BJ Penn and Tulsi Gabbard join Joe Rogan to expose how the term "conspiracy theory" emerged post-JFK, with Dick Gregory’s 1975 Zapruder film reveal sparking outrage over Life magazine’s decade-long suppression. Gabbard slams Hawaii’s government for botched Maui wildfire aid—$700 FEMA per victim vs. Ukraine’s $135B—while linking Lahaina’s desertification to corporate water theft and Governor Josh Green’s land-grab proposal. They dissect UN Principle 16’s pedophilia risks, Hunter Biden’s $1.38M art sales, and a 2020 letter by 51 intel officials dismissing his laptop as Russian disinformation within 24 hours of Blinken’s intervention. Rogan and Gabbard warn of systemic censorship, election fraud, and the military-industrial complex’s grip on power, urging sovereignty over elite control ahead of November’s instability. [Automatically generated summary]
So you've got to imagine that when this Zapruder film came out, that was a moment where, like, you've got to also realize this is like during the time of the Vietnam War.
So there's already massive distrust in government.
And people are like, you know, what happened exactly?
And then the books start coming out.
You know, books start coming out like Best Evidence by David Lifton.
And what a world we live in now, where even if the government tried to withhold information, or tries to, as they do, with social media and all these different platforms, it's very, very hard.
It's very, very hard.
So they try to push a narrative and then different people have questions and it creates this environment where if the truth is not being told, people can pick up on it.
I may have met him in passing, but this has been one of the big failures around the aftermath of the wildfire on Maui, is this total vacuum of information from government officials to the people.
And in that vacuum, obviously people have all kinds of ideas or theories or this or that, but people were left without any kind of communication from anyone in a position of authority to provide help for days and weeks.
And it created massive problems.
And so, you know...
The immediate line of response needed to come from the county and from the mayor and from their emergency response director.
And unfortunately, they did not communicate.
They're still not communicating.
There's still a huge lack of transparency, and therefore an increasing level of distrust.
In any of the levels of government that should be bending over backwards to answer questions and to say, hey, here's what's going on every single day.
Here's what we're doing.
Here's what we're trying to do.
Here's what we're having a hard time doing.
Whatever the case may be, it's been a major problem from the beginning.
Do you think that this is because of a complete lack of preparedness, that this is an unprecedented type of disaster, never happened before, It happens, and they just weren't prepared.
Maui has experienced drought year after year after year.
Brush fires are a common occurrence, especially on the west side of Maui, where Lahaina is, the side of the island that was most impacted by this.
You know, it is, you know, being prepared for wildfires on Maui is something that if you look at their, you know, emergency assessment documents, it's mentioned almost as a bit of an afterthought.
Maui fire has been vastly undermanned and under-resourced for quite some time.
So there's all these different things you can look at from a preparedness level that should have been addressed long before.
But from, you know, the county officials, yes, they were completely overwhelmed and unprepared for this unprecedented wildfire.
It's the worst wildfire our country has seen in over 100 years.
But the problem is, once you get to that point like, oh shit, this is really, really, really bad, not only in the hundreds of lives lost in that fire, but the surrounding communities of people who survived, but who went without power, who went without any cell phone signal, any ability to communicate with people, who didn't have, you know, all of the gas stations in their They were empty.
There was no way to get gas.
They couldn't get food.
They couldn't get clean water.
The water supply systems were contaminated.
I mean, there was disaster upon disaster that came in the aftermath of the fire that went unaddressed.
I went there a few days after the fire happened.
Maui was my district for eight years when I served in Congress and had a lot of friends there and went out to those affected areas.
What I heard over and over again was no one from the county, the state, or the federal government has shown their face in our community.
It is neighbors helping neighbors, families helping families, people on the island of Molokai, which you know, they don't have much.
Everything comes in by barge.
They're loading up whatever they have in their general store on these little boats and running them over to West Maui on a private boat dock because that was the only place that they wouldn't be blocked from bringing food and water and medical supplies.
I think people are able to get in and out of the West Maui area.
I understand that the historic town of Lahaina is still being blocked off and they're working on reopening it.
As we speak, but in the couple of weeks after the fire, I don't have a good answer why they continue to block the roads, again, to those surrounding communities, why they blocked people like Kai Lenny and others from using their jet skis and boats to try to bring supplies in through the water.
You could say, well, we were trying to secure the area, but you're blocking friends and family from coming in and bringing necessary supplies, literally doing supply runs.
I jumped on a plane that was doing supply runs from Kahului, the main airport on Maui, out to this tiny little airport that serves that community, and that was, for a lot of days, the only way that they could get supplies from I don't know.
I really don't know.
But again, this goes back to why aren't you communicating to people what's going on and why you're doing what you're doing?
The result of their decisions left people and families and communities stranded in their most dire time of need.
And the mayor didn't go out and show his face until almost two weeks after the fire happened.
It is the number one concern of people there in Lahaina is that a few days after this happened, I haven't spoken to the governor, but he said in a press conference, he said, we're talking to the attorney general.
