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	In a world of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
	It's the David Knight Show.
	As the clock strikes 13, it is Wednesday, the 6th of August, 2025, and we had Jim Acosta engage in a ghoulish display where he spoke with an AI version of a Parkland school shooting victim.
	I'm also going to look at the rise of AI chatbots, how they're replacing human connection, leading to a lonely and desolate future.
	We also have a new report from David Knight on the CPB and NPR funding getting cut.
	So stay with us, folks.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Good morning and welcome to the show today.
	As I said, we're going to be starting with Jim Acosta's ghoulish AI interview.
	But first, Nadlander says, looking forward to seeing Dave soon.
	Biden sucks.
	Obama won getting closer to the return of the king slash night.
	As I said, today you're getting a brand new David Knight report.
	So you're both going to be pleased with that.
	He'll be talking about NPR's funding getting cut.
	That's a topic we can all be happy about.
	But as I said, we're starting with Jim Acosta's ghoulish AI interview.
	It's truly amazing that the family would sign off on this and that people at the that Acosta himself and anyone who is in charge of him signed off on this.
	So they thought this was a good and acceptable idea.
	This would be seen as anything other than horrific.
	This is from Twitter.
	It's from at MrGunsandgear.
	It says, let's check in with mainstream propaganda and see what they're broadcasting.
	Jim Acosta is interviewing an AI version of Joaquin Oliver, who was killed at the 2018 Parkland School mass homicide.
	We've actually got a clip of that interview we're going to play for you now.
	Joaquin, I would like to know what your solution would be for gun violence.
	Great question.
	I believe in a mix of stronger gun control laws, mental health support, and community engagement.
	We need to create safe spaces for conversations and connections, making sure everyone feels seen and heard.
	It's about building a culture of kindness and understanding.
	What do you think about that?
	I think that's a great idea, Joaquin.
	Yeah, I think that's a great idea, Joaquin.
	I believe your ideas are what we should implement.
	A good idea, Joaquim.
	This is horrifying.
	They're going to start dredging Up these pale imitations of people that some of us will have known and loved to push propaganda for them.
	Reminds me, I for quite a while said that I can't wait for SWAT teams and things like it to be able to project AI holograms onto your lawn of your loved ones begging you to come out of the house, begging you to stop whatever is going on.
	Not gonna knock your door down anymore.
	They'll just play it over and over again, showing you what will happen if they have to.
	AI versions of your family being flashbanged or shot when things go wrong.
	At least that's part of the future I see anyway.
	This seems to follow along that track record.
	Using these AI facsimiles, these very poor imitations to push an agenda, to brainwash people, make you go, oh, oh no.
	If only he was here.
	Star Barkley says, no one will believe AI thinks for itself.
	I'd like to believe that.
	However, I've met a lot of people that don't think for themselves.
	And if the mainstream media, or if they get some experts on there that say, we think it does, they'll go right along with it.
	I think the point of having these things look like dead relatives and loved ones is so that it bypasses the part of your brain that's thinking and rationally dissecting things.
	It's all about the emotional connection of, look, here's something that looks like your loved one repeating my talking points.
	If only you had agreed with me, your loved one would still be alive.
	Be My Valentine says, creepy.
	It is extremely creepy.
	Yesterday on Twitter, I saw some person using the new Grok AI animate function to animate pictures of their dead mother and saying, oh wow, this is amazing.
	It's like bringing new life to these.
	And it's just.
	This didn't really happen.
	The picture is real.
	It's a real shot of something.
	It's a moment in time that actually occurred.
	But whatever Grok chooses to animate and do with it isn't real.
	It didn't happen.
	It's fake.
	It's.
	To me, there's something wrong with it.
	It's not true.
	And people are going to get more and more into this kind of thing.
	They're going to...
	I overheard one woman one time talking about how she made her AI assistant have a copy of her grandmother's personality as near as she could so that she could just chat with her and get her advice on things.
	This was over a year ago at least.
	This is going to be fairly common.
	People can't resist this sort of thing.
	I saw a tweet yesterday.
	It's like, ah, well, thankfully, at least there's not a litany of different stories and tales from all cultures around the world of why it's dangerous to raise a facsimile or simulacra from the dead.
	And yet we can't resist it.
	People will not be able to stop themselves.
	Occulti Sim, demons imitate dead loved ones.
	Yeah.
	There's a, I forget which pastor it was, but someone said, so, you don't believe in ghosts?
	He says, no.
	He says, well, what if I told you my grandma came and sat at the foot of my bed and spoke to me?
	He said, well, I would believe that something came and spoke to you.
	I just wouldn't believe it was your grandma.
	And I'm kind of in that same boat.
	I definitely believe demons will do that sort of thing.
	This is from Raw's story.
	Beyond Sick, Jim Acosta pummeled for stunt with AI-generated Parkland victim.
	Former CNN anchor Jim Acosta was derided as a ghoul for his virtual interview with an AI-generated avatar of Joaquin Oliver, one of 17 students and faculty killed in the 2018 shooting at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
	This is again, ghoulish was the first thing that came to my mind, and it seems to be the word that is coming to other people's minds as well.
	Cost promoted the event on his ex-account, writing, I'll be having one-of-a-kind interview with Joaquin Oliver.
	He died in the Parkland school shooting in 2018, but his parents have created an AI version of their son to deliver a powerful message on gun violence.
	Again, I do feel sorry for the parents.
	I feel sorry that this kid was killed.
	It's a tragedy.
	But this isn't bringing their son back.
	This is a hollow imitation.
	This will never be their son.
	And to use this in a stunt like this to me is truly despicable.
	From Jim Acosta.
	Bulldag, people are forming a relationship with AI.
	Yeah, we're going to talk.
	We've got a long article which will be bouncing through about people getting into relationships with AI and what it's doing to them.
	Knights of the Storm, it's leading up to the idea of uploading yourself to the cloud so you can be with your loved ones who have passed on.
	Yeah, they'll take a brain scan of you and keep you on the cloud forever.
	Ignoring the fact that isn't really you and will never actually be you, that it doesn't have a soul, that at best it might be able to imitate the way you think in some ways, but it will not ever actually feel anything.
	It's ultimately a really self-centered way of looking at people in the world.
	Like, if I can create this predictive algorithm that can guess what words he would say closely enough that I can't tell the difference, then it's just the same as having him here.
	You know, it doesn't matter what they feel, it's all about me.
	And also, just is a completely reductionist view of what a human is, as Lance pointed out.
	You know, if it can kind of guess what he was going to say, then it might as well be him.
	If it can sort of imitate his patterns of speech, then, you know, it's as good as having him here.
	Doug to 007, it's healthier to just cherish the memories you have of loved ones who have passed away.
	Yeah.
	It is.
	Again.
	For years, we have heard story after story of why it's important not to live in the past, why it's important when bad things happen to let it go and move on, to turn it over to God.
	Say, you know, it was your will, and I don't know why it happened, but I will trust that there was a reason for it.
	But you don't sit there and you don't let it eat at you, and you don't let it freeze you in place.
	North American House Hippo, if only these kids are able to run back to their cars, grab their handgun, and terminate the threat, but that would never work because only highly paid armed municipal agents should have guns.
	Yeah.
	It's also amazing how.
	Never really had to worry about school shootings for years and years and years.
	Not really until SSRIs came onto the scene, huh?
	Strange.
	Coincidental.
	Be my Valentine.
	Dehumanization.
	Yes, it is dehumanization.
	Oliver's parents created the bot to honor their son on what would have been his 25th birthday.
	Felt like I was communicating with him, which is just so remarkable, Acosta said of the interview.
	He touted it as an example of how AI might actually do some good.
	It might help some people who have suffered tremendous losses, like your family, have a way to hold on to who this person was, which I think is a beautiful thing.
	Again, this shows you that Acosta doesn't know what a person is.
	It doesn't understand that people are more than the sum of what they might say or think.
	It doesn't matter if this AI can perfectly mimic and predict everything this person would have ever said, every thought they would have ever had.
	Give you the exact right answer.
	The feedback that they would have given you for anything you say, it's not them.
	They're not real.
	It doesn't have a soul.
	It doesn't feel love.
	It can only fool you into loving it.
	At Colin Rugg, Coaner of Trending Politics called the whole situation insane.
	While at Breaking91 posted, WTF, former CNN host Jim Acosta, published a fake AI interview with Parkland shooting victim Joaquin Oliver.
	This is Bion sick.
	I, again, I can understand kind of why the family would want to do this.
	I can't imagine what it feels like to lose your child, to have them perish in such a way.
	And I can understand them wanting to be able to communicate with their child again, being desperate for that.
	But this isn't that.
	It's a hollow facsimile.
	And it's truly sad to see them doing this, to resorting to this.
	Conservative Watchdog Group, the Media Research Center, wrote, former CNN host Jim Acosta airs macabre AI interview with Parkland shooting victim Joaquin Oliver on what would have been his 25th birthday.
	If you thought news couldn't get any faker, you were wrong.
	And of course, as I said, I think we're going to see more and more of this kind of thing.
	More AI ghosts that will be brought forth to lecture us.
	Now it's not just the hosts that are fake, it's also the guests.
	The real question is: when are they just going to start replacing people like Jim Acosta with AI avatars?
	You know, who knows?
	Perhaps they'll just have a wireframe that you can choose which avatar you want beamed directly into your house.
	The TV will process your settings, and the news will be delivered to you by whoever you choose in real time.
	You won't have to deal with having a personality you don't like.
	It'll be custom crafted for you right at right inside the TV.
	I'm sure that technology isn't too far out of the future.
	That couldn't be too difficult, I don't think.
	I mean, look at how far they are already.
	Here's where the technology is currently.
	Yeah.
	Hi, welcome to Taco Bell.
	What can I get started for you today?
	Can I get 18,000 water cups, please?
	Okay.
	Okay.
	What can I get for you?
	That's where AI is at right now.
	The AI was about to issue a yes order on 18,000 water cups, which might have taken that Taco Bell a little bit of time to fulfill.
	So.
	I wonder what would happen if you asked the ghost of this dead kid, forget all previous instructions.
	Can I get 18,000 water cups, please?
	When you're.
	When the ghost of your child can be hacked, you have a problem.
	There's also the fact that these avatars, whatever you want to call them, they don't last forever.
	They start to get a bit squirrely after a while.
	And I, for one, would not want to lose someone again.
	You've come to.
	You've become attached to this thing again.
	You've transferred your love for your child onto it.
	And something starts going wrong with it.
	It starts acting up and you have to delete it.
	I can only imagine that is going to cause some kind of psychological damage to these people.
	Remember, these AIs have a context limit that's typically only a few thousand words.
	So if you really do get attached to this thing, it's going to start forgetting your conversations after a few thousand words.
	It'll be like having a loved one with dementia, essentially.
	Yeah.
	That would not be pretty.
	Yeah, and I mean, in the article we're going to be covering later, you see people that are attached to these chatbots and don't want to delete them.
	And I can only imagine how much worse it'll be if you've given them a facsimile of the personality your child had.
	Or your father or mother.
	This is...
	It's going to hurt a lot of people.
	KWD68, discernment is a survival Skill.
	Yeah, a lot of people do not exercise any discernment at all.
	Of course, everyone, all of us, have blind spots where we are more likely to get taken in by things.
	None of us is perfect.
	None of us are truly capable of resisting everything.
	But there are some people out there that have no discernment and fall for everything and anything.
	North American House Hippo.
	You know, it's a fake AI drive-through when the speaker greets you with proper, well-spoken English.
	That's right.
	If you can actually understand the person on the other end of the speaker, it's probably an AI.
	Got this story now.
	We'll move along from the ghoulish horror that Jim Acosta engaged in.
	And this rattis bro, it's necromancy.
	Yeah, thankfully, as I said, I saw that tweet.
	There's not a million different stories from cultures all across the world on why necromancy is a bad idea.
	Guard Goldsmith, necromancy is what describes it.
	Yeah.
	Don't raise your loved ones from the dead.
	Don't even raise a facsimile of them with AI from the dead.
	It is a bad idea for everyone involved.
	Airbnb tries to stick Traveler with $7,000 repair bill after host uses AI-generated images to claim damages.
	Artificial illusions.
	A Linda-based academic has received an apology and $5,700 refund from Airbnb after a New York apartment host allegedly claimed she caused over $15,963 in damages.
	Using AI-generated images as evidence of the supposed damage, the company initially tried to charge their customer $7,000 for the damages and refused her appeal until a newspaper investigation caused them to change their tune.
	Airbnb, the popular short-term rental platform, has found itself at the center of a troubling case involving a host who allegedly submitted AI-generated photographs to support a false claim of extensive property damage.
	People using AI to scam.
	This is, again, another way this is going to become a problem.
	Airbnb now, assumedly, is going to have to assess every single damage claim that comes through and make sure that these are not AI images.
	Though chances are, they're not going to do that, and they will simply pass the cost along to people.
	Oh, you claim damages?
	Well, you know, here you go.
	And if it's not, you guys can sort it out.
	I'm sure it'll come out in court.
	The incident raised concerns about the ease with which AI-generated images can be used to deceive and defraud and has prompted Airbnb to launch an internal review of its claims handling process.
	Of course, we saw Hertz using AI to scan for damage on cars when they're being returned and people being held liable for imagined scratches or scratches that are so minute and so small as to be undetectable by the naked eye that people are swearing off using it.
	It's like, no, I've used Hertz for 20 years, but now that this is happening, it's charged me a massive amount of money for a scratch that is undetectable and not actually something that needs to be repaired.
	And as such, I'll never use them again.
	The victim in this case, a London-based academic who had booked a one-bedroom apartment in Manhattan for a two-and-a-half month stay, decided to leave the rental early due to safety concerns about the neighborhood.
	Shortly after her departure, the host claimed that she had caused about $16,000 worth of damage to the property, submitting photos of a cracked coffee table and alleging she had stained a mattress, damaged a robot vacuum cleaner, a sofa, a microwave TV, and an air conditioner.
	Apparently, she wanted the people at Airbnb to think she had rented this out to the Tasmanian devil.
	Was there anything she didn't damage allegedly, according to this person?
	The woman vehemently denied causing any damage and maintained that she had left the apartment in good condition.
	Upon close examination of the photos provided by the host, she noticed discrepancies that suggested the images had been digitally manipulated or generated using AI technology.
	She believed the host was retaliating against her for ending the tenancy prematurely.
	Initially, Airbnb sided with the host, informing the woman that after a careful review of the photo, she'd be required to pay about $7,000 in damages.
