Latest / V / Don’t Trust Zuck (Ep.114)
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Morning and welcome to Bongina Report Early Edition. Mark Zuckerberg
- 0:04Speaker 1: decides to let Meta embrace free expression. Trump eviscerates the
- 0:09Speaker 1: media's J6 gotcha question. Over a hundred Democrats vote against
- 0:16Speaker 1: the Lakin-Riley Act. A new Catholic archbishop condemns mass deportations.
- 0:22Speaker 1: Germany bans a populist anthem. OnlyFans and OnlyFans prostitute harasses
- 0:28Speaker 1: a really wholesome fast food worker, and the sad life
- 0:32Speaker 1: of a creepy millionaire on a journey to never die.
- 0:36Speaker 1: All this on Bongina Report, early edition. I wanted to
- 0:53Speaker 1: start out the show by quickly mentioning these Wind caused
- 0:58Speaker 1: fires in California. More than 4,000 acres of land is
- 1:03Speaker 1: currently burning in Southern California from three wildfires. Firefighters have
- 1:09Speaker 1: not contained apparently any portion of the fires and it's
- 1:13Speaker 1: forced tens of thousands of people to evacuate, including my brother,
- 1:18Speaker 1: his wife, and their infant baby. So prayers to everyone
- 1:22Speaker 1: in California who's affected by this. People are losing everything.
- 1:26Speaker 1: I can't even imagine that. I'm sure people in the chat,
- 1:29Speaker 1: you guys know people who live in California, family, friends
- 1:34Speaker 1: who have been impacted by this. It's a massive swath
- 1:36Speaker 1: of land. Thousands of people are having their lives, frankly,
- 1:41Speaker 1: potentially upended completely by this. Perhaps people are actually dying
- 1:47Speaker 1: as well. We don't know yet. So I told my brother,
- 1:50Speaker 1: I said, I think it's a sign that you need
- 1:51Speaker 1: to come back home. No more California. California is a
- 1:55Speaker 1: dangerous place. It's a scary place, but he's going to
- 1:58Speaker 1: stay there for his job. But I do, I want to,
- 2:00Speaker 1: I wanted to give a shout out to anybody who's
- 2:04Speaker 1: been affected by this, prayers to anyone. It looks, I mean,
- 2:08Speaker 1: it looks terrifying, frankly. So I've been praying for my
- 2:11Speaker 1: brother and his wife and their baby, as I'm sure
- 2:14Speaker 1: many of you are in the chat.
- 2:15Speaker 2: All right.
- 2:16Speaker 1: Facebook is apparently ending its entire fact-checking program. Fact-checking is
- 2:23Speaker 1: dead on Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg has announced a significant overhaul
- 2:27Speaker 1: of meta content moderation policies, opting to end its third
- 2:32Speaker 1: party fact checking program. And this shift includes replacing fact
- 2:37Speaker 1: checkers with a community notes style system, which is very
- 2:40Speaker 1: similar to what you have on X with Elon Musk.
- 2:44Speaker 1: Here is Mark Zuckerberg explaining.
- 2:47Speaker 3: Finally, we're going to work with President Trump to push
- 2:50Speaker 3: back on governments around the and pushing to censor more.
- 2:56Speaker 3: I started building social media to give people a voice.
- 2:58Speaker 3: A lot has happened over the last several years. Assertments
- 3:02Speaker 3: and legacy media have pushed to censor more and more.
- 3:05Speaker 3: A lot of this is clearly political. Recent elections also
- 3:08Speaker 3: feel like a cultural tipping point towards once again prioritizing speech.
- 3:12Speaker 3: We need to get back to our roots and focus
- 3:14Speaker 3: on reducing mistakes, simplifying our policies, and restoring free expression
- 3:19Speaker 3: on our platforms. We're going to get rid of fact-checkers
- 3:22Speaker 3: and replace them with community notes similar to X, starting
- 3:26Speaker 3: in the US. Simplify our content policies and get rid
- 3:28Speaker 3: of a bunch of restrictions on topics like immigration and gender.
- 3:32Speaker 3: We're changing how we enforce our policies. We used to
- 3:34Speaker 3: have filters that scanned for any policy violation. Now, we're
- 3:38Speaker 3: going to focus those filters on tackling illegal and high-severity violations,
- 3:42Speaker 3: bringing back civic content. For a while, the community asked
- 3:46Speaker 3: to see less politics because it was making people stressed.
- 3:49Speaker 1: So we stopped recommending these posts. Stopped recommending right-wing posts.
- 3:52Speaker 3: It's been so difficult over the past four years when
- 3:54Speaker 3: even the U.S. government has pushed for censorship. Now we
- 3:57Speaker 3: have the opportunity to restore free expression. And I am
- 4:00Speaker 3: excited to take it.
- 4:02Speaker 1: Okay. You guys are not going to believe that headline
- 4:08Speaker 1: that the New York Times ran reporting on this. Meta
- 4:13Speaker 1: says fact-checkers were the problem. Fact-checkers rule that false. I mean... Oh,
- 4:22Speaker 1: is that the Stewart? Oh, my goodness, you guys. I
- 4:26Speaker 1: didn't even know this. Michael pointed it out. Stewart Thompson.
- 4:30Speaker 1: The Stewart Thompson, the guy who has been harassing Bongino
- 4:35Speaker 1: Army and then Dan put him in his place before
- 4:39Speaker 1: the break in a very epic way. Yeah, that Stewart.
- 4:43Speaker 4: Wow.
- 4:43Speaker 1: Oh, he's just the worst. Okay.
- 4:45Speaker 5: All right.
- 4:46Speaker 1: Good to know. But, I mean, the headline is just ridiculous.
- 4:49Speaker 1: It's so... I can't. I can't with these people anymore.
