The David Knight Show - Thu Episode #2026: Darkness Retreats & Demonic Tech: Are We Building a Digital Hell?
Episode Date: June 5, 202500;00;00;00 - 00;00;57;04: Introduction to the David Night show, discussing the "all-seeing eye" of Palantir and the tech elite's dark retreats.00;02;28;18 - 00;02;48;25: Report on a 23-year-old Texas... man arrested for scaling the wall at Mar-a-Lago, questioning the effectiveness of walls for security.00;05;28;00 - 00;06;03;22: Trump administration expands Palantir's role to compile data on Americans, raising privacy and surveillance concerns.00;09;29;18 - 00;10;09;12: Palantir's deep ties to the federal government and its origins with In-Q-Tel, the CIA's venture capital firm.00;10;38;27 - 00;11;06;05: Palantir executive Mike Gallagher labels pro-Palestine protesters a "domestic terrorist movement," sparking debate on free speech and surveillance.00;20;16;11 - 00;20;46;20: Trump allies with Palantir to build a massive database on Americans, tracking tax returns, bank accounts, and more.00;43;41;15 - 00;43;59;24: Case of Michael Williams, jailed due to an AI-powered gunshot detection program (ShotSpotter), highlighting pre-crime and algorithmic errors.00;49;43;23 - 00;50;10;12: Palantir's ties to the CIA, NSA, and military, with its software likened to the "all-seeing eye" of Sauron from Tolkien's works.00;54;57;27 - 00;55;32;08: PayPal's alleged deep ties with the NSA and its actions against WikiLeaks, raising questions about surveillance and censorship.00;59;38;15 - 01;00;00;11: Critique of Donald Trump as a savior figure, noting disillusionment with his actions like Palantir involvement compared to past policies like lockdowns and vaccines.01;01;31;11 - 01;01;57;23: Archeological and biblical evidence suggesting the Garden of Eden was a real place, possibly in Mesopotamia, tied to the origins of civilization.01;09;17;11 - 01;09;46;05: Crypto founder Charles Hoskinson’s terrifying experience in a darkness retreat, fleeing after encountering sleep paralysis and demonic visions.01;29;38;11 - 01;30;02;07: Trump’s second term moves toward autocracy, with actions like mass layoffs of civil servants, defunding universities, and deporting U.S.-born children.01;39;28;06 - 01;39;50;24: Growing trend of tech users viewing AI like ChatGPT as a god, with predictions of an official AI-worshipping church emerging within 24 months.01;47;30;29 - 01;47;52;24: Defense Secretary orders renaming of USNS Harvey Milk, a Navy ship named after a gay rights activist accused of predatory behavior.02;00;13;28 - 02;00;31;07: Reflection on Jesus’s experience of abandonment by his disciples. 02;10;04;02 - 02;10;28;02: Elon Musk’s public criticism of Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” which raises the debt ceiling by $5 trillion and ignores fiscal reform promises.02;36;22;20 - 02;36;40;12: Grieving parents in North Carolina charged with manslaughter after their seven-year-old son was killed by a car while walking to a store.02;48;27;05 - 02;48;51;26: Ship carrying 800 electric vehicles abandoned in the Pacific after a fire, possibly caused by lithium-ion batteries. 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: @DavidKnightShow@protonmail.comCash 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 As the clock strikes 13, it is Thursday, the 5th of June, Year of our Lord 2025, and today
we're going to be looking at the all-seeing eye of Palantir and the panopticon that is being constructed around us
And the tech elite are going on dark retreats
Where they presumably commune with dark forces and the government's war on parents continues stay with us Yes. The Well, good morning and thank you all for joining us on this lovely Thursday.
Hope you're all having a great day.
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And as I said, we're gonna look at Palantir. We're gonna start off with this article though
It's on Breitbart secret service agents arrest man who scaled the wall at Mar-a-Lago
How is the wall gonna help the southern border if it can't even help Donald Trump keep people out of his golf course?
June 4th, and this is a 23 year old Texas
man, not a Florida man this time. Apparently they were all too busy
wrestling alligators. This golf course doesn't even have free health care for
anyone that gets over the wall. I mean free welfare. I've got the best walls, the
biggest. A 23 year old Texas man has been arrested by US Secret Service agents after jumping the wall at President Donald Trump's Florida Mar-a-Lago estate, according to reports.
Anthony Thomas Reyes had entered the property early Tuesday and told law enforcement that he was there to spread the gospel to the president and marry his teenage granddaughter.
Yeah, I'm not sure there was much chance of either of those things happening.
Kai Madison Trump.
That's the teenage granddaughter.
This guy does not seem to be well balanced.
Florida Today reported citing a Palm Beach police arrest report.
And of course, we are glad that nothing happened to Trump's family.
We don't want any sort of violence or anything happening to members of his family.
A Secret Service spokesperson told CBS News in a statement that the suspect had scaled a perimeter fence and triggered alarms shortly after midnight Tuesday.
The suspect was taken into custody without incident. The spokesperson said,
Jail records state that Reyes has been charged with a misdemeanor, trespassing a fence, and is being held at Palm Beach County Jail on a $50,000 bond.
Trespassing offense is being held at Palm Beach County jail on a fifty thousand dollar bond
He pleaded not guilty later Tuesday during his first appearance here. I think they might have you dead to rights, mr Reyes, I think once you've been caught scaling the wall at a property the president owns you might
You might not get away with it Trump was in Washington at the time of the incident.
The police report also states that Reyes was arrested and accused of trespassing at Mar-a-Lago on New Year's Eve.
Ah, a serial Mar-a-Lago offender.
In April, the 58-year-old Adrian Tajerian was arrested on a misdemeanor trespassing charge for allegedly trying to enter Trump's Mar-a-Lago club to have
dinner with the president. Well, I mean, you've got to pay for that. You've got to buy a bunch of
his crypto to get a dinner with the president and then you get some slop food that isn't very good.
So maybe getting arrested for a misdemeanor was the best outcome for Mr. Tajirian. And in January,
Bijan Arcio was arrested on the same charge after allegedly jumping over the outer wall at Mar-a-Lago.
Nobody with, there's no Smiths or Jones jumping the walls.
They're all names that are difficult to pronounce and making me look like a fool.
A security zone was erected around Trump's estate following an assassination attempt on Trump's life during a campaign rally in July.
Kai Madison Trump is the 18 year old daughter of President eldest son
Donald Trump jr. And again, we're very glad that uh
These people did not manage to do anything to his family Trump taps Palantir to compile data on Americans
And this is from the New York Times now, of course, my dad has been reporting on Palantir for years now
At least as early as 2013. so we're going on 12 years
12 years of talking about this horrific
Data siphon that has been scooping in and sucking up all the data they can get their hands on and how
No, 13 years 13 years is what we're going on
The trump administration has expanded Palantir's work
with the government spreading the company's technology,
which could easily merge data on Americans
throughout agencies.
That's right.
We want a big, beautiful data collection center.
We've got the biggest data centers, the best.
Alex Karp, a co-founder and chief executive of Palantir
at a forum in Washington in April.
The Trump administration has expanded Palantir's work across the federal government.
Caroline Gutman, New York Times.
And none of them seem to care anything about the Bill of Rights or privacy.
The MAGA movement is fine with it, just so long as it's Donald Trump bringing the boot
down.
In fact, their only concern is that they don't scuff his boot as it crushes them.
KWD-68 new power station is coming for AI.
Not for us.
We will get unicorn fart power and AI will get nuclear.
We lose.
Always.
That's right.
Everything for the AI.
Peter Thiel, Alex Karp, Elon Musk.
They're gonna get the big, beautiful nuclear reactors, they're gonna get the big beautiful nuclear reactors.
We're gonna get the dodgy solar and wind power. We're gonna get the ones that turn off when we need it the most.
We're gonna be left to freeze or burn up in the summer. In March, President Trump signed an executive order calling for the federal government to share data across
agencies, raising questions over whether he might compile a master list of personal
information on Americans that could give him untold surveillance power.
That's right, like He-Man, he has the power.
Mr. Trump has not publicly talked about the effort since, but behind the scenes officials
have quietly put technological building blocks into place to enable his plan.
In particular, they have turned to one company, Palantir, data
analysis and technology firm.
The Trump administration has expanded Palantir's work across the federal
government in recent months.
The company has received more than 113 million in federal government spending
since Mr.
Trump took office according to public records, including additional funds
from existing contracts, as well as new contracts to the Department of Homeland Security and the Pentagon.
That funny five-sided building.
This does not include a $795 million contract that the Department of Defense awarded the
company last week, which has not been spent.
Representatives at Palantir are also speaking to at least two other agencies, the Social
Security Administration and the Internal
Revenue Service.
Gotta love that the IRS is getting in on this too, because of course they are, about buying
its technology according to six government officials and Palantir employees with knowledge
of the discussions.
The push has put a key Palantir product called Foundry into at least four federal agencies
including DHS
and the Health and Human Services Department. Widely adopting Foundry, which organizes and
analyzes data, paves the way for Mr. Trump to easily merge information from different agencies,
the government official said. Well, we want to make it easy for them, don't we? We want them to
have the easiest time possible when they kick your door in or accidentally send the SWAT team to your
house for an imagine infraction after the AI hallucinates something. Creating
detailed portraits of Americans based on government data is not just a pipe dream
the Trump administration has already sought access to hundreds of data
points on citizens and others through government databases including their
bank account numbers, the amount of their student debt, their medical claims, and any disability status. That's right.
Palantir continues to worm its way deeper and deeper into the federal
government because this was always the plan. Palantir has always been set up to
be used by the federal government. They were founded by
Inqutel or funded by Inqutel and they knew that eventually it would come back
around and they'd be able to use it. Palantir exec pro-Palestine protesters
are a domestic terrorist movement and while I am sure that there are some
pro-Palestinian people that would love to commit domestic terrorism
That does not mean you sell out the Constitution or the Bill of Rights
That does not mean you turn over every bit of data to this giant
Technological monstrosity you don't just give over everything because you're afraid
In an interview with Fox Business on Monday, Palantir executive
Mike Gallagher suggested that pro-Palestine protesters are a domestic terrorist movement,
which the state must use all legal mechanisms to shut down. What do you consider legal,
Mr Gallagher, because the Constitution and the Bill of Rights make things pretty clear
on that front? And I don't think Palantir falls under that.
It's amazing that someone so tied into the government with, you know, pseudo-government
power through private partnership is calling for a political opinion to be shut down, a political
opinion about a foreign country half the world away, and a war and genocide going on there.
Every legal means here in the US by this pseudo-government agency needs to be taken in order to shut down that opinion.
That's right. They will crush dissent.
These people are both incredibly uninformed, they're brainwashed, but now they become something much more, which is a dangerous movement.
A domestic terrorist movement.
And while I do actually believe most of the people in college are brainwashed,
and I tend to find it funny that they are brainwashed at the hands of techniques that were put in place by the Frankfurt School,
which was a largely Jewish socialist Marxist movement that moved over to the United States
around the 1930s.
And now they hate Israel.
Of course, we've seen a lot of the same rhetoric about vaccine deniers.
They're dangerous.
They're going to kill us all.
They need to be shut down.
Yes. They're gonna kill us all. They need to be shut down. Yes, but the Israel is now being hoisted by their own petard at the end of this brainwashing campaign
they've engaged in.
Must use all legal mechanisms at our disposal to prevent people from being harmed and I think politicians on left and right everywhere in
between can come together around that basic, very fundamental, American fact.
That's right. It is fundamentally an American fact that we must give up our freedoms to stop
people being harmed, says Mike Gallander, Gallagher, Palantir executive. He suggests pro-Palestine
protesters are a domestic terrorist movement, which statements use all legal mechanisms to shut down. And this is Chris Moynihan tweeting.
You can find him at info lib news.
If you're wondering what Palantir intends to do with our data, the answer is to create
a domestic stasi.
That's right.
They're going to have all your data and they will report on everything you do.
AI is going to scan every little thing. Hmm. What did that
tweet mean? What did that Facebook update mean? You're posting these pictures to
Instagram. That's suspicious. If you had any question about what Palantir intends
to do with our data, it's becoming abundantly clear their goal is to create
a domestic stasi. Palantir's only client up until 2008 was the CIA. The good old CIA.
We know them, we love them.
Can't get enough of the CIA and their wacky plans
for the American people.
Palantir got its funding from Inqutel,
which is the CIA's venture capital firm.
Palantir's Gotham and Tiberius software
was used to collect health data for vaccine companies.
Once again, Palantir's naming convention
is all over the place.
Gotham, Tiberius, are they just picking names out of a hat?
Did they throw a bunch of random pop culture?
And I don't get it.
Palantir went public in 2020.
This is the same guy that told the New York Times
that most of the decisions he makes at Palantir
are driven by his experience as a Jew and
His fear of the right-wing that was Alex carp that said that I'm pretty sure
Was also once quoted in saying our software single-handedly stopped the far right in Europe. That's right. Thank you. Mr
carp because what Europe needs is more left-wing politicians
We need more
globalist left wingers that are going to import an endless hoard of migrants from Muslim countries and Africa.
We apparently have the clip of Karp talking, which we are going to stopped the rise of the far right in Europe.
We built Foundry, which was used to distribute the COVID vaccine and saved...
We built PG, which single-handedly stopped the rise of the far right in Europe.
Thank you, Mr. Karp.
Good job stopping the rise of the far right in Europe.
Well, as you can see, that is the the clip there and we can stop playing that now. We built PG which
Thank you, mr
Karp as I said stopping the rise of the far right and I'm sure what he means by far right is someone who would be considered
liberal by you know the standards of
15 to 20 years ago. So, fascism averted. Feel
free to continue to import an endless horde of migrant barbarian thugs. We can see what
that has accomplished in Paris after they won some soccer match, burning and looting
and rioting. I believe two people were killed and that is all thanks to the policies.
And potentially now you can lay that thanks at the feet of Alex Karp as well.
Thank you, Mr. Karp. You are truly a hero.
Gallagher is a former GOP rep from Wisconsin who resigned after getting backlash
for being a decisive vote against impeaching DHS head Alejandro Mayorkas in February 2024. Despite announcing he would resign on April 19,
2024, he later moved his resignation to April 20, 2024, so he could vote in favor of aid to Ukraine,
of aid to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. He's just another warmonger, folks. War across the globe, at home, or in other countries, you can't get enough war. We love our wars here, don't we?
We're the biggest, we're the best at it, despite the fact that we haven't actually won a war in
who knows how many years, probably since the end of World War II, depending on how you define victory.
KWD 68 anti-Semitism laws. See you all in the gulag. First point for anti-Semitism is stating that Jews killed Jesus, you know, like the New Testament over and over. Yes.
But of course, the important thing to remember, in my opinion, is that while they demanded his death, they were giddy at it.
to remember in my opinion, is that while they demanded his death, they were giddy at it, they
were so excited to have Pontius Pilate kill him, in the end it is my sin that killed Jesus. It is my own sin that condemned him to the cross. So while they were the physical people there demanding it,
Jesus had to die specifically because of my own personal sin. Wally Walrus, I guess I'm a domestic terrorist for being anti-genocide.
That's right.
And what you were just saying, absolutely from a theological standpoint, though historically
that is something that is a simple fact of history that needs to be stated and, you know,
is a part of the Gospels, and
that is something that has been labeled as anti-Semitic by these, honestly, extremist
Jewish groups.
Yes.
I don't want to paint over history.
I'm just simply stating it, as Lance said, from a theological standpoint.
Historically, yes, it was the Jews that demanded that Jesus be killed.
I don't want to wallpaper that over as the New York Post reported on October 31st
2023 rep Mike Gallagher who serves as the chair of the House select committee on China told the post that
TikTok has become ground zero for disinformation and pro Hamas propaganda and
warned
TikTok parent bite dances ties to Beijing have made it difficult to separate organic viral trends from China backed bots or influence campaigns.
Oh no.
They're dumbing our children down.
That's our job.
The schools are supposed to dumb down the kids, not TikTok.
How come we can't let China make our kids stupid and propagandize them?
That's the American government's job and we'll be darned if another foreign entity
gets to do it before we do.
We have zero visibility into whether the viral nature of this content is a result of user
engagement, bot campaigns, or the CCP's covert influence.
Gallagher said in a statement, all this illustrates the fundamental problem with TikTok.
It is an avenue for the CCP to covertly inject
any message it wants, particularly during a crisis
into the American bloodstream.
We must act now to ban it.
Open borders, mass surveillance, Israel first,
a new domestic war on terror, our palantir's values.
That's right.
Again, Israel first.
Anything and everything for Israel gotta shut down that anti-Semitism.
Can't have anyone say anything negative about Israel.
That would be troublesome.
Might shut down the payments to the people who hold dual citizenship in our government.
Trump is building a bigger deep state with the help of libertarian Peter Thiel.
Once again, like the Princess Bride, you keep on using that word, but I don't think it means
what you think it means.
All these people love to say they're Libertarian, but they're not really.
And of course, as I mentioned before, I think most Libertarians are just contrarians.