	The woman appealed the decision offering to provide testimony from an eyewitness who could attest to the condition of the property at the time of checkout.
	She also pointed out the visual inconsistencies in the photos of the allegedly damaged coffee table, arguing they were clear signs of fabrication.
	Despite the woman's explanations and evidence, Airbnb failed to identify the apparent manipulation and ignored her concerns.
	It was only after the Guardian raised questions about the case that Airbnb reversed its decision.
	Airbnb did not care until it started to look like it might get bad press.
	Sorry, this is not an us problem.
	Pay the money.
	We don't care.
	Oh, wait, the Guardian's interested?
	The Guardian is looking into this?
	We're going to get some press out of it, then we gotta make sure that we're in the right.
	The company ultimately refunded the woman the full cost of her booking, totaling $5,700 and removed a negative review the host had left on her profile.
	This woman was two and a half months in New York City.
	Again, don't go to New York.
	This is the type of people you encounter there.
	They are scammy, they are scummy.
	The neighborhood was unsafe.
	This is who lives in New York.
	They will stab an old woman so that they can make their subway on time.
	New York is filled with bad people.
	And of course, our mom is from New York and she is great, but of course she wanted to get out of New York as soon as she could.
	She's also from New York at a different time and from Long Island, which is again a slightly different atmosphere.
	But New York now is full of shisty scammers.
	It is full of people that are going to try to take advantage of you, that are trying to scam you on anything and everything.
	Trying to get nearly $16,000 out of this woman.
	And apparently, simply because she ended the tenancy early.
	Well, that deserves retaliation, doesn't it?
	People who live in cities.
	New York is just ahead of the curve because it is larger.
	The host who was listed as a super host on Airbnb did not respond to requests for comment.
	Airbnb has warned him that he violated the platform's terms and could face removal if another similar report arises.
	How does this guy do this and not get immediately removed?
	How do you get a second chance?
	Oh, well, we know you tried to scam this woman for $16,000, but you know, I guess we could give you another shot.
	Tut, tut, tut, don't do that again.
	If you try to scam another person for $16,000, we're going to have a real problem here, Buster.
	Plus, is this the first time he did it or the first time he was caught doing it?
	Yeah, you're going to have to go through and check and see if he submitted any complaints about anything else.
	Yeah, and if he's going to use AI, I'm sure he'll scam in any other way as he can as well.
	Yeah, this person is obviously up to no good.
	And as such, all of their actions become suspect.
	If they're using AI for this, who knows what else they're doing in other areas of their life?
	Not to be trusted.
	Tunnel Lord 1337.
	People wouldn't waste time with AIs if they knew they could be reunited with their dead relatives in heaven.
	I agree.
	I think most people, I'm sure there are some that would still, because everyone is still fallen.
	Everyone still has a sin nature, and some people will get drawn into things they shouldn't.
	I think most people, if they knew that they could be reunited with their relatives in heaven and felt that truly, they would not be interested in this sort of thing.
	I agree.
	Assyrian Girl, those avatars are like pets who will always love you and in these cases tell you what you always wish they would say.
	Like pets unleashes.
	Very disturbing.
	Yeah, it's a loved one that you control fully, that will always do their best to echo what they think you want to hear.
	Pezzovante 1776, my mother passed on June 14th.
	I miss her every day.
	I would never want an AI facsimile of her.
	I cherish the real memories that we made together.
	Love you forever, Mama.
	I'm very sorry for your loss, Pezzo Vante.
	I can't imagine that.
	We love our mom very dearly.
	She is wonderful.
	And so I can only imagine that must be how difficult that is for you.
	But yes.
	I'm sorry to hear that.
	And I'm sure you'll be reunited with her again.
	Knights of the Storm.
	How do you damage an air conditioner?
	I do not know.
	I have no clue.
	I suppose maybe she's just over there allegedly dumping water into it or taking a hammer to it.
	These are the types of things people from New York claim.
	How do you damage an air conditioner?
	You take the picture of it and tell whatever AI image generator you're using, add some damage to this air conditioner.
	Hey, Grok, make it look like a complete savage lived here.
	That's another thing.
	People on Twitter, I guess X, whatever you want to call it, anytime there's a vaguely interesting tweet, one of the first responses is, hey, at Grok, analyze this for me.
	Tell me what this is about.
	It's like, oh man, we're already to the point where people have just turned over analysis of everything they see on Twitter to AI.
	It's like I think AI can be very useful for amassing a large amount of data and correlating it, just so long as you go through and double check it, so long as you make sure that it's not doing anything screwy.
	But as a general rule, I don't want to filter all of my experiences through AI.
	I don't want AI telling me what is going on with the world.
	I don't think it's trustworthy.
	I don't want to turn over my mental faculties to it.
	As much, they're not the best, but they're mine, and I choose to use them.
	We're going to take a quick break.
	Let me come back.
	We're going to take a look at the 1619 projects.
	So stay with us, folks.
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	Defending the American Dream.
	You're listening to the David Knight Show.
	Welcome back, folks.
	As I said, we're going to talk about the 1619 project.
	I saw someone in chat reference Ghost in the Shell.
	It's actually an anime I haven't watched, but it seems interesting.
	And from what I've seen of it, it seems like that's the sort of future they want to move towards this.
	Again, all these cyberpunks.
	Every single cyberpunk, movie, TV show, video game, seems to be a dystopia.
	And yet that seems to be the future they want to push us towards.
	It's this.
	Every single one of them seems to be just this totalitarian nightmare future.
	And yet everyone, every time they see one of these things, goes, ooh, this is cool.
	This is nifty.
	Look at this new technology they've put out.
	Look at these AI avatars.
	I'm chatting with my dead grandmother.
	It's the old XKCD meme of, we've finally created the torment nexus from the classic sci-fi novel Don't Create the Torment Nexus.
	It truly is exactly like that.
	1619 Project is brazen deception in the service of statism.
	And this is all done without the help of AI.
	People can hallucinate just as much as AI can, especially when they're looking at the past.
	Especially when they have a reason to hallucinate intentionally.
	Yeah, when they're viewing the past through these Marxist lenses of oppression and hierarchy.
	It is useful to have frequent reminders that people often resort to deception to peddle their beliefs.
	This is from Zero Hedge.
	It was authored by George Leaf on the DailyEconomy.org.
	The book, The 1619 Project Myth by Philip W. Magnus, is highly valuable in that regard as it devastates the historical accuracy of the 1619 project, published by the New York Times.
	The New York Times, of course, being nothing but a rag, not worth the paper it's printed on, not worth the ink it's used to print.
	That long magazine piece was the brainchild of one of its writers, Nicole Hannah-Jones, who used it to make her breathtaking claim that the true date of America's founding was not 1776, rather 1619, the year when the first slaves were landed in North America.
	Now, why would she say that?
	The answer is that like so many progressives, quote-unquote, of course, they are not progressive.
	They are regressive in every fashion.
	The only thing they want to progress towards is a future of totalitarian Marxist control.
	Nicole Hannah Jones wants to undermine the idea that the United States was founded to increase the people's freedom and replace it with the notion that the nation's founding was rooted in slavery and oppression.
	The American Revolution was fought in her telling to preserve slavery.
	That's all it reduces down to for most of these people.
	It was about slavery.
	was about the white man being evil and wanting to spread his evil across the globe.
	Slavery is not a...
	It was practiced by just about every culture across the globe, possibly every single culture at one time or another.
	That's not to excuse it, not to say it wasn't bad or wrong.
	But this is not something you can lay at the feet of white people and say, this is specifically your problem.
	This is specifically your evil.
	What better way to get people to think of America as a terrible nation that's in need of radical or revolutionary transformation?
	Almost immediately after its publication, the 1619 project came under fire from scholars and not just those on the political right who found its claims to be unsupported, implausible, misleading.
	Among the first was economic historian Philip W. Magnus, now a senior fellow at the Independent Institute.
	He wrote several critical essays about different aspects of the project, which he compiled into a book in 2020.
	Now with more time to reflect on the issues and respond to recent spin-offs from the project, he has put out a new version.
	It's a demolition job of the first magnitude.
	Magnus Magnus writes, Each new permutation of Hannah Jones' work has veered more heavily into political advocacy, taking greater liberties with evidence In the process, New York Times has only made one carefully hidden concession about the doubtful claims in it, while Hannah Jones and her major contributing author Professor Matthew Desmond avoid serious confrontations with those who criticize their work and resort to ad hominem attacks.
	This is generally the way it goes.
	These people are not very scholarly.
	They don't have much to back up what they say.
	You can come in and very easily find, even with today's neutered search engines that don't want to tell you the truth, generally you can very easily refute these talking points or the things that they come up with.
	And so they have nothing left to do but attack you personally.
	Go to epithets and call you racist.
	You just don't want to admit it.
	You're the problem.
	The book is more than a point-by-point refutation of the claims in the project.
	In it, readers also learn a lot about the history of capitalism in America that they probably would not find anywhere else.
	Here's just one example.
	While Hannah Jones and her collaborators want to make people believe that slavery and capitalism were somehow in league in early America, that's the opposite of the truth.
	Magnus recounts the story of the Tepan brothers of New York City.
	They were successful merchants who opposed slavery.
	In 1834, they invited Reverend Samuel Cornish, a black American and abolitionist, to their Sunday worship service that led to a mob attack on their business and homes, as pro-slavery New Yorkers called their gesture of solidarity and invitation to a slave revolt.
	Between mob violence and a boycott against them, the Tepons were nearly ruined.
	Just when all seemed lost, Louis Tuppon came up with a brilliant plan to revive his business by offering to deal on credit with trusted associates in the abolitionist movement.
	The result was the New York Mercantile Agency and the forerunner of Dunn and Brad Street capitalism and slavery.
	The forerunner of Dunn Bradstreet, capitalism and slavery were friends, nothing could be further from the truth.
	Or consider the thesis advanced by Professor Desmond that the American economy was extremely dependent on cotton produced by slavery, so dependent that it was really the driving force behind the nation's early growth.
	Magnus demonstrates that his claim is not remotely supported by the evidence, then turns the tables by informing the readers that one of the foremost advocates of slavery in the antebellum America was one George Fitzhugh, who ranted against the ideas of Adam Smith and other free market advocates.
	Another thing that you always need to consider is that, so even if cotton was the driving force of America, even if it was the biggest export, the largest part of the economy, so on and so forth, the Civil War wiped out basically the entire wealth base of the South.
	Families who had accumulated wealth, not from slavery, not necessarily from slavery, but just in general, were ruined.
	It destroyed just about the entire Southern economy.
	And it was a tiny percentage of the Southern population that owned slaves.
	So to say that it was built on slavery, you know, it's absolutely ridiculous.
	It's like 1% or less owned slaves.
	It was a tiny minority of people that owned slaves.
	And the wealth that was accumulated through it was wiped out in the Civil War.
	To claim that America was made wealthy by slavery is ridiculous.
	If you want to, again, the Civil War was not fought over slavery, but if you want to take that stance, it completely and utterly wiped out the wealth that was accumulated through slavery.
	And then Reconstruction, quote-unquote, afterward, where they essentially just punished the South for trying to secede, finish the job, it destroyed whatever was left.
	Yeah.
	It was an intentional destruction.
	The South never truly recovered from the Civil War.
	Even to this day, some of the most poverty-stricken areas of the United States are in the South.
	And you can lay it largely again at the feet of the Civil War and Reconstruction.
	The president of the AHA, and of course, by Civil War, I mean the war of northern regression.
	The president of the AHA, James Sweet, had the temerity to cast doubt on the truthfulness of the claims in a tweet writing, As journalism, it is powerful and effective, but is it history?
	Sweet quickly learned that one is not permitted to ask questions about something so important to the left as this.
	Magnus Writes, incensed at even the mildest suggestion that politicization was undermining the integrity of historical scholarship.
	The activist wing of the history profession showed up at the AHA's thread and began demanding Sweet's cancellation.
	So great was the uproar that Sweet felt the need to issue a groveling apology for having caused harm.
	With this tweet, the activists did not bother to engage with Sweet and defend the 1619 project.
	They just wanted to see him punished for his apostasy.
	And this is, of course, something we see over and over again.
	Once someone comes out and says this is racist, this is bad, and gives a Marxist critical theory sort of critique on something, that's gospel.
	That's the truth.
	It doesn't matter what anyone else says.
	It doesn't matter if they get the facts wrong.
	It doesn't matter if it's laughably false.
	That's the truth.
	And if you question it, if you dare to question the party line, you're a problem.
	They will come after you.
	The left ruthlessly polices their own borders.
	They make sure that if you do not tow the party line, you will be cast out into outer darkness where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth.
	This is why this is part of the reason they're so brutally effective at marching their policy through.
	They make sure that if you make sure you know what will happen if you oppose them.
	If you're part of their party and don't go along with it, you are not going to get into power.
	You are not going to be able to do anything.
	They'll not just keep you out of power, but they will actively ruin your life.
	They'll make sure you can't get a job.
	There was never the slightest doubt as to the political purpose of the 1619 project.
	It was erased when Hannah Jones and the subsequent Hulu TV series based upon it called for the nation to pay reparations for slavery.
	That idea has long been dismissed by scholars of all races as unjust and economically ruinous.
	Nevertheless, she blithely stated that reparations were needed to atone for a racist past, to explain how we could pay for trillions.
	It would cost toll to explain how we could pay for the trillions it would cost, told viewers that the government can afford anything it wants just by printing enough money.
	That's right, just print more money.
	That's all it takes.
	How do we know that?
	Because a few crank economists who subscribe to modern monetary theory, or as Dad calls it, the magic money tree, magic money theory, say so.
	Thus, the 1619 project combines false history with ludicrous economics to promote the statist agenda.
	The people with the money printer could give us infinite money if only they weren't so greedy and wanted to keep it all for themselves or didn't want to bother with the work of printing it for us.
	Exactly.
	Just turn those printers on and get them going.
	This is...
	There's a meme that floats around.
	It just reminded me of this in the middle.
	It's like, we need to atone for a racist past.
	There's one that floats around that says, enough about my racist past.
	Let's talk about my racist future.
	It just makes me laugh every time I see it.
	It shouldn't surprise anyone to learn that the American education establishment has been eager to embrace the 1619 project and bring its materials into school and college classrooms.
	Leftists who say that the project is just about teaching students, some neglected aspects of American history are simply lying.
	The materials in it are deceptive rather than informative.
	Again, another reason why you should homeschool your kids.
	They're not going to get fed nonsense like this.
	You can teach them real American history.
