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CNN Defends Feds Who Put Tulsi on Terror Watch List (Ep.92) · V

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  Speaker 1: Good morning and welcome to Bongino Report Early Edition. Trump
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  Speaker 1: picks a COVID, a pro-COVID censorship surgeon general. The new
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  Speaker 1: treasury secretary is a former Soros executive. Incoming Attorney General
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  Speaker 1: Pam Bondi supports red flag laws. Trump announces January 6th pardons.
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  Speaker 2: Will be made on a case-by-case basis.
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  Speaker 1: Renowned budget hawk named Director of Office of Management and Budget,
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  Speaker 1: CNN defends the feds who put Tulsi Gabbard on a
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  Speaker 1: terror watch list. Hallmark beats CNN and MSNBC's viewership. And
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  Speaker 1: Elon Musk plans to make X a center of users'
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  Speaker 1: financial world. All this on Bongina Report, early edition. A
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  Speaker 1: I think in the past when I've done shows, there's
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  Speaker 1: been a little bit of confusion about my intentions as
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  Speaker 1: we talk about this new coming admin. The Trump administration
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  Speaker 1: represents an incredible opportunity.
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  Speaker 2: You guys all know this.
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  Speaker 1: Hopefully most of you voted for him over Kamala Harris.
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  Speaker 1: Trump has made really ambitious decisions. good promises to the
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  Speaker 1: American people, the release of files on the death of RFK, 9-11, Epstein,
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  Speaker 1: an America-first foreign policy, the revival of American energy and manufacturing,
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  Speaker 1: cutting government waste, curbing spending, enacting mass deportations to empower
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  Speaker 1: both the people and the economy. And these bold commitments
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  Speaker 1: have really built a diverse MAGA community. MAGA, sorry, I
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  Speaker 1: say MAGA, MAGA Coalition, and sparked a genuine populist movement
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  Speaker 1: at the ballot box. He's transformed, fundamentally, the Republican Party.
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  Speaker 1: But electing Trump is really just the beginning. It's not
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  Speaker 1: the time for us to just sit back and relax
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  Speaker 1: and think everything's totally fine, we elected Trump, we're all
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  Speaker 1: good now. The success of this administration, without a doubt,
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  Speaker 1: hinges on the quality of its personnel. And it's up
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  Speaker 1: to us, the people who voted for Trump, to ensure
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  Speaker 1: that the new admin stays accountable to the promises that
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  Speaker 1: we fought for and that we voted for. So when
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  Speaker 1: scrutinizing Trump's appointees, it's essential for you to understand that
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  Speaker 1: any criticisms I give, it's not rooted in malice at all.
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  Speaker 1: It's actually fueled by a commitment to honesty with all
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  Speaker 1: of you and a commitment to seeing the changes that
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  Speaker 1: we voted for fully realized in these next four years.
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  Speaker 1: And so with that, let's talk about the new Surgeon General.
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  Speaker 1: Trump nominated Dr. Jeanette Neshawat as.
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  Speaker 2: The new U.S. Surgeon General.
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  Speaker 1: And Jeanette opposes pro-life laws. She has also, and this
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  Speaker 1: really gets me, advocated for COVID tyranny. Here she is
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  Speaker 1: praising Facebook for censoring content about vaccine-related injuries.
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  Speaker 2: Take a listen.
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  Speaker 3: First of all, vaccines save lives, and I am so excited,
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  Speaker 3: and I thank and I commend Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg
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  Speaker 3: for taking action because this affects everyone. This affects our children.
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  Speaker 2: It affects adults. I mean, just look at the recent
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  Speaker 2: measles outbreak.
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  Speaker 3: The biggest outbreak that we've had.
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  Speaker 4: In decades with measles, and that's no joke. Measles can
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  Speaker 4: cause brain inflammation and pneumonia and ear infections and hearing
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  Speaker 4: loss and death, so it's about time that they are
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  Speaker 4: taking action, and I hope and pray that other social
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  Speaker 4: media platforms platforms will follow.