He said, I'm talking to my attorney general to explore options for the state to take over that land and use it to build workforce housing or build a memorial for the people who lost their lives.
But the fears that the people in Lahaina have, some of whom like Archie Kalapa, famous surfer, community leader, Native Hawaiian leaders, family has lived in Lahaina for nine generations.
Now being told, well, the state, the governor is looking at taking that land, taking ownership of that land, that it is unconscionable.
And there's, oh, you know, we'll, you know, for those who've been displaced, we'll see about doing a land swap and we'll send you to the big island to live in Pune.
It's taking away the sovereignty of people's rights to have a say over their home, in many cases, their generational lands.
It is such an abuse of power.
I'm glad that there are leaders in the community who are leaning into this fight to make sure that they are fighting this fight before anybody tries to do that, rather than looking in the rearview mirror and saying, gosh, I wish we had done something.
One of the things we went over yesterday, which is a crazy number, we were looking at the amount of money that was accidentally sent to Ukraine, like they over sent six billion.
And then I said, well, how much would it cost to rebuild every house?
Hawaii has the highest cost of living in the entire country.
The entire country.
And how freaking insulting is it to have the lead disaster response administrator from the Biden administration stand there and proudly say, hey, we're giving everybody one $700 payment.
One of the other things was our intelligence, the United States intelligence agencies, in the lead-up as Russia was building up their manning and tanks and everything at the border, our intelligence agencies were telling the president, telling the public that, you know, hey, what did they say?
Like, they will take Kiev in days, like in a few days, that Russia will take the capital of Ukraine.
But even their intelligence proved to be vastly wrong.
Very, very wrong.
And this is why people use this fear tactic to justify sending all of these hundreds of billions of dollars to Ukraine.
They say, well, if we don't do this, Russia's going to take all of Ukraine and then take over all of Europe.
It's like, no.
They don't have that capability.
You're fear-mongering in order to continue to fund Ukraine.
A war that's benefiting the military-industrial complex more than anyone else.
It is when you look at, you know, President Biden and his people announced like, oh, hey, look, he's going to take a break from his vacation at Lake Tahoe to go and visit the people.
And then the people that are involved, I'm sure, in the defense industry are like, listen, it'd be very nice if we could continue this project and continue funding.
If you start off and you're a white belt, you want to go, I'm good.
I like being a white belt.
No, you want to be a black belt.
If you start off and you're the mayor of a small city, you're like, you know, I'd like to be the fucking governor one day.
And then next thing you're moving around and moving up and hobnobbing with the right people and signing the right bills and making the right people happy and, hey, welcome our new governor.
And then the governor's like, you know, I like to run the whole motherfucker.
And then, you know, and then that guy starts doing things that what we've done with California's take the tech sector and the finances.
We're number one economy in the country and oh, I see what's going on.
You want to win.
You want to win.
It's a game.
It's a game like all games.
You want to be the top dog in the game.
It's natural.
If you're racing, you want to be the one that gets there when the flag goes off.
That's just what human beings do.
And when you apply human beings to a game that's governing citizens, Scary.
I mean, we are headed in the direction of going to hell in a handbasket because we have people in positions of power who treat it as though it is a game and the only ones who lose are the people.
It's the American people.
It's the people on Maui.
It's the people who have extreme needs and challenges who are being failed at every step of the way.
When I went to East Palestine, I got involved with politics in Hawaii in the first place because of water protecting the environment, making sure we have clean water.
And so the challenges people on Maui are facing with water The challenges people in East Palestine are facing, it was such a huge toxic disaster.
But when I was there, they were saying that the effects of this disaster won't fully be known for a while because the toxins at that time hadn't had...
They were being told the water's clean.
It's fine.
It's safe.
In the days after the disaster in East Palestine, people there are smart enough to know, well, the water hasn't seeped down through the soil and into our groundwater sources for those tests to be accurate.
And so they were concerned not only about, well, how are you going to come back and test our water in a month, in two months, in six months, in a year?
How is that?
It's a farming community out there.
How is that going to affect the crops?
They were already seeing animals dying in the weeks after that disaster happened.
And that was their foremost concern is nobody ever heard the name East Palestine before this disaster happened.
He's just eating ice cream and just waiting for the ticker to stop.
But this is insanity.
This is like true insanity.
And this is like the opposite of what we...
The whole idea of electing people for office is that these people are going to care about us and do the right thing for the community because they're one of us.
That's what we want.
That's what we want.
We want someone who's one of us.
And when you see that, especially from these guys like Biden that are these career politicians, they're the opposite of one of us.
You know, the excuse that Pete Buttigieg was the guy that the Biden administration sent to East Palestine.
Of course, he showed up.
He announced he was going only when Trump announced that he was going.
He literally showed up there the day after Trump went and visited the people there.
You know, the excuse that he gave is a common excuse that's given by people in government when they don't show up for people is, well, you know, I didn't want to get in the way of the response.