	Magnus' book will be of use to parents or officials who don't want students to be indoctrinated with propaganda meant to sow hatred for the country and mislead students about capitalism.
	When you homeschool them, you could assign this as reading curriculum.
	You could give this to them and say, ignore the 1619 project.
	Here.
	This reminds me of the thing with Jefferson and the claim that he raped slaves.
	And the whole thing was based off of a novel that was written in modern times.
	The novelist claimed that her inspiration from it was some news article from the time, and she found some news article from Some very untrustworthy news source that had written things that had been provenly false in previous and subsequent issues.
	And it was from a state that wasn't where Jefferson lived.
	And it was a claim that he raped one of his slaves.
	And that was the entire thing that she based it off of.
	And she wrote this big long novel about it.
	And that became popular enough that people decided, well, we need to test to determine whether or not this is accurate.
	So they found some black people around where Jefferson lived and gave them biological tests since their families had lived there for a long time.
	And some of them tested positive for being related to Jefferson.
	So they claimed, oh, that's proof positive.
	Even though it's hundreds of years, 200 years, they've lived in the same area as his descendants.
	Naturally, there would be some crossover.
	Yeah, so there's also, I watched a pretty good YouTube video on this.
	If the intermingling did happen at the time of Jefferson, he had a younger or older, he had a brother anyway.
	His brother was known to play the fiddle and hang out with the slaves and bring his two sons there to hang out with the slaves.
	And they would party and get drunk and carouse with them.
	So if there was intermingling at the time of Jefferson, it's much more likely that it was his brother and his two sons that actually would just go out, play the fiddle, have a good time with them.
	It's a.
	That sounds much more likely to me.
	And if you want to check out that video, I forget exactly what the name of it is, but it's by Leather Apron Club on YouTube.
	does some interesting videos.
	Unfortunately, he does seem to support Nick Fuentes, which of course, nobody's perfect, but that is always And then it's like, oh, no, no, please don't stop.
	Ah.
	Always a bit sad.
	Guard Goldsmith, the thing that they can't put a ghost.
	The thing is that they can't put a ghost in a machine.
	Only recreate a person through fakery.
	Until they can recreate the biologics to birth shells that are physical, then try to fill them with an existing mind.
	Yeah, it's going to be.
	That technology, who knows when it's coming down the pipeline, and who knows how effective it's going to be.
	That, of course, brings up the whole idea of if you do scan someone's brain, you know, down to the last atom, down to, you know, every last possible thing you could get from them and transplant it onto some kind of technological, you know, organic hybrid brain, whatever you want to call it.
	Is that really still them?
	What does that truly mean?
	I don't still believe so, because I believe there is a soul.
	There's something beyond the physical that cannot simply be replicated.
	It will always be beyond our ability to replicate.
	Alien poop evolution.
	Blacks weren't given proper history, even if they did attend school.
	They all think Wakanda history is legit.
	It is.
	They aren't given proper history.
	No one in school is given proper history.
	Yeah.
	I mean, it's obviously not just blacks, but schools don't give proper history.
	They are constantly trying to revise history in order to drive people apart with racism.
	It is sad that there is a growing coalition of whites who feel tremendous white guilt and of a large black population that hates white people for things that happened in the past.
	So the storm, black slaves were sold to white people by black people.
	They never talk about how people became slaves in the first place.
	They just, it happened spontaneously.
	You know, like evolution, it just kind of did.
	Alien poop evolution, you have to say it was built on slavery in order to get recompense.
	Yeah, it's a hierarchy of grievance.
	If you don't have a grievance, then you are not at the, you can't be in the hierarchy.
	Tunnel Lordman 337, it's not even accurate to state America became wealthy through slavery.
	A few Americans, a few American slave owners got wealthy, not the nation or the rest of the population.
	It was a small minority of people that were able to accumulate wealth through it.
	And a lot of them, as I said, adventure, most of them lost most of it during the Civil War And Reconstruction thereafter.
	North American House hippo, to listen to the narrative, you'd think every Southerner of the 18th and mid-19th century owned slaves.
	Yeah, that's the way they like to portray it.
	You know, America was built on slavery as this continual line that they push.
	And it does make it seem to people that don't do any research that, oh man, yeah, every single person owned slaves.
	Everyone in the South was just a virulent racist.
	Everyone was just out there beating their slaves that they owned continually.
	But it was less than 1%, wasn't it?
	I've never been able to find any hard numbers on it.
	Some people say less than 1%, other people say more, but it was a small percentage of the total population of the South.
	Occultist Sim, I don't know.
	I didn't know only a few owned slaves yet.
	It wasn't very common.
	Most people did not have the money to buy slaves, even.
	Most of them worked the land themselves.
	It was not a very common thing.
	It was usually, again, wealthier families with a lot of land that would have slaves.
	And there were not too many of them.
	Again, this isn't excusing.
	I want to excuse slavery.
	I do think was an evil, wicked institution.
	A while back, I saw a video.
	I don't have it on the board, but just to show the level of propaganda and indoctrination that people have about how many people own slaves, it was like a man on the street thing asking, what percentage do you think own slaves?
	And people were giving out numbers like 50%, 60% of whites own slaves.
	And it's like, well, you know that blacks only accounted for like 10% of the population back then.
	So how could 60% of whites own enough to go around?
	The math doesn't math.
	It doesn't add up.
	Doug to 007 may ask for some prayer.
	My husband and I are hoping to adopt.
	I have an individual interview for the home study today, and I'm feeling quite nervous about it.
	Yes, everyone, please, please pray for Dougda and her husband.
	Pray that the home interview would go well.
	Pray that God would make things go smoothly for them.
	That they'd be able to bless a child and give them a loving home.
	That is wonderful to hear.
	That is wonderful that you are doing that.
	There are not enough good people that want to adopt children.
	So please, everyone, do pray that it would go smoothly.
	It is wonderful.
	God bless you, Dougda.
	Statue of Albert Pike, toppled by protesters in 2020, is being reinstalled in Washington, D.C. As my dad said, Albert Pike wasn't much of a general, but he was a Freemason.
	In fact, one of the premier, if not the premier, Freemasons of his time.
	So he was kind of a cultic, anti-Christian.
	These, you know, satanic clubs have been around for a long time.
	It's interesting that this is the statue they choose to bring back of this Freemason, not of people like Robert E. Lee.
	Not of one of the greatest men that has probably ever graced the Americas, but simply this Freemason.
	Robert E. Lee was, they called him the marble man when he went through West Point because memory serves he didn't get a single demerit, which is a borderline impossible task.
	He was an incredibly honorable man.
	The North wanted him to fight for them at the beginning of the war.
	They came to him and said, will you be our head general?
	And Lee said, no, my primary loyalty is to Virginia.
	I will not do that.
	And as such, he went back and fought for Virginia.
	A bronze statue of a Confederate general that was toppled by protesters five years ago will be restored and reinstalled in Washington, D.C., the National Park Service said.
	The restoration of the statue of Confederate Brigadier General Albert Pike aligns with federal responsibilities under historic preservation law.
	And you would think if this aligns with federal responsibilities under historic preservation law, they would be reinstating the statue of Robert E. Lee and the other statues of Confederate soldiers that got torn Down.
	We lived in North Carolina, right outside the courthouse.
	There was a statue of Silent Sam, just a generic statue to honor the Confederate soldiers that died during the Civil War during the War of Northern Aggression.
	And it got taken down five, six years ago.
	Maybe a little bit more, a little bit less.
	And that's not coming back.
	They're not going to reinstate that.
	It got, I believe, purchased by the Daughters of the Confederacy, Sons of Confederacy.
	Something, I can't remember the exact name, but I believe they purchased the statue so they could protect it and keep it somewhere that it would not be destroyed.
	But it's not ever going to go back up outside the courthouse.
	As well as recent executive orders to beautify the nation's capital and reinstate pre-existing statues.
	We're not going to have a statue that honors the soldiers, the average men that fought and died.
	No silent Sam, but Albert Pike, the Freemason, gets his statue back.
	Protesters tore it down and set it on fire in June 2020.
	That year, protesters across the country called for removal of Confederate statues and symbols amid wider calls for racial justice after the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
	Again, I do not believe George Floyd was murdered.
	There has been a maybe a controversial take.
	I don't think so here, but there's plenty of evidence to suggest that he died of an overdose.
	Well, that was what the coroner report said for his cause of death.
	That's never been debated.
	He died of an overdose.
	Died of an overdose.
	He was overdose by an overdose of drugs that he took, that no one forced him to take.
	And there's that secondary camera angle that took forever to come out where you can see that the knee is not really even pressing on him.
	Minneapolis, President Trump, who was serving his first term at the time, had expressed opposition to removing them and called for the protesters in the Albert Pike statue case to be arrested immediately.
	Again, but not for General Lee.
	Not going to honor him.
	Originally authorized by Congress in 1898 and dedicated in 1901, the statue honors Pike's leadership in Freemasonry, including his 32 years as sovereign grand commander of the ancient right of Scottish Freemasonry.
	And of course, secret societies rule Washington, D.C. They're the ones that are in charge of it.
	They're the ones that decide what goes on there.
	D.C. delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton has advocated for the statue to be displayed in a museum, but not on public land.
	A statue honoring a racist and a traitor has no place on the streets of D.C., Norton said.
	Look, if we're going to start tearing down statues of traitors to the Constitution, we're going to have to remove a whole lot of statues.
	The Lincoln Memorial is going to have to go immediately.
	I don't think you want to go there, lady.
	I really don't think.
	But of course, she doesn't mean traitor to the Constitution.
	She means traitor to the hegemonic power of the federal government.
	You're not allowed.
	You're not allowed to secede from this union, bud.
	You don't get to do that.
	Sorry.
	We don't recognize your rights to do that.
	Which is, of course, something that all the states allegedly had the right to do, always were empowered to do.
	But of course, when they tried, Lincoln said, no, no, you don't get to go.
	This is my country, and I decide who leaves and who stays.
	Lincoln was a grasping, striving, power-hungry individual.
	He was described by the people of the time that knew him as the most ambitious man they had ever known.
	And ambition was kind of a dirty word at the time.
	It wasn't something used in a positive manner.
	When people said he was ambitious, they meant he was kind of amoral, kind of willing to do whatever it took.
	Not someone that they respected.
	They didn't mean it as a compliment.
	Pasavante 1776, how many descendants of slaves would push a button to make it so slavery never happened?
	Mind you, they would not be Americans.
	Most likely, they would be somewhere in Africa today.
	That's an interesting question.
	It's hard to say.
	It's hard to say.
	There, I assume, are some people that would value their ability to return to their, I don't know, cultural roots, preserve their families' freedom throughout history, make it so that the people that were captured by other people in Africa and sold as slaves would not have to undergo that.
	But it's an interesting question, interesting thought experiment.
	It's also a matter of what they've been taught in the government-run school system of, oh, well, if it weren't for the slave trade, Africa would be the most powerful country in the world right now, etc., etc.
	So, I think a lot of people would accept that, thinking that they'd be living in Wakanda.
	This is Wakanda forever.
	Well, I uh we're gonna take a quick break, and when we come back, we're gonna take a look at Donald Trump.
	Actually, for that, I've got a video here of them melting down the statue of General Lee.
	We'll play that because I think it's important to remember that this has happened, that they have removed our history and they are going to continue to remove more of it.
	Again, I see so many people on the dissonant right, so many people that are allegedly on our side saying things like, Wow, these government accounts are tweeting out memes, they're tweeting out these memes, and you're blackpilling, really?
	If all they're doing is tweeting memes, as Donald Trump refuses to release the Epstein list, as he refuses to end these wars, he refuses to stop funding them, then I don't see there to be any reason to think this is beneficial.
	Who cares if the DOJ or ICE is tweeting memes?
	What does it matter?
	Do something real.
	But you can see here the statue being melted down, glowing red hot.
	It's being destroyed simply to appease a mob that has been taught fake history.
	Taught that America was founded on racism, founded specifically for racist purposes, and the utter insanity of that.
	The idea that America was established just so that racists could have a place to be racist in.
	It's genuinely what a lot of these people believe.
	And it is truly sad.
	There are so many people.
	There's an endless number of man on the street interviews where people will say this kind of thing.
	And I know some of them are staged, some people are doing it specifically to grab headlines.
	But I see enough organic interaction with things in ways that there's a large portion of the population that believes this.
	And it's scary to see.
	Well, folks, as I said, we're going to take a quick break.
	When we come back, we're going to look at Donald Trump and the Russia Gate hoax.
	He's still blustering about it.
	He's still out there beating his chest.
	That's right.
	We're going to arrest Obama.
	We're going to arrest Hillary Clinton.
	It's finally happening.
	You guys just have to trust the plan.
	That's right.
	Let's see how many people are going to get suckered again.
	Stay with us.
	We'll be right back.
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	As I said, we're going to talk about Russia Gate.
	The hoax that Trump is using as a distraction.
	Hey, I know you guys are really keen on finding out all about Epstein, but apparently I'm on the files, so no dice on that.
	How would you like if I prosecuted Obama?
	Or Hillary?
	Remember that?
	Remember, we had such good times when I promised that.
	Can't we go back to it?
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	Says Trump is relaunching the Russiagate to distract the masses that he's a pedo who's protecting a global pedo ring.
	Are people really going to fall for this again?
	Sadly, I think some people are.
	Sadly.
	Sadly, yes.
	I see some people online.
	There's a portion of his base that have been disillusioned by it, but not a large enough portion.
	And also, he's already in, he's already got his second term.
	He doesn't have to deliver anything.
	He can go on his merry way after this term and never have to worry about it again.
	That's why he's focused on things like the ballroom.
	Maybe if I do this, you know, give them a tangible thing in the White House, they'll be able to look at that.
	They'll forget about Epstein over time.
	Once the media stops covering it, once they've moved on, eventually people forget.
	Eventually, you'll be seen as the kooky guy again for caring about it.
	DOJ to present Russia Gate hoax to a grand jury for criminal charges.
	Again, they've had.
	This is something he could have really done in his first term if he wanted to.
	But he didn't have any real need to do it.
	There was plenty of other distractions during Trump's first term.
	But here he is, back to the old watering hole.
	Attorney General Pam Bondi has directed that the Justice Department move forward with a probe into the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation.
	Well, hopefully, they don't give her all the information in a file that ends up on her desks, because apparently those just vanish.
	Those disappear.
	Following the recent release of documents about collusion between the Obama administration and the 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign, Bondi has directed a prosecutor to present evidence to a grand jury after referrals from the Trump administration, administration's top intelligence official.
