Ep. 1914 - Is Elon Musk Becoming Christian？
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Elon Musk declares his belief in the teachings of Jesus. Gavin Newsom proves that he was never taught the meaning of basic words in a spat with Ted Cruz. And Democrats lay out the master plan to lie their way through the midterms.
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Elon Musk declares his belief in the teachings of Jesus.
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Gavin Newsom proves that he was never taught the meaning of basic words in a spat with Ted Cruz.
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And Democrats lay out the master plan to lie their way through the midterms.
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I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Do you remember when 300,000 migrant kids just went missing under Joe Biden?
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And President Trump's administration, Tom Holman just announcing this, they've found 145,000 of the kids.
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It is now Ash Wednesday, a very important penitential season as we await Good Friday and Easter Sunday.
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And to kick it off, Elon Musk just posted yesterday on Twitter, on X, I agree with the teachings of Jesus.
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This was in response to one of these pseudonymous Twitter accounts.
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I don't know, I say, I'm a millennial, sue me, sue me, that I forget to say X.
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It was in response to one of these pseudonymous accounts that was evangelizing.
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And Elon responds, and he goes, I agree with the teachings of Jesus, which is great.
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And Elon should be encouraged in this, and we all really like Elon, and Elon is one of the most important figures in our political order.
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And he has done more to restore America and a traditional conception of America and a conception of America that leaves a lot of room for religion than basically anybody else in the country.
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If Elon believes in the teachings of Jesus, what about that teaching of Jesus, which our Lord repeats, that he is God?
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And our Lord tells us, love the true God, love your God above all things.
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And our Lord tells us, let he who is without sin cast the first stone.
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But the central teaching, the crucial fact, is that he is God.
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He says, whoever has seen me has seen the Father.
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So what does that teaching imply for our lives and our actions?
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This is a question not only for Elon, but for anyone who is attracted to the teachings of Christ.
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Because a lot of people, they just want to go a little bit.
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And they want to say, well, I think Christ is a great moral teacher.
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Because he can't just be a great moral teacher.
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So because he claims he's God, he's either God, or he's a very bad moral teacher.
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Either of which would make him a pretty inept moral teacher.
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Well, one of the central teachings is he's God.
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But the point was, Christianity is either the crucial fact of the whole world.
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You're either in, and Christ is Lord and God, and you do what he says, and you pray to him,
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and you avail yourself of the sacraments that he leaves to us, and you join into his mystical
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body, which is the church, or just ignore him because you don't believe in anything.
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So anyway, I'm not in any way admonishing Elon.
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This is a great way to kick off Lent when one of the most important men in the world
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is saying, I agree with the teachings of Jesus.
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Speaking of teaching, my pal, Senator Ted Cruz just got in real hot water because of Gavin
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Gavin Newsom is accusing Senator Cruz of ableism.
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He's accusing Senator Cruz of mocking a dyslexic because of this statement that Senator Cruz made
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to Ben Ferguson on a show that I know a little bit about, Verdict with Ted Cruz.
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That is Gavin Newsom comparing American law enforcement to Nazis.
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Which, by the way, is what Obama was doing, too.
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By the way, just like AOC and Whitmer, Newsom is apparently thoroughly historically illiterate.
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He said, we've never seen National Guards federalized in the states.
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I guess his history book does not discuss the civil rights movement.
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He's never heard of a president named Dwight D. Eisenhower.
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He's never heard of sending the National Guard into southern states when Democrats who refused
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In this instance, you have Democrats who are saying we refuse to comply with federal immigration
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Then you had in the 50s and 60s, you had Democrats saying we refuse to comply with civil rights
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In both instances, it is lawless Democrats attacking law enforcement.
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You know, Gavin Newsom is proudly following the tradition of Bull Connor, another Democrat
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Okay, so from that history lesson, Senator Cruz, obviously very intelligent, very well-educated
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From that little history lesson, Gavin Newsom, the Patrick Bateman of California, comes away
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and he says, Ted Cruz's calling a dyslexic person illiterate is a new low, even for him.
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I didn't know that, but apparently he's dyslexic.