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  Speaker 2: Suit and do the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: And now she mentioned other vaccines in there, but the
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  Speaker 1: context of this segment was during the COVID years, and
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  Speaker 1: it was censorship of content related to the COVID vaccines.
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  Speaker 1: And this is really distressing on a lot of levels. Mitochorditis,
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  Speaker 1: heart inflammation, is a risk of mRNA vaccines, particularly in
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  Speaker 1: younger males. And there are a lot of studies pointing
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  Speaker 1: to the unspoken risks of these experimental COVID vaccines. For example,
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  Speaker 1: 98% of people in King County, Washington, which includes Seattle,
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  Speaker 1: took at least one COVID shot. And a peer-reviewed study
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  Speaker 1: recently found that there was a 1,230% surge in excess
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  Speaker 1: heart attack deaths among King County's 2.2 million residents in 2023.
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  Speaker 1: compared to 2020 before the vaccine was rolled out. Anecdotally,
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  Speaker 1: I know a young man who was told if.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't get faxed, he couldn't play football.
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  Speaker 1: The young man got the jab because he really wanted
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  Speaker 1: to play.
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  Speaker 2: It was his senior year.
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  Speaker 1: And he collapsed on the field from cardiac arrest. He
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  Speaker 1: now has myocarditis. And by the way, he was out
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  Speaker 1: for the rest of the season. So he wanted to
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  Speaker 1: play football. He took the jab because he wanted to
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  Speaker 1: be in the sport for his last year. And then
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  Speaker 1: he was out for the season. I know another young
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  Speaker 1: man who didn't want to be kicked out of the military.
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  Speaker 1: He took the jab and now he has myocarditis. Countless
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  Speaker 1: women have had their menstrual cycles disrupted by the vaccines.
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  Speaker 1: And we have no idea what the long-term effects of
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  Speaker 1: these experimental jabs are on anyone because, again, there hasn't
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  Speaker 1: been enough time. And they were just blanketly mandated on
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  Speaker 1: the public with no long-term effects really known, at all known.
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  Speaker 1: A friend of mine was vaccine injured. with long-term flu-like
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  Speaker 1: symptoms from the Pfizer jab, her doctor confirmed that she
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  Speaker 1: had been vaccine injured and she was actually expelled from
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  Speaker 1: her university for refusing to take the booster despite her
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  Speaker 1: initial injury. And had there been censorship, had there not
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  Speaker 1: been censorship, like what people like Janet advocated for, citizens
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  Speaker 1: would have been empowered with knowledge to make informed decisions
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  Speaker 1: about whether they wanted to take the vaccine or not.
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  Speaker 1: We would have known about who was actually at risk
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  Speaker 1: from this COVID virus. It's now known widely that young children,
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  Speaker 1: young people, are not really at risk at all. It's
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  Speaker 1: very comparable to the risk that the seasonal flu poses
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  Speaker 1: to young people.
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  Speaker 2: Really, only.
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  Speaker 1: Older individuals with comorbidities were at risk, but we weren't
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  Speaker 1: allowed to talk about that at the time. There was
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  Speaker 1: so much gaslighting.
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  Speaker 2: Around this virus, around the.
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  Speaker 1: Preventative efforts around vaccines. It was stifling. It was almost
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  Speaker 1: like a chokehold on public discourse. And never is it
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  Speaker 1: okay to censor or shadow ban people or certain opinions.
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  Speaker 1: That is what we have the First Amendment for. We
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  Speaker 1: have it for a reason. But perhaps more than any
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  Speaker 1: other time in American history, during COVID, we needed freedom
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  Speaker 1: of discourse in the digital public square, and we did
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  Speaker 1: not have that because of the advocacy of people like Janet,
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  Speaker 1: which is a problem. Another Trump appointee was Scott Besant,
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  Speaker 1: who has been named the new Treasury Secretary. Scott was
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  Speaker 1: formerly a senior executive at the European division of George
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  Speaker 1: Soros's Financial Management Fund. And he played a key role
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  Speaker 1: in George Soros' famous 1992 short sale of the British pound,
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  Speaker 1: also known as Black Wednesday. And this was when Soros
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  Speaker 1: bet against the British pound, ultimately profiting from the pound's
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  Speaker 1: devaluation when the UK was forced to exit the European
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  Speaker 1: exchange rate mechanism.