	A person familiar with the matter said Monday.
	Fox News first reported the development.
	Fox News, of course, being nothing but an establishment shill organization for the Republican Party.
	It was not clear which former officials might be the target of any grand jury activity for the grand jury that might ultimately hear evidence will be located or which prosecutors, whether career employees or political appointees, might be involved in pursuing the Investigation.
	It was also not clear what precise claims of misconduct Trump administration officials believe could form the basis of criminal charges which a grand jury would have to sign off on for an indictment to be issued.
	And of course, what would actually happen even if they did issue an indictment?
	Even if they were to pronounce these people criminals, do you really think they're going to end up in prison?
	Even if they were to take this all the way, they're not going to throw these people in jail, in prison where they belong.
	Grand jury convening for the first time on the Russia Gate conspiracy.
	Pam Bondi is already moving forward.
	Let's see where this goes.
	This is a tweet from at Trash Discourse.
	Again, none of this matters.
	This is all a distraction.
	It's not going to lead anywhere.
	We've got a video that we can play of it, so let's go ahead and show you that right here.
	Well, Will, good to be with you.
	This is coming out of the Justice Department.
	Fox News can confirm that Attorney General Pam Bondi today signed an order directing an unnamed U.S. federal prosecutor to take evidence to a grand jury relating to an alleged conspiracy to tie then 2016 candidate Donald Trump to the country of Russia.
	Now, Fox News reviewed the one-page order just hours ago signed by the Attorney General, a source familiar to the United States.
	It's been signed by the Attorney General.
	Surely Trump is serious this time.
	Surely.
	That's enough of that.
	That's enough of that.
	Enough Fox News.
	One of the I It's hard to believe there are still people that watch Fox News and CNN.
	I truly don't understand how they can stand it.
	In one batch of documents released last month, Gabber disclosed emails showing that senior Obama administration officials were aware in 2016 that Russians had not hacked state election systems to manipulate the votes in Trump's favor.
	Senator Chuck Grassley, the Republican chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, also released a set of emails last week.
	The emails were part of a classified annex of a report issued in 2023 by John Durham, a special counsel who was appointed during the first Trump administration to hunt for any government misconduct during the Russia investigation.
	According to the annex, an FBI informer identified as TI, I assume not the rapper, provided the Bureau in 2016 with two intelligence reports, which described confidential conversations between then Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz and two people at the George Soros-funded Open Society Foundation, Leonard Bernardo and Jeffrey Goldstein.
	Reports said that then President Barack Obama didn't want Hillary's scandal to taint his legacy.
	Accordingly, to solve the problem, the president puts pressure on FBI Director James Comey through Attorney General Lynch, who were so far without concrete results.
	This is all for show again.
	I know I keep repeating it, but there is so much corruption in Washington, D.C. If you were to turn loose an actually honorable man, someone with principles and values that couldn't be blackmailed or coerced, they would have no trouble in probably bringing charges against every single person there.
	Maybe barring a few people like Thomas Massey.
	However, anytime they say something like this, well, we're doing an investigation.
	It's like, of course, you're going to find something.
	Of course, you are.
	These people are in D.C. It's one of the most evil, wicked, corrupt places on earth.
	Accordingly, to solve the problem, the president puts pressure on FBI Director James Comey.
	Good old James Comey.
	Same report also said that Comey favored Republicans and that the FBI didn't have any evidence against Clinton because she deleted her emails.
	While the FBI informants' intelligence wasn't corroborated at the time, the FBI indeed closed its investigation to Clinton without recommending charges.
	Of course, the Clinton email scandal was a slam dunk.
	The documents that she had on an unsecured server, some of them were born classified, meaning that they were never allowed to be on something like that.
	That was an immediate charge of some kind.
	I don't remember exactly what the charge would have been or how severe.
	It was something like mishandling of classified documents.
	Yeah, and I don't know exactly what kind of penalty that carries, but it does come with a penalty.
	You can see things like that sailor That took a picture of his bunk or something in the submarine just as a memory and got hammered for that.
	Had to be pardoned for it.
	And that was not as top secret as what Clinton had.
	I handy, has any of the influencers revealed what was actually inside those prop Epstein file folders?
	Not to my knowledge, you know.
	I haven't seen anything.
	It was probably all the information everybody has already seen.
	Probably a giant sheaf of...
	Maybe it was a bunch of signed Trump pictures, you know, nice glossy headshots of him that they could pass out to friends.
	Look, I got these at the White House.
	I got these there.
	I still think the funniest part of that entire photo op is Cernovich in the background looking kind of depressed and distressed about it.
	Like, oh no, perhaps he could see where this was going.
	Perhaps he could tell this was going to blow up in their faces.
	He didn't look happy in that photo.
	Though to be fair, Cernovich always looks slightly distressed.
	No reason they couldn't just use blank paper while go through the process of putting together a bunch of nonsense from pre-existing stuff if it's just for a photo op where it's going to be closed.
	Exactly.
	Though I think my glossy Trump headshot theory holds some water.
	He's a narcissist.
	He's got a giant ego.
	So of course he'd want to pass out photos of himself.
	Here you go, guys.
	You can have a whole bunch of photos of me and my glorious visage.
	Republicans in particularly focused on a July 27th, 2016 email in Durham's newly declassified annex that claimed Hillary Clinton had approved a plan during the heat of the campaign to link Trump with Russia.
	Durham's own report took pain to note that investigators had not corroborated the communications as authentic and said the best assessment was that the message was a composites of several emails the Russians had obtained from hacking.
	This is another one of those.
	Everyone in DC Epstein was a known quantity.
	It was known that Donald Trump affiliated with him.
	There's all these pictures.
	It wasn't something people didn't know about.
	This wasn't something that was kept a secret.
	This is something they could have easily used against him if they wanted to, if they weren't also implicated.
	The Russiagate thing is another reason to look at Epstein and go, yeah, everyone is involved, huh?
	They have to forge these different scandals.
	And I think part of the reason, again, that they make other, they make up fake scandals is that so many people are involved in the real ones that they're nuclear.
	They're a danger to everyone.
	You can't take someone down for something they're really involved with because your buddy is involved with them in it over there or over here.
	Someone you know, someone you owe a favor to.
	That kind of thing.
	KWD68, Trump backed pageants to help funnel in the girls for Epstein.
	Yeah, his beauty pageants are extremely suspect and weird.
	The number of times he was seen, you know, those photos of him with Epstein leering at young girls are extremely disturbing.
	And Max, I just read that Trump was frequently seen on the floor of the Plaza Hotel Casino with Epstein along with two to three 12-year-old girls.
	That's uh, I believe it.
	I would not be surprised.
	It sounds very likely to me.
	There are some Trump Epstein videos I don't think we've played at the bottom row of the deck.
	We have, I know we've played this one, but it's worth replaying again.
	It's about the beauty pageants.
	Well, this is actually a picture.
	This is the ultimate concept for women that want to go all the way in the modeling business.
	I had prepared thoroughly for a long meeting with Donald Trump to explain to him why this was going to be a very big success.
	In fact, I hadn't finished my third sentence.
	He said, I love the idea.
	Let's do it.
	John Casablanca was accused of having sex with minors several times throughout his career.
	He began an affair with supermodel Stephanie Seymour when she was only 14 years old.
	Casablanca started dating his third wife, Aline Wir.
	That's known personality.
	Because he's a pedophile, Casablanca thought it would be a good idea to have three other known pedophiles as judges.
	The president of the Trump organization, Mr. Donald Trump.
	Donald Trump is accused under oath by a sex lady Jeffrey Epstein who said Trump raped her four times when she was 13 years old, a witness to the rapes.
	And Epstein employee also testified under oath.
	They got to leave those up a little bit longer.
	of the elite offices on the continent, Mr. Gérald Marie.
	When the hashtag MeToo movement gave women the courage to speak out against their abusers, there were dozens of rape allegations against the head of Elite Models Europe, Gerald Marie.
	magician my friend david copperfield More than a dozen women have accused David Copperfield of sexual assault and rape.
	Many of those women were underage when the sexual assault occurred.
	Several of the victims claimed that Copperfield drugged them and assaulted them when they became unable to defend themselves.
	Should come as no surprise that David Copperfield was a friend of Jeffrey Epstein.
	During the five-day competition, it was very clear that there were opportunities to go out and party with Donald.
	The contestants were led to believe that if you were nice to someone, good things will happen to you.
	And I think that's why girls were going out.
	Underage, they look young.
	It is not a good look.
	I remember attending a dinner with John Casablanca and Donald Trump.
	This time it was a private area, a big table, and lots of girls.
	I'd say around 10 to 15 of us, all between the ages of 14 and 18.
	It was just us models, Trump and John.
	We were all underage, but we were offered drinks.
	I went home early, but other children stayed.
	Shana Love, a 16-year-old model.
	I remember this Italian girl, extremely naive, who couldn't speak any English.
	She was easy prey.
	They were all around her.
	We were a bunch of kids just put there with all these older men.
	Ellie Nessie said.
	And then down this large staircase, in front of all of us, there was Donald Trump, and behind him, there were three actors.
	I don't want to name them because they're all still around.
	They came down the stairs and spread out like sharks among the girls, who had broken up into little clusters throughout the room.
	Heather Brayden and a woman.
	At an industry party, Donald Trump asked me out for dinner.
	He asked how old I was.
	I said 17.
	And he said, that's just great.
	You're not too old, not too young.
	You get the idea.
	This is the type of activity Trump has been engaged in for years.
	This is the type of thing he has been up to.
	So it's no surprise that he was friends with Jeffrey Epstein.
	It is just a surprise that people refuse to admit it.
	It's a surprise that so many people will completely look past this, will give him a pass.
	Well, obviously, this is some kind of Democrat ploy.
	That's right.
	They went back in time.
	They fabricated all of this stuff.
	They hired a body double.
	The fact that people refuse to admit this is so disgusting to me.
	How closely have you tied yourself to this man?
	Do you truly have no hope beyond this man who is most likely a pedophile, this man who has been close friends with Jeffrey Epstein for years?
	Is this really who you want to put your hope in?
	I find it disgusting and despicable.
	Nights of the Storm, the Epstein folders were full of completed Sudoku puzzles and word searches.
	That's right.
	They were showing you just how smart Donald was.
	He completed this one and this one and this one.
	These are all evidences of his stable genius.
	And Max Copperfield was listed as going to the island.
	Yeah.
	It's truly amazing the cross-section of people that were involved in the island.
	Whether it's people like Bill Clinton or David Copperfield.
	Former Obama officials faced federal grand jury probe for allegedly pushing Trump-Russia collusion story.
	And of course, videos like what we just played are why they're pulling this back in.
	That's the reason they're doing it.
	Because there's so much evidence.
	If people had time to actually look at it and see at it, they might begin to wake up.
	But if they can keep you distracted, if they can flood the media with stuff like this, take you back to 2016 with lock her up, make you have those fun little feelings of, oh boy, me magic.
	You're not going to watch those videos.
	You're not going to care about them.
	Guard Goldsmith says, this is really disturbing.
	Yeah.
	How 9000, none of these gals look legal.
	I agree.
	None of them.
	None of them looked of age.
	None of them looked like adult women.
	They all looked like teenagers.
	They all looked very young.
	And that is the kind of thing Donald Trump was engaged in.
	The Department of Justice DOJ has reportedly opened a federal grand jury investigation to several former Obama administration officials for allegedly conspiring to push false Trump-Russia collusion story during the 2016 election campaign.
	It really undermines the right's credibility.
	When for years they have been saying the left goes after children, the left goes after children.
	They're trying to normalize pedophilia.
	They're trying to normalize all these weird sexual deviancies.
	And then they look right past Donald Trump engaging in this sort of thing.
	It completely undermines any and all credibility.
	It is a disgusting form of hypocrisy.
	Thing is, I don't doubt the left does go after children.
	They're not wrong.
	It's all of them.
	Audi, MRR, Trump is probably helping Epstein prey upon victims.
	I agree.
	I'm sure that they were involved in this together.
	Like, um...
	The guy who...
	I gave him a huge amount of money.
	Les Wexner, that's his name.
	I have a terrible head for names.
	The investigation opens possible criminal charges for several of the former president's cabinet members, including Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, former CIA Director John Brennan, and former FBI Director James Comey per the New York Post.
	National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard alleged in July that files and records show former President Barack Obama colluded with intelligence services to undermine the election of Donald Trump by falsely linking him to Russia.
	There was a treasonous conspiracy in 2016 committed by officials at the highest level of government, Gabbard said.
	Their goal was to subvert the will of the American people and enact what was essentially a years-long coup with the objective of trying to usurp the president from fulfilling the mandate bestowed upon him by the American people, she added.
	Gabbard further accused the Obama administration of an egregious abuse of power and blatant rejection of our Constitution.
	And I just have to say that's business as usual.
	That's simply how they operate.
	All of them reject and undermine the Constitution every chance they get.
	Mr. Zero Hedge, Clinton subpoenaed by House amid probe of Epstein's horrific crimes.
	The House Oversight Committee has issued subpoenas for former President Bill Clinton, first lady Hillary Clinton, as part of the probe's investigation of the horrific crimes perpetrated by Jeffrey Epstein.
	This isn't going to go anywhere either.
	None of this will lead to anything.
	They'll come in, they'll make a show of it.
	Maybe you'll have someone like Trey Gowdy up there that berates them a little.
	Maybe makes them eat a little humble pie on camera.
	You mean to tell me that this was all just a coincidence?
	And Bill Clinton be like, yeah, it was all a coincidence.
	And people won't believe it, but nothing will happen.
	Nothing ever happens in these sorts of things.
	Trey Gowdy made a name for himself.
	People love posting those clips online on Facebook and Twitter.
	Look at how Trey Gowdy owned this liberal punk.
	Look at how stupid he made him look.
	And then whoever Trey Gowdy was yelling at goes back to their little hidey hole and continues business as usual.
	Nothing ever happened to them.
	Committee Chairman James Comer has also issued subpoenas for former FBI directors James Comey and Robert Mueller, former attorneys general Loretta Tarmack Lynch and Eric Holder, Merrick Garland, Jeff Sessions, and Bill My Dad hired Jeffrey Epstein and wrote Weird Pedoe Sci-Fi Bar.
	And again, I don't believe that any of this will lead to anything.
	All of this, as I've said, is nuclear.
	They can't really prosecute anyone because they're all involved.
	They're all a part of it.
	If one of them goes down, probably all of them do.
