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So we are on the east coast of Florida here.
We are on the opposite side of obviously the Gulf where it's expected that the hurricane is going to make landfall.
Broadcasting will be on the radio today.
We had a tornado watch here last night.
I fell asleep, but Guy was awake in his place and my wife here, so...
You know, a little nervous, hoping everything goes okay.
We'll give you some updates on that, but I've got a lot of material to get to today, including another update with the FBI, possibly doing something with Facebook now.
This seems awfully weird.
And a couple of major international stories.
We only cover international geopolitical news.
There's enough going on here.
If it is a major earth-shaking story, and these two certainly are.
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I've got that, including the disgusting, grotesque media, again, pre-pouncing on the hurricane response by Ron DeSantis, despite the fact that the hurricane, as of the time we're recording, has not even made landfall yet.
This is how disgusting the filth in the media is these days, trying to cause division amongst the citizenry here during a crisis.
They're just gross, horrible people.
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Like that was actually in my head thinking about this FBI story.
I get to the hurricane coverage obviously in a minute here.
I kind of opened the show with it, but, uh, yeah, that, that's what was in my head.
You know, again, in case you're under any illusions here that our exposing of the FBI through a whistleblower interview was going to change direction and they were going to move towards reform and being a law enforcement intelligence agency rather than a bunch of political bouncers for the left, you'd be crazy.
Now, having said that, I'm not sure this had anything to do with the FBI.
I want to give them fair coverage on this.
I don't know that.
But this sounds awfully suspicious.
And if I'm going to give the benefit of the doubt to anyone at this point, it's certainly not going to be the FBI or Fakebook.
So I saw this story yesterday on Reclaim The Net, a site I've really grown to love.
It'll be in the newsletter if you want to read it.
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If you want to subscribe, I recommend you do.
Facebook censors the wife of the FBI whistleblower?
Oh, really?
Really?
So there's another FBI whistleblower out there, a guy by the name of Steve Friend.
We're going to try to talk to him too.
And last week, Steve Friend was suspended by the FBI after he refused to participate in what he felt was an unnecessarily heavy-handed raid of the home of someone who committed a misdemeanor during the January 6th riot last year.
Friend's wife's Facebook account Was suspended after she responded to a post by Moms for Liberty, an organization that advocates for the rights of parents and has been censored by Facebook before.
Folks, what the hell is going on here?
Listen, I'm not sure there was any coordination here.
However, if I were, I'm just going to say and throw this out there with a kind of a wink and a nod.
If I were a Republican congressman looking for some oversight opportunities right here, which is your job, right?
I would be asking if there were any emails between the FBI and them about this guy and his wife.
It seems awfully odd that a bunch of whistleblowers step forward to expose malfeasance at the FBI and all of a sudden the spouse gets censored on fakebook.
That seems awfully coincidental, doesn't it?
We've covered a lot in the FBI for the last few days, so I'm going to move on.
I'm going to leave that there, but I wanted to open up with it to let you know and let the FBI know and everyone else that no matter the threats, no matter the intimidation tactics, we're not going to back down and the audience isn't either.
Until you fix yourselves or you're disbanded, we're not going to stop.
We pay for the FBI.
You work for us.
It's a consent of the governed country and we deserve better.
All right, moving on.
Folks, two, two massive international stories involving both war and the global economy.
Now, the first story, I was going to cover this yesterday and I'm Honestly, folks, I'm horrified I didn't.
I should have covered it.
We had a few minutes at the end of the show, but it required a more detailed analysis.
And I'm sitting home last night, give me inside baseball into my head.
Uh, because I don't, you know, pretend to be the content curator better than anyone else.
And I see Tucker covering the story last night and I'm like, damn it.
I knew it.
I just had this feeling like you should have went with your instincts.
I put it at the end of the show and I put it, should have put it at the beginning.
The story's about who hit the Nord Stream pipeline.
I'm going to get to that in a second.
That's the important one because that was going to be on yesterday's agenda and I passed it till today and I'm freaking ticked off about it.
But this story, I'm not going to blow another opportunity, is huge for the global economy.
It may not seem so.
You may not hear about this on other shows.
You may hear about it on Tucker.
He follows this stuff pretty good tonight.
Wall Street Journal.
Don't be deceived by the rather anodyne headline, by the way.
Bank of England to buy bonds in a bid to stop spread of crisis.
UK central bank is launching an effort to restore order to the market for gilts.
You're like, what the hell cares?
What is that?
This is a cataclysmic level story.
Let me explain it very simply.
If you want to flush an economy with money, And you're the Bank of England, or the central bank here, the Federal Reserve in the United States.
One of the ways to do it is to go and buy bonds, which injects money into the economy.
It's really no more complicated than that.