- 4:54Speaker 1: The article reads, Mark Zuckerberg, Meta's chief executive, blamed the
- 4:59Speaker 1: company's fact-checking partners for some of Facebook's moderation issues, saying
- 5:03Speaker 1: in a video that fact-checkers have been too politically biased
- 5:05Speaker 1: and have destroyed more trust than they've created. Fact-checking groups
- 5:10Speaker 1: that worked with Meta have taken issue with that characterization,
- 5:15Speaker 1: saying they had no role in deciding what the company
- 5:18Speaker 1: did with the content that was fact-checked. I don't believe
- 5:21Speaker 1: we were doing anything in any form with bias, said
- 5:23Speaker 1: Neil Brown, the president of Pontier Institute, a global nonprofit
- 5:27Speaker 1: that runs PolitiFact. I mean, that we have the New
- 5:32Speaker 1: York Times completely oblivious, Stewart specifically, oblivious to the irony
- 5:38Speaker 1: of this entire story. And these are the trusted sources.
- 5:42Speaker 1: These guys are complete idiots. This is literally how the
- 5:45Speaker 1: article reads. Fact check false. The fact checkers are good.
- 5:50Speaker 1: at fact-checking, fact-checks the fact-checkers. It's just crazy. It's ridiculous.
- 5:58Speaker 1: And chat, I'm going to ask you guys, what do
- 6:01Speaker 1: you think? Do you buy this Zuckerberg transformation? He changed
- 6:05Speaker 1: his hair, changed his outfit. Does he have a chain
- 6:08Speaker 1: around his neck this time, Mikey? He's got the chain
- 6:12Speaker 1: around his neck. He's changing his look. Does that mean
- 6:16Speaker 1: that we now trust him because he's got more vibes?
- 6:20Speaker 1: He grew out his hair. The correct answer is no,
- 6:24Speaker 1: we do not trust Mark Zuckerberg. I don't buy any
- 6:27Speaker 1: of this. Mark Zuckerberg and all the tech oligarchs are
- 6:30Speaker 1: cozying up to Trump right now after years of abusing
- 6:33Speaker 1: Trump and abusing his supporters. I can't, yes, thank you, Michael.
- 6:37Speaker 1: It's just, he just is, he's very ridiculous. I don't
- 6:40Speaker 1: know what he's trying to cosplay as, but this guy
- 6:43Speaker 1: is straight nerd. You can't deny it, Zuckerberg. You can't
- 6:47Speaker 1: run away from it. You are a nerd. We all
- 6:50Speaker 1: see through the facade. You can go and, I don't know,
- 6:55Speaker 1: get somebody to change up your fashion and fix your hair,
- 7:00Speaker 1: but we all know the truth. And I can't even
- 7:05Speaker 1: count the amount of times that a video or an
- 7:08Speaker 1: article of mine has been censored on Instagram or Facebook. Frankly,
- 7:12Speaker 1: myself and everyone who has been censored or fact-checked deserves
- 7:17Speaker 1: compensation from Metta for the defamation that we've endured at
- 7:22Speaker 1: the hands of meta and the partisan fact-checkers. They called
- 7:27Speaker 1: me a liar via this kind of censorship. Mikey, okay.
- 7:34Speaker 1: They called me a liar via this censorship, and they
- 7:39Speaker 1: fact-check people like myself to smear and discredit with false
- 7:45Speaker 1: government propaganda. It is defamation. We are deserved compensation. He
- 7:49Speaker 1: can't just come back and say, oh, now I'm free speech.
- 7:52Speaker 1: It's ridiculous. And Meta, of course, outsourced its censorship to
- 7:56Speaker 1: these fact-checking organizations like NewsGuard and PolitiFact, which received hundreds
- 8:01Speaker 1: of millions of dollars in government grants. So essentially, Meta
- 8:05Speaker 1: has for years been outsourcing censorship to third-party organizations used
- 8:09Speaker 1: by the federal government for the exact purpose of circumventing
- 8:13Speaker 1: the First Amendment and outsourcing censorship. People died because tech
- 8:20Speaker 1: companies like Meta censored COVID vaccine injury testimonies and doctors
- 8:25Speaker 1: like Robert Malone and Jay Bhattacharya. The 2020 election was
- 8:28Speaker 1: rigged because Facebook censored the Hunter Biden laptop story. And again,
- 8:33Speaker 1: does Zuckerberg just think that he can grow out his
- 8:35Speaker 1: hair and everybody's going to forget? I'm not forgetting. You
- 8:38Speaker 1: guys aren't forgetting. You know what else Meta did? Zuckerberg
- 8:42Speaker 1: admitted that His company deliberately blocked pro-life ads from American
- 8:46Speaker 1: groups seeking to influence the abortion referendum in Ireland. I
- 8:51Speaker 1: didn't even know about this story until someone shared it
- 8:54Speaker 1: with me yesterday as I was posting about Zuckerberg's transformation,
- 8:58Speaker 1: supposed transformation. Take a listen to this.
- 9:01Speaker 6: We had an issue in, this is not an American example,
- 9:05Speaker 6: but we had an issue in Ireland. In the last year,
- 9:07Speaker 6: there was a referendum on abortion. And during that election,
- 9:13Speaker 6: leading up to that referendum, a bunch of pro-life American
- 9:17Speaker 6: groups advertised in this Irish, leading up to this Irish election,
- 9:22Speaker 6: to try to influence public opinion there. Then we went
- 9:25Speaker 6: to the Irish and asked folks there, well, how do
- 9:29Speaker 6: you want us to handle this? You have no laws
- 9:31Speaker 6: on the books that are relevant for whether we should
- 9:34Speaker 6: be allowing this kind of speech in your election. And really,
- 9:37Speaker 6: this doesn't feel like the kind of thing that a
- 9:38Speaker 6: private company should be making a decision on. And their
- 9:42Speaker 6: response at the time was, you know, we don't currently
- 9:44Speaker 6: have a law. So you need to make whatever decision
- 9:47Speaker 6: you want to make. We ended up not allowing the ads.
