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June 7, 2025 - The David Knight Show

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

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	As the clock strikes 13, it is Friday, the 6th of June, year of our Lord, 2025.
	And the Trump-Musk divorce is getting messy, as Elon now claims that the reason the Epstein files weren't released is because Trump is on them.
	And now the question is, was anyone surprised?
	The grifters want war.
	Mark Levin lobbies the White House to go to war with Iran.
	I wonder why.
	And the cruelty of the plandemic lockdown.
	Stay with us.
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	Thank you.
	Good morning, everyone.
	Hope you're having a lovely Friday so far.
	Thank you for joining us.
	And to start out, I would like to ask that if you are watching the show, please drop a like on the stream wherever you're watching it.
	And again, please pray for our dad.
	Please pray for the nerves in his tongue and his vocal cords that he'll be able to speak clearly again soon.
	And of course, as I said, we're going to start with the messy divorce between Elon Musk and Donald Trump yesterday.
	Musk got very upset and started tweeting that the reason the Epstein files haven't been released is that it's because Donald Trump is on them.
	Of course, we've all here known that to be the case.
	There's plenty of pictures of Donald Trump with Jeffrey Epstein.
	But maybe, just maybe, this will wake up some of the people in the MAGA crowd to the fact that they voted for this.
	Jeffrey Epstein, friend.
	I'm going to start with this Babylon Bee article.
	Judge determines Trump will get the nation on weekdays while Musk gets every other weekend and holidays.
	That's right, they're going to split the country.
	We're just children caught between these two fighting billionaires.
	U.S. As the American people sat back helplessly and watched a once-close relationship fall apart, a judge issued a ruling that President Donald Trump would get the nation on weekdays while Elon Musk would get it every other weekend and on holidays.
	The tumultuous split on the previously happy billionaires grabbed headlines this week, culminating both parties going to court to seek a fair custody agreement of the United States of America.
	Now, if this were true, Donald Trump would abide by it, because we've all seen that the second a judge tells him anything, he backs down from whatever he's doing.
	We got a good deal, though.
	I do believe the nation belongs with me, Trump told reporters after the judge's ruling was announced.
	The president is like a father, and I'm the father of this country, the best it has ever had.
	Maybe ever, except for George Washington, but he had a ponytail.
	He can't really trust a guy with a ponytail, from what I've been told.
	But Elon can still visit.
	For now, if he keeps this up, that might change.
	Musk was diplomatic in his response to the judge's decision.
	We will abide by the court order.
	He said in a statement, That's right.
	The billionaires have fallen out of love.
	Trump cut his EV tax cuts, and now Elon Musk is upset.
	He's unhappy.
	How could this happen to such a lovely couple?
	At publishing time, the White House issued a statement clarifying that President Trump would be responsible for taking the nation to all of its baseball practices and piano lessons.
	Well, that is, of course, the Babylon Bee, but there is a rift in the House.
	They don't seem happy with each other.
	Whether it's Elon Musk's ego over the dog cuts being scrapped, or he's upset that he's not getting his EV tax cuts anymore, he is lashing out.
	Elon Musk blasts Trump.
	Without me, Trump would have lost.
	This, of course, brings up the point that he was happy, oh so happy, to get Epstein's buddy, Donald Trump, elected until he slighted him.
	It's another petty ego battle that we're having.
	He has no principles.
	He didn't care that he was a friend of Jeffrey Epstein.
	He didn't care that he was apparently on the Epstein flight logs or in the Epstein files until he hurt his little ego.
	That's what this is about.
	This isn't about honor.
	This isn't about doing the right thing.
	The article describes President Trump's claim that Elon Musk is upset about the proposed tax bill.
	Trump suggests that Musk is particularly upset about the elimination of EV credits and is picked to run NASA being nixed.
	However, Musk responded to Trump's comments with a simple, whatever.
	Much like a moody teenage girl, whatever.
	And that is the level of response we're getting from Elon Musk.
	Whatever, Donald.
	Whatever.
	I'm just going to go post on Twitter.
	The alliance between President Donald Trump and Tesla CEO Elon Musk dramatically fractured Thursday over the president's major tax bill, which is pending in the Senate.
	Trump called Musk crazy.
	That's right.
	He's a crazy ex.
	And threatened to cut off government contracts with a mega-billionaire's company, which in addition to Tesla include the space exploration company SpaceX and the artificial intelligence company XAI.
	Tesla's stock price plunge after Trump's comment and Musk said SpaceX would begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately because of Trump's threats.
	Well, I'm going to take my spacecraft and go home.
	Truly.
	Just some petty children fighting and we're caught in the middle of it.
	Two petty tyrants arguing over who gets the pork.
	Tesla's stock price plunge after Trump's comment.
	Trump said that Musk, who until recently was one of his top advisors, opposes the budget package because he is upset about the elimination of electric vehicle credits in the bill and about the Republican president nixing his pick to run NASA.
	I'm very disappointed in Elon.
	I've helped Elon a lot, Trump told reporters at the White House, where less than a week ago he lauded Musk's work on the Doge project to cut federal spending and employee headcount.
	Elon and I had a great relationship.
	I don't know if we will anymore.
	Musk quickly and dismissively fired back at Trump in a post on his social media site.
	X. Whatever.
	That's right.
	They both have their own little social media empires.
	Donald Trump has True Social and Musk has X. And they'll send messages back and forth to each other between these two.
	They'll start posting moody photo edits and sad breakup songs soon.
	Which one is going to post Bring Me to Life by Evanescence first is the real question.
	Keeps the EV slash solar incentive cuts in the bill even though no oil and gas subsidies are touched.
	Very unfair.
	But ditch the mountain of disgusting pork in the bill.
	In the entire history of civilization, there's never been legislation that is both big and beautiful.
	Elon is right on this one.
	Without me, Trump would have lost the election, Musk tweeted soon after.
	He's also probably right on that as well.
	But of course, again...
	Dems would control the House and the Republicans would be 51-49 in the Senate, added Musk, who was the biggest financial backer of Trump's 2024 campaign, spending more than $250 million on that effort.
	Such ingratitude, he wrote.
	Don't you know I made you?
	I made you.
	You wouldn't be here without me, and you're going to take my pork barrel?
	Uh-uh.
	Musk launched a poll on X asking users, is it time to create a new political party in America that actually represents the 80% in the middle?
	That's right.
	A third party.
	Is that really what's going to save America?
	The Founding Fathers didn't like parties at all.
	So, I don't think that will do any good.
	Also, it would beg the question, who's going to sit at the top of this third party?
	Who would it be?
	Tesla shares slid by more than 8% as the feud erupted between the EV maker's CEO and the Republican president.
	Trump's analysis of Musk's motivation came after days of the billionaire condemning what Trump calls his one big beautiful bill over concerns that will blow out federal deficits.
	Musk on Tuesday called the bill a disgusting abomination.
	Tesla CEO Elon Musk Wright joins former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump during a campaign rally at the site.
	That was the caption of the image.
	You know, I've always liked Elon, said Trump on Thursday.
	I'd rather have him criticize me than the bill because the bill is incredible.
	Elon is upset because we took the EV mandate, you know, which was a lot of money for electric vehicles.
	Trump said, and you know, they're having a hard time.
	Electric vehicles, they want us to pay billions of dollars in subsidy.
	Elon knew this from the beginning, Trump said, referring to the elimination of the tax credits and the bill for the electric vehicles.
	He knew it a long time ago.
	I'm very disappointed because Elon knew the inner workings of this bill better than almost anybody sitting here, better than you people.
	He knew everything about it.
	He had no problem with it, Trump said.
	All of a sudden he had a problem, and he only developed the problem when he found out that we're going to have to cut the EV mandate, because that's billions and billions of dollars, and it really is unfair, Trump said.
	The president also said, referring to Isaacman, That's the person Musk put forward when it comes to running NASA.
	I'm sure Musk respected him, but to run NASA, I didn't think it was appropriate.
	He happened to be a Democrat, like totally Democrat, Trump said of Isaacman.
	And I say, you know, look, we won.
	We get certain privileges, and one of the privileges, we don't have to appoint a Democrat.
	NASA is very important.
	Well, I think it might be a good idea to start launching Democrats into space.
	He had an opportunity, and he could have taken it, but no.
	He's so short-sighted, folks.
	We could have started packing Democrats onto space shuttles and launching them directly to the moon.
	But no.
	Trump suggested Musk's pivot to becoming a critic is part of a pattern he has seen with others who previously served his administration.
	That's right.
	People get out and they're fed up with him.
	They hate him.
	They can't stand him.
	There's also the fact that most of the people in government are quite liberal and they're probably just putting on a front to get close to Trump.
	Of course, Trump is just putting on a front to get close to power.
	This is a common problem with me.
	Every time someone leaves my administration, they always hate me.
	It's insane.
	I don't know what's causing that.
	I don't know what it is.
	I keep encountering the same problem everywhere I go.
	Everywhere I go, the same problem.
	Don't know what it is.
	Trump suggested Musk's pivot to becoming a critic as part of a pattern.
	People leave my administration and they love us.
	And then at some point they miss it so badly, so badly.
	And some of them embrace it and some of them actually become hostile.
	I don't know what it is.
	It's sort of Trump derangement syndrome, I guess they call it, Trump said.
	But we have it with others too.
	They leave and they wake up in the morning and the glamour is gone.
	And the whole world is different.
	They become hostile.
	I don't know what it is.
	That's right.
	You wake up one day and you're not part of Trump's administration anymore and the glamour is gone.
	That's how he describes it.
	The glamour.
	It's not about serving the people.
	It's not about doing the right thing.
	It's not about the fact that, oh, I don't have the ability to help the people anymore.
	It's the glamour.
	I'm not close to Donald Trump.
	I'm not next to the seat of power.
	I'm not standing by the golden throne anymore.
	My life is over.
	And they lash out.
	Musk says Trump is named in Epstein files.
	That's right.
	As we said, he's named in them, apparently.
	And the question is, Who was surprised by this?
	Was anyone surprised by this?
	I know I wasn't.
	The only surprising thing was that Elon Musk tweeted it.
	Billionaire Elon Musk alleged that President Trump has ties to convicted sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein as part of his growing feud with the president.
	A fight that boiled over and turned personal on Thursday.
	Time to drop the really big bomb, Musk wrote on X, the social platform he owns.
	Trump is in the Epstein files.
	That is the real reason they have not been made public.
	Minutes later, he followed up, Mark this post to the future.
	The truth will come out.
	Names of powerful people previously associated with Epstein who died by suicide in a Manhattan jail in 2019.
	Ah yes, by suicide.
	Thank you very much for clarifying that.
	We've all been wondering what caused it, but now we know, including Trump, Prince Trump, before he was elected in November, said he would have no problem releasing files related to Epstein, something some lawmakers, many on social media, have called for after Epstein's death.
	That's right, there's a small coalition of people interested in this.
	You know, just basically every American.
	The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
	Musk's allegations came minutes after Trump threatened to cancel government contracts with Musk's companies, calling him crazy and escalating an explosive feud between the two former allies.
	That's right.
	If we do get the Epstein files, it'll be because Elon Musk leaks them after Donald Trump cancels one of his pork barrel projects.
	You're going to take my money?
	Well, here, take that.
	Isn't it wonderful that these are the type of people that are running the country?
	These are the type of people with the power and influence.
	These two petty, petty dictators of their own little fiefdoms with the emotional maturity of children.
	Musk, the world's richest person who was granted extraordinary access to Trump's government after he was elected, has criticized the big, beautiful spending bill Trump is trying to push through Congress.
	The billionaire tech and media mogul suggested earlier Thursday that Trump would not have gotten elected last fall without him and called him ungrateful.
	That's right.
	He's ungrateful.
	Don't you know?
	I made you.
	I made you and I can break you.
	Going nuclear.
	Musk calls for Trump to be impeached.
	It makes wild Epstein rant after Don branded Elon crazy as feud explodes.
	That's right.
	He wants him impeached.
	He's got to get out.
	He's taking my contracts.
	We're going to put someone in power that is going to make sure that I'm allowed to run NASA.
	That I get all the funding.
	The president also threatened to cancel all of Musk's federal contracts as the public falling out escalated.
	We are caught in the middle, directly between these two warring egos.
	President Donald Trump and Elon Musk's relationship has publicly crashed and burned as the two former allies exchanged blows on social media on Thursday.
	It really does go to show, even just from a cynical Machiavellian standpoint, what an idiot Donald Trump is, though.
	There comes a point where someone...
	They can know too many secrets.
	You are then obligated to keep them around.
	They are indispensable and you have to do what they want because they can break you.
	They can shout your secrets to the rooftop.
	But Donald Trump doesn't even have that level of self-preservation.
	He doesn't have that kind of intelligence.
	Not even from, as I said, a cynical Machiavellian standpoint.
	He's very childish and petty and petulant.
	As well as Elon.
	He kill us.
	Oh well, let the richest man on earth start the party for the middle Americans, by all means.
	Yes, that's right.
	Elon Musk, another blue-collar billionaire.
	He'll be sure to represent the little man.
	He'll be out there for all of us, doing just what we want.
	He'll be going to space.
	For all of us.
	Colonizing Mars.
	For the little guy.
	KWD68.
	Meet the third party, same as the other parties.
	Moneybag.
	That's right.
	So I have a comment from Dan.
	He says, the big surprise to me in all this is that the left seems to hate Musk more than Trump.
	The Daily Beast put out an article saying that Trump is democracy's last hope.
	Presumably the executive order version of democracy until a better financial order presents itself.
	Uh, which...
	How did it come to this?
	The left is now putting their hopes in Donald Trump.
	The feud started three days ago when Musk began fuming over the president's signature spending legislation that's currently making its way through Congress.
	The tech mogul's three-day takedown came to a head when the president was quizzed about the bill in the Oval Office on Thursday, prompting Musk to reply in real time on X. That's right.
	He's live-tweeting his breakup with Donald Trump.
	He's letting us all know.
	Musk reposted an X user who wrote, President vs.
	Elon.
	Who wins?
	My money's on Elon.
	Trump should be impeached and J.D. Vance should replace him.
	Musk gave a one-word affirmation when he replied, Yes.
	That's right.
	Musk has always been a master of rhetoric.
	He's always been able to construct a sentence in such a way as to move the heart, to shake the soul.
	The call came moments after Musk claimed Trump refuses to release the infamous Epstein files because his name is in them.
	Time to drop the really big bomb.
	That is the real reason they have not been made public.
	Have a nice day, DJT.
	He later added, mark this post for the future.
	Trump has long denounced any association with Epstein's crimes, although the two had long documented personal relationship.
	That's right.
	It's been known.
	He's not releasing anything of interest, really, except for the fact that a lot of people will absolutely refuse to believe any information unless it's presented to them by their favorite talking head, by their favorite idol.
	Oh, well, this is someone I know and trust.
	And since he's telling me, it must be true.
	Most people will do no research at all.
	They won't read articles.
	They won't look at anything.
	Trump has long announced any association.
	Elon Musk blast Donald Trump's disgusting tax and spending bill in wild rant.
	After AI-generated images went viral last year showing Trump on Epstein's island, the president said that he never went to the disgraced financier's stupid island.
	Disgraced financier.
	That's a mild way of describing Jeffrey Epstein, isn't it?
	Oh, he's a disgraced financier.
	You know, it sounds like he might have lost some people some money in a bad stock market deal.
	No, he's a predator.
	He's a sexual predator.
	A very, very disgusting individual.
	There's no evidence that Trump had any involvement in Epstein's sex crimes.
	Well, I mean, there's no hard evidence yet.
	But there's a lot of circumstantial evidence.
	A lot of circumstantial evidence.
	How the Trump-Musk relationship crumbled in a day.
	That's right.
	The relationship wasn't built in a day, but it can crumble in one.
	Oh.
	Makes you weep for the glory of Rome, doesn't it?
	On Tuesday, Musk tweeted that Trump's signature spending, big beautiful spending bill, was a disgusting abomination that would add billions to the federal deficit.
	On Thursday in the Oval Office, Trump addressed Musk's criticism of the bill by accusing Musk of trying to kill it because the bill ends federal subsidies for electric vehicles, which would cost Musk's company, Tesla, significant profits.
