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| As you know, the globalists have been trying to slowly drain the U.S. economy and transfer power to their international organizations really since the 1980s. | ||
| It's been accelerated. | ||
| It's a cloud and pivot strategy. | ||
| Make us dependent on them. | ||
| They've done it to Europe as well. | ||
| They do it to a lot of third world countries where they make them export all their food and then import food back in. | ||
| They do it in Eastern Europe to Romania. | ||
| That's a slave bastion of the EU. | ||
| The EU just canceled their election winner and banned him from running in the new election. | ||
| The big thing they're doing has been trying to do put options and betting against the stock market to try to crash it and blame Trump's tariffs on it. | ||
| That hasn't completely worked, so they're trying to crash Tesla as well right now, and that's getting some traction. | ||
| If they can get Musk, they can get the next person, the next group, and get us all. | ||
| We've got to hang together, hang separate. | ||
| But this big Zero Hedge article is so critical from today. | ||
| This has never happened before. | ||
| The U.S. stock market is now officially hated. | ||
| This is not an opinion. | ||
| Investors are voting with their cash. | ||
| According to the Bank of America Fund Manager Survey, U.S. stocks just experienced their largest drop in capital allocation in history. | ||
| See for yourself. | ||
| Investors are fleeing the U.S. in droves and piling into European stocks and not by a low. | ||
| And a lot of it's globalists running with their stolen money as well to try to escape indictment. | ||
| So Trump's gotten $5 trillion committed to be invested here in the next two years. | ||
| Over a trillion's actually come in, but he is in a race against time against these people. | ||
| How skewed is the pro-Europe, anti-U.S. | ||
| trade? | ||
| The ratio between S&P 500 and the Europe ETF, IEV, is at its 40-month simple moving average, the same as the 200-week simple moving average. | ||
| Over the last 15 years, this... | ||
| has marked the bottom of the European equities' outperformance relative to their U.S. counterparts. | ||
| Sure, the time might be difficult, and we're about to enter the golden age of European stocks, but given what is happening there from the macro perspective, is this really something you want to bet on? | ||
| Between this and the historically oversold nature of the stock market, it is highly likely the lows are in, or about to be, and the U.S. stocks are... | ||
| Hated, oversold, underallocated, and due to mounts. | ||
| Put simply, the odds favor a rally, not a crash. | ||
| But it goes on. | ||
| They are trying to crash the market. | ||
| They're playing games that when they drive it down, they're going to come rushing back in. | ||
| I see all this as a major buying opportunity. | ||
| Not that the stock market isn't overvalued, an overvalued there, an overvalued even worse in China. | ||
| The point is you've got to bet on America. | ||
| You've got to bet on Elon. | ||
| They were hoping the dragon rescue of the astronauts would fail. | ||
| We got to bet on ourselves. | ||
| And we have the initiative and the massive investment flooding back in and the energy production is expanding. | ||
| And the egg prices and fuel prices already dropping is very, very exciting. | ||
| I told you a year and a half ago, gold and silver would explode. | ||
| It has. | ||
| I talked to a lot of economists. | ||
| I do a lot of my own research. | ||
| And I see a lot of big institutions buying gold. | ||
| I see gold flooding back in the United States. | ||
| Some big moves are coming. | ||
| But their plan is to crash the markets. | ||
| There may be a big correction. | ||
| And then, clearly, they're going to try everybody to panic and throw Trump overboard. | ||
| Ludwig has said that may happen. | ||
| We may avoid it. | ||
| But regardless, it's a buying opportunity because the overall technicals, the overall facts, that there's been one-sided trade deals 90% on average against us. | ||
| You know, meaning that these countries sell massively to us and we barely sell to them. | ||
| But Mexico and Canada, it's like 5% that they buy from us each on average. | ||
| Close to 90% with both of their goods are sold to us. | ||
| So they need us. | ||
| We don't need them. | ||
| They can play some games for a while, jerk our chain, but we have to understand that's the death throes of these groups and these organizations. | ||
| But needless to say, they tried to kill Trump. | ||
| They're trying everything else they can. | ||
| They're trying to expand the war in Russia to full World War III in Ukraine. | ||
| So we're not out of the woods yet, but we are in the poll position. | ||
| We are winning. | ||
| And remember... | ||
| If they can crash Tesla, which they're trying to do, and Jimmy Kimmel's up there making jokes about, oh, please don't hurt Tesla's, ha ha ha, everybody laughs. | ||
| And the view's saying Trump's killing people, which he's not, so we've got to be ready to fight and die to fight him. | ||
| They want violence. | ||
| It's all they've got. | ||
| And that means economic violence, that means physical violence, that means intimidation, and you don't give in to a terrorist. | ||
| Got all this swatting of myself, but the police just came and checked. | ||
| It happens all the time. | ||
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They don't come to the office, they weren't having so much, but they swatted out and then swatted in case guys are another group | |
| still. | ||
| It's Thursday, March 20th, in the year of our Lord, 2025. | ||
| And you're listening to The American Journal with your host, Harrison Smith. | ||
| Watch it live right now at band.video. | ||
| I think it's time to blow this scene. | ||
| Get everybody in the stuff together. | ||
| Okay, three, two, one. | ||
| Let's jam. | ||
| Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| Welcome to The American Journal. | ||
| I'm your host, Harrison Smith. | ||
| Hope everybody had a good night last night. | ||
| Nobody got their door kicked in, as far as I know. | ||
| Which is nice. | ||
| You know, I was thinking about it, though. | ||
| And, you know, I was texting with my family about the fact that Owen got swatted and everybody's getting swatted. | ||
| And I was thinking about that this morning, waking up and saying and thinking to myself, like, you know, you need to text everybody. | ||
| Nobody got swatted last night, did they? | ||
| I was thinking about what a difference it is from this time four years ago. | ||
| When the people having their doors kicked in by police, it wasn't because of a fake phone call. | ||
| It was because they were rounding up patriots after January 6th. | ||
| And that's a nice difference, isn't it? | ||
| Isn't it nicer to have fake SWAT teams called by our enemies trying to trick the police rather than the police being ordered by the FBI to kick in our doors and haul us away for our peaceful protest? | ||
| We can always look on the bright side of things today. | ||
| But it's a similar feeling. | ||
| But it is sort of a similar feeling. | ||
| After all, we didn't do anything wrong on January 6th. | ||
| Didn't stop us from being targets. | ||
| We didn't do anything wrong now. | ||
| Didn't stop us from being targets. | ||
| So, our enemies just love sending the police after us. | ||
| That's what we're learning. | ||
| One way or another. | ||
| We do have some updates to that. | ||
| I'll show you a video from Owen yesterday where he got some information from some of the higher-ups. | ||
| This is being looked at by the FBI. | ||
| I spent pretty much the whole day yesterday talking about the swatting events as well as the terroristic events, the attacks on Teslas and the pattern of behavior that we see from the Democrats of funding these well-oiled operations. | ||
| Whose intended purpose is in fact the opposite of what the people involved think it is. | ||
| With the Friends of Democracy documents. | ||
| So I didn't cover a lot of breaking news. | ||
| So I guess it's kind of convenient that today there's not a lot of huge breaking news. | ||
| Sort of a slow news day. | ||
| We do have developments in Ukraine and Russia. | ||
| We can talk about what's going on under the pyramid. | ||
| That's fascinating. | ||
| They've done new SAR scans, which are deep penetrating audio radar scans underneath the pyramids and have found some pretty insane, pretty inexplicable and under normal history impossible to figure out things underneath the pyramids. | ||
| So we might look at that too. | ||
| It might be a... | ||
| Well, a power generator. | ||
| Just like the schizos have always said. | ||
| We might get into that as well. | ||
| I do want to take your call today, and we'll be joined by Tiffany Cianci. | ||
| I think that's how we pronounce it. | ||
| Tiffany Cianci. | ||
| She's the woman from the video I played yesterday talking about the massive financial bubble set to pop at a moment's notice. | ||
| That, of course, relates to what Alex was talking about in that first five-minute segment. | ||
| Economic warfare soon to be waged against the people of the United States. | ||
| We're going to get into all of that and more. | ||
| Stay with us. | ||
| First, we'll begin as we do every day with our daily dispatch. | ||
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First, we'll begin as we do every day with our daily dispatch. | |
| All right, here it is, folks, your Daily Dispatch for Thursday, the 20th of March, 2025. | ||
| FBI investigates attacks on Tesla dealerships and cars amid Musk protests. | ||
| The FBI is investigating these attacks targeting Tesla dealerships and cars. | ||
| And related swatting incidents, Bureau Deputy Director Dan Bongino said Wednesday night. | ||
| Here's why it matters, according to Axios. | ||
| There's been a spate of such incidents that President Trump and other administrations have denounced as acts of domestic terrorism amid hashtag Tesla takedown protests in the role of Tesla CEO Elon Musk in the Doge-driven cuts to the federal workforce and agencies. | ||
| Attorney General Pam Bondi has threatened severe consequences for anybody involved in vandalizing Tesla vehicles. | ||
| Meanwhile, Musk's role as senior advisor to the president appears to have hit the company's sales in the first quarter this year, and some Tesla owners have posted bumper stickers on their cars distancing themselves from the billionaire. | ||
| This is a bizarre situation for the left to be in. | ||
| They aren't used to having a corporation that doesn't align exactly with their ideals. | ||
| They're shocked and confused at how to react when corporations... | ||
| Aren't shoving rainbows down your throat. | ||
| So they're boycotting Tesla. | ||
| And I'll show you some memes that highlight the liberal mindset in this regard. | ||
| I wish I had it right now. | ||
| I'll show you later. | ||
| I don't want to just describe it to you. | ||
| It's a meme. | ||
| I'll show it to you later. | ||
| But they're idiots. | ||
| Long story short, these people are idiots and they literally think that boycotting Bud Light Is exactly the same as torching Teslas by the dozens. | ||
| They're like, what's the difference? | ||
| You boycotted Bud Light? | ||
| And we're attacking people who own Teslas. | ||
| When you do it, it's fine. | ||
| When we do it, it's domestic terrorism. | ||
| It's like, well, when we do it, we just don't buy the product. | ||
| When you do it, you have Molotov cocktails. | ||
| Yeah, one is domestic terror. | ||
| The other is a boycott, you absolute morons. | ||
| More on that later. | ||
| Israel continued to strike Gaza last night with babies and mothers among those killed. | ||
| This is from NBC News. | ||
| At least 45 people were killed in airstrikes in Gaza late Wednesday and early Thursday as the resumption of Israel's ground and air offensive left a trail of destruction observed by NBC's news team on the ground. | ||
| Oh my God. | ||
| Does Israel know that there's a news team they haven't killed yet in Gaza? | ||
| Are they aware of this? | ||
| They would not be happy to find out that there is a... | ||
| Living news team on the ground in Gaza. | ||
| Expect more airstrikes very shortly to take care of this little oversight. | ||
| The Israeli Defense Force launched fresh strikes across the Gaza Strip, killing dozens of people, according to two hospitals in the southern city of Khan Yunus. | ||
| More than 30 of those killed were brought to the city's European hospital, while 13 were taken to Nasser Hospital, officials told NBC News. | ||
| One family saw 12 of its members killed, including several children. | ||
| The strikes hit multiple homes in the middle of the night, with children among those killed as they slept. | ||
| The Associated Press separately reported. | ||
| And if you think that's brutal and unnecessary and just a continuation of really just senseless violence, don't blame the Israelis. | ||
| It was probably an AI. | ||
| It was probably just an AI telling them what to do. | ||
| So blame the AI. | ||
| I mean, sure, it's programmed specifically to target homes at night when the family is there, but... | ||
| That's just how it was programmed. | ||
| You can't blame AI for that. | ||
| So we're not blaming anything on anybody. | ||
| It just happens. | ||
| Finally, or next, we have this. | ||
| Trump offers to take control of Ukraine's nuclear plants and call with Zelensky. | ||
| Donald Trump just told Volodymyr Zelensky Wednesday that the United States could own and run Ukraine's nuclear power plants as part of his latest bid to secure a ceasefire in Russia's invasion of its neighbor. | ||
| The Ukrainian president said following their call that Kiev was ready to pause attacks on Russian energy network and infrastructure a day after Vladimir Putin agreed to halt similar strikes on Ukraine. | ||
| Zelensky also said he discussed Trump's power plant takeover move. | ||
| The fighting, of course, continues as the ever-elusive peace agreement has yet to be reached. | ||
| And some of the videos coming out are absolutely crazy. | ||
| There was a Russian airfield that got hit where Putin houses nuclear bombers with a huge mushroom cloud flying into the air following it. | ||
| I believe I have a video of this. | ||
| Clip number 19. This is Russian Telegram Channel's report this morning that Ingalls 2 Air Base, home to Russia's TU-95 and TU-160 strategic bombers. | ||
| Let's go ahead and watch that video now. | ||
| It's a big old mushroom cloud, that's for sure. | ||
| And we don't think this is a nuclear explosion, but it's certainly a gigantic bomb. | ||
| And it was a place where Russia stores its nukes. | ||
| So again, we're still very much in the danger zone when it comes to Ukraine and Russia. | ||
| But there are pretty much daily advancements with concessions being made on both sides and demands being made on both sides. | ||
| A wider ceasefire remains elusive with the Kremlin leader insisting in his own call with Trump on Tuesday that the West first stop all military aid to Ukraine. | ||
| So, slowly but surely, peace seems to be being cobbled together between Ukraine and Russia, but we're still very much at risk. | ||
| And Europe is still acting like They have the ability to do anything about this. | ||
| They don't, but the latest from France is that France is delivering either pamphlets warning their people how to survive a nuclear war or handing out kits to every civilian in France with food and iodine and other stuff to deal with a major military event in the near future. | ||
| Again, they're still acting like they even have a say in any of this, but they don't. | ||
| But, you know, that hasn't stopped them before from doing things that are utterly suicidal. | ||
| It's kind of their whole gig. | ||
| It's kind of what they do is kill themselves in a variety of different ways. | ||
| And we'll get back to that. | ||
| We'll talk a little bit about Europe today. | ||
| Meanwhile, back in the States, Judge warns of consequences if Trump administrations violate deportation order. | ||
| Judge has extended the deadline for details on deportation flights. | ||
| This is information that's being denied from him from the Trump administration. | ||
| Trump administration may invoke state secrets doctrine, and Trump has called for the impeachment of Judge Boasberg. | ||
| The Trump administration could face consequences if it violated the judge's order temporarily blocking the deportation of hundreds of Venezuelan migrants, the judge said on Wednesday, even as he gave the government more time to elaborate on the expulsions. | ||
| Washington-based U.S. District Judge James Boasberg said the administration could choose to invoke the state rights doctrine, state secrets doctrine, which protects sensitive national security information from being disclosed in civil litigation and explains why it was doing so rather than provide details on deportation flights. | ||
| The idea that they would even have a say in this is kind of ridiculous. | ||
| These are not American citizens. | ||
| These are foreign invaders. | ||
| And, you know, they've admitted now, basically, the Trump administration admitted that they're doing exactly... | ||
| I mean, when I first heard about the idea to store people in El Salvador, to keep people in prison in El Salvador, I said not only does it make sense from a deal-making perspective, we don't want to have to pay for these people. | ||
| Instead, we can pay El Salvador a much smaller amount. | ||
| To house them. | ||
| But this would be a very convincing argument for self-deportation. | ||
| And that's exactly what it is. | ||
| And it makes sense. | ||
| Hey, you broke into our country. | ||
| You criminal aliens. | ||
| Do not belong here. | ||
| Do not have permission to be here. | ||
| And we're going to remove you. | ||
| And we'll move you to a brutal El Salvadorian prison. | ||
| Or you can just go home. | ||
| You can just go home. | ||
| I mean, it's really... | ||
| It's like if you're really concerned about being sent to an El Salvadorian prison, you should probably go home. | ||
| Just go home then. | ||
| If that's the concern, then go home. | ||
| It's very easy. | ||
| It's very simple. | ||
| They'll pay for you to do it. | ||
| They'll provide you a path home. | ||
| You just have to sign up on the CBP1 app that you use to break into this country. | ||
| So go home. | ||
| What is the problem? | ||
| I mean, seriously, what is the problem? | ||
| If you don't want to be sent to El Salvadorian prison, then get out of our country. | ||
| So the people literally staying here, refusing to leave, and then acting surprised when they are sent to El Salvador. | ||
| Just go home. | ||
| Just go home. | ||
| It's very simple. | ||
| Go home. | ||
| Finally, we have this. | ||
| Major protest in Jerusalem as Netanyahu seeks to fire Shin Bet's chief who renews Gaza war. | ||
| Twelve people have been arrested as protesters clash with police and block roads. | ||
| Activists demand return of hostages. | ||
| In rage against plans to renew judicial overhaul and dismiss Attorney General, anti-government protesters gathered around a bonfire in Aza Road in Jerusalem near Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's residence before police began using a water cannon and physical violence to disperse the crowds. | ||
| Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched into Jerusalem on Wednesday morning in a renewed outburst of rage against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government's efforts to remove key security and judicial officials and renew highly controversial legislation to increase political power over the judiciary. | ||
| Following the collapse of the Gaza ceasefire. | ||
| And again, we can get a little bit more into this. | ||
| Later we'll talk about Israel. | ||
| Netanyahu came out with a very funny statement to me. | ||
| Saying that the deep state is at work in Israel. | ||
| Like the deep state isn't just in America. | ||
| It's got me in its clutches too. | ||
| It's like, Benjamin Netanyahu? | ||
| Like, what is this? | ||
| I'm sorry, what? | ||
| I'm sorry. | ||
| Do you not know you're head of the deep state? | ||
| Are you not aware of this? | ||
