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alex jones
News and new Judicial Watch documents, you name it, about how Google, Facebook, and Twitter were merged with the White House.
They had government-lavish facilities, five-star, private jets, everything.
unidentified
I don't understand how we got so toxic and just so divided and so bitter, and I get why sometimes people just don't want to pay attention to it.
repealed the 1948 Smith-Munt Act, which then permitted propaganda to be in broadcasting.
You have been subjected to the most massive, harmonized, globally coordinated propaganda campaign in the history of the Western world, full stop.
With this campaign, the governments of many Western nation states have turned military-grade psychological operations strategies, tactics, technologies, and capabilities developed for modern military combat against their own citizens.
Welcome to fifth generation warfare, the battlefield of the world.
Right here, this is you, okay?
And all this surrounding...
You, these are the liberties we've been given in this amazing experiment we call the United States of America.
You've got folks out there whose plan it is to just eat away at your liberties, at your First Amendment.
mike benz
With hard power ruled out as the dominant means to have an empire, the U.S. transitioned to a soft power empire, which would be dominated by...
Agencies like the Central Intelligence Agency, democracy promotion programs at the State Department, later USAID, and the whole swarm army we're about to meet.
But even right out the gate, the Central Intelligence Agency immediately moved into the media space to control the messaging that people around the world experienced.
unidentified
It is legal for the agency, the sister agency, the FBI, and the rest of them to put out intentionally misinformation, propaganda to American citizens now.
It's not like the crazy guy that firebombs a Tesla dealership.
It's the people pushing the propaganda that caused that guy to do it.
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?
Cool.
Wow.
Okay.
donald j trump
Terry.
But you're not being very nice.
He had MS-13 tattooed.
unidentified
We'll agree to disagree.
donald j trump
I want to move on to something else.
Do you want me to show you the picture?
I saw the picture.
We'll agree to disagree.
unidentified
Here we go.
donald j trump
Here we go.
Don't Photoshop it.
Go look at his hand.
mike benz
He did have tattoos that can be interpreted that way.
I'm not an expert on them.
unidentified
I want to turn to Ukraine, sir.
donald j trump
I want to get to Ukraine.
No, no.
No, no.
He had MS, as clear as you can be, not interpreted.
unidentified
This is why people no longer believe the news, because it's fake news.
jon bowne
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, in all of her mundane incomprehension of how America works, is announcing a ministry of truth that will decide what is and isn't disinformation.
unidentified
I do think that several members of Congress...
And some of my discussions have brought up media literacy because that is a part of what happened here.
alexandria ocasio-cortez
We're going to have to figure out how we reign in our media environment so that you can't just spew disinformation and misinformation.
unidentified
Let's see, we're probably, we're getting there pretty soon.
It's just going to be.
A lot of big legacy outlets were feasting at the taxpayer Trump.
We've got the New York Times, Reuters, Politico, you name it, consuming large amounts of tax dollars, a lot of it coming through USAID and other places.
How could these people be lying like this?
I mean, you can't be that dumb.
The only way it could happen is if somebody's actually paying you to say this stuff.
rick wilson
They're still going to have to go out and put a bullet in Donald Trump, and that's a fact.
robert barnes
No congressionally appropriated funds should be used to broadcast...
News and information or other broadcast publications to the U.S. public or audience of a political nature.
We don't need taxpayer dollars to ever go to that.
And we should reinstate that portion of the Smith Month Act, given what we've now discovered and uncovered about USA.
unidentified
This is going to be you.
This is about what we are willing to accept.
And then all of these liberties, see these liberties here?
john kerry
But look, if people go to only one source, and the source they go to is sick, and has an agenda, and they're putting out disinformation, our First Amendment stands as a major block to the ability to be able to just hammer it out of existence.
unidentified
Those will be gone.
It's It's Monday, May 5th, 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 thing, get everybody's stuff together.
harrison smith
Okay, three, two, one, let's jam.
unidentified
Good morning.
harrison smith
Welcome to The American Journal.
I'm your host, Harrison Smith.
Thank you live this morning from the InfoWars headquarters here in Austin, Texas.
The 5th of May, Cinco de Mayo, or so I'm told.
We got a lot of just too much.
We have too much to talk about today, considering the fact that everything does tend to break on Friday afternoon.
It's a little frustrating.
Personally, since if I want to break down some of this stuff, I have to wade back through a whole weekend's worth of bombshell news.
And there is a lot to get into.
But it seems like, I get it, it comes out on like a Friday afternoon.
Obviously it doesn't get covered by the mainstream news until the next weekend, but some of the stories from last Friday...
I feel like they're not getting the scrutiny that they perhaps deserve.
Things like National Security Advisor Mike Waltz being fired because he was working for Israel.
It's kind of a gigantic deal.
Not really sure how this is.
It's just like, oh yeah, he got fired.
No, really?
unidentified
Why?
harrison smith
Yeah, he was kind of a traitor.
He was like a traitor.
He was a treasonous person.
Taking orders from a foreign head of state.
So now he's going to be representing us at the UN.
I'm sorry, what?
He should be representing us...
unidentified
I won't say that.
harrison smith
I was going to say at the gallows, but I mean, it is treason, so I guess, I mean, lawfully, you know.
I mean, I don't know.
I don't know how this sort of gets okay.
It's like, yeah.
No, it turns out he was working for a foreign state at the highest levels of our government.
So we'll get into that one for sure.
We will definitely get very much into that one.
It all stems from SignalGate, apparently, or at least not as well, really, but it tipped the scales.
So we'll talk about that.
We'll talk about Dave Portnoy is...
Sending people to Auschwitz.
That's happening.
It's all very...
Everything is crazy.
And so we'll break it all down, of course.
Continuing fallout of the Shiloh Hendricks situation as racial tension is ratcheted up throughout the country.
Trump making some pretty big statements, as always.
He's talking about conquering Greenland.
He's talking about reopening Alcatraz.
He's doing all sorts of stuff.
He's talking about going after cartel members with the U.S. military and hilariously slash evilly.
I'm not sure what the...
Basically, CNN is making fluff pieces for the cartels.
So wrap your mind around that one.
CNN is in Mexico interviewing people who sometimes hang bodies from the overpass to let everybody know...
That they mean business, and they're trying to soften their image and give them a platform to tell their side of the story.
So, yeah, we'll get into that, too.
Just a lot of insanity across the board here.
Let's get into it as we do every day with our Daily Dispatch.
unidentified
*BEEP*
harrison smith
All right, here it is, folks, your Daily Dispatch for Monday, the 5th of May, 2025.
Trump says he will reopen Alcatraz Prison.
Former President Donald Trump announced plans for the Bureau of Prison to reconstruct and reopen Alcatraz Prison in San Francisco Bay to detain the nation's most dangerous offenders.
Trump stated that this move responds to rising concerns over violent offenders and the need for stricter containment, citing past practices of isolating dangerous criminals.
Alcatraz closed since 1963 due to deteriorating infrastructure and high maintenance costs.
Previously held, notorious criminals like Al Capone on a remote island now operated by the National Park Service.
Trump posted on Truth Social that Alcatraz will be substantially enlarged to house America's most ruthless and violent offenders and called its reopening a symbol of law, order and justice.
The reopening plans reflect Trump's broader approach to criminal justice amid Bureau of Prisons crises.
But questions remain about logistics and agency coordination given Alcatraz's current tourist status.
Which, hey, look.
Opening a giant prison just across the bay from San Francisco.
Very funny.
I mean, I kind of like it just for that effect.
But I would prefer it be transformed into some sort of...
I would prefer it to be some sort of super villain lair for training henchmen.
I think that would be a better use for Alcatraz.
What if Trump reopened it as a dual purpose national university and militia group with like a giant tower in the middle?
I'm looking for a sort of Eye of Sauron type situation.
So every time the libtard scumbags in San Francisco look towards the bay, they're reminded that...
Like a sort of Damocles looming over them are dozens if not hundreds of heavily armed, well-trained MAGA chuds ready for deployment at a moment's notice.
Just to keep San Francisco in line.
That's my theory.
That's what I think we should do.
Patrol, is our prison escapes a big deal?
I mean, all I really know about Alcatraz is that a guy escaped from it once.
I mean, that's what, if you talk about Alcatraz, everybody knows it from...
The movie's made about people escaping from it.
But then again, maybe that's a big deal.
And maybe an island is the right place to store people.
Maybe political prisoners.
Are they opening it up as a prison for Hillary Clinton and Alejandro Mayorkas and Merrick Garland?
In which case, sure, temporarily we can store them there, but justice demands.
We don't imprison them.
Meanwhile, Warren Buffett to step down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO.
Warren Buffett announced Saturday he will step down as the chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway at the end of the year, bringing an end to more than six decades of leadership to the firm.
Buffett94 made the surprise announcement during Berkshire's annual shareholder meeting in Omaha, Nebraska.
Isn't it really that big of a surprise?
The man is 94 years old.
I think the surprising thing is that he's still...
Appearing at annual shareholder meetings.
He recommended the company's board and chairman Greg Abel be appointed CEO.
So this is a big deal, apparently.
It's the top story across every headline.
He, of course, merged his enormous wealth with Bill Gates like a decade ago.
I mean, do you all know that?
Like the Bill Gates Melinda Foundation, Berkshire Hathaway, and like they combined their wealth.
They agreed that they would—I guess they didn't have enough individually.
They had to combine their wealth and use it to release COVID on the world and try to enslave us all.
So that's fun.
Trump announces 100% tariff for movies produced outside the U.S. On Sunday, President Trump declared he's directing the imposition of a full double-duty tariff on all movies made outside the U.S. before entering the American market.
He pointed to the deterioration of the U.S. movie industry, which has been further impacted by foreign countries providing incentives to attract filmmakers away from the United States.
Trump described the issue as a national security threat and authorized the Department of Commerce and U.S. trade representatives to begin instituting the tariff.
He stated on his Truth Social platform that the U.S. film industry is rapidly declining and emphasized the need to restore movie production within America.
Then again, I don't think this is going to solve the problems because the reason that the film industry is collapsing.
It's because it's managed and peopled by the most despicable human beings that have ever dragged their slimy bodies across the earth.
It's full of just terrible people with awful ideas who try to make movies expressing those ideas that are roundly rejected by absolutely everyone.
So if you want to save the movie industry, the trick is to make good movies.
That's the reality.
Remember when Coke did New Coke?
It's like if Coke changed their recipe to include, like, maggots in the cans and then everybody stopped buying it.
And then they're like, we better have tariffs on sodas from overseas.
Or you could remove the maggots and then people will drink it again.
You can get the maggots out of the product and people will enjoy buying the product once again.
Stay tuned for more brilliant marketing advice like that.
Stop hating your audience and making terrible movies, and the movie industry won't collapse.
They don't teach that at film school, apparently.
Israel approved plans to seize all of Gaza and hold it indefinitely, officials say, which is about as shocking as a 94-year-old retiring.
I know, we're all shocked at this.
On Monday, Israeli cabinet ministers approved a plan to take control of all areas within the Gaza Strip and maintain a presence there for an indefinite period.
The plan follows the collapse of mid-March ceasefire and aims to defeat Hamas by increasing military pressure and displacing Palestinians.
And this is news, apparently.
We haven't been watching it for the last year and a half.
The Israel military is mobilizing tens of thousands of reservists and plans to relocate a large number of Palestinians towards the southern region of Gaza.
Israel halted all humanitarian aid before the ceasefire ended, causing widespread hunger and looting, while the UN warns the plan leaves many without supplies.
Implementing this plan would greatly expand Israel's operations in Gaza and likely worsen the humanitarian crisis amid strong international condemnation.
So I guess it's...
It's genocide.
I guess what you'd call that would be genocide.
Okay, great.
Meanwhile, and speaking of, MAGA leaders defend Americans' right to boycott Israel.
There was a bill put forward this week.
I guess it's been withdrawn now, but the fact that it was even offered in the first place, incredibly troubling.
According to lawmakers that introduced this bill, Lawler and Gottheimer, H.R. 867 amends the Export Control Reform Act of 2018 to include international governmental operations in existing anti-boycott laws.
The congressman said in a January press release that the change, quote, targets harmful and inherently anti-Semitic boycott efforts taken by IGOs while also extending protections already in place for boycotts instigated by foreign countries.
However, critics warn the bill threatens the constitutional rights of Americans.
The penalties under the legislation include civil penalties, criminal fines of up to $1 million, and imprisonment for up to 20 years for supporting calls to boycott Israel.
20 years in prison for boycotting a foreign state.
We got a pretty big issue here.
This is a pretty big problem as far as I'm concerned.
And I think we'll get into this more.
As we carry on and relate it to other stories happening at this moment.
But yeah, I really don't know how else to say it or how much more we can emphasize this.
But yeah, Israel has way too much control in our country and we should probably take some pretty drastic steps to undo that.
So, just the fact that they would feel like this would be an appropriate thing to put forward, yeah, it's all just completely insane.
And we'll get into it and really try to break down how this control manifests and what we can do to extricate this parasite from the body politic.
Because it seems like it is the primary and most prominent source of the worst laws, regulations, decisions made by Americans.
I mean, again, just this weekend, you've got one of the top national security advisors, one of the highest people.
It's like Donald Trump, then right under him, Mike Waltz and Pete Hegseth.
Mike Waltz was working for Israel, like, communicating with and coordinating with the president of Israel in opposition to and contravention of the American president.