The wonkery of how it's done, you can look it up, it's not super complicated.
You get it?
You want to insert money into an economy, call it quantitative easing, all kinds of names for it.
You just buy a bunch of bonds, you create the money digitally, and the money appears in the economy.
No more complicated than that.
Now, you may be saying to yourself, reading this headline, look at the date, folks, by the way.
September 28, 2022.
Joe, last time I checked, that's today.
Yeah!
Let's check in.
This isn't from two years ago.
So I know what a lot of you are thinking.
So the United Kingdom right now, which is suffering an inflation crisis even worse than ours here, One of the ways to combat massive inflation here and around the world is to drain money out of the economy because there's too much money chasing fewer goods.
So you're like, wait, am I reading that headline again?
They're about to buy bonds and inject more money into the economy?
Yeah, baby!
Spend that bread!
Spend that bread!
My daughter says they call it bread.
I don't know.
I'm not hip to the young people talk anymore.
I'm old.
I'm 47, right?
Save the stock market, baby!
Screw grandma!
You see what's going on here?
So Liz Truss is the new Prime Minister.
She's relatively conservative by United Kingdom standards.
She's in after Boris Johnson got the boot.
Truss is trying to move the country in a more conservative direction.
Well, what's going on here?
I'm absolutely convinced that people in the Central Bank and the Bank of England are trying to screw her over right now.
Their stock market and their financial market and their bond market are not doing great right now.
So the Bank of England is flushing money into the economy in an effort to give like an artificial drug-induced sugar high to the market over there.
Folks, listen to me.
I don't want to regret starting the show with this.
If we lose the listeners, I'm going to be really angry at myself.
This is a huge story.
This is financial suicide.
Do you understand what they're doing?
In an effort to save the stock market quickly and make trust look like an idiot.
In a massive inflation crisis, they're flushing more money into the economy.
You're like, what?
Yes!
Now, why does that matter?
Well, because the beatings will continue until morale improves.
Their currency is on the verge of collapse.
The pound is already collapsing now.
Against the US dollar!
This matters for you, why?
Well, what happens in the UK is going to spread around the world, home of the bond market, right?
But it matters to you because I'm telling you, ladies and gentlemen, right before an election, I wouldn't be surprised at all if the Biden White House starts putting pressure on Jerome Powell at the Fed to do the same damn thing here.
Oh, you know that quantitative easing to buy into bonds?
Maybe we double down on that.
Give the stock market a little juice before the election.
Ladies and gentlemen, it will cause an inflationary cascade like you've never seen.
The currency will collapse.
This is a huge story.
Joe, another reason why.
Damn the torpedoes.
Yeah.
Full steam ahead.
Now, that's not the only major international story.
I hope that didn't bore you with that, folks.
I'm fascinated by economics.
I'm not sure if many of you are.
You cannot do this in the middle of an inflation crisis.
This one's even more important, which I regret not covering yesterday.
Who hit the Nord Stream Pipeline?
The Nord Stream Pipeline is a pipeline under the Baltic Sea, delivers gas from Russia to Germany.
It is a critical pipeline.
The pipeline was sabotaged, there's no question about it.
It is now leaking into the Baltic Sea, creating a serious shipping crisis, because it changes the buoyancy of the waters, the ships can't go anywhere, not to mention the potential of a massive fire.
I didn't know that.
Oh yeah, I read it online, one of the articles, I was doing some research.
It changes the buoyancy, and also you have the obvious possibility of a massive fire.
The gas will obviously ignite.
So this has created a huge crisis.
Not to mention the fact that the Nord Stream Pipeline is one of the major delivery systems for Russian gas to Germany.
Now, it was only running at about 20%.
Why?
Because Putin's trying to starve Germany and freeze them outdoor in the winter by not giving them gas.
Everybody tracking?
So who hit this thing?
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Nord Stream Pipeline says unprecedented damage after the CIA warned the German government of sabotage.
A report from German news outlet Spiegel said that the CIA had cautioned Germany about possible attacks on Baltic Sea gas pipelines weeks ago.
Berlin is presently assuming it was a targeted attack on the Nord Stream system, unnamed sources say.
Folks, you have to start asking yourself now the obvious questions.
Who hit this thing?
Where is this gonna go?
You see why these two stories are so important?
The United Kingdom, the Bank of England may have just started an international currency crisis that takes down the world economy.
I'm not kidding.
And whoever hit this Nord Stream pipeline, the Russian delivery system to Germany, may have just started the World War I Archduke Ferdinand moment.
Tucker covered this last night too, but this is a huge deal.
Who hit this thing?
There were obvious usual suspects.
I'm not talking about the movie.
Just thinking of that line up and the usual suspects.
Give me money, man.
That was English.
What the?
Let me just think of that.
Sorry.