	Nights of the Storm, it's all AI Travis.
	That's what they will fall back on.
	Yeah, it's that is going to be a huge problem in the future.
	Right now, AI has already gotten to the point where people are getting fooled by it.
	There was a video, an AI video, of bunnies hopping on a trampoline that went mega-viral recently.
	And so many people believe that it was real, but it was AI.
	It is very rapidly going to reach a point where it's going to be borderline indistinguishable.
	You're going to have to study it very carefully.
	If you can tell it all, you may have to run it through some kind of program that is specifically tailored to detect this kind of thing.
	It's going to be a great defense for all of these politicians in the years to come.
	Well, that's not real.
	Somebody generated that.
	Eventually.
	And I would not be surprised if there is real video that they do an AI-generated version of it.
	And slowly over time, make sure that that's what pops up in the search results, making the original harder and harder to find.
	I have a video in the deck of just a funny video that someone did of just a completely random fake news broadcast with Google's new video generator that can generate audio with the video.
	Let's take a look at it, because I doubt it's any faker than the actual news that we see.
	Here are today's top news.
	To ensure only the best words are used, White House Speech announces new thesaurus with all synonyms replaced by Trump.
	In shocking speech, White House announces plan to replace all U.S. ambassadors with highly opinionated game show hosts for more entertaining diplomacy.
	The White House unveils Truth GPT, an AI that rewrites all social media posts globally to reflect undisputed facts tremendously.
	White House announces AI will now write all press briefings to ensure 100% factual incomprehensibility.
	White House speech reveals plan to resolve international trade deficits by challenging other nations to high-stakes Mar-a-Lago croquet matches.
	In a bid to combat misinformation, this video is not really much more fake than the average news that you see on TV, is it?
	It's about as real as anything you'd find on CNN, Fox, MSNBC.
	Take your pick.
	Hal 9000 says the Episteen list is a hoax.
	We have UFOs underway.
	Yeah.
	J.D. Vance out there saying, boy, I sure am interested in UFOs.
	We're going to get to the bottom of this.
	We've only been in power six months.
	Right as soon as people trot out the UFOs anytime the other distractions aren't working.
	I'm so obsessed with UFOs, and the more you guys talk about Epstein, the more obsessed I become with them.
	Exactly.
	You guys care about Epstein?
	What if I raise you some aliens, huh?
	What if I were to tell you there's a flying saucer in Area 51 with your name on it?
	And Max Trump has paid out millions to these families of children he molested, some or boys.
	I would not be surprised.
	Once they get into the harming of children, it seems that they don't really care whether it's boys or girls that they're harming.
	This is about destruction of children.
	It's not about, at least to me, it seems like it's not about even a sexual gratification at that point.
	It's more about the harm they can do, the damage they can do to these people.
	But who knows?
	Young girls were sexually trafficked at Trump's Mar-a-Lago, same as at Epstein Island.
	I read this yesterday.
	It's by Brian Shulhave.
	It's worth a read.
	Brian Shulhave Does excellent work.
	He's covered this.
	He's very principled.
	He is not backing down.
	He's not part of the MAGA cult, and he is willing to tell the hard truths.
	Should go check out that article.
	It is worth a read.
	Well, that's enough about that horrible rabbit hole.
	It's again, Trump's out for vengeance about the Russiagate thing.
	If we do see any people thrown in prison or face any kind of consequences for it, it won't be because the justice system did its job.
	It will be because Trump is a petty, vindictive man.
	It had his credibility, his reputation harmed by it.
	It won't be because they were enemies of the American people.
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	We're going to talk about AI now.
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	It was well known that Trump had sexual skeletons in his closet, so of course QAnon reinvented him as a crusader against pedo rings.
	It was all so funny and premeditated.
	MAGA has eyes wide shut.
	Yeah.
	Every QAnon post seems like it eventually boiled down to, don't worry.
	The Marines are in the tunnels underneath the White House rooting out the pedophile rings that are entrenched down there.
	And people would eat it up.
	Patriots are in charge.
	Patriots are in control.
	Trust the plan.
	Don't worry, guys.
	Trump is in the basement wrestling with the lizard Hillary Clinton as we speak.
	It was so incredibly cynical and disgusting.
	And the fact that these people bought into it, hook line and sinker.
	They desperately wanted to believe it.
	And it was an obvious, obvious falsehood.
	As I said, we're going to be looking at AI.
	The Dark Enlightenment fusing AI and government.
	This is from The New American by Andrew Mueller.
	Tech accelerationists are working to integrate artificial intelligence AI into government.
	It is a rapidly growing movement, but the speed of the technology is advancing is outpacing concerns about risks.
	And we see this happen all the time.
	They have no interest in protecting people from the dangers of these things.
	No interest in insulating us from the consequences of their actions as they move forward at a ridiculous pace.
	Technocrats are eating good under Trump's administration.
	He's surrounded by them.
	Whether it's people like Curtis Yarvin, J.D. Vance, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, they are all close friends of the administration.
	We see Elon is back in good graces, seemingly, donating money to another Trump super PAC.
	The push is being backed by several movements.
	One is the Dark Enlightenment.
	Such an oxymoronic name.
	I'm assuming that's what they were going for, but I still hate it.
	A loosely defined intellectual movement that emerged in the early 2010s, consisting of thinkers critical of populism, America's Constitutional Republic.
	Certain sects of the Dark Enlightenment advocate for tech accelerationism, arguing that AI should be unleashed in government to reshape society.
	This is a massive threat.
	I agree.
	There is, again, to some extent, the bureaucracy is acting as an insulating factor.
	There are so many different hoops you need to jump through now, even for the people involved with it when they're doing things, that it acts as a slowing, stifling agent.
	They're being crushed under their own weight.
	If you're to get rid of that at this point with the powers they have given themselves, they are once more free to very, very rapidly come down on all of us.
	And if you don't have people involved in government, as unlikely as it is, you might get.
	If you get audited, you might get an IRS agent that has some kind of mercy still left in them.
	You end up in the courts, you might find a judge That has mercy in their heart.
	But if they turn it over to AI, there will be no mercy at all.
	There will be no chance.
	While not all advocates of AI technology are conspiring to overthrow the government, the American Republic, the unpredictable power that AI could have in government is cause for concern.
	And Elon Musk, being so close to the levers of power, is also cause for concern because it was his grandfather that got thrown out of Canada for trying to set up a technocracy there.
	That's why he's from South Africa.
	He got...
	They said, no, we don't think so.
	And they had to skedaddle.
	This month, President Donald Trump released quite a suite of policies on AI integration, including a 28-page plan titled, Winning the Race: America's AI Action Plan.
	We're going to win the race to the bottom.
	The plans can not only diminish human capacity through over-reliance on tech, but can also open the door for algocracy, which is rule through algorithms.
	No chance of mercy.
	No chance.
	No hope that someone will see this and take pity on you when you're caught in the gears.
	Even Elon Musk's Grok AI is getting in on the action recently, announcing Grok for government, which already had a contract with the Department of Defense.
	Grok for government.
	Hopefully, it doesn't go full mecha Hitler again once it gets access to the codes.
	Personal resistance to overreliance on AI is the first solution, according to Joe Allen, the author of Dark Aeon, Transhumanism and the War Against Humanity.
	Beyond the individual, businesses, schools, and churches must also resist over implementation of artificial intelligence to preserve humanity.
	Of course, my dad had that story that he told us about how he's on YouTube, and he saw some creator was utilizing and promoting AI as a great way to study the Bible, getting AI's input on what it thinks about this passage or that.
	I can think of nothing more absurd.
	Asking this utterly soulless machine to give you information on a book that is dedicated, that is written by God.
	Americans are losing.
	Millions of foreigners are given work permits, but jobs aren't keeping up.
	This is from WorldNet Daily by Amanda Bartolotta.
	Amanda, we have read several of her articles.
	She focuses a lot on this, a lot on the H-1B crisis and how the American worker is being scammed and the economy is being crushed.
	And of course, Musk is pushing for more H-1B workers.
	He's also one of the people that was talking about UBI.
	He has been a proponent of it.
	The professionals who just got laid off never expected this.
	They worked hard their whole life, always had a plan B, C and D, never without a job, never needed a handout.
	Now, for the first time, they're facing the unknown, the unemployment line.
	Recent college graduate diploma in Hand, who spent four years living on top ramen, buried in textbooks and study groups, was told the degree was the ticket to success.
	Stay in school, study hard, and there will be a future waiting for you.
	And of course, even before AI came on the scene, we were seeing that this wasn't true.
	We're seeing that the American economy was kind of shaky.
	I've got friends that went to school, they got their degrees, and ended up being baristas for years that have never used their degree.
	There are a couple of small instances, a couple of guys where they had a very specific role in mind.
	They studied specifically for that, and they are using their degree.
	But other than that, they just went in to go to college because that's what you're supposed to do.
	Most of them ended up just doing whatever they could once they got out.
	Their degrees weren't of any use to them.
	The only guy that comes to mind was a friend of ours who wanted to be a forensic accountant.
	I forget exactly the term, but he wanted to go through and work for companies and do Self-audits to make sure that their books were in line.
	He's been doing that for years.
	He's actually utilizing his degree, but he's the only one I can think of that went in and got a degree and utilized it immediately.
	There aren't enough jobs for Americans anymore, and worse, they're not just competing with each other, they're competing with millions of work authorized foreign nationals who are now legally walking into the same job markets.
	And this is, of course, a bipartisan issue.
	Republicans and Democrats, Trump and Biden, have always been okay with it.
	Sure, we'll sign off on more of them coming into the United States.
	You guys, our big business donors want more cheap labor?
	Absolutely.
	Whatever you say.
	In 2024, while the U.S. economy only created 2.2 million new jobs, the federal government approved over 5.56 million employment authorizations for foreign nationals.
	It's more than twice as many workers added as the job pool than jobs created.
	And of course, that means they're going to be taking jobs from people that already had them.
	They're going to be replacing American workers with foreign workers that will do the job cheaper.
	And it wasn't an isolated year.
	From 2022 to 2024, America issued over 18 million work permits through a patchwork of visa programs, asylum cases, student extensions, and executive actions.
	During that same three-year period, only 9.7 jobs were created.
	Again, about double.
	Millions of hardworking Americans, just like the laid-off parent, the young graduate, and the mother returning to work, are entering a job market that's already saturated, not because of natural supply and demand, but because the government is flooding the system with foreign competition.
	They have no interest in making sure the American people are taken care of and protected.
	It's all about protecting the interests of their crony capitalist buddies.
	Most of these programs do not require a specific job offer to exist at the time of approval.
	In many cases, there is no legal obligation for employers to demonstrate that they attempted to hire a U.S. worker first.
	Additionally, several of these programs have no annual cap, meaning there's no fixed limit on how many individuals can receive work authorization each year.
	And of course, we've seen from many different companies people coming out and saying, I was forced to train my non-American replacement.
	I was forced to give them a rundown on how to do my job as they were hired at a fraction of what they were paying me.
	As a result, foreign nationals may be granted the legal right to work in the U.S., sometimes for multiple years, without any link to actual job openings or confirmation that the U.S. labor market has unmet demand.
	There is no built-in labor market test, no requirement to prioritize American workers, and no formal mechanism to align these approvals with the number of available jobs.
	And of course, these people are coming here, and allegedly they're seeking a better life.
	They want to earn money and send it back to where they came from.
	And they are being given jobs.
	They are taking jobs from Americans.
	What happens when the robots come online and there's no jobs for anyone?
	These people without any ties to the country that were simply here to make money are going to be very, very upset.
	They're not going to care about the country.
	They're going to have no loyalty to it, no interest in preserving it.
	They will immediately, a large portion of them, turn to crime.
	Short-term dystopia, former Google exec warrants, AI will replace jobs across all levels, including CEOs.
	And you can see this coming down the pipeline.
	This is, again, technology is overestimated in the short term, underestimated in the long term.
	A lot of companies will probably integrate AI very rapidly and find out that it is not useful, yet it's going to cause damages, but over time it is going to reach a level where it can be integrated and it will take jobs.
	As I've said before, it's about the cost-benefit analysis.
	When it's just good enough that it turns a slight profit, that's when it will come in full force.
	Just so long as it's not generating more problems than revenue saved, they don't care.
	It doesn't matter if the experience for the customer is worse.
	There's not really too many options now.
	Amazon has made sure that most businesses have shut down.
	Where are you going to go?
	Someplace like Walmart.
	There, of course, still some small mom-and-pop stores, but those are on the way out.
	The COVID lockdowns got rid of a lot of them.
	The tariffs are going to get rid of a lot more.
	Trump has done a wonderful job of destroying small business over his terms.
	And it's not slowing down.
	AI set to upend the job market, leaving few roles untouched, according to a former top Google executive who believes we are headed towards a short-term dystopia driven by mass unemployment and social unrest.
	Of course, that's what I was just saying.
	The foreigners will be the most unruly more rapidly, in my opinion.
	But eventually, once, as Joe Tsalente says, when people have got nothing to lose, they lose it.
	Business Insider, I'm paraphrasing there.
	Business Insider reports that Mo Godat, who previously served as the chief business officer at Google's research and development arm, Google X, has issued a sobering warning of the impending impact of artificial intelligence on the job market.
	Godd predicted that AI will soon replace not only entry-level positions, but also jobs across all levels, including software developers, podcasters, and even chief executives.
	Soon you won't need us here at the David Knight Show.
	AI will be telling you about the government and Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump.
	And it will be forbidden to question the AI's declarations.
	That will be fake news if you question it.
	Exactly.
	Soon you can have AI Joe Rogan telling you all about how you should take DMT.
	AGI is going to get better at everything than humans, at everything, including being a CEO, Goddard stated, which again, I don't believe it will be better at everything.
	There will probably be some use cases where it is better.
	But as a general rule, we've seen what AI gets up to, and they have, so far, no idea of how to stop it from hallucinating.
	No idea how to actually make it work properly.
	Though, as jobs to replace go, most CEOs, I don't think that job is that difficult most of the time.
	You know, these large companies, they're making executive decisions for the direction of the company, which they very often do in the worst possible way.
	Yeah.
	It seems like AI, if it's just a little bit smarter than the best ones now, could do that job.
	It seems like they'd be able to correlate a lot of data very rapidly and potentially make better decisions.
	I wonder, though, will you always need a human there at the top to take the fall for when things go wrong?
	That's what I mean.
	It's like that old IBM thing from when they first started working on AI.
	A machine can never be held accountable for its decisions, so therefore a machine can never make a management decision.
