The David Knight Show - Fri Episode #2027: The Epstein Files: Musk, Trump, and the Silence of the Swamp

Episode Date: June 7, 2025

00;00;30;00 - 00;00;55;29Trump-Musk Divorce and Epstein Files: Elon Musk claims Trump is on the Epstein files, delaying their release, amid a messy public fallout between the two.00;12;55;20 - 00;13;17;01Musk’s Epstein Allegation: Musk alleges Trump’s name is in the Epstein files, escalating their feud, with a bold claim about hidden truths.00;52;18;19 - 00;52;36;23Tucker Carlson Accuses Mark Levin of War Lobbying: Tucker Carlson claims Fox News host Mark Levin is pushing for war with Iran at the White House, warning Trump that a strike could end his presidency.01;09;43;04 - 01;10;15;10Israeli Attacks on Iran: Israel is accused of assassinating Iranian scientists and attacking nuclear facilities, actions labeled as terrorism if done to the U.S., highlighting strained relations.01;27;41;05 - 01;28;05;02Media’s Power in Covid: The media fueled fear, convincing people the pandemic was a life-or-death crisis, exposing America’s susceptibility to propaganda.01;46;10;25 - 01;46;34;04Vaccines Linked to SIDS: New study reveals vaccines overwhelm infants’ detox pathways, causing inflammation and brainstem damage, with 75% of SIDS cases within a week of shots.02;11;41;02 - 02;12;20;00Babylon Bee Sues Hawaii Over Satire Censorship: The Babylon Bee files a lawsuit against Hawaii’s law banning political satire and memes, arguing it violates free speech by forcing disclaimers and punishing parody.02;39;24;04 - 02;39;45;13War is Peace Rhetoric: Alex Karp of Palantir and Mark Milley promote Orwellian logic, claiming peace activists fuel war and justifying preemptive strikes, equating war with political necessity. 02;48;58;08 - 02;49;29;019/11 Building 7 Controlled Demolition Claims: Firefighters report Building 7’s collapse as a controlled demolition, with unexplained explosions ignored by the 9/11 Commission, raising questions about the official narrative. Follow the show on Kick and watch live every weekday 9:00am EST – 12:00pm EST https://kick.com/davidknightshow Money should have intrinsic value AND transactional privacy: Go to https://davidknight.gold/ for great deals on physical gold/silver For 10% off Gerald Celente's prescient Trends Journal, go to https://trendsjournal.com/ and enter the code KNIGHT Find out more about the show and where you can watch it at TheDavidKnightShow.comIf you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-showOr you can send a donation throughMail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Zelle: @[e-mail] App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-david-knight-show--2653468/support.

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the the In a world of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. It's the David Knight Show. As the clock strikes 13, it is Friday, the 6th of June, Year of Our Lord 2025. And the Trump-Musk divorce is getting messy, as Elon now claims that the reason the Epstein files weren't released is because Trump is on them. Now the question is, was anyone surprised? The grifters want war.

Mark Levin lobbies the White House to go to war with Iran. I wonder why. And the cruelty of the plandemic lockdown. Stay with us. The The Good morning everyone. Hope you're having a lovely Friday so far. Thank you for joining us and to start out I would like to ask that if you are watching the show, please drop a like on the stream wherever you're watching it. And again, please pray for our dad. Please pray for the nerves in his tongue and his vocal cords that he'd be able to speak clearly again soon

and of course, as I said, we're gonna start with the messy divorce between Elon Musk and Donald Trump yesterday Musk got very upset and started tweeting that the reason the Epstein files have been released is that it's cuz Donald Trump is on them Of course, we've all here known that to be the case. There's plenty of pictures of Donald Trump with Jeffrey Epstein But maybe just maybe this will wake up some of the people in the MAGA crowd to the fact that they voted for this Jeffrey Epstein friend gonna start with this Babylon Bee article. Judge determines Trump will get the nation on weekdays while Musk gets every other weekend and holidays.

That's right, they're gonna split the country where just children caught between these two fighting billionaires. US, as the American people sat back helplessly and watched a once close relationship fall apart, a judge issued a ruling that President Donald Trump would get the nation on weekdays while Elon Musk would get it every other weekend and on holidays. Tamalcha was split on the previously happy billionaires, grabbed headlines this week

culminating both parties going to court to seek a fair custody agreement of the United States of America. Now if this were true, Donald Trump would abide by it because we've all seen that the second a judge tells him anything he backs down from whatever he's doing. We got a good deal though, I do believe the nation belongs with me, Trump told reporters after the judge's ruling was announced. The president is like a father, and I'm the father of this country, the best it has ever had.

Maybe ever, except for George Washington, but he had a ponytail. You can't really trust a guy with a ponytail, from what I've been told. But Elon can still visit, for now if he keeps this up, that might change. You should be careful, believe me. Musk was diplomatic in his response to the judge's decision, we will abide by the court order. He said in a statement, it's important for Americans to know that President Trump and I still love each other. It's just a different type of love now than it was before. We still want what's best for this country. We're just living different lives now. This is America's fault.

Sometimes billionaires just grow apart. That's right. The billionaires have fallen out of love. Trump cut his EV tax cuts and now Elon Musk is upset. He's unhappy. How could this happen to such a lovely couple? At publishing time, the White House issued a statement clarifying that President Trump would be responsible for taking the nation to all of its baseball

practices and piano lessons. Well, that is of course the Babylon V, but there is a rift in the house. They don't seem happy with each other, whether it's Elon Musk's ego over the dog cuts being scrapped or he's upset that he's not getting his EV tax cuts anymore.

He is lashing out. Elon Musk blasts Trump. Without me, Trump would have lost. This of course brings up the point that he was happy, oh so happy to get Epstein's buddy Donald Trump elected until he slighted him it's another petty ego battle that we're having he has no principles he didn't care that he was a friend of jeffrey epstein didn't care that he was apparently on the epstein flight logs or in the epstein files until until he hurt his little ego that's what what this is about. This isn't about honor. This isn't about doing the right thing

The article describes president Trump's claim that Elon Musk is upset about the proposed tax bill Trump suggests that Musk is particularly upset about the elimination Of EV credits and his pick to run NASA being nixed However, must respond to Trump's comments with a simple whatever being nixed. However, Musk responded to Trump's comments with a simple, whatever. Much like a moody teenage girl, whatever. And that is the level of response we're getting from Elon Musk. Whatever, Donald. Whatever. I'm just gonna go post on Twitter. The alliance between President Donald Trump and Tesla CEO Elon Musk dramatically fractured Thursday over the president's major tax bill, which is pending in the Senate. Trump called Musk crazy.

That's right. He's a crazy ex and threatened to cut off government contracts with a mega billionaires company which in addition to Tesla include the space exploration company SpaceX and the artificial intelligence company XAI. Tesla stock price plunged after Trump's comment and Musk said SpaceX would begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately because of Trump's threats Well, I'm gonna take my spacecraft and go home Truly just some petty children fighting and were caught in the middle of it to petty tyrants Arguing over who gets the pork.

Tesla stock price plunged after Trump's comment. Trump said that Musk, who until recently was one of his top advisors, opposes the budget package because he is upset about the elimination of electric vehicle credits in the bill and about the Republican president nixing his pick to run NASA. I'm very disappointed in Elon.

I've helped Elon a lot, Trump told reporters at the White House. Where less than a week ago, he lauded Musk's work on the DOG project to cut federal spending and employee headcount. Ilan and I had a great relationship. I don't know if we will anymore. Musk quickly and dismissively fired back at Trump in a post on his social media site. X.

Whatever. That's right. They both have their own little social media empires Donald Trump has true social and Musk has X and they'll send messages back and forth to each other between these two We'll start posting moody photo edits and sad breakup songs soon Which one is going to post bring me to life by evanescence first is the real question Keeps the EV slash solar incentive cuts in the the bill even though no oil and gas subsidies are touched very unfair but ditch the mountain of disgusting pork in the bill in the

entire history of civilization there's never been legislation that is both big and beautiful Elon is right on this one without me Trump would have lost the election Musk tweeted soon after he's also probably right on that as well. But of course, again, he was totally happy to get a friend of Jeffrey Epstein elected until he bruised his ego. Dems would control the House and the Republicans would be 51-49 in the Senate, added Musk, who was the biggest financial backer of Trump's 2024

campaign, spending more than 250250 million on that effort. Such ingratitude, he wrote. Don't you know I made you? I made you. You wouldn't be here without me and you're gonna take my pork barrel? Uh-uh. Musk launched a poll on X asking users, is it time to create a new political party in America that actually represents the 80% in the middle? That's right. A third party. Is that really what's going to save America? The founding fathers didn't like parties at all. So I don't think that will do any good. Also, it would beg the question, who's going to sit at the top of this third party? Who would it be? Tesla shares slid by more than 8% as the feud erupted between the EV maker's CEO and the

Republican president. Trump's analysis of Musk's motivation came after days of the billionaire condemning what Trump calls his one big beautiful bill over concerns that will blow out federal deficits. Musk on Tuesday called the bill a disgusting abomination. Tesla CEO Elon Musk right joins former US President Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump during a campaign rally at the site. That was a the caption of the image. You know I've always liked Elon said Trump on Thursday. I'd rather have him criticize me than the bill because the bill is incredible. Elon is upset because we took the EV

mandate you know which was a lot of money for electric vehicles. Trump said and you know they're having a hard hard time electric vehicles and they want us to pay billions of dollars in subsidy. Elon knew this from the beginning. Trump said referring to the elimination of the tax credits and the bill for the electric vehicles, he knew it a long time ago. I'm very, very disappointed because Elon knew the inner workings of this bill better than almost anybody sitting here better than you people.

He knew everything about it. He had no problem with it. Trump said all of a sudden he had a problem and he only developed the problem when he found out that we're going to have to cut the EV mandate because that's billions and billions of dollars and it really is unfair, Trump said. The president also said, referring to Isaac Man, that's the person Musk put forward when it comes to running NASA, I'm sure Musk respected him, but to run NASA, I didn't think it was appropriate.

He happened to be a Democrat, like totally Democrat, Trump said of Isaacman. And I say, you know, look, we won. We get certain privileges. And one of the privileges, we don't have to appoint a Democrat. NASA is very important. Well, I think it might be a good idea to start launching Democrats into space. He had an opportunity and he could have taken it, but no. He's so short-sighted, folks, we could have started packing Democrats onto space shuttles and launching them directly to the moon. But no. Trump suggested Musk's

pivot to becoming a critic is part of a pattern he has seen with others who previously served his administration. That's right. People get out and they're fed up with him. They hate him. They can't stand him. There's also the fact that most of the people in government are quite liberal. And they're probably just putting on a front to get close to Trump. People leave my administration- Well, of course Trump is just putting on a front to get close to power. This is a common problem with me. Every time someone leaves my administration, they always hate me.

It's insane. I don't know what's causing that. I don't know what it is. I keep encountering the same problem everywhere I go. Everywhere I go the same problem. Don't know what it is. Trump suggested Musk's pivot to becoming critic as part of a pattern. People leave my administration and they love us and then at some point they miss it so badly, so badly, and some of them embrace it and some of them actually become hostile. I don't know what it is. It's sort of Trump derangement syndrome, I guess they call it, Trump said.

But we have it with others too. They leave and they wake up in the morning and the glamor is gone. And the whole world is different. They become hostile. I don't know what it is. That's right, you wake up one day and you're not part of Trump's administration anymore

and the glamor is gone. That's how he describes it, the glamor. It's not about serving the people. It's not about doing the right thing. It's not about the fact that, oh I don't have the ability to help the people anymore. It's the glamour. I'm not close to Donald Trump. I'm not next to the seat of power. I'm not standing by the Golden Throne anymore. My life is over. And they lash out. Musk says Trump is named in Epstein files. That's right as

we said he's named in them apparently and the question is who was surprised by this? Was anyone surprised by this? I know I wasn't. The only surprising thing was that Elon Musk tweeted it. Billionaire Elon Musk alleged that President Trump has ties to convicted sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein as part of his growing feud with the president. A fight that boiled over and turned personal on Thursday. Time to drop the really big bomb, Musk wrote on X, the social platform he owns. Trump is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public. Minutes later, he followed up, mark this post to the future, the truth will come out. Names of powerful people previously associated with Epstein who died by suicide in a Manhattan

jail in 2019. Ah yes, by suicide. Thank you very much for clarifying that. We've all been wondering what caused it, but now we know. Including Trump, Prince Andrew, and former President Clinton have been mentioned in court documents related to Epstein's decades of sexual abuse. Trump, before he was elected in November, said he would have no problem releasing files related to Epstein, something some lawmakers, many on social media, have called for after Epstein's death. That's right, there's a small coalition of people, a small coalition of people interested in this.

You know, just basically every American. The president last year denied any connection to Epstein writing on social media. I was never on Epstein's plane or at his stupid island. Strong language ought to be developed. Against AI it will be a big and very dangerous problem in the future. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Musk's allegations came minutes after Trump threatened to cancel government contracts with Musk's companies, calling him crazy and escalating an explosive feud between

The two former allies and that's right if we do get the Epstein files It'll be because Elon Musk leaks them after Donald Trump cancels one of his pork barrel projects You're gonna take my money. Well here take that Isn't it wonderful that these are the type of people that are running the country? These are the type of people with the power and influence. These two petty, petty, uh, dictators of their own little fiefdoms. With the emotional maturity of children. Musk, the world's richest person who has granted extraordinary access to Trump's government after he was elected,

has criticized the big, beautiful spending bill Trump is trying to push through Congress. The billionaire tech and media mogul suggested earlier Thursday that Trump would not have gotten elected last fall without him and called him ungrateful. That's right he's ungrateful don't you know? I made you. I made you and I can break you. Going nuclear must cause for Trump to be impeached It makes wild Epstein rant after Don branded Elon crazy as feud explodes

That's right. He wants him impeached. He's got to get out. He's taking my contracts We're gonna put someone in power that is going to make sure that I'm allowed to run NASA that I get all the funding The president also threatened to cancel all of Musk's federal contracts as the public falling out escalated. We are caught in the middle. Directly between these two warring egos, President Donald Trump and Elon Musk's relationship has publicly crashed and burned as the two former allies exchanged blows on social media on Thursday. It really does go to show even just from a cynical Machiavellian standpoint what an idiot Donald Trump is

though. There comes a point where someone you know if you're a person that is doing bad things and you have people around you they can learn too much about them they can know too many secrets you are then obligated to keep them around they are indispensable and you have to do what they want because they can break you. They can shout your secrets to the rooftop. But Donald Trump doesn't even have that level of self-preservation. Doesn't have that kind of intelligence. Not even from, as I said, a cynical Machiavellian standpoint. He's very childish and petty and petulant.

As well as Elon. He kill us. Oh well, let the richest man on earth start the party for the middle Americans. By all means. Yes, that's right. Elon Musk, another blue collar billionaire. He'll be sure to represent the little man. He'll be out there for all of us doing just what we want. He'll be going to there for all of us doing just what we want. He'll be going to space for all of us. Colonizing Mars for the little guy. KWD 68. Meet the third party. Same as the other parties. Money bag. That's right. So I have a comment from Dan. He says, the big surprise to me in all this is that the left seems to hate Musk more than Trump.

The Daily Beast put out an article saying that Trump is democracy's last hope. Presumably the executive order version of democracy until a better financial order presents itself. Uh, which? That is incredible. How did it come to this? The left is now putting their hopes in Donald Trump. The feud started three days ago when Musk began fuming over the president's signature

spending legislation that's currently making its way through Congress. Tech Mogul's three-day takedown came to a head when the president was quizzed about the bill in the Oval Office on Thursday, prompting Musk to reply in real time on X. That's right, he's live tweeting his breakup with Donald Trump. He's letting us all know. Musk reposted an X user who wrote, President vs Elon, who wins? My money's on Elon.