| Has nobody told you yet? | ||
| Are you confused as to what the deep state is exactly? | ||
| And how it's you? | ||
| Like Benjamin Nanyahu makes outrageous statement, claims Jews secretly in charge of the government of Israel. | ||
| I thought the deep state was an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory. | ||
| But it's all very confusing. | ||
| We'll get back into that, again, war on several fronts, including the home front. | ||
| And Owen Schroer posted a video yesterday. | ||
| I haven't actually watched this yet, but I know I wanted to, and as soon as I saw it, and I have the feeling it's going to be some pretty pertinent information. | ||
| Clip number 13. So authorities have told swatting victim Owen Schroer to sort of lead the charge in... | ||
| Getting public awareness on this trend. | ||
| Here's Owen Schroyer last night telling you the details. | ||
| All right, guys. | ||
| I have a big update for you on the swatting incident that took place last night. | ||
| I'm going to start with kind of the more basic, raw facts of some follow-up I did. | ||
| And then I'm going to get into something that is just straight-up eerie. | ||
| Psychotic insane that I've also discovered in the last hour. | ||
| Let me first start with some follow-up I did with my legal team and with a level of law enforcement. | ||
| The problem that we have is in a lot of these districts, you have Soros attorneys. | ||
| That will not move the ball forward with any of these investigations. | ||
| And since there's a process that happens here, once it gets to that part of the process with the Soros attorneys, it stops. | ||
| And so if you're in a Soros-run leftist liberal district, they can't move anything forward at any level because of these district attorneys and prosecuting attorneys. | ||
| So that's a major issue. | ||
| I will also tell you that the situation in Texas seems to be a focus of these fake swattings. | ||
| Most of them, for some reason, are happening in Texas. | ||
| Now, here's what I've been told from somebody very high level. | ||
| I'll put it to you like that. | ||
| And for the sake of this ongoing investigation, which I can confirm there is an ongoing investigation. | ||
| It was confirmed to me tonight. | ||
| But for the sake of the ongoing investigation and for the sake of the request to keep a lot of that conversation off record, what's been asked of me is to make it as loud as possible, folks. | ||
| They need us. | ||
| I know this sounds crazy. | ||
| But the deep state is so deep, it's so entrenched, the process is so corrupted, that unless we have a massive public influence and pressure campaign, nothing is going to get done. | ||
| So I'm asking everybody else that's been a victim of the swatting, do not let your story go away. | ||
| Continue to talk about your story. | ||
| Continue to share the videos. | ||
| Continue to do follow-up. | ||
| With legal action, with law enforcement, social media posting, interviews, everything. | ||
| Because the bureaucracy is so overloaded with process that unless there is specific pressure and public influence to get something done, it just becomes a part of the news cycle and people move on to the next thing. | ||
| So this is a specific request, very high level, be as loud as possible. | ||
| Even said, you know, look, we understand what you're asking, or we understand what we're asking, and you're going to be putting your neck out there, and you're going to be asking others to do the same, but this is what they want. | ||
| They need us, folks. | ||
| We have to make a big deal of it. | ||
| There is a desire to get things done, but there's a problem in the bureaucracy with the process. | ||
| There's a problem at the local level with the process. | ||
| There may be some other issues involved as well that people have been talking about with some of the leadership. | ||
| But it's up to us. | ||
| We have to have a major public influence and pressure campaign. | ||
| They have to know we care about this stuff. | ||
| Not just another in-and-out drive-by story that comes and goes and they're on to the next thing. | ||
| We have to get noisy and we have to apply. | ||
| So please, share this video. | ||
| If you're a victim of swatting, make noise. | ||
| Let law enforcement know. | ||
| Let the Trump administration know that you want something done. | ||
| This is a criminal operation that's being run against us. | ||
| And it's sad that we, the victims, have to apply the pressure like this to get something done, but that's the case. | ||
| But again, let me confirm. | ||
| There are investigations ongoing. | ||
| That's all I can say at this point, but they need us to keep the pressure on. | ||
| They need us right now to keep the pressure on. | ||
| So that's kind of my follow-up with law enforcement and legal, and we'll have a couple other legal statements later, and I'm waiting for some other stuff from law enforcement, but that's where that's at. | ||
| Now, let me tell you another follow-up that I've done. | ||
| I followed up on the pizza delivery, and this is where it just gets weird. | ||
| This is where it just gets straight up eerie. | ||
| And I'll let your mind go where it wants when I break this down for you. | ||
| So, I go to the Papa John's where the pizza that was delivered to my house this morning came from. | ||
| I will tell you that I was able to get a lead. | ||
| Now, for the sake of... | ||
| Keeping the people guessing and, you know, keeping some of this stuff just close to the chest for now. | ||
| I'm not going to tell you the nature of the lead. | ||
| And there's a little more follow-up and a little more legwork that I have to do to get some more information. | ||
| But I do have a lead. | ||
| I was able to get a solid lead from the Papa John's. | ||
| So we've got that going on. | ||
| This is where it gets psychotic, eerie, unbelievable. | ||
| The Papa John's where the order came from, the Papa John's where the pizza came from this morning, is literally at the site of Jamie White's murder. | ||
| Literally. | ||
| The exact intersection. | ||
| Now, I'd rather not even be reporting that. | ||
| But I've been asked to make noise. | ||
| I've been asked to apply public pressure. | ||
| And this is so eerie and crazy, especially considering that somebody's having pizza orders under the name of Jamie White. | ||
| Now, if you're not familiar, Jamie White, a friend of mine, a writer at Infowars, was murdered in Austin, Texas at the site of the Papa John's. | ||
| That was told to make a delivery to my house. | ||
| Now, folks, can that possibly be a coincidence? | ||
| It's not exactly the pizza place you would order from if you lived where I live. | ||
| Seems to be a decision they made. | ||
| See how eerie and psychotic this gets? | ||
| Now again, the lead that I have with that situation, I'm not going to get into now. | ||
| And there's some other follow-up I need to engage in, which might be, it could be a bit of a process. | ||
| We'll see at the next stage of this how much legwork it's going to take. | ||
| That's the update for Moen. | ||
| We'll cover more on the other side. | ||
| Stay with us. | ||
| Folks, this is the American Journal. | ||
| I'm your host, Harrison Smith. | ||
| A lot of videos to show you today on a very good one. | ||
| Once again, we saw Owen Schroer give some more details about the swatting incidents. | ||
| And there is some news on that. | ||
| The FBI has announced that they are investigating not just the swatting incidents, but the attacks on Tesla dealerships as well. | ||
| From Axios, FBI is investigating attacks targeting Tesla vehicles and dealerships of the EV company and related swatting incidents. | ||
| Bureau Deputy Director Dan Bongino said Wednesday night, there's been a spate of such incidents that President Trump and other administrations have denounced as acts of domestic violence. | ||
| And the role of Tesla's CEO, Elon Musk, in the doge-driven cuts to the federal workforce. | ||
| And it's... | ||
| It's crazy how much news there is on all this. | ||
| Brandon Vales, a financial systems underwriter, was arrested for keying a Tesla in Fort Collins, Colorado and attempting to draw a swastika. | ||
| Apparently didn't know how. | ||
| And that's just one of a variety of arrests that have now been made as well as people that have been caught on video. | ||
| They're all disgusting, by the way. | ||
| Everybody who... | ||
| Vandalizes a Tesla so far has been a... | ||
| Well, just not the most... | ||
| They've all been trans. | ||
| Not the most convincing transition. | ||
| No, not the most lovely people. | ||
| There's also been stickers found on parking meters that simply say, Who will kill Elon? | ||
| Who will do it? | ||
| Who will kill him? | ||
| And, you know, I wouldn't be surprised if we saw people hacking Tesla soon. | ||
| Hacking into Teslas and using their autopilot feature to, I don't know, crash the cars, drive people into things. | ||
| I don't know how possible that is, but certainly a possibility. | ||
| And these people certainly are incredibly radical and insane. | ||
| And it's weird how many of them there are. | ||
| Let's go now to clip number seven. | ||
| This is a clip from The Daily Show. | ||
| And this guy, Jordan... | ||
| Jordan Keebler? | ||
| Jordan Klepper? | ||
| Jordan Klepper, who tried to make a career out of making fun of us and just failed embarrassingly, hardly even made it through a season. | ||
| It's a direct parody of InfoWars, and frankly, they don't get it. | ||
| They should hire me. | ||
| I would literally do a parody of InfoWars on Comedy Central. | ||
| That would be so much funnier. | ||
| It's like how Colbert did the parody of Bill O 'Reilly, basically, and it was hugely successful because he stuck to what he was supposed to do. | ||
| He had a character that was like a hardcore conservative, and they were making fun of conservatives, but they still knew how to express it. | ||
| And Kepler comes along and tries to make fun of InfoWars, but he couldn't stick to it. | ||
| Half the time he's breaking character, and they just don't get it. | ||
| They don't get it because you can't have humor. | ||
| About something that you hate, and they hate us. | ||
| We don't hate them, though. | ||
| We pity them. | ||
| We pity their attempts to mock us. | ||
| But he's hosting The Daily Show, and he's talking about Tesla, and gets a little bit of a different response than he was expecting. | ||
| Let's watch. | ||
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Jim, they're taking to the streets, or the... | |
| The parking lots. | ||
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Tonight, the FBI and ATF now investigating multiple cases of possible arson targeting Teslas and Cybertrucks. | |
| This dramatic video shows multiple cars in flames. | ||
| Police say the attacker used... | ||
| Molotov cocktails. | ||
| It's the latest in more than a dozen instances of arson and vandalism targeting Tesla. | ||
| The same suspect shot more Teslas with a gun. | ||
| Tesla Cybertrucks were set on fire in Kansas City, and earlier this month, shots fired at a Tesla dealership in Oregon. | ||
| Cybertrucks on fire in Seattle. | ||
| Wow, you guys like petty acts of domestic terrorism, huh? | ||
| Yeah, we do. | ||
| Yeah, for sure. | ||
| We love it. | ||
| What's wrong with him? | ||
| Comedy Central audience repeatedly applauds Tesla terrorism as host Jordan Kepler justifies left-wing violence. | ||
| Yeah, he acts like he's surprised. | ||
| He's not surprised, though. | ||
| This happens every once in a while. | ||
| You know, there's the clip of Colbert saying the population of white people has declined. | ||
| And the whole audience cheered. | ||
| He's like, is that Fallon doing that? | ||
| Then it was Colbert who announced that... | ||
| Trump had fired James Comey, and the whole audience cheered. | ||
| He's like, no, no, that's a bad thing. | ||
| We're supposed to love Comey now. | ||
| I think the live audiences of these comedy shows, they're like the NPC breeding grounds. | ||
| They're the place where the NPCs go to expose themselves. | ||
| If you wait just a few minutes, they'll probably do it by themselves. | ||
| What? | ||
| Jordan Klepper says, no one should be blowing up Elon Musk cars, especially because if you just wait a few minutes, they'll probably do it by themselves. | ||
| Because Teslas explode all the time? | ||
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What? | |
| Man. | ||
| Where's Jon Stewart when you need him? | ||
| Where's Jon Stewart to be actually funny about any of this stuff? | ||
| I don't... | ||
| I don't know if I need to tell you. | ||
| They're telling you. | ||
| You understand? | ||
| These people are evil. | ||
| These people are very, very, very evil. | ||
| What has Elon Musk done exactly? | ||
| What has he done and is he being hurt by this? | ||
| I guess his stock is going down. | ||
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Sure. Thank you. | |
| But what is the point of this? | ||
| I don't know, man. | ||
| I don't know what we do with a country full of people that are just radical, violent psychos. | ||
| It really is crazy. | ||
| It really is crazy. | ||
| And it's especially crazy because it's all predicated on really ridiculous lies about us that they think justifies. | ||
| Their violence, like, we haven't done anything. | ||
| Nobody on this side has actually done anything to them. | ||
| Let's go to clip number 27 here. | ||
| Here's Elon Musk talking about this and just being kind of baffled at what's going on. | ||
| Let's watch. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, it's really kind of quite a shock to me that there is this level of really hatred and violence from the left. | ||
| I always thought the left, you know, Democrats were supposed to be the party of empathy, the party of caring, and yet they're burning down cars, they're firebombing dealerships, they're firing bullets into dealerships, they're just, | ||
| you know, smashing up Teslas. | ||
| Tesla is a peaceful company. | ||
| We've never done anything harmful. | ||
| I've never done anything harmful. | ||
| only done productive things. | ||
| So I think we just have a deranged, | ||
| There's some kind of mental illness thing going on here because this doesn't make any sense. | ||
| I think there are larger forces at work as well. | ||
| I mean, I don't know who's funding it and who's coordinating it because this is crazy. | ||
| I've never seen anything like this. | ||
| Yeah, there's some sort of mental illness thing going on. | ||
| Yeah, that's one way to put it. | ||
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It's... | |
| I don't know. | ||
| It's just kind of strange because we just can't have a country like this. | ||
| It just doesn't work. | ||
| It just doesn't work. | ||
| It doesn't work like this, right? | ||
| You can't have one side burning the country down when they don't get their way, and that's all they do, and they do it every time. | ||
| So, like, this just can't function this way. | ||
| It can't work this way. | ||
| Nothing works like this. | ||
| And to me, this relates to this video I have from Tucker Carlson. | ||
| Supposed by saying, Tucker says the quiet part out loud. | ||
| Clip number 10. This might be a little tangential, but I think it's all related in a weird way. | ||
| It's about authoritarianism on the left versus on the right. | ||
| Here's Tucker Carlson. | ||
| I'll try to tie these two separate threads together on the other side. | ||
| Clip number 10, here's Tucker. | ||
| McKellie's an authoritarian leader. | ||
| Just saying that. | ||
| He's my friend. | ||
| I love McKellie. | ||
| But he's an authoritarian leader. | ||
| What he wants goes is what you're saying. | ||
| He is also democratically elected by the highest margin of any elected leader in the world. | ||
| So he's the most popular elected leader, but he's also authoritarian. | ||
| He's a right-wing leader. | ||
| He's not a dictator. | ||
| He's elected, but he's an authoritarian. | ||
| authoritarianism is very popular, and it always has been popular. | ||
| You know, bigotry, Nazi shit where you're, like, killing Jews or whatever is disgusting. | ||
| And everyone hates that. | ||
| Everyone should hate that. | ||
| I hate that. | ||
| But, you know, nationalism, hardcore, like, we're serious. | ||
| We're going to protect our country and anyone who threatens our country is in trouble. | ||
| That is very popular. | ||
| And we have spent decades hearing how that's not popular, how it's immoral. | ||
| It's popular. | ||
| Left-wing authoritarianism is not popular and never has been because it's contrary to human nature. | ||
| And it's contrary to God. | ||
| It's anti-God. | ||
| And people are inherently aware that God exists. | ||
| And if you pretend you're God, you're a pretender. | ||
| So anyway, Bekele is like a very powerful model for how the world is going. | ||
| What we're doing is not working. | ||
| I want democracy. | ||
| I love democracy. | ||
| Free speech is the most important thing to me. | ||
| I'm not calling for any... | ||
| I want to preserve that. | ||
| But I also think globally, Bekele... | ||
| There are going to be a lot more leaders like Bekele. | ||
| It's just a fact. | ||
| There are. | ||
| So I think that's a pretty interesting way to break it down. | ||
| I'm not sure if I thought about it that way in particular. | ||
| People love right-wing authoritarians because they actually do things for the people in their own country, but left-wing authoritarianism is, by its nature, chaotic and nonsensical. | ||
| It doesn't make any sense. | ||
| You're talking about authoritarianism whose sole purpose is to destroy the country that... | ||
| It's a part of, that it controls. | ||
| And it doesn't really make any sense. | ||
| And these attacks on Tesla from the far left is sort of this expression of left-wing, for lack of a better word, authoritarianism. | ||
| They don't have a leader. | ||
| They don't have an authority other than this vague kind of general ideology. | ||
| Of destruction and chaos and misery. | ||
| And of course, they don't actually protest things that matter. | ||
| They're mad at Elon, so they're protesting Tesla, even though Tesla doesn't have anything to do with what Elon's doing with Doge. | ||
| So they're just sort of frenetically striking out like children. | ||
| It's all very bizarre. | ||
| It's all very weird. | ||
| But that's what you get when you have authoritarian leftists. | ||
| You have people who get in charge of your country and then open up the gates and then send you to jail for talking about it. | ||
| It's happening in the UK and all over Europe. | ||
| I think that's a good way to sort of explain what's happening in Europe overall and what happens to America whenever the Democrats seize power. | ||
| But you've got this left-wing authoritarianism. | ||
| That instead of building up the country that it's a part of, systematically destroys it, but still wields the incredible power of the state to crush anybody speaking up against it. | ||
| So it's a suicidal ideology to be a part of in the first place. | ||
| And I just am struggling to understand the leftist mindset. | ||
| Beyond just... | ||
| Disparaging it. | ||
| Because usually I can understand. | ||
| Usually I can genuinely at least track the mode of thought to get from point A to point B. I can understand how somebody who's been indoctrinated into the climate change cult can feel like we're killing the earth and that every second you're not doing something more... | ||
| You know, pollution is being spilled out. | ||
| More animals are dying. | ||
| And, like, I can understand it. | ||
| Even though I know it's predicated on a fallacy and there's all sorts of logical inconsistencies in it and there are other things they should be worried about. | ||
| I get it. | ||
| But I get it, though. | ||
| But I can understand it. | ||
| I can fathom it. | ||
| I can comprehend how they arrived at the point they arrived at. | ||
| But they've gone so off the reservation, there's nothing to even... | ||
| Argue anymore. | ||
| Kyle Kalinske posted this meme I was telling you about during the Daily Dispatch. | ||
| So on the left you've got the MAGA guy. | ||
| He says boycott Bud Light, boycott Target, boycott the NFL. | ||