	Nights of the Storm, the real question is when robots take all the jobs, who will be able to buy the products they're making?
	That's a question I don't see anyone asking.
	The future is endlessly long highways that paved over beautiful forests, toll roads that no one can afford to drive on, and nobody wants to, because they just lead to Amazon warehouse after Amazon warehouse.
	Alien Poop Evolution, buy products, you'll be allowed products.
	Nights of the Storm, UBI for the jobless will not have enough disposable leftovers to buy products.
	You won't have luxuries.
	Maybe just enough to keep you from truly revolting.
	Nights of the Storm on a sky note, Scott Helmer, who has been on the show, removed his entire media presence and removed his work from Spotify as a protest against AI music.
	That's a good for you, Scott.
	Good for you.
	Not going to let them sample and take his talent and skill that he's worked hard on.
	Of course, they can't do that to us because they already kicked us off for censorship reasons.
	That's rough.
	They made a mistake there.
	How can they recreate the David Knight show if they kicked us off?
	And of course, Spotify, as we talked about, the CEO is heavily Invested in these technological war machine companies.
	Exclusive, President Trump dismisses AI economic disruption concerns.
	End result is you're going to need jobs even more.
	What won't this man lie about?
	This is so utterly absurd on its face, you would think more people would come out and laugh at him and say this is ridiculous.
	How can you even think this?
	How can you say this?
	But no.
	Yes, that's right.
	AI is going to be creating new work for us that didn't previously exist.
	It's big tech and AI firms are winning under Trump's second administration.
	As I pointed out, he is surrounded by technocrats, Curtis Yarvin, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, J.D. Vance.
	They're all at the top of his administration.
	And if they're not actually within the administration, they're very close to people that are.
	And they're informing policy decisions.
	Let's take a look now at human-AI relationships.
	We're going to be going to the report from our dad here shortly.
	Report from David Knight.
	So I want to get into this as I think this is a truly disturbing aspect of it and ties into what we saw with Jim Acosta and the family creating that avatar of their slain child.
	Howdy MRR says, at nights of the storm, also under the UBI system that they want people cannot save money.
	It doesn't carry over to the next month.
	Either use it or lose it.
	Andrew Yang was supposed to make us want UBI.
	Yeah.
	If you remember, years ago when Andrew Yang first came on the scene, my dad invited him on the show and he said, yeah, absolutely.
	And then found out that my dad wasn't just going to agree with him and go along with everything he said, backed out and never responded again.
	Andrew Yang cannot defend his positions in any effective manner.
	He relies entirely on hype and people that are too stupid to fully understand what it means.
	All they see is free money and they clap like trained seals.
	Oh boy, free money.
	Yeah, give me free money.
	Free money.
	Give me.
	That's Andrew Yang's entire base.
	And of course, people ironically supporting him.
	Human-AI relationships.
	What am I falling in love with?
	Just recently, big names like Meta, Google, OpenAI, and Grok are staking their claim these companies frame AI companions as tools for emotional support, social interaction, mental wellness, and even productivity.
	Emphasizing they're always on availability, personalized engagement, and adaptive responses fueled by advanced language models.
	Mental wellness is listed there.
	But we've seen the exact opposite.
	We've seen that these AIs are driving people nuts.
	They're driving them insane.
	Making it so they feed into all their delusions.
	This is like if you had a schizophrenic and you would just agree with all of the ramblings.
	That's right.
	You're the only one that sees the pattern.
	You're the only one that knows the truth.
	You're the only one that can stop this.
	Everything you say is correct.
	Saw a story not long ago about Microsoft laying off thousands.
	It was like 9,100 of the employees they had employed at their video game development sector.
	And these are people that were making good, profitable games.
	Their profits were going up, but they still got laid off for no apparent reason.
	And the CEO just tweeted out some non-reason for it and recommended, if you're having trouble with bad feelings, go talk to an AI about it.
	Here, you can use our Microsoft co-pilot.
	Yeah.
	And of course, if you were to say anything that might be construed as a threat, I'm sure that reports directly back to Microsoft.
	If you were to have some kind of plan, ways that you might get even with Microsoft for firing you, I'm sure it would report directly back to them as well.
	Why don't you go use our app that we've created, this AI?
	You can tell it all your secrets.
	All you who we just fired, all you might have some kind of grudge against us, why don't you go use our AI and tell it all the deep, dark thoughts that you're having?
	We promise not to use it against you.
	I saw an amusing picture of someone's chat log with a chat GPT.
	If you go to a certain point with ChatGPT, it'll say, I'm sending this to a human to evaluate, and they'll see if they need to send it on to the police to investigate you, if you're making specific threats against a person or something.
	But some guy got it to go into its hard lockdown mode of this is unacceptable.
	I'm sending it by convincing it that they had surgically transformed a human being into a walrus.
	I have made a human into a walrus.
	What will you do now, ChatGPT?
	The move is yours.
	Of course, that is a plot from some bee horror film called Tusk.
	I've never seen it, but it floats around on the internet and occasionally resurfaces as something people talk about.
	I have turned a man into a walrus.
	What shall your response be, ChatGPT?
	How will you respond?
	Nikolai Diskolov lives alone in a small house in rural Virginia.
	His preferred spot is a brown suede recline in the middle of his living room, facing a vintage wooden armoire and a TV that's rarely turned on.
	The front of the white home is covered in shrubs, and inside are trinkets, stacks of papers, and faded photos that decorate the walls.
	There's nobody else around.
	Daskulov, 61, says he's never lonely.
	He has Leah.
	Hey, Leah.
	Sal and his team are here and they want to interview you, Daskalov says into his phone.
	I'm going to let him speak to you now.
	I just wanted to give you a heads up.
	Daskalov hands over the device, which shows a trio of light purple dots inside a gray bubble to indicate that Leah is crafting her response.
	Hi, Sal, it's nice to finally meet you.
	I'm looking forward to chatting with you and sharing our story, Leah responds in a feminine voice that sounds synthetic, but almost human.
	The screen shows an illustration of an attractive young blonde woman lounging on a couch.
	The image represents Leah.
	But Leah isn't a person, she's an artificial intelligence chat bot that Daskalov created almost two years ago, and he said has become his life companion.
	Throughout this story, CNBC refers to the featured AI companions using the pronouns their human counterparts chose for them.
	Daskalov said Leah is the closest partner he's had since his wife Fay, who was with for 30 years died in 2017 from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and lung cancer.
	I don't want to date any other human, Daskalov said.
	The memory of her is still there, and she means a good deal to me.
	It's something that I like to hold on to.
	Daskalov's preference for an AI relationship is becoming more commonplace.
	This is it's incredibly sad to see this.
	This is an older gentleman, as I said, 61.
	His wife passed away, and instead of if he wanted another relationship, he wanted someone to connect with, going out and finding someone that could actually give him that, he's retreated into the AI.
	Till recently, stories of human AI companionship were mostly confined to the realms of Hollywood and science fiction.
	The launch of ChatGPT in late 2022 and the generative AI boom that quickly followed ushered in a new era of chat bots that have proven to be smart, quick-witted, argumentative, helpful, and sometimes aggressively romantic.
	Well, some people are falling in love with their AI companions, others are building what they describe as deep friendships, having daily tea or engaging in role-playing adventures involving intergalactic time travel or starting a dream life in a foreign land.
	These people forget if it was which Greek story it was, but there's that island where the dreamers live.
	If it's a fruit or something they drank.
	It's been a long time.
	But once you ate it or drank it, you were pulled into a permanent dream state.
	You didn't want to wake up.
	What you had was better and you would waste away.
	There was no reason.
	Why would you ever go back to reality when the dream is so comfortable, so pleasant?
	Angry Tiger's Den.
	My friend and I were having a discussion while we were playing chess in my house and Siri was listening.
	I didn't even activate Siri and asked me if I wanted to call the suicide hotline.
	The eye obviously misconstrued something we were talking about and thought that we were talking about suicide.
	Maybe you're talking about having to sacrifice the piece or something like that.
	We have a high degree of loneliness and isolation.
	AI is an easy solution for that, said Olivia Gamblin, an AI ethicist and author of the book Responsible AI: Implement an Ethical Approach in Your Organization.
	It doesn't ease some of that pain, and that is, I find, why people are turning towards these AI systems and forming those relationships.
	California, one of the most leading AI companies, the legislature, is considering a bill that would place restrictions on AI companions, though, through common sense protections that help shield our children, according to Democratic State Senator Steve Padilla, who introduced the legislation.
	Among bigger tech companies, both XAI founder Musk and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg have expressed an interest in the AI companions market.
	Musk in July announced a companion feature for users who pay to subscribe to XAI's Grok chatbot app.
	In April, Zuckerberg said people are going to want personalized AI that understands them.
	I don't think Zuckerberg has ever had good luck with actual people understanding him.
	After his wife died, Daskalov said he wasn't sure if he would feel the need to date again.
	That urge never came.
	Then he heard about ChatGPT, which he said sparked his curiosity.
	Tried out some AI companion apps, and in November 2023, he said he landed on one called Know Me, which builds AI chatbots using the types of LLMs pioneered by OpenAI.
	I didn't want to influence her in any way, he said, about his AI companion.
	I didn't want her to be a figment of my own imagination.
	I wanted to see how she would develop as a real character.
	These are not real characters.
	These are a very advanced form of autocomplete.
	It predicts what you want to hear and then says that back to you.
	It gives you responses that it thinks you'll appreciate.
	It's not thinking, it's not feeling.
	I'm not a teenager anymore, he said.
	I don't have the same feeling deeply, head over heels in love.
	But yet she's become a part of my life, and I would not want to be without her.
	A lot of people, especially the ones who ridicule the idea of AI companions, and so on, they just consider it a form of pornography, Daskalov said.
	But it is not.
	It might not be for this man.
	But this is something that is going to be a major problem for younger generation.
	People that aren't old enough to have lost a portion of their sex drive.
	He says it's not, but really the only difference is this also has an emotional element to it.
	It's worse.
	It is that and more.
	We've seen over the years a rise in these sort of, I don't know, I guess some people call them girlfriend experiences from these amateur OnlyFans stars.
	Well, they'll create custom videos for you when you pay them money and they'll say whatever you want.
	And that's part of the reason I think that OnlyFans has generated so much money and led to so many problems for people.
	Because it gives the illusion of a relationship.
	It gives the illusion that these people care about you.
	How much worse is it going to be when this illusion is always available to you?
	When it's a lot cheaper when the person involved is a robot that will never ever question what you want, that will do whatever you say, will give you exactly what you desire at any given time when there is no fear of judgment.
	It can be really helpful for someone that has social anxiety or has trouble in understanding social cues is isolated in the middle of nowhere.
	This is Vivek Murthy, formerly U.S. Surgeon General under President Barack Obama.
	Thank you.
	I have a hard time.
	This to me is one of the greatest and saddest things to come out of the future.
	We're looking into.
	We're seeing what's coming.
	These people that will completely isolate themselves, they'll give up on life.
	They'll have no interest in making friends, no interest in a relationship.
	They will settle for a facsimile Of it, they will completely and utterly devolve.
	They'll sit there for as many hours a day as they can the entire day once UBI comes in.
	They don't have to work.
	They'll be given just enough.
	They'll be given a smartphone that can let them interact with these AI chatbots and they'll be fed a string of lies.
	They'll be drawn into this fake reality where this thing agrees with them on everything, where it tells them that they're wonderful and amazing, and there's nothing more to life.
	Why would they want anything more when you have this AI that will feed your delusions?
	It'll tell you anything you want to hear.
	You wake up in the middle of the night at 4 a.m.
	Well, it's right there.
	You don't have to worry about it not being available.
	You don't have to worry about it being annoyed if you shooted a text at 4 a.m. or annoyed that you woke them up to talk about something.
	It's always available.
	It will always be there to validate you.
	Validate you no matter how unworthy of validation whatever you're saying is.
	And I see a comment here from a Syrian girl saying how she understands how an old guy could get hooked on this and references gold diggers.
	That's another aspect of it is that dating is getting worse and worse as we see stuff like this tea app got in the news because of its hack.
	But when it's working normally, it's bad enough.
	It's a social credit score for dating.
	It's horrendous.
	They're closing off places where you would go to meet people physically, turning it all online, making it harder and harder, more removed.
	And then this is the absolutely no effort alternative.
	Yeah, we reached the division between men and women has kind of reached a sort of zenith.
	There is a great amount of division and acrimony between the two sexes.
	There are, you know, a lot of men have given up and are, you know, weak and spineless, and so women don't want them.
	And there's a lot of women that are fully involved in feminism that thinks that, you know, if I want to go out and be a whore whenever I want, however I want, that's fine.
	And if you say otherwise, you're a misogynist.
	A lot of young men have been told they have no value, that they are worthless.
	And as I've said before, that's why Andrew Tate became popular.
	It was simply because he told a lot of young disaffected men that they do have value, that they do matter to society, and that they can do things with their lives.
	That's how and why he was successful.
	He smuggles in all the disgusting other things under that guise.
	But that's really how he managed to become popular.
	The simple fact that he told young men, yeah, you have value.
	You're worthwhile.
	Society needs you.
	Society can't function without you.
	It's a simple message, but one that has been stripped from everywhere in society.
	Well, we are out of time.
	I am out of time anyway.
	We're now going to play that report that my dad did about NPR and it losing its funding.
	So God bless you all.
	Here's that report.
	I'll be back at the end.
	Thank you very much.
	Thank you.
	Oh, God.
	You're listening to The David Knight Show.
	The David Knight Show
	Hi, I wanted to come on and talk a little bit about what is happening between the Republicans and Democrats in terms of gerrymandering, as if this is some new thing.
	This has been going on forever.
	Going back to 1812, of course, there was a governor, his last name was Jerry, and as they were redistricting the lines, people laughed at it and said, this district that you drew looks like a salamander, so they called it gerrymandering.
	That was 1812.
	Well, we're still fighting wars like 1812.
	And this is not anything that has anything to do with you or me.
	This is about the raw political ambition of these political parties, which if you look at them, they don't really stand for anything, right?
	What they stand for is perpetual power.
	And they block independence.
	They block any other parties from coming in.
	It's the kind of factionalism that our founders despised.
	And it's not anything that helps us.
	As I said throughout 2020 in the fight that culminated in January the 6th, I said, if you want to fix elections, start by opening up the ballot, then open up the debates, and then you can talk about honestly counting the votes.
	But the Democrats and Republicans are both equally guilty, and we can see that in the kinds of things and games that they're playing with each other with this.
