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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's Monday, the 24th of November, year of our Lord, 2025.
	Well, we've got a lot of theatrics from Trump, don't we?
	A lot of things are happening.
	MAGA, it's going to be interesting to gauge their reaction.
	You've got a lot of people in the MAGA media that are kind of worried.
	What do we do?
	You know, now that MTG has jumped ship, now what?
	I guess Alex will have to stick his finger into the wind to see which way it's blowing.
	But it's interesting to see Trump embrace these terrorists in the White House and push out people like Massey and Marjorie Taylor Greene.
	Very interesting.
	And to go from MTG to Mom Danny in a week is not slowing down, it's picking up.
	And we're going to take a look at Trump's rage against these people who said the obvious, that people in the military have taken an oath to the Constitution and they need to obey that oath, even if it means disobeying orders, unconstitutional orders from the commander-in-chief.
	Boy, that was treason right there.
	We'll be right back.
	Before we do, we're going to cover some general news, because not everything of importance is in Washington.
	As a matter of fact, we can learn some lessons from other countries like Japan, for example.
	Japan is having something of a country bear jamboree, except these are not friendly singing bears like you see at Disneyland.
	These are bears that are attacking people.
	And Lance, I think you've got that clip there.
	Show that there's a video that has been put out of a bear coming after a car.
	I mean, these are very aggressive bears.
	This car is backing up and the bear is still coming.
	And they've had a lot of people who have been killed in Japan.
	There have been 13 deaths and 180-something, 183 people have been injured, attacked by bears.
	What do you do about it?
	In a country where everybody has been disarmed, nobody is allowed to shoot these things or really set up to do any hunting, including the government.
	They've sent the military into some areas and the police come out there.
	They've got bear spray and some things like that, but it's not really repelling.
	It's a good example of how the government can make people absolutely helpless and passive, isn't it?
	So no guns, no hunting.
	This is a story.
	Actually, this has been clicking around.
	Lance had this about a week ago, and I didn't cover it.
	But I think it's important to understand how government pacifies people.
	It's what they do when they sell welfare, for example, and when they talk about universal basic income.
	And there's a lot of bears that are stalking us.
	Some of them are billionaire bears like Elon Musk, who wants you to believe that within a few years, there'll be no need for money.
	This is the guy who is the most avaricious person, perhaps, who ever lived, always chasing more money.
	Got to have a lot more, not just a little more like John D. Rockefeller.
	He's got to have a lot more.
	I mean, he just pushed for and got a trillion-dollar deal from Tesla if he meets certain goals.
	He removed the entire company from Delaware because a Delaware judge was saying he couldn't have that much compensation.
	Of course, there's no legal justification for that.
	Nevertheless, Elon Musk obviously believes that he's going to have a job.
	He obviously believes that money is important for him, just not for you.
	So you see, there's a lot of bears that are out there stalking us.
	And one of the first reports I did when I went to InfoWars, I said, whenever we would travel going back and forth between North Carolina, our home, and Texas, we would always stop here in the Gatlinburg, Smoky Mountains area.
	And the first report that I did was about the signs that we saw as we were leaving.
	I said, you know, if there's a bear and it gets aggressive and starts to attack you, you want to yell and shout and throw stuff at it.
	Don't run away.
	And I said, that's a good analogy for government in general, isn't it?
	The government, not just the Russian government that likes the bear.
	Governments everywhere love to have predators as their mascots.
	That should tell you something about how they view themselves and us, shouldn't it?
	But the way that you react is you don't show fear.
	You stand up to them and you yell and scream at them, which I've been trying to do ever since.
	But Lance, do you have that clip?
	Okay, yeah.
	Let's see the bear attack map then, if you got that one.
	Yeah, yeah, this shows how it's ramping up drastically.
	Yeah, it shows it's ramping up.
	I don't know if they can hear you or not.
	I don't hear you in my monitors.
	Look at this.
	This is a time frame.
	These are the bear attacks.
	And watch it how it is accelerating there.
	Because nothing's being done.
	And this is what happens when the government, your predator, gets away with something.
	When Trump starts to federalize the police, when he starts bombing countries that he hasn't declared war on and you let it go, it just starts building.
	It's like a bear attack.
	They realize that you're just prey and you're not going to fight back.
	You're not even going to yell and scream at them.
	Look at this.
	The yellow are injuries, the red are deaths.
	Yeah.
	That's cool.
	Injuries and deaths.
	And listen to that.
	It's like a Geiger counter going off.
	Well, one guy was saying, and this was picked up by a Christian outlet because they were talking to some American missionaries who were in Japan.
	It's like less than 1% of the Japanese are Christians.
	Anyway, this guy said he and his family watched a black bear eat fruit from a nearby persimmon tree.
	Someone called a police officer who monitored the bear for several hours.
	Just monitor it, watch it.
	Before setting off fireworks to scare it away.
	The bear ran off to nearby bushes, but then returned minutes later after the officer left.
	It was the first time that this pastor and his family saw one of the bears that they've been hearing so much about as northern Japan deals with a rise in deadly bear attacks since April.
	Bears have killed a record 13 people since April and have injured 183 others.
	To combat the problem, authorities have deployed troops and riot officers while residents have to just adjust living with the menace.
	He said the grocery stores and other apartment stores don't have doors that open automatically anymore.
	They've turned that off and other things because the bears have been getting into stores.
	They said there's a growing deer and wild boar population.
	And so that means that the bears have increased in population, but they are still outgrowing the natural ecosystem that is there.
	The forest are simply overflowing with bears.
	A dwindling number of hunters over the years is the real story, though.
	The bears are increasing, and so are the deer, and so are the wild boar, because nobody's hunting anymore.
	It's virtually impossible to get a gun.
	And if you have a gun, it's virtually impossible, even with a gun, to get a hunting license.
	Japan has very stringent requirements for possessing firearms.
	And to get a hunting license, you generally have to have possessed a shotgun for at least 10 consecutive years.
	Isn't that amazing?
	So if you can get a shotgun, now you're on your way after another decade to maybe getting a hunting license.
	Yeah, I saw something saying that it was all old people that are retiring that are hunting, but of course it's old people.
	It takes that long to get your permit.
	That's right.
	It's dying out.
	Yeah.
	We saw this when we went to Virginia.
	We were doing a report.
	And at one point, we decided we needed to get a boat so we could get a better shot of what was happening.
	And I was the one who had to sign up to rent the boat because Virginia had decided that you now need to have a license to drive a boat.
	I was driving a boat when I, Powerboat, when I was eight years old.
	I lived in Florida.
	And so it's kind of the way this stuff creeps around.
	My dad was driving a car when he was eight years old, living in Florida.
	So they gradually start to license people.
	But they grandfathered it in because they knew that those of us who had been driving boats since eight years old were going to have an issue with that.
	And so what they're doing is they grandfathered in these gun things.
	So only really old people have shotguns and that stuff.
	And they're evidently not doing too much hunting maybe because they're old.
	I don't know.
	Japan's Defense Ministry deployed soldiers and so forth.
	A national police agency recently permitted riot officers to shoot them with rifles in one area.
	But they, for the most part, have been doing things like flying drones in them that make barking noises like a dog.
	It's pathetic to see what is happening.
	So the guy said he was out one day and he smelled one of them.
	He said the odor is kind of a mix of wet dog, miso, and soy sauce.
	Must be pretty nauseating.
	I can understand the wet dog thing.
	Maybe the miso and the soy sauce is from those two guys he just ate for dessert.
	Meanwhile, at my alumnus here at USF in Tampa, he had some Christian, this is from NPR reporting it.
	So they call these guys Christian supremacists who mock, spit, and wave bacon at praying Muslim students.
	And the Muslim was reduced to tears, crying about the fact that they were waving bacon at him.
	After the prayer ended, we look up to see them taunting us in our faces with bacon.
	He's breaking down crying here.
	I was taunted with bacon.
	I had to relive the whole thing again.
	Oh, no.
	You can just smell it.
	I think I would be crying if I could never eat bacon again and somebody taunted me with it.
	But I got to say, as funny as that clip is, and as snowflakish as that is, the reality is that this is not Christian, right?
	These people are out there mocking them and confronting them.
	I don't think that it's a hate crime, but I think that it is exactly the opposite of the way Christ would invoke these people.
	He didn't taunt people.
	He spoke to them directly.
	But here's the other thing.
	This is why this has become a national story.
	They're now looking at charging them with a third-degree felony.
	This is why the hate crime laws are completely out of control.
	Yes, what they did was hateful.
	It was unchristian.
	It was not the way to offer Christ to somebody.
	It's exactly the opposite of the way Christ would have engaged them.
	But this is the USF, University of South Florida's Muslim Student Association.
	You know, they didn't have one of those when I was there.
	Even though we had a lot of Iranian students in engineering, they didn't have a Muslim student association.
	So these men interrupted the students during their morning prayer, spitting and yelling at them and waving strips of bacon.
	USF said that their police department is currently gathering evidence and anticipates asking the state attorney to bring criminal charges of felony.
	Again, I just can't express my utter contempt for these hate crime laws.
	I hate it when it's being used by Muslims.
	I hate it when it's being used by Jews, accusing people of anti-Semitism if you criticize their government even.
	Now, these guys were coming after their religion, criticizing their religion.
	This is a group that sadly calls itself Warriors for Christ.
	And they put up a box that said Kaaba 2.0, which is the stone building that is there in Mecca that they circle and things like that.
	That's a cultic building.
	And then they wrote on it, Jesus is Lord.
	Well, I think that you don't make any headway with people when you insult them.
	And, you know, I think really, you know, certainly dialogue is necessary.
	And the problem is when you do this, one of the students who's a Muslim said, that's not how you preach.
	That's absolutely true.
	You know, they're saying, take that towel off your head and so forth.
	So it should not be a crime.
	But these people should not be considered Christian preachers either.
	For a hate crime to exist, they said this is not a hate crime.
	There has to be an actual crime first.
	Well, no, actually, I think hate crime is simply about your speech.
	It can be about your speech.
	We've seen that in terms of these other people in Florida making it a hate crime to put out this Randy Fine and other people who are shelling for Israel, saying it's a hate crime if you just your speech doesn't have to be a real crime.
	Yeah, I mean, he's trying to push back on this particular case, saying that It's a hate crime.
	If I commit a crime, then it's against one of the protected groups that you decide to make it an even worse punishment because I'm going against the sacred group, even though it's a crime that would have been less elsewhere, which itself is a huge step backwards.
	Yeah, exactly.
	I mean, you know, taking away the Christian ethics and the teachings of the Lord Jesus Christ.
	If you're out there mocking somebody, that shouldn't be a crime.
	It's maybe reprehensible.
	Our president does it all the time.
	But, you know, as bad behavior is reprehensible, but it is not a crime.
	But it is also not giving them the good news, which they really do need.
	Speaking of news, we have a new film that is about to be released.
	It might have been released over the weekend.
	It's called The Age of Disclosure.
	And it is a, I've got the trailer here to show you what this is.
	They actually showed this to a bipartisan group of members of the House of Representatives.
	This is about UFOs.
	Now, I would think that since they say this is a government cover-up, you know, why do you have to show this to the representatives?
	Something is brewing here that I think we should keep our eyes on, and we should think about this in terms of the reality of whether or not there really are UFOs out there.
	I'll talk about that when we come back.
	Here's the trailer for the movie that they wanted to show people in Congress to get them prepared.
	The American people are ready to receive the truth.
	Humanity is not the only intelligence in the universe.
	Humanity is not an intelligent species.
	We are absolutely not alone.
	Non-human species exists.
	UAPs are real.
	They're here and they're not human.
	I agree with all that.
	25 years as a senior official with the CIA.
	I worked on highly classified UAP programs.
	28 years as an astrophysicist.
	I served as the fourth director of national aviation security and the national security council, one-star admiral after 32 years of service.
	People that come forward with this, I feel like they've taken their life in their own hands.
	I was recruited to a highly sensitive government program that investigated unidentified aerial phenomenon.
	For over 16 years, on behalf of the U.S. government, I worked as a senior intelligence official on the unidentified aerial phenomenon topic.
	We learned that the U.S. government was involved in a long-running secret war with other nations to collect and reverse engineer vehicles not made by humans.
	I have seen, with my own eyes, non-human craft and non-human beings.
	The first country that cracks the code on this technology will be the leader for years to come.
	China has established its own version of a UAP task force.
	You think for a second that they wouldn't consider using it to achieve their ends of domination?
	This is similar to the Manhattan Project.
	This is the atomic weapon on steroids.
	This is so secret, very, very few people in our entire government have been allowed access to it.
	Even presidents have been operating on a need-to-know basis.
	But that begins to ramp out of control.
	It's not a problem.
	Marco Rubio.
	To have secret parts of government that no one ever sees.
	You better be careful about a government that doesn't trust its people, because there's no telling what they'll pull on you.
	They might tell you there's little green men coming after you.
	Discovery in human history.
	You had information being locked away that could change the trajectory for species.
	It has so many beneficial impacts, including clean energy.
	We should have disclosure today.
	We should have disclosure tomorrow.
	The time has come.
	Yeah, that's right.
	Release the JFK files, Epstein files.
	The UFO files.
	Let's do it all.
	And of course, you know that is never going to happen.
	Yeah, what do you want to know?
	We'll tell you everything.
	Let me tell you something.
	Anybody who believes that the government is going to level with them about anything is wrong.
	And these people probably don't have the discernment to understand what they're talking about here either.
	The people that I've talked to who are really hardcore about disclosure are unbelievers.
	And it's not just Christians who have an issue with this.
	I've seen people who are scientists who say, well, the idea of interstellar travel, you know, there's so many issues of that.
	And they would say, we believe that it's, you know, when we see this, it's beings that are here in another dimension.
	And that's really what's going on here.
	Yeah, they're not human.
	Yeah, there is an intelligence.
	We know that the earth was created, the entire universe was created by intelligence.
	You can see the intelligent design.
	It's staring you in the face.
	And yet you have people like Creek and Watson who discover DNA.
	Say, well, it must have been little space aliens who came here.
	And that's what these people are going to do.
	Just be aware how they're going to use this.
	I've been seeing this develop for a very, very long time.
	All of us have.
	Look at how they have been preparing us with all these science fiction narratives.
	This is just demonic, supernatural stuff with a tech sci-fi spin on it.
	That's what it really is.
	I think one of the most interesting takes on all this was the video that they, it was actually a made-for-TV movie.
	It had Charles Dance was dressed up like the leader of the aliens.
	And it was based on Arthur C. Clarke book called Childhood's End.
	And in it, you have the beings reveal themselves as being the classic medieval-looking satanic beings, like a Baphomet with the horns and everything.
	Red cloven feet and the little pointy tail, all of the stereotypical medieval depictions of Satan.
	And they have come to take the children away.
	They said, Earth has gotten to the point where it is matured.
	We're going to destroy the Earth and the adults.
	We're going to take the children with us.
	I thought, what a reveal for somebody who is allegedly a pedophile like Arthur C. Clarke to do that.
	And again, to converge to say, well, you people think that it's spiritual and demonic, but we know that it's just space aliens.
	We say we know that it is spiritual and demonic, and you say that it's space aliens.
	But that's where this is all headed.
	And I thought that was an interesting convergence.
	And they actually made, what was it, Sci-Fi Channel?
	Maybe it was where that was.
	Childhood's End.
	If you look at just the pictures from it, it truly is amazing.
	But I think when you look at all this UFO stuff, the people who are true believers in it are just like Crick and Watson.
	They can't believe that there is a God.
	They can't escape the fact that we have intelligent design.
	And they can't escape other facts that are out there.
	But it's just how you view the world, isn't it?
	Your worldview, the assumptions that you begin with and your starting point determines what you see.
	That's true of everything in life.
	Before we take a quick break here, some of the comments, Niburu 2029 says global human depopulation of by all means possible, including wild animals.