Okay?
Same time, they're putting forward bills saying that boycotting Israel will get you thrown in prison for 20 years.
And there's, like, a number of other things that came out over this weekend that's just like...
What are we going to do about this?
I mean, how are we going to solve this issue?
Because clearly it's unsustainable the way things are going and the control that a foreign state exerts over our government is unacceptable and has to stop.
So we have to stop that.
We really do.
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We have a lot of videos to go to that are all kind of equally insane.
But we'll start with a video that will bring a smile to your face.
Clip number nine.
This is just one of these very ironic situations where you've got leftist protesters who think that they're standing up for minorities instead being lambasted by minorities for ruining everything that they came to America for.
It's pretty amazing.
It's an African man basically talking down to these Leftist cat ladies and explaining how they're just wrong about everything.
Let's go to clip number nine now.
unidentified
If America gets destroyed, I have a country to go.
alex jones
But what about you?
unidentified
Where are you going to go?
Unfortunately, nowhere, which is where you're doing.
Okay.
What you're doing is just sheer waste of time.
Because for your contribution, my contribution will make this country great.
But if you want to destroy it, I'm not going to allow that because I have my kids that I came here.
How are they going to grow again?
Okay.
One, they don't understand that today being a Saturday, there are people working.
They should go and work, contribute to the economy of this country to make sure that this country become better.
alex jones
But they are here.
unidentified
We're here wasting time bullshitting.
They get everything for free.
Medicaid, Medicare, and EBT and all that bullshitting.
alex jones
Come to Africa because I encourage you don't have money.
unidentified
You're not going to eat.
alex jones
You understand?
You guys are here and you are just making noise.
unidentified
Making noise for no reason.
I mean, what kind of people is this?
And you think all black people are stupid?
alex jones
It's not all of us who are stupid.
unidentified
I mean, America give people the opportunity to fool too much.
alex jones
The stupidity is too much.
unidentified
He's more than welcome to talk.
I just don't want to trigger the crisis.
alex jones
I'm sharing an idea.
harrison smith
He's like, you're too stupid.
unidentified
I don't know how you expect this country to survive.
You are just too stupid to be here.
harrison smith
I love it.
You love seeing it.
Race.
Race, again, just a constant thorn in our side and a source of aggravation when it doesn't belong in the conversation half the time.
But you just love seeing the African guy being like, when this country breaks, I get to go home.
Where are you going to go?
You're ruining your own country.
unidentified
These people are just like, well, you're welcome to say that.
harrison smith
If it was any, you know, just MAGA white person, it would just be, you think we're destroying the country?
unidentified
You're destroying the country!
harrison smith
But then you have a black African guy, and they're just like, well, sir, you're welcome to think that.
Please stop berating us.
You love it.
You love to see it.
Again, injecting race where it doesn't belong is a pastime of the left who can't actually argue the benefit of any of their programs.
Or defend themselves in any way that is, you know, appropriate.
They have to make everything about race because for the last several decades that's been a very efficient and, you know, successfully wielded tool against people standing up to them.
It's not really working out so well anymore.
Let's go down to clip number 12. Here's Trump calling Jasmine Crockett low IQ and Jasmine Crockett proving his point.
Let's watch.
donald j trump
I can't name one Democrat.
I mean, I look at the Democrats, they're in total disarray.
They have a new person named Crockett.
I watched her speak the other day.
She's definitely a low IQ person.
unidentified
I mean, he's not wrong.
And this is her response to what he said.
For you to be in charge of the whole country, you sure do have my name in your mouth a lot.
Every time you say my name, you're reminding the world that you're terrified of smart, bold black women telling the truth and holding you accountable.
So keep talking.
Okay.
Okay.
You notice something, right?
She made it about gender and about race.
He didn't mention anything about her gender or race.
He just said she's low IQ, which happens to be true.
And rather than giving something to combat that, she wants to make it about race and gender and him being afraid of black people because he's racist and scared of women and whatever.
Low IQ argument.
It's just so interesting because it's typical of, like, Democrats and Democratic politicians.
Let's make this about race and gender.
Let's not show anything to prove that he's wrong.
Let's just say he's scared of people who are black and a woman.
Such a great, great comeback.
She's proving his point.
harrison smith
Yeah.
Yeah, they kind of can't help but prove his point when he's calling them low IQ.
It's one of the effects of having low IQ is you...
You find it difficult to dissuade people of that reality.
And it is, I mean, I don't, you know, I hate to, I hate to be the one to have to explain this, you know, over and over again.
But hate speech is when reality matches the stereotype.
And that's the response that you're seeing from Jasmine Crockett and her defenders.
It's literally like, yeah, she's low IQ.
And so I'm like, why?
Because she's black?
Like, well, I didn't say that.
I said she was low IQ.
It's just, I'm glad that we're not, because it's exhausting.
Because it's like, how many times is this going to be the response?
And like, people think it's, do people really think this is real?
I mean, I don't know, man.
I don't know.
It's just, it's very telling.
It's very telling their response to all of this.
Because again, I mean, if you think Trump says these things on the basis of race, you're just dishonest.
There's no honest way to frame it that way.
Because obviously, Trump goes after everybody that he doesn't like.
I mean, do you need to show all the things he said about Joe Biden?
What was the reason he talked about Joe Biden?
It's because Joe Biden is a proud black woman.
He just can't stand that.
It must be.
It must be.
Because the only reason, obviously, the only reason Trump says things like that about Jasmine Crockett or anybody else, because he's a racist sexist.
In fact, he's scared.
He's scared of the power of intelligent.
Black women like Jasmine Crockett.
Yeah, right?
And then obviously he hates Joe Biden and thinks he's a failure because Joe Biden is a proud black woman.
And all the other people he talks trash about, he only ever talks trash about strong black women.
That's how you know that that's his real issue.
I'm glad that we're just not.
We're not, right?
We all agree.
We all agree at this point that we are not.
Falling for this anymore?
And we're not treating it like anything other than what it is?
An admission?
An admission that he's right?
And he's like, this person is dumb.
And they're like, well, maybe that's because she's a black woman.
Ever think about that?
Like, so she is dumb?
You are agreeing that she's dumb?
You're just mad that she's a black woman?
What are we mad about again?
It's an admission.
It's a...
Waving of the white flag.
It's the surrender.
That's what everybody has to understand.
When they bring up race, when they bring up gender, when they bring up something other than the merits of the argument, it's because they've lost the argument.
And you can just ignore whatever they say.
And they're like, is it because she's a black woman?
It's like, oh, so you admit she's stupid, and then you move on.
Alright, welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
This is the American Journal.
I'm your host, Harrison Smith.
We got a lot to break down today.
Trump's trying to reopen Alcatraz.
That's pretty cool.
We got a WHO study.
Cell phone radiation causing cancer in animals.
Talk about that.
Trump does not rule out taking Greenland by force.
Okay.
That's fun.
That's very fun.
And then there's this.
Trump confirms he offered to send U.S. troops to Mexico to help with cartels.
Early May 2025, former—wait, what?
Former U.S. President—what?
U.S. President Donald Trump acknowledged he had proposed deploying American military forces to Mexico as part of efforts to aid in the fight against drug cartels.
Trump made the offer amid longstanding concerns about Mexican cartels smuggling fentanyl into the U.S. But Mexican President— Claudia Scheinbaum firmly rejected the proposal, emphasizing sovereignty.
Like, but you understand that cartels run your country?
You understand the problem is that you're not sovereign right now because you have ruthless gangs that are stronger than your military, and if you try to exert authority or sovereignty over them, you actually can't?
I mean, I'm sure we all remember the stories over the last couple years of, like, high-profile cartel members being arrested and then the cartels just break into the jail and get them out.
So you're not exactly sovereign in the first place, which is the whole issue that we're trying to deal with here.
You apparently do not have the capability or desire, I guess, to maintain control over your territory, so maybe you need some help with that.
Might be something you'd want to do.
The two leaders have maintained security discussions, with Trump accusing Mexico of being controlled by cartels and offering military help, while Sheinbaum reiterated cooperation without allowing foreign troops on Mexican soil.
Trump expressed willingness to intervene militarily in Mexico, if asked to assist with cartel-related issues, but Sheinbaum firmly rejected the idea, emphasizing that Mexico's sovereignty cannot be compromised.
The refusal suggests ongoing strain in U.S.-Mexico relations over drug enforcement methods as Mexico maintains military presence internally and rejects unilateral foreign intervention despite increased U.S. border operations.
Now CNN went down to Mexico to get the cartel's thoughts on what Trump is saying.
And it really is an amazing piece of modern journalism.
There's a lot to unpack and understand about the clip I'm about to show you.
Short though it is, the fact that it exists in the first place is kind of shocking because clearly CNN is trying to help the Mexican cartels with their image.
I mean, they went down there with the purpose of painting the cartels as sympathetic somehow.
And the strangest part about it is that the cartel members seem less insane than the liberals trying to whitewash them.
This is very weird.
I'm very entertained by this, I guess.
Clip number 15, CNN interviewing cartel members.
And ask them about what they think about President Trump declaring them terrorists, and they're actually more reasonable than leftists in this country.
What's your mind to wrap around this one?
Let's watch.
unidentified
According to the Trump administration, you are a terrorist.
The cartels have been labeled a foreign terrorist organization.
What do you make of that?
harrison smith
Well, the situation is ugly, but we have to eat.
unidentified
What's your message to Donald Trump if he's watching this?
My respect, he says.
harrison smith
According to him, he's looking out for his people.
But the problem is the consumers are in the United States.
And if there weren't any consumers, we would stop.
So I love that.
I just love that.
I mean, you look at the way the left is in America.
Trump's declaring the cartel's terrorist.
And they're just like, what?
That's insane!
This is another crazy overreach by Trump.
The U.S. cartels, and he's like, the man has a point.
He's like, look, Trump's got a point, okay?
He's trying to do what's best for his people, and we are terrorists, so respect.
So respect to the man.
Genuinely.
I mean, they genuinely have, like, better understanding of the situation than leftists in this country.
What?
How is this the case?
CNN is down asking the cartels to give their side of the story.
But how does that make you feel to be called terrorist?
As the kids are kicking around the human head outside, right?
How do you feel about that?
Does that make you sad?
CNN roasted for interviewing Sinaloa, a cartel gangster, asking him how he felt about Trump labeling him a terrorist.
And he's like, you know, respect.
Respect to the guy.
Trump's calling us a terrorist.
Hey, he's got a job to do, you know.
He's keeping his people safe.
And, like, I want you to understand, like, this is sort of what I mean.
When I, like, you, we just don't need, you don't need to listen to the crying lefties.
We're just like, these poor people.
It's like you ask the people and they're like, no, we're, yeah, we're definitely taking advantage of you, big time.
No, it makes sense to stop.
You should be stopping us.
Like, we are screwing you over a lot.
So, that makes sense.
You should try to stop us, probably.
Like, they get it.
And all the people crossing the border, claiming asylum, they're like, no, we're screwing you over.
And to, like, surrender to them or to, you know, coddle them, like, you're just, you're operating on a delusion where it's like these poor Beleaguered people.
And when you let them into your country, there's like thankful and gracious and, oh my gosh, yes, you know, you wonderful people.
We have so much, you know, thanksgiving for you.
It's just, we love you so much.
And in reality, it's just like, no, it's like, you know, if a thief goes to a house with a big guard dog, they're just going to be like, well, you know.
I guess I can't break in there.
They got a big guard dog to keep people like me out.
It's probably a good idea.
I'd have one too if I was them.
Right?
Yeah, they're defending their country.
Like the bad guys.
The honest bad guys are just like, hey, what are we going to say?
Trump's defending his country from us.
It's probably a good idea.
He probably should.
I don't know.
People just act like the world is some sort of...
After school special or something.
It's like, no, the world is full of deviant psychopaths that are just trying to take advantage of you.
And you just have to defend yourself against them.
It's not evil for you to do so.
And you don't have to feel bad for it.
And you have to fight them sometimes.
And they get that.
Because they're the ones fighting you.
Trump blasted Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum because she won't let him send U.S. troops into Mexico.
President Trump said on Sunday, That the Mexican president rejected his proposal to send U.S. troops to Mexico to thwart the illegal drug trade because she's fearful of the country's powerful cartels.
The comments made by Trump came a day after Sheinbaum confirmed that Trump pressed her in a call last month to accept a bigger role for the U.S. military in combating drug cartels in Mexico.
Trump said it was true that he proposed the idea of sending troops to Mexico and lashed into Sheinbaum for dismissing the idea, saying, quote, Well, she's so afraid of the cartel, she can't walk.
So you know that's the reason.
Trump said in the comments to reporters aboard Air Force One on Sunday, and I think she's a lovely woman.
The president of Mexico is a lovely woman, but she's so afraid of the cartels that she can't even think straight.
And remember, right before Scheinbaum, the last president was Arlo, whatever his name was.
Remember, he was proud of the fact, he was like, I don't even have bodyguards.
And it's like, okay, in a country that's not controlled by the cartels, That would be a really amazing thing, right?
If you lived in a really safe country where the president of the country can just walk around without bodyguards and the country is so safe that that isn't even an issue, that's one thing.
When your country is controlled by cartels and you brag about being able to walk around with no bodyguards, it means you're controlled by the cartels.
It means you're under the protection of the cartels.