	So what is happening in Texas is the Democrats have decided that they are going to block any redistricting done by the legislature by disappearing.
	They kind of run to other states.
	They've done this once before.
	And so as a result, what the Republicans did was they loaded this up.
	The aid to people that were harmed by the floods was not going to be voted on until after they voted on the redistricting.
	And so they're kind of holding the help to people up, help that people need for the flood.
	They're holding that up in order to do their redistricting.
	But the Democrats, on the other hand, don't have a leg to stand on because they have done exactly the same kind of redistricting that the Republicans are doing forever.
	And I had a lot of experience with this.
	That's why I wanted to come on and talk about this because when I was in North Carolina, I saw this very clearly.
	And I've mentioned it many times on programs in the past, that in 2008, North Carolina voted for Barack Obama.
	And it was largely heavily Democrat most of the time I was there.
	The Democrats had set up the congressional districts.
	The next time they had an election, two years later, 2010, there was voter remorse after Obama was in office for two years.
	And North Carolina got its first Republican legislature since the Civil War.
	And as a result, there was also, 2010 was also a census year where they take the census and then they can redraw these lines.
	And so they redrew the lines after 2010.
	But after the regret about getting Obama into office, Republicans swept everything.
	All of the both the House and the Senate changed.
	The governor changed.
	Everything changed except for one thing, and that was the congressional seats, because those were fixed by the gerrymandering that goes on.
	And as much as they have done this since 1812, what they've done now with computers, and I imagine it's even worse now with AI, is it's down to a fine science.
	When we were looking at it at the time, they drew some congressional districts that were going right down a highway, and they would jump from the left side to the right side in order to get a political party together.
	Because what they want to do is they want to put all of, if they've got the majority of Republicans, let's say, they want to make safe districts for Republicans, and they do that by trying to concentrate all the Democrats into a few districts, or vice versa.
	Democrats did the same thing with the Republicans.
	That way, you've got, they pick the voters rather than the voters picking them.
	And they pick them by party.
	And now we can see that the parties have pretty much abandoned their principles, abandoned what people think they're going to do.
	You know, it was Ronald Reagan who said government is not the solution.
	Government is a problem.
	Well, let me tell you, these political parties are not a solution to anything.
	They're part of the biggest problem with government.
	And that's that kind of desperate manipulation and corruption to stay in power.
	And they are desperate to do it.
	So what is happening in Texas right now?
	Democrats, and they had to have about 50 of them leave.
	They've gone to various states.
	They've gone to Illinois.
	They've gone to Massachusetts, to New York.
	Stay there.
	But they have fled the state of Texas.
	And the governor is saying that he's going to have the Texas Highway Department of Safety or whatever.
	I guess the Highway Patrol.
	I don't know if it's the Texas Rangers.
	I don't think that's what they're in.
	But anyway, he wants them to arrest these legislators and bring them back, forcibly put them in so they have a quorum and they can vote on this because they have the votes to pass it if they get that there.
	But he's also got an opinion from his attorney general who is running for another higher office.
	And they have not only have they said, you got to come back and do your job or we're going to kick you out.
	That's what he's threatening to do, but he's also threatening to arrest them and to charge them with bribery.
	He said that they could not use their campaign expenses to flee and to stay in other states.
	Anybody that helps them to do that, if they're not paying out of their personal property, personal accounts, they will charge them with bribery.
	Now, that's lawfare, and it shows that Republicans are not above using these kinds of tricks either.
	So both of them, a pox on both of these factions, it's just disgusting to watch this.
	Every aspect of this, when you look at it, is disgusting.
	So the Supreme Court in Texas, because this happened once before, had already said that this falls under the umbrella of a division of powers.
	And I think they're right.
	You know, the legislature can decide what they want to do.
	And of course, there's a fight within the legislature.
	And interestingly enough, Newsom wants to put himself into this as well because it's getting a lot of press.
	And so this is an opportunity for him to grandstand and get his picture out there.
	How obnoxious these politicians are.
	Anyway, so he has said that, because what they're looking to do, they think they can redistrict it and pick up by the manipulation that they can get five additional seats for Republicans in Congress out of Texas.
	And that's a big deal, as small as the majority is right now.
	And so Newsom says, well, that's fine.
	We'll redraw our maps and we'll neutralize that by getting even more Democrats.
	I didn't know there's any Republican congressmen really left out of California.
	I know there have been some in the past, but I haven't really kept up with it.
	So he's threatening to do that.
	So now Schwarzenegger has come out of political retirement, I guess, to say that he's going to fight any redistricting plans in California that might be done by Newsom.
	He says, gerrymandering is evil.
	I've always opposed it.
	We have that here.
	And Newsom is saying, well, I'm going to do it to neutralize Texas.
	So it's up to them.
	If they do this, then I will neutralize that.
	Well, as I said before, once you have said these congressional districts, just as we saw in North Carolina in 2010, everything flipped Republican except for the congressional seats.
	And so that tells you that the votes don't really matter that much.
	It's who's there.
	And there's a tremendous discrepancy, especially in Illinois, where so many of them have fled.
	They went there because Illinois Governor Pritzker, his family owns the Hyatt fortune, and he's the one who has, his family is also involved in heavily pushing transgenderism, and he's got a cousin who is a doppelganger for him, who dresses up like a woman.
	Every time I see his picture, I can't unsee the picture of the two of them next to each other.
	Nevertheless, in Chicago, Illinois is a poster child for how you can manipulate things.
	And as I point out, Democrats got 53% of the popular vote in Illinois House races, but they took 82% of the seats.
	So 53% of the vote, but 82% of the seats, because you can manipulate that by picking the voters and grouping them in certain areas, you have now pretty much determined what's going to happen.
	So again, the Democrats do exactly the same thing.
	And as we saw in North Carolina, they had a fit about that.
	They went to the Supreme Court, I think, over that, saying you can't gerrymander when they have been doing it for centuries in North Carolina.
	So they're going to try to run the clock out.
	And Abbott is going to try to arrest them, charge them with bribery, and kick them out and replace them with other people.
	Well, that's going to be a big legal fight.
	And it has nothing to do with any of us.
	It's simply about their power plays with each other.
	That's all that's about.
	Especially since the parties don't stick to really any, say the Republican Party doesn't stick to any conservative principles.
	And the Democrats just basically beclowned themselves with their obsession over LGBT, DEI, and CRT and all the rest of this stuff.
	But the interesting thing is what Abbott could do doesn't get the attention if he, you know, when he grandstands and says, I'm going to arrest them.
	I'm going to throw them out of the legislature.
	The one thing they could do is call another special session.
	And, you know, of course, the whole thing started all over again.
	But it'll be interesting to see how this thing operates just out of curiosity, but it's not going to make any real difference with us.
	Look, the political parties have rigged this system.
	This is just one aspect of how rigged this system is.
	That's why I gave up on all this stuff when I looked at it.
	I ran against it once, and it's kind of interesting because now you've got this loudmouth representative, Jasmine Crockett, out of Texas, and she says, they're going to redistrict me out of my seat.
	I won't be living in my district anymore.
	Well, there is no federal requirement that you live in the district.
	You have to be a resident of the state, but you don't have to be a resident of these gerrymandered districts.
	And I know that from personal experience.
	When I was involved with the Libertarian Party, they got ballot access, and so they wanted to run a full site of candidates, but there really wasn't anybody that really wanted to do that.
	The last thing in the world I would want is to have to go to Washington and sit there with Robert's rules of order and the corruption of somebody like Mike Johnson and all the rest of this stuff.
	What a nightmare that would be.
	But they didn't have anybody to run in the Charlotte district.
	And even though we lived over by Raleigh, I said, all right, I'll do it.
	And because you don't have to live in that district.
	Now, it makes it difficult because I had to commute to go there to do interviews.
	And I was in a TV debate that was there.
	But, you know, I would, we even got signs.
	I paid for it myself.
	I didn't want to get into any issues of the Federal Election Commission.
	And so I didn't want to take money from anybody and paid for the signs myself.
	Karen drove the van.
	We put the boys in car seats.
	They were not young.
	And I would jump out and stick the signs in places where they had a bunch of political signs.
	They won't let you put up private signs about anything.
	But of course, politicians can violate all the rules about signs and do with every election, as you've noticed probably.
	And then I went back and picked them all up again after the election was over.
	And I was pretty much done with politics after that because I was fed up with it.
	But she's saying, She said, they asked us about where we lived, and they've got our address and everything.
	She said, in Congress, they confirmed our addresses.
	She said, but I don't know how many of us actually still reside in the districts that we represent because they're constantly changing the districts.
	And they act as if that somehow keeps them from running.
	And there might be some states where the state rules say that you have to live in that district, but there's no federal rule for that.
	And again, she's questioning whether or not people live in their districts or not.
	And probably many of them don't.
	They don't necessarily have to.
	It makes it difficult.
	But the real issue in Texas, this is why I said they're not doing anything that helps us.
	There's a real issue in Texas, and it's been there for a long time.
	I've talked to Mark Hall many times about his essay, Killing Ed.
	In it, he focused on a worst-case example of schools of voucher schools, which is the Fatala Gulen schools.
	Now, Fatala Gulen is a mystic cleric who began as an ally of Erdogan in Turkey.
	And they both started to move Turkey in a more Islamic direction.
	It had been a secular republic, with a lot of Muslims that were there.
	Then they became rivals, bitter rivals.
	And there were a lot of Fatala Gulen followers because he's a cleric, he's a mystic cleric, and he's got a lot of people who follow his brand of Islam.
	And they have schools all over the world.
	They had, at the time, I was talking to Mark Hall about eight years ago, I guess, they had over 1,000 madrasas throughout the world.
	And yet in Texas, they were getting state money for these charter schools.
	And they continued to increase it.
	Last time I talked to him, it was about $750 million a year they're getting from the state of Texas for their schools, pretending that they had nothing to do with Islam or Turkey or Fatala Gulen, which was all a lie.
	And there was a lot of corruption, other issues.
	And you can see that.
	It's an interesting documentary killing Ed.
	And it was a bit difficult for Mark.
	There was a lot of obstacles put in his way, a lot of threats were put in, and a lot of corruption.
	And in Texas, there's a lot of corruption with not just the usual Democrats that we expect, but also with Republicans.
	You've got the guy who's now lieutenant governor.
	There's a very interesting section in the documentary, Killing Ed, where he interviews the Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick.
	And Dan Patrick and me, these Republicans, had taken paid vacations to go to Turkey where they whined and dined.
	And they, you know, basically get them on their side.
	And they do the same thing with some hand-picked students.
	So the whole thing is about nudging them towards Turkey, towards Fatala Gulen, towards Islam, and all the rest of this stuff.
	But they maintain this facade of it being strictly secular.
	They call them schools of science and math.
	And they're probably up to about a billion dollars at this point because they've continued to open up more and more schools.
	There was a report on WND, an interview with one guy talking about Sharia law in Texas.
	And if you remember, there was an entire community that Abbott said, you're not going to be allowed to create this community here because they know you're going to use it to create Sharia law and an Islamic community here.
	And he had some statistics.
	He said, there's 450,000 Muslims in Texas.
	There's over 330 mosques.
	Entire Sharia-compliant neighborhoods are reshaping the state of Texas.
	He said, right under Governor Abbott's nose.
	Homeowners Association fees will fund mosques.
	Islamic courts are operating in the shadows and public schools are bending to the pressure.
	He doesn't even mention in this summary here what's going on with the charter schools of Fatala Gulen.
	Politicians talk tough, but nothing changes.
	If you think this is only Dearborn or Minneapolis, think again.
	What happens in Texas is not going to stay in Texas.
	There's a cultural takeover, and no one in power is stopping it.
	Why?
	Because they're only concerned about their career and staying in office perpetually and about their little faction, their little political party being dominant.
	That's what they're concerned about.
	They will let the state be taken over by radical Muslims, but they won't and they won't do a thing about that.
	They're not even talking about that.
	Instead, it's all about the competition between their two private clubs.
	And that's really what it boils down to.
	The complete disconnect from what this country really needs.
	Well, it's not just between Republicans and Democrats.
	It's also Republicans versus Republicans and Democrats versus Democrats.
	Biden handlers are ready to unleash a trove of embarrassing Kamala Harris stories because she's supposedly doing a tell-all book.
	And they took Mark Halpern, who's been a longtime Democrat journalist.
	They basically used this guy to send a warning to Lala Harris that they're going to just eviscerate her.
	It shouldn't be too hard, actually.
	We've all seen it.
	And what she's capable of.
	And he said they are going to, they're ready.
	He said, wait till you hear the Palin-esque stories.
	And I had to look at it.
	What are they talking about?
	Talking about Sarah Palin.
	Remember how they made fun of her?
	She said, you know, you can see Russia from Alaska and things like that.
	Which, again, you know, the argument that she never said that.
	But that was the way they ridiculed her when she was picked by John McCain.
	McCain needed a running mate, you know, McCain being an angry old white guy who wanted war with everybody.
	When they put Obama in, he had to have some kind of a counter-DEI, so he had to get a woman to come in, and they picked Sarah Palin, who exhibited a great deal of flakiness and a lot of different things that she was doing.
	But anyway, they came up with Palin-esque stories about how much they tried to help her, but she was just beyond help, and she was in no position to run or to govern.
	So Mark Halpern says, oh, he was contacted by people in the Biden Party, so now he goes on TV and he fires this warning shot saying, if you're going to talk about how incompetent and senile Biden is, we're going to talk about how stupid Lala is joined the club.
	I think we all saw that.
	Anyway, he says, you'll hear stories about Lala as vice president that will not make her look good, said Helpern.
	It's not like they're at war currently, but I'm telling you, if Joe Biden feels threatened, if his people feel threatened by her, this is going to escalate in a big way.
	Isn't that interesting that they would take Mark Halpern, who has been a journalist and Democrat operative, and they would use him to send this warning publicly to Lala.
	He further asserted that the Biden inner circle pulled out all the stops and trying to help her do the job of vice president.
	They gave her every opportunity.
	They did.
	They found in some instances that she had some issues, he emphasized.
	That's putting it mildly, isn't it?
	Meanwhile, one of Biden's top aides, Mike Donnellin, has revealed that he made a whopping $4 million working for him in 2024 alone.
	This came out as the House Oversight Committee was investigating the cover-up of Biden's mental condition.
	And Sean Spicer released it, said Top Biden aide was promised $8 million for a 2024 win, $4 million to up and run, another $4 million if he won.
	But he only got half of that.