	Yes, they love to reintroduce the wild animals, don't they?
	All these predatory governments, especially our feral government, just the bare necessities.
	And Steve Ez says, morning all.
	To protect themselves.
	That's right.
	Steve Ez says, morning all.
	Hope Travis is back.
	He is.
	But he got back very, very late tonight.
	So I said, I'll do the show today on my own here.
	And regarding the bacon imam, revolting villager says, somebody get that man a real problem.
	That was my take on it.
	That's why I thought that was the most amazing thing to cry because somebody waved bacon at you.
	I guess it was just such a temptation.
	You know, it's like, I can't stand it.
	It smells so good.
	Real Jason Barker said, I would never waste bacon like that.
	That's right.
	Waste bacon, waste your time, really.
	Well, we're going to take a break.
	When we come back, we're going to take a look at traitors.
	Who are the traitors?
	You know, Trump is very quick to throw this out at his enemies, even people in his own party.
	Called Marjorie Taylor Greene a traitor as he is whining and dining these Muslim terrorists as he is entertaining Mom Danny, who it was going to be the end of New York City if Mom Danny became mayor.
	But then over the weekend, Trump is making nice with him.
	It truly is amazing as he's throwing people in his own party under the bus, how he is sucking up to the other side.
	Is somebody ever going to realize that maybe this guy is not who he pretends to be?
	We're going to take a quick break.
	We'll be right back.
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	Welcome back.
	Yeah, citizen of Americaca says, hate speech, hate crimes?
	Are we not commanded to love what the Lord loves and hate what he hates?
	Yes.
	But I think the message that we bring to anyone who does not believe in the Lord Jesus Christ is, let's say, John 3:16 for starters.
	For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
	And then you ask the Muslims who are, are you lusting after bacon or whatever, or lusting after another woman or lusting after money?
	Whatever it is, none of us are perfect, but Christ died on the cross.
	That's what they reject.
	You know, it's interesting.
	Islam honors Christ, honors Mary as a prophet.
	What they do is they reject the idea that he died for their sins.
	They say God would not kill him.
	And so they have nothing that they can do in terms of offering for their sin.
	There's no atonement.
	Some strains of Islam say, well, we'll kill the infidel and that gets us into heaven, that type of thing.
	But again, it's offering them hope and love.
	That is our message.
	We hate the things that God hates.
	We reject those things.
	But again, we show God's love to sinners.
	That is the message that we bring.
	And so about the disclosure documentary, Minute Man Militia says, the fact that these people are allowed to speak in such a capacity is a huge red flag.
	Yes.
	And when you look at the people involved in it, Marco Rubio is the highest ranking one State Department head.
	And you got a bunch of CIA people and a bunch of people in the Pentagon who you're never allowed to know anything.
	Everything is a national security secret.
	As a matter of fact, we're going to talk about the flock cameras coming up here.
	And the fact that now they're pulling national security on people trying to get information about how they're using the flock cameras to spy on people.
	A private corporation out there collecting all this stuff because you can film in public theoretically, as long as you don't film ICE agents, right?
	If you film ICE agents, then they will slam their car into you.
	They will arrest you.
	We've got that story coming up as well.
	But if you are not the government, you're fair game in public spaces.
	And you're not allowed to know what they're doing because it's national security even on that.
	So don't tell me that these people are going to go out there and tell you, oh, yeah, we've been, we've got all these little green men and everything.
	You know how they're going to use this.
	As a matter of fact, Ronald Reagan mentioned that three times when he was president.
	We could bring the whole world together against a common enemy.
	Yes, Lance?
	Believing in little green men is one thing, but thinking the government is going to tell you the truth about something takes a whole other level of delusion.
	Yeah, yeah.
	So, yeah.
	So let's take a look at these Democrats who I thought did a totally owned Trump, totally owned Trump on this.
	He fell for this trap, hook, line, and sinker.
	They're criticizing his domestic policy and his foreign policy.
	His use of the military, of the federal police domestically, his bombing of boats off of Venezuela without determining if they're even smuggling drugs and making these ridiculous allegations about them, unproven in any of these cases.
	And what they're saying is it was a bunch of people that got it put together.
	It was Alyssa Slotkin was one who put it together.
	She's former CIA.
	She knows how to run a propaganda op.
	And I'll just say this.
	Yes, it was propaganda.
	However, there's two kinds of propaganda, right?
	There's white propaganda and there's black propaganda.
	White propaganda is when you manipulate people's opinion by telling them true stuff.
	Black propaganda is when you lie about the stuff.
	You tell them lies about it and you turn it into propaganda.
	Propaganda can be used as a tactic with either the truth or the lie.
	And so, what they did was they put out the truth, said, You not only do not have to obey an unconstitutional illegal order, you must not obey.
	You must disobey if it's unconstitutional and illegal.
	And Trump just stepped in that pile of dog dew with both feet and stomped around on it on social media.
	It was really funny to watch, I thought.
	So, in the aftermath of that, they had on one of the Sunday shows, they had Slotkin, again, who was a CIA person, now a Democrat senator.
	And she was asked, this is, and it's kind of interesting to look at the way the different media outlets cover this.
	And you've got WND, Breitbart, others are just going to ridiculous extremes to cover for Trump with anything and to try to attack anybody who stands in his way.
	The bottom line is that Trump is demanding that people obey him and not the law.
	And this we've seen for a very long time.
	This is why he comes after people like Thomas Massey, who opposed him on the 3.5 Trillion CARES Act in the spring of 2020.
	That was when he got on Trump's enemy list.
	That's a policy issue.
	That's an economic issue.
	You have a right to push back on that.
	And then on other issues where they disagreed, like aid to Israel and support for the Israeli war, and on the Epstein files, just like MTG got on his bad side with that.
	You're not allowed to disagree with Trump.
	You're not allowed to disobey him as a GOP senator, or he will come after you.
	And so we've got a lot of Republicans who are retiring, not just Marjorie Taylor Greene, but a lot of them who are retiring because they don't want to be a part of this cult and because they had to criticize Trump on some policy, and that was the end of their political career.
	And so she was on a Sunday show, and this is the way WND puts it.
	They said she was asked point blank if any illegal orders had been issued by Trump that she was aware of.
	On ABC this week, Martha Raddix asked Senator Slotkin, former CIA officer, do you believe that Trump has issued any illegal orders?
	She said, to my knowledge, I'm not aware of things that are illegal.
	What?
	Are you kidding me?
	The boats?
	Just take a look at the Potsikamitatas law and the rest of this stuff.
	But the boats right there.
	It's just amazing.
	I guess a CIA officer doesn't really care about the Constitution either.
	Doesn't care about declarations of war.
	Doesn't care about extrajudicial killings that are a violation of our law, our Constitution, and international law.
	I don't see anything.
	So she kind of just admitted that, hey, this is just our partisan tricks that are going out there.
	But it was a good trick.
	And it certainly did work on Trump.
	He's got not just egg on his face, but he's got dog poo on his face as well as his feet.
	Certainly there's some legal gymnastics that are going on with the Caribbean strikes and everything related to Venezuela, she said.
	There's not any legal gymnastics going on.
	It's clearly illegal.
	But she won't say that as a CIA officer.
	They're trained to lie, cheat, steal, overthrow governments, coups, assassinations, all the rest of this stuff.
	So why would she notice anything illegal?
	It looks like business as usual to her, right?
	Trump, however, screaming in all uppercase, the traitors that told the military to disobey my orders should be in jail right now, not roaming the fake news networks trying to explain that what they said was okay.
	It wasn't, and it never will be.
	In other words, you can't tell the military to obey the Constitution.
	They need to obey me.
	I'm the dictator.
	I'm the king, right?
	It was sedition at the highest level.
	And sedition is a major crime.
	There can be no other interpretation of what they said.
	So you must follow illegal orders if they come from Trump.
	He has now spoken on that issue as well.
	Well, you know, he was calling Marjorie Taylor Greene a traitor, again, because he perceived her as being disloyal to him, to the king.
	I was called a traitor by a man that I fought for five, no, actually six years for.
	Shame on you for doing that.
	Loyalty for free.
	I won my first election without his endorsement, beating eight men in a primary.
	And I've never owed him anything, but I fought for him for the policies and for America first.
	And he called me a traitor for standing with these women and refusing to take my name off the discharge petition.
	Let me tell you what a traitor is.
	A traitor is an American that serves foreign countries and themselves.
	A patriot is an American that serves the United States of America and Americans like the women standing behind me.
	Well, here's a problem I have with Marjorie Taylor Green.
	She was elected in 2020.
	She was a traitor to support Trump in 2020 after what he did with the lock and vax.
	That was a traitorous scheme created by the intelligence agencies.
	She stood behind him and supported him in 2020 and then did it again in 2024.
	So as far as I'm concerned, good riddance.
	I'm glad that she said some of the, finally came off of the grift that is there.
	But for the longest time, she was deceiving people, betraying America in order to support Trump.
	Trump, who is a tool of foreign governments, not just Israel.
	He was doing the bidding of the World Health Organization and the UN, World Economic Forum, all these people, he was doing their bidding as well.
	You know, when you look at the fact that this lock and vax germ game that they played, first one, was in 2001, two months before 9-11.
	This was the other shoe to drop from 9-11.
	This is the second shoe to drop to enact a police surveillance state.
	That's why it is such treason to support this stuff.
	And so when you look at what they have done and you look at these different groups, you know, we're talking about the World Economic Forum or the UN or the climate change stuff or the COVID stuff.
	To me, it looks like a bunch of circles with Venn diagram, you know, where they intersect.
	And guess what?
	That point of intersection has grown so large with all these different spheres of influence that it basically has converged into one giant circle.
	And, you know, it's not just that you got this one over here and they're just overlapping a little.
	They pretty much are co-centered on this thing.
	So she said, my primary concern is the use of the U.S. military on American shores, said the CIA person Slotkin, in our cities and on our streets.
	And we've seen now the courts overturned the deployment of U.S. military into our streets, including here in Washington, D.C.
	But again, it was, you know, she's not going to complain about Trump's assassinations.
	She's not going to complain about him starting wars.
	No, we don't see anything wrong with that.
	We're the CIA, right?
	Martha Raddox asked, and with these service members calling you, couldn't you have done a video saying just what you just said?
	If you are asked to do something, if you're worried about whether it's legal or not, you can do this.
	It does imply that the president is having illegal orders, which you say you've not seen.
	So the problem is, is that while the CIA Democrat senator will not tell you the truth, we have all seen Trump disobey the law.
	Everybody knows that it's that's the open secret that's there.
	And that's why he got so upset.
	They're pushing back against him on the Venezuelan war for their own partisan purposes.
	I mean, these people given half a chance, the CIA officer would do the same thing.
	That doesn't matter.
	This is not about a whataboutism.
	What about her?
	She worked for the CIA.
	They do this all the time.
	It's wrong when she does it.
	It's wrong when Trump does it.
	And we need to oppose it when it's wrong.
	I mean, the obvious thing is that if he actually cared about the Constitution, he'd be saying, well, my orders aren't illegal instead of doing it.
	He never, never did that.
	He never defended the legality.
	Yeah.
	Slam dump for these people.
	They don't have to say anything.
	It stands on its own.
	I said don't follow illegal orders, and he took issue with that.
	That's why I say he didn't just step in a pile of dog poo.
	He jumped up and down on it, splashing it all over himself.
	You're exactly right, Lance.
	That's the key.
	He could have said, well, my orders are not illegal.
	And I haven't given anybody any illegal orders.
	WND is trying to say that for him because he's too stupid and petulant to say it himself.
	And so this is something that they released this commercial last Tuesday, but it was the end of the week before it got a lot of play here.
	Certainly, if we're going to actually think about prosecuting some sort of war or military action against the mainland of Venezuela, I would hope that the president would want to have that conversation publicly.
	Bring in the American people who are not looking to get into another war, who are not looking to get into regime change.
	That was slackened.
	But don't you remember when you had Jeff Sessions, who turned out to be such a disappointment, and he was talking to lying Leon Panetta, who he said, now you're trying to get us involved in Syria.
	But before you put troops in Syria, you got to come to Congress and get a declaration of war.
	You are a congressman, Mr. Panetta.
	You know that.
	And of course, you know, Panetto went to work for the CIA.
	And then he became Defense Secretary.
	And he said, well, Senator, we will consult with our allies at NATO and the UN, and we will inform you as to what we're going to do.
	That's what she's saying right here.
	He needs to bring in people and inform us as to what he's going to do.
	She's not calling for a declaration of war.
	All these people in the real government, the CIA, have nothing but contempt for the Constitution.
	The sooner we all understand that, the better.
	We have to understand that our government has no authority.
	They swore an oath to the Constitution for their office, for their authority.
	And once they violate that oath, they have no legitimate authority.
	They're a bunch of murdering criminals, all of them, Democrats and Republicans.
	Pox on them all.
	You must refuse illegal orders.
	That was what they were saying.
	And so the take from Libs of TikTok, breaking elected Democrats just released a video encouraging members of the military to commit treason and defy orders from Trump and Hegseth.
	Let me tell you, if Trump and Hegseth, if War Pete is issuing illegal orders in violation of the Constitution, he's the one who's committing treason.
	And the CIA won't tell you that.
	Sedition at the highest level, says Trump.
	All caps, as he's screaming at everybody over this issue.
	Like I said, he jumped up and down on the dog poop pile that they put out there for him.
	Not going to talk about obeying the law.
	So this is Caroline Lovitt covering for him.
	Here's her spin.
	The sanctity of our military.
	Sanctity of our military.
	What about the sanctity of the Constitution?
	What about the rule of law?
	The military is not more important than the Constitution, than the rule of law.
	And neither of those are as important as the higher morality of a just war, the requirements for a just war.
	I don't really care, quite frankly, if they followed the Constitution and voted to go to war against somebody that has not attacked us.
	I would oppose that war.
	I would say that war was illegal, immoral.
	So there's a higher law even than the Constitution and the rule of law.
	But these people don't even care about the Constitution and the rule of law.
	So again, people, she said, the sanctity, this is Caroline Lovett, the sanctity of our military.
	Sanctity of our military.
	Sanctification.
	You know, let's make them holy and sacred, right?
	Rests on the chain of command.
	And if that chain of command is broken, it can lead to people getting killed.
	That's right.
	The chain of command that goes all the way up to the Constitution, which is over the president.
	The president is nothing other than a temporary steward.
	He's not a king under our form of government.
	This guy is.
	But he's not legitimately a king.
	And again, go back to the Lord of the Rings, right?
	There was a real king, and then there was the stewards of Gondor who were ruling in his place.
	And they decided that they were the same as the kings, and they did not want the king to come back.
	They wanted to be the top dogs.
	That's what we're seeing here.
	The king is the Constitution.
	Lex Rex.
	The law is king.
	And by the way, people are now getting killed illegally because they have broken that chain of command.
	We have a civilian commander-in-chief.
	That civilian commander-in-chief, however, is under the law, under the Constitution.
	And because he has slipped this off, people are getting killed illegally.
	So she continues, and he said, the U.S. has 1.3 million active duty service members.
	If they hear this radical message, what radical message?
	You have to obey the law and the Constitution before you obey a man?
	Is that radical?
	Well, yes, it is.
	Because it addresses the root problem.
	Radical really comes from the Latin meaning root, like radics, right?
	And so the root issue here is do we have a nation of laws or do we have a nation of dictators chosen once every four years by popular demand?
	So hear this radical message from sitting members of Congress that could inspire chaos and could incite violence and could certainly disrupt the chain of command?
	Caroline, the chain of command has been disrupted by you and your president.
	So, Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso, Republican, called the Democrats' strategy dangerous.
	It's dangerous now to obey the law.
	You know, I said for the longest time, back in the 90s, we even said it.
	The clearest way to get labeled a terrorist is to quote the founding fathers.