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  Speaker 2: And this, of course, was.
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  Speaker 1: A disaster for the UK, leading to a sharp devaluation
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  Speaker 1: of the pound and costing the country billions.
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  Speaker 2: But George Soros, he made a lot of money.
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  Speaker 1: Scott left the Soros Fund management in 2011, but he
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  Speaker 1: returned in 2013 and worked as Soros' chief investment officer
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  Speaker 1: from 2013 to 2016. And today, Scott owns his own
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  Speaker 1: hedge fund, Keysquare Group, which employs mostly George Soros alum,
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  Speaker 1: and it was heavily financed by George Soros himself. So
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  Speaker 1: in other words, Scott owes pretty much his entire career
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  Speaker 1: to George Soros. So take that with that what you will.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just giving you guys the information here about this man.
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  Speaker 1: And then we have Pam Bondi, who we covered last week.
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  Speaker 1: Pam has tacitly supported red flag laws, which is when
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  Speaker 1: a family member, law enforcement officer, or basically any random
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  Speaker 1: individual can claim that you are a danger to yourself
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  Speaker 1: or to others in the petition to court to confiscate
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  Speaker 1: your firearms in an expedited process. In 2013, Pam defended
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  Speaker 1: the state's law that prohibits people from openly carrying weapons.
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  Speaker 1: And Pam also defended the legislature's gun control measures passed
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  Speaker 1: in the wake of the Parkland shooting, which included a
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  Speaker 1: provision that outlawed anyone younger than 21 from buying a
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  Speaker 1: rifle or a shotgun.
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  Speaker 2: So I wouldn't say actually.
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  Speaker 1: That Pam Bondi is some kind of gun grabber. She's
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  Speaker 1: not anti-Second Amendment. That would not be true. But I
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  Speaker 1: also would not define her as a staunch defender of
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  Speaker 1: the Second Amendment either.
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  Speaker 2: And just thinking out loud.
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  Speaker 1: Here, I'll say that, you know, for me, it's not
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  Speaker 1: that I fear Pam Bondi, or that I think she's
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  Speaker 1: even comparable to Merrick Garland, who is evil. He is
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  Speaker 1: an evil man. But I do believe that every one
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  Speaker 1: of these nominees, including Pam and Scott and Janet, they're
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  Speaker 1: up against a machine, a machine that is made up
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  Speaker 1: of snakes in the permanent state and the heavy-handed influence
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  Speaker 1: of corporate America. And these forces want to monetarily and
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  Speaker 1: even physically weaken the population. They hate the Constitution.
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  Speaker 2: They hate any kind of transparency.
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  Speaker 1: And they prefer a submissive, unarmed populace that's nothing more
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  Speaker 1: than a tax base and a workforce.
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  Speaker 2: And if you're going to resist that, you need to
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  Speaker 2: be strong in your convictions.
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  Speaker 1: We want an executive that respects our rights. like the
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  Speaker 1: Second Amendment. And we want to, for example, know the
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  Speaker 1: truth about really opaque issues like January 6th. We want
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  Speaker 1: to know the truth about the pipe bomber. How many
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  Speaker 1: federal agents were present on that day and what role
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  Speaker 1: do they play? Whoever the new FBI director is and
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  Speaker 1: Pam Bondi as AG, they're going to play a role
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  Speaker 1: in deciding the fate of the January Sixers and unveiling
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  Speaker 1: the truth of what happened that day. And I hope
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  Speaker 1: and pray that they have the personal willpower to do
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  Speaker 1: what's right on all of these issues, including that one.