It's like the cartel is bragging at that point that they're so powerful and are so in control of the country that their puppet is protected even without bodyguards by them for serving them.
The U.S. Northern Command has surged troops and equipment to the border, increased manned surveillance flights to monitor fentanyl trafficking along the border, and sought expanded authority for the U.S. Special Forces to work closely with Mexican forces conducting operations.
operations against cartels but shine bomb said the u.s troops operating inside mexico was going too far I just, you know, I guess, but we can probably just do it anyway.
If they can't stop the cartels, I doubt they could stop us.
I just don't, I don't really understand why we require the Mexican presidents.
Permission to go in and fight the cartels.
Can anybody explain that to me?
Did we have Bashir al-Assad's permission before we went in to bomb ISIS encampments?
Or do we just do it because we're fighting terrorism?
And if these cartels are terrorists, why do we not just fight them?
I don't understand.
I mean, obviously, If the Mexican government was capable of protecting their territory from cartels, then we wouldn't have to be there.
I just don't get why we don't just treat Mexico like a terrorist state, because it obviously is.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I guess we're just trying to be nice.
But we keep getting screwed over, so we should just...
Do it anyway.
Again, you've got...
Just the fact that you've got CNN trying to whitewash and cover up for cartels and the cartel members themselves disagree.
There's just something really emblematic about that.
About both cartels and American media and the relationship between our two countries.
It really is.
Interesting, isn't it?
Where should we go next?
Let's go again to...
Let's go to clip number four here.
Because this...
I don't even know how to...
How to contend with this, exactly.
It's Jen Psaki...
Claiming she saw nothing of...
Joe Biden's mental decline.
And it's like, how could you not?
I shouldn't even ask the question.
It's not a question.
You're lying.
Like, she's just lying.
Everybody saw the decline.
It was visible from space, like the Great Wall of China.
There's no way.
And it's just like, okay.
Your defense is that you're just incredibly stupid, I guess, is the defense of this.
Like, no, I'm not lying.
I wasn't covering anything up.
I'm just freaking retarded.
I'm like really, really stupid.
Beyond stupid.
I mean, I can't tell what the hell's going on, ever.
That's the only way you could possibly make this statement.
After what we saw from Joe Biden over the entirety of his administration, every time he went in public, it was an embarrassing gaffe.
So, let's hear her out.
Let's hear what she has to say.
Here's former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, clip number four, saying there was no cover-up of Biden's mental decline.
Let's watch.
jen psaki
I left in May of 2022, just for the facts here, and I have seen Biden once since then, when I took my daughter to the holiday party this last December, after he had lost.
And so I hadn't seen him in person during that period of time.
I never saw that person, not a single time, and I was in the Oval Office every day, that was on that debate stage.
I'm not a doctor.
Aging happens quite quickly.
Were things that people saw during that period of time that were similar to that or would have been in a category of that?
I don't know.
Possibly, right?
And all these books are going to tell us.
ben smith
Do you think that they were...
Were they actively covering it up?
Were they sort of in denial?
Or was that just a bad debate?
Like, what is your read on that?
jen psaki
Well, this is what I mean about cover-up is a very loaded term, I think.
ben smith
Well, it means you knew that it was really bad and you're pretending otherwise versus you're deluding yourself, which I think is what people do a lot.
jen psaki
Well, I understand, but I still think it's like cover-up is often like a crime, right?
People use that term.
ben smith
They say it's worse than the crime.
jen psaki
People use that term as they relate to Watergate or the covering up of not sharing public information about a war.
ben smith
Yeah, and I'm not accusing anybody of a crime here.
jen psaki
I understand, but other people have used that term, and I think it's a bit of a dangerous term.
harrison smith
Yeah, I mean, yeah.
Yeah, no, it's like very dangerous.
It's like really crazy that you people covered up the fact that the country is being run by a senile, incompetent person.
Yeah, it's like really like dangerous and hints and implies a whole bunch of other stuff, right?
It implies that you were covering it up because you wanted it to continue.
Like you were doing something that made the fact the president is a senile and competent old man something that you want around.
Like it...
What it does is exposes the entire fraud of the U.S. presidency under Biden and that he wasn't making decisions unelected faceless bureaucrats were and that he was just following orders for people that we didn't vote for.
Like, yeah, I think that is criminal.
I think it's almost treasonous.
And again...
It's so funny.
You've got this guy.
He's talking to Jinsack.
He's obviously sort of on her side.
But even he lays out the dichotomy.
Either you've deluded yourself or you're engaged in a cover-up.
Like, that guy lays out the dichotomy there.
It's got to be one of those.
There is no third option.
Because, and Jinsack's like, I only saw him in person once since 2022.
I'm like, okay, and?
You watched him on TV, didn't you?
Every single day, you reported on him.
Every single day, you saw him making gaffes, falling over, getting lost on stage, having to be directed, possibly pooping his pants.
You don't have to see him in person to understand this.
Everybody knew it.
I've never seen Joe Biden in person.
I knew he was incompetent when Jen Psaki was still around.
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So...
harrison smith
There's just a very strange...
I'm not saying it wasn't entertaining.
It was a fun time to be covering the White House, but...
I think it just speaks to the...
How do you put it?
Just like...
What was the word for just like overconfidence when you know you're being deceptive?
I mean, it's just the classic like they're lying, we know they're lying, and they know we know they're lying, but they still lie.
That's all that's happening here, and it's just shocking to me that people are still playing this game.
So, yeah, I don't know.
I don't know.
You kind of see this a lot.
In criminal investigations, too.
It's one of the favorite tactics of liars.
And it's why you have the phrase when you take an oath to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
Because you can get away with lying by not telling the whole truth.
And you see it a lot in criminal investigations where they're like, I've never even met that person.
And they're like, yeah, but you emailed them about the crime you were committing.
You've emailed them hundreds of times.
But it's like, technically not a lie.
They're like, I've never even met that person.
We've never talked about this.
We've never talked about anything.
Like, yeah, but you texted him.
You emailed him.
You communicated about this thing.
But we never met each other.
I've never even met him.
And it's like, that's not the question that we're asking.
That's what Jen Psaki's doing there.
It's like, how did you not know this guy was...
Completely incompetent.
She's like, I only saw him once in person.
That wasn't really the question.
And also, like, you can age really rapidly.
No.
Fundamentally at odds with the definition of aging.
It actually always happens at the same rate because you're describing the passage of time.
What are you talking about?
She's like, yeah, no, he must have just aged really rapidly right before that debate.
I was looking back at some of our coverage of that debate.
And I think, you know, back then, I had a tweet that sort of summed it all up.
It was just like, it was a true lesson.
It was an example of just how ill-informed The left is.
For people like Jen Psaki, she's a despicable liar.
Everybody in the media was just lying.
They were engaged in the cover-up, obviously.
It's like, well, I just don't like using that word because it's criminal.
It's like, no, okay.
And that's why the mafia doesn't use the word mafia, because that is criminal.
But they're in the mafia, so they're trying not to use that term.
Yeah, it is practically criminal.
Or it's this...
I don't know how you'd call it.
I guess willful ignorance.
Willful ignorance.
Where they just really only care about if they can legitimately pretend to believe something.
And it's like the moment that it's just no longer possible for them to credibly maintain the illusion, then they admit that it looks like he is really, really bad.
For everybody in the media, everybody in the White House, everybody who made it, who has it their job to watch politics, everybody knew Joe Biden was incompetent.
So everybody like Jen Psaki is just lying to you, to your face outright, in a way that really shows you how good they are at it.
It's all that they're revealing there is like, yeah, we can just tell blatant, straight-up falsehoods with perfect sincerity.
Look at us go.
But for the vast majority of the average person out there, if they're consuming mainstream media, if they're watching CNN or MSNBC, and those organizations are very, very stridently and strategically avoiding any coverage of Joe Biden's mental incapacity,
and even covering and acting like claims like videos of Joe Biden are cheap fakes, If you're somebody that just watches these people and that's, they're the filter through which you view the world, then it must have been shocking in the first five minutes of the debate to understand just how far gone Joe Biden is.
It is possible to believe that the average person out there watched the Biden debate and just went, oh my God, oh my God, I can't believe how far gone this guy is.
The next question they should be asking, and we can't do this for them, is like, oh, so all of these people have been lying to me this whole time.
Like, they need to take that extra step themselves.
Instead, they're allowing these despicable, relentless, congenital liars act like they too were fooled by Joe Biden and his team.
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I don't know.
harrison smith
It's just the empire of lies.
It really is shocking how dishonest absolutely everybody in power is.
It really is.
Well, it can't be maintained, that's for sure.
And how this informs the rest of what America does and the general construct of the American population is telling, I think.
You just have this mentality of just actually not caring what the truth is.
Of just actually genuinely not putting any weight into what is real, what is factual.
It's all just what can we get away with.
What can we lie about?
What can we pretend to believe credibly to get what we want?
But it just never even enters into their mind.
The idea of being like, hey, I love Joe Biden, I like Joe Biden.
Politically, it's best if Joe Biden was confident, but he's just not, so I have to admit that.
They would never, ever do that.
I mean, are we forgetting they literally came out with a report saying Joe Biden couldn't be charged because he was senile?
And they're still running with this lie?
Like, are you insulted?
You should feel insulted.
Alright, welcome back.
Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
We'll go to a different topic here.
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Just cycling through all of our favorite topics.
harrison smith
Racism, transgenderism, you know, all of these isms getting in the way of us just being a normal, functional country.
We'll go now to clip number eight because this is...
Another, you know, big topic.
Recently, just on Friday, we covered the trans swimmer that won every single competition he was in against the ladies in California.
I think it was California where this swim meet took place.
But we've got other stories, like out of the UK.
Police, quote, will not rush to ban trans officers from strip-searching women.
Police chiefs will not rush to ban trans officers from strip-searching women despite the Supreme Court ruling that sex is biological.
Forces have been accused of a stunning lack of urgency after saying they would not immediately respond to the ruling.
So, again, just...
We're still stuck in this quagmire of pretending that...
Men in dresses are women.
Let's go to clip number eight.
Here's Leah Thomas' former teammate describing what it was like.
Let's watch.
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Did you know Leah Thomas before he joined the women's swim team at UPenn and started competing sort of alongside with you?
Yes.
So his name was Will back in the day, and he was a member of the men's team.
He was a grade older than me, actually.
So from the moment I showed up on campus at 18 years old, I knew there was a member of the men's team named Will Thomas.
And he was Will all through my freshman year.
And then my sophomore year, he informed us that he was transitioning to the women's team and now wanted to be referred to with she, her pronouns.
And in that period, he hadn't actually changed his name yet.
So he wanted to be she, her, but his name was still William.
And then it was the year after he announced that his name was now Leah.
So I knew him the entire time.
I knew him for a year as a man.
I knew him for a year in the middle during his transition, whatever that might even mean.
And then obviously I got to know him as my teammate, Leah.
My senior year at this point, it had been three years since I'd first been introduced to him.
Wow.
So, how did William swim on the men's team?
Was he a good swimmer, a bad swimmer, an okay swimmer?
What was his record like?
Yes.
So something to keep in mind is Ivy League swimming is not known for producing Olympians and NCAA champions.
Of course, it does happen occasionally.
There's always an exception to the rule.
But that being said, for the most part, we're not producing NCAA champions.
That is mostly the SEC schools.
That's, you know, Stanford, those big, big sports schools.
Ivy League is not known for any of this athletics whatsoever.
So let's make that clear.
So within the Ivy League...
Thomas was actually a good male swimmer.
He placed second in IVs in his events, but he never qualified for the NCAA championship.
That is, again, the highest level of competition in college swimming.
It's an honor to qualify for the meet.
It's very hard.
Only top 35 roughly in each event get to go of hundreds and thousands of college swimmers.
And so he never qualified for the NCAA championship as a man.
To put that into perspective, when he switches over to the women's team, he breaks every record in every event that he swims on our team.
He went on to break Ivy League records.
He went on to win best women's swimmer in the Ivy League at the end of the season.
And also, he won an event at the NCAA championship.
So he went from never having qualified for the meet at all on the men's side to winning an event outright.
That is a huge gap.
That's a very big difference to, again, go from having not qualified for the meet to winning an event.
Is unheard of.
And so that, I think, really shows the perspective of, yes, he was okay comparatively in the Ivy League, but he really just became the best of the best.
The athletes that he beat at the NCAA championship in the event that he won were Olympic medalists.
Second, third, and fourth place have medals from the Olympics, and he beat them.
And was he smashing school records on the women's team too?
He broke the record in every single event that he spent.
Oh my, every single event?
And he just took those accolades away from women that went to the conference.
He also won Ivy League Summer of the Meet.
So at our conference championship, Ivy League championship, the woman who scores the most points gets an award.
And he was the female athlete that was chosen for that, although he's not even female.
harrison smith
All right, welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
This is the American Journal.
I'm your host, Harrison Smith.
We got some weird stories to talk about that are just sort of similar to everything else that we've been covering, especially over the last week or so.
I guess we'll just...
Stick to this video.
I'm talking about Dave Portnoy.
Dave Portnoy had a bit of a freakout this weekend.
And, you know, maybe I'll cover this in just a second because I've got the second video that he put out, but I want to go to the first one first.
So, I'll put that in here and we'll get it censored.
And then we'll go to those videos.
Because he's not dealing very well with the outrage that a lot of people are feeling with Israel overall.
But I gotta say, this story from Friday, I don't...
