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| But yeah, I think that, of course, AIPAC should be registered under FARA. | ||
| And no, they should not be able to influence our politics. | ||
| The way that AIPAC came about is they sprung from the American Zionist Committee, which was a foreign entity. | ||
| It was foreign money pouring into the United States. | ||
| JFK said you got to register under FARA because it's foreign money lobbying for a foreign country. | ||
| And all they did was basically a trick to reorganize how that money is spent. | ||
| They changed how the money is spent and said, well, we'll take APAC and we'll make that a U.S.-based chapter, and then they can spend the money in the United States. | ||
| So it is a foreign lobby. | ||
| And this is basically what about ism to say, well, what about this lobby? | ||
| What about that lobby? | ||
| What about, you know, they're not the only one. | ||
| They are a foreign lobby. | ||
| And even though they give small sums to some congressmen, they spend big sums to primary congressmen that oppose them. | ||
| They did this to a number of progressive Democrats last year. | ||
| They spent millions behind primary candidates against Democrats that didn't vote for foreign aid to Israel. | ||
| So their influence is felt everywhere. | ||
| And it's always this little like obfuscation game that's played with them. | ||
| If you're America first, you can't be in favor of foreign lobbying. | ||
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All right, let's push the next. | |
| Let's move to the next one. | ||
| Well, let's push it some more because the one name that you gave us was Miriam Adelson. | ||
| Now, Miriam Adelson is married to Sheldon Adelson. | ||
| And Sheldon Adelson made about $20 billion because he's a casino mogul in Las Vegas. | ||
| He owns the Venetian hotel, for example. | ||
| So here's a guy who's an American citizen. | ||
| He's a Jew, but we're not talking about the Israeli government. | ||
| So are you saying that you want a law that says that Sheldon Adelson, an American citizen, can't spend money on lobbying? | ||
| And how would you draw, tell us what this law would say, are you going to single out APAC? | ||
| Or are you going to say that basically no foreign interest can lobby in the United States, which by the way, I'm in favor of. | ||
| I'm not against it. | ||
| I'm simply against what it appears to me to be a kind of conflation between the foreign interests of a foreign state, Israel, and American Jews who are no different than Irishmen, who, by the way, are very involved in Ireland's politics. | ||
| You have all kinds of societies, German societies, English societies that promote friendly relations with England. | ||
| As I mentioned, there are corporate interests abroad. | ||
| There's a Swiss billionaire, Hans Wies Jordan, I think is the guy's name is. | ||
| He plows tons of money into the Democrats. | ||
| George Soros is a massive influence, a lot of money that's made abroad, now being deployed within American politics. | ||
| So yeah, if you want to have some restrictions on foreign money, I say more power to it. | ||
| But weirdly, you seem to be wanting to restrict the one money that's actually coming to benefit MAGA against these left-wing Democrats, as you say. | ||
| And you've not said one word about foreign money that's going to these left-wing Democrats in the first place. | ||
| I am against all foreign lobbying. | ||
| I am against all foreign money. | ||
| And the problem with this is you talk about Sheldon Adelson. | ||
| You say, well, he's an American citizen. | ||
| So what would you do about him? | ||
| Well, let me ask you about Sheldon Adelson. | ||
| Yes, American citizen, born and raised in Northeast. | ||
| Sheldon Adelson, when he died, his body was flown to Israel, where he was buried. | ||
| And the body was greeted on the tarmac by Benjamin Netanyahu. | ||
| Sheldon Adelson said he wished he served in the IDF and not the U.S. military. | ||
| He said, my heart is in Israel. | ||
| He lobbied the Trump administration to pardon Jonathan Pollard, who is an Israeli spy, stealing our secrets and giving them to Israel. | ||
| This was something he lobbied for for 10 years. | ||
| Like this guy clearly was a foreign agent. | ||
| Do you see any sort of problem with that? | ||
| I mean, don't you think that his citizenship is sort of a technicality? | ||
| Or do you take any issue at all with his clear foreign allegiance to the state of Israel? | ||
| Look, all I'm saying is that there are numerous examples of Americans homegrown who have for some reason or another fallen in love with some foreign country. | ||
| I mean, I'll give some examples. | ||
| There were countless Americans who wouldn't. | ||
| Do you have a problem with that? | ||
| Yes, of course I do. | ||
| Of course I do. | ||
| But I'm just saying that there's nothing uniquely Israeli about it. | ||
| Think of all the Sandinistas. | ||
| Think of all the Americans who went down there. | ||
| Think of the number of Americans who went and fought in the Spanish Civil War. | ||
| They were obviously putting other countries first. | ||
| There were many Americans. | ||
| Look at the Rosenbergs. | ||
| They spied against the United States for the Soviet Union, Klaus Fuchs. | ||
| So what I'm getting at is there is an American tradition of Americans who, for whatever reason, sometimes ethnicity, sometimes ideology, they start putting another country first. | ||
| Are you asking me if that's wrong? | ||
| Yes, it is. | ||
| And I think when they break the law, they should be punished as the Rosenbergs, of course, were put to death. | ||
| Klaus Fuchs was arrested. | ||
| So we have laws and we should enforce them. | ||
| lot of times, a lot of this bad stuff goes on because people in this country, our own people, allow it to happen. | ||
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Music It's Wednesday, July 2nd, 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. | ||
| Okay, three, two. | ||
| Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| Welcome to the American Journal. | ||
| I'm your host, Harrison Smith. | ||
| Coming to you live this morning from the Infowars headquarters, where last night we hosted a debate between Nick Quintez and Dinesh D'Souza. | ||
| That was what you saw in the first five minutes of this show if you were tuned in. | ||
| And I got to say, it was incredible. | ||
| It was amazing. | ||
| It was like the best debate I've ever seen. | ||
| This morning, I come in, I'm doing the news gathering, and it's playing on the rebroadcast. | ||
| And I kept watching it. | ||
| I've already seen it once, but I had to watch it again. | ||
| I got distracted. | ||
| Because it really was good. | ||
| It really was thorough and substantive and nice and pleasant. | ||
| And I gotta say, I don't know. | ||
| I didn't underestimate Dinesh D'Souza, but I think he did a lot better than I expected. | ||
| Honestly. | ||
| I still side with Nick on most of it. | ||
| And I think it's a generational Thing. | ||
| I think that's an accurate reading. | ||
| Owen Schroer came out with a 10-minute video discussing the debate last night, and I think he hit the nail on the head identifying the main divide between Nick and Dinesh as being purely generational, purely a matter of age and life experience. | ||
| And that's certainly what Dinesh himself was sort of pushing forward. | ||
| And like, I sort of, I don't know how to explain it, I got it. | ||
| I got where Dinesh was coming from. | ||
| And I could understand, I could see how, especially if you're an older viewer, you could see Dinesh as the, you know, elder statesman sort of, you know, has the understanding and is taking it all seriously, you know, and framing Nick as a Democrat. | ||
| And like that, I guess, is what I got. | ||
| Because it's, to be honest, it's kind of a typical thing for Dinesh D'Souza. | ||
| She calls everybody doesn't like Democrats. | ||
| It's almost a meme at this point of like the Nazis were the real Democrats kind of thing. | ||
| Yeah, the online polls have Nick winning overwhelmingly. | ||
| That's you're on X when you're posting that. | ||
| I don't know how much credence I'd put to that. | ||
| I do think Nick won. | ||
| I don't think it was quite the blowout that people say it is. | ||
| But that was one of the things where, okay, it's like a meme at this point. | ||
| They're going to call everybody Democrats. | ||
| But when Dinesh was discussing it, I sort of got it. | ||
| I sort of understood where he was coming from in terms of relating an anti-war stance, excuse me, an anti-war stance to like an appeasement stance of, oh, you just have this mindset of kumbaya rainbows and drum circles. | ||
| And you think that if you just, if we just ask really nicely, Iran will listen to us and not make a nuke and kill everyone. | ||
| And I just sort of, I got, I could understand the perspective or, you know, watching that, I could see how people would be like, yeah, exactly. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You know, we got to take a hard line with these people. | ||
| And, you know, thinking that we can have peace with these people is just, it's hippie stuff. | ||
| It's, it's Obama stuff. | ||
| You're just an idiot if you think that way. | ||
| I disagree with that. | ||
| I think history has proven what a bad viewpoint that is. | ||
| What an incorrect way of conducting foreign policy that leads to. | ||
| But I understood it, and I thought Dinesh was a great spokesperson for that side of the argument. | ||
| I'm going to go to a few more clips of it here. | ||
| And I really don't have that many. | ||
| I encourage you to just go watch the whole thing. | ||
| But let's watch. | ||
| And, you know, Nick's greatest skill, I think, and it's probably the most important skill to have being in the position that he's in, is storytelling, is establishing a narrative and laying out a timeline in a succinct and understandable way that's compelling and leaves you understanding his perspective at the end of the timeline he lays out. | ||
| So I'm going to let him do that here. | ||
| Nick Fuentez, this was posted saying Nick Fuentez schools Dinesh Desouz on history. | ||
| I think both these guys know a hell of a lot of history. | ||
| Let's go to clip number seven now. | ||
| And Nick, I'll stop interrupting. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, forgive me, but I have to do this. | ||
| You know, you said that I'm a young man and my view of history is so short. | ||
| Well, let's talk about some of your history here. | ||
| You were a big supporter of the war in Iraq. | ||
| And I want to actually read and go back to what you said about it in 2003 and 2007, because I think this is fair. | ||
| You said in 2003 that Saddam's support for terrorism, his attempt to acquire nuclear weapons, makes him an imminent danger to world peace and security. | ||
| That was in 2003. | ||
| Four years later, you said the important point about the wars is that 50 million Afghans and Iraqis are free. | ||
| And for the first time in their history, they can control their own destiny. | ||
| Liberals emphasize the negative and relish the failures of American foreign policy. | ||
| Now, there's a lot of other quotes here, but this speaks to the kind of hubris of the neocons, of the interventionists, of advocates for regime change, which is just like in 2003, there is this alarmism. | ||
| They support terrorism. | ||
| They're building nuclear weapons. | ||
| Now, both of those things turned out not to be true. | ||
| There was no connection between al-Qaeda and Saddam. | ||
| Saddam did not have nukes. | ||
| Then there's this justification after the fact. | ||
| Well, you know, it doesn't matter because it's going fine. | ||
| Well, 20 years later, guess who took over Iraq? | ||
| Iran. | ||
| Iran filled the power vacuum. | ||
| Guess who retook over Afghanistan? | ||
| The Taliban. | ||
| So, you know, you can talk about like Germany and Japan. | ||
| I think those things are fundamentally different for starters because Japan attacked us first on our soil in Hawaii. | ||
| I mean, that's fundamentally different. | ||
| But in terms of regime change, this does harken back to Iraq. | ||
| And I've seen your videos where you talk about the dissimilarities between the two situations. | ||
| I think they're very similar. | ||
| Now, as far as Iran, I don't even want to get into Gaza because that's a little bit, we can later, but I want to talk specifically about Iran. | ||
| In one of your videos, you say, well, unlike Iraq, where we had to rely on government intelligence with Iran, we know about their facilities. | ||
| We know where they are. | ||
| We've seen the tunnels. | ||
| We've seen the centrifuges. | ||
| We know what they're doing. | ||
| Well, isn't that sort of precisely the point? | ||
| When the United States made the nuclear deal with Iran, they adhered to it for years. | ||
| The deal was made in 15. | ||
| And from 15 to 2018, the IAEA said they were in compliance with the deal. | ||
| They had 24-hour monitoring. | ||
| They had cameras. | ||
| They had inspections. | ||
| And they were in compliance with the deal. | ||
| It wasn't until a year after Trump pulled out of the deal and forced all the other Europeans to pull out as well. | ||
| And we reneged on our commitments. | ||
| We pulled out and didn't give them sanctions relief. | ||
| We, through secondary sanctions, forced the Europeans to pull out and they didn't get sanctions relief. | ||
| It was only until 2019 that Iran started to gradually reneg on their commitments. | ||
| And it went in succession where America killed Qasem Suleimani, which is one of their generals. | ||
| Then Iran began to enrich without limitations. | ||
| They enriched and they engaged in all nuclear activities without any kind of restrictions. | ||
| It wasn't until 2021 when Israel attacked Natan's twice, cyber attacks and sabotage attacks that Iran began to enrich to 60%. | ||
| Every action has this equal and opposite reaction. | ||
| Iran was a partner in 2001. | ||
| Iran helped us build the Northern Alliance. | ||
| They helped us put Kaiser or Karzai in power in Afghanistan. | ||
| A few months later, George Bush calls them the axis of evil. | ||
| This is how we treat Iran. | ||
| Now, let me interrupt you. | ||
| I'm just looking at the clock friend. | ||
| You guys interrupt each other just every few minutes. | ||
| Maybe I should just go bing. | ||
| And then the person interrupts you guys. | ||
| They're so polite. | ||
| Dinesh. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Well, first of all, I want to do a mea calpa here because I was wrong about the Iraq war. | ||
| So that was, you know, good on Dinesh for admitting that. | ||
| But, you know, this is another thing that happened. | ||
| We're going to go to another clip here. | ||
| And I'm trying to, to be fair, I'm trying to play both sides here. | ||
| No, but I'm trying to give credence to both sides. | ||
| So that side was posted, you know, Nick Fuentez destroys Dinesh D'Souza with history. | ||
| And we'll go to another video of Dinesh D'Souza destroying Nick Fuentez with history. | ||
| But the two different histories. | ||
| One is the immediate history of the last 20 years or so of war in the Middle East. | ||
| And then Dinesh D'Souza expands it out to include basically every conflict America's ever been involved in. | ||
| And again, I think it's, you know, if you're talking about the divide between the boomers and the Zoomers, or the divide between a long-term view or a short-term view or a view in line with the ideal image of America as we've existed for, | ||
| you know, the entirety of the 20th century or the view of America in the 21st century, which to me is a bit more grounded and realistic rather than idealistic. | ||
| It's not, the point is, it's not even so much a political or ideological divide that was explored last night. | ||
| It was more of a strictly generational incapacity for communication that we witnessed. | ||
| And again, I just think we'll go to this next video with Dinesh D'Souza schooling Nick this time on history, supposedly, according to the person who posted this video. | ||
| I've never, I don't know if I've ever seen a debate quite like this. | ||
| I just, I can't get over sort of what a unique platform this was, what unique characters these are. | ||
| You know, Nick Fuentes is constantly challenging everybody to debate. | ||
| And good on Dinesh D'Souza for doing it. | ||
| Again, I think he was sort of the perfect person to debate Nick. | ||
| It would have been a lot less substantive if you'd had Nick Fuentez and like Mark Levin. | ||
| Although, you know, maybe more entertaining. | ||
| Maybe even more entertaining, but certainly more difficult to listen to. | ||
| Mark Levin would never agree to that, though. | ||
| I'm sorry, did you call Mark Levin a coward? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Is that what I just heard? | ||
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| Hey, I guess he has to prove you're wrong. | ||
| I guess InfoWars should host a debate between Mark Levin and Nick Fuentez, for no other reason, than to disprove Matt and Mark Levin can uphold his honor and prove he's not a despicable coward, weasel, chicken hawk. | ||
| Those were Matt's words. | ||
| You couldn't hear it, but that's definitely what he called him. | ||
| That would be very entertaining. | ||
| But again, Dinesh was Eves. | ||
| He's cool. | ||
| You know, he's very calm. | ||
| He's very cool. | ||
| He doesn't get riled. | ||
| He doesn't get ruffled. | ||
| And again, I'm just saying this because where else have you ever seen this? | ||
| Where else have you ever seen debates like this on a platform like this with an audience like this with members of the mainstream media and the dissonant media meeting on equal ground and having a totally free form, no holds barred, no censorship, no talking points, hardly even any time controls, if I'm being honest. | ||
| But that's what it should be. | ||
| It needs to be a free-flowing conversation if we want to actually not just bicker and snipe at each other online endlessly. | ||
| So I really think this was such a powerful and important thing. | ||
| I'm just, I'm proud that InfoWars was the, was the, is the place where people go for this because, you know, I'm sure we'll do, we'll do more and we'll do others. | ||
| But it also speaks to the justice of InfoWars overall, that people know that we're not going to screw anybody over. | ||
| We're not going to treat anybody unfairly. | ||
| We're not going to go into it with any biases. | ||
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| And honestly, the only down thing was like, he seems so exhausted. | ||
| He's working so hard. | ||
| He's like, you can just tell. | ||
| And it's obvious with Alex, he always has so much energy. | ||
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| Let's go now to clip number 12. | ||
| This is Dinesh D'Souza on a little bit of a longer timeframe history that informs his worldview. | ||
| Look, I mean, Nick, you're 26, and so it's understandable that your view of history, you keep saying history, a regime change is a bad history, and the history you give is like four years old. | ||
| You know, your compass is so narrow that you don't understand that I could give you 40 examples of regime change through history that have all worked out beautifully. | ||
| Some recent, some more ancient. | ||
| There was regime change in Spain. | ||
| Franco fell. | ||
| Spain became a democracy. | ||
| You had autocrats all over South America. | ||
