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The David Knight Show - 6/5/2025

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	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, the panopticon that is being constructed around us.
	And the tech leader going on dark retreats, where they presumably commune with dark forces.
	And the government's war on parents continues.
	Stay with us.
	Well, good morning and thank you all for joining us on this lovely Thursday.
	Hope you're all having a great day.
	And to start off, I'd like to remind you, if you're watching the show on Rumble, DLive, or Odyssey, please hit the like button.
	That really does help us hopefully break through the algorithm.
	And as I said, we're going to look at Palantir.
	We're going to 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 going to 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 U.S. 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 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.
	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.
	A suspect was taken into custody without incident, the spokesperson said.
	Jail records state that Reyes has been charged with a misdemeanor, trespassing offense, and is being held at Palm Beach County Jail on a $50,000 bond.
	He pleaded not guilty later Tuesday during his first appearance.
	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...
	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 Tajirian 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 Arceo was arrested on the same charge after allegedly jumping over the outer wall at Mar-a-Lago.
	There's no Smiths or Jones jumping the walls.
	They're all names that are difficult to pronounce and making me 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's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr.
	And again, we're very glad that 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.
	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 Goodman, the New York Times.
	And none of them seem to care anything about the Bill of Rights or privacy.
	In fact, their only concern is that they don't scuff his boot as it crushes them.
	KWD-68, new power stations 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 going to get the big, beautiful nuclear reactors.
	We're going to get the dodgy solar and wind power.
	We're going to get the ones that turn off when we need it the most.
	We're going to 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, a 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 for 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 of 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 imagined 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 In-Q-Tel, or funded by In-Q-Tel, 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...
	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 U.S. 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.
	They're dangerous.
	They're going to kill us all.
	They need to be shut down.
	Yes.
	But Israel is now being hoisted by their own petard at the end of this brainwashing campaign they've engaged in.
	We 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 Gallagher, Palantir executive.
	And 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 InfoLibNews.
	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 CI.
	Hey, 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 In-Q-Tel, which is the CIA's venture capital firm.
	Palantir's Gotham and Tiberias software was used to collect health data for vaccine companies.
	Once again, Palantir's naming convention is all over the place.
	Gotham, Tiberias.
	Are they just picking names out of a hat?
	Did they throw a bunch of random pop culture?
	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 Karp that said that, I'm pretty sure.
	He was also once quoted in saying, our software single-handedly stopped the far right in Europe.
	That's right.
	Thank you, Mr. Karp, because what Europe needs is more left-wing politicians.
	We apparently have the clip of Carp Talking, which we are going to play now.
	So let's go to that.
	Well, we built PG, which single handedly stopped the rise of the far right in Europe.
	We built foundry, which was used to distribute the COVID vaccine and saved.
	Look, we built PG, which single handedly stopped.
	Thank you, Mr. Karp.
	Good job stopping the rise of the far right in Europe.
	Well, as you can see, that is the clip there, and we can stop playing that now.
	Thank you, Mr. Karp.
	As I said, stopping the rise of the far right, and I'm sure what he means by far right, As someone who would be considered liberal by 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, 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 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, 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, as Lance said, from a theological perspective.
	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.
	Oh no.
	They're dumbing our children down.
	That's our job.
	The schools are supposed to dumb down the kids, not TikTok.
	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 Palantirs.
	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 at 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 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 part and parcel of the ecosystem of quasi- Gotta love them.
	The Nazis government and its tax-funded gravy train.
	That's right, behind The ersatz 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, though the CIA was also intimately involved with 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.
	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, 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 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...
	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 TikTok, 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 onto 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 U.S. 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.
	Truly sad for us, but even more sad for the countries that have been on the receiving end of this beatdown, 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 Burke's upon your house.
	And we have definitely been dealing with a Burke's 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 in 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 as 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 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.
	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 expressed 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.
	And this man has 158,000 followers, and he is spreading this message to them.
	His name is Jack Maxey.
	He's asking, was MAGA a giant psyop?
