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May 26, 2023 - Info Warrior - Jason Bermas

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Battle Of The Florida Men! Desantis Announces

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	We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in.
	Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want.
	We think too much and feel too little.
	More than machinery, we need humanity.
	We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, as if that's the way it's supposed to be.
	We know things are bad, worse than bad.
	They're crazy. Ireland, the great and powerful My life has value!
	You have meddled with the primal forces of nature!
	Don't give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you, enslave you, who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think, or what to feel, who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder!
	Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men. Machine men with machine minds and machine hearts.
	And now reality with Jason Hermes.
	And who loves you?
	And who do you love?
	Good morning, everybody.
	I hope everybody is in an upbeat, really great mood to do what we do here every day, spit some really hard truths.
	And The reason I'm hoping you're upbeat is because I come at this show with a lot of energy.
	I feel blessed that I am able to do this for a living, number one.
	And number two, I feel blessed that people actually give me an audience.
	And you're not just like any other audience out there.
	You guys are the hardcores.
	I want to say that. Don't get me wrong.
	We get new people all the time.
	They kind of just check it out, etc.
	Sometimes maybe I bring them back.
	Sometimes I don't. But there are so many of you that have now been with me in some way, shape, or form for well over a decade.
	And I'd like to think that I have a pretty good track record.
	Not perfect. I was actually...
	Going through, I think like a 2018 or 2019 folder.
	And I was doing a video on Tesla.
	And basically how it was a non-profitable, almost zombie-like company at that time.
	Not making really any money and wondering whether or not it would actually go under.
	What I did not realize at the time, and I was very naive of...
	Was that Musk had been brought in by the Central Intelligence Agency, Michael Griffin in particular, and that he had all sorts of military-industrial complex deals that would ensure that Tesla, which wasn't really a car company...
	Again, you can look at the automation aspect of this, bringing us the Optimus robot.
	They'll invest in that all day.
	It doesn't have to make money.
	Eventually, the resource of getting rid of human beings in the workplace is worth...
	It's infinitely more valuable to them because they control that resource.
	It's not even like money to them.
	So yeah, you've got Optimus, the automation bot.
	And then you also have the fact that Tesla alone, and we're just going to talk about Tesla for a second, also ends up...
	Doing the biological molecular printing with CureVac.
	Big, big contracts just there.
	Then you get to SpaceX.
	And it's drones away with the Blackjack slash Starlink system that they put up there.
	So, so much more going on.
	I miss things.
	I miss things all the time. And even of a historical nature.
	Not going to get everything right.
	But... I think I get enough right and I bring such a different perspective than a lot of the mainliners out there that it's worth at least checking my stuff out.
	I think my documentaries are the best thing I do.
	I think the interviews can be extremely powerful and fun depending on who I'm talking to.
	I hope that you premium members are enjoying the interviews.
	Again, this coming weekend, Jamie Deluxe is Got that one up and running.
	We'll probably be playing clips of that next week so you can see what you're missing if you're not getting over the weekend.
	And I'm actually interviewing Richard Andrew Grove of Grand Theft World.
	He used to do a Tragedy and Hope podcast.
	Really intelligent guy.
	Very, very well read.
	And the thing is, with the Tragedy and Hope thing, a lot of people are familiar with that vernacular because it is a book by Carol Quigley.
	And Quigley...
	It's kind of like the Neil Ferguson of his time, right?
	You saw the Neil Ferguson stuff yesterday in the second hour.
	So he's a historian.
	For this Western predator class that's coming together and trying to bring about globalization, whatever you like to call it, a new world order, global governance, etc.
	Back in the Dizze. He also was a mentor to Bill Clinton.
	Bill Clinton often talked about him affectionately.
	And he really starkly said that these things were indeed happening, but gave it that academic spin, right?
	Oh, it's very reactionary.
	Certain things may appear to be reactionary, and you can't control everything, right?
	The reactionary element of, in my opinion, is after they, like when he brought up Trump in 2016, that's accurate, right?
	They really thought they had that one in the biz ag for Hillary.
	They thought that their infrastructure was there and he beat their algorithm.
	You understand? He beat their fraudulent system.
	Because no doubt in my mind, he got way more votes in 2016 than they ever told you.
	And that kind of brings us into Ron DeSantis to some, Ron DeSantis to others, and the Muskernuts teaming up.
	And now, you know, he's got it all, the Muskernuts.
	You think about it. I just mentioned the war stuff.
	I just mentioned the Tesla and the automation stuff.
	I didn't even mention the transhumanist brain stuff with Neuralink.
	I can go on for days about that as well.
	But he's got you by the muster nuts with the social media.
	Now, here's the thing.
	He is offering a platform to everybody that's running for president.
	He said that. Now, is he going to host all of their spaces?
	Will he host a Donny T space?
	Donny T! Come on!
	Ronnie D was just in there.
	You gotta love how it's Joey B, Donny T, Ronnie D. Making my job easy.
	Making my job easy.
	DeSantis. What do I think of him?
	Look, you know, I mean, I think of him a lot in the way I think of Trump, only he's more of an establishment politician than even Trump.
	Trump kind of dipped his toes in politics before this, but was rogue in some ways, right?
	Still big mistakes.
	I don't know if they're going to be overcome.
	And I've seen some people in the alt-right or alt-mediaverse going, at least...
	A perspective I respect.
	They're diehard Trump unless DeSantis comes out and says day one he drops the charges and pardons Assange from any wrongdoing.
	That would be a big one for me too.
	I would take a step back.
	I'd say maybe he's not so desanctimonious after all, Donnie T. I mean, you love the WikiLeaks.
	You couldn't get enough of the WikiLeaks.
	You said, how about those WikiLeaks?
	Have you heard? More WikiLeaks.
	We've played the videos here.
	Let's not erase history.
	You ran on that. And people trusted that.
	Now, I'm not even going to hold you to lock her up.
	I thought that was cartoon level from the very beginning.
	Anybody that was on the streets telling me that after the election, you were somehow going to criminally go after the Clinton cartel and put them in jail, I mean, come on.
	Like... And Santy Claus was going to come down my chimney the next morn with the Easter Bunny!
	And we were all going to play Yahtzee and Monopoly all day.
	Like, that level of cartoon, okay?
	So we have to be grown-ups.
	We have to realize that even if your hero is Donnie T and the gang, he said some pretty outlandish things.
	He had people chanting pretty outlandish things.
	You can't say that that was a serious point.
	And he wrapped it up almost immediately.
	Listen, she ran a great election.
	She's a good person. What?
	What? Why pander to your enemies?
	I don't pander to mine.
	Sorry. If you have a legitimate criticism, okay.
	And I'm willing to have a conversation with With even people I probably shouldn't but do despise, right?
	And we've got to admit that.
	That's not a good quality to have.
	You shouldn't despise other people.
	I try to have nothing but love in my heart.
	And be nothing but respectful.
	But come on, man.
	Can you imagine me on a debate stage with Hillary Clinton?
	So Hillary! I find it extremely odd in your marriage to Bill Clinton that while you were working with Webb Hubble, yes, Webb Hubble, and I forget the other gentleman, was it, I don't want to say Vince Foster, although it was probably Vince Foster, right?
	This is all the, whatchamacallit, Gates scandal.
	I was very young at the time.
	There was a scandal, it had something to do with, it wasn't Watergate, Obviously, I think it was some kind of like banking scandal and she was at a law firm.
	But also, you know what?
	Why don't I not say it?
	Why don't I not say it right now?
	And we'll do it live.
	We'll type in WebHubbleHillary.com.
	Clinton. And I think it was Vince Foster.
	Yeah, and I'm pretty sure Vince Foster also ended up dead.
	So we did it live.
	We're in the Googleverse.
	There's Webb Hubble up here.
	He writes occasionally for the New York Times.
	And Webb Hubble is also an author.
	And he's been asked a few questions about maybe some of that.
	Huh. I just typed in Hillary.
	Hmm, that's odd.
	Ho ho ho!
	So you know, everybody wants to talk about Billy Boy, and there's Webb right there, good buddies, right?
	And his, you know, wang dangle problems.
	But the bottom line is, that whole relationship is based on vicious dishonesty.
	Okay? They're lawyers.
	You got the cackle box, the original cackle box, not the cackle monster.
	Right? Hill dog.
	Kamala Embarrassed does a hell of a cackle monster.
	I mean, can you imagine?
	Someone needs to do like a rap mashup.
	Of, like, Billy Boy just talking all smooth to a really good backbeat.
	And just Hill Dog Cackle Monster, Kamala Cackle Monster, and you throw in Joey B, Sly, and Zombie J, like two generations of Biden, as the hook.
	Who's ready to do it?
	Who's ready to make that video?
	That goes viral. Come on.
	Come on, hippity-hoppity producers, do it.
	So just on that level, though...
	The Hill Dog, Chelsea Clinton, Clinton, ha ha ha ha, Chelsea Hubbell, I mean, Chelsea Clinton.
	You see how dishonest they are.
	Then, you realize that MENA Arkansas is at the heart, the dark heart of the Iran-Contra scandal while Billy Boy is the governor.
	Only you begin to see why they push him up against his supposed enemy, George H.W. Bush.
	George H.W. Bush.