| Those regimes all changed. | ||
| Many of those countries are much better off as a result. | ||
| The United States produced regime change in Mexico. | ||
| There was a dictator named Santana. | ||
| He was the one who actually came and fought against us in the Alamo and in Texas. | ||
| Ultimately, Santana was overthrown. | ||
| That was excellent regime change. | ||
| I'm not even counting, of course, the Nazi regime in Japan in World War II. | ||
| The Soviet Union was regime change of an excellent quality. | ||
| So regime change sometimes works and sometimes it doesn't work. | ||
| A lot of times it depends kind of on who does it and how. | ||
| Now. | ||
| So that's him defending just the concept, I guess, of regime change. | ||
| I just think that's not, I don't know. | ||
| Maybe we need to find it. | ||
| Maybe that was unfair to Dinesh. | ||
| I don't think that was the best clip because, I mean, you can talk about all sorts of regime change. | ||
| I mean, sure, you can talk about the regime change of the Soviet Union, but that wasn't really regime change. | ||
| When we talk about regime change in the current context, we're talking about going into a foreign country, a much weaker country, and imposing a new ruler on them by force, by either killing or expelling their old ruler. | ||
| And there are multiple instances that fit this description exactly, whether it's Libya, Mamar Gaddafi, Iraq, and Saddam Hussein, more recently, Syria with Bashir al-Assad. | ||
| These are just very, very, you know, it's that succinct definition. | ||
| It's exactly what it is. | ||
| Now, if you want to expand that definition, then it in a way becomes meaningless because what you're saying at a certain point is anytime a regime changes, it is a regime change war, which isn't exactly the case unless you just say literally every war is a regime change war. | ||
| I mean, hell, if that's the case, then certainly World War I was a regime change war. | ||
| World War II was a regime change war. | ||
| And those countries are still operating under the governmental system that was foisted upon them by their victorious enemies. | ||
| We can go back, you know, if you, you know, the Soviet Union wasn't regime change. | ||
| It fell. | ||
| It collapsed. | ||
| It was because of American pressure. | ||
| It was because of economic realities. | ||
| It was a number of different reasons, but we didn't send a commando team in to kidnap Gorbachev and, you know, kill him in the streets with a machete, right? | ||
| Knocked down the Berlin Wall. | ||
| There were movements, but it wasn't a regime change operation that was carried out. | ||
| But if you're going to categorize that, then, well, what happened to the Romanops? | ||
| That was a regime change operation. | ||
| And that led to communism. | ||
| That led to 100 million deaths and the scourge of communism, the specter of which haunts us to this day. | ||
| So I don't think you can just categorize regime change in that way and say, see, it's good because I have a bunch of good examples. | ||
| Well, you also have the most horrific examples of all time ever in history. | ||
| Like, if you really think about it, that particular regime change, overthrowing the Romanovs, probably the single most destructive act in all of human history, the ensuing deaths and destruction and chaos that, again, we're still experiencing the reverberations of all the way back in World War I. And that, I think, is another angle of this, that you do have to have that historical perspective. | ||
| And we don't know what the effects of the Iraq war are going to be 100 years from now. | ||
| We already know what they are in the last 30 years, and they're not good. | ||
| But God only knows what it's going to lead to down the line. | ||
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| He is a... | ||
| Very, very interesting person who worked on the run 2012 presidential campaign. | ||
| And he's going to blow the whistle on some stuff. | ||
| We'll talk to him in the third hour. | ||
| I do want to take your calls in the second hour. | ||
| We'll do your daily dispatch in this segment and go over some of the news of the day domestically. | ||
| Of course, it was right after the show ended yesterday that Donald Trump did a big press conference at Alligator Alcatraz, or as I'm calling it, Alligator Auschwitz, just to really drive it home. | ||
| How little we care about the outrage of the left. | ||
| It's a concentration camp. | ||
| Well, you can't have deportations without deportation sites. | ||
| I don't know what to tell you. | ||
| I don't know what to tell you. | ||
| We wouldn't have to do this if you hadn't let in tens of millions of foreigners. | ||
| Sorry. | ||
| Sorry, we got to pick up your mess. | ||
| Sorry, we got to deal with this. | ||
| Here's the real crazy thing about it. | ||
| If you don't want to get sent to Alligator Auschwitz, if you don't want to be locked in a cage with a bunch of other dudes in the sweaty Florida swamp surrounded by man-eating monsters, go home today. | ||
| Go home today. | ||
| Go get on the internet, type flight to El Salvador, click purchase, and go away. | ||
| And then you will never be eaten by an alligator, okay? | ||
| That's very simple. | ||
| It's a very simple thing you have to do. | ||
| Leave. | ||
| Go home. | ||
| Nobody's stopping you. | ||
| It's so, we'll help you. | ||
| We'll actually help you get home. | ||
| And if you don't, and if you insist on being here without our permission and against all warnings, then you got to go to the alligator place. | ||
| I'm sorry. | ||
| That's just how it is. | ||
| And I'm not sorry. | ||
| You're welcome. | ||
| You're welcome for giving you a chain link fence between you and the alligator. | ||
| I don't think you even deserve that. | ||
| But yeah, it's frankly kind of hilarious. | ||
| It's kind of hilarious how easy it is to not get sent to alligator Auschwitz. | ||
| You just leave. | ||
| Just go home. | ||
| Like, I can't believe they're doing this. | ||
| Like, there has never been a more easily avoided consequence to your actions. | ||
| This is just absurd. | ||
| You can just go home. | ||
| We want you to just go home. | ||
| It's a pain in the ass to have to build a prison in an alligator habitat. | ||
| We don't want to do this. | ||
| We want you to go home. | ||
| Of course, I think we could probably use any of the other places that we purchased or were renting to house the migrants coming in. | ||
| Again, I don't understand how you have the infrastructure sufficient to bring people in by the tens of thousands a day, but not get them out. | ||
| That doesn't make any sense. | ||
| It's like saying your car can only drive north. | ||
| It's like, what? | ||
| Just turn it around. | ||
| It's the same material. | ||
| It's the same hardware. | ||
| How is it not possible to use in the opposite direction? | ||
| This doesn't make any sense. | ||
| Anyway, it was just after the show yesterday that Trump visited Alligator Auschwitz and made some interesting statements, some very badass and awesome statements like wanting to arrest Alejandro Maorkis. | ||
| Good. | ||
| I'm just sick of talking about it. | ||
| I want to see the arrests happen, please, six months ago. | ||
| But he also made some, frankly, disturbing statements, which has led a lot of people, myself included, to be like, yeah, Alligator Auschwitz, totally cool. | ||
| We're going to deport everybody. | ||
| You're not going to send me there, are you? | ||
| But I mean, this is just for the deportations of the illegal immigrants, criminals, gang members, human traffickers, the rapists, right? | ||
| You're not sending anti-Semites there, are you? | ||
| Well, not yet. | ||
| Not yet, but I'm a little bit concerned about that. | ||
| Of course, the other concerning thing is that if we don't win in a thoroughly convincing way, in other words, there's things like what Trump is suggesting, redoing the census and not counting illegals because it gives the Democrats a massive and totally unfair advantage electorally. | ||
| When you're counting every illegal immigrant and they're all in the blue states and blue cities, these sanctuary cities, then they have something like 20 to 40 seats in Congress that they wouldn't have otherwise. | ||
| So if you do something like that, you severely hamper the Democrats' ability to have any sort of majority, you know, then I'll feel much better about our future prospects. | ||
| If things go as they're going now, if Donald Trump keeps betraying his base and convincing everybody that the Republicans are full of crap and are obsessed with Israel and don't actually believe anything and won't get anything done and can't solve any of our problems and don't seem like they even want to, if they keep being just the worst party ever and the Democrats get elected, who do you think is going to be in the cages next? | ||
| It sure as hell is not going to be Mexicans. | ||
| Sure as hell is not going to be illegal immigrants. | ||
| They'll all be given citizenship by the back door. | ||
| They'll be given amnesty pretty much as soon as the Democrats ever get into power again. | ||
| And the next thing that'll happen is they'll start arresting their political enemies. | ||
| They literally already did it four years ago. | ||
| And I know this is something that I just say over and over, but it's like, this has to be the thing that we're focusing primarily on is the understanding that the Democrats already so egregiously overstepped the bounds of our Constitution, | ||
| so viciously hunted down and threw into prison innocent people after January 6th, have so like devastatingly destroyed the foundations of our government. | ||
| I don't understand how the people in power are treating what's going on right now like just another day at the office. | ||
| And that I think is my main beef with people like Rand Paul and Thomas Massey, who prior to like this year, they were my dudes. | ||
| Like, you know, they could do no wrong. | ||
| But then it's like they're worried about the budget. | ||
| And there's division in the right wing. | ||
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It's like, guys, guys. | |
| We are at war. | ||
| We are at war with the left in this country who is out for blood. | ||
| And you can speculate all you want about what they're going to do, or you can just listen to them and read their comments. | ||
| And they're just confident. | ||
| They're just like, and it's crazy. | ||
| We see it all the time. | ||
| You see it with powerful Democrats as well, but they're usually a little, they hold their cards closer to the chest. | ||
| They aren't quite as abrasive about it. | ||
| But certainly online, it'll be like, you know, just some nothing story where it's like J.D. Vance congratulates Donald Trump on the opening of Alligator Alcatraz. | ||
| And then underneath it, it's just like every left is just like, well, J.D. Vance will be going to prison when we're in power again. | ||
| And it's like, they're not even acting like there's criminal things they need to do. | ||
| They're just announcing that like, yeah, political violence is the future. | ||
| And once we're back in power, we will be wielding the force of the state against you, even if you didn't commit a crime. | ||
| Because you oppose us, because you are our enemy, you will be spending life in jail. | ||
| Like, that's what they're saying. | ||
| That's what they're fantasizing about in advertising. | ||
| So you can look forward to that. | ||
| You can look at that and go, look, these people are insane. | ||
| But you don't have to. | ||
| You don't have to speculate. | ||
| We don't have to look into the future. | ||
| We don't have to point to the warning signs that are glaring and shining right in our eyes and are impossible to ignore and should have every Republican reorganizing their priorities to deal with this emergency, this crisis, this catastrophe that we're heading into. | ||
| I don't have to look into the future. | ||
| You can look into the past. | ||
| You can look at the last four years where the Democrats opened up the borders to tens of millions of people. | ||
| And you just go through the list. | ||
| I mean, and maybe that's what, maybe we need like another Declaration of Independence where you just, you list all of the usurpations and abuses of the party in power. | ||
| They already were holding show trials. | ||
| They already were engaged in what they themselves described as shock and awe campaigns to terrorize the average Republican into silence by going after their most influential social media influencers. | ||
| What they've already done is treasonous, is unconstitutional to a degree that is felonious. | ||
| They're criminals. | ||
| They have to be severely punished. | ||
| And if you don't punish them, do you think these people are going to go? | ||
| Well, you know, when they were in power, they didn't bother us. | ||
| So it'd be really unfair for us to bother them. | ||
| They want you dead. | ||
| They want your children raped, and they think it's funny. | ||
| Have you heard that meme? | ||
| Because it's not a meme. | ||
| It's an accurate view of reality. | ||
| So all this is to say, We don't have time. | ||
| We don't have time to be dealing with budget shortfalls when you're going to be the ones in cages if the Democrats ever get back in power. | ||
| So drastic, severe action is necessary. | ||
| Yes, arrest Alejandro Moore because he should have been arrested six months ago. | ||
| There's no debate. | ||
| There's no investigation necessary. | ||
| And if they don't take this seriously, I mean, I've never seen a more accurate representation of the classic like stone toss comic where it's the two guys, two guys, one is going, you know, like, and there's all sorts of different versions, but it's basically, you know, hey, we have principles. | ||
| We might have lost, but at least we didn't lose our principles. | ||
| And it zooms out and the two guys that are talking are kneeling next to a ditch while the commissar behind them racks the gun to execute them, shooting them once in the back of the head. | ||
| I've never seen anything like this. | ||
| I've never seen anything like this, where some libertarians are like acknowledging that that's the fact. | ||
| They're like, yeah, you know, we're going to lose and the socialists are going to win and they're going to, you know, enact death squads and put people in prison for their language. | ||
| But, you know, we've got principles and we got to stick to it. | ||
| No, we want to live. | ||
| We want to live. | ||
| We don't want to die for your stupid principles, actually. | ||
| Especially, and this is the thing that really sticks in my craw about this when it comes to Thomas Massey and Rand Paul and these guys. | ||
| It's not even a principle thing. | ||
| It's a money thing. | ||
| I don't get it. | ||
| I still wouldn't necessarily agree with it, but I would have a hard time arguing against it if like Donald Trump really was doing unconstitutional things. | ||
| I mean, if it was in the big, beautiful bill that Donald Trump could snatch people up off the street without, you know, charging them with anything and indefinitely hold them while subjecting them to torture under, questioning under torture. | ||
| And Rand Paul and Thomas Massey were standing up going, this is completely against our principles. | ||
| This is a violation of our foundational ideology. | ||
| We cannot allow the government to have this kind of unrestricted authority over the people. | ||
| We have to maintain the separations of powers, right? | ||
| If it was about these fundamental foundational issues, then I'd say, yay, you know, it might not be the most expedient thing, but at least they got a, at least they've got principles that they're sticking to. | ||
| This is about money. | ||
| This is about the budget. | ||
| And it's like, I don't even care. | ||
| I could not care less. | ||
| That's the principle that you're standing on. | ||
| Again, if Trump really was doing something that was anathema to the libertarian worldview in terms of eliminating habeas corpus or abolishing the Fifth Amendment, it's like, okay, then yeah, oppose him with everything you've got. | ||
| Stand on principle then. | ||
| You're not standing on principle. | ||
| You're standing on budgetary concerns. | ||
| Who cares? | ||
| Who cares? | ||
| I mean, you get that we have to spend some money, right? | ||
| So it's, you know, you're just, you just don't like that we're quite so far down the spectrum. | ||
| You want to reel it back in a little bit. | ||
| Like this is not the time for that discussion, honestly. | ||
| It's just not. | ||
| And it doesn't matter what the American budget shortfall is if you're handing the country over to foreigners. | ||
| I see so many people are just like, I'm just, I'm concerned. | ||
| Sean Ryan said something about this, where it's like, now we're borrowing from our grandchildren's grandchildren. | ||
| Your grandchildren aren't going to have grandchildren. | ||
| Do you understand that? | ||
| Unless we do something about the problems that America is facing right now. | ||
| Your grandchildren are going to have concerns a hell of a lot greater than their taxes if things keep going the way that they're going. | ||
| Tell you what, if you don't want your grandchildren to be stripped naked, beheaded, and hung upside down from an overpass as a warning from the cartels, if you don't want your grandchildren to be kidnapped by a bunch of clown mask wearing psychopaths who are going to burn them to death, high off their ass on fentanyl, then you need to do something about what's happening in this country and not worry about the budget quite so much. | ||
| I don't know how much more clear this can be. | ||
| If you don't want your grandchildren to be hunted down by AOC's death squads for storing food and thereby harming the collective, like you got to do something about what's happening in America and not concern yourself so much about all of the fake money it's going to cost, about how it's going to cause carpal tunnel syndrome in the Fed from hinting the print button too much. | ||
| Money's fake. | ||
| We don't care about the budget. | ||
| Get it done. | ||
| Solve the problems that are existential for us as individuals and for the country and the world as a whole. | ||
| Please, can we just stop? | ||
| Can we just stop tearing ourselves apart and just do what's necessary to solve these issues before the looming specter, the combination of the South Africa-like collapse of our safety and normal functional infrastructure in this country and the despotic, communistic, socialistic madness that we see coming down the pipe from the Democrats? | ||
| Can we solve these issues first and then we can worry about how much it costs for the love of God? | ||
| Let's go to clip number 16 here. | ||
| Apparently the Sinaloa cartel found out some FBI agents' identities and are driving around tracking them down and hunting them down. | ||
| did. | ||
| I even show you the video yesterday. | ||
| I don't remember if I played it. | ||
| There's a video yesterday that's like a bunch of bodies hanging from an overpass. | ||
| I know I covered the story yesterday, the massacre that was carried out during a religious ceremony, you know, saying like coming to America, coming to America soon. | ||
| Again, I just, I love, I love not living in a country where these types of people exist and we're losing that and you don't come back from that. | ||
| So tell you what, you can either saddle your grandchildren's grandchildren with a little bit of debt that will not affect their lives or actually impact them in any way, or they can live around people like this. | ||