	So, now you're a terrorist if you say obey the Constitution.
	If you point out what the Constitution is, they say, first of all, you got to obey the law and the Constitution.
	And then, if the President is in line with that, then you obey the President.
	That is dangerous now.
	That is traitorous to this traitorous government.
	They're doing everything they can to undermine the president.
	Well, the President is doing everything he can to undermine the real king, the Constitution, and the rule of law.
	And that's what he just showed in spades by his reaction.
	This administration is pitting our uniformed military and intelligence community professionals against American citizens.
	Like us, you all swore an oath to protect and defend the Constitution.
	Right now, the threats to our Constitution aren't just coming from abroad, but from right here at home.
	Our laws are clear.
	You can refuse illegal orders.
	And then another one comes up and says you can refuse illegal orders.
	Then another one comes up and says, You must refuse illegal orders.
	No one has to carry out orders that violate the law or our Constitution.
	So please, Trump, please do come after them for treason.
	Please prosecute them for some made-up crime because we need to have this discussion.
	This is the crux of the issue.
	And even if these people are 100% hypocrites on this, and they are, you know, these people, these Democrats who are in the military, especially the Democrat who is in the CIA, they violate this stuff all the time.
	But that whataboutism doesn't really apply.
	You know, we'll deal with them later.
	But let's let Trump, let's give him enough rope to hang himself on all this stuff.
	We need you to stand up for our laws, for our Constitution, and who we are as Americans.
	So, yeah, that is traitorous speech.
	Sedition, says Trump.
	And sedition, says Stephen Miller.
	He said, Democrat lawmakers are now openly calling for insurrection.
	Well, Stephen Miller, Donald Trump, and the rest of them are now showing that they're absolutely no different than Joe Biden, who prosecuted Jay Sixers for protests.
	Even nonviolent protesters were prosecuted for them and calling them insurrectionists.
	So now you have Stephen Miller returning the favor.
	And you had Jesse Waters had a guy who was a former, let's see, Brian Dean Wright.
	He has a podcast, yeah, the Wright Report.
	And he has them on, he says, so the Democrats, is this seditious what they're doing? asks Jesse Waters.
	And Brian Wright says, it is.
	And look, we need to be very, very clear about Slotkin and who she is.
	And so she knew what she was doing when she put that together.
	You know what this sounds like to me?
	I played the clips from Michael Hayden, that evil guy who was head of the NSA, head of the CIA at different times.
	And he gave a talk at Washington and Lee University.
	And behind him was this all-seeing eye poster about his speech.
	And he was very upset about the fact that Ron Wyden got James Clapper to lie under oath.
	I'm upset by the fact they let the statute of limitations expire and didn't come after him for lying under oath.
	But he said, Ron Wyden and his staffers knew what we were doing, and they asked him that question, put him on the spot.
	And he goes, and not only them, he said, every one of those senators there knew that we were surveilling the American people, you know, violating the law, violating the Constitution.
	That's what Michael Hayden said.
	He said, I blame Ron Wyden for that.
	So James Clapper, Michael Hayden, and these intelligence creeps are out there surveilling the American people against the Constitution, against the law, the FISA law, and so forth.
	And when somebody puts them on the spot and has them admit it, they get mad at that person.
	And that's exactly what this guy, this conservative Brian Dean Wright, is doing.
	He's saying, shame on her.
	She knew what she was doing.
	And she laid this out there and laid a trap for Trump to get him to confess to violating the law, just like James Clapper did back in 2013.
	Yeah, it's just amazing to me.
	He says, as a former CIA operations officer, my job was to go out into the field and collect the intel, conduct the operation.
	Her job as an analyst was to figure out whether or not things like propaganda operations were successful, if they were effective.
	So she has seen her fair share of propaganda operations, and she knows how to pull those off.
	She knows how to make them effective.
	So, okay, she knows how to do 4D chess.
	Like I said before, propaganda, you can nail somebody with the truth, or you can nail them with lies.
	Those are two forms of propaganda.
	But she knew how to put that.
	So he has said.
	They're all phrasing this as though it is some brilliant move on her part.
	But if Trump had just ignored it, it would have been absolutely nothing.
	This was 100% Trump stepping in it.
	That's right.
	That's right.
	All I had to do was say, well, I would agree with him.
	You shouldn't obey illegal orders.
	I'm not giving any.
	It's exactly what you said, Lance.
	But he said, they create a crisis, and then they say, who is a threat?
	The threat's not Al-Qaeda or Russia.
	The threat is Donald Trump, he said.
	And then they provide the solution as part of their propaganda, which is to rise up and to say no.
	To say no to illegal orders, Brian.
	And that's what you left out.
	And so, again, this is, isn't it amazing how the left and the right are so much alike?
	You now got Stephen Miller calling Democrats who disagree with Trump insurrectionists.
	They're calling people in their own party traitors.
	And, you know, they are violating the law left and right, just like the Democrats did.
	And when you expose them on it, then they say, you're the problem because you told people what we're doing here.
	Because you do the same thing, right?
	Trump wants to jail the Democrats who noted soldiers may disobey illegal orders, says Reason.
	That sounded to me like he wanted to kill them.
	Remind members that the armed forces, that they are not obligated to follow unlawful orders.
	That was the purpose.
	That was the message of that Democrat ad.
	Reason got that right.
	That point is legally uncontroversial, which is why Trump should have just passed on it.
	It's also freshly relevant, though, in light of the various questionable ways in which Trump has deployed the military, especially his summary executions of suspected drug smugglers in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific.
	Again, when we look at it, it's just like the Epstein files, right?
	Why are you throwing all of your weight and energy and your political clout to keep that stuff covered up?
	Why is it that when somebody says illegal orders, you immediately know that they're talking about you?
	Trump's characteristically over-the-top reaction to the video, which he described as uppercase seditious behavior, punishable by death, he's talking about death, not about imprisonment, confirms the importance of remembering that soldiers and other public servants have a duty higher than obedience to the president's whims.
	Our laws are clear.
	You can refuse illegal orders, said a former, I'm sorry that this is the ad that's there, but you have a lot.
	This has been a discussion from the very beginning.
	I said this right away when I saw them blowing up the first boat, even before we knew that the boat had turned around and headed back when it saw them.
	There's no threat, wasn't carrying anything to the United States.
	And of course, those boats can't reach the United States.
	And we see some other parallels in what is happening domestically.
	They're profiling people based on where they have been going and assessing that they are guilty.
	And domestically, ICE is doing that with a flock network.
	They're looking at travel patterns and where people go.
	And they're making conclusions.
	Well, then you must be breaking the law.
	You must be a drug smuggler or you must be smuggling illegal immigrants.
	Therefore, we're going to right now, what they're doing is they're stopping and searching them and arresting them and confiscating their cars.
	But who's to say that at some point they won't just kill people on the spot?
	Because Trump applauded that when Duterte did that in the Philippines.
	You suspect somebody being a drug dealer, just kill them on the spot.
	There's no reason to have any due process for that.
	That's where this all ends, folks.
	The video doesn't get into specifics, but Trump's domestic military deployments, including his use of National Guard troops and Marines, was legally controversial and creates situations in which service members might have to decide whether they should follow orders that violate the Fourth Amendment or the First Amendment.
	And his unprecedented policy of blowing up boats carrying illegal drugs, they allege carrying illegal drugs, which they've not even stopped the boats to examine them, so far has killed 83 people in 21 attacks.
	It is blatantly at odds with long-standing principles of criminal justice and traditional military distinction between civilians and combatants.
	Well, it's more than just the principles.
	It is clearly at odds with the law.
	And a lot of JAG people have said that.
	But of course, one of the first things that War Pete did when he got to the Department of Defense was to get rid of the JAG officers.
	Georgetown University Law Professor Marty Letterman noted that the first strike, quote, appears to have violated several legal prohibitions, including homicide provisions of federal law and the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
	Letterman wrote, What's more alarming and of greater long-term concern is that the U.S. military personnel crossed a fundamental line the Department of Defense has been resolutely committed to upholding for many decades, namely that in rare, except in rare and extreme circumstances not present here, the military must not use lethal force against civilians, even if they are alleged or even known to be violating the law.
	We don't have the military enforced law.
	And it's a big deal when the military kills civilians.
	That's why what's going on had been going on in Gaza for two years was such a big deal.
	That is a violation not only of international law, but it's a violation of God's law and of a justified war.
	Given the obvious problems with deciding to kill criminal suspects in cold blood, instead of intercepting and arresting them, Letterman wondered, why did the military personnel agree to such a dubious order in the first place?
	As the Judge Advocate General Handbook explains, that's the JAG officers, subordinates in the military chain of command must presume, in the ordinary course, that the orders of superiors in the lawful chain of command are themselves lawful.
	Even so, in a rare case, where an order seems unlawful, the subordinate should not carry it out right away, but should not ignore it either.
	Should instead immediately and respectfully seek clarification of that order.
	And if, after receiving a clarification or being informed, or after being informed that no clarification is forthcoming, a reasonable person would recognize the wrongfulness of the act or order, even in light of the soldier's general duty to obey, then the order is manifestly illegal, and soldiers have a duty to disobey it.
	Don't we mock the Nazi soldiers whose excuse was, I was just following orders?
	That is not an excuse.
	There are higher legal and moral principles than an immediate order.
	And we need to go no further than the Nuremberg issue to see that.
	In other words, military personnel not only can refuse illegal orders, they have an obligation to do so.
	We saw this during the vaccine mandates.
	You had a lot of people who put their career on the line, people like Jason Barker, who said this is a violation of both moral and legal principles.
	And it is our duty to defend that.
	You know, when we say, thank you for your service, the idea is that the military is defending the Constitution and our lawful society.
	And sometimes that means defending the Constitution lawful society against the government, against military, against orders, like the vaccine mandates, for example.
	That's why they purge a lot of people like that out.
	You know, the first step of Trump is to get those people out.
	The Handbook on the Law of Naval Operations says, quote, an order requiring the performance of a military duty to act may be inferred to be lawful, and it is disobeyed at the peril of the subordinate.
	But the handbook says the inference does not apply to a patently illegal order, such as one that directs the commission of a crime.
	The first example that it orders, offers, rather, is, quote, an order directing the murder of a civilian or a non-combatant, like those boats off of Venezuela.
	It is clearly relevant to Trump's bloodthirsty anti-drug strategy, says Reason.
	Trump has tried to justify that strategy in various ways by conflating drug smuggling with violent aggression, by describing the men whose deaths he has ordered as members of, quote, foreign terrorist organizations, unquote, by asserting a, quote, non-international armed conflict.
	What does that mean?
	A non-international armed conflict.
	These people like Rumsfeld, you know, we've got known unknowns and unknown unknowns, and then we got words that we just make up, phrases that we make up to try to get around the requirements of a war.
	Call it something else.
	He's also preposterously claimed that we save 25,000 lives with each boat that is destroyed, which would add up to more than half a million deaths supposedly prevented so far.
	This is as ludicrous as his claims about saving lives with the shot.
	Whoa.
	Need to put that computer in, take it off a Wi-Fi.
	I don't know why that happened.
	It's hooked up to another phone.
	Anyway, Trump's policy is so manifestly unlawful that any other administration, including Trump's first administration, if anyone had even dared to propose it, virtually any and every attorney who got wind of it across the government, and many law and lawyer officials too, would have immediately dismissed it as obviously out of bounds.
	Except now you've got people like War Pete, Bondi, Kash Patel, Dan Bongino.
	You tell me what to do and I'll do it.
	I don't care if it breaks the law.
	I don't care if it humiliates me publicly.
	I will do it.
	And those are the only people that Trump doesn't call traitors.
	And they are the real traitors.
	The real traitors are people like Trump, Hegseth, Bondi, Kash Patel, Bongino.
	Those people are traitors.
	Traitors to what they promised, what they stood for.
	They have betrayed themselves as well as the Constitution and our country.
	NBC News reported this week that Marine Colonel Paul Meagher, JAG at the U.S. Southern Command at Miami, had expressed concerns that the boat strikes could amount to extrajudicial killings.
	Everybody knows that.
	Therefore, legally exposed service members involved in the operation.
	Maybe that's why his commander stepped down.
	He didn't want to have this fight with Trump.
	Why are people so afraid of that pig, Donald Trump?
	It just disgusts me how people cower in fear of this guy.
	We'll not confront him.
	It's amazing.
	So he said, although in the opinion of the top lawyer for the command overseeing the military operation is typically critical to whether or not the operation moves forward, Meagher's opinion was ultimately overruled by more senior government officials, including officials at the Justice Department's office of legal counsel.
	So again, it comes up to these traitors, people like Bondi and Warpete.
	Trump deploys accusations of treason as recklessly as he threatens to yank broadcast licenses.
	And both habits reflect his intolerance for speech that offends him, which he thinks should be, or he thinks already is, illegal.
	He either does not know or does not care what the crimes of treason and seditious conspiracy actually entail.
	Yeah.
	Again, he hates the First Amendment.
	And he wants to lock people up who offend him, comedians or whatever.
	An American is guilty of treason when he levies war against the United States or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the U.S. or elsewhere.
	You know, the interesting thing is, is that because this political prostitute, Donald Trump, was bought by the Adelsons, he took the guy who, if you look up Traitor in the Dictionary, you're going to see Jonathan Pollard's face there.
	Kudos to Gard for talking about this on Friday.
	I told him it's very important that you talk about that and what Huckabee did.
	That guy was an absolute traitor to this country.
	He not only betrayed our secrets to Israel, but he gave them signals intelligence.
	He gave them names of people and they sold those names.
	Israel betrayed us as well with Jonathan Pollard.
	They used that information, which had nothing to do with them.
	They could use intelligence with countries that they were at war with, but they took the signals intelligence codes and things like that that the Navy was using, completely betrayed the American government to Soviet Union in exchange for Israeli prisoners.
	That is traitorous.
	And for that, he deserved a life sentence.
	But Trump released him because the Adelsons gave him hundreds of millions of dollars.
	And that was the key thing for Trump, the only thing that really made that determination.
	So Jonathan Pollard, this guy who had betrayed his country, a real traitor, was pardoned by Donald Trump.
	I mean, that guy is the textbook definition of a traitor.
	I mean, this is like Aldrich Ames or some of the, you know, Philby and Burgess in the UK, these epic traitors who have done so much damage to the military.
	And yet, Donald Trump pardoned Jonathan Pollard, who was then flown home to Israel on a jet that belonged to the Adelsons and was met by Benjamin Netanyahu as he got off.
	There's Miriam Madelson with him.
	And that's Jonathan Pollard.
	There's Benjamin Netanyahu.
	He gets down and he kisses the ground because he loves Israel, not America.
	This guy was born in America.
	And he is a traitor to his former country.
	That's the kind of guy that Donald Trump, the real traitors that Donald Trump pardons right there.
	So the video that upset Trump plainly does not fit any of these definitions of traitorous.
	Yet Caroline Lovitt suggested that it might.
	The reporter asked, just to be clear, does the president want to execute members of Congress?
	Lovett replied no, but then proceeded to imply that Slotkin and others had engaged in criminal activity.
	Well, he had actually, in spite of what Caroline Lovitt, who is a well-documented liar at this point, despite what she says, I just read to you what he, he screamed in upper case, punishable by death, all uppercase.
	Right out of the gate, Lovett misrepresented what the video says.
	It is explicitly about illegal orders, not the president's lawful orders.
	This is why I say Trump and Lovitt and this Trump administration is so stupid they can't defend themselves.
	They're so corrupt that they can't defend it.
	He knows what he's doing is illegal.
	And he doesn't want to make that distinction.
	So GOP lawmaker vets have countered the Democrats' video to the military.
	And again, WND is just tripling down on defending this seditious dictator, Donald Trump.
	I've called him Benedict Donald for a long time.
	He betrayed this country in 2020 with what he did with the lockdown.
