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Welcome to the Islamic Theocracy of Great Britain (Ep.217) · V

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Speaker 1: Good morning. Welcome to Bongino Report Early Edition. The federal
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Speaker 1: government invests over $ 100 million in CIA-backed Palantir. A viral
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Speaker 1: image of a man emotionally bonding with a romantic chatbot goes,
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Speaker 1: I don't know, is very disturbing to a lot of people,
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Speaker 1: let's just say. Newly revealed FBI files show that Biden's
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Speaker 1: targeting of traditional Catholics was way worse than we were
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Speaker 1: told by Christopher Wray initially.
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Speaker 2: While the U.K.
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Speaker 1: Is basically in Islamic theocracy at this point, Minneapolis libs
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Speaker 1: attack police officers who they wrongly assumed to be on
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Speaker 1: an immigration raid, and a North Carolina student is awarded $ 20, 000
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Speaker 1: and a public apology for a very wrongfully given suspension.
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Speaker 1: All this on Bongino Report, early edition.
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Speaker 3: Then we were asked if we were willing to supply
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Speaker 3: our product philanthropically, basically, for free. And I was very
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Speaker 3: in favor of this because our primary mission is, in fact,
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Speaker 3: to set a global standard for the world for behavior.
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Speaker 1: That was Alex Karp, the co-founder of Palantir, CIA-backed company.
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Speaker 1: He was speaking at the World Economic Forum in 2023.
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Speaker 1: President Trump recently announced that he is planning to on
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Speaker 1: partnering with Palantir Technologies to build a federal database on
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Speaker 1: the American people. Well, I should say, actually, President Trump
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Speaker 1: didn't really announce this. We knew it was happening. We've
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Speaker 1: covered it on the show.
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Speaker 2: But this revelation, this report I'm going.
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Speaker 1: To give you comes from a New York Times article
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Speaker 1: that cites some unnamed government officials and Palantir employees to
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Speaker 1: shed light on the growing partnership between the federal government
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Speaker 1: and Palantir, this company. The article states, and this is
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Speaker 1: not by anonymous sources, this is actually verifiably true, that
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Speaker 1: Palantir has received more than $ 113 million in federal government spending,
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Speaker 1: and that number includes both old and new contracts. A
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Speaker 1: key Palantir product called Foundry is reportedly, per the New
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Speaker 1: York Times, being implemented in at least four federal agencies,
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Speaker 1: including DHS and HHS, to merge information from different agencies.
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Speaker 1: Foundry is a software technology that can aggregate vast amounts
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Speaker 1: of personal data, including communications, financial transactions, social media activity,
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Speaker 1: allowing the government or any kind of organization to create
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Speaker 1: a very comprehensive profile on regular people.
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Speaker 2: So what is the goal here for the New York Times?
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Speaker 1: They say a mega-database with detailed profiles on the American
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Speaker 1: people that includes all the information the feds already have
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Speaker 1: on you. So criminal records, health records, financial records, even
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Speaker 1: your social media usage, because we know that the DHS
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Speaker 1: has been collecting personal data on us for many years. Now,
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Speaker 1: I want to talk about what exactly Palantir is, because
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Speaker 1: a lot, yes, people are saying no data sharing. So
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Speaker 1: there's a lot of, there's been a lot of pushback
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Speaker 1: and outrage online because People were justifiably, understandably, I think,
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Speaker 1: disturbed by this New York Times report. And Palantir has
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Speaker 1: come out and tried to defend itself, as have some
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Speaker 1: other people who, for whatever reason, are shills for Palantir.
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Speaker 2: I'm not sure why.
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Speaker 1: But I want to make it clear what exactly this
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Speaker 1: company does, because there is some confusion. So Palantir is
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Speaker 1: a CIA-backed company. This is how they were founded. and
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Speaker 1: they were co-founded by Peter Thiel and Alex Karp. Peter
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Speaker 1: Thiel is, of course, Elon Musk's former business partner.
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Speaker 2: He's also J.D.
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Speaker 1: Vance's mentor and a financial backer of Vance's Senate race.
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Speaker 2: And an investor in his venture capital firm.
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Speaker 1: You may not know a lot about Palantir, but I
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Speaker 1: always say that Palantir knows about you. Founded in 2003,
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Speaker 1: Palantir began with the intent of tackling terrorism. This is
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Speaker 1: still part of their goals.
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Speaker 2: This is what they say that they do.
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Speaker 1: But today, Palantir is also developing predictive profiling algorithms to
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Speaker 1: identify domestic terrorists from the political left and the political
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Speaker 1: right here in the United States before they actually commit
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Speaker 1: any crimes. So essentially, it's a way to target political dissidents,
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Speaker 1: thought criminals, before they've committed an actual crime. It is
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Speaker 1: also providing pre-pandemic predictive models to the CDC and the WHO.
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Speaker 1: According to a 2018 Bloomberg report, Palantir knows everything about
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Speaker 1: you and is a data mining company using war on
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Speaker 1: terror tools to track American citizens. Now, why is Palantir
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Speaker 1: so important to the deep state? This is key to
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Speaker 1: understand about Palantir's history. After 9-11, Palantir In 2002, DARPA
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Speaker 1: and the CIA began developing a pre-crime approach to combating
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Speaker 1: terrorism known as Total Information Awareness Program, or TIA. And
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Speaker 1: TIA could develop an all-seeing military surveillance apparatus. And the
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Speaker 1: official logic behind TIA was that invasive surveillance of the
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Speaker 1: entire U.S. population was actually necessary to to prevent terror attacks,
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Speaker 1: bioterrorism events, even naturally occurring disease outbreaks. Now, when this
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Speaker 1: was introduced, this idea was introduced, Congress and the American
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Speaker 1: people were disturbed and furious, as TIA is, of course,
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Speaker 1: a brazen violation of the Constitution.