Who did it?
Russia?
The United States?
Germany?
With Germany?
Who did it?
I want you to remember this, though.
Here's a cut.
Hat tip, Mike Cernovich.
I saw this on his social media feed yesterday.
Here is Biden, this is months ago, answering a question about what would happen if Russia escalates and specifically mentioning the Nord Stream pipeline.
Listen to what he says very closely, especially the end of this.
Check this out.
If Germany, if, uh, if Russia invades, uh, that means tanks or troops crossing the, uh, the, the border of Ukraine again, then, uh, There will be no longer a Nord Stream 2.
We will bring an end to it.
But how will you do that, exactly, since the project and control of the project is within Germany's control?
We will, I promise you, we'll be able to do it.
Again, his words, you know, not mine.
What did he mean by that?
For as dopey as this guy is, he's got a tendency to kind of out himself.
Now, making the situation even more bizarre, this article in Forbes by Michael Schellenberger, dated yesterday, US blew up Russia gas pipelines Nord Stream 1 and 2, says former Polish defense minister, who thanked the US for doing that.
Interesting, because they have a different gas delivery system.
Folks, what the hell's going on here?
You have to ask yourself now, and you have to do this using reason, which liberals are incapable of most of the time.
But put the politics aside for a minute, even though I didn't just do that there.
Whose motivations, who would be motivated more to do this?
You might say, well, Russia, Russia would sabotage the pipeline.
Because if Russia sabotages the pipeline, there'd be no gas to Germany.
Germany would be frozen outdoor in the winter.
The pipeline is operating at 20%.
Russia sabotaged it to put them in a bad spot.
That's certainly possible.
However, I think it's highly unlikely.
Russia's already flaming gas, burning it off in their own home territory, wasting all of this money.
They could just shut the pipeline down.
Now, shutting it down has long-term ramifications, but Joe, so does blowing it up.
Why not just shut it down?
Yeah.
It doesn't make sense.
No, no, no, they won't shut it down because it could damage the pipeline and be hard to start up again.
Yeah, so does blowing it up.
But what are the United States' potential motivations, the Biden administration specifically?
Because they're not your motivations.
Well, they'd create some dependency by European countries on LNG deliveries from us, on gas from us.
And it'd also reinforce alternate delivery systems from Poland and elsewhere.
Hmm.
Sounds like a good deal.
Also, do you notice how the left hates pipelines now?
They don't want to, uh, they don't want to advance Keystone.
If they could legally get away with it, even sometimes they haven't, they'll sabotage pipelines here.
Is the Biden administration crazy enough to do this?
To light a spark that might cause World War III?
The answer is, I wouldn't be surprised.
And I bet neither would you.
I don't know who did this.
Let me be absolutely clear on that.
I don't know.
I don't have CIA sources peeking into me and telling me.
I'm just looking at this reasonably saying, who has motivations to do this?
And the motivations of the Biden administration and the Green Agenda, I think are far greater than the motivations of Russia right now.
However, Russia's in a bad spot too.
A really bad spot now.
This pipeline was pretty, pretty damaged.
Now you'd think the United Kingdom, I just got done talking about it, the Bank of England, now engaging in economic suicide, wouldn't at least engage in energy suicide too.
Ha!
The verdict is in!
You'd be wrong.
BBC from two days ago.
Labour conference.
It's the equivalent of the Democrat-Liberal movement here.
Labour.
Starmer's ambition is to get off fossil fuels by 2030.
Brian Wheeler, BBC.
You're in the middle of being frozen to death, European countries, the United Kingdom in the middle of a massive economic crisis, electric bills and fuel bills to keep homes warm during the upcoming winter in the UK are exploding, and the liberal movement in the United Kingdom, they're eager to get off fossil fuels by 2030, just eight years from now, to make sure you freeze to death.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is freaking suicide.
Right here.
You're watching it right now.
I'm going to stay on top of these stories.
Who hit the Nord Stream pipeline?
And what the hell does the Fed in the United States do now that the Bank of England has thrown caution to the wind and just basically threw a gallon of gasoline on a campfire in the middle of a bunch of dry leaves?
Inflation crisis about to explode.
Alright, here's what I got coming up.
The media is pre-pouncing.
Have we ever seen a pre-pounce?
They're pre-pouncing on Ron DeSantis for a hurricane response that, as of this recording, hasn't happened yet because the hurricane hasn't made landfall.
But it doesn't matter.
He's a Republican who could run for president one day, so you gotta attack Ron DeSantis because you're the disgusting media, that's why.
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Okay, the media pre-pouncing!
So, we've got one of the largest hurricanes to strike on the gulf side of the western coast of Florida in decades.
It's going to be catastrophic.
My cousin Leigh lives over there.
She just moved down to Florida about a year ago.