You know, I'm busy doing things in my office to try to help, etc., etc.
But my point is, like, Joe, if a really good friend of yours or your child or someone in your family...
Was hurt for whatever reason, was in pain, was suffering.
Even if you are not in a personal position to be able to alleviate that pain and suffering, what's the first thing you do?
He, the guy who was on Oahu when the fires happened, he didn't show his face in public to the media or to the community until eight or nine days after the crisis.
The guy who should have been talking to the media every single day in the hours and days after.
He didn't show his face in public until day eight or nine.
And that was when he said that he didn't regret sounding the alarm system, which is a whole other, like his response made no sense whatsoever.
According to the electric company, the power was restored and was not connected to the water release.
So you got this...
I mean, the short answer to the long history of water battles in Maui County is going back to the plantation days when corporations essentially took ownership of the water.
So, you know, the native Hawaiian system of the Ahupua is you have the mountains, rainfall comes.
Streams, you have this natural ecosystem of waterways that go from the top of the mountains out to the ocean.
And Hawaii's agriculture systems and wetlands and fish ponds, everything was built around that.
These corporations came in, took over, and literally took ownership of the water on Maui in many, not all of it, but most of it, and started diverting those streams so that the water fed directly into their lands, plantations, And then ag land and then now very wealthy landowners, golf courses, resorts, etc.
But the effect of that was places like Lahaina that was traditionally a wetland.
It was called the Venice of Maui.
It was lush.
There were fish ponds and farms and all of this stuff.
Because of that water diversion, it's like a desert there now, which is why these wildfires keep happening.
And traditional farming communities and native Hawaiian lands were bled dry because the water was diverted to private corporations.
But the problem has compounded generation after generation after generation.
Firefighters didn't have access to water when they needed it to effectively try to fight these fires.
There was a hurricane winds, and so obviously it grew and spread like a blowtorch across the town of Lahaina.
But even in the other, you know, in upcountry Maui and Kula, when I went up and talked to some of the residents up there who also saw, I don't know, it was like almost 600 acres that were burned through.
Homes were burned down and they were trying to help each other.
Neighbors were trying to help each other because you see, okay, hey, there's fire starting.
Let's all get our hoses and turn on the water and try to do what we can until the firefighters get here.
They turned on their hoses and it was just like dribbles.
And so literally they're going and like scooping water out of their toilet bowls and like, oh gosh, there's a little bit of water like from the last time it rained stuck in like our kid's bucket, like literally getting water from wherever, bottles of water trying to fight fires in their community to save people's homes.
And so there was a request that was put in to the state to divert the water so that it could be used to fight the fires.
And there was some kind of like six or eight hour delay before that decision was made.
And I don't know the answer yet as to what that delay was.
But the fact that the people of Maui don't have control over their own water is exactly the problem, both in this crisis, but on a daily basis.
Where families are told, hey, you know, countywide, there's a drought right now.
Everybody needs to conserve water.
You know, you got to be limited with don't wash your car and all this other stuff.
But meanwhile, they go and drive through one of these resorts and they see all the sprinklers off of the golf courses and they see no restrictions whatsoever in the hotels.
And it's no wonder why people there are like, what the What the heck is going on here?
You guys really only care about these resorts, but you don't actually care about the fact that a mother can't bathe her child because of the water restrictions.
This is big on the Big Island, the whole Hamakoa Coast.
There are senators, state senators and everything, every day diverting these streams.
They're pretty good size.
We call them rivers, but I think the technical name, they're streams, you know, because I don't think there's too many rivers like Mississippi or nothing.
That's a river.
But we got maybe just on that Hamakua Coast, we got 70 rivers.
It's 50 miles, and they just keep diverting them on the top.
But even more eye-catching is when you're driving down the road, Hamakua Coast, the most beautiful green place in the world with 70 rivers.
I live right on there on Hamakua Coast, and you can't jump in the car without asking yourself...
How many trees, how many worthless, crappy trees can I count before I count one tree with food?
Not one tree with food.
And you can only sit there and think, that's not an accident.
That's not an accident that there's no food anywhere on this 50 miles that you would have to walk back to Hilo or walk all the way to Honoka City or Honoka Town to go get some food.
And, you know, it's a law actually in Hawaii that you cannot put any trees with fruit on it anywhere.
And it just makes you wonder.
It just makes you wonder that, you know, you can't put trees with fruit.
Because they rather push stuff like social classes, stuff like the EBT card and these different things.
Why is there no food in any of the trees?
Just think about it in your head.
Take a drive down the road and say, today I'm going to count how many trees I count before I see one tree with food.
Will you see one tree with food?
You know, and that's what I've been talking about.
I mean, I talk about that all the time.
And it's, you know, it's to push these things.
It's almost like they start eradicating all the pigs, eradicating the cows, because you see them.
You see the wild cows, the wild pigs all the time on the big island.
And they start eradicating those things, and it's almost like, I'd hate to think that they were, it's like they want us to compete only for the food that comes in on the boat.
