Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar - 9/15/25: Gov Says Kirk Assassin 'Leftist', Knives Out For Kash Patel, Israel Flattens Gaza & MORE

Episode Date: September 15, 2025

Krystal and Saagar discuss the latest on the Charlie Kirk assassin, knives out for Kash Patel, cancel culture over Kirk responses, UK ambassador fired over Epstein links, Rubio prays at Western Wall as Gaza is destroyed.   To become a Breaking Points Premium Member and watch/listen to the show AD FREE, uncut and 1 hour early visit: www.breakingpoints.comMerch Store: https://shop.breakingpoints.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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It's actually breaking news this morning with regards to that. The administration is also signaling a Charlie Kirk-inspired crack. down as conservatives go after anyone that they feel is insufficiently mourning Charlie Kirk's murder. We've also got some new leaked Epstein emails we want to dig into that are causing some international fallout story we missed last week for obvious reasons, but want to make sure we circle back to. We've also got Washington working overtime to further criminalize Israel descent and Zoran Mandani picking up a big endorsement in New York. So some significant developments in terms of that race. Yes, that's right. And thank you to everybody who's been supporting the show.

It's been obviously been a very tumultuous week here over at breaking points, but we do appreciate all the messages of support that we got. So thank you all very much. And let's go ahead and get then to the details of what we know about Charlie Kirk's assassin, Governor Spencer Cox of Utah appearing on multiple cable networks, giving us some confirmed information. Remember, Utah authorities are the ones who are handling the case and will be prosecuting it. in the state as a capital murder charge. Here's what he had to say. Well, some outlets are reporting that the suspect lived with a transgender partner.

Is that accurate? And are investigators looking at this part of his life as a possible motivation? Yes, definitely. And yes, I can confirm that. I know that has been reported and that the FBI has confirmed that as well, that the roommate was a romantic partner, a male transitioning to female. I can say that he has been very cooperative. This partner has been incredibly cooperative,

had no idea that this was happening and is working with investigators right now. But this was a very normal young man, a very smart young man, a four-o student, I think a 34 on the ACT, went to my alma mater, Utah State University, but was only there for a very short amount of time. I dropped out after less than,

than one semester. And it seemed to happen kind of after that, after he had he had moved back to the southern part of Utah. Clearly, there was a lot of gaming going on, friends that have confirmed that there was kind of that deep, dark internet, the Reddit culture, and these other dark places of the internet where this person was going deep. And you saw that on the casings. I think I mean, I didn't have any idea what the, what those inscriptions, many of those inscriptions even meant, but they are, you know, certainly the memeification that is happening in our society today. Governor, you told the Wall Street Journal that Tyler Robinson was deeply indoctrinated with leftist ideology. Have investigators uncovered evidence to, to show

that? Well, so far, that that has come from his acquaintances and his family members. That's where that initial information has come from. Certainly, there will be much more information that is released in the charging documents as they're bringing all of that together. And anything new on the investigation, you say he admitted that confessed? No, not, again, he is he is not confessed to authorities. He is, he is not cooperating. But all the people around him were cooperating, and I think that's very important. There were reports yesterday that we can confirm that his roommate was indeed a boyfriend who is transitioning from male to female. To summarize everything that we know, number one, Robinson not cooperating with investigators

despite, I guess, having turned himself in or having a family member, turn himself in. Number two, Governor Cox says he was, quote, deeply indoctrinated with leftist ideology. per the initial interviews, the law enforcement's been able to conduct with Tyler Robinson and many of his associates. Number three, Tyler Robinson was in a relationship with a male transitioning to female, and then four, obviously, descended into some of the deeper, darkest corners of the internet. We'll remind everybody of the bullet casing inscriptions, quote, hey, fascist catch, followed by arrows, which is apparently from a game called Hell Diver 2, the Bella Chow, Bella Chow reference, which is a reference to a song.

which, you know, people have said is aligned with the, quote, anti-fascist movement, although there's been some indications in other directions. Three is, quote, if you read this, you are gay, so very, La Mayo, which is very hallmark of internet culture. And then finally is notices bulge, O-W-O, what's this, which is apparently a furry reference. If you don't know what that is, I don't suggest Googling it. But anyways, that is- Did you know that one going in? Of course, I know. First of all, I'm not a gamer.

I know, I know, you're not. But you were like, you know, you're younger than me. You were, like, deeper in some of these messages, bored at some point in your life. And I'm, from research, I've learned this is actually not even a current furry meme. It's like an outdated 10-year-old furry meme. I was not aware, certainly, of all of this, I can say. I was, you know, a 4-chan guy in my youth. No, no, it's fine.

Yeah, it's totally fine. I was, you know, I was just a 4-chan redikai, you know, in my youth. I guess I missed some of these things on, I hear B has gotten crazy, but maybe it's gotten much crazier than I've even envisioned. B is one of the general purpose boards on 4chan. Haven't been in quite a long time. I have real stuff to do right now, you know, with a child and all of that. But certainly this just demonstrates kind of some of the things that we know so far about the alleged or allegedly know about the Charlie Kirk assassin. Let's go and put this up here from the New York Times, just summarizing some of all this.

They say Governor Cox said the suspect had, quote, been radicalized, but did not go into specifics about the suspect's views. What I think is quite interesting here potentially about Robinson is, by all accounts, as the governor said, this is a very smart individual, high IQ individual, got a 34 on his SAT, remarkably high score, but then is only enrolled in college for a single semester. It's not, of course, out of, and this is my own personal speculation, but it does fit with the pattern of, you know, schizophrenia and mental illness. largely begins to set in in the early 20s and for such a good student coming out of college to drop out of college in a single semester. Keep in mind, it was also during the COVID year, so that certainly could have potentially involved in all of this. But, you know, I don't know. I've so much to say about the internet stuff, but which will, I'll save some of my commentary and all that. Those are the facts as we know them right now. Obviously, you know, motive looks

relatively clear, considering who Charlie Kirk was and some of the personal background. I will say on the transgender boyfriend, whatever, roommate piece, they're saying that that person, according to investigators, not being investigated as an accomplice, allegedly knew nothing about this. But there's still so many questions about the circumstances of the law enforcement investigation of some of the misfires and the bad information that was initially put out. We're going to save something that we're going to talk about Cash Patel and his handling of that in the moment. But there's a reason we started with the governor. This is from the governor of Utah. This is actually confirmed, you know, not being reported necessarily by others. And, of course, we're going to wait for the charging documents to back all of this up in a court of law.

I mean, but we should also listen. Yeah. Maybe, right. I'm just, at this point, I'm sort of in a wait and see. Because we've had intentional leaks that have turned out to be wrong. We have an FBI that is politicized. The governor is getting his information from the FBI. He's already said something.

And we'll talk more about this in the Cash Patel section. that have turned out to be false and, you know, a lie coming from law enforcement. So the narrative that they're running with is effectively, like, he was a leftist and he was inspired by his trans, furry, romantic partner. Maybe. It's very potentially possible. But it also does feel like that's exactly what they've been pushing for and hoping for from the beginning.

If you'll recall, we got leaks to Stephen Crowder in the Wall Street Journal that the bullets were engraved with transgender ideology turned out to be completely. and totally false. We got, we'll talk more about this, but they claimed that he effectively confessed his crimes on Discord, Discord, and came out and said that's not true whatsoever. So like I said, maybe the official story is correct, but at this point, I'm like, I'm just going to wait and see how this all shakes out and what more evidence they produce, because at this point, they have not said officially what a motive is. The other thing that's interesting, if we, you know, take the sort of official story and take into that a little bit, because

there is a lot here that is very troubling about our society and young men and where we are, et cetera. You know, it's like, it's a very different world out there on the internet. I was thinking of myself as being, like, very online because I'm scrolling Twitter all the time. It's very different. Like, everybody's been digging trying to turn up some social media footprint for him. He doesn't really have one that we can discern. And so it's, and this is consistent also with some of the other.

shootings that we've seen, for example, that are sort of like this, you know, deep internet online radicalization. For example, on the very same day, there was a school shooter in Denver, in the same county that the original Columbine school shooting occurred, who also had this, like, you know, he was more sort of like overtly a neo-Nazi and ends up critically injuring two students in this high school before killing himself. But in a lot of ways, the same patterns, the patterns are very similar. You can also look at the shooter in Minneapolis at that school and Catholic Church.

Similar thing, like that one is even more analogous because you had them posting these videos similarly engraving on the weapons, all of this internet neemification, dark like LOL, nothing matters, nihilism. And that really feels like the connective tissue. I mean, in a sense, it's not really new and different because certainly in the modern era post-Columbine,

you've had these misanthropic, young, usually white men who are sort of like socially awkward and have sometimes it's some sort of life trauma or whatever and then end up committing these horrific acts, but it has this very modern 2025 horrifying flavor to it with this nihilistic black pill internet meme culture. So the last point that I'll make about this again is we're digging in and assuming that the official narrative is more or less correct is someone made this point online and thought it was a good one. You know, unfortunately, where we are as a society now, school shootings, it's like they happen all the time and they barely get noticed anymore.

Like I said that there was a school shooting on the same day and how much have you even heard about that? So if you're looking for like infamy and notoriety, guess what is going to get you now in the modern day? the attention and, you know, the horror that you apparently crave. And so I think there is now emerging of the sort of like school shooter profile with the attempted or actual political assassin profile that we should also be deeply concerned about. Thomas Matthews Crooks actually fits into that as well. Exactly. That's exactly right. Yeah. I mean, you know, in terms of same thing, gamer, you know, I'll save some of my gaming commentary. But generally, yes, I actually, my macro take is everyone keeps saying social media was a mistake. But that's a misunderstanding of the term

social because social media has not been social for probably a decade now. Yeah, true. At this point, for people who are our age, elder millennials, we remember when social media actually was social. Yeah, when Facebook was like actually about your friend group. Was your friend group. Now all of social media, and look, I mean, we built careers off of this. So it's a little hypocritical for me to speak this way. But, you know, the vast majority of content that people now consume is not social. It's parasocial. It's actually antisocial. It is people who are gathering or who are projecting, you know, things like Charlie. To them, Charlie Kirk was not a human being. He was a meme. And that's why responding with memes is the only potential way for them to, you know,

gain notoriety. And the vast majority of the content and fights and all these things that take place happen between either nameless individuals or individuals who may know each other's name, but have never met ever in the real world. And so so much of this, is not only the atomization of young people, but actually making it so that anti-social media turns individuals, political figures, people with no power, people who are like influencers into this parisocial relationship,

where not only do you feel like you know that person if you're a fan of them, if you hate that person, you hate them passionately, and they lose their humanity. And the engagement that you have with those individuals becomes one wrapped in the same level that you interact with everybody online, which is irony, which is jokes, which is, you know, is completely disconnected from any sort of human connection. So we're actually living in an antisocial age. There was a theory that,

you know, connection for the world would be good. I actually think it's backfired dramatically, but just broadly, you know, fitting here with Robinson and kind of the general archetype of these internet people, you know, if you think broadly about the U.S. society, 99.9% of people, I would say are generally good, but 0.1% of 300 million is what? That's like 30,000 people. So 0.1% just of the general population, people who are either inclined to violence, mentally ill, engaged in this level of irony and of memes, are then taking it to a level, again, not only of dehumanization of actual violence and wrapping everything, like making a gay joke on a bullet where you took a human being's life is insane. It's an insane behavior. writing, you know, in terms of the shooter in Minneapolis, the trans-Nazi, writing, you know,

slurs, jokes, swastikas, you know, and all of this together. Like satanic stuff. While murdering little children, again, what is going on there? Same in this Denver's thing. It's the same archetype, you know, looking into this. And it's not, you can't even, it's like the deepest, darkest corner of the internet. But that is itself reflective of the general. dehumanization of the antisocial age. Let's put this up here, please, on the screen.

