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One week in Trump 2.0, and I'd love to talk about it with nobody other than Richie McGinnis, independent journalist and author of Riot Die.
You can check him out at pigeonpress.com as well.
He is the man.
He has been on the ground.
He's in the belly of the beast.
We're going to get his take because he's been on the ground with January 6th and beyond for some time.
This is a cannot miss episode.
Buckle up and get ready to make sense of the madness.
And we are back.
Richie, first of all, thank you so much for being here.
First week, so here's the deal.
You know, I run with the black pill crowd a lot.
In fact, right after this, I'm doing a panel with the likes of The Last American Vagabond, my good friend Derek Brose, Steve from Sloan Newsday.
I don't think Whitney Webb's going to be there, but she's part of the group.
Corbett is part of the group.
And I'm sure they're going to be excessively critical of the Trump administration and in this first week.
And look, that's there.
But with these same people, some of them directly and some of them like them, I have continually heard the debate there was no difference between a Trump and a Biden 2.0 or a Harris.
And I said, no, there are tangible, real things.
And I'm sorry.
He delivered big time this week on those tangible real things.
Mass pardon of J6 does not happen under a Democratic administration.
That's a tangible, real thing.
That's for sure.
You think Ross Ulbricht is getting out of jail?
No.
I mean, I was at the Libertarian Conference in D.C. about six months ago, and it was very interesting because they were handing out free Ross signs.
And actually, I didn't even have tickets to the event.
I didn't have credentials or anything.
And I just was waiting in line.
I was like, hey, can I get some tickets?
And they were like, who are you?
And I was like, oh, well, I was at January 6th, but I went in and followed everybody in because I don't trust the feds to tell me what happened.
And the Libertarian was like, here you go.
Here's a ticket.
So I was in there and there was a lot of protest on behalf of Ross at the event.
And they were like booing Trump.
And it was just very surprising to see the Libertarians yelling down the potential, you know, the Republican candidate for president.
One of the most popular, well, listen, listen, let's talk about that.
And that's another strength of Trump.
So the day before he pardoned Ross, because he said he was going to do it day one, he did it day two.
I said if he did it day two, he would be forgiven.
But we played that original clip.
Now, number one, he's playing into a much smaller room than he normally does, but he still sees the value in it.
Number two, the guy is treated like a rock star at all of his political rallies because in their minds he is, right?
Not that way at the Libertarian Conference.
I mean, booed like the bad guy in wrestling.
So if you like the wrestling metaphor, it was there.
Obviously, listen, here's the thing.
Trump is obviously not that savvy on anything that is biotech, that is blockchain, that is technologically advanced, other than what he's told.
I mean, he told them that we should be making all the Bitcoin in America.
And he told them, have fun playing with your Bitcoin.
He obviously doesn't grasp exactly how crypto and Bitcoin itself work saying that.
It's not a coin you can hold in your hand.
Unless it's in a cold wallet.
You can't make it in one place.
It's a whole thing.
But okay, he still went up there just like Bobby Kennedy did, by the way.
You know what I mean?
And there was protests there and went for their vote.
And I would say he probably got it.
And deservedly so, because guess what?
He did release Ross Ulbricht.
There are quite a few other things that I'm happy to see, but let's focus on January 6th because a lot of people who are mainstream Republicans also have said, oh, these blanket pardons are bad.
People committed violence.
That's the new attempt at a talking point.
But when you have a situation where the feds have entrapped so many and there has been no transparency and the investigation destroyed evidence, and for the first time ever, we've had a massive pre-partings in pre-pardons, including the people on that committee.
What else do you do?
What are your thoughts?
Well, I think, you know, he wanted to hit the ground running, and the pardons were blanket.
So everybody from the guy who walked in and carried the lectern 39 feet to the people who fought their way in and were trying to crank open the house doors and/or, you know, were at the tip of that spear of breaking the police line.
Because, well, you know, both narratives can be true at the same time, which is some people walked in to open doors and others fought their way in.
So that blanket pardon right there, I think Trump didn't want to examine all the cases individually because he wanted to just undo, you know, hit the ground running with all these executive orders and really satisfy a lot of those campaign promises right off the bat.
So the blanket pardon, I mean, it didn't come as too much of a surprise for me because he had already promised that leading up to the election.
And so that's what it is.
But I think it actually does a disservice to the people who were nonviolent because they're still convicted technically.
And it's just, you know, okay, well, you're forgiven and you can leave.
But that conviction is still there.
It wasn't overturned.
So I did talk to some people who were like, you know, out of it's there's a process where you can appeal.
There's a process where you can say, look, the justice system, you basically have to apologize to me.
So now that it's been absolved, that opportunity goes out the window.
And it's like, in the eyes of the public, a lot of people are still like, well, you were convicted, you know.
Yeah, but in the eyes of the public, especially the court of public opinion, there are going to be those that essentially have their viewpoint, right?
There's just no amount of evidence that's going to turn their way, especially if they are religiously, politically aligned with some agenda, with some political party.
That's why I don't stay out of it because I want to hold this administration to account.
Let me make it very clear.
As far as the first week, yeah, a lot of it has been unicorns, rainbows, leprechauns, and pots of gold.