| And then the guy on the right says boycott Tesla and the Republican freaks out. | ||
| And it's like, do you... | ||
| Do you not know what a boycott is? | ||
| You know, it's just, at a certain point, they've been so disconnected from reality. | ||
| You can't even argue against this. | ||
| And it would be fine just to be able to go, to point at it and go, look, this person is either retarded or a gigantic liar trying desperately to deceive us into thinking that Throwing a Molotov cocktail is part of a boycott. | ||
| And I guess that's the case. | ||
| I guess that's just where we're at now. | ||
| Is just intentionally misrepresenting reality to fool stupid people? | ||
| Is that what the Democrats have now? | ||
| That's where they are. | ||
| The only thing they have is just to desperately ignore reality. | ||
| And try to insist that something else entirely is going on. | ||
| In other words, nobody firebombed Target, right? | ||
| Nobody was firebombing Bud Light trucks. | ||
| Now, if that had ever happened, even once, can you even imagine what the Democrats would have done? | ||
| Can you even, I mean, there would have been hearings on Capitol Hill. | ||
| There would have been primetime show trials. | ||
| They would have... | ||
| Given Bud Light the Congressional Medal of Freedom and sent Dylan Mulvaney to be the first trans person in space, it would be like a full-fledged, full-spectrum push to denounce the terrorists that are fired. | ||
| And it's like, maybe they don't get, maybe they don't understand what a boycott is anymore. | ||
| So we've talked about this before, too, how a boycott is supposed to be a bottom-up sort of thing. | ||
| It's supposed to be... | ||
| Just a mass number of people choose on their own volition or in a coordinated way. | ||
| Hey, you know what? | ||
| We usually buy this thing. | ||
| Let's not buy that anymore because we don't want to support the ideas that that company represents. | ||
| You just don't buy it. | ||
| It's not an act of violence. | ||
| It's not even an act of... | ||
| I mean, you just buy a different product rather than one from the company you don't want. | ||
| It's very simple and easy and totally in line with just capitalistic market principles. | ||
| It's all fine. | ||
| I'm sorry, yeah, Kid Rock did shoot some Bud Light cans that he bought. | ||
| So I guess somebody wants to buy a Tesla and then shoot it on their own land. | ||
| Who am I to say no to that? | ||
| So, like, this, but do you get why I'm struggling? | ||
| Like, these people see right-wingers boycotting Target, boycotting Bud Light, boycotting any number of other corporations. | ||
| And they're like, yeah, that's what we're doing. | ||
| And they're throwing Molotov cocktails at Tesla dealerships. | ||
| And they're scratching swastikas into Teslas that they don't own that are in a parking lot somewhere. | ||
| Or they're doing other things that are unspeakable that I'm not even going to mention on the radio. | ||
| But there's video of it, and it's disgusting. | ||
| You don't know what I'm talking about? | ||
| You haven't been on X in the last 24 hours. | ||
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what are they... | |
| So how do you even... | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I don't even know what to do about this at this point. | ||
| It's just like half of our country is genuinely and not even in like a derogatory... | ||
| No, they're actually mentally retarded. | ||
| And I don't know what we do when we have a giant substrate of retarded people in our country whose votes count as much as mine and who can't differentiate. | ||
| Between choosing not to buy a product at the store and throwing a Molotov cocktail at a car dealership. | ||
| I don't know how you have a country with people like this. | ||
| Like, it's got me questioning the very fundamentals of my libertarian mindset. | ||
| This belief that if you just let people alone, then they'll do the right thing. | ||
| Or that America can... | ||
| We can have our political differences, but we still can understand the difference between throwing a Molotov cocktail and choosing Miller Lite instead of Bud. | ||
| But if they can't tell the difference, I don't know what we do anymore. | ||
| I don't know what we do at this point. | ||
| Because these people are psychotic. | ||
| They're psychotic, and they revel in the most pointless violence that you can possibly imagine. | ||
| And I get it, because it's just what... | ||
| Communists do. | ||
| This has been the characteristic of revolutionary morons since the French Revolution. | ||
| So I guess I shouldn't be surprised, but there's something just so... | ||
| It's like saddening to me. | ||
| It's like depressing. | ||
| It's like, wow, you got all these morons living. | ||
| I almost feel bad for them. | ||
| I mean, I don't because they're evil, but I don't know what we do about this. | ||
| I don't know what we do about it. | ||
| Maybe we'll take your phone calls in the next hour because these people think that what's going on is Tesla's being boycotted, even though they absolutely know with complete certainty that what's going on is the firebombing and the... | ||
| Swastika vandalism and the attacks, the physical attacks against people's cars. | ||
| So, you know, there's supposed to be this thing where, like, the American people are smart enough to see through lies. | ||
| And even if the lies go on for a while, once they realize that they're being lied to, they're supposed to, like, not vote for that person anymore because they don't want to vote for a liar. | ||
| But, like, we just have a population in America, people who just love the lies. | ||
| They just love the liars. | ||
| They love the lies. | ||
| They love the violence and the chaos. | ||
| They just love it. | ||
| It's like, okay. | ||
| And they get to vote? | ||
| And they get to have a vote? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I don't know what we do at this point anymore. | ||
| Of course, there's one group of people that's not getting it. | ||
| Club number nine here. | ||
| There's a very interesting breakdown of approval ratings. | ||
| Of what Trump is doing by various races and education levels. | ||
| Let's watch clip number nine now. | ||
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So see this white women with at least a college degree. | |
| The only group of white voters that really kind of is | ||
| On the left politically, aligned with progressive causes, democratic politics. | ||
| Give you an example here. | ||
| It's that DEI question, excuse me, right here that we asked about in our poll. | ||
| We had two big statements we read to voters. | ||
| Basically, do you want to continue DEI programs or do you think they should be ended? | ||
| And again, look at this divide here. | ||
| White men, no degree, end it. | ||
| White men with a degree, end it, they say. | ||
| White women, no degree, end it, they say, by double digits. | ||
| And then, white women. | ||
| With a college degree, completely different by a nearly 40-point margin, they say, to continue DEI programs. | ||
| So, yeah, and there's this chart, voters' opinions of, and it lists Donald Trump, J.D. Vance, Elon Musk, Doge, Republican Party, Zelensky, DEI, and the Democratic Party. | ||
| And, yeah, the standout outlier in this are white women with college. | ||
| And this is all white people, I guess, that they surveyed. | ||
| Now, white men with college is also pretty different. | ||
| So it's not like a woman thing, necessarily, but obviously that's the outlier. | ||
| But it's an indoctrination thing. | ||
| Because I think people get confused because they hear college education, they think that means somebody's been educated. | ||
| They think that means somebody is smarter and more informed. | ||
| That is not the case. | ||
| It means they've... | ||
| Successfully been indoctrinated. | ||
| They successfully participated in their own indoctrination into this mindset. | ||
| I thought Carl Benjamin actually had a good response to this. | ||
| Sargon and Bacardi said, They are the people for whom HR was developed. | ||
| Reliance on strict rules-based order makes life predictable and safe for them, especially when it's geared towards providing them things they wouldn't have in a sensible country. | ||
| I think that has something to do with it. | ||
| This idea of just loving the systems, loving the... | ||
| The processes, feeling of safety and comfort in things being the way they are, in the feeling of wanting to be a good person. | ||
| So you support things that are ostensibly or at least presented as if they are good for downtrodden people. | ||
| But you have to look at the reality of what the actual outcome is. | ||
| And you have to be able to see through the... | ||
| Fancy, kind words of the psychopaths that are tearing down the world that you live in. | ||
| And it just shows the weaponization of femininity as far as I'm concerned. | ||
| Taking the goodness and care that women express more than men and turning that against their own country. | ||
| It's pretty sad. | ||
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Welcome back, folks. | |
| I'm not saying it's strictly a woman thing. | ||
| It kind of is in some regard. | ||
| And again, it's not a bad thing. | ||
| It's just that the good parts of women's nature is hijacked. | ||
| And manipulated very, very easily by the people in charge. | ||
| And I have an example of what this looks like. | ||
| We can go to clip number 26 here. | ||
| This is posted by some leftist news media organization. | ||
| And I want to try to explain what's happening here. | ||
| This is the type of argument that really hits home with a lot of just not very smart people. | ||
| Not able to... | ||
| Think for themselves and see through what this guy's doing. | ||
| I'm gonna try to walk you through it a little bit. | ||
| Let's go to clip 26. This is someone named Ezra Klein making a whole bunch of false dichotomy statements that sound really sensible and caring to good-hearted but dim-witted people. | ||
| Let's watch Ezra Klein. | ||
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Efficient at what? | |
| It drives me crazy. | ||
| Look, you can be real efficient at siting fossil fuel, and you can be efficient at building clean energy, and those are opposite visions of the future. | ||
| You can be efficient at driving people out of this country, at deporting people, and you can be efficient at building affordable housing for the people in this country. | ||
| and the opposite visions of the past. | ||
| Let's pause it right there. | ||
| So he's talking about Elon Musk and Doge. | ||
| He's talking about it. | ||
| It's not about efficiency. | ||
| It's about what the vision of the future is. | ||
| So he says, you know, I don't know what he's talking about. | ||
| You're citing fossil fuel? | ||
| I'm not even sure what that means. | ||
| You're citing fossil fuel or going after renewable energy, and these are different visions of the future. | ||
| Okay, well, one is a fantasy that doesn't exist, hasn't existed, also has way more problems than fossil fuel ever did. | ||
| One of them is a future of prosperity and using the Resources that are under our feet and available to us to build things and create things and have prosperity. | ||
| The other is a vision of an illusion and a scam that is no better for the earth than fossil fuels but makes people feel better about it even though everywhere it's implemented collapses into industrial decline. | ||
| And bankruptcy. | ||
| So it's the difference between the real and the fake. | ||
| One of them is a tangible reality that you can achieve. | ||
| The other is a fantasy that you will A, never achieve because it's a fantasy. | ||
| It's a utopia. | ||
| But B, it causes a whole bunch of other way worse problems. | ||
| Then he presents a second dichotomy that's also false. | ||
| You can have a vision of the future where you're kicking people out of the country or a vision of the future where you're building low-income homes. | ||
| One thing abundance throws into sharp relief is how totally Trump has embraced scarcity. | ||
| Few people, less trade, broken and corrupted government. | ||
| They didn't need to make these choices. | ||
| It's crap politics with this future Trump wants. | ||
| Yeah, this is Ezra Klein elaborating on what he's saying. | ||
| We'll pick this up on the other side because this is a short segment. | ||
| But think about what he's actually saying. | ||
| If there's somebody in your house that you don't want in your house, Ezra Klein is coming up to you and going, well, there's two visions of the future. | ||
| There's one where you just kick this guy out of your house because he doesn't have permission and is here using your stuff and taking advantage of your stuff and hanging out in your daughter's bedroom for some reason. | ||
| You can either kick him out or... | ||
| You can give him your bedroom, or you can make allowances for him, or you can build him a house. | ||
| And it's like, we don't owe this person anything. | ||
| What are you talking about? | ||
| What do you mean this is the vision of the future? | ||
| One where you're taken advantage of, and you have to spend a bunch of money and do a bunch of stuff to support somebody that you never invited. | ||
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And the other vision of the future is you can ask them to leave. | |
| This is not a difference between abundance and scarcity. | ||
| This is a difference between sensibleness and stupidity. | ||
| Alright, welcome back, folks. | ||
| I'm just trying to puzzle out the world of illusion that leftists live in. | ||
| Without just resorting to the typical, kind of like what you heard Elon Musk say before, where it's like, I thought this was the party of empathy. | ||
| And it's like, okay, that's like an illusion on top of the illusion. | ||
| We're dealing with multiple layers of complete insanity piled one on top of another. | ||
| They genuinely do think they're the party of empathy. | ||
| But if you say some guy in a MAGA hat got run over and killed, you'll see him try to suppress a snicker, right? | ||
| Nowadays, they aren't even suppressing it. | ||
| They genuinely think they're the good guys when they're firebombing Tesla dealerships. | ||
| They genuinely think that because Owen Schroyer is bombastic on a radio show, he deserves to be stripped down in public and have 15 rifles pointed at his back, | ||
| being a millimeter from death through no fault of his own. | ||
| They're like, yeah, well, he deserves it. | ||
| He disagrees with us. | ||
| I'm trying to get across that there is something fundamentally broken with these people, and it's been on purpose. | ||
| It's been by design. | ||
| It's not an accident that there's so many people with this mindset. | ||
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| Thank you. | ||
| And I try to put myself in their position. | ||
| I'm like, alright, how would I feel if I saw a video of insert leftist commentator, right? | ||
| Cenk Uygur is being forced to put his hands out, take his shirt off. | ||
| It's being filmed while police are pointing loaded guns at him. | ||
| Now, if that was because he was caught doing something, yeah, we'd celebrate. | ||
| Just like we celebrate when Criminals and violent gang members sent here from Venezuelan prisons get sent back to prison. | ||
| It's like, yeah, good. | ||
| Good, we want to protect the people that live here. | ||
| We don't need a bunch of random feral devil worshipping murderers in our country. | ||
| Like, yeah, good. | ||
| We will revel in the mistreatment of, not mistreatment, but poor treatment of violent criminals. | ||
| But if it was an innocent person being targeted with swatting, like, How can you be in favor of that? | ||
| These people love it. | ||
| They just love it. | ||
| They love it. | ||
| And it's all because of this weird vision of reality that they have that is completely skewed, completely inaccurate, and purposefully established in their minds. | ||
| So you've got people like Ezra Klein. | ||
| Maybe I should just play this whole thing, because if you listen to this and don't think about it, it makes a lot of sense. | ||
| If you listen to Ezra Klein and don't actually apply any critical thinking processes to your interpretation, it all seems very convincing. | ||
| But if you think about it for just like a single second, it's just pure manipulation. | ||
| And that might be the reality at the end of the day, and it's something that I've pointed out ad nauseum here. | ||
| My audience is probably sick of hearing it, but the idea that... | ||
| The same psychological levers at work in a nation are exactly the same function as on like an abusive relationship level. | ||
| And I feel like half of our country right now is in this bizarre abusive relationship with somebody that is just like continually gaslighting them. | ||
| And it like doesn't matter how many times you try to point out like the dude you're with is a lying scumbag. | ||
| And even though he can always We can always like phrase it in a way that convinces the girl to get back with him. | ||
| It's like very annoying and upsetting and like you don't have to take this. | ||
| You don't have to believe these lies. | ||
| This is crazy. | ||
| Let's go back to Ezra Klein and just try to figure out what he's saying and what it actually means and whether he is making a point at all. | ||
| So he's setting up these false dichotomies. | ||
| Where he's saying you can either be really good at deporting people or be really good at building low-income housing. | ||
| And it's like, well, first of all, why should we have to build low-income housing? | ||
| That doesn't even make sense. | ||
| Even if it was, you know, even if it was the easier choice, which it's not, like, why would we even do that? | ||
| Again, just take it in any other situation. | ||
| There's some dude in your house you don't want there. | ||
| Are you really going to sit there and make the argument of like, yeah, well, you could be good at kicking him out. | ||
| How Ezra Klein helped set the stage for Kamala Harris's nomination. | ||
| Yeah, no, he's a great influence on the Democratic Party for sure. | ||
| Someone's in your house, you don't want him in there. | ||
| It's like, well, you know. | ||
| It might be hard to, you could be good at kicking them out. | ||
| You could be mean to him. | ||
| It's not mean to kick somebody out of your house. | ||
| It's not mean to deport somebody. | ||
| It's mean to take advantage of people. | ||
| It's mean to break into a country that you don't belong in. | ||
| So even just the framing of it is bizarre. | ||
| It's not mean to enforce the law. | ||
| It's not mean to protect victims. | ||
| It's not mean to kick somebody out of your house if you didn't invite them in and they won't leave when you tell them. | ||
| It's not mean to do that. | ||
| That's mean to ignore somebody when they're telling you, get out of my house. | ||
| They're the mean ones. | ||
| They're the ones doing the wrong thing, but it's fine. | ||
| But, like, every part of this is like, what are they even talking about? | ||
| So, yeah, you can make the argument like, well, you know, it's kind of mean to kick somebody out. | ||
| Isn't it easier to just give them a bedroom? | ||
| Like, why should I have to give them a bedroom? | ||
| Even if it was easier to get, why would I do that? | ||
| Why should I do that? | ||
| Why would I allow that? | ||
| This is not an argument. | ||
| It's not a good argument. | ||
| It's not even a thing. | ||
| It doesn't make any sense. | ||
| You can also be good at deporting people and building low-income housing for, get this, the people in our country. | ||
| You could be building low-income housing for the people in our country, and you could be paying for that with the money that you're saving instead of supporting millions upon millions of foreigners with our taxpayer dollars. | ||
| So even if your goal is to build low-income housing, that's hampered by all of these millions of people taking the low-income housing from the people in America that need it more than them and that actually belong here and are citizens. | ||
| The point is, like, they cut this video out. | ||
| They segmented this. | ||
| They uploaded this. | ||