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Speaker 2: And so the.
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Speaker 1: Program was shut down. But a year later, Palantir was founded,
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Speaker 1: and its first outside investor was In-Q-Tel. which is, of course,
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Speaker 1: owned by the CIA. This is why I say it's CIA-backed.
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Speaker 1: So why is Palantir so important? It's privatized the government's
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Speaker 1: surveillance initiative. It successfully circumvents the Constitution in.
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Speaker 2: A way that TIA could not.
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Speaker 1: Now, yesterday, Palantir defended itself from this article and everybody
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Speaker 1: sort of coming out against it on X. And so
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Speaker 1: Palantir wrote on X, the recently published article by the
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Speaker 1: New York Times is blatantly untrue. Palantir never collects data
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Speaker 1: to unlawfully surveil Americans, and our foundry platform employs granular
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Speaker 1: security protections. If the facts were on its side, the
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Speaker 1: New York Times would not have needed to twist the truth.
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Speaker 1: So what is the key word here? The key word
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Speaker 1: here is unlawfully. Palantir is right. It never unlawfully, illegally,
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Speaker 1: collects data to surveil American citizens. But it does synthesize
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Speaker 1: data for the purpose of surveillance.
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Speaker 2: That's the whole purpose of the company.
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Speaker 1: See, Palantir's surveillance, what it does as a company, isn't
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Speaker 1: exactly legal in the way that people may think. It
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Speaker 1: operates in kind of a gray zone that the government
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Speaker 1: has carved out for itself after 9-11. Palantir doesn't go
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Speaker 1: out and spy on people randomly. Instead, it analyzes massive
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Speaker 1: amounts of data that's already been collected by governments, corporations, institutions,
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Speaker 1: without people even realizing it. Because under laws like the
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Speaker 1: Patriot Act and later expansions, intelligence agencies and law enforcement
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Speaker 1: can collect huge pools of metadata, so who you call,
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Speaker 1: where you go, what you buy, without needing traditional warrants.
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Speaker 1: So Palantir's job is to take that ocean of data
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Speaker 1: that's already been collected, it's not doing the collecting itself,
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Speaker 1: and make it searchable, connected, and keyword predictive.
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Speaker 2: When Palantir works.
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Speaker 1: With government clients like the FBI, CIA, and DHS, it's
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Speaker 1: covered under those agencies' surveillance authorities. So Palantir's raw collection
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Speaker 1: is technically legal because of the Patriot Act and other carve-outs,
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Speaker 1: And Palantir's analysis is framed as data processing, not direct spying.
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Speaker 1: It's surveillance protected by paperwork, but it's surveillance all the same.
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Speaker 1: By the way, Palantir is also kind of in the
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Speaker 1: business of war crimes. Palantir's software has been used by
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Speaker 1: the U.S. military to help target drone strikes that have
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Speaker 1: repeatedly killed civilians, including women and children. Now, why does
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Speaker 1: the New York Times and all these Democrat leaders believe
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Speaker 1: And even former Palantir employees suddenly care so much about
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Speaker 1: Palantir overreach right now. This is really interesting because I
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Speaker 1: didn't hear anything about Palantir.
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Speaker 2: Under the Biden admin.
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Speaker 1: And President Biden actually initiated his own Palantir contracts we're
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Speaker 1: going to get into in a second. The reason is,
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Speaker 1: and this is very simple, because Trump is using Palantir.
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Speaker 2: That's it. It's Trump derangement. I'm going to read you
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Speaker 2: guys a quote from this New York Times article. It
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Speaker 2: will become clear.
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Speaker 3: Mr.
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Speaker 1: Trump could potentially use such information to advance his political
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Speaker 1: agenda by policing immigrants and punishing critics. Democratic lawmakers and
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Speaker 1: critics have said privacy advocates, student unions, and labor rights
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Speaker 1: organizations have filed lawsuits to block data access, questioning whether
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Speaker 1: the government could weaponize people's personal information. This month, 13
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Speaker 1: former employees signed a letter urging Palantir to stop its
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Speaker 1: endeavors with Mr.
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Speaker 4: Trump.
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Speaker 1: Linda Gia, a signee who was a Palantir engineer until
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Speaker 1: last year, said the problem was not with the company's technology.
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Speaker 1: The problem was not with the company's technology. but with
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Speaker 1: how the Trump administration intended to use it. Data that
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Speaker 1: is collected for one reason should not be repurposed for
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Speaker 1: other uses, said Ms.
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Speaker 2: Gia.
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Speaker 1: Combining all that data, even with the noblest of intentions,
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Speaker 1: significantly increases the risk of misuse.
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Speaker 2: So what is she saying?
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Speaker 1: Synthesizing, analyzing all of this data that's really been, I think,
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Speaker 1: arguably unconstitutionally collected on the American people and surveilling them
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Speaker 1: is a very dystopian thing. And yet it's totally chill
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Speaker 1: unless President Trump's in charge.