I'm loving it.
But, you know, at the same time, when you look at the Stargate project and Larry Ellison and mRNA being not only on the table for tailor design medicines, but I would imagine they're going to expand the cancer moonshot research.
That is worrisome to me.
You know what I mean?
And that's, you know, Cancer Moonshot, at least Bannon has spoken out against.
Listen, a technology, like anything else, it's a hammer, right?
It can build a house, but it can break open ahead.
I don't trust the military-industrial complex.
I'm not smart enough to figure out bio-nanotechnology.
I can't get under a little microscope and a dick and dick-and-do and know what they're about to inject in me, etc.
It would take a great amount of trust to utilize any of these medications in my life, given the past history.
So, what are your thoughts on that aspect?
Because, you know, Trump has acknowledged mass corruption within the government and even made good on the declassification process.
Again, the documents aren't declassified, but he has now signed an executive order that literally within the next two weeks, we're going to be getting RFK, MLK, and JFK, and supposedly everything.
Yeah, whatever hasn't been put in the paper shredder yet over the last 50-something years.
But here's the thing.
Here's what's interesting about that.
What I don't think people understand outside of the assassinations themselves, which is very important, Sir Hans Sirhan and the Kennedy assassination, the RFK, have overt tones of mind control.
Okay.
Yeah, that one stinks the most for sure.
As far as like the actual, you know, the circumstances of the shooting, Sir Hansirhan had this small caliber pistol, and everybody who was there reports way more shots than he even had in the capacity of the weapon were fired, not to mention Kennedy, you know, getting hit from the back.
Well, again, we know that these mind control projects are going on in that time period because we've already gotten some declassification there.
We also know that, for instance, a lot of the documents that could still be classified are wide-ranging and on the peripheral of the case.
What do I mean by that?
When they did that document dump of JFK, there was that very odd Hitler document that supposedly showed a picture of Hitler post-World War II.
It talked about an FBI team with contacts, him being in South America, et cetera.
That was really on the edge.
Now, I've seen a document that is completely disputed, but I believe to be real, and I guess we're going to find out whether it's real or not, that says that, you know, Oswald, who was trained by the CIA in this document through the Office of Naval Intelligence, while he was over in Russia, they may have done some type of mind control experiments on him, you know, for access or whatever.
You know, I don't want to butcher it.
But I think that we're going to find out a lot more about Oswald and possibly those programs as well.
And that kind of bleeds into what happens with RFK.
Who knows what we're going to find out?
MLK.
But like you, I'm also skeptical what hasn't hit the shredder yet.
I'm pretty skeptical because I think if that smoking gun existed in document form, then it would have been shredded a long time ago.
Like, for example, I mean, at the very least, at the very most recent, the last time that Trump threatened to release these documents and actually ended up balking.
So that was in 2017.
And somebody talked him down.
So there's something there.
And the question is, is between then and now, what's still there and what's going to be redacted?
I mean, by my logic, all those people are either dead or no longer in the agency or any of these federal organizations.
So who are you protecting by redacting this stuff?
You know what?
I think there's still maybe a handful of people on the peripheral alive.
I'm not talking about quote-unquote gunmen or main plotters, but some people live into their 90s.
It's rarer and rarer these days.
And if somebody was, you know, again, during that time period, best and brightest, youngest, you're recruited at 18.
You could be in some kind of black operation, 21, 22.
I don't think that's why they're hiding it because they could have easily just blanket done that and then, you know, black those people still alive out.
At the same time, investigative journalists may have found them out.
But I think it's the establishments that they're trying to continue to maintain.
And that goes back to my point of me not trusting the military-industrial complex.
Because as you know, when you're looking at something like the Kendi assassination, you know, before the broadcast, we were talking about federal assets.
Well, there were a lot of people in the mafia that were federal assets, right?
Oh, yeah.
You know, the same thing working with the Central Intelligence Agency.
And then when you look at programs like MKUltra, it's not just academia, right?
We know about McGill University and depatterning, but it's what eventually morphs into big pharma as well and these pharmaceuticals.
So, you know, I don't know that this system is ever to be trusted again unless we do get that blanket declassification.
One of the assassinations during that time period that we didn't get talked about, Malcolm X. I'd like to see that too.
But even then, you know, he's talked about even inauguration day, other areas of interest.
And I know the hype is around an imaginary Epstein list, never going to happen.
But 9-11, you know, there's a real event that now is 20 plus years old.
And our entire foreign domestic policy was based on for a very long time.
And even though you never mentioned, there's that meme that's out on out there right now of George Bush at the inauguration, like looking around and smiling and, you know, basically implying the joke is that he's smiling because Trump is releasing all these documents, but 9-11 isn't listed among them.
I'm breathing a sigh of relief, at least for the moment.
I've always said this.
I don't think George Bush knew anything.
I don't think he knew a damn thing.
That guy wanted to be the president of the Major League Baseball Association.
That's what he wanted to be.
This is a real thing.
His work was with the Texas Rangers.
That's what he wanted to do.
Unfortunately, his brother, not Jeb, was the Bernie Madoff of his day.
And his political career was derailed.
And they fast-tracked him into the governor and then into the presidency.
