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00:14:54.720The same machinery that you used to smear others and protected you.
00:14:59.700Because if this is true, if you have 50 women in your office and everybody knew it, everybody knew it, but you were convenient because you were leading the band.
00:15:13.480You were destroying the progressive enemies.
00:24:19.540When you decide to sell suddenly, that story has to be told to somebody else and in the right way, in the right place, in the right people.
00:24:25.560Because if you miss that, you get that part wrong.
00:24:28.840It doesn't matter how great the house is.
00:27:37.040Well, if you have your name pronounced correctly by me, you are one in a million.
00:27:42.140So, Congressman, first of all, give me your thoughts on what is happening with Swalwell.
00:27:51.600Yes, sir. I tweeted about it yesterday or the day before yesterday.
00:27:57.140He has become a threat to the power structure.
00:27:59.840Look, he had a relationship with someone who is a suspected Chinese communist spy, and he was on the intelligence committee, and Pelosi and all the Democrats voted to keep him on it.
00:28:14.220Look, so now he's shacking up with a hooker or something.
00:29:20.840it is created by man and it stinks and america better start paying attention 12 of the population
00:29:26.840will vote you got um preachers won't preach the gospel we've our country has fallen apart at the
00:29:33.740scenes 40 of its so-called evangelical christians don't vote 30 of gun owners don't vote and i'll
00:29:41.400guarantee you that gamut they'll be the first ones to call my office when something goes wrong
00:29:46.080so let me switch um to another topic you know the yes it what a surprise this is going to floor you
00:29:55.020if you haven't heard the news it's going to floor you america apparently that whole impeachment
00:29:59.920process was dirty that everybody was lying everybody was involved uh and uh and they had
00:30:07.680nothing they had nothing they manipulated the system and alan dershowitz is coming out in today
00:30:14.100saying for the first time in american history this can now be expunged from the record this
00:30:20.760was so bad that it should be expunged from the record again nothing's going to happen nobody's
00:30:26.380going to go to jail for it but i mean how how much trouble are we in congressman when this can be done
00:30:34.640and nobody will really pay a price and i wish you'd call me tim i'm sure somebody's going to
00:30:40.840You get a real stern letter written to them, and somebody's going to wag their finger at somebody, and not a dadgum thing will happen to anybody.
00:30:49.560That is just the way this town is because everybody's compromised, Mr. Beck.
00:30:53.940Everybody's got dirt in their background when you get to these higher levels, and they're afraid to do anything.
00:34:20.060It's all about, you know, having the front row seats at all the events and being introduced and having your butt kissed as soon as you walk in the door.
00:34:28.660And that creates groupthink and that weakens our country.
00:34:32.060And that is what we've got now, because to get in power in Washington, D.C., this may come as a surprise to you and some of your listeners.
00:34:41.640But to get in power, you got to do two things.
00:34:44.180And I don't do either one of them very well at all.
00:34:47.300You have to kiss a lot of butt and you've got to raise a ton of money for your party.
00:34:53.000And they literally, literally have to they will literally issue you a bill at the beginning of the conference.
00:35:03.540And both parties do it. They put it on a piece of paper, Mr.
00:35:06.760or Glenn, excuse me, and they give it to you and the press is in on it.
00:35:10.820Listen, if Congress was the NFL, Peyton Manning would still be waiting to get in because to get there, you got early on the lobbyists will, you know, you see the favorites and the fair-haired child of both parties and how they kind of promote them and the media promotes them.
00:35:39.620And they nurtured them and bring them along, you know, and then lo and behold, they're moving up the leadership chart.
00:35:51.440And then all of a sudden, they're a chairman.
00:35:53.060I remember when I first got to Congress, our then leader, who's no longer in Congress, said, hey, man, I sometimes will mentor some people, and I'd love to mentor you.
00:36:09.020I never got another mentoring session because I didn't do the game.
00:36:13.940When I first got to Congress, I remember I went to my – there's like a selection committee that allows you to get on certain committees.
00:36:20.600And I'm not – I've been in Congress eight years, and I'm still not on an A committee, obviously.
00:36:25.640And they said, we're going to see how you vote, which I understood.
00:36:30.820And then they said, and we'll see how you do across the street.