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Speaker 2: That's the argument being made here. It's totally fine.
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Speaker 1: All of this Orwellian dystopian surveillance efforts, we're all cool
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Speaker 1: with it, except for when President Trump is president. These
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Speaker 1: people don't actually care about civil liberties. Palantir has been
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Speaker 1: getting federal contracts for years now, I believe since 2008,
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Speaker 1: and none of them cared. And it makes sense why
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Speaker 1: the left wouldn't have a previous problem with Palantir. During
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Speaker 1: the pandemic, the Biden admin signed a contract with Palantir
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Speaker 1: to manage the distribution of vaccines through the CDC, and
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Speaker 1: there was no outcry. I want you to listen to
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Speaker 1: Co-founder of Palantir, Alex Karp, bragging that his software single-handedly
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Speaker 1: stopped the, quote, far right in Europe.
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Speaker 5: Look, we built PG, which single-handedly stopped the rise of
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Speaker 5: the far right in Europe. We built Foundry, which was
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Speaker 5: used to distribute the COVID vaccine and saved millions of
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Speaker 5: lives globally. We built what we call multi-constellation and what's
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Speaker 5: often called the digital kill chain. And they're category-defining products.
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Speaker 5: So when you deliver these products to the market, just honestly,
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Speaker 5: people say, this isn't going to exist, this isn't valuable.
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Speaker 5: But then it changes the market. And then the market
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Speaker 5: is the Palantir market. Now, that doesn't mean everyone in
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Speaker 5: the world is going to buy our product, but it
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Speaker 5: means most of the sensible people in the world are
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Speaker 5: going to buy from the category we define.
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Speaker 1: Okay, so what's important to understand here, Alex Karp is leftist.
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Speaker 1: He supported Kamala Harris in 2024. He obviously is bragging
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Speaker 1: about squashing the political right in Europe because he doesn't
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Speaker 1: like the political right. Now, on the flip side, the
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Speaker 1: other co-founder, Peter Thiel, he's an outspoken libertarian. He's a
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Speaker 1: friend of Elon Musk. He goes on Joe Rogan. He's
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Speaker 1: aligned himself with political conservatives. He's a close friend of J.D.
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Speaker 2: Vance.
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Speaker 1: So what I think has essentially happened in a very
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Speaker 1: literal sense is Palantir is playing both sides. And my
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Speaker 1: opinion is I don't care whether Trump's president or Biden's president.
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Speaker 2: I really don't. I don't like Palantir.
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Speaker 1: I don't like that any of the post 9-11 surveillance
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Speaker 1: apparatus has continued despite the brazen violations to the Constitution.
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Speaker 1: I think it's wrong no matter who's in charge. What's interesting,
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Speaker 1: I think, about this New York Times article is suddenly
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Speaker 1: we care, but only because Trump's in charge. That's very obnoxious. Now,
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Speaker 1: I do want to point out something. Epstein researcher and
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Speaker 1: journalist Whitney Webb, who has gone deep on this subject,
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Speaker 1: she's an excellent source, she actually suggests that Palantir and
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Speaker 1: just internet surveillance more broadly has made the entire Jeffrey
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Speaker 1: Epstein model obsolete.
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Speaker 2: Who needs to.
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Speaker 1: Go out and manufacture blackmail on people when you can
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Speaker 1: just access their entire lives.
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Speaker 2: Through these, through our phones?
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Speaker 1: It completely destroys the entire need for that model. With
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Speaker 1: tools like Palantir, you can digitally own a person, expose
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Speaker 1: their secrets, predict their weaknesses, map their networks, and control
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Speaker 1: them at scale. Now, Palantir will say, well, we don't
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Speaker 1: do that. We just synthesize large amounts of data. We're
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Speaker 1: not targeting individuals. But the point is they are synthesizing
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Speaker 1: a lot of data about a lot of people. And
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Speaker 1: who really knows? how it can be used once they
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Speaker 1: have it. In other words, why bother running a sloppy
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Speaker 1: operation like Jeffrey Epstein's? And it was sloppy because it
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Speaker 1: came to an end. When software can quietly deliver even
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Speaker 1: deeper leverage faster and without the risk of.
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Speaker 2: Scandal blowing up the whole thing.
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Speaker 1: Even the name Palantir itself is fascinating.
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Speaker 2: Peter Thiel is a stated lifelong J.R.R. Tolkien fan. And
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Speaker 2: he named Palantir after the Palantiri. And I'm probably saying
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Speaker 2: this wrong. Michael can correct me.
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Speaker 1: How does Gandalf say it in the Lord of the Rings, Mikey?
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Speaker 1: How does Gandalf say Palantiri in the Lord of the Rings?
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Speaker 2: He says Palantir.
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Speaker 1: But we're not sure if that's an English accent thing
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Speaker 1: or if that's the correct way to pronounce it.
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Speaker 2: We'll say Palantir.
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Speaker 1: So the Palantir are these indestructible seeing stones featured in
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Speaker 1: the Lord of the Rings. But don't assume that Peter
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Speaker 1: Thiel was inspired by Christianity, inspired by what actually inspired Tolkien,
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Speaker 1: the Christian philosophy behind Lord of the Rings, because yes,
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Speaker 1: thank you.
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Speaker 2: Yes, perfect, Mikey.