| Let's watch. | ||
| Oh, oh, thank God. | ||
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The budget is so low. | |
| Oh, my gosh. | ||
| Remember when we almost accidentally paid for people's health care? | ||
| Gee, I'm so glad that we didn't do that. | ||
| Now we just have a bunch of goblins, a bunch of literal goblins with modified Soviet weapons driving around in scary clown masks hunting people. | ||
| But did we tell you how low the budget is? | ||
| But did you have you seen how low the deficit is, though? | ||
| So yeah. | ||
| Hard to care that much when you see what's coming down the line. | ||
| Let's finally get into it. | ||
| Here it is. | ||
| Better late than sorry. | ||
| Your daily dispatch. | ||
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| All right, here it is, folks. | ||
| Your daily dispatch for Wednesday, the 2nd of July, 2025. | ||
| House to vote on Senate version of Trump's bill admid-GOP division. | ||
| The House is set to hold a vote Wednesday morning on the budget reconciliation bill from President Trump, which was approved by the Senate and is referred to as the one big beautiful bill. | ||
| The Senate altered the House's bill passed in May by adding $3.3 trillion to deficits over 10 years, leading to criticism and lowering the bill's odds of passage before the July 4th deadline. | ||
| The Senate concluded a marathon session of more than 24 hours on Tuesday with Vice President J.D. Vance stepping in to break the tie. | ||
| Republicans can lose only three votes, assuming full attendance, but GOP lawmakers like Representatives Andy Ogles and Chip Roy criticized the Senate bill as a dud and expressed skepticism about their provisions. | ||
| Meanwhile, the private sector lost 33,000 jobs in June, badly missing expectations for a 100,000 job increase, ADP says. | ||
| The ADP employment report revealed a 30,000 job decline in June, the first private sector drop since March 2023. | ||
| Amid forecast of a 100,000 job increase, ADP chief economist Nello Richardson cited hiring hesitancy and data from over 25 million U.S. workers, explaining the first private sector job loss since March 2023. | ||
| Following the ADP report, economists may revise down Dune job estimates ahead of Thursday's non-farm payrolls, which are now forecasted to show a $110,000 increase and a higher unemployment rate of $4.3,000, or 4.3% rather. | ||
| Meanwhile, Paramount agrees to pay $16 million to settle Trump's CBS 60 Minutes lawsuit. | ||
| The lawsuit stemmed from Trump's claim that CBS deceptively edited Harris's answer, which he called horrendous and election threatening, to boost her chances in November 2024. | ||
| CBS acknowledged editing the interview as routine and faced FCC scrutiny with Chairman Carr ordering release of raw footage, confirming the network's account amid a news distortion inquiry. | ||
| So they're paying $16 million to settle this lawsuit, which, of course, all they did was dishonestly and deceptively edit a presidential interview during an election year, attempting to, and likely swing millions of votes in a purely political hijacking of our media system. | ||
| So 16 million. | ||
| At least they didn't question a shooting 10 years ago. | ||
| That would have been really bad. | ||
| That would have been really bad. | ||
| All they did was try to rig an election by blatantly lying to the American people using deceptive editing and getting caught doing that. | ||
| Not that they should have to pay a price or anything. | ||
| Meanwhile, Trump says Israel has agreed to conditions to finalize 60-day Gaza ceasefire. | ||
| President Donald Trump stated that Israel has accepted the conditions required to confirm a 60-day ceasefire in Gaza. | ||
| The development follows Hamas's... | ||
| Is it a law? | ||
| I mean, is it, did they pass a law where you have to mention October 7th in detail literally any time you mention Gaza and Israel? | ||
| I mean, it's crazy. | ||
| It is crazy. | ||
| Imagine if every single time you heard about World War II, you had to mention which America entered when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in a surprise in December of 1942. | ||
| It's like, you're 41. | ||
| I mean, it's like a Muhammad peace be upon him thing. | ||
| We all know how the war, you don't have to mention it every day. | ||
| Every single time, really, every single time. | ||
| I'm just sick of reading it. | ||
| I read updates to the Gaza Israel war every single day. | ||
| And every single article, the first thing it recites, it's a recitation as if it is literally compelled. | ||
| You're saying the Pledge of Allegiance every morning. | ||
| And it just becomes more and more hilarious the farther and farther we get from it. | ||
| The more and more happens in between October 7th and where we are now, the more absurd it is, where it's like they're confirming a 60-day ceasefire. | ||
| This development follows October 7th Hamas attack on Israel, which killed 1,200 people and led to Israel's military response. | ||
| Oh, does it follow that? | ||
| Yeah, I guess. | ||
| I guess everything follows that. | ||
| Yeah, I'm going to go to the bathroom during the break following an October 7th attack by Hamas. | ||
| Yes, temporally, that did happen earlier in time. | ||
| Thank you for letting us know and reminding us every single time we hear anything about this conflict that's gone on for nearly two years at this point. | ||
| Marco Rubio announced the total shutdown of the USAID. | ||
| Now all American foreign aid will go through the State Department, which CNN tells us is going to kill twice as many people as the Holocaust. | ||
| And no, I'm not kidding. | ||
| Let's watch clip number one. | ||
| Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, is hailing the end of USAID, the nation's largest foreign aid agency, even as a new analysis finds that its closure could contribute to some 14 million deaths in the next five years. | ||
| Oh my God. | ||
| 14 million deaths in the next five years. | ||
| That is insane and retarded. | ||
| And I don't know why we'd give any credence to that claim. | ||
| 14 million people. | ||
| So more than twice as many people killed in the Holocaust by cutting off USAID, by cutting off the what? | ||
| Gay propaganda in Uganda. | ||
| I mean, what are we doing here? | ||
| Let's go to clip number eight now because this is a video from eight years ago lambasting this exact same argumentation technique. | ||
| Do what we say, give us what we want, or you're killing people. | ||
| Let's watch. | ||
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These cuts are blood money. | |
| People will die. | ||
| Let's be very clear. | ||
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Senate Republicans are paying for tax cuts for the wealthy. | |
| American lives. | ||
| People need kidneys. | ||
| It's sad but decreed. | ||
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Yet the senator's hoarding one more than she needs. | |
| I offer this bill and I hope you'll vote aye. | ||
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Unless, of course, you just want people to die. | |
| Traffic deaths have many crying with fear. | ||
| Over 30,000 people are dying each year. | ||
| This modest change I propose must be applied. | ||
| Unless, of course, you just want people to die. | ||
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Alcohol deaths are exceeding comparisons. | |
| Black people, white people, Native Americans. | ||
| We need to ban alcohol. | ||
| It can't be denied. | ||
| Unless, of course, you just want people to die. | ||
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Murders are bad. | |
| They have no defenders. | ||
| Yet many are committed by repeat offenders. | ||
| I say lifetime in prison, whatever the crime. | ||
| Unless, of course, you just want people to die. | ||
| I don't have a bill or a drone in the tail. | ||
| I just need a short clip for my donor email. | ||
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Tim, there's blood on your hands. | |
| You want people to die! | ||
| Med good, cool. | ||
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Tim, dinner, five? | |
| Yeah, the card deaths I mentioned are terrible stuff. | ||
| Doesn't seem one seatbelt is ever enough. | ||
| You must vote for my act so that fewer won't cry. | ||
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Unless, of course, you just want people to die. | |
| Cards, the container, we cannot ignore. | ||
| Whipped cream's killing more people than ever before. | ||
| This bill would be passed and be ratified. | ||
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Those people that didn't want people to die. | |
| Weigh all the costs, the effects, the results. | ||
| Empathize with each other as if we were adults. | ||
| Use our brains to craft arguments, not vilify. | ||
| See that freedom's a traitor. | ||
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You want people to die! | |
| I tried. | ||
| Crossing the street is incredibly tough. | ||
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People look left and right, but rarely look up. | |
| My bill of mandate. | ||
| That was from Reason an artist called Remy. | ||
| I'd forgotten about that. | ||
| That was eight years ago that he made that video. | ||
| And they're doing the same thing. | ||
| And you'll start to notice it, too. | ||
| If you look for it, it is more or less the only argument they can make at this point. | ||
| You want to deport people back to their home countries where they were born and raised? | ||
| You mean kill them? | ||
| You mean you're trying to kill families because somewhere in the millions and millions of people that we have to deport, there's got to be somebody there that is, you know, needs medical care that they're getting here and that they could get in their home country, but they're probably not going to. | ||
| And you're going to kill them by deporting them. | ||
| So you're not allowed to deport anybody or else you're killing people. | ||
| And if you don't use transgender people's pronouns, then they'll kill themselves. | ||
| And that's also your fault. | ||
| So you're killing people there. | ||
| And again, am I wrong? | ||
| I mean, this is the level of hyperbole that they always and immediately resort to. | ||
| It can't just be, oh, well, this is, you know, there's a difference that we have and we think it should be this way. | ||
| We think it should be. | ||
| No, it's you're committing genocide if you disagree with us, if you don't give us what we want, especially when it comes to USAID. | ||
| Give us your money or you're killing us is the argument they're making. | ||
| Hell, they even say if you don't let mothers kill their babies, then you're killing women. | ||
| Wrap your mind around that one. | ||
| Because they have nothing else. | ||
| They have no argument. | ||
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All right, welcome back. | |
| So I have a lot of news to get to this hour. | ||
| A lot of videos to show you as well. | ||
| Obviously, there's a lot going on politically right now. | ||
| There's still a lot going on in terms of the Middle East as well. | ||
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| Well, we got... | ||
| We have a lot. | ||
| We have, you know, RFK Jr. | ||
| He's sort of continuing the practice of the Trump administration of like a good thing and a bad thing. | ||
| There's always a good thing and there's always a bad thing. | ||
| I don't know why we can't just have good things, but apparently it always needs to be offset by a bad thing. | ||
| So, you know, there'll be some announcement where they're like, yeah, we approve the new experimental mRNA injections. | ||
| Everybody likes, what the hell? | ||
| And then he's like, but, you know, we got this food company to get rid of their artificial dyes. | ||
| It's like, okay. | ||
| Can we do one and not the other? | ||
| Can we get rid of the dyes and not have the poison shots? | ||
| Why does everything have to be caveated like this? | ||
| And But the latest, like he's going after factory farms and he is promoting small farms. | ||
| And that I think is one of the most important things we can be doing. | ||
| After all, you know, all of this is all just various aspects of the same conspiracy in which food production, everything has to be controlled from the top down. | ||
| And it's the most convenient and easy way to control people is by controlling their sustenance, how they get their food. | ||
| And if people can just plant things in the ground and it grows and they can eat it, that's, well, nobody controls that. | ||
| Where does Bill Gates enter into that equation? | ||
| Where do they get to collect taxes or dictate what you can and can't have? | ||
| So, I mean, they are trying to eradicate nature itself. | ||
| And I'm not even exaggerating. | ||
| We've reported on the measures they're taking, places like Oregon, where, you know, under the guise of water conservation or some other seemingly benign environmental concern, what actually, in effect, is going on is they're just saying no growing food in your backyard. | ||
| To grow food in your backyard, you have to categorize yourself as a farm, and you can't be a farm with less than 10 acres, and you have to pay an extra farm tax. | ||
| And it's like, okay, you just don't want people growing food in their backyards. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Why is that something that you don't want to happen? | ||
| Why? | ||
| There's no benign reason for it. | ||
| There's no reason other than the desire to control people and limit their ability to exist without you. | ||
| There is no other reason for it. | ||
| And yet they're doing it all over the place. | ||
| So good to see RFK Jr. take that on. | ||
| And I just saw that clip. | ||
| So, you know, what I can hope is that while we're not getting victory across the board, some of these bigger issues are being approached. | ||
| But again, I share people's concerns when it comes to places like Alligator Alcatraz. | ||
| Because, you know, Trump, it's just one of these things. | ||
| I don't – I don't – I don't have a explanation for it other than just like corruption, I guess. | ||
| Maybe I don't even think it's corruption. | ||
| I think it's cowardice mostly that like I would love to see Trump go to the mat for some of these things when it's just strictly about America. | ||
| But he doesn't seem willing to do that. | ||
| Now, the Trump administration raises the possibility of stripping Mamdani of U.S. citizenship. | ||
| This move comes after a right-wing Republican accuses New York City mayoral candidate of concealing support for terrorism. | ||
| The Trump administration has raised the possibility of stripping Zoran Mamdani, the Democrat mayoral candidate of New York City, of his U.S. citizenship as part of a crackdown against foreign-born citizens convicted of certain offenses. | ||
| Caroline Levitt, the White House press secretary, appeared to pave the way for an investigation into Mamdani's status after Andy Ogles, a right-wing Republican representative for Tennessee, called for his citizenship to be revoked on the grounds that he may have concealed his support for terrorism during the naturalization process. | ||
| Mamdani, 33, who was born in Uganda to ethnic Indian parents, became a U.S. citizen in 2018 and attracted widespread media attention and controversy over his vocal support for Palestinian rights. | ||
| It's like, okay, but, you know, the naturalization process and the aspect of it to which you could strip somebody like Mamdani of his citizenship has more to do with like his support for communism than terrorism. | ||
| And this is, you know, a very slippery slope or an indeterminate boundary that you really shouldn't even approach. | ||
| Because what does that mean supporting a terrorist group? | ||
| Who defines terrorists and what does support qualify as? | ||
| And is opposing the action of one country de facto support of their enemy? | ||
| And if that enemy is labeled a domestic or a terrorist organization by the U.S. government, that means that me like opposing Israel means that I therefore support Hamas, meaning I'm therefore a terrorist supporter. | ||
| Is that the game of telephone that we're playing? | ||
| Because that's very dangerous considering the fact that the terrorist label is, to a large degree, completely arbitrary. | ||
| Completely arbitrary. | ||
| Look at Syria. | ||
| Look at what's happening there. | ||
| Apparently the old regime, you know, they were terrorists. | ||
| The Assad regime, they were terrorists, even though the minority populations in the country during that time were largely protected by the government. | ||
| Now there's a government there that used to be ISIS, used to be al-Qaeda and al-Nusra front that is now bombing churches and terrorizing the Christian minority in Syria, but they're not terrorists, according to the labels that the American government gives it. | ||
| So is that the type of restriction you want determining whether or not you're a terrorist supporter? | ||
| Communism. | ||
| Communism is pretty cut and dry. | ||
| If you're a communist, I don't think you shouldn't be allowed to, you shouldn't. | ||
| I mean, honestly, you just shouldn't be allowed to be an immigrant in politics. | ||
| I don't know how that's even controversial. | ||
| You just shouldn't. | ||
| So, yeah. | ||
| It's just, it's, it would be nice. | ||
| It would be nice to have them willing to like bend the rules or stretch the rules or go above and beyond for literally anything other than Israel. | ||
| But it's like, that's it. | ||
| That's, that's the only tripwire that, you know, activates these incredible powers of the U.S. government cannot and will not be used for the defense of the American people. | ||
| But when it comes to Israel, they're willing to do it. | ||
| And I don't like that. | ||
| And I am genuinely concerned at some of the language Trump is using. | ||
| Let's go to clip number 17 here. | ||
| Again, while can we just get rid of the people that came over? | ||
| Like, it's really not difficult. | ||
| It's really not difficult. | ||
| There's a very clear goal that we have. | ||
| It's to deport all of the people that came over. | ||
| Just do that for the love of God. | ||
| Stop doing all this other stuff. | ||
| It doesn't matter. | ||
| Let's go to clip 17 here. | ||
| This is Trump talking from Alligator Auschwitz. | ||
| Let's watch. | ||
| I'd like to say it, you know, a little controversial, but I couldn't care less. | ||
| We have a lot of bad criminals that came into this country, and they came in stupidly. | ||
| It was an unforced era. | ||
| It was an incompetent president that allowed it to happen. | ||
| It was an autopin maybe that allowed it to happen. | ||
| And it did happen. | ||
| But we also have a lot of bad people that have been here for a long time. | ||
| People that whack people over the head with a baseball bat from behind when they're not looking to kill them. | ||
| People that knife you when you're walking down the street. | ||
| They're not new to our country. | ||
| They're old to our country. | ||
| Many of them were born in our country. | ||
| I think we ought to get them the hell out of here, too, if you want to know the truth. | ||
| So maybe that'll be the next job that we'll work on together. | ||
| But I think getting them out, you know, we forget about them. | ||
| We have some very bad, we had some bad accidents in New York, and they're not accidents. | ||
| So, no, just no, just you can't, you can't deport, you can't deport Americans. | ||