	Musk responded by live posting on X as Trump spoke, initially shrugging off the president's assessment with an unbothered whatever.
	Trump escalated the feud after the Oval Office meeting with multiple posts on True Social, saying he told Musk to leave the White House instead of continuing to work with Doug and threatening to dump Musk's federal contracts, which are worth billions.
	Musk fired back on accident by saying he was decommissioning the Dragon spacecraft made by SpaceX that brought the stranded NASA astronauts back from the International Space Station in March.
	That's right, next time your astronauts get stuck up there, you go get them yourself.
	Donald, I'm not doing it for you.
	So incredibly petty.
	Musk's further fanned the flames by saying that Trump is named in the infamous Epstein files and citing that is the only reason they hadn't been released to the public.
	We're doing things in that bill that are unbelievable, the president said.
	When asked about Musk's criticism, the president revealed that the two had been at odds ever since Musk stepped down as the head of the Department of Government Efficiency.
	Elon and I had a great relationship.
	I don't know if we will anymore, he said.
	Oh, so sad to see, isn't it?
	The relationship is over.
	It's crumbling.
	And they looked so happy.
	They looked so happy.
	And now they're at odds.
	The acrimony has started.
	Don't frag me, bro.
	Who introduced Melania to Trump?
	Ghislaine Maxwell.
	Jeffrey Epstein.
	Who was Melania working for at the time?
	Victoria's secret owner, Les Wexner.
	They're all connected.
	They have many ties that run back years.
	Who?
	And it again begs the question.
	Who was surprised by this?
	Was there anyone that didn't know, that didn't have some inkling, at least, of what was going on with Trump and Jeffrey Epstein?
	Or did they just not want to know?
	Because that's what I believe about MAGA.
	They looked at it and were like, well, you know, sure, maybe he's tied, but he's sorry about it.
	He's sad about it.
	He's going to do the right thing for the country.
	Ignoring the fact that he is a deeply immoral person.
	ignoring the fact that he is the one that gave us Warp's Bee.
	They will overlook all of Trump's sins over and over again because they want to believe that he is their savior.
	He just went crazy.
	In the Oval Office, Trump claimed Musk was really criticizing the bill because he was outraged over the president's decision to step away from a national electric vehicle mandate.
	Musk wanted the federal government to go all in on EVs because it would mean a windfall of money for this company, Trump claimed.
	You know, they're having a hard time, the electric vehicles, he said.
	I want to pay billions of dollars in subsidies.
	Trump later wrote on True Social that Elon was wearing thin and the president had to ask him to leave.
	That's right, he was getting annoying.
	He was drinking all my orange juice.
	He kept leaving the toilet seat in weird ways.
	I don't know.
	I just couldn't have him at the White House anymore.
	It was truly unbearable.
	I took away his EV mandate that forced everyone to buy electric cars and nobody else wanted, that he knew for months I was going to do, and he just went crazy.
	Mom says it's my turn with the pork barrel, don't you know?
	While Trump celebrated his latest White House win, Musk unloaded his true thoughts on the legislation in a flurry of live posts on X. Whatever, said the billionaire.
	Keep the EV slash solar incentive cuts in the bill, even though no soil and gas subsidies are touched.
	Very unfair.
	But ditch the mountain of disgusting pork in the bill, he wrote.
	In the entire history of civilization, there's never been legislation that is both big and beautiful.
	Everyone knows this.
	Either you get a big and ugly bill or a slim and beautiful bill.
	Slim and beautiful is the way.
	A slim, svelte, attractive bill.
	One that you could really take home to mom.
	Feud escalates.
	The president said it was always his intention to relax the mandates as he pushes to use America's natural gas and oil supply to achieve energy independence.
	Elon knew this from the beginning.
	He knew this from a long time ago, said Trump, who has touted his plan to drill baby drill for oil.
	But Musk has claimed that he never actually saw the bill and said it passed in the dead of night so fast that almost no one in Congress could even read it.
	Well, that's just business as usual.
	That's how things are done.
	Nobody reads these bills.
	Do you actually think these fossils in Congress are reading anything?
	I'd be surprised if they can still read, if they can even see.
	They're all...
	They're all just making sure.
	I'm sure if there's a section in there that has something to do with their own personal agenda, they might skim it.
	They have to pass it to find out what's in it.
	They'll find out when the jackbooted bugs start implementing it against the peons.
	Oh, look!
	It empowered SWAT teams to kick in doors?
	Isn't that nice?
	I didn't know that.
	However, Trump reminded reporters that Musk has proudly worn a hat with the words, Trump was right about everything, emblazoned on the front.
	He wore my hat.
	He wore my hat.
	That's right.
	This is like when you give a girlfriend your hoodie and they have to give it back when you break up.
	I want my hat back, Elon.
	You're giving me my hat back.
	I have another comment from Dad with more breaking news that he's seeing about the breakup.
	Bannon and Posobiec are calling for SpaceX to be nationalized, showing their true authoritarian colors.
	They're not conservative, libertarian, or constitutional.
	Yes, is anyone surprised by that?
	Jack Posobiec and Steve Bannon.
	Just working together.
	For the betterment of the nation, I'm sure.
	We're going to take your toys, Elon.
	We're coming for SpaceX.
	And I'm right about the great, big, beautiful bill, the president said.
	He knew the inner workings of the bill better than anybody sitting here.
	He had no problem with it.
	All of a sudden, he had a problem, and he only developed the problem when he found out we were going to have to cut the EV mandates, because that's billions and billions of dollars.
	Later, the president added on True Social, I don't mind Elon turning against me, but he should have done so months ago.
	He said, I didn't create this mess.
	I'm just here to fix it.
	This puts our country on a path to greatness.
	Such ingratitude, said Musk.
	Truly, these two are clowns, and we are caught in the middle between them.
	Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right.
	Here we are.
	Stuck in the middle.
	Republicans announced plan to keep doing opposite of what everyone voted for them to do.
	Babylon B. That's right.
	We read this one yesterday, but it bears repeating the headline.
	They're going to keep doing whatever it is they were told not to do.
	You voted for me to cut spending?
	Cut taxes?
	How about we raise spending and maybe cut a little taxes here?
	Maybe.
	Just maybe we might do that, but we're going to raise the debt ceiling.
	In fact, maybe we'll scrap it all together.
	Maybe we'll get rid of it entirely.
	Musk floats idea of third party amid feud with Trump.
	Billionaire Elon Musk seemed to suggest support of a third political party as he escalated a growing fight with President Trump that boiled over Thursday.
	Is it time to create a new political party in America that actually represents the 80% in the middle?
	Musk wrote in a post on Social Platform X who has more than 200 million followers on the site which he owns.
	Musk attached a survey to his post that allowed us to vote yes or no on the idea of a third political party.
	That's right, folks.
	All our problems would be saved if we were to just get the 80% of centrists in the middle that have such wonderful ideas.
	The 80% of centrists that are basically what Democrats were 20 years ago.
	Nothing would be better for us than to just become some Clinton-era Democrats.
	That would slowly, of course, drift further and further left again.
	Because that's what centrists do.
	They drift further and further left.
	It's the Overton window party that will be pushed in whatever direction the media is linking it.
	Centrists are the type of people that when King Solomon declared that he would cut the baby in half, they went, yes, that's a wonderful idea, truly a solution.
	And were very disappointed when he discovered that the woman was actually, when he discovered the real mother.
	That's the type of people centrists are.
	They are not the people we should put our faith in.
	Well, not all centrists, but yes, there is a lot of go-along-to-get-along spirit of let's just keep everything within wherever the current Overton window is.
	Yes.
	Centrists would kill the country just the same.
	The post came out hours after Trump expressed disappointment with Musk over the billionaire's criticism of the big, beautiful bill.
	That's right.
	hmm he's What if I create a third party?
	What if I steal some of Trump's support?
	Make sure that we fracture the Republican Party.
	And, again, I don't think it really matters.
	The business goes on either way.
	Whether we have a Democrat or a Republican in power, whether Trump gets knocked out, not that he can run again, but if he were to and were Elon to steal a portion of his support with a third party, it would not matter.
	The same things would happen.
	The same policies would be implemented.
	Trump faces shocking threat to his presidency from Brutus Musk.
	A2, Elon.
	As he considers how to mitigate the damage from his fallout with Elon Musk, Donald Trump would be well advised to examine the origins of Tesla, the company most closely associated with the world's richest man and the main source of his enormous wealth.
	Tesla Motors, as was originally known, was founded on July 1, 2003.
	By software engineers Martin Eberhard and Mark Tarpening in San Carlos, California, their dream was to build a cool electric roadster to replace the clunky, battery-bleeding, glorified golf carts being produced by established automakers.
	The Tesla founders bootstrapped their debut prototype before launching their first investment round in February 2004.
	Around this time, Elon Musk, with pockets full of cash from sales of PayPal and Zip2, was looking for new projects to invest in.
	He was intrigued by Tesla.
	He coughed up $6.5 million of the $7.5 million raised.
	Musk wasn't a founder, but he bought his way into the car business.
	His wealth was also sufficient to secure him the position of Tesla's chairman of the board.
	It wasn't long before he took the company for his own.
	By late 2007, Eberhard had been ousted as the CEO, tarpening left a little while later.
	That's right.
	While I don't think EVs are Effective or even safe.
	These two people were the ones with the dream, with the drive, with the goal.
	And Elon Musk swoops in and steals it, buys it out from under them, and then removes them, kicks them out.
	I'm sure he made their lives miserable before they left.
	It's very hard to get someone to leave a company that they founded on a dream, but Musk managed it.
	The real octo spook.
	One absolute truth screams in our ears.
	Trump's second term is shaping up like his first.
	Lies to get elected.
	No arrests, no prosecutions, no sentences in prison, and the opposite of all his promises.
	Elon doesn't have to point that out.
	Your eyes and ears provide all you need.
	That's right.
	No one needed Elon to come out and say this.
	Everybody basically knew it.
	On some level, even his supporters must have.
	They must have had some inkling.
	Musk, the new CEO, took the Model S, Model X, and Model 3 to the well-heeled masses and to massive success.
	He also left anger and acrimony in his wake.
	Everhard would later sue for defamation and wrongful termination.
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	Fast forward to early 2024, and Musk was ambivalent about Trump's presidential re-election ambitions, announcing in March that he wouldn't be donating to either party.
	It wasn't until the assassination attempt on Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania in July that he changed his mind.
	Minutes after Trump was bundled from the stage by Secret Service agents with blood pouring from an ear wound and his clenched fist aloft, Musk endorsed the Republican nominee.
	Even more importantly, he committed $45 million to a mega-Trump fundraiser America PAC.
	By August, Musk was suggesting that Trump should put him in charge of a commission based on government efficiency.
	The idea of dog was born, and Musk declared himself willing to serve.
	I guess at that time it was still just a puppy, though, huh?
	In October, the Tesla boss shared the stage with Trump on his return to Butler and leaped up and down, saying he was dark MAGA to the discomfort of the nominee and his advisors.
	You remember that?
	Oof, that picture is uncomfortable to look at.
	It is truly some kind of To the discomfort of the nominee and his advisors, if Trump had any reservations, he was appeased by Musk's offer to pay $1 million a day to voters supporting him in swing states.
	That's right.
	With enough money, you can even get close to the president, I suppose.
	Musk was fully immersed in Trump's final campaign rundown and was at Mar-a-Lago to watch the results.
	The first buddy began spending almost every day with the president-elect.
	There was so much talk of President Musk in December that Trump felt bound to come out and insist.
	No, he's not taking the presidency.
	That's not happening.
	The whispers out of the White House after the inauguration suggested that all was not well with the relationship.
	Musk wasn't so happy to be Robin to Trump's Batman anymore.
	Not a dynamic duo.
	He saw himself more in the mold of a genius inventor playboy, like Iron Man or Tony Stark.
	That's right.
	It's like Batman.
	No, it's like Iron Man, guys.
	He's like, hang on, man.
	Remember when we assassinated that Iranian general and they said, well, There's no one of stature that we could assassinate that would rival the loss of this great man that we had.
	It truly feels like that every time I read an article and they have to relate things back to Marvel or DC or Star Wars.
	It's just that statement was more devastating than any assassination they could have pulled off because it cut directly to the heart of what America is.
	It's nothing.
	It's smoke and mirrors.
	It's Marvel and DC superheroes played out forever and ever and ever on a big screen, but they mean nothing.
	There are reports of flare-ups with cabinet members, Musk going rogue with flurries of posts on his X platform, feuds of the likes of Peter Navarro and Steve Bannon, and Musk being omnipresent at the White House, bringing Sun X into the Oval Office, dumping USAID into the woodchipper, and going full chainsaw on entire federal departments.
	Well, now Steve Bannon is out to get Musk.
	When he's got the chance.
	We're going to federalize SpaceX.
	We're coming for that spaceship, buddy.
	We're repossessing it.
	We're bringing the tow truck.
	To his obvious bemusement, Musk was no longer the hero.
	Worse, he was the villain people love to hate.
	He was Doctor Doom.
	Oh, more Marvel references.
	Isn't that special?
	More Marvel.
	For a time, it served Trump to have Musk as the focus of criticism of the shock and awe launch of his second term.
	Meanwhile, Musk was smart enough to know that his privileged position at the heart of power meant he had to toe the line at least some of the time.
	And of course, they make these references because if anyone does read this article, it's going to be some Redditor that has no frame of reference for anything beyond Marvel or DC or Star Wars.
	You've got to relate it to villains they know.
	When the House passed Trump's one big, beautiful bill, Musk tempered his reactions at first, but when he realized how his Oval Office bro had fully jettisoned Biden's clean air tax credits, he lost his cool.
	Two weeks later, with Musk's ties to the White House officially cut, he felt no such inhibition.
	Eliminating the clean air tax credits would pummel his Tesla and SpaceX business.
	Make no mistake, Trump's entire agenda relies on the passage of this bill.
	When he's being drowned out by Musk's bullhorn, it's more difficult to herd his sheep down the hill.
	Trump can talk often and as loudly as he likes from his Oval Office pulpit, but rhetoric and executive orders can only take you so far.
	This is still a country built on laws, even if some judicial foundations seem rattled and shaky right now.
	Trump can bully lawmakers behind the scenes, threatening pop-up primaries for disobedience and disloyalty.
	But so can Musk.
	He already did that.
	The midterms may be a year and a half away, but they will determine Trump's legacy.
	We often see that.
	Midterms often swing back away from whatever happened previously with the president.
	Because people get sick.
	They get up all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed for a presidential election.
	They think, this time for sure.
	This time it's really going to change.
	He's going to fix the problems.
	We're going to do great.
	And they sweep through.
	And then, by the midterms, the hangover has set in.
	They realize, oh, we've been had one more time.
	This time I really thought he was going to do the right thing.
	I got suckered again.
	Star Barkley, Elon wants to be the premier technocrat.
	It's the right time to usher him out.
	Yeah, if he does create a third party, he's always been a technocrat.
	Was it his grandfather that started the technocrat party in Canada?
	I suppose he's looking to do something similar here in America.
	That's right.
	He wants power for himself.
	A technocracy all his own.
	Wally Walrus, the algorithm will govern.
	That's right.
	We'll just plug everything into a big computer program and it'll take care of everything for us.
	It'll make all the right decisions.
	We'll never have to worry about anything again.
	Won't that be wonderful?
	Won't that be so nice we can be wrapped up in a nice warm blanket of ones and zeros.
	As feud explodes into public view, Trump implies government could cut contracts and subsidies to Musk's companies.
	That's right.
	I'm going to take your pork.
	You criticize my bill?
	Well, it's over for you, buddy.
	It's over.
	I'm taking my pork and I'm going home.
	Well, I'm going to take my space shuttle.
	I'm going to take my rockets.
	That's the level of people we're dealing with.
	I'm going to take my ball and go, he killed us.
	I would wear a hat that said Trump was right about everything if I thought Trump was going to give me billions of dollars for my crappy cars that no one wants.
	That's right.
	Wear the hat, get the billions of dollars, but the second those billions stop, that hat is going right in the trash.
	Right in the trash.
	You need to pay people a lot to be that kind of fool, huh?
	Well, that is what's going on with Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
	They are in the middle of an acrimonious divorce.