That's the only food they want, like the Hunger Games.
You guys, all 1.5 million of you are going to compete for the food on the boat.
It's like the same thing that I said when I was in Molokai when we were campaigning.
And I said, they say...
That you guys have a deer problem.
But how is unlimited food a problem?
I want to know.
How is unlimited food a problem?
And I understand you got to fence off or you do your different things or maybe they can corral all these animals and do different things with them.
But we have to start thinking of ways.
They talk about sustainability.
But the way they talk about sustainability, they want to do it with electric cities.
They want to make these electric cities.
They just passed it in Hilo.
And they said Hilo was one of the lucky people to pass one of these United Nations electric cities in Hilo.
But it makes me wonder, to the mayor who let it go, Mr. Roth, who I actually know personally, but are you the mayor of the UN or are we going to make our Hilo cities over here?
I mean, you hear all the time, in 1800, It took all the way to 1800 to get 1 billion people.
And in 1800, we started using coal and oil and fossil fuels.
And then we jumped to 200 people within that time.
So we jumped 7 billion within the time of 200 years, right?
So you'd have to just think, well, if Ige signed a bill that we can't burn coal anymore in Hawaii and...
And oil, we're still using gasoline, but they want to push these electric cities now with electric cars and all these things.
But you would just have to think, if oil and coal made this much people, what's this going to do?
Because we're not going to have enough electricity.
So for every mile that you go, you have to pay a certain carbon tax because electricity is being generated by something that generates carbon.
So the idea that this is supposed to be carbon-free is fucking stupid because you have oftentimes coal-powered electric plants that are firing up extra because so many people need electricity for their electric cars.
So you're putting more particulates in the air, you're putting more carbon in the air.
Well, you would think, well, I'm just thinking about Lahaina when you're talking about this, because you would think, well, how are they going to put us on that land of these 15-minute cities?
But then you would think, well, how are they going to get us off our land?
But they just have.
In Lahaina, they just got these people off their land, and if you go...
They cannot go on their land now because there's an 80-year-old fella and his house burned down and his safe is in there and he wants to go check on his safe, but he can't get in.
I know an initial concern was the toxicity of what happened there.
But the reality is, with all of the recovery teams that have been going through there, all the federal officials, all of the government visitors that have gone there, There is no excuse why they can't tell this 80-year-old guy, hey, here's a mask that will protect you from breathing in all this crap.
So, a rather benign urban planning concept is shaking up the English city of Oxford, sending thousands of people into the streets to protest what they say is a dystopian plan, take away their personal freedoms and lock them into their neighborhoods.
The concept of the 15-minute city, popularized by the Franco-Colombian academic Carlos Moreno, aims to make cities more livable by ensuring that all essential services, think schools, medical care, and shops, are within the distance of a short walk or bicycle ride.
Broadly, the idea is to cut down on long commutes and car emissions and improve people's quality of life, ensuring they have access to quality services where they live.
That's not the way it's being seen.
In Oxford, news of the City Council adopted a plan to embrace the 15-minute city model, prompted fierce backlash with local groups and public figures alleging that authorities plan to restrict residents to their immediate neighborhoods and strictly police their movements, which will happen eventually.
The idea that that won't happen eventually, particularly in the case of a pandemic or something where they can control people, this is not a fucking conspiracy theory.
The outrage has been fanned by popular right-wing media figures and politicians who seized on the issue as an outrageous example of government overreach.
If they do limit people to those places, that is exactly what people are terrified of.
If they embrace this concept and create this model and then somehow or another mandate that you stay inside that, that's fucking terrifying.
I mean, look what we went through with the flights in this country where, you know, you had to have a vaccine to even fly into this country as recently as very recently ago.
The White House press secretary lady, she was just talking about the vaccines, the vaccines work.
Like, have a seat.
Have a seat.
They work how?
Did you see the Cleveland Clinic study that shows that the more vaccinated you are, the more likely you are to get COVID? It means that as of 12.01 a.m.
on May 12, 2023, non-citizen, non-immigrant air passengers no longer need to show proof.
So my friend, well, maybe they made you have proof in Australia to leave.
According to this, it's a way to supplement the people who are being taxed at the gas pump versus people who are not being taxed when they pump their EV cars.
But the idea is they're setting up this eventual precedent where you're going to get taxed on the carbon that you use, period.
So you'll have some sort of an app, and we have to really fight against this.
You're going to have an app that shows your carbon footprint.
Now, what's really ironic is when you have guys like Bill Gates, who owns four private jets, just one of those jets in one day spews out more carbon than your car does in the whole fucking life you use.
And this guy is flying all over the place telling everybody that they're going to have to eat fake meat.
That's like the ultimate elitism when you look at people like Bill Gates, you look at people like John Kerry, who justify their own contradiction of their philosophy.
When we are asking Americans to make serious sacrifices as we transition for the common good, and your family and or yourself are flying around on private jets, that smacks of hypocrisy.