| I think it was even an ad. | ||
| I think I even saw this as an ad on my XFeed. | ||
| Like, they want this out there because it's convincing if you don't think about it. | ||
| It's very compelling, and it's a good argument if you don't apply just basic logical interpretation of what's actually being said. | ||
| And this is the reason I want to focus on this, because this is the type of argument that's winning over leftists, that's winning over liberals, that they think is very convincing, and not just makes them land on the side of leftism as a policy, | ||
| but it inspires them. | ||
| It inspires them. | ||
| They're like... | ||
| This is like a religious thing for them. | ||
| Even the way he talks, you can kind of tell it's that way. | ||
| So, I need everybody not to fall for this stuff. | ||
| This is the thing that's destroying us. | ||
| Let's go back to Ezra Klein and see if we can't figure out some of the other false dichotomies he's putting forth. | ||
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Yeah, I'd like a department of government efficiency, but I would also like a government that is led by people who have a humane vision of the future. | |
| Humane vision of the future. | ||
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The problem with Doge, the problem with Trump, the problem with Musk, the problem with Vance, is not just that they are trying to break the government and corrupt it, though they are, it's that their vision of the future is terrible. | |
| Their vision of the future is cramped. | ||
| Their vision of the future is... | ||
| A rollback to the 19th century. | ||
| We've got to pause and back it up a little bit. | ||
| But if you'll notice in the chart that we showed you earlier, I don't know if I... | ||
| Yeah, I still have it up. | ||
| Mike Lee, Senator Mike Lee posted it. | ||
| Where you have white women in college being negative 40 points on Donald Trump, J.D. Vance, Elon Musk, Doge, the exact thing he's talking about. | ||
| This is the argument that's convincing them. | ||
| Now, it's not based on anything. | ||
| It doesn't mean anything. | ||
| What is a humane vision of the future? | ||
| There's a sucker vision of the future. | ||
| There's a vision of the future where you're a sucker and you're being taken advantage of and where everything is getting worse continually. | ||
| That's the vision that he's presenting because every single time, everything they try completely fails and backfires and makes everything worse. | ||
| But every single time, they predicate it on Beneficence and humane vision of the future. | ||
| It's not humane to not punish criminals. | ||
| It's actually very inhumane. | ||
| It's an inhumane way to treat innocent people to just let criminals victimize them over and over. | ||
| That's not humane. | ||
| It's not humane to steal everyone's money. | ||
| Like, what are you talking about? | ||
| It's not humane to force people at the point of a gun to give up half of their paycheck Pay for your pet project of demoralizing Irish people, right? | ||
| It's like, there's nothing humane about this, but it's this language, it's this framing of like, you're either with us or you just hate everyone. | ||
| It's like, there's nothing good about doing bad things inefficiently. | ||
| Again, I struggle to even... | ||
| To even express this because it just... | ||
| He's such a snake oil salesman. | ||
| He's just a slimy sort of... | ||
| I don't even know how to use car salesman vibes I get from this guy. | ||
| Let's go back to Ezra Klein. | ||
| He's talking about the humane vision of the future. | ||
| He says, Elon Musk and Donald Trump, their vision of the future is cramped. | ||
| Is cramped? | ||
| I guess because... | ||
| No, I don't know. | ||
| No, I don't know. | ||
| I don't know what the hell he's talking about. | ||
| What do you mean cramped? | ||
| What do you mean cramped? | ||
| These people are the ones who are insisting on importing a million people a month into our country that already has a housing crisis because housing's unaffordable, because the demand is too high, because of the millions upon millions of people that have been brought in here without adequate... | ||
| Infrastructure to support them. | ||
| But you think our vision of the future is cramped because we want less people in the country, less foreigners invading our country. | ||
| Let's go back to the video. | ||
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Their vision of the future is... | |
| A rollback to the 19th century. | ||
| Not just the 19th century in terms of our morals and our values and the way we think about human dignity and who can be here, but also even just the economy. | ||
| America has become and remain the strongest economy in the world because it is deeply integrated at the frontier of ideas. | ||
| And they have zero respect for it. | ||
| It's astonishing. | ||
| The idea that we're going to make everything, every piece of these complex supply chains here while we alienate every single ally we've made. | ||
| And let's be clear, there's absolutely no... | ||
| There's no plan to build out the supply chain here. | ||
| Zero. | ||
| It's not detox of the economy. | ||
| They're poisoning it. | ||
| Their vision sucks. | ||
| So the problem is not just efficiency. | ||
| Yeah, I want the Department of Government efficiency. | ||
| That's fine. | ||
| But I want it. | ||
| I want efficiency towards an end, towards efficient of the future. | ||
| That isn't terrible, a vision of the future that imagines more for us, a vision of the future that has innovations we actually want. | ||
| Elon Musk is a walking object lesson in how much can be created with public-private partnerships. | ||
| This guy, every company he has built is built on federal money, and here he is destroying the federal government and pulling up the ladder after him. | ||
| talking about? | ||
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| Again, I don't know if I can explain it to you, but if you thought that he made a good point there, you need to be in an asylum. | ||
| There's nothing he said there that made any sense at all. | ||
| He says we're going back to the 19th century in terms of morals and ideas. | ||
| The 1800s. | ||
| We're going back to the 1800s. | ||
| So in his mind, Elon Musk and Donald Trump, and he says in terms of who gets to be here in the country, It's like, the 1800s when slavery was around. | ||
| So, I mean, this is just the pure projection. | ||
| Elon Musk, and yeah, that creepy grin, man. | ||
| She is like a vampire lady. | ||
| That grin, like, scared me. | ||
| I know, I'm glad y 'all saw that. | ||
| Just like, stelter-esque. | ||
| That's a stelter-esque face she's making there. | ||
| We put that next to the Brian Stelter classic image. | ||
| Don't let Alex see this image. | ||
| Don't let Alex see this woman making this face. | ||
| He'll do an entire broadcast on it. | ||
| But that's what, it's just this like, this smiling grin. | ||
| She's just like, oh, you're so moral. | ||
| You're so moral and thoughtful and generous. | ||
| It's just like, no, he's saying gibberish. | ||
| He's saying nonsense. | ||
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| No, but it's like she genuinely, like she can't contain, she's like so, she's... | ||
| It's like when you see somebody at a revival. | ||
| She's like so filled with the spirit of giving and goodness. | ||
| It's like he is saying gibberish, lady. | ||
| He's saying nothing. | ||
| They have a look, folks. | ||
| They have a look with their teeth. | ||
| No, he's saying nothing. | ||
| He's saying absolute gibberish. | ||
| It means literally nothing what he's saying. | ||
| The vision of the future that Trump and Elon have is we make things here. | ||
| We're not constantly being taken advantage of. | ||
| And I swear to you, it's a woman thing. | ||
| It really is. | ||
| Not that all women fall for it, but like, I just know in my life, I'm talking to women in my life that are like, I just have to be like, you're not a good person for being taken advantage of. | ||
| You're not a bad person for refusing to be taken advantage of. | ||
| Ezra Klein represents these people that are having their criminal networks undone and exposed. | ||
| They've been living high on the hog with your stolen taxpayer money, and it's being cut off. | ||
| And he wants to continue that flow of money. | ||
| That's all this is. | ||
| There's nothing caring about this. | ||
| There's nothing good about it. | ||
| There's no vision of future that he represents beyond just ridiculous utopian visions that don't exist and never will exist. | ||
| And everything they put forward makes everything worse every single time. | ||
| I think I have a video that kind of explains this from a woman, by the way. | ||
| Clip number five here. | ||
| MK, what about it? | ||
| Is her name on TikTok. | ||
| And it's about how, for 60 years, America has been engaged in so-called progress that makes everything worse for everybody, but we keep falling for it because it's like we're in an abusive relationship. | ||
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Let's watch. | |
| Post-World War II, we have about 60 years of what we like to call progress. | ||
| And what do we really have to show for it? | ||
| Let's see. | ||
| We have more national debt than ever. | ||
| We have more people homeless and living on the streets. | ||
| We have more wealth inequality. | ||
| We no longer feel compelled to enforce any of our laws. | ||
| And high-level corruption goes unchecked. | ||
| We're more divided than ever before. | ||
| People cut off their family members for ways that they voted when the whole voting system is entirely rigged against the people. | ||
| Less young people are getting married and having children than ever before. | ||
| But hey, I guess that's fine because one in five girls my age can just do some form of sex work instead. | ||
| At what point will Heritage Americans stop calling the complete destruction of our societies and culture progress? | ||
| And if you are a self-hating white person that thinks your country and your people should be destroyed forever because of mwah colonialism or whatever guilt trip argument people use against you, if you had a friend that was dating someone, that person was constantly telling them they were evil because of past things that they did not do. | ||
| Their identity didn't matter and that it wouldn't matter if they just ended it all tomorrow. | ||
| What would you say to that friend? | ||
| That that person cares about them? | ||
| Nobody that suggests you should feel bad about the way that you were born or that you deserve to be dispossessed out of your country cares about you whatsoever. | ||
| And the proof in that is if you reversed it, do you feel the same way towards them in their homeland? | ||
| No, you don't. | ||
| Stop letting abusive people take advantage of you and make you feel guilty for things that you do not deserve to feel guilty for. | ||
| That is a toxic, one-sided relationship. | ||
| And it's a complete lie that you cannot support other people having their own unique identity, but somehow it's racist if you extend that same grace to yourself. | ||
| And the ultimate irony in this push for multiculturalism and mass migration is all it will lead to is England not being English, Germany not being German, Italy not being Italian. | ||
| It is destroying God-created diversity in an effort to make everybody exactly the same. | ||
| So it shouldn't surprise you when I tell you that the people behind funding and orchestrating this are just about the most evil people imaginable. | ||
| White Americans willingly gave up their own power in order to be more inclusive. | ||
| They did this because they believed they were being fair. | ||
| But we need to be honest that the result of this, which is white people, gave up control over their own countries. | ||
| And as thus, our diverse gang of criminals that took their place are using your country, the world leader, as essentially a blank check to destroy the rest of the entire world. | ||
| Which is why it's selfish for you not to assert your identity. | ||
| Not only did your ancestors fight and die to pass this land down to you, But in an absence of the people willing to be fair, your country is being destroyed from within, and so is every other country as a result. | ||
| I'll remind you that the rest of the world didn't used to see America as this evil empire hell-bent on destroying the rest of the world. | ||
| They did not see us as being founded on white supremacy or racism. | ||
| Because we didn't become the world leader by force. | ||
| They chose to follow us because at one point we actually led. | ||
| America was the forefront of innovation, prosperity and freedom, and it was viewed as such. | ||
| People around the world do not hate our American values, nor do they hate us for spreading democracy. | ||
| What they hate is hypocrisy. | ||
| The fact of the matter is how America has behaved, and you don't have any control over it right now if you're a white American. | ||
| Further, every single thing the government does seems to be bent towards harming you. | ||
| It's all being done in your name because we're not willing to step up and lead. | ||
| You cannot promote peace through strength when you are weak. | ||
| And because we are seen as weak, we're being completely taken advantage of. | ||
| So stop letting people that hate you tell you who you are. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| And yeah, I really couldn't agree more. | ||
| I think she made some great points about, you know, the way America has changed for the worse and are being taken advantage of. | ||
| Post-World War II, America has seen 60 years of so-called progress. | ||
| That's all that I see when I see somebody like Ezra Klein or any leftist Democrat person, you know, going, but isn't it so mean to obey the law? | ||
| Isn't it so mean to not be taken advantage of? | ||
| And it's just like, like your sister's in an abusive relationship, you just want to be like, stop listening to him. | ||
| You're not a bad person. | ||
| You're being told you're a bad person so that in order to be a good person, you'll do the thing that he wants you to do. | ||
| It's pure manipulation, just pure, flat-out manipulation of your psychology, trying to frame self-sufficiency and self-protection as selfish and bad. | ||
| And if you were a good person, you would let the man stay in your house. | ||
| If you were a good person, you'd give me the keys of your car. | ||
| You're a good person. | ||
| You wouldn't go out and do things that I don't want you to do. | ||
| Don't you know you're hurting me? | ||
| You're not a bad person, are you? | ||
| So stop disobeying me. | ||
| Pure manipulation. | ||
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Pure psychological taking advantage of. | |
| You're not a good person for being taken advantage of. | ||
| You don't have to be taken advantage of. | ||
| You can stand up for yourself. | ||
| Alright, welcome back folks. | ||
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| Now with that, I want to go to this video that is I don't know how Piers Morgan does it but he gets on people that really hate each other to debate and it's not usually a fair fight. | ||
| Usually one person is just Absolutely obliterated by the other. | ||
| People keep going on the show. | ||
| I don't know why. | ||
| Somehow, he got Christopher Steele, author of the Steele dossier, the completely fraudulent collection of rumors that started and justified legally the entire Russiagate scam, | ||
| and Natalie Winters. | ||
| Host of or co-host of Steve Bannon's War Room. | ||
| And she was prepared. | ||
| She was very well prepared for this and absolutely humiliated Christopher Steele. | ||
| And I want to show you that now for no other reason than every once in a while in a blue moon event, the people that have systematically destroyed our country at least get an earful. | ||
| About what they've done. | ||
| And I guess that's the least we can ask for. | ||
| Or the most you can ask for. | ||
| Clip number 28. Here's Natalie Winters telling Christopher Steele. | ||
| Well, I know Christopher Steele probably wanted to go down in history as someone that colluded with the Clinton campaign to take down President Donald J. Trump, but I really think that you represent probably the ultimate grifter in the American political space. | ||
| For you to even come on here, obviously you're trying to sabotage what President Trump is doing when it comes to Russia and Ukraine, but to sit here... | ||
| What is it, nearly a decade after you tried to smear President Trump as a Russian asset to then say, well, I think he's a Russian asset, but even though I'm really good at my job and create all these intelligence reports, it's just sort of a feeling that I have. | ||
| I'm sorry, what stones do you even have left to turn over to try to corroborate your claim that President Trump is a Russian asset? | ||
| You what? | ||
| Weaponized FISA courts, surveillance warrants, not just domestic spy agencies, international spy agencies to the entire DNC apparatus, a bunch of political operatives and registered foreign agents here in the United States. | ||
| The American people would really appreciate it if you would stop injecting your efforts to curtail and totally tank the America First movement by smearing anyone who doesn't want to get involved in forever wars or continue the needless and ceaseless | ||
| dying of Ukraine and in Russia, just so you can sit there from your nice perch and just continue to defend the globalist world order by continuing to fan the flames of government. | ||
| And you know what? | ||
| The same people that you ally yourself with here in the United States, you think you're so good at gathering intelligence. | ||
| Last time I checked, it was the 51 intel agency officers, spies, who said that the Hunter Biden hard drive, which I've reported on firsthand, it's legitimate. | ||
| You want to talk about President Sons who are involved in businesses with foreign countries? | ||
| Well, I'd like to introduce you to Hunter Biden, right? | ||
| When those 51 people that I'm sure that you know all too well, you were probably likely... | ||
| Well, it turned out that that was true. | ||
| And shame on you for the last decade trying to inject the idea that smearing President Trump as a Russian agent or Russian asset is somehow going to tank the MAGA movement. | ||
| It's about putting America first. | ||
| And the fact that you can still sit here and you have no actual evidence beside one random Russian meeting and, oh, we need to just continue to get more evidence. | ||
| You're a complete political hack and grifter. | ||
| And I wish the American political scene didn't have your voice in it. | ||
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| Well, Christopher Steele, you're about to leave us because you're only here for this part of the panel. | ||
| But your response finally to that. | ||
| Yeah, he runs away. | ||
| We don't have to hear his response. | ||
| Thanks. | ||
| No, he's been destroyed. | ||
| That was enough of that. | ||
| George's InfoWars Natalie Winters obliterates deep state operative Christopher Steele for being the ultimate liar and grifter. | ||
| And frankly, there's a certain level of... | ||
| Self-assurance you have to have to be a spy, I think it is. | ||
| We've seen the same thing, I think I played the video months ago, but somebody who had signed the 51, one of the 51 people who had signed the letter about Hunter Biden's laptop, and he's being confronted, and they're saying, you know, that wasn't a Russian misinformation, | ||
| you knew that. | ||
| The guy gets mad and gets defensive, and he's like, we never said it was Russian. | ||
| We said it had the hallmarks, and it did. | ||
| It absolutely did. | ||
| And it was for my patriotism that I felt it was necessary to make people aware of the methods of Russian disinformation that were evident in that laptop. | ||
| And it's like, dude, you were completely lying. | ||
| You were a complete, shameless liar that knew exactly what you were doing to deceive the American people. | ||
| But they have this confidence where it's just like, even when they're caught out in a lie. | ||
| I mean, it's impressive. | ||
| I mean... | ||