Like, I get you released something on Friday.
It's not going to get covered over the weekend.
Like, how is this not dominating the headlines on every single news outlet?
Trump fired Waltz because he wanted to attack Iran.
President Trump sacked his National Security Advisor Mike Waltz because he was working with a foreign leader.
To push the United States to attack Iran, according to a new report in the Washington Post.
So a top national security advisor was working with the president of a foreign nation to drive America into war in contradiction to the orders of the elected president of this country.
Is this not a huge deal?
Like, the biggest scandal since Watergate?
How is this not more of a gigantic deal?
Especially, I mean, this is the crazy part.
You had Signalgate, which Walt was at the center of and responsible for.
Then you had like three weeks of Pete Hegseth being under constant attack.
Basically, every one of Pete Hegseth's personal...
You know, assistants or undersecretaries or whatever you want to call them, being ousted and fired and forced out of their position.
You had week over week of this being a top story every single day, despite the fact that Pete Hexas didn't really do anything about it.
Then we learn, like, it wasn't his fault that, you know, these chats were leaked.
The person whose fault it was, it's now been revealed, was working directly with a foreign state to counter Pete Hegseth and start a war with Iran.
Does that not put the whole of SignalGate in a different perspective?
I mean, is it not now very suspicious and should we not be asking the question if Mike Waltz didn't deliberately add the editor of The Atlantic to these chats in an effort coordinated with The Atlantic editor to encourage war with Iran.
I mean...
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How...
harrison smith
I'm having trouble with this.
Really, I'm having trouble not taking this to its logical conclusion.
Could y 'all print out the Washington Post story?
Because I've got the Al Jazeera version of it here and the Times of Israel version.
Waltz's coordination with Netanyahu on Iran strike contributed to his firing.
That's the headline from Times of Israel.
Al Jazeera asks, what led...
To Mike Waltz's ouster as Trump's national security advisor.
So we'll get the story here and see if we can't interpret what it entails for the rest of this country.
President of the United States Donald Trump on Thursday removed Mike Waltz as national security advisor in key...
A key policy-shaping role and tapped Secretary of State Marco Rubio to take over the role in the interim.
Trump announced that he was nominating Waltz to be the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
Mike Waltz has worked hard to put our nation's interests first.
I know he will do the same in his new role he posted on his Truth Social Media platform.
Waltz said, I'm deeply honored to continue my service to President Trump and our great nation.
The senior official's reassignment comes in the aftermath of the so-called signal gate incident.
And his leaning towards aggressive military action against arch-foe Iran.
Yes, our arch-foe.
Sorry, Israel's arch-foe.
Who's arch-foe again?
What were the main reasons behind Waltz's removal?
The Army veteran came under heavy criticism after creating a group on the Signal messaging app with other top officials, including Vice President J.D. Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, to discuss the military attack plans on Yemen.
The group's chat became public after the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic magazine, Jeffrey Goldberg, was added to the group mistakenly.
Supposedly.
After Goldberg published extracts from the chat, Waltz said he took full responsibility for the mistake.
The scandal cast a doubt on Trump's national security team with both Waltz and Hegseth coming under fire.
Several Democrats called for their resignation in the immediate aftermath of the scandal.
But you remember, like when this was reported, Waltz was never the one being criticized.
They tried to get Pete Hegseth fired over this.
It wasn't his fault.
And we covered it.
If you were watching InfoWars the whole time, we were going, why do they keep talking about Pete Hegseth?
It was Mike Waltz that did this.
Why is he not the one being fired?
According to the Washington Post, he also set up Trump after engaging in, quote, intense coordination with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the possibility of launching military strikes on Iran.
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harrison smith
So a national security advisor working under President Trump who does not want war with Iran and is working to settle the Middle East diplomatically by talking to Iran is being undercut and subverted by his own national security advisor.
Who's working with the president of a foreign state to try to get a war with Iran going, try to get America into another Middle East war for the benefit of and on the behalf of a foreign state and in total contradiction to the desires of the commander-in-chief.
And this is being treated like a job transfer to the UN?
As the Trump administration continues to pursue Omani-related talks with Tehran, Waltz reportedly frustrated the president by adopting an increasingly hawkish stance that favored military aggression.
Netanyahu's office, however, denied the Daily's report that he claimed he had intensive contact with Waltz.
Moreover, he was reported to have built up tensions with White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, who increasingly felt he was not fit for the Trump team.
Along with Walt, Trump is kicking out his deputy, Alex Wong, according to U.S. media reports, becoming the first senior White House official to be fired from the second Trump presidency.
A number of inspectors, general federal workers, and senior military officials, including Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Lisa Franchetti and Commander of Air Force Special Operations Command General James Slife, have also been fired.
During his first term, Trump sacked a large number of senior officials, including FBI Director James Comey, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Environmental Protection Agency Scott Pruitt, and NSA's John Bolton and Michael Flynn.
But were any of them coordinating with a foreign state to get America into a war?
It's like, am I the crazy one?
Am I hearing this correctly?
Am I missing something here?
How is this being treated so casually?
How is this being just brushed off?
I mean, conservatives are still going after Representative Swalwell for making out with a Chinese spy a couple years ago.
If Mike Waltz was Chinese and was working with Xi Jinping and was coordinating directly with Xi Jinping and was leaking the internal classified chats, About Taiwan war strategy with a Chinese magazine editor.
Would this be...
Would he then be appointed to the UN to represent America?
Would this be treated like a...
Well, I mean, he fired lots of people.
He fired Rex Tillerson too.
It's like...
Okay, it's not about just firing people.
Yeah, Trump has fired a lot of people.
It's about the reason that he fired him being because he was...
Committing treason.
Am I the only one that sees this?
I'm telling you, I saw this, the Washington Post story on Friday or whenever it was.
And then just very little updates or scandal.
It's like...
unidentified
This is crazy.
harrison smith
This really is crazy.
Waltz has come under fire from...
Some recognize figures in the Make America Great Again camp backing Trump, mainly for a perceived lack of loyalty to the president and a difference in policy approach.
Steve Bannon, a former chief White House strategist and influential figure, criticized Walt for his hawkish foreign policy stance, particularly his support for military interventions.
Laura Loomer, a far-right activist, highlighted a 2016 video in which Walt criticized Trump's remarks about military service members as a sign of his disloyalty.
She also accused Walt of appointing staffers with anti-Trump sentiments.
And targeted his deputy, Wang, for alleged ties to Chinese interests.
Oh, so there are Chinese interests in there too.
Great.
No, it's great.
It's just our entire executive branch apparently is jam-packed with foreign people working for their particular ethnic or national group over the country that they're supposed to serve.
J.D. Vance backed him, arguing the reassignment was not a demotion, but a strategic move that would allow Waltz to better serve the administration in a new diplomatic role.
Waltz will now have secure confirmation, will have to secure confirmation from the Senate to become the new U.S. envoy to the U.N. in what is expected to be a challenging path.
Waltz is a former Army Green Beret with deployments to Afghanistan that earned him a bronze star for valor.
He's written extensively about military strategy and robustly supports national defense.
The Republican is also a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives and used to work as a counterterrorism advisor to the Pentagon during the George W. Bush administration.
But the signal gate controversy, his reported unauthorized communication with Israeli leaders and opposition by Democrats in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee could work against him.
That could be a very interesting hearing in the Senate as he's trying to be approved for the U.N. If they bring up the fact that...
He apparently was working behind the president's back, coordinating with a foreign leader to start a war.
Just crazy.
For now, without any specific time period announced, Rubio is taking over as National Security Advisor.
Rubio himself, one of the more hawkish figures in the White House, is assuming more responsibility in a move that could be aimed at consolidating foreign policy leadership and streamlining the decision-making process.
This is the first time since 1970s that the Secretary of State is also acting.
Trump has not confirmed any potential replacements for Waltz in the future, but Stephen Miller, Steve Witkoff, and Rick Grinnell are some of the top figures in his circle.
Miller is a senior policy and homeland security advisor, known for his hardline immigration and foreign policy stances.
Witkoff is acting as a special envoy, leading the talks with Russia, Iran, and the Palestinian group Hamas.
Grinnell is acting director of national intelligence and a former ambassador to Germany.
And it gets a little bit crazier from the Times of India.
Caught on camera, Mike Waltz using less secure version of signal messaging app.
Mike Waltz faces scrutiny after a photo revealed his use of TMSGNL, a modified signal app, raising security concerns due to potentially encryption compromises.
The images captured at a White House meeting displayed conversations with high-ranking officials.
Mike Waltz and his controversy seems to go together for a little longer as new photo emerged, showing the former National Security Advisor using a modified and less secure version of the signal messaging app TMSNG-SGNL, raising fresh security concerns.
Reuters photographs from April 30th captured Waltz's phone screen displaying conversations with several high-ranking officials, including J.D. Vance, Marco Rubio, Tulsi Gabbard, and Steve Witkoff.
These officials hold crucial positions in managing foreign relations and national security matters, including negotiations with Vladimir Putin regarding the Ukraine conflict.
The images were taken at a White House cabinet meeting in Washington, D.C. on the 30th of April.
The modified application is developed by TeleMessage, a company that replicates messaging applications with additional archiving capabilities.
According to 404 Media's analysis, whilst this archiving feature might help comply with presidential record-keeping requirements, it potentially compromises the end-to-end encryption that makes standard signals secure as messages can be retrieved from storage.
Visible in the photographs were parcel message contents, including a message to Rubio stating there is time and one from Vance reading, I have confirmation from my counterpart, it's turned off.
He's going to be here in...
The screen also showed evidence of a call to Gabbard and an 8 a.m.
PDB meeting schedule.
It's not Patrick Pet David.
PDB, not PBD.
According to these events, Trump reassigned Walls to the position of a U.N. advisor on Thursday, with Rubio assuming the role of interim security advisor that White House's official response maintained that Signal is an improved app for government use and is loaded on government phones.
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So.
harrison smith
So that's what's happening.
Here's the actual Washington Post story that broke it.
Inside Waltz's ouster before SignalGate talks with Israel angered Trump.
The fired National Security Advisor engaged in intense coordination with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about military options against Iran ahead of an Oval Office meeting between the Israeli leader and Trump, two people said.
So again, I just...
It's like, it's crazy that...
This could happen in the first place.
That Trump, the, you know, head of the country in charge of our national security and war plans and everything else, is being undercut and undermined by somebody in his own administration.
And like, just, I mean, really think about what a betrayal this is.
That I'm sure Trump is like in these meetings.
Strategizing.
Alright, Benjamin Netanyahu is on his way to the U.S. again for the third visit in a month trying to gin up support for another disastrous war in the Middle East for Israel's benefit.
The American side of the equation is coordinating, talking to each other, how they're going to handle it, how they're going to negotiate things.
And the whole time, one of the main people in these meetings is secretly chatting with The Israelis and helping them to coordinate how to get this war with Iran started.
I mean, that's bad enough, right?
Like already just on the surface of it, that interaction.
I mean, put it in any other context.
Talk about Mike Milley using back channels to negotiate or to communicate with China and undercut Trump there, right?
We all recognize what a betrayal that was.
That Trump is trying to, you know, take a hardline stance with China, intimidating them or, you know, threatening them in some way.
Meanwhile, he has his head of the Pentagon contacting China and going, don't fall for these bluffs.
Trump is bluffing.
If anything's actually going to happen, I'll tell you first.
Don't worry about it, right?
Just totally undercutting Trump in these negotiations with China.
And everybody recognizes what an insane, treasonous action that was.
Well, Mike Waltz was doing exactly the same thing.
With Israel.
And instead of getting mad about it.
Instead of flipping out about it.
Or like arresting the guy.
He gets a promotion.
Now he's going to be the UN ambassador.
And everybody's downplaying what happened.
And so it's like okay.
Bad enough this was happening.
That alone would be.
You know, reason to be asking questions.
But don't your questions just multiply and expand when you realize that so many people are, like, playing this down, acting like it's no big deal, not freaking out and destroying Walt, but instead just, like, even the people that he betrayed, even the people that he screwed over, like Donald Trump.
Are going, no, no, it's fine.
It was fine.
Everything's great, actually.
And we're actually, it's not a demotion at all.
He's just being moved over.
He'll be more effective.
UN, it's like.
So how deep is this control?
I mean, how thorough is the subversion taking place?
When you can have somebody caught coordinating with a foreign state trying to get America into war.
And the American president, seemingly too scared to actually call him out on it, has to actually, feels as though he has to actually participate in the cover-up of this, really shows you how thoroughly corrupt all this is.
And again, I would say that the fact that he's coordinating with Netanyahu behind the scenes, behind Trump's back.
And in, again, contradiction to Trump's stated policies.
And then he happens to be the one that leaks the signal chat to the Atlantic.
Maybe we should be asking a little bit more questions about that.
I mean, if I was Trump, what I would be doing would be launching a national security investigation into the...
Editor of The Atlantic, was he coordinating with Netanyahu as well?
I mean, we've got the editor of The Atlantic and the National Security Advisor.
The National Security Advisor is talking to the editor and the president or prime minister of Israel.
Were they all talking to each other?
Was this all a coordinated action?
Was this a fake media scandal?
With the intention of driving out Pete Hegseth because Pete Hegseth was a barrier to the Iranian campaign and the desire to start a war with them.
And we pointed out at the time that, like, even during Signalgate, the Atlantic editor waited until the attacks happened to publish it.