There's a disconnect from reality where other humans don't seem real. They're NPCs, right? And like you said, the relationship with Charlie Kirk is not as a human. It's as a meme. It's as this dissent cultural figure where you know, you assassinating them publicly can gain you this fame notoriety and clout in the in-group. And that's what memes are about. They're about signaling to an in-group. And so that's the thing. the reason why you put that stuff on your, you know, engrave that stuff on your bullets. Yeah. I mean, again, to make furry references and gay jokes on your, on your bullets, that you're taking another person's life. Wild.

Leaving them a widow and two children without a father. It's sick. And so if we look here after Kirk's killing, the suspect joked that his, quote, doppelganger did it. This is from new messages being released here from the New York Times. They say that the day after Kirk was killed. An acquaintance of Robinson posted a question to him in a group chat. The FBI released two grainy surveillance images tagging Robinson on Discord messaging platform. The acquaintance attached the images in his throat, where are you at? Where you at? WIA is where you at, with a skull emoji suggesting that Robinson looked like the man being sought. Robinson replied within a minute that his doppelganger was, quote, trying to get me in trouble. People then began

to joke, quote, Tyler killed Charlie, exclamation mark. That was on Thursday afternoon around 1 p.m. local time, and it was not until later that night, 34 hours after the shooting that Robinson was arrested on the suspicion of carrying out the assassination. So it's pretty clear that he was monitoring the situation online and he was joking about his doppelganger. Obviously, didn't have much remorse. And apparently some of the messages that have come out, or some of the indication from law enforcement that came out is that initially he actually wanted to take his own life. His father talked him out of it before eventually turning him in. He's not cooperating with law enforcement. So again, we have to write on the charging documents. And so, yeah, it is a media

story in terms of there's been so much information out there, which was either not confirmed or relied on second, third hand information and has been retracted. I've never felt worse, really, about the state of the media right now. I really haven't, just because their handling of this has been, has shown you that even journalists and people with high standards, it's not just of a base shoot from the hip, it's that law enforcement itself also, you know, in the initial stages of investigation. I do feel like wait and see is just the best course, and yet in our internet age, to the anti-social point, the first piece, the first thing you can glom on to, which proves your narrative, boom. And people demand takes from us from the whole world immediately

without any confirmed information, without charging documents, et cetera, when, you know, the reality is, it's like, first of all, you don't have to have a take. You can just say, wait and see, I know it's not, you know, everybody wants to have their beliefs confirmed in real time, but I have been thinking a lot about the antisocial movement. I really don't think we, I don't think it's fair to all on social media anymore. It is anti-social media. It is purely, if you think about it, it's algorithmically fueled content. What is the purpose of TikTok?

It's not to see your friend's TikToks, is to see the best of the whole world, right? The top point one percent. Same with Instagram. That's the vast majority of engagement. On Twitter, it's the big influencers, people who have the big accounts, which all the little accounts follow, and they look to see all of this. And the incentives behind it are so deeply destructive. And now it is bleeding into the actual, into the population at a way in which violence itself is a meme. And, yeah, I think it's really sick.

It's sick just to show you all how it continues to pervade. I don't think it's going to get better. I think it's going to get much worse. The reaction to this, unfortunately, does basically confirm all of that. And, yeah, it's, uh, I, and then it's a bigger societal question. What are we going to do? Ban the Internet? What are we going to do?

Uh, you know, we have free, we have a free society. Like, we have rights. Right. You know, there's a lot of intangible benefits that all of us have. We've built careers. A lot of people have, you know, alternative media, independent, whatever you want to call it. Like, they've really enjoyed, you know, the ability to engage outside of traditional gatekeepers. Uh, message board cultures brought actually a lot of, uh, good for a lot of people.

You know, I've met a lot of friends on Twitter or elsewhere. I've never met these people. I've probably talked to them for a decade now at this point. So it's been hugely beneficial to my life. I'm sure that's a story for a lot of people. But you see the downside of this. I mean, we also have to say, though, most of the world, right, China has put in some restrictions on social media and

amount of gaming or whatever. But most of the world has access to, you know, all of the internet message boards. And there are many countries that do a lot more gaming than the U.S. does. And they don't have these routine mass shootings. So to me, it's an accelerant, right? In the same way that, like, COVID was an accelerant of some of the worst trends. And so, you know, why is it that we have these routine mass shootings and other countries don't? And I think you have to look at what's different about our country.

I mean, one thing, chalk full of guns, no doubt about that, gun culture. this, you know, kid was, he's not a kid, he's a man, but this man was raised in gun culture. That's why he was such a good shot and so proficient with the weapon, et cetera. You have mass untreated mental illness, people who have no connection whatsoever to even, you know, medical system. I don't think that's applicable in this particular instance, but that is a broader phenomenon we have in the U.S. is mass untreated mental illness and lack of connection to the medical system. you have a crushing level of inequality where, you know, young men in particular, I think mentally suffer because the whole definition of being a man culturally has been you're able to provide

for a family and, you know, build this stable, secure life. And that has been ripped away. So you have a lot of aimless adrift young men, never a good thing for society. And then you have this hyper political tension. And so when you put all of those facts together, I think that's how you lead to this powder keg, where, you know, those algorithmically driven aspects of the internet and the things that everyone in the whole world basically has access to turn into a factory for radicalization and, you know, explosions of violence that we are suffering in the U.S. in a much greater way than other developed countries around the world.

That's a good flag. I mean, I will say, you know, the rifle used here is exactly the one for, you know, even gun control advocates say we're not going to take away, right? It's a hunting. It's a single-bolt-action hunting rifle. Like, there's genuinely, under no reasonable gun control policy, like, would that not happen, right? It just is baked in to the American character. I do think it is also reflective broadly of U.S. culture. I think that's correct.

I mean, Korea and Japan have huge gaming. I mean, China, actually, less so. The Chinese government has cracked down on it quite a bit. But, yeah, take more free, like, for your Asian societies, Korea, Japan, they have huge game. They don't have, you know, mass issues like this. They have all kinds of other societal problems. So yeah, an accelerant is the correct way. Whatever it is, it's going to make you more so.

So in the Japanese case, like what the gaming and all of this has done has led to like a collapse in fertility, a collapse in socialization. Korea is seeing very similar stuff. Here we have a similar collapse in socialization, but it manifests in different ways. Violence, obviously, is one hyper politicization algorithms. I think we should all really spend a lot of time with this in the next, in the coming days, because it is a very, very deep societal sickness. This is a tape-recorded statement. The person being interviewed is Krista Gail Pike. This is in regards to the death of Colleen Slimmer.

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Cash Patel, the FBI director, honestly, just be clowning himself in this investigation from the very beginning, especially in the press conference after Tyler Robinson was turned into authorities, basically making it seem as if it was law enforcement who did such a good job. here when the truth is is that they released some pictures and the guy's father convinced him to turn him in. They didn't have a sing as of the night before Utah authorities told media we have no idea where he is. We have no idea who he is. They had nothing zero nada. And yet here's how he spun it. Thank you, governor. This is what happens when you let good cops be cops. Charlie was shot at 1223 p.m. on Wednesday. The first FBI agents arrived on scene in 16 minutes with Chiefs of Police at 1239 and secured the scene. The FBI immediately launched fixed-wing assets.

We utilize these assets to transport personnel, specialty technicians, hostage rescue teams. We also utilize these assets to go back and forth from the East Coast and here in Utah to transport forensic evidence and other evidence that will be analyzed and is being analyzed at our FBI laboratories in Quantico and other laboratories, including the ATF.

At my direction, the FBI released first set of FBI photos of the suspect at 10 a.m. Local time on 9-11. Then, shortly thereafter, the FBI reward of $100,000 was released at 10.45 a.m. local. Myself and Deputy Director Bonjino arrived on the scene at approximately 5.30 p.m. on 9-11. The governor led a press conference last night. At approximately 8 p.m., where at my direction, the FBI released a never-before-seen video of the suspect. We also released new images to the public of the suspect. And just last night, the suspect was taken into custody at 10 p.m. local time.

In less than 36 hours, 33 to be precise, thanks to the full weight of the federal government and leading out with the partners here in the state of Utah and Governor Cox, the suspect was apprehended in a historic time period. The arrest is a testament to dedication of good law enforcement being great and partnerships in law enforcement, which I've tried to highlight as my tenure at the director of the FBI. There is no better relationship for law enforcement than the FBI to partner with state and local authorities, and you've seen it here in these last few days. Lastly, to my friend Charlie Kirk, rest now, brother. We have the watch, and I'll see you in Valhalla. So there's a lot going on there. I mean, the Valhalla thing is crazy.

We'll just leave that all to the side. We'll just talk purely about his claim that the FBI making it seem the deployment of fixed-wing assets. What does that even mean? Fixed-wing assets. Talking here, taking credit. He's just trying to sound like he knows what hell he's doing, basically. And then taking credit for releasing photos, like every police, like local police do that all the time. It's some novel thing.

You know, he followed it up, by the way, with this. Let's put it up here on the same. screen. He says, quote, against all law enforcement recommendations, we demanded the video footage and enhanced stills of the suspect be released to the public. Robinson's father, who ultimately turned him into authorities, told law enforcement he recognized his son in that released video. So again, literally trying to take credit at this point for the capture of Tyler Robinson. Well, actually, no, not capture. That's the wrong word. For the, what is it? For Tyler Robinson being identified by his family, walked into local police.

It's one of those where it's preposterous the idea that the law enforcement had really anything to do with this other than the routine release of images and making it seem like he stood up to law enforcement. I'm not sure I believe that. And if that's true, then that's more of an indictment

of local Utah authorities. But broadly, what you guys saw there, and let's recap all of the mistakes that he made from the very beginning. Number one, in the initial hours after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, He says, a subject is in custody, meaning for most people, for the layman, they're like, oh, okay, so they got him.

Great. It's the end of the night. And then he follows it up. The subject has now been released. We're looking for a different person. No, no, he didn't even say that. He said the subject has now been released. The Manhunter, whatever, continues.

And so it was twice, basically, that they claimed and then had to retract that they had people who were in custody and basically telegraphing to folks. Oh, it's all been wrapped up. it's in the bag, don't worry about it, when in both cases, it fell apart completely. And then from that point, in that one day up to the turning in of Tyler Robinson, they had nothing. Because if you watch that press conference the day before, we were all on together. And I was also talking with some law enforcement friends.

I said, guys, they're offering a $100,000 reward. They're releasing these enhanced stills and these images. They don't have shit. And they were like, yeah, they have nothing. Their only reason they're doing all this is to hope and prey, just like in the Luigi case, that somebody's like, hey, isn't that that guy? I mean, in both cases, they did not actually have any leads whatsoever. Now, look, as Ryan said on our stream, it is, that, in a lot of times, that's how cases get solved. Okay. But that's not credit to the

allegedly crazy investigation that they did where they were like, oh, we'd turn DNA and shoe prints and see if he left behind all of this. No, here's the truth. Tyler Robinson shot Charlie allegedly, okay, he says he's not convicted, was able to drive there, park, get out of his vehicle, walk past multiple ring door cameras, get on top of a rooftop, which apparently

may have cased out beforehand, according to some reports, lane the prone, shoot Charlie Kirk, disassemble his rifle or stick it down his pant leg, jump off of a roof, then walk again through a neighborhood, get into a car, and drive 200 miles back to

southern Utah, and they did not have anything about it. They were only able to confirm afterwards when they were like, yeah, we went back and checked this cameras and his car was shown going back and forth. Maybe they would have caught him eventually because they're going through and looking at all the plates and to see like who came in and who came out. And of course, turning him, him being turned in by his father accelerated that. But that could have been, I mean, that takes months. How many cars are going up and down the highway? There were 3,000 people in the crowd. They had zero going into this, they misled the public, telling people basically that, oh, we had the person.