She was kind of freaked out a little bit.
She evacuated.
She's over here on the east coast now.
A lot of the residents over there on the west coast, matter of fact, I would bet the majority of them Outside of maybe Naples that saw a hurricane a couple years ago, have probably not experienced a hurricane of this magnitude.
So you think it would be time for the media to do, you know, this thing called journalism?
It's not a lot to ask, like report the facts, help people during a crisis, get them the numbers they need, the preparedness information they need.
And at least relay the thoughts of the governor and the political leadership of the state honestly.
Of course they can't do that because the media is a disgusting entity, largely, full of people who have a political agenda.
And Ron DeSantis is currently one of the top prospects for the presidency in 2024, depending on what Donald Trump does.
So here's what happened yesterday.
Ron DeSantis has given a press conference about emergency response.
And ladies and gentlemen, let me just say in advance, I'm here.
I get it.
I'm a Republican.
Ron DeSantis is a Republican.
I'm a big supporter of his agenda down here.
I'm not pretending to be a journalist on the matter.
However, I am not pretending when it comes to giving you the facts.
If DeSantis' response sucked, I don't care if the election's 40 days away or not, I would tell you.
The coverage has been all over the place.
He has been out in front of the cameras every day.
They declared a state of emergency.
He has been all over.
I'm here.
You're not going to tell me what happened.
I'm in Florida.
They have been all over this storm for seriously like a week now.
Get your batteries.
Get your gas.
Evacuate.
Here's the evacuation routes.
Let me beat it to death.
Here's DeSantis yesterday, some hack reporter pre-pouncing on his response despite having none of the facts at all.
And DeSantis just, again, just dropping a bomb on their head, which is what they need to hear, these idiots.
Check this out.
FEMA Administrator Criswell said today that she acknowledged concerns that Florida, as was said, lacks response to the storm so far, and that- Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Give me a break.
That is nonsense.
Stop politicizing, okay?
Stop it.
We declared a state of emergency when this thing wasn't even formed.
We've had people in here, you've had counties doing- they've done a lot of hard work, and honestly, You're trying to attack me I get but like you're attacking these other people who've worked very hard and so so that's just totally false.
I don't think we've ever certainly since I've been governor declared a state emergency this early.
We made sure that we were very inclusive with it.
We said that there was a lot of uncertainty and and we've worked to make sure the preparations that have been done and all the the stuff you talk to the people at the counties when they've needed something stuff gets there very quickly because of what Kevin and his team have done.
I mean, really, the pre-pounce?
Guys, ladies in the media, you know, just a quick word of caution.
Everybody already thinks you're pieces of garbage and nobody trusts you.
I shouldn't say everybody, precision does matter.
About 80% of Republicans, probably more, don't trust anything you say and think you're garbage, like filth.
Seriously, like they go to the bagel guy on the corner and ask him for his advice before they ask yours, because they think you're morons and liars and hacks.
Probably about 20% of Democrats and probably about 50% of Independents feel the same way.
They think you're sleazeballs.
Maybe during a crisis, maybe like you have the facts before you attack the governor on the response.
You don't think if DeSantis was blowing it, there wouldn't be a thousand county commissioners on the Democrat side jumping in front of the television to tell you right now what a loser this guy was?
Where are they?
The answer is they're nowhere.
Because he's been all over the place.
Showing you again how the sleazeball media, they're eager to pre-pounce and criticize.
You watch over the next few days.
I saw Ben Shapiro had tweeted, and he's right.
Cheated is in my head thinking of the media people.
He had tweeted that, you might as well get off Twitter today if you're not ready.
Did you see this tweet, D?
For the next five or six days of the media talking about blaming everything on Ron DeSantis.
There'll be a gas station owner in Tampa Bay who runs out of gas and it will be Ron DeSantis' fault.
It doesn't matter that it doesn't... Really.
You could have Alexander the Great in charge and it wouldn't make a... There are going to be complications.
It's a freaking near category 5 hurricane making landfall in a region that hasn't seen a storm this strong in decades.
Everything will be Ron DeSantis' fault.
Because the media... What's that?
That's such a good point.
Joe, the hurricane hasn't made landfall.
He's like, the story's already written.
Gas station owner, they have it blank.
They have the gas station blank.
Ran out of gas.
They're going to have public supermarket at blank intersection.
Ran out of bread.
Ron DeSantis did it.
That's Santos.
Such scumbags.
Here, you want to see another example of this?
Here's the FEMA Administrator, Criswell.
She's at the White House Brady Press Room yesterday doing a briefing on the response.
She's asked a question by, I think, the NBC guy about, you know, the response and the coordination between Biden and DeSantis.
I want you to listen to what she says and pay very close attention if she says the words, excuse me, lax response.