	They are very, very mad at each other.
	The tweets and the truth social posts are flying back and forth.
	They are arguing over who's going to get the kids.
	Who gets to beat the children is the real question between these two.
	And that's us.
	The Big Beautiful Bill will add $2.4 trillion to the deficit.
	This article describes the impact of the Big Beautiful Bill.
	The total rise to about $3 trillion once the interest costs and more borrowing are included.
	March President Donald Trump stood before a joint session of Congress and vowed to do what has not been done in 24 years, balance the federal budget.
	Well, we see how that's turned out, don't we?
	The Big Beautiful Bill, in effect, forced the federal government to borrow more heavily in the future.
	That's right.
	And what happens when you borrow?
	You eventually have to pay it back.
	They will eventually have to pay it back.
	If not us, but most likely us, because I don't think they can sustain this for that long, but our kids, or our grandchildren.
	This has been the standard way of operation in America for a long time now.
	Well, you know, not in my lifetime.
	You know, that's a problem for someone else, not me.
	Thankfully, I made my money, I've got my nest egg, I'll be just A-OK.
	So, you know, whoever comes after me can deal with it.
	And I don't care.
	That's just fine by me.
	Trump calls for scrapping the debt limit.
	Because the real problem, the thing that's holding America back is the fact that we keep having to worry about this pesky debt ceiling, this pesky limit on how much we can spend.
	we would just be so much better off if we could spend freely without care.
	I'm very pleased to announce that after all these years, I agree with Elizabeth Warren on something, said Donald Trump.
	And of course...
	Senator Ron Johnson, grotesque, big beautiful budget bill, will not pass.
	Johnson said, the president and senate leadership has to understand that we're serious.
	They all say, oh, we can pressure these guys.
	No, you can't.
	Again, we're being very respectful.
	You know, Iran, 2010, is part of the Tea Party movement.
	We were mortgaging children's future.
	We were $14 trillion in debt then.
	Now we're over $37 trillion.
	We're serious about this.
	They need to take us seriously.
	Don't insult us.
	Work with us.
	Lay out the numbers.
	If you can say that our numbers are wrong, fine.
	Let's work through it.
	Well, hopefully...
	They're right.
	Hopefully, Ron Johnson is right when he says it won't pass.
	Sticker shock.
	The GOP is counting on gross to cover the cost of the big, beautiful bill.
	That's right.
	We're just going to expand the economy so much, we'll be able to pay for it.
	We're buying in fully.
	We're putting all our chips on black and we're spinning that wheel.
	But I don't think that'll work.
	I don't think we could raise enough money.
	What kind of economy would we have to create to pay for this sort of thing?
	In response to daunting estimates of the cost of President Donald Trump's signature legislation, the Big Beautiful Bill Act, Republican leaders cast doubt on the accuracy of the numbers.
	They argue that legislation will spur enough economic growth to cover its price tag in the long run.
	Well, eventually.
	I just need a little bit of time The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office CBO put out a report on Wednesday morning stating that Trump's legislative package would add almost $2.4 trillion to the U.S. deficit over 10 years.
	It really is like a gambler that just keeps losing money but believes they'll strike it big on the next one.
	Except for the fact that these people know what they're doing.
	They know they're stealing your hard-earned money.
	They know that they're stealing the value out from underneath you, causing inflation.
	That's the entire point.
	Strengthens the argument of fiscal conservatives in Congress who may want to include more spending reductions before the bill's final passage, expected to take place sometime in July.
	The reason they say this is that CBO doesn't believe in economic growth, Scalise told me.
	They've always been wrong.
	Well, that's the big, beautiful bill.
	And that's the rift between Elon and Donald Trump.
	Isn't it sad?
	These two happy-go-lucky billionaires now at odds.
	I, for one, weep for what we have lost.
	Well, stay with us, folks, and we'll be right back.
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	But as I said, People are lobbying for war.
	Specifically, Mark Levin.
	Tucker Carlson claims ex-Fox colleague Mark Levin is lobbying for war at the White House.
	Pray that Donald Trump ignores him.
	Now, why would Mark Levin want war with Iran?
	That's very strange, isn't it?
	Tucker Carlson accused Fox News host Mark Levin of lobbying for war at the White House on Wednesday before warning President Donald Trump that a strike on Iran would end his presidency.
	Mark Levin was at the White House today lobbying for war with Iran, claimed Carlson in a social media post.
	To be clear, Levin has no plans to fight in this or any other war.
	He's demanding that American troops do it.
	The former Fox News host continued, Hmm, I wonder why Mark Levin is so deeply invested in what's going on in the Middle East.
	What?
	What an interesting, interesting, uh, policy that is for him to hold.
	We need to stop Iran from building nuclear weapons, he and like-minded ideologues in Washington are now arguing.
	They're just weeks away.
	If this sounds familiar, it's because the same people have been making the same claim since at least the 1990s.
	It's a lie.
	In fact, there is zero credible intelligence that suggests Iran is anywhere near building a bomb or has plans to.
	None.
	Anyone who claims otherwise is ignorant or dishonest.
	If the U.S. government knew Iran was weeks from possessing a nuclear weapon, we'd already be at war.
	Iran knows this, which is why they aren't building one.
	Iran also knows it's unwise to give up its weapons program entirely.
	Muammar Gaddafi tried that and wound up sodomized with a bayonet.
	As soon as Gaddafi disarmed, NATO killed him.
	Iran's leaders saw that happen.
	They learned the obvious lesson.
	This is the obvious outcome of NATO and America's swaggering, bullying foreign policy.
	They might have nuclear weapons someday, so let's give them a reason to hate us by attacking them unprovoked.
	That's right.
	We've got to make sure that these people who may one day develop nukes despise us to our very core.
	Make sure that these people have every reason to want to use them on us were they to ever acquire them.
	So why is Mark Levin once again hyperventilating about weapons of mass destruction?
	To distract you from the real goal, which is regime change.
	Young Americans heading back to the Middle East to topple yet another government.
	Virtually no one will say this out loud.
	Goes without saying that there are very few Trump voters who'd supported regime change war in Iran.
	Donald Trump has argued loudly against reckless lunacy like this.
	Trump ran for president as a peace candidate.
	A war with Iran would amount to a profound betrayal of his supporters that would end his presidency that may explain why so many of Trump's enemies are advocating for it.
	Or just the fact that that's business as usual for America.
	We are in the business of regime change, of proxy wars, of continually swaggering and bullying around, as I said, with our foreign policy, making sure the world is safe for democracy, or at least safe for our financial interests and for those of Israel.
	Got to make sure that Israel's interests are met and kept.
	You know, we've already got one going on.
	Might as well have another.
	Once you've got one proxy war, you've got to get the full set.
	You've got to collect them all.
	An attack on Iran could very easily become a world war we'd lose, wrote Carlson.
	Many Americans would die during a war with Iran.
	People like Mark Levin don't seem to care about this.
	It's not relevant to them.
	Instead, they insist that Iran give up all uranium enrichment regardless of its purpose.
	They know perfectly well that Iran will never accept that demand.
	That's right.
	That's how these people continually do business.
	They make these demands that are utterly unreasonable, that they have no chance of succeeding, and then claim, well, we tried to negotiate.
	We tried to shoot for peace, but they just wouldn't listen.
	So the only option left is war.
	The only option left is bombs and bullets and bodies.
	Despite the fact that they knew from the start that it would never work, that they were asking for too much, that the negotiation was doomed to failure.
	But at least they get to say they tried.
	He concluded the one thing that people like Mark Levin don't want is a peaceful solution to the problem of Iran, despite the obvious benefits to the United States.
	They denounce anyone who advocates for a deal as a traitor and a bigot.
	They tell us with a straight face that Long Island native Steve Whitcoff is a secret tool of Islamic monarchies.
	Traitors to which nation, Mr. Levin?
	Traitors to which?
	I wonder which nation your primary loyalty lies with.
	Couldn't be.
	Israel couldn't be that you're more attached to that nation and to America, right?
	They'll say or do whatever it takes.
	They have no limits.
	These are scary people.
	Pray that Donald Trump ignores them.
	Carlson and Levin previously clashed last month after Levin claimed the label neocon was a pejorative for Jew.
	We've reached peak crazy, reacted Carlson, to which Levin responded by calling Carlson a little illegitimate son.
	But he did not use those words.
	That's right.
	Mark Levin has a deep and abiding love for the state of Israel, and he will sacrifice any amount of Americans to make sure that their interests are met, that they are the ones who are served.
	Your sons and daughters are free to die for Israel whenever Mark Levin says so.
	Iranian diplomats suspect Trump using talks as instrument of sabotage.
	In Tehran, bewildered diplomats told me they suspect the Trump administration is exploiting nuclear negotiations as an instrument for generating instability to weaken Iran's economy and foment social strife.
	No, America would never do anything like that.
	We're the good guys.
	Are we the baddies?
	The gray zone.
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	With nuclear negotiations between Trump administration and Iran's reformist government at a standstill, I held two separate lengthy background conversations in Tehran this past week with a pair of seasoned Iranian diplomats with detailed knowledge of the talks in Muscat, Oman.
	And of course, we've all seen those pictures of what Iran looked like years upon years ago before the United States got involved in the Middle East.
	It looked like a very nice city.
	It looked like a very nice place.
	But after meddling by the United States for decades, it is not as nice as it once was.
	In fact, I would bet that that's probably the case for many Middle Eastern countries, except for a few, like Saudi Arabia and Israel, whose interests we tend to serve.
	Like most Iranians, the diplomats were eager for a durable deal that would provide sanctions relief.
	But they said their side could not seem to break through to a Trump team they described as dithering, divided, distracted by other conflicts and incapable of holding to a consistent position.
	Worse, as the negotiations drag on, the Trump administration is defaulting toward the hardline Israeli position, which rejects all uranium enrichment.
	Well, I wonder why that could be.
	Is Jared Kushner in their ear?
	Do they have little earpieces getting directives from him?
	No, no, no.
	Israel wants this.
	Israel wants that.
	Tell them this.
	Good old Jared Kushner.
	The Iranian diplomats now have begun to suspect the Trump administration held an ulterior motive for engaging in talks and is exploiting the meetings in Oman as an instrument for generating instability to weaken Iran's economy and foment social strife.
	Their comments to me echoed a warning issued by the leader of Iran's Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Khamenei, as Tehran Considered a request from Trump for nuclear talks last March.
	Negotiating with this U.S. administration won't result in the sanctions being removed, Khomeini declared.
	It will cause the knot of sanctions to become tighter and pressure to increase.
	Yeah, go ahead and show those photos, Lance.
	Following two months of political confusion and a significant escalation of U.S. financial warfare, the Ayatollah's words have proven prescient.
	That's right, here we see these old pictures of Iran.
	It was clean.
	It was beautiful.
	The people were dressed nice.
	It was very seemingly westernized.
	Look at the suits they're wearing.
	But now things have changed.
	The swaggering, bullying foreign policy of America has led them to rightfully despise us, or at least I assume much of their population does.
	That is the nature of American foreign policy.
	Following two months of political confusion and a significant escalation of U.S. financial warfare, the Ayatollah's words have proven prescient.
	Iran's reformist government now risks repeating the folly of the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, JCPOA, which failed to deliver meaningful sanctions relief in the brief period before Trump shredded the deal and ultimately led to a regime of maximum pressure, culminating with the U.S. assassination of Iranian Major General Qasim Soleimani.
	And of course, that is the general I was talking about, the one where Iran said, well, we would like to strike back at you.
	We would like to attack someone of equal standing, of equal value, of equal nobility, but you simply don't have anyone of that caliber.
	You have no heroes.
	Who could we take out that would be of the same value to you?
	We can't strike back against Batman or Iron Man.
	What, are we supposed to wage war against the Incredible Hulk?
	And they were right.
	They were right.
	Iran's government entered the latest round of talks under heavy pressure, with Trump dispatching the B-2 bomber strike force to the Diego Garcia airbase to enforce his demands.
	The negotiations also took place in the shadows of the post-October 7th wars in which Iran's regional allies had suffered serious setbacks.
	With the last retaliation it vowed against Israel, true promise three still unfulfilled Iranian public opinion researcher Ibrahim Mohamedev Mohseni told me his polling at the time showed that a majority of Iranians from all social sectors supported the talks.
	According to the two diplomats I spoke to in Tehran, Iran's negotiating team arrived in Oman with a sense of pessimism, but quickly grew more positive as they realized the Americans were not introducing demands for Iran to sever relations with its allies in Lebanon and Yemen.
	Scrap its long-range ballistic missiles or destroy its reactors in Natanz and Fordow.
	But after each encouraging exchange, they watched key Trump negotiators issue bellicose statements to media immediately after returning to Washington, essentially reversing the positions they had taken in Muscat.
	The Iranian suspected Trump's team, led by real estate lawyer Steve Witkoff, was kowtowing to Israeli assets, like the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies and its top donor, Miriam Adelson.
	Sheldon Adelson, who has for years tried to influence and successfully influenced American foreign policy to benefit Israel.
	The Iranians suspected Trump's team of bowing to her.
	And they are probably right.
	During each round of talks, the Iranian team introduced concrete proposals to bridge disagreements and maintain That's right, we've got so many different problems, so many wars that we're involved in in one way or another.
	How can we devote all our attention to just one of these wars that we're trying?
	To avoid.
	We've got to focus on Gaza.
	We've got to focus on Ukraine.
	We've got proxy wars all over the place, don't you understand?
	It's not personal.
	The diplomats were especially concerned by the apparent power struggle between Whitcoff and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
	They suspected that Rubio was exploiting U.S. media appearances to project control over the negotiations and worried that his apparent rivalry with Whitcoff would prevent Trump's team from reaching a consensus on the nuclear issue.
	One Iranian diplomat referenced historian Robert Dalek's book, The American Style of Foreign Policy, to elucidate his view that the Trump administration's counterproductive approach reflected a deeper crisis in the U.S. establishment.
	The 1983 book argued that domestic pressures and social shifts at home have placed U.S. foreign policymakers on a persistently irrational trajectory.
	The diplomat pointed to former Secretary of State Tony Blinken as a case study in Dalek's thesis, recalling how Blinken routinely moved the goalposts on previous agreements with Iran in order to prevent negotiations from taking concrete form during the Biden years.
	His implication, as I read it, was the preponderance of pressure from the Israel lobby and military industry had been too overwhelming to allow either Biden or Trump administrations to execute a lasting deal.
	That's right.
	The military-industrial complex wants war.
	They want more bombs and bullets to be bought.
	And Israel wants war because they want their political enemies in the Middle East destabilized.
	They want to use us as a club, a way to make sure that they are the strongest in the region, that they are left alone.
	Both diplomats I spoke to brought up recent reports revealing that Whitcoff has promised Hamas he would force Israel to lift the starvation siege on the Gaza Strip if they released the U.S.-Israeli captive, Edan Alexander.
	They were dismayed that Whitcoff had reneged on his promise and allowed Israel to slaughter hundreds of civilians in an apocalyptic frenzy throughout the week.
	Trump's bad faith tactics with Hamas have cast a pall over the negotiations in Oman, fueling Iranian pessimism about a workable deal.
	That's right.
	We are untrustworthy.
	We have no honor when we deal with people abroad.
	We let Israel do whatever it wants.
	They want to commit a genocide.
	They want to violate all kinds of human rights.
	They want to kill men, women, and children.
	Well, that's just fine.
	They get to do it however they see fit.
	We will let them.
	That's our boy right there.
	Or are we their boy?
	Who knows?
	But perhaps no statement was more damaging to the prospect of a deal than Whitcoff's proclamation on ABC's This Week.
	We have one very clear red line, and this is enrichment.
	We cannot allow even 1% of an enrichment capability.
	Well, that's never going to fly.
	That is never going to fly.
	It's as easy, you might as well cut off negotiations now.
	That's something that they cannot agree to, and that means you are not negotiating.
	The comments fit the pattern of Trump negotiators sabotaging progress in Oman by issuing onerous demands and threats immediately after returning to Washington.
	And a few issues are more central to the Islamic Republic's sense of independence than its civilian nuclear program.
	A tour of Tehran's nuclear reactors illustrates the Battle of Wills while in Tehran, Iran's Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, AEOI, invited me and a small group of journalists and academics to tour the city's nuclear research center.