- 9:51Speaker 1: So they didn't even force him. to ban the pro-life ads,
- 9:55Speaker 1: but Zuckerberg took it upon himself to ban the pro-life
- 9:59Speaker 1: message in Ireland ahead of the abortion referendum. There are
- 10:04Speaker 1: so many instances like this of meta annihilating free expression
- 10:11Speaker 1: in order to promote leftism here, but also abroad. As
- 10:17Speaker 1: Molly Hemingway writes, In no way should Zuckerberg be applauded
- 10:21Speaker 1: for claiming to stop some of his draconian censorship that
- 10:24Speaker 1: has nearly destroyed free speech in America. There needs to
- 10:28Speaker 1: be sincere apologies, massive restitution, transparency in the removal of
- 10:32Speaker 1: filters that advantage left-wing press, etc. And I echo that
- 10:37Speaker 1: and want to emphasize that we need compensation too. We need, again,
- 10:42Speaker 1: restitution for the abuses, the slander, the defamation that we
- 10:47Speaker 1: have faced in at the hands of Meta, and frankly,
- 10:51Speaker 1: every other tech company. And Trump has to stay really
- 10:55Speaker 1: clear-eyed about all of these tech oligarchs and their true intentions.
- 11:00Speaker 1: Whatever they lobby for on immigration, foreign policy, it's not
- 11:04Speaker 1: in America's best interests. It's in theirs. Maybe those overlap, sometimes.
- 11:11Speaker 1: Elon Musk is against illegal immigration. I'm also against illegal immigration.
- 11:16Speaker 1: But let's not kid ourselves. that these tech oligarchs are
- 11:19Speaker 1: looking out for anyone other than themselves. These men are
- 11:23Speaker 1: not our friends. They censor us. They spy on us.
- 11:27Speaker 1: They develop dystopian spy technology. So I hope Trump keeps
- 11:35Speaker 1: his sights on who his real friends are. And I
- 11:38Speaker 1: don't think he's forgotten. Here was Trump's response yesterday when
- 11:41Speaker 1: reporters tried to give him a J6 gotcha question.
- 11:45Speaker 3: Officers were injured by rioters on January 6th.
- 11:48Speaker 1: Will you pardon anyone who attacks a police officer?
- 11:51Speaker 7: Well, you know, the only one that was killed was
- 11:54Speaker 7: a beautiful young lady named Ashley Babbitt. She was killed.
- 11:59Speaker 7: And there was actually somebody else that was killed, also
- 12:02Speaker 7: a MAGA person, but people don't give it 100% credibility.
- 12:08Speaker 7: I'm going to find out about it. We're going to
- 12:09Speaker 7: find out. But Ashley Babbitt was killed. She was shot.
- 12:14Speaker 7: She had never been shot. She was shot for no
- 12:18Speaker 7: reason whatsoever. In fact, they say that she was trying
- 12:21Speaker 7: to hold back the crowd, and the crowd was made
- 12:24Speaker 7: up of a lot of different people, so we'll see.
- 12:27Speaker 1: I am so glad that he mentioned Ashley Babbitt. She
- 12:30Speaker 1: is the only person who died because of January 6th,
- 12:33Speaker 1: and she was murdered. She was murdered, and people do
- 12:37Speaker 1: not talk about it enough. There was no justice. Trump
- 12:40Speaker 1: is not entertaining the media's insurrection narrative on J6 for
- 12:43Speaker 1: a second. It's dead in the water. Also notice how
- 12:47Speaker 1: he said a lot of different people at the end.
- 12:51Speaker 1: I think it's pretty safe to assume that he's referring
- 12:53Speaker 1: to the feds. Here's why I say that.
- 12:56Speaker 7: And why didn't they find the bomber, the pipe bomber?
- 12:59Speaker 7: You know, they know who the pipe bomber is. The
- 13:00Speaker 7: FBI knows who it is.
- 13:05Speaker 1: The FBI knows, and they're hiding it for a reason.
- 13:09Speaker 1: If the pipe bomber was a MAGA insurrectionist, we'd know
- 13:13Speaker 1: the identity. Trust me. We know. And we're going to
- 13:17Speaker 1: get to the bottom of Ray Epps, too. Here's Trump
- 13:20Speaker 1: on Ray Epps.
- 13:22Speaker 2: One of the classics was some guy screaming, I think
- 13:25Speaker 2: he's a Fed. I think he's a Fed. It's like
- 13:28Speaker 2: they're looking at this guy, this big, tall guy who's
- 13:33Speaker 2: screaming orders to people, go in, go into the Capitol,
- 13:35Speaker 2: go in. Nothing ever happened. And yet people that We're
- 13:39Speaker 2: barely there. People that never even went in are being,
- 13:42Speaker 2: their lives are being destroyed. It's a terrible, terrible thing.
- 13:47Speaker 1: It was so bizarre the way that the media defended
- 13:51Speaker 1: Ray Epps.
- 13:52Speaker 4: Why?
- 13:52Speaker 1: The man is supposedly a dirty Trump supporter calling for insurrection.
- 13:58Speaker 1: Why defend him? Incessantly defend him. We're going to find
- 14:04Speaker 1: out real soon. We're going to take a quick break
- 14:07Speaker 1: right now. When we come back, I have a lot
- 14:09Speaker 1: of really important stories for you, including Democrats voting against
- 14:15Speaker 1: the Lakin-Riley Act. I can't even believe this happened. It did.