Trump should be impeached and JD Vance should replace him. Musk gave a one-word affirmation when he replied, Yes. That's right. Musk has always been a master of rhetoric. He's always been able to construct a sentence in such a way as to move the heart, to shake the soul. The call came moments after Musk claimed Trump refuses to release the infamous Epstein files because his name is in them. Time to drop the really big bomb. That is the real reason they have not been made them. Time to drop the really big bomb. That is the real reason they have not been made public. Have a nice day, DJT.

He later added, mark this post for the future. Trump has long denounced any association with Epstein's crimes, although the two had long documented personal relationship. That's right, it's been known. He's not releasing anything of interest, really, except for the fact that a lot of people will absolutely Refuse to believe any information unless it's presented to them by their favorite talking head by their favorite idol

Oh, well, this is someone I know and trust and Since he's telling me it must be true. Most people will do no research at all. They won't read articles They won't look at anything. Trump has long announced any association. Elon Musk blasts Donald Trump's disgusting tax and spending bill in wild rant. After AI generated images went viral last year showing Trump on Epstein's island,

the president said that he never went to the disgraced financiers' stupid island. Disgraced financier, that's a mild way of describing Jeffrey Epstein, isn't it? Oh, he's a disgraced financier. That's a that's a mild way of describing Jeffrey Epstein, isn't it? Oh, he's a disgraced financier. You know, it sounds like he might have lost some people some money in a bad bad stock market deal. No, he's a he's a predator. He's a sexual predator. A very very disgusting individual. There's no evidence that Trump had any involvement in Epstein's sex crimes. Well, I mean

There's no hard evidence yet But there's a lot of circumstantial evidence a lot of circumstantial evidence Oval office face-off Trump has defended the one big beautiful bills act Historic 1.6 trillion in spending cuts since the house passed it in May. The Congressional Budget Office estimated that the bill will add 3 trillion to the national deficit which Musk has latched on to and his attack on Trump. How the Trump-Musk relationship crumbled in a day. That's right. The relationship wasn't built in a day but it can crumble in one. Oh, makes you weep for the glory of Rome doesn't it?

On Tuesday Musk tweeted that Trump's signature spending big beautiful spending bill was a disgusting abomination that would add billions to the federal deficit. On Thursday in the Oval Office Trump addressed Musk's criticism of the bill by accusing Musk of trying to kill it because the bill ends federal subsidies for electric vehicles, which would cost Musk Company, Tesla, significant profits. Musk responded by live posting on X as Trump spoke, initially shrugging off the president's assessment with an unbothered, whatever, before tearing into the bill's other spending provisions. Trump escalated the feud after the Oval Office meeting with multiple posts on True Social, saying he told Musk to leave the White House instead of continuing to work with Doeg and

threatening to dump Musk's federal contracts, which are worth billions. Musk fired back on X by saying he was decommissioning the Dragon spacecraft made by SpaceX that brought the stranded NASA astronauts back from the International Space Station in March. That's right, next time your astronauts get stuck up there, you go get them yourself, Donald, I'm not doing it for you. So incredibly petty. Musk's further fanned the flames by saying that Trump is named in the infamous Epstein files and citing that is the only reason they hadn't been released to the public. We're doing things in that bill that are unbelievable, the president said. When asked about Musk's criticism, the president revealed that the two had been at odds ever since Musk stepped down as the head of the Department of Government Efficiency.

Elon and I had a great relationship. I don't know if we will anymore." He said, oh, so sad to see, isn't it? The relationship is over. It's crumbling. And they looked so happy. They looked so happy. And now they're at odds. The acrimony has started. Don't frag me, bro. We introduced Melania to Trump, Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein. Who was Melania working for at the time? Victoria's secret owner, Les Wexner. That's they're all connected. They have many ties that run back years. Who? And it again begs the question. Who is surprised by this?

Was there anyone that didn't know, that didn't have some inkling at least of what was going on with trump and jeffrey upstein or Did they just not want to know because that's what I believe about maga They looked at it and like well, uh, you know, sure maybe he's tied but he's uh, he's sorry about it He's sad about it. He this he that he's going to do the right thing for the country Ignoring the fact that he is a deeply immoral person ignoring the fact that he is a deeply immoral person, ignoring the fact that he is the one that gave us Warp Speed. They will overlook all of Trump's sins over and over again because they want to believe that he is their savior.

He just went crazy. The Oval Office Trump claimed Musk was really criticizing the bill because he was outraged over the president's decision to step away from a national electric vehicle mandate. Musk wanted the federal government to go all in on EVs because it would mean a windfall of money for this company Trump claimed. You know they're having a hard time the electric vehicles he said. He wants to pay billions of dollars in subsidies. Trump later wrote on true social that Elon was wearing thin and the president had to ask him to leave. That's right

He was getting annoying. He was drinking all my orange juice. He kept leaving the toilet seat in weird ways I don't know. I just couldn't have him at the White House anymore. It was truly unbearable I took away his EV mandate that forced everyone to buy electric cars and nobody else wanted that he knew for months I was going to do and he just went crazy Mom says it it's my turn with the pork barrel don't you know? While Trump celebrated his latest White House win Musk unloaded his true thoughts on the legislation in a furry flurry of live posts on X whatever said the billionaire keep the EV slash solar incentive cuts in the bill even though no soil and gas subsidies are touched very unfair But ditch the mountain of disgusting pork in the bill he wrote in the entire history of civilization

There's never been legislation that both that is both big and beautiful Everyone knows this either you get a big and ugly bill or a slim and beautiful bill slim and beautiful is the way That's right a slim felt attractive svelte, attractive bill. One that you could really take home to mom. Feud escalates. The president said it was always his intention to relax the mandates as he pushes to use America's natural gas and oil supply to achieve energy independence. Elon knew this from the beginning.

He knew this from a long time ago, said Trump, who has touted his plan to drill, baby, drill for oil. But Musk has claimed that he never actually saw the bill and said it passed in the dead of night so fast that almost no one in Congress could even read it. Well, that's just business as usual. That's how things are done. Nobody reads these bills. You actually think these fossils in Congress are reading anything? I'd be surprised if they can still read, if they can even see. They're all just out for themselves. They're all just making sure. I'm sure if there's a section in there that has something to do with their own personal agenda, they might skim it. They have to pass it to find out what's in it. They'll find out when the jackbooted fugs

start implementing it against the peons. Oh look, empowered SWAT teams to kick indoors isn't that nice. I didn't know that. However, Trump reminded reporters that Musk has proudly worn a hat with the words, Trump was right about everything, emblazoned on the front. He wore my hat. He wore my hat. That's right. This is like when you give a girlfriend your hoodie and they have to give it back when you break up. I want my hat back, Elon. You're giving my, you're giving me my hat back. I might comment from dad with more breaking news that he's

seeing about the breakup. Bannon and Psoiak are calling for SpaceX to be nationalized, showing their true authoritarian colors. They're not conservative, libertarian, or constitutional. Asks if anyone is surprised by that. Jack Psobiak and Steve Bannon, what a lovely power couple, aren't they? Just working together for the betterment of the nation, I'm sure. We're gonna take your toys, Elon. We're coming for SpaceX.

And I'm right about the great big beautiful bill. The president said he knew the inner workings of the bill better than anybody sitting here. He had no problem with it. All of a sudden he had a problem and he only developed the problem when he found out we were gonna have to cut the EV mandates because that's billions and billions of dollars.

Later the president added on True Social, I don't mind Elon turning against me but he should have done so months ago He said I didn't create this mess. I'm just here to fix it. This puts our country on a path to greatness such in gratitude Said Musk Truly these two are clowns and we are caught in the middle between them Clowns to the left of me jokers to the right here we are

Stuck in the middle Republicans announced plan to keep doing opposite of what everyone voted for them to do Babylon B. That's right. We read this one yesterday, but it bears repeating the headline. They're going to keep doing whatever it is They were told not to do. You voted for me to cut spending, cut taxes. How about we raise spending and maybe cut a little taxes here? Maybe, just maybe we might do that, but we're going to raise the debt ceiling. In fact, maybe we'll scrap it all together. Maybe we'll get rid of it entirely. Musk floats idea of third party amid feud with Trump. Billionaire Elon Musk seemed to suggest support of a third political party as he escalated a growing fight with President Trump that boiled over Thursday. Is it time to create a new political party in America that actually represents the 80%

in the middle? Musk wrote in a post on social platform X who has more than 200 million followers on the site which he owns. Musk attached a survey to his post that allowed you to vote yes or no on the idea of a third political party. That's right folks, all our problems would be saved if we were to just get the 80% of centrists in the middle that have such wonderful ideas. The 80% of centrists that are basically what Democrats were 20 years ago. Nothing would be better for us than to just become some Clinton era Democrats that would slowly of course drift further and further left again because that's what centrists do. They drift further and further left. It's the overton window party that will be pushed in whatever direction the media is leaning in.

Centrists are the type of people that when King Solomon declared that he would cut the baby in half, they went, yes, that's a wonderful idea, truly a solution. And we're very disappointed when he discovered that the woman was actually, and when he discovered the real mother. That's the type of people centrists are. They are not the people we should put our faith in. Well, not all centrists, but yes, there is a lot of go-along-to-get-along spirit of let's just keep everything within wherever the current Overton window is. Yes. Centrists would kill the country just the same The post came out hours after Trump expressed disappointment with Musk over the billionaire's criticism of the big beautiful bill. That's right

Hmm. He says mean things about me. What if I create a third party? What if I steal some of Trump's support make sure that we fracture the Republican Party? And again, I don't think it really matters. The business goes on either way, whether we have a Democrat or a Republican in power, whether Trump gets knocked out, not that he can run again, but if he were to and were Elon to steal a portion of his support with a third party, it would not matter. The same things would happen. The same policies would be implemented. Trump faces shocking threat to his presidency from Brutus Musk. A2 Elon, as

he considers how to mitigate the damage from his fallout with Elon Musk, Donald Trump would be well advised to examine the origins of Tesla, the company most closely associated with the world's richest man and the main source of his enormous wealth. Tesla Motors as it was originally known was founded on July 1st 2003 by software engineers Martin Eberhardt and Mark Tarpening in San Carlos California. Their dream was to build a cool electric roadster to replace the clunky, battery bleeding, glorified golf carts being produced by established automakers. The Tesla founders bootstrapped their debut prototype before launching their first investment

round in February 2004. Around this time, Elon Musk with pockets full of cash from sales of PayPal and Zip2 was looking for new projects to invest in. He was intrigued by Tesla. He coughed up $6.5 million of the seven and a half million dollars raised. Musk wasn't a founder, but he bought his way into the car business. His wealth was also sufficient to secure him the position of Tesla's chairman of the board. It wasn't long before he took the company for his own. By late 2007 Eberhard had been ousted as the CEO tarponing left a little while later. That's right

Well, I don't think EVs are Effective or even safe these two people were the ones with the dream with the drive with the goal and Elon Musk swoops in and steals it buys it out from under them and Then removes them kicks them out. I'm sure he made their lives miserable before they left. It's very hard to get someone to leave a company that they founded on a dream, but Musk managed it. The real octo-spook, one absolute truth screams in our ears. Trump's second term is shaping up like his first. Lies to get elected, no arrests, no prosecutions, no sentences in prison, and the opposite of

all his promises. Elon doesn't have to point that out. Your eyes and ears provide all you need. That's right. No one needed Elon to come out and say this. Everybody basically knew it. On some level, even his supporters must have. They must have had some inkling. Musk, the new CEO, took the Model S, Model X, and Model 3 to the well-heeled masses and to massive success He also left anger and acrimony in his wake wake ever hardwood later sue for defamation and wrongful termination K WD 68 on rumble. Thank you for the tip. That is very kind prayers for David I'm sending David five silver rounds hoping to start a trend a few ounces from each of us could really add that is, that is so incredibly kind.

Thank you, KWD. All right. We really appreciate that. And I, I appreciate the fact that I see you in chat all the time. I'm glad you're still here. Thank you very much. Fast forward to early 2024 and Musk was ambivalent about Trump's presidential reelection ambitions, announcing in March that he wouldn't be donating to either party

It wasn't until the assassination attempt on Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania That in July that he changed his mind minutes after Trump was bundled from the stage by Secret Service agents with blood pouring from an ear wound and his clenched fist aloft Musk endorsed to the Republican nominee even more importantly committed $45 million to a mega Trump fundraiser, America PAC. August Musk was suggesting that Trump should put him in charge of a commission based on government efficiency. The idea of DOG was born and Musk declared himself willing to serve. I guess at that time it was still just a puppy though, huh?

In October, the Tesla boss shared the stage with Trump on his return to Butler and leaped up and down saying he was dark maga to the discomfort of the nominee and his advisors. You remember that? Oh, that picture is uncomfortable to look at. It is truly some kind of... it activates a fear response somewhere deep in the back of your brain to the discomfort of the nominee and his advisors, if Trump had any reservations, he was appeased by Musk's offer to pay one million a day to voters supporting him in swing states. That's right. With enough money, you can even get close to the president, I suppose. Musk was

fully immersed in Trump's final campaign rundown and was at Mar-a-Lago to watch the results. The first buddy began spending almost every day with the president-elect. There was so much talk of President Musk in December that Trump felt bound to come out and insist, No, he's not taking the presidency. That's not happening. The whispers out of the White House after the inauguration suggested that all was not well with the relationship. Musk wasn't so happy to be Robin to Trump's Batman anymore. Not a diademic duo. He saw himself more in the mold of a genius inventor playboy like Iron Man or Tony Stark. That's right. It's like Batman. No, no, it's like Iron Man, guys. It's like Iron Man. Remember when

we assassinated that Iranian general and they said, well, we'd like to do the same but America doesn't have any heroes. There's no one of stature that we could assassinate that would rival the loss of this great man that we had it truly feels like that every time I read an article and they have to relate things back to Marvel or DC or Star Wars it's just that statement was more devastating than any assassination they could have pulled off because it cut directly to the heart of what America is. It's nothing. It's smoke and mirrors.

It's Marvel and DC superheroes played out forever and ever and ever on a big screen, but they mean nothing. The reports of flare ups with cabinet members, Musk going rogue with flurries of posts on his ex platform. Viewed to the likes of Peter Navarro and Steve Bannon. And Musk being omnipresent at the White House, bringing son X into the Oval Office. Thumping USAID into the woodshipper and going full chainsaw on entire federal departments. Well now Steve Bannon is out to get Musk when he's got the chance.

We're going to federalize SpaceX. We're coming for that spaceship chance. We're gonna federalize SpaceX. We're coming for that spaceship, buddy. We're repossessing it. We're bringing the tow truck. To his obvious bemusement, Musk was no longer the hero. Worse, he was the villain people loved to hate. He was Dr. Doom. Oh, more Marvel references.

Isn't that special? More Marvel. For a time, it served Trump to have Musk as the focus of criticism of the shock and awe launch of his second term. Meanwhile Musk was smart enough to know that his privileged position at the heart of power meant he had to toe the line at least some of the time. And of course they make these references because if anyone does read this article it's going to be some Redditor that has no frame of reference for anything beyond

Marvel or DC or Star Wars. You've got to relate it to villains. They know When the house passed Trump's one big beautiful bill Musk tempered his reactions at first But when he realized how his oval office bro had fully jettisoned Biden's clean air tax credits He lost his cool two weeks later with Musk's ties to the White House officially cut, he felt no such inhibition. Eliminating the clean air tax credits would pummel his Tesla and SpaceX business. Make no mistake, Trump's entire agenda relies on the passage of this bill. When he's being drowned out by Musk's bullhorn, it's more difficult to herd his sheep down the hill.

