bringing all this attention to it.
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I mean, we have to make sure that Montana's rights are not being violated here.
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So, I mean, that's what's led us to do this stuff.
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You've got a lot of other really great Republican state attorneys general who are also fighting this fight.
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On another unrelated topic, can you do anything to arrest Kevin Costner for not finishing Yellowstone?
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Well, if I'm being real honest, I mean, Montana's got tired of that.
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Our legislature let the movie tax credit expire.
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That's why this last season is not even going to be filmed here.
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It sounds like Mr. Costner had some of his own personal stuff going on.
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Because I think that made, well, I mean, you know, wait a minute.
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So, yes, they might have been killing people in Montana, but they buried them someplace else.
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But I think that just made the state look beautiful.
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And unfortunately, if I were in Montana, I would be saying, yeah, it looks a little too beautiful.
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That's the Montana Attorney General, Austin Knudsen.
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The, you know, have you ever been to Jackson Hole?
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And so now they, you know, it's because it's such a big county.
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And every time I come here, we moved to a place that literally has 400 people in it.
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And the next biggest town over is the home of the first nighttime rodeo ever in the country.
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And I think they're playing cowboy poker tonight.
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Which is you get people to sit around a poker table in the middle of the arena.
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You don't have any crybabies going, oh, he could get hurt by the bull.
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Yeah, well, he knew that when he got into the ring.
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You got to move into a farming community if you're going to move someplace.
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I think that's where we went wrong as a nation.
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We got away from the agricultural backbone of this country.
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And when you're on a farm, you don't have to talk to your kids about the birds and the bees.
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Daddy, why is that cow on top of the other one?
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Well, look what happens to the cow on the bottom, you know, in just a few months.
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And you understand how nature works and how everything is dependent really on God.
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And that, you know, there are things out of your control that, you know, that's not fair.
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You can be the best farmer in the world and go bankrupt.
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And that, in turn, teaches you to be a good neighbor.
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The lessons learned, the foundations provided by that type of upbringing and life really does bring you, create character, right?
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It really creates the type of character that America was built on.
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But, I mean, like, Outer Mongolia is still a farming community.
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You know, I've got to be, yes, I have to be, I don't have to be, but my wife has to be 30 minutes from a Costco, okay?
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That's when we're moving someplace, she's like, is it within 30 minutes of a Costco?
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By the way, kiss Costco's goodbye if Kamala Harris gets her way on this price control thing.
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We're going to get some really good Soviet policy if Harris wins.
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We might get a good national anthem out of it because Soviets had the best national anthem.
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But, you know, they had to murder people to get it, I guess.
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And it happened in the eight hours after she said, you know, price controls.
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You want to know, Stu, answer the question, what is gold a hedge against?
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I always say insanity, but it is a known forever, a known hedge against inflation.
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It goes up that much and hits $2,500 for the first time in history.
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Right after she says that, you know how good she's going to be for inflation.
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The more it looks like she could win, the more expensive gold is going to get.
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Mike Lee is with us, Senator from the great state of Utah.
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And, you know, what a great way to start the segment with the Soviet national anthem.
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Yeah, I was talking about that on my base, Mike Lee account on X.
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They're really good if what you want to create is scarcity.
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If what you want to create are black markets, if what you want to create is a federal government
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that's in charge of distributing assets, distributing goods, who gets what.
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But they're absolutely terrible for every other reason, including and especially alleviating
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the pressure put on the poor and middle class by a federal government that spends too much
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You know, what is amazing to me is how willing they are to throw grocery stores under the
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The average grocery store profit was 3% in 2020.
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So for every dollar that goes through that store, they only take almost two cents from that
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So anything over 8%, you're really doing well on profit.
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There's his 1.8 and she's accusing them of gouging.
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Farmers are going out of business and she's accusing them of price gouging.
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And in fact, almost any time you hear a politician say the word gouging or price, they're almost
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always talking about something that involves getting the government involved in what is
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Not because you are callous to the needs of the poor and those hardworking people who are
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living paycheck to paycheck, but because you are in tune with those needs.