| What? | ||
| What are you talking about? | ||
| What are you talking about? | ||
| Why do we have, it's just, it's just crazy. | ||
| It really, it really is just insane. | ||
| Again, it's different for immigrants. | ||
| I don't know why this is so hard for you. | ||
| It's, okay, if you're an immigrant in this country, deportation is not even a punishment. | ||
| It's not categorized as a punishment. | ||
| It is not a punishment. | ||
| It is not used as a punishment. | ||
| It's not supposed to be used as a punishment. | ||
| Like in the legal code, it's just a bureaucratic process. | ||
| It's not a punishment. | ||
| You're just being sent home. | ||
| You're not going to jail. | ||
| You're not being forced to do something against your will. | ||
| You're just going back to where you're already a citizen. | ||
| It's not a punishment. | ||
| It's just a bureaucratic process you go through. | ||
| Now, he's talking about using it as a punishment for people born here. | ||
| He's not talking about anchor babies. | ||
| You know, that I think, you know, especially if you're ending the 14th Amendment, that's a whole different situation. | ||
| It was just like, why can we not just get the stuff that we need to done? | ||
| This is what I don't understand. | ||
| It's like, we need deportations. | ||
| Like, yes. | ||
| Okay, we're going to round them up. | ||
| Good. | ||
| Okay, we need somewhere to put them. | ||
| We're going to build this camp. | ||
| Good. | ||
| Put them there. | ||
| Get them out of here. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Well, we have to send them to a third country. | ||
| Whatever. | ||
| Doesn't matter. | ||
| Send them to a third country for the time being. | ||
| Just get them out of the country. | ||
| They don't belong here. | ||
| They've got every chance to leave. | ||
| They can leave. | ||
| It's like, yes, good. | ||
| This is all great. | ||
| And then they're like, and we'll deport American criminals. | ||
| It's like, what? | ||
| No. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| Like the guys that commit violence, we'll deport them to a different country. | ||
| It's like, no, why? | ||
| Why just can we just do the first couple of things that you mentioned? | ||
| The first couple of things that are simple and easy and obvious and good and lawful. | ||
| Like, let's just do that and just do that and do that with thoroughness and speed, alacrity. | ||
| Let's get it done. | ||
| But stop talking about deporting American citizens, you idiot. | ||
| I just don't get it, man. | ||
| What are we doing? | ||
| It's so crazy. | ||
| Because again, you got to take this all holistically. | ||
| And you got Leo Terrell. | ||
| We played the video yesterday. | ||
| Anti-Semitism czar being like, we're going to eradicate anti-Semitic ideas in this country. | ||
| It's like, no, what are you talking about? | ||
| You can't eradicate ideas in America. | ||
| Oh my God, just get rid of the foreign invaders. | ||
| Put the criminals in prison where they belong. | ||
| You're going to start deporting them. | ||
| You're going to cause this whole other crisis. | ||
| You're going to just be wrapped up in court proceedings because that's obviously illegal. | ||
| You can't do that. | ||
| So just why can we not just focus on the obvious and easy things we need to do? | ||
| Just get them done. | ||
| My God. | ||
| I don't get it, man. | ||
| It is just infuriating. | ||
| No, Trump. | ||
| You don't deport people that are American citizens. | ||
| Flat out. | ||
| It's just so retarded. | ||
| is just so unbelievably retarded. | ||
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I really... | |
| I... | ||
| This is why I did a tweet. | ||
| I don't know if I ever mentioned it on the show. | ||
| The effing normal party that I just want, I want a political party that's just normal. | ||
| That just does normal things. | ||
| Why can we not just do normal things that are just obvious and good, that every government for the history of the entire world has had no problem just doing and it just wasn't even controversial? | ||
| Why can we not just do normal, simple things? | ||
| Why is it that our political, it's not even a spectrum, the divide is between people who think that prison itself should be abolished, the cops should be eliminated, and just anarchy should reign supreme. | ||
| Just letting murderers out on the street. | ||
| They murder again. | ||
| You book them again. | ||
| You let them out again. | ||
| They murder again. | ||
| So one side is just on the side of the criminals and just won't put them in jail and lets them terrorize Americans. | ||
| And the other side is talking about deporting citizens for, you know, being against Israel. | ||
| And it's like, why are these the two options? | ||
| Why are these The two options. | ||
| It doesn't make any sense. | ||
| Where's the option that's like, let's put criminals in prison? | ||
| Done. | ||
| That's it. | ||
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That's the answer. | |
| Why? | ||
| Why can we not have that? | ||
| Why can we not just have that? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I don't get it. | ||
| I don't get it. | ||
| But here we are. | ||
| But here we are. | ||
| Again, you know. | ||
| Like, I do get, I get it to a degree. | ||
| Like, I understand how we got to this point. | ||
| It's just. | ||
| Are we really incapable of just doing normal things? | ||
| Is that really how far gone we are? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| DOJ moves to strip citizenship from criminal naturalized citizens. | ||
| Trump administration takes a bold step to protect American sovereignty. | ||
| The Trump administration is taking a bold step to protect American sovereignty by targeting naturalized citizens who break the law, ensuring only those who respect the nation's rules retain the privilege of citizenship. | ||
| The Department of Justice issued a memo on June 11th directing attorneys to prioritize denaturalization for naturalized citizens who commit crimes. | ||
| The memo focuses on the 25 million U.S. citizens born abroad. | ||
| According to 2023 data, it lists 10 priority categories for denaturalization, including those who illegally obtained citizenship or lied on immigration forms. | ||
| This directive targets individuals involved in war crimes, extrajudicial killings, human rights abuses, gang activity, or any crimes posing a threat to the U.S. This I got no problem with. | ||
| This I think is in line with the law and common sense and normal behavior. | ||
| Yes, the nation is a family. | ||
| It's a club. | ||
| It's a closed organization for which citizenship is a privilege, is something unique to them that is denied everybody else. | ||
| If you want to welcome somebody into that club, there are certain stipulations they have to adhere to. | ||
| And if they break those rules, then you're under no obligation to keep them in your club. | ||
| That makes perfect sense to me. | ||
| Somebody's born in the club and is a lifetime member of the club, and it's the only club they've ever been a part of, you can't kick them out. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Hopefully we get that. | ||
| Hopefully we understand that all together. | ||
| Again, it is just ridiculous and absolutely ridiculous. | ||
| Now, we'll shift the story here a little bit. | ||
| Smart bulbs record 78% of conversations even when you think they're off. | ||
| This is published on InfoWars. | ||
| Your living room's smart bulbs aren't just illuminating your space. | ||
| They're potentially recording your every move, conversation, and daily routine through hidden surveillance mechanisms that most homeowners never discover. | ||
| Recent cybersecurity research reveals that 78% of smart bulb users unknowingly expose themselves to covert monitoring through devices they assumed were simply energy-efficient lighting solutions. | ||
| This isn't science fiction paranoia. | ||
| It's the reality of modern Internet of Things devices that embed sophisticated surveillance capabilities while masquerading as innocent household items. | ||
| The hidden world of smart bulb surveillance technology. | ||
| Smart bulbs have evolved far beyond simple Wi-Fi connectivity. | ||
| Today's devices integrate audio sensors, motion detectors, and even 360-degree cameras that can monitor your home environment continuously. | ||
| Security bulb cameras now offer 2K resolution with night vision capabilities, creating comprehensive surveillance networks disguised as lighting fixtures. | ||
| And you have to ask, you have to ask why these capabilities were even put into these devices, if not for nefarious means. | ||
| Nefarious purposes. | ||
| Why does it need to listen to you? | ||
| Why is that even part of the part of the makeup? | ||
| Well, that way you don't have to clap to make it dim. | ||
| You can say, dim to 50%. | ||
| Maybe the clapper was in on it the whole time. | ||
| Maybe that's where it all started. | ||
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It just doesn't make any sense. | |
| It doesn't make any sense because it is just entirely unnecessary. | ||
| I can just imagine a world where it is possible, folks, it's possible to have even internet connected devices that just have no capability to spy on you or report back. | ||
| You know, there are things where it's like, people are like, I checked my internet connectivity. | ||
| Why is my washing machine sharing 10 gigabytes of information to a server in China every day? | ||
| Every day. | ||
| Gigabytes of information from your washing machine to a server in China. | ||
| But why, though? | ||
| But why? | ||
| And it's like I retweeted something yesterday. | ||
| And I don't know. | ||
| I see sort of a form of continuity between this and what I was ranting about a second ago, where it's like, we just have normal stuff? | ||
| Just why? | ||
| Just why do we need to do this? | ||
| Like, it's kind of cool. | ||
| We got these smart bulbs. | ||
| You can control them from your phone. | ||
| You can turn them on and off remotely. | ||
| You can change the color. | ||
| You can dim them or bring them up or you can set timers. | ||
| So if you're away, it can look like people are trying. | ||
| Like, wow, all that's cool. | ||
| Oh, it also spies on you all the time for no reason. | ||
| Okay, why, though? | ||
| But what is the purpose of that? | ||
| Why do we need, why is everything terrible? | ||
| Well, obviously, it's obviously in case someone who is here illegally, they can track them and then they can find them and then deport them with ice. | ||
| Of course. | ||
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That must be it. | |
| It's for climate change, maybe. | ||
| We don't know. | ||
| We're just not sure. | ||
| But somebody put it in a really funny way yesterday. | ||
| I don't know where. | ||
| Yeah, this is from New York Post. | ||
| They wrote: Slick-talking cowboy hat-wearing robot dubbed Jake the Risbot spits Gen Z and Gin Alpha slang, leaving strangers gobsmacked. | ||
| Just picture this little robot running. | ||
| I don't know why he's running. | ||
| I don't know why he's wearing a cowboy hat. | ||
| I don't know what the point of this is. | ||
| And then Jarvis at Jarvis underscore best responds, man, for the last time, I just want a robot to do my effing laundry and my effing dishes and nothing else. | ||
| Why is it so? | ||
| Why are these things so difficult? | ||
| Why is it that we have all this technology and none of it makes our life easier? | ||
| How did we go so wrong that we're still the ones doing the dishes and the laundry and the robots are the ones writing poetry and painting? | ||
| How did this happen? | ||
| Why is it like this? | ||
| And I don't know if y'all saw it. | ||
| They're like advertising now. | ||
| They're advertising the fact that they can spy on you with Wi-Fi. | ||
| And they're saying with our new Wi-Fi capabilities, it can be a motion detector. | ||
| So using your Wi-Fi signal, we can alert you if there's movement in your home. | ||
| Well, that was a wild-eyed conspiracy theory. | ||
| I remember getting into arguments with people about this in like 2012. | ||
| Where it was like, do you not think it's weird that your microwave has a microphone? | ||
| Does that not seem strange to you? | ||
| That your refrigerator has a camera and is reporting things back to the server? | ||
| You're not questioning that at all. | ||
| You're just accepting that as normal. | ||
| Alright, folks. | ||
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We have some breaking news. | |
| The verdict for the Diddy trial has just come in. | ||
| He has been declared not guilty on a number of counts and guilty on a number of others. | ||
| Looks like he is walking on the more severe charges. | ||
| Not guilty on count one of racketeering conspiracy. | ||
| Not guilty on count two of sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion. | ||
| Guilty on count three, transportation to engage in prostitution. | ||
| Not guilty on count four, sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion. | ||
| Guilty on count five, transportation to engage in prostitution. | ||
| So it looks like guilty on transportation to engage in prostitution, but not guilty on the more severe charges of sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion or racketeering conspiracy. | ||
| From ABC News, Sean Diddy Combs trial update. | ||
| Combs found guilty on two of five counts. | ||
| The highly anticipated trial of hip-hop mogul Sean Diddy Combs has come to an end. | ||
| Combs was accused of sex trafficking by force, transportation to engage in prostitution, and racketeering conspiracy as part of a blockbuster federal indictment originally filed in September 2024. | ||
| He later faced two additional superseding indictments. | ||
| Combs pled not guilty to all of the charges. | ||
| Combs' lawyer, Mark Agnifilio, Agnifilo, said Combs was simply part of a swinger lifestyle and that he vehemently denies accusations made by the by New York. | ||
| Let's see, they're saying he should be released today. | ||
| He should be able to return home. | ||
| I believe that there's still potential jail time for the counts he was convicted of. | ||
| But I'm not guilty of rector and conspiracy. | ||
| The judge has not yet taken the bench and the jury has not come into the courtroom. | ||
| Wait, what? | ||
| But then how did they get the verdict? | ||
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What does that mean? | |
| So, well done, Maureen Comey. | ||
| You played your part well and let him off with the more outrageous charges. | ||
| But he did go down for the lesser charges. | ||
| I'm seeing some comments saying that he could still face 10 years in prison. | ||
| But his lawyers are arguing he should be let out immediately. | ||
| But everybody is rightfully blaming James Coney's daughter, the prosecutor, on this case, and the Epstein cases. | ||
| Because it's a family affair at the top levels. | ||
| So that's the breaking news here. | ||
| While we're on the topic of the rap game, I want to go to this video by James Lee. | ||
| Clip number five. | ||
| James Lee, one of my favorite content creators, and I encourage you to go follow him on X. And I think I maybe mentioned this a little bit earlier in the week, but we haven't really gotten into it. | ||
| And he just does a really good breakdown of Bob Villen and this guy that was at this festival that was being broadcast on BBC. | ||
| And he said, you know, death to the IDF, as well as a number of other very objectionable things about Britain and the British people. | ||
| Here's James Lee breaking down the controversy that has been swirling around this guy. | ||
| Let's watch. | ||
| I think it's now become abundantly clear who controls the world. | ||
| Because Bob Villen, a member of an English punk rap duo, just lost everything in less than 24 hours. | ||
| His talent agency, gone. | ||
| Visa revoked. | ||
| Their U.S. tour canceled. | ||
| Why? | ||
| because during a performance at Glastonbury, he had the gall to say these words. | ||
| Death, death to the IDF! | ||
| Now, first off, just want to point out that the crowd was chanting along. | ||
| So that says something. | ||
| But whether you agree with the chant or not, and whether you think it's fair game or hate speech, that's not really the point of this video. | ||
| Point is, Bob Villon has been spewing this kind of anti-establishment, anti-British venom for years, and not a single person in power batted an eye. | ||
| Because these are all direct quotes uttered by Villon in the past. | ||
| Quote, kill the fucking queen, burn Britannia, dig up Maggie, referring to the late Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. | ||
| I wipe my arse with the UK flag, then spit on the crown. | ||
| Give Churchill's statue a rope, see if it floats. | ||
| I mean, this guy has said some of the most vile and hateful things about some of the most powerful and revered figures in Britain. | ||
| And the reaction from the UK elite? | ||
| That's right. | ||
| Crickets. | ||
| Not a show canceled, not a revoked visa, not a dropped contract. | ||
| But the moment he criticizes Israel, even just once, his entire professional life is torched in a matter of 24 hours. | ||
| Look, you don't have to like Bob Dylan. | ||
| You don't have to like his music. | ||
| You don't have to like what his political stances are. | ||
| This isn't really a defense of him. | ||
| But let's get one thing straight. | ||
| Famous quote, if you want to know who rules over you, find out who you're not allowed to criticize. | ||
| Because this wasn't just some random overreaction. | ||
| This is what happens when you criticize the most pampered military force on the planet, backed by one of the most powerful lobbying machines in the entire world. | ||
| Let's start with the U.S. In 2024, APAC spent over $100 million to defeat anyone in Congress who dare criticize Israel. | ||
| This includes going after Jewish members of Congress who they deem as lacking sufficient support for Israel. | ||
| You ever wonder why criticizing Israel feels more dangerous than criticizing the US government itself? | ||
| Yeah, there's a reason for that. | ||
| But it's not just here in America. | ||
| They have the same lobbying apparatus across the world, including the UK. | ||
| Why Britain is so supportive of Israel is something that you and I have done a lot of work on, which is the extent of the Israel lobby in the UK. | ||
| You know, where large numbers of Conservative MPs, Labour MPs have been paid by Israel to go to visit Israel. | ||
| And there's no doubt that Israel exercises an influence over British foreign policymaking sort of way beyond probably any other state. | ||
| I mean, is it not bizarre that in the UK, you can burn the union jack, curse the crown, and still get booked on national TV? | ||
| And same in the US, you can denigrate the flag, you can criticize Trump, Biden, whoever you want. | ||
| But the moment you criticize Israel, you're branded a heretic and banished from society. | ||
| Yeah, it's something that we're getting used to and noticing a lot more of, I have to say. | ||
| And on the topic of Britain, four in 10 babies born in Britain have foreign-born parents. | ||
| In 2024, 40.4% of babies born in Britain had at least one foreign-born parent. | ||
| The city of London had the highest percentage of births to foreign-born parents at 84.4%, followed by Brent at 84% and Newham at 82%, according to the ONS. | ||
| Which is wild. | ||
| So in the City of London, 84% of births are to foreign-born parents. | ||