So the handling of the investigation, there's just no getting around it. It was a disaster. Yeah. And people are beginning to acknowledge that. And not only that, I mean, if he was more, if Tyler Robinson had been more sophisticated, he could have easily been out of the country. I mean, it could, he could have fled the country and they still would have been spinning their wheels, having no idea where he was, where he was, 45 minutes away from that happened, you know? Salt Lake City Airport. You can, you could fly anywhere in the world from Salt Lake City. You could literally hop a connecting flight to LAX, you're gone. You can Singapore.

Like, you're done. Exactly right. Exactly right. And then there were, I mean, there's more questions, too. I mean, he had just recently fired the head of the Salt Lake City FBI field office. Yeah. It was apparently widely respected. We don't know why that person was fired.

But in any case, I'm sure that didn't assist help in the investigation that they just had their head of that office acts. And then, you know, you've had these politicized selective leaks, some of which turned out to be inaccurate. You also had, I mean, we were watching one of the press conferences when they still had the dude that they ended up releasing in custody in between law enforcement and the politicians were listening to them. And we can't even figure out because we're on the phone together trying to plan a show. We couldn't even figure out whether they actually had someone or not or the manhunt continued or what was going on. Then there are also reports that they delayed by, remember, there was supposed to be a press conference in the afternoon. And we got this message from the FBI. oh, because of rapid developments, we're going to pose the press conference. They had nothing, nothing. They were waiting for cash to get there so he could just stand there and do absolutely nothing and say absolutely nothing in that press conference. So that is part of why I think, you know, everyone is just waiting to see what more evidence

they can offer because here's the other thing, Sager, some of the stuff is a little perplexing. Some of the timeline they've laid out is a little perplexing. I'll give you two specific examples. One having to do with his outfits and one having to do with the gun. Okay, so according to, I believe, Governor Cox, he says that Tyler arrived wearing a maroon shirt and light-colored shorts. He then changed outfits while he was on the roof. That's according to Governor Cox. But then we see on the doorbell cameras, when Tyler is, you know, limping in with the gun presumably down his pants,

he's wearing the same outfit that they show in the stairwell videos that we also see him in when he's jumping off the roof. So we've never seen this maroon shirt, light-colored shorts outfit. So we're supposed to think, so apparently he was wearing the all-black outfit to walk to the school, then changes and then changes again. Like, that piece is a little odd. And then the gun part is also very odd. So in the doorbell camera, he presumably, again, has it down his pants because he's walking with this limp.

Then in the stairwell photos that come out, there's no limp, and he has backpack. So presumably, he disassembled the weapon, put it in his backpack, then goes up to the roof, reassembles the weapon, murders Charlie Kirk. And then in the jumping off the roof video, it appears it's back in his backpack. so presumably disassembled again, but then they find it fully assembled in the woods. Yes. So he had it assembled, then he disassembles it to walk up the stairwell,

go to the roof, then he assembles it on the roof, then disassembles it for his backpack, then he assembles it to leave it in the woods? Why? Why would you do that? So there's just a lot of the timeline and the facts that still need to be laid out here for it to all sort of meld together.

and really fully make sense. Right now, I'm not at conspiracy. I'm still at gross incompetence considering what we've seen here. That is the most likely explanation, no doubt about it. Listen, my antenna is there, and you're exactly right. We're going to cover a lot of this tomorrow as well because there's still quite a few questions

surrounding the circumstances of Charlie Kirk's assassination. Let's go and put this up here on the screen just to show you that in Washington, things not looking so good for Mr. Cash Patel. Knives are out for the embattled FBI director, Cash Patel, despite Trump's support, quote, Patel sought meeting with Trump following blunders as his new co-deputty begins work next week. This is after several prominent allies of the administration are absolutely done with Cash Patel. Let's put the next one up on the screen.

Including potentially Susie Wiles, who we know is very influential. The White House Chief of Staff. That's right. So here's Christopher Rufo, prominent conservative activist. He says, quote, I'm grateful Utah authorities have captured the suspect in Charlie Kirk's assassination. it's time for Republicans to assess whether Cash Patel is the right man to run the FBI. He performed terribly in the last few days. It's not clear whether he has the operational expertise to investigate, infiltrate, and disrupt the violent movements of whatever ideology that threaten the United States. And this fits also with Steve Bannon, who absolutely has been trashing the FBI's release of information and their overall conduct. Let's take a listen. They have to get ahead of it.

you have to get ahead with facts and information. The doorbell cam, and maybe that's not accurate, but the doorbell cam showed the guy walking up like a peg leg because he had the gun in the jeans. And that was 1149. They said he entered 1153, but the picture ahead 1153 had no, he was walking like a normal human being.

And they have not gone to the doorbell. They have not gone to this doorbell thing at all. Maybe that's not right. Maybe that's not accurate. maybe it's wrong maybe that picture's wrong maybe that didn't happen in that neighborhood that's right next to to the university maybe but i don't know you don't know it's out there why is there not a briefing today why did they sit there and the governor pull the thing the governor said no is anybody going to be more i said no there's nobody else well first off the room of everybody

on the discord chat which they said is evidence is an accessory to this murder but discord which is a you know it's a company with liability's responsibility they came out and said you're wrong there's no chat like that now maybe they're lying i don't know i would find it unusual that a company would be that bold to say none of that happened and you're wrong why is there not a briefing today i don't know why cash flew out there you know thousands of miles to give us, hey, working partnerships and our great partnership in Utah, okay, I got that. No offense to the law enforcement guys in the future of this. The public assumes that you're working together as partnerships. There's certain assumptions when you walk to the microphone of

information. We don't need time and time and time again. I tell my team, when these press conferences are scheduled, I don't know if I need to be for the first 10 minutes because it's just going to be some all-group thing about how great we are. He's exactly right there. And it fit the Discord piece also remains one of the craziest things that's happening. Let's put this up here on the screen, please. So Discord, look, as Steve Bannon said, by the way, this is not the first time the Discord has been implicated in some sort of murder or event, all right? And, you know, we should have a separate kind of conversation about that. But the point remains that this is a company, which runs huge amounts of chats, discords, et cetera, for these subgroup communities to be able to

live chat with each other. And they came out and they were like, listen, what you just said in that press conference is not accurate. It directly contradicted. They said, the tech company said that they alleged he used discord to plan his murder, denied that version of events completely. They say he did have an account, but he did not use it to plan the Wednesday afternoon Utah Valley University murder that directly contradicted the initial statement by Utah Governor Spencer Cox. Now, look, it is potentially possible that they got it confused and initially remember they said they talked about the doppelganger thing that was on discord and they may have said but you know this words matter also one of the reasons guys that this all matters a lot tiler robinson

is alive he's not prosecuting he's not uh he's not cooperating with federal authorities that's right all of this can be used by his defense at trial right right let's really keep that in mind this stuff really matters in the initial investigation afterwards i saw some law enforcement talking about what you were saying with the um the description they were like hey the description here initially that went out on the radio is not consistent with some of the things they've said later. This really matters because the radio call is going to be used at trial to potentially say reasonable doubt. Now look, I mean, I don't think we're going to go down that road necessarily. There's a decent amount of evidence against him, but technicalities and all that

stuff matter a hell of a lot. Here's what Discord said specifically. The content of these messages included messages, or sorry, the governor said, included affiliated with the contact, stated a need to retrieve the rifle from a drop point, leaving the rifle in the bush, messages relating to visually watching the area where the rifle was left, and a message referring to having the left, the rifle wrapped in a towel. It's unclear if those alleged messages were sent before or after the shooting. But a Discord spokesperson pushed back telling the post there was no evidence that he planned the shooting on the platform. The messages reference in recent reporting about planning details do not appear to be Discord messages.

spokesperson said. They were communications between the suspect's roommate and a friend after the shooting where the roommate recounted in the contents of a note that the suspect had left elsewhere. So again, it's potentially that they got it confused, but it's also, it's weird. And it, you know, it fits with all of this. And yeah, if you're Tyler Robinson and you're not cooperating and you're a lawyer worth your salt, what do you think you're going to do at trial? You'd be an idiot not to. Yeah. If you want to know really like how this works, just watch the O.J. Simpson, documentaries about how they were, I mean, O.J. Simpson obviously murdered Nicole Brown. Yes.

Right? And they were able to get him off because of this kind of bullshit where it's like, oh, well, you didn't follow protocol here. And they could, you know, he had excellent lawyers. And he was, they were able to create just enough of doubt. And well, this person, you know, is not trustworthy because they're on camera saying the most virulently racist things you can imagine. And then that was the person who was handling some of the key evidence. And by the way, when you guys were collecting the evidence, you didn't follow protocol in terms of making sure that things weren't contaminated and bit by bit by bit, they tore apart the government's case and they were able to get him off. So yes, if, you know, if the official narrative is 100% correct, the fact that

you have these discrepancies and complete sloppiness in the statements is going to be a challenge for them at trial if it comes to that. And the discord part is, you know, the discord part is the most, the biggest red flag. Because they said in no uncertain terms, they said specific messages on Discord. Discord is now coming out saying, that did not happen. That did not happen on our platform whatsoever.

And so, yeah, then why did you say that it did? Were you just confused? It was in this note, because Steve Bannon is correct too, that if he was genuinely planning this thing on Discord with other people in that server, on that server, in that chat, saying, you know, taking this in, they would be, you know, they would be interviewed.

There's a possibility that they could be an accessory, all those sorts of things. So, so, yeah, just absolutely, the best we can say is sloppy incompetence, just an absolute shambles of an investigation this far. And then to have the gall to come out and act like, oh, you were so heroic. And this was such a historic manhunt. When you just got so lucky that this guy basically went home and confessed you. his dad and his dad was buddies with the youth pastor who was like a U.S. Marshal, you got so lucky in this thing because a more sophisticated person would have been, you know, half a world away by the time they got their act together. New comment, Cash Patel confronted by a reporter

on his tweet during the Manhattan. Could I have worded it a little bit better in the heat of the moment? Sure. Do I regret putting it out? Absolutely not. By the way, where was he when he tweeted that out? He was out at a fancy dinner. Yes, NBC News, Cache Patel was at Rouse. If you don't know what Rouse... I've never been to Rouse, just to be very clear. I'm aware of what it is. It's like one of those influencer places

where it's like, what is it Sipriani or something like that? There's like... Even though Manhattan has the best food in the world, in my opinion, just my personal opinion, has some of the best food in the entire world. There's like four restaurants that the super elite all go to. I've never been to any of them.

My friends tell me that they're not even particularly good. And he was exactly at one of those CNBCing places. called Rouse, which is some famous, whatever, I don't want to get into it. Something about meatballs. But my point is just that that's who Cash Patel is. Almost certainly using and leveraging his government influence to get a reservation at Rouse. Allegedly, it was open for him before the tables are even open for everybody else. Must be nice to be the FBI director. And that's where he was when he put it out there. According to his own detail, who obviously are the ones

who leaked it. So it's crazy. It's totally crazy. And the knives are out for him. And honestly, at this point, I think he needs to be fired. I just think it's It's so ridiculous. Don't put podcasters and influencers in charge of things that matter, guys. Well, okay, and if you're going to, let's sit with their pitch. The FBI is deeply corrupt. It's deeply corrupt, and that means that you need outsiders. I'm sympathetic to that message.

What we're going to do is I know where the bodies are buried. We're going to do Epstein. We're going to do deep state, and we are going to ruthlessly turn the FBI back into what it's supposed to be, get people out of Washington, and we're going to prosecute criminals. Not any of that has happened. Literally not any of that has happened. So it's not just rank incompetence about your own personal background.