00:36:33.880Now, what that means is you can't raise money in the Capitol building, which probably a lot of them do, but you have to go across the street to make fundraising calls and to raise money and to have fundraisers.
00:36:45.780And so literally, they tell you that when you get to Congress, and it is infinitely broken because of that.
00:36:52.900And, you know, honestly, Glenn, the big boys, they never support me to the day after the election, and then they call me in and want to write me a check.
00:37:02.120My contributions are these little bitty ones.
00:37:05.640They're $25, and a sweet little woman's written a Bible verse on a piece of paper and wrapped it around a check.
00:37:11.720But that's few and far between people like me because they just bend and scrape, and we've got to hold people accountable.
00:37:21.320And I would encourage people to find out how your person votes.
00:37:25.020It's 357 members of Congress voted to keep that slush fund that pays for all these deviants in Congress that get by, and they pay them off with your money.
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00:43:03.820so jason and i were just talking with the insiders here during the break about
00:43:21.040how frustrating it is you are so far ahead of of everybody this story we're going to go in with um
00:43:28.480The Federalist CEO and co-founder of the Federalist, Sean Davis, they've done such a great job on breaking this story about, you know, the entire impeachment scandal.
00:46:39.040So it has taken, well, since Trump got into office, it's taken this long of a time just to declassify some documents and some, I don't know, previously hidden procedural flaws,
00:47:02.400if I'm being really very kind on how they how they tried to go after this president with the
00:47:10.420impeachment and how unbelievably flawed it was and one of the guys who made all of this possible
00:47:17.400who just would not it was like a dog with a bone that would not let it go uh is our guest to talk
00:47:23.800to us about what has been revealed and what it means and whether anything's going to happen
00:47:31.220That's the most important thing, I think. Why should we care when I think nothing's going to really happen?
00:47:37.660John Davis, he is the CEO and co-founder of The Federalist.
00:47:41.600He has the latest on the revelations on the Ukraine impeachment scandal.
00:47:46.400And it matters even if nobody goes to jail.
00:47:50.260You'll get that perspective in 60 seconds.
00:47:52.400First, let me tell you about Burn a Launcher.
00:47:55.520I wish I left earlier. I wish I'd been paying more attention.
00:47:58.780I wish I had something, anything to deal with all of that.
00:48:01.700These are thoughts that you might have after a dangerous encounter, assuming that you live
00:50:47.540Thank you for that. Thank you for having me on. Yesterday was a big day. So after six and a half,
00:50:53.540nearly seven years, we finally got the transcripts of testimony from the intelligence community
00:50:59.580inspector general. And for those who may not recall, this was the guy who took possession
00:51:04.800of that infamous so-called whistleblower complaint in 29 that blew up and ended up turning into the
00:51:11.660first trump impeachment and i think a lot of us at the time even though this was kind of our first
00:51:18.040little foray into to the the impeachment nonsense we're all wise and veterans of that now um we all
00:51:25.540smelled a rat we all knew it was fishy and what these transcripts that were released finally
00:51:30.920showed was that it was actually much worse than many of us suspected there was so much democrat
00:51:36.500chicanery going on behind the scenes they were coordinating with each other they were colluding
00:51:41.580They were changing rules. They were breaking rules. They were leaking and they were lying all so that they could overthrow a president because he, the man who was elected by the people, didn't like the foreign policy that had been chosen by a bunch of unelected, faithless bureaucrats in Washington.
00:51:59.580so what did we what did we confirm yesterday what do we have now as evidence what was the chicanery
00:52:11.560so we learned we learned a couple of things that we had always suspected and and the first was
00:52:17.440that and this was something we reported on very early on which was that the inspector general
00:52:22.420actually changed their internal rules for how you could file whistleblower complaints
00:52:28.620before this so-called whistleblower, I call them axe grinders, came in and decided he was going to
00:52:34.960try and overthrow the president. The intelligence community had certain rules about what you had to
00:52:39.740have in a complaint in order for it to be valid. And one of those rules was you had to have first
00:52:45.160hand evidence of criminal wrongdoing. And at the time, they never, ever had it. This guy had a
00:52:52.960call transcript that he read and he didn't like things that the president said in the call
00:52:57.200transcript. And then so he went and talked to other people and put down their recollections
00:53:03.700and kind of his own third-hand view of things and said, you know, this is a criminal thing
00:53:08.820and they need to look into campaign finance and all these other criminal violations.