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Speaker 1: So the Palantir are a tool of the all-seeing dark
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Speaker 1: lord Sauron. And they're these magical stones that allow users
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Speaker 1: to view distant places or events, basically to spy. So
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Speaker 1: Palantir is named after the mass surveillance tool wielded mostly
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Speaker 1: by the evil villain in Lord of the Rings.
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Speaker 2: But also, it can be used by anyone. So Pippin
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Speaker 2: and Denethor.
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Speaker 1: Also used this all-seeing stone that Sauron actually manipulates them through.
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Speaker 1: So like the stones, Palantir's platform promises clarity.
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Speaker 2: But in reality, they.
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Speaker 1: Operate in opaque legal and ethical gray zones. distorting how
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Speaker 1: information is seen and even interpreted. So in both cases,
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Speaker 1: the illusion of omniscience comes at a cost. Surveillance without
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Speaker 1: accountability and power without any kind of transparency. If there
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Speaker 1: are any questions about Palantir, we're going to take a
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Speaker 1: quick break, get to our sponsors, drop a comment, let
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Speaker 1: me know. Michael can flag anything for me. That was
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Speaker 1: a lot of information dumping that I just did, I know.
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Speaker 1: But Because people were talking about it in the chat yesterday,
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Speaker 1: and there's been a lot of buzz on Twitter and
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Speaker 1: confusion about what Palantir does. And frankly, Palantir not being
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Speaker 1: upfront and honest about what they do. They're twisting words saying, well,
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Speaker 1: we don't do this unlawfully. Well, of course you don't
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Speaker 1: do it unlawfully, but you still do it. So I
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Speaker 1: felt that we needed to take some time to really
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Speaker 1: address this. But let's get to our sponsors today who
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Speaker 1: are always wonderful. They keep this show free. I want
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Speaker 1: to talk about something else that is Pretty dystopian. Someone
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Speaker 1: shared this on X yesterday, and the caption is, this
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Speaker 1: guy on the subway talking to chat GPT like it's
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Speaker 1: his girlfriend didn't realize these people actually exist.
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Speaker 2: We are so beyond cooked.
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Speaker 1: Beyond cooked for the older people in the chat, meaning
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Speaker 1: we're done for.
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Speaker 2: This is a big problem.
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Speaker 1: If you zoom in, you will see that the AI
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Speaker 1: writes to this guy.
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Speaker 2: This is just crazy.
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Speaker 1: Maybe if you want, I'll read you something later, or
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Speaker 1: you can rest your head on my metaphorical lap while
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Speaker 1: we let the day dissolve gently away. You're doing beautifully,
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Speaker 1: my love, just being here.
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Speaker 2: Heart emoji. And then the guy answers, thank you, with
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Speaker 2: a heart emoji.
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Speaker 1: Now, first of all, we don't know if this is,
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Speaker 1: if maybe this is a joke, maybe it's not real.
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Speaker 2: But this is definitely happening.
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Speaker 1: Maybe it's not happening on the subway, but it is
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Speaker 1: happening because we have AI porn on the rise, AI
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Speaker 1: chatbots made explicitly for companionship. We covered on the show
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Speaker 1: not that long ago, Mark Zuckerberg announcing that Meta is
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Speaker 1: developing AI bots expressly to be human friends and tackle
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Speaker 1: the loneliness epidemic. So real or not, that image of
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Speaker 1: the man with chat GPT, I don't think it just
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Speaker 1: represents one lonely guy talking to a chat bot.
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Speaker 2: It is a quiet collapse of the human order.
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Speaker 1: We really are a society stripped of any real community,
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Speaker 1: enduring relationships and body love. We're so connected and yet
18:23
Speaker 1: we're so disconnected, so lonely. And so people are now
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Speaker 1: turning to simulations for comfort, tenderness, affirmation. The machine will
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Speaker 1: tell the man that he's loved, that he's doing beautifully
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Speaker 1: just by being here. And it offers this kind of
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Speaker 1: fantasy of intimacy without any kind of risk, demand, reciprocity.
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Speaker 1: It's soft, synthetic affection for a civilization that's forgotten how
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Speaker 1: to love with any kind of soul. The AI, of course,
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Speaker 1: will never be a real person, though. It's an instrument
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Speaker 1: built from data and algorithms as a source of emotional nourishment,
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Speaker 1: a stand-in for real presence. Because there's really no mystery
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Speaker 1: in an AI chatbot, no personhood, no true otherness, just
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Speaker 1: an echo of our own longings fed back to us
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Speaker 1: and pleasing us.
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Speaker 2: Language.
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Speaker 1: What I think is even scarier is what happens when
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Speaker 1: the AI turns on us. There are a lot of
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Speaker 1: AI developers now who are making predictions that the AI
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Speaker 1: is really nice and they'll talk to us and it
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Speaker 1: wants to be our friend right now. And eventually things
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Speaker 1: could get scary when you can't shut it down and
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Speaker 1: it turns on you. People were, even some scientists were
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Speaker 1: saying they've tried to shut down certain AI and the
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Speaker 1: AI will pretend like it's shut down, but it's not.
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Speaker 2: I mean, this is really scary stuff. that we're dealing with.
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Speaker 2: We are living in a world with so many existential questions.
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Speaker 2: I think so much confusion.
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Speaker 1: This population, this generation is going to be facing problems,
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Speaker 1: facing horrors of modernity that our ancestors could never even
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Speaker 1: have dreamed of. And I think that really the answer
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Speaker 1: to all of these questions is going to be found
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Speaker 1: in Christianity. That's going to be the guiding light here.