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  Speaker 1: And with that, I want to talk about some new
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  Speaker 1: news related to January 6th.
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  Speaker 2: Just recently, we.
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  Speaker 1: Learned that Trump spokeswoman Caroline Leavitt said that Trump plans
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  Speaker 1: to make January 6th pardon decisions on a case-by-case basis.
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  Speaker 1: So no blanket pardon for all the people who have
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  Speaker 1: been smeared as insurrectionists or had their lives destroyed by
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  Speaker 1: the weaponized Biden administration. And a lot of people have
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  Speaker 1: responded to this news very negatively, saying that he's.
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  Speaker 2: Not going to fulfill his promise.
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  Speaker 1: He's not going to actually exonerate and pardon all the
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  Speaker 1: January Sixers. I'm reserving judgment. This news doesn't mean only
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  Speaker 1: a handful of people are going to be pardoned. We
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  Speaker 1: don't know what it means yet. It's case by case.
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  Speaker 1: So we have to wait and see. But I will
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  Speaker 1: add that a lot of January Sixers who may have
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  Speaker 1: deserved disorderly conduct charges had the book thrown at them.
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  Speaker 1: maximum sentencing with additional charges of things like conspiracy, assault
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  Speaker 1: of law enforcement officers, destruction of property that were not
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  Speaker 1: actually justified. And these defendants weren't even allowed to defend
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  Speaker 1: themselves in court because surveillance footage of that day is
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  Speaker 1: currently still being kept hidden from the public by the government.
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  Speaker 1: So I hope that true justice prevails. I think Trump
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  Speaker 1: wants to do right by the January Sixers. And I'd
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  Speaker 1: encourage everyone to just wait. What I want to do
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  Speaker 1: here on the show really is not rage bait with
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  Speaker 1: all of you. I think there's a lot of that
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  Speaker 1: on the internet right now. A lot of people black
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  Speaker 1: pilling on this administration, getting worked up about things that
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  Speaker 1: are really just speculation at this point. I want to
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  Speaker 1: first and foremost just give you the information. Sometimes it's
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  Speaker 1: worth criticizing the admin and demanding that the promises that
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  Speaker 1: were made be kept. And other times it's fair to
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  Speaker 1: just wait and see how things play out. And with that,
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  Speaker 1: we do.
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  Speaker 2: Have some good news.
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  Speaker 1: Russ Vought, the renowned budget hawk, was named the director
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  Speaker 1: of the Office of Management and Budget. He was, of course,
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  Speaker 1: Trump's previous director of OMB, and he worked tirelessly to
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  Speaker 1: root out critical race theory curriculum being used by the
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  Speaker 1: federal agencies. He's a strong advocate of decentralizing power from Washington,
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  Speaker 1: and he's just.
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  Speaker 2: All around a good guy.
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  Speaker 1: In some other good news, libertarian icon Ron Paul is
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  Speaker 1: officially joining Vivek and Elon Musk to cut waste with Doge.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Mikey's excited about that.
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  Speaker 1: Mikey identifies as a libertarian, so he's very excited about
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  Speaker 1: Ron Paul advising this administration. I'll also say this about
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  Speaker 1: these new nominees.
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  Speaker 2: They've got some skin in the game.
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  Speaker 1: How many weird politicians and bureaucrats do we know that
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  Speaker 1: run this country are childless, very strange individuals? People that
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  Speaker 1: have bizarre personal lives, don't have any children, and make terrible,
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  Speaker 1: terrible decisions for this country. And this new admin has
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people with a lot of kids, which
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  Speaker 1: I think is a really good sign.
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  Speaker 2: Trump has five children.
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  Speaker 4: J.D.
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  Speaker 1: Vance has three. RFK has seven children. Pete Hexeth has
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  Speaker 1: seven children.
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  Speaker 2: Marco Rubio, four. Elon Musk, 12. My dad, Sean Duffy, nine.