	He is a Benedict Donald.
	Now a group of Republican veterans have released their own video reminding Americans in the military of the oath they took to the Constitution and criticizing the insinuation of the Democrats that Trump had given illegal orders.
	Well, I'll tell you what, why don't you do this, Republicans?
	Why don't you defend his orders as being legal?
	You know, they're talking cross-purposes at each other here.
	This is a guy who, they took an oath to the Constitution.
	That's right.
	They did not take an oath to Trump.
	And although Trump took an oath to the Constitution, he also took an oath to his wives that he violated over and over again.
	He is an oathbreaker, if ever there was one.
	And so then you've got somebody like Glenn Beck always sucking up all these MAGA people.
	It's just amazing.
	Trump gets teed up by Glenn Beck to attack seditious Democrats by digging up the specific law that Glenn Beck said you should use this to go after them.
	And so what he did was he posted, he said, well, here's the law, 18 U.S.C. 2387, activities affecting armed forces in general.
	This statute makes it a federal crime to do any of the following with intent to interfere with U.S. military operations.
	To urge or to attempt to cause insubordination, disloyalty, mutiny, refusal of duty among members of the U.S. military.
	You're reminding them of their oath.
	That is none of that.
	What a traitor Glenn Beck is.
	Just amazing.
	Or to obstruct or attempt to obstruct recruiting, enlistment, or general military operations.
	Well.
	It would be encouraging insubordination to tell them to obey illegal orders.
	Yeah, that's right.
	That's right.
	Yeah, because ultimately you're subordinate to the Constitution, not to the President.
	These people choose to remove the Constitution and the laws from the chain of command.
	That's the reality of what's going on.
	Section 2387 is specifically about undermining the functioning of the U.S. military.
	So he's currying favor with Trump, and he's trying to stoke illegal orders, unconstitutional orders, unconstitutional war.
	And that's Glenn Beck for you.
	Love it and the administration are outright lying over the video's message, said Crowe, who is one of the people on the thing.
	He said, we simply reminded folks of what the Constitution and the law require.
	But again, they're lying, and their propaganda and their twisting of the truth is an attempt to silence dissent and to use fear and intimidation.
	Again, the Democrats can virtue signal about this.
	But when she was put on the spot, the CIA senator who put this whole thing together doesn't see Trump violating any laws with what he's doing in Venezuela.
	That says a lot more about her than it does about Trump or the commercial.
	The Border Patrol, meanwhile, is monitoring U.S. drivers and detaining those with suspicious travel patterns.
	Do you see a suspicious pattern here?
	Again, it's the same in principle as what is being done in Venezuela with those boats, except that they haven't started executing people summarily right now.
	This is just a violation of the Fourth Amendment.
	That's all, right?
	The technocratic police state is descending on Americans like a plague, and it needs to be resisted while it can.
	This is from Technocracy News.
	The Border Patrol has joined the feeding frenzy for tracking your license plate, following ICE, DHS, and state troopers and local city police forces.
	Citizens are being pulled over for suspicious activity determined by AI based on their driving habits or where they are going.
	This egregious behavior needs to be constrained, but thus far, Americans don't seem to care.
	And they won't care until it's too late.
	Your automobile is an extension of the sanctity of your home.
	It lives in your garage or on your property.
	And you know, by the way, when we look at the phones, a phone, you have a right to be secure in your person and your property and your personal papers and things like that.
	That's what they're talking about with the phone.
	It's not paper, not literally paper, but that's the principle that is there.
	It's your personal documents is what they're really talking about.
	When you venture out, you have the right to not be caught up in a dragnet of surveillance.
	But your home is also being violated with smart meters surveillance and with devices that can physically spy on your activities from outside your home.
	Now they can use your Wi-Fi.
	The police statementality gives authorities the right to examine your entire life to determine if you are a lawbreaker, writes Patrick Wood.
	He's absolutely right about this.
	The predictive intelligence program has resulted in people being stopped, searched, and in some cases arrested.
	A network of camera scans and a network of cameras scans and records vehicle license plate information, and an algorithm flags vehicles deemed suspicious based on where they come from, where they're going, which route they took.
	Federal agents in turn may then flag local law enforcement.
	See, this is happening all the time.
	We have people who are wrongfully swatted.
	Sometimes they do it as a prank.
	Sometimes they get the wrong address or whatever.
	Sometimes they're just wrong.
	One of the earliest issues of this, where they were putting AI together, and this is about a decade ago, they would have cameras looking at a parking lot and AI detected suspicious activity.
	Had a guy walking around a car looking at it closely, and then he bends down and out of view and it calls the police.
	The police get there and he's got a flat tire.
	He's working on it.
	And it thought that he was doing something to steal the car.
	It's a good thing they didn't show up shooting first, right?
	And this is the real issue.
	Drivers find themselves pulled over.
	They may be cited for speeding or failing to signal or having the wrong window tent or even a dangling air freshener that is blocking their view.
	They are then aggressively questioned and searched with no inkling that the road they drove on put them on the radar of law enforcement.
	Border Patrol has built a surveillance system stretching into the country's interior that can monitor ordinary Americans' daily actions and connections for anomalies instead of simply targeting wanted suspects.
	And again, they very dangerously declared that they have authority within the first 100 miles of the perimeter of the United States.
	That covers most of the population of the United States.
	And they have now just metastasized like a cancer, saying that belongs to us.
	That's a part of our little bureaucracy's fiefdom.
	Decades ago, they did this, they said, to fight illegal border-related activities, trafficking of both drugs and people, but it has expanded over the past five years.
	That's right.
	It's not just Trump who expands this.
	This is Democrats.
	They're both doing this.
	They've got their own created problems.
	They create the problem of the war on drugs.
	They are some of the biggest drug pushers, the CIA and others.
	We're talking about crack cocaine.
	They invented that.
	We're talking about what's going on in Afghanistan.
	The Taliban has just cracked that down.
	They've had a 96% reduction in opioids in Afghanistan since the U.S., the Pentagon, and the CIA left.
	We were creating bumper crops of opioids.
	Right at the same time, we were having this opioid epidemic.
	Isn't that interesting?
	And so the biggest drug pushers, the biggest predators using drugs is our own government.
	It's like the POGO cartoon.
	We has met the enemy and they is us.
	Except you need to put that as you period S period.
	It's the U.S. government.
	Part of the quiet transformation of its parent agency, Customs and Border Patrol, into something more akin to a domestic intelligence operation.
	Under Trump's administration, heightened immigration and enforcement efforts, CBP is now poised to get more than $2.7 billion to build our border surveillance systems, such as the license plate reader program, by layering in AI and other emerging technologies.
	This is the killer app for AI.
	You know, a couple of weeks ago, one guy said, Well, here's the sad thing.
	We've got two alternatives with AI.
	Either this thing is going to be wildly successful and meet all of their projections, in which case it'll take all of our jobs, or it is a fantasy bubble and it's going to burst and take down the economy.
	And I said, no, there's a third alternative, and that is that the killer application for AI is by the government.
	The government will use its bottomless financial resources to keep this thing afloat because it gives them the surveillance and control tools to run a police state and surveillance state, which is exactly what's going to happen.
	It's what's happening with Trump now.
	The Border Patrol has for years hidden details of its license plate reader program, trying to keep any mention of the program out of court documents and police reports.
	As a matter of fact, they're not the only ones doing that.
	The Stingray program, which is developed by technology developed by Harris Electronics in Florida, almost went to work for them.
	Anyway, they have this Stingray thing, which is a monitoring thing that they do without a search warrant.
	And they used it to bust a real criminal in court.
	And so there was a court case where they were coming after this guy and they presented the evidence.
	And the judge said, well, I need to know more about this Stingray program.
	I said, can't tell you, Your Honor, we have a non-disclosure agreement with Harris.
	We can't talk about that to you.
	And he goes, well, if you can't talk about that, case dismissed.
	And they let the case go, a real criminal who is a burglar because they didn't have a search warrant and because they didn't want to expose the program.
	And so they have worked really hard to keep these surveillance things quiet up until Trump.
	And now it's okay.
	We don't care anymore.
	We don't try to hide the criminal and illegal stuff that we're doing because Trump is going to embrace that.
	So they would do anything to not reveal any details about the placement.
	They would even drop charges.
	Readers are often disguised along highways and traffic safety equipment like drums and barrels.
	The agency's network of cameras now extends along the southern border in Texas, Arizona, and California.
	It also monitors drivers traveling near the U.S. and Canadian border.
	And it reaches further into the interior, impacting residents of big metropolitan areas and people driving to and from large cities like Chicago and Detroit, as well as LA, San Antonio, and Houston, and to and from the Mexican border region.
	In one example, AP found the agency has placed at least four cameras in the greater Phoenix area over the years, which is more than 120 miles from the Mexican border, beyond the agency's usual declared jurisdiction of 100 miles.
	For national security reasons, we do not detail the specific operational applications.
	There you go, see, everything is about national security.
	Is this to protect us from foreign invasion from Russia or China or something like that?
	No, it has nothing to do with that.
	This is about making the national government secure and about securing their jobs and about securing them from violating the Constitution.
	While collecting license plates from cars on public roads has generally been upheld by the courts, some legal scholars see the growth of large digital surveillance networks like Border Patrols as raising constitutional questions.
	Of course, it's hard to recognize that large-scale surveillance technology that is capturing everyone everywhere at every time might be unconstitutional under the Fourth Amendment.
	You know, there's nothing there about how it has to be big.
	It's just that the courts have looked the other way.
	They have greenlet illegal surveillance of Americans by the federal government since the creation of the CIA and the NSA in the mid-20th century.
	And that was being done at the time by AT ⁇ T. AT ⁇ T was given a monopoly on the phone service, and so they reciprocated and they wanted to protect that monopoly by doing whatever the government told them to do.
	And so they came up with a legal fiction that if you do business with a phone company, now everything the phone company knows about you, including all the phone calls that you make and so forth, that now belongs to the phone company.
	That's their data.
	And if they want to turn it over to the government, they can turn it over to the government.
	It's not an issue.
	And so that's the principle under which these private spy networks that are set up in order to sell information to the government, that is the principle in which they operate.
	They're collecting mass amounts of information about who people are, where they go, what they do, and who they know.
	This is the geospatial intelligence that I've talked about for so long.
	This is the fastest growing area of the intelligence community since the late 1990s.
	And that was about all of those things, keeping track of who you go and who you're in contact with, where you go, and then making inferences from all that metadata.
	Here's an example.
	In 2022, a man from Houston had his car searched from top to bottom by Texas sheriff's deputies outside of San Antonio after they got similar tip-off from the Border Patrol agents about the driver, Alec Schott.
	Federal agents observed that Schott had made an overnight trip from Houston to Carrizo Springs, Texas, and back.
	They knew that he stayed overnight in a hotel about 80 miles from the U.S.-Mexican border.
	They knew that in the morning he met a female colleague there before they drove together to a business meeting.
	At Border Patrol's request, Schott was pulled over by the Behart County Sheriff's Deputies.
	The deputies held him by the side of the road for more than an hour, searched his car, and found nothing.
	And the sheriff who stopped his car, of the department, stopped his car in a deposition and lawsuit that he subsequently filed, alleging violation of his constitutional rights.
	The sheriff said, the beautiful thing about the Texas traffic code is that there's thousands of things that you can stop a vehicle for.
	According to testimony and documents released as part of Schott's lawsuit, the sheriff, Bab, was on a group chat with federal agents called Northwest Highway.
	Bab deleted the WhatsApp chat off of his phone, but Schott's lawyers were able to recover some of the text messages.
	Through a Public Records Act request, the AP also obtained more than 70 pages of the Northwest Highway Group chats from June and July of this year from a Texas county that had at least one sheriff's deputy active in the chat.
	The AP was able to associate numerous phone numbers and both sets of documents with Border Patrol agents and Texas law enforcement officials.
	The chat logs show that Border Patrol agents and Texas sheriff's deputies trading tips about a vehicle's travel patterns based on suspicions about little more than someone taking a quick trip to the border region and back.
	The chats show how thoroughly Texas highways are surveilled by this federal-local partnership and how much detailed information is informally shared.
	So Board Patrol agents and local law enforcement shared information about citizens' social media profiles along with home addresses with each other after stopping them on the road.
	Chats show that Board Patrol was also able to determine whether vehicles were rentals or whether the drivers worked for rideshare services.
	In Schott's case, Babb testified that federal agents actually watch travel patterns on the highway, quote unquote, through license plate scans and other surveillance technologies.
	And he added, quote, I just know they have a lot of toys over there on the federal side.
	After finding nothing in his car, Babb said, quote, nine times out of ten, this is what happens.
	A phrase that Schatt's lawyers claimed in court filings showed the Sheriff's Department finds nothing suspicious in most of its searches.
	Babb did not respond to multiple requests for comments from the AP.
	That's the sheriff.
	The case is pending in federal court in Texas.
	Schatt said in an interview with the AP, I didn't know it was illegal to drive in Texas.
	See how they created and then left alone these problems like the drug war and immigration, even left alone really in Trump's first term as a premise for doing this kind of stuff.
	Well, we have to now have a network of surveillance and on and on.
	We have to have a biometric ID, you name it, because of drugs, because of open borders.
	And who left the borders open?
	Who's the biggest pushers of drugs?
	Again, the U.S. government.
	This is all just a pretext to create a purpose for what they really wanted, which was a surveillance police state run by the federal government.
	And Trump is their perfect vehicle for this.
	Border Patrol worked with other law enforcement agencies in Southern California about a decade ago to develop a pattern recognition, said a former CBP official who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal.
	Over time, the agency learned to develop what it calls patterns of life of vehicle movements by sifting through license plate data and by determining abnormal routes, evaluating if drivers were purposely avoiding official checkpoints.
	Some cameras can take photos of a vehicle's plates as well as the driver's faces, said the official.
	Thing is, if I know where checkpoints are, I'm going to try to avoid them.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	And so they have, they said, we're developing hunches based on experience.
	Hey, you know, that's what you call us conspiracy theorists for.
	We develop hunches based on experience, except we're not harming people's lives like you people are.
	And this, again, has been the case for the longest time.
	We see this is geospatial intelligence as it's been rolling out and determining that people are driving in suspicious patterns.
	The Border Patrol also has access to a nationwide network of plate readers that's been run formally by the Drug Enforcement Administration.
	Again, drugs and borders and so forth.
	Through FLOC alone, Board Patrol, for a time had access to at least 1,600 license plate readers across 22 states.
	Some counties have reported looking up license plates on behalf of CBP, even in states like California and Illinois that ban sharing data with federal immigration authorities.
	A FLOC spokesperson told AP the company for now has paused its pilot program with CBP and separate DHS agency.
	Homeland Security investigations have declined to discuss the type or the volume of data shared with either federal agency other than to say agencies could search for vehicles wanted in connection with a crime.
	No agencies currently list Border Patrol as receiving FLOC data.
	And if you believe that, I got a bridge I'd like to sell you.
	Meanwhile, the ACLU and the Electronic Freedom Foundation are suing San Jose.
	They have tripled the number of Flock cameras that they have there in just two years.
	They now have nearly 500 cameras in that town to create a pervasive database of residents movements, creating a surveillance network that is essentially impossible to avoid.
	And, you know, it's interesting that they are filing this lawsuit on behalf of an immigrant rights network and the Council on American Islamic Relations.
	So some Muslims and the illegal aliens that are there.
	Because this is what they have used these people as an excuse.
	And be very careful if you're conservative and say, yeah, I want to spy on Muslims and illegal aliens.
	Well, I don't want them here either.
	But we have to obey the law.
	This is why I say if the government is going to disobey the law, guess what?
	The government now moves to the top of the list of the biggest threats to you personally.
	A government that has severed its responsibility or thinks that it's severed its responsibility to obey the law, as we see with Trump, is the most dangerous thing you can have because of the tremendous amount of force that they can wield.
