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| In 1984, Charlie Reese of the Orlando Sentinel wrote the following: Still true today. | ||
| 100 senators, 435 congressmen, one president, and nine Supreme Court justices. | ||
| Equates to 545 human beings out of 300 million who are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country. | ||
| I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by Congress. | ||
| In 1913, Congress delegated its constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered but private central bank. | ||
| I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. | ||
| They have no legal authority. | ||
| They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a president to do one cotton-picking thing. | ||
| I don't care if they offer a politician one million dollars in cash. | ||
| The politician has the power to accept or reject it. | ||
| No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator's responsibility to determine how he votes. | ||
| Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. | ||
| They cooperate in this common con, regardless of party. | ||
| It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million cannot replace 545 people who stand convicted by present facts of incompetence and irresponsibility. | ||
| I can't think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people. | ||
| When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist. | ||
| If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair. | ||
| If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red. | ||
| If the army and marines are in Iraq and Afghanistan, it's because they want them in Iraq and Afghanistan. | ||
| If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it's because they want it that way. | ||
| There are no insoluble government problems. | ||
| Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish, to lobbyists whose gifts and advice they can reject, to regulators to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power. | ||
| Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like the economy, inflation, or politics that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do. | ||
| Those 545 people and they alone are responsible. | ||
| They and they alone have the power. | ||
| They and they alone should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses. | ||
| Provided the voters have the gumption to manage their employees. | ||
| Reading from Charlie Reese and reporting for InfoWars, this is Greg Reese. | ||
| Alright folks, as always, you can find and share that at band.video and Infowars.com. | ||
| 545 versus 300 million. | ||
| That is the latest from Greg Reese. | ||
| We are live this Monday morning from the Infowars studio. | ||
| We're going to be covering a lot of news today. | ||
| I actually hosted Sunday Night Live here on Infowars yesterday and spent... | ||
| Well, three-fourths of it, talking about the Maui fires and the possibility, or rather, likelihood slash overwhelming evidence of Chinese space lasers being the cause. | ||
| So we won't be spending too much time on that today. | ||
| You've got to go to Bandai Video and check out the Sunday Night Live broadcast of that if you want. | ||
| I think it was on the front page of InfoWars today. | ||
| So go check that out if you want a full, thorough breakdown of Chinese space lasers. | ||
| But we'll touch on it today. | ||
| But mostly we'll be talking about, you know, all of the other horrific devastation that the globalists are bringing about. | ||
| you know, all of the other horrific devastation that the globalists are bringing about. | ||
| Stay with us. | ||
| Stay with us. | ||
| We'll do your daily dispatch on the other side. | ||
| We'll do your daily dispatch on the other side. | ||
| Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, coming to you live this Monday morning from the InfoWars studio. | ||
| Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, coming to you live this Monday morning from the InfoWars studio. | ||
| It's American Journal. | ||
| It's American Journal. | ||
| I'm your host, Harrison Smith. | ||
| What a show we have for you today. | ||
| Lots of videos to show you. | ||
| We'll be joined in studio by the one and only Jake Shields. | ||
| And we have more than enough news to talk about from around the world. | ||
| Talking a lot about the economy today. | ||
| Of course, one of the biggest stories. | ||
| Well, two of the biggest stories are the Maui fires, of course, and the Oliver Anthony super sardom coming out of nowhere. | ||
| A song that we played last week, played again last night. | ||
| Those are the two topics that I dedicated the show to last night, Sunday Night Live. | ||
| So if you want a full, thorough, very, if I may say so myself, well-researched breakdown of the possibility of Chinese space lasers having caused the Maui fires. | ||
| Go check out Sunday Night Live last night on Infowars.com and Van.video. | ||
| We won't be spending too much time on that. | ||
| Maybe we'll do a brief little touchdown on it a little bit later as it is still a very hot topic of discussion. | ||
| Get to your daily dispatch in just a second. | ||
| But this weekend was, of course, the American Liberty Awards. | ||
| And what a time it was. | ||
| My goodness. If you didn't make it out or watch the live stream, it is still available on Rumble. | ||
| The whole thing was live streamed. | ||
| What an incredible celebration. | ||
| So congratulations to everybody that helped put it together from Frank Cavanaugh, Matt Baker, Rob Dew. | ||
| Absolutely killing it as the host. | ||
| All the great performers. | ||
| And it was really great and amazing. | ||
| As always, very humbling to meet all of the great InfoWarriors that traveled from so far to be a part of that monumental and, dare I say, historic event. | ||
| Really fulfilled everything that I wanted out of it, as in reinvigorating, boosting morale, meeting and reconfirming the dedication to this crazy idea we have that humanity should be free from the coercion and exploitation from The class of globalists. | ||
| So thank you to everybody to come out. | ||
| It was really great meeting everybody. | ||
| And we'll also open up the phone lines later this show for your calls. | ||
| We're not sure what topic we'll take calls on today. | ||
| Maybe it'll just be an open line sort of thing. | ||
| But let's just get into it, shall we? | ||
| Here it is, your daily dispatch. | ||
| All right, here it is, folks, your daily dispatch for Monday, the 14th of August, 2023. | ||
| From post-millennial, Oliver Anthony plays viral populist anthem, Richmond, North of Richmond, reads from Bible to massive North Carolina crowd. | ||
| The Virginia country singer and rising star, Oliver Anthony, drew a massive crowd on Sunday for a musical performance at the Morris Farm Market, in which he opened by reading a passage from the Bible. | ||
| It's crazy to me, he said, because I remember back in June, I played here for about 20 people, Oliver said to the enthusiastic fans as he opened the Lord's Book and read Psalm 37. | ||
| The singer became an overnight sensation after releasing his new viral hit song, Richmond, North of Richmond, which is now the number one song on U.S. iTunes chart. | ||
| And I saw a graphic today. | ||
| I haven't confirmed this, but I'm pretty sure the top three songs... | ||
| In any genre on iTunes are all his songs now, which is really incredible. | ||
| A true grassroots, you know, rocket ship to superstardom. | ||
| It really is something incredible. | ||
| You know, we talked about this yesterday. | ||
| I saw him spend too much time on it today. | ||
| Although, big shout out to Wid Lyman, friend of the show, of course. | ||
| Brother to Dan Lyman, who was actually there on the ground at the farmer's market to capture the great... | ||
| Journalistic footage of the massive crowd. | ||
| After all, this is something that deserves to be documented and talked about because obviously the mainstream media isn't doing that. | ||
| Mainstream media is attacking this song and this songwriter for some reason. | ||
| Very bizarre. Very bizarre how just everything has to be AstroTurf now. | ||
| If it wasn't designed to be a sudden hit by the record companies who collaborate with the media to... | ||
| AstroTurf, some sort of phenomenon. | ||
| If it's just an actual natural phenomenon, the media hates it and wants to destroy it, downplay it, disregard it, discredit it. | ||
| It's weird. It's weird. | ||
| They can't just be also astonished at the incredible success that this guy's had seemingly overnight. | ||
| And there was, I admit, a moment, there was a single moment You'll have to go to the Sunday Night Live show to see the full breakdown of this. | ||
| But for a moment, there were communists on Twitter saying, actually, this is a class warfare song. | ||
| And for a moment, I was like, did we misread this? | ||
| Were these lyrics not talking about what we thought? | ||
| Is this guy going to come out and be like a Bernie bro of some sort? | ||
| That would be disappointing, wouldn't it? | ||
| Then he opens with what I saw. | ||
| I saw somebody on Twitter say something like biblical Fed posting. | ||
| Biblical Fed posting, Psalm 37. | ||
| Hard to fake that. | ||
| Hard to fake indeed. | ||
| So he's clearly the real deal. | ||
| He clearly is what people are calling the voice of the working class. | ||
| Achieving incredible success. | ||
| Getting some very weird pushback from the right wing. | ||
| Certain segments of it, I should say. | ||
| InfoWars has the story. Richmond, north of Richmond, tops iTunes as voice of working class goes viral. | ||
| The raw honesty of a former factory worker in what could be the protest song of our generation has become an internet sensation overnight. | ||
| The song Richmond, north of Richmond, has skyrocketed number one on iTunes this weekend. | ||
| Like I said, I believe his other songs are also up there as number two and three. | ||
| And he's a talented guy. | ||
| And he struck a nerve. | ||
| He's hit on something that resonates bizarrely with both sides of the aisle. | ||
| And that's why you have people who normally would despise everything this man is about, despise his very identity. | ||
| I mean, think about it, folks. | ||
| He is literally a white Christian man from Appalachia. | ||
| It's just like... Everything these people normally hate, but somehow the raw emotion comes through a song, makes them feel things, and that confuses them. | ||
| And they're like, he must be communist because I appreciate what he's saying. | ||
| It's all very bizarre. We'll talk a little bit more about that later, but moving on. | ||
| Germany considers banning far-right AFD. Germany is debating whether to ban the far-right Alternative for Germany party as the party surges to 21% in the polls amid warnings from intelligence officials that its members are becoming increasingly extreme. | ||
| Nothing says democracy like putting a governmental ban on a political party that has the support of a fifth of your entire population. | ||
| It's becoming too—that's how democracy works, right? | ||
| When something gets too popular, the government bans it for being too popular. | ||
| Just stupid. | ||
| Just very stupid. We'll talk a little bit more about European democracy later in the show. | ||
| Meanwhile, in American democracy, Biden regime to spend $1.2 billion to vacuum carbon dioxide out of the sky. | ||
| The Biden administration on Friday announced a $1.2 billion initiative to vacuum up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in an effort to achieve a, quote, net zero global economy by 2050. | ||
| Yes, that's right. They're laundering the money right in front of you. | ||
| Department of Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said in a statement that the $1.2 billion will be used to develop two commercial-scale direct air capture facilities. | ||
| Air capture facilities. | ||
| Okay. All right. We'll get into that a little bit later as well. | ||
| Just know, $1.2 billion of your money being spent on, I think the official word is, boondoggle. | ||
| A ridiculous boondoggle. | ||
| COVID victims' families sue EcoHealth Alliance for funding and releasing the virus. | ||
| The families of four people who died from COVID-19 are suing EcoHealth Alliance, the New York-based nonprofit that was conducting gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses in Wuhan, China, before COVID-19 broke out across town. | ||
| According to the August 2nd lawsuit filed before the New York Supreme Court in Manhattan, EcoHealth and its president Peter Daszak knew the virus was, quote, capable of causing a worldwide pandemic. | ||
| Not only did EcoHealth help to create a genetically manipulated virus, the lawsuit claims, it also worked to cover up the origins of the outbreak. | ||
| Quote, if we'd known the source or origin of the virus and had not been misled, that it was from a pangolin in a wet market, or rather... | ||
| We knew that it was a genetically manipulated virus and that the scientists involved were concealing that from our clients. | ||
| The outcome could have been very different, said the victim's attorney, Patricia Finn. | ||
| Hey, if the government won't step in and protect you from the mad scientists that they themselves fund, then I guess personal lawsuits is the way to go. | ||
| Finally, we have this Maui wildfires. | ||
| Death toll reaches 96, and yet only about 3% of the destroyed area has even been looked into yet. | ||
| We will cover the Maui fires today. | ||
| We'll touch on that topic when we get back. | ||
| Stay with us. I think we'll touch again on the number one conspiracy theory going around right now. | ||
| Although I did spend about an hour and a half on this yesterday evening, Sunday Night Live. | ||
| That is the Maui fires. | ||
| What may be behind it. | ||
| There was one thing that I forgot to mention. | ||
| And that was a very thorough post by InfoWars' own Chase Geyser. | ||
| So I'll read that in just a second, but first, of course, the devastation, no matter what caused it, what was behind it, what is to blame? | ||
| Because there is blame to go around, whether it's because they were lit on purpose by arsonists or just the failure of the utilities on the island. | ||
| To be safely shielded or, you know, one thing that we know happened was there was a total communications breakdown for the people on the island. | ||
| They have very elaborate warning systems for all sorts of emergencies, yet none of them were activated. | ||
| None of the warning sirens going off. | ||
| None of the emergency alert systems being activated. | ||
| So no matter what happened, there was human error that contributed to the devastation that we saw and are still seeing and is still being laid out. | ||
| From AP News this morning, Maui wildfires, as death toll reaches 96, authorities say effort to count losses is just starting. | ||
| Only about 3% of the devastated area has been searched, and yet they found over 96. | ||
| Bodies by this point. | ||
| The estimates are anywhere from 500 to 1,000 dead. | ||
| They'll be finding that out as they continue to dig through the destruction. | ||
| Other interesting things have happened from this. | ||
| People are claiming that they're not able to get water, food, or essential supplies. | ||
| To the people who need them, because they're being blocked by the government. | ||
| A lot of very bizarre things about this that demand answers. | ||
| And we will do our best to ask the questions, at the very least. | ||
| And of course, our prayers, thoughts, I mean, absolutely devastating. | ||
| I cannot imagine being affected by something so totally destructive. | ||
| Absolutely horrifying and Our prayers go out to everybody on that island, of course. | ||
| InfoWars has a story. | ||
| Conspiracy theories swirl over devastating Maui fires as media blames climate change. | ||
| Social media is abuzz with conspiracy theories and questions surrounding the Maui wildfires that have killed at least 67 people. | ||
| Yeah, the number's up above 90 now. | ||
| Despite the fact that the cause of the wildfire has not yet been determined, media outlets like Newsweek and AFP have insisted the fires were not intentionally started by direct energy weapons. | ||
| This, of course, has only fueled more rumors online. | ||
| Many are speculating that the fires could have been intentionally set to disenfranchised natives who own the historic oceanfront properties that were devastated in the blaze. | ||
| I think maybe in the next segment we'll go to a longer video by a Maui resident, but for now I want to go to the best breakdown I've seen so far. | ||
| This is clip number nine. | ||
| This was posted on Facebook. | ||
| TikTok, I wish I could credit the guy, but I can't figure out who he is. | ||
| I saw it reposted on Twitter, so I'm going to play it here. | ||
| Again, I think this is the most thorough breakdown and open-minded assessment of what has happened on the island of Maui. | ||
| So let's go now to clip number nine. | ||
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What's going on in Maui? | |
| There is a lot to unpack, so try to keep up. | ||
| Several wildfires have broken out on the island of Maui, creating mass devastation and destruction, most notably the town of Lahaina. | ||
| This is not the people's fault, and our hearts go out to those affected. | ||
| Why is Lahaina significant? | ||