Listen for those two words and tell me if you hear them.
Check this out.
One of the mayors said that one of the primary concerns was complacency.
I'm curious, the president spoke to big leaders.
First question to you is about complacency.
The second is you've spoken to the governor of the state.
Why hasn't the president?
Is there a scheduled call for the two men to speak?
Obviously, as they're the preeminent leaders of the country and of that state.
I do have concerns about complacency.
We're talking about impacts in a part of Florida that hasn't seen a major direct impact in nearly a hundred years.
Did she say anything in there when he asked the question about DeSantis and Biden talking about DeSantis's lax response?
So of course Politico notes this.
This is a hat tip to the DeSantis team who figured this out.
Here's the before in a Politico article talking about the woman you just heard, Criswell, FEMA Administrator.
Still, Criswell acknowledged concerns about a lax response to storm warnings from Floridians.
And she did!
Really?
The lax response is going to be the narrative about DeSantis moving forward.
So thankfully, Politico was forced to stealth edit.
You'll see the after.
Still, Criswell acknowledged concerns about Floridians not heeding warnings.
Now she's blaming the Floridians.
They're blaming Floridians, the author of the piece.
Excuse me.
You see how this works?
The lax response narrative, as Guy just said.
The stories are already written.
Now they're just going to find the problem and they're going to blame it.
Remember, Hurricane Sandy was not Obama's fault.
Remember that, folks.
Nothing that happened was Obama's fault.
He was a hero.
But Katrina, Bush, forget it.
Even though they told the Democrat mayor, Nagin, and the governor repeatedly to get the people out and they didn't.
I'm no Bush guy, believe me.
Trust me on that one.
But that was all Bush's fault.
The stories have already been written.
I just need you to pay attention to it in advance.
That way, you just throw it in the garbage the minute you see it.
If it's a legitimate story about something he screwed up, we'll cover it here, you have my word.
We don't do politics with that stuff.
But I can guarantee you 99 out of 100 are going to be fabricated stories attributed to DeSantis despite the fact that no one could have fixed this.
Unbelievable.
Now, you want to see the difference between them and the Biden administration?
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These are the unserious people in the White House.
You got DeSantis.
I'm watching local news.
The guy's on TV all day.
He's giving impromptu interviews to Fox, doing local interviews, radio stuff.
All day talking about the response, the assets they brought in, the emergency units, FPL, Florida Power & Light getting ready to go.
All day he's talking about it.
You don't hear about this nationally.
I do.
I see it.
I live down here.
And then you've got these other idiots, Biden and Amy Klobuchar and other Democrats.
I want you to contrast DeSantis with their response.
I'll show you what I mean in a second.
Biden's big warning about what you need to do in a hurricane.
It's laughably stupid.
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Okay, so contrast the Ron DeSantis response to this hurricane, which has been incredible so far, with Joe Biden's response.
Here is Joe Biden telling you, here's the priority of what you need to do in a hurricane.
What, evacuate?
Get your emergency radio together?
Find a location for your pets?
Know where your local shelter is?
No, no, no.
Check this out.
Here's the most important thing.
Take a listen.
Let me be clear.
If you're in a state where hurricanes often strike, Like Florida or the Gulf Coast or into Texas.
A vital part of preparing for hurricane season is to get vaccinated now.
Everything is more complicated if you're not vaccinated and a hurricane or natural disaster hits.
Too much stupid on the field!
Yeah.
Repeat first.
I'm just going to leave that there.
Joe summed it up beautifully and he's correct.
That's too much stupid for me to even address without getting dumber myself.
Here's another one.
Here's Amy Klobuchar, far left radical user of Combs.
Look it up, you'll see what I mean.
Amy Klobuchar.
Here's her take on it.
Where the Inflation Reduction Act, which has done nothing to stop inflation, it actually ticked off.
It was a big Green New Deal boondoggle.
That's going to help us stop the hurricanes in the future.
Here, check this out.
We just did something about climate change for the first time in decades.
That's why we've got to win this as that hurricane bears down on Florida.
We've got to win in the midterms.
We understand that.
Folks, These are not—you understand, right?
These are not serious people in charge right now.
These are not serious people.
If there were a class of morons, this is what it looks like.
I mean, so you—this is what you—ah, man.
Oh, am I wasting your time?
Really?
You got people freaking out, my cousin included.
I ran for Congress over there on that coast.
The Fort Myers, Bonita, Naples area.
That was a congressional district.
19, I ran it.
Byron Donald's a congressman there now.
You've got people down there justifiably freaking out over a monster storm about to destroy some of their homes and cause massive flooding.
You've got one idiot talking about getting a vaccine and another idiot talking about the Inflation Reduction Act.
How do you vote for these morons?
Speaking of the vaccine, by the way.