He could have released it as soon as he got it, right?
He'd publish things going, hey, look, they're leaking signal chats about the Yemen attacks.
The Yemen attacks might have been called off.
unidentified
Thank you.
harrison smith
So, I mean, is there a bigger investigation into this?
Is there a, you know, wider conspiracy?
Mike Waltz said he never met Jeff Goldberg.
This photo suggests otherwise.
They're literally standing right next to each other.
He had Jeff Goldberg's phone number.
He added him to the chat.
And if you remember, watching here, like I went through, how hard it is to add somebody to a signal chat that's not just a single button you can accidentally click and not realize it.
You gotta go to the thing.
You gotta then scroll through all your contacts to find the person you wanna add and ask if you really wanna add them.
You have to click yes.
Then it takes you back to the chat so you're sure exactly which chat you added them to.
So...
Taking it at face value, I'm just going to operate on the assumption that Mike Waltz was coordinating with Benjamin Netanyahu and the editor of The Atlantic to try to oust Pete Hegseth to start war with Iran.
All right, welcome back, folks.
unidentified
All right.
Again, just to finish up here with the Waltz issue.
harrison smith
It's not just the Waltz issue.
It's a whole-of-government issue.
The Israeli supremacy we have to deal with here.
So it says, in announcing the shift, Trump on Thursday vowed in social media, posted together, we will continue to make...
We'll continue to fight tirelessly to make America and the world safe again.
But Waltz also upset Trump after an Oval Office visit in early February by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when the National Security Advisor appeared to share the Israeli leader's conviction that the time was ripe to strike Iran, two of the people said.
Waltz appeared to have engaged in intense coordination with Netanyahu about military options against Iran ahead of an Oval Office meeting.
Between the Israeli leader and Trump, the two people said, Waltz, quote, wanted to take U.S. policy in a direction Trump wasn't comfortable with because the U.S. hadn't attempted a diplomatic solution, according to one of the people.
It got back to Trump and the president wasn't happy with it, the person said.
Netanyahu's office released a statement Saturday confirming that he met with Waltz ahead of his Oval Office visit with Trump, but denying he had intensive contact with him.
A spokesperson for Waltz did not respond to a request for comment.
Wiles said, Mike and I have been friends for many years and I have a great deal of respect for him.
And White House Communications Director Stephen Chung said the president sets the agenda and it's up to his administration to implement those policies and everyone was rowing in the same direction, which is why he had the most successful first 100 days in history.
The view by some in the administration was that Waltz was trying to tip the scales in favor of military action and was operating hand in glove with the Israelis.
If Jim Baker was doing a side deal with the Saudis to subvert George H.W. Bush, you'd be fired, a Trump advisor said, referring to Bush's secretary of state.
You can't do that.
You work for the president of your country, not the president of a different country.
Yeah, you would think so.
One would think you work for the president of your country, not the president of another country.
No, saying that you work for our country's president when in reality you're working for a foreign president is called treason, sedition.
So again, I don't know how this isn't a bigger deal, especially when it is, it's not like a unique out-of-nowhere story.
It's like we've been covering for the last several weeks exactly what's been going on.
As soon as SignalGate broke and, you know, Hegseth started seeing his underlings targeted for totally baseless accusations about leaking and all this other stuff and then being fired over it and being isolated and...
As the anti-interventionalist people that we elected into office or were appointed by the people we elected were all forced out and ostracized.
We've been covering this the entire time saying it was the most important story in the world because they're trying to start World War III.
And if they succeed in their mission it'll be World War III.
So it's like How are we talking about anything else, honestly?
Signalgate, at this point, I'm pretty comfortable in saying, was a very deliberate conspiracy by the pro-Israeli people in our government to oust the anti-interventionalist people to get rid of those who would resist war with Iran to try to start war with Iran, to get America to do Israel's fighting for it, to go to war with Iran.
Which would bring us into direct confrontation with not just Iran, but China and Russia as well.
It'd be World War III.
It'd likely be nuclear missiles flying, or at the very least, tens of thousands of American soldiers dying.
Some godforsaken sandy battlefield 5,000 miles away from their home.
And so all of this is in line with one another.
This is not something separate and disconnected from the Signal Gate conspiracy.
The signal gate conspiracy was the lead up to this.
So they're leaking information.
They're forcing people out.
All with the intention of getting Trump to attack Iran with American troops.
Because, as we've explained, this is the gamble that Israel took.
Israel has been so insanely aggressive.
In their war against all of their neighbors over the last year and a half.
And they know that the backlash to this is going to be immense and existential.
Even if it's just backlash from the American populace no longer wanting to send billions upon billions of dollars to Israel to prop up their entire existence.
Then Israel is going to have a lot of trouble into the future.
So they've done all of this.
Horrible stuff.
They've committed this genocide in full view of everybody.
As a gamble with the belief that if they can take out all of Iran's proxies and then go to direct war with Iran, that they'll eliminate all of their geopolitical competition in the area of the Middle East.
And then it will be worth it.
But if they can't get the war with Iran, then they've just made millions of new enemies.
And are in just as bad of a position as they were when it all started.
So, they're desperate to start, like, absolutely frantic to start war with Iran.
They're pulling out all the stops.
At this point, it seems like they're just getting sloppy.
A little too heavy-handed.
Well, simultaneously, you have the appointment of, you know, anti-Semitism czars to, like, practically every organ of the federal government as they sort of...
Israeli Inquisition to all of this.
At the same time, just before he was fired, Mike Waltz had appointed a literal member of the Israeli government to a national security position.
If you guys remember that story from last week.
Former Israeli official leading Israel-Iran desk at the White House.
A former Israeli Ministry of Defense official is leading the Israel and Iran desk at the National Security Council.
The report from Dropside News comes as the Trump administration is negotiating with Iran to curb its nuclear program amid strong opposition from many pro-Israel hawks in Washington who favor war over diplomacy.
The White House confirmed Marav Seren's appointment to the NSC, calling her a patriotic American.
Dropside notes that with her in this role, Israel has an unusual advantage in internal policy discussions, just as the Israeli government has launched a new campaign to pressure the American government to start a war with Iran rather than continue with negotiations towards a nuclear deal.
Indeed, the administration's internal deliberations on Iran flew out into the open last week when New York Times reported that President Trump discouraged the Israelis from an impending attack on Iran's nuclear sites.
A wide range of senior Trump administration officials, including Vice President J.D. Vance, DNI, Tulsi Gabbard, Secretary Pete Hegseth, and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles supported Trump's decision.
Sarin, who was once a National Security Fellow for the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a Washington think tank that advocates for Israel, has previously shared content on X that was either critical of President Obama's nuclear deal reached with Iran in 2015 or lifting sanctions on Iran, which would likely be necessary in any potential deal Trump makes with Iran.
Saren's bio at FDD says, previously she worked at Israel's Ministry of Defense, where she participated in negotiations in the West Bank between Israel's Coordinator for Government Activities in the territories and Palestinian Authority officials.
Dropside notes that Israeli agency she worked for is now refusing entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza, sparking a humanitarian crisis of unspeakable proportions.
So you've got a literal Israeli governmental minister.
Then appointed by Mike Waltz to head the Israel and Iran desk at the White House.
Okay, so just straight up foreign occupation of our executive branch.
That's a bit concerning.
He's coordinating with the president of Israel to try to encourage Iran.
He's leaking his signal chats to fellow pro-Israel You know, activists, the editor of The Atlantic, try to get out Pete Hegseth, try to remove that roadblock to war with Iran.
At the same time, more and more it's exposed the way that social media was infiltrated by the Israeli intelligence agencies with over 100 Israeli spies having jobs at high levels and meta and other big social media companies.
At the same time, they're appointing anti-Semitism czars.
They're weaponizing what should be mass deportations for the benefit of America into getting rid of legal immigrants and visa holders in med school for opposing Israel or writing op-eds against Israel.
At the same time, they're now putting forward bills saying they'll go to jail for 20 years.
For boycotting Israel.
It's like...
Just one of these things would really be...
Like all of the excuse you would need for some sort of giant purge of the government.
It's like there's a new thing every day that we're learning.
There's a new aspect every single day of the thoroughness with which...
The Israeli diaspora has insinuated itself into our control systems here in the States.
So again, the one good thing that's come out of this is that I was right.
The good thing that's coming out of it is proof, positive, that Trump is not, in fact, A diehard slave of Israel and eager to go to Iran on their behalf.
I did do a debate about this ahead of the election, which I wasn't really going on a limb.
I was just looking at past actions and patterns and behavior and statements and saying, yeah, Trump is not the pro-Israel guy.
And if you are worried about America starting a war, In the Middle East, again, are joining the war in the Middle East.
And yet another example of this tremendously destructive habit we happen to have.
You should vote for Trump.
If you don't want to go to war with Iran, you should vote for Trump.
And can you even imagine the Kamala Harris presidency right now?
Like, you know she would go to war with Iran just to prove that girls are tough.
Right?
I mean, that's what would have happened at this point.
You would have seen exactly the same pressure and push for war with Iran.
It's just instead of Trump and the America First contingent, you would have had Kamala Harris, total outrageous puppet.
So I'm just, I'm very concerned about all of this, personally.
About the way that Israel is very deliberately trying to start World War III on America's back by attacking Iran while simultaneously trying to destroy the First Amendment.
It's just insane.
So Charlie Kirk reports, tomorrow the House will vote on H.R. 867, a bill that will criminalize private boycotts of Israel.
Well, I mean, I guess.
That's not really my concern about this.
It's like, okay, yeah, obviously it's going to create more anti-Semitism.
And it's like, plays into the growing narrative that Israel is running the U.S. government?
No, it's just another piece of evidence that Israel controls the Americans.
It's not a narrative that's being spun that this is contributing to.
This is a reality that's being expressed and recognized by all of this evidence about it.
So I just, and it's like, it's like that old Norm Macdonald joke.
You know, if the Muslims set off a...
Dirty bomb in New York and kill 100 million people.
Imagine the backlash on peaceful Muslims.
It's like the anti-Semitism lobby wants to throw you in prison for 20 years for speech.
The worst part is that it'll create more anti-Semitism.
It's like, no, the worst part is that they're destroying the First Amendment.
I don't care who they are or how they're justifying it.
That's the bad thing.
The fact that it creates more anti-Semitism is just an inevitable side effect of trying to put First Amendment destroying litigation on the docket.
I mean, where's your priority exactly?
In America, you are allowed to hold differing views.
You are allowed to disagree in protest.
We've allowed far too many people who hate America...
To move here from abroad, but the right to speak freely is the birthright of all Americans.
This bill should not pass.
Any Republican that votes for this bill will expose themselves who will be watching very closely.
So yeah, nobody is in favor of this.
But it keeps getting put forward.
Nobody's in favor of war with Iran, but we keep driving towards that.
Nobody's in favor of having foreign governmental Employees controlling our government, but it just seems to keep happening over and over again.
So yeah, I'm a bit concerned, and that's probably why they decided not to actually move this forward.
It's concerning to me.
That the only reason this bill is not moving forward is apparently it's been tabled for now.
Marjorie Taylor Greene posted about this and sort of exposed what the bill entailed, and then it was withdrawn.
Marjorie Taylor Greene says, I will be voting no.
It's my job to defend America's rights to buy or boycott whomever they choose without the government harshly fining them or imprisoning them.
But what I don't understand is why we are voting on a bill.
On behalf of other countries and not the president's executive orders that are for our country.
The House will vote on Monday on H.R. 86867.
The IGO Anti-Boycott Act, sponsored by Representative Mike Lawler, fines up to a million dollars, prison sentences up to 20 years for Americans participating in boycotts of Israel or its settlements if these boycotts are endorsed by international bodies like the UN or EU.
So again, it's very concerning to me that they would put this forward.
And then for many of them, are only withdrawing it because it looks bad.
Because it would increase anti-Semitism.
Like, no, it's bad because it's anti-First Amendment.
It's bad because you're not allowed to throw people in prison for 20 years for boycotting a place.
It doesn't matter if it's anti-Semitic or not.
So, all they're going to do now...
It's probably, I mean, if I was them, they want to get this passed.
They want to make it illegal to boycott Israel.
But obviously that was a little too heavy-handed the way they just tried to do it.
So they'll go back and they'll say, okay, actually this is not about Israel.
You just can't boycott anybody.
When it's like, okay, but the only people that you actually care about being boycotted is Israel.
It's like, yeah, that's true.
So if I had to guess, I imagine...
One of these things is going to happen.
Either they're going to rewrite this bill to not be quite so, you know, direct in what they want and try to obscure it a little bit.
Say, no, we heard you, you know, we don't want to increase anti-Semitism, so this isn't about just boycotting Israel anymore.
You can't boycott anywhere.
Or they'll, like, just slip this provision in to some other, you know, need-to-pass bill.
Or they'll just implement it sort of color of law style with all the various anti-Semitism monitors and whatever else who have been appointed over the very recent past.
So, yeah, we have to stop this, okay?
We have to get rid of this somehow.
The bill makes it illegal to point out somebody works for AIPAC.
It's even more ridiculous and disgusting and anti-American than anyone could imagine.
So, again, this is the...
IGO Anti-Boycott Act.
The bill expands an existing anti-boycott law to include certain boycotts imposed by international governmental organizations.