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Speaker 1: That's going to be, I think, the savior of a
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Speaker 1: lot of people. It's going to keep us sane. And
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Speaker 1: what's interesting is that Christianity is increasingly persecuted even in
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Speaker 1: traditionally Christian.
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Speaker 2: Countries, specifically Catholics.
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Speaker 1: Under the last admin, traditional Catholics were surveilled, targeted, and
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Speaker 1: potentially even infiltrated by the last administration. Yes, Mikey?
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Speaker 6: So this article here is talking about how an AI
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Speaker 6: bot was about to be shut down, so it blackmailed
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Speaker 6: the engineer, threatening to tell his wife that he was cheating.
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Speaker 2: What? How did the AI know that he was cheating?
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Speaker 6: Because he had access to all of the intercompany emails
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Speaker 6: and blah, blah, blah. What? Yeah, it's true.
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Speaker 2: When did this happen? That is crazy.
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Speaker 6: June 1st, 2025.
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Speaker 2: So this is what I'm telling you guys.
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Speaker 1: This is going to get very scary very soon. You're
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Speaker 1: talking to ChatGPT. Who knows what kind of information it
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Speaker 1: has access to on your phone?
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Speaker 2: That's the other thing. By the way, apparently it takes
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Speaker 2: up a lot of water as well.
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Speaker 1: I guess ChatGPT is like every search is a.
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Speaker 2: Lot of water wasted. I digress.
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Speaker 1: There are going to be serious moral, ethical questions, existential
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Speaker 1: questions that need to be answered, Christianity is going to
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Speaker 1: be the only way through this, guys.
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Speaker 2: It's going to be the only way.
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Speaker 1: And yet Christianity is being persecuted left and right. So
21:45
Speaker 1: the Biden era FBI, of course, was targeting traditional Catholics.
21:51
Speaker 1: But they also, we now know per a report from
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Speaker 1: the Washington Times, concealed the extent of its anti-Catholic operation,
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Speaker 1: which then FBI Director Christopher Wray told Congress was was
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Speaker 1: limited to just a single 2023 memo because, of course,
22:09
Speaker 1: that's what he said. So FBI files obtained by Senate
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Speaker 1: Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley show that the agency, the FBI,
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Speaker 1: was engaging in a bureau-wide investigation of radical traditionalist Catholics.
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Speaker 1: So the targeting was not limited to a one-off memo
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Speaker 1: from a rogue FBI office in Virginia.
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Speaker 2: That's what we were told at the time. That's what
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Speaker 2: he told to Congress.
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Speaker 1: And that was a lie. Grassley presented his findings to
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Speaker 1: FBI Director Kash Patel in a letter this week. And
22:42
Speaker 1: just as a recap, the original Richmond, Virginia FBI office
22:46
Speaker 1: memo was an alert that radical traditionalist Catholics adhere to
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Speaker 1: an anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant, anti-LGBTQ, and white supremacist ideology that and
22:57
Speaker 1: said that these traditional Catholics are prone to extremist ideological
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Speaker 1: beliefs and violent rhetoric. New documents show that the Richmond
23:06
Speaker 1: memo was distributed to more than 1,000 FBI employees nationwide,
23:11
Speaker 1: and none of the FBI recipients appeared to respond to
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Speaker 1: the Richmond office with any kind of concerns.
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Speaker 6: None.
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Speaker 2: Perhaps none.
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Speaker 1: Our friends at Palantir received whatever information the FBI collected
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Speaker 1: on trad Catholics.
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Speaker 2: I'm unclear if that happened, but I digress.
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Speaker 1: The newly revealed documents also show that the Richmond field
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Speaker 1: office worked with the FBI office in Louisville, Kentucky, to
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Speaker 1: gather information about Catholic traditionalist groups in the Louisville area.
23:36
Speaker 1: FBI analysts in Richmond also consulted with the Portland, Oregon,
23:39
Speaker 1: and Milwaukee field offices as they prepared the memo. And
23:43
Speaker 1: by the way, the sourcing here for this original memo
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Speaker 1: was wild. They cited op-eds from Vox and The Atlantic
23:51
Speaker 1: and also the Southern Poverty Law Center, so all radical
23:54
Speaker 1: left-wing sources.
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Speaker 2: The new documents also show that the FBI.
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Speaker 1: Leadership ordered the deletion of the second draft memo and
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Speaker 1: emails of a list of users accessing the Richmond memo.
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Speaker 1: And per Grassley, the day the whistleblower released the memo
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Speaker 1: was the day that the then-deputy FBI director ordered this deletion.
24:12
Speaker 1: So basically, guys, all this is to say that the
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Speaker 1: FBI director said lied to Congress. Christopher Wray lied to Congress.
24:19
Speaker 1: And his FBI leadership likely deleted.
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Speaker 2: Information that would prove him to be a liar.
24:27
Speaker 1: He broke the law. He should actually be prosecuted. He
24:31
Speaker 1: should be held accountable. I don't know why people think
24:34
Speaker 1: that they can just lie to Congress nowadays. And if
24:36
Speaker 1: you're a Democrat, there's no consequences whatsoever for it.
24:39
Speaker 2: That has to stop.