| It was once the capital of the Kingdom of Hawaii, prior to the forced U.S. annexation and the eventual move to Honolulu. | ||
| Lahaina is filled with native property and business owners that have dug their heels in and have refused to sell their properties to conglomerates such as BlackRock, Vanguard, and Oprah. | ||
| Unglobalized, prime oceanfront property still owned and managed by the natives. | ||
| So what caused this destruction? | ||
| Short answer, no one knows. | ||
| All government agencies, local and federal, have vehemently stated that it is unknown. | ||
| However, there are two competing theories online. | ||
| 1. Environmental. The perfect combination of a major hurricane 200 miles off the southern shore of Maui combined with northern pressure to create massive dryness and winds. | ||
| Or 2. Diabolical. | ||
| Something the conspiracy theorists call a DEW. Direct Energy Weapon. | ||
| What? I had the same response, so I started Googling. | ||
| The first article that pops up when you Google Maui DEW is from Newsweek. | ||
| It starts like this. The devastating wildfires in Hawaii have brought a new conspiracy theory from climate change deniers who suggest that the destruction was orchestrated by the federal government's direct energy weapons. | ||
| Ugh. Anytime a propaganda media article starts with conspiracy theory by climate change deniers makes me want to believe it more. | ||
| Next article. Fact-checked. | ||
| False. Wait, what? | ||
| I thought the facts were unknown. | ||
| But how can we rule out trending theories as impossible already? | ||
| Joe Biden just announced that the federal government will provide aid to those that lost their homes. | ||
| That means homeowners who lost their houses and properties can now loan money from the federal government at a low interest rate. | ||
| Your super valuable property that is skyrocketing in value, you can now get a new mortgage courtesy of Uncle Sam. | ||
| There are also countless efforts by the people to send aid and support to the devastated areas. | ||
| This would be great, except local residents are now saying that they are having difficulty delivering such aid and only FEMA and Red Cross aid is being allowed in. | ||
| Roadblocks everywhere. | ||
| No one allowed in or out. | ||
| Hmm. And Maui is an island surrounded by water next to one of the largest U.S. military bases. | ||
| Local residents are saying that they received no advanced warning and that they only evacuated once they saw the thick black smoke at their doors. | ||
| Why was the federal response so slow on this matter, waiting until the fire had overtaken this area prior to action? | ||
| I don't know what's going on in Maui. | ||
| Our hearts go out to all those affected and we pray for your safety. | ||
| But what I do know is that there are more questions than answers. | ||
| And anytime that's the case, especially when global self-interest benefits and people suffer, well, you know, conspiracy theory. | ||
| So that was from Matt Kim on Twitter at MattAttack009 underscore. | ||
| And you can find his video in the article on Infowars.com. | ||
| Conspiracy theories swirl over devastating Maui fires as media blames climate change. | ||
| Again, I don't... | ||
| I mean, we talked about this so much yesterday. | ||
| If you really do want to see a thorough breakdown, you got to watch the Sunday Night Live broadcast. | ||
| But suffice it to say, it's odd how... | ||
| It's odd how people think that this is somehow outside of the realm of possibility. | ||
| It's year 2023. | ||
| There are lasers in space. | ||
| I mean, that's not... | ||
| It's not crazy. It's not like a conspiracy theory. | ||
| Seven months ago, there was Chinese space lasers seen on video on the island of Hawaii. | ||
| What did that have to do with the blaze that has destroyed Maui? | ||
| Well, we'll cover that with some speculative interpretation on the other side. | ||
| Stay with us, folks. There are a lot of unanswered questions about what happened in Maui and what is still going on in Maui. | ||
| Maybe talk a little bit about what the political atmosphere is around this. | ||
| How we've gotten to a situation where just nobody trusts the authorities about anything anymore. | ||
| And why that is a deserved reputation of dishonesty that the government and authorities have well and truly earned for themselves. | ||
| What I want to go to is TikTok video. | ||
| This is a woman... She's in Maui. | ||
| She's called Roots Restored Wellness. | ||
| Let's go to clip number 17. | ||
| We won't be able to play the whole thing here, but we'll play a lot of it and then comment on the other side. | ||
| But here is Roots Restored Wellness from the island of Maui. | ||
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I'm Raylene and located in Maui. | |
| I live in Kihei and I wanted to share some local updates. | ||
| Shocking or maybe not. | ||
| Did you hear about the fires? | ||
| Did you hear that The government of Hawaii states their goal is to rebuild and make the entire island of Maui the first smart island. | ||
| They want the entire island governed by AI as outlined in the Hawaii Digital Government Summit of 2023 that they plan to host next month on September 25th, 2023 on Maui. | ||
| Wow! Now they're going to come to the rescue for this horrible problem. | ||
| And last January in 2023, there was a smart city conference in Maui to turn Maui, again, into the smart city island, pushing everything electric, making 15-minute smart cities. | ||
| And there was also a contract last year to build a high-rise condo complex and businesses in Lahaina, which is a historic town that couldn't have any new development in this area. | ||
| But now it's demolished. | ||
| So now... | ||
| I guess they have to rebuild, right? | ||
| We spent the morning trying to find places to volunteer to help. | ||
| We feel helpless. There's so much going on. | ||
| There's people who need assistance. | ||
| We went to the War Memorial Shelter, which we learned has been taken over by FEMA. They've taken a whole bunch of supplies. | ||
| People do not know where they're going. | ||
| They don't trust that they're actually going to be delivered to people in need. | ||
| In past FEMA situations, after disasters, they found containers full of supplies that were never given to the people. | ||
| And if you go to the War Memorial, people are being told to go there if you need assistance. | ||
| They are turning everyone away saying that it's not a distribution center. | ||
| It's a shelter and unless you're checked into this shelter, you will receive nothing. | ||
| And I will say for donations on the island, please be considerate of your fellow Humans, because there's a lot of moms that need diapers and wipes and formula, and everything has been purchased and given as donations, and now it is being hoarded by Red Cross and FEMA not being distributed to those who actually need them. | ||
| So ship things in from Amazon. | ||
| I shared today that you could ship things to the Maui Food Bank. | ||
| There's some other local organizations that will actually get your items to the people. | ||
| And FEMA is also making people sign paperwork just to receive assistance. | ||
| We did find, through local word of mouth, a place where we could donate our time today, and we assisted the Hungry Heroes of Hawaii at Buzz's Wharf in Ma'alia, if I said that right. | ||
| Great place. If you need donations or if you have some to drop off, you can. | ||
| It's a staging area right before the road is shut down to get into the line area. | ||
| They were not allowing anyone through unless you had... | ||
| If you had a supply truck full of supplies to help the people in these areas, you were not allowed through unless you had a specific contract or permission from a certain... | ||
| Agency to come through and where would you get that permission from? | ||
| So lots of people are being denied. | ||
| They're trying to come in with supply trucks to assist. | ||
| This Hungry Heroes, they were able to get some trucks in yesterday. | ||
| They were supposed to meet with the mayor and officials. | ||
| They said they waited around for five hours, being told to move to different locations, and then they were eventually kicked out and said, why are you even here? | ||
| And they were trying to coordinate to drop off and deliver supplies. | ||
| And they can get to the supplies, but there's nowhere to drop them off or give them to anybody because everything is so disorganized. | ||
| They also brought 150 meals, cooked meals. | ||
| to help the people who need them and they were denied because it was not cooked in a commercial kitchen. | ||
| So not being allowed to distribute. | ||
| All the roads in and out of the line are blocked except for Specific personnel and it's up in the air. | ||
| We don't know anymore. Maybe if you're a resident with an ID. That was open yesterday and they supposedly shut it back down after a few hours because people were trying to take photos of the damage that happened in Lahaina. | ||
| Heaven forbid that they go to their houses and do anything. | ||
| There is a looting going on and not just in the Lahaina area, also in Kula. | ||
| There are boats making supply runs. | ||
| Some of them are saying that they've had to push through barricades to get in and deliver supplies because, again, the government officials are trying to shut down local assistance. | ||
| It seems like they only want FEMA and they only want Red Cross. | ||
| Yet, when you talk to people on the ground, where's FEMA? Where's Red Cross? | ||
| They're not doing anything. | ||
| They're not distributing the supplies. | ||
| I did hear that There are supplies on the ground in line up, finally. | ||
| There are some locals who set up Starlink stations so that they could get back online. | ||
| Power has been out, water's out. | ||
| They haven't had internet. | ||
| And so they're starting to bring in some Starlink so people can get back online. | ||
| They're bringing in supplies. People are able to access some food. | ||
| Again, not a lot of information coming out of that area yet. | ||
| There's, again, some people you might be able to find other videos of exact footage. | ||
| We talked to some people today and a firefighter said that he alone pulled out over 80 bodies. | ||
| And I think that's the count that they're giving you for the death toll. | ||
| We're estimating that it's over 1000 people. | ||
| That's horrific. Why is the government being so hush hush and shutting everything down and not letting people know what's really going on? | ||
| When they had their very first press conference a couple days after the tragedy, all that the officials could do that I heard was blame everybody else, say it wasn't me, it wasn't my responsibility. | ||
| If you didn't know, there were no alarms that went off. | ||
| Even though we have tsunami warning systems set up all over the island, they could have been turned on, but they weren't. | ||
| And there was a fire in Lahaina in the morning. | ||
| The firefighters put it out and said it was 100% out. | ||
| Well, from, again, reports, they're saying that that was a fire that restarted itself and ended up taking out the entire city. | ||
| Interestingly, the McDonald's and Burger King and Safeway and Walgreens are all still standing, but all the historic buildings, all the historic downtown, all of it is demolished and all the houses gone. | ||
| But those commercial big box stores are still there. | ||
| And I just wanted to talk a little bit about the response. | ||
| As a resident of Kihei on Tuesday night, we could see the fire burning in Lahaina. | ||
| Check my page. I posted photos from our Lanai. | ||
| We had ash raining down on us. | ||
| It was like in our eyes, blowing around. | ||
| And we could smell smoke very strong, yet no alerts. | ||
| We had no idea if we were safe, if we were in the line of fire. | ||
| We knew that the subdivision across the interstate or highway from us Maui Meadows had been under an evacuation notice, so we didn't know about us concerning because we were having ash fly all over the place. | ||
| We just talked to a local that lives in Kula tonight, and he said that there was a power outage. | ||
| There was no cell service because the winds were so strong and they blew down the power lines, and they could see the flames and fire right coming up. | ||
| And many people did lose their houses in that area too, but again, no alert system, no way for them to know Is it safe? | ||
| How do we even get out? Where's the fire going? | ||
| So again, just a lot of questions swirling around the Maui fires about the, not just cause of the fires, the way that it's burned in such a, well, many different bizarre ways, but also the total lack of communications. | ||
| Just no explanation to that so far. | ||
| Lots of speculation going on. | ||
| Not a lot of answers. | ||
| I can tell you one thing, it's not climate change. | ||
| I'm going to not blame this on climate change. | ||
| I'm going to blame it on literally anything else. | ||
| We'll get into other topics here on the other side. | ||
| But we could go on and on. | ||
| But we could go on and on and on about the likelihood, almost inevitable speculation, These were Chinese space lasers. | ||
| It's fun. It's fun when you're on Twitter and you see some video getting really popular. | ||
| You haven't watched it yet, but you keep seeing it reposted. | ||
| And then I finally click on it, only to realize it's a Greg Reese report. | ||
| Greg Reese did a whole report about direct energy weapons. | ||
| I'm not even sure when it's from, but you can find it on band.video. | ||
| Yes, direct energy weapons are real. | ||
| And, you know, I've actually seen a lot of it. | ||
| In the last few days, somebody responding to a post from... | ||
| There's a guy, a YouTuber, a very good YouTuber. | ||
| He has a Twitter post where his name is Morgoth's Reviews. | ||
| And he's just like, so what is the explanation for the Maui fires? | ||
| Like, I just... I'm open-minded here. | ||
| What could it possibly be? | ||
| Mentioning direct energy weapons or space lasers or whatever you want to call it. | ||
| And somebody responds like, we don't have space lasers. | ||
| This isn't Star Trek. | ||
| It's just like... What year do you think it is? | ||
| It's 2020. You don't think there's space? | ||
| Obviously, there's space lasers. | ||
| I would bet more than half a dozen countries have satellites armed in some way above us. | ||
| And in January, on January 28th, there were lasers that were caught on video. | ||
| It's so weird. | ||
| Here's the video evidence of the existence. | ||
| It's confirmed by NASA and all the media outlets. | ||
| Not speculation, not interpretation. | ||
| Just there it is. There's the video and yet people are still just like, that's impossible. | ||
| Okay, well there it is. | ||
| So, you know, take that into account. | ||
| Change your mind because you're wrong. | ||
| I mean, it just goes on and on, right? | ||
| It's just like, but China would never. | ||
| Wouldn't they, though? Oh, wouldn't they? | ||
| There's some other suspicious stuff about this, including the fact that the Maui police chief is John Pelletier, who just so happened to be the commander who was in charge of the Police forces during the Las Vegas massacre in 2017. | ||
| 2017, Pelletier was the incident commander for the mass shooting at a country festival that left 58 people dead. | ||
| Hmm. Conspiracy theories just sort of follow this guy around, huh? | ||
| What a coincidence. Anyway, we'll move on. | ||
| We have a lot of other stuff to talk about, but it is worth just asking the question, like, why? | ||
| Are people so suspicious of this? | ||
| What's happened? I mean, you can just imagine how long ago? | ||
| Five years ago? Ten years? | ||
| Heck, maybe just three years ago. | ||
| Infowars would have been the only people asking questions about this. | ||
| And we would have been called all the names of the book. | ||
| Now, about 90% of people that I see on the internet are going, yeah, something doesn't add up here. | ||
| Perfectly willing to accept the idea that there's some... | ||
| Massive, wide-ranging, perhaps international conspiracy at play here. | ||
| And everybody's looking for who's involved and why. | ||
| And I think that's healthy. | ||
| I think that's a healthy response to the fact that we have been gaslit and lied to in the most blatant and egregious way in the last three years. | ||
| At a certain point, It becomes overwhelming. | ||
| At a certain point, the lies and manipulation, the cover-ups, the deception, any normal person who doesn't even follow the news, like, you should be suspicious of all of this stuff. | ||
| They lied about the origins of COVID. They lied about the effects of COVID. They lied about the lockdowns and the masks. | ||
| They lied about the vaccine. | ||
| They lied about their complicity in all of it. | ||
| They lied about the fact that they were involved in the creation and that it came from a lab. | ||
| Can you imagine what it would be like to believe the main stories on all of these? | ||
| If you believe... | ||
| That COVID jumped from a pangolin to a human outside of a laboratory setting. | ||
| If you believe that Vladimir Putin just invaded Ukraine one day for no reason, nothing led up to it. | ||
| He's just a bad guy that wanted to be evil. | ||