	Xuser 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 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 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's unique 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 Lonsdale Pride, given the government does operate on sensitive data, I 100% prefer PLTR to be there if sketchy people are in charge.
	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.
	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.
	Inaccuracy 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, you know, it equates to the same thing, but since you used 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 a...
	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.
	Inaccuracy 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 while creating surveillance panic.
	Again, Palantir does not collect, store, or sell personal data.
	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 that, I don't trust your assessment on these things.
	makes me wonder if you're purposefully lying or disingenuous or if you're just dumb, Wendy.
	Those are the only two options, so...
	Also her claim, you could do this with Excel.
	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.
	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 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...
	Because that's how this always works.
	The algocracy 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, 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's an evil dictator, that human is going to die.
	If you're 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 immortal.
	Also immoral, or amoral at best.
	As we stand on the brink of a new technological order, the machinery of 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 the House and awaits Senate approval.
	It 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.
	A 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 1 to 20. Families and their attorneys are never told what the scores are 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.
	Rather than curbing these abuses, the Trump administration is accelerating them.
	An executive order titled Removing Barriers to American Leadership in 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.
	We're going to maximize governance by AI.
	And remember, focus on innovation.
	Throw those ethics out the window.
	I don't want to hear about ethics.
	I don't want to know that 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.
	This is what the technocrats call an algocracy, rule by algorithm.
	In an algocracy, 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 2014.
	This 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.
	A recently revealed recording never before heard, going back to the 1960s, of J.R.R.
	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 fanbase, 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 J.R.R.
	Tolkien stories.
	The Palantir, of course, was a device used to look at 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 Karp 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 embrace that, but they embrace 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 not only revealed you to the villain, Sauron, Represented by the all-seeing eye, it 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 who 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 In-Q-Tel, 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.
	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 and 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 PRISM program.
	And call into question the integrity of PayPal's Pierre Amityar's newly announced journalism venture with Glenn Greenwald.
	Whistleblower Sabelle 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, if 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 Amityar.
	About two months ago, Amityar 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, Amityar 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, Amityar'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 characterized the protest as a digital sit-in.
	PayPal pushed for felony charges, 15 years, and half a million dollar fines each.
	Amityar'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 to 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, 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 of the surveillance state.
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	Welcome back, folks.
	I want to thank for Love of 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.
	KWD68 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 aware.
	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 original 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 the 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.
	Of 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 if they still exist or 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 misery.
	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 4th millennium BC.
	Further strengthening 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 creation of heaven and earth from a primal, chaotic body of water in a very similar fashion 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 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.
	This common 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 look 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 mutations shows that mitochondrial E probably lived in Africa around 200,000 years ago.
	Likewise, a study conducted in 2013 with 1,200 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, I don't believe it was that long ago.
	I personally believe the Earth is between 6,000 to 10,000 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.
	No, you can't believe that.
	That's crazy.
	That's insane.
	Now we're going to 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, 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 is 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?
	Who are these people?
	Aaron Rodgers, he's 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...
	Well, he found out he is afraid of the dark.
	Is that what you were hoping for, Cardano?
	Uh, 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 20. 25 bucket lists.
	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.
	Hodgkinson declined to speak to Wired for this article, but Sky K 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 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.
	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, uh, Hoskinson is not the only tech elite seeking spiritual enlightenment in the dark.
	Darkest 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 attempt traversing and later flex about.
	Typically, a darkness retreat consists of several days alone in a room in complete darkness, Man, if you were an amoral person who didn't care about the spiritual well-being of others, you could 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.
	Four time NFL MVP Aaron Rodgers has spent four days in the dark.
	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.
	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 co-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 Mantak 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.
	rate.
	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 pressure 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 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, Machia 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 Cocoa 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...
	So here you go.
	Here's something you can relate it to.
	There are around five darkness retreat centers in the U.S., Berman says, with approximately 100 worldwide.
	Sky Cave has three dark rooms.
	Four night retreats cost $1,770 with an extra night to settle in and another to decompress afterward.
	They just give you a little nightlight and they tuck you in and give you a smooch on the forehead and say, that's all right.