It's actually worse because you ran as an indictment of the system itself. And it turns out, honestly, if we're all being honest, hate James Comey, okay? He probably would have done a better job, you know, at this.

If you can't admit that, I don't know what's wrong with you. So there you go. All right, let's get to cancel culture, shall we? This is a tape recorder statement. Person being interviewed is Krista Gail Pike, this is in regards to the death of a Colleen Slimmer. She just started going off on me and I hit her.

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Don't have to go to any more funerals, you know. I got blown up on a React mission. I ended up having amputation below the knee of my right leg and a traumatic brain injury because I landed on my head. Welcome to Season 2 of the Good Stuff. Listen to the Good Stuff podcast on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. So in the wake of the killing of Charlie Kirk, there have been recriminations coming from the right, finding anyone on social media who posted anything that they didn't like about Charlie Kirk or didn't express in their view the proper sentiments surrounding his murder. This is happening a number of levels. There's like an organic sort of right-wing cultural effort to find these and put them in a doubt.

database and contact their employers, et cetera. And there also is increasingly, it looks like, a coming crackdown coming from the federal government. Let me go ahead and start with Senator Katie Britt, who says in one breath that, you know, Charlie Kirk was assassinated because he was such a, in part because he was such a beacon of free speech. And in the next breath, talks about how if you're not expressing the proper sentiments, you should be held accountable, you should be fired, et cetera. Let's go ahead and take a listen to that. The rhetoric that led us to this moment, calling President Trump a fascist, calling him Hitler, you had news organizations and mainstream media celebrating that, allowing those things to take place and be said on their

networks. That is dangerous. When you look at that, when you look at where we are, when you look at how we got here, now people that are celebrating Charlie's murder, celebrating a political assassination that should never happen in the United States of America. And Maria, we must do more. We must stand firm, and there must be consequences with regards to people spewing that type of hate and celebration in the face of this.

And I believe that there will be, and I certainly plan to hold them accountable. So if you are out there and you are celebrating the political assassination of a man who was exercising his free speech, a very foundational element, a cornerstone of who we are as the United States of America, you should be held accountable. you should be fired, and that is the beginning and the end of it, full stop. And we're going to show you some of the specifics of the post that they find objectionable. You know, some of them, in my opinion, like I strongly disagree with. I obviously condemn political violence.

We've been very clear about our position on that on this show. Some of them are actually literally just reposting some of Charlie's more inflammatory quotes. Some of them are saying it's wrong that he got shot, but I'm not going to warn his death because he was a hateful person. and I disagree with his political ideology. So those are the types of posts that they're coming after. And we're not talking about either from public figures. You know, every mainstream Democrat I know of has condemned the killing of Charlie Kirk. We're talking about random, like, teachers, professors, whoever out there in the world.

And, Sager, you know, I don't even think they really care that much about the hypocrisy burn that's, like, in evidence in that clip. Because I think the senses, and you can tell me if, you know, if I'm wrong, off on this. The sense is, like, y'all did this to us, and now we're just going to do it right back. That's part of it. That's certainly part of it, which I think we could all sympathize with if you've been victim or something been attacked by it. I think there's also, I want to say this as well. The overwhelming thing I have heard from a lot of my more right-wing friends is I feel like Charlie and I were not that far apart. You know, everyone is like, oh, I disagree with on this.

So to watch people celebrate his death, and let's be honest, they're extremely viral. posts of people who are doing that. It's a free country you're allowed to. I want to be very, very clear. But to watch that at an organic societal level is deeply wounding at one and also makes you personally afraid and potentially facing retribution. I think those are legitimate feelings. So first, I want to like validate that. I think it's scary. I mean, you know, for me, Charlie and I, look, we disagreed certainly probably the most on Israel, but like we weren't that far apart on a lot of stuff. And that's kind of what I was talking about. about earlier in our A block where it's like, okay, we're just memes now, like humans are memes.

And apparently, you know, if somebody gunned me down in cold blood, somebody would probably find a video of me on BOM or trans and be like, fuck him. And that's, you know, look, I got to be honest, I have to sit with that for a while and just be like, wow, okay, that's a thing. Can I echo what you're saying there because, obviously, Charlie and I were different on almost every issue. But yeah, you're like, there are also people out there who think I am like hateful and horrible and evil for a variety of reasons as well. And I, you know, have no doubt that that would be the case for me too. And, you know, we'll talk more about the Israel peace tomorrow. But it's also the case that even as Charlie Kirk and I are as different as we could possibly

be politically ideologically, it's also the case that there were some shared. enemies. There were some share. So I totally get why it, I find it deep, I mean, I find it shocking and deeply unsettling and horrifying. And I think, which is why, you know, I think if you are on the political left and you think it's in any way good that he was murdered, like, I don't know what you're thinking. This is not any sort of benefit to your political project, if that's what you're measuring this on. And part of this block is we are going to see very swiftly, Stephen Miller is already signaling it. Donald Trump is also signaling it.

We are going to see this used as the justification for further crackdowns on left-wing organizations, left-wing speech. Certainly pro-Palestine sentiment has already been in the crosshairs. That's going to be amped up. This will be used as justification for further crackdowns. But then let's get to the social question. And actually, this is a very, that's funny, I think I came out of the woke era and it said, I'm against cancel culture. in all forms. But actually, more recently, we were all having a discussion. I remember, I think it was about the Jubilee fascist guy. Yeah. And you were like, yeah, he should be fired.

And I was like, yeah, you know, maybe he should. And so then I'm like, okay, do we all believe in cancel culture? And then in a certain extent, yes. And if I think about the movements that I have been the most critical of, BLM and Me Too, well, nobody who's critical of Me Too says Harvey, okay, well, maybe some people, says Harvey Weinstein, outside of Kansas, Candace and a few others, nobody's like, Harvey Weinstein's innocent and he didn't do anything wrong. You can critique the legal case, but at the very least at a social moral level, we're like, yeah, Harvey Weinstein, fuck him, all right? Matt Lauer, fuck him.

Who else is in the OG Me Too? I'm trying to think of a few other names. Like those people, but then, you know, Me Too, the criticism, which I think is fair, is it quickly descended from Harvey Weinstein to Aziz Ansari. And that's crazy. And so to the extent that we're pushing back, it's about Aziz. Same with BLM. Anybody who was like George Floyd deserved to get murdered, yeah, I think we would all justly say,

why is that person in polite society? Now anybody who says, I don't think there's be violent rioting and looting and defunding the police is stupid. If that person loses their job, I think we should say that's bad. So that's where I am here with this Charlie Kirk thing. And maybe that's hypocritical. It may be, to be honest, because it's actually our conversation about that fascist Groyper or whatever

who was on Jubilee and got fired. And I'm like, yeah, you know, maybe he should be fired. And so it's one of those where... Apparently, by the way, he'd been fired before. Okay, but whatever. Yeah, I mean, my point is just... If somebody... I saw a video of a guy who hung a swastika flag

outside of his house. And I'm like, yeah, you know, if I'm his neighbor, I'm gonna be like, hey, man, fuck you. You know, it's one of those where... You hung a Nazi flag outside of that, and I'm not going to... You know, you have the... I would go to court to defend his right to do so,

and I would also say, go fuck yourself. And so that's kind of where I am at now with this Charlie Kirk thing where I think it's becoming way too far already and the witch hunt is ongoing but also if you're in if you're a teacher and you're out there and you're saying he deserved to die

I'm sorry like you should not be teaching children if you're an airline pilot and you're saying he should deserve to die you should not be in charge of flying 300 people around you literally have a responsibility to all of these people in the background and if you just don't care about their personal death if you are not even just pretending for responsibility teacher, professor, social worker, et cetera.

I mean, last time I checked, social work is about empathy. Like what, half the people were coming in for mental illness are all just left wing? No, you have to be able to have some sort of relations. You know, so my point around cancel culture, or shall we now call it consequence culture to borrow the initial. Here's the thing. The leftists, we're correct in one form,

is that we do need guardrails on polite society for employment. And I actually think everybody at this point does kind of agree. The fight should be around the boundary, and the fight should all, first of all, we need to keep the government out of it. And so to that extent, it's ridiculous. But we absolutely need to look at it very specifically and have a real convo about what does this mean? We literally, as the meme says, we live in a society. And so for me, for a lot of my conservative friends and others, I mean, I got an email from a great friend of mine. I don't think you would mind me saying this. And he's like, you know, I walk around and I look at a

restar or something. And I know they don't want to kill me, but it's one of those where I have to wonder, like, would they cheer my death? That's really scary, I think, for a lot of people. And I would transpose it onto how the mass hysteria, again, over BLM, where it, or me too, or any of these other mass cancellation things, where it very quickly went from legitimate issue, we have to have a national conversation, which we did, I think it's fair, to just a full-on mass hysteria, people who are like, hey, I think riot. and looting or bad, are getting fired, people are getting censored, you know, all that. That was nuts.

It was totally nuts. And I said so, you know, at the time. But that's the issue is that it's very obvious, that it very quickly descends from legitimate to ill, not illegitimate, but much more on the edge, right? Right. And that is the cultural problem of all political movements, is that they take something which is legitimate, and then it turns into a mass hysteria, power grab. And unfortunately, now left, right, look, we all know now watching the government over the last decade or so, nobody has any principles around this stuff.

Okay? It's all just a thing about a race to the bottom. And actually, I find that the most distressing. Because, you know, Charlie, I don't know his own personal feelings. I have never talked to him about this. I have a general suspicion you would be against most cancel culture. I mean, this was a person who I do think believed in free speech. And, or at the very least, if confronted with this set of circumstances, has called for grace for people in the past who have even said terrible and objectionable things, hired some of them as well, and gave a second chance, I tend to suspect that if confronted with it and asked in a one-on-one, I don't think he would be okay with it. But at the same time, and I'm talking about the edge cases here, but at the same time, I don't know, how can we expect to live with people in position? of power who do hold these like thoughts and are able to express them publicly while holding their job, that's a genuine question I don't know. And that's a social media question too. Yeah. To me. Well, I think the cultural, I think you raise some really interesting points. And here's where you're correct. First of all, we're going to get to the government piece. I think we'll be

in complete alignment that government coming in and saying you can't do this, you can't say you must mourn Charlie Kirk. And if you don't mourn him appropriately, we're going to take your, you know, take your passport or, you know, we're going to infiltrate left-wing groups, all of that, like we're going to be completely opposed to. And that stuff is being floated right now by Stephen Miller and Donald Trump. I don't know if you saw he shared some TikTok calling for a Charlie Kirk inspired, effectively, Ministry of Truth to crack down on media organizations. And I know we're going to be opposed to that across the board.

Absolutely. The cultural piece is, you're right. It is more complex. And here's why. Because I do think that we need some level of shame. Yeah, that's right. Exactly. Because now, and now people feel comfortable, like, you know, to go back to, like, the, some of the things I pose on the right wing and your fascist group, for example, like, people feel comfortable posting just overt Nazi shit on Maine. Yeah, that's right. And feel like there will be no consequences for that. And I don't think that that is healthy in a society. I agree. And especially when you have an intersection with what their job actually is. So, for example, if you, you.

are a teacher and your post and you have a classroom of diverse students a taxpayer-funded teacher too especially and you have a classroom full of diverse students white black brown all sorts of class socioeconomic whatever and you're out there posting overtly racist or Nazi content that is directly impacting your ability to do your job and so for me those are the most sort of like clear-cut examples where it's like, yeah, you can't continue to employ that person. Just to add some context to, you know, what we're talking about here with these posts. So there's a large-scale effort, but organic, as far as we know, effort for people to be able to effectively find these social media posts, submit them to a database. And they've allegedly got thousands of instances

of, again, we're not talking about politicians, we're talking about random people throughout the country saying things they find objectionable. Now, that original database, which, what was the original URL was like Charlie, Charlie Kirk's murders or something like that, where they were actively seeking these submissions, has now been taken down. They've changed it to like the Charlie Kirk Data Foundation, data foundation, and they're framing their mission differently because I think they probably got some concerns from legal advice that, hey, this could actively be defamation. This could really be a lawsuit if you continue in this direction. But, that's the effort we're talking about.