Trump can talk often and as loudly as he likes from his Oval Office pulpit, but rhetoric and executive orders can only take you so far. This is still a country built on laws, even if some judicial foundations seem rattled and shaky right now. Trump can bully lawmakers behind the scenes, threatening pop-up primaries for disobedience and disloyalty. But so can Musk, he already did that. The midterms may be a year and a half away, but they will determine did that. The midterms may be a year and a half away, but they will determine Trump's legacy. We often see that midterms often swing back away from whatever happened previously with the president, because people get sick. They get up all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed for a presidential election. They think, this time for sure, this time it's really going to change. He's going to fix the problems. We're going to do great." And they sweep through.

And then by the midterms, the hangover has set in. They realize, oh, we've been had. We've been had one more time. This time I really thought he was going to do the right thing. I got suckered again. Star Barkley, Elon wants to be the premier technocrat. It's the right time to usher him out. Yeah, if he does create a third party, he's always been a technocrat. His, was it his grandfather? Yes.

Started the technocrat party in Canada. I suppose he's looking to do something similar here in America. That's right. He wants power for himself, a technocracy all his own Wally walrus the algorithm will govern that's right We'll just plug everything into a big computer program and it'll take care of everything for us It'll make all the right decisions will never have to worry about anything again. Won't that be wonderful?

won't that be so nice we can be wrapped up in a nice warm blanket of ones and zeros. As feud explodes into public view, Trump implies government could cut contracts and subsidies to must companies. That's right. I'm going to take your pork. You, you criticize my bill. Well, it's over for you, buddy. It's over. I'm taking my pork and I'm going home. Well, I'm going to take my space shuttle. I'm going to take my rockets. That's the level of people we're dealing with. I'm going to take my ball and go, he kill us. I would wear a hat that said Trump was right about everything. If I thought Trump was going to give me billions of dollars for my crappy cars that no one wants. That's right

Wear the hat get the billions of dollars, but the second those billions stop that hat is going right in the trash right in the trash There's only you need to pay people a lot to be that kind of fool, huh? Well, that is what's going on with Donald Trump and Elon Musk. They are in the middle of an acrimonious divorce. They are very very mad at each other. The tweets and the truth social posts are flying back and forth. They are arguing over who's going to get the kids. Who gets to beat the children is the real question between these two and that's us. The Big Beautiful bill will add $2.4 trillion to the deficit. This article describes the impact of the Big Beautiful bill.

The total rise to about $3 trillion once the interest costs and more borrowing are included. March President Donald Trump stood before a joint session of Congress and vowed to what has not been done in 24 years, balance the federal budget. Well, we see how that's turned out, don't we? The big beautiful bill would in effect force the federal government to borrow more heavily in the future. That's right, and what happens when you borrow?

You eventually have to pay it back. They will eventually have to pay it back. If not us, but most likely us, because I don't think they can sustain this for that long, but our kids or our grandchildren. This has been the standard way of operation in America for a long time now. Well, you know, not in my lifetime. You know, that's a problem for someone else, not me.

Thankfully, I made my money. I've got my nest egg. I'll be just a-okay. So you know, whoever comes after me can deal with it and I don't care. That's just fine by me. Trump calls for scrapping the debt limit. Because the real problem, the thing that's holding America back, is the fact that we keep having to worry about this pesky debt ceiling, this pesky limit on how much we can spend. We would just be so much better off if we could spend freely without care.

I'm very pleased to announce that after all these years I agree with Elizabeth Warren on something, said Donald Trump. And of course, if it wasn't obvious on its face that this was a bad idea, the fact that Elizabeth Warren agrees with it should let you immediately know, oh no, this is terrible. Senator Ron Johnson, grotesque, big beautiful budget bill, will not pass. Johnson said, the president and senate leadership has to understand that we're serious. They all say, oh we can pressure these guys. No, you can't. Again, we're being very respectful, you know, Iran. 2010 is part of the Tea Party movement. We were mortgaging children's future. We were 14 trillion in debt then, now. Again, we're being very respectful. You know, I ran. 2010 is part of the Tea Party movement.

We were mortgaging children's future. We were 14 trillion in debt. Then now we're over 37 trillion. We're serious about this. They need to take us seriously. Don't insult us. Work with us. Lay out the numbers.

If you can say that our numbers are wrong, fine. Let's work through it. Well hopefully they're right. Hopefully Ron Johnson is right when he says it won't pass. Sticker shock. The GOP is counting on gross to cover the cost of the big beautiful bill. That's right. We're just going to expand the economy so much, I'll be able to pay for it. We're buying in fully. We're putting all our chips on black and we're spinning that wheel. fully. We're putting all our chips on black and we're spinning that wheel.

But I don't think that'll work. I don't think we could raise enough money. What kind of economy would we have to create to pay for this sort of thing? In response to donning estimates of the cost of president Donald Trump's signature legislation, the big, beautiful bill act, Republican leaders cast doubt on the accuracy of the numbers. They argue that legislation will spur enough economic growth to cover its price tag in the long run. All eventually. I just need a little bit more money and then I'll become operationally efficient. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, CBO, put out a report on Wednesday

morning stating that Trump's legislative package would add almost $2.4 trillion to the US deficit over 10 years. It really is like a gambler that just keeps losing money, but believes they'll strike it big on the next one. Except for the fact that these people know what they're doing. They know they're stealing your hard-earned money. They know that they're stealing the value out from underneath you, causing inflation. That's the entire point. Strengthens the argument of fiscal conservatives in Congress who may want to include more spending reductions before the bill's final passage expected

to take place sometime in July. The reason they say this is that CBO doesn't believe in economic growth, Scalise told me they've always been wrong. Well, that's the big, beautiful bill. And that's the rift between Elon and Donald Trump. Isn't it sad these two? Happy go lucky billionaires now at odds I for one weep for what we have lost Well, stay with us folks and we'll be right back I'm going to be a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a

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Specifically Mark Levin Tucker Carlson claims ex Fox colleague Mark Levin is lobbying for war at the White House Pray that Donald Trump ignores him now. Why would Mark Levin want war with Iran? That's very strange, isn't it? Tucker Carlson accused Fox News host Mark Levin, Mark Levin, of lobbying for war at the White House on Wednesday before warning President Donald Trump that a strike on Iran would end his presidency. Mark Levin was at the White House today lobbying for war with Iran, claimed Carlson in a social media post. To be clear, Levin has no plans to fight in this or any Other war he's demanding that American troops do it the former Fox News host continued Hmm. I wonder why Mark Levin is so deeply invested in what's going on in the Middle East

What what an interesting interesting? Policy that is for him to hold We need to stop Iran from building nuclear weapons, he and like-minded ideologues in Washington are now arguing. They are just weeks away. If this sounds familiar, it's because the same people have been making the same claims since at least the 1990s. It's a lie.

In fact, there is zero credible intelligence that suggests Iran is anywhere near building a bomb or has plans to. None. Anyone who claims otherwise is ignorant or dishonest. The US government knew Iran was weeks from possessing a nuclear weapon. We'd already be at war. Iran knows this, which is why they aren't building one. Iran also knows it's unwise to give up its weapons program entirely. Muammar Gaddafi tried that and wound up sodomized with a bayonet. As soon as Gaddafi disarmed, NATO killed him. Iran's

leaders saw that happen. They learned the obvious lesson. Yes, this is the obvious outcome of NATO and America's swaggering, bullying foreign policy. They might have nuclear weapons someday, so let's give them a reason to hate us by attacking them unprovoked. That's right. We got to make sure that these people who may one day develop nukes despise us to our very core Make sure that these people have every reason to want to use them on us where they to ever acquire them So why is Mark Levin was again hyperventilating about weapons of mass destruction to distract you from the real goal, which is regime change Young Americans heading back to the Middle East to topple yet another government. Virtually no one will say this out loud.

Goes without saying that there are very few Trump voters who'd support a regime change war in Iran. Donald Trump has argued loudly against reckless lunacy like this. Trump ran for president as a peace candidate. A war with Iran would amount to a profound betrayal of his supporters. It would end his presidency that may explain why so many of Trump's enemies are advocating for it. Or just the fact that that's business as usual for America. We are in the business of regime change, of proxy wars, of continually swaggering and bullying around, as I said

with our foreign policy, making sure the world is safe for democracy, or at least safe for our financial interests and for those of Israel, got to make sure that Israel's interests are met and kept. Carlson also warned that a war with Iran could result in the deaths of thousands of Americans, collapse the US economy and plunge America into a third world war, pointing out Iran's extensive ties to both Russia and China. Well, I mean, what's another proxy war against Russia? We've already got one going on, might as well have another.

Once you've got one proxy war, you've got to get the full set. You've got to collect them all. An attack on Iran could very easily become a world war we'd lose, wrote Carlson. Many Americans would die during a war with Iran. People like Mark Levin don't seem to care about this. It's not relevant to them. Instead, they insist that Iran give up all uranium enrichment regardless of its purpose. They know perfectly well that Iran will never accept that demand.

That's right. That's how these people continually do business. They make these demands that are utterly unreasonable, that they have no chance of succeeding and then claim, well, we tried to negotiate we tried to shoot for peace, but they just wouldn't listen. So the only option left is war. The only option left is bombs and bullets and bodies. Despite the fact that they knew from the start that it would never work, that they were asking for too much, that the negotiation was doomed to failure, but at least they get to say they tried.

He concluded the one thing that people like Mark Levin don't want is a peaceful solution to the problem of Iran, despite the obvious benefits to the United States. They denounce anyone who advocates for a deal as a traitor and a bigot. They tell us with a straight face that Long Island native Steve Witkoff is a secret tool of Islamic monarchies. faith that Long Island native Steve Witkoff is a secret tool of Islamic monarchies. Traders to which nation, Mr. Levin? Traders to which? I wonder which nation your primary loyalty lies with. Couldn't be Israel. Couldn't be that you're more attached to that nation and to America, right? They'll say or do whatever it takes. They have no limits. These are scary people. Pray that Donald Trump ignores them." Carlson and Levin previously clashed last month after Levin claimed the label Neocon was a pejorative for Jew.

We've reached peak crazy, reacted Carlson, to which Levin responded by calling Carlson a little illegitimate son. But he did not use those words. That's right. Mark Levin has a deep and abiding love for the state of Israel and he will sacrifice any amount of Americans to make sure that their interests are met, that they are the ones who are served. Your sons and daughters are free to die for Israel whenever Mark Levin says so. Iranian diplomats suspect Trump using talks as instrument of sabotage in Tehran. But Willard diplomats told me they suspect the Trump administration is exploiting nuclear negotiations as an instrument for generating instability to weaken Iran's economy and foment social strife.

No, America would never do anything like that. We're the good guys. Are we the baddies? The gray zone. This is on the Free Thought Project. With nuclear negotiations between Trump administration and Iran's reformist government, in a standstill, I held two separate lengthy background conversations in Tehran this past week with a pair of seasoned Iranian diplomats with detailed knowledge of the talks and Muscat Oman. And of course we've all seen those

pictures of what Iran looked like years and upon years ago before the United States got involved in the Middle East. It looked like a very nice city, looked like a very nice place, but after meddling by the United States for decades it has it is not as nice as it once was. In fact, I would bet that's probably the case for many Middle Eastern countries. Except for a few, like Saudi Arabia and Israel, whose interests we tend to serve. Like most Iranians, the diplomats were eager for a durable deal that would provide sanctions relief.

But they said their side could not seem to break through to a Trump team they described as dithering, divided, distracted by other conflicts and incapable of holding to a consistent position. Worse, as the negotiations drag on, the Trump administration is defaulting toward the hardline Israeli position which rejects all uranium enrichment even for civilian purposes violating a right Tehr Iran consider sacrosanct. Well, I wonder why that could be. Is Jared Kushner in their ear? Do they have little earpieces getting directives from him? No, no, no. Israel wants this. Israel wants that. Tell them this. Good old Jared Kushner. The Iranian diplomats now have begun to suspect the Trump administration held an ulterior motive for engaging in talks and is exploiting the meetings in Oman as an instrument for generating instability to weaken

Iran's economy and foment social strife. Their comments to me echoed a warning issued by the leader of Iran's Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Khomeini, as Tehran, considered a request from Trump for nuclear talks last March, negotiating with this US administration won't result in the sanctions being removed, Khomeini declared. It will cause the knot of sanctions to become tighter and pressure to increase. Following two months of political confusion and a significant escalation of US financial warfare, the Ayatollah's words have proven Prescient that's right here. We see these old pictures of Iran It was clean. It was beautiful. People were dressed nice. It was very seemingly westernized. Look at the suits they're wearing

but now things have changed the Swaggering bullying foreign policy of America has led them to rightfully despise us, or at least I assume much of their population does. That is the nature of American foreign policy. Following two months of political confusion and a significant escalation of US financial warfare, the Ayatollah's words have proven prescient. Iran's reformist government now risks repeating the folly of the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plane of Action, JCPOA, which failed to deliver meaningful sanctions relief in the brief period

before Trump shredded the deal and ultimately led to a regime of maximum pressure, culminating with the U.S. assassination of Iranian Major General Qasim Soleimani. And of course, that is the general I was talking about, the one where Iran said, well, we would like to strike back at you. We would like to attack someone of equal standing, of equal value, of equal nobility, but you simply don't have any one of that caliber. You have no heroes. Who could we take out that would be of the same value to you? We can't strike back against Batman or Iron Man. What, are we supposed to wage war against the Incredible Hulk? And they were right.

They were right. Iran's government entered the latest round of talks under heavy pressure with Trump dispatching the B-2 bomber strike force to the Diego Garcia Air Base to enforce his demands. The negotiations also took place in the shadows of the post-October 7th wars in which Iran's regional allies had suffered serious setbacks. With the last retaliation it vowed against Israel, while Trump—True Promise 3, still unfulfilled Iranian public opinion researcher Ibrahim Mosseini told me his polling at the time showed that a majority of Iranians from all social sectors supported the talks. According to the two diplomats I spoke to in Tehran, Iran's negotiating team arrived in Oman with a sense of pessimism, but quickly

grew more positive as they realized the Americans were not introducing demands for Iran to sever relations with allies in Lebanon and Yemen, scrap its long-range ballistic missiles or destroy its reactors in Natanz and Fordow, but after each encouraging exchange they watched key Trump negotiators issue bellicose statements to media immediately after returning to Washington, essentially reversing the positions they had taken in Muscat. The Iranian suspected Trump's team led by real estate lawyer Steve Witkoff was kowtowing to Israeli assets like the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies and its top donor, Miriam Adelson. Of course, Miriam Adelson is the widow of Sheldon Adelson, who has for years tried to

influence and successfully influenced American foreign policy to benefit Israel. The Iranians suspected Trump's team of vowing to her. And they are probably right. During each round of talks the Iranian team introduced concrete proposals to bridge disagreements and maintain momentum. But according to the diplomats I spoke to they found themselves waiting for a week or more to receive a reply from the Americans. They described Witkoff as distracted by other diplomatic assignments. Instead he often put Iran on the back burner while he tended to Ukraine Russia negotiations or the Gaza war That's right, we've got so many different problems so many wars that were involved in in one way or another

How can we devote all our attention to just one of these wars that we're trying? To avoid we've got to focus on Iran. We've got to focus on avoid. We've got to focus on Iran, we've got to focus on Gaza, we've got to focus on Ukraine. We've got proxy wars all over the place, don't you understand? It's not personal. The diplomats were especially concerned by the apparent power struggle between Witkoff and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. They suspected that Rubio was exploiting US media appearances to project control over the negotiations and worried that his apparent rivalry with Witkoff would prevent Trump's team from reaching a consensus on the nuclear

issue. One Iranian diplomat referenced historian Robert Dahlik's book, The American Style of Foreign Policy, to elucidate his view that the Trump administration's counterproductive approach reflected a deeper crisis in the U.S. establishment. The 1983 book argued that domestic pressures and social shifts at home have placed US foreign policy makers on a persistently irrational trajectory. The diplomat pointed to former Secretary of State Tony Blinken as a case study in Dalek's thesis recalling how Blinken routinely moved the

goalposts on previous agreements with Iran in order to prevent negotiations from taking concrete form during the Biden years. His implication, as I read it, was the preponderance of pressure from the Israel lobby and military industry had been too overwhelming to allow either Biden or Trump administrations to execute a lasting deal. That's right. The military industrial complex wants war. They want more bombs and bullets to be bought. And Israel wants war because they want their political enemies in the Middle East destabilized. They want to use us as a club, a way to make sure that they are the strongest in the region, that they are left alone. Both diplomats I spoke to brought up recent reports revealing that

Witkoff has promised Hamas he would force Israel to lift the starvation siege on the Gaza Strip if they released the US-Israeli captive, Yidan Alexander. They were dismayed that Witkoff has promised Hamas he would force Israel to lift the starvation siege on the Gaza Strip if they released the US-Israeli captive, Yidan Alexander. They were dismayed that Witkoff had reneged on his promise and allowed Israel to slaughter hundreds of civilians. An apocalyptic frenzy throughout the week. Trump's bad faith tactics with Hamas have cast a pall over the negotiations in Oman, fueling Iranian pessimism about a workable deal. That's right. We are untrustworthy. We have no honor when we deal with people abroad. We

let Israel do whatever it wants. They want to commit a genocide. They want to violate all kinds of human rights. They want to kill men, women, and children. Well that's just fine. They get to do it. However they see fit, we will let them. That's our boy right there. Or are we their boy? Who knows? But perhaps no statement was more damaging to the prospect of a deal than Witkow's proclamation on ABC's This Week.