	They are the most dangerous gang if they become illegal.
	And so it is kind of interesting, I think, when we look at this, but it also tells us how they have set this whole thing up so the conservatives will applaud them to implement a police surveillance state.
	I also see it as, of course, it has to be the illegal aliens and the Islamic Council.
	They wouldn't care about surveillance on Americans.
	It's like the whole hate crime thing.
	It's fine if it's against Christians or one of the non-protected groups.
	But if you commit the same crime, that would have been nothing against them, a misdemeanor.
	It's a felony if it's against someone that we like.
	That's right.
	Yeah, when you look at the ACLU, I've talked about this many times.
	Yeah, the ACLU would go in and make a big deal at a standing for the free speech rights of Nazis to parade in a nearly completely Jewish town, Skokie, Illinois.
	They'd pat themselves on being so open-minded to do that.
	But they wouldn't help the Libertarian Party in terms of ballot access or debate access or anything like that.
	They wouldn't help us in terms of the laws that require 2.5% of the people who voted to get on the ballot.
	And then to retain the ballot, you had to have 10% of the people vote for your candidate.
	That was ridiculous.
	And we all knew what that was designed for.
	But they would not support, quote-unquote, democracy.
	They wouldn't support free speech.
	But they would do something like find some group that is going to be reprehensible because they know they're going to get a lot of publicity out of that.
	So they claim that the surveillance is a violation of California's Constitution and privacy laws.
	The lawsuit seeks to require police to get a warrant in order to search Flock's license plate system.
	There's also a lawsuit against Flock in Norfolk, Virginia.
	That one is different.
	This one in California just says, get a warrant.
	And Norfolk, Virginia, they got it right.
	They want to shut down Flock.
	They want to require that FLOC be shut down altogether in Norfolk, Virginia.
	San Jose's automatic license plate reader program stands apart for its invasiveness, they said.
	While many California agencies run these license plate reader systems, few retain the locations of drivers for an entire year, like San Jose.
	Further, it's difficult for most residents of San Jose to get to work, to pick up their kids, or to obtain medical care without driving.
	And the city has blanketed its roads with nearly 500 license plate readers.
	The city of San Jose currently has 474 of these cameras, up from 149 at the end of 2023.
	Again, it has tripled in two years.
	They say FLOC license plate readers are stationed all over the city, including around highly sensitive locations, including clinics, immigration centers, and places of worship.
	For example, three ALPR cameras are positioned on the roads directly outside an immigration law firm.
	So again, these are the things that they've used as excuses to usher in a federal police state.
	Understand that.
	Don't give them a pass for this.
	There's other ways to, if you don't like these policies, there's other solutions other than a police state, but that's the only one that's going to be offered to you.
	It's just like if there was a, you know, these are real problems.
	COVID wasn't a real problem.
	But if it were, you could tell when they didn't want anybody to use hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin or anything else.
	They had the things that they were going to demand that you use, things that were going to kill you.
	Ventilators, remdesivir, and of course the vaccine.
	Those are the only remedies.
	And that's what we're seeing here.
	They create a problem, whether it's real or not.
	If it's real, it's usually a problem that they created.
	And then there's only one solution for you.
	It's fair to say that anyone driving in San Jose is likely to have their license plate captured many times a day.
	And that is that pervasiveness that they're trying to use in order to stop this.
	But again, that is not the requirement of the Fourth Amendment.
	Fourth Amendment doesn't say, well, you can't search people's homes if you're going to search everybody's homes.
	It says one person.
	If you're going to search one person, you've got to get a warrant.
	By the way, I wanted to let you know this.
	There is a crowdsourced map of these FLOC automated license plate readers and how they're deployed around the entire country.
	It's a website called DFLOC, D-E-F-L-O-C-K.
	So if you're going to look that up for your particular area.
	So the lawsuit argues that warrantless searches of these cameras are illegal under California's Constitution Search and Seizure Clause, which they said has been interpreted to be even stronger than the Fourth Amendment, as well as other California privacy laws.
	Isn't it interesting?
	They sold the idea of abortion killing a baby.
	They sold that as privacy.
	And look at how they don't care about privacy, except for their privacy.
	You're not allowed to know anything about them.
	And also, they say it's stronger than the Fourth Amendment.
	They mean we actually care about this one.
	We enforce it sometimes.
	It's stronger than the First Amendment because we say it is.
	Well, I don't know what else you can say other than don't do it.
	Maybe they say it multiple times.
	I don't know.
	You only have to say it once that you will not examine them without a search warrant.
	So the company collects millions of records from around the country.
	It's made its national database of car locations available to local cops who then in turn work with ICE.
	They said that many of these problems will be solved if police simply need to get a warrant to search the system.
	Our legal theory and the remedy that we're seeking is quite simple.
	We think they need a warrant to search these databases.
	The warrant requirement is massive and should help in terms of preventing these searches because they will have to be approved by a judge.
	Well, both of these cases are ongoing, both in Norfolk and in San Jose.
	I've heard a thing about Flock where someone was trying to make them all publicly accessible because there was that case of the woman that was accused of stealing a package off a porch and they wouldn't show her the video, which clearly showed a different woman doing it that just happened to be driving a similar car.
	But there's other cases like that, and I don't think that their solution is a good one, but it does point out the hypocrisy.
	They just want all the flock information that is used by law enforcement to be available to the general public.
	And that they absolutely will not allow because that shows just how much they're getting.
	And also, that could be used against them.
	There's that other video in the deck about how the government does not like it when surveillance is turned on them, the one about the cars.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	Yeah, go ahead and play that video.
	All right.
	I just need to search where it is.
	It's in the third row of the deck.
	Yeah, the car safety hearing.
	Yes.
	Would it surprise you that I got the VIN numbers of every one of my Democrat colleagues' vehicles and found that none of them bought any of the additional safety technologies on their cars?
	I did not know that, Senator.
	So when you are actually shopping for a car with your own money, you don't buy the technology.
	But we're sitting here saying that this should be mandated for everybody else's cars.
	And what's been the result?
	We drove up the price of cars almost doubled in the last 10 years.
	I object to you stalking my car and my staff to find the VIN numbers.
	How dare you present to this committee, what are you doing there?
	What are you going to do with them?
	It's an invasion of our privacy.
	If you came and asked me for my VIN, I will tell you what I have in my car.
	It's visible.
	It's visible from the outside of the car.
	So you went and followed me.
	You went and followed me to see who drives me.
	Write down their VIN number.
	You interrupted me.
	You're attacking me.
	You watched me go to see who drives her patrol.
	The federal government local cops.
	Exposed to hypocrisy.
	Yeah, I think we just saw the hypocrisy, didn't we?
	How dare you?
	You look at my VIN number, and then you look to see what safety devices I have.
	By the way, that guy who was talking about that, he sold cars.
	And so he's thinking, looking at the VIN number, I can go back and see what equipment that's there.
	And this point that he was making was that all you people out here who are pushing to have more and more safety rules put on cars, you don't buy any of that stuff when you have the option to do it.
	You clearly don't believe this.
	You're just ramping up the price of cars and making them unaffordable for people.
	How dare you investigate me?
	These are the people who investigate us all.
	And so the Oregon woman says that ICE broke out her car window and then detained her for filming them.
	You see, Flock is filming everyone everywhere.
	But don't you dare pull out your cell phone and take a picture of ICE or Border Patrol doing something.
	They will attack you, and they've done so repeatedly.
	They've driven their car into people.
	In this particular case, they arrested this woman because she was and detained her for nearly seven hours.
	And they still have her property that they've not given back to her.
	So in this particular scenario here, this was a 25-year-old woman, Berenice Garcia Hernandez, said all she did to draw the ire of ICE agents was to take photos of their car in a Chick-fil-A parking lot near Gresham, Oregon.
	Her case, first reported by the Oregonian, is yet another case of federal immigration officers retaliating against U.S. citizens for recording them.
	It is perfectly legal for you to record cops in public.
	They're using that to create this massive surveillance network.
	But if they're doing something in terms of arresting somebody, we need to have eyes on them.
	As a matter of fact, there was, I don't know if they're still around, I haven't seen any of their stuff for a long time.
	There's a group had a website called Cop Watch.
	And it was, people would send in their videos of arrests and encounters that people were having in public with the police.
	And you would see in many cases, the police even then would come after the individuals who were filming and try to find some excuse to arrest them.
	Filming cops in public is a very different thing than filming a private citizen.
	These are public servants.
	They're doing a job for the general public.
	We should have a right to see how they're doing that job as opposed to filming a, again, private citizen.
	And the other aspect of it is that they're actually doing something as opposed to you.
	When they film everybody, this then becomes kind of a bring me the man and I'll find the crime.
	The type of thing that Pulte is doing for Trump in terms of finding real estate crime on Trump's personal enemies.
	So Garcia Hernandez told the Oregonian that she saw a Facebook post about ICE activity near the Chick-fil-A and drove over in her fiancé's car, which has government-issued plates because they work for the government somehow.
	Observing and recording law enforcement is firmly protected by the First Amendment as long as one doesn't physically interfere with officers.
	Nevertheless, the ICE agents began following her after she left the parking lot.
	Homeland Security did not immediately respond to requests for comment on what probable cause officers had to arrest Garcia Hernandez.
	This, by the way, is from Reason.
	They accused her of aggressively following and obstructing ICE officers as well as resisting arrest.
	They said her reckless and dangerous behavior, including driving over a curb and coordinating with another unlicensed vehicle to block and intimidate law enforcement officers.
	You drove over a curb?
	Wow.
	Garcia Hernandez's attorney, Michael Fuller, says that's a lie, and he has the video to prove it.
	Cell phone footage taken from her, which shows ICE officers tailing her for two minutes as she's driving.
	When she stops at a red light, the other car pulls alongside of her.
	Police department, an ICE officer can be heard saying in the video, why are you taking photos?
	She says, you're not the police.
	I know who you are.
	The officer responds and says, you know you're in a government vehicle.
	You just got fired.
	She says, F you and keep going, she said.
	She told the Oregonian that when she stopped at another red light, the ICE agents turned on the emergency lights and pulled her over.
	Additional footage of her arrest was taken by a bystander and shows her being dragged out of her car.
	An ICE vehicle is parked perpendicular in front of her car, blocking her in.
	It really seems that they say you were blocking them with all of these issues of filming.
	I can play this video if you want.
	I don't know if there's language in it.
	Yeah, go ahead.
	This is from the story here.
	This is a 16-second video here.
	Yeah, there's no language at all, just violence of them dragging her out of the car.
	The Homeland Security Office of Public Affairs has made a habit of putting out demonstrably false statements about ICE arrests and excessive force incidents.
	These statements, which Homeland Security never corrects, says Reason, poison the public record and attack the reputations of innocent people, and they chill free speech.
	Well, they put out demonstrably false statements because they're just like their bosses, Christy Noam and Donald Trump.
	They always do that, and they never correct it.
	The willingness to lie is unusual because, you know, these cases end up going to court.
	It's fun to lie now, but eventually people are going to review the video.
	People are going to be under oath.
	And it's not a very good long-term strategy.
	But we've seen them lie about almost all of our clients, they said.
	We're going to see these cases through, and it'll be interesting to see how they handle the fact that they went on the record with pretty provable lies and they try to make themselves look better in the moment.
	As a U.S. citizen, Garcia Hernandez said, I ended up being treated this way just because I was taking pictures and videos of them to warn the community.
	They were mad because they were getting exposed.
	And so we have seen this over and over again.
	It's another example of why it's important for people to obey the law, especially the police and the military.
	They are the ones that should be held to a much higher standard, not just given a pass.
	People like Donald Trump, as a matter of fact.
	Scott Helmer, thank you very much for the tip.
	I appreciate that.
	He said, David, tagged you in a comment on my new X account.
	You covered it before, and I'm grateful.
	Thank you very much.
	I appreciate that.
	And again, Scott Helmer, a real human musician who does real human musician songs about real issues.
	Definitely look up Scott.
	I have the tweet that he linked with the song.
	Oh, okay.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Go ahead, play that.
	Yeah.
	Sorry.
	Appreciate that.
	Well, let's move on.
	S.A. Miller123.
	Thank you very much.
	That's very generous.
	I appreciate that.
	On Rumble.
	David, hoping to move the gas gauge or for the additional expenses your family has endured.
	So sorry for your loss.
	Thanksgiving.
	Blessings to you and the whole family.
	Thank you for all you do.
	Thank you.
	Thank you so much.
	I appreciate that.
	Yeah, it is.
	There's a lot of extra things that are going on.
	Karen is dealing with most of that.
	But I really do appreciate that.
	Stealth Patriot, thank you for the tip.
	It says, we're at the precipice of this entire house of, let's see, house of cards.
	It's going to come crashing down.
	But the weak-minded slaves are desperately defending their side of the same corrupt system.
	That's what infuriates me.
	Yeah, it really is, because, you know, all this whataboutism, you know, and it's like, yeah, but look, the Democrats did this or they do this or that.
	Yeah, that only makes it worse when both sides are doing it.
	And thank you for citizens of Americaca.
	Thank you for subscribing.
	Nadlander says, greetings, earthlings.
	Take me to your Epstein.
	You're a leader, right?
	Naburu 2029.
	Alien invasion to usher in a one-world religion.
	Reagan stated it plainly in the 1980s, and this extraterrestrial hoax has been in the works for many years.
	As a matter of fact, I think he did that three different times.
	He said, often think about, you know, what would happen if we had an alien invasion.
	It would unite the entire world into one government, into one common cause.
	They're always looking for something like that, like the climate MacGuffin or the pandemic MacGuffin or the alien invasion.
	That is most likely how they will use it.
	Pizano Vante, 1776, we already have beings here that are not human.
	Most of them serve in elective office.
	I used to believe in the whole UFO thing, says Fuzzy Mateo, until my government told me it was real.
	B.T. Taylor 246, Clark was also alleged to be a British intelligence.
	Yep.
	Syrian girl says, so Marjorie goes, but who will replace her?
	Our trajectory is down, down, down.
	It'll be interesting to see what happens because there's going to be a special election beginning of the year.
	When she resigns the beginning of January, there's 30 days for them to have a special election.
	Would it be interesting if in that Republican jurisdiction, if a Democrat won?
	That would really be a harbinger of what's to come with the election next year.
	And I think that really is the case.
	We're going to get into more about that in just a moment.
	We look at Trump's friends.
	Who are his friends and who are his enemies?
	We can tell a lot about a person based on who their friends and enemies are, can't we?
	And it is kind of interesting that he's still sticking by his best friend, Jeffrey Epstein, and sticking by these billionaires who are Epstein's pals.
	It's also interesting, I think, that as he throws away people like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massey, that he is sucking up to Islamic terrorist ISIS al-Nusra, the guy, Syria, and that the American government put that guy in place and to Mo Mohammed bin Salman, another terrorist, and then bringing in Mom Danny, who we were all supposed to believe was going to be the end of the world.
	Again, it was about him being anti-Israel.
	It wasn't about him being a communist.
	As I said before, they've had plenty of communist mayors in New York City, Bloomberg, especially de Blasio, who honeymooned in Cuba.
	So Steve Ev says the massed unconstitutional government agents come for us next.
	That's right.
	And real Octo Spook says, to date, no one has stopped drugs in the war on drugs.
	What we have been doing is a failure.
	That's right.
	And you refer to it as a war of drugs because it is a war of drugs that in many cases were designed and pushed by the American government.
	Whether you look at something like LSD or more recently, the big push for crack cocaine to fund a secret war.
	I mean, what does it take to wake people up to what's really going on here?
	I don't know.
	Citizen of America Kaka, man dummy, that's good.
	And Trump yucking it up like the new odd couple with their cute little pet names for each other.
	You communist.
	Oh, you fascists.