	I mean, when we talk about the Central Intelligence Agency, the spook house, the actual deep state, all right?
	The deep events guys.
	He helped run, if did not outright run, the country with his own people and his administrations from the time Reagan got shot.
	If he wasn't pulling all the strings before that election to get himself into the vice president spot after he was not popular at all in this country, he sure shored some things up after that Reagan shooting with John Hinckley who's playing music on YouTube and got a Twitter account.
	After it just so happens, that family also close to the Bush family, and Neal was supposed to have dinner with the elder Hinckley brother that same night.
	They canceled the plans.
	Don't worry. What?
	Huh? So, he's there through Reagan eight years.
	There's some spillover with Iran-Contra because they're just too corrupt.
	And part of that is Billy Boy.
	We're going to come back after this.
	Talk more CIA. You're getting it here.
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	Let's wrap Bush up really quick, because it goes into Bush, Clinton, cackle monster, right?
	Cackle monster was supposed to take over, like, after Bush again.
	They said, look, cackle monster.
	And now, she, again, Kamala's the cackle monster.
	I forget what she's the cackle of, but she's cackling.
	Like, Hillary thought she was on the road to the presidency.
	Again, this is like a business-related, it's House of Cards, man.
	If you watch House of Cards, and you know that Clinton and Spacey were good buddies.
	You were buddy-buddy, right?
	Spacey, you know, that whole group, the Weinstein group.
	And by the way, I got a great piece I'm going to be playing a clip of later from Al Jazeera on Hollywood and the CIA. It's very important.
	It's an extension of Mockingbird, but really was taking place even before that, right?
	That's one of the reasons maybe I like Ronnie a little bit, because he's taking on Disney, Again, Disney partnered with the U.S. government during World War II. They got the favor back in Florida, buying up all that land through the Central Intelligence Agency.
	And Disney, their adult line, Miramax, Weinstein.
	Disney, their big sports thing right now is ESPN, deals with the UFC. Who's their boy?
	Conor McGregor.
	McRapen anybody? I don't know.
	Disney is like the worst.
	So when people start going to bat for the mouse, I'm like, what is going on here?
	It's wild. But again, you go from Clinton, and then, you know, there's maybe a faction break-off at that point.
	Because Gore, Bush, I don't know if there was much difference, but there is some jockeying at that level, for sure.
	And for some reason...
	Jeb Bush maybe?
	Florida maybe? I don't know.
	It was the punch-hole ballot system.
	Hanging chats.
	And we ended up getting Bush.
	We got a whole lot of Bush eight years.
	That enraged people.
	That enraged people.
	But still, that dynasty was supposed to completely keep running with Hilldog.
	At least Hilldog thought so.
	But maybe they got a little too frisky during Gore.
	I don't know what happened. The establishment, obviously, though, by 2004, had their guy with the Barack star and Barry Sotero.
	And if you don't think he's intelligence, come on!
	He's a persona!
	He's not real!
	Like, again, I challenge anybody, anybody, to show me the person that went through their entire high school career up until college...
	And didn't change their name as a stage name.
	A stage name that's not an entertainment, Hollywoodo, fake-o politician.
	Right? And I get it.
	A lot of the Hollywood stars that we live.
	That's not Charlie Sheehan's real name.
	He's an Estevez. I get it.
	I get it. But they're actors.
	They're in the Hollywoodverse.
	Politicians doing the same thing should...
	Make it click. That's all I'm saying.
	That's all I'm saying. So let's play some DeSantis.
	Let's play some Ron DeSantis stuff.
	Let's talk about it. Let's talk about the role of the muskernuts in all of this.
	I think that is kind of important.
	So he announces on Twitter.
	Not expected. He did.
	He announced the run on Twitter.
	And what's this one right here?
	Oh yeah, we're going to talk about that.
	And here's the thing.
	Take a look. I was just on SGT Report.
	And is Twitter freer?
	Again, the open source code shows the intelligence community still has a backdoor.
	They've still got people working from the intelligence community inside.
	And SGT Report had me on recently, okay?
	Let me just pop this up, okay?
	So if you check it out, like yeah, they're all monetized, but in between these videos, 236,000, I got 14,000.
	I got basically one-tenth to one-twentieth of the views of the other videos.
	So, to Rumble and even the Bonge's credit, SGT Report puts this out and says, hey, is this being shadow banned, this video?
	What is going on here? I don't understand.
	We do not shadow ban.
	Can you show us your example?
	We were able to find the video in the search.
	So, it came up in their search.
	And then the Bonge...
	Put this out. I hope we're not being shadow banned.
	I hope Jason Bermas isn't on a list because he's a bad, bad boy.
	I hope I'm not being de-boosted across platforms.
	But I've got to be honest with you.
	I bought the blue checkmark.
	A lot of people came down on me.
	I bought the evil blue checkmark.
	Not because I was under the illusion that it would do what it said it would do and that my posts would be boosted and people would see them.
	I'm sure not going to hit the promote button and pay for them to be boosted.
	God forbid. I did it because they stopped allowing me to stream the show on that.
	So now I can post up to two hour videos.
	Post a little bit of yesterday's.
	You can go through there. I do post the show.
	Right? And that's it.
	And for what? Sometimes another 500-600 views.
	Same thing. I'm putting this out everywhere because you guys are the hardcores.
	And you are the ones that support me.
	And without you guys, I'd be working 40, 60, maybe even 80 hours a week at one or two jobs, like I've always done in my life.
	So, I love the fact that I'm able to do this all the time.
	I mean, I gotta take a break from it at times because it gets overwhelming, but we keep our finger on the pulse.
	Alright, we've ranted enough in this Reality Rants opener with absolutely no video footage.
	Let's do it. Let's play the Ron DeSantis for President Commercial.
	Old Ronnie D. Our border is a disaster.
	Crime infests our cities.
	The federal government makes it harder for families to make ends meet, and the president flounders.
	But decline is a choice.
	Success is attainable, and freedom is worth fighting for.
	Riding the ship requires restoring sanity to our society, normalcy to our communities, and integrity to our institutions.
	Truth must be our foundation, and common sense can no longer be an uncommon virtue.
	In Florida, we proved that it can be done.
	We chose facts over fear, education over indoctrination, law and order over rioting and disorder.
	We held the line when freedom hung in the balance.
	We showed that we can and must revitalize America.
	We need the courage to lead and the strength to win.
	I'm Ron DeSantis, and I'm running for president to lead our great American comeback.
	DeSantis for president.
	It's funny, my producer just texted me.
	Said it sounded like music from a Jordan Peele movie.
	I've only... I haven't seen...
	I saw the first one there.
	I wasn't that impressed. Nope, which a lot of people hated, had a lot of secret Kubrick symbolism and actually was heavily about NASA, Hollyweird, and the...
	The space program.
	I gotta do a whole video on that.
	In fact, I bought the 4K Blu-ray.
	I never buy Blu-rays, but I bought it just for the extras to also demonstrate that from some of the cutscenes.
	Look, some of that, what he's saying is okay.
	It's kinda real.
	But like we talked about yesterday, look, he had a great Surgeon General.
	They did great PR. But...
	Again, the hospitals there were able to get away with a lot of not-so-great things we can't really talk about here on the tube.
	Sorry, not allowed to talk about it.
	Look, I get it.
	The guy's under attack from the left in a lot of respects where you hear about the don't say gay bill that was not the don't say gay bill.
	Obviously. That's cartoon level.
	You looked at the bill, it's like, hey, let's not sexualize children.
	Let's not talk about this in front of kids.
	That's a good idea. Great idea.
	Most people on both sides like that.
	That's why DeSantis also has some Democrats coming around.
	Right? Here's the thing.
	Everybody goes to Florida at some point.
	Everybody that votes at some point probably goes to Florida.
	They take a vacation.
	They've heard good things.
	Most people have a lot of resorts, a lot of coastline, a lot of beach.
	Young people go to Florida for spring break all over.
	Generations of them have.
	Middle-aged people go there.
	Get the marriage back together with the kids.
	Do a little Disney Disney, huh?
	Among other things. Everybody goes there.
	So, like, he's got a wide appeal from that angle.
	And a lot of people on both sides realize things are F. Tardino.
	Very bad. Like, flukel-schnooked to the big time.
	They realize they got a zombie up there that can't speak.
	They know that.
	And that's not even the conservative crowd or the right crowd or the Trump forever diehard crowd.
	That's like everybody in America at this point.
	There's not, again, one person that can look me in the eye that is not like super deranged and angry about everything, by the way.
	And telling me that Joe Biden runs anything.
	Like, they can start getting angry with me.
	Because they'll say, well, he passed this and you're a white supremacist.
	I'm like, he's not my...
	First of all, the other guy's not my anything.
	Let's stop there. Let's go with the president and the question I asked you.
	I didn't ask what he's got done.
	I said, does he run anything?
	And they, you know, well, he's...
	No, does he run anything on a day-to-day basis?
	Can he talk? Is that okay?
	And I try and do a little more calm than that.
	But they can't look me in the eye and be honest and say, yes.
	Yeah, he's running a lot.
	No, he's not. Again, the only thing that'd be running about Joe Biden is what's going down his pants leg when it gets past his drawers and his depends.
	And I know so many people, oh, they love to do the depends on Trump.