I mean, that's a real thing.
Are those dynasties over at this point?
That's another question because, you know, we certainly do have the social climbers.
The last time we saw the, you know, obviously the Bushes, but you could say even the Clintons are an extension of them because they obviously used and worked with them to get to where they were, even if they were opposition at one point.
Who's going to vote for Chelsea, though?
That's my point.
That's what I'm saying.
Is it over?
Like, who is going to vote for Chelsea?
There might be a vote.
But I would think of it more in terms of, you know, I had high aspirations when Obama ran for office.
And when I moved to DC in 2008, I was obviously a naive 19-year-old kid.
But largely, those eight years of Obama with Hillary Clinton as the head of his State Department and basically managing his entire foreign policy, you have to ask the question of who's not necessarily the next in the bloodline, but the inheritor of that dynasty and of that legacy of the Uniparty, right?
Alan Dershowitz Scoop00:05:33
So I guess that's an open question.
You know, like AOC would be a good example of somebody who's primed and ready as a young person to step in.
And it's, you know, obviously she's part of this whole fear machine of everybody who's shouting from both sides, you know, Nazi, Nazi, Nazi, Kami, Kami, Kami.
So I don't know.
It looks like we have more of that in the future.
And I think that's largely a byproduct of the Trump era, but this stuff existed long years before Trump with the Tea Party.
I saw it all boiling up when I was working in media and DC in 2014 and the culture wars and populism bubbling up on both sides with Bernie Sanders.
So I don't think it's just Trump.
It's definitely a byproduct more of the digital age and of just 40 years of the Uniparty really screwing over the middle class.
That's what everybody forgets.
It's like, oh, let's look for an answer.
Well, it's the economy, stupid.
Yeah, absolutely.
Well, you know what?
Don't let's not count out a Chelsea rebrand.
And when we're talking about the Clintons and we're talking about extensions, I'm just telling, hey, look, man, they got Zuck out there right now with gold chains and broccoli hair, and he's the new hip guy.
Alex Soros did recently marry Huma Abedeen.
Yeah, which is crazy.
Yeah, and again, Huma Abedeen, very much in that circle we were just discussing.
Yeah, married to Anthony Weiner.
He plays hockey with a couple of my buddies in New York.
He's a goalie.
I'll bet he's a goalie.
I bet he likes to catch one.
Goalies are weird, dude.
Goalies are always weird.
Hockey goalies, weirdest people on the planet.
Weirdest.
Just positioned a normal be in a prison cell alone for what he has done.
What we know that he has done with underage teenage girls.
We got to take a break.
We got to take a break.
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You know, just because you said that, like, that could be like a little byline tabloid scoop.
But I got like the craziest kind of tabloid scoop yesterday.
Not that any of it will go viral.
You know, it's so hard out here to even get your stories out there.
But I had the biographer, authorized biographer of Alan Dershowitz on, right?
And he's got a new book called Legal Gladiator, had massive access, not just to Alan, but you name who he defended over the last, you know, 40 years is still alive from Tyson on.
He interviewed all those people too.
And so we get towards the end of the interview, and this kid's young, a lot younger than you and I, my friend.
Like, I look at him and I'm thinking 24, 25.
He actually called me because he gave me such a huge scoop afterwards.
I'm like, how old are you?
Kid's 21.
Okay.
He's worked on this book since he was 18, basically for three years right out of school while he was first starting college.
And so he's very professional, very like business-like, you know, focused.
I asked him about Les Wexner because he's kind of been open about Epstein and maybe his brother not loving Alan and all these other things.
He goes, you know, I don't know much about the Les Wexner case.
He did not give me an interview, et cetera.
But he says that Alan Dershowitz, he put it in the book, and this is why I put it out there.
Said the rumor was there was a rumor.
Okay, so Dershowitz isn't saying he knew this happened that the reason that Epstein was getting over on Les Wexner was that they had a homosexual relationship and that Epstein was blackmailing him through that.
Now, whether that's true or not, and that may be thrown out disinfo again, rumor town, that might be Dershowitz being slick.
I don't know.
That's a huge story.
That's a huge story.
I think we're going to have a lot more of those kind of, you know, everything that's happening with Diddy.
It doesn't seem that crazy, you know, where these guys who are flexing as the ultimate ladies men are doing different things behind closed doors and a lot of that being tied to power and having power over somebody because you now have this dark secret on them.
Cultural Pockets in Europe00:02:29
I mean, it's the same thing that happened with the Catholic Church over successive generations of institutionalization.
This is nothing new under the sun.
This is what happens when societies become corrupt.
It happened in Rome.
You know, it happened in Greece.
It happened in Persia.
It's like you could keep going down the list.
It's like depravity comes with imperial success.
So I hope we have a rebirth.
Maybe it's possible.
I'm hoping so.
America's different from the rest of the empires.
I definitely think that.
That's a good question.
I do think we're different because, you know, I hate using this word because it's been butchered, but we are kind of culturally diverse because we're so big, you know, states.
And that goes absolutely.
Well, you know, you travel.
Culturally and ethnically.
And I think and religiously.
And it's an experiment.