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Because I'll tell you this, Glenn, the only thing that will put pressure on prices is itself
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And when you start talking about price gouging, that leads to price controls.
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We start talking about price controls that guarantees prices will never come down.
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The guarantees more critically that you will be perpetuating whatever it is that's causing
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You'll, you'll have scarcity like nobody's business.
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I mean, that's why the Soviet union, you know, didn't have anything on the shelves of their
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You go to the grocery store, there was nothing there.
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You'd have to stand in line for toilet paper or milk.
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Um, and you know, you could stand in line for three hours and then they could say, all
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the milk is gone and you would go home with nothing.
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And she is, um, I said this on Wednesday before she announced this and it's the only way I could
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I said, she is the Hugo Chavez of the Maduro of, of America.
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If this, if she gets in, we will become Venezuela.
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And look, Venezuela was a prosperous country a few decades before they got involved in
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And I'm sure she'll tell us, and I'm sure the Soviets told their people with the bread
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And if we do, it'll be one of the worst choices we've ever made.
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Um, so Mike, you and I talked about getting out of NATO.
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I mean, we could have just called each other, but we did it over X this week.
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Um, because when we saw the, um, European countries start to say, Hey, X Elon Musk, you can't talk
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to that presidential candidate when he offered it to Kamala Harris and she turned it down.
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Um, it, it's interesting to me, um, that they would have the balls to do that to America, um, which shows
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me that, you know, we may not have been involved, but we didn't mind them doing that.
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Uh, and there's, so there's a couple of questions here.
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One is, you know, were we involved in encouraging that at all?
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And the second thing is, is this is the problem with all of this globalist stuff.
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They now can pass laws in Europe that will affect us.
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And we're all going down the same road and it's a road to hell.
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And look, as I said on X the other day, all right, that was fun, by the way, having that
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Uh, look, uh, as I pointed out on X the other day, I, I, I thought it was,
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I find it unfathomable that we didn't have somebody on the inside of the U S government
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That is to say that didn't either encourage or, or at least, uh, tell them that it was
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And let's remember what it is that we're talking about.
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It, the, the EU's attempt here was, was essentially to extort Elon Musk, uh, uh, to tell him we're
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We're going to do whatever, uh, uh, punishing the EU can do.
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Uh, if, if, if it had to air this interview with Donald Trump, because that could expose
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Well, it's something that fundamentally changed our relationship with these longstanding
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22 of the 27 countries that belong to the EU also belong to NATO and they've been writing
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on our big fat checks and our big fat security assistance for decades, which we've disproportionately
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That puts us on the line, puts us blood and treasure on the line if they get attacked.
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So I think in moments like these, we need to start to reassess our relationship with them
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as far as trade, as far as our military alliance and otherwise, because this is messed up.
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They weren't really worried about what this would do to European citizens.
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They were trying to meddle, interfere with, and influence the outcome of the U S presidential
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That's not something allies do to us, but it's not, you know, it's not coming just from
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Remember the world economic forum, their number one thing they said they had to address this
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There are more people go into a ballot box than any other time in human history this year.
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And the, um, politicians were starting to sweat because the W E F and all of their things
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And so the number one thing over global warming or anything was miss information.
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And Klaus Schwab said, we have systems for this and everybody has to play their part and
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politicians don't get weak need trust the system.
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This is the governments around the world going rogue.
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Because you remember that the, the European, uh, union is, has these 27 countries that belong
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Now, some people are now are trying to say, Oh, this was just one rogue commissioner,
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theory, Breton, uh, uh, you know, France representative on the EC.
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Just as I suspect people in the Biden administration probably gave him the, okay.
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If, if they didn't encourage it themselves, this is what they do.
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Well, because they're all on board with all of the WTF stuff we see coming out of the
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Can I ask you in the same subject, this monkey pox thing, you know, we got bird flu and monkey
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pox right before an election and the W H O issued a global emergency order.
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And, and look, Americans are going to put up with this crap.