| If you believe that the 2020 election was the most secure election ever because mail-in ballots somehow increased our election security. | ||
| If you believe that the vaccine is good and should be mandatory because It stops you from getting severe virus and stop symptoms. | ||
| If you believe that January 6th was an insurrection and a dangerous coup, it was Trump trying to overthrow the United States government. | ||
| Like at a certain point, Not one of these sounds a little bit suspicious to you. | ||
| Not one of these seems a little bit odd. | ||
| Like you think the people coming across the southern border are desperate refugees who would die without our intervention, who deserve unending support from the American people. | ||
| If you believe that white supremacy is the number one threat in our country, if you believe police are gunning down black men in the street because they're racist and just love murder, These are the things that people, they expect you to believe. | ||
| These are the things that the media tell us over and over and over again. | ||
| They're all crap. | ||
| They're all lies. | ||
| Of course people are going to be suspicious of the authorities. | ||
| The authorities seem to be hell-bent on purposely destroying everything. | ||
| What's the difference between An island being destroyed and consumed by fire or the World Economic Forum coming in and shutting down all of the farms and reorganizing it into a shopping mall. | ||
| Bureaucracy, that's the big difference. | ||
| The intent is the same. The effect is the same. | ||
| I think it's healthy that people have an innate distrust of the authority, even if it goes to an absurd level. | ||
| It's not actually that absurd. | ||
| Nothing absurd about the idea of space weapons. | ||
| Nothing absurd about the idea of fifth generation warfare. | ||
| Nothing absurd about the idea of China taking an aggressive attack posture. | ||
| What is absurd is that we have an elite class, the less than 1% here in America... | ||
| That seem hellbent on doing everything they can to support China in opposition to America. | ||
| I mean, we have the heads of the Joint Chief of Staff calling his friends in China and letting them know that America will give them fair warning before we do anything. | ||
| So don't worry about old Donald Trump's bluster while he was president. | ||
| So we're being run by traitors. | ||
| We're being run by people that aren't just selling out to China in secret. | ||
| They're doing it openly in your face. | ||
| And over the course of decades. | ||
| So why shouldn't people be suspicious? | ||
| Why wouldn't they go this far? | ||
| I mean, if the only thing that you knew about the government was their track record on COVID, look at what they did. | ||
| Look at what they did to people. | ||
| I think it's out of the realm of possibility they would start a wildfire if it served their What was COVID other than a global, cultural, societal wildfire that they took extreme advantage of, started in the first place, perpetuated with their media lies and coordinated to benefit from across the board. | ||
| Everything these people do is deception. | ||
| Everything they do is vicious, destructive, despotic. | ||
| I think it's a much safer bet and a much, honestly, more, I mean, in our current circumstance, a much more respectable and honest interpretation to go, you know, prove to us that you didn't do this on purpose. | ||
| At a certain point, it becomes ridiculous to believe the level of lies. | ||
| When every major geopolitical event is predicated on pure deception and has been for the last several decades, When if you believe the mainstream story, you just believe a litany of lies about every single one of these topics. | ||
| Just imagine. Just imagine being the type of person, just like, Joe Biden is a great man. | ||
| Everything that has to do with Hunter Biden is because he's such a loving father. | ||
| He got elected in the most secure election ever following a COVID outbreak when a Chinese person ate a bat soup and accidentally infected the world. | ||
| And lockdown was the right idea and was the right thing to do because who knows what else could have happened. | ||
| And I'm glad my child was locked in her room for two years. | ||
| Has mental disorders now. | ||
| I think it's a good thing I got the vaccine. | ||
| Sure, half my face fell asleep forever. | ||
| I still got COVID, but my symptoms were lesser and I might have died without the vaccine. | ||
| Also, Putin is evil for invading Ukraine and he invaded Ukraine because he's evil. | ||
| If you believe any of this stuff, you're an idiot. | ||
| If you believe all of it, you're a liberal. | ||
| An NPC. The migrant crisis. | ||
| To the economy? Oh yeah. | ||
| You probably believe the economy is great and the gas prices are low. | ||
| We have to eat bugs and get rid of farms to save the earth. | ||
| Is there anything these people do that's not a lie, that's not hugely destructive, that doesn't seem to be a weapon aimed at your head with the globalists pulling the trigger? | ||
| So, better safe than sorry. | ||
| The Maui fires were started by space lasers. | ||
| The globalists control them. Alright, we'll move on from the Maui fires. | ||
| We will. Again, I just ask you to go check out the Sunday Night Live broadcast from yesterday. | ||
| I really did a full breakdown. | ||
| It's hard hosting the Sunday Night Show because then I know my audience doesn't necessarily watch it, so I want to get you guys the information, but if I already covered it yesterday, I don't want people that do watch both shows, I don't want to just be saying the same thing twice. | ||
| So we'll move on. | ||
| We've got a lot of things to talk about in terms of migrants and the economy and so much more. | ||
| One of the big stories this weekend was the Iowa State Fair. | ||
| Infowars has the story. Trump flies over DeSantis at Iowa State Fair as supporters chant, we love Trump. | ||
| Ooh, it was not a good weekend for DeSantis. | ||
| Hasn't been a good week for DeSantis. | ||
| Hasn't been a good month or frankly good year for DeSantis. | ||
| DeSantis might... I'll start looking for a job at the state fair. | ||
| If he's smart. | ||
| Really sort of an embarrassing weekend for DeSantis. | ||
| Videos of him serving eggs to people who have no interest in talking to him whatsoever. | ||
| While Donald Trump flies over in his awesome plane and then lands like a king dropping something like $20,000 on local vendors and then bouncing. | ||
| Really incredible stuff. | ||
| Just Trump flexing on DeSantis in a really embarrassing way. | ||
| Vivek Ramaswamy was there as well. | ||
| I haven't actually watched this video yet, so we'll all watch it together. | ||
| But it got posted last night and it's been going semi-viral since then. | ||
| Clip number 18. A pansexual reporter tries to bait Vivek Ramaswamy at the Iowa State Fair. | ||
| Let's go now to clip 18. I was just wondering, what were your opinions on the LGBTQ plus community? | ||
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Well, I don't think it's one community. Really? | |
| Yeah. I mean, how could it be? Just mashed together an alphabet soup. | ||
| Trans is fundamentally in tension with gay, if you ask me. | ||
| But what's your opinion? I'm personally a pansexual, so I was just wondering what your views on same-sex couples were. | ||
| I don't have a negative view of same-sex couples, but I do have a negative view of a tyranny of the minority. | ||
| So I think that in the name of protecting against a tyranny of the majority, and there are times in this country's history where we have had a tyranny of the majority, We have now, in the name of protecting against tyranny of the majority, created a new tyranny of the minority. | ||
| And I think that that's wrong. | ||
| I don't think that somebody who's religious should be forced to officiate a wedding that they disagree with. | ||
| I don't think somebody who is a woman who's worked really hard for her achievements should be forced to compete against a biological man in a swim competition. | ||
| I don't think that somebody who's a woman that respects her bodily autonomy and dignity should be forced to change clothes in a locker room with a man. | ||
| That's not freedom. That's oppression. | ||
| And so I believe that we live in a country where free adults should be free to dress how they want, behave how they want, and that's fine. | ||
| But you don't become oppressive by foisting that on others. | ||
| And that especially includes kids, because kids aren't the same as adults. | ||
| And so I think adults are free to make whatever choices they want. | ||
| But do not force that ideology onto children before children are in a position as adults to make decisions for themselves. | ||
| And so I think a lot of the frustration in the country, and if I'm being really honest, that I also share, comes from that new culture of oppression, where saying those things can actually get somebody punished. | ||
| And in my case, it's part of why it's my responsibility to say them. | ||
| And I respect that you may have a different opinion. | ||
| And that's okay. Part of what makes our country great is that you and I can be civil and have this conversation, and that we live in a country that still gives each of us the right to speak to a presidential candidate and back, and still say that we pledge allegiance to the same nation. | ||
| So I think that's the beauty of our country, and that's my honest opinion. | ||
| Awesome. Well, thank you very much. | ||
| I appreciate that. Thank you for your civility as well. | ||
| I appreciate it. That was very unlike any other... | ||
| Interaction I've ever seen in that category. | ||
| Yeah, I like that. I like that response. | ||
| I think when you can stand on principles like that, like, I'm against oppression. | ||
| Oh, it's gay people doing it? | ||
| Guess what? I'm still against oppression. | ||
| Oh, it's trans people doing it? | ||
| Guess what? Still against oppression and coercion and manipulation. | ||
| Sorry. Sorry, gays. | ||
| That's just, you don't get a pass because you're gay. | ||
| Sorry. All right, well, that's not how he said it. | ||
| I would have said it a little bit differently, I guess. | ||
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| We have a lot of news still to cover here before we welcome Jake Shields in studio, former UFC fighter, since making quite a splash on Twitter by having opinions that aren't completely and totally mainstream. | ||
| I know, shocking, horrifying stuff. | ||
| We'll talk to him about his journey into the right wing, I guess you could say. | ||
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| You know, just a little survey of all the headlines that we have now. | ||
| It is... It paints a picture of total... | ||
| An utter. | ||
| And designed. | ||
| Collapse. | ||
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It's just. | |
| It's just shocking. | ||
| When it comes to. | ||
| The economy. | ||
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The economy. | |
| Every day I see headlines celebrating Bidenomics. | ||
| They made up a term to describe the economic situation in a positive way. | ||
| They seem desperate to convince you that the economy is somehow positive. | ||
| I'll just do a quick survey of these stories. | ||
| These are all recent stories here. | ||
| Infinity mortgages have arrived that stretch far beyond 50 years. | ||
| They'll help avoid defaults today, but what about when the defaults come? | ||
| Infinity mortgages, kind of like how George Soros' response to the debt incurred because of the Reaction to the COVID pandemic was perpetual bonds. | ||
| These are infinity mortgages. | ||
| Mortgages that you'll never actually pay off. | ||
| You're essentially just paying rent. | ||
| You can just call that rent. Inflation may be cooling, says CNN. Yeah, maybe. | ||
| Maybe not, but maybe. But drivers can't catch a break. | ||
| Yeah, it turns out that the cost of repairing a car has skyrocketed. | ||
| Nearly 20% in a single year. | ||
| It will cost you 19.5% more to repair your car now than it did a year ago. | ||
| 20% more. | ||
| Which, when it comes to repairing cars and spending thousands of dollars, that's a lot of money. | ||
| So one year, 20% greater cost to repair your car. | ||
| But that's not the only place you're spending more money. | ||
| U.S. inflation... It means families are spending $709 per month more than this time two years ago. | ||
| $700 tax on you every single month. | ||
| What's this doing? Obviously this is eating into savings. | ||
| That's the design. | ||
| That's on purpose. $709 per month. | ||
| Day you're spending on just your basic necessities because of inflation. | ||
| And they tell you that's a good thing and that the economy is amazing and great. | ||
| Do I even need to elaborate on that $700 a month? | ||
| We all know what that means, right? | ||
| I mean, we all know what you could buy with $700. | ||
| What that looks like added up month over month. | ||
| How much better your life would be if you had an extra $700 a month? | ||
| Well, you did two years ago. | ||
| Not under the Biden regime. | ||
| Even the things that they brag about or claim are good, like unemployment, not for the American people, it's not good. | ||
| Black workers account for 90% of recent U.S. unemployment jump. | ||
| The unemployment rate for African Americans jumped for a second month straight in June as workers left the workforce amid early signs of a cooling labor market. | ||
| The number of unemployed African Americans has increased by 276,000 since April, meaning they account for close to 90% of the 3,000 increase in overall joblessness during that period. | ||
| Thank you, Biden. Well done. | ||
| 90% of the jump in unemployment has been because black people are not getting jobs, I guess. | ||
| which is saying something because the jobs that have been created, according to Zero Hedge, all new U.S. jobs since the COVID crash have gone to foreign-born workers. | ||
| Even if one ignores the blatant manipulation of economic data by self-serving administrations who hope to generate political brownie points by casting the economy in a far stronger light than is merited in reality, there are still various bizarre offshoots within the data, which few notice, yet are which are instrumental in maintaining the fake narrative, such as this. | ||
| Readers are probably aware that, according to the BLS, there are now roughly 3.3 million more jobs than there were at the peak just before COVID crashed. | ||
| So there's 155.7 million jobs, which is... | ||
| 3.3 million more than there were just before the COVID crash. | ||
| On the surface, it's an impressive accomplishment as a deficit of some 22 million jobs has been erased in under three years. | ||
| But then, if one starts digging, some peculiarities emerge. | ||
| Like, for example, that much of the jobs created in recent years have gone to, quote, multiple job holders, meaning that not every payroll has been assigned to a unique individual, but instead there are now people who hold two, three, or more jobs to make ends meet. | ||
| There were virtually no new jobs created in much of 2022, as the establishment survey indicated that over 2 million jobs have been added over the same period. | ||
| One thing that's happened is that there are currently 131.1 million native-born U.S. workers, which is down more than half a million from the pre-COVID peak. | ||
| Meanwhile, if only looks at the number... | ||
| If one only looks at the number of foreign-born workers, here the data paints a very different picture. | ||
| Having peaked at 27.8 million in February 2019, the number of foreign-born workers has not only recovered from COVID crash losses, but has increased by an initial 2.2 million to a record 30 million as of April 2023. | ||
| That means that all new job creation since the COVID crash has gone to foreign workers, with native-born workers stagnating, still unable to break above pre-COVID highs, even though if one merely extends the pre-COVID deadline, native-born workers should have long ago surpassed their 2019 highs. | ||
| Okay, so people benefiting from the economy, non-Americans, people in America that weren't born in America, The billionaires and 1% and elite class, people who are not benefiting from the so-called economy, | ||
| the regular Americans that are now paying over $700 on average per month more for basic necessities than they were two years ago, who are now facing extremely high rates, mortgages, who are paying 20% more for car repairs and other necessary purchases, and of course the black Americans who Who make up 90% of the job losses in unemployment. | ||
| Is it possible for this to be an accident? | ||
| Is it even feasible, let alone reasonable, that this is just mismanagement by the people at the top? | ||
| Or is this all by design? | ||
| Well, we've talked a little bit last week about the feedback loop between the economy and crime. | ||
| And that trend continues. | ||
| Thieves loot over $60,000 of merchandise from LA Nordstrom. | ||
| Police investigate. The Los Angeles Police Department announced an investigation after 30 to 50 robbers stormed a Nordstrom store in Topanga Mall in Canoga Park, neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, and made off with an estimated $60,000 to $100,000 worth of merchandise. | ||
| And yet another example of this mob shoplifting tactic. | ||