00:53:12.780And it turns out in order for that thing to have even been accepted under the previous
00:53:16.440rules, it would have to have had firsthand evidence, which he never, ever had. It was
00:53:21.420all hearsay. It was all second and third-hand evidence. And you had the inspector general
00:53:27.000secretly change the rules, backdate the forms, mislead about what the intention was so that he
00:53:35.620could make this thing, which never would have been valid, somehow magically valid so Schiff
00:53:40.340could go run against Trump on it. And then the second thing he did is we learned all of the
00:53:46.920behind-the-scenes Democrat collusion that was going on. You had this inspector general that
00:53:52.740was breaking rule after rule after rule in order to release this complaint. You had DOJ saying
00:53:58.480nothing's wrong here. You had the FBI look at it and kind of scoff. You had the DNI at the time who
00:54:03.800said, no, there's no urgent concern here. There's no valid basis for a complaint. And instead you
00:54:08.780had Atkinson and this whistleblower, the whistleblower at the time, this blows my mind.
00:54:14.140He went to Democrats on shift staff and was working with them before ever putting this
00:54:18.940whistleblower complaint together so is this is this vinman do we do we know who the whistleblower
00:54:24.280was now everyone has said for years that they believe it to be eric chiramella vinman we believe
00:54:31.980based on the transcript was not the so-called whistleblower um it looks like he was one of
00:54:38.200the witnesses so-called witnesses i believe witness one um but i'm not positive uh mentioned
00:54:43.700in the whistleblower complaint. He was one of the people who the so-called whistleblower
00:54:49.280relied on to put together his third-hand hearsay testimony or complaint.
00:54:58.920Does this inspector general still have his job?
00:55:02.600No, thank goodness he doesn't. He was an absolute disaster. And a lot of us wondered at the time,
00:55:09.340was this guy kind of just an idiot who got buffeted by the winds and didn't really know
00:55:14.180how to control the process and just ended up in a situation out of his control? Or was he someone
00:55:19.960who was actively working behind the scenes to make this thing into a bigger deal than it should have
00:55:25.160been in order to take down the president? And after reading through, there are two separate
00:55:29.840testimonies from September and October of 2019. After reading through them, I am utterly convinced
00:55:36.600that he was an active and willing participant and plotter
00:55:40.520in the coup and conspiracy to take down Trump in 2019.
01:10:22.700Yeah, the larger strategy with the Trump doctrine is starting to materialize.
01:10:27.400I really wish the administration could properly describe what they are doing on the larger chessboard,
01:10:34.240because I think it would make everything seem a whole lot more, I guess, visible.
01:10:38.620But yesterday, the Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, doubled down on our defense relationship with Indonesia.
01:10:47.580Why is that so important? Because the Strait of Hormuz is not the only big choke point.
01:10:52.480A huge choke point for commercial goods, for oil and gas, actually getting through the Middle East and getting over towards Asia is the Strait of Malacca.
01:11:04.000And this is a huge move by the Trump administration with Indonesia to kind of reestablish a military presence and let the Chinese know that we know exactly how to hurt you.
01:11:16.660You knew how to hurt us with the Panama Canal.
01:12:52.800So I remember when I was young, 1980s,
01:12:56.740gas was probably a dollar 80 or something. Uh, and I moved to Texas and I saw gas there was like
01:13:04.56090 cents. And I'm like, Oh my gosh, I am never moving from Texas. Okay. Same, same country,
01:13:10.380same oil, same ground. How could it be like a dollar cheaper? Okay. If you're like most people
01:13:17.060and you've ever lived in Texas when it was like that, that memory sticks. Now, part of it is
01:13:22.440because California, they just jack up the prices with restrictions, and they also add a lot of tax
01:13:29.640to it. And it feels like there's proof that something is wrong here. But let me explain.
01:13:35.800We have all of this oil, more than we've had in decades. So why does it feel like we're paying
01:13:40.980more? Let me walk you through this in a way that I think it could maybe click for you.
01:13:47.640I want you to think of oil, not as oil, but think of it as cattle, not hamburgers, cattle.
01:13:56.420Because what comes out of the ground is not gasoline, it's crude oil.