	An active reactor originally constructed with U.S. assistance under the Shah.
	The good old Shah of Iran.
	What a nice fellow he was.
	You gotta love our puppets, folks.
	And when they get rid of them, we hate them even more.
	Once inside the vast facility without our phones as recording devices.
	We're strictly forbidden.
	We were treated to an exhibition touting the many life-saving products of Iran's nuclear program, from advancements in radiotherapy to the production of anti-cancer drugs, to the sterilization of medical devices and protection of agriculture.
	The visit was clearly designed to illustrate the importance of nuclear energy to Iran's national development and the absolute commitment of its leadership to continuing the project despite the continuous threat of assassination, sabotage, and all-out war.
	Following our tour, we went with Beirouz Kamalvandi, a veteran Iranian diplomat now serving as a spokesman for the AEOI.
	Like the other Iranian diplomats I spoke to, Kamalvandi volunteered his country's desire to abide by all its obligations under the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
	But he viewed Iran's civilian nuclear program as the key to consolidating its technological edge and an absolute right under international law.
	If it's a battle of wills, I would bet on the Iranians.
	I don't think America has much will anymore.
	I don't think the American people have much will anymore.
	I think it has been spent and poured out on these worthless wars where they've seen their friends and family members blown up, maimed.
	Killed in the Middle East for nothing, over and over again, for nothing but our swaggering foreign policy, for the advancement of certain individuals in certain states, their agendas.
	At one point during the meeting, Kamal Vandy pointed to a young man seated in the back row of the conference room, asked him to stand and identified him as the son of the Iranian quantum field theorist, Massoud Ali Maumadi, who was assassinated by a Mossad asset in 2010.
	Ten years later, Iran lost the godfather of its nuclear program, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, when the Mossad smuggled a machine gun drone into the country and stationed it along a road to attack Fakhrizadeh's convoy.
	Kemal Vande, for his part, was injured and hospitalized in 2021, while inspecting part of the Natanz reactor that had been damaged by an Israeli attack.
	In the eyes of Iran's leadership, Witkoff's demand to end enrichment was not only a recipe for squandering decades of technological advancement, it was an insult to the top-tier scientists cut down by Israeli assassins.
	This is the new baseline for a deal.
	Negotiations are an exercise in futility.
	And yet the show goes on.
	That's right.
	Israel has been attacking Iran over and over again, assassinating civilian researchers and scientists, attacking them in devious ways over and over again.
	Ways that if they were to be utilized against us would no doubt be classified as terrorism.
	We would be screaming from the rooftops if an Arabic country were to do that to us.
	But Israel's our ally.
	They're our friend.
	They're our greatest ally in the Middle East, you know.
	So we are going to let them do whatever they want.
	Even if it's something along the lines of the USS Liberty.
	Well, you know, mistakes were made.
	Oopsie daisy.
	Economic sabotage behind the guise of negotiations.
	Since negotiations began, the value of the Iranian rile has fluctuated wildly against the dollar, improving in value after the first round of positive exchanges, then depreciating following each wave of bellicose threats from Trump and his team.
	I personally witness Iran's financial chaos each time I attempt to do exchange dollars for rials, as business owners consulted their phones for the new rate, which seemed to shift from day to day depending on the U.S. president's rhetoric.
	A friend joked that I would have paid substantially lower rate to book a hotel, room for my family if negotiations were not currently taking place.
	And of course, it's not just Iran that Trump's statements affect, it's also the United States, whether he's talking about tariffs, putting them on, taking them off, deciding if he's playing the hokey pokey with them.
	You put the tariff on, you take the tariff off, and you shake it all about.
	Trump's statement about the negotiations have also roiled oil markets on May 16th when Trump claimed he was getting close to maybe a deal.
	With Iran, the price of oil plummeted by 3.4% than Kim Whitcoff's call to cease enrichment.
	And on May 20th, U.S. Intelligence leaked a warning that Israel was planning to attack Iran's oil facilities, causing a sudden surge in oil prices.
	That's right.
	Israel constantly harassing Iran.
	The American president's ability to manipulate financial markets both inside and outside Iran with his bluster has contributed to a sense that entering the negotiations have weakened Iran's political position.
	Meanwhile, Trump's crude insults to Iran's sense of national honor and sovereignty have disrupted whatever goodwill existed when talks began.
	Well, isn't that wonderful?
	The United States and Israel working together to bully Iran, to assassinate their scientists, to engage in terrorism, and to affect their economy through stupid rhetoric.
	What a wonderful force for good we are across the globe, isn't it, folks?
	How the U.S. deep state feeds the Ukraine war.
	Bloodthirsty American politicians like Lindsey Graham are eager to drag the war on forever, so they do everything to scupper negotiations.
	Putin's a bad man.
	He's a bad, bad man.
	The picture of Lindsey Graham, U.S. Senator for South Carolina, and Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, grinning into a camera in Brussels on June 2nd is worth a thousand words.
	Graham is one of the most extreme, hardcore warmongers in Washington, and the competition is pretty stiff.
	Ever since he first became a member of the U.S. Congress over 30 years ago, once in, American politicians are rarely voted out.
	He has devoted his career to arguing vehemently for war.
	His remarks are often not just belligerent, but also sadistic, such as when he recently posted that he hoped Greta could swim, meaning that he hoped her Gaza aid ship would be torpedoed, joking about an attack on a civilian aid ship carrying a young female civilian activist is sick, and typical of Graham.
	Like his old friend, the late Senator John McCain, Lindsey Graham is obsessed with the idea of war with Russia.
	He's been pushing for this since at least 2014.
	In 2016, he told Ukrainian soldiers, your fight is our fight.
	Well, I mean, it is.
	Technically our fight, because we're the ones that caused this proxy war.
	We're the ones that overthrew the government of Ukraine in a color revolution and forced them into this kind of behavior by implementing a puppet regime.
	That statement about "I hope she can swim" is really shocking.
	You know, it's kind of an open secret that the Israelis are attacking AIDS workers and preventing food and other supplies from...
	Lindsey Graham is a despicable, despicable human being.
	He's never seen a war he doesn't like.
	There's no war where he would not love to see our young men die.
	Graham's presence in Brussels, therefore, is therefore significant.
	Ever since von der Leyen's appointment in 2019, she has pushed herself forward as a principal public face of the Brussels institution.
	Six years ago, she said she wanted to make the European Commission into a geopolitical body, even though it has no role in foreign or military policy.
	Since then, she has done little else than parade on the international stage.
	She's among the most hawkish and anti-Russian European figures, absurdly claiming, like French Foreign Minister Bruno Le Maire, that EU sanctions have brought the Russian economy to its knees.
	That's right, they're on their knees, they're begging, they're pleading, they're bleeding out as they grind Ukraine up.
	The Graham-Wonderland alliance is therefore a natural one against Donald Trump.
	European politicians are often quite explicit in their view that Trump is now the enemy.
	Same goes for Lindsey Graham.
	Kiev last week, Graham explicitly challenged Trump's authority to decide U.S. foreign policy.
	He lambasted the very notion of negotiations with Russia, just as Zelensky did to Vance in the Oval Office in February.
	He said that the president of the U.S. is not the boss.
	In America, you have more than one person at the card table.
	We have three branches of government.
	Meaning that the Senate would soon impose its own sanctions on Russia, whatever the executive does.
	Graham's budget bill from February is intended to spend even more money on the U.S. military, if that were possible, which means that he is marshalling the U.S. deep state to fight back after initially reeling from the re-election of Trump.
	Meanwhile, the Europeans' determination to continue the war is existential.
	The Russophobia, which goes back to at least the 2012 Russian presidential election, when Putin came back into the Kremlin, is extreme, because their Europe is defined by its hostility to Russia.
	Russia is the other Europe, which the EU does not want to be, and which it defines itself against.
	Wanderleyen and others want to use the war against Russia to federalize Europe and create a single state.
	Meanwhile, Trump's Russia policy is based on sidelining Europe.
	When he first announced talks with the Russians, EU leaders demanded a seat at the table.
	They failed.
	U.S.-Russia talks took place outside Europe, in Riyadh, while the Russian-Ukraine talks and EU vehemently opposed are taking place without the EU in Istanbul.
	That's right.
	Europe wants to believe that Russia is ontologically evil.
	It serves their interests better.
	It allows them to expand the war state better if they can paint them that way.
	Let us not forget how furiously EU leaders opposed talking to Russia when Viktor Orban traveled to Kiev and Moscow last July.
	Ursula von der Leyen denounced Orban's appeasement.
	The EU's then-chief diplomat said in an official statement that the EU excludes official contracts between the EU and President Putin.
	The French foreign minister said in February that if Sergei Lavrov telephoned him, he would not answer the call.
	Now these very same people claim they want to force the Russians to come and talk.
	That's right.
	You're going to do it when we say and how we say.
	Otherwise, there's no deal.
	This is all posturing and blustering.
	EU policy on Russia is now in ruins.
	That is why, like Graham, they are determined to stop Trump.
	Their attempts have been ever more desperate and ridiculous.
	On May 12th, Kasia Kalas and other EU leaders said Russia must agree to a ceasefire.
	Three days later, those talks started anyway.
	Britain also tried to scupper them by saying it was unacceptable for Russia to demand recognition of the annexed regions, which is odd considering Britain is not a participant.
	European credibility is therefore at zero.
	In March, the British Prime Minister had said the plans to send British and French troops to Ukraine had entered the operational phase.
	They were ready, he claimed, to protect Ukraine's security by directly entering the war zone by April.
	These plans had been dropped on May 10th.
	Or on May 10th, European leaders threatened Russia with massive sanctions if it did not agree to a ceasefire immediately.
	Russia did not agree to a ceasefire, yet there have been no more massive sanctions.
	That's right.
	They are going to continue to try and bully Russia.
	They're going to continue to try to enforce their will.
	But Russia knows that Europe is largely a paper tiger.
	We see them funding and moving more towards war, but right now they don't have...
	That's why they need people like Lindsey Graham to try to bring the U.S. in.
	Zelensky takes apparent dig at Trump for calling Putin.
	That's right.
	Our wonderful little puppet Zelensky is mad.
	He's angry.
	How could he do this?
	Well, I hate to break it to you, Zelensky, but casting aside our puppets when they're no longer politically expedient or convenient is a long-running American tradition.
	You should look at what happened with Saddam Hussein in the Middle East.
	That's something to think about, isn't it?
	You should be very worried you might begin to cost more than you're worth at this point.
	Ukraine's Vladimir Zelensky has claimed that there is no value in trying to reach a peace deal with Moscow if powerful countries do not put pressure on Russia.
	In an apparent reference to U.S. President Donald Trump's recent phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
	That's right.
	How dare he try to engage in diplomacy?
	How dare he?
	Not be willing to fight the last Ukrainian.
	Well, because of course we know why Zelensky wants to do that.
	He's able to siphon a lot of this war money directly.
	He's enriching himself as his people are killed en masse.
	His wife is shopping in France.
	She's having a great time as Russia is destroying their country.
	She is enriching herself.
	He is enriching himself as their people are killed.
	Heads exploding, Trump's off-the-cuff comments has Ukrainians spitting mad.
	President Donald Trump recounted a seemingly off-the-cuff remark made during a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin and has Ukrainians on social media fuming.
	During an Oval Office press conference Thursday with Germany's Chancellor, Trump likened the war begun with Russia when Russia launched a full-scale invasion of the Ukrainian territory to two children fighting.
	Well, he has a way with words, doesn't he, folks?
	He's got such powerful control of the English language.
	His rhetoric is immaculate.
	Sometimes you're better off letting them fight for a while and then pulling them apart.
	And I gave that analogy to Putin yesterday, Trump said.
	I said, "President, maybe you're going to have to keep fighting and suffering a lot of people, He actually told me, I mean, I made it very clear.
	He said, we have no choice but to attack based on that, and it's probably not going to be pretty.
	I don't like it.
	I said, don't do it.
	You shouldn't do it.
	You should stop it.
	But again, there's a lot of hatred.
	That's right.
	There is acrimony between these two states.
	They do not like each other.
	And Trump's statement before he was elected that he was going to fix it all in one day before he was elected was utterly That was never going to happen.
	But he could have at least stopped the funding.
	He could have cut off the funding on day one.
	That would have been a good move to start with.
	Well, folks, we're going to take a quick break, and we will be right back.
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	You'd think with all the billions I've skimmed off America, I could dress better.
	And I could, if only David Knight would send me one of his beautiful grey MacGuffin hoodies or a new black t-shirt with the MacGuffin logo in blue.
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	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.
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	Well, as I said at the beginning, we're going to look at when June became the cruelest month.
	That is the name of the article from The Daily Skeptic, and it's by Paul Stevens.
	This was, of course, under Trump's first term.
	Five years ago this month, with the introduction of mask mandates, the world changed, and I did too.
	Do you remember what life was like back in early 2020, before the COVID craziness began?
	One day we were being told that not only was it necessary to wear a face covering, but it was according to existing knowledge.
	It was unnecessary to wear face covering, but it was, according to existing knowledge, wisdom, and best practice, a mistake to do so.
	The next day, the science, TM, flipped, and we were being instructed that we must wear them in a variety of settings, on pain of social shaming and financial penalty.
	Do you remember what happened when the masking switch was flipped?
	People started appearing in public dressed as if they were Jesse James on his way to rob Rock Island Line Train.
	Of course, this was done by the people Trump approved.
	Trump abdicated his position to Fauci.
	He just let him do whatever he wanted.
	He was so happy with Fauci.
	He loved the little guy.
	Before those Chinese masks, which were useless at stopping the spread of COVID-19, showed up, people resorted to other means of protecting themselves against the deadly virus.
	Forced to queue to gain entry to my local farm shop, I came across a woman wearing a World War II gas mask.
	Well, I'm sure that was a fun little experience, getting to go out and pretend that you're in the middle of a bombing.
	Except in their minds it wasn't pretending.
	They were genuinely terrified, thinking that this was a life-or-death situation because the media got people so psyched up into a frenzy of fear.
	Yes.
	The COVID pandemic is a scamdemic.
	There was no pandemic, really.
	People that just turn on the news and blindly accept whatever is said to them.
	They will internalize the propaganda at an alarming rate.
	They will just believe whatever is told to them by anyone in a position of power.
	That is the type of citizenry that America has cultivated over the years.
	I think it's not too much to say that manipulated by the media and deranged by daily podium pronouncements from politicians, the population lost its grip on reality and common sense.
	The world succumbed to mask mania.
	And the thing about this is we see these large events, things like 9-11 or the COVID pandemic, but these are the outcomes of these small shifts, these backroom meetings.
	These are not the beginning of things.
	They are generally the end of things.
	They are the culmination of years of planning.
	Where this stuff began was decades ago, with psychological operations, the media sowing the seeds, burying them deep in the American population.
	I recall experiencing a mixture of feelings of which fear and foreboding were present in equal measures.
	By nature, I'm a rule follower, my basic instinct being to blend in, but I've always had a streak of skeptical inquiry and a half-decent BS detector.
	I'll do what I'm told for as long as I believe the people who are doing the telling.
	And I remember that for a number of reasons, I stopped believing the mainstream narrative.
	We see this a lot.
	There's a lot of people that just don't want to cause problems.
	They want to do the right thing.
	And that is why the media frames these as such.
	You're going to kill grandma.
	It's dangerous, don't you know?
	You're going to kill grandma if you don't follow these rules.
	And there are a lot of people, as I said, who just want to make sure that they're doing the right thing, that they're being good friends and neighbors.
	But we saw it morph into something different.
	We saw it morph into this rabid frenzy, this willingness to excoriate and excommunicate anyone who didn't toe the line.
	Families were fractured and broken.
	People were livid at others that just refused to wear the mask, that refused to buy into the propaganda.
	Perhaps it was the invocation of the science TM as an absolute truth, or maybe it was the large-scale protests about George Floyd having granted some quasi-divine exemption from the ravages of a deadly novel virus.
	That's right.
	The George Floyd protests, when they burned and rioted and looted, were fine.
	They were mostly peaceful.
	Everything was okay.
	They were allowed to go about maskless.
	They were allowed to do as they pleased.
