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Exposed: Feds Pay Weapons Manufacturer To Police What You Think (Ep.38) · V

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  Speaker 1: Good morning and welcome to Bungie and a Report Early Edition.
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  Speaker 1: I'm your host, Evita. Lots to get to today. Telegram
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  Speaker 1: ramps up content moderation. The deep state may be spying
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  Speaker 1: on countless conservative media personalities and the Trump campaign. Media
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  Speaker 1: personalities could mean me, could mean Dan. Really disturbing stuff.
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  Speaker 1: The feds use Russian disinformation to de-platform dissident voices. MSNBC
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  Speaker 1: calls for mass surveillance in the criminal prosecution of Elon Musk.
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  Speaker 1: Lockheed Martin is creating a prototype to detect and defeat disinformation.
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  Speaker 1: Tim Walz secured millions of dollars to the infamous Wuhan
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  Speaker 1: Institute of Virology. And a study on the morality of
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  Speaker 1: conservatives versus liberals reveals something very profound about political disagreements.
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  Speaker 1: All this on Bongina Report, early edition. Something truly disturbing
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  Speaker 1: happened within the last few days. Telegram has quietly updated
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  Speaker 1: its FAQ or frequently asked questions page in a major
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  Speaker 1: content moderation shift. Now, as we discussed on the show
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  Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago, the CEO of the messaging
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  Speaker 1: platform Telegram, Pavel Durov, was arrested in France and imprisoned
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  Speaker 1: for four days for allowing free speech on his platform.
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  Speaker 1: Now he's been released and has apparently made serious speech
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  Speaker 1: policing concessions following his confinement. So previously the answer to
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  Speaker 1: the question, there's illegal content on Telegram. How do I
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  Speaker 1: take it down? Started with all Telegram chats and group
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  Speaker 1: chats are private amongst their participants. We do not process
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  Speaker 1: any requests related to them. Now, the updated answer says
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  Speaker 1: all Telegram apps have report buttons that let you flag
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  Speaker 1: illegal content for our moderators in just a few taps.
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  Speaker 1: So users can now tap on any message on the
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  Speaker 1: app and have an option to report it. And after
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  Speaker 1: pressing the report button, users can select a reason such
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  Speaker 1: as spam, violence, child abuse, illegal drugs, personal details, pornography,
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  Speaker 1: or other. Telegram has also added the option to request
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  Speaker 1: an automated takedown of a post by emailing its link
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  Speaker 1: to abuse at telegram.org. Now, it's unclear how these changes
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  Speaker 1: are going to affect Telegram's handling of law enforcement requests.
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  Speaker 1: But if I had to guess, I'd say Telegram will
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  Speaker 1: now be communicating a lot more in that realm. In
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  Speaker 1: an ex-post, Pavel stated that he acknowledges voices. saying the
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  Speaker 1: platform's moderation work has been inadequate and that Telegram's abrupt
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  Speaker 1: increase in user count to 950 million has caused growing
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  Speaker 1: pains that made it easier for criminals to abuse our platform.
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  Speaker 1: Pavel then wrote that he has made it his personal
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  Speaker 1: goal to ensure we significantly improve things in this regard.
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  Speaker 1: My question, you guys, and please drop a comment. Let
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  Speaker 1: me know what you think the answer is to it.
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  Speaker 1: What happened while Pavel was imprisoned in France? We can
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  Speaker 1: only guess what authorities said or did to him to
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  Speaker 1: force him to make these content moderation, drastic seemingly content
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  Speaker 1: moderation updates. Think about how terrifying that is. Telegram is
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  Speaker 1: known for refusing to moderate speech like other platforms, known
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  Speaker 1: for refusing to cooperate with law enforcement from various governments
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  Speaker 1: around the world. He's uncontrolled by the state in any country.
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  Speaker 1: And now suddenly he's arrested. and intimidated by French authorities,
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  Speaker 1: likely at the direction of the USA Department, and now
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  Speaker 1: he's implementing significant content moderation updates? This is terrifying. And
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  Speaker 1: it should be terrifying to anyone in tech, including Elon Musk,
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  Speaker 1: which we will get to in a second. But first,
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  Speaker 1: I have to talk to you guys about the reason
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  Speaker 1: why I keep my circle very small. We are living
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  Speaker 1: in times where not only is digital privacy non-existent, but
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  Speaker 1: if you're a political dissident, you are likely being targeted
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  Speaker 1: by the state. Dan and I have had conversations about
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  Speaker 1: this before, about deep concerns for our future, our well-beings,
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  Speaker 1: our safety, as the country spirals further and further into despotism.