| Flash mob. Second time a flash mob has struck a Los Angeles store in the last week. | ||
| The first was against Yves Saint Laurent store in Glendale where the group made off with over $300,000 in merchandise into getting into waiting getaway cars. | ||
| Now they could stop this at any moment. | ||
| After all, we do have the most pervasive and efficient and effective and powerful spy state in the world. | ||
| But it's being used to go after Trump supporters, people who protest abortion. | ||
| People who say mean things to Joe Biden on the internet. | ||
| Meanwhile, mobs of criminals without even wearing masks on their faces are let off scot-free. | ||
| Because it's a choice they're making. | ||
| Because all of this is a choice. | ||
| Everything we're covering today is not some natural or irrepressible occurrence. | ||
| It's choices that are made by the people in power on purpose for a reason to destroy the country so they can take it over, subject you to slavery. | ||
| It's not that complicated. | ||
| Yeah, I think what the speculation about the Maui fires represents is an awakening by the average person that the American government is at war with the American people. | ||
| And I don't think that is an extreme or unwarranted statement. | ||
| When you consider how in every aspect where the government has control, the American people Are paying the cost, getting none of the benefits, and being squeezed towards a husk of our former self. | ||
| And we just went through all these stories, right? | ||
| $700 a month, people are paying more for basic necessities because of inflation. | ||
| Things like car repairs are 20% more expensive than they were. | ||
| People can't afford houses anymore. | ||
| They're coming up with something called infinity mortgages, so you'll never actually pay off your house. | ||
| You'll never actually own the things that you supposedly purchase. | ||
| Unemployment is extremely high, with black workers accounting for 90% of it. | ||
| While all the new jobs that have been created since the COVID crash, 100% of them, by the numbers, have gone to foreign-born workers, while Americans have been kept out. | ||
| Meanwhile, what's the government actually doing? | ||
| Well, they're spending $1.2 billion to vacuum carbon dioxide from the sky. | ||
| So there's that. Department of Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said in a statement that the $1.2 billion will be used to develop two commercial-scale direct air capture facilities in Texas and Louisiana. | ||
| Hey, you know what also takes carbon out of the sky? | ||
| Plants. You could plant trees. | ||
| No, they're building gigantic vacuums to vacuum the air and spending $1.2 billion to do so. | ||
| Of your money, by the way. | ||
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| Like, that's going to make so much carbon. | ||
| And how are they removing carbon but not everything else? | ||
| Like, I think one way to picture the climate scam, just any time they say CO2, just replace it with oxygen. | ||
| Wouldn't that sound weird? | ||
| Well, it's not any more or less weird than saying CO2. Somehow they've convinced people through this alchemy of thinking about greenhouse gases, the greenhouse gas effect, CO2, carbon dioxide, carbon credits, and it's just all mixed up in people's heads and it seems somehow scientific or justified. | ||
| But, you know, Biden regime to spend 1.2 to vacuum oxygen out of the air, that would not be any more or less ridiculous than carbon dioxide, but they're doing it. | ||
| They're spending your money to do it. | ||
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Along the lines of things that are utterly ridiculous, you know, they might as well make a giant dehumidifier because, as we learned last week, water vapor in the atmosphere is actually a much more potent greenhouse, has a much more potent greenhouse effect than carbon. | |
| Very true. We need giant humidifiers. | ||
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| A giant dehumidifier and a giant humidifier. | ||
| I think they could give us $1.2 billion and we could create the world's largest Alexa Pure Breeze and the problems would be solved. | ||
| Just imagine an Alexa Pure Breeze the size of the Empire State Building. | ||
| Running on full blast outside of Austin. | ||
| It's a beautiful thing. We'll get Elon Musk on it. | ||
| He could do it. And we'd be solvent and on air. | ||
| It'd be great. That's not all. | ||
| They're not just spending money on ridiculous boondoggles predicated on lies. | ||
| Oh wait, yes they are. Sorry. | ||
| Sorry. Another boondoggle predicated on lies of the war in Ukraine. | ||
| Biden's spending plan, $800 million to fight fentanyl, but $24 billion for Ukraine. | ||
| The White House is asking Congress to spend another $24 billion fighting Russia and Ukraine, but just $800 million to fight fentanyl and other lethal drugs in the U.S. community. | ||
| I'm outraged by this. | ||
| How much carbon will be released by these missiles and bombs that we're sending? | ||
| That's the outraging part, not the money that we're spending or the lives that we're destroying or the lies that led to this event or the geopolitical machinations, the greed of the people like Victoria Nuland and Anthony Blinken that paved the way towards World War III and continue to drive us towards that horrific inevitability. | ||
| But how much carbon will be released? | ||
| I mean, do we have to make... | ||
| Climate change arguments in order to get through to people? | ||
| Is that the only thing people care about or respect anymore? | ||
| Fine. Okay, we'll do it. | ||
| We have to stop the war in Ukraine or else polar bears are going to have to swim. | ||
| I guess. You've got these other issues. | ||
| Again, economy and crime. | ||
| Reflect off of one another to create this feedback loop. | ||
| Shooter's reign of terror ends in deadly Tampa gunfight, Sheriff says. | ||
| A man was killed in a deadly shootout in Tampa early Saturday morning after a crime spree that spanned several counties, according to authorities. | ||
| It really does sound like some sort of action movie. | ||
| This dude running from place to place. | ||
| The ending of it is the car is half submerged in this lake with bullet holes in the windows. | ||
| Here's the clincher, though. | ||
| For four minutes, the shooter engaged in a gunfight with law enforcement officers. | ||
| But a highway patrol trooper, two Pasco County deputies, and a Hillsborough County deputy managed to fire back the criminal. | ||
| The sheriff said the suspect was a 37-year-old man with a violent criminal history, including 18 previous convictions. | ||
| 18 previous convictions. | ||
| I think there might be something wrong with our justice system. | ||
| I think there might be an inefficiency somewhere in the chain of our justice system. | ||
| When somebody can have 18 previous convictions for violent crimes and then they're just let out again, something's wrong. | ||
| We used to have like a three strike rule. | ||
| I don't know if that's still in existence. | ||
| I'd settle for like a 10 strike rule. | ||
| I think 10 is a reasonable number. | ||
| If you get caught and convicted for 10 felony violent crimes, I think that you've done enough. | ||
| You've had your chance. | ||
| You've had 10 chances actually. | ||
| And that's all the chances you get, I think. | ||
| I'm not saying after 10 put the criminal to death, but maybe on an island somewhere. | ||
| Maybe we need a new version of Australia. | ||
| Maybe you become a test subject. | ||
| We try to send you to the moon or something. | ||
| I don't know. All I know is you don't deserve to be on the streets. | ||
| Sorry, you're a human being. | ||
| You get to view of free will. | ||
| You make choices. The choices that you make have proven that you are incapable of living amongst other humans. | ||
| So it's up to all of us to disallow that. | ||
| But that's just me. | ||
| 18 convictions. | ||
| And then he goes on a murderous rampage. | ||
| If only there'd been a warning sign. | ||
| If only we'd known. | ||
| You just gotta wonder. | ||
| After the 17th type, like when he was going for the 18th conviction, getting sentenced for the 18th time in his 37 years. | ||
| An average two convictions a year, right? | ||
| So when you see this guy for the... | ||
| You know, that's his whole life. Obviously, he started 18. | ||
| It's like, I don't, you know, do the math. | ||
| I mean, that's, he's in there getting convicted on something every three months. | ||
| How does that, how is this even possible? | ||
| You gotta think, it's the judge sitting there like, well, you fooled us 17 times, but One more chance, mister. | ||
| I don't want to see you in here in 18th, 19th, and 20th time. | ||
| Well, don't worry, you won't. Because now some poor police officer has been forced to kill him to rescue all of his victims. | ||
| We could just not go through this. | ||
| We could just not have to deal with this. | ||
| We could just have a functioning society that doesn't allow repeat lifelong criminals out on the street to terrorize regular people. | ||
| We could, but we don't. | ||
| Alright, welcome back folks. | ||
| Still a lot to talk about on today's show. | ||
| Migrant crisis, not the least among it. | ||
| Among them. We'll get to your phone calls here in just a second. | ||
| But from Infowars.com, article by Steve Watson. | ||
| Twin crises rattle America. | ||
| Suicides and drug overdoses hit record high. | ||
| And a disturbing trend in America. | ||
| New data reveals that suicides and drug overdoses climbed to a record high in 2022. | ||
| The twin crises have been rapidly accelerating post-COVID and could be a symptom of a worsening nationwide mental health crisis. | ||
| Set of woke corporate media outlets pushing gender identity conversations and warning about the end of the earth because the hamburger that you eat and the car that you drive are allegedly heating the planet. | ||
| Perhaps America's mental health crisis is a more urgent topic. | ||
| Perhaps it's all being exaggerated and accelerated by the doomsaying nonsense of the ruling class. | ||
| So the suicide rate, extremely high. | ||
| Which, you know, it's hard. | ||
| It's hard to tell the difference between some sort of devastating, horrific statistic that we want to solve and the consequence of policy that is desired and purposeful and designed. | ||
| After all, how against suicide can you be? | ||
| When you're pushing it all the time. | ||
| This from Canada, globalnews.ca. | ||
| She went to the hospital with suicidal thoughts. | ||
| A clinician raised medically assisted suicide. | ||
| A Vancouver woman says she's deeply disturbed to have visited the Vancouver General Hospital in the midst of a mental health crisis, only to have a clinician suggest medical assistance in dying. | ||
| Well, I mean, that's a... | ||
| That's an easy mistake to make, I think. | ||
| Right? You go into a Canadian hospital. | ||
| You say, I'm really going through something right now. | ||
| I want to kill myself. | ||
| I feel suicidal. And they're just like, sure, yeah, right this way. | ||
| We can get you hooked up. You're like, wow, really? | ||
| You can help me? | ||
| They're like, of course we can help you. | ||
| Kill yourself, of course. | ||
| Get in the chamber. Just start filling up the IV bag right now with the cyanide. | ||
| Wait, no, I don't want to be suicidal. | ||
| Well, you won't be. You won't be much of anything. | ||
| When we're done, I'll put you in a bag. | ||
| Bury you. I mean, this is horrifying. | ||
| This is the modern world, right? | ||
| Catherine Mintler... Yeah, Catherine Mintler, who has chronic depression and suicidality, visited the hospital's Access and Assessment Center on June 2nd, months after a traumatic event contributed to her distress. | ||
| That day, she felt she couldn't keep herself safe at home and didn't have the necessary supports. | ||
| Well, don't worry. | ||
| Mintler said the staffer in the hospital warned there weren't enough beds because the system was completely overwhelmed and out of nowhere asked the question, have you considered MAID? It's kind of a weird question. | ||
| I'm here because I'm suicidal. | ||
| Well, have you considered killing yourself? | ||
| Healthcare in the post-COVID world. | ||
| It really took me by surprise. | ||
| The 37-year-old told Global News. | ||
| It just didn't sit right to me, and I think it's an important conversation to have. | ||
| The clinician reportedly explained how MAID works. | ||
| The drugs administered the lethal injection details. | ||
| mintler found disturbing mintler said the staffer told her another story about another patient who'd had mental health challenges and drowned in a river and then relayed her relief that the patient had passed away given her struggles i was shocked somebody working in mental health or health care in general would make a judgment about a person in a person's life without knowing what their wishes were Thank you. | ||
| Again, what is there even to say about that? | ||
| Like... This is the weird part. | ||
| It's like, what am I supposed to do here? | ||
| Do I have to explain to people that it's bad and wrong and weird and horrifying that a person having a mental health crisis goes to the hospital for help because they're feeling suicidal and the hospital suggests we can get it done here. | ||
| We can kill you here. | ||
| Oh, you're suicidal? Please write this way. | ||
| I mean, everybody else says we're overwhelmed. | ||
| We don't have time. But if he wants to shoot you up with cyanide, we can do that. | ||
| We can do that all day. | ||
| Is this something that I need to express some sort of moral outrage about this for people to get it? | ||
| Or are we human beings who can understand what a unprecedented horror show the entire world is becoming right now? | ||
| Let's go out to your phone calls in the meantime. | ||
| Maybe inappropriate for the... | ||
| Topic that we just covered. But Tim in Austin has called in about this weekend the American Liberty Awards and the incredible fun that was had by InfoWarriors. | ||
| Go ahead, Tim. You're on the air. Hey, Harrison. | ||
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| Hold on one second. That doesn't sound too bad. | ||
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All right. Fantastic. Hey, I would just like to thank everybody for their hospitality and their effort and their energy and to encourage you to keep the momentum going because America is going to be suicided by silence. | |
| If we don't stand up and if we don't keep this momentum going, if we don't fight back, now is the time. | ||
| Keep that momentum going. I love you guys. | ||
| Austin's amazing. I'm moving here. | ||
| Fantastic time. Again, thanks a lot, InfoWars. | ||
| Oh, thank you very much. | ||
| And yeah, it was so good to see everybody. | ||
| And it really was. You know, we've said it a million times here. | ||
| This is an InfoWars. We have to treat it like a war. | ||
| We are at war with the devil. | ||
| And... Wars are won and lost by morale, and that's exactly what this weekend was. | ||
| A morale-boosting event. | ||
| Everybody got to get together, see each other in real life, shake hands with people that you've maybe been internet friends with or just watched their content forever. | ||
| Fantastic performances by Bryson Gray and Jason Lowe and just everybody. | ||
| I mean, Michael Graves, Ben De Laurentiis. | ||
| It was a who's who of the InfoWars family, and I suggest you watch it if you have time on the live stream. | ||
| And come next year when it'll be even bigger and better. | ||
| It really was something special. | ||
| And thanks to everybody who helped to put it together and was there sharing in this fantastic, wonderful, star-studded, and glamorous event. | ||
| Rob Dew in his golden blazer. | ||
| He was a highlight for sure. | ||
| Very good stuff. Let's go to Don in Austin because, Don, you were also, I suppose, at the awards. | ||
| Oh, yeah. You're the info wagon dude. | ||
| Thanks for calling in. Don, you're on the air. | ||
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Harrison, what an awesome time it was, meeting all you guys. | |
| Absolutely, man. I feel the same way. | ||
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This is so cool. | |
| This is like the highlight of my life, man. | ||
| I can't believe I came down here and met everyone. | ||
| I'm not even upset that Alex didn't show. | ||
| I kind of didn't think he would, but met so many of you InfoWars guys, got pictures with everybody. | ||
| I'm on cloud nine, Harrison. | ||
| Thank you so much for everything, all you guys. | ||
| Well, thank you very much. | ||
| And again, we wouldn't be here without you. | ||
| So it was really humbling to meet everybody and to... | ||
| I don't know, man. | ||
| It's still weird to me. | ||
| People tell... They're like, I listen to you every day. | ||
| I'm like, that's crazy. | ||
| I appreciate it. I mean, don't get me wrong. | ||
| But I really am still... | ||
| I've done this for two years. | ||
| It's still strange to me. | ||
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I've talked to Matt and I talked to Rob Duke yesterday, the other day, about my massive Patriot archive in the basement. | |
| I like to get all my books, magazines, videos, newspapers from the so-called Patriot movement over the last 30 years. | ||