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- 14:57Speaker 2: All right.
- 14:58Speaker 1: You guys know that a focal point of this election
- 15:01Speaker 1: has been illegal immigration and the tragic victim's of illegal immigration.
- 15:07Speaker 1: 22-year-old Lakin Riley was, of course, brutally murdered by an
- 15:11Speaker 1: illegal alien while she was innocently on a run. Yesterday,
- 15:15Speaker 1: the House passed the Lakin Riley Act. Legislation mandates the
- 15:19Speaker 1: detention of illegals who are arrested for theft-related crimes such
- 15:23Speaker 1: as shoplifting. Lakin Riley's Killer was, of course, a member
- 15:29Speaker 1: of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang. The gang is
- 15:32Speaker 1: all over the U.S. these days. And this man had
- 15:37Speaker 1: previously been arrested on theft charges but was released. So
- 15:41Speaker 1: that's why the focus is on theft charges in this bill.
- 15:44Speaker 1: 59 Democrats. 59 voted against the bill. 59 Democrats voted
- 15:52Speaker 1: for another tragedy like the Lincoln-Riley murder. to happen again. Why?
- 16:00Speaker 5: Why?
- 16:01Speaker 1: Who in their right mind would vote against this legislation?
- 16:04Speaker 1: It makes no sense. Really, it's despicable. 159 Democrats voted
- 16:10Speaker 1: against the Lakin-Riley Act, against protecting Americans, potentially protecting their
- 16:15Speaker 1: lives from criminal illegals. And you guys know that I
- 16:21Speaker 1: am Catholic, and I love my Catholic faith, and I
- 16:24Speaker 1: love the Catholic Church, but man.
- 16:27Speaker 1: Sometimes these liberal Catholic bishops are really hard to defend.
- 16:34Speaker 1: Pope Francis recently appointed Cardinal McElroy as Archbishop of Washington,
- 16:39Speaker 1: and Archbishop Elroy decided to say yesterday that mass deportations
- 16:44Speaker 1: are incompatible with Catholic doctrine.
- 16:50Speaker 5: No, they aren't.
- 16:51Speaker 1: And the assertion is entirely absurd today. Given church teachings
- 16:57Speaker 1: and church history, Michael Knowles responded simply with this. It
- 17:02Speaker 1: is a photo of Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand of Spain.
- 17:08Speaker 1: Isabella and Ferdinand, of course, established and supported the Spanish
- 17:12Speaker 1: Inquisition in the late 15th century. The Catholic monarchs, with
- 17:17Speaker 1: the approval of the Pope, sought to unify Spain under Catholicism,
- 17:22Speaker 1: so they expelled Jews and Muslims from to achieve this goal.
- 17:27Speaker 1: The Inquisition is part of Catholic history. It's just history.
- 17:32Speaker 1: And now Cardinal McElroy is going to say that it's
- 17:34Speaker 1: against Catholic faith for Trump to mass deport people who
- 17:39Speaker 1: illegally enter this country, primarily those who have committed violent crimes.
- 17:43Speaker 1: This is, I mean, this is so, this is even,
- 17:45Speaker 1: I mean, the Inquisition was based off of religious grounds.
- 17:49Speaker 1: We're just saying, let's get out the violent criminals who
- 17:51Speaker 1: entered this country illegally. I mean, the Inquisition, again, was
- 17:57Speaker 1: approved by the Pope. By the way, here is what
- 18:01Speaker 1: the late Pope John Paul II had to say about
- 18:05Speaker 1: immigration drawing from church doctrine and history. He says, the
- 18:11Speaker 1: exercise of such a right, that is the right to
- 18:14Speaker 1: immigrate to a particular country, is to be regulated because
- 18:18Speaker 1: practicing it indiscriminately may do harm and be detrimental to
- 18:22Speaker 1: the common good of the community that receives the migrant.
- 18:27Speaker 1: may do harm and be detrimental to the common good
- 18:30Speaker 1: of the community that receives the migrant. He further states that, specifically,
- 18:37Speaker 1: these are the right to have one's own country, to
- 18:39Speaker 1: live freely in one's own country, to live together in
- 18:43Speaker 1: one's own country. We have to access the goods necessary
- 18:48Speaker 1: for a dignified life, to preserve and develop one's ethnic, cultural,
- 18:52Speaker 1: and linguistic heritage to publicly profess one's religion and to
- 18:55Speaker 1: be recognized and treated in all circumstances according to one's
- 19:00Speaker 1: dignity as a human being. Deportations, particularly of criminals, is
- 19:05Speaker 1: not only consistent with the Catholic faith and Catholic history,
- 19:09Speaker 1: it's supported by it. Rhetoric like Cardinal McElroy's is so
- 19:14Speaker 1: disappointing and frankly ignorant. And it's especially... disappointing in the
- 19:22Speaker 1: times that we're living in because Christianity right now is
- 19:24Speaker 1: under assault in the U.S., in the West in general,
- 19:28Speaker 1: because our heritage is deteriorating before our eyes thanks to
- 19:33Speaker 1: decades of mass immigration from the third world, from parts
- 19:37Speaker 1: of the world that don't share our values as Christian Westerners.
- 19:41Speaker 1: The FBI was and potentially still is surveilling traditional Catholics,
- 19:47Speaker 1: smearing them as white supremacists, In the UK, you can
- 19:52Speaker 1: be arrested for praying silently outside an abortion clinic. Church
- 19:58Speaker 1: attendance and belief in God is plummeting, and a lot
- 20:01Speaker 1: of this is being driven by the demoralization sparked by
- 20:03Speaker 1: mass immigration in the West from non-Christian parts of the world.