I mean, how do you battle these guys because you're a local girl, just like, grew up like me, and that's, you know, that's the kind of people we're up against, you know?
I mean, the challenge is that it's not only them and their propaganda that they're spewing, is they have their tentacles and their propaganda arms out through the mainstream media and through, you know, some massive monopoly big tech corporations.
The beauty is that more and more, I mean, people are starting to see the truth.
They're starting to see through these politicians' lies and are actively looking for leaders who actually care about the people rather than these...
Political leaders and bureaucrats and others who are making their decisions based on keeping power, growing power, or taking care of themselves, family members, or their pocketbook, their own selfish interest.
I think that the big news that people should take away from what you just said, Joe, is the excuse that these corporations always give is like, hey, we're private companies, we can do whatever we want.
But the fact that we are now seeing more and more evidence that they are censoring people at the direction of people in the White House and people in the federal government or the FBI or other law enforcement agencies is the most chilling violation of our First Amendment rights.
So this says that the advertising boycott battering Facebook is unlike anything the social media giant has faced in 16-year history.
Three days in, 800 companies worldwide have pulled millions of dollars in advertising from the social network with brands from Coca-Cola to Ford to global conglomerate Unilever demanding that Facebook monitor hate speech more aggressively.
With pull-outs mounting the company's name constantly tied to racism and hate in the news coverage, CEO Mark Zuckerberg responded by live-streaming part of an employee meeting, one of the few things he's done in that company's history.
One of the few times he's done that, rather, in that company's history.
Then on Wednesday, Facebook's powerhouse policy and communications chief, former British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, issued an open letter titled, Facebook does not benefit from hate, touting its efforts to police its content.
The boycott emerged as a crucial test for a company that has become a key player in American politics simply because of what it hosts and promotes on its site, which until recently had been vocally doubling down its commitment to keeping an open platform for user speech.
The thing about this, like, stop hate speech, like...
How much of that hate speech is really even people?
How much of that hate speech is troll farms?
19 of the top 20 Christian sites on Facebook were found to be run by Russian troll farms.
How much of this hate speech Is led even by our own government.
How much of this hate speech is fake and they use it so they can crack down on all kinds of speech?
Because when people screenshot what they see when they try to follow my account or when they try to at mention me in a repost, they get this warning screen that comes up from Meta or from Instagram that says, are you sure you want to follow this person who has repeatedly been found to be spreading disinformation?
And I've gone through the things and looked at some of the examples of what Instagram has deemed to be disinformation.
In the one example I'm thinking of is one where I cited the UN article, and it was an actual article reporting the UN statement essentially legitimizing pedophilia, saying that sex with minors shouldn't be demonized.
And I'm paraphrasing because I don't remember the exact article, but that was the statement.
And I posted a shot of the headline and the article, which was clearly cited, and the independent, quote-unquote, independent fact-checkers said, Said that I have misinterpreted the article.
A new United Nations report calls for decriminalizing sexual activity between adults and minors.
AP's assessment false.
Report published in March by the International Commission of Jurists in collaboration with the UN's AIDS Agency called for enforcing minimum age of consent laws in a non-discriminatory manner.
It did not call for decriminalizing all sexual activity between minors and adults.
Spokesperson for the UN and the Commission confirmed the facts.
The claim began with an April 14 blog post entitled UN report calls for decriminalization of all sexual activity, including between adults and children, which cited specific passages of a document issued by the International Commission of Juris in March.
The claim quickly circulated across social media platforms, including on Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok.
Is that it?
Does it show the actual, what actually the UN said?
New UN report advocates for decriminalizing sex with minors.
So this is one of those websites.
This is from April 16th.
Okay.
What does it say?
Principle 16, titled, Consensual Sexual Conduct, reads, Consensual sexual conduct, irrespective of the type of sexual activity, the sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression of the people involved or their marital status may not be criminalized in any circumstances.
Consensual same-sex, as well as consensual different sex, sexual relations, or consensual sex relations with or between trans, non-binary, or other gender diverse people, or outside marriage, whether premarital or extramarital, may therefore never be criminalized.
With respect to the enforcement of criminal law, any prescribed minimum age of consent to sex must be applied in a non-discriminatory manner.
Enforcement may not be linked to the sex, gender of the participants, or age of consent to marriage.
Moreover, sexual conduct involving persons below the domestically prescribed minimum age of consent to sex may be consensual, in fact, if not in law.
In this context, the enforcement of criminal law should reflect the rights and capacities of persons under 18 years of age to make decisions about engaging in consensual sexual conduct and their right to be heard in matters concerning them.
Pursuant to their evolving capacities and progressive autonomy, persons under 18 years of age should participate in decisions affecting them with due regard to their age, maturity and best interests and with specific attention to non-discrimination guarantees.
Now, that, to me, could be interpreted as, like you say, that 16-year-old people should be allowed to have sex with other 16-year-old people.
Which doesn't necessarily, you know what I'm saying?
They're not saying older people are allowed to have sex with younger people.