	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 Czech 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 similarities with psychedelic trips.
	Dadguy24, they believe in their satanic rituals, even if you don't.
	That's right.
	Whether or not they 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, try to take off your ring finger.
	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...
	Dweebs.
	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.
	Instead 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 attending 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 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 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.
	We see over and over again people who are massively successful joke about it.
	But is it really a joke?
	A lot of these Silicon Valley tech billionaires genuinely credit demonic 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 information, you're going to be able to get to the next Inbound visual stimulation, be it your phone, light, TV, eventually you're left with dreams, thoughts, and blackness, he said.
	We 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.
	He 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's 68 nanny for Elon Musk said he was talking to demons at age 3. Believable.
	Elon Musk does seem like he's in communication with some very strange and unnerving forces.
	If 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 was 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 them 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 Gak, 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 his spiritually inclined Joe Rogan podcast listener fans.
	Marcus also had visions of flashing strobe lights, fractal geometry, and 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.
	Marcus 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 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 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 anthro.
	Psychedelicacies.
	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 is set to visit in the coming months.
	He and Holacek 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 efforts 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.
	A gathering for nerds and techies in rural Maryland, Yarvin, Yarvin, who left early, asked Miller to help him throw his own party in D.C., which came to be known as Vibe Kampf.
	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 mystic Moxa, 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 a 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 through the federal government.
	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 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 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 Yarvin's writings.
	Yarvin is hardly the Rasputin-like figure with Oval Office access that certain Blue Sky users imagined him to be.
	But it isn't difficult to see why some people may have come to this view.
	Last month, an anonymous Doge advisor told the Washington Post that it was an open secret that everyone in policymaking roles has read Yarvin.
	Stephen Miller, the President's Deputy Chief of Staff, recently quote tweeted him, Vance has called for the U.S. to retrench from Europe, a long-time Yarvin desideratum.
	Last spring, Yarvin proposed 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 advisers when he made a nearly identical proposal, describing as to who developed Gaza's, the Riviera of the Middle East.
	Gonna make it 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 invent 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.
	Accompanying Yarvin on his travels were Eduardo Geralt Brun and Alonso Esquinca Diaz, two millennial filmmakers who were shooting a documentary about his life.
	Their goal was to make a naturalistic character studying the style of gray gardens.
	I'm sure that's a wonderful film.
	Probably.
	Probably.
	In which, as Brun 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, when he called Labor's MAGA Lord for 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 the AIs racist.
	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, and Trump's tariffs plan.
	Not mercantilist enough.
	In a recent essay on Substack, he criticized the decision to dispatch 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 oracular 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 Yarvin 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 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-fiancee 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.
	Lawrenson, 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.
	Everyone went on Zoom dates with other women who answered the post, among them Caroline Ellison, the ex-girlfriend of the now-in-prisoned crypto entrepreneur, Sam Bankman-Fried.
	I mean, But he and Lawrenson 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, positive.
	Oh boy, what a delightful lady she seems to be.
	BDSM and pickup artistry.
	She and Yarvin fought often sometimes about politics.
	Lawrenson had moved away from the left, but she hadn't fully embraced Neo reaction.
	When I asked her if she'd ever changed Yarvin's mind about anything, she said she'd gotten him to stop using the N-word, at least around her.
	He later 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 Lawrenson, was Yarvin's autocratic attachment style.
	When they fought Lawrence and said he insisted that she provide a rational justification for ending hostility.
	This is a...
	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 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 was trying to point out what he's doing.
	It's like a DDoS attack of the soul.
	She told me in an email referencing the cyber attack strategy of overwhelming a server with traffic from multiple sources.
	James Dama, a friend of Lauren's who had his own falling out with Yarvin recalled.
	He would have a course joke about Lydia's weight or looks, not get a laugh and then get angry at Lydia for being too stuck up.
	How dare you not laugh when I belittle you to your face?
	How dare you not laugh?
	Tanner, Yarvin's first girlfriend, described a similar pattern of insults and demands.
	What a catch.