- 20:08Speaker 1: Our identities are being eroded. Meanwhile, our church leaders joined
- 20:12Speaker 1: the WEF and the federal government and Democrats to rhetorically
- 20:16Speaker 1: aid in our destruction. It is a deep, deep betrayal.
- 20:22Speaker 1: And it's happening, like I said, across the West. Yesterday,
- 20:25Speaker 1: we talked about the massive Pakistani rape network that was
- 20:30Speaker 1: victimizing British girls as young as 11 years old, a
- 20:34Speaker 1: scandal that was covered up by UK authorities, including allegedly
- 20:37Speaker 1: UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer. But I wanted to mention
- 20:41Speaker 1: today Germany. A government commission study revealed that in early 2018,
- 20:47Speaker 1: there was a 10.4% increase in violent crime at the
- 20:51Speaker 1: height of the immigration crisis overseen by German Chancellor Angela Merkel,
- 20:56Speaker 1: who had circumvented EU rules and had effectively opened up
- 21:01Speaker 1: the union's doors to immigrants from Syria and other regions.
- 21:05Speaker 1: 90% of this violent crime increase was attributed to immigrants,
- 21:12Speaker 1: predominantly males between the ages of 14 and 30. Now,
- 21:17Speaker 1: a few months ago, a German politician was convicted of
- 21:22Speaker 1: a hate crime and fined thousands of dollars for sharing
- 21:27Speaker 1: statistics about the disproportionate number of gang rapes committed by immigrants,
- 21:32Speaker 1: specifically Afghan nationals. Yeah, for sharing crime statistics, she was
- 21:39Speaker 1: convicted of a hate crime and fined thousands of dollars. Now,
- 21:43Speaker 1: the politician that I'm talking about was part of the AFD,
- 21:47Speaker 1: the Alternative for Germany Party. And the AFD platform and
- 21:52Speaker 1: its members are predictably smeared as Nazis by leftists everywhere.
- 21:57Speaker 5: That's, of course.
- 21:58Speaker 1: a very serious accusation in Germany. We laugh about it
- 22:02Speaker 1: here in America when people call us Nazis. It's ridiculous.
- 22:05Speaker 1: But in Germany, that accusation carries a historical memory that
- 22:09Speaker 1: really gives it a lot of weight. It makes it
- 22:11Speaker 1: very destructive. And this is, of course, an unfair accusation.
- 22:15Speaker 1: Opposing mass immigration is not equivalent to Nazism. Now, the
- 22:19Speaker 1: AFD has an unofficial theme song. A 1999 Italian dance
- 22:23Speaker 1: techno hit which translates to love always, has been repurposed
- 22:31Speaker 1: for the AFD. The melody of love always is used
- 22:36Speaker 1: in a German chant. It says, Deutschland der Deutschen, Ausländer Raus,
- 22:43Speaker 1: and I'm probably pronouncing it wrong. I don't speak German,
- 22:46Speaker 1: but this translates to Germany for the Germans, foreigners out.
- 22:50Speaker 1: I'm going to play for you guys love always first.
- 22:53Speaker 1: You probably heard this sound before.
- 22:55Speaker 5: It's everywhere.
- 22:58Speaker 1: I mean, you guys get the idea. This is a
- 23:00Speaker 1: very famous song. It's beloved before the AFD repurposed it.
- 23:08Speaker 1: Now I want you to listen to the chant along
- 23:12Speaker 1: with the song. Oh, we don't have the chant? Oh,
- 23:20Speaker 1: Michael's going to get it for us in just a second.
- 23:22Speaker 1: I think it's important for you guys to see how
- 23:24Speaker 1: they're repurposing this song. Now, the song, I mean, again,
- 23:29Speaker 1: this is a regular song. It's just been sort of
- 23:33Speaker 1: symbolic of AFD and a push for populism and identity
- 23:39Speaker 1: in Germany has been widely banned across social media platforms.
- 23:44Speaker 1: The song has even been banned from being played at
- 23:47Speaker 1: the Oktoberfest in Munich and the Austrian Football Association also
- 23:52Speaker 1: decided to ban the song from being used as a
- 23:55Speaker 1: stadium anthem. So Germany for Germans, foreigners out, banned in Germany.
- 24:02Speaker 1: Can't say it. And you guys, I'm a lot more
- 24:07Speaker 1: interested in immigration in America.
- 24:10Speaker 5: I am.
- 24:11Speaker 1: But we also can't deny that there is a global
- 24:15Speaker 1: revolt against weaponized multiculturalism that's destroying Western nations economically and socially.
- 24:24Speaker 1: And if you think The social media censorship is bad here.
- 24:28Speaker 1: I mean, look at what Mark Zuckerberg has done with Meta.
- 24:31Speaker 1: I mean, I laid it out at the beginning of
- 24:32Speaker 1: the show. The EU is a thousand times worse. I mean,
- 24:38Speaker 1: the EU wants to ban X because Elon Musk is
- 24:41Speaker 1: allowing free expression on the platform. Germany doesn't have a
- 24:44Speaker 1: First Amendment. Spain doesn't have a First Amendment. Neither does
- 24:48Speaker 1: the UK. I mean, they have common law, right? And
- 24:51Speaker 1: then that turned into nothingness. And now, I mean, they
- 24:55Speaker 1: are hardly free at all to say what they want.
- 24:58Speaker 1: You could be thrown in jail for retweeting something in
- 25:01Speaker 1: the UK. It's outrageous. I read a story yesterday of
- 25:05Speaker 1: a German young girl who harassed a, she messaged a
- 25:11Speaker 1: man who was convicted of rape, and she actually was
- 25:17Speaker 1: legally in trouble. because she said something rude to a rapist.
- 25:21Speaker 1: I mean, it's gotten so out of hand. I think
- 25:24Speaker 1: we have this video now. Let's play it, Mikey.