It says the laws should reflect the rights and capacity of persons under 18 years of age to make decisions about engaging in consensual sexual conduct and their right to be heard in matters concerning them.
The thing is, it's saying people under 18 engaging in sexual conduct.
It doesn't say them engaging in sexual conduct with people older than that.
If it did, then I would say, yeah, you're legalizing pedophilia.
But what I think you're doing is you're allowing people under 18 to have sex, which they're going to do anyway.
I guess here's the issue with this statement and why I raised it as a concern is...
It doesn't say, well, okay, as long as you have two kids under the age of 18, but above the age of whatever, 10 or 12, it's so vague as to say, well, why shouldn't a 12-year-old have that capacity to make their own autonomous decisions about consensual sex, whether it's with a 17-year-old or a 20-year-old or a 40-year-old or a 60-year-old?
And this is the problem here, is it speaks to, I mean, we've seen over and over again, well, you know, from pedophiles, well, hey, she wanted it, or she agreed to it, or vice versa.
You know, teachers who are sexually abusing kids in their grade schools, middle schools, or whatever, saying, well, it was consensual for a teacher to have sex with their 13-year-old student.
You're saying that young kids can have sex legally?
Is that what you're saying?
Like, I don't know what you're saying there.
Because, like, if they're saying that, you know, it shouldn't be a crime for 17 year olds to have sex with each other.
Okay.
I agree with that.
But if you're saying Other people can have sex with them.
Like, I think 18 is a good number.
18 is a good number.
It's a good legal, especially for men.
It's a good legal cutoff number.
When you start, if they're saying that you should be able to have sex with people who are minors, I would imagine it would be like way more laid out than that.
And that's where it just like, you know, you get into the whole power dynamic, again, of teachers and students or bosses.
You know, I mean, actually not bosses, but people who are in positions of authority or power.
How, you know...
Okay, yeah.
How does a 10-year-old or a 12-year-old have the capacity to make that decision for themselves or to see through this person who is an authority figure in their lives, who has somehow manipulated their minds to convince them that this is the right thing or this is the best thing or whatever?
And that statement...
About not allowing that to be criminalized and not recognizing the need to protect children.
The need to protect children.
And then you look at that statement within the context of what's happening across our country and the world where our kids are being sexualized in like kindergarten, first grade, second grade, third grade, shown these picture books that I've seen myself That are more sexually graphic than anything I've ever seen in my life that are targeted for middle school kids Yeah,
then you you match that with this policy statement coming from the UN and you see the danger here of the normalization of sexualizing our kids of the normalization of minor attracted people of People in positions of authority and there are leaked videos showing this saying hey These minor attracted people should be allowed to serve as teachers in our schools,
where they're in a position to, I mean, they are supposed to protect our kids in that position, and yet these minor, self-identified minor attracted people are in a position where they can very easily abuse that trust that parents place in them.
There was a leaked, like hidden, someone took with their iPhone video of like a, I don't know if it was a school meeting or a teacher meeting or whatever, of someone from the school saying, hey, you shouldn't be discriminating against someone because they're a minor attracted person.
So someone who was working for the school, like in some sort of a capacity to make decisions, was justifying having someone who is a legitimate pedophile.
In a taxpayer-funded campaign to push quote-unquote woke ideology onto the world, the UN is advocating for the decriminalization of adults having sex with children regardless of the child's age so long as the child quote-unquote consents.
At the very least, American taxpayers should not be underwriting the UN until it stops all promotion of pedophilia and sex trafficking.
And I posted a screenshot of an article from the Washington Free Beacon that says, headline, UN says minors can consent to sex, which is essentially the statement that you read.
And then it quotes, sexual conduct involving persons below the domestically prescribed minimum age of consent to sex may be consensual if, in fact, if not in law, the UN says.
Well, that way, if they said it that way, That sounds to me like an adult having sex with someone who's under 18 and that they can consent to that.
That sounds like what that says.
Now, why would anybody, with all the problems in the world, if you're really worried about climate change, you're really worried about Russia taking over Ukraine, why are you so concerned?
But it's like, are you just trying to destroy people's faith in life?
I mean, if I really wanted to go full tinfoil hat, you know, Yuri Bezmenov, like, conspiracy from 1984, where he was describing how the breakdown of American...
The demoralization, the breakdown of democracy was engineered by Russia.
That's how you would demoralize people.
That's a great way to do it.
I mean, it's sneaky, but it's a great way to do it.
Well, look how quickly people rolled over during COVID. It's fascinating.
It was fascinating to watch how quickly people just trusted wholesale, the pharmaceutical drug companies, the same people that got us into the opioid crisis.
You know, just from our relationships of living life, a lot of it, not it's all, I can never say that, but a lot of things are of childhood trauma and the different traumas we experience as kids and, you know, from all kinds of...
Abandonment issues, to neglect, to abuse, and all these things, and you got all that inside, and you want to fight with it.