And that's part of what the book captures is like, okay, this is like people get, you know, either America's great or it was great or America was always evil.
And you can't have, you can't admit the sins of your forefathers and also accept that this is the best place.
Like, I do that, but that's rare, I think, in this day and age because everything is so polarized.
And it's like, look, America definitely ain't perfect, but it's the best we got.
Well, let me get back because you said, you know, the ethnic part.
But here's the difference.
When I say that we're all so culturally diverse, it almost doesn't matter what your ethnicity or your religion is.
Let's say you live outside of Chicago.
You're all going to share at least a large portion of the Muslims, the Jews, the Christians, the blacks, the whites, the Asians.
You like the Bears.
You like the Cubs.
You're wearing that hat.
You have that cultural significance that expands beyond the color of your skin, your religion, or your ethnicity.
You know what I mean?
So we have those cultural pockets.
And it's not just around sports teams, right?
It's around the economics there.
In other words, you look at something like Pittsburgh for the longest time.
It was a steel town, right?
And it had that in common, aka the Steelers that would play off it.
So you have these cultural pockets that are very real and different that you see in Europe.
But those are, you know, Europe, which is a much smaller area, they're broken down into countries, you know?
Yeah.
Georgia is not a country.
Signs of System Breakdown00:10:10
California is not a country.
In fact, California and New York are extremely diverse states when you get outside of the major cities as well.
Can you kind of speak to that?
Yeah, look at the 2024 election.
I think that everybody views Donald Trump and his ascendancy, or not everybody, but most of the people in media view his ascendancy as a sign that the system is broken.
But I have precisely the opposite viewpoint, which is that somebody who casts himself as an outsider, we can argue about whether or not he actually is an outsider, having Roy Cohen as one of his mentors, but he casts himself as an outsider.
He's able to make it to the top of the primary.
He's able to win in 2016.
He's able to win again in 24 and take the Republican Party from the Party of the South and the Party of Country Club Republicans back to the working class and getting a much larger share of minority vote.
That shows the shifting of the sands that happens in American politics, I think, is a sign that our system does, over a long enough timeline, work.
So the Republican Party, all the minorities were voting Republican after the Civil War, and the Republicans dominated politics for 30 years.
And then starting with William Jennings Bryan and eventually ending up with FDR, the Democrat Party was able to rebrand itself as instead of the Party of the South, but the Party of the Working Class.
And so now we're looking at that transition swing back in the other direction.
And I think everybody laments the two-party system, but history shows that it does have the ability to change its platforms according to the demands of the voters, at least on a long enough timeline.
Well, look, I think that, you know, you talk about the Unit Party.
I think, number one, Trump was a disruptor, right?
Like, there's no doubt about it.
No doubt.
I mean, you look at the Romney Party, all right, against Obama, and it does, it's not even, it doesn't even resemble it.
Now, there are holdouts, and there are a lot of establishment people in there because we've got a lot of people in Congress.
Yeah, look at all the neocons who jumped ship for Kamala this time around.
We need to, and here's where maybe we can get into some of the things that we should be a little bit skeptical about.
Like you said, the declassification stuff.
We have a system where the last guy just did pre-pardons against some pretty big criminals.
That's a bad sign.
All right.
Yeah.
Because that precedent has been set.
Will Trump do it somewhere in his presidency?
Let's hope not.
Let's not count it out either.
All right.
So we have that on the table.
That needs to be butchered.
We also have a Supreme Court that didn't look at the evidence in 2020 saying there was no standing.
Something has to be done there.
And when we talk about election integrity and reform, we got to get these machines out of here.
You know what I mean?
Period.
Well, look at the special counsel that we had with Russia and with Robert Mueller with Russian collusion.
And it's just, it really is.
I mean, it's the last eight years have the fact that Biden took office in 2021, I think actually long term was a good thing for America because it just showed the duplicity.
I mean, everything down to the classified documents scandal, all of a sudden finding him in his garage.
And, you know, with the southern border, you know, everybody calling Trump crazy for wanting to build a wall.
I've been to the southern border many times and I saw the wall going up.
And then I saw literally the day that I went in March of 2021, the wall, all the contracts were still paid.
So the contractors were sitting in their trailers getting paid to twiddle their thumbs while the wall was sitting outside and just, you know, sitting and baking in the desert sun.
And all wall production was ceased.
No more building, not another inch, Biden said.
And that he made good on that promise.
And look at what happened.
So the fact that it actually played out that way, I think if Trump had taken office in 2021, then you wouldn't have had the same kind of reckoning that we did, which is just like, ultimately, history has a way of bringing the truth forward in a way that, you know, whatever way you want to vote in the short term might not necessarily, you might not think of that at the time.
For me, like I said, there are substantial differences.
I think that this was the first time that the general public, first of all, a lot of them, for the very first time, had a very sour taste in their mouth about the government because of the COVID-19 44 nightmare that was ensuing, period.
You'd had a lot of people that were just kind of going to going along to get along.
Maybe they were worried about the war or economics, but they still owned their home.
They were still paying their mortgage and their kids still didn't have to go overseas.
And if they did, there was a good chance they were coming back, right?
So, not as mad, but when you started shutting down all these small businesses throughout the country, you really made people irate.