- 25:28Speaker 5: All right, we're good with that.
- 25:41Speaker 1: That video was deleted. It was widely condemned. People in
- 25:45Speaker 1: it have been doxxed. I mean, it's It's gotten out
- 25:49Speaker 1: of control. And it's so sad that you can't even
- 25:54Speaker 1: have a theme song go along with a movement for
- 26:00Speaker 1: national identity without being smeared as a Nazi and having
- 26:02Speaker 1: the song banned all across the country. It's outrageous. We
- 26:06Speaker 1: have more access to that song than they do in Germany.
- 26:12Speaker 1: And wanting to preserve one's identity is not Nazi and
- 26:16Speaker 1: it's not evil. As John Paul II said, people have
- 26:19Speaker 1: a right to preserve and develop their ethnic, cultural, and
- 26:22Speaker 1: linguistic heritage. Our own constitution states that the government's job
- 26:26Speaker 1: is to promote the general welfare and protect the blessings
- 26:30Speaker 1: of liberty for the people. My priority, as with all
- 26:34Speaker 1: of you listening, if you're Americans, is America. That's my priority.
- 26:40Speaker 1: But we can't deny that what we do here has
- 26:43Speaker 1: an impact on other countries. America, the world's superpower, is
- 26:48Speaker 1: actively fighting global leftism. And this last November, we were victorious.
- 26:53Speaker 1: That's inspiring for people in Germany and the UK and Spain.
- 26:58Speaker 1: We are leaders in a global populist revolt. And what
- 27:02Speaker 1: we do here ripples across the world. You know what
- 27:07Speaker 1: else is inspiring? A viral video from a Five Guys podcast.
- 27:14Speaker 1: A OnlyFans prostitute known as Bonnie Blue tried to pressure
- 27:19Speaker 1: a young Five Guys worker to have sex with her
- 27:22Speaker 1: while he was on the job. I want you to
- 27:24Speaker 1: listen to this young man's response.
- 27:26Speaker 3: I just wondered, I can't see it on the menu,
- 27:28Speaker 3: but where do I get the Five Guys from?
- 27:32Speaker 5: The Five Guys.
- 27:35Speaker 4: I didn't know it feels like a special room where
- 27:37Speaker 4: you can take me out back.
- 27:39Speaker 6: What, but after your shift?
- 27:41Speaker 1: I mean, I'd want to give you a good rating.
- 27:47Speaker 1: I'm asking for what's on the menu, that's all.
- 27:54Speaker 5: Are you on it?
- 27:56Speaker 2: Oh, that's a shame.
- 28:00Speaker 1: I mean, honestly, the video, the message of it is wholesome,
- 28:04Speaker 1: that there is hope for a generation. You know, for
- 28:06Speaker 1: all you women out there who say, oh, there's no
- 28:08Speaker 1: good men out there. Clearly there are some good men
- 28:10Speaker 1: out there. He said no to her. He said, I'm
- 28:12Speaker 1: waiting for marriage. He's a Christian. But what is this
- 28:16Speaker 1: woman doing harassing this young man who's on the job,
- 28:21Speaker 1: potentially an underage teen? If a man did something like
- 28:24Speaker 1: this to a female employee at a fast food restaurant,
- 28:29Speaker 1: the cops would be called. We all know it. And
- 28:33Speaker 1: by the way, this is the first time that Bonnie
- 28:34Speaker 1: Blue has been in the news. She recently did an
- 28:37Speaker 1: entire stunt where she slept with 122, quote, barely legal
- 28:43Speaker 1: boys in three weeks. So she's a predator. And again,
- 28:48Speaker 1: I bring it back to the point where we need
- 28:52Speaker 1: shame in society. This woman is completely shameless. She should
- 28:55Speaker 1: be ashamed of herself, harassing some young kid, being nasty
- 29:00Speaker 1: and suggestive in public with a potentially underage stranger. Internet
- 29:04Speaker 1: culture has destroyed any sense of humility that people have.
- 29:08Speaker 1: If it'll get you views, then who cares about the
- 29:11Speaker 1: real world in-person social consequences? People do disruptive trends. They
- 29:18Speaker 1: can't live in the present. They'll even create sexually suggestive
- 29:21Speaker 1: content in public with children present. And again, if it
- 29:24Speaker 1: gets you views, it's worth it. We do a lot
- 29:26Speaker 1: of things for the cameras these days. Now make us
- 29:29Speaker 1: look at Nicole Kidman at the Golden Globes red carpet.
- 29:34Speaker 1: What do you guys notice about her? And I'm sorry
- 29:39Speaker 1: if you guys are listening, you can't see Nicole Kidman.
- 29:42Speaker 1: She is skeletal thin. Skeletal, skeletal thin. Everybody around her
- 29:49Speaker 1: almost seems shocked by her size. We'll go with that, Michael.
- 29:54Speaker 1: It's not normal. It's not normal. It's not healthy. And
- 29:59Speaker 1: we all know what's happening here. We all know what's
- 30:01Speaker 1: happening with everybody in Hollywood right now. It's Ozempic. Everybody
- 30:04Speaker 1: wants to look like a rail, especially the Hollywood celebs.
- 30:10Speaker 1: But what are the effects of Ozempic? There are consequences
- 30:14Speaker 1: to sacrificing one's health and taking the pill to look super,
- 30:18Speaker 1: super skinny. Here is an explanation on the consequences of Ozempic.
- 30:24Speaker 8: Yes, there is a 16% weight loss.
- 30:26Speaker 9: What is that weight?
- 30:28Speaker 8: Turns out it's equal amounts of fat and muscle. Using
- 30:30Speaker 8: as much muscle as fat is not a good thing.