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  Speaker 1: And a wake-up call happened for me last week, and
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  Speaker 1: I've refrained from explicitly covering this story because I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to take time to process it all. As many of
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  Speaker 1: you all know by now, Lauren Chen, who is a
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  Speaker 1: Canadian right-wing commentator and owner of Tenant Media, was accused
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  Speaker 1: by the DOJ of waging a Russian influence campaign here
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  Speaker 1: in the States. Before it was recently shut down, Tenant
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  Speaker 1: Media was funding influencers like Tim Pool, Lauren Southern, Betty Johnson,
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  Speaker 1: and Dave Rubin to produce content on platforms like YouTube.
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  Speaker 1: And per the DOJ, Tenant Media received nearly $ 10 million
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  Speaker 1: from employees of the Russian state-backed media company Russia Today
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  Speaker 1: as part of a, and this is from the DOJ report,
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  Speaker 1: a scheme to create and distribute content to U.S. audiences
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  Speaker 1: with hidden Russian government messaging. And the DOJ has noted
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  Speaker 1: that the content creators collaborating with Senate Media, so everybody
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  Speaker 1: other than Lauren Chen and her husband, so this is
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  Speaker 1: Dave Rubin, Benny Johnson, they were all unaware of the
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  Speaker 1: Russian cash and are victims in this scheme. And I
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  Speaker 1: want to make a couple notes here. First, innocent until
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  Speaker 1: proven guilty. These are allegations. We need the evidence to
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  Speaker 1: speak for itself. I'm not saying that this is for
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  Speaker 1: sure a Russian-influenced campaign. But given the information we have,
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  Speaker 1: there's some really odd things happening here, odd motivations. Dave
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  Speaker 1: Rubin and Tim Pool were being paid around $ 100, 000 a
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  Speaker 1: week by Tenant Media to essentially double post content on
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  Speaker 1: their platforms and Tenant Media's platforms. So meaning it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: original content. Why would Russia... spend millions of dollars on
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  Speaker 1: creators who were already making this content on their own.
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  Speaker 1: And so far, there's zero indication, including from the DOJ report,
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  Speaker 1: that they were being encouraged to promote pro-Russia content. The
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  Speaker 1: creators actually said explicitly that Lauren Chen never gave them
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  Speaker 1: any editorial direction whatsoever. But here's what I'm really concerned about,
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  Speaker 1: you guys. This goes back to why I keep my
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  Speaker 1: circle small, things I've talked about with Dan on a
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  Speaker 1: personal level. It's very likely that the DOJ... received evidence
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  Speaker 1: against the Tenet Media personalities against Lauren Chen via FISA,
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  Speaker 1: the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. And FISA permits surveillance and
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  Speaker 1: collection of foreign intelligence information between foreign powers and their agents,
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  Speaker 1: suspect of espionage or terrorism. And under Section 702 of FISA,
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  Speaker 1: which you can thank Mike Johnson and other House Republicans for,
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  Speaker 1: the surveillance applies to American citizens. So without a warrant,
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  Speaker 1: the feds can surveil American citizens suspected of being foreign agents.
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  Speaker 1: Not only that, under FISA's jurisdiction, those connected by degrees
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  Speaker 1: of separation to those involved can also be surveilled. So
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  Speaker 1: this means that anyone in communication with Lauren Chen and
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  Speaker 1: the other tenant media personalities, which again is a lot
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  Speaker 1: of prominent people in conservative media, could have had their
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  Speaker 1: communications tapped by the GOJ. Could people surrounding the Trump
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  Speaker 1: campaign also have been surveilled? Yep, very possible. Anyone in
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  Speaker 1: conversation with conservative media personalities essentially could have been spied on.