	Kissy kiss.
	That pretty much describes it.
	That's an excellent way to describe that love fest that was there.
	Sconcalo Rosegarden says, everyone declines orders.
	I declined orders before.
	Steve Evans says, who in the military knows anything about the Constitution?
	Very few.
	Real Jason Barker replies and said, that's correct.
	I only had one commander that used to set us down, and we talked about the Constitution on Fridays.
	Wow.
	I guess they got that guy out.
	Audi, MRR, I'm surprised that there aren't more conscientious objectors in our military.
	Well, that's your conscientious objector.
	You usually stay out of the military.
	But they rejected my conscientious objection.
	And I said, well, I reject your rejection of my conscientious objection.
	I'm not going to go fight your wars for you in Vietnam.
	I'm not going to go kill people for you.
	I know by that time we already knew what was happening.
	They stopped the draft right as I graduated high school.
	And the war ended a couple of years later after that.
	But again, by that point in time, we had all looked at this thing.
	We all realized what a fraud it was.
	I had seen so many people who were about a decade older than me that, you know, before the fraud was exposed, most of the conservatives I knew were gung-ho for the Vietnam War.
	Really thought they were defending America.
	Such a sad situation.
	Citizen of Americaca, the minority report will never work.
	The artificial intelligence oracles fail to realize the most difficult thing to prove in court of law is premeditation.
	Well, yeah.
	Don't worry about a court of law.
	They'll have the AI be your judge and jury as well as your accuser.
	Jay Brown 247 says they also claim they can surveil within 100 miles of international airports.
	They consider those to be borders as well.
	Yeah, pretty much everything.
	They're becoming Trump's federal police force.
	Well, we're going to take a quick break and then we're going to take a look at another fracture that is coming in the Republican Party, and that is over the Venezuelan war.
	I have a video I can play of the song from Scott Helmer.
	Yeah, go ahead.
	Please play that.
	So we're going to take a break and here's Scott Helmer.
	I'm never the God.
	I'll see the day when devils take over and have their way.
	Innocence lost is never found.
	So this ends here, this ends now.
	Should never let your poison hit their veins.
	We are the world alive, awake, and we are here to say this is not sane, this is not right.
	Leave the children alone.
	May our gods lie across the line.
	We won't fight down.
	We know the truth and we're shouting it out loud.
	I'm never the thought.
	I see the day.
	Yeah, that's great.
	That's only 50 seconds.
	That's a preview.
	You can get more of that at Scott Helmer's website.
	Hear that line, you should never let the poison hit your veins.
	You know, I've thought for the longest time of government as being like a ball constrictor, constantly squeezing you, right?
	Every time you exhale, it squeezes you in, makes it harder for you to inhale the next time.
	But actually, it became a venomous snake.
	And that's really what it has turned into.
	Well, we're going to take a little bit of a break here and then I'm going to get myself back together here.
	And we'll be right back, folks.
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	Well, Rand Paul went on with CBS's face and nation, Margaret Brennan, yesterday and said that he believes that the GOP may fracture over these Venezuelan strikes.
	They should separate from Trump, but I don't think that they will.
	Rand Paul is very sensitive to the war issue, as I am, but that is not something that the vast majority of Americans share, especially in the Republican Party.
	They're just for war, anytime, anywhere, with anybody.
	Especially if it's a war, as Alex Jones said, yeah, I'm all for this war of Venezuela.
	Let's go to South America.
	We win the wars down there.
	How pathetic to become a cheerleader for war and for the police state just because Trump's doing it.
	Anyway, the White House continued strikes on Venezuela may lead to a drop in support for Trump, he said.
	And even if there's a renewal of subsidies to Ukraine, could see a splintering or a fracturing of the movement that has supported the president.
	Because there's a significant part of the GOP that was anti-war.
	But I think those people left Trump a long time ago, frankly.
	He says they're pretending that we're at war.
	They're pretending as if they've gotten some imprimatur to do what they want.
	When you have a war, the rules of engagement are lessened.
	They want to have it both ways.
	They want to say, oh, we can just say these people are terrorists, that they're narco-terrorists, so we can blow them up.
	But then they don't prosecute the survivors for drugs because we've had now one survivor and they don't prosecute him.
	How are you going to prosecute him?
	I've been given zero, not one briefing, because I'm skeptical of what they're doing, said Paul.
	They don't brief me or the general senate at all.
	A few hand-selected people may have gotten a briefing, but I've not been invited to any briefings on Venezuela.
	And again, this exposes the bankruptcy of the Democrats who put together that video as well.
	Because that senator who's former CIA, well, I'm not so sure that he broke the law.
	No, he broke the law.
	This is illegal.
	It's unconstitutional what he's doing.
	And then her remedy is, well, he should talk to some of us about it.
	No, that's not what the Constitution says, lady.
	If you're going to stand up and say that you have an obligation to obey the Constitution, so do you as a senator.
	Do your job.
	Stop this guy.
	We should be trying to work on the demand side, he said, as far as drugs.
	We should be treating it as a health problem, as an addiction problem in our country, and trying to lessen demand.
	And that is part of the overall solution.
	Well, it is first and foremost a spiritual issue.
	But, you know, once you see how they have used the so-called drug war to eliminate the rule of law, you can't unsee the real purpose of this.
	And that's why I talk about this all the time.
	Because once you see what they have done with the SWAT teams, with the no-knock raids, with civil asset forfeiture, and on and on and on, how they have corrupted and destroyed the court system, our due process, how they have bribed and corrupted law enforcement.
	When you look at all that stuff, even before you get to the big drug smuggling operations of the CIA, you realize what a crime this thing is.
	And it is much bigger than the individual that gets addicted to drugs.
	That has always been around and it will always be around.
	But that is not even a law enforcement issue.
	That's a different type of issue.
	Trump shares a violent call to hang his political foes, says the Daily Beast.
	Again, even though Caroline Lovett says he's not calling for these people to be killed, he did call for them publicly on his own social media.
	Seditious behavior punishable by death, all uppercase.
	Hang them, George Washington would.
	I think it's pretty clear.
	Why is she trying to cover up?
	Again, Stephen Miller accusing Democrats of a tweet that he retweeted or a truth that he re-troofed.
	Yeah.
	But he wrote himself that it was punishable by death.
	And then he retweeted the hang them, George Washington would.
	By Thursday, Stephen Miller accused the Democrats of stoking insurrection and demanded that the six lawmakers resign in disgrace.
	Doesn't he look exactly like Biden and the Democrats at this point?
	Trump and Stephen Miller.
	There's absolutely no difference between the two of them.
	Democrats urging the military to disobey my orders, and they've committed a serious crime, he said.
	They said, you can refuse illegal orders, as we said before.
	But he doesn't care about that distinction because he doesn't care about the law.
	So many great scholars, he screamed, in uppercase, agree that the Democrat traitors that told the military to disobey my orders as president have committed a crime of serious proportion.
	I am the king, the dictator, the czar.
	And so Caroline Lovett said they're literally saying to 1.3 million active duty service members to defy the chain of command.
	As I said before, the chain of command is not begin with the president.
	It begins with the Constitution.
	And then this is Zero Hedge's pathetic take on this.
	It's partisan worship of Tsar Trump.
	Zero Hedge says the video makes it clear that Democrats are inciting revolt and resistance against lawful authority.
	Boy, if that isn't a lie, how pathetic.
	You know, they're not saying that.
	Lawful authority means that you obey the law.
	That's what they're saying.
	How could Zero Hedge write something like that?
	It's unbelievable.
	This is a part of their broader strategy to wage a full-blown color revolution style operation through their dark, billionaire-funded NGO sphere with a single objective, regime change.
	Did Alex Jones write this for you?
	I mean, that's pathetic.
	And you want to talk about your color change, your color revolution.
	You're so blinded by your red and blue distinctions, you can't see what's really going on here.
	Look, the other side is not good.
	That doesn't excuse what Trump is doing.
	Trump is helping with the color revolution more than George Soros is.
	Trump is recruiting people into opposing him.
	That's actually, I think, his purpose.
	CBS News poll finds that most people would oppose U.S. military action in Venezuela and say that Trump has not explained why he's doing this.
	Well, I don't care about his explanations.
	He needs to get a vote.
	That's the bottom line.
	The Constitution doesn't say, you know, a declaration of war.
	Trump will go publicly explain it to the people or he will explain it to Congress or some select senators.
	No, it says that they will vote on this.
	Across party lines, big majorities say the administration needs to explain what the U.S. intends regarding any action and that it has not done so clearly yet.
	Well, it's not the U.S. intention.
	It's Trump's intention.
	There's a big distinction, folks, between Trump and the United States of America.
	Meanwhile, what Americans hear from the White House about how inflation is, they say, not what they are actually feeling at home.
	They're seeing rising prices and a worsening economic situation.
	Well, they say Trump hasn't explained this.
	Well, when he's not silent, he's lying.
	Americans do not think that Venezuela is a major threat to the U.S. Of course it isn't.
	They're largely opposed to potential military action.
	So the idea of a potential U.S. military action in Venezuela meets with widespread disapproval.
	It doesn't get overwhelming backing from Republicans either.
	Only a few people like Alex Jones who say, we could win a war with Venezuela.
	Let's do it.
	Actually, I don't think that you necessarily could.
	Again, it's going to be the asymmetric warfare of being bogged down as part of your nation building.
	They're going to want to stay there to get the oil and to get all the minerals that Venezuela has, and that's when all the pot shots are going to be taken.
	Whether or not we could win a war with Venezuela, they have no intention of doing so.
	They want a war with Venezuela.
	They don't want to win a war because that would be over.
	That's right.
	And the war is going to be a distraction.
	That's going to be a big part of the actual timing.
	Trump is just waiting for the nadir of his public support to rebuild all this stuff.
	We see it over and over again.
	Look at George W. Bush.
	As Gerald Slinty said, every time they're failing and everything's going down, as a last resort, they take us to war.
	We figure out what they're doing.
	Three out of four Americans also say Trump would need congressional approval before taking military action in Venezuela, including just over half of Republicans.
	But again, just under half Republicans say we don't care what the Constitution says anymore.
	Isn't that amazing?
	Why?
	Because of Trump.
	He can do whatever he wants.
	Only one out of five Americans, 20%, have heard a lot about the U.S. military buildup in the first place.
	In other words, most of them don't even know what's going on.
	The current military attacks on boats suspected of bringing drugs finds division.
	Just over half of Americans approve of blowing up boats without ever assessing whether they have drugs on them or what kind of drugs or what's going on.
	And as I've said over and over again, here's for you slightly more than half of Americans who don't see a problem with this.
	The problem is, is that they haven't shown that a crime was committed.
	And even if, even if they were doing drugs, that is not a death sentence.
	And even if there were a death sentence, you certainly must give them due process.
	That's the problem with all this stuff.
	No evidence, no due process, and assessing a penalty for them which is not under the law.
	That's a different story we were talking about just a bit ago where the cop was saying, yeah, most of the time we pull these people over and search their car, we find absolutely nothing.
	And we found people saying the exact same thing about these boats, where most of the time when the Coast Guard intervenes and searches the boats that they suspect of carrying drugs, they are in fact not carrying any drugs.
	But can't do that with these because we just blow them up and hide all the evidence.
	That's right.
	Ren Paul made that point.
	He said, you know, when the Coast Guard does do the job that they've been doing, they stop the boats and search them.
	They find that 25% of the time, if somebody matches the profile of somebody, looks like they're smuggling drugs, maybe they got a fast boat or something like that.
	We find that they don't have any drugs.
	So you could assume that out of the 80 or so people that they've killed, about a quarter of those, about 20 of them, are innocent people, if that still holds up.
	Nevertheless, the bottom line is that they're killing the rule of law, and that needs to be opposed.
	And it is the just over half approve, and that's driven by nearly universal support among Republicans for this.
	The GOP base, folks, not just the GOP shills in Congress who will say or do anything to curry favor with Trump so they can stay in Congress.
	This is the GOP base, the rank-and-file out there.
	This is the GOP, the Guarding Our Pedophiles party, which is now applauding murder on the high seas.
	Isn't that amazing?
	GOP is going to lose bigly, I think, because they follow Trump and they deserve to lose.
	Though Americans overall overwhelmingly say they should see the evidence that there are drugs, they still go ahead and kill them.
	I don't care.
	Truly amazing.
	Most Americans don't think U.S. military action in Venezuela would change the amount of drugs coming into the United States.
	Yeah, you've got to go to the source of the drugs, the U.S. government itself, CIA and others.
	MAGA Republicans are actually more supportive of potential military action than non-MAGA ones.
	They're largely deferential to the president because it's a fan club.
	Most of them say that the president has explained things.
	Oh, really?
	What has he explained?
	Has he explained how he's got the authority to kill people without even seeing if they've committed a crime?
	Most of those who judge him on the economy think that he is not spending enough time on it.
	Well, what has he done for the economy except to raise taxes, tariffs?
	Most Americans say Trump describes things, the prices and inflation, as being better than they really are.
	Yeah.
	Four out of ten Republicans say that prices are going up.
	And they're ticking down this week to the lowest mark in 25 years.
	That's amazing.
	Six out of ten Republicans are ignored, saying that inflation isn't real, that prices aren't going up.
	Yeah.
	This is, like I say, you know, we've got these two cliques of people.
	It's so important for them to cheer their team.
	You know, it's like the devotion to a sports team.
	I'm a Yankees fan, or I'm a Mets fan or whatever.
	And, you know, they will fight each other over that.
	And so it's this belonging to this group that has blinded them to everything.
	And they're capable of double think and double speak, just like the people running the group.
	Trump's secret weapon, however, is vanishing.
	Insiders reveal why young men who crowned him king are now fleeing.
	In 2024, a stunning wave of enthusiasm for Trump among men in their 20s helped to propel him to the White House.
	These are people who were too young or not paying attention to what he did in 2020, I guess.
	They were part of a key part of the MAGA coalition, but this time many of them stayed home or worse, they switched sides in the recent elections that we just saw.
	It is a harbinger for Republicans.
	Just a year ago in the presidential race, Trump won male voters between the ages of 18 and 29 by a margin of 49 to 48 percent.
	The race for this demographic was largely won on the issue of the economy, according to pollsters.
	It was an extraordinary 12-point shift from four years earlier, the biggest of any demographic group.
	But in the Virginia governor race, the Democrat Abigail Spanberger won young men by 17 points.
	And in the New Jersey governor race, Democrat Mickey Sherrill did so by 14 points.
	In New York, it was an avalanche as Mam Donnie won 67% of men under 30 compared to his rival, Andrew Cuomo, who got only 26%.
	In California, 74% of young men voted for Proposition 50, the redistricting measure, heavily backed by Newsom and opposed by the Republicans.
	And so shortly after Trump was sworn in in October, we have seen they did a poll there.
	And in the recent polls, it shows a 36-point swing among young male independents in just nine months.
	So what's going on?
	One New York focus group member, a dental student, 27 years old, said he switched his vote from someone that Trump backed to voting for Mam Donnie because of the ongoing difficulty of getting a job.
	You think Mondani is going to get you a job or you think he's going to give you free stuff so you don't need a job?
	I don't get it.
	Anyway, he said, people that are over 50 years old, 60 years old, when was the last time they had to look for a job?
	When you're looking through a newspaper, circling ads, he said.
	Well, that was never an effective strategy, even for boomers.
	Spanberger and Sheryl succeeded with young men by running on concrete economic issues, running on rent and grocery costs, rather than vague warnings about Trump being a threat to democracy, which featured heavily in the 2024 Democrat campaigns.
	Although that's true, people, it's about the economy stupid.
	They finally came back to where James Carville was.
	And so for all the stuff that Trump is doing, yes, he's alienating people inside of his base.
	But for the most part, people are going to vote their pocketbook.