This is a tape recorded statement. The person being interviewed is Krista Gail Pike. This is in regards to the death of Colleen Slimmer. She just started going off on me and I hit her. I just hit her and hit her and hit her and hit her. On a cold January day in 1995, 18-year-old Krista Pike killed 19-year-old Colleen Slimmer in the woods of Knoxville, Tennessee.

Since her conviction, Krista has been sitting on death row. The state has asked for an execution date for Krista. We let people languish in prison for decades, raising questions about who we consider fundamentally unrestorable. How does someone prove that they deserve to live? We are starting the recording now. Please state your first and last name.

Krista Pike. Listen to Unrestorable Seasons, Reason 2. Proof of Life. On the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. My name is Ed. Everyone say hello, Ed. I'm from a very rural background myself. My dad is a farmer and my mom is a cousin. So like, it's not like... What do you get when a true crime producer walks into a comedy club? I know it sounds like the start of a bad joke, but that really was my reality nine years ago. I just normally do straight stand-up, but this is a bit different. On stage stood a comedian with a story that no one expected to hear.

Well, 22nd of July 2015, a 23-year-old man had killed his family. And then he came to my house. So what do you get when a true crime producer walks into a comedy club? A new podcast called Wisecrack, where Stan up comedy and murder take center stage available now listen to wisecrack on the iheart radio app apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts what would you do if one bad decision forced you to choose between a maximum security prison or the most brutal boot camp designed to be hell on earth unfortunately for mark lombardo this was the choice he faced he said you are a number a new york

state number, and we own you. Shock incarceration, also known as boot camps, are short-term, highly regimented correctional programs that mimic military basic training. These programs aim to provide a shock of prison life, emphasizing strict discipline, physical training, hard labor, and rehabilitation programs. Mark had one chance to complete this program and had no idea of the hell awaiting him the next six months. The first night was so overwhelming and you don't know who's next to you. And we didn't know what to expect in the morning. Nobody tells you anything. Listen to shock incarceration on the

iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Let's go ahead and put up some of the examples of the types of posts that are being flagged and people having like they're being put on blast and I don't know if it's appropriate to call it doxing necessarily, but put on blast. It's not docks me if you put your name to it. You right. Put on blast and having their employers called in this like mass organic effort. So here's some of them. You've got, these are some of the kind of like more objectionable ones that we found. I don't get why everyone is posting to pray for him. This was worth it for people to have guns. He said it himself. Pray for his kids, not for him. Actually, how about people pray for all the innocent children whose lives were unfortunately worth it when they died in school shooting so people can have their guns instead of these kids having their lives?

I'm not happy he died, just pointing out karma. Another one, F around and find out. His entire brand was hate and violence. You attract what you preach. His last words were gang violence trying to pen stuff on black people. Save your breath for the kiddos killed in Colorado yesterday. I'm cheering for the assassination. I don't mind saying it.

He was a bastard. Deserves to be amongst the dead. Should have been tortured. You can't force people to mourn someone who hated us no matter how he died. It's okay to be happy when someone who hated you and called for your people's death dies, even if they are murdered. Call me old fashion. I remember when we used to be okay. shooting. Nazis, let's put the next one up on the screen.

These are the edge cases. Yeah. And honestly, I, to me, some of the other ones are, I'm not saying I agree, but, you know, if you're saying, I'm not happy that he died, but, you know, he was a hateful person. I don't know. To me, that's reasonable speech. Look, and so that's the thing about reasonable speech is that is, and this is a difference from free speech, First Amendment, and also polite society. I think the clear The jurist example we had there was I'm cheering for assassins. Yeah, right. That, to me is like, okay, I can see why if you're an employer, you know, that you would look back and be like...

I'm not going to say their name. It was a nurse, right? Right. As a nurse, especially, let's say you are, this is a nurse in a hospital, and presumably, let's say you work in the ER or something like that. I mean, you know, to be honest, I'm going to be crazy if I didn't admit this. When my child was in the NICU, I'm sitting there being like, look, you know, what if some of these people know who I am? Would they treat me differently? I pray? No, I don't think so. The vast majority of, actually every single person I interacted

in the hospital with was overwhelmingly kind, didn't say anything or any of that. And I think that is most people in the healthcare profession. But if you have somebody like this in the healthcare profession and you have somebody who comes in with a MAGA hat on or something like that, we don't discriminate care. That's one of the most basics of health care. So yeah, like, I'm sorry you can't be employed, right? And even in some of the cases of saying, like, I'm happy he'd died. I'm like, well, actually, like, it's one of those where I don't really think that's acceptable for people who are in positions where they have to interact with the general public. I also come back to this point about social media where, you know, I'm not sure if you know, but, you know,

sociologically, if you read about this, after the Kennedy assassination, a lot of people actually hated Kennedy and were okay with it. Some people, there's stories of people in bars who were cheering after he was killed. Like, this was the thing. Now, in general, though, those people didn't face cancellation or whatever. They did internally in their social group, but they weren't getting fired. You know why? Because they're not out,

there's no media to go out there and say, yeah, I'm so happy he's dead. What compels a person to do that? You know? And it's one of those where that's a sickness. There also weren't mass efforts, though, to go and find those people in the bars. Well, there definitely would have been if they could have.

You know, put them on black, call their employers, whatever. Put B3 back up on the screen, or B4, sorry, back up on the screen. so we can get some of the other examples here. Okay, this one on the left, literally just quoting him. Right. Just quoting him. How, I mean, his own words.

I saw someone say online, like, if I die or I'm killed, like, please put my words out there. Like, I'm proud of the things I said. I stand by them. So to act like it's, like, offensive to put up his quotes, I think is crazy. The next one says, let's go ahead and wrap this Charlie Kirk situation up in the next 48 hours. His killing was crazy to see which that wasn't so easily. on my timeline. I definitely don't condone that violence. Shifting gears, y'all really try to paint this picture. He was this noble man trying to bridge America together is diabolical.

This man was clearly racist, homophobic, sexist. Google, YouTube, and X are free. His ideology and his words were extremely dangerous. And the fact the American flag is being flown at half staff is crazy work. I said what I said. I'm not going back and forth with nobody. Argue with your mama, not me. And then I tried to hold my tongue, but I generally do not know how any person could be saying Charlie Kirk was a good man. Of course, it's awful he was shot. So were more children at a school in Colorado yesterday, yet most of you haven't said a thing about that or any of the other 45 school shootings this year,

someone who didn't believe in. Here's the thing for me is, like, I find the demand that people feel a certain way about his death to be really oppressive. You know, that, like, the demand that everyone mourn and feel remorse and feel a certain way and express that feeling an appropriate way, I think that that is extremely oppressive.

Obviously, like I said before, and there's a bunch of these, by the way, where people are literally just quoting Charlie Kirk, especially the Second Amendment one, has gotten a lot of play that are being targeted and some who have already been fired just literally. In fact, there was a professor who was fired for just posting that one quote.

I think that's insane. I think, you know, the, like, expressing, we've talked before about when someone who, and you and I will disagree about Charlie Kirk and his legacy likely, but someone who was a public political figure and they die or killed, like you don't have any obligation to whitewash them, what they said, what their impact was, et cetera. You know, it's one thing if you're like at their funeral and you're trying to make them out to be an asshole. But I think it's important. I think it's actually really important for public discourse and for democratic functioning

that you can talk honestly about people who have died or were killed and what they did and what they said and what their legacy was. And a lot of this is really policing the ability to actually honestly grapple with what he believed, what the impact was, and what he was doing. And I really object to that. Yeah, we should. I think we should object to people who are fired over. that type of conversation.

I think we should. And look, let's be honest, most people are not. And as I said, most of this is a power grab. A lot of people are very upset. And I do think that that probably just factors into it more than anything is the level of emotion and the general feeling for people who are involved who are like, hey, a lot of these people

would cheer my own death. I mean, to be honest, that's probably been in my top takeaway. And I was like, oh, okay, I guess this is just how it would be. That's really sick. And there's a lot of deep badness in our culture that has even led us to that, but I do think we should also just put some baseline stuff on the table, if we're all going to be honest. Everyone believes in a little bit of cancel culture,

like a little bit. It's a question of where you draw the line. That is a social question. As I said here with that nurse, you got to go. Teacher, got to go. Social worker, you got to go. American Airlines pilot, you got to go. If you are generally in a position, especially of responsibility, power. And if you're a taxpayer funded, it's like I felt this way about the, you know, the whole trans thing in classrooms. Same thing. I'm like, oh, you think you have a right to our taxpayer dollars and to say what you want? No, absolutely not. And this is just generally what it broadly gets to of the question around norms for us and shame. So yeah, if you're a if you literally are a open fashion, you're like, I don't believe in democracy and I think

Hitler was good. Like, yeah, you got to go, man. Like you can't be generally employed here just for polite society reasons. We do need some shame. If you you actively say Charlie deserve what he got, I think you got to go. I really do. And I don't think that you should ever be in a position. Okay, let's not say ever. At the current moment, you should not be in a position where you're especially in a position of responsibility and or generally reflective of what a company's values are. Now, part of the issue, as we've said as well, is that it goes into the realm of mass hysteria really quick. And so what we need to do is kind of separate those two things because, look, we're already in the race to the bottom. I already

know none of this will penetrate the national conversation. It's obvious. It's just people are out for blood. People were out for blood during Me Too and BLA. Everybody knows it. It was obvious and it was used as a political tool also to go after people's enemies to great effect and it also led to a massive pushback. So that conversation you were talking about earlier, I forget who, I think Glenn might have written about Christopher Hitchens. Yeah, I was reading about it. And I said, oh, that's very interesting. I hadn't thought really about that. And look, we don't have to, we don't have to have a hagiography for every person who dies. It's not required. This is a free country. And you can believe in especially, actually, probably important, actually, to sit down

and kind of say, okay, you know, what are the benefits, et cetera? What was this person's legacy? You could talk to your children about it. But there is a big difference also for coming out and just outwardly cheering it on. And actually, I would say the sickness is not just the people who are supposed to publicly. The anonymity is personally what gets. me the most because those are the ones with hundreds of thousands of retweets and or likes and you're like, okay, like that. I mean, you know, when there's no consequences potentially, people are like very willing to hit the retweet button, very willing to hit the like button. And that is the same irony and dehumanization that led to his assassination. That's the

part where I really, really, I find sick because everyone's hiding behind their keyboard. People People feel no way whatsoever about hitting RT on he deserved it or lull or joking about it. I mean, that's the same lameo you're gay on the bullet. It's the same mindset. I'm not equating the two whatsoever. I'm saying, though, that that mindset, and listen, I've been guilty of it too. I'll be free and admit it. I'm a human being. You know, sometimes you see a joke which is cruel as shit. And you're like, ha, ha, ha, that's so funny.

You know what? I'm done with that. I'm done with that after this. Because I see it now. One thing I will say, though, is, look, I haven't done a comprehensive study of the sentiments that are being exposed, the people that are being put on blast. But, you know, when we were trying to compile some of the worst of the worst and the ones that you and I both would be like, you shouldn't be fired for that. There were way more of the, you shouldn't be fired for that.