Current law prohibits various actions by U.S. persons, individuals, or entities in relation to boycotts imposed by foreign governments on a country that is friendly to the United States and that is not itself subject of a U.S. boycott.
Prohibited actions include 1. Refusing to do business with companies organized under the laws of the boycotted country.
If the refusal is pursuant to an agreement or request from the country's IGO imposing the boycott.
Two, refusing to employ any U.S. persons on the basis of race, religion, sex, or national origin.
And three, furnishing information about whether somebody is associated with charitable or fraternal organizations that support the boycotted country.
Furnishing information about whether somebody is associated with charitable or fraternal organizations that support the boycotted country.
So if you tell somebody that there's a person associated with a group like the ADL or APAC or any other Israeli lobbying firm or charity, NGO, organization, if you say, hey, that person works for APAC, that's illegal?
If you furnish information, It's illegal.
Okay, so that's a very extreme violation of the First Amendment.
This bill also requires the president to annually submit to Congress and make available for the public a report describing these boycotts and listing the foreign countries and international organizations involved in fostering or imposing them.
So it shows you how successful the boycott could potentially be.
You can see how far they're willing to go.
And of course we've talked just endlessly about and I've showed you lots of clips from the Al Jazeera documentary The Lobby that of course follows some of the groups imposing this sort of stuff.
And that entire film, I mean that was a documentary from years ago.
And most of it was about the way that the BDS movement was being confronted and destroyed by Israeli actions, like governmental Israeli authorities sponsoring and coordinating with American NGOs to surveil and criticize and write articles about and destroy the BDS movement on college campuses.
So clearly the BDS movement, boycott, divest, sanction, It does represent an existential threat to Israel, at least in their view.
And this particular bill is in line with that belief.
unidentified
Thank you.
harrison smith
So how is this not a bigger deal?
I genuinely want to know.
Yeah, I don't just want to keep repeating myself, but it's almost like the strategy of the media is to report on each one of these things as if they're siloed and contained and separate from everything else.
But I think when you look at what's gone on over the last couple months in totality and holistically as a singular trend and campaign taking place.
You see that not only has Israel very successfully infiltrated practically every major control network in this country, be it the social media landscape, carrying out censorship and setting up particular rules for particular people, or the national government trying to start wars overseas on behalf of this country.
It's like...
It's like, this is just the stuff that we know.
This is the stuff that is out there and obvious.
This is stuff that has caused scandal or has drawn attention.
But, like, when it comes to Mike Waltz, do you think I'd still be at Infowars if I had been, like, texting with the owner of The Onion?
During the bankruptcy proceedings.
Like before the lawyers all went in to meet.
It's even less.
I'm not even a part of those meetings.
So it's even worse, actually.
But I feel like we're not comprehending what's going on here in a way.
Like it's not being expressed in strong enough adjectives.
This is...
This is treason.
This is such a blatant, outrageous betrayal of America and our people.
And it's like, this is what is happening on the surface in that we see.
What other decisions are being tainted by this bias?
What other actions are being taken behind the scenes that we hardly see that are motivated by this treasonous attitude of the people in our executive branch or anywhere else in the government?
We're going to get It's even crazier when you realize it's not just America.
Alright, welcome back, folks.
This is the American Journal.
We're going to get into Dave Portnoy's little meltdown on the other side.
There's also, you know, continuing fallout to the Shiloh Hendricks situation.
And despite the fact that Carmelo Anthony's Gibson Go was allowed to stay up for weeks with, you know, people leaving money and...
Dropping comments like, good job killing a white person.
It's absolutely outrageous.
That was allowed to maintain and continue.
And then Shiloh Hendricks made a give, send, go.
And they shut down the commenting ability on both her and Carmelo Anthony's fundraiser at the same time.
But, you know, when asked about this, Gibson Go said, the banks made us do it.
And it's just another little reminder for you.
Practically all of this comes from the banks.
The DEI, the ESG, the censorship, the cancel culture.
Almost all of it has its roots with the banks.
If you remember, Patreon first kicked off people because of off-site behavior.
And they were honest about it in the first couple of times.
They said, yeah, we're kicking you off because...
MasterCard is going to take away all of our credit card processing and destroy our company if we don't kick you off.
So the banks are making us do it.
Or you look at climate change and the climate change initiatives and the way that banks are the forerunners of those campaigns and the ones forcing those measures to be taken, refusing to give out the loans necessary for creating businesses to harvest coal or create more Clean fossil fuel energy.
It really all goes back to the banks at the end of the day.
And they get to be the puppeteers in the shadows while a lot of people are mad at Gibson Go for their hypocritical stance on free speech between races.
But Gibson Go is like, the banks got in contact with us and said there's a bunch of racist stuff on your platform and we're going to take away your money if you don't submit.
So it really all goes back to control of money at the end of the day.
And when you look at a lot of these decisions being made, you find a lot of these corporations or individuals are being compelled to do this by banks who are holding the keys to their financial success or failure in their hands.
And on that note, we don't quite have time to go to the next video here.
unidentified
Thank you.
Thank you.
harrison smith
I thought I had something.
All right.
We'll go to...
Yeah, let's go to six.
Let's just go to six.
Let's go to six.
No, no, I can't go to six.
I can't, because that needs to be censored.
No, I was going to go to something else, but...
Oh, yeah.
Well, so what's happened after Shiloh Hendrix and all of this is that...
People are asking a lot of questions about the Somali community in Minnesota, where this took place.
Or was it Michigan?
Wherever they, you know, dumped 100,000 Somalis and gave them a congressional district.
Because some aspects of, not just the, you know, the guy who filmed it, and if you watched War Room on Friday, I really went over this quite a bit.
But you had this Somali guy who was filming.
Who, by the way, thought he was going to be the one with the money, right?
He thought, I'm going to film this white woman saying the N-word and I'll be rewarded and we'll destroy her life.
Maybe I should read out.
I thought I wrote a very funny thing where I just reimagined the situation but switched the races.
And so I...
I put out this little, like, almost like a short story of a British colonial officer threatening a native African woman.
And you just gotta understand, like, we're being oppressed by Somali refugees.
I'm like, how is that a thing that's happening?
And how do we allow this to happen?
How have we allowed this to happen?
And are they using foster care to start rape gangs like they did in England?
unidentified
Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
harrison smith
This is the American Journal, and we're going to talk about Dave Courtenoy's little meltdown over the weekend.
And again, this is just perfectly in line with stories that keep cropping up.
If you remember last week, I think it was last Thursday, that we covered the Nike billboard.
Nike put up a billboard at the London Marathon.
It said, never again until tomorrow.
As an inside joke of marathoners who like to make that joke about how difficult the training is.
That's so brutal.
You say you never want to do it again, but you end up doing it again because you're addicted.
And you had prominent people in America saying, Basically insinuating that Nike not only had written this as a direct threat to Jews to do the Holocaust, but that the color red was Hitler red or Nazi red or something they called it.
And they're like, you think this was an accident?
They did a red billboard.
And it's like, calm down.
Just calm down, would you please?
Like, you know.
There's a level of paranoia being expressed right now that is really not healthy.
Dave Portnoy had a bit of a freakout over the weekend.
We'll watch first the first video he put out when he learned that some drunk people at a bar in Philadelphia had a...
A not nice message to Jews on a sign that comes with bottle service.
I guess when you order bottle service, they bring out a sign with it and you can tell them what to write on the sign.
And they wrote F Jews on the sign.
This is Dave Portnoy, the owner of Barstool Sports, reacting to that in the first video.
Then I'll show you his follow-up video after this.
But first, here's Dave Portnoy when he discovered that...
People at his bar had written F Jews on the sign.
Let's watch.
dave portnoy
All right, emergency press conference time.
So I'm getting ready to go to the Bet Gala.
And all of a sudden, my phone, the last hour or two, my phone's fucking blowing up.
Our bar in Philadelphia, Barstool Samson Street, usually a great fucking bar.
You know, bottle service, people buy drinks.
You get a sign.
There was a sign yesterday that said, fuck the Jews.
I've been shaking.
Mad the last two hours like I instantly got on this is why the emergency press conference late because I was so over the top it's like I'm gonna make it my life mission to ruin these people like I'm coming your throat I'm never-ending and I just sat in the last two hours I have been on the trail trust me I've been on the trail you think I'm gonna put up with this at my bar So I've been hunting down waitresses,
the table who did it, and everything you can f***ing name.
Because I want f***ing consequences for f***ing actions.
So I'm not just sitting back like, oh, what are you going to know?
Trust me.
I have been on it.
I believe the two waitresses responsible, the table already fired.
I talked to one of them, one of the dumbest f***ing humans I've ever talked to in my life.
She's had a f***ing...
Dance recitals.
You're like, can I call you back in 20?
No, f***ing honey.
You f***ing can't.
This is your one chance to talk to me.
alex jones
Idiot.
dave portnoy
Total idiot, this girl.
I've talked to the guy Mike.Wade who's tagged.
Guess what?
He wasn't even f***ing there.
I had this kid basically in tears turning state witness to me.
Rolling on the people who are there.
I've talked to one of the two guys who f***ed me.
I did it.
He's like, I'm not anti-Semitic.
He's basically crying to me.
And I'm just like, I don't f***ing buy it for a second.
Who the f*** would do that sign in my f***ing bar?
You think I'm just going to sit here?
unidentified
I'm going to make it my f***ing mission to put you in lights.
dave portnoy
My f***ing mission.
Kid's crying.
I just hung up on his ass.
I go, I'm giving you one f***ing hour.
One f***ing hour.
Two kids go to Temple.
Tell me, how do I make this right before I go ate shit?
You want to take anti-semitism classes?
You want to do whatever?
You make it feel right.
I don't need your tears.
The Mike Wade kid wasn't even there.
Wasn't in the bar.
We got the footage.
Trust me, they're pulling the footage.
They're doing this.
I'm 20 steps ahead.
I'm using everything.
I'm like, I am going to come for your throat unless you give me answers.
The two girls at the bar, idiot.
This one girl, one of the waitresses.
I just told her, like, you're the dumbest motherfucker I've ever talked to.
25 years old, going on to you, you dumb.
What I'm saying is I'm getting the names.
I'm trying to be a little responsible.
I'm trying to keep it together.
But I'm on it.
I'm on it.
harrison smith
You need to calm down, sir.
I was a 50-year-old man in a Taylor Swift t-shirt basically threatening to destroy people's lives over a joke, over a little joke.
Okay, now I understand that what These kids did.
It was deliberately provocative.
And we have the video.
We can show the video.
We can keep the audio down and show clip number one here.
We have the offending footage here.
Viewer discretion advised.
Okay, there it is.
Oh my God.
There they are.
Hamas.
Just incredible.
Now, they do this in a bar that's owned by a Jewish guy.
They shouldn't be surprised if they're kicked out and banned from the bar.
And I think that's anybody's right.
And I think it's a perfectly reasonable reaction.
I think if it was a Christian that owned a bar and somebody tried to come in with a t-shirt saying something offensive about Jesus, like, yeah, kick him out.
You showed that you're right, perfectly capable of doing that, no problem.
Do you really want to destroy their life?
Like, I really am trying to...
Understand this mindset?
And I can't.
I can't imagine the petulant, shrieking outrage from some college frat dudes or whatever that are like, oh, they make a sign, let's come up with the most offensive thing we can write.
I know, F the Jews.
Oh my God, they actually wrote it.
This is crazy.
To go on a screaming tirade and be hunting these people down, as he put it.
I mean, I was right.
He says, I'm shaking.
I'm so mad.
He's literally shaking.
Dave Portnoy, 50-year-old Taylor Swift fan, literally shaking that college kids poked fun at his ethnicity.
Okay.
That's like not good.
He's like...
I had to postpone the conference because I'm like literally shaking.
And it's like, dude.
That's bad.
That's bad.
That's really not healthy for you.
He says, I'm going to make it my life's mission to ruin these people.
Because they said, F the Jews?
Like, what is wrong with you?
Okay.
Hunting down the waitresses.
Hunting down the kids at the table.
He's like, I had this kid in tears.
The kid wasn't even there, but I had him in tears begging me to stop, but I'm never going to stop.
And it's like, you're evil, dude.
You're freaking weird and evil.
And it's just like the mafia style.
He's just like, if you want to make it right, you can try to make it right.
He's like, for what?
Saying nana nana boo boo?
You baby?
You big, fat, annoying baby.
I mean, is there a Portnoy bar in Austin?
I've got an idea.
Is there a Portnoy bar I can go to?
Because I'll tell you, the one thing that that little tirade did make me want to do is have sympathy or empathy or consideration or concern for this absolutely psychotic anger.
At some stupid little joke.
Like, this is a problem.
This is a real problem.
And it's like every week there's stuff like this.
And the weirdest part is that these aren't like typically crazy people.
I mean, it's one thing if you've got people in public that's just everything they say is insane.
And everything, they're just like, you kind of expect it.
Right?
This isn't Kanye West going on some freakout where you go, you know, well, it's Kanye West, right?
You have like...
You know, with the Nike billboard, who are the people that we're talking about freaking out over that?
It was like Bill Ackman.
It's like billionaires, like industry leaders, like Dave Portnoy running this massive, super successful sports ball company.
And it's like, you should, like, you are, like, responsible for a lot of people's livelihoods.
You have a lot of money and influence and power.
And you can't handle the emotional turmoil of knowing that people made a joke?
This is not good, man.