	They were allowed to stand shoulder to shoulder and march down the street.
	But you weren't allowed to go to church and meet with others.
	You were locked up in your house.
	You were told that you were a threat, that you were dangerous.
	But the George Floyd protesters got to do whatever they wanted, because that was part of their religion.
	Then again, it might have simply been Whichever of these were responsible, maybe all of them, it dawned on me that something just felt off.
	That's right.
	It just felt wrong.
	It was strange.
	I have always had a minor discomfort with enclosed spaces, and I called my GP asking if he would write me an exemption letter for masks.
	After trying to persuade me that I really should try to wear one, recommending some helpful videos on YouTube that would ease me through my discomfort, my go-along-to-get-along demeanor shifted, and I told him bluntly that I felt claustrophobic when wearing a piece of cloth over my mouth and nose.
	It wasn't about being a no-one-tells-me-what-to-do sort of guy.
	It was simply that I couldn't tolerate the things he told me.
	I could pick up the letter later that day.
	Of course, our dad absolutely refused to wear a mask under any circumstances.
	He got thrown out of quite a few restaurants.
	For refusing to bow to these ludicrous demands.
	Because they said, well, you have to put on a mask.
	But when you sit down at the table, and he looks over, the table's about five feet away.
	That table, you're going to make me put on a mask to walk five feet to that table over there?
	Well, yes, we know it's silly, but you've got to.
	So once you're sitting, you can take the mask off.
	And he went off on them.
	He never went back to that restaurant.
	He never did.
	Why I don't wear a mask.
	They have a negative effect on the wearer.
	I find them suffocating.
	They make it harder for me to breathe.
	They steam up my glasses.
	Wearing one makes me feel anxious, even panicky.
	I become distressed.
	They don't work.
	masks, the argument in their favor goes, help make us safer and more confident to be in each other's presence.
	But given the type of warning...
	From a health point of view, there is no practical purpose or benefit either for the wearer or for others served in covering one's face.
	In fact, given the way people use them, it seems as if they might do more harm than good.
	That's right, we saw that study out of Australia.
	This was many years before the scandemic happened, that said.
	In fact, after about 20 minutes, they become so saturated that you start putting out more.
	And then there's the simple fact that before the COVID nonsense, OSHA had a limit for how long a worker could be forced to wear a mask, because it's all of these reasons and more.
	It's not healthy to wear a mask for a long period of time.
	Yes.
	They discourage social cohesion, not being able to see someone's It discourages interaction and makes communication difficult.
	It's especially hard on children.
	We've seen that many children from the next generation, generation alpha, have had their communication skills retarded.
	They have been developmentally delayed.
	They have issues with speech because the way children develop partially is by watching the way the mouth moves.
	They pick up on cues like that.
	And since they weren't able to watch people's mouths moving to a large extent since we ship them all off to school, they have been delayed in that capacity.
	It has also impacted their ability to connect with others.
	They have been locked inside their houses.
	They aren't able to make friends or meet people as readily.
	They are not as outgoing.
	Or socially adventurous, as previous generations have been.
	They're more likely to spend their time online.
	And I say this as someone who spends a lot of my time online.
	But the next generation has taken it to an entirely new level.
	Each successive generation seems to spend more and more time in these online social ghettos.
	They're having a negligible positive effect on society.
	And the economy as we try to emerge from the lockdown.
	In fact, they may have the opposite effect of reinforcing people's fear of the virus, hence extending their wish to stay isolated from the rest of society.
	I've actually seen quite a few people remembering the rosy days of the early days of the scandemic, talking about how it was so nice to just sit at home and not do anything.
	They loved that.
	They didn't have to worry about people wanting to do things or to go out and visit.
	The roads were empty.
	Places were clean.
	Because people just weren't going out.
	And as someone who does like to stay at home, who doesn't like to go do things, I still find that to be abhorrent.
	Supposedly introduced as a way of encouraging people to get out and get back to normal.
	In shops and in the workplace, there are no material benefits observable.
	I read that the uptick in retail sales the week they were introduced as being mandatory in shops was less than 3%.
	Shops, bars, restaurants, places of entertainment, offices, etc.
	remain closed or sparsely used.
	They have no evidentiary basis for their use.
	At best, the science is inconclusive and ambiguous.
	At worst, it says that masks can do harm.
	They're being mandated by a government which has zero credibility and zero legal authority to do so.
	Masks are an excellent proxy for the overall performance of the people who have been in charge during this period.
	Advice and guidance have flipped by 180 degrees on wearing masks.
	And again, it's scary how readily people just accept whatever propaganda in front of them is at the moment.
	As we saw, first it was masks don't work.
	They don't matter.
	They're harmful.
	Don't wear them.
	And within a day, It just flipped.
	You need them.
	You need them, and you have to wear one.
	If you don't, you can't go out.
	And people just bought in.
	They didn't care at all that the narrative had changed overnight.
	They just bought in immediately.
	They were willing to do so, because that's what the TV told them to do.
	That's what the man in the white coat said, and as such, that's the truth.
	Whatever they're saying in the moment is the truth.
	Who cares what they had said previously?
	They infringe my civil liberties.
	Introduced without proper debate or scrutiny, the mandating of wearing a piece of cloth across my mouth and nose, enforceable by law, seems to be an affront to my basic human rights.
	If they could be shown to work, if there was strong evidence for their use, then there would be a decent argument for using them.
	but they don't and there isn't.
	This has become about two things, the government and the establishment doubling down on their poorly made decisions to send us into the downward spiral of lockdown and their innate desire to regulate and control the population.
	If there was some evidence that these were helpful, they could have made cases for it.
	They could have argued that you should.
	They still wouldn't have had the legal authority to force you to do it, but they could have at least put forward compelling arguments, given us the data, and let people make the decision for themselves.
	But that doesn't exist.
	In fact, the data mostly points the other way.
	It says they're harmful.
	They're dangerous.
	They worsen your experience in every single way and worsen your health.
	This was written in July 2020.
	In 2025, I have seen nothing that would make me rewrite any part of my anti-mask manifesto.
	On the contrary, I stand by every word.
	And of course, as I said, this is written by Paul Stevens.
	It's on The Daily Skeptic.
	Paul Stevens, a member of Smile Free, which continues to campaign for the truth to be told about mask mandates and masking and to ensure they never reappear.
	Well, thank you, Paul Stevens.
	I appreciate everyone who stood up and pushed back on this insanity.
	Eric Peters, of course, calls them face diapers, and he has done a good job of cataloging that insanity as well with his diaper report.
	This is from LifeSite News.
	YouTube restores COVID critic James Corbett's channel after a four-year ban.
	This is good news.
	James Corbett does some good work.
	We're happy to see that.
	YouTube has reinstated the channel of popular independent investigative journalist and researcher James Corbett after he was banned from the platform in 2021 for criticizing the COVID regime.
	Of course, we're still not on YouTube.
	That's right.
	We are banned off YouTube, and my dad has said that he has no interest in even trying to get back on, whether it's for the show or for music.
	He is sick of trying to.
	As you all know, I'm sure he made a YouTube channel just for his music, just to upload it and put it there.
	It wasn't tied to the show in any way, but they still deleted it.
	No reason given.
	They just banned it.
	I would not be surprised if we have someone specifically at YouTube who hates this show, and so anything even tangentially related to it gets nuked as soon as they find it.
	In a surprising move, YouTube decided to grant Corbett's appeal and reinstate his channel with over 500,000 subscribers four years after it was banned by the Alphabet-owned platform.
	Corbett is an independent Canadian journalist and content creator who resides in Japan.
	In 2007, he launched his podcast and multimedia platform, The Corbett Report.
	Over the years, he became one of the premier alternative journalists and researchers, styling himself as a conspiracy realist.
	He criticizes and debunks mainstream narratives in relation to geopolitics, economics, history, climate, COVID, and many more.
	LifeSite News has reprinted multiple articles from The Corbett Report over the past years.
	In his first video uploaded to YouTube since 2021, Corbett announced that his channel has been reinstated.
	Long story short, very long story short, April 9th, 2021, the Corbett Report was removed from YouTube.
	June 1st, or was it May 31st, 2025?
	It's back, the Canadian journalist said.
	Corbett said he was prompted to appeal to YouTube after his friend Ricky Verandas, host of the Ripple Effect podcast, told him that his channel had recently been restored after it was bantering the COVID crisis in 2021.
	A Canadian journalist warned that YouTube would likely ban his channel again once another crisis like COVID emerges and dissidents would be censored once more.
	He asked his paid subscribers to participate in a poll on whether he should resume uploading videos to YouTube regularly again in addition to his website and alternative video platforms.
	That's right, that's why we're on so many different platforms, folks.
	just in case one of them is taken down or decides they don't like what we're saying.
	But thankfully, we haven't had to deal with Very thankful for that.
	Next article is Everything Got Worse During COVID.
	By almost every measure, America during the pandemic was a more dangerous, deadly, and dysfunctional place.
	Last week, Reason's Billy Binion reported on some undersung good news.
	American murder rates are falling fast.
	This year can end up being the least violent year on record.
	This is, of course, a welcome development by itself.
	It's an especially laudatory trend, coming as it does on the heels of a massive murder spike during the pandemic when homicides rose by 30% in the average U.S. city.
	The COVID crime wave is well understood by now.
	The all-cause rise in mortality during the pandemic is a little less appreciated.
	No matter how you slice it, America during COVID was a sicker, deadlier, more dangerous, and generally more dysfunctional place.
	Between 2019 and 2021, drug overdose went up some 55%, and traffic fatalities rose 20%.
	Those fatalities alongside an estimated 1.2 million COVID deaths helped push the country's death rate from 723.6 deaths per 100,000 people in 2019 to a high of 879.7 in 2021.
	Remarkably, only suicides seem to have resisted the rising death trend.
	Falling in 2020 before rising slightly above pre-pandemic levels in 2021.
	Mercifully, murders, traffic deaths, and overdoses are now falling from their pandemic-era highs.
	Suicides continue to climb.
	The overall age-adjusted death rate in 2023, the last year for which we have complete data, is still above pre-COVID levels.
	COVID was certainly a public health disaster.
	The effort to combat it by pausing day-to-day social and economic life created its own disasters.
	I was working one Sunday for Alex's Sunday broadcast, and he got a call.
	And I was manning the phones to ask people what they were calling in about and what they wanted to talk about, and this woman called in, and she was distraught.
	She was in tears.
	You could hear it in her voice.
	She said that she had been a police officer in New York for many years, and that she just couldn't see how This could happen or what we could do to fight it.
	That, you know, America, our freedoms were dead and everything was over.
	And she talked about how she was thinking about ending it all.
	Talking about how she was thinking about killing herself.
	And that has stuck with me.
	I'll never forget that.
	I'll never forget the sound of her voice.
	How desperate and alone she sounded.
	And how, you know, she just hung up.
	She didn't stay on the line.
	She didn't talk.
	She just hung up.
	And there was nothing to be done about it.
	How much of that latter disaster can be blamed on formal lockdowns and stay-at-home orders versus ubiquitous, albeit voluntary public health guidance to socially distance to individuals' own natural reticence to be around each other in the middle of a pandemic is a worthy topic of debate.
	The top-line takeaway remains the same.
	Going to work, church, or one's chosen third place goes a long way toward keeping people alive and sane.
	When sociability falls, antisocial behaviors spike.
	Government's massive emergency expansion of the welfare state seemingly did little to ease the pain.
	Stimulus checks, cash transfers, tax credits, and expanded unemployment insurance pushed the poverty rate down.
	This on paper improvement in people's financial condition couldn't stop them from driving more dangerously, doing more dangerous drugs, and killing each other more.
	Shutting down whole swaths of the economy, then paying people to stay home.
	The U.S. Misery Index, a combined measure of the unemployment and inflation rates rose from 5.44 in 2019 to a peak of 11.65 in 2022.
	It's currently at 6.98.
	At his confirmation hearing, to be director of the National Institute of Health, NIH J. Bhattacharya was unapologetic about his prior vocal criticism of society-wide stay-at-home orders.
	States like Florida, with its lighter, shorter lockdown, ended the pandemic with a lower all-cause mortality.
	Then in the arch-restrictionist California, he noted, it's a sign of the times that none of the Democrats during that hearing pushed back on this particular point.
	That's right.
	The lockdown was a disaster.
	Not just for our civil liberties, not just for our freedoms, but for the state of people as a whole, for their mental well-being, for their sanity.
	New research exposes how vaccines trigger SIDS, medical establishment covering up infant deaths with misdiagnosis.
	This is on the Liberty Daily.
	It's by Cactus Williams.
	For decades, grieving parents have been told their infants died of sudden infant death syndrome, SIDS, a vague diagnosis that conveniently absolves vaccine manufacturers of blame.
	But groundbreaking research now reveals the chilling truth.
	Vaccines are killing babies, and the medical establishment has been hiding it.
	A new study published in the International Journal of Medical Science uncovers the biological mechanisms linking vaccines to SIDS, proving that toxic vaccine ingredients overwhelm infants' underdeveloped detox pathways, leading to fatal inflammation, brain stem damage, and respiratory failure.
	Of course, my dad has told the story many times.
	He had a neonatal ICU nurse in.
	And when they would give preemies vaccines, they would all say, well, prep the crash cart.
	They're going to crash.
	We're going to need them.
	We're going to need to revive them, so have that thing ready.
	We're not going to not vaccinate them.
	We're not going to not inject them.
	We're going to do it.
	But just be ready, because we know what this cause is.
	Key points.
	Infant slack, mature liver enzymes, CYP450, needed to process toxic vaccine ingredients like aluminum, formaldehyde, and polysorbate 80. Vaccines suppress CYP450, creating a deadly cycle where toxins accumulate and flame the brainstem.
	75% of kids'cases in VAERS occur within a week of vaccination.
	Peaking 48 hours post-shot, proof of causation buried by regulators and Preterm babies are especially vulnerable, yet hospitals aggressively vaccinate them, ignoring their fragile metabolic limits.
	Autopsies often miss vaccine-induced brain damage, allowing SIDS to be weaponized as a cover-up for vaccine fatalities.
	How vaccines silently suffocate babies.
	Yes, we have made sure that our son is not vaccinated.
	We found a doctor, thanks to friends, who, while provides them, does not push them, is willing to work with you, and has not made any effort to try to convince us, besides just being like, well, here's the literature, if you want, you can research it yourself.
	But that was the most of it.
	Once we said no, they haven't asked about it again, they haven't pushed, and I've been very thankful for that.
	I still make sure that we watch closely, that we don't let them sneak off with him.
	But I am thankful that there are still doctors who are willing to work with you on those things.
	How vaccines silently suffocate babies.
	It said it reveals that infants, especially preemies, are born with immature CYP450 enzymes, which normally detoxify drugs and poisons.
	But modern medicine bombards newborns with a chemical onslaught.
	Their physiology were never prepared to handle or adapt to on an evolutionary basis.
	Evolutionary.
	I don't believe in evolution personally.
	In the absence of modern medicine, the newborn baby consumes only mother's milk, explains Carl Jablowski, Ph.D., a senior scientist at Children's Health Defense.
	Now babies are expected to process the hepatitis B vaccine at birth, followed by eight more toxic shots by two months old.
	The consequences are catastrophic.
	Toxin overload.
	Aluminum adjuvants and formaldehyde can't be broken down, flooding the bloodstream and crossing the blood-brain barrier.
	Brainstem inflammation.
	Toxins trigger cytokine storms that damage the medulla, crippling the brain's ability to regulate breathing and heart rate.
	Serotonin system collapse.
	Studies show 70% of SIDS cases involve disrupted serotonin pathways, preventing babies from waking during apnea episodes.
	Metabolic sabotage.
	Vaccines further suppress CYP450 enzymes.
	Trapping infants in a lethal feedback loop, where each shot increases toxicity.
	The smoking gun.
	VAERS data exposes the cover-up.
	Epidemiologist Nicholas Hulsher analyzed 2,605 infant deaths reported to VAERS from 1990 through 2019 and found a damning pattern.
	75% of SIDS cases occurred within seven days of vaccination, with death spiking on day two.
	This is not random.
	It's a biological signature, Holscher warns, yet coroners routinely ignore...
	Cecilia 14, Travis.