They picked a political ideology based on what would annoy and piss off the most number of people not because they hold
Any real values they just like seeing people get upset
Donald Trump is helping build a bigger surveillance state and naturally he's using taxpayer dollars to do it since beginning his second term
Donald Trump has joined forces with the CIA front company Palantir to build a massive new database on hundreds of millions of Americans
The database can be used in the future to track and search Americans' tax returns,
bank accounts, spending patterns, travel, and much more.
For months, keen observers of the American surveillance state like Whitney Webb have
warned that the so-called Department of Government Efficiency has provided Trump-linked technocrats
with access to private information with the potential of inputting all that data into
a central
database.
Now the Trump administration has pushed a new contract with the surveillance firm Palantir
to do just that.
The Trump administration has long pretended to oppose the so-called Deep State, but this
latest move is simply the latest evidence that the administration has forged a close
alliance with its enemies, quote unquote.
Yes, Trump loves the deep
state. That's why he continually puts these swamp creatures as he would have
called them in his first election campaign into positions of power. He does
nothing to clear out the bureaucracies. He keeps the same faceless nameless
authoritarian bureaucrats in place and they continue to do their dirty deeds in
the dark. The Trump
administration is collecting data on all Americans and they are listing the data
analysis company Palantir to do it. President Trump has enlisted Palantir
founded by far-right, yes far-right, billionaire Peter Thiel to carry out his
March executive order instructing government agencies to share data with
each other. The order has increased fears that the government is putting
together a database to wield surveillance powers
over the American public.
Yes, that's exactly what they're going to do.
That's why the increase in fear is very warranted.
Since then, the administration has been very quiet
about these efforts, increasing suspicion.
That's right, anytime Donald Trump is not out
of the forefront of something crowing about it, you should really worry. If even he is
looking at it going, ooh I don't know if I want to brag about this one, you really
need to be concerned. Palantir is speaking with various other
agencies across the federal government, including the Social Security
Administration and the IRS about buying its technology according to the Times.
Palantir's foundry tool, which analyzes the organic data, is already being used at the
DHS, the Department of Health and Human Services, and at least two other agencies allowing the
White House to compile data from different places.
Isn't that fun?
Isn't that special?
It's already in use.
The Trump-Dogue Palantir expansion of the American spy state is simply another tool
that the federal government can use alongside
its already enormous data collection efforts under the NSA and similar agencies. The potential is enormous for the future
construction of a social credit system for tracking gun owners for related purposes of creating an AI-fueled pre-crime database to identify future criminals.
Who exactly is a criminal, of of course is to be determined at
the discretion of future policymakers who will possess
the data. That's of course assuming they don't turn it over
to AI as well. Maybe one day we'll just have a bunch of robots
running around in Congress and the Senate. Palantir is the
poster child for the Pentagon Big Tech Alliance that has been
forged by the so called Deep State. Palantir is the poster child for the Pentagon Big Tech Alliance that has been forged by the so-called Deep State.
Palantir is part and parcel of the ecosystem of quasi-private sector actors such as Amazon, Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, and others.
Good old IBM. Gotta love them, they're the ones that helped the Nazis.
Who profit extensively from taxpayer payer funded government contracts. The owners of these enterprises, perhaps most notably Palantir founder Peter Thiel, often
pretend to be entrepreneurs, while repeatedly expanding their alliance with the federal
government and its tax funded gravy train.
That's right, behind almost every billionaire is a giant government contract and a complete
and utter lack of morality, a willingness to do anything and everything to their fellow man to make a quick buck.
The EarthSats captains of industry are effectively parasites who profit from tax revenues,
while using their access to federal policymakers to further crush competition and market economy.
Palantir is not just a military contractor, it was a company created to privatize and
house the Bush-era, neocon-run surveillance program.
Total Information Awareness, TIA program housed previously at DARPA and put it under increased
CIA control through, though the CIA was also intimately involved in TIA.
TIA was shut down by Congress because it would have eradicated the constitutional right to
privacy, but Palantir has accomplished that and gotten away with it because it is
a private sector entity.
Again, we see this all the time.
The government loves deniability when it comes to these types of things.
Oh, it's not us doing it.
It's a private company.
Oh, it's not us in Congress or the Senate.
It's this bureaucracy over here.
And while we can't, we can't do anything about that since it's not a law. Technically, it's not us in Congress or the Senate. It's this bureaucracy over here. And well, we can't, we can't do anything about that
since it's not a law technically, it's a rule.
It's a statute.
It's this, it's that.
We don't have any real control over them.
So sorry, come back another day.
Palantir's earliest funders beside Peter Thiel,
the CIA Palantir's first client
for several years as a company.
The CIA, where did Palantir engineers first client for its several years as a company. The CIA worded Palantir engineers every two weeks
for years for guidance in developing their products.
CIA HQ Palantir originally intended clients
per CEO Alex Karp.
The CIA, if there ever was a CIA front company,
it's Palantir.
Though Peter Thiel has since quipped
that the CIA is a front for Palantir.
Some people say that you use humor
to mask your real feelings and you reveal what you really feel when you make jokes about
it.
So him quipping about that is probably a little bit more true than he would like you to believe.
Like Palantir's predictive policing efforts, TIA was designed as a pre-crime program to
stop both terror attacks and bioterror and even pandemics before they can happen. Palantir has developed the
programs to accomplish all of this, the latter through their HHS and CDC
partnerships, which will likely be used to preemptively declare the next
pandemic before any outbreak emergence emerges. Palantir played an outsized role
in Operation Warp Speed, distributing batches
of experimental vaccines to minority communities first. Isn't that special of them? Aren't
we so glad that Palantir was here to help with that? I wonder if they specifically did
research, looked at data to figure out who would be most susceptible to the vaccines.
Because that is the type of thing I'm sure AI would be very good at looking at
genetic markers or health problems you've had in the past from their access to your medical records
and figuring out which vaccine is going to do the most damage to you.
A custom custom batch delivered directly to your door to lobotomize you or kill you
This one a comment from Wally walrus about tik-tok or maybe people are really tired of the genocide. Maybe not Chinese propaganda
That's right. Maybe just maybe there are some people in the United States that are tired of forever wars that are tired of
Continually seeing their tax dollars used to blow up men, women, and children.
I think Wally Walrus might be on to something. I think just maybe I'm sick of it myself.
Nathan Bedford Forrest, 1865. Again, great name. Nathan Bedford Forrest was a very,
very interesting man. These wars are meant to bleed the US dry and slowly deplete the
wealth of this nation and destabilize others. That's right
We have seen it for decades
depleting our resources
depleting our
stock of young men
bringing them home broken and
mentally destroyed
it's truly
Truly sad for us, but even more sad for the countries that have been on the receiving end of this beat down, this destruction.
Notably Palantir's federal advisory board includes distinguished member Deborah Birx.
Good old Debbie Birx, a chief architect and advocate of the CDC's COVID lockdowns.
Reminds me of that old saying, a Birx upon your house.
And we have definitely been dealing with a berks upon ours.
Teal's close alliance with the American spy state has reaped big rewards.
As Forbes reports today, Palantir stockholders of which Teal is the
largest individual owner, have profited solidly from the corporation's
access to taxpayer dollars.
Specifically, the company has witnessed more than 113 million in federal
government expenditures
since the new Trump administration took office.
I mean, $113 million, that's barely anything.
How can they even manufacture this technological panopticon at only $113 million?
We need to up those numbers, folks.
I need you to pay more taxes, higher taxes, so that Palantir can put the shackles more
firmly around your neck.
Wally Walrus, Musk, and Teal are part of the same club, PayPal Mafia.
That's right, they're old friends.
They both want the same things.
Stemming from both existing contracts and new agreements with the Department of Homeland
Security and the Pentagon, Palantir is reportedly also in discussions with the Social
Security Administration and the Internal Revenue Service regarding the use of its technology.
Additionally, the company secured a $795 million contract from the Department of Defense in late
May. Well, that's more like it. Although Teal no longer is personally at the helm of Palantir,
he continues to be a major player in ensuring political support for his many Pentagon and CIA connected endeavors.
Teal has been an enthusiastic advocate of American interventions in the Middle East,
offering Palantir tech to help the state of Israel more efficiently bomb the residents
of Gaza.
Isn't that sweet of him, making it easier for them to bomb women and children because as the Israeli government has repeatedly made it clear,
they view every single Palestinian as a valid target. They view all of them as settlers,
people that need to be removed by any means necessary.
I somehow doubt his database will include, you know, attacks on aid workers and such
from the Israeli side.
It's not going to make note of when Israel either purposefully or accidentally shoots
people coming in to help the Gazans.
Will MAGA oppose the Trump Deep State?
What do you guys think?
What do you think?
Do you think that the MAGA movement is looking at this and shaking their head and going,
Gosh darn, we've been fooled. He did it to us again.
Or do you think maybe they're still just clapping like trained seals.
Oh boy, Donald Trump said some mean things again. And I sure love it when he makes those journalists cry.
And don't get me wrong, the journalists, seeing them seethe and rage and cope is fun, it's
funny, but it's not worth what he does to our rights, to our freedoms.
The political movement known as MAGA, after all, has long been notable for defending more
or less every Trump policy.
That's right.
They'll defend everything because they're a cult.
They worship him. He is their savior. They trust the plan, as this article says, and give Trump benefit
of the doubt. There are signs that this attitude may be reaching its limits.
The reaction from Trump's supporters reflected growing unease within conservative circles,
indicating a rare rupture between the president and key segments of his constituency.
Numerous pro-Trump voices express dismay and feelings of betrayal across social media platforms
like X.
People are so quick to suggest that I flipped on Trump.
No, no, no.
I didn't flip on Trump.
Trump flipped on us.
I'm just not willing to continue living in a lie and I will tell you the unfortunate
truth about it."
This man has 158,000 followers and he's spreading this message to them.
His name is Jack Maxey. He's asking, was MAGA a giant Psyop?
X user D10Cat wrote, is Trump the same man that he was in 2016 or did I just not see it back then?
Well, maybe there is a little bit of buyer's remorse going on with the MAGA movement.
Maybe some of them are beginning to see, but Trump
always was what was fairly obvious very quickly after 2016. I suspected something might be wrong
when he locked us all down and created the warp speed vaccine and started pushing that on us all,
but I don't know. Maybe we were wrong, perhaps. That's right. You'd think they would have seen it sooner after he sped these vaccines
out to them, told them they've got to get the shots, said great things about Anthony
Fauci, let him run the country for all practical purposes, abdicated his position of power
to that little Keebler elf. Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale
and former exec refute NYT report
warning over surveillance master list.
Palantir is not a database, it's a platform created
by thousands of the most talented and patriotic Americans
to partner with our DOD to stop attacks
and defeat the bad guys.
Who decides who the bad guys are?
Who decides? Is it guys are? Who decides?
Is it going to be you, Peter Thiel?
Is it going to be anyone that criticizes Israel, as we've said?
Because I don't think I want you all deciding who the bad guys are.
There are hundreds of similar types of software and efforts in the USA throughout the West.
What you think about Palantir is that it's by far the best at stopping bad guys.
The fact that there are hundreds of these types of programs,
hundreds of similar types of software
is not a mark in its favor.
There are hundreds of different programs
that are taking your liberties that could do this.
Well, that's terrible, that's awful.
When asked by a self-described Palantir shareholder whether he'd personally be comfortable
with your personal data being stored in this database
if AOC or Ilhan Amar are present at Launcest Hill Pride,
given the government does operate on sensitive data,
I 100% prefer PLTR to be there if sketchy people are in charge.
As it has full access, rules, and audit trails, others don't.
Well, we've seen how good the government is about pursuing information when it does wrong,
about making sure that people in power are brought to justice.
That's right.
I'm sure that if they were ever to abuse their power, Palantir would track them down and
go, no, no, no, you're going to be brought in front of a tribunal and Trey Gowdy is going
to scowl at you.
So the question is based on a misunderstanding.
That's right, it's just a big misunderstanding guys. You just don't get it. It's a misunderstanding.
However, given the government does operate on sensitive data, I 100% prefer PLTR to be there if sketchy people are in charge.
I think we might have sketchy people in charge already.
Meanwhile, Wendy Anderson Palantir's former senior VP of Federal and National Security
from January 20th through April 2025 took to X to address the inaccuracies in the Times
report writing that,
My purpose here is simple.
To call for honest and accurate reporting.
Plenty of people have valid criticisms of Palantir.
I at times raise concerns while there as the culture encourages.
I believe in speaking up.
I also believe in getting the facts right and straight.
Criticize what you find problematic but start with the truth.
This is continued.
In accuracy number one, the headline, Trump taps Palantir to compile data on Americans
is fundamentally wrong.
Palantir doesn't do that. They provide software that helps organizations analyze data those
organizations already possess. Well, I think we're playing semantic games here. Don't you,
Wendy? Inaccuracy number two. The article suggests Palantir is building a master database. That's
not how Foundry works. It's a data integration platform
that connects existing systems.
Oh, that's right, we're not building one giant database.
We're going to network all the smaller databases together.
That's a totally different thing.
This is pure lawyer speak.
No, no, no, you're wrong.
I mean, you're technically right, basically, in spirit.
And it equates to the same thing,
but since you use the wrong words to describe it in the exact right nomenclature, then you're
wrong and I'm right.
Come on, Wendy.
Inaccuracy number three, which could easily merge data on Americans.
This framing makes standard enterprise data integration sound sinister.
Many companies and government agencies use similar tools to work with data across multiple
systems.
This isn't unique or nefarious technology.
Just because it's not unique doesn't mean it's not nefarious, Wendy. It's uh, just, oh well we're already doing this.
This is just the biggest, most horrifying version of it. Well gee, Wendy, well then just go for it,
I suppose. Inaccuracy number four. This article seems to conflate what software can do with what it is doing.
Yes data integration tools can theoretically be misused, so can Excel, SQL databases, or
any data tool.
The article provides no evidence of misuse, only fear about possibilities.
We're just creating this horrible tool and handing it off to the government.
Surely they won't misuse it, don't conflate what it can do with what they are definitely going to use it for, of course.
Look, all I'm saying is you have no proof that this monster I'm creating could break
free and terrorize the town.
You have no reason to suspect that, just let me sew these body parts together and leave
me alone.
In accuracy number five, describing routine government IT modernization as surveillance
infrastructure.
Agencies updating their data systems and analytic capabilities is normal.
Yes, but it is surveillance infrastructure, isn't it, Wendy?
They already have a surveillance infrastructure, they're just making it more streamlined and
more efficient.
At spying on American people.
That's not a good thing.
They should be tearing these things out.
Does the government really need to modernize its surveillance infrastructure? I think we're
already pretty good right there. A little bit too good, in fact.
We can never be good enough at spying on our own people. Accurate statement. Palantir has
said they're a data processor, not a data collector. Clients define what data is accessed and how it's used. And I'm sure the federal
government will be oh so reticent with their data. I'm sure they'll be careful not to put
too much in there. This is a crucial distinction. The article glosses over it while creating
surveillance panic. Again, Palantir does not collect, store, or sell personal data.
Well, again,
that needs to be clarified with not yet, but that could change.
That could always change.
This article takes standard enterprise software functionality and frames it as dangerous surveillance tech.
It's like writing a scary article about Excel because it could be used to track
Americans.
If someone put a personal data in spreadsheets, Palantir is a public company in a democracy
with a robust First Amendment, of course.
There are legitimate things to scrutinize and criticize, as with any company.
Well, first, Wendy, America is not a democracy.
It's a democratic republic.
And as such, and since you don't understand understand that I don't trust your assessment on these things and makes me
wonder if you're
Purposefully lying or disingenuous or if you're just dumb windy
Those are the only two options so also her claim you could do this with Excel if
Someone were to take all the information from all these scattered
databases and put it all together in one giant Excel sheet, that would be bad
enough. This is something that is using AI to monitor and look at all that
information and process it to effectively leverage it for the small
number of people that couldn't sift through all that. This is every point in her rebuttal was so disingenuous.
Yes.
Windy, I think you might be lying, Windy.
We built Palantir with the idea that dissent is not only acceptable, but required.
But we're going to watch you and monitor you when you do dissent.
We're going to make sure that we are able to keep track of everything you say.
Because if you do dissent, we want to know about it.
But don't misrepresent what their software does.
Dissent is okay and required, says the person, says the company that was just talking about
how it needs to use every legal method at its disposal.
And of course, their definition of legal is pretty flexible
to shut down any dissenting opinion on Palestine.
Yeah.
Dissent is wonderful.
By the way, we stopped the far right in Europe.
Isn't that great?
And while Zero Hedge is fundamentally against government surveillance and may be selling ham radios and carrier pigeons in the store soon,
not kidding on the radios,
we do find it quite interesting that after decades of running cover for deep state surveillance, the New York Times suddenly cares deeply about what
the Trump administration is up to in that regard.
Well, it's because the media loves to play partisan politics.
They will scream and cry and moan when it's Donald Trump and then give Biden or whoever
comes after him a pass because that's how this always works.
The Algochracy agenda. This is on the Free Thought Project. How AI and the deep state are digitizing tyranny. This is how within a state of algorithmic governance,
governance code quickly replaces constitutional law as the mechanism for control.