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I don't know if you saw the reaction when the W H O, the world health organization put
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up that advisory the other day, there was a, just a widespread outcry.
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Uh, this has so many other differentiators, so many other reasons why this is not the same,
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We shouldn't have fallen for that the same way we did.
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We're sure as heck not going to fall for this one.
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You and I both, if I'm a little older than you, in fact, probably a lot older than you.
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And, um, I'm looking at everything that's, uh, that's going on.
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And, and I've heard every election my whole life.
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This is the most important election in your, in our history.
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And I kind of like the fact that I wish they would just be honest about it a little more,
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but their records show, uh, and, you know, Tim Walls has said, you know, one man's socialist
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is another one is another man's neighborliness.
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And if America will look, we have an honest choice here between socialism and capitalism
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and, you know, the American way of life and this new world order kind of way of life.
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And that's one of many reasons why it's so important that we make sure that only American
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And we've got legislation that I've introduced in the Senate that Chip Roy is pushing in the
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You can find out about it at a website that we've set up specifically for that purpose.
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This is, this is a bill that we're talking about that would require in order to register
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to vote in a federal election, you'd have to prove that you're a U S citizen.
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Something that we've all long assumed is the case anyway, but the Supreme court a few years
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ago interpreted a federal law stupidly in my view, but they interpreted a federal law saying
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that they can't require you to prove that at the time of voter registration.
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If you're registering through the motor voter law, the save act would stop that and impose
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criminal penalties for giving a ballot to somebody who's not.
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And is there a chance that it'll be passed and signed?
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There is, I think one path that we could do it.
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Congress is going to have to confront a spending bill between now and the end of September.
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When we reconvene in September, I hope that we can attach the save act to the spending bill
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This is one of the conditions we have to make sure that only U S citizens can vote.
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The only way that only way that will happen is if people really rise up, you know, and just
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social media, spread it, the phones to Congress, and it becomes a big thing.
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And it should with the conservatives, I think, you know, and I, and I really believe the average
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Democrat, you know, I, I talked to a guy who was, you know, big in the democratic party or a big donor
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And he said, you know, you guys and your, uh, no ID for voters.
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And he said, well, you guys have been pushing that forever.
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And I'm like, no, you guys have been pushing that.
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He just wasn't, you know, in politics all the time.
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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That's not, no, that's not, that's not how the, it's Friday, man.
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With only a break about every 10 minutes for five minutes, every 10 minutes, I take a five
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It's a really, the pace you put yourself on and the arduous life you live is something
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I mean, other people that don't know how easy this job is.
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It is important to note that life has become much easier for, since the farming, since everyone
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That does create some problems, but, uh, it does.
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This, they're, they're not delivering my food fast enough.
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I called, I just got on a nap and I ordered food.
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Um, so we just wanted to talk to you, uh, this, uh, stuff with, um, Google that's been
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in the news this week is I think a, is, is, is not, is, is a giant nothing burger because,
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um, it is that, that it is app that that happens all the time.
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However, my problem is with the administration, not necessarily with Google.
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The administration is saying that we are avoiding, you know, we're the guardians against any kind
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of misinformation and yet they're making, they're, they're putting misinformation out
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You are the guy who has been on the trail of what Google is actually doing.
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What is Google actually doing to change the election right now?
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So I'm glad you mentioned that because, uh, I think Google itself is actually, uh, spreading
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these, uh, nothing burgers is actually distracting us because they don't want us looking at what
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So what they're really, so wait, hold on just a second.
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You think this is actually coming from Google and they're the ones spreading it.
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Of course they, they determine, remember they determine what goes viral and what doesn't
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So if people are really talking about stuff, uh, you know, uh, it's because they're spreading
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They're saying, look over here, look over, look over here.
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So we, we have built the world's first, uh, and this is by the way, with, with the help
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of, of your audience several years ago, we have now built the world's first nationwide,
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So if people go to America's with an S America's digital shield.com America's digital shield.com,
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they can actually see a public dashboard where you'll see the data that we are collecting
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24 hours a day right now from a politically balanced group of more than 15,000 registered
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And we're actually looking at the real content that Google and other companies are sending
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to registered voters and to children, by the way.