	It's become obvious to me after babies dying from so-called vax that SIDS was due to them, and adults dying were SADS.
	Heart attack strokes, dying, and sleep young and old.
	CJP Rumble.
	A baby's liver can't handle all that poison.
	Yeah, that's exactly right.
	They don't have the CYP450 enzyme.
	Don't fag...
	Don't...
	Don't frag me, bro.
	Since infant vaxes started, we have sudden infant death syndrome, SIDS, and now we have sudden adult death syndrome, SADS, and post-vax syndrome, PBS.
	Who thinks that is a coincidence?
	That's right.
	It's all just a coincidence that all of these things cause death, cause damage.
	It's all just coincidence.
	Yeah, you never heard the term SADS before the 2020 vax rollout stuff.
	Yeah.
	Now we see it all over the place.
	Oh, well, strokes are going up.
	Heart attacks are going up in younger people.
	What could be causing this?
	It's a mystery.
	In one harrowing legal case, Boatman v.
	VHHS, autopsy reports proved brainstem abnormalities were missed, a deliberate oversight to protect vaccine programs.
	Similarly, Dr. Paul Thomas found unvaccinated children in his practice had zero SIDS cases, while the vaccinated rate mirrored national averages.
	Instead of pausing the vaccine schedule to investigate hospitals, double down on poisoning preemies.
	Cesarean sections deliver babies earlier, and doctors compensate by vaccinating them more aggressively, says Jablonski.
	Even worse, pediatricians push Tylenol post-vaccination, a drug that clogs CYP450 pathways, ensuring toxins stay trapped longer.
	Genetic testing could identify high-risk infants, but the medical-industrial complex refuses to consider the evidence and be proactive at avoiding vaccine injury and death.
	It's easier to pretend the issue doesn't exist and just blame parents for their child dying in their sleep.
	Pharmacogenomics could save lives, but it exposes the fraud of one-size-fits-all vaccines, says Holscher.
	Until then, parents are left to navigate a system that sacrifices children for profit.
	The real solution is a complete restructuring of the CDC's childhood vaccine schedule, removing any recommendations for vaccines for babies under one year of age, and making it illegal for pediatricians, pharmacists, and family doctors to administer any of these high-risk products in vulnerable developing children.
	Yes.
	The study's author urge immediate action.
	Ban toxic excipients like aluminum, polysorbate 80, and formaldehyde in vaccines.
	Halt preterm vaccinations until metabolic maturity is confirmed.
	Mandate autopsies for all SIDS cases, including brain stem analysis.
	Every SIDS death should be treated as a potential vaccine homicide, says Jablonowski.
	Parents deserve the truth, not another whitewashed lie.
	That's right.
	We have seen the medical industrial complex paper over these things.
	They ignore them.
	They don't want to talk about it because it is a profit center for them.
	It makes them a lot of money.
	Another thing that you rarely hear talked about is obviously vaccines are the intent to give a weakened virus so that your immune system can develop a response to it, but babies don't have an immune system that's capable of taking that and developing a response to it.
	It is poisoning them without any potential upside.
	Yes.
	The baby gets a lot of its immune system from the mother's milk when they're young.
	That's how they develop an immune system.
	The mother helps them with it.
	Do not obey.
	New study analyzed leukemia patients who developed cancer within weeks of mRNA injection.
	Their bone marrow showed distinct cancer-associated metabolic alterations.
	The poisoning is everywhere.
	It's for everything.
	From every disease has risen drastically.
	Just my lifetime.
	It has gone up and up and up.
	Brandon Bennett, great job, Travis.
	Both my two- and four-year-old are completely unvaxxed.
	And thanks to your dad and my subsequent research, yes.
	He's made sure that as many people as he can reach know about this.
	He's done a great job providing the information.
	And it's so wonderful to hear that he has actually helped people.
	It means a lot to him to know that.
	And it means a lot to us to know that as well, so thank you.
	And I'm so happy for your children.
	I'm sure that they are wonderful, and you are a great dad.
	Big Brit is back again.
	I think it was Japan that stopped giving babies jabs until two years, and SIDS pretty much stopped.
	That sounds right.
	Japan, I forget the name of the...
	He is pointing out that this is what caused it.
	So hopefully Japan is pushing back on these vaccines.
	Their population, their birth rate has already cratered, just from a purely rationalistic standpoint.
	Whether you care about children or not, you should.
	Even just from that standpoint of, well, we need more babies.
	They should be doing everything they can to avoid the death of their children.
	CJP Rumble, why would you even risk stunting development?
	We all knew forever the first few years are crucial.
	Yes, the first few years of a baby's life are so incredibly crucial.
	They're very susceptible to things.
	That's why they need parents to take care of them.
	They don't need a giant overarching government that is there to mandate things, an unfeeling, uncaring bureaucracy that will take their place.
	Well, that is what we have for pharma today.
	We've got more to cover.
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	Oh, and Umbra Syntax just became the first follower for Project TK Ultra on Kick.
	Yes, that's where I will be doing my evening stream tonight.
	I think I have almost everything ready, so we'll probably just be talking about, as I said, books, TV, movies.
	It'll be a much more relaxed, casual stream, something Something just kind of for fun.
	A little bit of a decompression after the week's bad news.
	But if you want, again, it's kick.com forward slash project TK Ultra because, of course, my initials are TK.
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	And Lance has dropped the link in the Rumble chat.
	So that's where you can find me later tonight.
	We'll have a good time.
	Angry Tiger's Den.
	Guy at work had to get vaccines so he can become a citizen.
	He hasn't showed up in two days.
	He's very sick and his hands are aching.
	That is the type of thing they do.
	They hold things you want over you.
	They bully if they cannot bribe, whether it is citizenship or whether it is just If you don't get this, we'll kick you out of the military.
	We saw Jason Barker did a great job.
	He's the one who put together the letter that was hosted on the website.
	It might still be there that allowed people to opt out that helped them write their own so that they could not have to take the vaccine.
	And that's what we see all the time.
	We see them forcing your hand, saying, if you don't get it, We will make your life unable.
	We'll make it so you cannot provide for your family.
	We'll make it so that you have to choose between earning a living or being poisoned.
	It's amazing that they would have that for citizenship, a requirement for citizenship.
	Trump's wonderful warp speed thing is still being pushed and mandated here in his second term.
	Yes.
	And despite the fact that he continually claims them, he continually says, these are my babies.
	I did a great job with the warp speed vaccine.
	His followers refuse to acknowledge it.
	They refuse to see the truth.
	Well, we're going to take a quick break.
	This has been a bit of a downer segment here.
	From poisoning children to poisoning the economy and poisoning your mind with the pandemic, it has been a heavy segment.
	So we're going to take a quick break, and when we come back, we're just going to look at the news.
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	What time do you hope to have the casual stream later this afternoon?
	I'm thinking between 5 and 6. I want to make sure that people have time to get whatever they have going on done.
	So I don't want to do it too early, but I also don't want to do it too late because I know that people also have other stuff they've got going on.
	So between 5 and 6 is kind of what I'm shooting for.
	Perhaps if you've got some ideas, drop them in chat if you've got preferred time slots.
	You can give me an idea on that.
	Cecilia14, Travis, not on Rumble.
	We already have so many channels to manage, I'm trying to limit where this one will be.
	We've got Rumble and BitChute and Odyssey and...
	It has become quite a task to handle them all.
	So I'm trying to limit where I'm going to have to manage things.
	Maybe I'll set up a Rumble one later, but I've got the Kick channel set up.
	Hopefully I'll have some visuals and graphics put up on the channel before I do a stream today.
	That way it looks a bit more professional.
	But yeah, I'm thinking just for now I'll keep it on Kick.
	Since it's going to be a more casual sort of nonsense stream, just me talking about and hopefully laughing about some things.
	And I feel like Rumble is a more serious-minded website.
	They tend to focus more on politics, whereas this is going to be a sort of just casual pop culture nonsense stream, hopefully.
	That way, it's a bit of a decompress from the week's news, the horrors.
	We're not going to be staring into the abyss tonight, I don't think.
	Supreme Court rejects Mexico's lawsuit against U.S. gunmakers.
	That's right.
	Even the United States Supreme Court looked at this and was like, I don't know, guys.
	I don't think this one flies.
	As much as the United States government hates the Second Amendment, as much as they hate our right to bear arms, even they had to go, eh, this one seems a bridge too far.
	The article describes the Supreme Court's decision to reject Mexico's lawsuit against U.S. gun manufacturers.
	The court ruled unanimously that the lawsuit is barred by a 2005 federal law that shields gun companies from legal liability.
	The Mexican government had filed a lawsuit against gun companies seeking accountability for the violence epidemic.
	And of course, the violence epidemic they're talking about is brought on by the fast and furious.
	And before that gunwalker program started under George W. Bush and even.
	The War on Drugs is what allows the cartels to have such a profitable, profitable outlet and encourages their violence if we were not making these.
	so illegal, they would not have to have such a black market for them.
	They would not be able to make the amounts of money they do.
	They would not be so incentivized to be so violent when it comes to the trade.
	Washington, the Supreme Court on Thursday threw out the Mexican government's lawsuit against U.S. firearms manufacturers, accused You made this.
	It's like suing the contractor who built your house if it burns down in a house fire.
	Well, I wouldn't have had a house fire if you hadn't built me a house.
	It's your fault.
	The court ruled unanimously that the lawsuit is barred by a 2005 federal law that shields gun companies from legal liability.
	Liberal Justice Elena Kagan, that's right, even Elena Kagan, looked at it and said, nah, nope, not this one, who wrote the opinion and acknowledged the gun violence problem but said Mexico had failed to make allegations that would surmount those liability protections in claiming the companies aided and abetted.
	And of course, this is an article from NBC News, so they're going to phrase everything in the most anti-gun way possible.
	It's the 2005 decision gave them legal liability, exempted them from legal liability, or however they're putting it, when obviously they're exempted from legal liability because they aren't connected to people using them for crimes.
	It is common sense that shields them from liability.
	They say, obviously, Mexico has a gun problem.
	If the guns were the problem, then America would be much more violent.
	Clearly, it's something else that's causing that.
	As you said, the war on drugs was the root cause originally.
	Mexico's complaint does not plausibly allege that the defendant manufactures aided and abetted gun dealers.
	Unlawful sales of firearms to Mexican traffickers, Kagan wrote.
	That's right, even Elena Kagan, liberal Elena Kagan, had to dismiss it.
	We have little doubt that as the complaint asserts, some such sales take place and that the manufacturers know they do.
	Well, yes, crime happens.
	We all know crime happens.
	But just because we know some kind of fraud can take place, that doesn't bar us from selling what we own.
	Just because you know that there are criminals out there that might use something you own.
	If you sell your car and it's used in a bank robbery, that doesn't make you an accessory.
	She added, but still Mexico has not adequately pleaded what it needs to do.
	The 2021 lawsuit accused Smith& Wesson, Colt, Glock and other companies are deliberately selling guns to dealers who sell products that are frequently recovered at Mexican crime scenes.
	They're selling them to the American government?
	Is that what I'm hearing?
	Because that would be my assumption.
	They're the ones that had the Fast and Furious and, as I said, gunwalker program.
	We're like, oh, we're going to send these guns down into Mexico.
	We're going to track them.
	We're going to figure out where they're being used.
	And then they, of course, lost track of them.
	They sent a bunch of guns down there and just whoopsie-daisy.
	The Mexican government said the aiding and abetting allegations meant that the companies were not protected by the federal immunity shield called the Protection of Lawful Commerce and Arms Act.
	Mexico is seeking up to $10 billion in damages.
	Jonathan Lowy, president of Global Action on Gun Violence and one of Mexico's lawyers in the case said in a statement, the ruling is the clearest evidence yet that the gun industry's special interests get out of court free card must be revoked.
	Yes, that's right.
	Everyone knows that Big Gun is what runs America.
	Big Gun.
	They're the ones that have all the pull in Washington.
	Noel Francisco, a lawyer representing Smith& Wesson, who argued the case on behalf of all the companies, said in a statement, The ruling simply reflected what Congress intended when it passed the Shield Law.
	Our client makes a legal, constitutionally protected product that millions of Americans buy and use.
	We are gratified that the Supreme Court agreed that we are not legally responsible for criminals misusing that product to hurt people, much less smuggling it to Mexico to be used by drug cartels, he added.
	That's right, it's the government that illegally smuggles guns to Mexico to be used by criminals.
	A federal judge initially ruled for the manufacturers, but the Boston-based First U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals revived the case last year, saying the liability shield did not extend to Mexico's specific claims.
	The case reached the Supreme Court following increased tensions between America and Mexican leaders after the election of President Donald Trump, who has cited drug traffickers and gang pilots in Mexico amid his crackdown on undocumented immigrants.
	Democrats in Congress have introduced legislation intended to reduce the flow of guns across the border, which they estimate to total at least 200,000 a year.
	An arms trade treaty is something they have been working on for years.
	They desperately want to get guns out of the hands of the common man because it is the final stop for people to oppose their government.
	If you get rid of the people's guns, they are free to do whatever they want.
	There is no longer a check.
	The Second Amendment guards all the others.
	Even just the threat of it.
	Keeps the government somewhat in check.
	They know that they cannot push too far.
	State criminalizes political memes, gets sued by a popular satire site, and of course this is the Babylon Bee that is suing Hawaii.
	The Babylon Bee, a popular satire website, has filed a lawsuit against the state of Hawaii challenging a state law that censors online content including political satire and parody.
	You can't make jokes, folks.
	Some people won't understand their jokes.
	They might think they're real.
	An announcement from the ADF, which is representing the publication, as well as a Hawaii resident in the case said, the law violates fundamental free speech and due process rights by using vague and overbroad standards to punish people for posting certain political content online, including political memes and parodies of politicians.
	Let's go.
	Babylon Bee files lawsuit against California after state adopts a new deepfake law.
	Aloha to everyone except Hawaii's humor police.
	These are tweets.
	Similar to the California law challenged by the Bee last year, Hawaii's law prohibits.
	Once again, taking a break from writing jokes to defend our right to tell them.
	Seth Dillon.
	The ADF explained Governor Josh Green signed S-2687 into law in July 2024, and it bans the distribution of materially deceptive media.
	that portrays politicians in a way that risks harming the reputation or electoral prospects of a candidate was the daily beast that came after my dad because he reported on a Babylon B story that was making fun of Hillary Clinton and also Elizabeth Warren they reported that Hillary Clinton claims that she is only 50% reptilian you know making fun of Elizabeth Warren Pocahontas and her claim of being Native American
	If the title wasn't obvious enough, clearly he was presenting it as satire.
	Yes.
	He was laughing.
	The entire time, it was obvious it was satire, but they still wanted to make sure that, no, you can't report on these satire joke articles.
	People might take them seriously.
	What if someone really does think that Hillary Clinton is 50% reptilian?
	What if they think she's from whatever the reptilian planet is, whatever they say it is?
	The ADF explained Governor Josh Green signed S-2687 into law July 2024.
	Further, the state forces satire artists to post disclaimers, destroying the purpose of satire.
	That's right, you've got to make sure.
	You've got to put a big notice on it.
	You've got to say, this is satire.
	This is a joke.
	This, I'm not being serious.
	We have to make sure that everything is cleanly and clearly labeled.
	Hawaii's war against political memes and satire is censorship, pure and simple, said ADF lawyer Matthew Hoffman.
	Satire has served as an important vehicle to deliver the truth with a smile for centuries.
	And this kind of speech receives the utmost protection under the Constitution.
	The First Amendment doesn't allow Hawaii to choose what political speech is acceptable.
	We are urging the court to cancel this unnecessary censorship.
	Seth Dillon, chief of the Bee, said we're used to getting pulled over by the joke police, but comedy isn't a crime.
	The First Amendment protects our right to tell jokes.
	Whether it's election season or not, we'll never stop fighting to defend that freedom.
	The complaint notes the Hawaii Office of the Public Defender opposed the bill because of First Amendment concerns informing legislators that people have a First Amendment right to criticize candidates and make all kinds of political speech attacking candidates.
	But these people have a desperate need to be taken seriously.
	They do not like to be made fun of.
	They do not like when you point out their new outfit is nothing but a set of clown shoes.