	You know, I'm not even trying to pick on old people.
	I'm just saying, this guy's not in control of anything.
	Anything. He doesn't control when he falls asleep.
	The guy, I mean, the guy's falling asleep at, um...
	At those global meetings with Kerry.
	You can watch the footage.
	It's like a year ago now.
	Things are wild.
	So there's a couple more clips I'm going to play on the flip side of the next commercial.
	I've got the media acknowledging that social media is the new spot, that nobody's really listening to the news anymore.
	You don't have to announce via the news.
	It's not even a real thing.
	And then I do have the traditional news with Trey Gowdy, who I'm not sure...
	Has anybody officially taken over for the Tuckins Hour?
	I gotta tell you, I have not turned on...
	Really, the television at all for news in quite some time.
	And when I was doing it and looking at everything, I would always make sure to check out the tuck.
	But the tuck's not on.
	So I don't even watch that anymore.
	So we've got that.
	And then we've actually got a piece of the space he was in before it crashed.
	Because it was their most successful space where Thomas Massey is asking some real questions.
	And you know that I appreciate the Massey.
	Alright, let's take it to Mike Lindell.
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	I love my audience.
	I was looking over there, I mentioned Trey Gowdy, and my boy goes, Trey Gowdy reminds me of Earthworm Jim.
	I For those not familiar with Earthworm Jim, again, we like to do it live here.
	All I'm going to say is he might not be wrong.
	He might not be wrong.
	And again, I'm not trying to pick out anybody's appearance, but you saw him right there.
	Let's type in Trey Gowdy.
	A little uncanny.
	You decide.
	Maybe he was the inspiration back in the day for that 90s video game.
	Maybe he represented somebody as a lawyer.
	Anyway, we're going to move it along.
	That's good stuff. Yeah, great video game, by the way.
	Especially back in the day for a platformer.
	Fluid graphics. Really great on the Genesis.
	Showed what it could do. I'm showing my geek right now.
	Here is the media talking about the movement from...
	Mainstream media to social media.
	And again, that's why Elon is so important.
	Now he's got a whole social media space where he just made the CEO another world economic for a person.
	I mean, these people, I mean, they got a hold of you, whether you like it or not.
	They do have a hold of the narrative.
	But here you go again.
	And the thing is, when we move to social media, a lot of these social media influencers have a wide reach, number one, but they're bought for a lot less money.
	And they actually think they're doing the right thing.
	Because they're approached like, hey, you're going to save lives with this message.
	Here's a little scratchola. Here's a script.
	Let's shoot it. Let us know which one you like.
	And we're going to let you know which one we like.
	Maybe we come together. Soon that social media influence is going to be AI-based most of the time.
	Scary. On this question of DeSantis, look, his whole strategy in Florida has been to run against the media.
	Run against the media. Make them a boogeyman.
	And look, that absolutely helps with the GOP base.
	No, it doesn't help with the GOP base.
	Helps with everybody because you guys are known liars.
	Known liars. Again, we played the clip yesterday.
	The guy that failed upwards at the Atlantic.
	Right? Talking about Saddam Hussein and Al-Qaeda training camps.
	Saddam Hussein and Al-Qaeda training camps.
	They're going to get you.
	No, it's not...
	It goes to everybody. And that's why they're giving you the new muskernut savior in social media.
	Oh, okay. Which doesn't like the press.
	It's a tactic that can be effective.
	But it's also a tactic that can create challenges.
	Because when you're running for president, it's not just dealing with the Florida media.
	It's an entirely new set of challenges.
	And like it or not, the national press does set the narrative when it comes to the pre-primary jockeying.
	No, it doesn't.
	That's ridiculous.
	The press doesn't set the narrative at all.
	They set the narrative for the unthinking, which is growing ever small.
	I mean, this is CNBC. How many people are watching CNBC? How many people are really watching MSNBC or CNN or ABC or CBS? People are watching Dateline late at night.
	For like murder mystery stuff.
	Like, most people are pretty fed up.
	We went through the percentages.
	I'd say less than...
	20% of the population that even watches the news cares about these people.
	The year before the primary, what used to be called the invisible primary, the coverage is really important.
	And he's not done himself any favors so far, I think, by refusing to engage with the press corps.
	And the question now is, is that going to change here in the weeks and months ahead?
	I can tell you this.
	This morning, real fast, a lot of candidates who are thinking about running, who are already running themselves, who are not named Ron DeSantis, are thrilled because they see an opening.
	They see an opening! Yeah, okay.
	Look what happened again with Donnie T coming in there and just crushing on their mainstream narrative.
	Yeah, it got CNN some press, but, you know, did it make Donnie T look worse or better?
	Or pretty much the same, right?
	I mean, because CNN's an embarrassment.
	Most people know that at this point.
	So here's where the mudslinging and the DeSanctimonious gets going.
	And people love the WWE wrestling.
	Here we go. So there's an AI-generated video parody of DeSantis that I think he posted on Instagram.
	There's the Musker Nuts and there's George Soros and Klaus Nutschob.
	And Donny Tease gets to speak, but so does the Devil, Adolf, and Dick Cheney.
	And I tried listening to it.
	Nah, you know, it's like, at the beginning, it's like, oh, do you not know how to work the internet?
	Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Like, a lot of these spaces go.
	Because there's always somebody that doesn't know what the hell they're doing on them.
	Or there's always a technical issue.
	I don't know, man.
	Like I said, you know, this...
	This plays at least into the narrative that there are some people that want a guy like DeSantis because they don't like how Trump will socially punch you in the face like you're in high school.
	But a lot of people love that!
	If you think about it, at least in sports too, that's loved by people.
	People love that.
	They love a shiz talker.
	So that has to be acknowledged.
	You know, we can't just act like that's not a thing.
	Because it is. It's a big, big thing.
	All right. Let's play some of this clip.
	Write him with DeSantis in the call with Thomas Massey, who is probably the best thing Congress has going at this point, talking and asking DeSantis what we do about the fact that Congress is so corrupt and can't seem to get anything done.
	My question to you is, you know, you served here in Congress for six years with me.
	And why is it that Congress is so feckless at reining in these government agencies?
	And what do you think we need to do?
	And if you were president, what would you urge Congress or what bills would you like to see and sign to rein in this, you know, sort of overreach of government bureaucracy?
	Well, first, I think there's a lot that the executive branch can do.
	And all I will say when it comes to these agencies, we'll go into this a little bit more as the campaign goes on.
	But buckle up when I get in there, because the status quo is not acceptable.
	And we are going to make sure that we reconstitutionalize this government.
	And these agencies are totally out of control.
	There's no accountability. And we are going to bring that in a very big way.
	Now, part of the reason it's gotten so bad Power's been consolidated and effectively a fourth branch of government because Congress hasn't used its two main powers that it has under the Constitution.
	First, the power of the purse.
	If an agency is gauging in conduct that is outside the realm of what is legal or you think it's not good for the public interest, Then you can remove the funding for those operations.
	They're not entitled to get the same level of funding every year, and yet Congress runs the government on autopilot, either continuing resolutions or massive omnibus spending bills.
	So these agencies are all bulletproof.
	They know that they're going to end up getting something similar or more every single year, and it creates an incentive for them to abuse their power.
	The other thing you can do Is actually legislate so you're not delegating to the bureaucracy key issues regarding how to enforce federal law.
	You should define what you want.
	All they should be doing is implementing.
	Instead, Congress will basically give an invitation for the bureaucracy to make really important substantive decisions, and so Congress may never vote on something, and the bureaucracy will cite a law from 20 years ago and do things that are going to transform Our society or our country, that is not the way the Founding Fathers drew up the Constitution.
	So would you sign the RAINS Act?
	We passed it out of judiciary today.
	Oh, yeah. No, of course.
	Yeah, that's a no-brainer. That would, I think, be a great check for that.
	I also think that we're going to have a good chance to see some of this Chevron deference I think that's another reason why the bureaucracy has become so powerful, because courts have basically been told they can pretty much do what they want, and courts are supposed to just defer.
	I don't think that that's actually correct.
	I think the courts, they have to make a judgment about what does the law actually say, and you can't just defer to quote-unquote experts in the bureaucracy.
	All sounds great, right?
	Because it does address a lot of the problems that we face.
	Again, he talks about the court system in the end.
	He talks about these bureaucracies that are going to get their funding and the mechanisms and systems.
	But the proof will be in the pudding.
	Now, I know there are just so many people out there that are so diehard Trumpski and Hutch...
	That they're not even going to listen to...
	He's the Sanctimonious.
	And a lot of my audience still...
	And I don't blame them.
	They just think the whole thing is a show.
	And does any of it matter? And even with me talking about it...
	I look at...
	The electoral system, I don't think in any way it's been fixed since 2020.
	I don't think it was right in 2016.
	I think the machines are a complete and total fraud.
	A complete and total fraud on every level, on every company sold to the American public, that they're safe and effective.
	Yeah, they're safe and effective for those that control them.
	As long as they can't be audited, in my opinion.
	So that's a huge issue.
	We need to address it.
	It still hasn't been addressed.
	And that leads me to believe that no matter what, they're going to get their person in there.
	Now, the thing about Donnie T is, is Donnie T even going to be able to run?
	This is a conversation I had with Roger Stone how many months ago, but it's the truth.