When you started saying, Hey, you're going to have to take this, even if you don't want to take it, to go out to eat, to have a job, etc.
People really were over the table.
You get this, you get some riots.
That's what you get when you do that.
Well, and then you install a dementia patient, all right?
Because you know, I'll say it, I sure think they stole the damn election.
I mean, you look at the fact that 10 million votes disappeared from 2020 to 2024.
I know, I know, the mail-in ballots and blah, blah, blah.
I support anybody who wants to ask those questions because they were allowed to be asked in 2016, 2017 for four years.
I know, I mean, people forget how long that was dragged out for.
Yeah, and how breathless.
Listen, we got big problems.
That's why we got to get rid of the damn machines, right?
How do we have accountability if we don't have a paper ballot with a real signature on it?
Like, even when I went to vote in Iowa, right?
They got the damn machines that I'm signing on.
That's not my signature.
No, I did paper in D.C.
Yeah, I'm like, They're like, Do you want paper or electronic?
I'm like, Paper, please.
It's like, Yeah, when they ask you paper or plastic at the grocery store, like paper.
The funny thing is, I've got the paper when I'm actually filling it out.
Like, I after I sign my name, but nowhere on the paper ballot do I sign my name.
It's the weirdest thing.
They give me something that's already etched out in the top with like my digital signature on it.
So, I want a paper ballot that I actually sign.
Okay, let's let's start there.
I want voter ID, we got to get that done.
Reasonable, yeah.
I mean, that's it.
Like, like, I think it's pretty damn reasonable.
And the ability to audit it after the fact and eliminate votes that are not valid that may have gotten through, which will absolutely happen.
I still think that we had problems in local elections.
I have a really hard time believing that, say, Carrie Lake can't get in there twice.
She's a really popular figure, and the other person can't go to their again their sports stadium without getting booed out of the house.
It's not a great sign.
I mean, think about Joe Biden when they tried to roll him out to one major league baseball game in the beginning of his presidency.
The Washington Nationals booed out of the house never again.
Never again.
Trump's going to be cheered everywhere.
Like, look what they did with Kamala, too.
You know, they pulled Biden at the last minute, in my estimation, specifically, so they could buy for Kate, so they could bypass the entire primary system.
And obviously, we saw some tipping of the thumb on the scale with Bernie Sanders and the WikiLeaks emails in 2016.
So, but again, over a long enough timeline, people start to figure it out and they're like, wait a second, I didn't pick this person.
And you, you know, you did that back in 2016.
And it only takes, you can only step on your electorate for so long before they're like, wait, what is it you've done for me?
You know, if you look at cities like Baltimore and stuff, like people have to start asking the questions of like, wait a second, what is it you do here?
A little office space humor.
We're going to take a break.
We're going to come back.
I want to ask the question: whether or not the Democratic Party can have that moment that the Republicans are having right now.
Look, I don't like buying into the new golden age, et cetera, et cetera.
But a lot of people are bending the knee, at least jumping the ship in some way or another.
Back with more making sense of the madness after this.
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So, Richie, that is the question.
Can the Democrats be flipped as much as the Republicans?
Because look, again, the Republicans ain't perfect, right?
Chappelle On Middle East Disruption00:11:20
I'm also extremely happy that it seems like we're de-escalating these wars, but still a lot of the conservative talking points drive me nuts when I have to hear about people protesting what's going on in the Middle East as pro-Hamas, blah, blah, blah.
I just had a former CIA field officer and NSA expert on here giving the line about how we have to support Ukraine and Ukraine's a democracy and we got to support NATO.
And I'm like, oh.
Yeah.
And if you're anti-foreign war, then you're pro-Putin, right?
So it's these terminologies.
It's like anti-Israel is different from pro-Hamas.
And I'm not even anti-Israel.
I've been to those protests, and that's clearly a distinction that's muddied intentionally in conservative media.
But it's, I mean, most of those people out there aren't some of them certainly are supporting Hamas, but most of them are out there because they feel what's going on in Gaza is a humanitarian crisis, right?
And maybe we just don't want dead people in the Middle East everywhere.
You know, maybe we don't want Lebanon popping off or Iran popping off.
Well, I lived in the Middle East and I studied Arabic for four years and Middle Eastern history.
And in studying it, I realized we ain't fixing that.
So maybe I'll go back to America and work on that instead because, you know, Obama promised to pull all the troops out of Iraq by 2010 in an op-ed in the Washington Post in 2008.
And I was hoodwinked by that, totally hoodwinked by that whole message of we're going to change our foreign policy abroad.
And I guess Trump is really the only one who we've seen at least make, I mean, Biden did try to pull the troops out of Afghanistan, but that was a complete disaster that basically capitulated all of, similar to what we did in the chast.
Well, I feel like now in Brexit in Seattle, hey, let's just abandon it and just give it over to these guys.
Yeah, but in retrospect, you look at that move and now you see what happened in Syria.
How many of those weapons they used in that last push in Syria came out of Afghanistan?
That's a real question I have.
Well, Syria is a whole nother.
Well, that's what I'm saying.
Maybe it is a whole nother, but or it's more of this disruption in the Middle East.
I mean, you.