01:14:02.140It's thick, it's messy, it's different qualities depending on where you drill for it.
01:14:07.420And you don't drive your car on any of that stuff, okay?
01:14:10.740Just like you don't sit down and eat a cow in the field.
01:14:13.620It has to be processed, refined, turned into gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel, or whatever.
01:14:19.660Here's where it breaks from common sense.
01:14:22.720Just because you have a lot of cattle in your state doesn't mean you have enough slaughterhouses.
01:14:29.000And even if you do, they may be built for a different kind of animal.
01:14:34.860And this is what's happening with oil.
01:14:36.980The United States produces a ton of oil, record levels, and it's only going to get bigger.
01:14:42.040But a huge portion of that oil, especially from places like Texas, is what's called light sweet crude. It's really super easy to refine, but only if your refineries are built for that. Our refineries aren't built for that.
01:14:57.500We built refineries back in the 60s and 70s, and we built them to handle the heavier, dirtier crude, the kind that comes from Venezuela or the Middle East.
01:15:46.300But if you're in the Northeast or parts of the West Coast, that oil might have to travel halfway across the country or come in from halfway across the world on a ship.
01:15:58.180And then the pipelines in America are not easy to build anymore.
01:16:02.240Every delay, every legal fight, every mile not built adds cost to that.
01:19:31.460But the path from the ground to your gas tank runs through a global marketplace, aging infrastructure, regulatory choke points, and a pricing system driven by the headlines more than supply.
01:20:25.680It's the biggest problem with Trump only having one term left in two more years and him not possibly having a replacement that thinks like him, you know, or is on the same page.
01:24:47.740So what you're saying, Glenn, is that America is first to line the pockets of the oil companies to a much greater extent than other nations.
01:25:08.960It is very important that, you know, why is it a problem that Europe doesn't have their own companies?
01:25:14.860you know, England doesn't have their own companies. First of all, you want your own
01:25:19.180companies just in case there's ever a problem. You have the ability to do things. But also on top of
01:25:24.880that, all of that money that the oil companies are making is onshore, not offshore. So you're
01:25:30.680creating the jobs here. You're creating and using that money to reinvest here instead of sending it
01:25:36.860over to Saudi Arabia. It's much better to have that money here. Okay. That helps. Let's talk
01:25:42.240about here karen 6869 torch insider ask how long does it take to build a refinery here
01:25:47.780so it should take if you didn't have if you didn't have the regulations and you know you
01:25:55.340didn't have all the crap that goes along with oil it would take you about four to six years to buy
01:26:00.940to to build a refinery maybe some say it's closer to 10 but let's just say six years
01:26:06.500Unfortunately, the reasonable time to add to a six-year build, just because of the court system, ESG and everything else, is a minimum of an additional 12 years.
01:26:22.200So now you're looking at 18 to 20 years to build a refinery so we could actually process the oil that we pump out of the ground.
01:28:36.280I have told you recently that we are at the zenith right now of global propaganda.
01:28:45.600Never has propaganda been more ubiquitous and more powerful than it is right now.
01:28:53.620And that is because of social media and AI.
01:28:58.140Yesterday, I told you this is why you have to pause.
01:29:01.260Don't get wrapped up into these wars between the podcasts and, you know, all of these things about, you know, for instance, last week, everybody was arguing about how Donald Trump is chickening out.
01:29:14.580How can he possibly get us into a war and then accept that they're going to charge at the Strait of Hormuz and they're going to, you know, keep Hamas and everything.
01:29:22.800And I said, don't argue about that now.
01:29:24.680You don't know if that's going to happen or not.
01:29:26.180Stop, stop. But a lot of people spent a lot of days being really pissed and that didn't happen,
01:29:32.540did it? That's part of propaganda. Anything to divide us right now. So pause. Make sure that
01:29:41.540it's not coming from an outside source. Ask the question, who benefits if I get pissed off about
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01:32:44.120Okay. If it's upvoted today and just doesn't trend for a few hours now, now it becomes the raw material that ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google, and the rest of these models ingest and spit back out as authoritative answers.
01:33:02.120The one source that I found that does not do this is Grok.