We have one very clear red line, and this is enrichment. We cannot allow even 1% of an enrichment capability. Well, that's never going to fly. That is never going to fly. It's as easy, you might as well cut off negotiations now. That's something that they cannot agree to and that means you are not negotiating. The comments fit the pattern of Trump negotiators sabotaging progress in Oman by issuing onerous demands and threats immediately after returning to Washington, and a few issues are more central to the Islamic Republic's sense of independence than its civilian nuclear program. A tour of Tehran's nuclear reactors illustrates the Battle of Wills, while in Tehran, Iran's Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, AEOI, invited me and

a small group of journalists and academics to tour the city's nuclear research center. An active reactor originally constructed with U.S. assistance under the Shah. The good old Shah of Iran. What a nice fellow he was. He, uh, you gotta love our puppets, folks. And when they get rid of them, we hate them even more. Once inside the vast facility without our phones as recording devices We're strictly forbidden. We were treated to an exhibition touting the many life-saving products of Iran's nuclear program from advancements in radiotherapy to the production of anti-cancer drugs to the sterilization of medical devices and protection of agriculture. The visit was clearly designed to illustrate the importance of nuclear energy to Iran's national development and the absolute commitment of its leadership to continuing

the project despite the continuous threat of assassination, sabotage, and all-out war. Following our tour, we went with Behrouz Kamalvandi, a veteran Iranian diplomat, now serving as a spokesman for the AEOI. Like the other Iranian diplomats I spoke to, Kamalvandi volunteered his country's desire to abide by all its obligations under the Non-Proliferation Treaty. But it viewed Iran's civilian nuclear program as the key to consolidating its technological edge and an absolute right under international law. They want to do with us what they did with Gaza, where the entire society is besieged, Kamalvandhi proclaimed.

But we have a great civilization, and it's only a matter of time before they realize we won't submit. This is not just a battle over enrichment, it's a battle of wills. And if it's a battle of wills, I would bet on the Iranians. I don't think America has much will anymore. I don't think the American people have much will anymore. I think it has been spent and poured out on these worthless wars where they've seen their friends and family members Blown up maimed killed in the Middle East for nothing over and over again for nothing

but our swaggering foreign policy for the advancement of Certain individuals in certain states their agendas At one point during the meeting Kamal Vande pointed to a young man seated in the back row of the conference room asked him to stand certain individuals in certain states, their agendas. At one point during the meeting, Kamalvendi pointed to a young man seated in the back row of the conference room, asked him to stand, and identified him as the son of the Iranian quantum field theorist Masoud Ali Momadi, who was assassinated by a Mossad asset in 2010. Ten years later, Iran lost the godfather of its nuclear program, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, when the Mossad smuggled a machine gun drone into the country and stationed it along a road to attack Fakhrizadeh's convoy.

Kemalvandeh for his part was injured and hospitalized in 2021 while inspecting part of the Natanz reactor that had been damaged by an Israeli attack. In the eyes of Iran's leadership, Witkoff's demand to end enrichment was not only a recipe for squandering decades of technological advancement, it was an insult to the top-tier scientists cut down by Israeli assassins. This is the new baseline for a deal and negotiations are an exercise in futility. And yet the show goes on. That's right, Israel has been attacking Iran over and over again, assassinating civilian researchers and scientists,

attacking them in devious ways, over and over again. Ways that if they were to be utilized against us, would no doubt be classified as terrorism. We would be screaming from the rooftops if an Arabic country were to do that to us. But Israel's our ally. They're our friend. They're our greatest ally in the Middle East, you know.

So we are going to let them do whatever they want. Even if it's something along the lines of the USS Liberty. Well, you know mistakes were made. Oopsie-daisy. Economic sabotage behind the guise of negotiations. Since negotiations began the value of the Iranian rile has fluctuated Negotiations began the value of the Iranian rile has fluctuated wildly against the dollar, improving in value after the first round of positive exchanges, then depreciating following each wave of bellicose threats from Trump and his team. I personally witnessed Iran's financial chaos each time I attempted to exchange dollars for rials as business owners consulted their phones for the new rate, which seemed to shift from day to day depending on the US president's rhetoric.

A friend joked that I would have paid substantially lower rate to book a hotel room for my family if negotiations were not currently taking place. Of course, it's not just Iran that Trump's statements affect. It's also the United States, whether he's talking about tariffs, putting them on, taking them off, deciding if he's playing the hokey pokey with them. You put the tariff on, you take the tariff off and you shake it all about. Trump's statement about the negotiations have also roiled oil markets on May 16th when Trump claimed he was getting close to maybe a deal with Iran.

The price of oil plummeted by 3.4% and then Kim Whitcoff's call to cease enrichment on May 20th, U.S. intelligence leaked a warning that Israel was planning to attack Iran's oil facilities, causing a sudden surge in oil prices. That's right, Israel constantly harassing Iran. The American president's ability to manipulate financial markets both inside and outside Iran with his bluster has contributed to a sense that entering the negotiations have weakened Iran's political position.

Meanwhile, Trump's crude insults to Iran's sense of national honor and sovereignty have disrupted whatever goodwill existed when talks began. Well, isn't that wonderful? United States and Israel working together to bully Iran, to assassinate their scientists, to engage in terrorism and to affect their economy through stupid rhetoric. What a wonderful force for good we are across the globe, isn't it folks? How the US deep state feeds the Ukraine war. Bloodthirsty American politicians like Lindsey Graham are eager to drag the war on forever so they do everything to scupper negotiations.

Putin's a bad man. He's a bad, bad man. The picture of Lindsey Graham, US Senator for South Carolina and Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, grinning into a camera in Brussels on June 2nd is worth a thousand words. Graham is one of the most extreme, hardcore warmongers in Washington and the competition is pretty stiff. Ever since he first became his member of the US Congress over 30 years ago, once in American politicians are rarely voted out. He has devoted his career to arguing vehemently for war.

His remarks are often not just belligerent, but also sadistic, such as when he recently posted that he hoped Greta could swim, meaning that he hoped her Gaza aid ship would be torpedoed, joking about an attack on a civilian aid ship carrying a young female civilian activist is sick a typical of Graham Like his old friend the late senator John McCain Lindsey Graham is obsessed with the idea of war with Russia

He's been pushing for this since at least 2014 and 2016 he told Ukrainian soldiers your fight is our fight. Well, I mean it is Technically our fight because we're the ones that caused this proxy war We're the ones that caused this proxy war. We're the ones that overthrew the government of Ukraine in a color revolution and forced them into this kind of behavior by implementing a puppet regime. That statement about, I hope she can swim is really shocking. You know, it's kind of an open secret that the Israelis are attacking aid workers and

preventing food and other supplies from reaching there. But to celebrate that, I mean, I don't like Greta Thunberg, but to say, well, I hope you're one of those that gets killed while trying to help people is shocking. Yes. These people are evil. Lindsey Graham is a despicable, despicable human being. He's never seen a war he doesn't like. There's no war where he would not love to see our young men die. Graham's presence in Brussels, therefore, is therefore significant ever since Von der Land's appointment in 2019, she has pushed herself forward as a principal public face of the Brussels institution.

Six years ago, she said she wanted to make the European Commission into a geopolitical body even though it has no role in foreign or military policy. Since then, she has done little else than parade on the international stage. She's among the most hawkish and anti-Russian European figures, absurdly claiming like French Foreign Minister Bruno Le Maire that EU sanctions have brought the Russian economy to its knees. That's right. They're on their knees. They're begging. They're pleading. They're bleeding out as they grind Ukraine up.

The Graham-Vonderlaan alliance is therefore a natural one against Donald Trump. European politicians are often quite explicit in their view that Trump is now the enemy. Same goes for Lindsey Graham. Kev, last week Graham explicitly challenged Trump's authority to side US foreign policy. He lambasted the very notion of negotiations with Russia, just as Zelensky did to Vance in the Oval Office in February. He said that the President of the US is not the boss. In America, you have more than one person at the card table. We have three branches of government. Meaning that the Senate would soon impose its own sanctions on Russia, whatever the executive does. Graham's budget bill from February is intended to spend

even more money on the US military, if that were possible. Which means that he is marshaling the US deep state to fight back after initially reeling from the reelection of Trump. Meanwhile, the Europeans determination to continue the war is existential. The Russophobia, which goes back to at least the 2012 Russian presidential election when Putin came back into the Kremlin is extreme, because their Europe is defined by its hostility to Russia. Russia is the other Europe which the EU does not want to be and which it defines itself against. Von der Leyen and others want to use the war against Russia to federalize Europe and create a single state. Meanwhile, Trump's Russia policy is based on sidelining Europe. When he first

announced talks with the Russians, EU leaders demanded a seat at the table. They failed. US-Russia talks took place outside Europe in Riyadh, while the Russian-Ukraine talks and EU vehemently opposed are taking place without the EU in Istanbul. That's right. Europe wants to believe that Russia is ontologically evil. It serves their interests better.

It allows them to expand the war state better if they can paint them that way. Let us not forget how furiously EU leaders opposed talking to Russia when Viktor Orban traveled to Kiev and Moscow last July. Ursula von der Leyen denounced Orban's appeasement. The EU's then chief diplomat said in an official statement that the EU excludes official contracts between the EU and President Putin. The French Foreign Minister said in February that if Sergei Lavrov telephoned him, he would

not answer the call. Now these very same people claim they want to force the Russians to come and talk. That's right. You're going to do it when we say and how we say, otherwise there's no deal. This is all posturing and blustering. EU policy on Russia is now in ruins. That is why, like Graham, they are determined to stop Trump. Their attempts have been ever more desperate and ridiculous. On May 12th, Kaja Kalas and other EU leaders said Russia must agree to a ceasefire before any talks. Three days later, those talks started anyway.

Britain also tried to scupper them by saying it was unacceptable for Russia to demand recognition of the annexed regions, which is odd considering Britain is not a participant. European credibility is therefore at zero. In March, the British Prime Minister had said the plans to send British and French troops to Ukraine had entered the operational phase. They were ready, he claimed, to protect Ukraine's security by directly entering the war zone by April. These plans had been dropped on May 10th. Or on May 10th, European leaders threatened Russia with massive sanctions if it did not agree to a ceasefire immediately. Russia did not agree to a ceasefire,

yet there have been no more massive sanctions. That's right. They are going to continue to try That's right. They are going to continue to try and bully Russia. They're going to continue to try to enforce their will. But Russia knows that Europe is largely a paper tiger. We see them funding and moving more towards war, but right now they don't have the ability to stand up and fight themselves. That's why they need people like Lindsey Graham to try to bring the US in. Zelensky takes apparent dig at Trump for calling Putin. That's right, our wonderful little puppet Zelensky is mad. He's angry. How could he do this? Well, I hate to break it to you, Zelensky, but casting aside, our puppets when they're no longer politically expedient or convenient is a long running American tradition. You should look at what happened with Saddam Hussein in the Middle East. That's something to think about, isn't it? You should be very worried you might begin to cost more than you're worth at this

point. Ukraine's Vladimir Zelensky has claimed that there is no value in trying to reach a peace deal with Moscow if powerful countries do not put pressure on Russia. In an apparent reference to US President Donald Trump's recent phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin. That's right, how dare he try to engage in diplomacy? How dare he not be willing to fight to the last Ukrainian? Well because of course we know why Zelensky wants to do that He's able to siphon a lot of this war money directly

He's enriching himself as his people are killed en masse. His wife is shopping in France She's having a great time as Russia is destroying their country. She is enriching herself. He is enriching himself as their people are killed. Heads exploding. Trump's off-the-cuff comments as Ukraine has Ukrainians spitting mad. President Donald Trump recounted a seemingly off-the-cuff remark made during a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin and has Ukrainians on social media fuming. During an Oval Office press conference Thursday with Germany's Chancellor,

Trump likened the war, begun with Russia, when Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Canadian territory, to two children fighting in a park. Well, he has a way with words, doesn't he, folks? He's got such powerful control of the English language. His rhetoric is immaculate. Sometimes you're better off letting them fight for a while and then pulling them apart. And I gave that analogy to Putin yesterday, Trump said. I said, I said President, maybe you're going to have to keep fighting and suffering. A lot of people, because both sides are suffering, and before you pull them apart, before they're able to be pulled apart. He actually told me, I mean, I made it very

clear. He said we have no choice but to attack based on that and it's probably not going to be pretty. I don't like it I said don't do it you shouldn't do it you should stop it but again there's a lot of hatred that's right there is acrimony between these two states they do not like each other and Trump's statement before he was elected that he was going to fix it all in one day before he was elected was utterly insane. That was never going to happen. But he could have at least stopped the funding.

He could have cut off the funding on day one. That would have been a good move to start with. Well folks, we're going to take a quick break and we will be right back. The You're listening to The David Knight Show. The End The The The You're listening to the David Knight Show. Hello it's me, Vladimir Zelensky. I'm so tired of wearing these same t-shirts everywhere for years. You'd think with all the billions I've skimmed off America, I could dress better. And I could if only David Knight would send me one of his beautiful grey MacGuffin hoodies or a new black t-shirt with the MacGuffin logo

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Help us grow the broadcast. That is an easy way to help the show. Well, as I said at the beginning, we're gonna look at when June became the cruelest month. That is the name of the article from The Daily Skeptic, and it's by Paul Stevens. This was, of course, under Trump's first term. Five years ago this month with the introduction of mask mandates the world changed and I did too. Do you remember what life

was like back in early 2020 before the COVID craziness began? One day we were being told that not only was it necessary to wear a face covering but it was according to existing knowledge, it was unnecessary to wear a face covering but it was according to existing knowledge. It was unnecessary to wear face covering, but it was, according to existing knowledge, wisdom and best practice, a mistake to do so. The next day the science TM flipped and we were being instructed that we must wear them in a variety of settings on pain of social shaming and financial penalty. Do you remember what happened when the masking switch was flipped? People started appearing in public dressed as if they were Jesse James on his way to rob Rock Island Line train. Of course this was done by the people Trump approved. Trump abdicated his

position to Fauci. He just let him do whatever he wanted. He was so happy with Fauci. He loved the little guy. Before those Chinese masks, which were useless at stopping the spread of COVID-19, showed up, people resorted to other means of protecting themselves against the deadly virus. Forced to queue to gain entry to my local farm shop, I came across a woman wearing a World War II gas mask. Well, I'm sure that was a fun little experience, getting to go out and pretend that you're in the middle of a bombing. This was...