This part is from the Rutherford Institute. If one company or small group of people manages to
develop godlike digital superintelligence,
they could take over the world.
At least when there is an evil dictator, that human is going to die.
If it were an AI, there would be no death.
It would live forever and then you'd have an immortal dictator which we can never escape.
Elon Musk.
Sounds like he's played or read.
I have no mouth and I must scream.
Sounds like he's a little bit down and depressed
The deep state is not going away
It's just being replaced replaced not by a charismatic autocrat or even a shadowy bureaucracy, but by artificial intelligence
AI unfeeling unaccountable and immoral immortal
Also immoral or amoral at best as we stand on the brink of a new technological order the machinery a
Power is quietly shifting into the hands of algorithms under Donald Trump's watch that shift is being locked in for at least a generation
Trump's legislative initiative a 10-year ban on AI regulation buried within the one big beautiful bill
strips state and local governments of the ability to impose any guardrails on
artificial intelligence until 2035.
Despite bipartisan warnings from 40 state attorneys general, the bill passed to the
house and awaits Senate approval is nothing less than a federal green light for AI to
operate without oversight in every sphere of life, from law enforcement and employment
to healthcare, education, and digital surveillance.
This is not innovation,
this is institutionalized automation of tyranny.
That's right, and of course, Trump loves his tyranny, folks.
He loves wielding the boot.
We're rapidly moving from a society ruled by laws
and due process to one ruled by software.
Well, the boot won't be any softer just because it's weird.
Once you are scored and flagged by a machine, the outcome can be life-altering as it was
for Michael Williams, a 65-year-old man who spent nearly a year in jail for a crime he
didn't commit.
Williams was behind the wheel when a passing car fired at his vehicle, killing his 25-year-old
passenger who had hitched a ride.
Despite no motive, no weapon, and no eyewitnesses, police charged Williams based on an AI-powered
gunshot detection program called ShotSpotter.
The system picked up a loud bang near the area and triangulated it to Williams' vehicle.
The charges ultimately dropped for lack of evidence.
This is pre-crime in action, a prediction, not proof,
an algorithm, not an eyewitness.
Programs like ShotSpotter are notorious
for misclassifying noises like fireworks and construction
as gunfire.
Employees have even manually altered data
to fit police narratives.
Yet these systems are being combined
with predictive policing software
to generate risk maps, target individuals,
and justify surveillance
all without transparency or accountability.
AI is now flagging families for potential child neglect
based on predictive models that pull data from Medicaid.
Mental health, jail, and housing records,
these models disproportionately target poor
and minority families.
The algorithm assigns risk scores from one to 20.
Families and their attorneys are never told what the scores are or what or that they were used
And of course we've talked with Dwight Mitchell many times on this show about his organization
Stop CPS from kidnapping kids
Legally, they tend to pick out poor families. They know that you don't have the money to fight them in court
They will make it impossible for you to fight back
Imagine losing your child to the foster system because a secret algorithm said you might be a risk
This is how AI redefines guilt the Trump administration's approach to AI
Regulation reveals a deeper plan to deregulate democracy itself. Rather than curbing these abuses,
the Trump administration is accelerating them.
An executive order titled,
Removing Barriers to American Leadership
and Artificial Intelligence,
signed by President Trump in early 2025,
revoked prior AI safeguards, eliminated bias audits,
and instructed agencies to prioritize innovation over ethics.
The order encourages every federal agency
to adopt AI quickly in areas like policing
and surveillance under the guise of efficiency.
That's right, we're gonna maximize governance by AI.
And remember, focus on innovation,
throw those ethics out the window.
I don't wanna hear about ethics.
I don't wanna know that you've got
some kind of moral quandary about this.
I don't care. Make sure you've got some kind of moral quandary about this. I don't care.
Make sure that it's as efficient as possible.
Over 1,700 uses of AI have already been reported across federal agencies with hundreds directly impacting safety and rights.
Many agencies, including the department of Homeland security, veterans affairs,
and health and human services are deploying AI for decision-making without
public input or oversight is what the technocrats call an Algochracy, rule by algorithm.
In an Algochracy, unelected developers and corporate contractors hold more
power over your life than elected officials. That's right, they'll show up
to your door because an AI told them to. They'll kick it down and they'll drag
you out and then you'll get no say in it. You'll have to go round and round,
whatever system is available,
in hopes that you can finally talk to a real person
who might see that you're telling the truth.
We need a digital bill of rights
that guarantees the right to know how algorithms affect us,
the right to challenge and appeal automated decisions,
the right to privacy and data security,
the right to be free from automated surveillance and predictive policing, the right to be forgotten.
That's right, we don't want these AI databases to hold onto our information forever and ever.
Otherwise, AI becomes the ultimate enforcer of a surveillance state from which there is
no escape.
As Eric Schmidt, former Google CEO, warned, we know where you are, we know where you've
been, we can more or less know what you're thinking about.
Your digital identity will live forever because there's no delete button.
An immortal dictator, indeed.
And that's their dream.
An immortal, unfeeling, uncaring dictator that knows all and
Is more than willing to drop the hammer on you for any reason whatsoever
We've got an old clip of my dad talking about Palantir and this is from
2014 I believe no maybe 20 no 2014 is from 2014 and
There's part of it, which is even older which I believe is from 2014, and there's part of it which is even older, which I believe is from 2013.
So he is referencing in this clip an older video which will also be played.
So we have been covering this for going on 13 years.
Recently revealed recording never before heard going back to the 1960s of JRR Tolkien, a
speech that he made.
Now, one of the things that he said in this speech
I thought was very poignant.
Essentially, J.R.R. Tolkien's speaking about many aspects
of the New World Order and about evil in high places.
Here's a clip.
One of my favorite quotes from him,
and I think this will really appeal to you
and your fan base, is his summation of evil in the world.
And this is back in 1969.
He talks about what he calls the Hydra's heads and I'll read the quote verbatim from him.
He says the spirit of wickedness in high places is now so powerful and so many headed in its
incarnations. There seems nothing more to do personally than to refuse to worship any of the Hydra's heads.
The world he thought seemed little
better than a new tower of Babel,
all noise and confusion.
That's right, not only the nature
of evil, but the nature of evil in
high places.
And he said it has many heads.
We saw many heads of the evil
technological surveillance state,
the police state at Bilderberg. And it's interesting to me that one of those that was there was
Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir Technologies. And Palantir Technologies very
consciously channels the JRR Tolkien stories. The Palantir, of course, was a
device used to look through and communicate at long distances, but it
could also look at the people
who are using it and look into those people.
And of course, that's what Palantir does.
It's a data mining company that works for the FBI, the NSA, and of course the CIA, who
funded its initial creation.
Now here's Alex Karp at Bilderberg doing some of his Tai Chi exercises.
There was an article last August in Forbes magazine how a deviant
philosopher built Palantir, a CIA-funded data mining juggernaut. And of course
they point out in that article that Palantir's advisors include Condoleezza
Rice, former CIA director George Tenet, and General David Petraeus told Forbes
that CARP was sheer brilliant. And of course another Bilderberg attendee this
year was Peter Thiel, PayPal billionaire,
Facebook billionaire, and he also is the founder, chief investor of Palantir.
Now the ACLU's analyst Jay Stanley says that their software could create a true totalitarian
nightmare, monitoring the activities of innocent Americans on a massive scale, to which Alex
Karp replies,
I didn't create this software so that I could be spied on
whenever I smoke a joint or have an affair.
No, he created that software so that the NSA could do that
to, he presumes, other people.
But of course, they've also done it to his pals
like David Petraeus.
This is exactly what NSA whistleblower Russell Tice
told us, one of the earliest of the NSA
whistleblowers.
This is what the NSA is going to do with its dragnet surveillance.
They're going to be able to blackmail the highest politicians, the highest Supreme Court
judges.
It is an Orwellian nightmare, and these guys are writing the software for it.
And they see themselves as creating Sauron's tool, the all-seeing eye
of Sauron. That's the kind of people that we see that Tolkien warned us about
and they embraced that but they embraced the evil side of that. Much has been said
about the big tech companies that were implicated in this slide from Edward
Snowden's documents. It's eroded confidence in their integrity and damaged
their business. But what about the PRISM program itself, where people are profiled by data mining the intercepted
digital communications?
Some have suspected that the company behind PRISM is Palantir.
I've often thought that the Palantir from Tolkien's Lord of the Rings were the perfect
metaphor for the internet.
In the book, the Palantir were crystal balls that allowed the possessors to communicate
and to see things. Eventually they fell into the hands of the evil forces, and using a Palantir were crystal balls that allowed the possessors to communicate and to see things.
Eventually they fell into the hands of the evil forces, and using a Palantir not only revealed you to the villain Sauron, represented by the all-seeing eye, but also allowed him to learn
where you were and look into your mind and your soul. A great metaphor for people who are trying
to use the internet for legitimate purposes, and the government spooks to create profiles of people as they're using it.
Although Palantir has a program called Prism, and although its function is exactly like
that shown in the slide, they have denied the allegations.
The company, Palantir, was created with funding from InQtel, a venture capital company created
by the CIA, and with funding from PayPal billionaire Peter Thiel.
Palantir's CEO Alexander Karp is also from PayPal.
Both Thiel and Karp were attendees at Bilderberg this year
as they focused on big data.
Palantir Company Profiles from the Wall Street Journal
in 2009 and Businessweek in 2011,
emphasized Palantir's connection
to the military-industrial complex
and to data mining for terrorist profiling.
Palantir self-consciously emphasizes to its employees its connection to Middle Earth mythology.
Whether or not Palantir's PRISM program is THE PRISM program, Palantir was created by
the CIA and globalist banksters, serves as a tool for the banksters in the CIA, and was named
after Sauron's surveillance tool.
But questions are now being asked about PayPal's involvement with the CIA and the NSA that
go beyond Palantir and the prison program, and call into question the integrity of PayPal's
Pierre Amidiar's newly announced journalism venture with Glenn Greenwald.
Whistleblower Savelle Edmonds is asking why we've seen nothing in the leaked Snowden documents about PayPal's involvement with the NSA.
A retired NSA official contacted Sabelle Edmonds and told her that the Snowden
document cache contains extensive information about the NSA working not
just with major internet companies but with financial institutions, especially
PayPal. Banks have long been a surveillance arm of the government and
for no other reason than to collect taxes. But it appears that PayPal's relationship goes
much deeper than just financial reporting. The Snowden documents are slowly being doled
out by Glenn Greenwald, who has announced that he'll be partnering with PayPal owner
Pierre Emidiar. About two months ago, Emidiar announced that he was going to become a philanthropist
patron of investigative journalism, which is very strange given his contempt for whistleblowers and his company's persecution of WikiLeaks
and Anonymous.
As Sibel Edmonds points out, Amidiar published this tweet in 2009. Anybody who publishes
stolen information should help catch the thief, shouldn't publish it in the first place.
And less than a year later, Amidiar's PayPal was conspiring with none other than Palantir
to strangle WikiLeaks financially and to attack Glenn Greenwald.
PayPal subsequently froze WikiLeaks funds and funds to Bradley Manning's defense.
In protest, some hacktivists that identified with Anonymous, now known as the PayPal 14,
began a denial of service attack against the PayPal website,
not the PayPal service.
Supporters characterize the protest as a digital sit-in.
PayPal pushed for felony charges 15 years
and half a million dollar fines each.
Amidiar's PayPal partner doubled down on this interview
with Charlie Rose even after the Snowden leaks.
I am probably uncharacteristically pro national security agencies, writ large, and NSA in
particular, despite the fact that they would not hire me at some point.
I actually wanted to work for the NSA and I was not a U.S. citizen.
I just fundamentally trust the national security establishment to care about the citizens.
It's a trade I would be willing to make.
Security and liberty.
Security and privacy.
Paypal has been partnering with the government to shut down real investigations and punish
WikiLeaks.
And some questions are now being asked.
Is the media venture a way for a midiar to control damaging information about Paypal?
If the information is slowly leaked, will anyone care about the Snowden documents by the time PayPal's involvement with the NSA
is leaked? How and why are the Snowden documents being controlled? When the
Guardian's editor went before Parliament last week, he pled that he had consulted
government officials and intelligence agencies, including the FBI, GCHQ, the
White House, and the Cabinet Office on more than 100 occasions before the publication
of stories.
Are Greenwald and the Guardian selectively leaking information about government surveillance
in a way to minimize damage to government by hiding their criminal actions?
Are the Snowden documents being released in a way to manipulate the public?
And finally, questions are being asked about Greenwald, Poitras, Skahill, and Amidiar asserting private ownership
over the Snowden documents.
All media has to make a profit
in order to be independent of the government,
but doesn't the public have a right to know
what its government is doing?
It appears that the secrets are being doled out gradually,
numbing the public to the atrocities
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I want to thank for Love the Road for helping us find those clips.
He's the one that sent those older clips of my dad talking about Palantir to us to make sure that we had them.
Got some comments here. Soylent Goy, I can understand not wanting Harris in office, but the coping is mega cringe.
That's right. If you want to tease Harris about losing all you want, That's fine. Make fun of her. She deserves it.
She is an absolute idiot. But stop pretending that Donald Trump is some kind of hero. That's going to save us all.
He's not. KWD 68 2020 should have awakened people on Trump, but nope. Very few.
That's right. They're more than happy to vote for Vax Daddy all over again.
And I think the thing that we're seeing this time that's different, even though the Palantir
thing isn't necessarily worse than the lockdown and definitely not worse than the Warp Speed
vaccine, people are awake to it this time because they aren't terrified of some horrible
virus that's coming through.
They didn't do the false flag in the correct order.
They should have led with some
horrible reason to have all of the information in a super database. Darn it, that's right,
our intelligence agencies are slipping. Where's the false flag? There's supposed to be an earth
shattering false flag. Nibiru 2029, modernization equals advanced centralization. That's right. They always love to centralize things.
Good comment here on rumble from Audi MRR. The devil is not omnipresent like almighty
God is. That's why all of his followers, aka the government, rely on tech to try and do what almighty
God can do. That's right. They want to be God. They want to be like God. They want you to worship them like God as well.
Scientists reveal all the evidence Adam and Eve really did exist and this is from
the Daily Mail. It's a story that almost any Christian would be instantly
familiar with. According to the Bible, Adam and Eve were the first man and woman
on earth. Said to be made out of dust and to have lived in the Garden of Eden,
the two figures are central to the belief that everyone descended from a single pair of ancestors.
And that's what I believe.
While this might seem far-fetched, there is now a growing body of evidence which suggests
that at least some parts of this story could be true.
Wow, funny how that keeps happening.
They keep finding evidence that things in the Bible just might be true.
How wacky is that?
Archaeologists have found surprising signs that Eden was
not only a real place, but could have been the birthplace of civilization as we know
it. Likewise, biologists have shown that all humans alive today really do share a single,
common ancestor. However, making the Bible fit with modern science requires throwing
out a lot of the traditional story. Or it could just mean that science is wrong. However, making the Bible
fit with modern science requires throwing out a lot of traditional story. That could mean saying
goodbye to the notion that God created Adam and Eve, or even questioning whether our biblical
ancestors were Homo sapiens. I don't know about you guys, but I'm not descended from no Homo.
A real garden of Eden in the Bible, Adam and Eve live in a place called the Garden of Eden,
a beautiful land of plenty and abundance.
Interestingly the Bible also provides a relatively precise description of where this mystical
garden is located.
In Genesis the Bible states that a river flows through Eden and divides into four branches,
the Pishon, the Gihon, the Tigris, and the Euphrates.
These the Tigris and the Euphrates are well known
and still flow through modern day Iraq.
However, the Gihon and the Pishon are far more obscure
in their locations that they still exist, are unknown.
This led to a plethora of suggestions
as to where the Garden of Eden might have really been,
ranging from Iran and Mongolia to Jackson County, Missouri.
Well, what do you know?
Eden might have been in Missouri.
However, the most promising theory is that the Garden of Eden is located in an area called
Mesopotamia.
Literally meaning between rivers in ancient Greek, this region sits between the Tigris
and Euphrates and straddles what is now eastern Syria, northwestern Turkey and most of Iraq.
Professor Eric Klein, a classical and biblical archaeologist from George Washington University,
argues that this theory matches the scriptural and archaeological evidence.
Writing in his book From Eden to Exile, Professor Klein says, this makes some sense from a textual
point of view because not only does the biblical account say that the garden lay in the east,
meaning to the east of Israel, but it also mentions the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in
connection with the Garden of Eden.
Additionally, this region is widely believed to be the place where the first plants and
animals were domesticated between 10,000 and 20,000 years ago in the so-called Neolithic
Revolution.
Well, I wouldn't put it at 20,000 years.