	And I'm sure this will be applied to the Babylon Bee But not the late-night Colbert Report-style comedians that do the same thing for the left.
	Oh yeah, the left is always exempt from any of these rules.
	They get a free pass.
	ADF attorneys represent the Babylon Bee in a similar case in California, resulting in state officials agreeing not to enforce the challenged laws as the case proceeds.
	While the Babylon Bee is once more fighting for the right to tell jokes, good for them.
	Yeah, back to the thing I was saying about Colbert Report or other left-wing things.
	It'll be a government group that will be deciding what is or isn't acceptable satire.
	And that, of course, is always going to veer toward big government authoritarianism.
	They will allow the things that say, yes, we can, we're doing good, the government is operating as it should, but deny any...
	Yes.
	Well, we're moving on from that story, and this next one is quite titillating.
	These 30 Hooters restaurants are closing after Iconic Chain announces bankruptcy.
	That's right, Hooters is going bust.
	Stay tuned to stay abreast of this situation.
	Seems like it's the breast of times and the worst of times, doesn't it?
	This article describes the closure of over 30 Hooters restaurants across the U.S. From reproductive rights to climate change to big tech, the independent is on the ground.
	The independent is trusted.
	Hooters closed over 30 restaurant locations across the U.S. on Wednesday.
	Closures follow Hooters Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing in March, which had not indicated any planned bankruptcy.
	Company leaders say they are committed to supporting affected employees but do not address an inquiry as to when employees were notified of the closures.
	After careful consideration of what is needed to best position our company for the future, Hooters made the difficult decision to close certain company-owned locations effective June 4, 2025.
	A company spokesperson told The Independent on Thursday, Importantly, Hooters is here to stay, and by optimizing our business in support of our long-term goals, Hooters will be well-positioned to continue our iconic legacy.
	under a pure franchise business model.
	The statement concluded, we are committed to supporting our impacted team members throughout the process.
	That's right.
	Gonna take good care of their employees, I'm sure.
	Move on from that one.
	That was just a bit of fun, folks.
	This is on Vaccine Impact.
	More tech leaders are learning that AI cannot replace humans.
	Efficiency and accuracy are actually getting worse.
	That's right.
	As they begin to feed on their own data, as they begin to take in more and more AI-generated content, it gets worse.
	It's like a prion disease.
	It begins to eat the brain.
	This is by Brian Shulhavi.
	I'm going to begin writing about the AI bubble and the future.
	Big tech collapsed at the end of 2022 with the launch of ChatGPT.
	This first LLM, large language model, AI app, I was just one of a handful of writers who have worked in technology that was warning the public about the dangers of relying on this new technology.
	There were a few dissenting voices besides myself back then, but now two and a half years later, the trillions of dollars of LLM AI investments barely a day goes by where I do not see articles documenting the failures of this AI, reporting the factual news about what its limitations and failures are, rather than pumping up the hype.
	Got a comment here from TunnelLord1337.
	Mexico is serious about fixing their cartel problem.
	They'd let the population be armed so they can purge their country of cartels.
	That's right.
	If they were serious about it, they would let the people have guns to protect themselves.
	Don't frag me, bro.
	CIA is the biggest drug dealer in the world.
	The cartels are proxies, and it is already rumored that former special operators are staffing and or running the cartels.
	That's right.
	The CIA has a long history of drug running.
	A long history indeed.
	While the AI LLMs are truly revolutionary in what they actually can do, it is the faith in science fiction and what people's perspectives and beliefs are about the future of AI that is ultimately going to destroy the U.S. economy and most of the rest of the world's economies as well, because they are literally betting on the science fiction actually becoming true one day.
	Here are some recent articles that provide more than enough evidence that the AI revolution is going to come crashing down at some point, much like the many planes we have been watching fall from the skies due to tech failures and our over-reliance on computers over humans.
	Using AI to write computer code.
	Much of the recent news about the problems with relying on AI have been regarding using AI to generate computer code, and it can help companies become more efficient, except when it screws up.
	This is from the information.
	By Martin Pierce, excerpts.
	Artificial intelligence really does make mistakes, sometimes big ones.
	Last weekend I put half a dozen emails with details of airplanes and hotel bookings for an upcoming vacation to Google's notebook, LM, and asked it to write me an itinerary.
	The resulting document read great until I realized it listed a departure date 24 hours later than the actual one, which could have been disastrous.
	Similarly, my colleague John Victor today wrote about how some businesses using AI coding tools discover serious flaws where they end up developing.
	Plenty of companies are heeding suggestions from AI software firms like Microsoft that AI can cut down the number of employees they need.
	More alarmingly, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodai told Axios in an interview this week that AI could wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs in the next few years, even as it helps to cure cancer.
	That's right.
	It's going to do all these things.
	It's going to cure cancer.
	It's going to cause a boom in the economy.
	It's all hype.
	That's what we always see with new technologies.
	These people come out and they overpromise.
	They talk about all these wonderful things it's going to do.
	It's going to, as he said, cure cancer.
	The holy grail for some when it comes to medicine.
	And that is what they're promising.
	That's what they're saying it can do.
	But we know the most likely outcome is an economic collapse.
	To be sure, not every job cut nowadays is caused by AI.
	Business Insider on Thursday laid off 21% of its staff, citing changes in how people consume information.
	Although it also said it was exploring how AI can help it operate more efficiently.
	We're hearing that a lot.
	Microsoft laid off 3% of its staff this month.
	It denied AI was directly replacing humans, but it still said it was using technology to increase efficiency.
	This is where AI errors would seem to be relevant.
	Isn't there a danger that AI cost mistakes will end up reducing efficiency?
	Leave aside the more existential question of why we're spending hundreds of billions in taxing our power grid to create a technology that could create huge unemployment.
	The more practical question may be whether businesses should use AI to replace jobs right now if they want to be more efficient.
	Remember Klarna, the Swedish buy now pay later fintech firm, which became the poster child for using AI to cut staff last year?
	A few weeks ago, its CEO declared that he was changing course, having realized focusing too much on costs had hurt the quality of its service.
	That's a warning companies should heed.
	That's right.
	There's not going to be a human anymore.
	It's going to be an AI.
	Everything will be staffed by an answering machine.
	Travis, music and comedy.
	This is by Cecilia14.
	Travis, music and comedy can reach people offensive where plain conversation doesn't.
	That's why it's a threat.
	Much truth and parody and music.
	That's right.
	In a farcical yet telling blunder, this is from RT.com, multiple major newspapers, including the Chicago Sun-Times and Philadelphia Inquirer, recently published a summer reading list riddled with non-existent books that were hallucinated by ChatGPT, with many of them falsely attributed to real authors.
	The syndicated article distribute Hearst King features, peddled fabricated titles based on woke themes exposing both the media's over-reliance on cheap IA content and the incurable rot of legacy journalism.
	And of course, DEI.
	That this travesty slipped past editors and moribund outlets.
	The Sun-Times had just axed 20% of its staff underscores a darker truth.
	Desperation and unprofessionalism meets unvetted algorithms.
	The frayed lines between legacy media and nonsense simply vanishes.
	The trend seems ominous.
	AI is now overwhelmed by a smorgasbord of fake news, fake data, fake science, and unmitigated mendacity that is turning established logic, facts, and common sense into a putrid slush of cognitive rot.
	Some signs of AI monoclaps begin to reveal themselves as from the register.
	I use AI a lot, but not to write stories.
	I use AI for research.
	When it comes to search, AI, especially perplexity, is simply better than Google.
	Ordinary search has gone to the dogs.
	Maybe as Google goes gaga for AI, its search engine will get better again, but I doubt it.
	In just the last few months, I've noticed that AI-enabled search, too, has been getting crappier.
	That's right.
	It is all feeding on itself.
	It is producing more content and pulling from that content over and over again.
	Lance showed me a picture from someone's post, and it was just, this is what happens when you Was it Google?
	which doesn't look anything like an adult peacock, but most of the pictures were clearly AI-generated miniature versions of adult peacocks.
	And there was another one with Pinterest that showed every single result on a search.
	I forget what the search was for.
	It was either AI-generated or an ad.
	Yes, it is.
	Just pulling up AI images over and over again when you search things.
	When you want an image search, it just feeds you AI garbage.
	Welcome to Garbage In, Garbage Out.
	G-I-G-O.
	Formerly in AI circles, this is known as AI Model Collapse.
	A Nature 2024 paper stated the model becomes poisoned with its own projection of reality.
	Model collapse is the result of three different factors.
	The first is error accumulation, in which each model generation inherits and amplifies flaws from previous versions, causing outputs to drift from original data patterns.
	Next, there is the loss of tail data.
	In this, rare events are erased from training data, and eventually entire concepts are blurred.
	Finally, feedback loops reinforce narrow patterns, creating repetitive text or biased recommendations.
	Like how the AI company Aquant puts it.
	In simpler terms, when AI is trained on its own outputs, the results can drift further away from reality.
	Not the only ones seeing AI results starting to go downhill.
	That's right.
	The results are getting worse and worse.
	AI will replace all the jobs.
	It's just tech execs doing marketing.
	It's from Hacker News.
	Not an expert here, just speaking from experience as a working dev.
	I don't think AI is going to replace my job as a software developer anytime soon.
	But it's definitely changing how we work, and in many cases already has.
	Personally, I use AI a lot.
	It's great for boilerplate getting unstuck or even offering alternative solutions I wouldn't have thought of.
	But where it still struggles sometimes is with the why.
	It doesn't have the human curiosity, asking odd questions, pushing boundaries, or thinking creatively about trade-offs.
	What really makes me pause is when it gives back code that looks right, but I find myself thinking, wait, why did it do this?
	Especially when security is involved.
	Even if I prompt with security as a top priority, I still need to carefully review the output.
	That's right.
	Even if you stress things to AI and tell it, I want this to be the main focus, it can still just ignore that.
	It can decide, nah.
	I don't care.
	One recent example that stuck with me, a friend of mine, an office manager with zero coding background, proudly showed off how he used AI to inject some VBA into his Excel report to do advanced filtering.
	My first reaction was, well, here it is, AI replacing my job.
	What hit harder was my second thought.
	Does he even know what he just copied and pasted into that sensitive report?
	So yeah, for me, AI isn't a replacement, it's a power tool, and eventually maybe a great coding partner.
	But you still need to know what you're doing or at least understand enough to check its work.
	That's right.
	Just copying and pasting and blindly trusting anything is foolish.
	And an AI that may be hallucinating is even more foolish to just blindly trust to run your business.
	Bankrupt Microsoft-backed AI company was using Indian engineers to fake it.
	That's right.
	Instead of artificial intelligence, it was actually Indians.
	Last week, British AI startup-backed Microsoft and the cutter investment authority Builder.ai filed for bankruptcy after its CEO said a major creditor had seized most of its cash.
	Valued at $1.5 billion after a $445 million investment by Microsoft, the company claimed to leverage AI to generate custom apps.
	In days or weeks, which would produce functional code that had less human involvement.
	Now they've gone cloth off as Bloomberg reports they had a fake-it-till-you-make-it strategy while having inflated 2024 revenue projections by 300%.
	Instead of AI, the company was actually using a fleet of more than 700 Indian engineers from social media startup Versi, Versay, innovation for years to actually write the code.
	According to Bloomberg, builder.ai and Versay innovation routinely build one another for roughly the same amounts between 2021 Oh no.
	Oh no, Saur.
	AI agents fall short on shopping.
	This is from the information.
	Artificial intelligence heavyweights, including OpenAI and Perplexity, along with commerce giants Amazon, are painting visions of AI tools, acting as personal shoppers that can seamlessly buy stuff across the Internet.
	But the handful of AI agents that have so far been released have had trouble with online shopping since they're easily tripped up by variations in retailers, product listings, and checkouts, investors and founders say.
	Oh no.
	The under-delivering has already started.
	This is what we're seeing already as they talk about curing cancer with AI.
	We're going to cure cancer you guys can't even properly check out.
	That's the truth of the matter.
	Amazon testing humanoid robots to deliver packages.
	Well, isn't that fun?
	I can't wait for the first time one of these rolls up to someone's door.
	Eventually, it'll roll up to someone named Sarah Connor.
	Sarah Connor?
	This package is yours.
	The article describes Amazon's development of humanoid robots for package delivery.
	The robots powered by Amazon's AI software could potentially replace delivery workers and speed up drop-off times.
	Amazon is testing the robots in a humanoid park.
	Plans to take them on field trips, and the real isn't that sweet.
	They've got a little park for robots.
	They're going to take them on field trips.
	That's just so fun, isn't it?
	I remember the story from years ago of Amazon is about to start using flying drones to deliver packages that we never saw, and now it's humanoid robots to deliver packages.
	Having it be from a humanoid robot shows that this is all just hype.
	if they really wanted to do it, they would use a rolling robot.
	It would use less energy to get to the place than a humanoid robot that has to balance while holding a big package.
	They already have little boxes on wheels that can deliver packages if they really wanted to.
	This is all just nonsense.
	It is more hype that will under-deliver.
	Well, we are almost out of time.
	We are going to play another clip of my dad talking about Palantir.
	This one is from last year.
	We do have some older ones, but we're going to space them out.
	We're going to go back and forth with them.
	Show that we've been talking, or he has been talking about this for years.
	He's probably the person who has talked about Palantir the most over the years.
	He has been on top of it for a long time.
	But before we do that, I want to thank you all again for tuning in today and remind you that, yes, I will be doing an evening stream.
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	Got a couple of comments before we go.
	Don't frag me, bro.
	The Palantir software is being used by many nations for many purposes, like stopping political movements and AI murder drones in Gaza.
	Drone wars are escalating to target civilian.
	Dissidents.
	He killed us.
	The entire purpose of the creation of the FBI was to get blackmail on congressmen.
	That's right.
	That's what it was originally about.
	And it probably is still the same way.
	No reason to assume things have changed.
	Well, as I said, we're going to be playing another clip of my dad talking about Palantir.
	This one is from last year.
	I appreciate you all being with us.
	I've had another great week being here with you.
	Tonight at 6 p.m. over on Kik.
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	We'll have some fun.
	And I appreciate you all.
	I hope you all have had a wonderful week, and I hope you have a great weekend as well.
	God bless.
	God bless.
	The lockdowns in 2020, every year they would have a convention, 4,000 to 5,000 spooks would show up to talk about geospatial intelligence.
	It was a mapping of political and religious beliefs justified by 9-11, you know, because we're going to be attacked by religious fanatics, Islamicists.
	That was the story that came out of it.
	So we need to be able to map people's political and religious identities, and they use geospatial intelligence.
	The internet creation and social media creation was all tied into all of this.
	But here's what this looks like today.
	This is a couple of quotes from General Mark Milley, as well as Alex Karp of Palantir.
	Palantir is one of these geospatial intelligence companies.
	That's what they do.
	And so this was at a conference that was about national security.
	The name of the conference was the Ash Carter Exchange on Innovation and National Security in Washington, D.C. And in it, you have Mark Milley.
	This is the headline here from Information Liberation.
	He gives a bizarre defense of what is happening in Israel.
	He says, we also have slaughtered innocent people in massive numbers.
	And let me just say this.
	Whenever you're talking about something, the morality of it, the ethics of it, it doesn't make it right because the people that you like or the people that are with you did it.
	It also doesn't make it wrong because you don't like the people who did it or whatever.
	And it doesn't excuse you if you're engaged in a crime.
	And we always see this, especially from the Democrats or Republicans.
	Well, you did that.
	Two, right?
	You did it.
	You did it.
	And a lot of times they're saying that because the Democrats did it, and they're coming after Republicans for doing the same thing, but nobody ever came after the Democrats for doing it.
	None of that matters, really, does it?
	I mean, you broke the law, you broke the law.
	It doesn't matter if your neighbor also shot somebody else in the neighborhood.
	You both committed murder.
	It doesn't excuse you committing murder because your neighbor did it.
	And this is the logic that is there.
	This is the situational ethics that they put out there.
	Now, there's a bright red line of right and wrong that doesn't depend on whether or not your friends or enemies did it.
	Whether it's right or wrong is independent of that.
	Always is.
	So here is Millie making his excuse.
	And talking about U.S. war atrocities.
	Before we all get self-righteous about what Israel's doing, and I feel horrible.