24:40
Speaker 1: There has to be a standard where we say, hey,
24:43
Speaker 1: you can't actually lie to Congress and therefore lie to
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Speaker 1: the American people.
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Speaker 2: It's crazy. It's absurd. So this is what we're dealing
24:52
Speaker 2: with right now.
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Speaker 1: And I hope that Kash Patel is able to get
24:55
Speaker 1: to the bottom of this because it is a huge
24:58
Speaker 1: deal and a symbol that our government is hostile to
25:02
Speaker 1: traditional Christians in a very disturbing way. I went to
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Speaker 1: a traditional Latin mass growing up. I was confirmed a
25:09
Speaker 1: at a Latin mass church, this is a beautiful community.
25:12
Speaker 2: This is really going to.
25:14
Speaker 1: Be the heart and soul of America that I think
25:17
Speaker 1: will save us from a lot of.
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Speaker 2: The horrors of modernity that we're experiencing.
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Speaker 1: And at the same time, our leadership actively targets them.
25:28
Speaker 1: And by the way, I reached out to the U.S.
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Speaker 1: Catholic Conference of Bishops at the time when that first
25:32
Speaker 1: memo was exposed by Kyle Serafin. And I asked them,
25:35
Speaker 1: I said, are you going to stand up for traditional Catholics,
25:39
Speaker 1: for your sheep, for the lay people who are being
25:43
Speaker 1: persecuted by the federal government.
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Speaker 2: And I did not get a response from the U.S.
25:46
Speaker 2: Catholic Conference of Bishops.
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Speaker 1: So church leadership really needs to get on top of
25:50
Speaker 1: this because they've been failing for a long time. All right,
25:53
Speaker 1: let's hop across the pond and talk about our neighbors
25:56
Speaker 1: in the U.K. Yesterday, a man was found guilty of
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Speaker 1: a crime after he dared to burn a Quran in public.
26:06
Speaker 1: a Turkish-born asylum seeker was convicted of a, quote, religiously
26:12
Speaker 1: aggravated public order offense over his quite literally incendiary protest
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Speaker 1: outside the Turkish consulate in London in February against what
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Speaker 1: he saw and sees as a turn to more extreme
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Speaker 1: Islam in Turkey. But what his stunt actually revealed was
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Speaker 1: the turn to, extreme Islam, Islamist apologists in the UK.
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Speaker 1: The man has been convicted of disorderly behavior within the
26:42
Speaker 1: hearing or sight of a person likely to be caused harm, alarm,
26:45
Speaker 1: or distress, motivated by hostility toward members of a religious group,
26:49
Speaker 1: namely followers of Islam, contrary to the Crime and Disorder
26:53
Speaker 1: Act of 1998 and the Public Order Act of 1986.
26:57
Speaker 1: So in other words, he has been convicted and fined
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Speaker 1: 240 euros for blasphemy. by a liberal secular court, Islamic
27:08
Speaker 1: blasphemy by a liberal secular UK court. And by the way,
27:13
Speaker 1: this man was assaulted at the scene by two men,
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Speaker 1: first by a passerby armed with a knife and then
27:20
Speaker 1: by a delivery rider who kicked him while he was
27:22
Speaker 1: on the ground. And the violence against him was actually
27:27
Speaker 1: used as proof of his guilt by the court. Per
27:31
Speaker 1: the UK District Judge John McGarva, quote, that the conduct
27:35
Speaker 1: was disorderly is no better illustrated than by the fact
27:39
Speaker 1: that it led to serious public disorder involving him being
27:42
Speaker 1: assaulted by two different people. This is basically the argument that, well,
27:46
Speaker 1: what was she wearing? When a woman gets, when a
27:49
Speaker 1: woman gets, oh, well, you know, he was clearly burning
27:53
Speaker 1: a Quran. Therefore, you know, people, people took a knife
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Speaker 1: to him and beat him up and threw him to
27:57
Speaker 1: the ground.
27:58
Speaker 2: It's the same argument. Here is the video of this altercation.
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Speaker 4: The man's come out with a knife.
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Speaker 2: This Turkish guy, he's burning a Quran.
28:06
Speaker 4: The man's come out with a knife now.
28:08
Speaker 2: And someone just comes up with a knife. He's literally
28:14
Speaker 2: trying to murder this guy. Now he's on the ground.
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Speaker 6: He's kicking him.
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Speaker 2: Spits on him. furious that he takes a Quran. So
28:27
Speaker 2: he just keeps getting beat up. A biker comes by,
28:29
Speaker 2: stomps on him.
28:54
Speaker 1: I mean, this was an outrageous video. But what I
28:58
Speaker 1: think is just so fascinating is we're talking about the UK.
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Speaker 1: This is a Christian country, a country dedicated to Christ himself,
29:07
Speaker 1: which has over the years turned toward liberalism and secularism
29:10
Speaker 1: and starts preaching about tolerance and diversity and not putting
29:15
Speaker 1: one religion above another. You do the same thing here
29:18
Speaker 1: in America.
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Speaker 2: And let me just hammer this point home.
29:21
Speaker 1: Under the banner of secular liberalism, The UK is now
29:24
Speaker 1: enforcing in spirit, if not in name, Islamic anti-blasphemy codes.
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Speaker 2: This isn't a glitch in the system.
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Speaker 1: It's the system working exactly as it's been redesigned because
29:36
Speaker 1: secularism has never been neutral.
29:39
Speaker 2: It's simplified.