Except in their minds it wasn't pretending. They were genuinely terrified thinking that this was a life or death situation because the media got people so psyched up into a frenzy of fear. Yes. The COVID pandemic is a scamdemic. There was no pandemic really. Is a wonderful, horrifying example of the power the media has over the minds of the average American. People that just turn on the news and blindly accept whatever is said to them. They

will internalize the propaganda at an alarming rate. They will just believe whatever is told to them by anyone in a position of power. That is the type of citizenry that America has cultivated over the years. I think it's not too much to say that manipulated by the media and deranged by daily podium pronouncements from politicians, the population lost its grip on reality and common sense. The world succumbed to mask mania. And the thing about this is we see these large events things like 9-11 or the COVID pandemic But these are the outcomes of these small shifts these backroom meetings. These are not the beginning of things They're generally the end of things. They are the culmination of years of planning Where the stuff began was decades ago with you know, psychological operations the media sowing the seeds, burying them deep

in the American population. I recall experiencing a mixture of feelings of which fear and foreboding were present in equal measures. By nature I'm a rule follower, my basic instinct being to blend in, but I've always had a streak of skeptical inquiry and a half-decent BS detector. I'll do what I'm told for as long as I believe the people who are doing the telling. And I remember that for a number of reasons I stopped believing the mainstream narrative. We see this a lot. There's a lot of people that just don't want to cause problems.

They want to do the right thing and that is why the media frames these as such. You're going to kill grandma. It's dangerous, don't you know? You're going to kill grandma if you don't follow these rules. And there are a lot of people, as I said, who just wanna make sure that they're doing the right thing, that they're being good friends and neighbors. But we saw it morph into something different. We saw it morph into this rabid frenzy,

this willingness to excoriate and excommunicate anyone who didn't toe the line. Families were fractured and broken. People were livid at others that just refused to wear the mask, that refused to buy into the propaganda. Perhaps it was the invocation of the science TM as an absolute truth, or maybe it was the large scale protests about George Floyd having granted some quasi divine exemption from the ravages of a deadly novel virus. That's right, the George Floyd protests when they burned and rioted and looted were sick. They were fine. They were mostly peaceful. Everything

was okay. They were allowed to go about maskless. They were allowed to do as they please. They were allowed to stand shoulder to shoulder and march down the street, but you weren't allowed to go to church and meet with others. You were locked up in your house. You were told that you were a threat, that you were dangerous. But the George Floyd protesters got to do whatever they wanted. Because that was part of their religion. Then again, it might have simply been the sight of a council rubbish lorry manned by four men crammed into its cab, bare-linked through the otherwise deserted street of our village, which alerted me to a possible fraud.

Whichever of these were responsible, maybe all of them, it dawned on me that something just felt off. That's right. It just felt wrong. It was strange. I've always had a minor discomfort with enclosed spaces, and I called my GP asking if he would write me an exemption letter for Masks after trying to persuade me that I really should try to wear one Recommending some helpful videos on YouTube that would ease me through my discomfort my go-long-to-get-along demeanor shifted And I told him bluntly that I felt claustrophobic when wearing a piece of cloth over my mouth and nose

It wasn't about being a no one tells me what to do sort of guy It was simply that I couldn't tolerate the things he told me. I could pick up the letter later that day. Of course, our dad absolutely refused to wear a mask under any circumstances. He got thrown out of quite a few restaurants for refusing to bow to these ludicrous demands because they said, well, you know, you have to put on a mask, but when you sit down at the table and, know, he looks over the tables about five feet away I mean that table you're gonna make me put on a mask to walk five feet to that table over there

I'm like, well, yes, we know it's we know it's silly but uh you've got to so once you're sitting you can take the mask off and Yeah, he went off on them. He never went back to that restaurant. He never did. Why I don't wear a mask? They have a negative effect on the wearer. I find them suffocating. They make it harder for me to breathe. They steam up my glasses. Wearing one makes me feel anxious, even panicky. I become distressed. They don't work. Masks, the argument in their favor goes, help make us safer and more confident to be in each other's presence. But given the type of warning, given the type of being worn, and as people are wearing them, masks do nothing to protect oneself or anybody else. From a health

point of view, there is no practical purpose or benefit either for the wearer or for others served in covering one's face. In fact, given the way people use them, it seems as if they might do more harm than good. That's right, we saw that study out of Australia. This was many years before the scamdemic happened, that said. In fact, after about 20 minutes, they become so saturated that you start putting out more particles. And people would wear them over and over again, for hours, day day in day out. And then there's the simple fact that before the COVID nonsense, OSHA had a limit for how long a worker could be forced to wear a mask because it's all of these reasons and more it's not healthy to wear a mask for a long period of time.

Yes. They discourage social cohesion, not being able to see someone's Everyone's face feels alienating and introduces emotional distance between people it discourages interaction and makes communication difficult It's especially hard on children. We've seen that many children from the next generation generation alpha Have had their communication skills Retarded they have been communication skills retarded. They have been developmentally delayed. They have issues with speech because the way children develop partially is by watching the way the mouth moves. They pick up on cues like that and since they weren't able to watch people's mouths moving for a large, to a large extent

since we ship them all off to school, they have been delayed in that capacity. It has also impacted their ability to connect with others. They have been delayed in that capacity. It has also impacted their ability to connect with others. They have been locked inside their houses. They aren't able to make friends or meet people as readily. They are not as outgoing or socially adventurous as previous generations have been. They're more likely to spend their time online. And I say this as someone who spends a lot of my time online. But the next generation has taken it to an entirely new level. Each successive generation seems to spend more and more time in these online social ghettos. They're having a negligible, positive effect on society and the economy as we try to merge from the lockdown. In fact, they may have the opposite effect of reinforcing people's fear of the virus, hence extending their wish

to stay isolated from the rest of society. I've actually seen quite a few people remembering the rosy days of the early days of the scamdemic, talking about how it was so nice to just sit at home and not do anything. They loved that they didn't have to worry about people wanting to do things or to go out and visit. The roads were empty, places were clean, because people just weren't going out. And as someone who does like to stay at home, who doesn't like to go do things, I still find that to be abhorrent. Supposedly introduced as a way of encouraging people to get out and get back to normal, in shops and in the workplace there are no material benefits observable. I read that the uptick in retail sales the week they were introduced as being mandatory

in shops was less than 3%. Shops, bars, restaurants, places of entertainment, offices, etc. remain closed or sparsely used. They have no evidentiary basis for their use. At best, the science is inconclusive and ambiguous. At worst, it says that masks can do harm. They are being mandated by a government which has zero credibility and zero legal authority to do so. Masks are an excellent proxy for the overall performance of the people who have been in charge during this period. Advice and guidance have flipped by 180 degrees on wearing masks, with no emergency of any new evidence to support these changes in policy. And again,

it's scary how readily people just accept whatever propaganda in front of them is at the moment. As we saw, first it was, masks don't work. don't matter they're harmful don't wear them and within a day it just flipped you need them you need them and you have to wear one if you don't you can't go out and people just bought in they didn't care at all that the narrative had changed overnight they just bought in immediately they were willing to do so because that's what the TV told them to do. That's what the man in the white coat said. And as such, that's the truth. Whatever they're saying in the moment is the truth. Who cares what they had said previously?

They infringe my civil liberties. Introduced without proper debate or scrutiny, the mandating of wearing a piece of cloth across my mouth and nose, enforceable by law, seems to be an affront to my basic human rights. If they could be shown to work, if there was strong evidence for their use, then there would be a decent argument for using them. But they don't, and there isn't. This has become about two things, the government and the establishment doubling down on their poorly made decisions to send us into the downward spiral of lockdown and their innate desire to regulate and control the population. That's right, if there was some evidence that these were helpful, they could have made cases for it. They could have argued that you should. They still wouldn't have had the legal authority to force you to do it, but they could have at least put

forward compelling arguments, given us the data and let people make the decision for themselves. But that doesn't exist. In fact us the data, and let people make the decision for themselves. But that doesn't exist. In fact, the data mostly points the other way. It says they're harmful, they're dangerous. They worsen your experience in every single way and worsen your health. This was written in July 2020. In 2025, I have seen nothing that would make me rewrite any part of my anti-mask manifesto.

On the contrary, I stand by every word. And of course, as I said, this is written by Paul Stevens, and it's on the Daily Skeptic. Paul Stevens, a member of Smile Free, which continues to campaign for the truth to be told about mask mandates and masking and to ensure they never reappear. Well, thank you, Paul Stevens. I appreciate everyone who stood up and pushed back on this insanity. Eric Peters, of course, calls them face diapers and he has done a good job of cataloging that insanity as well with his diaper report.

This is from LifeSite News. YouTube restores COVID critic James Corbett's channel after a four year ban. This is good news. James Corbett does some good work. We're happy to see that YouTube has reinstated the channel of popular independent investigative journalists and researcher James Corbett after he was banned from the platform in 2021 for criticizing the kovat regime

That's right We are banned off YouTube and my dad has said that he has no interest in even trying to get back on whether it's for The show or for music he is in even trying to get back on, whether it's for the show or for music. He is sick of trying to. As you all know, I'm sure he made a YouTube channel just for his music, just to upload it and put it there. It wasn't tied to the show in any way, but they still deleted it. No reason given.

They just banned it. I would not be surprised if we have someone specifically at YouTube who hates this show and so anything even tangentially related to it gets nuked as soon as they find it. In a surprising move, YouTube decided to grant Corbett's appeal and reinstate his channel with over 500,000 subscribers four years after it was banned by the Alphabet-owned platform. Corbett is an independent Canadian journalist and content creator who resides in Japan. In 2007, he launched his podcast

and multimedia platform, The Corbett Report. Over the years, he became one of the premier alternative journalists and researchers, styling himself as a conspiracy realist. He criticizes and debunks mainstream narratives in relation to geopolitics, economics, history, climate, COVID, and many more. LifeSite News has reprinted multiple articles from the Corbett Report over the past years. In his first video uploaded to YouTube since 2021, Corbett announced that his channel has

been reinstated. Long story short, very long story short, April 9, 2021, the Corbett Report was removed from YouTube June 1st, or was it May 31st, 2025. It's back, the Canadian journalist said. Or was it May 31st, 2025? It's back, the Canadian journalist said. Corbett said he was prompted to appeal to YouTube after his friend Ricky Verandus, host of the Ripple Effect podcast, told him that his channel had recently been restored after it was ban during the COVID crisis in 2021. The Canadian journalist warned that YouTube would likely ban his channel again once another crisis like COVID emerges and dissidents would be censored

once more. He asked his paid subscribers to participate in a poll on whether he should resume uploading videos to YouTube regularly again in addition to his website and alternative video platforms. That's right, that's why we're on so many different platforms folks, just in case one of them is taken down or decides they don't like what we're saying. But thankfully we haven't had to deal with censorship on these other platforms. Very thankful for that. Next article is everything got worse during COVID. By almost every measure America during the pandemic was a more dangerous, deadly, and dysfunctional place. Last week Reasons Billy Binion reported on some under-sung good news. American murder rates are falling fast.

This year can end up being the least violent year on record. This is of course a welcome development by itself. It's an especially laudatory trend, coming as it does on the heels of a massive murder spike during the pandemic when homicides rose by 30% in the average US city. The COVID crime wave is well understood by now. The all-cause rise in mortality during the pandemic is a little less appreciated. No matter how you slice it,

America during COVID was a sicker, deadlier, more dangerous, and generally more dysfunctional place. Between 2019 and 2021, drug overdose went up some 55% and traffic fatalities rose 20%. Those fatalities alongside an estimated 1.2 million COVID deaths helped push the country's death rate from 723.6 deaths per 100,000 people in 2019 to a high of 8,797,

800, or a high of 879.7 in 2021. Remarkably, only suicides seem to have resisted the rising death trend, falling in 2020 before rising slightly above pre-pandemic levels in 2021. Mercifully, murders, traffic deaths, and overdoses are now falling from their all-time pan- or all-falling from their pandemic-era highs. Suicides continue to climb. The overall age adjusted death rate in 2023, last year for which we have complete data, is still above pre-COVID levels. COVID was certainly a

public health disaster. The effort to combat it by pausing day-to-day social and economic life created its own disasters for people's health and well-being. I was working one Sunday for Alex's Sunday broadcast and he got a call and I was manning the phones to ask people you know what what they were calling in about and what they wanted to talk about and this woman called in and she was distraught she was in tears you could hear it in her voice she said that she had been a police officer in New York for many years and that she just couldn't see how this could happen or what we could do to fight it that you know America our freedoms were dead and

everything was over and she talked about how she was thinking about ending it all talking about how she was thinking about killing herself and that has stuck with me I'll never forget that I'll never forget the sound of her voice how desperate and alone she sounded and how you know, she just hung up. She didn't stay on the line. She didn't talk. She just hung up and there was nothing to be done about it. How much of that latter disaster can be blamed on formal lockdowns and stay-at-home orders versus ubiquitous? I'll be at voluntary public health guidance to socially distance to

individuals own natural reticence. To be around each other in the middle of a pandemic is a worthy topic of debate. The top line takeaway remains the same. Going to work, church, or one's chosen third place goes a long way toward keeping people alive insane. When sociability falls, anti-social behaviors spike. Government's massive emergency expansion of the welfare state seemingly did little to ease the pain. Stimulus checks, cash transfers, tax credits, and expanded unemployment insurance pushed the poverty rate down. This on paper improvement in people's financial condition couldn't stop them from driving more dangerously, doing more dangerous drugs and killing each other more.

Shutting down whole swaths of the economy and paying people to stay home caused its own ill effects. The US Misery Index, a combined measure of the unemployment and inflation rates rose from 5.44 in 2019 to a peak of 11.65 in 2022. It's currently at 6.98. At his confirmation hearing, to be director of the National Institute of Health, 11.65 in 2022. It's currently at 6.98. At his confirmation hearing,

to be director of the National Institute of Health, NIHJ Bhattacharya was unapologetic about his prior vocal criticism of society-wide stay at home orders. States like Florida, with its lighter, shorter lockdown, ended the pandemic with a lower all-cause mortality. Then the, and the archionist California, he noted, it's a sign of the times that none of the Democrats during that hearing

pushed back on this particular point. That's right. The lockdown was a disaster. Not just for our civil liberties, not just for our freedoms, but for the state of people as a whole, for their mental well-being, for... for their mental well-being for For their sanity New research exposes how vaccines trigger SIDS medical establishment covering up infant deaths with misdiagnosis This is on the Liberty Daily. It's by Cactus Williams

For decades grieving parents have been told their infants died of sudden infant death syndrome, SIDS, a vague diagnosis that conveniently absolves vaccine manufacturers of blame. But groundbreaking research now reveals the chilling truth. Vaccines are killing babies, and the medical establishment has been hiding it. A new study published in the International Journal of Medical Science uncovers the biological mechanisms linking vaccines to SIDS, proving that toxic vaccine ingredients overwhelm infants' underdeveloped detox pathways, leading to fatal inflammation, brain stem damage, and respiratory failure. Of course, my dad has told the story many times. He had a neonatal ICU nurse, and when they would give preemies vaccines, they would all

say, well, prep the crash cart. They're going to crash. We're going to need them. We're going to need to revive them. So have that thing ready. We're not going to not vaccinate them. We're not going to not inject them. We're going to do it.