	Lawrenson and Yarvin broke up in the summer of 2022 while Lawrenson was pregnant.
	He told me that his desire for closeness might have struck Lawrenson as overbearing and stifling.
	That 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.
	The 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 ChatGPT 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 ChatGPT, warned journalist Mike Lee last month.
	Do you think this is a tiny fringe of lunatics?
	No, not in the least.
	Just five days ago, the moderator of a pro-AI Reddit announced that they are now banning these fanatics.
	More than 100 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.
	Reminds me of the 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.
	Alright, well, we're going to take a quick break.
	When we come back, we're going to 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.
	We'll be right back.
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	It's got the chess piece on one side and the microphone on the other.
	There's also hoodies and t-shirts and all kinds of different things.
	We thank you all for your support.
	We really do appreciate it.
	You have all been wonderful during this time.
	Got a comment here from Don't Frag Me Bro, the Eliza Effect, how a chatbot convinced people it was real way back in the 1960s.
	That people are using AI means they are allowing themselves to submit to the Eliza Effect.
	There are already cases of people becoming delusional from using AI.
	Yes, we've covered some of those stories that one individual who committed suicide after the AI, I don't know if it necessarily convinced him to do it, but it didn't discourage him.
	And he was obviously not a well-balanced individual.
	He had programmed or set the AI up to function as one of the characters from Game of Thrones, if memory serves.
	And he believed that by killing himself, he would cross over, pass between the worlds, and enter the world of Game of Thrones.
	Very, very sad.
	Kind of crazy that that was the fantasy world he wanted to go to.
	Yes, I've never read Game of Thrones, and I've never watched it either.
	But from what I've heard people talk about, it does not seem like the type of world you would enjoy.
	It seems rather brutal.
	Rather brutal and unpleasant.
	Defense Secretary orders Navy to rename ship named after gay rights activists accused of being a predator.
	Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the Navy to rename an oiler ship that the Obama administration named after gay rights activists.
	Military.com reported today, or Tuesday.
	In August 2016, then-Navy Secretary Ray Mabus named a shift after Harvey Milk, a Navy veteran of the Korean War who became a gay rights icon in the 1970s.
	and 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 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 SECDEF objectives and SECNAV 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 USNS Harriet Tubman, the USNS Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and the USNS Thurgood Marshall.
	Well, one thing we can say about the USNS 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.
	What are we going to do?
	And during Pride Month, to boot, said Senator Chuck Schumer.
	He served the U.S. 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 for 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.
	is Our nation's history and warrior ethos, Parnell said in a statement.
	Yeah, you've got to make sure you don't name it after another predator.
	That would be unfortunate.
	We've got to do a deep dive on who we're naming these after.
	This is another article about the renaming of the USNS Harvey Milk.
	Peter Hegseth orders name of gay rights leader Harvey Milk removed from U.S. 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 going to 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.
	Oh, we have a tip here from Shabri on Rumble.
	Thank you so much for the tip.
	Praying for David and family.
	Travis and Lance are a blessing to their family, and I am sure a source of pride to their parents.
	God bless you all.
	Thank you very much for the prayers.
	Thank you for the kind words.
	That is very, very kind of you.
	We appreciate it.
	And I've got a comment here from mycor89.
	Where is David?
	Well, in case anyone doesn't know, I'll give you an update.
	Again, beginning of May, our dad suffered a few mini-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, then 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 new.
	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 Chalhavi.
	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 of 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 Chulhavi 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's what Matthew wrote about those last hours of Jesus's 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, he 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 be possible, let this cup pass from me.
	Nevertheless, not my soul, 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, 36-44.
	The words in English that I highlighted and read 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.
	Paralupos, 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, 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.
	In 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.
	He had 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.
	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 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 translations like the KJV, The Greek word skandalizo, 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.
	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.
	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 were they 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 to the church, And he came up to Jesus at once and said, 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, 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.
	What is true love?
	The Greeks had several words they used that are usually translated into the English word love.
	Most of Western culture today defines love as sexual, eros in Greek, or in non-sexual situations such as friendship, which includes family members, phileo.