| I like to get that to Infowars so you guys can share it with the world, or if not, maybe just digitize it or something. | ||
| So that's my plan now I'm going to work for. | ||
| That's the way to do it. Yeah, digitize it and spread it around. | ||
| You can make a museum out of all this stuff. | ||
| It is a historical time that we're all involved in. | ||
| Anything else, Don? God bless you, Harrison. | ||
| Have a good day, brother. Thank you. | ||
| You too, sir. Very nice to meet you. | ||
| I remember you. The info wagon. | ||
| He said he couldn't drive the info wagon down, but maybe next year. | ||
| We'll go out to one more call here. | ||
| We'll go to Simon in Florida on the next side, but let's go to Dr. | ||
| D in Ohio about the Maui fires. | ||
| Go ahead, Dr. D. You're on the air one minute before the break. | ||
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Yes, hi Harrison. Howdy. | |
| I wanted to talk about the Valley fires. | ||
| I spoke with one of your crew regarding a YouTube video that came out a couple of days ago by a YouTube account by the name of Jeff Schneider 2, and hopefully they can pull that up while we're speaking. | ||
| I think he made some very astute observations. | ||
| There are a lot of anomalies associated with this fire that are very reminiscent of the Fire in Paradise, California in 2018. | ||
| If you look at a lot of the cars and the footage of those cars in Lahaina that were consumed, there are a lot of anomalies there. | ||
| Missing door handles and gas caps, missing tire rims, engine blocks melted, missing glass, the paint completely burned off vehicles. | ||
| Tree burning from the inside out. | ||
| No, a lot of bizarre things going on there. | ||
| I'm sorry, we do have to go to break. We'll be back with more of your phone calls on the other side. | ||
| Alright, welcome back, folks. | ||
| It's just crazy. I mean, all of these headlines are just completely insane. | ||
| I'm going to go to a quick video here and then out to your phone calls. | ||
| We'll go to clip number seven here in just a second. | ||
| The migrant crisis. | ||
| Well, it's not just happening in America. | ||
| It is, of course, happening across the Western world. | ||
| Migrant crisis, according to the Telegraph, to last at least five more years, government memo says. | ||
| Kind of like it's a plan. | ||
| Kind of like it's on purpose. | ||
| The migrant crisis is expected to last at least five more years. | ||
| A government memo has revealed the internal document drafted for the top civil servants in the Home Office stated the government is planning to use disused RAF bases in a prison to house migrants for between three to five years and possibly longer. | ||
| They're still working on plans to house 1,000 asylum seekers at the former HMP North Eye at the outskirts of Bex Hill in East Sussex. | ||
| The mass accommodation centers are designed to reduce the $6 million a day cost of housing 51,000 migrants and nearly 400 hotels amid a backlog of more than 170 asylum seekers applications waiting to be decided. | ||
| Again, just choices that they're making. | ||
| The migrant crisis. | ||
| The migrant plan, the migrant scheme, the migrant importation effort that's being undertaken by the Europeans. | ||
| Which is wild. This is just a firefighter standing there going, yeah, we're expecting the fire to rage for another five hours or so. | ||
| While you're holding a hose, maybe turn it on and spray it at the fire. | ||
| Maybe prevent the disaster that you're here to protect us from. | ||
| They're like, nah, nah, it's going to rage for another five hours actually. | ||
| We've done the math. It turns out it's going to go on for at least another five hours because I'm standing here with the hose not stopping it, not putting it out. | ||
| Okay? So it's on purpose. | ||
| So it's a plan. And how this can cost so much money, really baffling. | ||
| Really just one of those things, isn't it? | ||
| Randall's Island migrant shelter in New York State to cost New York taxpayers $20 million a month Or $10,000 for every single migrant? | ||
| How? How is it costing you $10,000 a month to house migrants? | ||
| Does staying in a cheap hotel cost $10,000 a month? | ||
| Where is this money going? | ||
| Who is making bank off this money? | ||
| Because there's no way it costs $10,000 a month. | ||
| To house a single person for a single month. | ||
| That's absurd. | ||
| What? But okay, that's what they're doing. | ||
| Totally ridiculous. | ||
| One place that is not going to be participating in this money laundering Invasion, white genocide activity is Erie County. | ||
| Erie County is halting the arrival of asylum seekers after arrests. | ||
| That's the headline from WGRZ in Cheektagua, New York, following the arrest of an asylum seeker. | ||
| Another way to put that would be they're not accepting asylum seekers anymore. | ||
| After multiple sexual abuse accusations have been levied against the so-called asylum seekers that we're welcoming. | ||
| Bring us your poor, your needy, your downtrodden, your sex offenders, your rapists, your violent criminals. | ||
| Let's go down to clip number seven. | ||
| Here's a little report from Erie County. | ||
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Meanwhile, Erie County Executive Mark Polencarz backs Chief Gould on this issue. | |
| He says he's been in contact with New York City Mayor Eric Adams, who agreed to put a pause on sending asylum seekers to western New York. | ||
| We were assured of the safety, security, and proper screening by New York City through DocGo. | ||
| Clearly that hasn't been done. | ||
| Refugee agencies, local workers, and others should not and cannot work under the present security conditions. | ||
| New York City needs to fix this. | ||
| And I am glad to say that Mayor Adams understands the gravity of the situation and hasn't assured me they will. | ||
| Incredible. He also said, quote, our community's trust in good faith has been betrayed. | ||
| Yeah, because it's misplaced. | ||
| Because why would you trust these people at all? | ||
| Why would you have faith in In people whose... | ||
| The only thing you know about them is that they've broken your law. | ||
| It's the only thing you know about them. I mean, you don't know where they came from. | ||
| You don't know what they're fleeing. | ||
| You don't know anything about them, except that they are perfectly willing to disregard the basic foundational laws of your country, to abuse your good nature, to take advantage of your trust. | ||
| But you keep trusting them. | ||
| But you keep calling them asylum seekers and refugees. | ||
| They're not, so... | ||
| Our community's trust and good faith has been abused. | ||
| Because you gave it to criminals? | ||
| Because you have no standards for who you give trust or have faith in? | ||
| It's not funny. | ||
| Some suspect, Kindu Jinsi, from the Democratic Republic of Congo. | ||
| How he got here? | ||
| Who's to say? Where he came from? | ||
| Democratic Republic of Congo. | ||
| Okay. What? Across the Atlantic Ocean? | ||
| And what came through Mexico? | ||
| How did he get here? What are you talking about? | ||
| He's an asylum seeker from the Congo? | ||
| No. The government is literally delivering rapists to a town near you. | ||
| Making you pay for it. | ||
| $10,000 a month. And the victims of this, of course, are the good-hearted American people whose pathological altruism Is to blame for all of this. | ||
| A 27-year-old woman who is working at the hotel with an agency employed to help the asylum seekers walked into the police station after 4 p.m. | ||
| on Friday to report an incident involving one of the asylum seekers. | ||
| Apparently he tried to sexually assault her. | ||
| So, thank you American government for subjecting the American people to this incident. | ||
| Financial, mental, and now physical and sexual abuse. | ||
| After your phone calls, once again, we'll go first to Simon in Florida. | ||
| Pakistan Independence Day. | ||
| A lot of news about Pakistan has been coming out. | ||
| You've, of course, been on the forefront of this, Simon. | ||
| Thanks for calling in. You're on the air. Hello there, Harrison. | ||
| I'd like the audience to imagine July, the fourth American Independence Day, and being banned from going to parades. | ||
| Or banned from waving a flag or having a flag on your car. | ||
| Because that is what has happened in the country of Pakistan since yesterday for a week, which we'll cover today, being their day of independence. | ||
| And you and I often try and put things in American terms so the Infowars audience can easily relate to them. | ||
| And in this context, I would invite the audience To consider what Elizabeth Powell asked Benjamin Franklin on the last day of the Constitutional Convention in 1787, when she ran up to him and said, Mr. | ||
| Franklin, what type of government do we have? | ||
| And he said, Madam, we have a republic, if you can keep it. | ||
| And indeed, the founder of Pakistan, one of the founders, Mr. | ||
| Jinner, said in 1948, With the removal of foreign domination, the people are now final arbiters of their destiny. | ||
| They have perfect liberty to have, by constitutional means, any government that they may choose. | ||
| This cannot, however, mean that any group may now attempt, by any unlawful method, to impose its will on the popularly elected government of the day. | ||
| One of the country's main newspapers, where they noted that they weren't celebrating Independence Day, but they were only commemorating Independence Day in Pakistan. | ||
| As the government has used Section 144, which is essentially the Anti-Riot Act, to ban... | ||
| ...on Independence Day... | ||
| And the great irony of this, as their former prime minister now languishes in prison, having been sentenced for three years after facing 108 charges in the Pakistan judicial system, hillaried in much the same way as Donald Trump is currently undergoing, | ||
| in a case where he didn't even get to present his defense, and the judge adjourned the hearing We're good to go. | ||
| Yeah, mostly the fastest typer of all time. | ||
| We're coming up to a break here, but you've been on top of this for years now, Simon, watching the goings-on in Pakistan. | ||
| Now there's admitted CIA connections to Imran Khan's ouster. | ||
| Of course, Simon's been keeping us abreast of that, so if you've been watching American Journal, you have Simon to thank for being ahead of the news, as always. | ||
| Thank you so much for the call, Simon. | ||
| May not survive American intervention because we're ruled by psychopaths. | ||
| We'll be back in the next hour with Jake Shields. | ||
| It's good info. | ||
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| In early 2023, Bloomberg reported that U S consumer products safety commission commissioner Richard Trump could jr. Bloomberg reported that U S consumer products safety commission commissioner described indoor air pollutants from gas stoves as a hidden hazard, saying that any option is on the table. | ||
| Products that can't be made safe can be banned, he said. | ||
| As a former cook, I can tell you that the wait times on your cuisine from restaurants handicapped from using electric stoves will be enormous. | ||
| Of course, I can guarantee that the political elite will not be affected. | ||
| When you start making a thousand buses a year, you're going to need more room for your customers, aren't you? | ||
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Yes, there are. The manufacturer Proterra has just filed for bankruptcy. | |
| They've got a strong tie to the Biden administration, right? | ||
| President Biden seems to have been a fan of the company that's now filing for bankruptcy. | ||
| So as Joe Biden's energy department is on the verge of murdering the culinary industry by eliminating gas stoves, A genuine murder mystery surrounding the drowning death of former White House chef and Barack Obama employee Tafari Campbell unravels. | ||
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Several uncomfortable questions have sprung up around Campbell's death. | |
| Was it an accident? | ||
| Or did something sinister happen? | ||
| Social media is filled with theories, including the claim that Campbell was secretly writing a tell-all book on the Obamas. | ||
| Campbell was six feet tall and drowned in eight feet of water. | ||
| Campbell was also a competent swimmer. | ||
| Campbell's death parallels with Clinton body count member Walter Sheeb, an executive chef at the White House for 11 years under Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. | ||
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All right, so what did President Clinton like? | |
| You know, I tell you, we really don't get too much into that, because what happens is, especially in a time with all of the Internet, is that if I say, President XYZ likes this, the poor guy, wherever he goes for the rest of his life, that's all he's going to get. | ||
| So, you know, they both enjoyed good barbecue. | ||
| Both presidents enjoyed southwestern flavors, big flavors, a little bit spicy. | ||
| So they enjoyed all sorts of things. | ||
| It really wasn't one thing that they liked or didn't like. | ||
| Walter Scheib was found dead after a five-day search and rescue operation. | ||
| The 61-year-old went missing more than a week ago while hiking in the mountains alone near the Towsky Valley. | ||
| Everybody has their own. | ||
| Hey, John F.K. was a playboy with Marilyn Monroe. | ||
| Trump, Karen McDougal, Stormy Daniels. | ||
| You know, George Bush linked to 9-11 and weapons of mass destruction. | ||
| Bill Clinton linked to Arkansas women, all these others. | ||
| Everybody has a reputation. | ||
| How is it? That the reputation that follows them is people close to them die. | ||
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Asking a bizarre question. | |
| Exactly. Did people die? | ||
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Did people die? No, what pisses me off, and I'm going to say this again, because you apparently are not listening to me. | |
| You read a list of people off an obscure website of conspiracy theory, taking a Venn diagram of everyone that ever worked in the orbit of someone who served in public life for 50 years. | ||
| You are implying that something nefarious is at foot both with the question and with the list. | ||
| Hillary Clinton, she's a big girl. | ||
| I'm a big boy, you're a big boy. | ||
| The people that you just listed... | ||
| They're all... Listen to me. | ||
| No. These are obscure people that you could not... | ||
| You're a great politician, buddy. | ||
| The details surrounding the Obama family's involvement And Campbell's drowning death have been inconsistent. | ||
| Initial reports detail that police left a call log detailing Obama's private chef's drowning blank. | ||
| The call was made two miles from Obama's residence, contradicting the initial report. | ||
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Control to Agatown Fire Water Rescue Personnel. | |
| Echo 90 in Echo Unit. | ||
| Respond to 79-79 Turkey Land Cove. | ||
| For a 40-year-old male, possible drowning. | ||
| Control to Agatown Fire Water Rescue Personnel. | ||
| Echo 90 in an echo unit. | ||
| Slot number 7979 Turkey Land Cove Road for a four-year-old male. | ||
| Possible drowning. | ||
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| While the call log of the 911 distress call received on the night of the accident conspicuously omits the reason for the call. | ||
| The Daily Mail reports a female staff member of Barack Obama had been with Campbell when he tragically drowned while paddle boarding in a pond beside the former president's estate in Martha's Vineyard. | ||
| And now the story has changed as to the whereabouts of the Obamas. | ||
| Placing them on the property at the time of the drowning, contradictory to what had been previously reported. | ||
| Why all the changes for an accidental drowning? | ||
| And as Michelle becomes a prospective presidential candidate, did Obama's personal chef know too much? | ||
| John Bown reporting. | ||
| Alright, welcome back. Ladies and gentlemen, third hour of American Journal has begun. | ||
| I have in studio with me Jake Shields. | ||
| Very happy to welcome Jake. | ||
| He is known for his prowess as a world champion mixed martial artist. | ||
| But if you're not keeping up with him on Twitter, you're really missing out. | ||
| He went from wrecking fools in the ring to wrecking fools in the culture war. | ||
| Our producer Matt had fun with that bio. | ||
| His Twitter is at Jake Shields AJJ. I'm sorry, Jake Shields AJJ. Don't forget that S there. | ||
| Welcome to the show, Jake. Hey, thanks. | ||
| Thanks for having me. Very happy to have you. | ||
| It's been a long time coming. | ||
| We met at the beginning of this year, I think at the Project Veritas party in Arizona, TPUSA. We just had a really long, good conversation just sort of about how you got involved in, I guess, right-wing politics. | ||
| I mean, what's been your journey here? | ||
| Yeah, and like I said, it was cool because we met and ended up talking for like an hour. | ||
| It was cool. We had discussions, things we disagreed about, agreed about, and confined common ground. | ||
| It's nice when you see people like that. | ||
| And yeah, and kind of how I got into politics was... | ||
| I never followed politics that closely. | ||
| I didn't really care. I'd get along with everyone. | ||