It's really not good that we have people with this emotional instability as like prominent people in our country that cannot handle.
I really can't imagine.
I really can't imagine it, honestly.
I cannot imagine like owning a bar and somebody writes like, you know, F Christ on a sign.
I'll just be like, get out.
Get out.
You're not welcome here anymore.
That's disgusting.
People are horrible.
Can't imagine being like, I will kill them and their families.
Like, okay, dude.
You're not right on that.
You're not on the right side on this.
You actually got trolled and you're exposing why it's so effective.
But you know, the good thing is that he understood.
He understood Dave Portnoy.
Took some time to relax, chill out, and he realized maybe he overreacted a little bit.
So he published a second video after that one.
Second emergency press conference.
And you know, for the first minute or so, this was really a good, it seemed like a good video.
It seemed like a maturing process that he was going through.
Looks like maybe he looked at the mirror and went, Dave.
You're a 50-year-old multimillionaire in a Taylor Swift shirt.
Why would you let these kids ruin your day like this?
And that's something I remember my dad would always talk about.
His dad, my grandfather, would get so mad when a fast food worker messed up your order.
And it was like, my dad would have to tell him, it's some...
Whatever it is, you know, dude making five dollars behind a counter puts pickles on your burger and you know me and you're gonna let you have this great life with these wonderful kids you're totally successful and you're gonna just derail all of that because somebody insulted you like I don't know man there's something very psychologically unbalanced about all of this.
And again, it's not like it would be one thing if it was a crazy person that's always crazy.
It's always just trying to make a big deal out of everything.
It's fine.
People do that.
Whatever.
It'd be one thing if it was like a real, you know, it was discovered that people were actually trying to commit terrorist attacks against a synagogue.
Like, yeah, then you can be outraged.
You can be furious.
You can go, these people destroy.
Their lives are destroyed.
But you've got people who are deliberately trying to provoke you by writing a deliberately offensive message, and you're going to give them everything they want, and you're going to act like a complete idiot and embarrass yourself, and make everybody question, like, what is this phenomenon, and why is it happening over and over?
It happened last week with the billboard about Nike.
It'll probably happen again this week when something else happens.
And it's just like...
It's crazy.
It's crazy.
But Dave Portnoy realized.
He looked in the mirror and he said, what are you doing, Dave?
What are you doing?
You're making everything worse for everybody.
So then he put out a second video and we'll watch it here.
Clip number three.
Let's go.
dave portnoy
All right.
Real quick update on the Jews sign that was at my bar in Philadelphia yesterday.
Two hours ago, he literally could have cooked an egg on my head.
That's how much steam and heat I had come out of my ears.
And the more I thought about it, it's like these are young morons who did this.
They're drunk.
It's like, do you really want to ruin somebody's life?
And let me be honest.
I don't know what's going on in the world.
Well, I do.
The Middle East, obviously.
But I've been doing Barstool for 20 years.
I've had more hate, more anti-Semitism in the last year, year and a half than I've ever had doing it.
And whether people, it's like Kanye, the UFC guy.
It's like mainstream lunatics.
And I'm not talking about politics or what's going on in the Middle East.
Just hating groups of people.
You hate my parents.
You hate my grandparents.
Shit like that.
It's crazy.
harrison smith
It is.
All right, let's pause.
So like there, so far, it's like, wow.
Great.
This is great.
Yeah.
I mean, it was embarrassing.
That last video was very embarrassing.
I would have been embarrassed to.
Freak out like that about absolutely nothing.
So he's like, these are just dumb kids.
And like, yeah, there's a lot of hate flying around on all sides.
Like, obviously, it has to do with the Middle East and the fact that Israel's carrying out a genocide there.
I mean, that is going to make some people angry.
People are going to have some strong feelings about that.
Again, it sort of throws the whole thing into perspective when it's like, all right, seeing a video that says F the Jews.
That's not going to make me quite as angry or as emotional or like as, you know, feeling so intensely as like the hundreds of videos I've seen out of Gaza of just blood pouring out of little girls' faces as they ask where their parents have gone.
Their parents are screaming from under rubble where they'll eventually suffocate to death.
It's like there's, you know, there's a little bit of a dichotomy there.
So he seems like he's on the right track, right?
It's like, okay, he's realized.
Like, okay, this isn't helping.
Freaking out like this over some dumb kids and some stupid prank at 2 in the morning at some bar where they're already drunk and don't even know what the hell is going on anyway.
But things take a bit of a turn here.
Things take a bit of a turn with old Dave Portnoy in this video where for the first minute and a half or so it seems like he is coming to a realization only to say some crazy stuff.
Let's continue on, shall we?
dave portnoy
Yeah, my initial reaction was like, I'm gonna f***ing burn these people to the ground, their families, everything.
harrison smith
Yeah, that's insane.
dave portnoy
And it's like, you know what?
Maybe that's not the best course of action.
harrison smith
No, it's not.
dave portnoy
Maybe I can use this as a teaching moment.
harrison smith
For yourself?
dave portnoy
And like, before people just are like, f*** the Jews or any group and they hate, let's try to like turn a hideous incident into maybe a learning experience.
unidentified
Amazing.
dave portnoy
As cliche and very unlike me.
But I talked to both the culprits who I know are super involved in it.
Talked to the families.
I'm sending these kids to Auschwitz.
They've agreed to go.
That's, of course, the Holocaust concentration camps.
harrison smith
Watching this video the first time.
Oh, what?
I'm sorry, what?
unidentified
It's like...
harrison smith
You know, this is a historical video, colorized, AI-translated video of Hitler.
Yeah, you know, this could be a learning experience.
I'm going to send them all to Auschwitz.
I'm sorry, what?
So yeah, he's sending the kids to Auschwitz.
I guess just to visit, which makes it a little different than the Nazis, but kind of ironic still, a little bit.
Who's sending who to Auschwitz now, Germans?
Okay, all right.
Back to Dave Portnoy, sending children to Auschwitz now.
Thanks, Dave.
Let's watch.
dave portnoy
The Holocaust concentration camps.
Been in touch with the Crafts, who run the anti-hate group.
We're going to send these kids to Auschwitz, and they're going to do a tour of the concentration camps in Germany.
And hopefully learn something.
And maybe, like, their lives aren't ruined and they think twice, and more importantly, other people, like, see, it's not just words you're throwing around.
So to me, that's a fair outcome of this event.
The two waitresses who worked at our place fired one of them, so dumb, Kelly, just the dumbest human I've ever talked to.
And I don't know if she thought she was making a political statement, but it was basically her alone, didn't go to a manager.
Kind of forced another girl to do it.
She just said no, but the other girl put up a fight.
Those two girls are fired, but more importantly, the people who ordered these signs, they have agreed.
I'm going to pay for it.
We're going to send them to Germany, to Auschwitz, and learn a little bit about history and hopefully, you know, get educated and use this as a teaching moment.
Not just for them, but maybe for everybody.
So that's where we're at.
So for everyone who wants these kids' lives to be ruined, I think you can lay off, and I think this is a fair f***ing trade.
harrison smith
Oh, how merciful.
That's Dave Portnoy really being merciful.
All right.
Jewish mafia.
That's the word I'm going to say.
Jewish mafia gangsters.
By the way, Auschwitz, not in Germany.
Okay, so just let's put that out there.
First of all, it is, in fact, in Poland.
It's like maybe these kids will learn something going to Germany to visit Auschwitz.
Yeah, maybe.
Maybe.
It's also a hilarious opportunity for these kids to do something very funny, but we'll leave that up to them.
So, you know, again, there's something very deceitful and just like deeply dishonest about the way this is framed.
As if it's like an act of mercy, an act of beneficence, benevolence for Dave Portnoy.
Like, I've decided not to ruin these children's lives as long as they, you know, go to my re-education camp.
You know, I'm such a good guy.
I'm such a generous and forgiving guy that I won't destroy these people's lives, which I could.
Don't think for a second I couldn't destroy their lives, and I want to and I'm going to if I don't do exactly what I say.
But out of the goodness of my mind, we're going to make it a teaching moment.
Where they're going to learn.
unidentified
Right?
harrison smith
They're going to learn.
They're going to learn who's in charge.
I'm sending them to Auschwitz.
So maybe, you know, I think it's a good thing they can just go to Auschwitz instead of having their lives ruined.
Like, that's a threat.
You're holding a gun to the kids' heads and going, you know, out of the goodness of my heart, I'm not going to pull the trigger Genuflect before me.
As long as you debase yourself before me and admit that you were wrong, I won't pull the bullet.
And that's just the type of nice guy I am.
I won't pull the trigger.
unidentified
I won't fire the bullet.
harrison smith
And the waitresses, like, I guarantee you, the waitresses...
Okay, you have a giant light-up sign at a party bar anytime somebody orders bottle service.
Do you think there's ever been a non-offensive sign written?
Do you think anybody is writing anything other than stuff that is offensive or degenerate or something?
Like, I guarantee you, they get all sorts of crazy stuff on these signs, and the waitress is just like, it's just another crazy offensive thing.
I'm sure there's lots of them.
And they're like, it's not our job to say whether or not they should write, we're a...
A bottle service titty bar.
Like, who cares?
We're just going to write the thing they want us to write.
Then you have Dave Portnoy.
She's like, I'm at a dance recital for my niece.
unidentified
And he's just like, you don't have 20 minutes!
You're not going to wait 20 minutes to fire you!
harrison smith
It's like, dude, my message to the Jews, not everybody's trying to kill you all the time.
Would you calm the hell down?
It's really getting bad out there, folks.
American kids being sent to Auschwitz.
The Auschwitz re-education camp.
A tour of Auschwitz will make you free.
A tour of Auschwitz will make you free.
Send cancel culture to the death camp.
unidentified
All right, folks, we'll move on.
harrison smith
But Portnoy has uploaded another update about 58 minutes ago.
And he's flipping out.
Maybe we should just go to it, although we'll have to censor it again.
Basically what he said is, he says, ABC6, which I guess is a local Philly station, begged me to do an interview about the incident at our bar.
Since it was local, I agreed.
Then the reporter tried to say Barstool and I and white men were responsible for the incident.
I just, I mean, we are responsible for everything bad in the world, so it makes sense.
It makes sense.
I mean, when black people attack Asian people, that is white people's fault.
When Jews genocide Palestinians, also white people's fault.
I'll have you know.
But it is kind of ironic because basically the point that they're making is they're like, well, Barstool Sports has a whole brand that's offensive.
Like your whole brand is like being offensive, going beyond the pale, pushing the envelope.
And so, you know, you don't care about offending anybody else.
It's always been your brand to be brash and controversial.
So, yeah, it's actually not a bad point.
It's actually not a totally outrageous claim to make.
Where they're like, this is kind of the culture Barstool has fostered.
And now you're mad that...
They don't respect your line.
You make a whole industry out of crossing everybody else's line, but then you flip out and want to destroy people's lives for saying a joke about you.
You don't get how that's a little bit hypocritical?
So if he flips out at that then and is like yelling at that, it's like this person is just emotionally incontinent.
That's what we're learning.
Dave Portnoy.
It's like literally a child and can't handle people not liking him, I guess, or pointing out his blatant hypocrisy, being willing to, you know, brush off or cosign offensive things to other people.
But then when it's his group, it's, you know, people have to be sent to Auschwitz over it.
I'm sorry, but it's the irony.
The irony of the cancel, cancel culture crowd, right?
Dave Portnort sells shirts that have cancel culture crossed out, right?
It's like, we're screwing.
So, I mean, that's the thing, right?
That is the thing that the reporter is pointing out, that they're going, your whole brand is about canceling cancel culture, about opposing cancel culture.
And here you are saying, we're going to destroy somebody's lives over words.
You don't think you've...
Have some responsibility in the atmosphere where dumb, drunk college kids at a barstool sports location think it's okay to write F the Jews on a sign?
You don't think that maybe your whole brand's activity over the last several years hasn't encouraged this atmosphere of permissibility?
So what are you so mad about?
And by pointing out that hypocrisy...
Dave Portnoy now has made another enemy.
The local ABC station.
They're now being sent to a death camp, I guess.
In Germany.
In Germany.
unidentified
Okay.
harrison smith
They don't know.
He doesn't know what the hell he's talking about, but he's pissed.
He's super pissed.
And he's totally against cancel culture, but if you ever...
If you ever even accidentally are friends with somebody that does something he doesn't like, then he will mercifully only destroy your reputation and not your life.
Okay.
Okay, Dave.
I want to interview him.
Dave Portnoy, you are hereby invited.
I cordially invite you to InfoWars in studio, over Zoom, however you want to do it.
We'll make time.
I'll make myself available.
If you don't want to wake up early, I understand that.
We can do it later.
I would love to have a reasonable conversation with Dave Portnoy.
Maybe we could come to some understanding here.
I'm against cancer culture too, Dave.
You and me.
We're like two peas in a pod.
Only you're the insane pea that freaks out, tries to destroy the lives of other peas for daring to do what you keep doing all the time for everybody else.
Amazing.
Really is.
Something else.
Wow.
How do I get in contact with him?
Somebody tell me how to get in contact with Dave Portnoy.
I'm not going to do you dirty like ABC6 asking you questions about your hypocrisy.
How dare they?
How dare they bring up your espoused branding choice to be the anti-cancel culture people who are okay with offensive content?
How dare they throw that back in your face when it's so pertinent?
Some people, huh?
You and me, Dave, we get it.