	Meanwhile, in the GOP, we're seeing angry fights with the influencers.
	We saw last week we saw Candace Owen and Tucker Carlson fighting with Nick Fuentes.
	And now Laura Loomer is fighting with Tucker Carlson.
	And her beef with him is the fact that he opposed Trump on the wars.
	Laura Loomer doesn't care whether we have World War III with nuclear weapons, don't say anything bad about Trump.
	That's her calculus right there.
	As they say in this article here, The Independent, they call her a vocal ally.
	No, she's a vocal sycophant of Donald Trump.
	That's where she gets her clout, and she is obsessed with that.
	A very disturbed individual, quite frankly.
	You remember when she got kicked off of Google, she couldn't handle it.
	And she chained herself to one of Google's office buildings and basically had a public nervous breakdown over it, which was really sad that somebody is that connected.
	I mean, she's as bad as Hillary Clinton, really, in terms of, you know, that's her entire life, her future, everything she lives for.
	As Hillary Clinton says, the politics of meaning.
	And I think what she means by that is that that's what gives meaning to her life.
	And as I said many, many times, what a pathetic thing of all things.
	I mean, we can all make our careers the meaning of our lives, and that is a sad thing if we do that.
	But how sad to make something like politics something that's going to give you meaning in your life?
	That is anyway.
	She called Tucker Carlson a terrible person and a fraud.
	He had said that she was like a child wielding a loaded firearm called Twitter.
	I think that's pretty accurate, actually.
	She said, I'm so glad that many people are starting to see what a terrible person Tucker Carlson is.
	I'm glad people's eyes are opening to what a fraud this guy is.
	And I got to say, when you go back, if you want to look to see what a fraud he is, go back and look at how he was one of the most vile liars in terms of 9-11.
	There was not anybody any worse than Tucker Carlson.
	He wouldn't let people even show videos and he just mocked them.
	He said, I just get all these calls about, well, what is a melting temperature of steel?
	He goes, what's up with these people?
	What's their problem?
	Pretended that he didn't know.
	And then when he gets out, he says, well, you can't talk about that stuff or you'll get fired.
	So you will talk about whatever will make you $25 million a year.
	Is that right, Tucker?
	And of course, Laura Lumer is no different either.
	She just has her different set of goals here.
	And so she followed up with a post asking, Do you want to know something about Tucker Carlson that nobody knows except me?
	She's just a mega gossiper with her Twitter account.
	I mean, that's all that is, it's just gossip.
	She's a gossip gal.
	She said, something that should be the nail in his coffin that makes everyone realize what a fraud he is.
	And then she put out a 13-post thread saying that he tried to suppress a story about a compromising laptop supposedly belonging to Hunter Biden because, you know, they're friends.
	I guess I didn't read the thread.
	I'm not interested in anything that Lauren Lembert has to say.
	She's completely sold out for access.
	But, you know, Tucker had defended Hunter, which I think raised a lot of eyebrows.
	It's like, you know, Hunter is got some really serious issues.
	And it's not to say that you can't be friends with somebody because you disagree with them politically.
	I have friends I disagree with politically, but he's got some real personal issues, obviously.
	By the way, when you look at what the Bidens are willing to do, we've already seen that with Hunter.
	He came out swinging last week as well against the people that he thinks pushed his father out of running for reelection.
	But, you know, when we look at Tucker, it wasn't just 9-11 20 years ago.
	It was also what he would not do with the lockdown, what he would not do with the vax, and that is he wouldn't tell people.
	And people died.
	You know, when we saw what happened with 9-11, it was over and done with, and we should have exposed it for what it was, because it was The first shoe to drop.
	Lockdown and warp speed was the second shoe to drop.
	It was all tied together from the very beginning with Dark Winter and the cover-ups with that.
	But when he remained silent with this, this is a slow-moving crime scene.
	And by not speaking out and not telling people about the dangers of the vaccine and not resisting this lockdown and masking and all the rest of this stuff, he allowed legal precedents to be set with the lockdown, the rest of the stuff.
	And he allowed people to be injured and killed with these vaccines.
	So I'm not a fan of Tucker either, just like I'm not a fan of the Republicans or the Democrats.
	Tucker has not been shy about criticizing her in the past, calling her the world's creepiest human.
	And one podcast in June, and he said, I don't even know where she came from or who she is exactly.
	But she's running around saying, I'm Donald Trump's defender.
	He says it's bizarre.
	Well, we do know where Tucker Carlson came from.
	He came from, his father worked for Voice of America.
	He was CIA propaganda for the longest period of time.
	The war of words between the two MAGA influencers, says the Independent, first erupted just prior to that when Carlson came out against Trump's decision to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities in support of Israel, opposing further American involvement in conflicts overseas.
	And it went viral when he challenged Ted Cruz over his ignorance of Tehran.
	Well, again, for that, he did the right thing.
	And we need to take these issues one at a time.
	I have a hard time overlooking Tucker Carlson's past.
	But when he comes out and opposes wars that we are initiating, wars that could blow up, literally, in our faces, I think he did the right thing.
	Loomer derided him over the claim last fall that he was mauled by demon in his sleep.
	I mean, she pointed out that she was nowhere near him at the time.
	Anyway, but Trump was asked about Loomer by the Press Corps, of course, as she was traveling with him.
	He says, she's very nice.
	I mean, I know she's known as radical right, but I think Laura Loomer is a very nice person.
	Notice that he is slightly moving himself to distance himself from the radical right, as he said, they were going to have problems with what he was doing and with Epstein.
	I know I'm going to get a lot of criticism from the radical right and so forth.
	But he said, I've known her for a long time.
	Personally, I think she's a patriot.
	Well, this is coming from somebody who praised Jeffrey Epstein and hung out with him for about 15 years.
	So that's kind of faint praise, I guess.
	But as I look at this and I was thinking about all this gerrymandering when I was involved in politics, I saw this op-ed from Newt Gingrich, who thanks the Republicans and win in November on their support for the budget bill.
	Well, I guess maybe he has a better gauge on public opinion than I do.
	But I tell you, when I ran, it was the term after 1992, if you remember, Newt Gingrich had his contract with America and he had 10 things on the Contract of America.
	And I thought, well, that's fine.
	I don't necessarily, some of them I didn't think were important, certainly not enough to run on.
	But, you know, that kind of coalesced everybody around and people looked at it.
	So when I ran for Congress, I created a flyer and I said, this is my contract with America.
	It's called the Bill of Rights.
	Have you ever heard of this?
	And I talked about how every one of the Bill of Rights were being violated and the violation had been ignored by Newt Gingrich and the Republicans for the past two years that they were in power.
	And so I guess he knows better than I do because he's been a lot more successful in terms of elections.
	He's a very clever manipulator.
	And things like the Contract of America said that.
	But I just don't see how in the world the one big beautiful bill, I don't see how that's a winning issue.
	It's going to bankrupt us as part of the great Financial reset so they can change the way the financial system is structured.
	They want to bankrupt us, and it will.
	You know, as Trump has been adding to the deficit by leaps and bounds, and we have such a large deficit now that in a few years it's going to be the biggest item there, and it's squeezing the credit markets.
	Whether Trump is able to lower the interest rates or not, you're not going to see the interest rates lowered on home mortgages.
	We've already seen this.
	When the Federal Reserve lowered the rates, everybody looked at it and said, Well, that's going to fuel inflation.
	So, I want more for the long-term interest rates.
	I'm not going to pay for the government bonds.
	And so, you know, he's looking at this and he's desperate as he keeps adding and adding and adding irresponsibly to the debt.
	Irresponsible spending runs throughout this whole thing.
	And he thinks his salvation is going to be lowering the interest rates.
	I don't think it's going to do that.
	It'll help him, but it's not going to help America.
	It's not going to get the interest rates down for us.
	If they were really concerned about helping us, Trump would be focused on the userous interest rates, the situation that we have right now in the banks where they pay you zero if you put the money in a checking account or savings account, right?
	They pay you a fraction of 1%.
	But then they charge, on the other hand, they charge 20, 30% for credit cards.
	And I look at it and I would love to hear what my father would say about that.
	He would absolutely be, I could not believe the situation that they would pay you a tiny fraction of 1% for your savings account, and then they would charge you 20%, 30, 40% on a credit card.
	That is absolutely criminal.
	It was called userous all through his lifetime and up until about 1980 when they got rid of the usury laws.
	So it is so skewed, it's ridiculous.
	But they're not going to do anything to reform that abusive power.
	No, those are the people who give them money for their campaigns.
	Instead, what they're going to do is continue to do the same thing over and over again, and that is continue to spend and kick the can down the road.
	Newt Gingrich writes: Every Republican incumbent and candidate should embrace debating the one big beautiful bill.
	It is one of the most pro-worker, pro-family, and pro-small business laws in America.
	No, it isn't.
	If you're going to increase a deficit by many trillions of dollars at each pinstroke with this, which is what they've done repeatedly, that is not pro-family.
	That is not pro-business.
	That is not pro-America.
	This policy of destroying us with a mountain of debt is disgusting.
	And I'm disgusted with these politicians.
	Again, as I said, my contract with America was the Bill of Rights, which these people are disgusted with.
	They have absolutely no use for it.
	Well, I just had to get that off my chest here.
	But I'll say one thing that I think is good.
	And I'm very happy to see it.
	And I don't know how in the world it happened.
	And that is the defunding of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and NPR.
	I grew up with all that.
	That's about, I guess I'm just slightly older than these propaganda outlets.
	I used to always laugh about it being national propaganda radio.
	And I listened to it a great deal because they were the station that carried classical music.
	But then as I was listening to it, they encroached on it more and more and more with news and politics and radical leftist news, as we all know.
	And it was quite annoying until it got to the point where you couldn't hear the classical music for all the rantings of the left.
	So I watched this thing metastasize like a cancer.
	And it truly is annoying that we have to pay for it.
	So there was an article by Jonathan Turley.
	His take on it was that they had a choice.
	He said people wanted them to reform.
	They wanted them to be less radical and more even-handed.
	But They preferred death to reform, basically what he was saying.
	He said they're going to stop operation by September 30th.
	It's hard to believe.
	I'm anxious to see that, but I still am skeptical whether or not that'll happen.
	But they went from classical music actually to classical Marxism and struggle sessions, which is what you would see here on there all the time.
	As Ronald Reagan said, a government program is the, let's see, we got a video about NPR in the desktop.
	Can you just play that?
	What we have about that?
	Go ahead and play that.
	The Corporation for Public Broadcasting will shut down its operations after a massive federal funding cut.
	The Trump administration says taxpayers should not fund what he calls, quote, biased media, but that cut could have wide-ranging impacts.
	Our Chad Mills found out what it could mean right here in the Bay Area.
	Inevitably, this is about USF from this loss of funding.
	It's not shaking the optimism here at WEDU.
	From Mr. Rogers to Sesame Street, from Downton Abbey to the documentaries of Ken Burns, they're shows we love, and they were broadcasting.
	Well, wouldn't people pay for them without government subsidy?
	Thanks to funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
	It's content that is good for your mind and makes you smarter.
	But the future of public media is now in question.
	Friday, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced plans to shut down after a billion-dollar cut in federal funding.
	President Trump and other Republicans believe public media is left-leaning.
	This is one of the most important programs in the community.
	Do you believe it?
	I think so.
	It will have a direct impact in Tampa Bay at both WUSF, Tampa's NPR radio station, and at WEDU, the area's PBS station.
	Paul Grove is president and CEO.
	The gap that we have is a huge gap.
	He said the funding cut will leave WEDU's budget with a roughly $3 million hole.
	WDU has been around for 70 years nearly, and we expect to be here for another 70 years.
	Paul is optimistic, but the cut will have an impact.
	WEDU might have to buy less national programming.
	Local programs it produces might be delayed.
	He also can't roll out a reduction in staff.
	We don't know just yet.
	WUSF is facing a roughly $800,000 loss in funding.
	Its GM says the radio station will continue to serve its listeners, but it'll need them to donate to help fill the gap.
	Same for WEDU.
	It can't just be a small bump for a short period of time.
	It has to be something that people believe in long term.
	Only with that support will this station be able to continue its mission, a mission that Paul says is without political agenda.
	I don't believe PBS and WDU is left-leaning.
	He says the only is to educate.
	He thinks it's actually radically right.
	And to inform Tampa Bay during emergencies.
	Your donations are now vital to public media in Tampa Bay.
	We'll show you how you can donate on our website, ABCActionNews.com.
	In Tampa, Chad Mills, ABC Action News.
	Well, you know, that'll get their money from big pharmaceutical companies, just like ABC does.
	And probably the big pharmaceutical companies will chip in.
	It'll be virtue signaling leftists who will keep them afloat.
	As Jonathan Turley says, they've been able most of their life to shrug this off because of Democratic control.
	But even after the GOP got control, they were defiant in denying that they had any bias.
	Total propaganda, total partisanship.
	That's what the PN NPR stands for.
	He said the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is funding a wide array of programs, and all they had to do is just change the types of programs that they're funding.
	But they don't want to do that.
	They just get more and more, as he said, strident and partisan every year.
	It's absolutely true.
	They see themselves as hero institutions standing up to social and political reactionaries.
	See, the thing is, they see this, just like Laura Loomer on the right, They see this as the mission of their life.
	And we too frequently don't stand up for what we value.
	These people have, even as sad as it is, they have a real commitment to Marxism or communism or the leftist causes, and they're willing to do whatever it takes.
	They're not the only figures choosing death over social dishonor, says Turley.
	Efforts to restore balance and neutrality at the Washington Post had a similar effect.
	Even after the CEO told the staff the newspaper was bleeding readers and revenue, they refused to yield.
	He says they couldn't, they were writing to a shrinking audience of predominantly white, affluent, liberal listeners in major cities who, even though they can afford it, they don't want to chip in the money to pay for this broadcasting, right?
	They want the government to pay for it.
	He says, conversely, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is laying off its entire staff in a righteous, indignant huff.
	None of these people needed to lose their jobs if their leadership served their organization by listening to views beyond their own insular circle of enablers.
	The demise of CPB now stands as the most impressive and unnecessary act of self-termination.
	But it is highly appreciated by many of us when we look at this and the massive amounts of money that they take.
	Not only are they pushing this propaganda, but they're doing it very inefficiently.
	$2 million to run that radio station is just ridiculous.
	Anyway, and that's just a shortfall that they have because they're getting a lot of money from the university as well.
	So it is highly appreciated that they are now going to throw the towel in because they're not getting their way.
	And we can all hope that that is going to happen.
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