	Carville understood that, and it's going to be a lesson that the Republicans are going to rue because, as Marjorie Toler Green correctly pointed out, he's too busy playing FTSE with foreign leaders, foreign terrorists and murderers, to pay attention to what is going on here in America with the economy.
	And the only thing he does in America is to raise taxes and to set up things to reward his friends.
	For young men watching their rent climb while Trump governed like every other president they'd learned to distrust, that was enough to give the Democrats another look, said the pollster who was looking at this.
	And so now you have the Wall Street Journal out there shilling for war.
	I guess we could call them the War Street Journal, right?
	They've got an article talking about a web of Venezuelan generals accused of fueling the cocaine trade.
	Well, that's not even what Trump is lying about.
	He's saying that they're doing fentanyl.
	Got the wrong drug there.
	You see this all the time.
	For these people, they don't really care about drugs.
	They don't care.
	You know, one drug or the other doesn't make any difference to them.
	We saw it with Chris Christie when he was running for president.
	He gave the story of a friend of his from law school who did really well in school, had a very successful practice.
	He was jogging, and he hurt his back.
	And the doctors got him addicted to opioids.
	And he lost his practice and lost his family and took his own life.
	And so then the non-sequitur from Chris Christie was, so we can't legalize marijuana.
	It had nothing to do with it.
	Marijuana is very different.
	It's not as addictive as the pharmaceutical drug that was out there, opioids.
	But again, here's Wall Street Journal.
	They're going to talk about Venezuelan generals who are fueling the cocaine trade.
	That's not what Trump is using to sell the war.
	But, you know, people, oh yeah, drugs.
	That's it.
	Yeah.
	So it said they're letting the cocaine that's coming from Colombia, they're letting it transit Venezuela.
	While nearly all cocaine is produced in neighboring Colombia, Venezuela plays an important role in allowing the drug to move through its territory, then onto ships and planes that traffic it to Europe, the Caribbean, and the U.S. officials have said.
	Would this be the same officials that created crack cocaine?
	People in the CIA?
	Also, if that were true, wouldn't we be going to war with Colombia then?
	I know.
	I know.
	Look, this Colombian cocaine is being moved through Venezuela.
	Therefore, we need to go to war with Venezuela.
	This dog don't hunt.
	None of this stuff makes any sense whatsoever.
	It's just amazing the lies that the Wall Street Journal will sell on behalf of the military industrial complex, even when they don't like Trump.
	But here's the reality, folks.
	Here's a Free Thought Project.
	Look at what's happened with opium poppy production in Afghanistan after we get out.
	The Taliban does it again.
	Opium poppy production has plummeted in Afghanistan.
	You know, RT used to have the article every year.
	They talked about how every year they had a record crop in Afghanistan.
	It was nearly the entire world supply of opioids.
	It was up in the 90s, 90% of the global supply was coming out of Afghanistan when we were there.
	And we had Geraldo Rivera's show, the U.S. Army guarding the fields.
	They made the statement, well, we have to guard the fields because these people have to make a living.
	And, you know, we don't want to collapse the economy.
	So we're going to let them be narco-terrorists or whatever.
	Just look at the insanity of the American government.
	We will destroy the rule of law.
	We'll destroy the Constitution.
	We'll create legal fictions like civil asset forfeiture.
	Meanwhile, we will guard the fields of the people who are making some of the most addictive stuff out there.
	And so, and we'll do everything to come after you in the name of war and drugs, but we will help these people to produce them because, you know, hey, they need a job.
	Despite the abject failure of the U.S.'s multi-decade war on drugs, in just a few years after regaining control over Afghanistan, the Taliban have once again slashed opium production to a fraction of what it once was under U.S. occupation.
	Before we went there, they had about 10% of the world's supply.
	And then we got it up to where it was over 90-something and stayed there.
	And new record bumper crops every year of opium.
	And then after we leave, guess what?
	The Taliban's taking it back down to about 10% again.
	So the UN Office on Drugs and Crime just came out with the latest survey.
	And it turns out that the Taliban's ban on poppy cultivation has been remarkably successful.
	I guess they figured out that maybe they don't guard the fields, but maybe they destroy the fields, huh?
	The UN Office on Drugs and Crime is estimating that the total area in Afghanistan under opium poppy cultivation to be 10,000 hectares, down 20% from last year's 12,800 hectares, a mere fraction of the 232,000 hectares that were estimated to be cultivated in the year before the U.S. military's spectacular pullout from the country in 2024.
	In other words, it is now 4% of what it was under the Pentagon and the CIA.
	Isn't that amazing?
	The Taliban have somehow or the other succeeded in doing what NATO was unable to do in two decades of de facto occupation, says Corbett report.
	This is on Free Thought Project.
	Well, of course, that's because NATO never wanted to reduce this, obviously, right?
	We're the ones who are creating the drugs.
	And when we talk about wars and undeclared wars, the U.S. has bombed Somalia now for the 100th time this year.
	Did we ever declare war against Somalia?
	No.
	AFRICOM says the airstrikes were launched on November 21st and 22nd.
	They offered no other details about the strikes as it has stopped sharing casualty estimates and assessments on civilian harm earlier this year.
	Well, that's convenient.
	You don't want to talk about that just like the Israeli government doesn't want to talk about that in Gaza.
	Specific details about units and assets will not be released to ensure continued operations security.
	See, it's all about national security.
	We can't tell you how many people were killing because it's national security.
	It's a war secret about a secret war.
	The Puntland counterterrorism operations claimed on Saturday that a U.S. airstrike killed five fleeing ISIS terrorists.
	There you go.
	Sound familiar?
	Yeah, these people are running and we killed them, but it's okay because they're terrorists.
	We know that.
	Trump just had an ISIS terrorist in the White House in the Oval Office.
	We installed an ISIS terrorist as a leader of Syria.
	And he's now terrorizing and killing Christians there.
	Go ahead, Lance.
	The line from Full Metal Jacket.
	Anyone that runs is a terrorist.
	Anyone that doesn't run, well, they're a well-disciplined terrorist.
	That's right.
	So the Trump administration has shattered the previous annual record for U.S. airstrikes in Somalia, which Trump set at 63 back in 2019.
	Biden launched a total of 51 strikes in Somalia throughout his four years in office.
	Trump did 63 of them in just 2019.
	Obama launched 48 over eight years.
	Trump did 63 in 2019.
	2025, he does 100 at this point.
	Ridiculous that he's done so many, but also, you know, Biden and Obama are also bombing this place.
	All of our presidents are just murdering people.
	And it's, hey, look, Trump is murdering them at a much faster rate.
	Well, I mean, this is where Mogadishu is, and it is a hotbed of real terrorists that are there and criminals.
	Nevertheless, they are not a threat to the United States.
	And here's the threat to the United States.
	Just take a look at Minneapolis, at Little Mogadishu, where you've had so many of these people come in.
	And there is, and I reported on this about a decade ago.
	And now Trump is finally starting to do something about it, perhaps.
	In that area, you've got all these people who are migrants from Somalia.
	And there was reported, again, this is when I was at Infowars.
	It was before all the stuff happened in 2020.
	So I don't know how long ago it was, but it was anywhere from six to ten years ago.
	I talked about this.
	And at that point in time, they'd already arrested several people because of welfare fraud in that area.
	They're getting a lot of welfare payments and support, and they're sending it to Al-Shabaab in Somalia.
	And I remember laughing about it because it sounded like Quick Draw McGraw when he clobber people with the guitar, you know, Al-Kabaab or something like that.
	Anyway, Al-Shabaab is this corrupt group that is a group of Muslim terrorists, and they're getting financed by Minnesota taxpayers because of the illegal immigrants, because of welfare fraud and all the rest of this stuff.
	You see, there is something that can be done about these situations rather than bombing them.
	It's just like with Colombia.
	Colombia creating most of the cocaine, and we've been paying them.
	It was only after the Colombian president criticized Trump because one of these boats was a fisherman and his family was talking about it.
	He blew up an innocent person, killed an innocent man.
	And so the Colombian president was outraged and talked about it.
	So Trump said, well, that's it.
	We're not going to give you any more money.
	Why are we giving money to the biggest creator and exporter of cocaine in the first place?
	And maybe the Wall Street Journal needs to think about that if they're going to try to set up Venezuela.
	Well, you let that transit your country.
	Well, why then, if it's such a bad deal, why did we have people, I guess in the State Department or whatever, giving money to Colombia when they're creating this stuff?
	When we start pointing fingers at the drug war, most of the fingers start coming back and pointing at us, at the U.S. government.
	And the whole thing about bombing Somalia while he's importing mass numbers of Somalis is going to be an obvious problem down the line.
	They want these chaos, chaotic situations.
	Yeah, they want people who hate America.
	When you start killing civilians, guess what?
	The survivors are really going to hate America.
	Well, we're going to take a quick break, but before we do, we've got some comments here.
	Don't frag me, bro.
	Says the method of transmission of communications within the borders of the USA are not subject to interception as a legal pretext for violating privacy.
	That it happens is the problem.
	See, the FBI's NDCAC op.
	Well, I'm not sure what that is.
	But yeah, I mean, we had that's the whole thing about the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
	We had CIA and NSA listening to Americans without a search warrant for the longest period of time.
	And so what they were saying was, you're not going to listen to people inside the United States, regardless of whether they're American or foreign citizens.
	That was what the FISA Act was about.
	You could only, as an intelligence agency, you know, they were created under the fiction that they were going to protect us from foreign threats, and then they became the greatest threat to us here domestically.
	But they said you can listen without a search warrant.
	You can listen to foreign citizens in foreign countries.
	You can't listen to an American citizen in a foreign country without a search warrant.
	And you can't listen to a foreign citizen in America without a search warrant.
	In America, we have laws that protect people, not citizens.
	And there's a reason for that.
	Because when the government ignores our basic human rights, we have those rights not because they were enumerated in the Bill of Rights.
	They're ignoring those anyway.
	We have basic human rights because, as the Declaration of Independence says, we are endowed with these rights by our Creator.
	That is part of our humanity.
	That is our natural rights.
	And so every person has natural rights.
	If you're going to allow them to violate the natural rights of somebody created in the image of God that was born in another country, that's a citizen of another country, they will then violate your rights as well.
	It's just the way it's going to move.
	And so, anyway, gave a link as well for the Love of the Road said dflock.me.
	And there's a website, banishbigbrother.com.
	Thank you for that link.
	So I found this website that has a list for the cameras.
	I saw a post on Instagram yesterday saying Kansas Department of Transportation are using FLOC to enforce hours of service and logbooks for truck drivers.
	Found this website that has a list of the cameras.
	It is just unbelievable the fact that they are rolling out the surveillance state and they're doing it right in our faces.
	Solicat 1980 says Trump has far less support than the media would have us believe.
	Well, the problem is that he's paving the way for Democrats who are going to do, are going to advance the, you know, they're going to ratchet up the government in a lot of different ways.
	This is what bothers me so much about Trump.
	We can't have limited government, which is what the Republican Party used to say they stood for.
	I don't know they ever did.
	They used to say that they stood for limited government.
	We can't have that because he's not pursuing it, number one.
	But number two, the things that he's doing are so odious and over the top and illegal that what he's going to do is propel the other side into office, which is the intention.
	That's exactly what the Democrats did to him.
	They put him in office by coming after him with all this law fare that was there.
	Citizen of Americaca says, I hate to tell you that they even have cameras in our national forests.
	They're monitoring everything.
	Yeah.
	So Trump pretended the first term to fight opium addiction, says NMAX, with $300 million.
	Opium use skyrocketed under his BS.
	And of course, we were still in Afghanistan his entire four terms.
	He told us that we were lied into these wars, and yet he did nothing to get us out.
	And then when it collapsed under Biden, then at that point it was, oh, look at that.
	Biden did that.
	No, you did it because you didn't get us out of the war that you said you're going to end.
	I thought it was always kind of interesting that David Petraeus, who was in Afghanistan as commander there, he leaves there and he goes to work for the CIA.
	Did he do such a great job of running drugs that they made him director there of the CIA?
	Maybe that was really what was going on with David Petraeus.
	I don't know.
	We're going to take a quick break, folks, and we'll be right back.
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	So there's a when we look at Trump's friends and enemies.
	Brian Shulhave of Health Impact News asks, are the survivors about to reveal that Trump is a pedophile who raped them as children?
	Hmm.
	Well, you know, you can tell a lot about people based on who their friends and enemies are, can't you?
	So he says, when we look at it, rumors are swirling.
	Some are speculating that Marjorie Taylor Greene was threatened.
	He said, I suspect her political career may not yet be over.
	And I think that really is the case.
	I think she wants to save it for presidential run.
	She pointed out it's going to be an exhausting fight against Trump and his Zionist billionaires who are coming after Thomas Massey.
	And she was like, why am I doing this?
	I'm going to be then having to defend him in the minority position when the Democrats impeach him.
	So why fight?
	Why have all this mud slung at me?
	She wants to run for something else, I think.
	I don't think it's necessarily that she's worried that she's going to be killed.
	She's also stated during the Epstein Survivors Press Conference that she's willing to read off the names from the Epstein files on the House floor and enter them into the congressional record.
	And so he says that could still happen since Congress now has 30 days to release the files after the bill was passed this past Wednesday, which would either be Thursday or Friday of next week before Christmas.
	Or another member of Congress could do the same thing in support of the survivors.
	Yeah, the problem is, is that they're releasing the documents.
	Look at what Massey holds up.
	He says, I got some of the documents they released.
	Look at this.
	It's not readable.
	Look at that.
	It's completely redacted.
	Every page there is completely redacted.
	It's just like the Pfizer information that was given to the people in the European Parliament when they said, we want to see the reports.
	And that's what they got.
	They got page after page of black lines, everything redacted.
	Massey had previously said that it was illegal to do that.
	They have to explain to Congress, and we have a list of reasons they can't use to redact material.
	And so, for instance, there's been a lot of discussion about trying to protect men who might be embarrassed, let's say, because they went to the island.
	They can't redact it for those reasons.
	And if they do, they're breaking the law because this is passing the House, the Senate, and being signed by the President.
	How long will it work?
	So who's going to enforce that?
	Is it going to be Pam Bondi who's going to enforce that?
	You see, that's the issue with all this stuff.
	The Trump administration, as well as the Democrats, break the law and then dare you to do something about it.
	And nobody does anything about it because the Department of Justice under Bondi is so corrupt.
	One of the members of the House Oversight Committee, which released the Epstein emails last week from the Epstein estate, Congresswoman Melanie Stansbury, went on MSNBC's weeknight and discussed what might happen if the Trump administration does not release all the files, which pretty much everyone agrees is what is not going to happen.
	She said Trump is already breaking the law because he has the power to release the files without congressional approval, and he's refused to do so.
	She also said she has read through all the emails and documents from the Epstein estate that were sent to the House Oversight Committee and insists that Trump's name is in the files related to allegations of raping minors.
	There are financial crimes revealed such as money laundering that are linked to Trump and to Epstein and that more subpoenas are coming.
	She also makes the claim that the survivors of Epstein sexual abuse when they were children will implicate Trump if all the Epstein files are not released.
	And one of them tweeted out and said, you can run, but you're not going to hide, Mr. President, because the victims are out there, and they're ready to tell their stories.
	And we know that some of them have stories about you, sir.
	Well, yeah, there's new Epstein survivors out there that are running.
	There's a woman holding up pictures of themselves at that age.
	So much pain.
	I suffered so much pain.
	I was 14 years old.
	I was 16 years old.
	I was 16.
	17.
	14 years old.
	This is me.
	This was me.
	This is me.
	When I met Jeffrey Epstein.
	This is me.
	when I met Jeffrey Epstein.
	There are about a thousand of us.
	It's time to bring the secrets out of the shadows.
	It's time to shine a light into the darkness.
	Five administrations and we're still in the dark.
	That's right.
	Five administrations and at least two intelligence agencies, right?