Alright, let's move on.
Alright, we'll move on.
We'll go to clip number 18 here because this is a very important understanding of the use and the power and the danger of AI, not...
Not in the traditional Terminator Matrix taking over the world and firing all the nukes types of threats that AI pose, but the more subtle threat AI poses as we incorporate it ever more into our daily activity.
unidentified
Let's go now to clip number 18. 11,000 English nouns dropped in usage by more than 80%.
Between October 2023 and February 2024, the theory is whatever powers that be and AI, they are purposely making words disappear.
It's functional vocabulary.
And so some of the examples that they gave were terms connected to boundary setting, identity, and memory recall.
And once a word falls below 2% of network visibility, it triggers the vanishing word protocol.
Reclassify it, downrank it, replace it, not delete it, just less shown, less spoken until one day you reach for a word like integrity and it's no longer in your mouth or your feet That's terrifying.
Yeah.
But what I found interesting was in the book 1984 by George Orwell explored the concept of eliminating words through the invention of newspeak, the official language of the totalitarian regime.
Orwell's big idea was by eliminating words, you have- I love that, and I love that he related 1984 to it.
harrison smith
This is something I've talked about quite a bit, whether it's, you know, things like BBC Pigeon, right, where they translate things into pigeon.
Pidgin language, P-I-D-G-I-N, which is a patois.
It's a form of basically, I don't know how you'd put it, just bastardized English.
Basically, it's English spoken by non, by people whose English is not their first language.
And so it just degrades everything into the simplest possible form of expression.
Or, you know, as this guy points out, I mean, I was wondering recently, because over the weekend, at least three times, and honestly, I'm not trying to pat myself on the back or anything, but at least three times over this weekend, I was typing things out, and it kept telling me I was misspelling words, because I guess I use words that aren't in the autocorrect dictionary, and it kept being so weird.
One of them was, it didn't have the word pathologize.
And so I typed pathologize and it said it was misspelled.
You click on it, it's like, you mean pathology?
I'm like, no, I'm pretty sure pathologize is, I have to copy it, take it into the browser, paste it on Google, and Google just gives me the definition.
I'm like, yeah, okay, pathologize.
I spelled it right, that's the right word.
But like three different times there were words that I would type that the dictionary didn't know.
And it's like, that has to be a deliberate choice, right?
I mean, why does the autocorrect Dictionary not have three-syllable words in it.
Is this too obscure of a conspiracy theory?
I really think that they're just making it a little bit more difficult to use complicated words, to use SAT words.
They're just going to tell you it's misspelled.
It's going to take an extra five or ten seconds.
Or you have to be super confident in using the words in your spelling ability.
Which I'm not, so I always have to...
Literally three different times.
Pathologize was one of them.
I can't remember the other ones.
The other words I was trying to type.
But that kept happening.
So I wonder if that has anything to do with the decrease of the usage of words.
If it's the words that they just decided to exclude from the autocorrect dictionary.
So people just stop using them.
Or autocorrect literally just changes the word as you write it.
And people don't notice.
I don't know.
Something weird is going on.
And as we've pointed out, when you see things like, you know, not a single child in Detroit schools is literate.
Like, that doesn't mean they can't read.
It means they can't comprehend what they're reading.
That's what literacy is.
If you can, you know, sound out a word, T-R-U-M-P, Trump.
That says Trump.
Like, that doesn't mean you're literate.
Literacy is being able to read a sentence and then answer questions about what that sentence said.
Read a paragraph, then answer questions about what the paragraph expressed.
That's what's going away.
And we really see it across the board, but you know, it's like trying to debate the finer points of a constitutional republic with somebody that doesn't speak English very well.
It's not going to go Fluidly.
You're not going to be able to debate the purpose of governmental instruments and all this sort of stuff.
It takes very high-level vocabulary to express some of these stuff.
Some of these things.
Some of these stuff.
I'm becoming AI.
I'm going to blame AI on why I'm getting dumber.
But yeah, you can't...
If you don't have the ability to...
Use complicated, specific words.
You do revert back to newspeak.
That's about as far as you can get in negotiations or discussion with somebody with like a, you know, toddler-level English.
Which I also, this always blows my mind when you hear how many H-1B visas there are in big tech companies.
You're sitting there like, okay, I've had trouble ordering Taco Bell from somebody that doesn't speak English.
It can really throw a wrench in the works when you just try to, when you're just like, I saw you put fire sauce on the screen.
Do you mind if you switch that to hot sauce?
And they're just like, fire sauce?
You say you want hot sauce?
And it's like...
Hot sauce, please, not fire sauce.
You have to break it down into simplicity.
Now imagine you're designing a rocket.
Now imagine you're trying to design very complicated computer systems.
And it's like, how do they even talk to each other?
How do you even have nuanced, detailed conversations with people who don't speak your language?
This is not possible.
And especially if you get to the higher level of philosophy and political theory and...
This stuff, you can't discuss this stuff by just going, voting good.
Dictatorship bad.
Like, well, we can't use dictatorship.
Boss man, boss man rule.
Boss man rule bad.
And it's like, what are we doing?
You gotta be intelligent.
You gotta be able to express yourself capably.
You have to be able to describe things that are...
Nuance and detail.
It's very difficult to understand how we move forward from here.
From 2023 to 2024, 11,000 English nouns dropped in usage by 80%.
But I can't find any confirmation for this.
People in the comments have said words they've tried typing like nescient are being recognized by autocorrect as non-words.
And yeah, that happened to me at least three times over the weekend.
Many people say this isn't true because I guess people are saying it's not true.
But it is true that big words are not being recognized by the By the autocorrect, and again, this is another thing that you point to where words really do have power, not in a magical spell sort of way, but almost, but like damn near that level.
Things like, and the example I've always pointed to is things like alt-right.
Like to me, you know, being fairly political my whole life, but like, you know, during 2016-2015, First time I saw this term and I saw it applied to just like the MAGA movement, right?
They called it the alt-right.
And to me it was brilliant because it made perfect sense.
It was like, okay, we're on the right, but we're the alternative to the typical.
We're the alternative version of the right-wing.
Perfectly valid label for the Trump movement, in my opinion.
Yes, it is right-wing.
Yes, it is right-wing beliefs, a right-wing foundation, a right-wing conception of the world, but it's not.
Ted Cruz and George W. Bush.
It's alternative to them, but still right.
So it was a nice phrase to describe in a single word the whole diverse coalition of people for one reason or another that came over to Trump.
But then, and I guess that phrase, that term, that label was whether it was co-opted first by Like, I remember for a while, people were using the term alt-right to just describe the MAGA movement.
And then, it was like, all of a sudden, it was like, no, alt-right means Nazi, so you can't say that anymore.
You can't be alt-right anymore.
Saying you're alt-right now means you're a Nazi.
And so it made it that much more difficult to even have a coalition existing of people who were right-wing but didn't apply to the...
You know, agree with the blue-blood country club Republicans.
You had a word to describe that group, and now you don't.
So the group kind of stopped existing.
Suddenly it was like, well, you can't have the alt-right describing all of you.
You have to have the libertarian nationalists and the far-right, whatever other group.
And by destroying the label, you destroy the group in a very real way.
You can't label everybody under one singular phrase.
Then conceptually, people's minds, they can't, they don't group them together.
It's just, it's an effective way to destroy a movement or a group or an idea by destroying the word that they use to describe themselves.
It's extremely powerful, and the people that want us all enslaved and, you know, killed and monitored and all the other horrible things they have planned for us, like, they know that if you don't have the vocabulary to argue against, What they're imposing, and you don't have the ability to define yourselves as a distinct and separate group, it's really hard to get things done.
So, yeah, Newspeak is very much in vogue right now, and increasingly so.
So do we have that?
I'm told that we should show this video of Dave Portnoy, the update now, where he flips out about...
The woman asking him about his role in creating the atmosphere of permissibility and offense in this country.
Do we have that censored?
Alright, let's go to that now.
Here's Dave Portnoy with his update video an hour ago.
unidentified
I...
dave portnoy
First of all, what time is it?
It is 7.15.
I'm at...
I'm out here in beautiful Scottsdale for the Bet Gala tonight.
And obviously this thing at the bar, the...
The Jews sign, the anti-Semitic sign at my bar.
Still going.
So all press being like, will you talk about it?
Yeah, I'll f***ing talk about it.
So ABC News.
harrison smith
Hold on, we pause it right there.
Again, it's like, dude, nobody knew about this sign.
I didn't see this sign.
Nobody saw this sign.
Nobody would have known.
You made it a big deal.
So now he's complaining that it's a big deal?
So he has a panic attack.
He's literally shaking, makes multiple videos where he's like, I'm going to destroy these kids' lives.
And then 12 hours later, he's like, why is everybody still talking about this?
This is such a big deal all of a sudden.
Everybody's wanting to interview me about this?
Jeez, okay.
I'm like, dude, nobody saw the sign.
Nobody knew about the sign.
This was not a thing until you made it a thing.
So what are you complaining about?
So again, just everything about this guy.
Back to...
Back to Dave Portnoy.
Psychotic child.
Let's go.
dave portnoy
Beg me to do an interview.
They beg me to do an interview.
They give me the reporter's name.
It's some reporter.
And then they do a bait and switch.
And a new reporter shows up to do it this morning.
She starts like, okay, fine enough.
Asking questions about the bar, how did it happen, responsibility, blah, blah, blah.
And then she shifts.
And then she does what a media scumbag does.
She's like, well, she pulls a quote out of her ass from, like, I don't even know, a made-up journal?
Some professor at, like, the sportocratic university of something?
It's like, they say that Barstool Sports creates a culture of harassment and that, basically, I'm responsible for this happening at my own bar.
Never heard the quote.
Oh, you're saying some f***ing liberal college professor said they don't like Barstool?
So I was like, well, who f***ing said it?
And what is this even journal?
We go back and forth.
Austin, who's here, started taping it.
This f***ing piece of s***.
Let me put it in right now.
Here's who I would say is causing that type of environment.
All these colleges who let Jewish kids get harassed on campus 24 /7.
I've been speaking out about this since it started.
So these professors, I'd love to know.
First of all, that sounds like a made-up thing.
I don't know what that quote is.
The Society of Sports.
Where are the professors from?
Where are the professors from?
Well, why don't you answer where the professor is from?
unidentified
Okay, let's look back and then go back and see if you want to waste time.
Well, no, you're quoting two people who have no idea who they are from a made-up journalist.
harrison smith
Tell me who they are.
Who do I need to send to Auschwitz?
dave portnoy
No, that's a real university.
I'd like to know how they're, where they're getting their information.
I don't like quotes and I have no idea where they're coming from.
I totally disagree for what you just said.
Who's creating more hate right now in the world?
unidentified
You say, are those sports and white men or college campuses?
You go ahead and answer.
dave portnoy
No, that was a question to you.
harrison smith
I'm the journalist.
unidentified
I'm asking you.
dave portnoy
Well, I don't play by those rules.
What does that mean?
You're a journalist?
I'm a journalist.
unidentified
I run a big media organization.
I just asked you a question.
Let's answer the question.
dave portnoy
No, I asked you a question.
You answered the question.
You answered the question.
unidentified
You're not running this interview.
All right.
dave portnoy
Then the interview's over.
unidentified
Thank you.
dave portnoy
You can't ask me questions.
I'm a journalist.
You ambushed me with a made up From a made-up, like, journal from two professors, I guess, at Virginia.
Let me ask you this.
Where do you think more hate is happening?
At barstool sports or college campuses across this country.
This piece of shit.
ABC, the person who set it up, gave me one reporter, bait and switch to the other.
Fuck ABC.
Fuck ABC.
People are, ooh, it makes me mad.
I forgot how much I hate journalists.
Piece of shit.
harrison smith
Okay, but it was a good point, though.
I mean, but the question she asked was a good one, which is why you're freaking out and you can't answer it.
But basically, the question she was asking, like, it's pretty...
And, you know, he doesn't even...
He doesn't even, like, really say what the quote is because it's obvious that he has no answer for it.
The question is, if your whole brand is predicated on...
Not caring about cancel culture and being offensive and being over the line, then isn't this a little bit hypocritical for you to freak out so much about somebody doing what you yourself essentially encourage?
And he has no answer to that.
So he just flips out again.
Like, dude.
Does he think it makes him look cool?
Like, is this like...
Yeah, I hate journalists too.
I'm on your side.
It sounded very reasonable, the question she was asking.
I mean, if you're going to do an interview with ABC Philadelphia, it's a pertinent question because of your hypocrisy that's on display.
I don't know what to tell you, Dave.
I don't know what to tell you.
Like some made-up quote.
All quotes are made up, Dave.
That's why they're quotes.
Somebody says them.
And so I'm just asking you the question directly.
She said, you know, this is becoming a big public thing.
Here's what other people are saying.
Do you want to respond to that?
And he has no response to it.
And he doesn't even know their name, so he can't even send them to Auschwitz to do a book report for him.
So he just flips out and slams the computer shut.
It's just...
You know...
Just another example of just how rare and special a place like Infowars is.
That'll tell you we don't care about cancel culture.
We don't care about offense.
We're in favor of free speech.
And then we actually persist in that belief regardless of whether it's us being targeted.
unidentified
It's just a special thing we have going here, unlike Dave.
While other networks lie to you about what's happening now, Infowars tells you the truth about what's happening next.
Infowars.com forward slash show.
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