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  Speaker 2: I'm one of them. Ratcliffe, four. Doug Burgum, three. Noam, three. Waltz, three.
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  Speaker 1: So Michael says my dad has been dethroned, but that's
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  Speaker 1: actually not fair because my dad has only had children
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  Speaker 1: with my mother. Elon Musk has had several baby mamas.
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  Speaker 1: So he has a lot of children, but not all
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  Speaker 1: with the same woman. So I feel like that should
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  Speaker 1: make them maybe at least even, even though Elon Musk
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  Speaker 1: has more children.
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  Speaker 2: So that's just my two cents there.
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  Speaker 1: But this administration isn't, I believe, going to be flippant
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  Speaker 1: with the future of this country like the last administration
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  Speaker 1: has been because they have children. They care about what
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  Speaker 1: they're going to leave behind for this next generation. And
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  Speaker 1: I think that's something to be really hopeful about. Now,
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  Speaker 1: we've been discussing on the show for a while now
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  Speaker 1: that Tulsi Gabbard, one of the appointees, was, according to whistleblowers,
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  Speaker 1: placed on the DHS's Quiet Skies secret terror watch list.
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  Speaker 1: And it really impacted the way that she flew. She
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  Speaker 1: had people standing next to her, watching her on the
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  Speaker 1: flight that she knew were federal agents. She had extra
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  Speaker 1: screening when she was going through TSA. And now CNN,
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  Speaker 1: months later, is confirming that Gabbard was placed on the list,
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  Speaker 1: but not because of her political convictions, as Tulsi Gabbard
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  Speaker 1: has believed and the rest of us have been suggesting.
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  Speaker 2: According to CNN, it supposedly happened because, and.
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  Speaker 1: This is a quote from the article, her overseas travel
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  Speaker 1: pattern and foreign connections were triggered a government algorithm earlier
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  Speaker 1: this year, according to three sources familiar with the matter.
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  Speaker 1: Three sources familiar with the matter. But we don't know
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  Speaker 1: who those sources are. Notice how the blame is on
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  Speaker 1: the algorithm. And the evidence that it's just an algorithm
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  Speaker 1: is three anonymous, presumably government sources, just telling CNN, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: this is what happened. The article is fascinating because It
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  Speaker 1: reports on the story as if CNN is breaking the information,
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  Speaker 1: even though, like I said, we've been talking about this
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  Speaker 1: for months, and it gives only the perspective of unnamed
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  Speaker 1: government officials. Basically, what we're looking at is PR for
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  Speaker 1: the government before Trump gets inaugurated and this whole scandal
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  Speaker 1: is totally exposed. CNN goes on to state that Gabbard
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  Speaker 1: was quickly removed from the list. a little-known program called
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  Speaker 1: Quiet Skies, after going public with claims that she had
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  Speaker 1: been added to a secret terror watch list. A federal
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  Speaker 1: official familiar with the program told CNN, there are specified
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  Speaker 1: criteria for removing or adding individuals and that no one
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  Speaker 1: is removed from the list because of public statements they make.
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  Speaker 1: Gabbard has claimed she was put on the list because
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  Speaker 1: she had criticized then-presidential candidate Kamala Harris in an interview
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  Speaker 1: with Fox News, something two of the sources flatly denied
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  Speaker 1: had anything to do with it.
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  Speaker 3: Sure.
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  Speaker 1: Just like the FBI didn't infiltrate and spy on traditional
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  Speaker 1: Catholic churches.
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  Speaker 2: Oh wait, they did do that.
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  Speaker 1: This is just so ridiculous. These people are such hacks.
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  Speaker 1: You want to know why the government tells Google to
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  Speaker 1: de-boost alternative media? Because CNN and the New York Times,
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  Speaker 1: the Washington Post, MSNBC, all these outlets, they're propaganda mouthpieces
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  Speaker 1: for the state. That was a joke of an article.