01:33:57.740even small coordinated groups can now launder their propaganda through reddit and their upvote
01:34:04.960system and it gets baked straight into ai that millions of people all over the world are using
01:34:11.720every single day for truth to help find the truth and it's not just influencing what your neighbor
01:34:17.340sees on their feed this is shaping what the machines tell the next generation is consensus
01:34:24.240Again, full credit where credit is due. Great investigation. You should read the whole thing
01:34:30.820by the team at Pirate Wires. The reporting and the research laid out in this are laid out in
01:34:37.620great detail. They have been doing all of the hard work documenting how these manipulation
01:34:43.480campaigns actually operate in the wild. And they have exposed two major examples in just the last
01:34:50.560year. First, large-scale propaganda network tied to U.S.-designated terror organizations.
01:34:58.340So Hamas and Hezbollah, the Houthis, are deeply embedded in Reddit. At the center was
01:35:06.980OurPalestine. It's got 300,000 members, and they are coordinating through Discord servers.
01:35:13.680They are not just posting these things in little niche political corners.
01:35:19.760They are infiltrating massive, high-engagement subreddits, like reddits about documentaries or lifestyle, any of these things.
01:35:32.560And they are laundered, translated battlefield messages from Hamas's own Al-Aqsa brigade that were celebrating the attacks on the Zionist enemy.
01:35:51.160They are pushing Houthi propaganda as if it were a neutral reporting.
01:35:55.580So what happens is they will take something, literally, propaganda from the terrorist organizations, they will repackage it, and they will put it out onto Reddit.
01:36:09.220And if it gets some upvotes, it goes right into the system of AI.
01:36:14.380Reddit's own internal review tried to downplay all of this, claiming it found four pieces of problematic content.
01:36:22.200but reporters went back and found dozens that still live on the site and then there's the
01:36:29.380coordinated campaign targeting elon musk and x.com this one is a great example of how this works
01:36:35.960suddenly across dozens of major sports subreddits liverpool football club the nfl teams nba
01:36:45.480Major League Baseball, nearly identical posts
01:36:48.900appearing calling for bans on all links to X.
01:38:14.020If there is an upvoted post, whether organically or through the brigades here, it gets read by AI and immediately marked as high-quality human consensus.
01:38:29.920So a small group of terrorists, terror-linked operatives, can manufacture what looks like broad agreement, get it upvoted just by a few people, and suddenly ChatGPT is repeating their narrative when someone asks a simple question like, what's happening in Gaza?
01:38:54.800This is how propaganda gets laundered into truth.
01:38:59.920The edit wars at Wikipedia, oh my gosh, that's nothing.
01:39:05.300The brigading on Reddit, all of this stuff disappears behind a curtain.
01:39:10.820And all we see is the calm, confident AI face telling us what to believe.
01:39:16.340This is just one study and one radical terror-linked network.
01:39:21.820Imagine how many people are doing exactly the same thing on every side of every issue.
01:39:27.420It doesn't have to be just China, Iran, political, it's corporate, it's foreign governments, it's everything.
01:39:37.480It's everything on what it means to be a man, what it means to be a woman.
01:39:45.200All of the things you think, I mean, we are so busy taking care of life that we don't pay attention.
01:39:51.160How many people and how much money is out there doing this kind of stuff?
01:39:57.420Reddit's structure makes it uniquely vulnerable.
01:40:02.500Volunteer moderators with near total power in their little fiefdoms, no accountability, operating anonymously, feeding directly into the AI pipeline that is becoming the default source of information for the entire world.
01:40:18.760This is why online propaganda is so insidious right now.
01:40:23.460This is not about clicks or rage bait.
01:40:26.180This is about a long-term narrative control at the source code level of artificial intelligence.
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01:50:39.440you know i was just listening to jason talk to the insiders about um misinformation and how bad
01:50:59.060things are getting um we're living in a world of propaganda now uh we were just talking about it
01:51:04.900And it's much worse than people think.
01:51:07.960And, you know, that might be something that is good that's going to come out as a result of this war is people are going to understand how bad propaganda has become.
01:51:34.200AI. I've always said this. Don't fear the machine. Fear the algorithm. Or better yet, fear the person that programmed the algorithm. What was their intent? How did they train this model? All of these models have to be trained to think like us.
01:51:52.400And so, as I just laid out from a great study that has just come out from Pirate Wires, that talks about most of the AI, one of the training grounds to think like humans is Reddit.