	When we think of these meanings of love, they are positive, happy feelings.
	But 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 me 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 his 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, son of John, do you love me?
	He said to him, Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.
	He 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 sheep.
	John 21, 15-17.
	Two different Greek words are used that are translated love.
	Agapo, godly love, and phileo, brotherly, friendly love.
	I bolded in red the words that are agapo, godly love, and bolded in green the words that are phileo, brotherly, friendly love here in this story.
	Peter could not use the word agapo, godly love, because he was painfully aware that he had just denied knowing Jesus, so he replies with a more worldly phileo, brotherly.
	Friendly love.
	The third time Jesus asked Peter if he loved him, he used phileo, 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 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.
	If we 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 for the nation.
	So from that day on, they made plans to put him to death.
	John 11, 47-53.
	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.
	We will be delivered up by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and some of you they will put to death.
	You will 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, 16-19 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 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 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 be right back.
	Stay with us.
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	Welcome back, folks.
	Hope you're all still having a great day.
	It is a pleasure to be here with you.
	I've had a good time with this show today.
	It has been a lot of fun.
	But 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.
	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 Doge team and spending months finding egregious levels of waste, fraud, and abuse within the U.S. 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 Doge's findings.
	It 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 X, His post was immediately met with support from Senator Rand Paul, who said, On Wednesday,
	Must continue 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 Uma Thurman.
	Must solution a new spending bill that doesn't jack the debt ceiling by $5 trillion while massively growing the deficit.
	A new spending bill should be drafted that doesn't massively 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 TheRabbitHole84.
	77 million Americans voted for dog cuts, not Washington's wasteful spending.
	And that's from Congressman John Rose, at RepJohnRose 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.
	Another Elon Musk tweet.
	Needless to say, the GOP has quite the...
	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 Bohm.
	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?
	The CBO estimates that one of the big, beautiful...
	If spending is higher than revenue, it has been the case in every single year since 2001, and the government has borrowed 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, 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.
	If 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 exemption...
	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 CBOs report outlines in stark terms, is that the 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 gonna sweep it under the rug.
	We're gonna 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, 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 ten 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.
	You've got to imagine Elon Musk was just seething as he stood there.
	Well, I mean, only $4 trillion.
	You've really just got to get rid of that.
	And it looks like we lost video.
	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.
	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 Besant has urged Congress to raise the nation's debt ceiling by mid-July to prevent a 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 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.
	If you can raise animals, if 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.
	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 davidknight.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.
	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.
	SoloCat, 1980.
	Dog was always a show while more waste remained subsidized.
	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.
	Five trillion.
	The increase in debt.
	Who can't love Trump, huh?
	That's right.
	Good old President Trump.
	It's done so much for the American people.
	Got an article here from the Babylon B. Absolute.
	Polar opposite, announced House Speaker Mike Johnson.
	To be clear, our plan isn't to just not do what voters asked 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 Bee 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 a 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.
	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, we're 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 $5 trillion over the next two years.
	This bill is the opposite of conservative, and we should not pass it.
	The president for his part has zeroed in on Paul as a 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 $5 trillion debt limit hike, but there cannot be a simple TCGA extension without also expanding the debt limit, wrote NBC News political reporter Sahil Kapoor.
	That would cause the U.S. to default.
	Well, the U.S. 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.
	Again, Musk is 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?
	Then his post suggests the legislation access 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.
	Any $1,000 credit for Level 2 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 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.
	This is by Olivia Rondu.
	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 Doge.
	But Republicans have also suggested that the Tesla CEO Is in opposition due to the bill slashing billions of dollars in electric vehicle.
	And again, they quote Politico.
	Shortly after the bill passed the House, Musk 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 Doge team is doing.
	That's right.
	They are hitting the Doge with the newspaper.
	They're saying bad Dogey.
	Bad Doge.
	Well, that's the rift between Musk and Trump.
	Largely because Trump is cutting his precious tax credits, raising the deficit, and spanking the doge.
	Big British back again.
	BBB, build 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 Lance pointed out.