Did you see this story?
Our buddy Technofog and his substack.
COVID-19 vaccine mRNA now found in breast milk.
Oh, you know, maybe we would have known about this earlier, Joe.
If we were allowed to discuss these things on ScrewTube, Twitter, and Fakebook, but they were so in love with censorship and kissing the ass of the hack Biden administration Fauci's of the world, that you're just finding out about this stuff now after many of you already got the thing.
Me included, by the way.
Greatest medical mistake of my life.
Period.
There's not even a close second.
I'll explain more about that next week, by the way.
Biggest mistake of my life.
I'm just your humble radio host here.
I do dumb things all the time.
All the time.
I think the difference between conservatives and liberals is I learn from them.
It's going to be a subject of a Well, I think I just leaked out that I'm doing another book.
There you go.
I've had this idea.
It's driving me crazy.
I didn't want to write another book.
It's been like three years.
But I don't know.
I gotta get it out before it's too late.
It's been sitting in my head.
A lot of things went wrong.
And I think learning is what separates us from liberals.
Look at this story, folks.
And I want you to pay very, very close attention to the date on this.
COVID vaccine mRNA found in breast milk.
The study was conducted from February to October of 2021.
Initially reported as February to October of 2020.
More on that in a moment.
And included only 11 lactating women.
So it's a small sample size.
Again, to be fair, we do actual science here.
Five of whom received the Moderna vaccine, six received Pfizer.
The comparison was made between their pre-vaccine breast milk, the control, and post-vaccine breast milk.
The results?
The breast milk of five out of 11 women had detectable COVID-19 vaccine mRNA in their breast milk.
For those keeping score, that's 45%.
Nearly half of the study group.
There's the stats up right there.
You put it up if you're watching on the rumble.
Folks, again, this would be the kind of thing if you were a mother getting ready to bear a child that if you weren't censored for discussing the potential downsides of the vaccine, you may have known about earlier.
Now, why the early reporting date 2020-2021 that's just coming out now?
I'm not attributing any ill will.
Maybe it just took some internal review processes or whatever it is, but I'd like to get an answer to that.
Wouldn't you?
Why is the science, air quotes, just now catching up?
Maybe this is the kind of thing we should have spoken about before, but we weren't allowed.
Remember when I told you the cloth masks and the surgical masks didn't work for preventing the spread of COVID?
Remember when I said that?
What happened to me?
I was suspended by YouTube and then banned altogether.
We're the heretics of our time for speaking the truth.
Well, it was interesting, because Russell Brand, who's about... Russell Brand is a comedian, but he's become kind of a political commentator.
You may have heard of him.
Russell Brand is about to start a live show on Rumble.
I'm an investor in Rumble, you know that.
He's about to start a live exclusive show on Rumble, but he still has an account on YouTube, Russell Brand.
So Russell Brand has been obsessed with a lot of the scientific censorship as well.
So it's weird, Joe.
Right before Russell Brand was about to go live and exclusive on his stream on Rumble, YouTube decided to strike his account.
So Russell Brand spoke out yesterday, which led to a series of very interesting events involving me, the CEO of Rumble, Elon Musk, and others.
First, listen to Russell Brand saying, hey, listen, this is basically garbage.
I'm going over to Rumble because of the censorship.
Check this out.
We have been officially censored by YouTube.
They took down one of our videos for misinformation.
But why are big media organizations not censored for misinformation in the same way?
Is it because YouTube are part of the mainstream media now?
Earlier this month we did a video about the changing narratives around COVID, the pandemic and COVID treatments in which we cited information on official government websites which we misinterpreted.
I'll have to be careful talking about it now because I don't want to make the same mistake that's had one of our videos pulled down and an official warning issued.
The good news is we're moving to Rumble.
All of our content is up on Rumble first and we'll be streaming on Rumble every day.
So Russell Brand, he's at Rusty Rockets on Twitter, posted that to Twitter, that video.
As you can see, if you're watching me on Rumble right now, to which Elon Musk responded, good point, to Rusty Rockets.
To which I responded to Elon, Elon, it would be really incredible if you and Rumble got together, a force multiplier like no other.
To my surprise, Elon responded back.
Got about a thousand texts.
Dan, is that Elon Musk responding to you?
I said, it looks like it is.
He said, I'm a little preoccupied right now, I guess with the Twitter thing, which I found kind of funny.
I liked, as you can see.
So after that, another interesting exchange happened with Elon.
Chris Pavlosky, the Visionary CEO and one of my best friends in this business, and just a good and decent human being, who is the CEO of Rumble, then responded back to Elon, saying, Elon, I founded Rumble and wanted to work with you.
Below is 2010 when I visited SpaceX.
I was ready 12 years ago.
I'm ready 12 years from now, whenever you're ready.