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  Speaker 1: But this is what counts as journalism at CNN. The
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  Speaker 1: article literally says, months after the story broke, that right
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  Speaker 1: before Trump's about to take office and the feds can't
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  Speaker 1: deny this anymore, oh wait, the feds didn't put Tulsi
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  Speaker 1: Gabbard on a terror watch list because of political speech.
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  Speaker 1: Trust us, we asked the feds. But did you see
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  Speaker 1: how ridiculous that is?
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  Speaker 2: She didn't, no, it wasn't political speech. We just, we
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  Speaker 2: asked the feds about it.
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  Speaker 1: We're about to get in trouble and they told us
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  Speaker 1: it was totally ridiculous. unpoliticized.
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  Speaker 2: It was just an algorithm. Ridiculous.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of the corporate media, they are bleeding viewers right now.
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  Speaker 2: Per Forbes, Hallmark.
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  Speaker 1: Beat CNN and MSNBC in viewers last week. And of course,
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  Speaker 1: we discussed last week that Rachel Maddow reportedly took a
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  Speaker 1: $ 5 million pay cut this year. And Comcast is putting
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  Speaker 1: MSNBC up for sale, to which Elon Musk responded on X,
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  Speaker 1: how much? essentially saying that he is considering buying MSNBC,
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  Speaker 1: which would be very funny. And then Joe Rogan responded
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  Speaker 1: to this proposition by saying to Elon, if you buy MSNBC,
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  Speaker 1: I would like Rachel Maddow's job. I will wear the
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  Speaker 1: same outfit and glasses and I will tell the same lies.
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  Speaker 1: And Elon Musk said, deal. Can you guys imagine if
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  Speaker 1: Elon actually bought MSNBC and then Joe Rogan did a
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  Speaker 1: joke of a show mocking Rachel Maddow, the libs would
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  Speaker 1: lose their mind. Just like they lost their minds over Twitter.
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  Speaker 1: We really owe Elon Musk a lot. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: that Trump would have stood a chance in this election
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  Speaker 1: if it wasn't for the free flow of information on X.
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  Speaker 1: Think about how it destroyed the 2020 election with the
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  Speaker 1: censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop story. Essentially the government
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  Speaker 1: has a monopoly or had a monopoly on information And
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  Speaker 1: the corporate legacy media was the end-all be-all of truth.
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  Speaker 1: But Elon Musk destroyed the chokehold that the government censorship
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: regime had on public discourse before he bought X. Today,
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: the news and all the hot takes, they're on Twitter
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: long before CNN and MSNBC even get out the news.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's like we are eons ahead of the
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: corporate media.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: And with community notes, I'd argue that it's generally a
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: lot more accurate than the corporate media.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: So we owe Elon Musk a lot. Truly, we do.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: But just like everything, we have to think about Elon
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: Musk critically, which brings me to my next story. Elon
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: Musk has long talked about making X its user's entire
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: financial world. Last year, Elon told employees during a leaked
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: call that, quote, if it involves money, it'll be on
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: our platform, money or securities or whatever.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: You won't need a bank account.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: And Elon has said that he hopes this new feature,
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: however it manifests, would be rolled out by the end
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: of this year, which is fast approaching. And in a
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: post yesterday, Doge Designer, a friend of Elon Musk, tweeted
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: out a picture of a credit card with X on
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: it and the caption, X payments will do to banks
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: what Tesla did to legacy auto. And this is not
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: a good thing. We do not want a social media
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: platform connected to our financial information. You certainly don't want
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: it to be the center of your financial world, as
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: Elon Musk has said. All this means is more centralized
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: control of our money and a gateway to social credit.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: Deplatformed or shadowbanned could suddenly mean debanked too. You don't
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: want to be dependent on one platform for everything. And
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: you might say, oh, well, Elon Musk, he's a great guy.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: He would never do that. Look at how they arrested
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: and bullied the owner of Telegram into submission.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: If the U.S.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: Government or even another globalist force wants to use X
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: for nefarious purposes, they will do it. They will find
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: a way. And they will go around or through Elon
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: Musk to get what they want.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: It's just the way that the world works.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: And again, I have a lot of faith in Elon Musk.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: I don't think he's a bad person. I don't think
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: he has malicious aims. But to actively connect your financial
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: information to your social media is very scary.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: It's scary as it is.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: The government demanded that banks share personal information on January Sixers.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: People involved in the truckers protests in Canada had their
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: accounts frozen at the direction of Justin Trudeau. Imagine your
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: finances connected to whatever you post on social media. At
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: least now there's a chance that the account is not
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: actually you or you have an anonymous name connected to it.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: So you can't be financially punished for wrong think. You're
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: just giving them the information they need to say, oh yeah, actually,
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: Avita Duffy is Avita Duffy on X, and we actually
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: have our banking information. We can really financially punish her
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: for saying things we don't like. Already, if you sign
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: up for X Premium, you not only share your bank account,
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: but you also share your ID to your profile, attach
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: your ID to your profile. And when you sign up
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: for subscriptions on X, you're asked to give up your
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: biometric data, meaning a photo of your face, to the
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: Israeli company AU10TIX.