Well, I was about to say it's part of the same agenda, which is you'd rather have the devil that you know in these power vacuums in the Middle East because it gives you an excuse to continue to project your power there.
So if you have the Taliban running around with AKs and, you know, they don't know how to fly jets and they don't know, you know, so the same thing in Syria.
They'd rather have a bunch of obviously dangerous Islamists, but dangerous, not to the extent where they're the Iranians and they're using centrifuges to make nuclear material.
Or have an Air Force or have a Navy or have those type of things.
And again, you look at who they just put in power in that last push.
You know, this is a guy that was captured by the United States and in an internment camp and then part of al-Nusra and al-Qaeda.
Okay.
Yeah, Jabhar al-Nusra, that was exactly.
I watched after I graduated from studying Arabic, I watched, I was working at a lobbying group lobbying on behalf of the Syrian opposition called Syrian Support Group.
This is in late 20, right when the Syrian Civil War start popped off.
And I watched as all these secular generals were defecting from the Syrian military and saying, you know, we want to form a secular government and through proxies like Saudi Arabia and Qatar, we're funding effectively, not directly, but allowing for groups like Jabhar al-Nusra to take charge of the opposition because they're a more effective counterbalance to Assad, right?
Because they're radical and because they're willing to resort to these tactics.
So if we want Russia out of there, we want Assad out of there, then they can be easily controlled.
You have a constant flow of weapons that you're selling in conflict.
So you're going to have this stream of income and they're never going to get to the point where they can actually oppose you militarily on a large scale that maybe Iran could, right?
So in that sense, it makes sense to these people.
Yeah, now, of course, the Saudis, they don't want another powerful state in the region.
Why would that, you know, Turkey, they don't want a powerful, I mean, Syria is majority Sunni.
So those Sunni powers do not want another Sunni power in the region.
Even though people say things like, I mean, I just said secular government, ultimately, that's kind of a misnomer in the Middle East because anything that's quote unquote secular is still tribal.
And the tribal divisions, sectarian divisions, go back even deeper than the schism in Islam.
So they go back thousands of years.
And those kind of divisions, you can't just undo those.
And that's why I think America is so special compared to the old world because we do have a fresh start here to a certain extent.
So again, kind of going back to that with the Democratic Party, you know, one of the, you talked about them circumventing the primary process, and I totally agree with you.
Yeah.
In other words, if they had let Kennedy run as a Democrat, he would have done the same thing or something similar, in my opinion, that Trump did to the other candidates, at least the mainline ones.
I'd argue, you know, people like Rand Paul held their own, but didn't really have the time to expand upon their message.
But people like Ted Cruz, et cetera, those, you know, run-of-the-mill Republicans, he dominated them.
RFK Jr. would have done the same exact thing to everybody they put up there, from the Amy Klobakars to the Elizabeth Warrens.
It would have been embarrassing, right?
Whether or not Tulsi Gabbard jumped ship at that point and runs again, if she's not on the stage, there's nobody on the stage.
And really, if she's on the stage, that might be a plus because then you have an actual ticket of RFK Jr. and Gabbard or when she eviscerated Kamala during the, you know, Kamala was like polling lower than anybody on that stage.
And then they brought her in as the, you know, diversity, whatever term they're using these days because it's not DEI anymore.
No.
Well, here's the thing.
Now, now Tulsi's DNI, right?
And it looks like it's going to be RFK Jr. HHS, which is revolutionary.
That could have disrupted the party on every level.
So, maybe they were willing to take the L in the presidential if they couldn't fix it.
Looks that way, right?
Because they didn't want anybody coming in for that primary process.
In the next two to three years, is there anybody that can pierce that party, get on that stage?
It doesn't matter if they win or lose, if it's Republican 2.0, but disrupt that party enough.
Because I don't see anybody in Congress or the Senate right now as it ain't going to be Hakeem Jeffries.
You know, it ain't going to be any members of the squad.
They may want AOC, but boy, shouldn't even know what she's talking about.
They want AOC.
Yeah.
Is there, you know, and Andrew Yang in a rebrand, maybe there's look at what Trump did with the younger vote, right?
So they need a counterbalance to that.
They need somebody who appeals to the younger audience.
I think, like, Trump came from outside the radar.
That would be, you know, Mark Cuban, I don't think would actually be able to succeed because he's, he's too, he comes, you know, he's a white guy.
He doesn't satisfy their current, where the Democrat Party currently is as far as identity politics.
So I don't really, you know, over the next four years, I think AOC is the answer that I can see on the landscape.
What about Dave Chappelle?
That's necessarily, that would be wild.
That would be wild.
I mean, if we're really talking outsiders and somebody that I would pose has some genuine bones in his body, some common sense.
I mean, he doesn't live in the Hollyweird machine.
He's got his family out in a rural town in Ohio.
He's not afraid to challenge the current norms and be controversial.
He's not afraid to upset people.
I don't think he's bloodthirsty, right?
He's talked now several times about how, you know, you look around and all of a sudden it's your generation that has to do something.
He backed that Democratic candidate in the midterms where he went around with him and toured with him.
That's a disruptor, you know?
Yeah.
You know, and Trump's as much of an entertainer.