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  Speaker 1: And this is a small world, you guys. This is
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  Speaker 1: not a lot of people in right-wing media. That's why
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  Speaker 1: I called my mom over the weekend and said, look,
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  Speaker 1: we need to make sure that we are keeping our
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  Speaker 1: circle very small because everybody is a target now. Any
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  Speaker 1: degree of connection could find yourself on a Fed spy network.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's truly terrifying. And it's crucial to understand
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  Speaker 1: that this isn't about Russia. If the allegations against Lauren
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  Speaker 1: are true, and we don't know if they're true, but
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  Speaker 1: if they are, that's obviously a terrible, awful thing. She
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  Speaker 1: did something deeply wrong and it's illegal. But you don't
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  Speaker 1: think there are members of the media who are taking
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  Speaker 1: money from Iran, China, Israel? Why are we only hearing
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  Speaker 1: about Lauren Chen and Russia? And again, the business aims
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  Speaker 1: aren't even adding up. Why would Russia pay millions for
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  Speaker 1: content that's already being platformed? And it's also getting pitiful
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  Speaker 1: views on YouTube. Tenet Media was getting hardly any views
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  Speaker 1: for the amount of money that they were paying these
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  Speaker 1: content creators. You have to understand that the permanent state
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  Speaker 1: is a bully. The intelligence apparatus has deep roots in
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  Speaker 1: organized crime. Jeffrey Epstein was very likely an intelligence asset
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  Speaker 1: who was primarily a financial criminal who used his trafficking
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  Speaker 1: ring to sexually blackmail prominent people at the behest of intelligence.
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  Speaker 1: The CIA has and is, in essence, an organized crime
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  Speaker 1: outfit that bullies people into submission. And what I'm trying
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  Speaker 1: to say by all that is rule of law and
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  Speaker 1: justice aren't the motivations behind whatever the DOJ is doing
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  Speaker 1: right now. Because the rule of law doesn't apply to them.
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  Speaker 1: Think about it. Section 702 of FISA in itself is
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  Speaker 1: a brazen violation of the Fourth Amendment. The permanent state
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  Speaker 1: doesn't care about justice, the rule of law, the Constitution.
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  Speaker 1: Speaker Mike Johnson apparently doesn't care about those things either.
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  Speaker 1: Here's something that is deeply troubling about the Tenant Media story.
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  Speaker 1: Before there's even been any kind of conviction, YouTube banned
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  Speaker 1: Tenant Media from their platform. And what's been even crazier
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  Speaker 1: is it's also banning the personal accounts of Tenant Media
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  Speaker 1: personalities who, again, are identified by the DOJ as victims
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  Speaker 1: in this alleged scheme. And there's zero indication, again, that
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  Speaker 1: they're taking any directives from Russia or from Lauren Chen.
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  Speaker 1: Here is commentator Taylor Hansen revealing his permanent ban from YouTube.
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  Speaker 2: So just permanently banned on YouTube. No explanation at all.
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  Speaker 2: It says I can never own a channel or operate
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  Speaker 2: a channel ever again. So that's lovely.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously.
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  Speaker 2: Admits the DOJ indictment of the alleged activities of Russian funding.
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  Speaker 2: Tenant Media was banned almost immediately. Lauren Chen was banned
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  Speaker 2: almost immediately, and now I was banned with no explanation,
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  Speaker 2: even though the indictment states if these charges are true,
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  Speaker 2: these allegations are true, We're all victims, the people that
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  Speaker 2: were hosts there and me as a reporter there. So
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  Speaker 2: it's interesting. It seems like the censorship czar is back
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  Speaker 2: out in full force. It's election season, baby. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: ban with no explanation. I wonder if they're going to
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  Speaker 2: stop here or are they just going to take it
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  Speaker 2: all the way? They're going to ban anyone that was
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  Speaker 2: ever affiliated with this brand, which is absolutely mind-boggling to me.
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  Speaker 2: But there you go. Permanently banned. You got to love it.
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  Speaker 2: I love America, y'all. Censorship is great.
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  Speaker 3: Keep it up.
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  Speaker 1: So this whole thing is being used as an excuse
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  Speaker 1: to spy on Indeed platform right-wing voices. And again, I'll reiterate,
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  Speaker 1: there's a ton of foreign cash from different countries like Iran, Israel, China,
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  Speaker 1: influencing American media. And these are allegations against Tenet Media.
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  Speaker 1: Not only has Hansen not been charged with anything, he
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  Speaker 1: hasn't even been accused of anything. The dangerous, dangerous precedent
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  Speaker 1: that's being set. You guys want to see where all
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  Speaker 1: this is leading? Listen to MSNBC guest and author Roger McNummy. McNummy,
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  Speaker 1: I think that's his name.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Doesn't matter. He's a tool. He is talking on MSNBC
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  Speaker 1: about the DOJ investigating pretty much half the country. Take
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  Speaker 1: a listen.