	You know, you look at the E. Gene Carroll thing.
	I think that's a total railroad job.
	I would say the vast majority of conservatives do.
	Again, you look at that town hall, and Donnie T is a rock star.
	He's a rock star.
	Okay? I mean, he's telling that story about how absurd the trial is.
	I watched it, and I was pretty much in agreement with the crowd.
	Again, whether you hate the guy or not, That whole incident looks ridiculous, but the media runs with it.
	That's why they can't be trusted.
	That's why that guy right there is full of bull snap.
	No one trusts that nonsense.
	Only the most hardcore, deranged, all right, TDS mother truckers and the never Trumpers, I mean, political operative style, right, or mental illness would think that woman was credible.
	I'm sorry. If you watched her interview with Anderson Cooper, that's a lunatic.
	That's what it is.
	I've talked about this for many years.
	Crazy exists.
	Crazy has existed for a long time.
	It's not going away. It can never go away.
	Again, the powers that be want to tell you it can go away so they can medicate the vast majority of us one day.
	Hopefully, mandatorily, in their eyes.
	Just want to point that out.
	Just want to say that. But no!
	Crazy exists, and that woman's part of the crazy club.
	Criminal! Criminal charges!
	Nah! Nah, let's just sue them.
	Let's do that. And we're going to make him guilty of something abhorrent right before he goes into the town hall.
	Still a rock star. So now we've got the trial of the hush money.
	The hush money to Stormy.
	And again, we have to be adults.
	I was an adult from the beginning when this story broke.
	And people were going, he didn't even know her.
	Oh no, he knew her.
	No, no, no, no. I totally see old Donnie T making a pass at Stormy D. Right?
	Come on. More than a pass.
	That's his cup of tea.
	And if you were in denial about that one, I said, hey, you need to check yourself.
	All that probably happened.
	But at the same time, NDAs, hush money, the whole nine.
	Now he's going to court for that.
	They got him in the court system while the primaries go on.
	Can he run? We're gonna come back to what else they're gonna throw at Donny T after this word from our sponsor
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	Okay. So let's bring it back to where Donnie T is going to be.
	Barr is already predicting that they're going to go after criminal charges via this document scandal as well.
	They... What I see happening is he's going to be in the trial that we just discussed with the hush money and the stormy and the hush money with another woman and supposedly the hush money about a supposed love child.
	That's what's in the media.
	Who knows? That'll be in March primary season.
	Somehow he overcomes.
	And he gets the nomination with a barrage of media and political savagery.
	Because that's what it will be.
	It will be media and political savagery.
	And a lot of it's going to come from Fox News, everybody.
	A lot of people at Fox are going to get behind, in fact, we're going to play the Gowdy clip, the DeSantis train.
	They're going to go, choo-choo!
	Choo-choo! And again, not holding water for Donald Trump.
	He talks a good game.
	Failed on Assange.
	Failed in Syria.
	Failed with the election in 2020 and any real accountability there.
	Failed with the voucher.
	Failed with warp speed.
	And on and on and on.
	There are a lot of failures there.
	There are a lot of bigger wins...
	But that whole COVID-1984 nightmare, big loss.
	That whole, what we started with Assange, big loss.
	If it's true selling pardons for two million of pops, splitting them with Rudy G, the Julian, that's bad news brown, bro.
	That speaks of the dirty, dirty nature of these politics.
	That's grimy.
	I don't like it.
	I don't like it. But again, even if you want Trump, think about all those things going on.
	Think about all those things going on.
	At the same time as the 2024 election where World War III is like on the table.
	Remember that whole thing?
	Forget about problems with our election systems, national elections.
	Remember there's going to be a lot of noise from the other elections that are going on in that cycle.
	But, you know, World War III... Kind of a big deal.
	Alright, let's play this Gaudi DeSantis clip right now.
	How would you address the ongoing war in Eastern Europe between Russia and Ukraine on day one of a Ron DeSantis presidency?
	Well, first, I think what we need to do as a veteran is recognize that our military has become politicized.
	You talk about gender ideology, you talk about things like global warming that they're somehow concerned, and that's not the military that I served in.
	We need to return our military to focusing on commitment, focusing on the core values and the core mission.
	That would be something that I could take care of on day one.
	There'll be a new sheriff in town as commander-in-chief, and I think you'll see recruiting start to get back to where it needs to be, because people don't want to join a woke military, and I think it's been really, really problematic.
	Look, in terms of what's going on over in Eastern Europe, you know, I'd like to see a settlement of this.
	I do not want to see a wider war.
	I think it's completely unknowable What it will look like in January of 2025.
	But I would not want to see the United States with our troops get enmeshed in a war in Russia or in Ukraine.
	Alright, so let's talk about it.
	Let's talk about it. Let's talk about it.
	None of what he said there was good.
	None of what he said there was good.
	That was mush mouth.
	In a lot of ways. Like, we're going to restore the military.
	We're getting rid of woke ideology.
	All right, great. First of all, I don't know that they really want human recruitment.
	I think they want to bring in automation.
	I think they want soft, malleable souls.
	Why? Because the U.S. military is really just going to become part of a larger military group, even more of an extension than NATO. In this situation, largely AI and robotics and automated and drone run, period.
	So I think a lot of that's imagination land too.
	Really the only thing that I think he's correct on is no matter what you think, whether it's Trump or DeSantis, either one, who knows where we're at in January of 2025?
	I just said it. World War III, anybody?
	I mean, I'm not trying to be hyperbolic.
	I'm trying to literally just put it on the table.
	That's a real possibility.
	That's a real deal possibility.
	Now, coming up...
	In the second hour of the broadcast, I'm going to give a little highlight action of some of the stuff that we're going to hit on.
	But a lot of it's going to be brought to you by this Twitter account, the researcher, listen underscore two, the number, learn.
	Awesome account. I get a lot of great videos and stories.
	And, you know, we have this Operation Mockingbird.
	And the extension of that is so great that, again, in the second hour, I'm going to show you Hollyweird, okay?
	Hollyweird, and how they're connected with the Central Intelligence Agency and those narratives.
	And they're like, well, why do they want to get rid of Hollyweird?
	No, they want to revamp Hollyweird with less human beings, with less chances of people going rogue, with even more You understand?
	And believe it or not, that's from The Atlantic.
	I think this is a 2016 article?
	Yeah. July 14, 2016.
	So let's go even more old school before we flip over to the other side and watch this church committee hearing on Operation Mockingbird back in 75.
	I thought that it was a matter of real concern that planted stories intended to serve a national purpose abroad They came home and were circulated here and believed here because this would mean that the CIA could manipulate the news in the United States by channeling it through some foreign country.
	And we're looking at that very carefully.
	Do you have any people being paid by the CIA? Who are contributing to a major circulation American journal.
	We do have people who submit pieces to American journals.
	Do you have any people paid by the CIA who are working for television networks?
	This, I think, gets into the kind of getting into the details, Mr.
	Chairman, that I'd like to get into in an executive session.
	At CBS, we had been contacted by the CIA. As a matter of fact, by the time I became the head of the whole news and public affairs operation in 1954, ships had been established and I was told about them and asked if I'd carry on with them.
	We have quite a lot of detailed information and we will Evaluate it and we will include any evidence of wrongdoing or any evidence of impropriety in our final report and make recommendations.
	Do you have any people being paid by the CIA who are contributing to the National News Services, AP and UPI. Well, again, I think we're getting into the kind of detail, Mr.
	Chairman, that I'd prefer to handle an executive session.
	Senator, do you think that you will name the news organization in your final report?
	That remains to be decided.
	I think it was entirely in order for our correspondents at that time to make use of CIA chiefs of station, and other members of the executive staff of CIA as sources of information which were useful in their assessments of world conditions.
	Would you say that continues today?
	Yeah, I would think probably for a reporter it would continue today, but because of all of the revelations of the period of the 1970s, It seems to me that a reporter's got to be much more circumspect in doing it now or he runs the risk of at least being looked at with considerable disfavor by the public.
	I think you've got to be much more careful about it.
	Oh. I think you've got to be much more careful about lying to the public when you're working with the Central Intelligence Agency.
	But the thing is, even that now has been completely inverted where the Central Intelligence Agency is on the news constantly.
	As contributors. In the news constantly.
	As authoritative sources.
	There used to be a time it was frowned upon.
	You had to be a little more careful when you were lying to the public and working with the spooks.
	Not anymore! That is over!
	At least it's over.
	In the great narrative, the post-truth world, what they want you to believe.
	What they got like the zombie class believing.
	That's about it. The only people that are buying into that are the zombie class.
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	All right.
	So we are in to the second hour.
	Here we go, folks.
	We're talking Central Intelligence Agency.
	We're talking Modern Hollyweird.
	We're talking Weinstein.
	That was some Black Cube stuff.
	But again, Hollyweird wants you to not know the extent there.
	See, there it might be a little different than the news.
	If Hollyweird was working with the Central Intelligence Agency.
	So let's do it. Let's play this Al Jazeera.
	And I know we've all been trained to think Al Jazeera.
	Oh, they're all propaganda!
	Again, it's not Chinese-style censorship anymore.
	It's censorship. In fact, I got a great TikTok story from Alan McLeod over at Mint Press that needs to be looked at, needs to be read on this very matter that it's a Trojan horse.