In the meantime, let's peer our data centers with Starlink to secure free speech.
Elon Musk responded to Chris.
Maybe worth talking at some point.
Folks, I wasn't kidding when I said it.
That would be a force multiplier on Diana Ball.
Would change everything.
Maybe it is worth talking at some point.
Those are conversations we would certainly welcome.
And why?
They'd be welcome because of speeches like this.
Did you see this speech by Jacinda Ardern?
This happened at the UN.
She is the Prime Minister of New Zealand.
This is one of the most terrifying speeches.
How this hasn't made its way around the internet is puzzling to me.
It's one of the most terrifying speeches you will ever hear.
This is the Prime Minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern, talking about using war analogies when it comes to her push.
She is a liberal lunatic to censoring online activity.
This is why Elon, Rumble, all of these entities need to get together and push for this parallel economy right now.
We would welcome talking to you.
Listen to this speech.
This is horrifying.
Check this out.
This week we launched an initiative alongside companies and non-profits to help improve research and understanding of how a person's online experiences are curated by automated processes.
This will also be important in understanding more about myths and disinformation online, a challenge that we must as leaders address.
Sadly, I think it's easy to dismiss this problem as one in the margins.
I can certainly understand the desire to leave it to someone else.
As leaders, we're rightly concerned that even the most light-touch approaches to disinformation could be misinterpreted as being hostile to the values of free speech that we value so highly.
But while I cannot tell you today what the answer is to this challenge, I can say with complete certainty that we cannot ignore it.
To do so poses an equal threat to the norms we all value.
After all, how do you successfully end a war if people are led to believe the reason for its existence is not only legal but noble?
How do you tackle climate change if people do not believe it exists?
Folks, Hat tip, Steve Dace, a good friend of mine, who put this out there.
This is one of the most troubling, disturbing speeches for the new dystopian future we're looking at I have ever heard in my life from a politician.
This woman is a horrifying mix and a blend of dictatorship, insanity, and totalitarianism.
Make no mistake, though.
The words she verbalized in that speech to the United Nations are the feelings of every single liberal and socialist leader around the world.
There's nothing they want more than to shut down the free and open internet.
That's why I'm making a plea to Elon now.
Please.
Let's join hands in this.
We could use you.
I think you could use us, too.
It would mean a lot.
Free speech is at stake.
It's not melodrama.
It's a fact.
Listen to these people talk.
She's comparing this to a war.
What's next?
You're going to mobilize the military to shut down our data centers?
These people are crazy.
All right.
Let me get to my next sponsor, but coming up after that, I've got the second most horrifying video I saw yesterday.
Jerome Powell about digital currencies.
Oh my gosh, Dan, enough with it.
No, no, not enough.
Not enough.
It is one of the biggest, maybe second biggest threat after shutting down the free and open internet, is the digital currency.
And Jerome Powell says the quiet part out loud.
Something I've already warned you about, about digital currencies.
You think it's anonymous?
Ha!
Listen to him yourself.
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There are no more warnings I can put on the show to emphasize to you the gravity of the situation with central bank digital currencies.
It is a catastrophic threat to liberty and freedom.
A digital currency sponsored by the central bank, just so you understand, it's not crypto, it's not bitcoin, it is a federal reserve mandatory currency.
And it would wipe out cash, meaning you'd have a little whatever, app on your phone, that's how you'd spend money everywhere.
Now, I've warned you that the purpose of a digital currency is not efficiency.
There may be efficiency externalities to using a digital currency.
You know, you wouldn't have to change cash.
You wouldn't have to hump anything over to the bank.
It would all be digital, right?
However, far outweighed by the efficiencies are the inefficiencies of the government using it as a mechanism to spy on you.
Oh, you made political donations?
Let's just go to Dan Bongino's Central Bank digital currency account.
Oh, look at that, he donated to a Republican.
Oh, he bought a gun last week?
I did, as a matter of fact.
I did buy a gun last week.
Bought a .38.
It was a pretty good one.
Always wanted a .38.
Bought it for my buddies down here, Lotus.
Great gun.
I'm telling you that, but I'm allowed to.
It's my show.
It's none of the government's business.
Listen to this from Jerome Powell.
Because a lot of people who support digital currencies will be like, ah, no worries, man.
It'll be anonymous.
No one's going to know who spent what.
Really?
Listen to Jerome Powell, the head of the Federal Reserve.
Say the quiet part out loud.
Check this out.
We think that there are four characteristics of, if we were to pursue a CBDC, it would at a minimum have the following
four characteristics. First is intermediated, second is privacy protected, but third is
identity verified. So it would not be anonymous, it would not be an anonymous bearer instrument,
and fourth is transferable or interoperable. So we would be looking to balance privacy
protection with identity verification, which has to be done of course in today's traditional
banking system as well.