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  Speaker 3: The New York Times bestseller zucked, waking up to the
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  Speaker 3: Facebook catastrophe. And he's somebody who's commented a lot on
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  Speaker 3: the manipulation of social media and media for political aims, particularly.
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  Speaker 1: For foreign governments.
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  Speaker 3: So, Roger, this is probably not particularly surprising to you.
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  Speaker 3: It's a bit brazen. It's an actual company funded by
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  Speaker 3: Russia based out of the United States who pays these
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  Speaker 3: these provocateurs to post things that Vladimir Putin would like
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  Speaker 3: very much.
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  Speaker 4: Ali, you and I have been talking about this exact
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  Speaker 4: issue for more than seven years. And the sad part
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  Speaker 4: of this is that it's been going on longer than that.
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  Speaker 4: And it goes on in plain sight. You know, the
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  Speaker 4: Department of Justice and the FBI have a lot of
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  Speaker 4: work to do. They need to be investigating members of
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  Speaker 4: Congress and the Senate. They need to be investigating Internet platforms.
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  Speaker 4: They need to be investigating, obviously, these influencers. But they
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  Speaker 4: also need to be paying a visit to some of
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  Speaker 4: the members of mainstream media who have also aligned. with Russia.
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  Speaker 4: And I think the way to think about this, the
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  Speaker 4: way our viewers should think about this, is it's really
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  Speaker 4: a battle between authoritarianism on the one hand and democracy
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  Speaker 4: on the other. And Russia may have triggered the initial
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  Speaker 4: enthusiasm for authoritarianism, and they did it by appealing to
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  Speaker 4: fundamentalist Christians in the United States. But over time, that
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  Speaker 4: has brought to it billionaires from Silicon Valley. It's brought
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  Speaker 4: to it media moguls. It's brought all kinds of people
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  Speaker 4: who have broken down the traditional role that these institutions
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  Speaker 4: would play in our democracy.
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  Speaker 1: So he's calling for the DOJ to investigate members of
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  Speaker 1: the House and Senate, internet platforms, conservative influencers, and members
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  Speaker 1: of the media. Guys, real or not, this tenant media
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  Speaker 1: scandal is being used as an excuse to squash political dissent.
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  Speaker 1: terrifying rhetoric calling for further weaponization of the state. Authoritarianism
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  Speaker 1: on one hand and democracy on the other. No, you guys,
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  Speaker 1: they are the authoritarians. They're accusing their opponents of what
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  Speaker 1: they are doing. Guys, I can't believe I'm saying this,
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  Speaker 1: but the interview actually gets worse. Take a listen.
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  Speaker 4: So the critical element in thinking about Elon Musk is
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  Speaker 4: like any American, he has a right to his own
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  Speaker 4: opinion and he has a right to express his opinion. However,
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  Speaker 4: that right is not unlimited and he is under some
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  Speaker 4: special limitations that wouldn't apply to normal people because his companies,
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  Speaker 4: specifically Starlink and SpaceX, are government contractors. And as such,
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  Speaker 4: he has obligations to the government that would, for any
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  Speaker 4: normal person and should for him, require him to moderate
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  Speaker 4: his speech in the interest of national security. So what
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  Speaker 4: you have is somebody who runs really strategic defense and
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  Speaker 4: aerospace projects for the federal government who's actively undermining the government,
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  Speaker 4: which is paying him. And somewhere in there is a
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  Speaker 4: legal case that needs to be prosecuted.
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  Speaker 1: He's a government contractor? So Elon Musk isn't allowed to
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  Speaker 1: criticize the government and should be criminally prosecuted? Guys, the
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  Speaker 1: First Amendment, the First Amendment right to criticize the government
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  Speaker 1: applies to everyone, including government contractors. He wants Elon prosecuted
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  Speaker 1: because he wants to control information in the digital public square,
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  Speaker 1: and he hates what Elon has done with X. That's
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  Speaker 1: what all this is about. Think about what happened to Telegram.