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That's not the central problem for Newsom, though, because Senator Cruz did not call Gavin
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He called him historically illiterate, which means that Gavin Newsom doesn't know history.
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Gavin Newsom seems to think that Ted Cruz called him literally illiterate, which would
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I haven't seen a lot of evidence that he can read.
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So maybe that's true as well, but that was news to us.
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In any case, what we now know for certain is that Gavin Newsom is semantically illiterate,
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meaning not only does he not read, he doesn't understand the meaning of words.
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He doesn't understand what the phrase historically illiterate means.
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You can be literally illiterate and still understand the meaning of historically illiterate,
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as long as you're not semantically illiterate, which Gavin Newsom clearly is.
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However, I have to point out, this is a smart move for Newsom.
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I don't know whether or not Newsom's really dyslexic.
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However, it's a smart move for him to claim to be dyslexic in any case because he needs an excuse and he needs virtue points.
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Gavin Newsom is a good-looking, smooth-talking, rich white guy with a good-looking wife and a beautiful family.
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That's like five marks against you if you're a Democrat.
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That would have been good 25 years ago, but it's bad now.
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Gavin Newsom physically is everything the Democrats say that they hate.
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I think this is why a lot of Zoomer guys just decided they were gay.
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I think this is why you see LGBT identity skyrocketing.
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And there are very interesting studies on this.
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A lot of Zoomer women would claim to be bisexual even though they basically never had any romantic relationships with women.
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They would just say that in order to claim some kind of handicap, some kind of victim status at a time when that carried a lot of social currency on the left.
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I don't know if he's dyslexic or not, but even if he's not, it would make sense that he would claim that.
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He's not going to claim to be, I don't know, black or something or Hispanic or, you know, that's not going to fly.
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I don't know that he has any religion really at all, but he's not going to put on a hijab or something.
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Okay, he claims he's got this intellectual disability, which gives him the victim points.
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And it also will provide an excuse because I'm not saying Gavin Newsom's a total idiot.
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I don't think he is, but he ain't a Rhodes Scholar.
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And if J.D. Vance is the presumptive nominee for the Republicans, which he is, J.D. Vance is a very intelligent guy.
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So Newsom, I think, is already looking down the line and he's saying, okay, I'm going to have to compete against J.D. Vance, who's probably two to four standard deviations in IQ above me.
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The fact that the vice president has embraced the silly J.D. meme that makes him into this, you know, like giant, almost, I don't know, like a Saxon King-like figure, you know?
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There's like big, long-haired kind of, you know, just torrent of force and irrationality.
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But part of the reason that I think it's smart that the vice president has embraced that is that it manages expectations.
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J.D. Vance is relatively pretty thin, but the meme is fat.
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The J.D. meme, depending on which meme you're looking at, is short.
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So you have this expectation that he'll be short when you see him in real life.
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Well, Gavin Newsom is kind of doing the same thing here with the dyslexic bit.
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And he's setting expectations low for a more practical reason than, say, the vice president, which is that Newsom doesn't really have it.
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Gavin Newsom, he kind of looks the part, and he's kind of a smooth talker, but there's not very much substance there at all.
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That's why he has to keep swinging back and forth from, he's the radical leftist calling Stephen Miller a fascist, doing gay weddings in San Francisco 20 years ago.
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But then on the other hand, he's the moderate trying to be friends with Charlie Kirk and Steve Bannon.
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It means he's still a pretty good candidate for the Dems as of now, albeit one who is illiterate in many, many ways.
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A lot of people don't even, you know, this election just happened in Virginia.
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A lot of people don't even pay attention to it.
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Abigail Spanberger is the Democrat strategy for the midterms in 2028.
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Abigail Spanberger ran as a moderate for governor of Virginia.
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Now, five seconds later, she's coming out decrying President Trump's immigration policy as horrifying.
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In what we've seen recently, the really, I think, horrifying thing is that now under the new administration or the Trump administration, where every cross into the United States is considered a criminal act.
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It's an amazing statement from a governor of any party who ran in any way.
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She says, it is horrifying that under the Trump administration, any illegal entry into the United States is considered a criminal act.