Now, Chappelle doesn't have billions, but probably got a couple hundred mil.
Or the kind of like managerial acumen, I guess you would call it.
Like Trump has always claimed that, you know, like in books like Art of the Deal, he talks about his big real estate empire and he's he's the guy running it.
So I guess that would be the question.
But I agree.
I think any of those outsiders, whether it's somebody who's just throwing a wrench into the machine like RFK would have done if he hadn't been prevented from getting anywhere near the Democratic machine, I view that as a positive because there is an aspect of creative destruction that's happening in our political landscape right now where you do have to kind of come up with new ways of doing things because the old ones are just not working anymore, right?
So it's not that the old paradigm is being torn down so much as looking elsewhere for people to build something that's different.
You know, I could see, and listen, the reason I said Chappelle is because I think he's a genuine human being.
And I can't think of, you know, you mentioned Cuban.
The reason we mentioned Cuban is because we've seen him so many times, not only just in the media and on the news, but he's got the Shark Tank show.
He's not tweeting as much after the election.
That's for sure.
I could see The Rock trying, but I think that too many people, you know, as many wrestling fans and Holly Weirdos there are out there, Hollyweird's being destroyed as we speak.
You know what I mean?
There's a huge, there's already been a huge cultural shift away from a lot of that.
But now that LA is really burned, I think that there's actually going to be a shift in the way films are going to be made, the centralized studio system.
I think a lot of that is going to change as well.
So I don't know if he's a viable guy.
I just can't, I don't think he has the cultural acumen, IQ, to make it through these debates.
That's why I think Chappelle is interesting and comedians are interesting because you have to be so deeply ingrained in the culture and the places where culture, you know, is totally paradoxical or is totally hypocritical, right?
So the fact that Dave Chappelle has that awareness, I think he would crush it on stage.
And even just to see him on stage would be incredible with all these like, you know, buttoned-up Elizabeth Warrens of the world and be like, what was that, Pocahontas?
You know, doing what Trump does, but from the Democratic side, and I do think that the Democratic Party needs that kind of shock to the system because it doesn't look to me like that gravy train is changing tracks anytime soon.
You know, and if you could find somebody that was like an heir to Bernie Sanders that went around as a vice president, that would go a long way.
And like you said, it's not just the acumen, it's being quick on your feet, right?
And there's comedians are quick, man.
They do that crowd work.
Like you said, like you said, you know, quick with a back snap.
I think he is interesting.
Let's hope we don't have to get there.
I mean, I would love to believe.
TikTok and the Wizard of Oz00:06:37
Don't get me wrong.
I want to see that party change.
I want to see a lot of the Republican Party continue to change.
You know, for instance, we got to take a break, and maybe this is a good segue for that break.
The TikTok thing.
All right.
I think it's bad to just ban things outright that you say have a foreign influence.
As we know, in this country, there have been plenty of things out there that we've said have foreign influences that turn out not to be what we said.
It's the ultimate censorship tool against any type of technology or platform that could rise out of a system that's supposed to be capitalistic and merit-based.
I would argue it's not, of course.
But that's a huge issue.
And I haven't made a TikTok yet.
I've been holding out that the app was clearly intended for 14-year-old girls in the beginning.
It has somewhat changed.
I don't know what I'm going to do.
We're going to talk about it.
We're going to talk about Trump, TikTok, technology, and beyond.
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Again, The way I found out about TikTok, other than all the terrible ads before it was a big app, because it was literally on every single like non-paid app or page, you'd see something for it.
Where my nieces, who I'd bought phones for, started, you know, they were at the time 10 and 8, something like that, you know, started propping their phones up and dancing around and looking at it.
I'm like, what are you doing?
What the hell is going on here?
And I was told about it and I'm like, what?
Obviously, me and my sister had a conversation about it.
And TikTok was banned.
I don't know if they use it today, but at least I've never seen them make a TikTok.
They're 15 and 14 at this point.
I would imagine they make some TikToks, but it seems like they're more on Snap or Instagram.
I hate it all.
I don't have a Snapchat.
I've never had that.
I don't use an Instagram.
I hate it all.
But I do.
I mean, running a business on those platforms, you become pretty cynical pretty quickly.
As you should.
Knowing how to appeal to that algorithm.
You appeal to this part of your brain, not this part of your brain.
You can leave it at that.
I first heard of TikTok in Wizard of Oz.
TikTok is one of the, in Frank L. Baum, it's actually a series of books, The Wizard of Oz.
And TikTok, one of the books is called like The Adventures of TikTok.
And TikTok is this machine in the land of Oz that gains sentience and is like this.
It's not the Tin Man, but it's more like of a mechanical complex robot.
So that's where I first heard of TikTok.
Was that in the scary mind control sequel, Return to Oz?
That robot wasn't TikTok.
That one is wild.
Yeah, that's probably, I guess you're right.
I actually didn't even watch that because I didn't want to get propaganda.
Well, have you never watched all the books?
So I went as a for people that don't know, I actually went to that as a kid, not because the way they played it up, I think it came out in 86 or 87.
It's like wicked now, too.
Well, they played it up as a sequel to The Wizard of Oz, which it kind of was.