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  Speaker 1: The entire permanent state has been mobilized against free expression
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  Speaker 1: and is cracking down on free speech globally, and by extension,
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  Speaker 1: Elon Musk's ex. As many of you know, Brazil has
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  Speaker 1: banned ex for allowing free speech, and this is largely
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  Speaker 1: thanks to American foreign policy. Per Deep State Whistleblower Mike Benz,
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  Speaker 1: one month into Brazilian President Lula's term, President Biden and
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  Speaker 1: President Lula met in Washington, and Biden specifically pledged the U.S.
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  Speaker 1: government would work together with Brazil's government to stamp out disinformation.
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  Speaker 1: This is why After X was banned, we've heard virtually
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  Speaker 1: nothing from the State Department. I think one piddly little
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  Speaker 1: statement about it. This is the ambassador of Brazil who
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  Speaker 1: has time to go to a sporting event, but has
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  Speaker 1: been radio silent on the banning of X in Brazil.
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  Speaker 1: We should be threatening to take away the foreign aid
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  Speaker 1: that we give them, potentially putting sanctions on them. The
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  Speaker 1: government should be intimately involved because of course we care
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  Speaker 1: about exporting free expression in the world, right guys? We
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  Speaker 1: just want to spread freedom everywhere. And we want to
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  Speaker 1: promote American business abroad. Nope, actually we don't. We export despotism.
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  Speaker 1: Essential to understand that we do not export freedom, at
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  Speaker 1: least not anymore. Speaking of despotism, Lockheed Martin, the infamous
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  Speaker 1: weapons manufacturer, is reportedly close to completing a prototype that
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  Speaker 1: will analyze media to detect and defeat disinformation. The Semantic Forensics,
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  Speaker 1: or Semaphore, program will be used by DARPA to identify
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  Speaker 1: so-called disinformation in the news, on the internet, and even
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  Speaker 1: entertainment media. The Biden White House never really got rid
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  Speaker 1: of the Disinformation Governance Board. The permanent state still plans
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  Speaker 1: to be the official arbiter of truth. And of course,
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  Speaker 1: the problem is that they don't have a monopoly on
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  Speaker 1: the truth. The state is really aimed at surveillance and control.
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  Speaker 1: The feds want to monitor and control information flow in
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  Speaker 1: violation of privacy in the First Amendment. And we already
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  Speaker 1: know it won't be used against false information. It'll be
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  Speaker 1: used to censor inconvenient information. Because think about just an example.
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  Speaker 1: The greatest purveyors of disinformation during COVID was the U.S. government.
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  Speaker 1: Masks work, lockdowns work, the vaccines work. It was all lies.
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  Speaker 1: You guys ever heard of the word malinformation? Malinformation, as
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  Speaker 1: defined by the DHS, is information that, although true, is
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  Speaker 1: disseminated with the intent to mislead, incite violence, or cause
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  Speaker 1: other forms of harm. In other words, it's just information
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  Speaker 1: that the government doesn't like. Guys, I cannot stress enough,
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  Speaker 1: we are descending into an Orwellian nightmare. Now, according to
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  Speaker 1: the DOJ report on Tenet Media, Russian influence campaigns are
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  Speaker 1: directing their surrogates to spread content about record inflation, risk
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  Speaker 1: of job loss for white Americans, privileges for people of color, uh...
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  Speaker 1: crimes or threat of crime from people of color and immigrants,
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  Speaker 1: including new immigrants from Ukraine and overspending on foreign policy
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  Speaker 1: at the expense of interests of white US citizens. So
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  Speaker 1: talking about inflation and massive legal immigration could put you
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  Speaker 1: on the Fed's radar as potential Russian purveyors of disinformation.
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  Speaker 1: As investigative journalist Whitney Webb writes, complaining about the Biden
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  Speaker 1: administration's economic policy designed by a cadre of former BlackRock
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  Speaker 1: executives could soon make you a cyber criminal. So the
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  Speaker 1: feds probably wouldn't want me sharing this info with you guys.
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  Speaker 1: In just August, 635,000 immigrants, legal and illegal, gained a job. Meanwhile, 1.3
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  Speaker 1: million native-born Americans lost their job. Since pre-COVID, native-born workers
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  Speaker 1: have lost 2 million jobs and all the net gains
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  Speaker 1: are from immigrants, legal or illegal. Our people are suffering.