- 30:34Speaker 8: These two drugs, semaglutide and also the third one, terzepatide,
- 30:40Speaker 8: lead to nausea, vomiting, pancreatitis. And now there's a warning
- 30:49Speaker 8: label on Ozempic for gastroparesis, which means stomach not moving,
- 30:56Speaker 8: stomach paralyzed. stomach turns to stone. And guess what? It
- 31:02Speaker 8: lasts way beyond the discontinuation of the drug. In fact,
- 31:07Speaker 8: that's why the drugs work is because you can't eat
- 31:12Speaker 8: because it delays gastric emptying. It delays your stomach from
- 31:15Speaker 8: being able to move the food along. You think that's
- 31:19Speaker 8: a great way to lose weight? In fact, If you
- 31:23Speaker 8: can't eat, that's starvation. Well, the fat in the muscle
- 31:26Speaker 8: shows that's how it works.
- 31:30Speaker 1: I mean, it can't be worth that. Paralysis for your stomach?
- 31:38Speaker 1: I mean, you losing all of your muscle, especially if
- 31:40Speaker 1: you're an older person, you need your muscle. You need it. And,
- 31:47Speaker 1: you know, the Golden Globes actually made fun of everybody
- 31:50Speaker 1: on Ozempic. It was the first joke they told of
- 31:52Speaker 1: the night. Take a listen.
- 31:57Speaker 3: Good evening and welcome to the 82nd Golden Globes, Ozempic's
- 32:02Speaker 3: biggest night.
- 32:05Speaker 1: It really was Ozempic's biggest night. By the way, somebody
- 32:08Speaker 1: said Nicole Kidman was always skinny. Somebody commented that. Yes,
- 32:12Speaker 1: Nicole Kidman was always skinny. She was not always that skinny.
- 32:17Speaker 1: She wasn't. This is a new level. Ariana Grande too.
- 32:21Speaker 1: I mean, she looks unhealthy. And we all know what's
- 32:25Speaker 1: going on. And we all know what it's for. And
- 32:28Speaker 1: it's a symbol of the priorities being worked in our society.
- 32:32Speaker 1: Is anyone interested anymore in aging gracefully?
- 32:35Speaker 5: Anyone?
- 32:36Speaker 1: It doesn't feel like it. Look at Madonna. Look at
- 32:38Speaker 1: Madonna's face. It can't be worth that. Just age like
- 32:43Speaker 1: a normal person. This is life. There's a man who
- 32:48Speaker 1: is on a journey to never die currently. His name
- 32:51Speaker 1: is Brian Johnson. He's a centimillionaire. tech entrepreneur who has
- 32:55Speaker 1: spent millions of dollars on developing a life extension system
- 32:59Speaker 1: called Blueprint in which he outsources every decision involving his
- 33:03Speaker 1: body to a team of doctors who use data to
- 33:07Speaker 1: develop a strict health regimen to reduce what Johnson calls
- 33:11Speaker 1: his biological age. And that system includes downing 111 pills
- 33:17Speaker 1: every single day, wearing a baseball cap that shoots red
- 33:21Speaker 1: light into his scalp, collecting his own stool samples and
- 33:25Speaker 1: sleeping with a tiny jet pack attached to his penis
- 33:30Speaker 1: to monitor his nighttime erections. I mean, it's a whole
- 33:33Speaker 1: new level of health consciousness. The man is trying to
- 33:36Speaker 1: live forever, and he is hardly living in the process. Now,
- 33:41Speaker 1: according to Johnson, any act that accelerates aging, like eating
- 33:45Speaker 1: a cookie or getting less than eight hours of sleep,
- 33:48Speaker 1: is an act of violence on his body. Johnson just
- 33:53Speaker 1: had a Netflix documentary made about him, and he was
- 33:56Speaker 1: recently on Barry Weiss's podcast. In the podcast, Barry asked
- 34:01Speaker 1: Johnson a very obvious question. Are you missing out on
- 34:05Speaker 1: living in your pursuit to never die? I want you
- 34:09Speaker 1: to listen to Johnson's answer.
- 34:11Speaker 4: Yeah, I say, let's just, I mean, it's very easy.
- 34:13Speaker 4: Let's just imagine we're doing a thought experiment. We're hanging
- 34:15Speaker 4: out with Homo erectus. They existed 1 million years ago.
- 34:19Speaker 4: And we say to Homo erectus, Homo erectus, tell us,
- 34:22Speaker 4: what is the purpose of life? And they're going to
- 34:24Speaker 4: grunt and be like, well, it's about hunting and gathering
- 34:27Speaker 4: and we're going to move our tribe, we're going to
- 34:28Speaker 4: have more war. They wouldn't be able to tell you
- 34:30Speaker 4: about quantum mechanics or about smartphones or antibiotics or about
- 34:34Speaker 4: the electromagnetic spectra or about this new form of AI art.
- 34:39Speaker 4: They're not concepts that they understand. And so they wouldn't
- 34:43Speaker 4: be able to speak intelligently about what a beautiful life is.
- 34:47Speaker 4: They're just so primitive in their thought processes. We are
- 34:50Speaker 4: as primitive, as homo erectus, as we are to AI.
- 34:54Speaker 4: We are equally as primitive. We cannot say anything intelligent
- 34:58Speaker 4: about the future anymore. And so the idea that we
- 35:01Speaker 4: somehow have mastered existence and that we know what the
- 35:04Speaker 4: purpose of existence is is so silly of a notion.
- 35:07Speaker 4: So to me, the most powerful thing for each of
- 35:10Speaker 4: us to do is to be incredibly humble and say,
- 35:13Speaker 4: in this moment, we may not know anything and it
- 35:16Speaker 4: may be in our best interest to try to dissolve
- 35:19Speaker 4: all of our preconceived notions on what it means and
- 35:21Speaker 4: step into this frontier because it may be the most
- 35:23Speaker 4: extraordinary existence in this part of the galaxy.