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: Why?
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: Investigative journalist Whitney Webb warns that you should never give
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: a social media platform your ID. The NSA and signal
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: intelligence agencies already know who you are, but it's tricky
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: to prosecute an anon account for online speech if the
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: means of finding out who operates the account is illegal.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: Give the site your ID and dox yourself. It will
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: make their job a lot easier. Elon Musk can do
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: good things, but an everything app primed to be abused
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: by by ushering in Orwellian-style social credit is bad news.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: All right, I'm.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: Going to come back to that in a second. But first,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: we need to cover this new Wicked movie. Wicked, of course,
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: is the Broadway musical spinoff of the Wizard of Oz
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: story that has now been made into a movie featuring
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande. And for whatever reason, these
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: two women keep getting incredibly popular. emotional during their press
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: tours for the part one movie remake of a musical
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: spin-off of a story that's been already remade a dozen times.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: I can't explain why. Here's an example of what I'm
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: talking about.
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: Um... Well.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: Got a little bit of her softness.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: And she's got.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: Her strength. A little bit of my strength.
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: Michael.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: If you're listening, they're just like touching their face and
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: wiping tears away.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: He was out there at school my whole life. Hand
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: over the mouth. They're just getting very emotional. This film
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: means so much to me.
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: There are so many millions of kids like me who
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: find refuge in the witches.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: And I just want to let you know. No, your
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: phone has to stop.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: Sorry.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: Sorry, I'm so sorry. Oh my goodness. Not the time, helicopter.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: whoa stop don't do it don't do it stop you
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: guys you can't leave you're.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: Really sorry there's a lot of crying there's a lot
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: of crying in all of these movie promotion interviews and
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: one interview in particular has gone mega viral take a listen.
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: Scene um This week, people are taking the lyrics of
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: Defying Gravity and really holding space with that and feeling
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: power in that.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: I didn't know that that was happening.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: I've seen it, yeah. That's really powerful. That's why I
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: want it.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: I didn't know that was happening.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: I've seen it on a couple posts. I don't know
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: how widespread, but, you know, I am in queer media.
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: So that's my, you know, cool. Yeah.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: I don't know what's crazier about that video.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: The interviewer saying people are holding space, whatever that means
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: with the song defying gravity, Cynthia getting super dramatic as
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: if she actually wrote the song herself, which she did not.
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: It's like 20 years old. How self-important was that?
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: Ariana Grande stroking Cynthia's fingers to like comfort her or
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: the queer media interviewer.
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: Admitting that it was actually only a couple of posts.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: And the internet, including even liberals, have been commenting on
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: how just out of touch and dramatic this whole exchange was.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: Not to mention, what the hell does holding space mean?
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: What is that?