	And they're going to keep you in the dark about that kind of stuff.
	And one of the things that Thomas Massey said, and I played the clip last week, he said, you know, what was really heinous about this was after he would get them lured into a situation, then he would blackmail them personally with that.
	And so, you're going to keep doing this.
	I'm going to put that information out there.
	And the only way I'm going to let you loose is if you find somebody to take your place.
	Now, you talk about how demonic that is.
	Truly is amazing.
	And so we'll see what happens with it.
	Yeah.
	I left some of the videos on the deck of the reporters confronting Trump about you could release these files at any time if you want me to play one of those.
	Yeah, they have, yeah, go ahead and play one of those because we've said that over and over again.
	You could release it.
	Mr. President, why wait for Congress to release the Epstein files?
	Why not just do it now?
	Do it yourself.
	It's not the question that I mind.
	It's your attitude.
	You're a terrible reporter.
	It's the way you ask these questions.
	You start off with a man who's highly respected, asking him a horrible, insubordinate, and just a terrible question.
	And you even ask that same exact question.
	Why did you chop that guy up in little pieces?
	Somebody psyches you over at ABC.
	Do you get a psych?
	You're a terrible person and a terrible reporter as far as the Epstein.
	You're the one who hung out with Epstein for 15 years.
	I had to do with Jeffrey Epstein.
	I threw him out of my club many years ago because I thought he was a sick pervert.
	But I guess I turned out to be right.
	But you know who does have Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, who ran Harvard, was with him every single night, every single weekend.
	They lived together.
	They went to his island many times.
	I never did.
	Andrew Weissman, I hear.
	All these guys were friends of his.
	don't even talk about those people you just keep going on what about these other people right With the Epstein.
	I only hung out with him for 15 years.
	To try and get me not to be able to talk about the $21 trillion that I talked about today.
	All right, enough of that liar.
	And so, you know, he's coming after Jimmy Kimmel again.
	Get that bomb off the air.
	He wants him yanked because he told some really not very funny jokes in his monologue again.
	This is the thin-skinned tyrant.
	Yeah, I don't like the way you say that.
	You're a horrible person to ask me.
	He decided to give Jimmy Kimmel another ratings boost.
	That's right.
	He says, why does ABC fake news keep Jimmy Kimmel, a man with no talent, all uppercase, and very poor TV ratings on the air?
	Well, the answer is because you make him bigger.
	It's the Streisand effect, right?
	And so he criticized Trump for having this criminal clown prince, Mohammed bin Salman.
	He said they had a murderer for dinner in the White House last night, said Kimmel.
	Trump hosted a black tie gala for the crowned prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman, who also happened to be one of Jeffrey Epstein's good pals.
	According to writer Michael Wolfe, Epstein and MBS, as they call him, were so tight that they could play video games together for hours.
	I don't think they were playing video games, frankly.
	Likening the gala to, quote, an alumni dinner for the Legion of Doom.
	He showed a poll that showed just 38% of Americans approve of Trump right now.
	And so Trump was furious about that.
	And Kimmel continued to come after Kimmel.
	Kimmel said, my wife comes out of the bathroom.
	She's got her phone.
	She says, Trump tweeted you should be fired again.
	I was like, oh.
	Then I went downstairs and made bagels for the kids.
	And he said he read the president's social media post for the audience and he said, so I'm the bum?
	He posted this about 12.49 a.m., 11 minutes after the show ended on the East Coast, which is nice.
	He watches us live.
	Hi, Mr. President.
	Thanks for watching us on TV instead of on YouTube.
	We appreciate that.
	It's viewers like you who keep us on the air, ironically, because you're watching us on TV instead of YouTube.
	I've honestly lost count of how many times the president has demanded I be pulled off the air.
	Talk about a snowflake.
	This guy, every five weeks, he flips out and wants me fired.
	You've done this before.
	You've tried to get me fired in September.
	It didn't work, Mr. President.
	How about this?
	I'll go when you go, okay?
	We'll be a team.
	Let's ride off into the sunset together like Butch Cassidy and the sun-tan kid.
	That's the only thing funny he said.
	Until then, if I may borrow a phrase from you, quiet piggy.
	Yeah, that's exactly.
	Sorry, I took that off.
	Yeah, quiet piggy.
	That's what he told the reporter when she asked him about the Epstein thing, I think.
	The Justice Department's got 30 days to release the files, which will make for a very Merry Christmas indeed, he said.
	I have a prediction for the next 30 days.
	I think we're going to see Trump do some of the craziest crap that he's done yet.
	Yeah, that's probably by the time we'll be going to war with Venezuela is when they put that out.
	Meanwhile, we're talking about piggies.
	Fears grow of the Department of Justice becoming a piggy bank for Trump's allies who want to get lucrative settlements.
	Now, Trump has said, hey, I can write a check to myself for $230 million.
	I'm going to do it.
	Because he said that's what his legal expenses were for the lawfare stuff.
	But as I point out, you ought to just treat that as campaign expenses because that's what got him elected president.
	But he's also looking at giving money to a lot of people who file claims.
	Listen to this.
	Number one on the list, Lindsey Graham.
	How in the world does Lindsey Graham get millions of dollars of settlements?
	Well, this is the big beautiful bill that was passed.
	Guess what?
	The Senate did.
	They put a statement in there that allows 10 senators to sue for a million dollars after their phone records were obtained by special counsel Jack Smith without notifying them.
	Oh, wait a minute.
	Didn't we just talk about how the government is constantly spying on us all the time?
	And you hear Lindsey Graham and his phone records, which is the spying that the government has been doing since the middle of the 20th century to everybody.
	As Rand Paul said, Mr. and Mrs. Verizon, you know, we got a search warrant for Mr. and Mrs. Verizon.
	But you do it to Lindsey Graham and some other centers.
	Oh, now we're going to put a bill, we're going to put a requirement in the bill that we get a million dollars because you did that to us.
	Hey, where's my money?
	You and I are totally flocked all the time.
	They're constantly flocking us.
	Michael Flynn, also former White House lawyer, Stefan Pasatino, and Flynn had an earlier lawsuit for $50 million.
	So Trump's Justice Department has a slush fund for this stuff.
	And they're just going to write checks to people, just like Trump can write himself a check for $230 million.
	He can write a check for all these other people by their support.
	The Judgment Fund is an easy target for this sort of, for lack of a better word, corruption.
	It's a permanent and definite appropriation that basically contains as much money as is needed for the U.S. to pay its debts that are incurred in litigation, and there is no limit on it.
	An unlimited pot of money.
	Because like everything else that the government does, there's no accountability for anything.
	John Whitehead points out that America's crime syndicate is a American government as a crime syndicate.
	There's profiteering, there's a protection rackets, and there's a pay-to-play presidency.
	It's a pay-to-play schemes, protection rackets, extortion, corruption, self-enrichment, graft, grift, brutality, roaming bands of thugs, smashing car windows and terrorizing communities, immunity for criminal behavior coupled with prosecutions of whistleblowers.
	This is how a crime syndicate operates.
	This is not a constitutional republic.
	And this is why I say that when you allow the government to violate the law, the rule of law, when you allow them to do things illegally because the president orders it, remember Nixon explained to it, well, when the president does it, it's not illegal, right?
	Well, when the president orders it, it's not illegal, is the operation under what Trump is saying.
	But it is.
	And they have become a gang of feral, in other words, no longer domesticated, criminals, predatory criminals.
	And I said the worst gang that you can have is a government that doesn't have to follow the law.
	What we're witnessing today, says John Whitehead, is the steady transformation of the federal government, especially the executive branch, into a criminalized system of power in which the justice is weaponized, law is selectively enforced, and crime becomes a form of political currency.
	The American police state has long marched in lockstep with the old truism that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
	The Trump administration has ceased even the pretense of being bound by the Constitution.
	That's the key thing.
	Everybody else would pretend.
	He doesn't even pretend.
	He just does it in defiance of the Constitution.
	Rather than abiding by the rule of law, this administration operates as if there's two separate legal systems, one for them and their cronies, and another one for everybody else.
	Trump wants his own Justice Department to put American taxpayers on the line to pay him $230 million in damages over the FBI's investigations into his alleged past misconduct.
	As a matter of fact, here's what his former lawyer, Ty Cobb, said about Trump and the Constitution.
	And the courts really are not designed.
	The courts don't have the ability to say what's best for America.
	They can't look at a case that way.
	They have to say, what does the Constitution require?
	And the Constitution.
	I need to do that with my mustache.
	To deal with a president as evil as Trump is, somebody who's desired to accumulate and abuse power.
	And by denigrating the judiciary, Trump is basically trying to weaken the only remaining pillar that is standing up to him to prevent the total authoritarianism that he desires.
	And that war is very dangerous for us all.
	We need a very strong judiciary, particularly at this time where the constitutional stresses are extreme and Trump's abuses of power are unprecedented.
	I mean, he's committing war crimes in Venezuela and Colombia against the advice of JAG officers who gave that advice and then were fired or sidelined.
	He has committed a number of atrocities.
	The courts have been okay in terms of ultimately responding to him, but it takes time and it's very difficult.
	The war against Boesberg, who is a wonderful judge and a brilliant guy and far from a liberal icon, his best friend, one of his best friends, is Brett Kavanaugh.
	So you see that.
	And you notice this week that in response to the wholesale abuses of the law and the Constitution by Lindsey Halligan and Bondi and Trump in connection with the Comey and James cases, they've come out and attacked the Comey judge merely for asking questions about those abuses.
	So yeah, there is a war and we should be very concerned about it.
	And lawyers and judges and certainly soldiers this week should understand that they don't have to follow illegal orders even though they've been doing it rampantly.
	Again, this is a guy who was a defender of Trump.
	And when you go back and you look at the law fair that the Democrats did against him, it was obviously wrong.
	That's what he was involved in, I believe.
	And that's what got him elected president, as I said before.
	But he's talking about what is happening with all this stuff.
	And of course, the judiciary, if the judiciary is not standing up to him, certainly Congress is not going to stand up to him because a squeaker mouse Johnson is one of the worst sycophants there.
	But again, his own former lawyer is pointing out, and he knows this guy.
	So Trump wants his own Justice Department to put American taxpayers online to pay him $230 million.
	Lindsey Graham gets a million dollars.
	I don't know if that's to be split between him and the other nine senators.
	If he gets each of them gets a million dollars.
	I mean, we're talking about Washington.
	They could each get a million dollars.
	Who knows?
	Absolutely insane.
	High Boost says, hold on.
	Did Trump do 63 bomb strikes or did he stop 63 wars?
	I can't keep track of it anymore.
	Yeah.
	The peace president that's there.
	Yeah.
	And Max says, why does the CIA even need a budget?
	Don't they make enough money by pimping drugs around the world?
	They had enough to fund a war with the crack cocaine that they created.
	And a real Jason Barker, thank you very much.
	I appreciate the tip.
	Thank you so much.
	He said, here's a bit of gas for the Miata.
	God bless and prayers for you all.
	Thank you.
	And he also writes, Maga should go back and see what Trump promised to do on day one, his first 100 days.
	He has done none of it.
	And I'm sure Jason covers that on Nights of the Storm because it truly is amazing what he says and what he does.
	Journalist David Kirkpatrick calculates that Trump and his immediate family have made more than $34, I'm sorry, $3.4 billion from his time in the White House, including more than $2.3 billion from various cryptocurrency ventures alone.
	Well, I think that may be down a little bit.
	It truly is amazing how Bitcoin is crashing.
	Is this the Bitcoin bubble that is bursting even before the AI bubble bursts?
	Bitcoin has behaved in some really strange ways.
	And again, I don't see it as a hedge against the system.
	I see gold, physical gold, that is in your possession as a hedge against the system.
	And again, go to davidknight.gold.
	I'll take you to Tony Arderman.
	You can start to gradually accumulate that.
	That's where you need to be saving your money.
	Because if you save money in a savings account, it's basically leaking out.
	It's constantly shrinking because of the actions of this government here.
	In May of 2026, Trump is accused of selling access to accumulate personal wealth when he hosted a private event for 220 crypto investors who had bought into his meme coin.
	News reports estimate the buyers spent about $148 million in total on the coin and associated perks, with some spending $1.8 million to attend.
	I suspect that we're going to hear a lot more about this when the Democrats take over Congress, because this would be an obvious place to start in terms of impeachment, one of the issues that are there.
	The average American can't get any kind of access to our elected representatives, but the wealthy can buy their way in through the door.
	As John Whitehead points out, he said, Thomas Jefferson's warning to bind government down by the chains of the Constitution sounds almost quaint.
	You always thought that that was Patrick Henry.
	Maybe I'm wrong here.
	How do you use the Constitution to guard against government misconduct when the government has effectively rendered the Constitution null and void?
	What we have here instead is a government that behaves like a criminal organization, enterprise.
	It rewards loyalty.
	It punishes dissent.
	It monetizes public service.
	It enriches itself through favors, loopholes, and outright graft.
	Almost sounds like you're being run by an organized crime figure who used to have casinos and was too stupid to keep them in business.
	Meanwhile, as the New York Times headline says, Piggy gets polite.
	The same guy who was saying quiet, Piggy, got very polite when he's got terrorists and communists in the Oval Office with him, right?
	He was so polite to mom Danny, who was supposedly public enemy number one just a week or so ago, and now they are buddies.
	Step by slimy step, Trump has made us numb to his crudeness and cruelty, which is why his demeanor with terrorists and communists is so striking, how polite he is to these people.
	He's claimed that the GOP has never been more united, as he calls Marjorie Taylor Greene and others low lives.
	Are you willing to forgive Congresswoman Taylor Green?
	But forgive for what?
	No, we just disagreed with her philosophy.
	She started backing perhaps the worst Republican congressman in our history.
	Just, you know, stupid person named Matthew.
	And I said, go your own way.
	And once I left her, she resigned because she would never have survived a primary.
	But I think she's a nice person.
	Okay.
	Bless her heart.
	I love her.
	Well, she knows which way the wind's blowing.
	She said this.
	My heart remains filled with joy.
	My life is filled with happiness and my true convictions remain unchanged because my self-worth is not defined by a man, but instead by God who created everything in existence.
	You see, I have never valued power, titles, or attention in spite of all the wrong assumptions about me.
	I do not cling to those things because they are meaningless and empty traps that hold too many people in Washington.
	I believe in term limits and do not think Congress should be a lifelong career or an assisted living facility.
	My only goal and desire has ever been to hold the Republican Party accountable for the promises it makes to the American people and put America first.
	And I have fought against Democrats' damaging policies like the Green New Deal, wide open deadly unsafe border policies, and the trans agenda on children and against women.
	With that has brought years of non-stop, never-ending personal attacks, death threats, lawfare, ridiculous slander and lies about me that most people could never withstand even for a single day.
	It has been unfair and wrong, not only to me, but especially to my family, but it's been wrong to my district as well.
	I have too much self-respect and dignity.
	I love my family way too much, and I do not want my sweet district to have to endure a hurtful and hateful primary against me by the president that we all fought for, only to fight and win my election while Republicans will likely lose the midterms, and in turn be expected to defend the president against impeachment after he hatefully dumped tens of millions of dollars against me and tried to destroy me.
	It's all so absurd and completely unserious.
	Yeah, I don't understand why anybody wants to be in Congress anyway.
	I mean, I ran once, but it was simply so that I could get what I wanted to say out to the public.
	He even referred to her as Marjorie Trader Brown.
	Is he colorblind as well now?
	And a couple of other lowlives that are out there.
	Well, we're out of time, but thank you so much for listening to us and hope you have a good day.
	Stick around.
	We're going to kick off some of the holiday stuff.
	We're going to switch over our bumper now as we're getting closer to Christmas.
	So since we've got the Thanksgiving holidays coming up, we're going to play for you home for the holidays.
	Have a good day.
	Have a good day.

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