- 35:27Speaker 1: Okay, so what did he just say? Humans are stupid.
- 35:31Speaker 1: We don't know what it means to live a beautiful
- 35:33Speaker 1: and full life because we're so primitive compared to artificial intelligence.
- 35:38Speaker 1: That's what he said. By the way, he looks very creepy.
- 35:42Speaker 1: If you're listening, he looks very creepy. Milo Yiannopoulos originally
- 35:45Speaker 1: shared this video and he said he sounds like He's demonic.
- 35:49Speaker 1: And certainly the rhetoric that Brian Johnson is espousing sounds
- 35:53Speaker 1: very demonic. The focus on data, optimization, control, combined with
- 35:59Speaker 1: his disregard for the joys and the spontaneity of life,
- 36:02Speaker 1: creates an unsettling picture of a man who believes that
- 36:05Speaker 1: life can be reduced to a series of formulas and calculations.
- 36:10Speaker 1: It's like something out of a dystopian sci-fi novel. An
- 36:14Speaker 1: existence where the divine, the emotional, the unpredictable, the transcendent,
- 36:20Speaker 1: are all subordinated to cold, calculating science.
- 36:25Speaker 5: C.S.
- 36:25Speaker 1: Lewis's sci-fi novel, That Hideous Strength, dissected Brian Johnson and
- 36:31Speaker 1: many more like him and many to come decades ago.
- 36:35Speaker 1: He predicted all of this. C.S. Lewis, he's a smart guy. Now,
- 36:39Speaker 1: spoiler warning, in That Hideous Strength, an organization known as NICE,
- 36:45Speaker 1: is allegedly promoting science and progress by controlling and manipulating
- 36:49Speaker 1: people via advanced scientific and technological means. But in the end,
- 36:54Speaker 1: big twist, again, spoiler here, you learn that the scientists
- 36:59Speaker 1: aren't engaging in advanced technology at all. In fact, they're
- 37:02Speaker 1: really taking orders from a demon possessed in a decapitated
- 37:11Speaker 1: human head. It's a terrifying story. And it's a warning
- 37:16Speaker 1: that when we attempt to replace the divine, when we
- 37:19Speaker 1: reduce life to mere data and optimization and progress, we
- 37:24Speaker 1: can end up inviting forces far darker than we ever anticipated.
- 37:29Speaker 1: In Johnson's pursuit of immortality, we see the temptation of
- 37:34Speaker 1: reducing life to a mere set of equations, of losing
- 37:37Speaker 1: touch with the deeper mysteries of existence. What C.S. Lewis
- 37:40Speaker 1: foresaw and what Johnson's approach echoes is is the possibility
- 37:44Speaker 1: that in the name of progress, we might not find enlightenment,
- 37:48Speaker 1: but rather a kind of existential desolation, a cold mechanical
- 37:54Speaker 1: existence where the beauty and the unpredictability of life are
- 37:58Speaker 1: eradicated in pursuit of really an unattainable artificial perfection. In
- 38:04Speaker 1: the end, when we push too far in our pursuit
- 38:07Speaker 1: of control and our desire to live forever, we don't
- 38:11Speaker 1: get rationalism in progress. What we end up with is
- 38:14Speaker 1: something far more dangerous and dark. When you worship AI,
- 38:18Speaker 1: you're actually playing with the devil. Brian Johnson is one
- 38:21Speaker 1: of many contemporary tech bros who worships AI and wants
- 38:27Speaker 1: to cheat death to become godlike himself. Peter Thiel, Jeff Bezos,
- 38:32Speaker 1: Larry Ellison, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk. All these guys are
- 38:37Speaker 1: investing in anti-aging technologies. They all want to live forever.
- 38:41Speaker 1: Every one of them. They believe in nothing beyond their
- 38:45Speaker 1: own power to enhance human existence and longevity by the
- 38:50Speaker 1: tech that they wield. So therefore they fear natural death.
- 38:55Speaker 1: And if AI is God, that makes sense. I think
- 38:58Speaker 1: we should be wary of all the tech bros. We
- 39:02Speaker 1: know Bezos and Zuckerberg have persecuted the political right. Zuckerberg
- 39:06Speaker 1: is still doing it in Europe right now. He says
- 39:09Speaker 1: he's changing things in America, but he hasn't said that
- 39:11Speaker 1: about the EU yet. Elon has joined the other oligarchs
- 39:15Speaker 1: in lobbying for America last visa policies. He's creating chips
- 39:19Speaker 1: to put in people's brains. Peter Thiel is creating mass
- 39:23Speaker 1: surveillance technology for the CIA to weaponize against the American people.
- 39:27Speaker 1: I don't trust any one of these guys. And I
- 39:30Speaker 1: don't think you should either. And with that, thank you
- 39:33Speaker 1: all for tuning in. If you want to listen to
- 39:35Speaker 1: this show and its video version, if you're on Apple
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- 39:41Speaker 1: started a locals channel. So if you want to follow
- 39:43Speaker 1: me on locals for more personal, less political content, my
- 39:46Speaker 1: username is just at Evita Duffy. I'll see you all tomorrow.
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- 39:51Speaker 9: I think a lot of people are underestimating the Trump
- 39:54Speaker 9: effect in this midterm. You've heard it yourself. Act like
- 39:57Speaker 9: I'm on the ballot. Why is he saying that? You
- 40:00Speaker 9: think he doesn't know what he's doing? That is the
- 40:03Speaker 9: X factor. Folks, elections are a math issue. That is it.
- 40:07Speaker 9: This is not a football game. If you vote, we
- 40:11Speaker 9: will win. It is not complicated.
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