But just be ready because we know what this cause is. Key points. Infant slack, mature liver enzymes, CYP450 needed to process toxic vaccine ingredients like aluminum formaldehyde and polysorbate 80. Vaccines suppress CYP450, creating a deadly cycle where toxins accumulate, inflame the brain stem, and disrupt breathing. 75% of kids, cases, and bears occur

within a week of vaccination. Peaking 48 hours post-shot, proof of causation buried by regulators. Preterm babies are especially vulnerable yet hospitals aggressively vaccinate them Vaccinate them ignoring their fragile metabolic limits Autopsies often miss vaccine induced brain damage allowing SIDS to be weaponized as a cover-up for vaccine fatalities How vaccines silently suffocate babies, yes, we have made sure that our son is not vaccinated. We found a doctor, thanks to friends, who, while provides them, does not push them, is

willing to work with you, and has not made any effort to try to convince us. Besides just being like, well, here's the literature, if you want, you can research it yourself. But that was the most of it. Once we said no, they haven't asked about it again. They haven't pushed. And I've been very thankful for that. I still make sure that we watch closely that we don't let them sneak off with him. But I am thankful that there are still doctors who are willing to work with you on those things. How vaccines silently suffocate babies that The set reveals that infants, especially preemies, are born with immature CYP450 enzymes, which normally detoxify drugs and poisons. But modern medicine bombards newborns with a chemical onslaught. Their physiology

were never prepared to handle or adapt to on an evolutionary basis. Well, evolutionary. I don't believe in evolution personally. In the absence of modern medicine, the newborn baby consumes only mother's milk, explains Karl Jablowski, Ph.D. A senior scientist at Children's Health Defense, now babies are expected to process the hepatitis B vaccine at birth, followed by eight more toxic shots by two months old. The consequences are catastrophic. Toxin overload, aluminum adjuvants and formaldehyde can't be broken down, flooding the bloodstream and crossing the blood-brain barrier. Brainstem inflammation, toxins trigger

cytokine storms that damage the medulla, crippling the brain's ability to regulate breathing and heart rate. Serotonin system collapse, studies show 70% of SIDS cases involve disrupted serotonin pathways, preventing babies from waking during apnea episodes Metabolic sabotage vaccines further suppress CYP 450 enzymes Trapping infants in a lethal feedback loop where each shot increases toxicity the smoking gun VAERS data exposes the cover-up Epidemiologist Nicholas Hulscher analyzed 2,605 infant deaths reported to VARES from 1990 through 2019 and found a damning pattern. 75% of SIDS cases occurred

within seven days of vaccination, with death spiking on day two. This is not random. It's a biological signature, Hulscher warns. Yet Körner's routinely ignore neuropathology evidence dismissing vaccine deaths as unexplained. Cecilia 14, Travis. It's because it's become obvious to me after babies dying from so-called Vax that SIDS was due to them and adults dying were sads. Heart attack strokes dying and sleep young and old. CJP Rumble, a baby's liver can't handle all that poison. Yeah, that's exactly right. They don't have the CYP 450 enzyme don't fact don't My apologies don't frag me bro since infant vaxes started we have sudden infant death syndrome

SIDS now we have sudden adult death syndrome SADS andVax Syndrome, PBS. Who thinks that is a coincidence? That's right, it's all just a coincidence that all of these things cause death, cause damage. It's all just coincidence. Yeah, you never heard the term SADS before the 2020 Vax rollout stuff. Yeah, now we see it all over the place. Oh well, strokes are going up,

heart attacks are going up in younger people. What could be causing this? It's a mystery. In one harrowing legal case, Boatman vs VHHS, autopsy reports proved brainstem abnormalities were missed. A deliberate oversight to protect vaccine programs similarly, Dr. Paul Thomas found unvaccinated children in his practice had zero SIDS cases,

while the vaccinated rate mirrored national averages. Instead of pausing the vaccine schedule to investigate hospitals double down on poisoning preemies, serine sections deliver babies earlier, and doctors compensate by vaccinating them more aggressively, says Jablonski. Jablonski. Jablonski. Even worse, pediatricians pushed Tylenol post-vaccination,

a drug that clogs CYP450 pathways, ensuring toxins stay trapped longer. Genetic testing could identify high-risk infants, but the medical industrial complex refuses to consider the evidence and be proactive at avoiding vaccine injury and death. It's easier to pretend the issue doesn't exist and just blame parents for their child dying in their sleep. Pharmacogenomics could save lives, but it exposes the fraud of one size fits all vaccines, says Holcher.

Until then, parents are left to navigate a system that sacrifices children for profit. The real solution is a complete restructuring of the CDC's childhood vaccine schedule, removing any recommendations for vaccines for babies under one year of age, and making it illegal for pediatricians, pharmacists, and family doctors to administer any of these high-risk products in vulnerable, developing children. Yes, the studies author urge immediate action. Ban toxic excipients like aluminum, polysorbate-80,

and formaldehyde in vaccines. Halt preterm vaccinations until metabolic maturity is confirmed. Mandate autopsies for all SIDS cases, including brain stem analysis. Every SIDS death should be treated as a potential vaccine homicide, says Jablonski. Parents deserve the truth, not another whitewashed lie. That's right, we have seen the medical industrial complex paper over these things. They ignore them. They don't want to talk about it because it is a profit center for them. It makes them a lot of money. Another thing that you rarely here talked about is obviously vaccines are the intent to give a weakened virus so that your immune system can develop a response to it. But babies don't have an immune system that's capable of taking that and developing a response to it.

It is poisoning them without any potential upside. Yes. The baby gets a lot of its immune system from the mother's milk when they're young. That's how they develop an immune system. The mother helps them with it. Do not obey. New study analyzed leukemia patients who developed cancer within weeks of mRNA injection. Their bone marrow showed distinct cancer associated metabolic alterations. The poisoning is everywhere. It's for everything. From every, every disease has risen drastically in my lifetime, just my lifetime. It

has gone up and up and up. Brandon Bennett. Great job, Travis. Both my two and four year old are completely unvaxxed. And thanks to your dad. Thanks to your dad and my subsequent research. Yes. He's a he's made sure that as many people as he can reach know about this. He's done a great job providing the information and it's so wonderful to hear that he has actually helped people. It means a lot to him to know that and it means a lot to us to know that as well. So thank you. And I'm so happy for your children. I'm sure that they are wonderful and you are a great dad. Big Britt is back again.

I think it was Japan that stopped giving babies jabs until two years and SIDS pretty much stopped. That sounds right. Japan, I forget the name of the elected official, but he said how he got cancer after the warp speed vaccine, how he got turbo cancer, and he's laying it at the feet of the mRNA shot. He is pointing out that this is what caused it So hopefully Japan is pushing back on these vaccines their population their birth rate has already cratered Just from a purely, you know

Rationalistic standpoint whether you know you Care about children not you should but even just from that standpoint of, well, we need more babies. They should be doing everything they can to avoid the death of their children. CJP Rumble, why would you even risk it? Stunting development, we all knew forever. The first few years are crucial.

Yes, the first few years of a baby's life are so incredibly crucial. They're very susceptible to things. That's why they need parents to take care of them. They don't need a giant over arcing Government that is there to mandate things and unfeeling uncaring bureaucracy that will

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Angry tigers den guy at work had to get vaccine so he can become a citizen He hasn't showed up in two days. He's very sick and his hands are aching That is the type of thing they do they hold things you want over you. They bully if they cannot bribe, whether it is citizenship or whether it is just, you know, if you don't get this, you're fired. If you don't get this, we'll kick you out of the military. We saw Jason Barker did a great job. He's the one who put together the letter that was hosted on the website. It might still be there that allowed people to opt out, that helped them write their own so that they could not have to take the vaccine.

And that was, that's what we see all the time. We see them forcing your hand saying, if you don't get it, we will make your life miserable. We will make your life unable. We'll make it so you cannot provide for your family. We'll make it so that you have to choose between earning a living or being poisoned. It's amazing that they would have that for citizenship, a requirement for citizenship. Trump's wonderful Warp Speed thing is still being pushed and mandated here in his second term. Yes, and despite the fact that he continually claims them, he continually says, these are

my babies. I did a great job with the Warp Speed vaccine. His followers refuse to acknowledge it. They refuse to see the truth. Well, we're gonna take a quick break. And this has been a bit of a downer segment here from poisoning children to poisoning the economy and poisoning your mind with the pandemic.

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Before I do a stream today that way it looks a bit more professional But yeah, I'm thinking just for now I'll keep it on kick since it's going to be a more casual sort of nonsense stream I'm just me talking about and hopefully laughing about some things and I feel like rumble is a more serious minded website they tend to focus more on politics whereas this is going to be a sort of just a casual pop culture nonsense stream hopefully that way it's a bit of a decompress from the week's news the horrors we're not gonna be staring into the abyss tonight I don't think Supreme Court rejects Mexico's lawsuit against the US gun makers

That's right. Even the United States Supreme Court looked at this and was like, ah, I don't know guys I don't I don't think I don't think this one flies as much as the United States government hates the Second Amendment as much As they hate our right to bear arms even they had to go This one seems a bridge too far to bear arms. Even they had to go. This one seems a bridge too far. The article describes the Supreme Court's decision to reject Mexico's lawsuit against US gun manufacturers. The court ruled unanimously that the lawsuit is barred by a 2005 federal law that shields gun companies from legal liability. The Mexican government had filed a lawsuit against gun companies seeking accountability for the violence epidemic. And of course the violence epidemic

They're talking about is brought on by the fast and furious and before that gunwalker program started under George W Bush and even before that by the war on drugs The war on drugs is what allows the cartels to have such a profitable profitable Outlet and encourages their violence if we were not making these so illegal They would not have to have such a black market for them. They would not be able to make the amounts of money They do they would not be so incentivized to be so violent when it comes to the trade Washington the Supreme Court on Thursday threw out the Mexican government's lawsuit against U.S. firearms manufacturers accusing them of aiding and abetting gun violence.

You made this. It's like suing the contractor who built your house if it burns down in a house fire. Well, I wouldn't have had a house fire if you hadn't built me a house, so it's your fault. The court ruled unanimously that the lawsuit is barred by a 2005 federal law that shields gun companies from legal liability. Liberal Justice Elena Kagan, that's right, even Elena Kagan, looked at it and said, nah, nope, not this one, who wrote the opinion and acknowledged the gun violence problem

but said Mexico had failed to make allegations that would surmount those liability protections and claiming the companies aided and abetted the unlawful sale of guns. And of course, this is an article from from NBC News so they're going to phrase everything in the most anti gun way possible. It's the 2005 decision gave them legal exempted them from legal liability or however they're putting it when Obviously they're exempted from legal liability because they aren't connected to people using them for crimes. It is common sense that

shields them from liability. Yes, well, we don't have a lot of common sense here in America, do we? They say obviously Mexico has a gun problem. If the guns were the problem then America would be much more violent. Clearly it's something else that's causing that. As you said, the war on drugs was the root cause originally. Yes. Mexico's complaint does not plausibly allege that the defendant manufacturers aided and abetted gun dealers. Unlawful sales of firearms to Mexican traffickers, Kagan wrote. That's right, even

Elena Kagan, liberal Elena Kagan, had to dismiss it. We have little doubt that as the complaint asserts, some such sales take place and that the manufacturers know they do. Well, yes, crime happens. We all know crime happens. But just because we know some kind of fraud can take place, that doesn't bar us from selling what we own. It doesn't bar just because you know some kind of fraud can take place that doesn't bar us from selling what we own It doesn't bar just because you know that there are criminals out there that might use something you own and You know if you sell your car and it's used in a bank robbery that doesn't make you an accessory She added but still Mexico has no adequate has not adequately pleaded what it needs to do.

The 2021 lawsuit accused Smith & Wesson, Colt, Glock, and other companies of deliberately selling guns to dealers who sell products that are frequently recovered at Mexican crime scenes. They're selling them to the American government? Is that what I'm hearing? Because that would be my assumption. They're the ones that had the Fast and Furious,

and as I said, Gunwalker program. We were like, oh, we're going to send these guns down into Mexico. We're going to track them. We're going to figure out where they're being used. And then they, of course, lost track of them. They sent a bunch of guns down there and just whoopsie daisy. The Mexican government said the aiding and abetting allegations meant that the companies were not protected by the Federal Immunity Shield, called the Protection of Lawful Commerce and

Arms Act. Mexico is seeking up to $10 billion in damages. Jonathan Lowy, president of Global Action on Gun Violence and one of Mexico's lawyers in the case said in a statement, the ruling is the clearest evidence yet that the gun industry's special interests get out of court free card must be revoked. Yes, that's right Everyone knows that big gun is what runs America big gun. They're the ones that have all the pull in Washington Noel Francisco a lawyer representing Smith & Wesson who argued the case on behalf of all the company said in a statement The ruling simply reflected what Congress intended when it passed the shield law. Our client makes a legal, constitutionally protected product that millions of Americans

buy and use. We are gratified that the Supreme Court agreed that we are not legally responsible for criminals misusing that product to hurt people, much less smuggling it to Mexico to be used by drug cartels," he added. That's right, it's the government that illegally smuggles guns to Mexico to be used by criminals. A federal judge initially ruled for the manufacturers, but the Boston-based First U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals revived the case last year, saying the liability shield did not extend to Mexico's specific claims. The case reached the Supreme Court following increased tensions between America and Mexican leaders after the election of President Donald Trump, who has cited drug traffickers and gang violence in Mexico amid his crackdown on undocumented immigrants.

Democrats in Congress have introduced legislation intended to reduce the flow of guns across the border, which they estimate to total at least 200,000 a year. That's right. And of course, the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty is something they have been working on for years. They desperately want to get guns out of the hands of the common man because it is the final stop for people to oppose their government. If you get rid of the guns, if you get rid of the people's guns, they are free to do whatever they want. There is no longer a check. The second amendment guards all the others.

Even just the threat of it keeps the government somewhat in check. They know that they cannot push too far. State criminalizes political memes, gets sued by popular satire site. And of course, this is the Babylon Bee that is suing Hawaii. The Babylon Bee, a popular satire website, has filed a lawsuit against the state of Hawaii, challenging a state law that censors online content, including political satire and parody. You can't make jokes, folks. Some people won't understand their jokes. They might think they're real.

An announcement from the ADF, which is representing the publication, as well as a Hawaii resident in the case said, the law violates fundamental free speech and due process rights by using vague and over broad standards to punish people for posting certain political content online, including political memes and parodies of politicians. Babylon B files lawsuit against California after state adopts a new deep fake law. Aloha to everyone except Hawaii's humor police. These are tweets. Similar to the California law challenge by the Bee last year, Hawaii's law prohibits. Once again, taking a break from writing jokes to defend our right to tell them,

Seth Dillon. The ADF explained Governor Josh Green signed S-2687 into law in July 2024 and it bans the distribution of materially deceptive media. That portrays politicians in a way that risks harming the reputation or electoral prospects of a candidate. It was the Daily Beast that came after my dad because he reported on a Babylon Bee story that was making fun of Hillary Clinton and also Elizabeth Warren. They reported that Hillary Clinton claims that she is only 50% reptilian. You know, making fun of Elizabeth Warren Pocahontas and her claim of being Native American.

And if the title wasn't obvious enough, clearly he was presenting it as satire. Yes. He was laughing the entire time. It was obvious it was satire But they still wanted to make sure that no you can't you can't report on these satire joke These satire joke articles people might take them seriously. What if someone really does think that Hillary Clinton is 50% reptilian What if they think she's from? 50% reptilian. What if they think she's from Whatever the reptilian planet is whatever they say it is The adf explained governor Josh Green signed s to six eight seven into law July 2024

Further the state forces satire artists post disclaimers destroying the purpose of satire. That's right You've got to make sure you got to put a big notice on it. You got to say this is satire This is a joke this I'm not being serious You've got to make sure you've got to put a big notice on it. You got to say this is satire. This is a joke. This I'm not being serious. We have to make sure that everything is cleanly and clearly labeled. Why is war against political memes and satire is censorship. Sure. And simple said ADF lawyer, Matthew Hoffman satire served as an important vehicle to deliver the truth with a smile for centuries. And this kind of speech receives the utmost protection under the Constitution.