| They've had to set up a system where you get the most talented psychopaths in these positions of power. | ||
| And it really, it really is something else. | ||
| I mean, it makes, again, if you watch true crime and like, you know, interrogation videos, I mean, it makes serial killers look like amateurs, right? | ||
| Because you have the same thing where, you know, somebody's lying and they're confronted with the lie in an interrogation room and they'll do the same thing. | ||
| Well, how dare you? | ||
| And they start getting all blustery, and it's like, nobody does it better than a CIA agent. | ||
| Nobody does it better than an intelligence operative. | ||
| When confronted with their blatant, outrageous lie, and they get mad at you, say that you're lying about them because they technically had phrased it in a way that was legally dubious. | ||
| The spies who lie. | ||
| Literally, the guy's like getting mad. | ||
| He's like, it had all of the hallmarks of a Russian disinformation campaign. | ||
| As if that means anything at all. | ||
| The Russian disinformation campaign, what are the hallmarks of it? | ||
| The hallmarks of a Russian disinformation campaign is that they don't benefit the Democrats. | ||
| Any information that doesn't benefit the Democrats and supports Donald Trump sounds like a Russian disinformation campaign to me. | ||
| So we're going to spread this lie that the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation, which was the obvious conclusion they wanted you to come to. | ||
| But when called out on that, They get angry at you. | ||
| Christopher Steele does the same thing. | ||
| Which is why you can't expect them... | ||
| You can't treat these people like they're people. | ||
| You understand that, right? | ||
| You can't treat them like they're human beings, like you and I, because they're not. | ||
| They're just not. | ||
| I know it's... | ||
| People will feel bad about that alone. | ||
| You're probably a good person. | ||
| You probably do your best. | ||
| If you get something wrong, you might have an inkling to... | ||
| You know, preserve your self-image by trying to justify why you lied. | ||
| But you're not the type of person whose entire mindset is just desperately trying to uphold a blatant deception. | ||
| That's who these people are. | ||
| They have no interest in telling the truth. | ||
| They have no interest in being real, being upfront. | ||
| They don't have that internal drive. | ||
| Where they feel guilt when they get caught or when they do something bad. | ||
| They don't feel guilt. | ||
| They don't feel bad. | ||
| They feel angry that they got caught. | ||
| They feel angry at you for catching them. | ||
| They feel vindicated now. | ||
| Former U.S. spies warned in 2020 that the Hunter Biden scandal had Russian fingerprints. | ||
| They feel vindicated now. | ||
| That's what I'm saying. | ||
| You've got to get across the understanding that our system was set up. | ||
| To elevate people specifically for having this characteristic. | ||
| And what it reminds me of, there's a documentary about James Cameron going to the bottom of the Mariana Trench. | ||
| And there's one point in this where things start to go wrong. | ||
| And he's literally watching a countdown. | ||
| To death. | ||
| And he's trying to do something before it gets to zero. | ||
| If it gets to zero, he dies. | ||
| He's dead. | ||
| And he's trying to release these weights to start floating back up. | ||
| And he doesn't do it. | ||
| And they have heart monitors on him. | ||
| And his heartbeat is just totally still. | ||
| And it's like that type of person with that characteristic is the type of person that there are systems built up to make them like fighter pilots. | ||
| There's a certain type of person when like... | ||
| They're under intense pressure, life and death situations with seconds to spare. | ||
| And they just, their heart rate remains the same. | ||
| Their cortisol never spikes. | ||
| Their adrenaline might be pumping, but their mind is clear. | ||
| And they just, they can just operate at the highest levels of intensity as if they're, you know, sorting a deck of cards. | ||
| Like, it's just simple, easy, no problem. | ||
| So, like, there's entire systems to, like, identify who those people are and put them in, like, fighter planes, fighter jets. | ||
| Because that's the mindset that you need to have. | ||
| Same system is set up, but it's for the psychopaths who have no guilt, no feeling, no concern about reality and their place in it. | ||
| They're just vessels of deception. | ||
| And it's actually, in the same way it's impressive watching a fighter pilot deal with an emergency, it's impressive watching these spies be confronted with their lies because they don't even for an instant Let the facade fall. | ||
| And that's just what you have to realize. | ||
| It's not an accident that all these people got the top. | ||
| It's not an accident that all these people are household names as spies. | ||
| A little contradictory, isn't it? | ||
| These spies that everybody knows their name in the entire world. | ||
| Well, they're not really spies. | ||
| They're agents of deception is a more accurate label for them. | ||
| But I want to get to some more of these stories here, including this one. | ||
| I just don't even know how to... | ||
| The guy who wrote the definition of anti-Semitism is now protesting its adoption by the U.S. government. | ||
| So there's this organization, the International Holocaust Remembrance Association. | ||
| They came up with a definition of anti-Semitism. | ||
| That is basically a thought crime law where they say any claims about any Jewish person or group of people about any crime, real or imagined, or any comment on the state of Israel, | ||
| it's all anti-Semitism and it's all bad and wrong and a precursor to the Holocaust. | ||
| Now, the person who wrote that definition, that's now been adopted by the State Department and adopted by the Justice Department and adopted by a number of other government outlets and branches of the government, is now saying how bad this is. | ||
| The guy who wrote it is now against it and is saying this is total government overreach to apply this definition in a legal sense. | ||
| He probably should be pointing out, is the fact that they are eliminating the First Amendment. | ||
| They are imposing religious blasphemy laws on the United States. | ||
| And they're using his definition to do it, and he's against that. | ||
| He's against that because it might affect anti-Zionist Jewish people. | ||
| It's all very confusing. | ||
| The story from NPR, Kenneth Stern says Trump's anti-Semitism definition stifles Jewish speech. | ||
| So the Trump administration is taking a hardline approach to what it alleges is a failure to protect students from anti-Semitism on college campuses. | ||
| Now, I want to remind you, every time you read the word anti-Semitism, understand they're talking about speech, right? | ||
| So, I mean, and we can replace anti-Semitism with blasphemy if that helps you understand this better. | ||
| The Trump administration is taking a hardline approach to what it alleges is a failure to protect students from blasphemy on college campuses. | ||
| The administration canceled $400 million in federal funding to Columbia University, claiming the school failed to address anti-Semitism, that is blasphemy, on campus. | ||
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Again, it's just... | |
| Thank you. | ||
| They're destroying free speech by the back door, and they're implementing this in a way as if it's not a law, but it is a law. | ||
| It's almost the reverse of color of law. | ||
| I guess it is color. | ||
| It's just straight up color of law. | ||
| There's been no law passed. | ||
| There's never a congressional debate about whether certain types of speech should in fact be illegal. | ||
| Maybe that whole First Amendment thing was a mistake and maybe certain people, certain groups, certain ideas should be illegal to be expressed and be suppressed by the American government. | ||
| We never had that debate. | ||
| That law was never passed. | ||
| But through just incrementally changing things, they've been able to carry this out. | ||
| The Department of Education also sent letters to 60 colleges and universities warning they're under investigation for accusations of anti-Semitism. | ||
| Again, anti-Semitism is not illegal. | ||
| And yet there are investigations into it. | ||
| This is what I mean. | ||
| It's like... | ||
| They're not admitting. | ||
| That they're in a de facto way and just by nature of the outcome of what they're doing, they are making a certain type of speech illegal. | ||
| They're not saying that. | ||
| They're just saying they're investigating accusations of anti-Semitism. | ||
| Again, investigating accusations of Christianity, right? | ||
| Investigating accusations of... | ||
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Heresy. | |
| That's not the government's job. | ||
| Government's job. | ||
| I shouldn't even say it. | ||
| It's not the government's job to determine what people say. | ||
| No, it is the entire point of our government that is explicitly prevented from doing this type of action. | ||
| But they're doing it anyway by just like slipping it into the back door. | ||
| Kenneth Stern, Director of Center for the Study of Hate at Bard College. | ||
| And lead drafter of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's working definition of anti-Semitism said the administration's approach is making Jewish students feel less safe. | ||
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*scoffs* | |
| So what are we supposed to do here? | ||
| So the anti-Semitism is making students less safe. | ||
| So now they're... | ||
| Outlawing anti-Semitism, and the outlawing of anti-Semitism, unfortunately, is making Jewish students feel less safe. | ||
| This seems like a problem it's impossible to solve. | ||
| It actually doesn't sound like a problem at all. | ||
| It sounds like speech control. | ||
| He says it puts pro-Israel Jewish students in a situation where they may be seen as trying to suppress speech rather than answer it. | ||
| I mean, yeah. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Kind of like how I'm in a situation right now where it may seem like I'm the host of a talk show. | ||
| Because I am, and it's happening right now. | ||
| I mean, I agree with this, but it's just the way it's said. | ||
| I don't know why people can't just be upfront about things. | ||
| It puts pro-Israel Jewish students in a situation where they may be seen as trying to suppress speech rather than answer it. | ||
| The way I would put that, I wouldn't frame it in terms of how does this make certain sections of the Jewish student body feel. | ||
| That's not the big concern I have. | ||
| My statement on this would be, this is suppressing speech. | ||
| It is. | ||
| It's because they can't answer the speech, so they're suppressing it legally. | ||
| That is what's happening. | ||
| It may seem like that's what's happening because it is in fact happening. | ||
| He said that the definition is being distorted. | ||
| It's not. | ||
| And used to silence anti-Israel critics. | ||
| It is. | ||
| He was the lead drafter of the definition in 2004 to 2005 to help European countries have a common definition to track data on antisemitism. | ||
| Then it was officially adopted by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance in 2016. | ||
| Stern acknowledges the existence of antisemitism on campus but believes the Trump administration's approach could create a much worse situation. | ||
| He noted that while most Jews, including himself, are Zionists, there's a growing number of younger Jews whose understanding of Judaism leads them to an anti-Zionist position. | ||
| While he would debate the political implications of this shift, he would not label them as anti-Semites. | ||
| This is what's so frustrating to me in all of this. | ||
| Nowhere is there the discussion of Is this a violation of the First Amendment? | ||
| Is it worth banning a certain type of speech because it makes people feel uncomfortable? | ||
| There's no concern about the principle of the matter and what is good for the academic atmosphere or anything like that. | ||
| It's like, I don't know. | ||
| I don't get it. | ||
| I don't get it. | ||
| They have to implement this policy because anti-Semitism is making Jews uncomfortable. | ||
| But now they're speaking out against that policy because it's making Jews uncomfortable. | ||
| It's like maybe Jews are just uncomfortable. | ||
| Maybe it's just, you know, Jews are going to have to be uncomfortable at some point from one way or the other. | ||
| Either uncomfortable because anti-Semitism is not being suppressed or they're uncomfortable because they're suppressing anti-Semitism. | ||
| Maybe we just don't have speech control. | ||
| And we stop labeling certain ideas with these made-up words from 100 years ago that serve no purpose other than rhetorically justifying censorship. | ||
| We just do that, or do we have to make the argument about the comfort of Jews? | ||
| Is that the only thing that matters, and is that the only way we can get anything done? | ||
| And it's just... | ||
| I guess it's the only way you get anything done. | ||
| Because if you speak up against the anti-Semitism bill on just the basis of its merits and free speech, then you're an anti-Semite. | ||
| That's a Nazi. | ||
| You're a Nazi. | ||
| You can still argue against it. | ||
| It just has to be couched. | ||
| The argument has to be made in terms of the comfort of Jewish students. | ||
| And if that is your priority and only priority, then you can make the argument against anti-Semitism. | ||
| I just wish we could just talk about this stuff in a normal, unencumbered way, but we can't. | ||
| Apparently, we can't do that. | ||
| Let's go to clip number 11 here, because I think this ties into sort of a little bit of everything that we're talking about. | ||
| Clip number 11, just going back to everything about deception and the false dichotomies that people put forward and the... | ||
| Just massive delusion that these people live their lives by. | ||
| Let's go to clip number 11 where we see the life and death struggle between a leftist and reality. | ||
| Let's watch. | ||
|
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How many people who have no other morbidities under the age of 60 have died from this illness? | |
| Who have no other morbidities? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Because I can tell you how many people under 65 have died. | ||
| And obviously some of those with other morbidities may well have survived. | ||
| A morbidity doesn't mean you're... | ||
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350. | |
| You're more likely to drown. | ||
| There's 400 people a year that drown, right? | ||
| So I think we have to get things a bit in context. | ||
| What comfort would that offer to the families of those who've lost loved ones? | ||
| Every death is tragic, but believe me, we are entering, we're already in the largest recession for 300 years. | ||
| In fact, it's not just one recession. | ||
| The Bank of England have said the economy will shrink by 14%. | ||
| That's the equivalent of two recessions. | ||
| It's a depression. | ||
| And I wouldn't be surprised if we have two million more unemployed people within a year. | ||
| Imagine the agony of two million more unemployed people. | ||
| How many deaths might flow from that? | ||
| How many deaths are flowing from the fact that we've got half as many A&E appointments at the moment? | ||
| Cancer patients not being seen, people with heart disease not being seen. | ||
| And the collateral damage of this campaign of fear and lockdown... | ||
| It has to be taken into account. | ||
| Very soon, I believe, lockdown will be causing more deaths than the virus. | ||
| So that, of course, was from back when we didn't know already that the lockdown did, in fact, cause more deaths than the virus. | ||
| But it sort of goes to the heart of, like, everything we're saying. | ||
| If you can't just have a normal conversation with people where you're both just stating facts... | ||
| None of this works. | ||
| None of this works. | ||
| And it's like every time you try to just get to reality, the left is like jump in front of it like a Secret Service agent blocking the president from a bullet. | ||
| It's like they can't let truth arrive. | ||
| They cannot let truth be known. | ||
| They have to step in front of it in some regard. | ||
| And we saw it throughout COVID, and we see it on a daily basis with... | ||
| With politics. | ||
| And because they control the media, because, you know, that mindset is what has been promoted continually, and only experts with that mindset are the ones platformed, it's like this entire world is just in this state of being totally disconnected from reality in a way that, | ||
| like, they can't even be pulled back. | ||
| You sit there and go, how many died? | ||
| And they're just like, I don't understand. | ||
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What? | |
| Please don't vandalize, don't ever vandalize Tesla vehicles. | ||
| And so, uh... | ||
| We're about to play the full clip of Jimmy Kimmel on his low-rating so-called late-night comedy show. | ||
| But before we do, it's very important to note, you can look this up, that Kimmel and Colbert and all of them have admitted on record that the Democratic Party, the White House, and others... | ||
| Give talking points to their army of writers on these shows. | ||
| This has been going on for at least 15 years. | ||
| That's why their ratings have dropped to almost nothing. | ||
| And that they put out their weaponized propaganda on these channels. | ||
| And I remember Kimmel making jokes about, we need to kill Alex Jones. | ||
| You better shut up. | ||
| And it's all done in joking form, but that's when the real targeting eight, nine years ago really accelerated. | ||
| Well, this was even worse. | ||
| Not even thinly veiled. | ||
| Wink, wink. | ||
| Oh, please. | ||
| Please don't vandalize Teslas. | ||
| Which they mean burn down the dealerships, blow them up, attack the owners. | ||
| I mean, this is terrorism. | ||
| This is being directed. | ||
| Big Democrat group published, as you know, yesterday a big website. | ||
| They got hacked data of Tesla owners around the country and sending people with Moloff cocktails. | ||
| The cursor was a Moloff cocktail, basically implying, saying, hey, here's where they are, go get them with your Moloff cocktail. | ||
| As you check each person and click where they live in their home, you got a burning Moloff cocktail, a bottle of wine with gasoline and a fiery wick, rag burning, that's a firebomb. | ||
| And so he's making jokes about firebombing people at their houses, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| This is beyond evil, and you better know, and you better bet. | ||
| And you better guarantee yourself that they've been ordered and had talking points to go out and say that. | ||
| We see it on The View. | ||
| Trump's killing people. | ||
| We've got to be ready to fight and die. | ||
| That's a quote last week. | ||
| It's everywhere. | ||
| And remember, the Democrats said in 2020, if they lost in a New York Times article with Podesta on a war game, they were going to create civil unrest and try to overthrow and have blue states secede in blue cities. | ||
| And then they said if Trump won this time, that was the plan. | ||
| Civil war conditions, Raskin, Carvel, all of them. | ||
| So they're now doing it. | ||
| And this is the escalation. | ||
| If you notice, it's just going up and up and up, getting more intense every day, every week, every month, into the summer. | ||
| All they need is a false flag event or something along those lines of a bunch of migrant protests being killed or a black church being shot up. | ||
| And it will be 100 times worse than the summer of love and the mostly peaceful protests in 2020, billions in damage, more than 20 people killed. | ||
| So this is a serious situation. | ||
| This guy's a punk. | ||
| He reads off a teleprompter. | ||
| Jokes that are written by the deep state. | ||