Dubbed the Fertile Crescent, the nutrient-rich sediments of the two rivers allowed for the
first grains to be deliberately planted and harvested by humans. This development led to the earliest
transition from hunter-gatherer to agricultural lifestyles and precipitated the birth of the first
permanent human settlements. Professor Klein adds this may have also become somewhat of an
agricultural paradise for the local residents following the invention of irrigation during the
fourth millennium BC
Further strengthening in this case. There are some striking parallels between the biblical account of creation and the most ancient myths from the region
That's right, we continually see that science has to catch up to the Bible
They'll say no no no this can't be true and then they go and look and sure enough it is
Most notably the ancient Sumerians considered to be the first human civilization recorded a myth called Enuma Elish meaning went on high
this story
records the creep records the creation of heaven and earth from a
Primal chaotic body of water in a very similar fashion to what describe to that described in Genesis according to some
Archaeologists the best way to explain the similarity
Is that the Sumerian myth was handed down through years all the way to the Israelites in the 2nd century BC.
If that is true, then it is plausible that the biblical story of Adam and Eve captures an ancient story about the origin of civilization which took place somewhere around modern-day Iran.
A genetic Adam and Eve, it might come to a surprise to learn that scientists really do believe that all living humans are descended from a single woman. The so-called mitochondrial Eve is the common female ancestor
to which the DNA of all modern human beings can be traced. I find it amusing how they have to
look, oh there's a Sumerian myth that has so much more weight. Surely that must be what
the biblical account is based off of.
That's right, the Bible can't be right.
It has to be stealing from other things.
The Scaman ancestor exists because no matter how big your initial population is, the chances
are that most female lineages will eventually come to an end.
While Mitochondrial Eve was not the first human, every other female lineage eventually
died off and failed to pass on their Mitochondrial DNA, a type of genetic material passed from mothers to their children. Likewise, by applying
the same logic, scientists have determined that there must also be a Y chromosome atom
from the male Y chromosome in every living human originates.
Since DNA gathers mutations at a steady rate, scientists can use this genetic clock to figure
out how long ago everyone had the same DNA. In 1987, geneticists looked at the mitochondrial DNA of 147 people from around the world.
By comparing the difference in their DNA, the researchers could work out how many mutations
must have occurred since their most recent common ancestor.
Dividing that number by the rate of mutation shows that mitochondrial Eve probably lived
in Africa around 200,000 years ago.
Likewise, a study conducted in 2013 with 1200 men from
Sardinia also showed that Y chromosome Adam would have lived around 180,000 to 200,000 years ago.
Now I'm sure personally Adam believed it was that long ago I would assume. I personally believe the
earth is between four to six to ten thousand years old, excuse me. And I tend to believe that these people go in looking
for specific answers and try to fit things into that. Of course, no scientists actually
believe that humans descended from a single pair of humans. The article closes with. Now,
you can't believe that. That's crazy. That's insane. Now we're gonna move on to this article from Wired, but before that
it is funny. Again, they continually find different things that the Bible has
right and then try to spin them and work around them. You're like, oh well, you know,
it would be crazy to believe this other part of the Bible. Sure, it's been right
here and there and here and over there, but you can't really trust it. At minimum the
Bible is a shockingly accurate historical document. That's the least
you can say about it. Again this article this next article is from Wired.
Days-long dark retreats are the newest spiritual conquest for tech elites. These
tech elites are so desperate for some kind of
spiritual connection, so desperate to commune with the universe or whatever
they want to call it, but they run from God because they're eager to do evil.
They want to commune with something. The article describes the growing trend of
tech elites engaging in darkness retreats, where participants spend several days in complete darkness.
The article highlights the potential benefits of darkness retreats, such as promoting introspection and spiritual growth.
Spiritual growth towards what?
I'm sure you can make yourself more open to all kinds of things that are out there.
There are many, many demons.
But why would you want to? There
is only one true God, and there's one single way to get to him, to talk with him. Anything
else you do simply makes you more open to the other demonic forces. However, it also
acknowledges the risks and challenges associated with prolonged periods of darkness, including
potential psychological distress and hallucinations.
A crypto founder and celebrities like Aaron Rodgers and Tiffany Haddish have tried the
pitch black retreats described as meditation on steroids.
Some see terrifying hallucinations.
Who are these people?
Aaron Rodgers is a sports player of some kind, I think.
But who is Tiffany?
Who are these people?
Just 12 hours after entering a pitch black 400 square foot cabin dug
into the hillside in southern Oregon, crypto founder Charles Hoskinson
fled in terror.
Hoskinson, 37, who created Cardano, the 10th biggest crypto coin with a market cap.
I'm sorry. It is a little bit funny knowing that these people are paying a lot of money to just freak themselves out and let demons into their soul.
I shouldn't be laughing, but that is. Imagine paying for this kind of experience with a
market cap of around 24 billion set out to spend five days in complete darkness at the
Sky Cave Center to gain a deeper understanding of myself and the world.
Well, he found out he is afraid of the dark.
Is that what you were hoping for Cardano?
Hoskinson, I should say.
He told his million followers on X in early January, a couple of days before going in,
but he cut his journey inward short after suffering from terrifying shadows gnawing
at my soul, sleep paralysis demons,
and an inability to breathe.
That's right, he got one shot by the demons.
He posted equating the grueling overnight experience with a cult horror movie.
Much wisdom gained, but I need a few days off at the ranch.
Starring in the ring wasn't on my 2025 bucket list.
What kind of wisdom did you gain, Hodgkinson?
What kind of wisdom could you have gleaned from this experience of getting gnawed on by demons?
Is the wisdom to sleep with the lights on?
Get yourself a nice little nightlight?
That might be
the only wisdom to learn from this experience.
Hoskinson declined to speak to Wired for this article, but Sky Cave founder Scott Berman confirmed his attendance. That's right.
Hoskinson doesn't want to talk about it
Hoskinson is not the only tech elite seeking spiritual enlightenment in the dark darkness retreats remain niche and I'm laughing
But this is this is actually terrifying that this is what these billionaires who want to control our lives are into
they love doing things like ayahuasca and communing with spirits and
it's always this sort of thing from the elites from the weird satanic rituals you see at CERN to all the weird satanic rituals you see
at Burning Man yes and again I it is very serious but it is it's funny to me
imagining this millionaire billionaire freaking himself out in the dark and
running out into the southern Oregon wilderness.
Hoskinson is not the only tech elite seeking spiritual light in the dark.
Darkness retreats remain niche, but they become the latest extreme spiritual practice for
founders, athletes, influencers, psychonauts, and yogis.
Hey boo boo, we're going to sit in the dark.
Do some traversing and later flex about.
Typically, a darkness retreat consists of several days
alone in a room in complete darkness and silence.
Man, if you were an amoral person
who didn't care about the spiritual well-being of others,
you can basically make up any kind of thing
and sell it to these tech elite as a ritual, couldn't you?
Just find some obscure ritual practiced somewhere and start a retreat and they'll flock in.
Participants are delivered three meals through a hatch that maintains the darkness in their
dwellings, which also each contain a bed, bath, and flushing toilet.
They can leave simply by opening the door.
They can also break their silence to chat with the facilitators at two intervals throughout the day,
when they come to the door to check on them and bring the food.
Electronic items like phones or tablets are not allowed inside dark rooms, making it perhaps the ultimate dopamine fast.
Imagine a meditation retreat, but alone in the dark.
It's meditation on steroids, says Andrew Holacek, an author and lucid dreaming teacher.
This might partially explain why short on time celebrities are embracing it
Poor time NFL MVP Aaron Rodgers has spent four days in that that's who Aaron Rodgers is
Well that explains why I don't know him. I don't watch sports as has comedian Tiffany Haddish ah a female comedian
Who's funnier than female comedians nobody
Who's funnier than female comedians? Nobody.
Well, except dudes, to paraphrase Norm MacDonald.
While NBA star Rudy Gobert and decorated former baller Dwight Howard did three days each.
It was the best thing I ever did, Howard wrote afterward.
Life just feels simple again.
But the possible benefits are in direct proportion to the risks, Holacek warns.
You can go to incredible depths really quickly.
This is where
the promise and the peril lies. That's right, there is peril because you are opening yourself up to
things. There are other forces out there. There is actual real evil out there. There are demons
and these kinds of things can open you up to them. If you are just emptying yourself and saying come on in whatever's out there,
well, God is only contacted through prayer. And if you are not praying specifically to God, what are you getting in contact with?
While retreats offering people voluntary isolation in the dark are relatively few, the practice has ancient roots.
The Buddha is said to have meditated in a dark cave for long periods before gaining enlightenment.
The Prophet Muhammad was isolating in a cave when legend says an angel dictated the first verses of the Quran to him.
Well, I mean, we've seen such good things come from Islam over the years. Why wouldn't we want to imitate him?
You too could have a new gospel delivered to you from an angel of light if you just stay in darkness
long enough.
That's right, if you drive yourself absolutely insane in the dark, perhaps you can have a
vision.
When Abraham, the founder of Judaism, followed a calf into a cave, it was there that he is
believed to have found the entrance to the Garden of Eden.
Even today, infants identified as future shamans in Columbia's indigenous Kogi community are
sent to the relative dark for extended periods to access altered states of consciousness.
Well, I mean, if it's good enough for the indigenous Kogi tribe, I'm sure they are
so full of wisdom.
I'm sure that they have achieved many great things.
I'm sure their works are numerous and manifest.
In the practice of darkness, people have to learn to spend time on
themselves says Taoist master and dark retreat facilitator Montauk Chia who
published a 2002 manual titled Darkness Technology. There's nobody to
talk to, nothing to see. They have to turn inwardly into their body. I guide them
into the calm and let the body's healing energy activate."
Maybe that's the real horror here.
These despicable, empty celebrities being left alone with themselves, forced to examine
themselves and finding that that is what they are, husks.
Chia ran darkness retreats in the US in the 1980s, making him one of the modern pioneers
in spreading the practice.
The darkness, according to Chia, who facilitates group darkness retreats in Thailand, is the
ultimate setting to let go, forgive, and forget.
People are typically drawn to darkness retreats because they wish either to go into a state
of deep inquiry, simply unplug, deepen their meditation, practice or explore altered states.
According to Berman, others it seems want to conquer a gargantuan challenge,
facing off with humanity's most primal fear, harking back to a primordial pre-fire age
when predators circled vulnerable early humans during the night.
Well, there are predators in the darkness. Predators that want your soul.
And again, this is actively courting
them. Facilitators say that the first day or two, flush with all the darkness, induced
overproduction of melatonin, is often of deep rest. One can remain blissfully asleep without
any sleep paralysis demons disturbing them. Well, you know, the demons might be a little
bit difficult to deal with. But other than that, it's absolutely restful.
Just don't let the sleep paralysis demon get you.
Don't get one shot now.
Your first day there is going to be fantastic.
There's rarely ever any demons on your first day.
It's great.
No, the demons usually show up on day two.
So you know, first day, great.
Usually no demons.
Second day, ooh, lots of demons.
Many demons.
A plethora of demons. Without any sleep paralysis demons, second day, ooh lots of demons, many demons, a plethora of demons.
Without any sleep paralysis demons disturbing them, the initial sensations of the darkness
could feel akin to taking a sedative drug.
Then comes the introspection, interspersed with periods of discomfort, angst, or serene
enjoyment.
And around day three, hints of psychedelic visuals, even with the eyes open, and a feeling
not dissimilar from the final stages of a DMT trip.
Some studies report that sensory deprivation environments can induce troubling hallucinations and paranoia
as with other altered states.
But she says the hallucinations are a hallmark of the beginning of enlightenment because you see the light. That's right.
The hallmark of enlightenment is driving yourself absolutely nuts bonkers cuckoo for Coco
puffs it's like the final stages of DMT and I'm sure you're all familiar with
that that's you know their target audience knows that like the back of
their hand we know you're all a bunch of freaks that enjoy these kinds of things
so here you go here's something you can relate it to there are around five
darkness retreat centers in the US Berman says with approximately 100 worldwide
Sky cave has three dark rooms for night retreats cost
$1,770 with an extra night to settle in and another to decompress afterward
They just turn give you a little nightlight and they tuck you in they give you a smooch on the forehead and say that's alright
The demons are only in the dark you didn't invite them into your soul or anything.
They won't haunt you. The potential effects of prolonged darkness have not been studied well,
but there are early indications to suggest that the practice may have a host of mental health
benefits. Yes, remember, driving yourself to the brink of madness is always a good thing.
A check center claims it can ease long-term fatigue and stress
through spurring the processing of inner experiences when people come out of the sky caves
three caves video footage shows some crying with emotion. Yeah, that's relief. That's like, oh, thank goodness
it's over with the process of subjecting oneself to solitary confinement in
complete darkness also carries little understood risks.
To my knowledge, there has yet not been studies reporting on the negative outcomes of dark rooms
for extended periods in naturalistic environments. Although there are numerous isolated anecdotes of
psychotic-like symptoms and prolonged disassociation, said David Luke, an associate professor of
psychology at the University of Greenwich, who's conducted research on dark experiences and
Associate professor of psychology at the University of Greenwich who's conducted research on dark experiences and similar similarities with psychedelic trips
Dad guy 24 they believe in their satanic rituals even if you don't that's right
Whether or not they whether or not you believe that things are going on at places like Bohemian Grove
Whether or not the CERN rituals scare you they obviously enjoy them and are doing them for a specific reason.
Some people at Berman's Center have spent as long as 40 days in one of his light deprived dwellings.
Others lasted just half an hour.
We don't let people come any longer
than four nights anymore, says Berman.
We don't actually think this is beneficial
as we tend to find that most people
use some kind of coping strategy
to stay in the dark for long periods of time.
Yet you start turning into Gollum. They find them muttering to themselves and wearing a loincloth,
looking for lost precious items, and they're prone to biting. You know, they try to take off your ring finger.
Such strategies, Berman explains, are difficult to define,
but they essentially pertain to people doing things in the dark, even meditation or spiritual practices, rather than simply relaxing, doing
nothing and surrendering a sense of control.
This ultimately insulates them to some degree from the mysterious and deeply self-reflective
process the darkness is said to instigate, he says.
This is a very dangerous practice if it isn't done right, adds Holacek, who expressed a
particular concern for people who go in with a machismo white-knuckle mentality.
That's right, this is for soft, gentle individuals.
Tweebs. I know people who have gone in who come out worse, he says, explaining that a 49-day
retreat was once an advanced Tibetan Buddhist rite of passage. Outside of a few traditions
in which it is still used, it fell out of favor because ill-prepared,
unsupported people went in for 49 days and instead of attaining enlightenment would literally
go crazy.
That's right, as I said, it's important to drive yourself right to the brink of madness,
right up there, and then just step back from it.
You know, you don't want to hurl yourself screaming into the abyss.
You wouldn't want to do that.
No truth in them.
Actors, actresses, musicians,
even fighters. Many people turn to demonic position and people worship them. That's right.
Whether... True. There's all the stories of the musicians, you know, selling their soul
at the crossroads and seeing a thing recently about how that's, you know, a very old story, even some classical music, like The Devil's Trill by,
I forget the composer's name, was allegedly given to him by the devil or a demon that
he sold his soul to for musical talent.
Yes, I'm of the opinion that there are far too many stories of people selling their soul
to demons for them to not have some basis in fact and
We see over and over again people who are massively successful
Joke about it
But is it really a joke?
Silicon Valley tech billionaires
genuinely credit demonic influence for their breakthroughs
influence for their breakthroughs.
Jason Halbert, former vice president of people and global security at Snap did a darkness retreat
at Sky Cave in February, 2024, speaking to The Profile.
Podcast shortly after Halbert, a behavioral scientist
explained that it took him about a day to get used to
not absentmindedly checking his phone.
When you're truly deprived of any inbound visual stimulation,
be it your phone, light, TV, when you're truly deprived of any inbound visual stimulation be it your phone light TV
Eventually, you're left with dreams thoughts and blackness
He said you don't realize the enormous amount of triggers that anchor our identity
Describing himself as someone who thinks all the time
Halbert likened his four night spell in the dark to cleaning up my office
He said it helped him ponder how to be a better human professional dad coach and husband
Halbert left snap in 2019 in 2017 the information reported that current and former employees alleged
He told odd and inappropriate stories at work. Halbert told wired. The allegations are false
Told odd stories about being alone in the dark and the fear and the dread
He would weave these horrific nightmarish
tales together and we couldn't get him to stop. KWD 68 nanny for Elon Musk said he
was talking to demons at age three. Believable. Elon Musk does seem like he's
in communication with some very strange and unnerving forces. Only they could
tell him how to make good products and good cars instead of how to get deeply embedded in the government and brainwash his fans.
Yes, these are the demons that teach you how to scam people, not the ones that give you the hyper-advanced technology.
I find it funny that the guy that's the guru of darkness, the people that work with him said that he told strange stories.
You'd think, so let me get this straight, this guy that is all about living in darkness is a bit weird?
What a shock. This is actually the behavioral scientist, not the guy who runs the retreat,
but yes, this guy who is a behavioral scientist and interested in sitting alone in the dark is a bit
of a weirdo. How strange?
According to Luke some people are more prone to hallucinations than others and not everyone embraces them. That's right
You should embrace your hallucinations just
Embrace them give them a big old hug. Let him know that you love them
It's distracting to them says Berman and the lights and stuff kind of feel a bit overwhelming and draw them back out of the subtleties
But wellness entrepreneur and author Aubrey Marcus took it in his stride.