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That's not a specific policy of the Trump administration.
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That is a matter of federal law that was passed by the Congress that has been federal law for many decades now.
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When an illegal alien does the thing that distinguishes him as an illegal alien, that is, in fact, illegal.
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Not just because President Trump says so, because federal law says so.
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And so what she is admitting here, when she says she is horrified by President Trump's actually applying the law, is she's saying she's horrified by the law.
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This is the moderate Democrat who won in Virginia.
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And the Democrats are schizophrenic on this point.
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Here's Hillary Clinton at the Munich Security Conference just a few days ago on stage, trotting out a line that you're going to hear from Democrats a lot.
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As the midterms approach, as people realize the Democrats are too extreme, they're going to be trotting out this line to try to make them seem moderate.
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And the line is that, you know, actually, Clinton and Obama deported just as many people, maybe more people, as Donald Trump.
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More people were deported under my husband and Barack Obama without killing American citizens and without putting children into detention camps than were in the first Trump term or this first year of Trump's second term.
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Obama and Clinton deported more people than Trump.
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And I love she says, and they didn't put them into camps and cages.
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Obama infamously built the cages that the left wing media would later come to blame on President Trump.
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These supposed cages for detaining migrants and their children.
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I asked this question to one of my debate opponents on BarFight.
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I said, hey, he was trying to trot out these kind of lines.
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I would love to ask Hillary Clinton that question.
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I would love to ask any Democrat who trots out this line, which you're going to hear ad nauseum as the midterms approach.
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You know, actually, believe it or not, Obama and Clinton deported more people than Trump.
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So you're saying it's good to deport the illegals?
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You're saying you're admiring Obama and Clinton.
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You are attempting to attack Donald Trump on the grounds, not that he's deporting the illegals,
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And that Clinton and Obama and the Democrats are actually even better at deporting illegals than Trump,
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which isn't true, but let's just go with it for a second.
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We have a rare area of bipartisan common ground.
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Oh, so what you're saying here is totally incoherent.
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It is speech that is not designed to convey any kind of truth.
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It is speech merely designed for pleasure and convenience.
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What you're saying is, at one side of your mouth, when you're talking to the liberals,
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you're saying we would never deport these people.
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They're actually Americans, albeit undocumented Americans, and we need to get them documents.
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And then out of the other side of your mouth, when you're talking to the normal people,
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not the radical open borders leftists, but just like any normal person in the center,
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center left, on the right, obviously, you're saying, actually, we're even better at deporting
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Any time any Democrat trots out this ridiculous campaign line, you don't even need to challenge
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But you don't even have to challenge them on the premise.
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The problem that these people have is that Americans understand the Democrats are too
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The percentage of Americans who say that the Democrats are too extreme has surged.
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Voters who say the Democrats are now too liberal?
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Now 58% in 2025 of all voters say that the Democratic Party is too liberal.
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The far left is gaining power, and there could be some electoral repercussions because what
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we see right now is voters, the clear majority, say that they are too liberal.
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I mean, even if it were a CNN poll, that would be enough.
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But it's CNN reporting on a Washington Post poll.
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So it's the left-wing cable channel citing the left-wing newspaper pointing out that, yes,
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the Democrats were perceived as moving a little too far to the left from the 90s through the
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And then over the last dozen years, the percentage of Americans who think the Dems are too liberal
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They can either moderate their policies on the border.
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They used to say, we need to deport the illegal aliens.
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They could either go back to that instead of what they are now, which is open borders,
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abolish the police, trans the kids, kill all the babies.
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They could run on one set of policies, run with one kind of rhetoric, and then the minute
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Are the Democrats going to moderate their policies or are they just going to lie to get
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Here's what Andy Beshear of Kentucky has to say.
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How do you respond to a Democratic voter who might say, I like you, I like your track
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record in a red state or red commonwealth, but you're too soft-spoken?
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Look at Abigail Spanberger and Mikey Sherrill, who ran great campaigns in races that should
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It's, you know, the DGA and our candidates are winning everywhere.