| And if this thing kicks off and there's a bunch of death from it and they have their way, you, Kimmel, will be held responsible along with your bosses. | ||
| Remember the Nuremberg Code. | ||
| The Nazis said, hey, we're just following orders. | ||
| Just following orders, Kimmel, doesn't cut it. | ||
| You and your cohorts will be held responsible legally and lawfully. | ||
| Not from a law-off cocktail. | ||
| Not from Tesla owners being beat up in the streets. | ||
| And their car smashed and letters on them. | ||
| You better sell your car. | ||
| We're gonna blow it up next week. | ||
| Terrorism, racketeering. | ||
| No. | ||
| Legal, lawful, due process. | ||
| We're winning the culture war. | ||
| The people voted for change. | ||
| Classic Americana. | ||
| And you guys are panicked because you know you and your bosses for all the theft and all the corruption are going to prison. | ||
| You're losers and you're desperate. | ||
| The swatting, all of this of conservatives and populists is the actions of a dying, corrupt system. | ||
| So have faith, my friends. | ||
| We're winning. | ||
| They're losing. | ||
| And this is their desperate last gasp. | ||
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Tesla stock is way down, almost disastrously so. | |
| People have been vandalizing Tesla vehicles, new Tesla vehicles. | ||
| Please don't vandalize. | ||
| Don't ever vandalize Tesla vehicles. | ||
| And so... | ||
| All right, folks, that's the latest from Alex Jones. | ||
| You can find and share that video at RealAlexJonesOnX. | ||
| We'll be back on the other side with Tiffany Cianci. | ||
| We played her video yesterday. | ||
| It's gone totally viral, talking about the massive bubble that's about to burst, and we'll get into the economic destruction we may soon be facing. | ||
| But I've also just been delivered a knife, this beautiful knife, tip of the spear, thealexjonesstore.com, now on sale, 25% off. | ||
| That is a beautiful engraving of a Spartan wielding his spear with Infowars on the other side. | ||
| Comes with this very nice hard case as well. | ||
| Now on sale, the Spartan Knife at TheAlexJonesStore.com. | ||
| I'm going to stab something. | ||
| We'll be right back in 60 seconds. | ||
| Welcome back. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, third hour of American Journal is on. | ||
| I'm your host, Harrison Smith. | ||
| Joining me today is Tiffany Cianci. | ||
| I'm very happy to welcome her to the program today. | ||
| She is a free speech advocate and a true info warrior. | ||
| You probably recognize her from her viral video on private equity setting fire to the economy, which you can find pinned to the top of her X account at TheVinoMom, at TheVinoMom. | ||
| For more on Tiffany and how you can get involved, you can check out her link tree in her bio. | ||
| On that side, she's also on TikTok at Tiffany Cianci. | ||
| That's C-I-A-N-C-I. | ||
| Tiffany, thank you so much for joining us today. | ||
| Thank you so much for having me on, Harrison. | ||
| How are you? | ||
| I'm very good, thank you. | ||
| And I'm glad that you're here to explain this to me because if there's one area of discussion that I do not have a lot of knowledge, to be honest with you, it's the economy. | ||
| It all seems like black magic witchcraft to me at a certain level. | ||
| I give you money, you give me thing. | ||
| That's about as complicated as I want finances to get. | ||
| But when you get up to the hedge funds and all this stuff, I tend to just see static. | ||
| I don't understand. | ||
| But your video really broke down how there's a gigantic bubble forming that nobody is talking about. | ||
| But can you give folks a quick rundown as to what you discovered through your research, starting with the shutdown of Hooters, right? | ||
| How did this all begin? | ||
| So my entire platform on TikTok, which is substantially larger than my X platform, has really been about researching private equity and the risks that private equity pose to our economy, especially the middle class and the working class. | ||
| And that's because I used to be a union president that was targeted by private equity. | ||
| I was the president of a union of small businesses that were targeted by a private equity firm. | ||
| So I've spent the last three years researching private equity and kind of its machinations and how it plays in our economy. | ||
| I've been working hard on understanding why Joann's closed down. | ||
| You can't see it, but I'm actually in my craft room. | ||
| I sew. | ||
| And I couldn't understand how Joann's was going bankrupt when they'd achieved 9.4 million new customers over the last four years. | ||
| Their profits had increased over the last four years. | ||
| Their stores were 97% cash positive. | ||
| And then I started researching Hooters, which had a very similar trajectory. | ||
| And I found one article that mentioned something called back-floating rate loans. | ||
| And I tried to research the topic. | ||
| I went as far as I could find. | ||
| I looked in article after article in financial publications, and I could only find one. | ||
| So I went to a friend of mine that worked for a private equity firm, one that regularly helps me with some of my prep for my videos that I keep in confidence. | ||
| And they said, yeah, we see that a lot. | ||
| Let me send you over these two journal articles. | ||
| In these two journal articles, it discussed that it had become the norm for private equity to... | ||
| Leverage, like to use a leveraged buyout in whatever they were buying through a back floating rate loan about six to eight years ago. | ||
| And that's when debt was cheap and our interest rates were low. | ||
| And maybe they arrogantly thought that it would stay low forever. | ||
| Maybe they thought like in the 90s, when we had the 90s.com bubble burst, that that was going to keep riding that wave. | ||
| But unfortunately, our interest rates went up. | ||
| And when our interest rates went up, so did all of the debt stacked on top of these companies that were already leveraged to the hilt. | ||
| So while it had always been the case that once you were acquired by private equity, you were 11 times as likely to go bankrupt, and after your second private equity acquisition, you were 23 times as likely to go bankrupt, suddenly now it was doubling and tripling. | ||
| And they've acquired as much as 25% of many sectors. | ||
| That's terrifying. | ||
| Yeah, it absolutely is. | ||
| And it seems... | ||
| Again, I'm not the expert here, but it seems to me like how could you make decisions with a low interest rate? | ||
| Did nobody ask the question like, well, wait, what happens when interest rates go up? | ||
| Like, did they never concern themselves with that? | ||
| That's just it, though. | ||
| They did. | ||
| They did ask that question, and the answer was we don't care. | ||
| The answer was it would be someone else's problem by that point, and it would probably go bankrupt. | ||
| And that's pretty common in private equity. | ||
| They only hold their investments for two to three years, and they trade them like Pokemon cards. | ||
| And about a year and a half ago, there was a lot of inflammatory rhetoric in the Financial Times and The Economist because they said that private equity was unable to get valuations high enough for their companies that they had acquired in the open market and that they'd had to go to something called the secondaries market. | ||
| The secondaries market is where they just start selling it to one another because no one else will buy it. | ||
| And so they make deals. | ||
| I'll buy this from you if you buy this from me. | ||
| And we'll inflate the price, but our books will still look good. | ||
| And that was a huge red flag for everybody about a year and a half ago. | ||
| And I was tracking that. | ||
| But all of a sudden, the bankruptcies of private equity-held companies doubled last year. | ||
| And then they doubled their worst year on record outside COVID this past year. | ||
| And now we're on track to do that again this year. | ||
| And so for me, when you look at the broader economy, is it bad because the pensions bought up all that debt? | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| But that's not the most concerning feature. | ||
| That's just one of the features of the bankrupting and strip mining of the working class of America. | ||
| Private equity is a vampire. | ||
| It doesn't create anything but wealth for a few. | ||
| It destroys everything it touches. | ||
| That's what it's designed to do. | ||
| And so when you look at this and you see that the bankruptcies are starting to increase, we're not just talking about the pensions. | ||
| We're talking about every time somebody like Joanne goes out of business, 40,000 people, 50,000 people are going to be laid off. | ||
| Right. | ||
| 900 to 1,000 giant stores in strip malls all across America are going to sit empty. | ||
| And if anyone remembers what that was like in 08, it destroyed the small businesses in those strip malls and they fell next because the anchor stores were gone. | ||
| So when we're seeing stores like Party City, which was doing incredibly well, financially, people have wanted to throw parties since COVID. | ||
| Profits have been high, and they are now bankrupted by private equity. | ||
| Joanne's got 9.5 million new customers. | ||
| They are now bankrupted by private equity. | ||
| Hooters, chicken wings are all the rage in every city in America right now. | ||
| And Hooters is a great example, because Hooters has 25 stores that are still owned by the original owners, using the same marketing, using the exact same recipes. | ||
| And they did not take on the extra debt, and they are still successful. | ||
| All of their stores are fine. | ||
| It's only the private equity-owned version of the company that's bankrupt. | ||
| And so you can see that they're bankrupting all of these corporations. | ||
| And it's not just our pensions that are going to pay the price. | ||
| It's not just the secondaries market that's going to impact it. | ||
| It's the commercial real estate that's going to sit empty. | ||
| It's the small businesses in those lots that are going to fall because the anchor stores are gone. | ||
| And then it's all of the layoffs that we're going to have nationwide as a result that we're going to pick up the tab for. | ||
| It just starts a domino effect that's impossible to look away from. | ||
| Right, and the people that shop to those stores are still going to want to buy the thing, so they'll just have to go to Amazon or some other, you know, centralized online store, and our life becomes that less tied to our surroundings. | ||
| And it seems to me like there has to be a term for this, right? | ||
| Because this isn't capitalism as far as I'm concerned. | ||
| And, you know, you hear a lot of people talk bad about capitalism because they're... | ||
| Because they're communist. | ||
| Then they point to stuff like this, but this isn't capitalism. | ||
| If 97% of Joanne's stores were making a profit, why is it shutting down? | ||
| It doesn't make any sense, right? | ||
| Under pure capitalism, somebody wants to shop there, the business is doing successful, it'll grow and continue to operate. | ||
| This is the total inverse. | ||
| So, I mean, what do you call this? | ||
| Is this capitalism? | ||
| Is this perverted capitalism? | ||
| Like, what is going on here and how are they getting away with it? | ||
| So capitalism, in a pure sense, is the best mechanism for wealth creation and the ability to move between economic, like, levers. | ||
| Strata, yeah. | ||
| Yeah, if you want to climb the strata, that's a great word. | ||
| If you want to climb that ladder, capitalism is definitely the best economic model we have. | ||
| But it's just that, an economic model. | ||
| It is math. | ||
| And math in its purest form is going to do what math does. | ||
| Capitalism is at all times, and no one likes when I say this, trying to get as close as it can. | ||
| To slavery. | ||
| I don't mean to say that word. | ||
| It's not a popular word. | ||
| But the best economic model is free labor and infinite wealth creation. | ||
| It is a person's job. | ||
| It is our job. | ||
| It's our regulator's job to ensure that the wheels don't come off and that we... | ||
| Suppress the passions of infinite greed, of infinite wealth-seeking, and of exploitation. | ||
| That's the job of regulators. | ||
| And we have failed largely in that endeavor, not necessarily because we have to over-regulate our economy. | ||
| But our economy can't be blind for capitalism to work. | ||
| It has to be a free market, and a free market has eyes wide open. | ||
| Our market is blind. | ||
| Everything in private equity is happening behind closed doors. | ||
| We have no ability to see whether or not they're using the same assets to collateralize multiple lines of debt. | ||
| We have no idea what they're doing behind closed doors. | ||
| We would have known that they had trillions of dollars in adjustable rate loans if we were not blind. | ||
| The fact that not a single economist has made a video telling me I'm wrong about that terrifies me more than anything else I can say. | ||
| Truly. | ||
| Because normally hundreds of people come out of the woodwork on my videos and attack them. | ||
| And I have to come back. | ||
| I've seen two videos even contesting anything I said. | ||
| Two out of 15 million views. | ||
| Okay? | ||
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| We are blind. | ||
| And we're blind for a number of reasons. | ||
| Forced arbitration is another really important thing that we don't recognize. | ||
| If you look back in the 80s, if there was a company that was doing something and it hurt a bunch of kids, we would all know about it. | ||
| The news would report on it. | ||
| There would be a big lawsuit. | ||
| We would boycott that company. | ||
| And then they would have to change their behavior. | ||
| Today, all of that's hidden in secret arbitration courts. | ||
| Nobody knows what's happening to our kids. | ||
| Nobody knows what's happening if somebody signs an arbitration agreement and then they're poisoned at a restaurant. | ||
| Nobody knows. | ||
| You could look to what happened recently with Disney and Uber and how they were able to use somebody signing into their app to watch a movie to then try to force someone into an arbitration because they went to a theme park and were killed, right? | ||
| That takes all of the eyeballs off of what makes capitalism free. | ||
| And without a free market, it's going to be exploited and it becomes a crony capitalist market that is manipulated by corporate capture of our government, of our courts, and a manipulation of the justice system. | ||
| And that's really all these perfect factors that brought us here. | ||
| It's not one thing. | ||
| It's not two things. | ||
| It's the perfect storm of increasing capture of our government, really, at every facet. | ||
| And it's really concerning. | ||
| Yeah, and it seems like the private equity and the hedge fund managers, I mean, it seems like all they do all day is gamble, right? | ||
| As you point out, they don't actually create anything. | ||
| They're just sort of trading Pokemon cards, like you said. | ||
| They're not actually creating things. | ||
| They do spend a lot of time coming up with things that aren't illegal yet, and they sort of see how long they can get away with it. | ||
| Until finally a regulator steps in and goes, well, wait, what are you doing? | ||
| What are you calling this? | ||
| And they just come up with stuff. | ||
| And I was always shocked at things like ESG that were shoved down people's throats because of the investment companies. | ||
| And, you know, you just look at what ESG is and what it represents and what it says it's trying to achieve. | ||
| And it's like, this is anathema to capitalism. | ||
| You're giving more money to companies that are adopting policies to make less money. | ||
| It just doesn't make any sense. | ||
| And you just wonder, how do they even get away with this? | ||
| How do they convince people to go along with these scams? | ||
| And it seems like these back-floating rate loans are a similar construct that most people have never heard of, I'd never heard of, and yet are causing this massive damage. | ||
| I mean, what even are these? | ||
| What are back-rate float loans? | ||
| What does that even mean? | ||
| Anybody who survived 2008 knows exactly what these are. | ||
| What it was, was an adjustable rate mortgage. | ||
| That's all it is. | ||
| It's an adjustable rate mortgage. | ||
| But instead, like, I'm going to back up and say, when private equity buys a company, they don't buy a company the way you and I would buy a company or a car or anything else. | ||
| If we buy a car, we owe the money on that car. | ||
| It's our credit that's put up, and it's us that has to make that payment. | ||
| The car doesn't make the payments. | ||
| If I want to buy a company, I have to come up with my own loan with my name backing it, and I have to go buy that company. | ||
| And my name is on the line to pay off that company. | ||
| But these private equity firms have created this thing called a leverage buyout where they go to a bank. | ||
| They ask for a limitless amount of debt. | ||
| They don't pay their own money. | ||
| They might put up 2%, 3%. | ||
| Can you imagine if we tried to buy something with only that down? | ||
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| And then what they do is they make the company owe back the debt and they have no liability in it. | ||
| None. | ||
| None whatsoever. | ||
| So imagine you bought a car and the car had to pay for itself. | ||
| That's what's happening here, is they take out enormous amounts of debt to buy the company through something called a leveraged buyout. | ||
| Then, almost immediately, they start strip mining wealth out of the company, and they stack more debt on the company in the process. | ||
| As an example, Red Lobster is a really good example. | ||
| Red Lobster, they came in, and Red Lobster owned almost all the real estate that their shops were built on. | ||
| They owned that. | ||
| That was their asset. | ||
| They bought the company with debt they stacked on Red Lobster. | ||
| So Red Lobster already now owned hundreds of millions of dollars in debt. | ||
| Then they sold all of the land out from under each location and gave a lease back. | ||
| They sold the land and they dividend that money back to the private equity fund. | ||
| So the private equity fund was made whole immediately with the assets of the company. | ||
| And now, not only did the company have the new debt that they'd used to acquire them, but they also had to pay lease assignments that were huge. | ||
| And that debt might also have been bought with adjustable rate loans. | ||
| And so that was going to increase every year. | ||
| And so one economic downturn could literally bankrupt the entire company, whereas before they could have leaned on their assets to take out loans. | ||
| They could have leaned on those land holdings to take out loans to survive those and weather those storms. | ||
| They've now been left bereft. | ||
| They don't have anything left to lean on. | ||
| And the private equity firms already been made whole and dividend themselves out a ton of extra capital. | ||
| They're good and they're walking away. | ||
| The debt is now being held in repackaged CLOs by pension funds and other mechanisms. | ||
| So the bank has been made whole. | ||
| So the bankers are winning. | ||
| The private equity is winning. | ||
| The employees are losing. | ||
| The communities are losing. | ||
| And the pensioners are going to lose. | ||
| And that's how this is working. | ||
| And it's going faster and faster and faster. | ||
| It is the fastest growing market segment in the United States. | ||
| And they're doing it in every single direction. | ||
| They're doing it with our emergency rooms. | ||
| Emergency rooms are not owned by the hospitals. | ||
| They're run separately by private equity firms. | ||
| They're doing it in our children's pediatricians. | ||
| They're doing it in the veterinary clinics. | ||
| They're doing it in the nursing homes. | ||
| They're doing it in the funeral homes. | ||
| They're doing it in the daycare centers. | ||
| There's one private equity firm that owns 37 chains of daycare centers. | ||