	Guys, if you just didn't know, China, just like everybody else, has your social credit score.
	In fact, you know the article that I couldn't find yesterday when I was talking to Clay Clark?
	It's a trust score. Since iOS 12, a trust score Apple had, they already have a social credit score on your ass.
	See how that works? That's how it actually works.
	Oh, wow, they got a trust score.
	Yeah, they got a trust score.
	And they've had it. And listen, Google's got, they've all got one on you.
	And private citizens working with China have all your metadata if they want.
	It's already there for sale.
	It's openly available.
	In fact, the trust score...
	You typed in credit score or personal credit.
	You couldn't find it anywhere.
	Couldn't find it on DuckDuckGo.
	I had to type in all sorts of things this morning to find this.
	Apple is discreetly adding trust scores to their users.
	Oh! That's 2023.
	They got marketing.
	No, they did that five years ago.
	Five years ago by tracking your every move.
	Oh, you got a trust score.
	That's how all this integrates, man.
	It's the Track, Trace, Database, Social Media, Holly, Weird, Celebritard Society.
	They can't wait to bring the biomimetics into it either.
	Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
	So, let's do it.
	Let's play this Operation Mockingbird.
	in the modern with the CIA and Hollyweird.
	Watch any big budget war movie or take in a spy thriller and you could walk away not
	knowing just how much your movie experience was shaped by the Pentagon or CIA.
	However, a trove of official documents obtained under US Freedom of Information laws and published
	this year detail the dealings between filmmakers and intelligence officials at Langley Region.
	Virginia, the CIA headquarters.
	Probably the best known are Zero Dark Thirty and Argo, but they've also assisted the television show Homeland.
	How do we deal with homegrown, violent Jihannis?
	They've also assisted Alias.
	You work for the very enemy you thought you were fighting.
	24. Tell me where the device is!
	A CBS series called The Agency.
	Then he slit his throat.
	They assisted a film called The Sum of All Fears, starring Ben Affleck.
	Captain. Jack Ryan, CIA. Charlie Wilson's war is a really good example where they maintain the idea that, oh, you know, are we really doing the right thing by arming the mujahideen, the forerunners of the al-Qaeda terrorist organization in Afghanistan in the 1980s.
	Yeah. They mold the narrative with scripted, hollyweird, Bernaysian propaganda at a high level with a massive budget.
	They kind of question that in a kind of jokey way.
	Like the last caption in the film, Charlie Wilson's War, is something like, oh, we came, we saw, but then we mucked up the endgame, or some joke, you know.
	It's like, no, that's not what you did, actually.
	And you know it because the original script and the original book that you base this on doesn't say that.
	You armed terrorists in a really horrific conflict.
	It's the whole organisation behind it, at a systematic level.
	And that turned Charlie Wilson's war into this, you know, saccharine, benign movie throughout the 1990s.
	But, you know, it's got, you know, America's actor Tom Hanks in it, so...
	You know, he's Forrest Gump, everybody.
	Charlie Wilson, a.k.a.
	Forrest Gump, a.k.a.
	Big, the guy from Big.
	I mean, come on! He's got to be a good guy.
	The CIA worked with Hollywood very specifically on movies that portrayed the CIA as sort of a heroic force protecting America.
	Most of the movies were based on Tom Clancy books, actually.
	So you had A Hunt for Red October and that entire franchise.
	You know, the lead character, Jack Ryan, is this, like, super heroic figure and he's, like, constantly, you know, taking down bad guys.
	Saving America, saving the world from various threats, whether it's Islamic terrorism or the IRA or, ultimately, white supremacists.
	Oh! Oh!
	Ultimately, white supremacy.
	See how that works, too?
	Oh! Ah!
	Went from Muslim terrorist to the evil white man.
	Hmm! How about that?
	And by the way, you notice that Showtime has been doing that series about how bad David Koresh and those people that were murdered at Waco were and how that inspired Tim McVeigh.
	Hmm? Hollyweird.
	They ain't stopping.
	It's still here.
	They are the Hollyweird.
	Great narrative! Great narrative, go!
	Yeah! Awesome!
	Let's keep going. IA and the US Department of Defense have had varying levels of input, from simply clarifying points for authenticity to actually writing parts of scripts on more than 1,800 movies and TV shows.
	When it comes to influencing filmmakers, shaping the story, the Pentagon is usually in a stronger negotiating position than the CIA. Because of the hardware at its disposal, it can shut down a movie before a scene is ever shot.
	The Department of Defense is actually a much more powerful player in the entertainment industry for basically financial reasons.
	The Department of Defense has Expensive toys.
	They have submarines, they have aircraft carriers, they have tanks, and they have the personnel to operate each of those things.
	So if a filmmaker wants to make a war movie, they often will approach the Department of Defense and basically ask to borrow that equipment.
	And the Department of Defense will say, maybe, but can I see your script?
	And they will either say, this is great.
	We love the way that the military is portrayed in this.
	We will go ahead and collaborate with you.
	Or they may say, we hate the way that we're portrayed and refuse to participate.
	When the Pentagon does agree to support a film, there can be some scripting strings attached.
	And the Vietnam War is clearly a sore point.
	In The Hulk, a reference to a US operation that poisoned Vietnamese farmland was removed.
	And in the Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies, a suggestion that the US did not win the war was cut out.
	In Iron Man, a reference to soldier suicide was removed, again at the Pentagon's insistence.
	The CIA's presence in Hollywood is harder to detect.
	It goes back to the early days of the Cold War and was designed to counter a propaganda effort coming out of the Soviet Union.
	The CIA placed undercover agents in major studios where they monitored left-wing screenwriters and directors.
	First of all, if you look at the Motion Picture Association of America.
	The rating system. The MPAA. And you look at a guy named Jack Valente.
	Yeah. Come on.
	Give me a break. El Central Intelligence Agency.
	Listen, again, just like they're telling you the Department of Defense is in there, you better believe that the precursor to the CIA, the OSS, the whole shebangle.
	Again, Disney, Donald Duck, hand in hand, arm in arm.
	That's the reality here.
	This was at the height of Cold War paranoia, and Hollywood was under the scrutiny of the US Congress.
	Is investigating alleged communist influence and infiltration in the moving picture industry?
	The agency started influencing scripts.
	One senior executive at Paramount Pictures, working covertly for the CIA, described how, to counter what the Soviets were saying about the persecution of African Americans, quote, well-dressed Negroes, unquote, would be planted in certain films.
	What happens in the 1990s is that the Cold War ends, and all of a sudden the CIA is left without a visible, viable enemy to justify its existence.
	If they were going to continue, they had to do something to improve their public image.
	And one of the responses to that crisis was to begin to work with Hollywood to convince the American public and Congress that they were still worth being an institution.
	In 1996, the CIA's Entertainment Liaison Office in Hollywood began offering free support to movies that featured the agency.
	Chase Brandon, an intelligence agent and cousin of actor Tommy Lee Jones, was the CIA's first liaison officer.
	Oh! Old cuz cuz of Tommy Lee Jones.
	How about that? Tommy Lee Jones played a law enforcement officer a few times out there, hasn't he?
	What is he, a marshal in the one with Harrison Ford?
	That was a big one. Huge one, really.
	Oh, that's right, it was the man in black?
	You know, another intelligency-type officer promoting the alien agenda that we all talked about.
	I think I've talked about it a couple times this week.
	But let's keep going. He's credited as a technical advisor on a host of Hollywood blockbusters, such as The Recruit, starring Al Pacino as a veteran CIA officer.
	Our failures are known.
	Our successes are not.
	In reality, Brandon was far more than a mere advisor on The Recruit.
	He helped pitch the film to Disney, that eventually produced and distributed the movie, and was involved in the script writing.
	The Recruit.
	As another CIA liaison officer put it, Hollywood is the only way the public learns about the agency, which begs the question, should the public be learning about the CIA from the CIA without even being aware of the agency's role in the production process?
	These issues became public with the release of one of the biggest CIA-Hollywood collaborations to date, Zero Dark Thirty, a film about the search for Osama bin Laden.
	You really believe this story?
	Osama Bin Laden. The Zero Dark Thirty was a really unusual case, I think, for the CIA in terms of how it works with Hollywood.
	The CIA gave the director and screenwriter a lot of access to the agency.
	They bounced a lot of ideas back and forth and they wanted to really kind of tightly control the narrative that this was putting out.
	Now here's the deal, man.
	What do I know about Bin Laden and the raid?
	I know that Zero Dark Thirty portrays kind of the mainstream narrative of the raid that Hirsch did an extensive piece deconstructing, debunking a lot of that.
	I know that SEAL Team 6 had that horrific helicopter crash after the fact.
	How many people were actually involved in the raid or maybe had second-hand knowledge through others about the raid?
	I don't know. I do know that prior to 9-11, we knew that bin Laden was on kidney dialysis.
	There were reports of his demise several times after that.
	This raid itself, with what they said was bin Laden, etc., was right outside of a Pakistani military base.
	Pakistani intelligence had their fingers all over 9-11, had a Pakistani ISIS in the country, meeting with people like Joe Biden, George Tenet, Condoleezza Rice, and on the morning of 9-11, Porter Goss and Bob Graham, who will head up the initial congressional investigation into it.