| I'd still get along with everyone. But the COVID lockdowns came and it just... | ||
| I was in San Francisco and it was just pure insanity to me. | ||
| It was so obvious that it was bull, you know, because I would look through the data and everyone's telling me, you're not a doctor. | ||
| You can't look through the data. Wear a mask. | ||
| And I'm like... I don't need to be a doctor to sift through data and see this is not that serious of a pandemic. | ||
| Yeah. Then Black Lives Matter hit and then they're letting people riot, steal stuff. | ||
| And I'm like, I have to speak up or things are going to go too crazy. | ||
| And I started tweeting and then, you know, lost like 50,000 followers right away. | ||
| My manager's blowing me up, agents being like, you have to stop tweeting, have to stop tweeting. | ||
| And I'm just like, no, I'm speaking my mind, you know, luckily- I'm going to get worse, actually. | ||
| Yeah, exactly. So I just doubled down and kept going. | ||
| And the interesting part is, you know, I think maybe in the beginning, financially, it cost me a couple sponsorships and stuff right now. | ||
| But right now, I'm doing better financially than I ever had. | ||
| And a lot of it, I can't say it's directly from Twitter, but I think a lot of these rich guys that I'm doing business with, they think just like I do. | ||
| And some of it, they're seeing me on Twitter. | ||
| They can't tweet this stuff, but they respect people that speak their mind. | ||
| They think like we do. So it's hard to quantify what I'm making off of Twitter or not, but I'm doing better financially than ever. | ||
| All these rich businessmen are wanting to put deals together with me because they think like we do. | ||
| So people are scared, and don't get me wrong, some people could lose their jobs from it, and I probably lost a couple crappy sponsors, but financially it's helped me, not hurt me. | ||
| People respect us. | ||
| That's fantastic. I'm authentic. | ||
| People know. I don't pretend like I agree with what's popular. | ||
| I'll go against what I've got lumped in in the right wing, even though I don't consider myself that. | ||
| But I don't agree with the right and everything, and I'll speak my real mind. | ||
| And people, I think, respect that. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, and it comes across, and I mean, I love your Twitter feed, and there's something about the sport, like the fighting sports, that has just obviously a much higher density of like, and again, you know, you don't even want to call them right-wings. | ||
| It's not, you know, totally political, but when it comes to like transgender issues or COVID lockdowns or BLM, you know, Joe Rogan, I guess, would be a primary person to point to, but What is it about fighting sports that seems to attract the type of people that aren't afraid to speak their mind or aren't afraid to go against the grain? | ||
| It's hard to say, man, but I am so fortunate. | ||
| I didn't realize it until COVID and all this, that how different we are than other people and how we all, we all, mostly all think alike. | ||
| And even the fighters that are liberal, they're not the insufferable ones. | ||
| Right. They're extremely reasonable. | ||
| I think only one fighter did Black Lives Matter thing, despite all the black fighters. | ||
| And I got respect for it, because he wasn't in a whiny, respectful way. | ||
| He just wore the Black Lives Matter thing. | ||
| But out of all the fighters, and tons of black fighters, obviously, I think only one did it. | ||
| That just shows the mindset. | ||
| It's not a victim mindset. | ||
| Maybe because there's nothing more real than fighting. | ||
| There's no excuses. There's no... | ||
| There's no, like, who your dad was, what kind of money you have. | ||
| When you're in a cage fighting a man, there's nothing realer than that. | ||
| Right. I think, you know, we train together, we bleed together. | ||
| There's no racism in fighting, other than one guy I ran into. | ||
| But when you're in there bleeding together, you're not going to go, oh, he's black, he's Mexican, he's... | ||
| It's like we're all brothers, you know? | ||
| Right. I think sometimes, if you could hear the gym, sometimes the stuff we say together is absolutely absurd. | ||
| But it's because we're brothers and love each other. | ||
| Right. I think, man, if people hear these conversations, we're screwed, especially me because I'm white. | ||
| Right. But that rose to me too. | ||
| It becomes like a brotherhood, just the way you treat each other, the way you think. | ||
| And it's like, there's no one subsidizing your fighting. | ||
| It's the work you put in is what you get out of it. | ||
| Yeah, absolutely. And that's what I always say. | ||
| I mean, I'm not a fighter personally, but I get that, like, you can have all these theories, you can have all these ideas. | ||
| Once you know, there's the classic, right, everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face. | ||
| Like, everybody can have a theory, everybody can have an idea until you're in the ring, and then it's like all of the fake has to go away for your very, like, you're going to get hurt if you believe lies. | ||
| Yeah, there's literally nothing more real than fighting. | ||
| That would be the most raw, real thing, which I think is why it's so popular. | ||
| And I think it's just, there's literally, you're in there You're in a cage locked in a man fighting something. | ||
| So you ain't faking nothing in there. | ||
| Yeah, no. And how do you think your experience as a fighter has contributed? | ||
| Do you just kind of feel like, you know what, they can say all they want. | ||
| They don't want to be in a chokehold, so I don't care what they say. | ||
| Is there something about being a fighter that you think... | ||
| Just contributes to your attitude online or what you talk about? | ||
| I just don't give a shit about what people say. | ||
| And the online hate is fake. | ||
| I've been hated as a fighter before. | ||
| The same people that pretend they hate you will come up asking for pictures. | ||
| It's all fake. I live in San Francisco and I have what's considered conservative. | ||
| Everyone treats me great there, too. | ||
| I mean, maybe I'm a guy of high respect, but I can go in, share my real opinions. | ||
| I'll hear these guys, you know, Trump's terrible for Trump. | ||
| Oh, I voted for Trump. Oh, they start treating me good. | ||
| Right, right. The way I carry myself, and I'm not scared to speak my mind. | ||
| I'll always share my real opinions. | ||
| Like I said, just not— What do I be scared of? | ||
| I got literally locked in a cage with millions of people watching. | ||
| Think I'm scared of someone mad at me on Twitter. | ||
| Right. A bunch of trannies with frickin', they don't even have their own profile pics. | ||
| It's like cartoon profile pics mad at me. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. You're gonna bow to that. | ||
| And that's the crazy thing, because some people you see out there, they're, you know... | ||
| I'm blanking on his name right now. | ||
| There's a hockey player, right? He'll come out and he supported the boycott of Target. | ||
| And then, like, the next day, he's out there apologizing, groveling. | ||
| Like, they just force people into submission. | ||
| Like, what? How do they do that? | ||
| I mean, have they tried that on you? | ||
| It's so pathetic and so sad. | ||
| Yeah. No, I've had, you know, managers and agents try to tell me, but no one to apologize. | ||
| They just told me to stop. People know I'm not apologizing. | ||
| It's just not who I am. And luckily, we've been very fortunate with UFC. It's not the, you know, Dana White is also, you know, super based and speaks his mind. | ||
| So we're very fortunate. We don't have a boss trying to like micromanage everything we say. | ||
| Yeah. I think that's a big thing, too. | ||
| I'm surprised Dana's got away with quite a bit being owned by Disney. | ||
| I'm sure they're wanting him to shut his mouth. | ||
| But he refuses to, too. | ||
| He's just... So, I mean, that's... | ||
| He's built an empire, man. That helps quite a bit. | ||
| Having the head of the biggest guy in the sport doesn't care either. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, absolutely. So, I mean, do you take a... | ||
| Do you take a wide-ranging view? | ||
| What do you see? | ||
| Do you see all of this stuff interconnected? | ||
| Because this has a conspiracy theorist. | ||
| We're here at InfoWars. It's like, to me, all of this is contributing. | ||
| What I think that sort of their modus operandi is they just want to weaken people. | ||
| They want people weak so they're easy to take advantage of. | ||
| And all of everything that we talk about is all about just identifying what makes people strong and trying to destroy whatever that is. | ||
| Yeah, I've been really trying to figure out what the purpose of it all is. | ||
| And I don't have it 100% pinpoint, but I think you're kind of right. | ||
| It feels like they're trying to weaken us, push the trans movement, you know, make men weaker. | ||
| It's hard to figure out what their agenda is. | ||
| I'm still trying to figure it out, but it seems like they're trying to destroy our country and Europe, you know, flooding in the migrants, giving them free homes when you have homeless. | ||
| I don't know if you saw that. We have homeless people here everywhere, and they're flooding in migrants, offering them free homes. | ||
| Like, how could that possibly do anything but to destroy America? | ||
| Yeah. Yeah. So you look at the stuff they're doing and like the defunding the police so we'd have to protect ourselves. | ||
| I never had guns. I went and bought a bunch of guns during... | ||
| I'm a fighter. I've always felt safe. | ||
| But when I saw the police were standing down and my neighborhood was getting looted and stuff, I went and, you know, you have to wait to get a gun. | ||
| So right away, my friends were like, hey, I need your gun. | ||
| I need your gun right now. I need a gun at my house right now. | ||
| I need to keep my family safe. | ||
| It's like... It was just crazy watching that in real time, being like, wow, the police are literally standing down, letting people riot, especially places like California. | ||
| They're taking our nicest neighborhoods, and the cops are just standing down, letting people come in and just steal, rob, beat people. | ||
| So seeing that, you're like, wow, the people in charge, they hate us. | ||
| I think that sort of sums it all up, right? | ||
| Wow, the people in charge really seem to hate us. | ||
| And you sort of have to ask why. | ||
| And it's almost bizarre to me that more people don't ask why. | ||
| I mean, the migrant thing alone, it's like, wait, so our government is taking our money to bring in foreigners to house them and pay for them when we have homeless, when we're struggling here? | ||
| This makes no sense unless you put in that paradigm of like, oh, the people in charge actually despise the people they're supposed to be serving. | ||
| Yeah. I don't know how someone can't look at this and be like somewhat of a conspiracy theorist. | ||
| Like, why are we going to let people legally cross our border, give them homes when we have starving poor people, war veterans that are homeless, and we're giving it to some guy that crosses the border. | ||
| It's just truly, it has to be trying to downfall the country. | ||
| And I don't, you know, people call me conspiracy theory, but I'm not going to say I know the answer because I don't. | ||
| I'm trying to figure it out. But something's clearly off. | ||
| No, you're just asking questions and that's all it takes sometimes because the answers are, well, they're disturbing. | ||
| We'll be right back with Jake Shields. | ||
| Don't go anywhere. All right, ladies and gentlemen, welcome back. | ||
| Jake Shields in studio with me. | ||
| Former UFC fighter at JakeShieldsAJJ on Twitter. | ||
| And boy, his Twitter. | ||
| Your Twitter, man, it's a controversial location. | ||
| Is there a little bit of you that... | ||
| That enjoys the drama, enjoys the, you know, making everybody tear their hair out and get mad. | ||
| I 95% put my real opinions on there. | ||
| Every now and again, I'll stoke something up a little bit. | ||
| I'll be a little bored. I'm like, I'll put something a little more extreme or just to rile people up. | ||
| It's just so easy and they get so mad. | ||
| Especially funny when I get a tweet that goes viral on left-wing Twitter. | ||
| That's when I love it. It's just like, just so much hate. | ||
| I'm like, oh, look at these dorks. | ||
| That's awesome. And you were talking in the last segment about just like, you just speak your mind. | ||
| You just say what you think. And it's easy to do that when you're like morally grounded. | ||
| You're like, I actually don't hate anybody. | ||
| I actually don't have hate in my heart. | ||
| So when I say stuff, you can say that it's hateful, but I know where I'm coming from. | ||
| And so you just speak your mind. | ||
| That's why I can do a live show three hours a day, no teleprompters. | ||
| It's just like... I'm not having to hide anything. | ||
| I'm not having to lie about what I believe. | ||
| And if that's my foundation, then I can just speak my mind and go off the top. | ||
| Everyone should live like we do. | ||
| Living a lie is not good. | ||
| It's not healthy. You don't feel good about yourself. | ||
| I live in San Francisco. People are always coming up, oh, I wish I could speak my mind. | ||
| I wish I could speak my mind. But the amount of people telling that, do you know how many people in this own city agree with you? | ||
| you because the amount of people are always coming to me, texting me secretly. | ||
| Some people are in the same group. | ||
| Like you realize some people in the same group are texting me too. | ||
| You guys could like talk to each other. | ||
| I'm not the only, I'm just the only one with the courage to speak my mind. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Why? | ||
| I mean, I guess they're just cowards. | ||
| I mean, does it really all just come down to cowardice? | ||
| I think so. People want to fit into the group and, like, say, because I live in San Francisco forever. | ||
| There's the group think of this is how we think. | ||
| This is how we think. But I jumped out of the group and started thinking differently, and I got very little backlash from it. | ||
| I was also, you know, a little unfair. | ||
| I was a situation, you know, known from fighting, so I had, like, extra respect. | ||
| Right. So maybe I'm coming from a slightly different position, but I was treated no different. | ||
| So everyone treated me just as good. | ||
| And a lot of people, like I said, are always coming up to me now, even more so now. | ||
| Initially, not as much, but all the time now. | ||
| People are always texting me things because they know how I think. | ||
| And they're like, you were right. | ||
| This is ridiculous. It's just interesting seeing how much has been shifting over the last year. | ||
| And that's a good point. That's what I want to talk about next. | ||
| I was going to ask you, you know, do you think it's different now than it was? | ||
| I mean, we've seen, as you pointed out, I mean, for you, it was COVID and Black Lives Matter. | ||
| I would love to know how many tens of millions of people this was a wake up call to them to see. | ||
| I mean, we went from the world government being a crazy conspiracy theory to the world government locking you in your home for two years. | ||
| So it's like this had to wake up a lot of people. | ||
| Yeah, no, all my friends thought I was crazy with the COVID thing originally, and Black Lives Matter, they thought I was being, like, way too extreme on it. | ||
| And now they're all, man, they're all pissed off because of all the crime, which was a direct result from Black Lives Matter, which I was telling them that's what's going to happen. | ||
| The cops were going to stop patrolling. | ||
| Obviously, right? And now those people, San Francisco, black people can pretty much do whatever they want. | ||
| Yeah. So the cops just kind of turn around and they let them out of jail. | ||
| Now they get arrested. So it's become, and again, it's a very small group of black people. | ||
| It's not black people. A lot of my best friends are black. | ||
| So you're careful when you talk about these racial issues because I judge everyone individually. | ||
| But the cops have given the black people free reign in San Francisco. | ||
| So a very small group of them just commit crimes over and over and over knowing they can get away with it. | ||
| And it's such a terrible, terrible situation. | ||
| Yeah. It hurts everyone. Yeah. | ||
| Yeah. Including the black people that live there, the ones that aren't criminals. | ||
| Of course. Yeah. It's like, all this seems so obvious to me, but yeah, you do have to explain it because people don't seem to get it. | ||
| And we always talk about the fact that you defund the police. | ||
| Obviously, the rich are still going to be able to pay for security. | ||
| They'll still be protected. | ||
| But now they want to take your guns. | ||
| They want to, in some places, I think it was Baltimore, where they're asking for federal troops to come in. | ||
| So it's like you got rid of the local cops that live in your neighborhood. | ||