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  Speaker 1: I want you guys to watch this video of the
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  Speaker 1: famous Walk of Fame in Los Angeles. Just take a
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  Speaker 1: look at what it looks like these days. Guys, we
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  Speaker 1: are a first world country. If you're listening, you're seeing
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  Speaker 1: drug addicts strung out on the street, bent over. They
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  Speaker 1: look like zombies. Half dead, partially unclothed. It's horrifying. This
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  Speaker 1: is America, apparently. We're good with that, Mikey. Our people
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  Speaker 1: are on the streets and suffering thanks to drugs that
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  Speaker 1: have poured over our southern border after being manipulated. in
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  Speaker 1: communist china and our leaders do not give a damn
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  Speaker 1: speaking of china probably should have moved this up closer
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  Speaker 1: in the show because it's so crazy you guys won't
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  Speaker 1: believe this tim waltz secured millions of dollars for the
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  Speaker 1: infamous wuhan institute of virology that likely sparked the covid
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  Speaker 1: pandemic waltz worked to earmark a total of $ 7 million
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  Speaker 1: for the Hormel Institute in Austin, Minnesota. But the Hormel
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  Speaker 1: Institute on multiple occasions worked with the Wuhan Institute of
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  Speaker 1: Virology and has also done considerable work with Beijing Geonomics Institute,
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  Speaker 1: which the U.S. Defense Department has designated a Chinese military company,
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  Speaker 1: meaning that it is directly or indirectly owned, controlled, or
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  Speaker 1: beneficially owned by the Chinese military. or otherwise a military
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: civil fusion contributor to the Chinese defense industrial base. Again,
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  Speaker 1: why is Tim Wallace funding any of this with Minnesotan
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  Speaker 1: taxpayer funds? Speaking of foreign influence, where are the feds
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: on Tim Wallace's sketchy ties to the CCP? House Republicans
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  Speaker 1: are investigating it, supposedly. Where's the DOJ? Or does the
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  Speaker 1: DOJ only investigate foreign influence schemes when it gives them
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  Speaker 1: an opportunity to spy on political dissidents? Because it sure
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  Speaker 1: seems like it. Because these are scary, scary times that
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  Speaker 1: we're living in. In the wake of the tragic shooting
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  Speaker 1: at Appalachee High School in Georgia, Gwen Walsh, Tim Walsh's wife,
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  Speaker 1: who also has had bizarre sympathies and ties to the
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  Speaker 1: ruthless Chinese communist regime, tweeted this. As a mom and educator,
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  Speaker 1: I refuse to let people like J.D. Vance normalize gun
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  Speaker 1: violence in our schools, which, by the way, J.D. Vance
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  Speaker 1: did not do. Kamala Harris is right. It doesn't have
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  Speaker 1: to be this way. For the safety of our kids,
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  Speaker 1: we must act to prevent gun violence. Xi Van Fleet,
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  Speaker 1: who grew up during the Chinese Cultural Revolution and who
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  Speaker 1: we've covered on the show before, had an excellent response
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  Speaker 1: to Gwen. She wrote, Hey Gwen, you and your husband
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: picked June 4th, the day of the Tiananmen Square massacre,
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  Speaker 1: as your wedding day and went to Tiananmen Square for
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: your wedding anniversary. Don't pretend that you don't know what
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  Speaker 1: a tyrannical government can do to a disarmed population. You
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: want to eradicate our constitutional right to bear arms. You
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: are a communist and a threat to our republic. Fact check, guys, true.
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  Speaker 1: The same people who are paying Lockheed Martin to identify
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  Speaker 1: information disfavorable to the state are directing censorship globally and
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: exploiting influence campaigns to surveil political dissidents. And they also
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: want to take away your ability to defend yourself. Last story,
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  Speaker 1: you guys. Researchers at the University of Calgary in Canada
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  Speaker 1: studied how political ideology can influence the expansiveness of one's
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  Speaker 1: moral circle. I want to shout out to Jack Posobiec
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  Speaker 1: who initially shared this study. It's truly fascinating. What is
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  Speaker 1: the moral circle? A moral circle refers to the range
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  Speaker 1: of individuals or groups to whom a person extends moral consideration.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: So how broad you're willing to extend your care. And
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: you guys, the differences were truly, truly fascinating. I want
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  Speaker 1: you to look at this heat map from the study,
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  Speaker 1: which shows the highest and lowest moral allocation by ideology.