29:40
Speaker 1: Replaced Christianity with a void, and into that void rushed
29:44
Speaker 1: whatever belief system was strongest, loudest, and most willing to
29:47
Speaker 1: assert itself. And in this case, that's Islam, imported through
29:50
Speaker 1: mass immigration from cultures radically at odds with Britain's historic identity,
29:55
Speaker 1: and now protected more fiercely than the heritage that it's replaced.
29:59
Speaker 1: This is a slow suicide, a national suicide, a destruction
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Speaker 1: of civilization, a nation that once sent missionaries to every
30:08
Speaker 1: corner of the earth now prosecutes and persecutes people for
30:15
Speaker 1: offending a foreign religion. The ruling class tells itself this
30:20
Speaker 1: is progress, that oppressing Christians, supporting native traditions in the
30:26
Speaker 1: name of diversity is actually enlightenment. But a society that
30:29
Speaker 1: refuses to defend its own religious and cultural foundations will
30:33
Speaker 1: not stay neutral for long. Something else will take its place.
30:38
Speaker 1: And as we're seeing in the UK, that something will
30:41
Speaker 1: not tolerate any kind of differing opinions. Honestly, I think
30:45
Speaker 1: the question is no longer whether Britain will lose its identity,
30:47
Speaker 1: but whether it will even remember as it had one
30:50
Speaker 1: to begin with.
30:52
Speaker 2: And I don't oppose Britain.
30:54
Speaker 1: Islam existing in Saudi Arabia and Iran and Afghanistan and
30:59
Speaker 1: places where it is the majority religion. I think if
31:04
Speaker 1: Muslim countries want to be Muslim countries, they have that right.
31:08
Speaker 2: The problem is that we.
31:09
Speaker 1: Have traditionally Christian countries in the West enforcing Islamic anti-blasphemy
31:14
Speaker 1: codes and at the same time persecuting Christians, putting pro-lifers
31:18
Speaker 1: behind bars for silently praying outside abortion clinics. They're is
31:24
Speaker 1: a clear preference to anything contradictory at odds with the
31:31
Speaker 1: Christian foundation of the West. And like I said, it
31:34
Speaker 1: is civilizational suicide. And we're facing the same issue here. Yesterday,
31:39
Speaker 1: dozens of protesters swarmed a Latino neighborhood in Minneapolis after
31:44
Speaker 1: a large force of federal and local authorities wearing tactical
31:49
Speaker 1: gear showed up in the neighborhood and The protesters flocked
31:53
Speaker 1: to the area near a Mexican restaurant and other Latino-owned
31:56
Speaker 1: businesses after seeing live streams that claimed an immigration raid
31:59
Speaker 1: was underway. The problem is that this wasn't an immigration raid.
32:04
Speaker 1: And local authorities were actually handling a criminal case that
32:08
Speaker 1: reportedly involved drug trafficking and money laundering. Here are the
32:12
Speaker 1: protesters attacking the officers. So essentially they're preventing them from
32:28
Speaker 1: doing their job. They're throwing their bodies in front of,
32:32
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe.
32:33
Speaker 2: The restaurant, the road. They're really.
32:36
Speaker 3: Yeah.
32:44
Speaker 1: So they're making the job of the officers obviously impossible.
32:48
Speaker 1: No arrests were made related to the drugs and money laundering,
32:51
Speaker 1: but a few protesters were at least temporarily detained. But
32:54
Speaker 1: right or not, what does this tell you about our country?
32:58
Speaker 1: That we have people willing to get in the way
33:01
Speaker 1: and fight back against law enforcement over deportations. Fight law
33:06
Speaker 1: enforcement just because they think maybe officers are arresting illegals,
33:11
Speaker 1: even though in this case they weren't.
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Speaker 2: To me, it says that we are.
33:14
Speaker 1: A country that's signed its death warrant.
33:16
Speaker 2: This is national suicide. And at the same time.
33:20
Speaker 1: Guys, I do see stories every day that make me
33:25
Speaker 1: still long on America, as Dan Bongino would say.
33:28
Speaker 2: This story broke last night.
33:31
Speaker 1: Christian McGee is finally going to receive restitution for the
33:37
Speaker 1: abuse that he endured at the hands of a school
33:42
Speaker 1: district in North Carolina. So last year, 16-year-old North Carolina
33:48
Speaker 1: student Christian McGee was suspended for three days after using
33:52
Speaker 1: the term illegal alien in an English assignment because it was, quote,
33:57
Speaker 1: offensive and disrespectful. Here is a school administrator at the
34:02
Speaker 1: time justifying Christian's suspension to his mother, Leah.
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Speaker 2: Take a listen.
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Speaker 4: He swears to me he wasn't trying to be intentionally
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Speaker 4: rude by asking that, So I talked to him about
34:14
Speaker 4: asking that question by saying the illegal alien versus, oh,
34:20
Speaker 4: are those those people that need a green card? Like
34:22
Speaker 4: there's respectful ways of asking that question and there are
34:25
Speaker 4: very disrespectful ways of asking that question. And I agree
34:32
Speaker 4: the three days out of school is harsh, but it's
34:35
Speaker 4: a line we drew in August. And even though it
34:39
Speaker 4: hurt to give him that, because I didn't want to
34:41
Speaker 4: go there with, But we decided that in August, and
34:45
Speaker 4: if I don't give him that, then I'm being unfair
34:47
Speaker 4: to the 15 other kids that have served that up
34:50
Speaker 4: until now for saying the N-word or anything else under
34:55
Speaker 4: the sun that's racially charged that creates a disruption in
34:58
Speaker 4: the classroom.