| Demographic replacement, over 40% of England births had at least one foreign parent because they're being slowly but surely genocided. | ||
| And we have a bunch of other stories here. | ||
| We'll just go through them in no particular order. | ||
| Ukraine warns halt of U.S. weapon shipments will encourage Russia. | ||
| Here's the issue with all of our ill-advised military activity overseas. | ||
| It is genuinely making us less safe. | ||
| It actually is impacting the security of America or the ability for us to defend ourselves while simultaneously being the cause of the reason that we might need to defend ourselves. | ||
| Kiev has warned that an interruption of U.S. weapon shipments might encourage Russia to continue the war in Ukraine now in its fourth year. | ||
| On Tuesday, the White House said it had cut off some weapon deliveries to Ukraine. | ||
| The decision was taken to put America's interests first following a Department of Defense review of U.S., quote, military support and assistance to other countries. | ||
| Ukraine's foreign ministry said in a statement that any delay or procrastination in supporting Ukraine's defense capabilities would only encourage the aggressor to continue war on terror rather than seek peace. | ||
| It particularly emphasized the need for Kyiv to strengthen its air defenses as Russia continues to pummel the country with missiles and drones on a near-nightly basis. | ||
| So, see, they're trying to play up the, I guess, the threat or the danger that this poses to Ukraine. | ||
| I'm more concerned by the fact that America is so rapidly arming all of these armies overseas that we don't have weapons to defend ourselves. | ||
| That's what the real story is here. | ||
| Pentagon halts promised munitions for Ukraine. | ||
| They stopped shipments of certain air defense missiles and precision munitions to Ukraine due to concerns about U.S. weapons stockpiles. | ||
| The decision was influenced by policy chief Elbridge Colby after a review showed a decrease in available artillery and munitions. | ||
| This action, first proposed in early June, has now been implemented as Ukraine faces significant Russian and missile drone attack, Russian missile and drone attack. | ||
| Those familiar with the situation spoke anonymously, and the Pentagon White House declined to comment. | ||
| Yes, the White House confirmed it halted weapons that Ukraine had scheduled to receive, including PAC-3 Patriots, 155-millimeter artillery rounds, GMLRS, Stinger AIM-7, and Hellfire missiles. | ||
| The decision was made to put America's interests first. | ||
| So yeah, we are starting conflicts overseas. | ||
| They go on for so long. | ||
| We're depleting our stockpiles to create overseas threats that wouldn't exist otherwise. | ||
| So it's like we're addicted to war. | ||
| But the more that we engage, the bigger of a threat that we face. | ||
| So it's sort of a compounding interest type of stupidity when it comes to our foreign entanglements. | ||
| So I guess it's a good thing. | ||
| I guess at the end of the day, maybe the end to these wars will come because we literally just can't afford to do them anymore. | ||
| We just can't produce the weapons needed to kill random Russians in fields in Ukraine. | ||
| So maybe that'll bring peace. | ||
| Nothing else seems to be working. | ||
| Nothing else seems to be working. | ||
| And we'll move on, but I'm slightly tempted to go to the video from Candace Owens. | ||
| Anyway, we don't need to get into it, but apparently Candace Owens is, it's her fault the Ukraine war continues because she's talking about Macron's wife being a man. | ||
| Anyway, anyway, we don't need to get into that, but we are seeing a tidal shift happen when it comes to transgenderism. | ||
| I'm seeing this in a number of different ways. | ||
| The orders from Trump to stop so-called gender-affirming care, aka mutilating and castrating healthy, otherwise healthy children, is having an effect. | ||
| Some major hospitals are performing these surgeries, have shut them down. | ||
| You also have this, PIN, to apologize for allowing Leah Thomas to compete on women's team. | ||
| The Department of Education announced that the University of Pennsylvania has agreed to resolve Title IX violations related to allowing transgender swimmer Leah Thomas to compete on the women's team during the 2021-22 season. | ||
| As part of the resolution deal, PIN will adopt definitions for male and female consistent with biological sex, restore stolen records and titles to female athletes, and issue personal apologies to each impacted female swimmer, which is pretty amazing, which is pretty great. | ||
| Why it took this long to happen, God only knows. | ||
| But finally, the absurdity of allowing men to compete on women's teams because they want to, because they feign a mental illness. | ||
| Remember, Leah Thompson, the reports from his teammates. | ||
| I mean, he's still a fully intact male, and he would just walk around the locker room butt naked. | ||
| Because he's like a voyeur. | ||
| He's like a voyeur exhibitionist. | ||
| I don't know what you'd call him, but he got off on it. | ||
| And it's just wild that ever got to that point. | ||
| But thank God, we seem to be rowing away from the shore for once. | ||
| Penn will restore female athletes to all individual U-Pen Division one swimming records, titles, or similar recognitions that were misappropriated by male athletes allowed to compete in female categories. | ||
| So that's good. | ||
| Of course, it won't do much to help claw back some of the scholarships that were denied women and given to men. | ||
| They'll know it's been three years since this actually had effect. | ||
| They'll also issue a public statement to the university community saying that they're doing this. | ||
| And they're actually sending personalized letters to all of the female swimmers to apologize for their decisions. | ||
| So that's good to see. | ||
| You also have this. | ||
| Julie Jamin wins case after Washington State YMCA banned her for speaking out against trans staffer and girls locker room. | ||
| Quote, I never imagined that expressing concerns about safety and privacy of women and girls would lead to me being shunned and banned, Jamon said in a press release. | ||
| I'm grateful that justice has been served and that my voice was heard. | ||
| This is a victory for common sense, women's rights, and the right to speak the truth. | ||
| A Washington woman who was permanently banned from using the city-owned pool at her local YMCA for expressing concerns about a trans-identifying male employee escorting young girls in the women's locker room has been awarded a $65,000 settlement. | ||
| Julie Jammon, 82 years old, was rejected from the facility in 2022 for hate and discrimination after she objected to a trans male staffer allegedly observing minor girls in a female-designated changing room. | ||
| Jaman, a 30-year patron at the pool, filed a civil rights complaint against the city of Port Townsend in the Olympic Peninsula YMCA, alleging that her constitutional rights were violated when she was permanently banned from the Mountain View Pool for speaking out about the safety of young girls. | ||
| She'll receive $65,000, including legal fees paid to the Center of American Liberty, which represented her under the terms of the settlement. | ||
| Additionally, the city of Port Townsend has agreed to remove unflattering information about Jaman from its website, further underscoring the baselessness of the actions taken against her, the CAL said in a press release. | ||
| In July 2022, Jaman was taking a shower in the women's locker room when she said she became startled after hearing a male voice. | ||
| Jaman went to investigate the noise and allegedly witnessed the trans male employee watching underage girls change out of their swimsuits, she told Como News, COMO News. | ||
| Jaman quickly ordered the employee to leave the locker room, asking him if he had a penis, and filed a complaint with the YMCA managers who sided with the staffer and banned Jaman from the pool for hatred and discrimination. | ||
| Again, how we got to this level of insanity is worth investigation in and of itself. | ||
| I'm happy this is happening. | ||
| I do think it needs to go further. | ||
| I think these $65,000 is like nothing. | ||
| This person should be rewarded millions of dollars. | ||
| This organization, the town, should be punished for this as a signal to everybody else. | ||
| As if we need one. | ||
| But I mean. | ||
| It just is wild. | ||
| It just is wild how we've gotten to this point. | ||
| Yeah, an 82-year-old woman catching a man spying on little girls undressing in a changing room, and she's the one that gets punished for it. | ||
| To me, people need to go to jail for that, but we'll take our victories where we get them, I guess. | ||
| I guess we'll accept that. | ||
| But I don't want to. | ||
| But the world is healing. | ||
| Where's the other story? | ||
| I want to say it was also pin, but basically this whole ridiculous concept of transgenderism that has imposed itself on our world is going away finally. | ||
| Again, I just can't even possibly imagine the mindset that would indulge in this Even momentarily, but you see, some people waking up to this. | ||
| Christina Buttons on X says, I was wrong about TERFs. | ||
| TERFs is trans-exclusionary radical feminists. | ||
| That's basically people who are feminists and don't like men in women's spaces. | ||
| J.K. Rowling would be the icon of this movement. | ||
| She says, I was Christina Buttons. | ||
| I was wrong about TERFs, gender criticals, and conservatives. | ||
| They were all right. | ||
| They were right all along to hold the line and refuse to give an inch to any aspect of transgender ideology. | ||
| I'm sorry I ever doubted their approach. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Yeah, men are men and women are women. | ||
| You know, the sky is blue. | ||
| Dogs walk on four legs. | ||
| Like this is, I don't know why it's taken 10 years of utter insanity and madness. | ||
| I don't know why tens of thousands of children have had to have their minds destroyed and their bodies mutilated. | ||
| I don't know why we've had to go through this to get to a point where we're just back to normal. | ||
| But I guess I'm glad we're going back. | ||
| I'm glad we're not quite as insane anymore, but we still have a long way to go. | ||
| And again, I think these people need to be punished for this. | ||
| But again, we'll take our victories where we see them, where we have them. | ||
| Another aspect of just utter insanity that we have for some reason allowed to persist for years longer than we ever needed to is Antifa just running the city in places like Portland. | ||
| Now Portland Antifa militant has been charged for assaulting five federal officers, grabbing their genitals during occupation at ICE facility. | ||
| Maddie was captured in a viral video taken by TPM, the postmillennial threatening to sexually assault a disabled black woman with her cane after the resident living in an apartment building across the street from an ICE facility confronted Antifa over the ongoing noise disturbances through the early morning hours. | ||
| The incident occurred on June 29th, the same day her brother was taken into federal custody. | ||
| More than 20 people have been arrested and charged with suspected crimes committed during the 24-7 ICE facility occupation, which began on or around June 6th. | ||
| Charges include assaulting federal police officers, blinding officers with high-powered lasers, disobeying lawful orders, and starting fires next to the facility after using materials to trap federal officers and personnel inside the ICE building. | ||
| So will they go to jail forever now, please, for the love of God? | ||
| It's like, yeah, good, good. | ||
| Good, arrest these people. | ||
| It's not like, it's not like they're being arrested just for like chanting. | ||
| They're literally like trapping people inside a building and then lighting the building on fire. | ||
| And they just do this for like a month on end. | ||
| And finally they get arrested and charged. | ||
| And the people around are happy about this and celebrating it and going public about it. | ||
| And we're trying to get this lady that it talked about, the woman who was threatened where said, you know, this guy was threatening a disabled black woman who lived across the street. | ||
| We're trying to get her on the show. | ||
| I'd love to hear from her. | ||
| I'd love to hear from you. | ||
| And I don't, you know, I have no idea what her politics are. | ||
| I have no idea if she considers herself a Republican or a conservative or anything. | ||
| But I think pretty much all of this, like everything that we've talked about so far, should, in any normal situation, completely supersede politics. | ||
| It doesn't matter what your politics are. | ||
| Every American should be against having mobs of masked up black clad communists committing open violence for months on end against federal officers. | ||
| They have like a homemade LRAD machine with just like, you know, audio, an audio weapon, basically, where it can broadcast noise at such a level that it's made to like disperse crowds. | ||
| They have one and they use it all through the night. | ||
| And the people that are living there are sick of it and are going out to confront them and then getting attacked or stalked by these militant communist psychopaths. | ||
| It's like, does that make me, am I a fascist now? | ||
| Because I don't think that these people should be allowed just to torture American citizens day after day? | ||
| I don't think so. | ||
| So it's, but all of these things should supersede. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Do you have to be a reactionary right-winger to go, yeah, yeah, I think the creepy men leering at little girls as they get undressed in locker rooms, I don't think they should be there. | ||
| I don't think that should be allowed. | ||
| How they've convinced people this is somehow a partisan thing just goes to the power of brainwashing. | ||
| Here it is. | ||
| Stanford Medicine ends surgical sex changes for minors after pressure from Trump admin. | ||
| Although a federal judge blocked the order in March, the Department of Justice issued a memorandum for Attorney General Pambondi, which states that female genital mutilation is a felony. | ||
| The FBI also announced it would be investigating hospitals and doctors who offer sex changes for minors. | ||
| Is this a partisan thing? | ||
| Do you need to be a right-winger to be against child genital mutilation? | ||
| I don't think so. | ||
| But apparently that's how things have shaken out. | ||
| Now we're going to go to a quick commercial break. | ||
| We're going to welcome our guest, Hamdan Azhar, in the next hour, in the next little five-minute segment, I think I'm going to go to a portion of a video by Alex Newman, one of our favorite guests. | ||
| He's talking about the UN Internet Governance Forum that just ended in Norway. | ||
| We'll show you a little portion of that as we get Hamdan welcomed into the studio. | ||
| And I'm very excited to talk to him. | ||
| He's a BlackRock whistleblower. | ||
| So stay tuned for that. | ||
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| Following our show for a while, or if you've been following my writings in all kinds of different publications around the world, you know that the UN wants to control the internet. | ||
| I mean, they really, really, really, really badly want to control the internet. | ||
| Of course, they claim they're fighting misinformation and disinformation and malinformation, which by the way, they admit is true. | ||
| Also, conspiracy theories like Michelle Obama is a lizard. | ||
| That's actually what they said in a UNESCO report calling for global censorship of the internet. | ||
| The globalist UN internet controllers, or would-be internet controllers, just got done meeting in Norway, had a big summit there. | ||
| And surprise, they don't want you to be able to speak your mind online. | ||
| They don't want you to be able to use the internet without their control and supervision. | ||
| In fact, it was called the Internet Governance Forum because they plan to govern the internet, not based on First Amendment principles like we have in the United States, but rather based on UN human rights principles, which are quite the opposite of human rights. | ||
| Joining us now to discuss is a fantastic Norwegian journalist. | ||
| She's doing, in fact, I would argue one of the best Norwegian journalists, if you know anything about Scandinavian media. | ||
| It's mostly government propaganda masquerading as news. | ||
| And I say that as somebody who's spent many years living in Scandinavia, married to a Scandinavian. | ||
| But Rebecca Misterregan, she's a Norwegian journalist with Document Media. | ||
| It's an independent media outlet known for offering a critical perspective on politics, culture, and society. | ||
| She does a lot of really great work. | ||
| Rebecca, welcome to the program. | ||
| Thank you for joining us. | ||
| Thank you for having me. | ||
| I'm very, very happy to be here. | ||
| Great to have you. | ||
| Talk to us about this Internet Governance Forum. | ||
| Globalists from around the world descended on Norway. | ||
| I know they already made sure that nobody could criticize Saudi Arabia. | ||
| I wonder why. | ||
| What was the big takeaway? | ||
| So it was two sides to this forum, I guess you could say, that lasted over five days. | ||
| Actually, just a stone throw away from where I live. | ||
| It was governance of the internet, as you so perfectly introduced it as, and then versus everybody wanting or not wanting, everybody needing access to the internet. | ||
| So it's on the one hand, it's all about who's going to control it. | ||
| How are we going to govern the internet moving forward? | ||
| What they call the internet of the future. | ||
| And then on the other hand, it's about the openness of the internet, how everybody, because apparently half of the world don't have access, how can we give them access? | ||
| So I take away that as, you know, planning for the rest of the world to get online and how they then will govern everybody using the internet. | ||
| And I know that sounds like a big conspiracy, but is it really, Alex? | ||
| No, I think you're exactly right, Rebecca. | ||
| I've been studying these would-be internet controllers for a long time, and you're right. | ||
| They want everybody connected 24-7 so they can spy on you, gather up all your data and manipulate you. | ||
| And now we've got Internet of Things. | ||
| Next will be Internet of bodies. | ||
| Rebecca, you mentioned that this was a preparation for an even bigger and more significant summit. | ||
| What should we expect from the UN and the would-be internet controllers if Western governments, maybe Donald Trump in particular, don't put their foot down and say this is not happening? | ||
| So there's a summit coming up, World Summit on the Information of Society, which is scheduled later this year, as far as I'm concerned. | ||
| And this forum that happened in Lillestern was a sort of the foundation. | ||
| They didn't come up with any agreements or anything like that, but they've talked out between, I think, 4,000 delegates from more than 150 countries, including ministers from Norway and other countries, UN officials, minister tech giants. | ||
| TikTok was there. | ||
| Meta was there. | ||
| Are you surprised? | ||
| I'm not. | ||
| Talking about how they can work together in making sure the internet is a safe place and that AI is not used for misinformation. | ||