I use the connection, the analogy of, say somebody was hanging out, they were a kid, and somebody went up and did the knockout game to them, and they got knocked out, and they were traumatized from that, and when people would move their hands, they start to get defensive, and then after a while, they just start swinging first.
I had a conversation with Michael Irvin once on a plane, just randomly on a plane.
We were flying to Australia.
We just happened to him on a flight together.
He was going there for a football thing.
I was going there for the UFC. And we were talking about...
He was telling me about studies that they've done on women when the child is in the womb and the woman experiences violence, domestic violence, a lot of violence.
Violence in the community.
Cortisol levels rise and the child coming out is more likely to be violent.
You know, and it's whether it was your mother who you got problems, your mother wasn't there and neglected you, or your father and different things, and you've got to forgive them.
And then you realize you don't take anything personal in life.
I mean, somebody pulls a gun on you or different things, and you just got to remember they're in more pain than you if you survive that night.
But that's what life is.
Everybody is in so much pain.
They're so hurt.
They have so much fear.
They're afraid that their husband's going to walk out the door, and they're never going to see him again.
Now, if you tell that person, if you don't listen to me, it's going to be a winter of death, and everybody's in this and that.
And one of the most powerful of all in big pharma.
Every time they announce, oh, there's a new variation and we're working on the new booster and it's going to be ready in six months and, well, there's going to be a new variation of COVID by then and they're going to work for the next boost that'll be ready in another six months.
It was so insane to me when during the height of COVID, Jen Psaki was still the White House press secretary at that time, and somebody asked her, are you in the White House going to start advocating for people to, I don't know if it was exercise and eat healthy or one or the other, a combination of both.
And she couldn't just say, yes.
Like, of course people should be trying to be healthy, eat healthy, and exercise.
All she said was, we are advocating for what our health experts say, and our health experts say take the vaccine.
I don't know that it's happened in any other state.
Every state has its own state constitution and its own laws that govern what the executive branch of the state is or isn't allowed to do.
The concerning thing is that the governor, I think, again, it was about a week after this happened, said, I'm having my attorney general look into the legalities of the state taking ownership of the land.
I'm not aware that an answer has come back on that.
Governor Green, after people were rightly outraged at his statement, he tried to walk it back and say, okay, well, we're not going to allow big developers to come in and steal the land from the people.
But the fact that the people's sovereign right to have the decision-making power over their own land and their homes is We're good to go.
And I believe, just like you in Hawaii, why don't we have 100 casino boats down Waikiki and NASCAR tracks and another stadium on the Big Island and jobs so our people don't have to move away because nobody has to leave.
The Big Island, you can fit 15, 20 million people over there.
And so even, you know, Department of Hawaiian Homelands, there are Native Hawaiian homestead lands, there have been proposals to build casinos on Hawaiian homestead lands, similar to how they have on Indian reservations in other states, and even that has not passed in the state.
And again, I don't know, I don't know, there is something in Hawaii where Again, this is not based on current data, but the arguments I've heard in the past is people are like, hey, we see that there's a lot of negative elements that can go along with casinos.
We'd rather fly to Vegas, gamble there, and then come back and keep Hawaii.
There are two sides to the argument.
I get it.
But it's not a universally supported concept, I guess, is my point.
And Hawaii, when we had the 2008 financial collapse, they were talking about, and they were ready to put it on the ballot to start letting 18-year-olds drink.
So, I mean, we're considering letting 18-year-olds drink.
We need jobs, though, either way.
We're not here to talk about the moral issue of all of that, but we need jobs.
None of our people have to leave.
I always say that Hawaii's biggest export is our people.
The tourists come in on the full plane, and the plane leaves empty because we send nothing.
The only thing we send is our children to move away to use their labor and their love in another place.
And that's why they moved to Las Vegas because they can live by themselves with their wife and their two kids in a four-bedroom house or are they going to live with their mom?
I mean, wondering, I mean, because I hear it all the time, there is no treaty.
There is no treaty signed and this and that, you know.
I mean, it's stuff we hear all our whole lives growing up as a kid, but, you know.
Right now, I think, I just, my heart directed at, we got to do something now.
I mean, the property assessment tax...
If the guy next to you buys a house for $20 million, now you pay the same tax level as this guy.
And if you were just a generational family with all your kids, just like me and her and we're in the house hanging out, how are we going to pay the taxes?
I do admit, though, with all of these problems going on in America and, you know, with President Biden and everything going on, I see a lot of people who aren't Native Hawaiian trying to go over to that Native Hawaiian movement because They're scared themselves about everything that's going on.
So everybody was kind of keeping an open mind to different things.
I'm sure when all the coronavirus stuff was happening, so was Texas, so was Florida.
Everybody had a more open mind as kind of a more independent attitude as moving forward.
What's interesting is if there wasn't a Florida and if there wasn't a Texas, there wasn't places that were open, You know, when I came here, I came here in May of 2020. That's when I was already like, fuck this.
I was already, like, it was only a couple months in.
I was like, what happened in two weeks?
Like, everything's shut down.