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For me, I believe that the American people want stability, that Donald Trump is exhausting.
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Many Americans feel like the pendulum swung too far during the Biden administration and
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it swung way too far during the Trump administration.
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And what they want is an America where they can wake up every morning and not be worried
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The pendulum swung not too far only the, too far, not only under the Trump administration,
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but he says, probably the pendulum swung a little too far under the Biden administration.
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And then, we don't need to speculate on what she will do.
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We now know what she did the minute she got into office.
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The minute she got into office, she pulled ICE cooperation from her state, from her commonwealth.
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The minute she gets into office, she says, yeah, Virginia is no longer going to cooperate
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The minute she gets into office, she says, yeah, we're going to get rid of mandatory minimums
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We're going to reduce those minimums for the violent crimes.
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The minute she gets into office, she backs a constitutional right to late-term abortion.
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Not even first trimester abortion, which is evil in itself.
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But third-term, like sucking your thumb, mama, day, da, looks as much like a baby as any baby
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And we're going to make it a right in the Constitution.
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Second, she gets into office, she starts supporting voting rights for felons, doubles down, triples
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Abigail Spanberger in office is as left as any left-wing politician in the country.
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The only thing that distinguishes her, the only reason Andy Beshear points at her is because
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And that's what they're going to do in the midterms.
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And so it's up to us, conservatives, normal people, centrists, Republicans, it's up to
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For example, when they say, you know, actually, Barack Obama and Bill Clinton deported more
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Say, oh, so you're saying deportations are good.
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Anyway, the, the artifice, the contrivance that the Democrats are trying to put forward
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We sound like Andy Beshear and, and Abigail Spanberger on the campaign trail.
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The reality of the Democrat party today, pretty much top to bottom, is a little closer to Peggy
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Flanagan, Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota, who I, I'm sorry, that's her, that's her English
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So my Ojibwe name is, uh, Gigi Wawada Mukwe, which means speaks in a loud and clear voice
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Um, and, uh, I am so grateful for my community and, you know, I am a member of the White Earth
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Nation, uh, which is the largest tribe in Minnesota.
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So, gotta hand it to the Ojibwe's, my, I doff my cap to you, Ojibwe's, the fact that
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this crazy white lady came to you at some point, this lunatic who was implicated in the anti-ice
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insurrection, obstructing law enforcement in the little signal chats, in the group chats
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in Minnesota, this lunatic white woman comes to you at some point, she says, how, fellow
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And then the tribe goes to her, they're looking around, like, in between hands of blackjack,
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they're looking at each other, they say, uh, yes, yes, brave sister, your tribal name will
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be Shouting Crazy Lady, yes, that will be, oh, wow, thank you so much, Chief, Chief Texas
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Hold'em or whatever, thank you, that's so, yes, that is your, that is your, the great spirit,
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great mother spirit of the Minnesota Casino and Resort Hotel has told me that your tribal
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name is Shrieking Lunatic Karen, it's actually, you know, it's just Karen actually is your tribal
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name, so speaketh the great spirit, thank you, thank you so much.
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Chief, that's great, good on them, hilarious that she bought that one, hook, line, and
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sinker, also, just to point on that little clip, you need to show that clip to your grandma,
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and not just your grandma, but your, like, let's say you have a grandma who's a Democrat
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or a liberal, you know, she was liberal for her age, and she still thinks of herself as
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a liberal or a Democrat, I think there are a lot of people like this, maybe for some of
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you, it's your parents, you need to show that clip, because they don't believe that
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this is happening, and they don't believe it because the establishment media don't show
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this stuff, and the establishment newspapers don't write about this stuff.
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They would be shocked to find out that the lieutenant governor of Minnesota calls herself
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hoochie hoochie hoochie hoochie shouting woman because she's a member of the white pride nation
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They would be shocked to find out that the lieutenant governor of Minnesota is helping
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to coordinate anti-ice insurrection, the obstruction of federal law enforcement.
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They would be shocked to find out that mainstream Democrats, that the leading presidential contender
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in 2028, is calling for more trans kids, says he wants to see more trans kids.