| And I think it's very ironic because they were talking about countries like Iran and China wanting total sovereignty over the internet and their networks. | ||
| And they have closed down the internet. | ||
| I think Iran was the last one out during this war with Israel closing out their citizens' access to the internet, right? | ||
| So they were talking about that part and on how to control the internet and how that's a bad thing because, you know, it's Iran controlling their people, not the global governance controlling the Iranian people. | ||
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But then you have Western democracies like Norway saying, if we don't protect the digital Sentinel, Alex Newman, go share it. | |
| We'll be right back. | ||
| Hi, welcome back. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, this is the American Journal. | ||
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I'm your host, Harrison Smith, joined in studio today by Hamdan Azhar. | |
| He is a data scientist, analytic, and research leader with over 10 years of experience discovering meaningful insights in complex data sets and using storytelling to drive business, product, and social impact. | ||
| He was formerly a director at Blockchain Technologies Corporation. | ||
| And prior to that, he was a data scientist at Facebook, at Graph Science, and on Ron Paul's 2012 presidential campaign. | ||
| You can be followed on X at HamdanAzar. | ||
| That's H-A-M-D-A-N-A-Z-H-A-R. | ||
| And the website is homdonazar.com. | ||
| And you're here with us today because you're a whistleblower from BlackRock. | ||
| And we're going to talk a lot about what BlackRock is up to. | ||
| Welcome to the show, sir. | ||
| Thank you so much, Harrison. | ||
| Great to be here. | ||
| Thank you for having me. | ||
| Well, it's my pleasure. | ||
| Just tell us about your background. | ||
| Obviously, you've got a lot of experience in a lot of different sets that are of interest to our audience, especially the fact that you worked on Ron Paul's campaign in 2012 as a data scientist for him. | ||
| But what leads you to be sitting here in the studio today? | ||
| For sure. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| So I think I've always been a bit of a nerd. | ||
| I grew up in Brooklyn. | ||
| I was always good at math and science. | ||
| And then also growing up in the George Bush era, right, with the Patriot Act and everything that happened after 9-11, I was always very passionate about civil liberties. | ||
| And that's what led me to, you know, run Paul. | ||
| You know, I went to Iowa as a volunteer to knock on doors and make phone calls. | ||
| And in the phone bank, you know, I saw all these kids, and it was just like a lot of energy. | ||
| And part of me was like, I'm a data scientist, you know, I want to help this campaign. | ||
| I want to use my skills to advance liberty, and how do I do that? | ||
| And, you know, I ran into this guy at the head of the phone bank. | ||
| I was like, I'm a statistician. | ||
| I want to help. | ||
| And he had no idea what I was talking about. | ||
| He's like, just make some calls. | ||
| And I made some calls, right? | ||
| And then I came to him three days later and I said, listen, I've made hundreds of calls. | ||
| I can tell you how we can win this campaign. | ||
| I can tell you where in the state Ron Paul should visit. | ||
| I can tell you how we're polling among different demographics. | ||
| I can tell you what parts of our message are resonating. | ||
| The guy's like mind, you know, his mind blew open, right? | ||
| And that was Nick Spanos, my mentor, who ended up starting the world's first Bitcoin exchange. | ||
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Oh, wow. | |
| And we had an incredible time working with Ron Paul on the campaign. | ||
| And, you know, my career took me in many interesting places. | ||
| At Facebook, I invented emoji machine learning. | ||
| So on your phone, when you type in a word, it shows you an emoji. | ||
| I was, you know, one of the inventors of that. | ||
| Oh, that's awesome. | ||
| So a lot of people blame me when they have an emoji misunderstanding so they're the loved ones. | ||
| And, you know, it's been a really interesting journey. | ||
| And one day I got a call from BlackRock. | ||
| They said, you know, we saw your TED Talk. | ||
| We can see you can really get people excited about data science. | ||
| And we need that here because, you know, BlackRock is a very powerful company, but also struggles a bit in attracting tech talent because the young kids, most of them don't want to work at BlackRock. | ||
| They'd rather be at Facebook or at Uber or at OpenAI. | ||
| And they wanted to bring me in as an innovator, as someone who could help bring BlackRock into the modern era using data science, using technology, using AI. | ||
| And, you know, I had a lot of really interesting experiences there. | ||
| And, you know, I think I'm concerned, right? | ||
| I'm concerned about the role BlackRock is playing in our economy today. | ||
| I'm concerned about BlackRock's role in essentially having this chokehold on the modern economy. | ||
| I think there are a lot of, the good thing is that there's a lot of awareness about this and a lot of attorney generals are investigating BlackRock. | ||
| And, you know, I'm following that and, you know, just wanted to share that with your audience, get in here and have a conversation. | ||
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And yeah, let's spread some knowledge. | |
| So what exactly did you do with BlackRock? | ||
| And were you aware of BlackRock before they got in contact with you? | ||
| Did you learn about them after they got in contact with you? | ||
| Were you excited to go work for them? | ||
| I mean, what was your experience with BlackRock and what exactly did you do for them? | ||
| For sure. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| No, to be honest, I think I was kind of like many of your viewers. | ||
| I was like BlackRock, Blackstone, Blackwater, Bridgewater. | ||
| There's a meme out there about all of these companies. | ||
| And it's a very interesting. | ||
| I actually, I didn't know too much about it. | ||
| I knew it was a powerful financial company. | ||
| I didn't really know what they did. | ||
| I learned about it, right? | ||
| I learned about it. | ||
| I was initially I was excited, right? | ||
| Because this was, it was sold to me as a classic American company, right? | ||
| It's like General Motors. | ||
| It's like BlackRock, right? | ||
| It's an icon of American capitalism. | ||
| It's a triumph of the American spirit and the American mind that we've created this company that is managing the retirement assets of tens of millions of Americans, firefighters and teachers. | ||
| And that vision was sold to me and I was excited to contribute to that using my skills. | ||
| But obviously as I grew to learn more about what BlackRock actually is and what it does, I definitely became a lot more concerned. | ||
| And so what exactly were you doing for them? | ||
| I understand you were like building a database. | ||
| What did that entail? | ||
| Sure, yeah. | ||
| So I was hired to lead data science for global marketing at BlackRock. | ||
| So just some context on BlackRock. | ||
| BlackRock is the largest asset manager in the world. | ||
| It's not a hedge fund. | ||
| It's not a private equity fund. | ||
| BlackRock essentially manages money on behalf of its clients. | ||
| And BlackRock's clients can be pension funds, teachers' funds. | ||
| They can be sovereign wealth funds. | ||
| They can be governments. | ||
| They can be individual financial advisors. | ||
| They can be other banks. | ||
| And BlackRock essentially buys up assets on behalf of these clients and manages those assets. | ||
| And in exchange for that, they get a management fee. | ||
| Now, these assets can be actively managed funds where BlackRock is going in and picking stocks and trying to beat the stock market average. | ||
| Or they can be passive funds where BlackRock is constructing an index fund where you can go in and buy a BlackRock asset that is essentially tracking the NASDAQ or the Dow Jones or the S ⁇ P. And BlackRock is getting a percentage fee off of that. | ||
| Now, the interesting thing about BlackRock is that even though it's one company on paper, it's actually dozens of different businesses. | ||
| There's an institutional client business. | ||
| There's a Aladdin business that makes risk software for banks. | ||
| There's a financial markets advisory group that all it does is advise central banks. | ||
| So there are all of these different entities. | ||
| And BlackRock's challenge in marketing to its clients is that BlackRock has 12 different businesses, all of whom have their own clients. | ||
| They all have their own marketing. | ||
| They all have their own client list. | ||
| Interestingly, there was a project even to come up with a list of who are BlackRock's clients. | ||
| And there were about 25 engineers working on that for four years. | ||
| Because, you know, it might sound silly, but they could, because it's like, what is a client of BlackRock? | ||
| Is it someone on whose behalf we manage money? | ||
| Okay, but then is UBS a client? | ||
| But is UBS France a different client? | ||
| Is UBS Austria a different client? | ||
| What if we hold their money temporarily, but we're just a custodian and then someone else is actually managing their money? | ||
| Like it gets very, very gnarly very quickly. | ||
| Convoluted, yeah. | ||
| Very convoluted. | ||
| And then my, you know, one of my, you know, essentially priorities was how do we get this data house in order? | ||
| Because how do we make sense of all this data? | ||
| How do we connect it together? | ||
| How do we use this to drive insight, right? | ||
| Because I'm a detective, you know, I've dabbled in data journalism. | ||
| I'm a very curious person. | ||
| So I'm going in there as someone, not a traditional finance person. | ||
| I want to use the data to understand the company to figure out how it can have as much impact as possible. | ||
| So we had a hackathon. | ||
| We had a hackathon at BlackRock and I built this tool called ESG Trend Spotter. | ||
| Essentially, what it was is a search engine. | ||
| So let's take a step back. | ||
| Anytime a BlackRock employee meets with a client, they write up a note from that meeting. | ||
| It goes into one of 12 different databases. | ||
| These databases don't really talk to each other. | ||
| They're not connected to each other. | ||
| You know, there are different access provisions. | ||
| It's like no one can really get that bird's eye view of who is BlackRock talking to. | ||
| And as I got deeper into the data, I was like, wouldn't it be cool to build something like that? | ||
| And that's essentially what I built. | ||
| I connected All of these different databases, so that out of bird's eye, I could see all of the meetings BlackRock had over the past month. | ||
| And then I could mine the notes from those meetings to understand what are the key themes that our clients are talking to us about, what are the key themes that we're talking about, and how do we find insights based on these themes. | ||
| Initially, this was called ESG Trend Spotter because our goal was to find trends related to ESG. | ||
| Later on, we realized that this can track themes much beyond ENG, right? | ||
| It's not just ESG. | ||
| So we dropped the ESG. | ||
| And essentially, this was, you know, one of my main projects that I led and I conceived and I drove. | ||
| And it was, you know, one of my colleagues likes to call it like the Snowden database because that's what Snowden did. | ||
| He went into the intelligence services. | ||
| He found all these different systems. | ||
| He connected it all together and he discovered a bunch of stuff that got him in trouble. | ||
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And, you know, maybe that might be what happened to me as well. | |
| So did you get in trouble? | ||
| I mean, what happened? | ||
| Did you turn against BlackRock at some point? | ||
| Did they turn against you? | ||
| I mean, how did this unfold for you? | ||
| Yeah, for sure. | ||
| So initially I was praised, right? | ||
| I was celebrated as a rock star. | ||
| There was an article about me on BlackRock's website. | ||
| I organized the largest ever internal technology conference at BlackRock. | ||
| The COO of BlackRock came to speak at this conference. | ||
| You know, I held a fireside chat with him. | ||
| He called me a rising star. | ||
| He called me a rock star. | ||
| I remember we held it during the, during COVID, during Omicron, like the worst part of COVID in December of 2020. | ||
| And we were in the office, I think, December 16th, Friday, 6 p.m. | ||
| And he comes, speaks to us. | ||
| And he said, I had to come and talk to the people who were in the office on the last Friday during the worst pandemic in the world, because that's how much they love technology and that's how much they love this company. | ||
| And, you know, initially I was praised, right? | ||
| And then abruptly, you know, a few weeks later, I was told to shut down this database. | ||
| I was told, you have to shut it down. | ||
| You know, we can't use it anymore. | ||
| You have to shut it down. | ||
| You have to cut off all the access. | ||
| And then a few weeks later, I was terminated out of nowhere. | ||
| And it was just like my head, my head was spinning. | ||
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| So what happened? | ||
| I mean, what brought that about? | ||
| Did you ever. | ||
| Yeah, so I think I was so not only did I build this database, I was also sending newsletters within the company to the employees about what the top topics in these notes were. | ||
| And the topics were all topics that BlackRock ended up under investigation about within a few months after that. | ||
| So they were ESG, there were investments in China, they were Ukraine and Russia, Bitcoin, like all of these hot button topics that literally either Congress opened an investigation, DOJ opened an investigation, Texas Attorney General opened an investigation. | ||
| I was the one, you know, sort of like this naive, you know, little nerdy kid from Brooklyn. | ||
| I was like, hey guys, all our clients are talking about ESG. | ||
| All our clients are talking about Bitcoin. | ||
| And it was like, wow. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| Okay, here's the story. | ||
| Yeah, BlackRock Whistleblower sues over firing shutdown of China monitoring tool. | ||
| This is you, Hamdan Azhar, said he was fired after being forced to shut down search engine that monitored client discussions on illegal investments, including in China. | ||
| So you're terminated out of the blue. | ||
| You're the rising star and the rock star one day. | ||
| The next day, they're telling you to shut it down. | ||
| I mean, did you comply with that? | ||
| Were they still treating you nicely? | ||
| How did it get to the point that you're now a whistleblower against them or suing them? | ||
| I mean, what led to that major break? | ||
| For sure. | ||
| How did you come to the realization this was maybe bigger than what you thought it was? | ||
| Yeah, so I mean, it happened out of the blue. | ||
| You know, I was shocked. | ||
| And I called my mentors in the company, all very senior managing directors, people who had mentored me and guided me and told me I was an inspiration throughout my career. | ||
| And they were all shocked. | ||
| They were like, we're shocked. | ||
| We've never heard anything like this happen before. | ||
| Because BlackRock is a very old school corporate culture. | ||
| It also used to be a very freewheeling culture where people would curse. | ||
| And it was like a very macho culture back in the day. | ||
| A lot of stories about Larry Fink. | ||
| And they said, in order to be fired from BlackRock like this, you either have to be embezzling money from the company or you have to be convicted of a crime. | ||
| Like the bar is very high because for anything else, you go through a process. | ||
| There are allegations against you. | ||
| There's an investigation. | ||
| You have an opportunity to say your piece. | ||
| And I didn't really get any of that. | ||
| Like I was summarily terminated while there was an article about me still on the website. | ||
| Like my face was on blackrock.com. | ||
| And so it was just like everyone was telling me this. | ||
| And they were like, you have to dig into this and you have to fight back because who knows what is behind this and people have a right to know. | ||
| Well, so what is behind it? | ||
| Like what problems did the database create for BlackRock and why were they so desperate to get rid of it? | ||
| So I think what I, you know, again, this is speculation on my part, right? | ||
| You know, there's a lawsuit undergoing and there's, you know, limitations on what I can say, but we're hoping to learn a lot about this through discovery. | ||
| But my hypothesis is that, you know, there were things in this database that probably might not have painted BlackRock in the best of light. | ||
| And then also, you know, BlackRock, like many entities, has a very contentious relationship with the government when the government wants to investigate BlackRock. | ||
| So there's a House committee on the Chinese Communist Party that launched an investigation into BlackRock, I think four months after I was terminated. | ||
| And they spent a year requesting documents and essentially they concluded that BlackRock had invested billions of dollars in Chinese military companies, including companies that were directly linked to the production of nuclear weapons. | ||
| This is in the congressional report. | ||
| And I had built this technology that could be used to track that kind of stuff, right? | ||
| Because before I had built this database, maybe this was buried in some corner office on the 37th floor. | ||
| But now I had built this technology where anyone could investigate this, see this for themselves. | ||
| And I think that just presented too much of a liability for the company. | ||
| That is crazy. | ||
| That is crazy. | ||
| So what's happening currently with BlackRock? | ||
| And just sort of zooming out a little bit, BlackRock has sort of become a byword for just corporate oppression, corporate manipulation. | ||
| We have a video. | ||
| Maybe we can go to that video now of Larry Fink, which is famous and it's gone viral over and over because it's him sort of saying the quiet part out loud. | ||
| Let's go to the video of Larry Fink. | ||
| I'm sure everybody here has seen it, but let's remind ourselves how BlackRock sees their role in not just the American economy, but in world politics and world events. | ||
| Let's watch. | ||
| We should have far more representation of all different groups, genders that are at the top. | ||
| And that's something that companies need to be very focused on. | ||
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You now make a point of an investment criteria for you. | |
| Well, behaviors are going to have to change. | ||
| And this is one thing we're asking companies. | ||
| You have to force behaviors. | ||
| And at BlackRock, we are forcing behaviors where 54% of the incoming class are women. | ||
| We added four more points in terms of diverse employment this year. | ||
| And what we are doing internally is if you don't achieve these levels of impact, your compensation could be impacted, okay? | ||
| We're doing the same thing. | ||
| And so it's just, you have to force behaviors. | ||