	General Mahmoud Ahmed. Okay?
	So Pakistan, ISI, that intelligence network clearly worked with bin Laden.
	We worked with that network in the 70s and 80s through the Mujahideen, which, ironically, they talk about here with Charlie Wilson's war.
	Okay? You understand how that works?
	That's not really emphasized.
	They're controlling the script.
	And then... Bin Laden, we should do a whole thing about what they said they found on that Bin Laden raid and on his hard drive.
	Because on his hard drive, he had Loose Change, my film.
	Weird. That's very weird.
	Tarpley's 9-11 Synthetic Terror, The Club of Rome, The Committee of 300, the book.
	All sorts of things on the Bin Laden hard drive.
	And there's been some documentaries...
	On the Bin Laden hard drive.
	I just think that all of it kind of has to be questioned, right?
	I mean, I'm not saying it didn't occur, but I'm certainly not saying that we should trust the Holly weird CIA driven version of that raid.
	Let's get back to it.
	It backfired though, because very quickly after the movie came out, it was criticized for suggesting that torture somehow had played a role in the information gathering that led to the capture and assassination of Osama bin Laden.
	Torture and the CIA's use of it, especially after 9-11, were already under investigation when Zero Dark Thirty was released.
	The Senate Intelligence Committee wrote a letter to the production studio, Sony Pictures.
	They said, we believe the film is grossly inaccurate and misleading in its suggestion that torture resulted in information that led to the location of Osama bin Laden.
	Zero Dark Thirty's director Catherine Bigelow eventually had to respond to the allegation that her film was making the CIA's case for torture.
	In an editorial for the Los Angeles Times, she wrote that critics were, quote, confusing depiction with endorsement.
	Torture was, as we all know, employed in the early years of the hunt.
	That doesn't mean it was the key to finding Bin Laden.
	It means it's a part of the story we couldn't ignore.
	That's more of a problem with the film industry and the creative industry.
	Total... Disinterest in the responsibility of the ideological products that they create.
	And this is why you can have a very liberal town full of very liberal or even sometimes left-wing celebrities and directors, but actually they create films that are very much in keeping with the American Empire project.
	The CIA rarely has any kind of public credit that suggests that they had any hand in shaping the narrative of that film.
	That lack of transparency I find incredibly problematic.
	Because it doesn't allow the viewer to be a smart critical viewer.
	No it doesn't.
	No it doesn't. How can you be a smart critical viewer when you don't even know That the quote-unquote entertainment you're absorbing is propaganda.
	CIA-driven propaganda.
	So this story right here, TikTok Chinese Trojan Horse, is run by State Department officials.
	And I missed this one last April, already a month and a half old.
	But just because we missed something initially doesn't mean we don't cover it.
	Amid national hysteria claiming the popular video-sharing app is a Chinese Trojan horse, a Mint Press news investigation has found dozens of ex-U.S. State Department officials working in key positions at TikTok.
	Many more individuals with backgrounds in the FBI, CIA, and other departments of the national security state also hold influential posts at the social media giant.
	Affecting the content that over 1 billion users see.
	Because this whole thing, this whole thing was an intelligence op, everybody.
	An international intelligence operation.
	When I saw TikTok just exploding in every single ad, on every single internet video or story I had was get TikTok, get TikTok, get TikTok, get TikTok.
	I was like, what is this?
	And then you saw how they were able to license everything.
	It just seems like they had a black hole of money and resources.
	Why? That's not real capitalism.
	Okay? I just want everybody to know that.
	It's not how it really works.
	Look at a real platform like mine's.
	Ottman. Bill Ottman, a really good guy in the early days.
	Ian from the Tim Pool show.
	Ian Crossland. You know, that's a real grassroots thing.
	Bitchute is a real grassroots thing.
	Still on Twitter to this day.
	Ooh, it could be harmful content.
	You get a warning if you want to go to Bitchute.
	What? Odyssey, another one amongst them.
	Those are real grassroots platforms.
	Rockfin. Alright?
	I mean, Rumble was around a long time before it got acquired, so you have to kind of acknowledge that.
	But look who's got their money in it.
	We mentioned, am I being shadow banned on Rumble?
	I hope not. Not accusing them, but boy, it is weird that my video gets one-tenth to one-twentieth attraction of the other two surrounding it.
	Bizarre. How bizarre?
	How bizarre. White American politicians demand the app be banned on national security grounds.
	Try to force through an internet surveillance act that would turn the country into an Orwellian state.
	Make clueless statements about how TikTok is dangerous because it connects to your Wi-Fi.
	It is possible that TikTok is already much closer to Washington than it is to Beijing.
	For quite some time, TikTok has been recruiting former State Department officials to run its operations.
	The company's head of data, Public Policy for Europe, for example, is Jade Nestor.
	Before being recruited for that influential role, Nestor was a senior official in Washington, serving for four years as the State Department's director in Internet Public Policy.
	Mariola Janik, meanwhile, left a long and fruitful career in the government to work for TikTok.
	Starting out at the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, Janik became a career diplomat in the
	State Department before moving to the Department of Homeland Security. Oh! In September, however,
	she left the government to immediately take up the position of TikTok's Trust and Safety
	Program Manager, a job that will inevitably include removing content and reshaping algorithms.
	Yes, part of the Ministry of Truth over at TikTok, your State Department.
	While there is no suggestion that Janik is anything other than a model employee, the fact that a U.S. government agent walked into such an influential position at the social media giant should be cause for concern.
	If, for instance, a high Chinese official was hired to influence what the U.S. public saw in their social media feeds, it would be likely to be a centerpiece of the TikTok funeral.
	Currently gripping Washington.
	And I've said it before.
	It's all of them.
	It's not just the TikTokington or the Facebookington or the Muskernuts.
	It's all of them.
	All of them. Trojan Horse Civilian Systems.
	Trojan Horse Civilian Systems.
	Yannick! He's not the only former security official.
	Working on TikTok's trust and safety team, however, between 2008 and 2021, Christian Cardona enjoyed a distinguished career at the State Department, serving in Poland, Turkey, and Oman.
	And was in the thick of the U.S. interventionalism in the Middle East between 2012 and 2013.
	He was an assistant to the U.S. ambassador in Kabul.
	He later left that role to become the political and military affairs manager for Iran.
	Yeah, nothing to see there.
	In the summer of 2021, he went straight from his top State Department job to become Product Policy Manager for Trust and Safety at the TikTokington, a position that, on paper, he appears completely unqualified for.
	Earlier this year, Cardona left the company.
	Huh. Hmm.
	And again, how much of this is in the signature reduction program that we've talked about?
	You know, America's secret military?
	Let's just do a little highlighting of that.
	How much of it is part of this?
	How much of it is part of that some 60,000 people now belong to this secret army?
	That's a lot of folks.
	Clandestine elements of the CIA. Bigger than that, huh?
	Domestic and foreign assignments.
	Huh. Both in military uniforms and under civilian cover in real life and online.
	Wow! Hiding in private businesses and consultancies.
	Some of them household names.
	Geez. Wonder how much of that might be, I don't know, signature reduction.
	Let's get back to it. Another influential individual at TikTok is recruiting coordinator Katrina Villasenarios.
	Yet before she was choosing whom the company hires, Villasenarios, worked at the State Department's Office of Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs.
	And until 2021, she was part of the Army Cyber Command.
	The U.S. military unit that oversees cyber attacks and information warfare online.
	And remember CISA, Cyber Security Agency in the United States.
	Oh, they were at the Bilderberg.
	Bilderberg 2023.
	Foreign ministers everywhere.
	Intelligence agencies.
	Yeah! Media moguls too.
	Big tech and AI. Yeah.
	Good times. Other TikTok employees with long histories in the U.S. national security state include Brad Ehrman, global lead of criminal and civil investigations, who spent 21 years as a special agent in the Air Force Office of Special Investigation and also worked as a program manager for anti-terrorism and At the State Department.
	And Ryan Walsh, Escalation's management lead for trust and safety at TikTok, who until 2020 was the government's senior advisor for digital strategy.
	A central part of Walsh's State Department job, his own resume notes, was advancing supportive narratives for the U.S. and NATO online.
	Oh, it's right on his resume.
	He advanced some supporting narratives for the U.S. and NATO. How about that?
	Gotta love those narratives and their narrative managers.
	Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
	That's good stuff.
	And by the way, it's right here.
	Let's see. Where's the narrative manager spot?
	This is an image, so I can't just search it.
	He also assessed complex information environments as on-site SME and designed long-term engagements to...
	Let's see. U.S. allies represented the Bureau in high-level meetings and conference engaging and guiding cross-functional programs with the department and externally with the interagency U.S. allies and other international partners.
	Just look at this.
	It's part of the COVID-19 mis-disinformation and assessing the impact on vaccine hesitancy in sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East.
	I mean, he scoped, launched, and managed the first deliverables of the Google team's trust and safety team.
	I mean, this guy's a COVID-19 sensor on top of all of it.
	You've got to love it. And again, all that's with the counterterrorism.
	It's all the same thing.
	You step out of line.
	You're a dissident.
	You're a global terrorist.
	You're a white supremacist.
	You're a bigot. You need to be dealt with.