Well, that's why I'm comparing it to BLM and me, too. Most people are not out there being like, hey, you know, George Floyd deserved to die, Okay. There's a big difference between that and saying, oh, I don't think that violence and looting is justified because of a dumb MLK quote, which is out of context. Now, a lot more people got fired for the latter than for the former. Same with Me Too. A huge number of the so quote unquote Me Too cancellations were complete bullshit and or were ones much better left off to HR in a conversation or whatever than actually being able to be go. So yes. And look, in some ways, Maybe you could take that away as a good thing in that most people are not. You know, generally, most people are good. I don't think that they actively want people to die. But that's kind of why I brought it to the anonymity conversation, because that's important where behind the screen, they'll hit the retweet button.

He deserved to die. And that's sick. Did Elon make likes public again? Did I see that? I don't know if that's true or not. But they should be public. I think they should be public. Wait, no, for my own sake, I don't want that.

You don't want that public? Well, I use them as bookmarks. I don't always like every, when I like something, it's not that I like the post. It's so that if you go to my likes, you can, but it's not, if you look at your profile. Just like adjust your etiquette here. Yes, but then I have to click a different page. The like page is very easy. You can be against the anonymity and be like, I still want the likes to be private. I don't like them for pure, I don't like them because I want to like. Listen, fine, make it public.

All right. Go ahead. My following list is public. My followers are all public. Go ahead. If you want to audit me, you'll be my guest. Here's what I'll say. And then I do want to talk. about the government piece because that's honestly, to me, the scariest piece is if we had a healthy culture, I would have confidence that, you know, the hysteria, that it is already hysteria, like a witch hunt hysteria for sure. The people that are being tagged are just like quoted Charlie Kirk or whatever and they're being fired and their employers are being called. Like, it's crazy. Okay. I would have more, I would feel less stressed about that if we had a

healthy culture, but we don't. Yes. And so, I mean, that is the sort of thing. Like you said, everyone does believe that some things are out of bounds that you can't just like say any literally anything and not think there are going to be any consequences in your life right where you draw that line is a constant sort of like ebb and flow tug of war in the culture not it shouldn't be from the government it should come organically from the culture as you have these cases where it's like okay well that went too far now we're going to draw the line here or you know you know what maybe we shouldn't allow this has gotten out of control. We need to be more whatever. But I think part of what is so unnerving is I don't think any of us have confidence that we have a healthy

enough culture to draw these lines and boundaries in a place that is going to be sort of like broadly accepted. I totally agree. And the reason I especially feel like the worst about it is because I can see the American right wing doing it now. And I have no doubt whatsoever that when the, you know, Democrats are in power that it's going to flip. And it'll be. the exact same. There'll be truth and reconciliation commissions. It'll be all out. You know, anybody who advocated immigration restriction or whatever is a Nazi. It's going to come full force back. Maybe they'll be more polite about it, but, you know, considering, again, considering the BLM environment, considering me too, like, this is baked in, in my opinion,

to like the broad, like liberal industrial complex. It's really baked into any political power movement. Maybe that's the, maybe the truth is, is that that's always been a hallmark of American political culture and power is to use, it's not just used, but like to have big tent pole events become power grabs in the last 25 years. In our initial reaction, the reason I focused how much on 9-11, and I, look, I knew this was coming from a mile away, I could see coming, is because think about what it was like at that moment, where they hate us for our freedoms. I mean, by the way, you want to talk about real cancel culture? Like, let go back and think. about the Iraq war and people who spoke out of it. They didn't have no internet or whatever to make

their own career. They were dead, gone from the culture, dead. And that is scary. And that's part of what I want to avoid more than anything. But unfortunately, and this is a segue to the government piece where you saw how quickly it went from they hate us for our freedoms and to Saddam hates us for our freedoms. I mean, that was a two-year period. And then we're invading Iraq. And like, that's the thing I worry And losing civil liberties, we never got that. Exactly. With the Patriot Act, what is it? Tober something, 2001 was the Patriot Act that people didn't remember famously in the Fahrenheit 9-11 documentary. They didn't even read it. And it's one of, and they just, they rubber stamped. And I had thought, actually, that things had changed with a lot of the reaction. But I believe today that it is the exact same. I don't think anybody has learned any lessons whatsoever from the post-9-11 era. And also inevitably, what I always caution people is, If you don't act from a more principled view and you're trying to, and at the end of the day, people were elected, we elect you to take a breath and to be stewards.

Like, we're podcat. We can fire a take. The consequences are not that high. The consequences are very high when you're in the government. And that's exactly what happened after 9-11. We had a bunch of people who were like, hey, this is pretty convenient time for a little power grab. And it never came back. And then what?

Obama was elected as a rejection of that. And what happens? He turns it up on steroids. And then what happens after that? Trump comes in, he's like, hey, I got all these powers. Might as well use them. Biden never retracts any of them. Now we're put on the verge of a Venezuela regime change operation under a 2001 AUMF for terrorism. Like, and allegedly...

Have they even actually even announced that that's the authority that they're using? They haven't even technically announced. They don't even feel the need to say what authority they have. But where does that come from? That comes from the same thing. I can bomb 15 different countries. And Congress has authorized it and they're neutered. So that is the road that it let us down.

And it was really poignant to actually speak about this, the 24 years after 9-11. Because I go back, every year I reread this book called Days of Fire, written by Peter Baker, the exact TikTok of everything that happened. I'm like, man, we haven't learned a damn thing. This is a tape recorded statement. The person being interviewed is Krista Gail Pike. This is in regards to the death of Colleen Slimmer. She just started going off on me, and I hit her. I just hate her, I'm hit her, and hit her, I hate it.

On a cold January day in 1995, 18-year-old Krista Pike killed 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer in the woods of Knoxville, Tennessee. Since her conviction, Krista has been sitting on death row. The state has asked for an execution date for Krista. We let people languish in prison for decades, raising questions about who we consider fundamentally unrestorable. How does someone prove?

that they deserve to live. We are starting the recording now. Please state your first and last name. Krista Pike. Listen to Unrestorable Season 2, Proof of Life. On the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. My name is Ed. Everyone say hello, Ed.

I'm from a very rural background myself. My dad is a farmer, and my mom is a cousin. What do you get when a true crime producer walks into a comedy club? I know it sounds like the start of a bad joke, but that really was my reality nine years ago. I just normally do straight stand-up, but this is a bit different. On stage stood a comedian with a story that no one expected to hear. On 22nd of July 2015, a 23-year-old man had killed his family. And then he came to my house.

So what do you get when a true crime producer walks into a comedy club? A new podcast called Wisecrack, where stand-up comedy and murder takes center stage. Available now. Listen to Wisecrack on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. What would you do if one bad decision forced you to change? choose between a maximum security prison or the most brutal boot camp designed to be hell on earth. Unfortunately for Mark Lombardo, this was the choice he faced. He said, you are a number, a New York State number, and we own you. Shock incarceration, also known as boot camps,

are short-term, highly regimented correctional programs that mimic military basic training. These programs aim to provide a shock of prison life, emphasizing strict discipline. physical training, hard labor, and rehabilitation programs. Mark had one chance to complete this program and had no idea of the hell awaiting him the next six months. The first night was so overwhelming, and you don't know who's next to you. And we didn't know what to expect in the morning. Nobody tells you anything. Listen to shock incarceration on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Within that spirit, let's listen to Stephen Miller. This is B2 talking about his reaction and what the government will do after Charlie Kirk's killing. And let me tell you something. I'm not sure with anybody, but the last message that Charlie Kirk gave to me before he joined his creator in heaven was he said that we have to dismantle and take on the radical left organizations in this country that are fomenting violence. That was the last message that he sent me before that assassin's story. him from all of us. And we are going to do that. Under President Trump's leadership, I don't care how it could be a RICO charge, a conspiracy charge, conspiracy against the United States, insurrection, but we are going to do what it takes to dismantle the organizations and the entities that are fomenting riots, that are doxing, that are trying to inspire terrorism

and that are committing acts of wanton violence. It has to stop. And my message is, to all of the domestic terrorists in this country spreading this evil hate, you want us to live in fear? We will not live in fear, but you will live in exile because the power of law enforcement under President Trump's leadership will be used to find you. We'll use to take away your money, take away your power, and if you've broken the law to take away your freedom, Sean. So there you go. And I mean, there's a few things here. First of all, there's the context of the Trump administration. I mean, they used big balls getting mugged to send in the National Guard to Washington, D.C.

The story of this administration has been using real or imagined crises to grab power. That's what they do. So I know you and I both, when this happened, we knew where this was heading, and many other people did as well. So Stephen Miller just making it plain and also claiming that that was Charlie Kirk's last message to him, whether or not that's true. It's another matter. It doesn't really matter because they're going to use it as a pretext for further crackdown. And then the other pieces, and this is something that Clippenstein pointed out to me, is like, the technology now is so much more advanced than in the Patriot Act era.

Like, the level of mass surveillance and mass targeting that you can do using AI is complete. It's complete now. So you've got, you know, Palantir. I record a segment with her take. Actually, I don't know if this is going to air at this point because it all feels outdated now, but about somebody going on Fox News and pitching there is really AI threat detection, like pre-crime bullshit. Like, these are technologies that exist now.

It's part of what we talked about with regard to Doge, too, when they were in the government and the idea was they're compiling this mass database of every little thing the government knows about you. Think of how much that is. They know your Social Security. They know what you're paying in taxes. They know, you know, if you're divorced and what you're paying in child. All it's trying to start a small business.

All of those things, they have house. And it's never really been possible to conglomerate all of that and cross-check it with everything you've ever posted on social media or anywhere online. Now that tech exists, right? The camera technology, AI-driven camera technology with facial recognition. All of that... I mean, just describing China. Like, this is what... All of that exists now in a way that it didn't previously. And so, you know, the maximal amount of what they want to do is now on the table. And I mentioned this before I'll just mention it one more time. Trump is out there sharing a TikTok saying, hey,

We need a Charlie Kirk effectively like Ministry of Truth law to pass so that the government has the right to go in and sort out what the media is saying and deem whether it's fact or fiction. So again, these sort of like, you know, the worst fears that were expressed by the right during the Biden era about the way the government could be weaponized against conservative media and the way that the government could be weaponized against conservatives and, you know, deny them their basic rights. That is all jelling and coming to fruition under the Trump administration. And, you know, I know they're going to use. They're already announcing it that they're

going to use Charlie Kirk's murder to further those ends. One of the sad parts is a real misbelief, I think, by a lot of the right, that this is organized in the way that the weather underground is. And so, by the way, everybody keeps, one of the things that annoys me most is when people post books and they clearly have not read the book. So the book that everyone is referencing is called Days of Rage. It is one of the best books ever written in modern times. And it is a history of the 70s violence era, specifically with the weather underground, you know, the Symbanese Liberation Army and all these insane left-wing groups at the time who were actually like bombing, right? Like they bombed the Capitol. It was crazy. And the separate conversation about how

they all just kind of pleaded guilty and then, you know, just immersed into polite society, but whatever. My point broadly about the book is if you read about it, these were actual social cells, for example, who Bill Ayers and the Boudines, right, were together in a network planning attacks. What does the hallmark of all this violence show us? It's the opposite now. Yeah. It's the, not just the lone wolf theory. It's that even our domestic terrorists are the people who are at home doing nothing with their lives, probably addicted to pornography based on Mr. Robinson's, you know, little jokes and all of that,

and addicted to gaming in a discord sitting there, apparently, according to law enforcement, doesn't, his own boyfriend or whatever, doesn't even know what he's doing, drops out of college gaming all day online. This isn't even organized to a certain extent. It's like a radicalization of the mind by the, And that happens at the school shooter level.

It's the same thing. Loser, didn't know anybody. It's the same profile. Spent a lot of time on the internet. You know, if you look at every single one of these people, a lot of it's mental illness plus internet, plus nothing going on, is a recipe for disaster. By the way, I put drugs and porn into that too.