These stalactite mites were dripping in gold.
Almost like Nickelodeon gack, he says, of a six night experience at a center in Germany's
Black Forest in 2020.
Which he documented helping to introduce the practice to a spiritually inclined Joe Rogan
podcast listener fans
Marcus also had visions of flashing strobe lights fractal geometry
Aliens who he claims to have communicated with I would say it would be like the twilight of a really heavy highly visual
DMT experience he says that's who this type of thing is for these pseudo intellectual
Pseudo-spiritual dorks that are obsessed with Joe Rogan.
They want to do all kinds of drugs to commune with whatever else is out there, instead of just looking at the Bible and
believing it. Instead of seeing the truth there and
embracing real spirituality, which is trusting in Jesus and praying to God. They want to commune with aliens
It is very very sad. America said he slept for 12 hours on the first night
That's not special. I can do that in the basement if I ever have time not that I do
Captured by his wearable, but by the end of his sojourn he was sleeping for less than two hours
Because the visions were just so strong
was sleeping for less than two hours because the visions were just so strong.
Well, you can also do that by having a child. You know, you don't need visions to only sleep for two hours. A infant will do that just the same. Some darkness practitioners and facilitators
claim the hallucinations people experience are due to the possibility of prolonged darkness
elevating levels of endogenous DMT.
A potent psychedelic found not only in small amounts in the body but also in many plants.
This is an as yet unproven and controversial hypothesis, Luke wrote in a 2019 anthology.
Psychedelicases Theoretically, the longer you spend in there,
the more of a trip it becomes, he says.
Yes, theoretically, you can drive yourself absolutely crazy, cuckoo bananas.
If you just sit in the dark, you might go nuts, like those Buddhist monks did.
Holacek, the lucid dreaming teacher, has his own dark room within his home and has clocked
hundreds of days in darkness.
You're entering the death space.
Ah yes, what a way to sell it, the death space.
He says of the practice referencing the Tibetan Buddhist state of bardo, in between death and rebirth. People I've discovered are simultaneously magnetized and repulsed by darkness.
So we're next for the practice. Berman says Sky Cave has a two-year waiting list
and a big tech founder set to visit in the coming month. He and Holoszek are working with the
Institute of Advanced Consciousness
studies on a scientific study to measure any psycho-spiritual shifts
brought about by the practice.
I'd say we're hardly at the tip of the iceberg of where this will be in five or ten years,"
says Berman.
While he's coy on being too evangelical about the potential benefits of the dark,
there are incredible transformations that happen for people here, he says.
We can begin to see ourselves as we actually are. What a horrifying story that was,
the people sitting alone in the dark, communing, opening themselves up to whatever is out there,
whatever wants to come in. Curtis Yarvin's plot against America, the New Yorker. Yarvin's own recruitment effort
seemed to be working. Near the open bar, I spoke to Stevie Miller, a sprightly sophomore at Carnegie
Mellon, who has been reading Yarvin since the seventh grade. Yarvin told me that he'd encountered
several gifted zoomers who read him as preteens because his high IQ style served as a high IQ
magnet. These kids were almost definitely insufferable. These
were not kids you would want to have around. They were not fun. Two years ago, Miller hung
out with Yarvin at Vibe Camp. Ugh, Vibe Camp. Who names these places? What disgusting nomenclature.
In gathering for nerds and techies in rural Maryland, Yarvin, who left early, asked Miller
to help him throw his own party in D.C.,
which came to be known as Vibe Conf afterward. Miller became Yarvin's first personal intern.
My parents, New York Jewish liberals who I love, were totally mystified, he said.
After an hour, I was escorted out of the party, as were other reporters throughout the evening.
Security mistook Maksa, my friend from the lobby,
for one of our kind, and he was ejected too,
though not before pressing to the crowd
to get his photo taken with the dark elf.
Even Trump's most pessimistic critics
have been startled by the speed
with which the president in his second term
has moved to impose autocracy on America.
Concentrating power in the executive branch
and often in the hands of the richest men on earth.
Elon Musk, an unelected citizen, has led a squadron of 20-somethings on a spree power in the executive branch and often in the hands of the richest men on earth. Elon
Musk, an unelected citizen, has led a squadron of twenty-somethings on a spree through the
federal government, laying off tens of thousands of civil servants, shuttering the US Agency
for International Development, and seizing control of the Treasury Department's payment
system. Who could have foreseen something like this? Who could have seen that Donald
Trump was an autocrat that was only out to benefit billionaires?
Man, what a shocker that is
Meanwhile, the administration has launched an assault on civil society
revoking funding at Harvard and other universities that it claims are bastions of ideological indoctrination
Punishing law firms that have represented Trump's opponents. Yes. There's no what there's no way that Harvard is a bastion of ideological indoctrination.
I mean, come on, where would you get that idea from?
It has expanded the machinery of immigration enforcement, deporting three U.S. born children
to Honduras, a group of Asian and Latin American immigrants to Africa, and more than 200 Venezuelan
migrants to a maximum security prison in El Salvador, where they may remain until the end
of their lives.
U.S. citizens now find themselves with a government that claims the right to disappear them without due process.
As Trump told Bukele, the president of El Salvador during an Oval Office meeting, homegrowns are next.
Homegrowns are next. We've got the worst, the worst terrorists here. We grew them at home.
Without a vigorous system of checks and balances, one man's crank ideas, like starting an incoherent
trade war that upends the global economy,
don't get filtered out.
They become policies that enrich his family and his allies.
This person would not be complaining about it
if it was someone on their team doing it.
It's important to remember that while they will tell you
the truth about Trump, that these are all things that he is doing and they are all bad aside from defunding Harvard.
I fully support that.
Go for it.
Defund all of them.
Strip them.
However, they will cheer and clap when their party is in power.
Since January, a cottage industry has arisen online to trace links between the government's
chaotic blitz of actions and Jarvan's writings.
Jarvan is hardly the Rasputin-like figure with Oval Office access.
That certain blue sky you just imagine him to be.
But it isn't difficult to see why some people may have come to this view.
Last month, an anonymous DOG advisor told The Washington Post that it was an open secret
that everyone in policymaking roles has read Jarvan.
Stephen Miller, the president's deputy chief of staff, recently quote
tweeted him, Vance has called for the US to retrench from Europe. A long time
Jarvan diss, dissider, dissideratum. Last spring, Jarvan posed expelling all
Palestinians from the Gaza Strip and turning it into a luxury resort. Did I
hear someone say beachfront? he wrote on Substack. The new Gaza developed of
course by Jared Kushner is the LA of the Mediterranean, an
entirely new charter city on humanity's oldest ocean.
Sublime real estate with an absolutely perfect Apple quality government.
Well isn't that wonderful folks, an Apple quality government.
These people are insane.
This February during a joint press conference with Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime
Minister, Trump surprised his advisors when he made a nearly identical
Proposal describing a shoot of all gases the Riviera of the Middle East gonna make the Riviera of the Middle East
It's going to be incredible whenever I asked Yarvin about resonances between his writing and real-world events his response was nonchalant
He seemed to see himself as a conduit for pure reason.
The only mystery to him was why it had taken others so long to catch up. You could event a lie,
but you can only discover the truth. He told me, yes, right, the truth, that Gaza is meant to be a
beachfront. The truth. We were in London where he was attending the Alliance for Responsible
Citizenship, a conservative conference co-founded by the psychologist Jordan Peterson
Yarvin described Peterson to me as a dandy with a weird narcissistic energy coming off of him
committing Yarvin on his travels were Eduardo Gerold Brun and Alonso
Esquinka Esquince Diaz two millennial filmmakers who were shooting a documentary about his life
Their goal was to make a naturalistic character studying the style of Grey Gardens. I'm sure that's a wonderful film
probably, probably. And which as Bruin put it, the camera just happens to be around.
It wasn't going to plan. Yarvin kept repeating the same monologues which meant
that much of the footage was the same. The filmmakers worried that his racist
remarks would turn viewers off. One afternoon in London, Diaz had filmed
Yarvin getting his portrait painted with Lord Maurice Glassman, a post-liberal political theorist
who had been called Labor's MAGA Lord for his support of Brexit and his ongoing dialogue
with figures like Steve Bannon. At one point in the discussion, Yarvin had pulled out his
iPhone to show Glassman that he hacked the chatbot Claude to get it to call him the N-word.
Okay, that's a little funny. That's a good use of our time and technology here, making him the N-word.
Some thinkers would envy the attention Yarvin is receiving, but he dismissed his influence
as a fraudulent currency, since it has yet to cash out in the revolution he desires.
He poured scorn on Doge, so much libertarian DNA Trump's tariffs plan not mercantilist enough in a recent essay on stub
Substack he criticized the decision to dispatch
Plane clothes ice officials to jail college students and professors for political speech not on moral grounds
But because the thuggish optics were likely to provoke resistance
That's right. You don't want to be seen doing this. You should black bag them in the night. Sneak up on them.
Maybe use the heart attack gun.
Just have them drop dead so no one can prove anything.
What are you doing, Trump?
Come on.
You gotta be more circumspect about this kind of thing.
You don't want to be seen to be a thuggish totalitarian, do you?
Yarvin's irracular pronouncements and bottomless disdain for actually existing politics have
inspired a viral post.
His face under the words, your anti-regime actions work well in practice, but do they
work in theory?
A conservative activist Christopher Ruffo has compared Jarvan to a sullen teenager who
insists that everything is pointless.
I came to think of him as a reactionary Goldilocks who would be satisfied with nothing less than
the inch-perfect autocracy
that he constructed in his mind.
So he's a neurotic dweeb is what I'm getting from this.
What a shocker.
His apparent desire for control also shows up in some of his relationships.
Not long ago I visited Lydia Lawrenson, Yarvin's ex-fiance in Berkeley.
She began dating in September 2021 after Yarvin posted a personal ad on Substack,
explaining that he recently lost his widower virginity and was looking to meet someone
of childbearing age. Laurence, a freelance writer and editor replied the same day, I
have historically been a liberal but my IQ is really high. I want kids and I'm incredibly
curious to talk to you. Yarvin went on Zoom dates with other women who answered the post,
among them Caroline Ellison, the ex-girlfriend of the now imprisoned crypto entrepreneur Sam Bankman Freed.
But he and Laurence soon found themselves in an all-consuming romance.
She told me that the ethos of our relationship with Yarvin was, we're going to be geniuses
together and have genius babies.
Making fun of it a little bit, but that really was it.
What a remarkable basis for a relationship.
We're going to have genius babies. All good
relationships are built upon eugenics. Didn't you know folks, if you're not selecting your
mate for their breeding traits, what are you doing? You actually like hanging out with
them? What a loser. Like, Yarvin-Lawrenson had been a precocious child who went to college
early. She'd also maintained a blog with a cult following where under the pseudonym Clarice Thorne she wrote about sex
positive feminism. Oh boy what a delightful lady she seems to be. BDSM and
pickup artistry. She and Jarvan fought often sometimes about politics.
Lauren said had moved away from the left but she hadn't fully embraced Neo
reaction. When I asked her if she'd ever changed Jarvan's mind about anything she
said she'd got him to stop using the N-word, at least around her.
The leader told this magazine that he was not using the word in the spirit of a southern
plantation owner.
Ugh.
These are the people that are in power and running the regime.
The power behind the throne.
The bigger source of tension, according to Lorentzen, was Jarvan's autocratic attachment
style.
When they fought, Lawrenceon said he insisted that she provide a rational justification
for ending hostilities.
Uh, this is, uh, this is something else.
No, I will not cease hostilities.
I will not cease calling you names until you provide me with a rational reason for it.
She felt that Yarvin's slippery personal attacks resembled his manner in public debates. He makes up explanations that seem reasonable
but are actually false. He attacks the character of the person who is trying to point out what
he is doing. It's like a DDoS attack of the soul. She told me in an email referencing
the cyberattack strategy of overwhelming a server with traffic from multiple sources.
James Dahme, a friend of Laurence's who had his own falling out with Yarvin, recalled he would have a coarse joke about Lydia's weight or looks, not get a laugh,
and then get angry at Lydia for being too stuck up. That's right, how dare you not laugh when I
belittle you to your face? How dare you not laugh at my jokes about you? Tanner, Yarvin's first
girlfriend, described a similar pattern of insults and demands. What a catch.
Laurencen and Yarvin broke up in the summer of 2022 while Laurencen was pregnant.
He told me that his desire for closeness might have struck Laurencen as overbearing and stifling.
He had a bad habit of making a joke that's sort of a barb, but he denied that he was
ever purposely cruel during a relationship.
He added that after the relationship ended, my natural instinct was I'm going to cut her
down to size every time I can.
Something he noted he was very good at. A few weeks after their son was born, that December Garvin sued for
partial custody, which he received. An ongoing family court case remains acrimonious. Parents are in disagreement about nearly every issue.
Their mediator observed last year. Well, as entertaining and humorous
as I find this article, I think we'll move on. I feel bad for the child, and I hope that
both the parents get it together and can reconcile. Tens of thousands of AI users now believe chat GPT is God.
Well, isn't that fancy?
Is this mental illness or the next major religion?
Ted Gioa.
A growing number of tech users now believe that AI is God.
They think they are accessing the secrets of the universe through chat GPT,
warned journalist Mike Lee last month.
Do you think this is a tiny friendship lunatics?
No, not in the least. If you want, just Just five days ago, the moderator of a pro-AI Reddit announced
that they are now banning these fanatics. More than a hundred have already been blocked.
They didn't have a choice. Quasi-religious posts would fill up the entire AI forum if
moderators didn't censor them. Here's my prediction. Within 24 months, this will turn
into an official church with clergy and organized services,
says the quote.
Two days earlier, another Redditor warned of thousands of people online with spiritual
delusions about AI.
This movement seems to have achieved some kind of critical mass during the months of
April and May.
It reminds me of a verse talking about idols, how you have one piece of wood that you put on the fire, another
piece of wood you carve out and say, this is my God. You carved out an algorithm and
said, this is my God.
It's also partially because of how desperate many people are for something spiritual in
their lives. When you remove God, when you remove Jesus, people know,
they intrinsically feel that there is something empty, something hollow, that they need something.
And they will settle for anything, even if it is not the truth, even if it is some false AI.
All right, well, we're going to take a quick break. When we come back, we're gonna take a quick break.
When we come back, we're gonna look at how
the Defense Secretary is ordering the Navy
to rename a ship.
And what might be the cause of that?
Stay with us, folks.
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Defense Secretary orders Navy to rename ship named after gay rights activist accused of being a predator.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the Navy to rename an oiler ship that the Obama administration has named after gay rights activists.
Military.com reported today, or Tuesday.
In August 2016, then-Navy Secretary Ray Mabus named a ship after Harvey Milk, a Navy veteran
of the Korean War who became a gay rights icon in the 1970s.
The first openly gay man elected to public office in California, Milk has been described
as a homosexual predator for having an intimate relationship with a 16-year-old Jack Galen
McKinley when Milk was 33.
Milk was assassinated in 1978. I imagine this is a
common problem when you're trying to find a gay rights activist to name stuff
after. That's right, you don't want to pick another gay rights activist you'll
have to do this again in a few years or months. On Tuesday, military.com said it
had reviewed a memo from the office of the Secretary of the Navy that featured
plans to rename the USNS Harvey Milk in alignment with President and SEC DEF objectives and SEC Navy priorities
of reestablishing the warrior culture.
A Department of Defense official reportedly told the news site that Secretary Hegseth
ordered Navy Secretary John Phelan to rename the ship.
The official also said the renaming was intentionally set to be announced on June 13th, in the middle
of what gender activists have institutionalized as Pride Month.
That's right, a whole month dedicated to celebrating sin.
Isn't that wonderful?
The USNS Harvey Milk is one of several John Lewis Class Oilers, which are ships named
after civil rights icons.
Navy's also considering renaming other John Lewis class oilers, such as the US
NS Harriet Tubman, the US NS Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and the US NS Thurgood Marshall.
Well, one thing we can say about the US NS Harriet or Ruth Bader Ginsburg is it
will hang on until the bitter end, until it is long past the time it should have
been retired.
The news infuriated Democrat leaders,
erasing Harvey Milk's name is disgusting.
Blatant discrimination, yeah.
If you start removing icons from predators,
no Democrat is safe.
What are we gonna do?
And during Pride Month, to boot, said,
that's right, give him the boot, said,
General, said, Senator Chuck Schumer.
He served the US Navy and his country honorably, and he was assassinated while serving the
public and fighting for LGBTQ plus rights.
Hegseth should be ashamed of himself and reverse this immediately.
That's right, he served his country honorably.
He honorably allegedly molested those little boys.
It was with honor that he had a relationship with a 16 year old allegedly.
Former House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi also registered her outrage in a statement.
The reported decision by the Trump administration to change the names of the USNS Harvey Milk and other ships in the John Lewis class is a
shameful, vindictive erasure of those who fought to break down barriers for all to chase the American dream,
she said.