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  Speaker 1: So the moral circle rings from inner to outer. So
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: at the closest to the center of the ring is
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  Speaker 1: where I'm gonna start with, and then I'll expand out.
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  Speaker 1: So at the center, it's all your immediate family, all
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: your extended family is the second one, then all your
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: closest friends, all your friends, including distant ones, all your acquaintances,
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  Speaker 1: all people you have ever met, all people in your country,
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  Speaker 1: all people in your continent, all people on all continents,
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  Speaker 1: all mammals, all amphibians, reptiles, mammals, fish, and birds, all
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  Speaker 1: animals on earth, including single cell organisms. That's the last
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: one out there. Okay. Really fascinating. Oh, I'm sorry. No,
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: it keeps going. I apologize. All animals in the universe,
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  Speaker 1: including alien life forms. After that, all living things in
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: the universe, including plants and trees, all natural things in
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: the universe, including inert entities, such as rocks. And then lastly,
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: all things in existence. And what this study discovered is
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: that liberals care extends way out to the random marginalized
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  Speaker 1: groups on the other side of the world, including even
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: alien life, right? And they actually care more about the
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  Speaker 1: planet as a whole than their immediate family. Meanwhile, conservatives
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  Speaker 1: prioritize those closest to them. So their family, then their community,
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: then their country. This is why.
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  Speaker 1: Liberals seem to care a lot more about the illegal
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: immigrants crossing the border than their fellow Americans who are
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: dying of drug overdoses due to the open border. Yeah,
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: Michael says apparently liberals care more about rocks and their family,
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: which yes, apparently that's true. All living things as a whole,
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: they care more about than their immediate family. And it's
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: also why I think we saw kids whose parents protested
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: on January 6th turn in their mom or their dad.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: And it's also why you saw leftists cheer this kind
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: of communist style disloyalty from the kids who turned in
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: their parents. I think it's also why when you try
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: to reach a liberal friend about the surveillance state or
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: any of the things that we've been talking about today,
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: there's just a disconnect. Because liberals are wrapped up in
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  Speaker 1: this idea of creating a utopia on earth. So they're
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: highly susceptible to the state's promises to fight disinformation and
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: hate speech. Somebody said sanity versus insanity. Yes, that is true.
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  Speaker 1: That is what this is, really. And I want to
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: be clear, I don't think that the study's results are
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: suggesting that conservatives, or specifically Christians, don't give a crap
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  Speaker 1: about things that are happening on the other side of
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  Speaker 1: the world, or don't care about plants or trees or
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: other mammals. I think it suggests something else. I want
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: you to take a listen to Tucker Carlson describing the
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: calling of all Christians.
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: There's kind of no more inoffensive and peaceful group in
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: the world than the Christians. In fact, there isn't. Their
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: religion commands them to turn the other cheek and to
• 25:49
  Speaker 5: put the concerns of others above their own concerns. So
• 25:52
  Speaker 5: if you have a problem with those precepts, explain it
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: to me. Speak slowly so I can understand. I think
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: every person in this room, regardless of your faith, can agree, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: I'm for that. I wish I was more like that.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: That's good.
• 26:03
  Speaker 5: We need more of those people in society. Serve others
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: for the sake of service. people who pray for their enemies.
• 26:09
  Speaker 5: Who does that? Who would pray for an enemy? No
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: one except the Christians, and they do. They're commanded to.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: Guys, Christians are called to love our neighbors, turn the
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  Speaker 1: other cheek, love our enemies. These are immediate things that
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: we are called to do in our everyday lives. So
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: our priorities are supposed to be those around us, those
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: who we can have a real impact on. It doesn't
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: mean we don't care about other people we don't know.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: It means we spend our energy where we can make
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: a difference, as opposed to pontificating about things that we
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: have no control over. It's a lifestyle. It's a dramatic
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: shift in mindset. I also think truth is at the
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: center of these ideological conflicts. If we can create a
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: utopia on Earth, a government, or maybe even AI, can
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: become the arbiter of truth, can become literally God. And
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: this is why I think at the center of all this,
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: this information of warfare, the despotism, moral relativism, backward priorities,
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: it is a battle for truth. But authentic truth is
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: always the creator. And without him, we are descended for
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: spiritual and physical slavery. I think that's the end point
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: of all this. All right, that's all I have for
• 27:37
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