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So we're, we're seeing what they're really doing, what they're really sending.
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We're seeing the political bias and their content and it is staggering.
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So just to tell you a quick example here, right this minute, Google is sending registered
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to vote reminders to Democrats at two and a half times of the rate they're sending them
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to Republicans now that that's called targeted messaging.
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That's right on their homepage, which is seen more than 500 million times a day in the U S.
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And those messages are going to turn into, to partisan mail in your ballot reminders.
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And then they're going to turn into partisan go vote reminders.
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I am looking at your website and this is amazing.
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Looking at the dashboard, you have elections likely flipped by Google.
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Um, then in 2022, Arizona governor, uh, Katie Hobbs was flipped, uh, with 53 point, uh, 50.3%.
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Then you go down to with the results without Google's interference, the winner in 2020 would
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The governor of Arizona would big carry Lake Herschel Walker would be in Tim Michaels would
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U S Senate would be a two to eight seat majority for the Republicans.
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If it wasn't for Google and the house, a 27 to 59 seat majority.
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And it's actually the truth because we have gotten so good now at figuring out what they're
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doing, uh, which again, they don't want, they don't want anyone looking at them, but we're
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We're actually now capturing the, the, the real data and we're working with federal and
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state officials around the country with AGs, uh, with public interest groups, election
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integrity groups, just to figure out how we can use this massive database that we're collecting
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to put more and more pressure on them to stop, to get out of our elections and get away from
00:38:39.440
Um, are you, I see that you're monitoring Facebook, Tik TOK, Twitter, et cetera, et cetera.
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What are you expecting to find in YouTube Yahoo?
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Well, YouTube, we know for sure, uh, because we've gotten really good at monitoring YouTube.
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What, what YouTube is doing is, you know, those recommendations that they make and especially
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that, that, that one is a copy up next video that plays automatically.
00:39:08.860
Number one, uh, according to, uh, literally Google officials and whistleblowers, both 70%
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of the time that people are watching videos on YouTube around the world, those videos were
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recommended by Google's up next algorithm, 70% of the videos, 70% of the time people are
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watching videos, they're watching recommended videos.
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So in other words, those recommendations have tremendous power over people.
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They determine what people watch the up next video plays automatically.
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Uh, if you pick no video at all, it just plays automatically.
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And the second thing you need to know is that what we're doing is looking at the political
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We look at the news sources that they come from and we're finding, uh, extreme political
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bias always in one direction that is always in the liberal direction on YouTube.
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And that has no effect, by the way, on people who have strong opinions, but it has a big
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Um, I have to tell you, Robert, that I'm, I'm so thrilled for the success of this and
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So you just go to Americans, um, America's digital shield.com and look at the information
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Um, and I'm glad to hear that some people are starting to take this seriously.
00:40:49.340
I was talking to somebody the other day about Netflix and about AI and the guys at Netflix
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said that, um, their, their, their AI, their, uh, understanding of their viewers is so strong
00:41:05.320
that they've turned it down because they said that people would find it uncomfortable because
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Um, and, uh, and with AI, what can be done to individuals?
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Because you've talked about this with the, um, um, with the way that there's no tracking
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You can turn an individual one way or the other quite easily, right?
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And as a matter of fact, in fact, that we just, uh, uh, submitted a new paper for publication
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on what we call DPE digital personalization effect, which is literally, literally people can
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look at the manuscript at digital personalization effect.com.
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And in this study, we're looking at what happens when they personalize content.
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And, you know, if you, if they send bias content to someone who's undecided, that has a big effect
00:42:06.220
that produce a big shifts in people's thinking and opinions and votes.
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But if they personalize the content based on everything they know about you, that effect
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It will triple and they have all that information about, about us.
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They're surveilling us and our kids 24 hours a day and they're personalizing the content that
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they send, which maximizes the impact of these manipulations.