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: Michael, do you know what holding space means? Holding space,
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: the practice of making space for somebody else's experience and
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: centering them.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: Okay, thank you, Mikey. He says, I still don't know
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: what it means.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: If you've ever been in a college seminar, you have
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: heard terms like holding space. Really, it's just meaningless and
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: insufferable ivory tower jargon. Someone said on TikTok, I don't
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: know how to explain this, but the interviewer saying people
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: are holding space for the lyrics of Defying Gravity and
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: no one having a clue what she's talking about is
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: also the reason liberals lost the election. I won't be
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: elaborating further. And it was a funny post. And I
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: actually think it's kind of insightful. Everybody's commenting right now.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: Stop talking about wicked defying gravity, blah, blah. We need
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: to focus on the real news. This is the real news.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: Listen up you guys, because there's a broader point here.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: There always is.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: Democrats lost horribly with every demo except white college educated people.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: Trump rebranded the Republican party as working class and grounded
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: in real world problems. He emphasized law and order, border.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: Control, economic stability.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: Democrats, on the other hand, leaned into the same kind
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: of bizarre, meaningless, collegiate jargon and talking points, transgender rights, abortion,
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: defunding the police, college lockdowns, border decriminalization, other various social
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: justice initiatives. It was like the party platform was curated
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: on a college campus. full of 20-year-old mindless cultural Marxist bots.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: And a lot of working class voters felt like the
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: Democratic Party was totally irrelevant or even antagonistic to their
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: daily struggles and economic concerns. Now, there are tons of
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: commenters who are saying Democrats need to abandon the fractured
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: identity politics-driven system. progressive agenda and refocus on the working class.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: That has really been the consensus among people who are
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: genuinely interested in some introspection right now.
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: It's not Joy Reid.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: It's not the Morning Joe. It's not a lot of these.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: It's not Rachel Maddow. But there are some genuine left-wing commentators,
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: particularly among young people, who are saying, let's have a
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: populist movement on the left. In other words, abandon race
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: Marxism or good old-fashioned working class Marxism. Again, like I said,
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: populist left-wing movement to oppose the populist right.
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: As J.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: Petter Zane writes in Real Clear Politics, Democrats need their
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: own Trump, a wrecking ball who will challenge the party's dogmas,
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: a disruptive outsider who can force them out of their
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: ideological cul-de-sac. What the left is calling for is collectivism,
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: universal health care, universal basic income, labor rights, environmental justice,
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: wealth redistribution. The prospect is actually terrifying.
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: Just look at the Soviet Union or Cuba.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: The stakes of the next four years could not be higher.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: If President Trump fails to deliver meaningful results for the
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: working class, America risks veering toward a wave of left-wing
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: populism rising from the Democrats' recent defeat. To truly protect
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: the nation's future, Trump must take bold steps against globalism,
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: starting with cutting funding to or even withdrawing from organizations
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: like the WHO and UN, oppose stakeholder capitalism, which isn't
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: real capitalism, it's neo-feudalism, He has to avoid entangling America
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: in unnecessary armed conflicts, particularly in Iran and Ukraine.
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: We cannot afford another foreign war.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: That drains resources and sacrifices lives. Preserving the American dream
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: requires taking a stand against unchecked power of the private
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: equity firms currently buying up all the single family homes
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: in America, making first-time home ownership impossible for the future generation.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: He must also focus on cutting government spending and implementing
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: real solutions to bring down inflation, which continues to literally
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: rob ordinary Americans. The border has to actually be secured
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: with physical barriers and manpower, not through a smart wall,
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: which would infringe on Americans' privacy and pave the way
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: for mass surveillance. No bank bailouts, no bastardizing Bitcoin by
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: turning it into.
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: A reserve currency. There's so much.
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: To be hopeful about with this incoming admin, so much.
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: But these next four years are critical.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: We have to We are in really a pivotal moment.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: President Trump has to deliver on the promises he made
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: and his cabinet must share in his unwavering commitment to
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: those goals. Because if they fail, the alternative from a
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: wiser populist left will be catastrophic.
• 31:46
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