	You're spreading myths and disinformation that should be criminalized.
	You're harming people.
	You're hurting people. These people's language is disturbing and disgusting on all levels.
	I just want to point that out.
	Just point it out.
	Walsh therefore is illustrative of a broader wave of individuals who have moved from governments attempting to manipulate the global town square to private companies where they are entrusted to keep the public safe.
	From exactly the sort of state-backed influence operations their former colleagues are orchestrating.
	In short, then, the system whereby recently retired government officials decide what the world sees and does not see online is one step removed from state censorship on a global level.
	It's just plausible deniability.
	It actually is state censorship on a global level.
	It's exactly what it is.
	You nailed it. McLeod nailed it.
	For all the talk of digital influence operations emanating from Russia or other US adversaries, the United States is surely the worst offender when it comes to manipulating public opinion online.
	It is known, for instance, that the Department of Defense employs an army of 60,000 people whose jobs is to influence the public sphere, most of whom serve as keyboard warriors and trolls aiming to promote US government or military interests, And earlier this year, the Twitter files exposed how such media giants collaborated with the Pentagon to help run online influence operations and fake news campaigns aimed at regime change in the Middle East.
	And I'm going to guess if I touch this, if I do this, it's going to go to the Newsweek article.
	Right? Oh, actually, we've got it.
	What's this, from July of last year?
	You might have to do a whole shebango on this.
	Probably ends up linking to signature reduction, but McLeod does awesome work.
	Hey, I haven't seen a ton of appearances on programs with McLeod, but I'd sure love to get me some Alan McLeod on the program.
	I think he'd be a great guest.
	Don't mess with Project Texas.
	The influx of State Department officials into TikTok's upper rank is a consequence of Project Texas, an initiative the company began in 2020 in the hopes of avoiding being banned altogether in the United States.
	During his time in office, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo led the charge to shut the platform down, frequently labeling a spying app and propaganda tool for the Chinese Communist Party.
	It was widely reported that the U.S. government had forced the sale of TikTok to Walmart and then Microsoft, but in late 2020, as Project Texas began, those deals mysteriously fell through, and the rhetoric about the dangers of TikTok from officials evaporated.
	Project Texas is a $1.5 billion security operation to move the company's data to Austin.
	Oh, in doing so, it announced that it was partnering with tech giant Oracle, a corporation that a Mint Press article has reported on, is the CIA in all but name.
	Shocking. Old Oracle.
	Hmm, how about that?
	Openly pro-Israel tech group now has control over the UK's most sensitive national security data.
	Oracle, whose CEO Larry Ellison has troubling ties to Israel, just signed a deal to store the UK's most sensitive military data.
	But again, this is the conglomeration.
	Right? Yeah.
	This is the Five Eyes Alliance.
	And this is the fascistic, the techno-fascistic nature of it with the privatized businesses that are really just glorified intel agencies with plausible deniability.
	That's all they are.
	Evidently, Project Texas also secretly included hiring all manner of U.S. national security state personnel to oversee the company's operations.
	And not just from the State Department.
	Rebecca Pober, for instance, moved straight from her post in strategy and policy at the Pentagon to become a U.S. policy manager over at the TikTokington.
	A number of influential TikTok employees are former longtime CIA agents, Alex S., the company's former trust and safety global content integrity policy lead, Was previously a leadership analyst at agency headquarters in Langley, Virginia, for almost nine years.
	Before the CIA, she worked for the State Department and U.S. Pacific Command.
	You gotta love lifelong military and intelligence assets.
	Tick-Tockington.
	No big deal. No big deal.
	Casey Goetz, meanwhile, spent nearly 11 years at the CIA, rising to become branch chief before later being hired by TikTok to work on data security and security integration.
	He was also previously director for cybersecurity at the National Security Council at the White House.
	And remember, National Security Council, that's got players like Schmidt, Bilderberg, all over it.
	All over it. That's got teal guys all over it.
	National Security Council.
	And according to the resume of TikTok Trust and Safety Manager Bo Patterson, not only was he a CIA targeting analyst until 2020, he is also currently serving military intelligence officer in the U.S. Army while moonlighting at the social media behemoth.
	No conflict of interest there.
	You see, and that's why we're reading this whole thing.
	Because how many hours have we been berated with mainstream media and conservative media?
	Tick-tock China!
	Tick-tock CCP! Tick-tock China!
	Tick-tock CCP! No, it's another Trojan horse civilian system.
	And we have to recognize... That the Chinese model that they'd like all of their society to be under, which is a social credit score digital hellscape, also based on your carbon allotment, eventually, is what they want globally.
	And when I say they, I mean the tibb at the top of that predator class, Indeed, virtually every branch of the national security state is present at TikTok.
	Before becoming the company's trust and safety manager, Catherine Grant, spent more than three years working at the White House before moving to the National Security Council and then to the Department of Energy.
	Oh, that Department of Energy!
	You want to talk about black ops?
	You better talk Department of Energy.
	You want to talk about human experimentation?
	On us, United States citizens, we best talk Department of Energy.
	Remember we showed you that Clinton clip where he came out with the phone book size report from the Department of Energy of what they had done to unwitting soldiers and citizens alike?
	And by many standards, these experiments were ethical.
	However, by no standards were so.
	Something like that.
	Some slick Clinton stuff.
	Department of Energy also heavily involved in the UFO phenomenon.
	Whether you like it or not.
	And that's talked about in the background.
	Because the Department of Energy also...
	I mean, first of all, you're talking about other propulsion systems.
	You're talking about weapon systems.
	Nuclear in particular.
	To kind of justify what the Department of Energy is.
	But again, that's a big black ops, big security clearance position.
	But now, hey, no worries.
	She's a TikTok.
	She's a TikTok.
	Her TikTok trust and safety colleague, Victoria McCullough, has a similarly state-heavy background, working two years
	at the Department of Homeland Security before joining Grant at the White House, where she was an
	associate director in the Office of Public Engagement.
	And TikTok crisis manager Jim Arman served for more than 21 years as a unit chief in the FBI.
	Meanwhile, a 2022 Mint Press study described what is called a NATO-to-TikTok pipeline,
	whereby dozens of officials from the military alliance had also been given jobs in key fields within the company.
	Perhaps the most startling of these hires were Greg Anderson,
	whose own LinkedIn profile noted that he worked on psychological operations for NATO
	immediately before moving to work in social media.
	Jason, psychological operations, they don't exist.
	Alright, and there's a whole article on that one.
	They don't exist, Jason.
	That's Johnny Nonsense.
	That's make-believe.
	Oh, okay.
	Okay. Former state officials are overwhelmingly being appointed to politically sensitive positions such as a security and trust and safety rather than more neutral departments like customer service and sales.
	While this article is not specifically arguing that any of the individuals listed here are unworthy of consideration for their posts taken as a whole together with dozens of other spooks, spies, and mandarins...
	Not profiled here.
	It is difficult to understand this phenomenon other than as a power play from the US government to try to establish control over one of the world's most popular and fastest growing social media companies.
	Political theater.
	TikTok is an immensely influential medium, shaping how the world understands itself, particularly for younger generations.
	A 2021 study found that 31% of people aged between 18 and 24 worldwide had used the app in the past week, with 9% using it as a primary source of news.
	This is, no doubt, part of the reason U.S. officials are concerned with it.
	Last month, TikTok CEO Chiu Shao Zi It was brought before Congress and challenged on its company's connection to the People's Republic of China.
	Though TikTok is a subsidiary of Chinese firm ByteDance, it insists its operation operates as an independent entity and it never shared any user data with Beijing.
	I think that's ridiculous.
	Just so everybody understands that.
	Of course, listen, maybe they figured out how not to do it directly, but you better, of course.
	It's data sharing all the way around.
	Nevertheless, questions persist about the app's practices and security features.
	Unfortunately, the opportunity to interrogate Chu on more substantive issues was overtaken
	by political grandstanding from elected officials who seemed uninterested in his answers
	and more concerned with scoring political points and achieving quotable soundbites.
	There was also more than an undertone of xenophobia throughout the events, with Chu on multiple occasions
	having to remind his questioners that he was not in fact Chinese,
	only for them to ignore him and continue to insinuate that he was.
	Republican Senator Tom Cotton went further, demanding that Chu be deported
	and insisting that we can't allow Chinese citizens or anyone affiliated with the Communist Party of China
	to own one more inch of American soil.
	I don't know what soil they...
	I mean, it's certainly political soil and psychological soil, but as far as American soil, run this company from anywhere.
	A statement that evokes memories of the Chinese Exclusion Act, a racist immigration bill, that was only fully repudiated in the 1960s.
	Chu is from Singapore.
	We're committed to providing a safe, secure platform that fosters an inclusive place for our amazing, diverse communities to call home.
	It's a shame today's conversation felt rooted in xenophobia, wrote TikTok COO Vanessa Pappas.
	And listen, you hear that?
	The inclusivity and diversity and all that other Johnny nonsense?
	That's like talking point SDG ESG all the way.
	You know, that's Davos related.
	And again, it shows you this whole thing is global.
	It's a global world order.
	Chu was also subjugated to bizarre questioning from politicians entirely ignorant of how modern telecommunications work.
	Congressman Richard Hudson asked whether TikTok could access Wi-Fi networks, a question so obvious it left Chu assuming he had misunderstood the question.