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They would be shocked to find out that the governor of Virginia, the Democrat, wants to
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slaughter babies five seconds before birth and is actively calling for a constitutional right
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You got to show that to them, because the Democrats' chief strategy heading into 26 and
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Okay, I have much more to talk about, but I'm going to stop talking briefly because I
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have a guest who is going to tell you a lot about how big tech is rigging the elections
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My favorite comment yesterday is from Nancy Swass, who says,
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aliens are real, but they didn't come from space.
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Anyone telling you that they do is quite suspect.
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Now, one of the people who has probably the keenest insight into the way that technology,
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big tech, has contorted and perverted our political order is a previous guest on Michael
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That is Dr. Robert Epstein, who is a Harvard-trained research psychologist.
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He's also the former editor-in-chief of Psychology Today.
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He has uncovered a lot of very serious biases in big tech, Google in particular.
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But this guy is a real thorn in the side of big tech.
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And a lot of us have chilled out about big tech because President Trump won with the
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Some of our numbers after the Daily Wire was almost destroyed, actually, by Facebook
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They kind of, you know, took their boot off the neck of conservatives on social media.
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Turns out our old enemies are back and tougher than ever.
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I have not heard, you and I were texting about some of the stuff that big tech is doing.
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And I thought, look, I'm not the most up to date, you know, on the happenings in big
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tech, but I do follow political news very, very closely.
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And I have not heard a peep about this looking ahead to the midterms.
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I wrote about this a few weeks ago in the Daily Caller.
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But Google and some of the other tech companies did actually back off.
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Just as you said, they really did back off in 2024.
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We know because we monitor big tech content going to registered voters in all 50 states
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through the computers of a politically balanced, I have to emphasize that, a politically balanced
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We see the actual content that these companies are showing people.
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It turns out they had a plan and you've nailed it.
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What they've done is they have sucked up to Donald Trump knowing how vulnerable he is to flattery.
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And they threw money at him and compliments and they just went all out.
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And frankly, they backed off so much that they, the normal manipulations they would have been
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Donald Trump and his administration has backed off.
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They had been going very, very aggressively against big tech and they've backed off.
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In other words, Google has absolute total power at this point, which is what they were
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So the idea would be that when big tech started this flattery campaign, big tech says, we're
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going to put our weapons down and we're going to put our, we're going to help you guys.
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And the Trump administration, please, how about you guys put your weapons down?
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So everyone puts their weapons down until what?
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Well, it turns out that right after the election, our numbers started to change.
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And I just give you the latest numbers because they're so shocking to me that I can barely
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They're coming again from the actual computers of more than 17,000 registered voters in all
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50 states, politically balanced on Google, uh, liberal bias since that 2024 election has
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increased by more than 275%, which means they're also suppressing conservative content.
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Now I'm not a conservative, so, you know, go Google, uh, on YouTube, which is owned by Google
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liberal bias in those recommendations that they make telling you what to watch next has increased
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In other words, now that, now that we've got these people off our backs, we can do anything
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And what they are doing is going to a tremendous extreme to make sure that they can guarantee
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certain outcomes in the midterm elections, which we are monitoring now very aggressively.
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Uh, we're looking at swing congressional districts, swing states, and that's where the action is.
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The big tech companies don't care because they got the feds off their back.
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I've been doing this show for many years at this point and actually a number of shows on
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So I have just anecdotally, I, I have a pretty good little sample size here of how the algorithms
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work and sometimes, you know, you get a big boost in views and you say, well, it's because
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You say, ah, you know that I blame my producers.
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I never take responsibility myself, but I say, you know, look, maybe that wasn't the best show.
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But often there are these seasonal changes and you say, well, that's actually not attributable
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to any of the content we're putting out or even organic social trends.
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This is YouTube trying to nuke our channels or something like that.
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And I have noticed anecdotally in recent months, there is a, just a general kind of trend downward
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And the voices that are on the rise, you get some of the left-wing voices.
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And then the ones on the rise on the right that are getting a lot of attention that are being
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thrown into the algo are the ostensibly right-wing voices that just conveniently
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oppose the Republican Party, oppose Trump, you know, are trying to depress turnout.