| And if you don't force behaviors, whether it's gender or race or just any way you want to say the composition of your team, you're going to be impacted. | ||
| And that's just not recruiting. | ||
| It is development, as Ken said. | ||
| And ultimately, it's still going to take time. | ||
| But I am just as much shocked as Ken is that we have not seen more opportunities. | ||
| And we're going to have to force change. | ||
| We're going to have to force change. | ||
| Again, that was president of BlackRock, Larry Fink. | ||
| And so here's this guy talking about forcing change in corporations. | ||
| We know the method that they do this, you know, withholding investments for companies that don't abide by their stipulations in terms of who is on the board and all this sort of stuff. | ||
| And you've also, and this goes back to 2008 and the financial crisis, and then it was handed over to BlackRock to basically disperse the funds to keep everything afloat. | ||
| So they have just incredible power over our economy and the world economy. | ||
| And yet they're cooperating with the Chinese communists. | ||
| They're funding both sides of wars and weapons manufacturing. | ||
| I mean, how dangerous is BlackRock in your estimation? | ||
| It seems silly to even ask, do they have too much power? | ||
| I think the answer is a foregone conclusion, but just what's your take on the power that BlackRock has in the current economy? | ||
| Yeah, frankly, I think the government has been asleep at the wheel, to be honest. | ||
| And I think a lot of the forces in government have been influenced by BlackRock as one of the largest lobbying operations. | ||
| They donate heavily to both parties across the aisle, trying to curry favor with politicians and trying to curb regulation. | ||
| And I think a lot of people might be listening to this. | ||
| They're like, listen, this is the traditional financial system. | ||
| It's the centralized financial system, CeFi. | ||
| I'm out of that. | ||
| I'm all DeFi. | ||
| You know, I'm into Bitcoin and Ethereum. | ||
| And I think what's really concerning is that BlackRock is now one of the largest owners of Bitcoin. | ||
| BlackRock is, I think, the third or fourth largest owner of Bitcoin through their ETF. | ||
| And they are out there pitching this ETF to pension funds and teachers' funds. | ||
| And Larry Fink, who for five years said Bitcoin is a tool for drug dealers and criminals, now is saying Bitcoin has to be a part of your portfolio. | ||
| He's saying every sovereign wealth fund I meet, Bitcoin has to be 1% of your portfolio. | ||
| But obviously, he doesn't want people to buy real Bitcoin. | ||
| He wants people to buy the BlackRock Bitcoin ETF, which is really concerning because it's like, is there anything that BlackRock does not have its hands in? | ||
| And how do we really free ourselves and establish this independence? | ||
| And even if you look at the prospectus for the BlackRock Bitcoin ETF, there's a clause in there that says that in the event that Bitcoin forks, BlackRock reserves the exclusive right to determine which of the forks is the real Bitcoin. | ||
| And BlackRock reserves the right to sell off the asset it determines is not the real Bitcoin. | ||
| And this is the clause that has a lot of the Bitcoin community just freaking out because it's like very, if the fourth largest owner of Bitcoin can one day say, actually, this is not Bitcoin. | ||
| We're going to create this new token. | ||
| That's the real Bitcoin. | ||
| And you have to be on our whitelist to buy this Bitcoin. | ||
| And everyone else, we're going to blacklist their wallets. | ||
| It's like, why did we create this whole independent ecosystem for? | ||
| And I worked with Nick Spanish to launch the Bitcoin Center in New York in 2013. | ||
| So I've been very early in this community. | ||
| And it's just very concerning again to see that the government is, in my view, not doing its full job of holding BlackRock accountable. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And the crew just brought up a thing saying they own 3% of all Bitcoin in circulation. | ||
| So, I mean, how much would they have to own to actually be able to manipulate the price of Bitcoin for their own ends? | ||
| Yeah, I mean, 3% is a lot, right? | ||
| 3% is a lot and it's growing every day. | ||
| And I think because of this clause that they have in their ETF prospectus, I think it's just deeply concerning. | ||
| And also the fact that a lot of individual normal Americans might not be aware of this, right? | ||
| Because they hear Bitcoin, Bitcoin, they go out and they're by the ETF and they don't realize this doesn't confer upon them ownership of the underlying asset. | ||
| So I think there's a big investor protection angle here. | ||
| There's a consumer protection angle here. | ||
| And I think this is why there have been, you know, I've been hardened to see many attorney generals in various states taking action against BlackRock. | ||
| So Texas Attorney General, you know, Ken Paxton is leading a lawsuit right now, Texas v. | ||
| BlackRock, over in Tyler, Texas, with the allegation that BlackRock has been conspiring, illegally conspiracy to draw down coal production in the U.S. And that's a very interesting lawsuit. | ||
| You know, it's currently proceeding. | ||
| And he's joined, I think, by 15 other Republican attorney generals. | ||
| And this is just the latest action. | ||
| There are other actions against BlackRock about ESG. | ||
| There's the congressional investigation about China. | ||
| But I think all of these are sort of proceeding independently without any cohesive, you know, cohesive way of bringing it all together. | ||
| And I think there's a tremendous opportunity here to really raise awareness about BlackRock and to really protect the retirement savings of millions of Americans. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And again, when you talk about BlackRock and just the ability they have to manipulate things without being seen, is it a factor that basically BlackRock sort of just did whatever it wanted for a long time and people started looking into it and realizing and sort of awakening to the power that it has? | ||
| And Larry Finn goes out and makes these statements and people look at that and go, well, maybe we should be looking into this. | ||
| I mean, it seems like BlackRock has sort of gotten away with stuff for a long time. | ||
| And only in the last few years have governments started to sue them for certain Things or question their practices. | ||
| How do you think BlackRock feels about this? | ||
| I feel like they got to be very worried that they've got years worth of Malfeasance sort of building up and ready to break the dam. | ||
| Yeah, I think so. | ||
| I think that is the case. | ||
| I also think, I don't want to underestimate BlackRock. | ||
| I think they're very adept at navigating the political ecosystem. | ||
| And even with this Texas lawsuit, they're out there with statements saying that the Texas Attorney General is trying to undercut the Trump administration and how BlackRock is the biggest ally of the Trump administration. | ||
| And we saw Larry Fink, you know, with the Panama Canal, you know, Trump was like, we need to find an American buyer. | ||
| And then BlackRock came in at the last minute and tried to cut a deal. | ||
| So I think this is, I think it's just, it's just, who can say what can happen? | ||
| But I think the listeners of this show, I think people can reach out to their representatives. | ||
| They can raise awareness. | ||
| And there's just so much noise on Capitol Hill. | ||
| And it's just like every day there's a new distraction. | ||
| But I think this is something that really needs concerted effort, like we saw against, you know, the tobacco companies or these companies that were doing serious harms to the world economy. | ||
| I think we really need a lot more oversight and a lot more accountability. | ||
| You know, I think that's such an important thing. | ||
| We'll get into it on the other side. | ||
| We're about to go to a commercial break. | ||
| I'm here with Hamdan Azhar, who's a whistleblower from BlackRock. | ||
| And, you know, it's so interesting that you started with Ron Paul. | ||
| You know, I feel like I was maybe much more libertarian before, but then you realize how much power these corporations have and how they're wielding it. | ||
| And so I think that's an interesting transition because you've got libertarians going, hey, the government needs to step in and put and put controls on this corporation because I completely agree with you. | ||
| So I want to talk about that. | ||
| I want to talk about what else BlackRock is doing. | ||
| They're buying up the houses. | ||
| They're stopping coal production. | ||
| So much more still to come. | ||
| Stay with us. | ||
| More with Hamdan Azhar on the other side. | ||
| This is a major interview, folks. | ||
| Welcome back, folks. | ||
| This is the American Journal. | ||
| I am your host, Harrison Smith, joined in studio by Hamdan Azhar. | ||
| You can follow him on X at HamdanAzhar and the website, HamdanAzar.com. | ||
| He's a whistleblower who was fired from BlackRock after creating a database that was maybe a little bit too good at what it was designed to do in revealing information about BlackRock. | ||
| In this, you know, as you describe it, you're sort of, you made this database, you connected all these sort of disseparate things that BlackRock is involved in. | ||
| And was there anything that once you got fired, you sort of went back and looked at and said, you know, maybe that should have been a red flag early on? | ||
| Or when I saw that, I didn't think much of it. | ||
| But now that I'm questioning it, it stands out to me. | ||
| Like, was there anything, you know, in your work that you revisited after being fired that sort of brought up question marks to you? | ||
| For sure. | ||
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| And I think the first thing has to be China, right? | ||
| So when I was at BlackRock, you know, every year BlackRock announces their three strategic priorities, which are like the three big things the firm wants to focus on. | ||
| And when I was there in 2021, the three strategic priorities were China, Aladdin, and alternative investments. | ||
| So BlackRock wanted to get more investments in China. | ||
| They wanted to do more in alternative investments, which is essentially anything that's not traded on a public market. | ||
| So private equity, shares and private companies and the such. | ||
| And then Aladdin, which is their risk management platform that essentially manages trillions of dollars in the global economy. | ||
| And once I was there, it was like, China is a priority. | ||
| China is an emerging market. | ||
| That's the euphemism, right? | ||
| The emerging market, emerging market. | ||
| And then once I, and then I was also sending newsletters about how China is a big topic in these meetings that BlackRock is talking, continually talking about increasing its market share in China. | ||
| And then the congressional report came out, which was just damning, right? | ||
| And it was just like a moment for me where I was like, holy, like, you know, was I part of this, right? | ||
| Like, how did I not catch this? | ||
| And if you look at the report itself, it's, you know, Congress found that BlackRock had funneled billions of dollars of Americans' life savings to capitalize the military modernization of one of our foreign adversaries and egregious human rights abuses. | ||
| And in the report, they specifically say that BlackRock was investing in companies associated with making military nuclear weapons for the People's Republic Army of the Communist Army of China, which was just like, wow. | ||
| And I wish I had caught that earlier. | ||
| I wish I had been more on top of that because I would have said something, right? | ||
| And it was just like, I was just like innocently like, hey guys, China, everyone's talking about China. | ||
| And they were like, get off the stage. | ||
| Well, and it just goes to show sort of the nefarious aspect of it all because you've got Larry Fink in America imposing ESG, which obviously environmental is the first aspect of that triad. | ||
| So they're forcing companies. | ||
| And I want to get into what you mentioned about the way they were sort of crushing coal production in America. | ||
| So while they're simultaneously forcing all these environmental concerns on us, they're massively investing in China, which has no concerns for the environment and is way worse. | ||
| And of course, social and governance, while simultaneously investing in what is essentially a genocide of the Uyghurs and forced working conditions and human rights abuses. | ||
| So it really exposes the hypocrisy, but it's like more than hypocrisy. | ||
| It's blatant deceit. | ||
| They're imposing things on the West that they're not imposing in China. | ||
| I mean, this is nefarious as it gets as far as I'm concerned. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| And I think this is one of the greatest weaknesses and critiques of the whole concept of ESG is how subjective it all is. | ||
| Because in theory, everyone's like, oh, we want to protect the environment. | ||
| We want to invest in things that are good for society, that have good governance structures. | ||
| Okay, sounds great. | ||
| But then the question is, how do you actually measure that? | ||
| And who gets to decide? | ||
| Who's the arbiter? | ||
| And I think this was one of the greatest hypocrisies is investments in these Chinese military companies. | ||
| Some of them had good ESG ratings. | ||
| Like, oh, these are great ESG investments. | ||
| And I remember this was a question I got one day. | ||
| A managing director called me and he said, we're getting questions about investing in arms dealers and weapons manufacturers. | ||
| Is that ESG compliant or not? | ||
| And how do we make a case that that's ESG compliant? | ||
| And I was like, oh my God, right? | ||
| Like I'm as concerned about global warming as anyone else, right? | ||
| And climate change, but like using this to funnel money into weapons manufacturers and data dealers, it was just like absolutely horrifying for me. | ||
| Well, and how diverse is the BlackRock board, right? | ||
| I mean, are they adhering to the same restrictions that they impose on everybody else? | ||
| I don't think so. | ||
| So, you know, so what, so what is their motive, do you think? | ||
| I mean, obviously they don't actually care about the environment or they wouldn't be funneling money to China by the billions. | ||
| So from working on the inside, do you have any insight into what is actually motivating BlackRock to make these decisions? | ||
| Is it pure greed and profit? | ||
| Is it about the control? | ||
| I mean, What is motivating them? | ||
| Yeah, I think it's both. | ||
| I think they're very hard to disentangle from each other: the greed and the profit, and then the control. | ||
| And I think this is the challenge of living in an economy where BlackRock is the first or second largest shareholder in almost every single publicly traded company in America, which is just like, it should be horrifying to any person. | ||
| It's just how did our government allow this to happen? | ||
| And, you know, there's a lot of talk about antitrust law and the Trump administration is a very pro-anti, you know, it's pro-antitrust, right? | ||
| They're opposed to monopoly power, right? | ||
| And the issue is that this is not organic monopoly power. | ||
| This is crony capitalism. | ||
| These are companies that attained their monopolies due to sweetheart contracts with the government where BlackRock was given billions, trillions of dollars to buy its own products, right, at the taxpayer expense. | ||
| So again, this is Ron Paul always talked about crony capitalism. | ||
| He said the wrongs that we see in the marketplace are not the wrongs due to capitalism, they're due to crony capitalism. | ||
| And I think there's a lot of weight to that argument, especially with a company like BlackRock. | ||
| Well, and that's the bizarre. | ||
| I think we were talking about it during the break. | ||
| It's the bizarre thing about ESG is it seems, as far as I'm concerned, to absolutely invert capitalism, where you're going to make choices that are not what your customer wants. | ||
| It's not going to increase your profit. | ||
| It's actually going to hurt you because obviously, if you're a company, you want to hire the best person. | ||
| Well, if instead of hiring the best person, it's more advantageous for you to hire a person of a particular race or particular gender identity or sexual orientation or whatever it is. | ||
| You're making a decision that's going to hurt your company. | ||
| But in return, BlackRock's going to increase their investment into you. | ||
| So it just, it just seems to me totally anathema to the concept of capitalism. | ||
| And it's always been bizarre to me how everybody from BlackRock themselves to the companies that they're doing it to the investment bankers that are deciding where to put their clients' money just accepted this without concern. | ||
| They just went, oh, yeah, ESG, it's just a score we apply now and no questions asked. | ||
| And it's like, but isn't this a complete contradiction when it comes to the purpose of capitalism is to make money, but here you are making less money and making that choice somehow makes you more money? | ||
| I mean, it just, it's baffling to me how they pulled this over on everybody. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| And just listening to you talk right now, I feel like you were reading from the abstract of Texas v. | ||
| BlackRock because that's what Ken Paxon is saying in his lawsuit. | ||
| Essentially, the lawsuit is saying that BlackRock and the other asset managers, Vanguard and State Street, they bought up significant shares in the largest coal production companies in the U.S. And then they started voting in a concerted pattern for or against directors of these coal companies. | ||
| Meanwhile, they were releasing public statements saying that we need to cut coal production. | ||
| We need to meet these climate goals. | ||
| We need to meet these net zero goals. | ||
| And all of those in concert, the state of Texas is arguing, is a conspiracy to essentially BlackRock putting its thumb on the economy, putting its thumb on the economy to cut down coal production, to advance its own agenda. | ||
| And it's just, it's a wild lawsuit. | ||
| And I'm really hoping it progresses. | ||
| You know, BlackRock, again, they said the same thing about the governor of Texas that they said about me. | ||
| They said, this is a conspiracy theory. | ||
| This is a paranoid conspiracy theory. | ||
| And initially, when BlackRock said that about me, I was freaked out, right? | ||
| Because you don't want to wake up to a $6 trillion, $13 trillion company saying you're a paranoid conspiracy theorist. | ||
| But then they said the same thing about Ken Paxon. | ||
| They said the same thing about 21 governors. | ||
| I'm like, I'm in good company here. | ||
| And it's just, I'm glad people are taking notice and we just got to do a lot more. | ||
| You know, I think you're exactly right. | ||
| And I think it's interesting. | ||
| I think we mentioned this at the end of the last segment that sort of the way it's presented in traditional, you know, political media is you've got the left wing that wants the government to do things and the right wing that loves corporations. | ||