	Judge not.
	Judge not.
	Well, we shouldn't forget that we, the United States, killed a lot of innocent people in Mosul and Raqqa.
	That we, the United States, killed 12,000 innocent French civilians.
	And here we are on the 80th anniversary of Normandy, on the prep fires for Normandy.
	We destroyed 69 Japanese cities, not including Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
	We slaughtered people in massive numbers.
	Innocent people who had nothing to do with their government.
	Men, women and children.
	War is a terrible thing.
	But if it's going to have meaning, if it's going to have any sense of morality, it has to be a political purpose, and it must be achieved rapidly, with the least cost, and that you do by speed.
	And one of the things I feel personally very frustrating, the peace activists are actually the pro-war activists, and we're the peace activists.
	So you don't want war, you better be strong.
	You have to scare your adversary and you have to be willing to Why do you say the peace activists are war activists?
	Because if you're the useful idiot of Iran and China begging to Literally there are people on college campuses saying be doing a pro North Korea mantra if you think that creates peace you are literally They have you marching for them.
	They're never going to give up.
	You are an infection inside of our society, and they are the reason they're not going to give up.
	If you want to stop these people, you have to be willing to be fierce.
	They're out there supporting a terrorist organization whose very written charter calls for the death of all Jews, not just in Israel, worldwide.
	I mean, come on now.
	If you're going to support that, you're on the wrong side.
	Okay, so the first one and the last one talking was Mark Milley.
	The one in the middle, if you're listening to the audio of this, was Alex Karp.
	The guy who was repeating the Orwellian phrase, war is peace.
	That's where these people are.
	And I'm sure that they both believe 2 plus 2 equals 5 as well.
	Yeah, war is peace.
	If you are arguing for peace, you're the war party, right?
	You're the one responsible for war.
	And what he says, you know, peace through strength, that type of thing.
	Well, certainly that is the case, right?
	Should have a strong defense.
	But that's a very different thing, isn't it?
	Having a strong military and showing a strong presence.
	Isn't that a very different thing than preemptively attacking the other countries?
	Which is what Alex Karp and Mark Milley do.
	That's why they're war criminals.
	Assassins, murderers, war criminals is what they are.
	You don't preemptively attack another country, okay?
	And so that's the real issue of what these guys have been doing.
	I'm going to say that's what's going on with the Israel thing.
	I think the problem with Israel is that they have not tried to minimize civilian casualties.
	And that's why you have Mark Milley who says, well, we slaughtered a lot of innocent civilians as well.
	In massive numbers.
	Well, you will answer for that.
	If not in this life, you'll answer to God for that.
	You really will.
	But he's fine with that.
	It's fine.
	You know, we killed not just in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but we destroyed a lot of other Japanese cities, he said.
	And as I said the other day, all these people give you a false dichotomy.
	It's part of the Hegelian dialectic.
	You're being had when people say, well, it's either this or it's that.
	No, it's never either this or that.
	There's always other ways that you could do this.
	And as I said, you know, the argument for dropping the nuclear bombs on the Japanese cities was, well, we've got to save soldiers' lives.
	Because if we didn't drop the nuclear bombs on civilian cities, then we would have to fight the Japanese soldiers from island to island.
	And then we would lose a lot of American soldiers.
	And they were the ones who started the war.
	Even though FDR baited it, even though FDR did what he could to shut down the early warning of it and all the rest of the stuff, the Japanese still did attack first.
	And so that still remains.
	Yes, I understand.
	FDR was passive-aggressive.
	He baited it.
	He facilitated it.
	But they did it.
	And that's another principle of just war.
	So it's justified to defend ourselves and to try to defend this.
	But another precept of a just war from a Christian perspective is that you try to minimize civilian casualties.
	So do we have two options?
	We either fight them with the Marines, island to island, or we drop a nuclear bomb on a couple of civilian cities.
	They could have dropped the nuclear bombs on the islands, couldn't they?
	They could have taken out the combatants.
	Couldn't they have?
	Couldn't they have done that?
	Well, yes.
	See, that's why they don't ever talk about that.
	That would have been a justified response, quite frankly.
	Dropping it on civilian populations was not a justified response.
	It had become accepted by both sides during World War II that you would inflict massive civilian casualties on the other side.
	And that's why, you know, we look at World War II It was not the last good war.
	We crossed the Rubicon on a lot of different things that affect the justified war in World War II.
	One of them being the targeting of civilian populations by both sides.
	And that doesn't make it right, the fact that both sides were doing it, does it?
	That's what I began by saying.
	You know, two wrongs don't make a right.
	Didn't your mommy tell you that?
	My mommy told me that.
	But did you hear what the new justification is from Milley for war?
	It must be done for political purposes.
	What?
	And it must be fast.
	What?
	That's it?
	It must be done for political purposes and fast?
	I mean, what war has ever happened that wasn't done for political purposes?
	Every single war.
	Throughout the history of mankind, it has been for political purposes.
	It's been for the greed and power of whoever's ruling, whether it's the king or whether it's the empire or whatever.
	It's always been about political purposes.
	Everything the Roman Empire did was political purposes, wasn't it?
	Every war, whether it was justified or not, is about political purposes.
	What is he talking about?
	It's just absolute nonsense.
	Well, you know, for a war to be justified, it's got to be about political purposes, and it's got to be fast.
	He doesn't say that you have to try to avoid civilian casualties.
	Here's what a justified war is in a nutshell.
	You don't attack until you are attacked.
	Period.
	Period.
	No exceptions.
	No excuses.
	No, they did this or that.
	No, no.
	You don't attack unless you were attacked first.
	Secondly, you wear uniforms and do other things to try to minimize civilian casualties.
	Secondly, you do try to make it.
	You know, we say we want this war to be for political purposes and we want it fast.
	Well, then that means that every war that we've had since World War II has been unjustified by that benchmark because every war that we've had since World War II has been for a long-term Training and testing of our, you know, training of the soldiers, testing of the weapons.
	They don't ever want to end these wars.
	To say that it has to be for political purposes and it has to be fast, this is a guy who was there at the Pentagon when they were telling us, yeah, we're going to be in Afghanistan forever for another 20 years.
	They didn't leave Afghanistan.
	They were thrown out.
	They wanted it to last forever.
	And that's been the way that it's been in every single war that we've been involved in.
	So war is peace, right?
	You've got to attack these people before they attack us.
	Well, by that logic, if that's the logic, well, then I guess Hamas was justified, weren't they?
	No, they weren't.
	And even if, and I believe that it did happen, even if they stood down, even if Benjamin Netanyahu did a Pearl Harbor like FDR did, even if that was the case.
	That would still be justified in coming after Hamas, but not a relentless starvation campaign, bombing campaign of civilian population that can't fight back.
	That is not justified.
	Not justified.
	But it is absolutely in character with all of our wars since World War II.
	Never going to end it.
	And it'll be for whatever political purpose we want.
	It's always about a political purpose.
	Absolutely amazing.
	To see that.
	And by the way, as I pointed out last week, Alex Karp had said in a previous one of these things, he's kind of come out of the woodwork now.
	He used to be kind of behind.
	He would always go to the Bilderberg Conference, but now because of these protesters on campus, he's speaking out quite a bit about it, saying he'd like to drone his opponents in Silicon Valley and assassinate them.
	He's come up with all kinds of knee-jerk, hateful rhetoric.
	About the people who are doing what they're doing for political purposes as well.
	He doesn't like free speech.
	He wants to punish these people.
	And again, if they take over campus and they start getting violent, if they take over buildings and they shut down schools, that's not free speech.
	And yet these people responded to say, well, you know, because they're doing these violent acts, we need to pass laws that are going to take down free speech.
	They've got another agenda.
	Milley said pro-Palestine protesters in America are, quote, out there supporting a terrorist organization and insisted that they're on the wrong side.
	Well, again, where's your moral compass?
	Is it wrong to do preemptive attacks?
	If it is, then the United States is also a terrorist organization.
	By the way, you know, we look at preemptive attacks and we look at how the beginning of the 21st century.
	The thing that was used to kick off this, so we've got to fight terror everywhere.
	You know, we've got to have a war against terror.
	Well, terror is a tactic, so that opens up everything.
	We had the perpetual blank check for wars everywhere called the Authorization for the Use of Military Force.
	We had all that.
	What was that predicated on?
	It's predicated on a terrorist attack.
	But the question is, was that terrorist attack done by people, our own people?
	Was it done by Tim Osman, also known as Osama bin Laden, or was it done by our own people?
	Here's what some of the 9-11 firefighters said about what happened with Building 7. I saw Building 7 come down, and it was a controlled demolition.
	A classic controlled demolition.
	That building had no reason to come down.
	There's no history.
	Captain Richard Patterson.
	And a fireproof, resulting in failure of the building because the building is in New York City, parlance, a class one, which is a single word, fireproof.
	I demand to know, as should everyone, especially New York Area Fire Commissioner, Christopher Gioia.
	made that day from over 150 police, firefighters, and first responders regarding explosions.
	Wasn't included in the commission report, nor investigated further.
	There was a secondary explosion, probably a device either planted before.
	Fire Department of New York Chief of Safety.
	Other firefighters.
	It was a heavy-duty explosion.
	The whole film just collapsed inside the lobby.
	Is that a secondary explosion?
	Yes, it was.
	You want to call your mother or something?
	Five minutes and the elevators exploded on us.
	Yeah, we said something's wrong, yeah.
	I mean, the plane hit up on the 88th floor.
	I mean, in five minutes, all of a sudden, now the elevators are exploding on the first level in the lobby.
	And it's the first thing I think of when I get up.
	And you heard those explosions.
	The last thing at night before I go to bed.
	I lost Tommy O 'Hagan, Kenny Kumpel, and Bruce Van Hines that day.
	343 firefighters, including three of my good friends, Thomas Hetzel, Bobby Evans, and Mike Kiefer, perished that day.
	And these were some of the best and the bravest people in the world.
	And they, along with the rest of those who were murdered and died horrible deaths, deserve justice.
	Yeah.
	And we could name a lot of names of people who died from the other shooter drop.
	Yeah, we had three buildings that dropped with two planes on 9-11.
	And then the other shooter drop was 20 years later.
	And you had Donald Trump and his pal.
	9-11 Rudy who covered it up there in New York.
	These guys who pushed that thing through and bragged about pushing it through.
	As far as I look at this, I look at this medical martial law, the lockdown, the rest of the stuff that happened in 2020.
	I look at it as a fourth building of 9-11 is the way I look at it.
	Two months before 9-11, they did their simulation.
	One week after 9-11, they did the anthrax attack, and then they used that to push out the Model State Health Emergency Powers Act to get the states to give themselves the power to do what they did 20 years later, and Trump paid them to do it with the emergency declaration.
	And they practiced it at the federal government for 20 years.
	Every year they did one of these germ game things.
	Yeah.
	The way I look at this, I can just see Trump with his hand on the detonator pulling down the fourth building, the pandemic of 2020.
	So, you know, when you look at all this stuff and you look at these people talking about friends that they've lost, we've all got names, don't we?
	People that we know that have died or are dying from this shot.
	Mark Milley repeats debunked Israeli propaganda about beheadings and sexual assault, says Max Blumenthal.
	Well, look, we can argue about that kind of stuff over and over again, but again, when it's wartime, how do you know what's going on with any of this stuff?
	We do know that our allies, the Saudis, do beheadings all the time.
	So why do we care about beheadings, right?
	Because you use their thing.
	Well, you know, hey, we do it or they do it.
	That excuses it, right?
	Well, by that logic, then I guess we don't care about any beheadings because we support people who do that on a regular basis.
	What about sexual assault?
	Well, we got Abu Ghraib and all these other things.
	I mean, we got torture.
	We tortured people.
	use the lies from torture to go into the Iraq war.
	The liar, the one who covered it up.
	He worked with Rudy Giuliani, who lied and covered up 9-11.
	Don't talk to me about Trump or any of these people.
	Is the civilian bombing only wrong if it's a suicide bombing?
	What if we have a suicide drone and it kills a bunch of civilians?
	Is that still wrong?
	Do we have a justified war if you try to minimize the number of people that die, both military and civilian, by shortening it up?
	It's not just making it fast.
	And they haven't tried to make it fast either.
	So, when we look at, there were other comments that were made by Alex Karp.
	Here is what he says about war.
	We kind of just think these things that are happening across college campuses especially are like a sideshow.
	No, they are the show.
	Because if we lose the intellectual debate, you will not be able to deploy any army in the West ever.
	And that's, and of course our adversaries.
	As we constantly do.
	Because we are an empire.
	Why do you think, we kind of all know that, right?
	Why do you think that George Lucas made the empire the bad guys?
	Hey, Hans, are we the bad guys here?
	We're the empire, right?
	Yeah, empires have war for their political purposes, as Mark Milley was saying.
	That doesn't justify it.
	It just makes it even more despicable.
	You shouldn't have a war for political purposes.
	You should have a war to protect innocent lives and to terminate the killing because somebody was an aggressor and attacked you.
	That's why you have a war, Millie.
	But we have people like Millie at the Pentagon.
	We have people like Alex Karp running geospatial intelligence.
	And this next clip will explain a little bit more about what geospatial intelligence is.
	But yeah, if we have a country.
	That obeyed a just war scenario.
	Imagine that.
	They wouldn't be able to deploy their army for political purposes.
	Maybe that's the kind that we should have.
	If we lose the intellectual battle, This is Alex Karp.
	These are the people, you know, Congress says, well, if we got anti-Semitism happening on the campus, we're going to shut down funds to it.
	I wish you would have shut it down when they had Marxist revolutionaries preaching a race war against white people.
	Why was that not good enough to shut down, right?
	It's been going on for a very long time, and you turn a blind eye to it until you get attacked like they attack white people.
	And then you care.
	It isn't about an intellectual battle.
	This is a spiritual, ethical, moral battle.
	This is a battle for the soul of our society and the soul of us each individually.
	It's not an intellectual battle.
	Alex Karp is wrong about that as well.
	This is a guy who looks at monitors intelligence and he talks about What Palantir is doing with geospatial intelligence.
	And they're not just working for the American government.
	They're also working for the Israeli government.
	An equivalent of the NSA.
	It's called Unit 8200.
	They're very sophisticated.
	Basically the same type of organization as the NSA.
	Palantir is one of the companies that's given—it's an American company.
	It's based in Denver.
	And it has given an enormous amount of assistance to Unit 8200 in terms of targeting.
	And that goes to the military.
	So the military targets civilians, lots of civilians.
	Most of the people killed were civilians.
	women and children have been the people who have been targeted in the occupied territories in Gaza.
	The NSA gives Unit 8200 an enormous amount of data from what it collects.
	When I interviewed Ed Snowden back in Moscow, after he went to Moscow, taking all the data from NSA, he said that was one of the worst offenses he saw when he was at NSA, that they were giving all this American data.
	Palestinians talking overseas to relatives or friends in Palestine and the occupied territory.
	And NSA was giving that data to Unit 8200.
	So you have Unit 8200 that's collecting a lot of data from the United States, from Americans.
	They're using it for targeting, and Palatir is one of the companies that's enormously sophisticated in terms of targeting.
	The problem is here is that you're getting information from the United States that the Israelis are using to target the civilians in Gaza.
	And there's been 33,000 killed now.
	It's just an enormous problem that the U.S. has got to stop supplying all this data.
	And make no mistake about it, even though Palantir is saying, well, we're doing this abroad.
	And we're doing it for military purposes.
	And we're doing it for the American empire, right?
	They do it here at home as well.
	It's just like the FISA stuff.
	Oh, well, you know, that's for foreign intelligence surveillance.
	No, they use it against Americans.
	And Palantir is used against Americans and will increasingly be used to target Americans for their political and religious beliefs.
	And guess what?
	They're not interested in the Muslims.
	I told you that.
	They're interested in the Christians.
	And when you look at the fact that they're targeting civilians, these are targeted killings, assassinations of political figures and targeted killing of civilians.
	This is why Milley was trying to justify, oh, we killed a lot of civilians and Japanese civilians and all the rest of this stuff.
	So that makes it okay?
	No, it doesn't make it okay.
	You didn't have to do that.
	And as I said, you could have taken out the Japanese fortifications of nuclear weapons.
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