Especially if you look at the trans one, the Nazi one, addicted to weed, just saying, which, of course, leads to mental illness at a much higher level, schizophrenia, outbreak of violence. if you look at the profile similarly for most of these people, the amount of time these people are logging on is probably 12 to 15 hours a day. I don't think that's an exaggeration. Complete disconnect. And so there's a theory that the FBI, like in the 50s, one of the most famous FBI operations was infiltration and basically the destruction of the KKK. So what they did, again,

what was the KKK at that time? It was people together secretly meeting, planning, organized violent attacks against people who were, you know, civil rights activists, buss and stuff. Let's think about even, you know, in that Malcolm X or any of that. Same thing. What was the nation of Islam? It's the actual, you know, it's a religious organization, people who come together and all of them. And even the people who allegedly killed Malcolm X, although there's a lot of questions around that, were part of that and we're allegedly inspired by that. But my point is that it was in person and it was actually organized. Now we're in the opposite era. It's, violence is not organized broadly. Most of it is on.

online. There was this huge talk after BLM, I remember, of people were like, who were the NGOs funding this? I'm like, guys, that's not what happened, because I saw it for myself. People who I knew who were out there, you know, were rioting or whatever. It was people locked in their homes on the internet. That's it. They were just, they were mad, and they were like, oh, I've been locked in my house. Might as well just go burn some shit down. And then people who are, you know, people who are criminals use that as an opportunity to go in loot. And then it's much more of an elite conversation who I think excused all of that and basically encouraged it. But my point is, I genuinely just don't believe that there were broad networks telling people

to go riot. It doesn't work that way. I just think people were sitting at home. Everybody was they were like this opportunity to be together and they went out there. Now are there NGOs who fund that, BLM and all that? Absolutely. Don't get me wrong. And, you know, quote, going after that, I'm not even really sure what that means. But there is no theory of dismantling the lone wolf violence that we have today that doesn't involve a genuine national convo for parents and more, hopefully backed up by the state from an informational perspective of get your children off of the internet on supervised. I saw, I don't know if you saw that. The photo. Picture of Robinson. Yeah. Tyler Robinson's mother in 2013 being like, oh, here he is with his computer. He doesn't

even want to talk to us anymore. It's like the Breaking Bad meme. He's this adorable little kid. He's like a little boy on the internet. And as a new parent, I'm like, oh my God. That is how quickly it happens. That is how quickly. That was 2013. 12 years later, he assassinate somebody in cold blood. And if you look at the screen time awareness conversation, people think that people are aware. No, it's an elite thing now.

It's the vast majority of lower middle class and middle class people. They're going screen time all day long. And I don't know. I don't even know if the government can help you at this point. For me, I would mandate a national phone ban in all public schools. I don't know if that's legal. It probably isn't, but that would be my number. one thing. Maybe, honestly, Chinese style laws which shut stuff off at 8 p.m., it's not a horrible

idea. I just, we have got to think radically at this point. I, so a few things that I want to raise. First of all, just to underscore your point, what you're saying is, I think, correct, that the hallmark of those terror networks was actually connection. No, it was actually in person. In the hallmark of this terror is disconnection. Yes, correct. And I think that's a really, that's a very, very important distinction to make. You know, I do like the, as a parent, the other thing about the nature of the content that the Tyler Robinson's or I think the school shooter on the same day, I think his name was Desmond Kelly of the world are consuming, we're also in this, in this era where the

parents really, they know the internet for the things they use it for, whatever, they're on Facebook or they're emailing or they're looking at a news website or a gossip website or whatever. Like, they really don't know or understand. It's like a foreign language. It's a totally different culture that their kids may be engaging with. And so, you know, there's just a total lack of understanding. We're also, we've covered, too, the way now AI adds a whole other layer of that where there was that kid who killed himself, parents go in and look at the chat.

They're like, holy hell. We thought he was just asked and chat GPT for like help with his homework. Meanwhile, this was like his best bud who was encouraging him towards suicide. So there's also this vast gulf between where the technology is, what type of content is online, and how the vast majority of parents actually understand the internet. And by the way, you see it too in like the FBI and law enforcement response here. They had no idea what the hell they were talking about because that's what they put out this transgender ideology on the bullets thing, they looked at, I don't know, like, you're gay laughing

my ass off, but think that was like, maybe the bulls, like, and so they had no idea what they were looking at. So law enforcement doesn't understand it. Parents don't understand it. You know, most of society doesn't. So you've got that disconnect. You know, I'm, I don't know. In terms of what to do about it, I genuinely don't know, because I do want to underscore again, And plenty of other countries have these same things and don't have mass school shootings every other day. So there is something uniquely American about what is going on here, which is why – and, you know, I'm always leery of, like, the civil liberties crack so you can't do this and, like, blanket bans from the federal government. But I can't say I'd put it off the table either because the other thing is I see how addictive the technology is, how hard it is. My son in particular, there's something about boys, not to be overly gendered, but typically boys, that it's such a pull that it just blocks out the sun.

It blocks out everything else in their life if you let them, which is why that photo of young Tyler Robinson, and they said, oh, we just got him as computer stuff, I guess we're never going to see him again, is really, as a parent, is genuinely terrifying. Exactly. I'm looking at it right now. It's like heartbreaking, just looking at it. And maybe that sounds crazy, but it's like you can watch it happen in real time. how this happens. So I don't know. I mean, I think that that is the great question of our age. I'm not, you know, all of this to say like, look, what's coming is coming and that'll obviously ignite a backlash in and of itself and court challenges and cultural conversation, et cetera. But I have no other take than as parents. If all you can do is step up, you need to step up like now. Because I'm online enough to know that this shit exists,

but not online enough to get overt, fairy, furry references, and, you know, I'm like, but I know it exists, but... I mean, he dressed up as, like, a Groyper meme for Halloween when here, you know. Well, it's not just Groyper. You're talking about the Slavic. See, I wish I didn't even know what the Slavic Squad. Yes, I know what the Slavic Squad is.

But, like, that's how much... That's how online I am and just goes to show you that even that... Exactly. Imagine being Jake Tapper on CNN trying to be, like, explain the Slavic Squad, okay? I'm, like, laughing about it, but it's not funny. because the vast majority of people who are that age they can't even conceive of an internet like that

which is I'm just on the edge I know it exists you know I get some of the references in the memes but yeah I'm not deep in the culture or any of that like and so then now I put myself my kid is four months old so let me put 18 years in the future I'm at least aware enough to know I'm not gonna know a goddamn thing about what's happening

and because that's how rapidly all of this stuff moves okay well I hope it was productive. This is literally what. By the way, this is what I hope most of you guys are taking away. Don't sit at home and post stuff about, oh, I'm so happy he's assassinated or whatever. Or the opposite and being like, fuck those people. We need to go get them and destroy them. Sit down and talk it out. Because like I just said, everybody believes in a little bit of cancel culture. Decide in your own community or at your school or whatever. And be like, how are we all going to talk about this? If you're a teacher, you should have two people talk about just the way that we did about,

well, everybody believes a little bit, and this was some of the objectional things I found about Charlie, and the other person says, well, this is the other thing that I found. And here's kind of the way that we would like to approach it and have societal norms, because that's healthy. But this stuff, I don't know. I really have never been more black-pilled about our society, but that's a good turn to the Epstein. Fight that instinct, Sager. Is that black-pilling and nihilism's problem? You're right. You're right. And see, that's the problem. I know I'm just as victim to the same social culture and structure that everybody else apparently is just, you know, is either loving or is just either, you know, involuntarily going down the same path.

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let's put this up on the screen. We finally have accountability on the Epstein case. The problem is, it's not in this country. It's in another country. This is a little consequence culture right here. This is actual consequence culture for sure, where the UK has now fired the U.S. Ambassador Peter Mandelson over his links to Jeffrey Epstein. So we talked about Lord Mandelston here on the show, Emily and I. We showed everybody the 10-page love letter, basically, that he sent to Epstein for his birthday book. But what got him fired is a new extraordinary release of emails. I have not had the time because of this Charlie Kirk thing to go through all this. I promise you all that I will. Let's put this up here on the screen. This is the exact email, which was revealed by Bloomberg,

new trove of Jeffrey Epstein emails that got him fired. Here's what the email reads back in June of 2008. I think the world of you, I feel hopeless and furious about what has happened. This is when Epstein is going to jail. Keep that mind. I can see. still barely understand it. It just could not happen in Britain. You have to be incredibly resilient. Fight for early release. Be philosophical about it as much as you can.

Everything can be turned into an opportunity that you will come through it and be stronger for it. The whole thing has been years of torture. And now you have to show the world how big a person you are and how strong. Your friends stay with you and love you. So that's what he wrote. to Epstein as he's reporting to prison for his sweetheart non-prosecution agreement.

He says that could never happen in Britain. I would hope it doesn't happen anywhere, including in America. And all of this comes from, let's put this on the screen. I just want to make everybody aware of this. I am going to go through it. Like I said, it's a massive trove of emails behind Galane Maxwell. You'll be absolutely shocked, by the way, to show that Galane lied through her teeth during her interview with Todd Blanche, about the timeline, about her involvement, about to the extent that she was recruiting and grooming.

you know, whatever. We'll put that to the side. My main thing that we wanted to show everybody here just broadly is that there has finally been accountability in the Epstein case. It just happened to be not in our country. It happened in the UK. The thing is about Mendelsohn is that he was known for his association with Epstein, but the extent of the relationship was downplayed by him for years. They were like, oh, well, yeah, we hung out and it was fine, you know, whatever. And then in the last 48 hours, basically a 48 hour period leading to his firing, the birthday book comes out, which I don't think the government knew about, a 10-page letter, including photos of him, at the island, and then the email where he explicitly is like, what's happening

to you is such an injustice. I love you so much. I love you. By the way, he's fishing for more invites. He's like, do your plans include me at the island this evening? You're like, oh, my God. And the photos that he included in the book of himself at the island with scantily clad women. I mean, it just compounds on top of each other.

So, yeah, we finally have a person who was fired for their connection with Epstein. It just happened to be the ambassador from another country. Yeah. Well, one of the things that came out to in these emails is they, you know, they had a spreadsheet that itemized nearly 2,000 gifts, they say. luxury items, payments totaling $1.8 million, with notations indicating they were intended for Epstein's friends, business associates, and victims. Spreadsheet, which was created by one of Epstein's accountants, includes a $35,000 watch earmarked for a former Bill Clinton aide, a $71,000 purchase at Alexis dealership for one of Epstein's lawyers. Was that Dershowitz? Yes, that's right.

And other items such as lingerie and chocolate, some for teenage girls who later lodged sexual abuse complaints against Epstein and Maxwell. They also say that the spreadsheet indicates Maxwell very involved in helping arrange all of these gifts and all of these luxury items. So another aspect of his effectively influence operation comes into view here where he was using these invites, whatever information he could gather on these individuals, you know, in order to acquire, have this circle of rich and powerful people around him. And part of that was the proffering of these luxury. gifts to keep them all on the inside. And, you know, this dovetails, too, with the reporting from the New York Times about J.P. Morgan and why he was kept on as a client there because he had ingratiated himself to some of the executives, number one. And number two, they were openly saying to each other, hey, if all of these rich and powerful men, if they think he's okay, like,

who are we to judge? Even after, again, the details that come out and he was a registered sex offender, and they're looking at his transactions and saying, this is all really sketchy, even in spite of that, the fact that he was able to ingratiate himself with all of these people, in part using these luxury gifts. They decided, oh, no, but we got to keep him on. And he would bring them business broker meetings for them with people like Netanyahu, people like Elon Musk. And so they felt they decided to just look the other way.