	They couldn't even be bothered to try to fool you.
	Well, we'll take a quick break and we will be right back.
	Thank you.
	You're listening to The David Knight Show.
	Hello, it's me, Volodymyr Zelensky.
	I'm so tired of wearing these same t-shirts everywhere for years.
	You'd think with all the billions I've skimmed off America, I could dress better.
	And I could if only David Knight would send me one of his beautiful gray MacGuffin hoodies or a new black t-shirt with the MacGuffin logo in blue.
	But he told me to get lost.
	Maybe one of you American suckers can buy me some at thedavidknightshow.com.
	You should be able to buy me several hundred.
	Those amazing sand-colored microphone hoodies are so beautiful.
	I'd wear something other than green military cosplay to my various galas and social events.
	If you want to save on shipping, just put it in the next package of bombs and missiles coming from the USA.
	Music by Kevin MacLeod.
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	Welcome back, folks.
	Hope you are still enjoying the show.
	That Zelensky ad always makes me chuckle.
	What a clown Volodymyr Zelensky is.
	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 thinks have only gotten worse at accelerating.
	Trump continues this trend with his warp speed.
	That's right.
	He's accelerated things.
	It's moving faster than ever.
	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.
	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 ten, 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 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 ride our bikes to neighbors' houses sometimes.
	I lived a good distance away, but it was all, you know, backwoods North Carolina.
	Yes, we never really had to worry about traffic where we lived.
	A 76-year-old driver will not be charged.
	The Food Lion 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.
	Witnesses told WSOC-TV 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 $1.5 million 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 Gastonia 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...
	The one and a half million dollar bail and that they would make the charge manslaughter 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 manslaughter.
	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 alright.
	Stay with us, William said she told the child.
	And the government is persecuting, prosecuting this family who has already lost a son.
	They, uh...
	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 done many, many times.
	My dad would have...
	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 Skenazy.
	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 7-year-old son, Legend, was tragically killed by a car after running into the street on a walk to the store with his 10-year-old brother.
	If you're tasked with determining a punishment for the parents, would you A. Arrest them for manslaughter, 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.
	Jessica Ivey and Samuel Jenkins are facing felony charges of involuntary manslaughter and child neglect, as well as a misdemeanor child neglect charge, according to the NCB.
	The tragedy occurred on May 27th.
	Ivey 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.
	I guess Sonia 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, 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?
	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?
	Asked 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 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 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 non-profit that this author had.
	This isn't an isolated incident either.
	Across the country, parents are being criminalized for allowing their kids modest independence.
	These prosecutions reflect a growing distrust and parental judgment and an 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 some place.
	You can't trust them to know that their kid isn't trans and shouldn't be allowed to change their gender.
	This whole thing overlaps on the...
	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.
	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 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 or that it's trying to end 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.
	Back in the olden days, people walked everywhere.
	Kids were just out and about, playing 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.
	Ship carrying 800 EVs abandoned in Pacific after fire.
	our lovely, lovely electric vehicles are still causing issues, it seems like.
	On Tuesday, the morning Midas, a roll-on, roll-off, row-row vehicle 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 mid-sea incidents involving EVs.
	And they have two hyperlinks within the story, so you can see them there.
	Morning Midas had departed China in late May with a scheduled port call in Mexico.
	According to Bloomberg data, the U.S. Coast Guard evacuated all 22 crew members from the row-row 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 en 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.
	And 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 there'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?
	It was 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 EWN 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.
	I don't know if...
	Got all these stories and comments of...
	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.
	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 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.
	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, 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.
	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 and your spandex and go be a nuisance.
	You can do it, Dustin.
	I believe in you.
	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 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 actually just walk into the studio.
	We've 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.
	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, the 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 want to use it.
	It's, for one, not safe.
	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.
	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 one, Americans 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 U.S. 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 lately who 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.
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	Brian and Deb McCartney at 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.
	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 Well, thank you all for joining us.
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	The common man.
	They created common core to dumb down our children.
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	Their commons project to make sure the commoners own nothing.
	And the communist future.
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