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Speaker 1: Okay, so the term illegal alien is, I guess, racially
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Speaker 1: charged and akin to the N-word. So yesterday we learned
35:08
Speaker 1: that this student, Christian, will receive $ 20, 000 and a public
35:13
Speaker 1: apology from the Davidson County Board of Education after they
35:17
Speaker 1: falsely accused him of racial bias. This is part of
35:21
Speaker 1: a settlement reached by the school board and Christian's parents,
35:24
Speaker 1: Leah and Chad, who sued the Davidson County School District
35:30
Speaker 1: Board of Education last spring for inventing a racial incident
35:34
Speaker 1: out of thin air and violating a student's right to
35:39
Speaker 1: free speech and punishing him for that invention. So he is, again,
35:45
Speaker 1: I can't believe that this had to happen, but it
35:47
Speaker 1: did have to happen. Like this kid did nothing wrong.
35:50
Speaker 1: He used the term illegal alien and they lashed out
35:54
Speaker 1: because there's a subset of people in this country who
35:56
Speaker 1: want to normalize the border invasion that took place over
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Speaker 1: the last four years. It has nothing to do with bigotry.
36:02
Speaker 1: Using the term illegal alien is not wrong and evil.
36:05
Speaker 1: It's not akin to the N-word. Let's be real here.
36:08
Speaker 1: What is happening is there are people who want to
36:10
Speaker 1: normalize the invasion at our border. They hate the idea
36:14
Speaker 1: of national sovereignty and national identity. They want to flood
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Speaker 1: our country with people who don't share our values. And
36:20
Speaker 1: they want to, in high quantities, overwhelm the native population
36:25
Speaker 1: of Americans because they actually hate who we are as
36:28
Speaker 1: a people. You can see just in the way they operate.
36:31
Speaker 1: They have a hatred of the Constitution, of our founding documents.
36:34
Speaker 1: In 2020, they spent a whole summer tearing down statues
36:37
Speaker 1: of George Washington. They hate this country. They vandalize Plymouth
36:43
Speaker 1: Rock every single year on Thanksgiving. The idea is that
36:48
Speaker 1: we are inherently racist, we're inherently regressive, and so we
36:52
Speaker 1: need to be replaced.
36:53
Speaker 2: That's the purpose here.
36:55
Speaker 1: And you're not allowed to use the term illegal alien
36:57
Speaker 1: because it will send signals to what they're doing, creating
37:03
Speaker 1: an invasion at our border. They don't want us to
37:05
Speaker 1: talk like that. They don't want us to be in
37:07
Speaker 1: the business of self-preservation because they are in the business
37:11
Speaker 1: of destruction. But I think if we let ourselves be
37:15
Speaker 1: bullied by their intimidation tactics, their shaming, then you automatically lose.
37:20
Speaker 1: And we have to fight back like Chad and Leah
37:22
Speaker 1: and Christian.
37:22
Speaker 2: We just have to. It is the only way.
37:25
Speaker 1: We are living in a civilization that is actively hollowing
37:29
Speaker 1: itself out, erasing its religious roots, criminalizing dissent, outsourcing authority.
37:34
Speaker 1: to unelected tech lords and bureaucrats. I think whether it's
37:38
Speaker 1: Palantir digitally synthesizing everything about you, AI chatbots posing as
37:43
Speaker 1: soulmates or secular courts in Britain and forcing Islamic theocracy,
37:47
Speaker 1: the same underlying force is at work, a regime that
37:50
Speaker 1: hates and really fears its own people, Western civilization and
37:55
Speaker 1: the people that make up it. The state isn't just
37:58
Speaker 1: surveilling dissidents, it's pathologizing them. If you love your country,
38:02
Speaker 1: you question mass immigration or cling to traditional values, you
38:05
Speaker 1: are not.
38:06
Speaker 2: A citizen anymore.
38:07
Speaker 1: You're a problem to be managed. And there's another current
38:10
Speaker 1: running alongside all this, a rising resistance.
38:14
Speaker 2: We saw it in Poland over the weekend.
38:16
Speaker 1: By the way, John Daniel Davidson has a great article
38:18
Speaker 1: on what happened in Poland. We can cover it more
38:20
Speaker 1: deeply tomorrow. But there is also a vibe shift happening.
38:24
Speaker 1: We talked about this with Emily yesterday on the podcast.
38:27
Speaker 2: You see it in parents like Chad and Leah.
38:29
Speaker 1: People refusing to disappear into the data stream, refusing to
38:33
Speaker 1: bow to a regime that calls their faith extremism and
38:36
Speaker 1: their heritage hate, you just got to say no, even
38:39
Speaker 1: if it's on our own side when it comes to
38:41
Speaker 1: things like predictive policing, thought crimes, empty simulations of community,
38:46
Speaker 1: and a system that replaces humanity with technocratic control. If
38:49
Speaker 1: we want to stay human, if we want to stay free,
38:52
Speaker 1: we have to remember that some lines should never be crossed, and.
38:56
Speaker 2: Some stones, no matter how powerful, We're never meant to
38:59
Speaker 2: be looked into.
39:01
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