	Meanwhile, Buddy Carter from Georgia demanded, Demanded to know whether the app utilized users' phone cameras to track dilation in their eyes so that they could market shocking videos more effectively to them.
	Watching clueless congresspersons asking boomer questions was hard to watch, concluded Tech Magazine Futurism.
	Alright, so let's talk about Wi-Fi access.
	There are backdoors in certain software applications that could maybe access your Wi-Fi.
	They're certainly going to have the metadata from it.
	Whether or not they could run an executable is extremely questionable, but as far as an APK or an app, No.
	I mean, that would be found out very quickly.
	Unless it was like a hardware backdoor, probably not possible.
	Now, let's talk about the eye dilation thing.
	Although that may be going a bridge too far...
	The idea that companies can't store your biometric data when you give your thumbprint up or even your iris scan, depending on how good your camera is, you might have already given that biometric data away.
	And I've talked about it.
	You take a ton of photographs that you don't use.
	And while you're doing that, yeah, that is noted.
	And there may be facial recognition on how you looked and whether or not how you're paying attention to things.
	Other than just screen time and click time.
	Because just like for computers, they had keystroke technology.
	I would assume they also have that technology.
	But again, Mint Press does a really great job here.
	McLeod does a really good job here of pointing out, hey, this is spook central.
	Why did we ask these questions?
	These are questions that we should be asking.
	Nevertheless, these ignorant politicians are currently legislating an anti-TikTok bill that would forever change the internet and prove a death knell to privacy online, HR 1153, the Data Act, which recently passed the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
	Insane. Is almost surreal in some of its implications.
	Wrote the Institutions for Responsible Statecraft, not only would TikTok and possibly other large Chinese apps like WeChat be banned, but accessing them using VPNs would become a criminal federal offense and subject to 20 years in prison and a fine of up to $1 million.
	That will be selectively enforced.
	But yeah, that's insane. In order to tell you that you couldn't access foreign software or foreign websites if you use a VPN and that you could serve 20 years in prison if you do so, that's frightening.
	That is as scary as it gets.
	Let's be honest. The bill also gives the government the power to secretly and permanently spy on any individual it suspects of interacting with foreign adversaries.
	While it names those adversaries, as including China, Cuba, Venezuela, Iran, Russia, and North Korea, it also notes that the list can be changed at any time.
	Thus, the bill would blow apart freedom of speech online and implement some of the most draconian authoritarian internet laws anywhere on the planet.
	Far more strict than even the famously censored Chinese.
	Censorous Chinese government.
	Exactly. And that's why we don't call it Chinese-style censorship anymore.
	It's just censorship.
	And it's happening here.
	Some of the furor over TikTok's supposed threat has been stoked artificially by its rivals.
	Facebook, for example, is known to have contracted a PR firm to carry out a nationwide smear campaign against TikTok, presenting the platform as a threat to children.
	Yeah, Facebook itself has been subject to the government TikTok treatment.
	In 2018, Mark Zuckerberg was hauled before Congress and grilled for hours on the dangers of his platform.
	Elected officials discussed breaking the company up or even imprisoning Zuckerberg for his role in promoting
	misinformation.
	But again, the misinformation that was promoted was basically anything that went against the great narrative.
	If the goal was to intimidate him into giving up editorial control of the platform, then it may have worked.
	Only we don't know.
	weeks after the inquest, Facebook announced that it was a partnership with the Atlantic Council,
	an arm of NATO, whereby the group would now influence what billions of people saw
	and did not see in their news feeds. Oh, the Atlantic Council has long been among the most
	hawkish organizations on China and Russia, publishing turd reports about the extent of
	the latter's penetrations of Western society. It also strongly suspected that the Atlantic Council
	was involved in the infamous prop or not group, a shadowy organization that labeled
	hundreds of alternative media outlets, including Mint Press News, as likely Russian propaganda.
	Russia, Russia, Russia. Get scared of Russia.
	show.
	As a result of recent algorithm changes, Facebook traffic to alternative news websites has been completely throttled.
	Completely throttled or banned.
	As the platform strongly privileges establishment media or conservative outlets, Mint Press, for example, has lost over 99% of its Facebook traffic.
	And even before then...
	Same thing with We Are Change.
	Even before it was conservative media, blah, blah, blah, blah.
	I remember.
	They just hammered us in the independent media.
	Well before 2018.
	For the state, this sort of corporate algorithmic strangulation is far more effective than outright government bans.
	It achieves virtually the same suppression metrics while provoking far less public outrage.
	Facebook itself... It's teaming with agents from the national security state.
	Aaron Berman, for instance, who leads the team that is ultimately in charge of content moderation for the platform, was until 2019 a high-ranking member of the CIA, writing the president's daily briefings until he jumped ship to Facebook.
	Weird. I mean, Jesus.
	Another Berman, Debra, Spent nearly a decade as an intelligence analyst at Langley.
	As a Syria specialist, it is quite possible she was part of the CIA's ongoing dirty war against the country, whereby the agency funded, trained, and maintained an army of jihadists to overthrow the Assad government.
	In early 2022, however, she left the CIA to take up a position managing Meta's trust and safety system.
	The Vermans are just two of dozens of CIA agents now running Facebook's worldwide operations that were profiled in previous Mint Press investigation.
	Meet the ex-CIA agents deciding Facebook's content policy.
	I mean, these guys are rock stars.
	Rock stars in showing you how it works.
	Facebook and TikTok are far from outliers, however.
	It is sometimes difficult to find a senior Google employee who was not previously a member of the Central Intelligence Agency.
	Twitter has been hiring an alarming number of FBI agents to run its operations, and Reddit mysteriously appointed hawkish Atlantic Council member Jessica Ashush to become its director of operations despite her having little to no relevant experience.
	While it was once seen as an endless source of cheap labor and potential ally over the past decade, Washington's position on China has radically changed.
	Beginning with the Obama administration's 2012 pivot to Asia, the US began preparing to go to war with Beijing.
	To date, it has encircled China with 400 military bases and attempted to form what many have called an Asian NATO, a military alliance seeking to counter Beijing.
	One willing participant is Australia, which has recently agreed under considerable American pressure to purchase a fleet of nuclear submarines, potentially costing a quarter trillion U.S. dollars.
	This is all despite the fact that China is Australia's largest trading partner.
	The United States has used sanctions and other acts of economic warfare in its attempt to slow down China's seemingly inevitable rise.
	Last year, it banned Chinese semiconductor chips from America products and blocked electronics giant Huawei from operating in the U.S. That was a lot of hype, too, the Huawei thing, for sure.
	Furthermore, it has engaged in a massive propaganda war against Beijing, painting the country as a menace.
	Domestically, the propaganda has worked.
	Only five years ago, a majority of Americans held positive opinions about China.
	Today, the figure has crashed to an all-time low of 15%.
	And again, I don't like Chinese models.
	I don't like the authoritarianism.
	I don't like the digital slavery.
	I don't like what they did during COVID-1984.
	A lot of issues.
	A lot of issues. But, again, I look in my own backyard and see what's going on.
	It's like, seems like some collusion at the top.
	Rockefeller, Kissinger style.
	Just saying. Washington has supported all manner of separatist groups in China, including in
	Xinjiang, Tibet, Hong Kong and Taiwan, and attempted to highlight China's mainstream
	mistreatments of minority populations on a world stage. Its efforts have largely fallen on deaf
	ears internationally as countries in the global south continue to pursue even deeper economic,
	cultural and political ties with the emerging superpower.
	Many nations see Chinese cooperation coming with comparatively few strings attached and no threat of a military response, unlike working with the United States.
	Even more concerning for war planners in Washington is the rapid advancement of the de-dollarization trend worldwide, and that is going on.
	In past weeks, countries around the world have announced that they are moving away from
	using the dollar for international trade, a move that would drastically weaken the US
	economically and reduce its ability to use sanctions as a means of coercion.
	It is in this light, then, that we should see the latest TikTok furor in Congress.
	A global empire is on the decline and is desperately attempting to maintain its hold over the worldwide
	means of communication.
	Really, I think it's the hold of the narrative of the population as it implodes, because
	those at the top know what's going on.
	It's a planned implosion.
	This isn't necessarily an empire just crumbling because of its hubris.
	No, this is America destroyed by design, just like AJ said all those years ago.
	Made a film about it.
	He was correct.
	That's what's going down in Chinatown.
	Just saying. Oh, where were we?
	TikTok certainly does record an alarming amount of personal data on its users, and there needs to be a debate on the ethics and implications of such practices.
	But this data model is a little different.
	It is a little different.
	Yeah, it's not even different than from its competitors.
	It's the same damn thing. That's the point that has to be made there.
	It's the same damn thing.
	With billions of users worldwide, big social media companies hold vastly more power to influence global public opinion than even the largest of old media empires.
	The US clearly understands that he who controls the algorithm controls minds.
	In decades gone by, the State Department and the CIA spent fortunes creating networks of hundreds of paid informants Today, however, for the U.S. government, it is much quicker and simpler to place a few operatives into key positions in big tech companies that can have a much greater effect.
	Thus, Americans should not fear that TikTok is some sort of Chinese communist Trojan horse.
	It is already being run by the State Department.
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