But if you actually watch it, they literally strap her down in a mental institution in the very beginning of it and do mind control on her.
And then all the characters that are doing the mind control in the hospital are in Oz in this new Oz.
And I've done big breakdowns with it.
Me and Jay Dyer have gone into it.
You can watch some of the breakdowns of it.
But if you've never seen Return to Oz, I'll have to check it out now.
I've read all the books.
It was a kids movie, bro.
And yes, TikTok is absolutely in there.
It's not the 10.
The movie is crazy, too, because the book itself, Wizard of Oz, was written by Frank Elbaum during William Jennings Bryan, or right after his populist movement that got him the, at 36 years old, he was a dark horse candidate who won the nomination at the DNC.
So the Yellow Brick Road is the gold standard.
Dorothy's shoes in the book are made out of silver.
They're not red.
They just did that because that was one of the first color films.
They're silver.
That's the silver standard.
And The Wizard of Oz is Willie McKinley behind the curtain, but he gave this famous speech that got him the nomination.
Do not crucify the American farmer, the American worker on this cross of gold.
Because his argument was the gold standard was making it impossible for the average small businessman to get capital.
And he wanted to switch to the silver standard.
So The Wizard of Oz is this whole allegory for a lot of the populism that we're seeing bubble back up today.
So I guess it's synchronistic that we're talking about TikTok because that's one of the books.
Bill still used to talk about the series of books and the gold standard and silver in the Wizard of Oz.
Bill was a big, you know, he hated the Keynesians.
He hated all that stuff.
I wonder if Bill's still around.
Man, time flies.
AI, Censorship, & Free Speech00:04:53
We got about five minutes left in the broadcast.
What are your predictions?
Where does the administration go from here?
What are we going to see?
You know, you talked about Putin.
He's already expressed he wants to end that.
Putin has already talked about how now communications are open and maybe they can normalize them.
Trump's already met with Zelensky.
We see this shift in energy.
He's actually talking about the AI centers.
We've seen, I believe it was both Amazon and Google talking about how they're going to build mini-nuclear plants for that energy.
I think we're going to see a massive technological shift in this country and hopefully somewhat of an economic boom that returns to the middle class, but at the expense of privacy and probably the digitization of a lot of our currency and social transactions.
What are your thoughts?
I agree.
People talk about Elon providing a more open platform.
I certainly think there's less collusion between Twitter and our intelligence agencies.
But now that Elon's in the Oval Office, then you have to ask the question of, well, what does that mean as far as collusion between the federal government and these massive social media platforms?
Because I've always been saying during the first Trump term, I was running the video at Daily Caller and trying to succeed with a video operation on these platforms, like I said.
And there was definitely collusion between Silicon Valley and the Never Trump camp.
That's for darn sure.
And now let's talk about that for because we only got a couple minutes.
And that's called fascism, by the way.
By the way, the massive industry gets in bed with the government, right?
Thank you.
Last night we did ask Rock.
So we did Grok Live, which is supposedly the free speech platform.
All right.
Out of the gates, it lied about me and tried to associate me with somebody that questioned Sandy Hook and does the Christmas first line.
So now I'm the Sandy Hook guy and then harmful vaccination information.
And I tried to ask specific examples.
They can't show it.
What it does good is when I talk about the fact that Google has military industrial complex contracts with the Department of Defense and NASA, especially in artificial intelligence and quantum computing, they have the FDL lab.
I mean, they've had it for years.
It's a partnered since 2006.
Isn't that a conflict of interest when censoring material on YouTube?
It gave me an extensive thing where it completely agreed.
Of course.
So we don't, we don't, do we have free speech?
That's a great question.
That's a great way to answer.
Well, the more that AI polices it, the answer is no.
And what you just said about Grok not being able to, like, coming out with those accusations and not being able to support them, I asked Grok like, draw me, and it literally like made me look like a fat dude from Greece.
Like, like, I'm not a hairy guy.
And it, like, like, it just did not, it would look anything like me.
I have thousands of videos and photos of myself on my Twitter feed, but it just goes to my avatar, which is kind of from far away.
So it only uses that surface-level photo, and it doesn't have that real deep research that it claims is there.
And so, like, when your platforms are getting censored by these AI bots, you have to ask yourself of how deep are they delving into these issues and how nuanced is their censoring of different forms of speech.
So it is garbage out, bro.
It's what are they programmed to do?
What are the algorithm rails?
What have you already been categorized on through other algorithms they're stealing from?
You know, because again, like you said, we're in a dangerous time with artificial intelligence making decisions.
And I think humanity bending the knee and their will to it, thinking that it has some kind of omnipresence and some kind of beneficiary to us.
It doesn't.
You know what I mean?
Everything's a tool.
You can use it to do types of research.
I wouldn't have it.
I don't.
No, everybody asked me, like, didn't you use like ChatGPT to help you write the book just for summaries and stuff?
I'm like, no.
I went to the Library of Congress and I read books, physical books from the 1800s.
And I read the way that they wrote about history back then.
All I'm saying is I make my thumbnails with AI on Photoshop some of the time with text prompts.
The Photoshop AI is pretty fun.
It could be pretty good.
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