| But the rich people still have protection. | ||
| You can't have guns. | ||
| You have to be totally unprotected. | ||
| I'm sure you saw in Oakland, the police were saying, have an air horn. | ||
| Use an air horn to scare away home invaders. | ||
| Yeah, not to call cops. It's gotten so bad at home invasions. | ||
| They say there's so many home invasions, get an air horn so they might scare it away and your neighbors know you're being robbed. | ||
| They also sent out a warning the other day being like, you might get carjacked now at all times of the day in all parts of Oakland, including the nice ones. | ||
| They didn't tell you what to do about it. They just warned you you might get carjacked at all times of the day. | ||
| Yeah, it's just completely insane. | ||
| So, I mean, I think it's almost like a survival instinct. | ||
| You have to wake up at a certain point. | ||
| At a certain point, you have to realize that—and it doesn't mean that you, therefore, are suddenly on the farthest end of the right wing where you go from, like, blah. | ||
| Black Lives Matter and defund the police to like, black people are incapable of civil... | ||
| It's like, no, there's a nuance here. | ||
| There is just reality. | ||
| And the reality is that there's a lot of criminality that needs to be dealt with. | ||
| Cops, while they do, you know, when they go over and above and beyond what's legal, they need to be punished. | ||
| They need to be held to account just like anybody else did. | ||
| They can't just kill criminals in the street, you know, execute them because they want to. | ||
| Like, there's a nuanced way of dealing with this. | ||
| And so I hope that by... | ||
| What you're doing and what we're doing, we can find some sort of middle ground that goes, we don't need to go from one side to the other, but we do need law and order. | ||
| We need to be able to walk our streets without being accosted. | ||
| We need to be able to go to sleep at night and not have to have an air horn next to our bed in case some dude breaks the window and decides to break in. | ||
| I mean, that seems so obvious to me. | ||
| Yeah, no, it's pure insanity. | ||
| And people there are talking about it and they're sick of the crime, but they're not really willing to make changes. | ||
| Their solution is vote in modern Democrats. | ||
| And I think that might be fine in 10 years, but right now I think they have to vote in some pretty hard— I think the only way to clean up San Francisco and Oakland, they've gone so far deteriorated, they need to vote in someone hard right like Giuliani and stuff. | ||
| They're not going to do it. But you're not going to clean up something that deteriorated with someone just slightly more conservative. | ||
| Right. And that's their answer. | ||
| And the city's just gone so far deteriorated. | ||
| You need to come in like hardcore. | ||
| Yeah. They're driving around in the middle of the day cutting off your Cadillac inverters. | ||
| You know, if you try to stop them, they shoot you. | ||
| They knock out windows literally in front of cops. | ||
| Cops can't pursue people. | ||
| Yeah. You can't do profiling, which profiling's a real thing. | ||
| Like, I grew up in a really shady white neighborhood. | ||
| I can see... I can spot the shady white people right away. | ||
| You also, you know, you can spot the shady black people. | ||
| Right. They see shady black people, they're literally not allowed to, like, to follow what they're doing when literally you can tell that's what they're doing, but they're not allowed to do that. | ||
| They can't pull cars over unless it's some kind of extreme crime. | ||
| So they've made it so they can't do anything to fight crime. | ||
| It also makes the cops kind of not want to do anything because the DA and Oakland, they just got rid of the DA in San Francisco, but they both said they wanted to put cops in jail. | ||
| So if cops did anything, the DA in San Francisco, his parents were in jail for killing two police. | ||
| Right. And so they were trying to overthrow the government for a communist revolution, for a black liberation army, and they were white. | ||
| And this guy ran an office saying he didn't think he wanted to make jails equitable and black people didn't belong in jail and won. | ||
| Yeah. They did get him out of San Francisco. | ||
| He was so crazy San Francisco even recalled him. | ||
| So it showed there's a little bit of like, oh man, we messed up. | ||
| Yeah. It'd be a slight direction the opposite way. | ||
| But the fact that they voted him in in the first place, it's like, what did you think was going to happen? | ||
| People don't believe you when you tell them that. | ||
| You have to Google it. You're like, no, they didn't want to try to overthrow the government. | ||
| He doesn't believe the same philosophy. | ||
| You're like, oh, wow, this is the DA? Yeah. | ||
| Yeah. Yeah, and as a cop, it's like, what, I'm going to go risk my life. | ||
| I'm going to go risk getting shot or stabbed or arrest this guy. | ||
| Just have him back on the street the next day because they drop his case, like, I'm not even going to bother. | ||
| And that's exactly what happened. | ||
| I have a ton of friends that were police there, and it's like, you get frustrated at the cops, but why would you when the guy's saying they want to put you in jail, they're going to let him out the next day. | ||
| Most of my cop friends actually either retired early or they transferred. | ||
| They can't get any good police there. | ||
| And that's another obvious consequence of defund the police. | ||
| It's like it's only going to make... | ||
| They're trying to solve certain problems, which there's a debate there, right? | ||
| There is police abuse. | ||
| There is unwarranted shootings. | ||
| That is a big problem. If you're going to have police, they have to be held to account. | ||
| But the problems that they're trying to solve only get worse as they let criminals out and allow this process to take place and allow the criminals really take prominence over everybody else. | ||
| I want to talk about... You know, the backlash to not just the Black Lives Matter and trans stuff and all this sort of stuff, but the way that the whole sort of culture seems to be shifting to the right. | ||
| And of course, this weekend has been a big case for that with Oliver Anthony. | ||
| And this song is just blown up out of nowhere. | ||
| I know a lot of people are talking about it. | ||
| I want to get your take in that on the other side. | ||
| We'll be back with Jake Shields. | ||
| Follow him on Twitter at jakeshieldsajj.com. | ||
| We'll be back in just a minute. | ||
| All right, welcome back, folks. I am sitting in studio with Jake Shields on Twitter, at JakeShieldsAJJ, just talking about just the craziness, man, the total insanity across the board here. | ||
| I mean, it doesn't seem to be getting any better, although it does seem like people are waking up. | ||
| A big story this weekend was, of course, Oliver Anthony just came out of nowhere with this very good country song, just him in his backyard pretty much singing into a microphone and has become the number one song across all genres on iTunes. | ||
| I mean, that's really something, isn't it? | ||
| I mean, that's not just a flash in the pan kind of thing. | ||
| It's the second time this summer that a... | ||
| Well, I guess classified as a right-wing protest song has been number one across the board. | ||
| And I even think that the number two and three positions are also now Oliver Anthony songs. | ||
| So a lot of support going out to him. | ||
| What's your take on this? Have you been following this whole saga? | ||
| Yeah, I mean, several things. First, I think I saw the song. | ||
| I'm like, wow, this is great. And I went and put it in a search on Spotify. | ||
| He had other songs. It's truly great. | ||
| Also, it just shows the power of Twitter. | ||
| Like, no record label, no airplay. | ||
| Like, we can control what we want now. | ||
| Someone tweeted it out and just blew up. | ||
| There's no way the record labels would have signed him or played him. | ||
| I also think it's a little funny calling him right-wing. | ||
| He talks about being working class against pedophiles. | ||
| Is being against pedophiles right-wing now? | ||
| It is. Not wanting kids to be molested as a right-wing point. | ||
| That's just pure insanity to me. | ||
| But no, this guy just seems like a truly genuine, authentic guy. | ||
| Just such a great story. I think somewhere I read, he just worked on getting, been struggling with alcoholism, gotten himself sober, you know, just gave himself up to God and then just blows up and Has this literally overnight sensation. | ||
| Yeah. Overnight, just... | ||
| And he's probably going to be here to stay. | ||
| I mean, a good chance. It's hard to say, is this like one thing or is he going to keep making good music? | ||
| But it seems... I know. It seems like great music he's making. | ||
| Yeah, but I hope he has sort of like the fortitude and the grounding to be able to handle it. | ||
| Because I can't imagine, you know, he's singing... | ||
| He goes to the farmers market and he's like, you know, I was here in June and there were 20 people watching me. | ||
| Now there's 10,000. I mean, that is a crazy thing to go through for anybody. | ||
| And yeah, I hope he's staying humble and able to manage this because there's going to be a lot of influence on him, good and bad, and a lot of people... | ||
| Trying to take advantage of him. | ||
| Everyone trying to suck money out of him. | ||
| Just suck you everywhere. Someone who's been famous. | ||
| You better learn to be a character judge really quick because everyone wants something out of you. | ||
| He seemed like a legitimately genuine guy. | ||
| He put out a video I saw and he was just like... | ||
| He was overwhelmed, but he's just like, man, I'm just so happy. | ||
| It's kind of unreal. I don't even know what to say. | ||
| Just thank you all. I'll stay there. | ||
| I'll stay there all night to meet all my fans if I want. | ||
| I can't believe this has happened to me. | ||
| The guy was in shock, but he looked just so genuinely happy and like a legitimately good dude. | ||
| Yeah, and legitimately didn't expect it. | ||
| Could you imagine? You put a little song out and then millions and millions of people seeing it, download the number one song. | ||
| I don't know his finances, but he doesn't look like a wealthy guy by any means. | ||
| I think his media account is like, ain't got a dollar, right? | ||
| You got a dollar now. | ||
| I'm thinking he's maybe not the wealthiest dude around, but he will be soon if he keeps this up. | ||
| And yeah, I can't imagine what it would be like to go through. | ||
| I mean, it's the dream, right? Literally overnight sensation. | ||
| Most people usually get famous. | ||
| They say overnight sensation, but that's usually after years of hard work. | ||
| I'm sure old years of hard work for him playing music. | ||
| But you usually don't blow up that fast. | ||
| Even the guys, they say blow up fast. | ||
| He literally blew up overnight. | ||
| And when that happens, I mean, this is like the story that the media should love. | ||
| They should be celebrating this. You know, they love the idea of the overnight success, the bombshell success, but only when it's their guy, only when it's a fabricated type of overnight success. | ||
| This is totally ground level, totally not astroturf, but, you know, actually grassroots. | ||
| And they don't like it, right? | ||
| You tweeted this out. | ||
| The media is the enemy of the people with this Rolling Stone article saying Right-wing influencers just found their favorite new country song. | ||
| I mean, they're blasting this. | ||
| They're saying, ah, you know, this guy actually sucks, and it's all Joe Ashter. | ||
| It's like, look, it's a good song. | ||
| It's an emotional song. | ||
| It hits people, you know, right in the heart. | ||
| And he talks about Jeffrey Epstein's Island in the song. | ||
| What's not to like about this? | ||
| So, I mean, the media's response to this. | ||
| What's your take on that? Being anti-pedophile is a right-wing. | ||
| It doesn't seem that right-wing to me. | ||
| Maybe a few little things are, but he's talking about being middle class, you know, trying to get sober. | ||
| There's some of his other songs, you know, just like the life struggles, the middle class. | ||
| How is that right-wing now? | ||
| That used to be like the left used to care about the middle class. | ||
| They don't now. They hate the middle class. | ||
| It's like this snobby, rich, rich ruling elite, and they manipulate the poor to vote for them, but they hate the poor and the middle class. | ||
| Yeah, to call this guy right-wing, he has a few things that were semi-right-wing in the song, but it's... | ||
| But he's clearly a working class man who's authentic, and just to bash him like that, it just shows, like I said, the media is the enemy of the people. | ||
| That's one thing I loved about Trump. | ||
| I knew the media was bad, but he woke me up to just how bad it was. | ||
| Okay, talk about that, because I've been an info warrior forever, so I loved seeing Trump go after the media. | ||
| But what was it about the media, just the way they covered Trump and just the way they treated him? | ||
| Yeah, and you kept calling them like liars. | ||
| And then I started doing a little more digging and things they would say and a little research and seeing how they were just flat out lying and manipulating and changing stories. | ||
| It wasn't just how they covered Trump. | ||
| That was part of it. I closely followed the Russian thing, and that was a complete lie. | ||
| I saw that early on. Great, great journalists like Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taliby were doing work on it, and I was following that close. | ||
| Now, Living San Francisco... Every single person was telling me, Russia, Russia, Russia. | ||
| And I'd be trying to show them this stuff. | ||
| And they would be like, Russia, Russia, Russia. | ||
| No one believed me. Right. | ||
| And now a lot of them do believe me later. | ||
| Because what's funny is one of my friends who used to have these Russia arguments for, he goes, hey, look at this awesome journalist I just found, Matt Talibi. | ||
| I'm like, you know, I sent you like 10 of his articles on the Russia thing. | ||
| He goes, oh. Okay, I've had that exact same experience. | ||
| What is that? Because I had it with the mask, where I'd had these arguments with people trying to explain to them, like, look, the mask doesn't work. | ||
| It's like trying to stop a mosquito with a chain-link fence. | ||
| I'd try to use all these things. Nothing. | ||
| I couldn't get anything through. And then, like, a year later, they're bringing me CNN articles going, you know when the masks don't work? | ||
| And it's like, do you not remember I told you this? | ||
| Like, what's going on? Yeah, that was the mask when the guy sent me the journalist who I sent, like, Tanner Martin. | ||
| He was one of the guys that I was reading his stuff for the Russia thing. | ||
| I'm like, I've sent you this guy's articles multiple times. | ||
| He's like, oh. It's weird how that happens. | ||
| It's so true. And just with the Trump thing, you're right. | ||
| I mean, the media really shot themselves in the foot with that. | ||
| I wasn't even a big Trump supporter. | ||
| You know, 2016, 2015, I wasn't a big Trump supporter. | ||
| I liked him, but then I would just hear the things that people said about him. | ||
| I would just be like, that's a lie. | ||
| And I have to confront. | ||
| I almost convinced myself just arguing with these people going, look, I'm not a Trump supporter, but you're lying right now. | ||
| And the media is lying about this. | ||
| And then you're making the arguments. | ||
| You're like... Dude, this Trump guy's awesome, actually. | ||
| I think Trump's hilarious. | ||
| There's things I like about him. But I was never a hardcore Trump supporter, and still not. | ||
| There are things I like about him. I mean, I would vote for him over any Democrat. | ||
| Maybe not RFK. I'm unsure on that one. | ||
| But people think you're a hardcore Trump supporter when you're saying, no, he didn't do that. | ||
| To say he didn't do the Russian thing doesn't mean you're a hardcore supporter. | ||
| You're a cult member. All kinds of things. | ||
| They just lie about them non-stop. | ||
| Especially, like, at least you're living somewhere. | ||
| I was pretty liberal here, too. But I was, like, the most liberal place. | ||
| And it was just Trump derangement syndrome was out of control. | ||
| Yeah. So I found myself in way too many arguments. | ||
| But slowly, you know, I won a few people over. | ||
| A few of my friends became, like, more hardcore, way more hardcore Trump supporters than me now. | ||
| Oh, that's great. That's always a fun experience, too. | ||
| I've had that as well. | ||
| You know, you go from, like, Arguing like, oh man, jet fuel doesn't melt steel beams. | ||
| And they're like, you're a crazy show. | ||
| That's conspiracy theory. Suddenly they discover fuel. | ||
| Way more hardcore Trump than me sitting in all this stuff. | ||
| Like, he's hilarious. I'm like, I guess I won you over maybe a little too hard. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, exactly. You've surpassed me now. | ||