"'Our military is the most powerful in the world, but this spiteful move does not strengthen
our national security or the warrior ethos.
Instead, it is a surrender of a fundamental American value to honor the legacy of those
who work to build a better country.'"
As the rest of us are celebrating the joy of Pride Month, it is my hope that the Navy
will reconsider this egregious decision and continue to recognize the extraordinary contributions of Harvey Milk, a veteran himself, and all Americans who forged historic progress for our nation.
Yes, perhaps soon we'll have a USNS Jeffrey Epstein.
Perhaps then we'll have the representation the military is looking for.
Chief Pentagon Spokesperson Sean Parnell did not confirm the renaming which is reportedly
set to be announced next week.
Secretary Hegseth is committed to ensuring that the names attached to all DoD installations
and assets are reflective of the Commander in Chief's priorities.
Our nation's history and warrior ethos, Parnell said in a statement statement Any potential renaming will be announced after internal reviews are complete. Yeah, you got to make sure you don't name it after another predator
That would be unfortunate. We got to do a deep dive on who we're naming these after
This is a another article about the renaming of the USNS Harvey milk
Peter Hegseth orders name of gay rights leader Harvey Milk removed from US Navy ship.
It's truly amazing that it took them this long to think hmm, perhaps Harvey Milk was not the person to name the ship after.
We're gonna move on from that. That was a
fun little aside.
Nice to see them sticking it to
Pride month a little bit. This is from vaccine impact.
This is a much better story.
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Give you an update again
Beginning of May our dad suffered a few
Many strokes he had to undergo surgery on his carotid artery and he is currently recovering from that.
He's moving around a lot better than he was. He came home and had to use a wheelchair
than a walker, but now he's able to move around with a cane. He's doing better that way physically,
but he is still having trouble speaking clearly, and he just asked that you pray for the nerves in
his tongue and his vocal cords so that he'd be back here with
you all again soon that he'd be able to deliver the news and give his take on things i know we're all
eager to have him back i know i am and to be clear the nerve damage in his tongue was something that
happened during the surgery it had nothing to do with the strokes and he's still just as insightful
about everything as he always has been.
It's just that he has a little bit of a speech issue currently.
Yes. This is again from Vaccine Impact.
Jesus Knows Your Sorrow and Trouble. This is by Brian Shulhavi.
Do you find yourself all alone today, rejected by family and friends,
living a life full of sorrow and troubles because you have counted the cost of what it means to follow the truth and have stuck to the straight and narrow
path and rejected the things that this world regards as valuable. Do you have enemies perhaps
members of your family who continually criticize and attack you because your decision to follow
Christ and not participate in things that they do infuriate them? That description definitely
fits my life and is a constant struggle to not feel depressed and sad. We are very very blessed in our
family that our parents are such wonderful godly people. We are so
thankful for them and if you are undergoing something like this I am very
sad that you have to go through this. But yes as Brian
Shulhavi says,
Jesus knows your sorrow.
What has helped me to understand my deep sorrow
and constant troubles is to look at other members of society
who are suffering much worse than me,
cast offs of society, such as those who are in prison
or living on the streets and are more alone in suffering,
far more than I am.
In fact, the one person in history who probably lost the most
and suffered the most in ways that no other human being in history ever has is Jesus Christ Himself.
In the end of Jesus' physical life, we have records in the New Testament, Gospel accounts
of His final hours, just before He was arrested in a place called the Garden of Gethsemane,
near the city of Jerusalem.
Here is what Matthew wrote about those last hours of Jesus' life.
Then Jesus went with them to a place called Gethsemane and he said to his disciples, sit here while I go over there
and pray. Taking with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee began to be
sorrowful and troubled. Then he said to them, my soul is very sorrowful even to
death. Remain here and watch with me. Going a little further, he fell on his
face and prayed saying, my father if it possible, let this cup pass from me, nevertheless, not
as I will, but as you will.
He came to the disciples and found them sleeping and he said to Peter, So you could not watch
with me one hour, watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation.
The spirit is indeed willing, but the flesh is weak.
Again for the second time he went away and prayed, My Father, if this cannot pass, unless
I drink it, your will be done. And again he came and found them sleeping
for their eyes were heavy. So leaving them again, he went away and prayed for the third
time saying the same words again. Matthew 26, 36 through 44.
The words in English that I highlighted in red are translated from the Greek words of
which there are three different ones used here that show his extreme sadness and
depression. Lupeo, to make sorrowful, to affect with sadness, cause grief, to throw into sorrow.
Ademoneo, to be troubled, great distress, or anguish, depressed. Peralupos, very sad,
exceedingly sorrowful, overcome with sorrow, so much as to cause one's death. In Luke's Gospel account of this event he adds, an angel from heaven appeared to him and strengthened
him. And being in anguish, he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to
the ground. Luke 22, 43 through 44. Jesus was in bad shape emotionally. He was extremely depressed,
and he was doing the only thing he knew how to do to relieve his stress. Pray to his father in heaven to rescue him from this
desperate situation.
And the days before this event,
Jesus had made a grand entrance into the city of Jerusalem where the crowds
cheered and welcomed him as they believed he was the new King of Israel from the
line of David.
The crowds on his side,
as he basically occupied the temple and began to teach the people right inside the temple.
But he knew that there was a plan in place for his life, and that plan required that
he be executed by the Jews as a sacrifice for the sins of humanity, and fulfill and
complete the requirements of the Old Covenant, the Law of Moses.
A few hours before this event in the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus revealed this plan to
his closest disciples, stating that they would all turn against him later that night, something they all denied would ever happen.
Then Jesus said to them, You will all fall away because of me this night, for it is written,
I will strike the shepherd and the sheep of the flock will be scattered. But after I am raised up,
I will go before you to Galilee. Peter answered him, though they all fall away because of you,
I will never fall away. Jesus said to him, Truly I tell you, this very night before the rooster crows, you will
deny me three times.
Peter said to him, even if I must die with you, I will not deny you.
And all the disciples did the same.
Matthew 26, 31-35.
The verb used in this translation, the esv, and in most modern translations about his
disciples would react to him to fall away, is much too mild for the Greek verb being used here. The older English translation
translations like the KJV King James Version are closer to its meaning.
Then saith Jesus unto them, All ye shall be offended because of me this night. For it is
written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered abroad.
The Greek word scandaliso, from where we get certain
English words such as scandal, a noun, which in its verb form would be something
like to create a scandal. The adjective form would be scandalous, which is how their
actions would be since they had publicly declared their faith in Jesus, that he
was indeed the Messiah. That's exactly what happened, and their actions, in the
end, their
actions were scandalous, denying that they were even associated with Jesus as
Jesus was arrested and led away to be executed. Oh, they were willing to fight,
at least some of them, so confident that Jesus could easily
defeat his enemies. When the plan was laid bare, which was that Jesus
was not going to fight, but give up
his life voluntarily, then fear kicked in and they all abandoned him. What a scandal! While he was
still speaking, Judas came, one of the twelve, and with him a great crowd with swords and clubs,
from the chief priests and the elders of the people. Now the betrayer had given them a sign,
saying, The one I will kiss is the man. Seize him." And he came up to Jesus at once and said, Greetings, Rabbi. And he kissed him. Jesus said to him, Friend, do what you came to do.
And they came up and laid hands on Jesus and seized him. And behold, one of those who were
with Jesus stretched out his hand and drew his sword and struck the servant of the high priest
and cut off his ear. And Jesus said to him, Put your sword back into its place, for all who take
the sword will perish by the sword. Do you think that I cannot appeal to my father, and he will at once
send me more than twelve legions of angels? But how then should the scripture be fulfilled
that it must be so? At that hour Jesus said to the crowds, Have you come out as against,
have you come out against a robber with swords and clubs to capture me? Day after day I sat in the
temple of teaching. I sat in the temple of teaching.
I sat in the temple teaching, and you did not seize me.
But all this has taken place, that the scripture of the prophets might be fulfilled.
Then all the disciples left him and fled."
Matthew 26, 47-56.
Some of you reading this right now are going through your own scandals.
People who you thought you could trust have turned against you, turning out not to be
the kind of people you thought they were, who they themselves said they were.
And now you are left alone, with no one else to trust in except Jesus himself, who knows
exactly how you feel.
I have been through more than one scandal like this in my life, and while the sorrow
and pain are very intense in every single situation where I found myself totally alone,
I drew much closer to Jesus, who had suffered far more than I ever will, and is the only one who can understand my own sorrow and grief.
What is true love? The Greeks had several words they use that are usually translated into the
English word love. Most of Western culture today defines love as sexual, eros in Greek,
or non-sexual situations such as friendship, which includes family members, phileo. When we think of these meanings of love, they are positive, happy feelings.
The Greeks had another word for love, agape, and the best example of the definition of this kind of
love is found in the story of Jesus praying in the Garden of Gethsemane. Jesus knew what the plan was
and what awaited him later that night. He knew that his father could at once send many more than
twelve legions of angels to prevent this from happening.
Yet at the last minute he wondered if perhaps the plan could change, as he most
certainly did not want to go through with this. His human nature and desire
for self-preservation was kicking in, and he even had the crowds on his side at
that time who viewed him as a hero. The fact that he asked the father to stop
his arrest and execution three times shows how serious he was, and is something that is very common in Middle Eastern culture, asking
for something more than once to show how earnest you are about the thing you are asking for.
But in the end, God said no and told him to stick to the plan and sacrifice his life for
others which he obeyed even against his own will.
Nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will.
This was the most extreme example of love
the world had ever seen, because this kind of love is not based on our happiness or good feelings,
but on doing God's will, even if it means our death. Jesus said, greater love has no one than
this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. John 15 13. They're not just words spoken
at a Sunday church gathering
where everyone raised their hands and shouted amen. He demonstrated that love by his actions.
Unfortunately, our English translations of the New Testament portion of the Bible
generally do not reflect these different Greek words that are usually translated love.
So when we come to one of the last stories recorded in the New Testament about Jesus,
we lose some meaning in the English translation of the discourse between Jesus and Peter.
We're meeting and talking to each other for the first time after Peter had scandalously
turned against Jesus by denying he even knew him.
When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, Simon, son of John, do you
love me more than these?
He said to him, Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.
He said to him, Feed my lambs.
He said to him a second time, Simon of John do you love me said to him yes
Lord you know that I love you said to him tend to my sheep he said to him the
third time Simon son of John do you love me Peter was grieved because he said to
him the third time do you love me he said to him Lord you know everything you
know that I love you Jesus said to him feed my, you know everything. You know that I love you. Jesus said to him, feed my sheep. John 21
15 through 17
Two different Greek words are used that are translated love
Agapo, godly love and phileo, brotherly, friendly love
I had bolded and read the words that are agapo, godly love and bolded and green, the words that are phileo
Brotherly, friendly love here in this story
Peter cannot use the word agapo, godly love, because he was painfully
aware that he had just denied knowing Jesus, so he replies with the more worldly
filio, brotherly, friendly love. The third time Jesus asked Peter if he loved him,
he used filio, brotherly, friendly love, and this made Peter sad. But a few weeks
later on the day of Pentecost in Jerusalem, Jesus sent his Holy Spirit to
inhabit the disciples, and Peter went through the rebirth spiritually.
From that time on he could love people with agapo, godly love, because it is not a worldly love, but a love that only comes from
comes by God's Holy Spirit.
What is the greater good?
The greater good in the Bible is always laying down of one's own life and never taking someone else's life,
which is Satan's definition of the greater good.
So the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered the council and said, What are we to do?
For this man performs many signs.
Let him go on like this.
Everyone believe in him and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our
nation.
But one of them, Caiaphas, who was a high priest, that you said to them, You know nothing
at all, nor do you understand that it is better for you that one man should die for the people,
not that the whole nation should perish.
Using very worldly rationalism.
If, he continues, Rome will smite us, he will destroy our country.
It is better that we kill this one man.
Do this one small evil act to prevent a larger greater evil. He did not say
this of his own accord, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the
nation, and not for the nation only, but also to gather into one the children of God who are
scattered abroad. So from that day on they made plans to put him to death. John 11 47 through 53.
they made plans to put him to death. John 11 47 through 53. When we believe in and practice this kind of love, the love that Jesus demonstrated, we share in his
sufferings and pain, enduring until the time that our sufferings will end and we
inherit our reward. You will be delivered up by parents and brothers and relatives
and friends, and some of you they will put to death. You'll be hated by all for
my name's sake, but not a hair on your head will perish by your
Endurance you will gain your lives
Luke 21 16 through 19 no discipline seems pleasant at the time but painful later on however
It produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it Hebrews 12 11
In the meantime Jesus knows your sorrow and troubles because he experienced them, too
Because he himself suffered when he was tempted he is able to help those who are being tempted.
Hebrews 2 18. That's right, Jesus suffered in all ways that a man can't suffer. He was fully God and
fully man. He knows every type of temptation that we can go through. He knows everything that we
can't endure because he endured them. He made it through them. He accepted God's will. He knows everything that we can't endure because He endured them. He made it through them.
He accepted God's will. He accepted the Father's will and endured the worst possible thing imaginable, being separated from God, being separated from the Father so that we might all be grafted in.
And that is the true meaning of His sacrifice, to be separated so that we could all be brought closer.
So, Jesus is the only way to the Father, and I encourage you to accept
him if you haven't yet. We will take a quick break, and I will
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It is a pleasure to be here with you. I
I've had a good time with this show today. It has been a lot of fun
But uh, we're going to look at what elon musk is saying about the bill. He is not having a good time
Kill the bill musk goes ballistic against gop tax and spending package Let's be honest and this is on Zero Hedge. Elon Musk has been made a fool of by the GOP. Well, I don't think Elon Musk
needs any help with that. He's done a pretty good job of making a fool of himself on his own.
After assembling the DOGUE team and spending months finding egregious levels of waste,
fraud, and abuse within the US government, i.e. what Trump supporters voted for,
House and Senate Republicans gave Musk a little pat on the head and proceeded to roll out
President Trump's big, beautiful bill that codified exactly zero of Doeg's findings,
raises the debt ceiling by $5 trillion and relies on ambitious economic projections to
achieve what the White House insists is $1.4 trillion in savings, while the Congressional
Budget Office projects deficits of $1.7 to $2.3 trillion over the next decade.
Needless to say, Musk is livid.
We've seen many times that Musk is a very petty individual, that he wants to curate
his image as this ultra-genius capable of doing anything and everything, even going
so far as to most likely pay someone to play and
level up games for him so he can appear better at them than he is.
Which is the height of pettiness.
On Tuesday, Musk posted to ex, I'm sorry but I just can't stand it anymore.
This massive, outrageous, pork-filled congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination.
His post was immediately met with support from Senator
Rand Paul who said, we can and must do better. They sent the White House scrambling to do
damage control with Budget Director Russ Vought sending Congress a request for a 9.4 billion
clawback for unspent foreign aid funding. Which if you're Musk after what Dogen covered
is a huge slap in the face. On Wednesday Musk continued to rage on ex-posting, Call your senator. Call your congressman. Bankrupting America is not okay. Kill the bill,
followed by a kill the bill movie poster featuring a kill or followed by a kill bill movie poster
featuring Uma Thurman. Musk solution a new spending bill that doesn't jack the debt ceiling by five
trillion dollars while massively growing the deficit. A new spending bill that doesn't jack the debt ceiling by five trillion dollars while massively growing the deficit
A new spending bill should be drafted that doesn't massively grow the deficit and increase debt ceiling by five trillion dollars
That was his tweet on X Musk also amplified several posts supporting his position
Debt under Democrats up debt under Republicans up neither of the major parties has been successful so far in addressing this issue
That's from the rabbit hole 84.
77 million Americans voted for dog cuts, not Washington's wasteful spending. And that's from
Congressman John Rose, at Rep John Rose on X. I think a bill can be big or it could be beautiful.
I don't know if it could be both, said Elon Musk. America is in the fast lane to debt slavery. Needless to say, the GOP has quite
the excrement show on its hands. Maybe next time enact the will of the people.
Colorful language, Zero Hedge. Colorful, colorful. The big beautiful bill will add $2.4 trillion
to the deficit. That total will rise to about 3 trillion once the
interest costs of more borrowing are included this is by Eric Boehm in March
President Donald Trump stood before a joint session of Congress and vowed to
do what has not been done in 24 years balance the federal budget the first
major legislative package of Trump's second term, however, will throw the
federal budget farther out of balance. The Congressional Budget Office, CBO concluded in an updated assessment of the bill.
Who would have thought that a gigantic pork barrel project would throw further fuel on the fire, that it would just add more and more debt?
Who could have seen this coming? CBO estimates that one of the big beautiful
that the one big beautiful bill act which D which cleared the house late last month and is awaiting
a vote in the senate will increase deficits by 2.4 trillion over the next 10 years. The bill will
reduce tax collections by an estimated 3.75 trillion over that period or reducing government
spending by an estimated 11.3 trillion.
The budget deficit is the gap between how much the federal government spends and how much tax revenue it collects in a single year. If spending is higher than revenue has been the case in every
single year since 2001, the government must borrow to fill in the gap. The big, beautiful
bill will in effect force the federal government to borrow more heavily in the future.