The First Amendment doesn't allow Hawaii to choose what political speech is acceptable. We are urging the court to cancel this unnecessary censorship. Seth Dillon, Chief of the Bee, said, we're used to getting pulled over by the joke police, but comedy isn't a crime. The First Amendment protects our right to tell jokes whether it's election season or not. We'll never stop fighting to defend that freedom. The complaint notes the Y office of the public defender opposed the bill because of First Amendment concerns informing legislators that people have a First Amendment right to criticize candidates and make all kinds of

political speech attacking candidates. But these people have a First Amendment right to criticize candidates and make all kinds of political speech attacking candidates. But these people have a desperate need to be taken seriously. They do not like to be made fun of. They do not like when you point out their new outfit is nothing but a set of clown shoes. And I'm sure this will be applied to the Babylon Bee, but not the late-night Colbert Report-style comedians that do the same thing for the left. Oh yeah, the left is always exempt from any of these rules. They get a free pass. ADF attorneys represent the Babylon Bee in a similar case in California, resulting in state officials agreeing not to enforce the challenge laws as the case proceeds.

While the Babylon Bee is once more fighting for the right to tell jokes, good for them. Yeah, back to the thing I was saying about Colbert Report or other left-wing things. There'll be a government group that will be deciding what is or isn't acceptable satire. And that, of course, is always going to veer toward big government authoritarianism. They will allow the things that say, yes, we can, we're doing good. The government is operating as it should, but deny any freedom-oriented humor. Yes. Well, we're moving on from that story, and this next one is quite titillating. These 30 Hooters restaurants are closing after Iconic Chain announces bankruptcy. That's right. Hooters is going bust.

Stay tuned to stay abreast of this situation. It seems like it's the breast of times and the worst of times, doesn't it? This article describes the closure of over 30 Hooters restaurants across the U.S. From reproductive rights to climate change to big tech, the independent is on the ground. The independent is trusted. Hooters closed over 30 restaurant locations across the U.S. on Wednesday. Closures follow Hooters Chapter 11 Bacramcy filing in March, which had not indicated any planned shutdowns. Company leaders say they are committed to supporting affected employees but did not

address an inquiry as to when employees were notified of the closures. After careful consideration what is needed to best position our company for the future, Hooters made the difficult decision to close certain company-owned locations effective June 4th, 2025. A company spokesperson told the Independent on Thursday, importantly Hooters is here to stay and by optimizing our business in support of our long-term goals, Hooters will be well positioned to continue our iconic legacy under a pure franchise business model. The statement concluded, we are committed to supporting our impacted team members throughout the process. That's right, Gonna take good care

of their employees, I'm sure. Move on from that one. That was just a bit of fun, folks. This is on vaccine impact. More tech leaders are learning that AI cannot replace humans. Efficiency and accuracy are actually getting worse. That's right, as they begin to feed on their own data, as they begin to take in more and more AI generated content, it gets worse. It's like giving a, it's like a prion disease. It's begins to eat the brain. It was by Brian Shalhavi. When I began writing about the AI bubble and future and the future, Big Tech collapsed

at the end of 2022 with the launch of ChatGPT. As first LLM, large language model, AI app, I was just one of a handful of writers who have worked in technology that was warning the public about the dangers of relying on this new technology. There were a few dissenting voices besides myself back then, but now two and a half years later, the trillions of dollars of LLMAI investments, barely a day goes by where I do not see articles documenting the failures of this AI, reporting the factual news about what its limitations and failures are, rather than pumping up the hype. Got a comment here from tunnellord1337, New Mexico is serious about fixing their cartel

problem they'd let the population be armed so they can purge their country of cartels. And that's right, if they were serious about it, they would let the people have guns to protect themselves. Don't frag me, bro. CIA is the biggest drug dealer in the world. The cartels are proxies and it is already rumored that former special operators are staffing and or running the cartels. That's right, the CIA has a long history of drug running. A long history indeed. That's right, the CIA has a long history of drug running. A long history indeed. Well, the AI LLMs are truly revolutionary

in what they actually can do. It is the faith in science fiction and what people's perspectives and beliefs are about the future of AI that is ultimately going to destroy the US economy and most of the rest of the world's economies as well, because they are literally betting on the science fiction actually becoming true one day. Here's some recent articles that provide more than enough evidence that the AI revolution

is going to come crashing down at some point, much like the many planes we have been watching fall from the skies due to tech failures and our over-reliance on computers over humans. Using AI to write computer code. Much of the recent news about the problems with relying on AI have been regarding using AI to generate computer code. It can help companies become more efficient except when it screws up. This is from the information by Martin Pierce. Excerpts. Artificial intelligence really does make mistakes, sometimes big ones. Last weekend I put half a dozen emails with details of airplanes and hotel bookings for an upcoming vacation to Google's notebook,

LM, and asked it to write me an itinerary. The resulting document read great until I realized it listed a departure date 24 hours later than the actual one, which could have been disastrous. Similarly, my colleague John Victor today wrote about how some businesses using AI coding tools discover serious flaws when they end up developing. Plenty of companies are heeding suggestions from AI software firms like Microsoft that AI can cut down the number of employees they need. More alarmingly, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodi

told Oxiocin in an interview this week that AI could wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs in the next few years, even as it helps to cure cancer. That's right, it's gonna do all these things. It's gonna cure cancer. It's gonna cause a boom in the economy. It's all hype. That's what we always see with new technologies. These people come out and they over promise.

They talk about all these wonderful things it's going to do. It's going to, as he said, cure cancer. The holy grail for some when it comes to medicine. And that is what they're promising. That's what they're saying it can do. But we know the most likely outcome is an economic collapse. To be sure, not every job cut nowadays is caused by AI. Business Insider on Thursday laid off 21% of its staff, citing changes in how people consume information. Although it also said it was exploring

how AI can help it operate more efficiently. We're hearing that a lot. Microsoft laid off 3% of its staff this month. It denied AI was directly replacing humans, but it still said it was using technology to increase efficiency. This is where AI errors would seem to be relevant. Isn't there a danger that AI-caused mistakes will end up reducing efficiency? Leave aside the more existential question of why we're spending hundreds of billions

in taxing our power grid to create a technology that could create huge unemployment. The more practical question may be whether businesses should use AI to replace jobs right now if they want to be more efficient. Remember Klarna, the Swedish buy-now-, Fintech firm, which became the poster child for using AI to cut staff last year? A few weeks ago, its CEO declared that he was changing course, having realized focusing too much on costs had hurt the quality of its service. That's a warning companies should heed.

That's right. There's not going to be a human anymore. It's going to be an AI. Everything will be staffed by an answering machine. Travis music and comedy is by Cecilia 14. Travis music and comedy can reach people offensive where plain conversation doesn't. That's why it's a threat. Much truth in parody and music. That's right. In a farcical yet telling blunder, this is from RT.com, multiple major newspapers including the Chicago Sun-Times and Philadelphia

Inquirer, recently published a summer reading list riddled with nonexistent books that were hallucinated by chat GPT. With many of them falsely attributed to real authors, the syndicated article distribute Hearst King features, peddled fabricated titles based on woke themes exposing both the media's over-reliance on cheap IAA content

and the incurable rot of legacy journalism, and of course DEI. At this travesty slipped past editors and moribund outlets. The Sun Times, had just asked, axed 20% of its staff, underscores a darker truth. Desperation on professionalism meets unvetted algorithms. The frayed lines between legacy media and nonsense simply vanishes. The trend seems ominous. AI is now overwhelmed by a smorgasbord of fake news, fake data, fake science, and unmitigated mendacity that is turning established logic, facts, and common sense into a putrid slush

of cognitive rot. Some signs of AI modiclapse begin to reveal themselves is from the register. I use AI a lot but not to write stories. I use AI for research. When it comes to search AI especially perplexity is simply better than Google. Ordinary search has gone to the dogs. Maybe as Google goes gaga for AI its search engine will get better again but I doubt it. In just the last few months I've noticed that AI enabled search too has been getting crappier. That's right it is all feeding on itself. It is producing more content and pulling from

that content over and over again. Lance showed me a picture from someone's post and it was just this is what happens when you what a what search engine was that was it Google? Yeah, there was one from Google another one from the website Pinterest yeah, oh like searching for a simple picture of a baby peacock was the one from Google and There was like one or two pictures of an actual baby peacock Which doesn't look anything like an adult peacock, but most of the pictures were clearly AI-generated miniature versions of adult peacocks. And there was another one with Pinterest that showed every single result on a search. I forget what the search

was for. It was either AI-generated or an ad. Yes, it is just pulling up AI images over and over again when you search things. When you want an image search, it just feeds you AI garbage. Welcome to Garbage In, Garbage Out, G-I-G-O. Formerly in AI circles is known as AI model collapse. A Nature of 2024 paper stated the model becomes poisoned with its own projection of reality. Model collapse is the result of three different factors. The first is error accumulation, in which each model generation inherits and amplifies flaws from previous versions, causing outputs to drift from original data patterns.

Next there is the loss of tail data. This rare events are erased from training data and eventually entire concepts are blurred. Finally, feedback loops reinforce narrow patterns creating repetitive text or biased recommendations, like how the AI company Aquant puts it. In simpler terms, when AI is trained on its own outputs, the results can drift further away from reality. Not the only one seeing AI results starting to go downhill. The results are getting worse and worse. AI will replace all the jobs, it's just tech execs doing marketing.

This is from Hacker News. Not an expert here, just speaking from experience as a working dev. I don't think AI is going to replace my job as a software developer anytime soon. But it's definitely changing how we work, and in many cases already has. Personally, I use AI a lot. It's great for boilerplate, getting unstuck, or even offering alternative solutions I wouldn't have thought of.

But where it still struggles sometimes is with the why behind the work. It doesn't have the human curiosity, asking odd questions, pushing boundaries, or thinking creatively about trade-offs. What really makes me pause is when it gives back code that looks right, but I find myself thinking, wait, why did it do this? Especially when security is involved. Even if I prompt with security as a top priority,

I still need to carefully review the output. That's right, even if you stress things to AI and tell it, I want this to be the main focus, it can still just ignore that and decide, nah, I don't care. One recent example that stuck with me, a friend of mine, an office manager with zero coding background,

proudly showed off how he used AI to inject some VBA into his Excel report to do advanced filtering. My first reaction was, well, here it is, AI replacing my job. What hit harder was my second thought. Does he even know what he just copied and pasted into that sensitive report? So yeah, for me, AI isn't a replacement,

it's a power tool, and eventually, maybe a great coding partner. But you still need to know what you're doing, or at least understand enough to check its work. That's right. Just copying and pasting, and blindly trusting anything is foolish.

And an AI that may be hallucinating is even more foolish to just blindly trust to run your business. Bankrupt Microsoft backed AI company was using Indian engineers to fake it. That's right, instead of artificial intelligence, it was actually Indians. Last week, British AI startup backed Microsoft and the Qatar investment authority Builder.ai

filed for bankruptcy after its CEO said a major creditor had seized most of its cash. Valued at $1.5 billion after a $445 million investment by Microsoft, the company claimed to leverage AI to generate custom apps in days or weeks, which would produce functional code that had less human involvement. Now they've gone clothed off as Bloomberg reports they had a fake it till you make it strategy, while having inflated 2024 revenue projections by 300%. Instead of AI, the company was actually using a fleet of more than 700 Indian engineers from social media startup Versi, Versa, innovation for years to actually write the code.

According to Bloomberg, builder.ai and Versa, innovation routinely billed one another for roughly the same amounts between 2021 and 2024. An alleged practice known as round tripping that people said builder.ai used to inflate revenue figures that were then presented to investors. Oh no. Oh no, Saur. AI agents fall short on shopping. This is from the information.

Artificial intelligence heavyweights, including OpenAI and Perplexity, along with commerce giants, Amazon, are painting visions of AI tools, acting as personal shoppers that can seamlessly buy stuff across the internet. But the handful of AI agents that have so far been released have had trouble with online shopping

since they're easily tripped up by variations in retailers, product listings, and checkouts, investors and founders say. Oh no, the under-delivering has already started. This is what we're seeing already as they talk about curing cancer with AI. We're going to cure cancer. You guys can't even properly check out. That's the truth of the matter. Amazon testing humanoid robots to deliver packages.

Well, isn't that fun? I can't wait for the first time one of these rolls up to someone's door. Eventually, it'll roll up to someone named Sarah Connor. Sarah Connor, Sarah Connor? This package is yours. The article describes Amazon's development of humanoid robots for package delivery. The robots powered by Amazon's AI software could potentially replace delivery workers and speed up drop-off times. Amazon is testing the robots in a humanoid park. Plans to take them on field trips and the real isn't that sweet. They've got a little park for robots.

They're gonna take them on field trips. That's just so fun, isn't it? I remember the story from years ago of Amazon is about to start using flying drones to deliver packages that we never saw, and now it's humanoid robots to deliver packages. Having it be from a humanoid robot shows that this is all just hype. If they really wanted to do it, they would use a rolling robot. It would use less energy to get to the place than a humanoid robot that has to balance while holding a big package. They already have little boxes on wheels that can deliver packages if

they really wanted to. That's right. This is all just nonsense. It is more more hype that will under deliver. Well we are almost out of time. We are going to play another clip of my dad talking about Palantir. This one is from last year. We do have some older ones But we're gonna space them out. We're gonna go back and forth with them show that we've been talking or he has been talking about this for years He was probably the person who has talked about Palantir the most over the years He has been on top of it for a long time But before we do that, I want to thank you all again for tuning in today and remind you

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and civildefensemanual.com. Got a couple of comments before we go. Don't frag me bro, the Palantir software is being used by many nations for many purposes, like stopping political movements and AI murder drones in Gaza. Drone wars are escalating to target civilian dissidents. He kill us. The entire purpose of the creation of the FBI was to get blackmail on congressmen. That's right.

That's what it was originally about. And it probably is still the same way. No reason to assume things have changed. Well, as I said, we're gonna be playing another clip of my dad talking about Palantir. This one is from last year. I appreciate you all being with us. I've had another great week being here with you.

Hopefully I'll see you tonight at 6 p.m. over on Kick. Kick.com forward slash project, TK Ultra. We'll have some fun. And I appreciate you all. I hope you all have had a wonderful week and I hope you have a great weekend as well. God bless. Before James Clapper grew up through the bureaucracy to be a big guy, he rose up through the ranks of geospatial intelligence. They were having conventions prior to the lockdowns in 2020.

Every year they would have a convention, four to five thousand spooks would show up to talk about geospatial intelligence. It was a mapping of political and religious beliefs, justified by 9-11, you know, because we're going to be attacked by religious fanatics, Islamists. That was the story that came out of it. So we need to be able to map people's political and religious identities and they use geospatial intelligence. The internet was all the internet creation and social media creation was all tied into all of

this. But here's where this looks what this looks like today. This is a couple of quotes couple of quotes from General Mark Milley as well as Alex Karp of Palantir. Palantir is a well one of these geospatial intelligence companies. That's what they do. And so this was at a conference that was about national security. The name of the conference was the Ash Carter Exchange on Innovation and National Security in Washington, D.C. And in it, you have Mark Milley. This is the headline here from Information Liberation. He gives a bizarre defense of what is happening in Israel.

He says, we also have slaughtered innocent people in massive numbers. And let me just say this. Whenever you're talking about something, the morality of it, the ethics of it, it doesn't make it right because the people that you like or the people that are with you did it. It also doesn't make it wrong because you don't like the people who did it or whatever. And it doesn't excuse you if you're engaged in a crime. And we always see this, especially from the Democrats or Republicans.

Well, you did that too, right? You did it. You did it. And a lot of times they're saying that because the Democrats did it and they're coming after Republicans for doing the same thing but they never nobody ever came after the Democrats for doing it. None of that matters really does it? I mean you broke the law you broke the law it doesn't matter if your neighbor also shot somebody else in the neighborhood. You both committed murder it doesn't excuse you committing murder because

your neighbor did it. And this is the logic that is there. This is the situational ethics that they put out there. Now, there's a bright red line of right and wrong that doesn't depend on whether or not your friends or enemies did it. It's that whether it's right or wrong is independent of that. Always is. So here is Milley making his excuse about and talking about US war atrocities.