| But, you know, the media has really brought this on themselves. | ||
| The authorities have really brought this on themselves. | ||
| The other thing that we've been talking a lot about today and yesterday is like the Maui fires. | ||
| And, you know, God bless people affected by that. | ||
| And they always try to pretend like by asking questions about this, you're somehow disrespecting them. | ||
| I think it's the opposite. I want to know what happened because if there's a case to get justice here, then we need to find out what went on. | ||
| But, you know, they're mad that people are asking questions about this. | ||
| They're mad that people are questioning the authorities. | ||
| It's like, what do you expect when everything you hear is lies? | ||
| Of course you're going to question everything. | ||
| Yeah, you're going to start questioning. I don't know a bunch about the Maui fires, but for a fire to be that big in Hawaii where it's extremely wet and rains all the time is a little weird. | ||
| There's usually not big wildfires in Hawaii. | ||
| Maui is somewhere I've been quite a bit. | ||
| That area was absolutely beautiful. | ||
| It's devastating. That's like a historic town that burned down. | ||
| The death toll is, I don't know the exact death toll. | ||
| I think yesterday I saw it was 80, but tons of missing people still. | ||
| Because lots of people flew to, went to the ocean, and the currents there are really, they can pull you out to sea, so it's... | ||
| I didn't even think about that. Yeah, no, the water, I don't know upticketer spot, but a lot of these places in Hawaii, the water will start pulling you out, so it's extremely common to drown there. | ||
| Oh, my God. Tons of people, there could be, you know, hundreds, if not more, people that drowned, which, I mean, I would take my chance with the water over the fire, too. | ||
| You can't imagine the fires coming in, you have to decide. | ||
| Especially some people with kids, they had to go in the water with their kids, just such a... | ||
| Such a sad, devastating... | ||
| Plus, I've been to that spot so many times. | ||
| It really hits you. You're just like, wow, this is such a beautiful spot. | ||
| Imagine the fire flaming in, all the death. | ||
| Horrifying, man. There's probably going to be hundreds that died, I'm thinking. | ||
| Well, I think the current count's like 96, but they've only gone through 3% of the affected area. | ||
| So there are guesses up to 1,000 people. | ||
| Who knows, man? But it is horrifying. | ||
| More on the other side with Jake Shields. | ||
| Talked about questioning the media, the authorities, the liars. | ||
| You know, the liars. Welcome back, folks. | ||
| Man, time flies. We're in our last segment with Jake Shields. | ||
| You can follow him on Twitter at JakeShieldsAJJ. | ||
| And, of course, support us by going to InfoWarsStore.com. | ||
| It's the only way that we get any funding whatsoever. | ||
| It is the Christmas and August sales event, so I hope that you can support us in everything that we do, including getting these incredible, great, very interesting guests. | ||
| And you really have had an interesting path. | ||
| A lot of people that we have on, obviously... | ||
| Start in politics, they get everything in politics. | ||
| You started in fighting, and I mean, obviously it was never like a design for you to be like, I will be political now, right? | ||
| It's just you start saying things that you think are obvious, and suddenly you're a right-wing Twitter troll, according to the media. | ||
| Before talking politics and Twitter, it was literally just like all hate. | ||
| I would get like everyone unfollowing me, like no traction. | ||
| But then it started blowing up, you know, like Mike Cernovich started retweeting me. | ||
| Okay. He gets a lot of criticism, but great guy. | ||
| He started retreating a bunch of my tweets and then it started slowly growing. | ||
| And then it's like now I have like a massive, massive following Twitter over, you know, the last couple of years. | ||
| Yeah, that's awesome. Pretty cool how you can, well, Twitter's literally paying me now too. | ||
| Yeah. And that's another awesome thing. | ||
| What is your take on Twitter overall, Elon Musk? | ||
| I mean, I've been really happy with what he's done so far. | ||
| I'm suspicious of the new CEO, but, and I'm not, you know, I'm not about to, people act like, with Trump and Elon, both of them, they act like you're like, somehow like worshipping them, just being like, I like what he's doing here. | ||
| I like what he's doing. I'm not about to give him my firstborn son, but, you know. | ||
| I'm overall very much pro-Elon. | ||
| I know he gets a lot of people thinking he's like, oh, some kind of government this. | ||
| I don't think that's the case. Could I be wrong? | ||
| Of course I could be wrong. But I think he has good intentions. | ||
| I think he's legit. That's my opinion. | ||
| I don't know if I'm right. | ||
| I think it's great that he decided to just share half his money with us. | ||
| That's amazing. Luckily, I'm doing well financially anyways, but then to get given an extra few thousand dollars just randomly, that's amazing. | ||
| I always want extra money. | ||
| I'll find something fun to do. | ||
| It's great. Elon seems like a good guy to me. | ||
| The few guys I haven't met that I would like to meet, I probably will at some point, knowing Joe Rogan. | ||
| He's in Austin, isn't he? Yeah, being in Austin, I'll probably get to meet him at some point. | ||
| Tell him I say hi if you ever see him. | ||
| I'll let him know. I'll watch your show. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. Please do. | ||
| Come on. You never know. Ethan's the kind of guy who will do what he's not supposed to do. | ||
| I would love that. | ||
| I'd love to talk to him. Because a lot of our audience is very suspicious of him. | ||
| And he's got this thing about trolling the media where he's wearing devil costumes. | ||
| And there's some stuff that makes you go... | ||
| What's this guy? Is he just trolling or is there something to this? | ||
| But so far, the actual outcome of his actions have been extremely good. | ||
| So I'm loving it. | ||
| And he talks about stuff that you're not supposed to talk about. | ||
| He talks about the genocide going on in South Africa. | ||
| You know, he just says things that you're not supposed to say, according to the mainstream media. | ||
| So how can you not like a guy like that? | ||
| How crazy is it you're not supposed to talk about the genocide in South Africa because white people being genocide? | ||
| That is pure insanity. | ||
| Totally, totally insane. | ||
| Oh, it's white people being genocided. | ||
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We can't talk about that. Yeah, no, you have to be for it, I guess. | |
| But that's what they do, isn't it? | ||
| I mean, they actually claim that it's like white supremacy. | ||
| I mean, replacement migration is another thing that they bring up where it's like, no, there's UN documents called replacement migration. | ||
| I mean, it's a plan. It's happening right now. | ||
| Look around the world. It's not racist to not want to change your culture too quick. | ||
| A lot of my best friends are minorities, but you have to bring them in slowly, adjust them slowly, Adjust them. | ||
| You can't bring in thousands at once, put them on the same area. | ||
| They don't adjust. Instead, they change our culture. | ||
| Yeah, absolutely. And to me, it's just like there should be respect both ways. | ||
| I wouldn't want any other country to experience demographic replacement. | ||
| I don't want another country to be overwhelmed by foreigners coming in. | ||
| So do we not also deserve that same, it's not even generosity, just basic respect? | ||
| No, of course we do. To call that racism is complete madness. | ||
| We're not going to call Japan racist for not letting us in. | ||
| We're not going to call China racist. It's like countries have borders and laws and stuff for a reason. | ||
| Immigration needs to be done slowly. | ||
| We need to bring people that add to the country, not, you know, take from it. | ||
| Not people that are coming in and giving free homes, free welfare, free phones. | ||
| It's, like I said earlier, it seems like they're potentially trying to destroy the country. | ||
| Yeah, I don't know how you can come up with anything else. | ||
| Especially, you know, you tweet a little bit about... | ||
| Just like the pedophilia stuff, the transgender, I don't even like talking about it, but we have to because it's such a prominent thing now. | ||
| Yeah, it's just, you know, people that have kids, you know, if you have kids and, you know, nieces and nephews, you know, we were both talking about in the break how we love kids, how great it is having kids and then babies around, and they're just trying to push this evilness on them. | ||
| Yep. Like we were saying earlier, the gender difference is so obvious between boys and girls. | ||
| Boys are like, girls are playing with dolls, acting all calm. | ||
| Sons are leaping off things. | ||
| Smashing stuff. Yeah, it's just the insanity of the difference. | ||
| And obviously there's, you know, some boys and girls are different. | ||
| But as a whole, boys are maniacs when they're young. | ||
| And girls are just so, so different. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. It's going to be like gender isn't real. | ||
| It's complete madness. It's total nonsense. | ||
| And then there's this weird, like, inversion that takes place where they went from, like, hey, just because you're a girl doesn't mean you have to play with dolls and wear a dress. | ||
| And it's like, yeah, that's true. And now it's been inverted to where it's like, oh, that boy is playing with a doll? | ||
| Let's cut his dick off. He's going to be a girl. | ||
| You know, and it's just like, whoa, whoa, wait, what? | ||
| This is completely the opposite of what you were saying before. | ||
| It's, like, truly demonic. You know, I've always believed in God. | ||
| I never really believed in demons and devil and stuff. | ||
| But I started seeing this, and I'm like, is this crazy people, or is there freaking demons at work? | ||
| Right. It's so evil what they're trying to do to kids, to try to tell them to live in the wrong body. | ||
| There's nothing more evil than that, you know? | ||
| And they get them when they're young and confused. | ||
| We all went through a phase, you know, when you're hitting through puberty and stuff, you're confused. | ||
| Especially the kids that aren't fitting in, they're the victims. | ||
| They find them, they can find a community, the teachers treat them better. | ||
| I mean, my daughter was in Marin, one of the most liberal schools ever. | ||
| And I noticed a lot of the kids that were doing it were the uncool kids, some of the girls, they started to identify as trans, and all of a sudden they have communities. | ||
| So you see how it takes effect in these schools. | ||
| The teachers start treating them better. | ||
| It's one of those things I think is, you know, it's truly, truly just evil. | ||
| I don't think everyone pushing it realizes the evil they're pushing, but it's just, it's sick. | ||
| Yeah, that's interesting. I think one of the main tactics that the people doing all of this have is they take advantage of people. | ||
| They take advantage of people's good nature. | ||
| People don't want to be hateful. | ||
| They don't hate each other. | ||
| They don't want people to suffer. | ||
| So if you can take advantage of that and suddenly you're pushing refugees and you're pushing transgender stuff, you're taking advantage of that, which is... | ||
| It is just evil. I mean, there's no other word for it. | ||
| And then, you know, I always think about, you know, my wife was sort of a tomboy in elementary school. | ||
| She was sort of a late bloomer. | ||
| So she had a really difficult middle school. | ||
| And I just shudder to think that if she'd gone through that 20 years later, there'd be teachers there going, oh, we can help you. | ||
| We can fix you. Your problems come with us because who knows what would have happened. | ||
| It's, I mean, evil is really, you hit it on the head because there's no other word for it. | ||
| Especially the age they get them. | ||
| It's that age where we all go through an awkward phase where you're trying to figure out who you are. | ||
| And if you have someone, you know, oh, I'm playing with boys. | ||
| Oh, you're actually a boy. We can give this operation where you chop off your breasts. | ||
| Crazy. You see some of these detransition people. | ||
| I hope they sue the hell out of these schools, put them out of business. | ||
| I would like to see these doctors in jail personally myself. | ||
| I think what they've done is just so beyond reasonable. | ||
| They belong to be in prison. | ||
| I really could not agree with you more. | ||
| And that's the thing, man. | ||
| When are we going to get our head on straight? | ||
| Like, this really can't go on forever. | ||
| Yeah, this is extremely unpopular, too. | ||
| Like I said, because I come from the most liberal places, and the trans and sports and this stuff is extremely unpopular with liberals, but they're so damn cowardly and won't say it out loud. | ||
| All the people will be like, they're pushing this on my kids. | ||
| They're mad about it. I'm like, go down to the school board meeting. | ||
| Go argue with them. Everyone thinks like you do. | ||
| You guys are just being cowards, but... | ||
| They're just so scared to be called transphobic. | ||
| It's weird how they make up these stupid words. | ||
| You're transphobic. You're racist. | ||
| You're a Nazi. These words have become completely joked, completely meaningless. | ||
| I know the first time people call those things, they got a little offended. | ||
| Like, what? I can't believe I just got called a racist. | ||
| This, that. But I know in my heart I'm not a racist. | ||
| I treat everyone equally. Yeah, call me whatever the hell you want. | ||
| I know who I am. If I don't like you, it doesn't matter if you're white, black, Asian. | ||
| I either like you or I don't. It has nothing to do with people's race. | ||
| Yeah, 100%. | ||
| And that's really what it takes. | ||
| It takes that confidence. It takes that strength. | ||
| And that's why they want people not confident, not independent. | ||
| They want people needing everybody around them to like them because they're scared and they need that. | ||
| Man, when you have a family, when you have testosterone, I don't know what it is, you can break out of that system and say whatever the hell you want and even take the consequences and wear it like a badge of honor. | ||
| Yeah, I know. I think you can be extremely, if you're not that confident, someone calls you racist, it can hurt quite a bit. | ||
| I remember the first time someone called me racist, I'm just like, what? | ||
| It hurts a little bit. Right. Then I realized these people, they're not authentic. | ||
| They're full of it. They're just throwing these buzzwords out trying to shut you up. | ||
| And, you know, me and you are also both be fortunate. | ||
| We're self-employed. So sometimes I get maybe a little too harsh on people where they've got to feed their families. | ||
| So I am really harsh on people all the time. | ||
| And I think, you know, you've got to feed your families. | ||
| So I kind of get it. But you also can't be a coward. | ||
| We need people to... | ||
| That's why I started speaking my mind. | ||
| My manager's like, hey, you can't do this. | ||
| It's going to cost you money. I'm like, I don't care. | ||
| I have to speak my mind. | ||
| I can't be a coward with all this craziness going on. | ||
| Well, that's awesome. I know I've enjoyed your... | ||
| I've never followed fighting, so the first I heard about you was on your Twitter, and it's been... | ||
| Let's just say your Twitter's been on fire recently, shall we say. | ||
| And really entertaining stuff and great. | ||
| And I know you are inspiring people to stand up against the insanity and fight back in some way. | ||
| So I just want to encourage you to continue doing that. | ||
| Again, folks, you can follow him on Twitter at Jake Shields, AJJ. What does AJJ stand for? | ||
| American Jiu-Jitsu. American Jiu-Jitsu, awesome. | ||
| Started Japanese Jiu-Jitsu originally, then Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, and I took it and made it better. | ||
| Well, there you go. All right. American Jiu-Jitsu. | ||
| So, Jake at Jake Shields, AJJ. Thanks so much for coming on today, Jake. | ||
| Great talking. Absolutely. | ||
| Very glad we ran into each other. | ||
| Glad you were able to make it in studio today. | ||
| And just keep it up, man. | ||
| We can't let these crazy people win. | ||
| We need strong people out there just saying what's true. | ||
| It's not that hard. Yeah, I think everyone needs to start speaking up to their friends, family. | ||
| I think it's so important. I know it can be hard, but if you're authentic, people respect you. | ||
| I've lost zero friends over this. | ||
| Yeah. I've lost friends, but good riddance to them. | ||
| They weren't friends anyway if they're going to drop me over just loving humanity and wanting people to be free. | ||
| All right, that's it for us, folks. Stay tuned. | ||
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