And all that extra borrowing comes with more costs, since the interest must be paid.
There's also the fact that any time a president makes a plan that takes longer than four years to enact,
it is essentially worthless because the next president can come in and just say,
Nah, I don't think so, and undo it.
And of course, that's the good parts of the bill are the ones that are four years plus out
and the bad stuff we get right now and sure there's some good stuff that we get right now like the few
treats that he froze to his supporters like getting rid of the
tax stamp on suppressors for firearms, but in the end
on suppressors for firearms, but in the end, it's the whole thing of Trump, or Musk cuts 80 million
and then Trump adds however many trillion.
Yes.
So anytime you see a president talking about
a 10-year plan, a 20-year plan, just know that it's a scam.
He will be in office at most eight years.
That is the longest he will be there and
Anything over that the next guy can come in and just say nah, I don't think so. We'll change we'll do this instead
The budget deficit is the gap between how much the federal government spends and how much tax revenue it collects in a single year
Spending is higher than revenue as has been the case every single year since 2001, then the government must borrow to fill in the gap.
The big beautiful bill will in effect force the federal government to borrow more heavily
in the future.
And all that extra borrowing comes with more costs since the interest must be paid.
The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a non-profit that advocates for reducing the
deficit, estimates that the bill will add about $3 trillion to the deficit once interest
costs are included in the calculation.
The bill would also double the federal government's interest payments from nearly 900 billion
in 2024 to 1.8 trillion by 2034, the group estimates.
The bill's actual impact on this deficit is likely to be even larger than what the
CBO estimates due to several provisions that are meant
to game the number crunching agency's scoring process. Several tax breaks in the bill, such as
the higher standard deduction and expanded child tax credit and tax exemptions for tips and overtime
pay are temporary and will expire by 2029. But those policies are clearly not meant to be temporary,
and if extended they would further widen the deficit in 2030 and beyond.
The extension of the 2017 income tax cut is essential to avoid a massive tax hike that
would hit nearly all American households, and many of the spending cuts included in
the bill, such as new work requirements for Medicaid and food stamps, are worthwhile efforts.
But the problem with the bill, as the CBO's report outlines in stark terms, is that these
spending cuts and tax cuts do not offset one another.
That would be another imprudent decision even if the federal government was not deep in
debt and already on course to see borrowing increase in future years.
Given its current fiscal situation, piling more borrowing costs on future American taxpayers
seems utterly foolish.
That's right, They are simply kicking the
can down the road again. They are promising things right now because
that's how they get votes. Hey, we'll give you this. Don't worry about what happens
in the future. That's for someone else to figure out. That's for the next
administration. Trump calls for scrapping debt limit. President Trump doubled down on
Wednesday on calls to scrap the nation's debt ceiling, pressing for bipartisan action
to abolish it, and finding common ground with Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren from Massachusetts.
Well, I guess that's one way to fulfill his promise of getting rid of the unbalanced budget
and all that. We'll just stop caring about it.
We'll stop looking at it and call it balanced.
We're going to sweep it under the rug.
We're going to push it into the closet.
Don't worry about it.
I'm very pleased to announce that after all these years, I agree with Senator Elizabeth
Warren on something.
The debt limit should be entirely scrapped to prevent an economic catastrophe.
It is too devastating to be put in the hands of a political people that may want to use
it despite the horrendous effect it could have on our country, and indirectly even the
world."
As to Senator Warren's second statement on the $4 trillion, I like that also.
But it would have to be done over a period of time as short as possible.
Let's get together, Republican and Democrats.
Let's do this, Trump wrote on True Social. Yes, the one time that they're truly bipartisan is when it comes to spending your money.
They love to do that.
I mean, he claims this is the first time he's agreed with Senator Warren, but I seem to
recall Senator Warren was pretty pro-lockdown that he implemented, so it seems that whenever he has some anti-American policy, they agree with Warren and Trump seem to agree with each other.
He shared Warren's post on social platform X from Friday when she agreed to Trump that the debt limit should be scrapped and called for a bipartisan bill to get rid of it forever.
Warren had posted Trump's comments in which he noted the progressive Senator has
long supported abolishing the debt limit in the past.
He said he always agreed with her on the matter, adding that he hasn't spoken to
her personally about it.
Well, Trump has always been a New York Democrat.
He's always been one of these same individuals.
He's never been the blue collar billionaire.
He just played one on TV.
She wanted to see it terminated, gotten rid of,
not being voted on every five years or 10 years.
And the reason was because it's so catastrophic
for our country, Trump said at a Friday press conference
alongside Tesla CEO, Elon Musk.
Gotta imagine Elon Musk was just seething as he stood there.
House passed big, beautiful bill,
which the president is pushing for.
This Senate to pass included plans to raise the nation's debt ceiling by 4 trillion.
Well, I mean, only 4 trillion dollars.
You really just got to get rid of that.
And it looks like we lost video.
Well, House passed.
We're back.
The House passed big beautiful bill which the president is pushing for.
The Senate to pass included plans to raise the nation's debt ceiling by $4 trillion.
Director of the Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought said on Wednesday evening
that the President still thinks that should be included.
When asked if Trump would want to remove the debt ceiling from the package, Vought told
reporters, he thinks it is very important that the debt extension be a part of this
bill.
The latest in politics, he continued, from a philosophical standpoint, there should be
support on a bipartisan basis to reflect on the fact that this tool provides way too much leverage for an opposing party
Or minority to hold hostage an administration that is trying to do big things for the American people. That's right big things
Treasury Department Secretary Scott Bessent has urged Congress to raise the nation's debt ceiling by mid-july to prevent a default
after urged Congress to raise the nation's debt ceiling by mid-July to prevent a default. After all, we just need to be able to accrue more debt, otherwise we're going to default.
President Biden and GOP leadership suspended the limit in 2023 to push off the threat of
a national default through the early 2025.
The Treasury Department has also warned the government would have to implement extraordinary
measures to keep the nation from defaulting on its more than 30 trillion dollars in debt.
Well we wouldn't want that would we folks.
Again, things in the economy are very, very strange.
We live in strange times.
It is an incredibly complicated thing.
No one knows when it will collapse, but it most definitely will.
At some point you need to be making sure that you have ways of protecting yourself against that.
The first and foremost one is making sure that you have food of some kind. You can raise animals,
you can grow your own food, you need to be doing that. Whether it's chickens or beef if you have the room,
pigs, goats, who knows?
Anything is better than nothing.
So grow food, raise food, do that.
But also, if you would like to get outside the fiat monetary system,
if you'd like to start getting some gold and silver, you can go to David Knight.
Gold, which Tony Arterburn has set up.
He's got Wolfpack where he will send you gold or silver.
He's got multiple different tiers and it's a subscription service so you can start to slowly
accumulate some for yourself if you see value in that as we do. But of course, again, food is the
main concern. Find some ways to feed yourself if things do end up collapsing. Most calls Trump's
spending bill a disgusting abomination. That's right.
There is a lover's quarrel, a tiff, a rift in the house of Trump.
What a sad day it is to be a billionaire.
They're writing in their diaries about how the other one is mean.
Solo Cat, 1980.
Dogue was always a show while more waste remained subsidized and increased.
That's right. The bread and circuses. But sadly, the circus performers are mad at each
other. Angry, Tiger's Den. Don't let them fool you when it comes to spending. They're
all on the same page. A bunch of garbage-eating politicians lining their pockets at the expense
of the future taxpayer. That is very true. They're all in it together. None of them are
for the people.
The real octo-spook. 5 trillion in the increase in debt.
Who can't love Trump, huh? That's right. Good old President Trump.
He's done so much for the American people.
Got an article here from the Babylon Bee.
Republicans announce plan to keep doing opposite of what everyone voted for them to do.
Congressional Republicans have unveiled plans to continue doing the exact opposite of what everyone voted for them to do. Congressional Republicans have unveiled plans
to continue doing the exact opposite
of what everyone voted for them to do.
After sweeping to victory in 2024
on the promise of reducing government spending
and codifying into law,
a return to sanity on issues like women's sports,
Republicans have announced that they will instead
do the complete and total opposite.
After considering why Americans voted for us
in the first place,
we have decided to do the absolute polar opposite, announced House Speaker Mike Johnson.
To be clear, our plan isn't to just not do what voters ask for.
No, sir.
We're going for the outright antithesis of everything we were supposed to accomplish.
We're going to simply not reduce government spending.
We're going to make it so much worse.
We're going to keep at it until we've gotten crushed in the midterms and can't do anything ever. That's a promise.
Senate leaders have joined the House Republicans in echoing their commitment to railroading every
hope that voters once harbored. Anything you voted for us to do, consider it not done, said Senate
Majority Leader John Thune. Then consider the opposite done. That's the plan and we're sticking
to it. At publishing time, Republicans in Congress had polled constituents to see if there were any other important issues they could make worse.
That's right.
The Babylon v. folks, they are spot-on with that one.
It does seem as though the GOP only takes polls to see what you care about and then do the complete opposite.
The Democrats and Republicans agree on basically everything. It's all the big show. Parts of Trump coalition disillusioned as Musk
rips big beautiful bill. That's right, even as we saw some of the MAGA movement
is even beginning to question, why did I vote for this guy? I thought he was going
to lower spending. I thought he was going to fix things, but all I get is him
tweeting. All I get is him making fun of or enraging journalists.
Perhaps that's not enough. Perhaps that's not what we need from a president. It's all fun and games.
It's all good fun to see these types of things. It was a lot of fun to see him make these journalists mad, to watch them seethe and spiral.
But that is not enough.
Opposite of conservative, Rand Paul refuses to bend after Trump attack.
This is by Matthew Chapman on Raw Story.
Senator Rand Paul is showing no signs of backing down from his opposition to President
Donald Trump's signature.
One big, beautiful bill act.
The package that extends tax cuts for the wealthy while also cutting $1 trillion from Medicaid, food stamps,
and green energy subsidies, all to the tune of $2.4 trillion added to the federal deficit.
Wednesday, Paul, who has repeatedly attacked the bill in recent weeks, posted a segment of himself
on Newsweek's Rob Schmidt Tonight Show, explaining his stance. The bill were solely about making the
2017 tax cuts permanent. I wouldn't be a yes, I'd be a hell yes,
wrote Paul on his ex post.
Unfortunately, that's not the reality with this bill.
It includes the largest increase of the debt ceiling ever.
And we'll have the United States borrowing five trillion
over the next two years.
This bill is the opposite of conservative
and we should not pass it.
Present for his part has zeroed in on Paul
as they thorn in his side during the negotiations
posting furious rants against him
to his true social platform.
Rand Paul has very little understanding of the BBB,
especially the tremendous growth that is coming,
wrote Trump in one of his latest tirades.
He loves voting no on everything.
He thinks it's good politics, but it's not.
The BBB is a big winner, and Rand Paul is gay.
He's very gay.
The last part is not something Trump
said but you know it's probably something he wants to say. While Paul's anti-deficit position
puts him at odds with Trump, some commenters noted that his own stance is hardly fiscally sustainable
either. Senator Rand Paul is correct that the emerging bill contains a five trillion debt limit
hike but there cannot be a simple TCGA extension without also expanding the debt limit. NBC News political reporter
Sahil Kapoor, that would cause the US to default. Well, the US is going to default
at some point. There's no getting around that, I don't think. I don't think there's
a single person with a plan that can fix the amount of debt the United States is
in.
We have dug ourselves a very, very deep hole.
The federal government has spent us into a collapse.
It has been engineered.
It is only a matter of time.
This was always the plan.
Republicans say Elon Musk's criticism of Big Beautiful Bill is largely about axing electric vehicle credits,"
says Sean Moran.
Publicans have fought back against Elon Musk's criticism of the Big Beautiful Bill, saying
it is mostly due to the legislation scrapping of green tax credits.
Musk can blame controversy when he decided to publicly oppose the House passed one Big
Beautiful Bill Act. Again, Laska's a very petty individual.
And I assume he is mad that he is not getting his carve outs.
You're all getting rich, but I'm not getting richer?
Come on, that's not fair.
They're probably right about that.
That probably is the reason why he doesn't support it.
And yet everything he's saying about it is also correct.
You can be petty, vindictive, and also right.
I'm sorry, but I just can't stand it anymore, Musk wrote in a post on X.
This massive, outrageous, pork-filled congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination.
However, Republicans, many outlets have noted that Musk may have a more vested interest
in opposing the legislation than his post suggests.
The legislation acts as billions of dollars in tax credits that would benefit Tesla and
his business empire.
Politico explained the legislation terminates multiple tax credits that Tesla, as one of
the largest electric vehicle manufacturers in America, currently qualifies for.
A $7,500 federal tax credit for
new EVs, the $4,000 credit for used EVs, and a $1,000 credit for level two charger installation.
The bill would also impose a 250 yearly federal registration fee for EV owners only. If the bill
is passed as currently written, Tesla's $11.4 billion in regulatory credits
would expire at the end of 2025.
Those credits contributed to Tesla's profitability in the first quarter this year.
Axios reported that a significant inflection point in the Trump-Musk relationship occurred
when the legislation included a provision to scrap electric vehicle tax credits that
help automakers such as Tesla.
Well, as I said, this is a lover's quarrel.
They're very, very mad at each other.
They're sending each other mean notes.
They're being very rude to each other.
Elon Musk says to kill Trump's big, beautiful bill after EB tax credit conflict exposed.
Is by Olivia Rondeau.
The Elon Musk has launched an all-out attack against the
Republicans reconciliation budget instructing his followers to lobby their representatives to kill
the bill in a social media post. Call your senator. Call your congressman. Bankrupting America is not
okay. Musk's anger at the reconciliation bill, which nearly passed the House of Representatives
on May 22nd, has largely been attributed to its omission of funding cuts made by DOG.
Republicans have also suggested that the Tesla CEO is in opposition due to the bill slashing
billions of dollars in electric vehicle.
And again, I quote Politico, shortly after the bill passed the House must told CBS News,
I was like disappointed to see the massive spending bill, frankly, which increases the
budget deficit, not decrease it and undermines the work the DOGUE team is doing.
That's right.
They are hitting the DOGUE with a newspaper.
They're saying, bad dogee, bad DOGUE.
Well, that's the rift between Musk and Trump, largely because Trump is cutting his precious
tax credits, raising the deficit and spanking the dog.
Big, British back again. Bbb, billed back better equals big, beautiful bill. Don't be fooled.
That's right. They are fundamentally about increasing government. They didn't even change
the initialism. It is the exact same thing. They even kept the initialism, as Lynch pointed out.
same thing they even kept to the initialism as linch pointed out they couldn't even be bothered to try to fool you well we'll take a quick break and we
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We've got a comment from SoloCat. 1980 must upset with Trump a tiff
in the house of grift. That's right, the grift tiff. The real octo spook for the last few.
Several presidents think things have only gotten worse at accelerating speeds. Trump continues
this trend with his warp speed. That's right, he's accelerated things. It's moving faster than ever.
That's right. He's accelerated things. It's moving faster than ever. Well, as I said at the beginning, the war on parents continues.
And we'll cover a bit of that here now. This is coming out of Georgia.
Parents are charged after their son, Seven, is struck dead in a car accident.
The grieving parents of a seven-year-old child who died hours after being hit by a car were
charged with involuntary manslaughter after allowing him and his brother, who was 10,
to walk home unaccompanied by an adult from a nearby grocery store. My dad used to ride around
for miles on his bike. He was about in first grade, six years old. He would range around and just
he would range around and just do, you know, get up to typical children things. Just enjoyed being out and about. We've always lived in rural locations. I mean,
we would drive or ride our bikes to neighbors houses sometimes. I lived a good
distance away, but it was all, you know, backwoods North North Carolina Yes, we uh We never really had to worry about traffic where we lived a 76 year old driver will not be charged
The food line store is two blocks away from their home
only two blocks
The parents said the children were with their mother when they asked to meet their father at the store and she allowed them to go
The brothers had to cross the busy four-lane road but attempted to go between crosswalks.
Wintersys told WSOCTV of Charlotte that Legend, that's the name of the child, stepped into
traffic as his older brother attempted to hold him back.
Jenkins said he was on the phone with his elder son when the younger child was hit.
I heard my oldest son yell, Legend, no!
So I hung up and ran.
I just ran to find them, he told the local television station. Two days later, Gastonia police arrested the parents who were being held on a one and a half million dollar bond.
In such cases, adults must be held accountable for their responsibilities to ensure a safe environment for their children,
police said in a statement.
Gastonia police declined to comment to NBC's news,
but said in a statement that there is no evidence of speeding or wrongdoing on the part of the driver.
Therefore, no charges have been filed.
The driver continues to be cooperative and the incident remains under active investigation by the Estonia Police Department traffic division.
It's amazing. It's the responsibility of the parents to provide an environment free of cars driving at reasonable speeds, free of being able to walk outside, being able to go to the nearby grocery store.
And the way that they're prosecuting and persecuting these parents is astonishing.