Before we all get self-righteous about what Israel's doing, and I feel horrible. Judge not. Judge not. We shouldn't forget that we, the States put a lot of innocent people in Mosul, Morocco That we the United States killed 12,000 innocent French civilians And here we are on the 80th anniversary of Normandy on the prep fires for Normandy. We destroyed 69 Japanese cities not including Hiroshima Nagasaki We slaughtered people in

massive numbers, innocent people who had nothing to do with their government, men, women, and children. War is a terrible thing, but if it's going to have meaning, if it's going to have any sense of morality, it has to be a political purpose and it must be achieved rapidly with the least cost and that you do by speed. And one of the things I find personally very frustrating, the peace activists are actually the pro-war activists, and we're the peace activists.

So you don't want war, you better be strong. You have to scare your adversary, and you have to be willing to act. Why do you say the peace activists are war activists? Because if you're the useful idiot of Iran and China begging, literally there are people on college campuses saying, we're doing a pro North Korea mantra. If you think that creates peace, you are literally, why would Hamas ever give up?

They have you marching for them. They're never going to give up. You are an infection inside of our society and they are the reason they're not going to give up. If you want to stop these people, you have to be willing to be fierce. They're out there supporting a terrorist organization whose very written charter calls for the death of all Jews, not just in Israel, worldwide. I mean, come on now. If you're going to support that, you're on the wrong side. Okay, so the first one and the last one talking was Mark Milley. The one in the middle, if you're listening to the audio of this, was Alex Karp. The guy who was repeating the Orwellian phrase, war is peace,

and I'm sure that they both believe two plus two equals five as well. Yeah, war is peace. If you are arguing for peace, you're the war party, right? You're the one responsible for war. And what he says, you know, peace through strength, that type of thing. Well, certainly that is the case, right? Should have a strong defense. But that's a very different thing, isn't it? Having a strong military and showing a strong presence. Isn't that a very different thing than preemptively attacking the other countries? Which is what Alex Karp and Mark Milley do. That's why they're war criminals. Assassins, murderers, war criminals is what they are.

You don't preemptively attack another country, okay? And so that's the real issue of what these guys have been doing. I'm going to say that's what's going on with the Israel thing. I think the problem with Israel is that they have not tried to minimize civilian casualties and that's why you have Mark Milley who says, well, we slaughtered a lot of innocent civilians as well, in massive numbers. Well, you will answer for that. If not, in this life, you'll answer to God for that.

You really will. And so he, but he's fine with that. That's fine. You know, we killed not just in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but we destroyed a lot of other Japanese cities, he said. And as I said the other day, all these people give you a false dichotomy. They give you a false choice as part of the Hegelian dialectic. You're being had when people say, well, is it this or is that? No, it's never either this or that. There's always other ways that you could do this.

And as I said, you know, the argument for dropping the nuclear bombs on the Japanese cities was, well, we got to save soldiers lives because if we didn't drop the nuclear bombs on civilian cities, then we would have to fight the Japanese soldiers from island to island and then we would lose a lot of American soldiers and they were the ones who started the war. Even though FDR baited it, even though FDR did what he could to shut down the early warning of it and all the rest of the stuff, the Japanese still did attack first. And so that still remains.

You know, yes, I understand. FDR was passive aggressive. He baited it. He facilitated it. But they did it. And that's another principle of just war. So it's justified to defend ourselves and to try to defend this. But another precept of a just war from a Christian perspective is that you try to minimize civilian casualties. So was the... do we have two options? We either fight them with the Marines, island to island, or we drop a nuclear bomb on a couple of civilian cities.

They could have dropped the nuclear bombs on the islands, couldn't they? They could have taken out the combatants, couldn't they have? Couldn't they? They could have taken out the combatants. Couldn't they have? Couldn't they have done that? Well, yes. See, that's why they don't ever talk about that. That would have been a justified response, quite frankly. Dropping it on civilian populations was not a justified response.

It had become accepted by both sides during World War II that you would inflict massive civilian casualties on the other side. And that's why, you know, we look at World War II, it was not the last good war. We crossed the Rubicon on a lot of different things that affect the justified war in World War II, one of them being the targeting of civilian populations by both sides. And that doesn't make it right, the fact that both sides were doing it, does it? That's what I began by saying. You know, two wrongs don't make a right. Didn't your mommy tell you that? My

mommy told me that. But did you hear what the new justification is from Milley for war? It must be done for political purposes. What? And it must be fast. What? That's it? It must be done for political purposes and fast? I mean, what war has ever happened that wasn't done for political purposes?

Every single war throughout the history of mankind has been for political purposes. Every single war, not the history of mankind, has been for political purposes. It's been for the greed and power of whoever's ruling, whether it's the king or whether it's the empire or whatever. It's always been about political purposes. Everything the Roman Empire did was political purposes, wasn't it? Every war, whether it was justified or not, is about political purposes. What is he talking about? It's absolute nonsense. Well, you know, for a war to be justified, it's got to be about political purposes, and it's got to be

fast. He doesn't say that you have to try to avoid civilian casualties. All right, here's what a justified war is in a nutshell. You don't attack until you were attacked. Period. Period. No exceptions, no excuses, no they did this or that. No, no. You don't attack unless you're attacked first. Secondly, you wear uniforms and do other things to try to minimize civilian casualties. Secondly, you do try to make it end as soon as possible in order to minimize both civilian and military casualties, which has never been a goal, by the way. You know, we say we want this war to be for political purposes and we want it fast. Well, then that means that every war

that we've had since World War II has been unjustified by that benchmark because every war that we've had since World War II has been for a long-term training and testing of our, you know, training of the soldiers, testing of the weapons. They don't ever want to end these wars. To say that it has to be for political purposes and it has to be fast, this is a guy who was there at the Pentagon when they were telling us yeah, we're gonna be in Afghanistan forever for another 20 years They didn't leave Afghanistan. They were thrown out they wanted it to last forever and That's been the way that it's been in every single war that we've been involved in

so So war is peace, right? So, war is peace, right? You got to attack these people before they attack us. Well, by that logic, if that's the logic, well then I guess Hamas was justified, weren't they? No, they weren't. And even if, and I believe that it did happen, even if they stood down, even if Benjamin Netanyahu did a Pearl Harbor like FDR did, even if that was the case, they would still be

justified in coming after Hamas, but not a relentless starvation campaign, bombing campaign of a civilian population that can't fight back. That is not justified, not justified, but it is absolutely in character with all of our wars since World War II. Never going to end it. And it'd be for whatever political purpose we want. Oh, it's always about a political purpose. Absolutely amazing to see that. And by the way, as I pointed out last week, Alex Karp had said in a previous one of these things, he's kind of come out of the woodwork now. He used to be kind of behind.

He would always go to the Bilderberg conference, but now because of these protesters on campus, he's speaking out quite a bit about it, saying he'd like to drone his opponents in Silicon Valley and assassinate them. He's come up all kinds of knee-jerk, hateful rhetoric about the people who are doing what they're doing for political purposes as well. He doesn't like free speech. He wants to punish these people. And again, if they take over campus and they start getting violent, if they take over buildings and they shut down schools, that's not free speech. And yet these people responded to say, well, you know, because they're doing

these violent acts, we need to pass laws that are going to take down free speech. They've got another agenda. Milley said pro-Palestine protesters in America are quote out there supporting a terrorist organization and insisted that they're on the wrong side. Well again, where's your moral compass? Is it wrong to do preemptive attacks? If it is, then the United States is also a terrorist organization. By the way, you know, we look at preemptive attacks and we look at how the beginning of the 21st century, the thing that was used to kick

off this, so we got to fight terror everywhere, you know, we're gonna have a war against terror. Well, terror is a tactic, so that opens up everything. We had the perpetual blank check for wars everywhere called the authorization for the use of military force. We had all that. What was that predicated on? It was predicated on a terrorist attack. But the question is, was that terrorist attack done by the people, our own people?

Was it done by Tim Osmond, also known as Osama bin Laden, or was it done by our own people? Was it done by Tim Osmond, also known as Osama bin Laden, or was it done by our own people? Here's what some of the 9-11 firefighters said about what happened with Building 7. I saw Building 7 come down, and it was a controlled demolition, a classic controlled demolition. That building had no reason to come down. There's no history. Captain Richard Patterson. And a fireproof resulting in failure with the building because the building is in New York city parlance, a class one, which is a single word fireproof.

I demand to know as should everyone, especially New York area fire commissioner, why Christopher Joya made that day from over 150 as should everyone, especially... New York area fire commissioner, Christopher Gioia. ... made that day from over 150 police, firefighters, and first responders regarding explosions, wasn't included in the commission report, nor investigated further. Was a secondary explosion probably a device he'd have planted before? Fire Department New York Chief of Safety. Exploded four miles later. Floor by floor it started popping out.

Other firefighters. There were plans to take down a building. Yeah, right. It was a heavy duty explosion. The whole building just collapsed on us inside the lobby. Was that a secondary explosion? Yes, it was. You want to call your mother or something?

No, I'm calling my mom. We gotta get back home. Five minutes and the elevator's exploded on us. Yeah, we said something's wrong, yeah. I mean the plane hit up on the 88th floor. I mean, in five minutes, all of a sudden now the elevator's exploding on the first level of the lobby. And it's the first thing I think of when I get up. And you heard those explosions. The last thing at night before I go to bed. I lost Tommy O'Hagan, Kenny Kumpel, and Bruce Van Hines that day. 343 firefighters, including

three of my good friends, Thomas Hetzel, Bobby Evans, and Mike Kiefer, perished that day. Bobbie Evans and Mike Kiefer perished that day. And these were some of the best and the bravest people in the world. And they, along with the rest of those who were murdered and died horrible deaths, deserved justice. Yeah. And we could name a lot of names to people who died from the other shoot-a-drop. Yeah, we had three buildings that dropped with two planes on 9-11, and then the other shoot-a-drop was 20 years later. And you had Donald Trump and his pal, 9-11 Rudy, who covered it up there in New York. These guys who pushed that thing through and bragged about pushing it through.

As far as I look at this, I look at this medical martial law, the lockdown, the rest of this stuff that happened in 2020, I look at it as a fourth building of 9-11 is the way I look at it. Two months before 9-11, is the way I look at it. Two months before 9-11, they did their simulation. One week after 9-11, they did the anthrax attack, and then they used that to push out the Model State Health Emergency Powers Act, to get the states to give themselves the power to do what they did 20 years later and Trump paid them to do it with the emergency declaration.

And they practiced it at the federal government for 20 years. Every year they did one of these germ game things. Yeah, the way I look at this, I can just see Trump with his hand on the detonator pulling down the fourth building, the pandemic of 2020. So, you know, when you look at all this stuff and you look at these people talking about friends that they've lost, we've all got names, don't we? People that we know that have died or are dying from this shot. Mark Milley repeats debunked Israeli propaganda about beheadings and sexual assault. It says Mark Max Blumenthal.

Well look, we can argue about that kind of stuff over and over again, but again, when it's wartime, how do you know what's going on with any of this stuff? We do know that our allies, the Saudis, do beheadings all the time. So why do we care about beheadings, right? Because you use their thing, well, you know, hey, we do it or they do it, that excuses it, right? Well, by that logic, then I guess we don't care

about any beheadings because we support people who do that on a regular basis. What about sexual assault? Well, we got Abu Ghraib and all these other things. I mean, we got torture. We tortured people. Used the lies from torture to go into the Iraq War. And Trump appointed her as head of the CIA.

The liar, the one who covered it up. He worked with Rudy Giuliani, who lied and covered up 9-11. Don't talk to me about Trump or any of these people. Is a civilian bombing only wrong if it's a suicide bombing? What if we have a suicide drone that kills a bunch of civilians? Is that still wrong? Do we have a justified war if you try to minimize the number of people that die, both military and civilian, by shortening it up?

It's not just making it fast. And they haven't tried to make it fast either. So when we look at, there were other comments that were made by Alex Karp. Here is what he says about war. I think is a often overlooked part of this battle is we kind of just think these things that are happening across college campuses especially are like a sideshow. No, they are the show.

Because if we lose the intellectual debate, you will not be able to deploy any army in the West ever. And that's, and of course our adversaries. So if we lose the intellectual debate, we would never be able to deploy an army for no reason at all, right? As we constantly do, because we are an empire. Why, why do you think we kind of all know that? Right? Because we are an empire. Why do you think, we kind of all know that, right? Why do you think that George Lucas

made the empire the bad guys? Hey Hans, we're the bad guys here. We're the empire, right? Yeah, empires have war for their political purposes, as Mark Milley was saying. That doesn't justify it. Just makes it even more despicable. You shouldn't have a war for political purposes.

You should have a war to protect innocent lives and to terminate the killing because somebody was an aggressor and attacked you. That's why you have a war, Millie. But we have people like Millie at the Pentagon. We have people like Alex Karp running geospatial intelligence, and this next clip will explain a little bit of more about what geospatial intelligence is. But yeah, if we have a country that obeyed a just war scenario, imagine that. They wouldn't be able to deploy their army for political purposes.

Maybe that's the kind that we should have. If we lose the intellectual battle, we will not be able to deploy any army in the West ever. This is Alex Karp. These are the people... you know, Congress says, well, if we got anti-Semitism happening on the campus, we're going to shut down funds to it. I wish you would have shut it down when they had Marxist revolutionaries preaching a race war against white people. Why was that not good enough to shut down? Right?

This has been going on for a very long time, and you turn a blind eye to it until you get attacked like they attack white people, and then you care. It isn't about an intellectual battle. This is a spiritual, ethical, moral battle. This is a battle for the soul of our society and the soul of us each individually. It's not an intellectual battle. Alex Karp is wrong about that as well. But let's show, let's, this is a guy who looks at the monitor's intelligence stuff and he talks about what Palantir is doing with geospatial intelligence,

and they're not just working for the American government. They're also working for the Israeli government. An equivalent of the NSA is called Unit 8200. They're very... James Banford. Basically the same type of organization as the NSA. And Palantir is one of the companies that's given—it's an American company. It's based in Denver.

And it has given an enormous amount of assistance to Unit 8200 in terms of targeting. And that goes to the military. So the military targets civilians, lots of civilians. Most of the people killed were civilians, women and children have been, the people who have been targeted in the occupied territories in Gaza. So the NSA gives Unit 8200 an enormous amount of data

And NSA gives Unit 8200 an enormous amount of data from what it collects. When I interviewed Ed Snowden back in Moscow after he went to Moscow taking all the data from NSA, he said that was one of the worst offenses he saw when he was at NSA. That they were giving all this American data, Palestinians talking overseas to relatives or friends in Palestine and the occupied territory,

and NSA was giving that data to Unit 8200. So you have Unit 8200 that's collecting a lot of data from the United States, from Americans. They're using it for targeting, and Palatir is one of the companies that's enormously sophisticated in terms of targeting. So what the problem is here is that you're getting information from the United States that the Israelis are using to target the civilians in Gaza. And there's been 33,000 killed now.

It's just an enormous problem that the U.S. has got to stop supplying all this data and the... And make no mistake about it, even though Palantir is saying, well, we're doing this abroad and we're doing it for military purposes and we're doing it for the American Empire, right? They do it here at home as well. It's just like the FISA stuff. Oh, well, you know, that's for foreign intelligence surveillance. No, they use it against Americans, and Palantir is used against Americans, and will increasingly

be used to target Americans for their political and religious beliefs. And guess what? They're not interested in the Muslims, they told you that. They're interested in the Christians. And when you look at the fact that they're targeting civilians, these are targeted killings, assassinations of political figures, and targeted killing of civilians. This is why Millie was trying to justify, oh, we kill a lot of civilians and Japanese we're Japanese civilians, all the rest of this stuff, so that makes it okay? No, it doesn't make it okay.

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