I don't know what else to say.
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Except, you have to act now.
You have Congress people.
You have state delegates.
Yeah, a state delegate may not have much of a say in national politics, but they may have goals to get there one day.
Congress or the Senate.
You should express your disapproval of a digital currency, and any time you get a microphone at one of these events, ask them for their opinion on it.
If they like a digital currency, I wouldn't like them.
Alright, just a couple more quick stories before we go.
I'm sure you'll forgive me for wrapping up today maybe a minute or two early.
We are dealing with this hurricane and it is kind of nasty over here even though we're on the East Coast.
I want to play this from Unfiltered.
You know, you've heard a lot of bad news about the coming election.
Oh, the Democrats, Biden's turning it around, the red wave has disappeared.
Listen, maybe so.
I haven't been seeing that down here in Florida.
I'm seeing a lot of excitement on behalf of Republicans to get out and vote.
I had Robert Kahaley from Trafalgar.
He's one of the few polling entities, Trafalgar, that nailed the last few elections.
They do it for a number of reasons.
They ask the neighbor a question.
How do you think your neighbor would vote?
And it eliminates a lot of bias in polling.
I asked Kahaley about turnout, and I want to leave you with a bit of an optimistic note.
He had this to say about voter turnout and Republicans showing up in droves.
Check this out.
You have a fascinating perspective on this.
Why do pollsters keep getting the numbers wrong and underreporting GOP support?
It's a pattern here.
Well, it certainly is.
And I think part of it is that they keep asking these ridiculously long questionnaires and they just lose average people.
And in 2016, you had shy Trump voters who were hesitant because just to say who they were for, they didn't want to be judged for it.
And in 2020, they were a little leery to even participate in polls.
And I think this time it could be worse.
They may be underestimating Republican support and therefore turn out again.
Now for us, the idea is to take this and not say, oh good, turnout's gonna be good, I don't need to vote.
I know you're not saying that.
But I need you to take this and now it should motivate you to get your kids, your wife, your friends, your neighbors, and get 10 people to the polls.
We cannot lose this election.
Get the FBI story, the digital currency story, potentially World War III with this destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines.
There's no time for idiots in charge.
The Klobuchar Joe Biden class.
Hey, one more story I want to get out.
Another thing, you're not wasting your time here, I've warned you about, not just CBDCs.
Joe Manchin.
The guy is a scammer.
He is a 2-bit, 3-card Monty guy from Times Square.
I've been warning you about this clown Joe.
How long?
For like 8 years now.
Forever.
The guy's a fake, a phony, and a fraud, and people keep falling for him.
Joe Manchin.
Oh, I got a bunch of permitting reform.
It's going to help us with oil and natural gas.
Look at me.
I'm not a real Democrat.
I'm like you Republicans.
Keep voting for me.
And I did it in exchange for the Inflation Reduction Act.
Really?
Wall Street Journal shows you what Joe Manchin's permitting bill was really about.
It was a scam the whole time, just to be clear.
Manchin, again trying to fake being a moderate, pushed through his vote.
His vote is singly responsible, single-handedly responsible for pushing through the dreadful Inflation Reduction Act, which made inflation worse, it's gone up, and is a big Green New Deal handout.
He did this.
So he told everyone in West Virginia, oh, don't worry.
I got something in exchange.
I got permitting reform.
And everybody was like, oh, really?
That's great.
We can get more permits for pipelines and oil and natural gas projects.
No, that's not what it was.
That's not what it was.
He screwed you over again.
The Wall Street Journal reports what was in the actual permitting bill.
Manchin wanted to screw you over double-barreled, family-friendly again.
In essence, here's what he wanted to do.
FERC, which regulates across the country, the interstate transmission lines for energy, they were only allowed to put up lines in the past if they had some sort of state approval.
This new bill, FERC, could override states and approve a line merely because it reduces CO2 emissions or encourages renewable power.
Okay, you're like, time out.
So Manchin wanted to push a bill that made it easier to build transmission lines.
Well, that should be a good thing, right Dan?
That's not why Manchin was doing it.
Manchin was doing it because of Part 2.
Because California, and other states out there, who have a bunch of solar power that they can't unload during the day, want a bunch of transmission lines to get that power around other portions of the country that don't want it or don't need it, and states are saying, we don't want that, so now FERC and the federal government could go in and say to the states, double-barreled, not family-friendly, here you go, you're gonna take our power and put a transmission line in your backyard even if you don't want it.
Manchin is full of crap.
Always.
That's what he does.
This was a handout to the Green New Deal people who want you to run a power line from Kim Kardashian's house to a red state like Florida, even though we don't want it.
Always a scam with Manchin.
Every time.
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