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Probably some of those voices don't even know that that's happening or they're useful idiots
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in the way you had in the Cold War, you know, with the Russians.
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But in any case, I, I, I've seen this trend long enough and wide enough that when you bring
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some actual data here, I say, oh, I wasn't going crazy.
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Well, there, there's, uh, I can tell you, they're certainly going to turn the House of
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Representatives, uh, but they're going after the Senate too.
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And the problem is that people have, they, they, they're, they're, this false flag operation
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of theirs was so successful and they control messaging.
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They control most of what, what, what, what, what of the content that people get sent to
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They determine that they also have complete control over what goes viral and what doesn't.
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So what they have done now is worked out a perfect system wherein it appears that they're
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okay, we don't have to worry about them when in fact, that what they're actually doing
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is getting more aggressive than they have ever been before.
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And because we're the only, we have the only monitoring system in this country.
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In fact, in the world, uh, where the first, first organization to have built such a system,
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Cause we're getting the actual content coming onto the screens of registered voters and children
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Now in 2024, just put this in perspective, they were being sued by the department of justice
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And they were declared in August of 2024 to be a monopoly.
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And the normal remedy there is to break up the company.
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And everyone thought that the courts, the federal court was going to break Google up until just
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a few months ago when the final remedy, uh, a verdict was, was handed down.
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That's never happened before in a major antitrust case.
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And immediately, uh, the CEO of Google flew to Washington to, to thank Donald Trump personally.
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Donald Trump acknowledged the thing, said, you guys are great.
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They've got the attention off of them and their shenanigans, but we're collecting the data.
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We're trying to keep some people such as yourself informed, but we're so far, we're not generating
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This is a private company, uh, deciding, uh, who's going to run our country.
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And they can, they can shift up to 15 million votes without anyone knowing what they're doing.
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Except of course, we are capturing the data that we're capturing.
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Well, this is key because we're looking ahead at the midterm.
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Nine months out from the midterms, a little less.
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You can get some stuff done, but time is, time is short.
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Uh, you, you say that this can shift 15 million votes.
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I think a lot of people here, oh yeah, all right.
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You know, but you're saying, no, no, this has tangible effects on the political order.
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And we can quantify those 15 million votes in a midterm election year that was all already
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I, I, it's just maybe someone, some people will like it actually.
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Some people will like it, but it's very disturbing because we don't want a private company in a way
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that's, that you can't even see in a way that's largely invisible.
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You don't want them running our country, which is, and they have the power to do that.
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Now, internally, by the way, they know this and we've learned this over and over again from
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whistleblowers from the company, from leaks from the company.
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We know that they know that they have this power and they are exercising it now to an extreme
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degree, except because of this false flag operation, because of this, this veneer that
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they've painted, no one at this point is paying attention.
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In fact, uh, before the 2024 election, I used to get two or three invitations every day,
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Uh, I think you're the first person who's invited me on maybe in the past year.
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I know this is what really disturbed when you, when you texted me these latest numbers, I
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thought, wow, okay, you know, uh, 275% increase in liberal bias on Google search, 450% increase
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This is not just a little bit, you know, putting your thumb on the scale.
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This could be an existential problem if you care about which party wins the midterms.
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And even if you just care about the structure of our government, you know, this would, would
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disturb, I think, uh, an honest liberal with integrity.
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But I agree there was a lot of riding high, I think obviously because Silicon Valley is
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responsible for propping up the stock market right now.
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There's a kind of hope that maybe Silicon Valley can play along and we can get along with
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them because there are a lot of economic benefits, but, uh, this could be brutal and the, the
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current happy, sunny state of things could radically shift come November, uh, brought about
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America's with an S that's America's digital shield.com.
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You can see the data as the data are coming in and you can see the bias and we've never
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And then more importantly, I hope that people in positions of authority can do something
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Folks, wonderful to be with all of you, even you hoi polloi on YouTube right now.
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Uh, however, I need you all to come over to daily wire right now because it is work from
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You know, I hate working from home and I think it's mostly fake.
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