| And I've always rejected that dichotomy because to me, I just, I'm against manipulation, oppression, subversion, whatever it is, whether it's coming from a company or a government. | ||
| You know, oppression is oppression or manipulation is manipulation. | ||
| And, you know, at the end of the day, we as individuals, I certainly as an individual, do not have a remote possibility of forcing BlackRock to change their behavior. | ||
| That's what the government is for. | ||
| And as you pointed out at the end of the last one, this isn't, it's not to be a communist to say, oh, we want the government to go in and, you know, hijack these companies or take them over or whatever. | ||
| It's actually, this is Americanism. | ||
| It's what America's always done. | ||
| The American government has protected the citizens from exploitation by corporations. | ||
| And whether it's breaking up, you know, the Bell monopoly with the phone systems or you pointing out the tobacco companies that the government went after. | ||
| I mean, this is what the government's for. | ||
| But can you talk a little bit about that? | ||
| Being a person on Ron Paul's campaign as a libertarian now calling for government intervention. | ||
| I mean, how do you square that? | ||
| Because I get it, but it's an interesting development I've sort of had to go through myself of going, well, maybe I'm not as libertarian as I thought because I do think the government has a role to play here. | ||
| Is there a contradiction there? | ||
| Is there a hypocrisy there? | ||
| How do you see this dichotomy? | ||
| For sure. | ||
| And I think there has been a tremendous evolution in the viewpoints of the two parties on crony capitalism, on monopoly control in enterprises. | ||
| I think we have to give a lot of credit to the last former FTC chairman, Lena Khan. | ||
| She wrote this incredible paper about Amazon. | ||
| And then Josh Hawley came on board. | ||
| And then she had this incredible bipartisan consensus around her saying that we have to use antitrust law. | ||
| It's not just buried 100 years in some law journals from 100 years ago. | ||
| It's something that we can use to protect Americans. | ||
| It's something we can use to make sure Americans have more choices, not less. | ||
| And that if the only choice I have to get an iPhone cover delivered to me in four hours is Amazon, then it's actually not a choice, right? | ||
| And there's billions and trillions of dollars and there's government interplay. | ||
| And obviously Amazon is playing a big role in the government contracts and military and the intelligence services. | ||
| So I think there's a significant role government can play. | ||
| And I think I have always been disappointed that the Democratic administrations did not do more to hold these large companies accountable, that they were working so closely with Big tech and big finance. | ||
| And even BlackRock has had a revolving door in the Democratic administrations going back 30 years. | ||
| That there were people who work at BlackRock, Democratic administration, they become deputy treasury secretary. | ||
| Republicans come in, they go back to BlackRock. | ||
| It's just like back and forth, back and forth. | ||
| I think this might be the first administration where we don't have a former BlackRock executive up there at the Treasury Department. | ||
| And I think that's why we have a very limited window of opportunity to mobilize the parts of the government who should be doing a better job of protecting Americans across the Justice Department, the SEC, Treasury, partnering with all of these states to hold BlackRock accountable and to really protect the interests of the American citizens. | ||
| And yeah, absolutely. | ||
| But it makes sense, though, doesn't it? | ||
| Because as much as the Democrats want to pretend that they're the anti-corporate party, when you talk about ESG, I mean, that is the Democrat ideology in the financial world. | ||
| It's you got to fire your white guys. | ||
| You got to hire gay people and hire minorities. | ||
| And it's all identity-based. | ||
| And again, totally just anathema to capitalism in any pure form. | ||
| So yeah, no, it makes perfect sense to me that the Democrats would want to use this corporate power to progress their agenda because it is their agenda that BlackRock is serving, right? | ||
| Of course. | ||
| And that's what they call greenwashing or pink washing or any of these washings, right? | ||
| You have a child in the Middle East. | ||
| He doesn't care about the gender identity of the guy flying the bomber that's going to kill his whole family and wipe out his little cousins playing ball in the courtyard, right? | ||
| It's not a, I mean, there is a lot more to it. | ||
| And it's like this is used as a tool to distract us from actually holding power accountable and holding power structures accountable and these large corporations and governments that are often working hand in hand against the interests of the American people and the global populace. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And, you know, we talk about private equity. | ||
| You know, we've been covering that a lot and that's getting a lot more attention now. | ||
| So obviously the awakening has brought about a lot of this stuff, right? | ||
| They, as we were discussing before, it seems like they just got away with everything for like decades. | ||
| Nobody even like looked into what they were doing. | ||
| Finally, people are starting to ask questions. | ||
| And, you know, a lot of it is stuff like trying to buy houses and getting outbid by a corporation who's going to pay in cash and offer $100,000 over asking price. | ||
| I mean, we experienced that. | ||
| I experienced that with my wife trying to buy a house in Austin. | ||
| We were getting outbid by people who are offering cash $100,000 over. | ||
| And of course, it was BlackRock or Blackstone or one of these other companies that their intention was to never sell the house. | ||
| They were going to buy it and then rent it out. | ||
| So, you know, essentially what they want is you to be paying the equivalent of a mortgage or paying just as much as a mortgage. | ||
| Just at the end of 20 years, you have nothing and then the house still belongs to them. | ||
| And, you know, all of the, you know, they can impose on your privacy. | ||
| They can, you know, give the cops a key so they don't have to have a warrant to search. | ||
| I mean, there's so many ways around our constitutionally protected rights by using these corporate workarounds. | ||
| And so people are noticing this. | ||
| They're recognizing this. | ||
| They're learning about the true power and scale of BlackRock and asking questions about it. | ||
| Is this going to continue? | ||
| What do you think BlackRock's move is going to be to weather this storm that they're suddenly finding themselves under? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So I think the interesting thing is in how many different pots, if you just peel a little bit beneath the surface, you see BlackRock. | ||
| And the good thing is that politicians are becoming aware of this. | ||
| They're becoming aware that their constituents are not happy about this. | ||
| So I'm sure you covered this recent bill to sell off all these public lands. | ||
| And if I was last time I was reading Senator Mike Lee's response when he pulled that bill back, he said, I'm pulling this bill back because I want to make sure China or BlackRock doesn't buy up all these public lands, which is a really weird admission. | ||
| That's like on his letterhead. | ||
| He said, I want to make sure China or BlackRock doesn't buy up all our public lands. | ||
| You know, I'm a big outdoors man. | ||
| I'm a big hiker. | ||
| You know, I went to Everest Base Camp last year. | ||
| I've hiked 214ers. | ||
| You know, I love the outdoors. | ||
| And it's just like the idea that U.S. members of our government could be complicit in allowing BlackRock to buy up our public lands is just mind-boggling to me, right? | ||
| And the fact that we don't have more awareness of this and also a concerted campaign to do something about it. | ||
| And I think that's really necessary because right now, everything we've talked about is happening in a silo. | ||
| Texas, you know, they're going after them about the coal. | ||
| The liberals are going after them for the weapons manufacturers. | ||
| You know, people are going after them for the China investments. | ||
| No one's really bringing it all together. | ||
| And I think we really have a tremendous opportunity to build a case against BlackRock and then also share a model of how this would look like in an ideal world without the crony capitalism, without the, you know, shoving, without the control, without the greed, without the market manipulation. | ||
| And I think we really need that because I think it's absolutely essential. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And we know the plans that they have for the future. | ||
| I mean, you know, we were just playing a second ago. | ||
| You know, you will own nothing and be happy. | ||
| You'll eat the bugs. | ||
| And, you know, part of the threat of that is that they're not asking permission to do this, right? | ||
| They're not putting it to a vote and saying, we'd like to present a bill that says everybody has to eat bugs. | ||
| No, they'll just buy up the meat production plants and then shut them down if they want. | ||
| And then the only thing available on the grocery store shelves, and they own the grocery stores, are going to be what they want to feed you. | ||
| So it's like they have all of these despicable, nefarious plans that we're against. | ||
| But unless you stand up to stop them, they're going to implement this stuff. | ||
| We as individuals don't have the power to stop them, but that's what the government is for. | ||
| It needs to step in and help prevent this, even if it's just from a national security perspective and the benefit they're giving to China and how that's treasonous activity as far as I'm concerned. | ||
| So what is next? | ||
| What's next for you and BlackRock? | ||
| And what should the government do next as they go after BlackRock? | ||
| Yeah, I think all of those are fantastic points. | ||
| And I think even with the Bitcoin piece, right? | ||
| So everyone was happy President Trump said we're going to have a strategic reserve. | ||
| Bitcoin is going to be a key part of the strategic reserve. | ||
| But if BlackRock owns 3% of all of the Bitcoin, again, is this letting the fox into the hen house? | ||
| And I think it might be, right? | ||
| So I think what's next, you know, I'm not, this is my first time ever being on a show like this, right? | ||
| So I'm a bit out of my depths here. | ||
| Thanks to the Hair and Makeup team. | ||
| Nothing I did it myself. | ||
| But, you know, I'm just here to, you know, I'm an educator. | ||
| You know, I've taught data science courses. | ||
| I've lectured all over the world. | ||
| I'm really here as an educator. | ||
| I want to share my experience. | ||
| I want to share my perspective on what's going on and then really hope that we can mobilize public awareness, public action. | ||
| We can mobilize the media and we can get support from the administration. | ||
| So again, in this Texas case, the Justice Department filed a brief, very weak brief in support of the arguments, but they didn't really take too strong of a stance. | ||
| So, essentially, what the antitrust law has is an exemption for passive investors. | ||
| It says if you're a passive investor, you can't come after them for antitrust because it's just part of an index fund. | ||
| And the Justice Department said, actually, this loophole, BlackRock should not fall under this loophole. | ||
| The court should recognize that even a passive investor can manipulate markets. | ||
| But that's kind of all the Justice Department did, right? | ||
| I think there's a lot more that can be done. | ||
| At the very least, asking questions about the hundreds of billions of dollars in public pension funds that are invested with BlackRock. | ||
| Is that a safe and responsible allocation of our public pensions? | ||
| Or is there a better future, right? | ||
| Should we be asking questions about that? | ||
| And should we be doing more to ensure that we live in a more transparent and responsible environment? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And that is sort of the clincher of it, isn't it, is that it's not their money. | ||
| It's our money. | ||
| It's, you know, teachers, their retirement funds, you know, without their say-so is being sent to BlackRock. | ||
| And that's the money that's being used. | ||
| So, you know, it's one of these things that it's like, okay, let's say Target starts selling, you know, transgender clothes for little kids and you want to, you know, you want to boycott them. | ||
| Well, you might be boycotting them, but your money in the BlackRock account is being sent to Target to reward them because their ESG score went up because they were, you know, putting in the transgender kids' clothes. | ||
| So it sort of destroys our ability to have a say in the capitalist landscape, but it's using our money to do it. | ||
| It's just, it's just wrong. | ||
| It's just wrong. | ||
| I don't know how else to put it. | ||
| And then you got, I mean, what they're doing with China, it's just, how did we allow this to happen? | ||
| And what do we need to do? | ||
| Is there any way to like undo what they've done? | ||
| Or is it just about moving into the future? | ||
| We need to try to restrict them as much as possible. | ||
| I just, they're just so big. | ||
| I just, I struggle to even figure out how you start to deal with this Hydra, this Goliath that they represent. | ||
| For sure. | ||
| And the interesting thing is that a lot of politicians, they talk a big game before they get into office. | ||
| And then when they get into office, it's just like crickets, right? | ||
| And we got to hold them accountable sometimes. | ||
| So Bobby Kennedy from, I think, six, you know, maybe a year ago has an incredible video where he's talking about the war in Ukraine and why he's so against funding the Ukrainian people. | ||
| And his argument is because all of this money is being funneled back to BlackRock because BlackRock is out there in Ukraine signing deals to own the mineral rights and the public infrastructure of Ukraine for the next hundred years. | ||
| Like the people of Ukraine, and I understand they're fighting for their freedom, but they're essentially mortgaging the entire future of their country and all of the wealth of their country to BlackRock, which is just wild. | ||
| And I wish, you know, I haven't heard Bobby talk about this in many months. | ||
| Now he's out there trying to combat anti-Semitism and he's doing all these other things to make America healthy. | ||
| But again, a lot of politicians talk a big game, but we just really have to hold their feet to the fire and we have to keep the pressure on and we have to just bring all these parties together because BlackRock wins when people don't know what an asset manager is, when people don't know what the difference between BlackRock and Blackstone is. | ||
| And when they don't log into their 401k to ask, where is my money being invested? | ||
| And who is it being invested with? | ||
| And is that in alignment with my morals and my values? | ||
| I think that's a question all of us need to ask ourselves. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And so much of what people think is wrong with the modern world goes back to things like BlackRock. | ||
| I just think about how crummy Hollywood movies are now. | ||
| And it's like, you know, they know what makes a good movie. | ||
| They could make a good, you know, a Top Gun or one of these types of movies constantly. | ||
| They'd be making billions of dollars. | ||
| They're choosing to make less money because really what they want is the cultural manipulation that they can wield through movies and films and things like that. | ||
| We only have about three minutes left. | ||
| You mentioned something earlier that I got to touch on. | ||
| You said that there used to be a macho culture in BlackRock. | ||
| You said there's some stories about Larry Fink. | ||
| Yeah, you got any stories you can share with us about the internals at BlackRock? | ||
| Well, I think BlackRock just used to have a very traditional Wall Street culture where I think there are some stories about Larry Fink walking around with his reports and yelling at them and cursing them out and saying, you guys are sitting here with your blanks in your hands and Vanguard is eating our lunch. | ||
| Some Wolf of Wall Street style scenes. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| And then I think BlackRock also had a lot of malfeasance, a lot of senior officers who were doing some pretty bad things. | ||
| And then I think BlackRock pivoted very aggressively in the opposite direction or at least tried to pretend that they were pivoting in that direction. | ||
| But obviously maybe. | ||
| Same people still there. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| It's just shocking how big they are. | ||
| And how do they even handle having a majority share in every corporation you can point to? | ||
| I mean, I guess it's just, I guess that's why we use the pyramid to symbolize the Illuminati or the world controllers, right? | ||
| Because you sort of have to, you have the people at the top, they make the decisions. | ||
| That just sort of gets dispersed out through all of these different corporate entities. | ||
| But I mean, how do they control all of these companies? | ||
| How are they all under this one organization? | ||
| That doesn't even make sense to me. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, I think often, you know, we think all, you know, people in a back, in a smoke-filled room, but often the reality is a lot more mundane, right? | ||
| It's a technocracy. | ||
| There are, you know, tens of thousands of, you know, young kids sitting at computers and they're doing their little piece of their job and making sure that some website works or they're building some models in Excel and it all ladders into this giant company, right? | ||
| And it's just like people aren't introspective enough about what is the role they're playing in this global financial system. | ||
| And then even when they try to opt out, they find themselves undermined. | ||
| And again, this is why the Bitcoin piece is so concerning because everyone's like, I want to opt out. | ||
| I want to hold my own keys. | ||
| I want to be my own bank. | ||
| And then all of a sudden you're own bank. | ||
| And then, you know, BlackRock owns, you know, half of the building. | ||
| It's like, you know what? | ||
| Yeah, man. | ||
| It is so tough. | ||
| Well, this has been incredible. | ||
| I wish we had so much longer to talk to you. | ||
| Ham Donazar is my guest at Ham Donazar on X. That's H-A-M-D-A-N-A-Z-H-A-R, Hamdonazar.com. | ||
| We'll be watching your story. | ||
| And I wait to see what happens between you and BlackRock, between BlackRock and Texas. | ||
| And I'd love to have you on the show again to provide your insight. | ||
| This has been just incredibly fascinating. | ||
| We would have loved that. | ||
| Thank you so much for having me, Harrison. | ||
| Thank you, sir. | ||
| Ham Donazar at Ham Donazar on X. Go follow him, support him. | ||
| And yeah, we need more people from inside BlackRock blowing the whistle on what they're doing because it ain't good and it's certainly not for our benefit. | ||
| Folks, stay tuned. | ||
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