Yeah, it is, look, it fits with everything that we know. It also fits, by the way, as I talked about, accountability. Unfortunately, there has been now. I mean, the way that these guys are acting is a joke, the House Oversight Committee, because, look, first, let's give him the credit, which is fair. They got the stuff and they released it. Thank you. Thank you for releasing the birthday book. Now, you only did it because the Damocis had already released the Trump page, but whatever. All right, thank you, at least for all of it. Now, though, this whole, remember if you guys, this Trump's signature, seems quaint to talk about this now, even though it was like last week, where Trump's White House was saying that the

signature itself is fake in this one page of this book compiled back in 2003, but the rest of the book may not be fake and in fact could be accountable. And to the extent that it's a hoax, it's a hoax for people who care about it, not necessarily the page itself, although the page itself is also a hoax. So here is the House Oversight Committee being asked if they're going to, look, if it's a fake signature, are you going to look into it? Because that would be forgery. It would be extraordinary. And here's what the House Oversight Committee chairman has to say. He did not sign it, so I take the President of his word. I don't think the Oversight Committee's going to invest in looking up something 22 years ago.

We're going to look. So you're just going to take the president of his word that he, this is not asked. What does it have to do with anything? Well, if you don't care about what happened 22 years ago, then why'd you release the book in the first place, right? Because what does it tell us? Because it shows people's close relationship. And by the way, no one else in the book has denied.

Yeah, no, no. It was their signature that they did. Everyone's just stayed quiet. Actually, no. A lot of them have confirmed it. They've said, I regret sending the message. Or they're like, well, here's what I meant, you know, by this. So just so everybody knows, all right?

Bill Clinton hasn't denied it. Alan Dershowitz hasn't denied it. Leon Black hasn't denied it. His buddies haven't denied it. Nobody's like, I didn't do it. It was part of the estate. It was part of the Glane Maxwell trial, just so everybody knows. It's been around floating there for a while.

I will never be over some of the things that were in that book. I agree, yeah. I need to pick that story up again and still go find the kid who drew that thing. I have a lead on that, by the way. Which, thank you, people who will listen, actually sent me some tips, and potentially have a lead on it. on getting in contact with that person. Last thing here on the Epstein story,

we have another one here of somebody who says, I don't even want to see the book, just so they don't have to be asked about it. Let's take a list. You see that letter? I've not, but I would love to see it, like, matched with his handwriting.

Yeah. It just seems really, really wild. Yeah, I don't want to see it. He says, I don't want to see it after the reporter shows him the letter. He said, oh, I'd love to see it. An analysis of the handwriting, and he's like, well, I have it right here

is how I'd actually don't. I don't want to see that at all. I don't want to look at it. I don't want to talk about it. Next question. What a joke. All right. Will people still care? I kind of hope so. I hope the story doesn't die. So if you're out there, you know, by the way, Charlie, he actually did care a lot about the upscene story, just so you guys understand. He did backtrack a little bit later on, but he fought pretty hard behind the scenes from what I know for release. So if you do want to fold that into it, you know, I don't think he would want you necessarily to care, to stop caring either. All right, let's get to Israel. Yeah, indeed. So while we've been focused, obviously, on the

killing of Charlie Kirk, understandably, a lot has been transpiring here with regards to Israel. In particular, Marco Rubio, it can put those images up on the screen. Marco Rubio made a trip to Israel. And here we have him and Mike Huckabee there along with Netanyahu. And I believe that was Ben Gavir praying there at the Western Wall. So, you know, how many politicians do we have with photos that look just like this, Democrat and Republican? not just being the very latest. But that's not all. Put this up on the screen. There has been a renewed, invigorated effort to crack down on any sort of anti-Israel sentiment. In particular,

we have a new bill that has been floated that would give Marco Rubio what the Intercept is describing as thought police power to revoke U.S. passports. So this dovetails with the government's argument that when it came to Mahmoud Khalil and green card holders, that they could themselves, Marco Rubio himself, deem him to be a material supporter of terrorism based on really nothing and revoke his green card. So this bill would give Rubio the ability to deny passports to U.S. citizens that he similarly deemed to have provided material support for terrorism. Now, the only thing that the government ever proffered with regard to Makamun Khalil is basically his involvement in these pro-Palestine protests that occurred at Columbia University. There was no indication

that they have never been able to indicate that he was directly tied to Hamas or providing them direct support in any sort of way. So that's why this sort of legislation is so unnerving because it would put in the hands of Marco Rubio directly the ability to say, oh, I didn't like what she said there, I'm going to say that's material support for terrorism. Guess what we're pulling your passport and you can no longer travel abroad. Yeah, this is, this is scary stuff. And denaturalization has kind of been a dream for people in the anti-terrorism space now for quite a long time because it's, it's very pesky. It gets in the way of being able to kill your own citizens. If you'll remember during the Anmar al-Al-Wiki thing during the drone strike,

you know, his citizenship is the only thing that saved him from even, you know, the pretense of due process and everything. And so this is, of course, what exactly would be their dream. I mean, I'm generally hopeful that it wouldn't go through. It doesn't look like. It's one which has a ton of support.

It is, of course, sponsored by Brian Mast. Anybody remember who that is? The guy who wore the IDF uniform into the U.S. Congress. Weird, weird, weird indeed. Combine it. Got his priority straight. Well, you know, it is just crazy.

I mean, you have Huckabee and Rubio at the Western Wall, you know, paying their respect. fine. I mean, I've been to the Western Wall. I put a note it in or whatever. But it's one of those where they do it now at this point as an explicit expression of political support for the state and then for the war. And then on top of that, they do it in the context of all of this extraordinary Israeli action like the West Bank, which we're going to show people in a little bit. It's explicitly to be like, we're here. This is part of the reason. It's religious just

justification, and that justifies the support for this, all of this secular state of Israel behavior. It's totally nuts. Yeah. It's totally nuts. The idea here behind this Brian Mass bill is basically like if you oppose the genocide that our country is supporting being conducted directly by Israel, we're going to pull your passport. We're going to, you know, we're going to crack down on you. And obviously they have a track record of doing exactly that already. And that wasn't the only move that was made, though. Lauren Bobert also got in on the action. You can put this next one up on the screen. We've got a new bill that just passed the House punishing politically motivated boycotts of Israel. Lauren Bobert apparently added

this amendment to the Pentagon budget that targets the BDS movements against Israel. They say in a first step toward a federal law punishing criticism of Israel, House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a massive defense budget that would bar companies engaged in what they describe as politically motivated boycotts of Israel from getting Pentagon contracts. Bill would effectively ban contractors boycotting Israel from tapping most federal contract dollars since more than half of the $755 billion U.S. government spent on contracts last year flowed through the Defense Department. So if you are a company that has any sort of a principled boycott against Israel, you will be banned from any sort of Pentagon contracts, which is a vast dollar amount

in terms of the total amount of contracts given out by the federal government. Yeah, it's crazy. Yeah, totally crazy. Absolutely. We were talking earlier, and I was like, you know, where do we need cancel culture or consequence culture? Looking at it right here. And yet, you know, obviously, if anything, it's the inverse. Or if you say anything, you just get nuked, you know, by the pro-Israel side on this.

In fact, there's probably no area of political discourse which faced more cancel culture than this in the last, what, 24 months since October 7? Well, and we're going to talk more about this. tomorrow and dig into this more, but I mean, this was something that Charlie Kirk was starting to talk about the level of pressure he felt about staying, you know, on message with regard to Israel and that he felt more free to criticize his own government than to criticize this foreign government, which I think millions of Americans are reacting, feeling the same way. Like, what is going on here? Where are your, these are your legislative priorities? Is this like anti-BDS

criminalizing any sort of boycott of Israel, making sure that American citizens, can have their passports pulled if they don't tow the line with regard to Israel, absolutely insane. And also comes as put D4 up on the screen. This is significant. So the IDF, the former IDF chief, has confirmed that Gaza casualties are at over 200,000. So that is both killed and wounded. That matches up very closely with the Gaza Ministry of Health that we're always told,

oh, the Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health, where here you have the IDF confirm. I will say that many other independent experts have looked at the overall numbers, not just of direct killings by the IDF, but also, you know, malnutrition, starvation deaths, the lack of medical care, people who buried under the rubble, all of those sorts of things, and said that the likely numbers are much, much higher than what the Gaza Health Ministry have said in the hundreds of thousands in terms of number of people killed. But even if we just take this estimate, even if we assume that these numbers, numbers are accurate. You're talking about 10% of the population of the Gaza Strip, either killed or injured. And now former IDF chief backing that up. And at the same time, we also have the Gaza city, a mass bombing campaign in Gaza City. They've effectively said, hey, if you stay there, we're going to assume you're a terrorist and we're just going to, you know, we're going to bomb and we're going to blow it, murder everybody who remains. So forcing people out of Gaza City, which, of course, previously is the largest city in the

Gaza Strip. We could put up some of the images here on the screen. I believe this was a university here that they are detonating, blowing up, just destroying any sort of cultural institution. These are high rises. I don't know if they're high-rise apartment buildings. You can see the tents in the foreground there of displaced people. everybody in the Gaza Strip has been displaced probably multiple times at this point.

And here again, you can see how close they are to those tents of displaced people. This is from Al Jazeera posted this from eye on Palestine, where you can see, again, more of the explosions, detonations that are happening in Gaza City right now. So this is happening as we speak. And we also don't want to lose sight of another important. piece of this, which is there's been continued attacks on the West Bank. And this really escalated. We can put these images up on the screen. They rounded up all of the men. And you can see them in this one particular West Bank town. You can see them being rounded up and marched out here

in absolutely horrifying scenes. So any basically, quote unquote, military age man. My understanding is that they have held on to hundreds of them as effectively hostages here. And this was in retaliation for an attack committed by, I believe, two men from this town on the IDF. And so in a reprisal here, just rounding up all of the men in this West Bank town. And it's important Sagar to keep your eye on the West Bank because, you know, with regard to Gaza, they say, oh, it's Hamas and human shields and blah, blah, blah. Well, West Bank is run by the Palestinian Authority. It had nothing to do with October 7th, and yet we see an aggressive, violent crackdown and mass annexation that has gotten so widespread that Jasper Nathaniel said, listen, effectively they've annexed

the West Bank at this point because the assertion of control is so complete from Israel at this point that to say it's anything other than annexed, and obviously this has been given a green light by the United States of America. Well, yeah, I mean, the Charlie Kirk thing really went out with really obscured this. but here was the direct quote that he said on September 11th, B.B. A Palestinian state will not be established. This entire place is ours. We will preserve it for our heritage, for our land, and for our security,

signing a ceremonial West Bank expansion plan. It's there out in the U.S. It just says this stuff. Yeah. And, yeah, I mean, look, I guess it's not a surprise. The Kirk thing obscured any potential outrage. And then, by the way, the ambassador and the Secretary of State basically go and affirm that same position the very next day.

So that's where we are. Yep, that's where we are. And last piece I'll put up on the screen here, just a news article about this West Bank crackdown. This is from Al Jazeera. They say Israeli forces arrest over 100 Palestinians and impose a curfew in the West Bank. Israeli forces have detained more than 100 Palestinians

and raised on the occupied West Bank city of Telkaram and have imposed a curfew. Al Jazeera Arabic reports, as the Israeli offensive in Gaza City is forced more than 200,000 Palestinians to flee the largest urban center in the enclave. As reported earlier, Israel's military has been conducting raids in Talcaram after it said two Israeli soldiers were wounded

when their vehicle was hit by an explosive device. So that's where we are. Yes, that's right. Okay. Thank you guys so much for watching. As usual, talk too much. But it is what it is. We'll try and cover it tomorrow. And we'll see you all then. Appreciate it. Let's start with a quick puzzle. The answer is Ken Jennings' appearance on The Puzzler with A.J. Jacobs. The question is, what is the most entertaining listening experience in podcast land? Jeopardy-truthers believe in... I guess they would be Kenspiracy theorists.

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