| So when someone says daycare is unaffordable and it's what the market will bear... | ||
| No, it's what the market has been exploited to bear by a company that's been allowed to achieve a monopolistic level of control and is driving up prices while simultaneously lobbying Congress so that they don't step in. | ||
| Because they were going to step in just a couple years ago in that same instance. | ||
| And those daycares lobbied Congress after they had lobbied them to make it affordable during COVID, to not continue to keep it affordable, to make sure that people couldn't afford daycare centers and that they could set the price. | ||
| This is happening in every industry in America and nobody is talking about it because they intentionally make it impossible to understand. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And of course, you're helping us to understand it. | ||
| And it's amazing because I've watched as all of these companies have gone down and I had no idea that they were connected. | ||
| It was always kind of suspicious to me because you go to a party city and it's full of people. | ||
| You go to Joanne's and its parking lot is full. | ||
| And then it shuts down. | ||
| But, you know, you just sort of think, well, maybe it wasn't doing as well as I thought. | ||
| Or maybe it was mismanaged. | ||
| Or, you know, it must have declined. | ||
| And, you know, they've probably been struggling for a while. | ||
| And finally they've, you know, hit the dead end and are shutting down. | ||
| But now you realize it's like, no, there's it. | ||
| Like you put a vampire. | ||
| I picture the meme of, you know, death knocking on a door. | ||
| And then the next door. | ||
| And then the next door. | ||
| And there's a puddle of blood at each door. | ||
| Because it's like, so they kill Joann's. | ||
| They kill Red Lobster. | ||
| They kill Party City. | ||
| They kill Hooters. | ||
| It's like a serial killer of companies. | ||
| Going on here, on the loose. | ||
| What can we do to stop it? | ||
| How do you arrest this process? | ||
| How do you arrest this procedure from going forward? | ||
| Is it possible? | ||
| Is it just regulation? | ||
| Is it even, I mean, once you catch up to this scheme, are they just going to come up with another one? | ||
| I mean, how do you put a lid on this operation? | ||
| So the answer is we used to have a lid on this operation. | ||
| I want to be very clear. | ||
| This isn't a case where they're creating new things they can get away with. | ||
| It's where we've taken away things that kept them from getting away with stuff. | ||
| So if you go back as far as Jimmy Carter, back then only 35 investors could invest in a private equity firm without having to report to the SEC and let the government know that what they were doing was on the up and up. | ||
| And then it kind of progressed under Clinton when he repealed Glass-Steagall, which a lot of people supported. | ||
| They took the rails off, and then it went from 100 investors that had climbed to 100 at that point to 1,000 investors. | ||
| Now, 1,000 people could pull their money and do whatever they wanted, and the government couldn't look. | ||
| Then it went to Obama, and it became unlimited investors with unlimited money. | ||
| And they did this with bipartisan Congresses, so it's not just like it's a left thing or a right thing. | ||
| It's been a corporate capture of our politicians' thing, where increasingly they've just paid for the guardrails to come off, and we have to reinstate them. | ||
| The other thing we can do is that President Trump, for the last four weeks, has repeatedly discussed. | ||
| Closing the carried interest loophole, which allows them to make immense amounts of money without paying taxes, which is what makes private equity the thing that people want to do most to make sure that they're collecting their money without having to pay taxes. | ||
| And a lot of people are like, you know, they made their money, they don't have to pay that much in taxes. | ||
| But they're attracted to private equity because they're paying less than any other type of capital gains in the United States. | ||
| And they're doing it while exploiting and leaving companies with no liability in the matter bankrupt. | ||
| They're bankrupting entire communities, and they have no liability in it. | ||
| They can do whatever they want. | ||
| And so we do have to step in and replace some of those guardrails. | ||
| They existed for decades for a reason. | ||
| And it's only through their ability to pay our politicians to agree to take them off that we ended up here. | ||
| But we used to have those guardrails in place, and we had immense prosperity in our country during that time. | ||
| Now, a lot of people don't like overregulation. | ||
| I don't like overregulation. | ||
| I'm a free market absolutist. | ||
| I love the free market. | ||
| We don't have a free market right now. | ||
| We have a crony capitalist market that has bad behavior hidden in secret arbitrations with cartels running those. | ||
| So we have a corrupt justice system. | ||
| We have judges. | ||
| They're paying to rule in their favor in those instances, which a lot of people don't realize that those companies are paying for those judges, sometimes $25,000 to $50,000 a week. | ||
| We can't see what's going on. | ||
| We can't respond in the way we would in a free market. | ||
| It is up to our politicians to step in. | ||
| And Trump says he wants to close this carried interest loophole. | ||
| I don't think it goes quite far enough, but we absolutely need to encourage it. | ||
| We almost got there in 2021. | ||
| And Kristen Senema took a bunch of donations from private equity and was the deciding vote in not closing that loophole. | ||
| And coincidentally, the year that followed, they made... | ||
| Arizona, the state for the best private equity development in the country. | ||
| And now they call Arizona the home of private equity after her vote. | ||
| I'm sure it had nothing to do with it. | ||
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| Right? | ||
| And it's just, it seems so, you know, blatant and out in the open. | ||
| But it also seems like, like, I mean, how do you, I don't know, is it really all just explained by greed? | ||
| I mean, it seems so destructive. | ||
| It seems so short-sighted what they're doing. | ||
| Is it really just they're like, I better do it before somebody else does? | ||
| Because I can't understand how you would do this, as you point out, bankrupting entire communities just to make a little extra scratch when you could make it any other way. | ||
| Is it really just greed that explains this, or is this all part of a wider, deliberate attempt to shut down brick-and-mortar stores, do you think? | ||
| I mean, there are certainly some of that. | ||
| At the heart of this is human nature, and human nature is inherently greed-driven. | ||
| We were designed as a species through evolution to seek more resources for the propagation and perpetuation of our species. | ||
| I don't like to get into the weeds on that, but we are built this way. | ||
| It is only through our ethics and our morals and our need to serve one another that that changes. | ||
| When we took the operations of businesses out of the communities and we started consolidating all of our businesses in a monopolistic way... | ||
| That left our communities. | ||
| Let's just say an HVAC company, because I talked about this on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s podcast. | ||
| Okay, in the Southwest, there's a group called Champions Group. | ||
| They have acquired like 80 HVAC companies. | ||
| Each one of these HVAC companies used to be a small business in a community that had, you know, 25 vans going out to fix homes. | ||
| Those people cared about their customers because they were their neighbors. | ||
| When the private equity firm started acquiring all of these brands, and they're doing this with emergency rooms, and they're doing this with children's services, all right, when they did that, They started unifying the software, but they paid for the name image likeness of all of those owners. | ||
| So it still looks like those are small businesses on paper and on their websites. | ||
| People still go to them thinking they're serving small businesses. | ||
| They're exploiting that. | ||
| But they've unified software, and now they're fixing prices across 70, 80, 90 companies in this model, right? | ||
| And so they can set the price at anything they want. | ||
| They're not in those communities. | ||
| They don't care about those communities. | ||
| Small businesses, they support hockey teams. | ||
| Right? | ||
| They sponsor scout troops. | ||
| They go out and they volunteer to pay for treatment for a cancer kid down the block. | ||
| Big businesses, they have no reason to do that. | ||
| They aren't connected to those communities. | ||
| And they know at a certain point in this game of Monopoly, someone's going to win, and they want it to be them. | ||
| Monopoly, the game, was not made as a game. | ||
| It was made as a warning. | ||
| That if we didn't control and keep the guardrails on crony capitalism... | ||
| One person would end up holding it all. | ||
| Actually, my son said that in a viral video. | ||
| He said that to me. | ||
| He learned it. | ||
| And he was seven at the time. | ||
| But right now, we have to support small businesses more than anything else. | ||
| That's the number one thing we can do in the shoes we stand in. | ||
| Of course, I guess, as you're pointing out, it's hard to even know what is a true small business anymore. | ||
| InfoWars is. | ||
| You can support InfoWars at InfoWarsStore.com. | ||
| But can you stay for a little bit longer? | ||
| I'd love to talk to you a little bit more about it. | ||
| I have more questions, but I think what you're talking about needs to be talked about a heck of a lot more. | ||
| My guest is Tiffany Cianci. | ||
| I hope I'm pronouncing that right. | ||
| At TheVinoMom on X. Her TikTok is Tiffany Cianci. | ||
| It's much bigger than her ex, but I'd like to see a lot more attention to this brought on X because that's where I spend my time. | ||
| We'll be right back. | ||
| More with Tiffany on the other side. | ||
| Stay with us, folks. | ||
| It's the American Journal, InfoWars.com. | ||
| Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| I'm Harrison Smith. | ||
| My guest is Tiffany Cianci at TheVinoMom on X and on TikTok at Tiffany Cianci. | ||
| And you can find the link tree to all of her other internet presence there on X. And we're talking about a lot of stuff. | ||
| We're talking about capitalism in general. | ||
| The video that went sort of viral, and I played on the show yesterday, I believe it was, or maybe the day before, but it was about this giant bubble that nobody is even, you know, recognizing is there. | ||
| And, you know, I asked you already about sort of how you started on the path towards that revelation and understanding, you know, what was going on with those firms. | ||
| But how did you get started in this sphere? | ||
| How did you get started doing this research and getting involved in looking at the mechanisms that are... | ||
| Underlying the sort of perverted and distorted form of capitalism that we have now. | ||
| I mean, what kicked you off on this investigative career? | ||
| I used to be a small business owner, a franchisee, which franchising used to be the most amazing mechanism for entering the middle class in really, like, the history of American capitalism. | ||
| I used to be a franchisee of a company called The Little Jim. | ||
| And COVID was really hard on children's services. | ||
| I taught kids. | ||
| My specialty was special needs kids. | ||
| And it left our company open to a hostile takeover by a private equity firm. | ||
| The corporation was acquired in a very hostile fashion by a company called Unleash Brands. | ||
| They're owned by Seidler Private Equity. | ||
| And they were acquiring and gobbling up all of the kids' services businesses they could get their hands on. | ||
| They work, like, everything from martial arts to children's testing centers, urban air, trampoline parks. | ||
| They were buying all of it. | ||
| And they bought my company. | ||
| I happened to be the president of our small business owners' union at the time. | ||
| We had a franchisee association, a trade union, and they wanted to break up the union. | ||
| They had broken up the unions at several companies they had acquired before us. | ||
| We knew they were going to come for us. | ||
| We just didn't. | ||
| Really believe it was going to be as bad as it was going to be. | ||
| And right away, they tried to get us to forfeit all of our contractual provisions. | ||
| Our contracts were good for another decade. | ||
| They told us we were going to sign new contracts. | ||
| We were going to give up our rights. | ||
| We were going to pay them more money. | ||
| And we said, no, we're not. | ||
| Like, our contracts are good for a decade. | ||
| We're keeping them. | ||
| We got a lawyer. | ||
| We pooled our resources. | ||
| We did what you're supposed to do in capitalism. | ||
| Right? | ||
| We worked together to show the world that this is not what was going to happen. | ||
| They reminded us we had secret confidentiality agreements, non-disclosure agreements, and an arbitration clause that would send us to secret courtrooms where no one would be able to hear what we had to say and what was happening to us. | ||
| If we went to the press, they could terminate us, and they could sue us in secret courtrooms. | ||
| We notified them we weren't going to sign the new contracts through our council, and the next day, they terminated my business. | ||
| They terminated me. | ||
| I was out of business in 24 hours. | ||
| They did the most corrupt things you can imagine, the most unethical things you can imagine. | ||
| They sent in people to steal my employee files. | ||
| They hired felons to forge documents in my case and bragged about it. | ||
| They paid a $120,000 bribe to my landlord to not renew my lease and bragged about it. | ||
| All of these things happened. | ||
| They sent out letters to people saying I was running a drug trafficking ring at my baby gym. | ||
| All of this was covered in the New York Times and the New York Post. | ||
| But at the heart of all this, I was forced into a secret courtroom where they were paying a judge $28,000 a week to decide my fate. | ||
| And inside that court case, they engaged in the most corrupt conduct that attorneys can engage in. | ||
| They had the second largest law firm in the United States, DLA Piper. | ||
| And these three lawyers, Norman Leon, Madeline Cordray, and Laura Sixkiller, set about systematically destroying my lives. | ||
| My life to make an example of me. | ||
| So all of the other small businesses would stop fighting back. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| In there, I happened to be pregnant at the time. | ||
| At one point, they started subpoenaing me to other states while I was on bed rest because I was having a difficult pregnancy, a much-wanted pregnancy. | ||
| At one point, they filed a motion to compel me to expedite the scheduling of an abortion I did not want against my will in that secret courtroom. | ||
| They threatened me with sanctions motions if I didn't do it. | ||
| Like, the most... | ||
| Evil kind of conduct you can fathom is happening in 1.3 million of these secret court cases every year in America. | ||
| And it's happening to the small business owners in your community. | ||
| Right now, just last year, they were in litigation, the company I'm fighting, with over 300 of their small businesses in courtrooms all across the United States. | ||
| But the cottage industry of it is held in Texas and Arizona, the most private equity-friendly states in the United States. | ||
| They settled almost $40 million worth of cases so people wouldn't find out about some of them last year when they defrauded a bunch of martial arts studio owners that were all veterans and moms. | ||
| But this is happening everywhere. | ||
| It's not one private equity firm. | ||
| It's happening across the board. | ||
| And the same thing is happening with the bankrupting of all of these companies. | ||
| As a matter of fact, the company I'm fighting just acquired Sylvan Learning Centers because the franchise group that owned them before was forced into bankruptcy by private equity, and the trustee forced them to divest. | ||
| So now the Sylvan Learning Center owners are stuck with the same monsters I was stuck with because of this greed. | ||
| It's cancer. | ||
| It's vampiric. | ||
| And it's happening nationwide. | ||
| No one knows about it because no one's allowed to talk about it. | ||
| But if we were in courtrooms, if our free market weren't blind, we would know this conduct was taking place. | ||
| We don't. | ||
| And the only reason I'm even allowed to talk about it is because I won my defamation case when they called me a drug trafficker and said I was abusing kids. | ||
| And so I'm allowed to speak and tell people. | ||
| But thousands of others are not. | ||
| And that's why it's not a free market. | ||
| No one knows what they're doing, and that's why we're not regulating it. | ||
| Oh, my God. | ||
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| I know. | ||
| Whoa. | ||
| Yeah, not the answer I was expecting. | ||
| Holy... | ||
| I'm, like, speechless. | ||
| I was just slack-jawed the entire time you were saying things. | ||
| That just got worse and worse. | ||
| Holy cow. | ||
| And, I mean, so I guess the reason they were able to do those things to you is because you were a franchisee of a larger company? | ||
| Because one of my questions, when you're talking about, like, the HVAC companies, my question is, like... | ||
| Why would a small business sell the private equity? | ||
| What do they have to gain? | ||
| Why are they able to buy all these things when, you know, if you're a small business, why not just continue to operate? | ||
| Why let this private company come in and make all these decisions for you? | ||
| But you were forced into that, I guess, because you were a franchisee of a larger company downturn during COVID. | ||
| for pennies on the dollar, I imagine, which again, it's like, was that just an accident? | ||
| Or I tend to believe that there was on purpose that, you know, trillions of dollars of wealth was transferred from the middle class to private equity firms. | ||
| So, but, but that's, that's why they were able to have you in that vice because you were a franchisee and that, that parent company sold out to the equity firm. | ||
| They didn't really sell out. | ||
| One of their investors sold a piece of their stake and then another, and they were able to assemble enough equity to force everyone else out, including the founders of the company. | ||
| Like I said, it was a hostile takeover. | ||
| But when it comes to small businesses, every small business... | ||
| It's still human and there's a price. | ||
| And I want to be clear. | ||
| It's not always the private equity firm that approaches them. | ||
| A lot of times they'll send an intermediary that says all the right things. | ||
| You're getting close to retirement. | ||
| You've been running this business for 25 years. | ||
| We love this community. | ||
| Let us take it off your hands. | ||
| We're going to take good care of your employees. | ||
| They make all these assurances. | ||
| And I want to be clear. | ||
| This is happening in every industry. | ||
| These companies, these intermediary brokers come in. | ||
| They make all the right promises and they give them all of the promises they need to think they're leaving their company in good hands. | ||
| And they probably are. | ||
| But there's nothing in that contract that says they can't flip it to the private equity firm 30 days later. | ||
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| That's a common tactic. | ||
| So these people think these are good people that are trying to leave their employees and their communities in good hands. | ||
| But they're immediately flipped. | ||
| And I tell everybody, when you're negotiating to sell whatever you're selling, whether it's a podcast you're selling their business, or an athlete that's getting approached with a name image like Nick Steele from a private equity firm, which is also happening right now. | ||