The one and a half million dollar bail, That they would make the charge man-slaughter
Instead of some lesser, you know neglect related charge
Yes, I think
Even if you were stretching it pushing it the best
The worst you could say is negligence, but no they're going for man-slaughter
But if they were to no-knock raid the house, flashbang, or kill a child, they wouldn't be held responsible.
There would be nothing you could do. You'd have to sue them to get them to pay up.
Ivy, the mother, told WSOC before her arrest that it was the first time she had let the children walk alone. It was just devastating. I'm still in shock. I'm in shock, she said. It's hard. I
haven't stopped crying. My husband hasn't stopped crying. Honestly, I want justice
for my baby. Summer Williams was in her car and witnessed the event, she told
WSOC, that legend, apparently unaware of oncoming traffic, jumped into the street
to the surprise of his brother who tried to stop him.
Williams said she comforted the child until paramedics arrived.
He just jumped into the street.
Would having the mother or father there have really prevented that?
I mean, if they were holding him, or holding his hand possibly, but if they were just right
next to him, that wouldn't have changed the outcome.
He jumped directly into the street.
Children are not as aware of their surroundings as adults are. This is a tragedy for everyone.
Even at night I still see his face, she said, just letting him know that somebody was there and he
wasn't alone. Stay with us, sweetheart. You're going to be all right. stay with us." William said she told the child. And the government is persecuting, prosecuting this family who has already
lost a son. They have already suffered the greatest tragedy I can imagine and
instead of understanding that this was a terrible, unfortunate tragedy,
the government is coming in and they are going to try them for manslaughter.
This is another story. This is another article about that.
A car hit and killed their seven-year-old son, now they're being charged for letting him walk to the store.
Again, this was something that would have been seen as completely and utterly normal not that long ago.
This is something that children would have been seen as completely and utterly normal, not that long ago.
This is something that children would have done many, many times.
My dad would have...
Two blocks is a very short distance.
He would have ranged much farther than that in his childhood. I know we did.
The article describes the tragic death of a seven-year-old boy who was hit by a car while walking to the store with his brother.
The parents are now facing felony charges of involuntary manslaughter and child neglect.
The article argues that prosecuting parents for letting their children walk unsupervised is not
only unjust, but also contributes to a culture of fear and distrust. This is by Lenore Skanezy.
A mom and dad are grieving in Gastonia, North Carolina. North Carolina
How did I not know that that's my home state?
Why did I think it was Georgia? North Carolina, their seven-year-old son legend was tragically killed by a car after running into the street on a
walk to the store with his ten-year-old brother
If you're tasked with determining a punishment for the parents, would you A, arrest them for manslaughterlaughter, set bail at $1.5 million, and forbid them from attending their son's funeral?
Or B, inside this tragedy has been punishment enough, authorities in Gastonia chose option A, not even allowed to attend their son's funeral, not even allowed to lay him to rest.
lay him to rest. Jessica, Ivy, and Samuel Jenkins are facing felony charges of involuntary manslaughter and child neglect as well as a misdemeanor child
neglect charge, according to the NC Beat. The tragedy occurred on May 27th. Ivy
claimed it was the first time she allowed the kids to walk to the store.
A witness to the accident said the older boy tried to grab his little brother
from running but he broke away. A Gassonian Police Department issued a statement on its Facebook page saying that while it extended
its deepest sympathies to the parent for their heartbreaking loss, the investigation reveals that
the children were unsupervised during their walk. That's right, you can't let children walk anywhere
now. Can't have that. As if that's a smoking gun. As if no kids have ever walked unsupervised to the
store. As if every parent who let their kids run an errand is guilty of a crime. I know my mom used
to run errands for her parents in Long Island all the time. They would give her
money and say, go to the store and pick this up for me. And she would. And she was
quite young. As if that's a smoking gun as if no kids have ever walked
unsupervised to the store. In such cases, adults must be held accountable for their responsibilities to ensure a safe environment for their children. That's
right, you have to clear the roads, you have to stand guard and block traffic. There's nothing,
you can't make a totally safe environment. It's not possible. You can do your best to make your
house as safe as you can, but anytime you're out in public there are extra risks.
Even just putting a child in the car is a risk. You take a risk anytime you hop in
a vehicle. Audi MRR, the state must have been wanting to traffic those kids via
CPS. No one victimizes people more than government. That's right, it is the
largest victimization agency. No matter which country you are in, the state
wields the most power and
therefore has the most ability to victimize you. It's another thing, the
state coming after them for neglect when, if you look at CPS, they, the children
that are the most neglected in the most danger are the ones under the control of
the state. Yes, we all know the horror stories that come out of foster care or these state-run institutions.
They've got to be held accountable for an unpredictable tragedy.
Parents aren't prosecuted when their child chokes on dinner or slips in the bathtub
because accidents happen even in the safest homes.
How can parents ever guarantee a perfectly safe environment?
Yes, as I said.
Do you think the parents have learned a lesson from this heartbreak? Who has served by this
arrest? Has the Gastonia Police Department considered the impact on the surviving brother
who will now believe that his failure to save his brother resulted in sending his parents to prison?
As David Pimentel, a law professor at the University of Idaho, does anyone believe that child will be
better off in foster care while his parents rot in jail?
The parents were arrested because our country has come to believe that any child who is
unsupervised anywhere for almost any amount of time is automatically in danger, and therefore
that any parent who trusts their kids to do anything on their own doesn't care if they
live or die.
This delusion that any parent who doesn't hover doesn't care if their child is safe
is what allows the authorities to act as if Legend's parents deliberately did something so evil
it warrants felony charges.
But in fact it was normal, rational, and common thing for the parents did.
Ten year olds and seven year olds have been walking to and from school
unaccompanied by adults for over a hundred years, says Pimentel.
Well that's the problem. You weren't sending them off to the state run, the government run schools, if you'd been doing that.
Well, you know, that's just business as usual.
They were on their way someplace that the government could control them and indoctrinate them, so anything that happens on that route is sanctioned.
That's just fine. The implications of
this prosecution are very troubling for parents everywhere who can never provide
a guarantee against their kids getting hit by a car, even if they were right
there with them. Notes Diane Redleaf, author of They Took the Kids Last Night,
an illegal consultant to Let Grow, the nonprofit that this author helms. This
isn't an isolated incident either. the country parents are being criminalized for allowing their kids modest independence these
Prosecutions reflect a growing distrust and parental judgment and inflated sense of risk. That's right
You can't trust parents. You can't trust them to know what's good for their kids
You can't trust them to know how mature they are and if they're allowed to be able to walk to someplace
You can't trust them to know that their kid isn't trans and shouldn't be miss, uh,
shouldn't be allowed to change their gender. This whole thing overlaps on the
issue of
homeschooling and
simple parental rights.
Yes
The state knows better than you what is good for your kids if the
Communist teacher decides that your son is really a girl or your daughter is really a boy
That's how it is. But if you think that maybe your child can walk
to the store
Then maybe you're the criminal Wally walrus, but you can send them to the school unsupervised from the
For indoctrination. Yeah, that's right.
Send them in, get them indoctrinated and everything's fine. Who do kids belong to? The village, themselves, the government, or the parent?
Well, they want the
They love the idea of the collective ownership of children. The government owns the kids in their eyes.
They want to make sure that they are seen as mommy and daddy. The sad truth is that often when
something awful happens to a child, it's not the result of bad parenting. It's the result of bad
luck. Blaming parents just means we have a scapegoat and can continue to believe that bad things only
happen to the children of bad parents. Turning tragedy into punishment doesn't make kids safer. It just makes all parents more afraid and
all families more vulnerable. That's right. The war on parents continues. Whether it's trying to
indoctrinate and trans your child or simply painting you as a bad parent for trying to give them a little
bit of freedom, a little bit of independence, the government will prosecute you and persecute
you.
They are doing everything they can to get into every aspect of your child's life and
kick you out of it.
Doug to 007, when I was a kid I walked to a gas station that was maybe a half mile away
many times to get a treat. That's right. of it. Doug to 007, when I was a kid I walked to a gas station that was maybe a half mile away many
times to get a treat. That's right, back in the olden days people walked everywhere. Kids were just
out and about playing, you know, on their bikes or playing sports, enjoying the freedom that came with
a relatively safe environment. Of course, the environment has changed somewhat you do have to be more cognizant, but this isn't an issue like that
This wasn't a high crime area to my knowledge. This wasn't someplace that you had to be concerned
about them being kidnapped or
Taken or killed by someone nefarious. This was simply a tragic accident
nefarious. This was simply a tragic accident. Ship carrying 800 EVs abandoned Pacific after fire breaks out. That's right, our lovely lovely electric vehicles
are still causing issues it seems like. On Tuesday the morning Midas, a roll-on
roll-off ro-ro vehicle carrier, was abandoned by its crew in the Central
Pacific Ocean following an onboard fire according to a Bloomberg report
Vessel was transporting approximately 3,000 vehicles including an estimated 800
Electric vehicles the fire's origin has not been confirmed though
The lithium-ion battery ignition remains a possible cause given the cargo profile and previous midsea incidents involving EVs
And they have two hyperlinks within the story so you can see them there
EVs. And they have two hyperlinks within the story so you can see them there. Mourning Midas had departed China in late May with a scheduled port call in
Mexico. According to Bloomberg data, the US Coast Guard evacuated all 22 crew
members from the Ro Ro carrier to a nearby merchant vessel earlier today.
Coast Guard sea-based assets are en route to the incident area. The ship's
manager Zodiac Maritime confirmed that smoke was billowing from the deck. A
company spokesperson said salvage support teams are on route.
Insurance giant Alliance has long emphasized the need to strengthen safety protocols for
all maritime shipments involving lithium ion batteries given the proliferation of green
tech around the world. That's right, if you're transporting these time bombs, you better
take a few more precautions. You better
make sure that your ship is somewhat fireproof, because these things can just
go off. There's no telling when or where. It is simply a roulette. They don't know
what the cause is. Pretty safe guess, but even if it weren't caused by the EVs, the
presence of 800 EVs on a ship, if's a fire that ship is gone. You cannot salvage that
Yeah, even if the EVs didn't start the fire, they're definitely going to contribute and putting those suckers out is going to be a chore
Just gotta let those things burn until they're done on World Bike Day
Cars still dominate the American commute. Isn't that awful folks done. On World Bike Day, cars still dominate the American commute.
Isn't that awful, folks?
It's World Bike Day on June 3rd, and cars are still the main form of transportation.
It's just a tragedy.
June 3rd marks World Bicycle Day, an official UN observance celebrated to draw attention
to the benefits of using a bike.
A healthy, affordable, and environmentally friendly way of getting from A to B. On this day, people are encouraged
to leave their cars behind and hop on their bikes for their daily commute to work. I see
many Europeans talk about, oh, well, I just ride my bike to work. I ride it, I walk it.
And they have no clue of the distances at play in the United States of America
They have absolutely no idea about how far things actually are
Yeah, I don't know if I got all these stories and comments of you know people like I used to walk
Number of miles to however long it's like where we lived it was miles to the nearest gas station
you couldn't ride a bike anywhere to get to any place worth going to aside from a few neighbors
yes it was not a feasible method where we lived i don't know if i've shared this story before but there is a youtuber called Count Dankula. He is known for the
lawsuit that happened when he, as a joke, taught his pug to give a Nazi salute. I got
to meet him while I still worked at Infowars. He came into the office. He was a very, very
nice guy. Very, very kind individual. And he had got it in his head that he wanted to
go to a Denny's. I don't know why he wanted to go to a Denny's, but he did. And he was at his hotel and he looked at it and saw like,
oh well, that doesn't look too far. That seems a reasonable distance to walk. This
was in Texas in the summer. He said it was the most miserable walk of his life,
because of course, also the United States is not really set up to walk to places.
It is set up because the distances are vast for you to use your car.
He showed up, he had sweat through all of his clothes, and then worst of all, he had
to eat at Denny's.
It was a tragic story from start to finish.
I felt absolutely terrible for him.
But that is, again, he's a nice guy.
He doesn't want to ban cars or anything like that.
He's quite libertarian, but he still doesn't have the,
he doesn't understand the scale of things
and the difference in the countries.
It is not a walkable scenario.
The distances are too vast, too great.
On this day, people are encouraged
to leave their cars behind and hop on their bikes
for their daily commute to work.
After all, cycling to work is still relatively rare in the United States despite the many
benefits it offers in terms of personal health, reduced traffic, and emission savings.
However, as Statista's Felix Richter notes, according to Statista Consumer Insights, 72%
of American commuters use their own car to move between home and work, making it by far
the most popular mode of transportation transportation Isn't that just awful?
People have personal freedom a vehicle that allows them some level of autonomy to go where they want. That's disgusting
I hate it Dustin D. Helm. My office is 23 miles from my house not biking that. Oh, come on Dustin
You can do it to save the planet put on your cycling helmet your spandex and go be a nuisance. You can do it Dustin
I believe in you
That's again. That is a very common scenario
You are miles and miles and miles away from where you work the European mind cannot comprehend these things. It is beyond them
Doug to 007. It's not just realistic. It's just not realistic for most people. My commute is too far for biking as well
Yes again, this is very very common. Very rarely do you live close enough to
walk to work. I thankfully can walk to work. I suppose if I wanted to, I could
hop in the car, drive down the driveway, and drive back to get a little bit of a
commute in, but I can't actually just walk into the studio. This is, we got another comment coming in from
honor seeker. It is not the bike, it is the jerks that get in your way and think that they have the
right. Bicycles to me are virtue signaling on wheels. Yes, we see that from many, many bicyclists.
This holier than thou attitude. This, it was even displayed far back in Calvin and Hobbes. I remember
a very specific panel. Calvin's dad was a cyclist,
and Calvin asked him for some kind of comment
about something or other, and he said,
I hope gas goes up to $5 a gallon,
and went off on about how cyclists have a right
to use the road as well, or something like that.
So I remember that comic very vividly,
I hope it goes up to $5 a gallon bit.
Meanwhile, only 14% of the 7,447 respondents
use public transportation while just 9% ride their bike.
Oh no.
Again, the public transport in America is horrendous.
It's awful.
You don't wanna use it.
It's, for one, not safe.
For two, it's not on time. For two, it's not on time.
For three, it's usually not clean. It's just all around bad.
It is objectively better to have a vehicle that will take you directly to your location at any
time that you want to go there. The only reason they go with these public transportation things
is because those tend to be the only practical option in a lot of these European cities
The only and of course most of these people hate cars specifically because they've been sold on the climate scam
They've been told since they were children that the planet is going to melt down
Because you're driving a car because I'm driving a car and we can't have that happen. We
need everyone to get on their bicycles and pedal to save the planet. As the
chart shows, alternatives to the car have become more popular since 2019 but
none comes close to challenging the car's status as the king of the
American commute. There are several factors contributing to the low adoption
of bicycles as a means of everyday transportation. For what Americans are are used to commuting longer distances than most people in European nations,
automatically ruling out the bike for many.
And secondly, many major cities in the US aren't exactly bike-friendly, according to
a recent study.
Just two American cities made it onto the 50 most bicycle-friendly cities in the world.
There's also the fact that many American cities are not safe.
There are many cities in America where you wouldn't want to be out and exposed on a bicycle.
You feel having that barrier of the car can keep you protected to some extent.
Schwarzenegger urges green leaders to waste money on useless tokenism.
Stop whining!
Get to work!
Schwarzenegger tells environmentalists dismayed by Trump to stop
whining. He said Tuesday he keeps hearing from environmentalists and policy experts. Policy
experts lately asked, what is the point of fighting for a clean environment when the
government of the United States says climate change is a hoax and coal oil is the future?
Schwarzenegger told the Austrian World Summit in Vienna, an event he helps organize, that he
responds, stop whining and get to the chopper. Oh, and get to work. That was a different Arnold Schwarzenegger quote, one from a younger,
more fun Arnold Schwarzenegger. He was playing a different role in that one.
Exactly. Be the mayor that makes buses electric. Be the CEO who ends fossil fuel dependence. Be the school that puts up solar roofs.
That's right, waste all that money.
Get invested in the green scam.
Isn't that what we all want?
We just want to get scammed again.
Well, we're almost out of time folks.
We've got about two minutes left,
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Got some comments here in the last little bit.
Brian and Deb McCartney, our little towns are taken over by road diet lanes for cyclists
who do not occupy them.
It makes for more traffic accidents as these lanes double for turning
lanes when not occupied by the elusive cyclists. That's right, my mom and dad took a trip back
to where my dad grew up in Tampa and they drove around and they had cut the roads down and put
big old bicycle lanes on the sides of it. And the entire time they were there, they didn't see
a cyclist. They were driving around, they couldn't see one, they couldn't see one, and eventually they saw one singular, elusive, cryptid cyclist.
And my dad said, that's him, that's the guy, they did all this for that one man!
And that's the way it is all over the place. They're going to make us all miserable because of the climate scam to cater to this tiny, tiny population of lunatics. Well, again, thank you all.
Less about the bicyclists and more about making it hard on the cars and drivers.
Yes. Well, thank you all for joining us.
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