| You don't need to believe that you're negotiating with the person sitting across the table from you. | ||
| You could believe they're your brother. | ||
| The kindred spirit you always wanted to own your company. | ||
| You need to always remember you're negotiating with the devil they sell it to. | ||
| Because that next flip is where your community is going to be left bankrupt. | ||
| And so it's very hard because they're doing it with the best of intentions. | ||
| But everyone also has a price. | ||
| There's a few franchisees or franchisors, like Five Guys. | ||
| Five Guys. | ||
| Has four generations right now, four family generations that have said, we will never sell to private equity. | ||
| And they're holding that line. | ||
| But Jimmy Johns said that. | ||
| And then also, Jersey Mike said that. | ||
| And Jersey Mike's promised that. | ||
| And they just sold out to Blackstone just a few months ago. | ||
| They'd been trying to force them to sell for the better part of two years. | ||
| And eventually the price was so high, they couldn't say no. | ||
| And they sold. | ||
| And now all of their franchisees are in Blackstone's hands. | ||
| So it's not one way. | ||
| There are so many mechanisms they have to bankrupt our communities. | ||
| And money is money. | ||
| They'll move on to the next country when our country is left barren. | ||
| Their money will give them that ability. | ||
| They'll move on to the next superpower when our economy is left bankrupt. | ||
| But I like to remind everybody that when you are negotiating to sell, you're not negotiating with the person sitting in front of you. | ||
| You're negotiating with whoever comes after them. | ||
| And you'll never know who they are unless you build in clauses in that. | ||
| And clauses in equity to protect everything that you've built. | ||
| They believe they're doing the right thing. | ||
| They don't know. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| And, you know, it does remind me of, you know, DEI, ESG, this sort of stuff, because all that's always predicated on just like, you know, a company has to have a giving spirit. | ||
| And, you know, it's basically saying the capitalism is too cutthroat and we need, you know, a more loving... | ||
| Composition of board of directors or whatever it is, but in reality it's actually even more cutthroat than the way it was before. | ||
| I mean, is private equity, they're the firms that are behind some of the push for DEI and ESG. | ||
| I mean, how does that square with this ruthless, I mean, brutal, I mean, it sounds criminal. | ||
| It sounds like you're just there trying to get a little gym so kids can get some exercise. | ||
| And here come these men in suits with briefcases to just ruin your life and ruin all of it and destroy all of it and make a couple bucks and then get out of the ruins, you know, before they catch fire. | ||
| How do they square, you know, things like ESG and DEI with the way that they seem to be systematically destroying, you know, every community they touch? | ||
| There are a number of reasons that they would push for those types of policies. | ||
| I'm going to give you a few examples. | ||
| One, they're the ones that are invested in the companies that will help comply with it. | ||
| So when they create these mandates, they're creating demand for other companies they've already acquired. | ||
| That's the first thing. | ||
| The second thing is that these types of initiatives also create division in the American population. | ||
| Anything that creates division keeps us fighting with one another so we never turn to our elected officials and demand that they protect our communities. | ||
| As long as we are fighting, we never, ever literally stand together and demand more for the working class of America. | ||
| But this populist movement that's rising, I think that that's changing. | ||
| I really do believe that there's a possibility that that's changing, and they're going to work harder to divide us than they ever have before. | ||
| And we're seeing it in real time. | ||
| We're also seeing a Republican Party that's being remade in populism right now. | ||
| And there might be a lot of cronyism and a lot of corporate capture of even that party. | ||
| But it's not going to square if they want to keep their newfound audience. | ||
| It can't. | ||
| And so something's going to have to give soon. | ||
| It really is. | ||
| Yeah, you know, we always talk about sort of the false dichotomy that's been presented where, like, you're either a communist or a capitalist. | ||
| And it's always framed in that way. | ||
| But I always look back at American history and it's like nobody was fighting the Cold War. | ||
| For capitalism, we're fighting it for God and freedom. | ||
| And capitalism just sort of came along with those things, right? | ||
| Because if you let people be free, it turns out they'll trade goods and services to each other to where they both benefit. | ||
| It's like a natural occurrence as a result of freedom. | ||
| It's not the point of freedom or, you know, a definition of freedom. | ||
| It just goes along with it. | ||
| But that seems like another false dichotomy that they're able to wield. | ||
| And it keeps people on the right from recognizing the threat that, like, corporations and private equity and some of these things represent. | ||
| Because it smells like communism when you say, hey, these companies need to be reined in. | ||
| Hey, there needs to be some limits to this capitalistic activity. | ||
| That smacks of socialism, so it gets rejected. | ||
| When in reality, the only force of the size and power to deal with these massive corporations is the government. | ||
| It's supposed to be there to protect American interests. | ||
| That's what it's for. | ||
| I don't care if it's the government or a corporation destroying my rights or my ability to be free and create a company and succeed. | ||
| If it's a corporation doing that, the government's responsible to step in and stop it. | ||
| So it seems like private equity is the threat. | ||
| Populism is the solution. | ||
| Is that a fair, if not totally elementary and simplified idea? | ||
| That's a really good, like, it is a simplified version, but... | ||
| You have to understand that we've already been choosing winners and losers. | ||
| At the government level, when they bailed out the banks in 08 instead of the homeowners, they chose the winners. | ||
| When they bailed out the car companies, they chose the winners. | ||
| In COVID, when they said Walmart could stay open, but the hardware store that was family-owned down the block had to close, they chose the winners. | ||
| In COVID, we saw 505 days of small businesses going bankrupt and 551 new billionaires created. | ||
| They chose the winners. | ||
| At this point, if we don't reinstate guardrails, we've already chosen, and we are not choosing American exceptionalism. | ||
| We're not choosing American prosperity, because prosperity at this point is not raining back down into the communities. | ||
| When we had strong prosperity, the 50s, the 70s, even the 80s, corporations were reinvesting of every dollar that their prices increased through inflation. | ||
| 93% went back into the communities, reinvestment, increased wages, reinvestment in new factories. | ||
| At this point, it's less than 5 cents. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| It's corporate greed. | ||
| That's where we're at. | ||
| And so they've already chosen winners and losers at our government level. | ||
| They need to start choosing the people. | ||
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| Yeah, it seems like greed is the poison, but it's secrecy that really lets it get in, right? | ||
| Everything that you're talking about relies on this extreme secrecy. | ||
| And that they're able to enforce through, I guess, non-disclosure agreements and these arbitration agreements. | ||
| How do we bring light to this secrecy? | ||
| Because it seems like if people knew what was going on, they wouldn't stand for it and we'd be able to stop it. | ||
| But until you can recognize the threat, there's no way you can confront it. | ||
| How do we shine a light on this beyond just what we're doing here and talking about it? | ||
| Or is this the thing we need to be doing? | ||
| We need to be doing a ton of this. | ||
| Everyone should be talking about this. | ||
| But there's like a template for doing this, right? | ||
| One case that a lot of people don't know anything about was that Massage Envy, another private equity-owned franchise, had 181 instances of reported rape and sexual assault in their massage parlors. | ||
| And when people were signing in on the iPads for their massages, they were signing confidentiality agreements and arbitration agreements. | ||
| They didn't know it. | ||
| It was click-wrapped into the terms and conditions on their phone. | ||
| Same thing that happens when you take your kids to an urban-era birthday party. | ||
| And so what happened was women were being sexually assaulted. | ||
| Men, too. | ||
| And they weren't allowed to report it, and it was going to these secret courtrooms under threat of lawsuits and being silenced and penalized to the point of bankruptcy. | ||
| So women were being silenced. | ||
| And what happened was three brave women went to the press. | ||
| They showed that they were being silenced, that terrible things were happening in their communities. | ||
| And a law was passed, HB, I think it was 5405, 4505, that said you're no longer allowed to force someone into an arbitration for sexual assault, right? | ||
| You're never allowed to do that again for a report of rape or sexual assault. | ||
| That was the first step. | ||
| But right now, most people don't realize in an arbitration, which is, again, 1.4 million secret courtrooms every year in America, Americans are forced into them every day. | ||
| Small business owners, regular working class people. | ||
| Your kid falls off a zip line at Urban Air Trampoline Parks, which is a case I'm testifying in right now. | ||
| And you need to go and take care of the fact that she has permanent brain damage and fractured 74 bones in her body. | ||
| Oh, my God. | ||
| And they're forcing you into a secret arbitration? | ||
| And then you find out that there were dozens of cases like that at urban air trampoline parks all across America? | ||
| And they were all forced into secret arbitrations? | ||
| If this were the 80s, we would have found out, the news would have reported on it, and we'd be boycotting and picketing in front of their facilities. | ||
| But that's not happening because they're being forced into secret rooms and secret arbitrations. | ||
| And most people don't know that the Federal Arbitration Act, in the new corrupt form it exists in, in the bastardized form that it's being used in today, The arbitrators, the judges that these corporations are paying for, don't have to follow the law. | ||
| They can make their own law. | ||
| They're allowed to say whatever they want, and a court is required to uphold it. | ||
| There is no onus to follow the law of the United States. | ||
| And no one would sign an arbitration agreement if they believed their alternative dispute resolution was going to take them somewhere where they could do whatever they want, and that the law wouldn't be followed. | ||
| But that is what is happening today. | ||
| So we could pass a law that says arbitrators have to follow the law. | ||
| We could pass a law that says that those documents have to be available, that we have to be able to see them. | ||
| We could get rid of non-class agreements in click wrap because you don't need a lawyer to go to a birthday party, or you shouldn't. | ||
| But today you do. | ||
| You should not need a lawyer to download Disney Plus and worry that when you go to a park four years later, if they kill your wife, you're going to get forced into arbitration because you watched a movie four years ago. | ||
| But that is what is happening. | ||
| Extreme example. | ||
| You buy a washing machine at wherever there's left to buy a washing machine at. | ||
| We'll say Best Buy. | ||
| And you get home. | ||
| You don't know there was an arbitration agreement in the warranty paperwork in the box. | ||
| You didn't sign that. | ||
| But you're still forced into arbitration. | ||
| Like, these are the things that are happening right now in our country. | ||
| We have to demand that arbitrators have to follow the law. | ||
| We also need to stop allowing the American bar. | ||
| To hold themselves accountable. | ||
| Because these courtrooms are allowing unethical conduct. | ||
| And the only one that can enforce it are other lawyers. | ||
| When I was coerced and forced into having an abortion I did not want, I went to the Bar Association and I went to the state of Arizona. | ||
| Arizona is one of the only states that has a law that says it's illegal to coerce an abortion. | ||
| So I went to the commissioners and I said, I need you to enforce this law. | ||
| Protect me. | ||
| Help me. | ||
| And they said, you're not a resident in Arizona. | ||
| Your court case is just here. | ||
| So we can't help you, but you can go file a bar complaint. | ||
| I went to the bar and I said, help me. | ||
| I'm a Catholic woman. | ||
| I don't want this. | ||
| Help me. | ||
| And they were taking it seriously. | ||
| And then suddenly my investigator disappeared. | ||
| And we found out that the same week that happened, my arbitrator, my corrupt judge, Patrick Irvine, he was made the head of the Character and Fitness Committee for the Bar of Arizona. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| Same week. | ||
| You can't allow... | ||
| The inmates to run the asylum. | ||
| And right now, lawyers have a license to kill. | ||
| People could not create bad law without bad lawyers. | ||
| They could not commit bad acts without bad lawyers. | ||
| My husband is a lawyer. | ||
| I'm not saying this lightly. | ||
| My husband is a federal attorney. | ||
| I don't say this lightly. | ||
| But you couldn't do it without the bad lawyers. | ||
| And I'm not saying all lawyers are bad. | ||
| There are amazing lawyers out there. | ||
| But Americans, we should be able to see what they're doing. | ||
| So we should have community councils that oversee the Bar Association's complaints. | ||
| And we should be able to see the laws they're making before they're voting on them. | ||
| We should be able to see what the possible implications are. | ||
| And we shouldn't have our government passing laws when they wrote the bill 24 hours earlier and it's 3,800 pages long. | ||
| There are a lot of things we need to do. | ||
| But it will require our government to start serving the people instead of corporations at every facet. | ||
| It's going to take all of us demanding that instead of fighting one another. | ||
| It's not easy. | ||
| Yeah, wow. | ||
| And it reminds me of situations we've covered so many times where it's the reason we have a representative republic. | ||
| The reason is you're supposed to elect normal people that are the heads of the community to go and be an avatar for the people. | ||
| When you have rule by lawyers or rule by experts or rule by scientists... | ||
| There's no guarantee they're a good person, and they might know all of the jargon and all of the legalistic ways to screw you over, and it never works out. | ||
| And what you need is just some random intelligent person to go, well, this doesn't make any sense, and I don't think this is right. | ||
| Let's not do this. | ||
| It's when the lawyers and the experts and the scientists, when they get total carte blanche to do anything that they want. | ||
| They've got the intelligence and the capability to screw everybody over and get away with it, and you need elected representatives who are responsible to just the people to be the backstop for their corruption. | ||
| Wow, this has been a crazy interview. | ||
| I've been writing down just like vocabulary words I need to learn this whole time because, yeah, I mean, this is obviously such a huge issue, and hopefully we can do something about it just with sunlight and populism and getting the government to actually serve the people rather than the corporations. | ||
| I think that that is clearly the ultimate goal. | ||
| Getting back to sort of what we started this conversation with, this big bubble that nobody's paying attention to, obviously that needs sunlight. | ||
| As well, what do you think is next? | ||
| What do you think happens next? | ||
| And are we going to wake up to this or is the bubble going to pop first? | ||
| And what does that look like? | ||
| I like to say that the bubble is already leaking in five directions. | ||
| Imagine pinholes in a giant bubble full of water. | ||
| It's already leaking and the leak is accelerating. | ||
| We're watching it because if you look back three years ago, private equity bankruptcies, there were 37. Last year, there were 95. Now, when you think of a bankruptcy, don't think of, like, a small business. | ||
| These private equity bankruptcies might own 100 businesses with 100 locations each. | ||
| So these bankruptcies, when you're seeing that there were 97 last year, and now we're at 115, and this year we're on track for 150, imagine that every one of those bankruptcies might control 15,000 locations, okay? | ||
| That could be the reality. | ||
| We are already watching the strip mining. | ||
| The wealth is leaving. | ||
| And when this money, when you give your money to a private equity-backed institution, it is leaving your community and it is never coming back. | ||
| And when they leave that strip mall, my landlord that they paid the $120,000 bribe to to not renew my lease, they promised him they were going to be renting it for 10 years and they were going to make him whole. | ||
| It's still sitting empty four years later and he's lost over $400,000 in rent I was paying him. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| They are never going to serve the communities. | ||
| They'll make you promises when they buy your company. | ||
| But they're never going to uphold them. | ||
| They're going to use what they need to get the wealth they need. | ||
| And then they're going to move on. | ||
| Because that fund is going to close out in anywhere from 6 to 10 years. | ||
| And they're going to flip you to the next Pokemon holder. | ||
| And they're going to do it all over again. | ||
| Wash, rinse, repeat, extract more wealth. | ||
| But nowhere in that equation does it allow to give anything back. | ||
| You can't systematically extract more and more and more out of a business flipping it from private equity firm to private equity firm in the secondaries market and think that there's ever going to be room to allow for prosperity for anyone else. | ||
| It's not in the economic model, and math is math. | ||
| It is up to us to step in and demand that this has to have guardrails. | ||
| We can't let the wheels come off like they have. | ||
| We've got to put them back on. | ||
| We've got to get back on the straight and narrow. | ||
| And we have to start demanding that prosperity rains back down into our communities. | ||
| Because everybody says trickle-down didn't work. | ||
| Maybe trickle-down didn't work because it became a vacuum cleaner that just funneled money up to the 3% through private equity because we couldn't see what they were doing anymore. | ||
| Maybe that's the problem. | ||
| I think strip mining is the perfect way to put it. | ||
| That is the image that's coming to my mind. | ||
| And it seems like it's also interconnected. | ||
| You know, they couldn't get away with screwing people over like that if they didn't have the private arbitration. | ||
| So it's like if you get rid of one of these, it seems like the rest will be easier to confront in all these various different ways. | ||
| Incredible stuff. | ||
| Tiffany Cianci, that's C-I-A-N-C-I. | ||
| She's on X at the Vino Mom TikTok. | ||
| Tiffany Sianci and her websites can be found at her link tree pinned to the top of her ex account at TheVinoMom. | ||
| Thank you so much for joining us. | ||
| That was just mind-blowing. | ||
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