Everything's staying shut down.
All my friends that were in the restaurant industry were struggling, hardcore.
They lost somewhere in the neighborhood of 70% of the restaurants in Los Angeles.
And so when that happened I started looking out here in May and I went to a restaurant with my kids and they were like we don't have to wear a mask like they were sitting down like we can eat at a restaurant like in two months they were already like everybody was already freaked out and then we went to the lake and people are playing music and jumping in the water and I was and they were like we want to live here yeah right that'll do it that was it that's Two months later, I lived here.
Well, I just think that, I mean, their moving is going to be one thing that will help them.
them.
But even on the other side, the fact that we don't heal the childhood trauma from the kids, I mean, in ninth grade, fifth grade, ninth grade, you know, through high school, there should be classes, communication classes, how for everybody, how for people to get along and communicate.
I mean, one of the main things you see, I mean, just in the relationships that we know, I'm sure just, you know, blame, resentment and self-pity.
And some, some are so good, they could blame you for it and tell you that's why they hate you.
And that's why they're in the position they're stuck in in life.
I think the Republican Party really went against me when I went into the Department of Education because that's why I was running.
I mean, I was running for the children and I was running because if you can print all the money you could possibly ever need, why the hell are you asking us for taxes?
You know, type of thing.
You know, I would say that's when it started, when I went into the education.
And I think from that time, you know, whoever the powers that be behind...
It's like the Women's League of Republicans.
They run the Republican Party there.
So I think it's Lingo, Duke...
Duke Iona, Linda Lingo, Pat Saiki, and whoever else they put in the top of that thing.
And, you know, people say deep state.
I don't really use that word.
People say different things.
But, you know, special interest groups.
But you think about it.
I'm walking in thinking to try to help people.
And, you know, the Republicans own the businesses and the Democrats keep the money coming from Washington.
So they're going to love these guys.
They got their little hooey up on the top of a group.
You know, that these guys bring all the money, these guys own businesses.
So you're really getting shot from both sides.
But I think me and my mother talk a lot about different things.
And I think she was just kind of bummed out because they came to her for years, the Republican Party, asking for money, asking for money, asking for money.
The University of Hawaii was getting so much money from Governor Ige.
You just look at these different things and they're all just a different department of the state, whether it's called the University of Hawaii or the Department of Health or whatever it is down the line.
When you think about how much fear was fomented around the whole COVID situation, you look at the fear that was fomented around this war in Ukraine, saying, if we don't go fight them over here, the Russians are going to come and take over America.
When you look at the fear that's fomented around other wars that have been started, you look at the fear that was fomented in the whole post 9-11 era that led to the Patriot Act and total violation of our civil liberties, In all of these examples, you can see how ultimately what's at the heart of this fomenting of fear by people in power is control.
That if they make us afraid as a people, then we will be more accepting of them taking away our civil liberties and our freedoms and extending that long arm of big brother into some of the most personal parts of our lives.
And that is the ultimate abuse of power.
When you look at the rights and freedoms that are enshrined in the Constitution of Bill of Rights, and you see people who have raised their right hand, like I did, both as a soldier and a member of Congress, to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic, directly taking action intentionally to undermine Our rights and liberties in the Constitution to increase their power.
That is what is at the core of the problem that we have in this country right now, that our fundamental ideals, values and principles are being undermined by those who've taken an oath to support and protect them in the Constitution to advance their own selfish interests and their own power.
And this is not the Democrat elite are in charge of the White House and in charge of A lot of the administrative state, we see the politicization of the Department of Justice, of law enforcement agencies, of all of these different entities whose mission it is to serve the people.
Being politicized and that power being abused to advance personal and political interest by those in power.
That is the biggest threat, the immediate threat that we face in this country.
First and foremost, in this age of cancel culture and censorship, we have to exercise our freedoms.
They're trying to take them away.
We have to make sure that our voices are heard.
whatever platform or situation, whatever that is, we have to exercise our freedoms in order to stop, in order to maintain them.
And even as there are challenges in our election process, even though we don't, we may not necessarily have the options that we would choose, we have, our democracy was set up to ensure that a government of by and for the people, if we, the people don't our democracy was set up to ensure that a government of by and for the people, if we, the people don't participate in that democracy,
I mean, when I was there, KITV, they did a good interview with me.
And then they kept begging me over and over, hey, can we come for the live election night at your house?
And I said, no, maybe that's not a good idea.
Maybe my brothers might be drinking or something.
I don't want any bad press or anything.
So they came over.
No, they didn't come over.
We stopped them from coming over, but they kept asking us for an interview.
So I sat down and I did the interview with them.
And then I got up and my buddy goes, hey, that was a good interview.
The next thing, I walk out the door.
The next thing they play is an already edited video.
Oh, the primary's over.
Here it is.
We got the winners, Duke and Green.
So they'll go on to the final.
And I thought...
I sat there for a little bit and I thought, maybe I should have told them to come over to KITV. Then I would just go, hey, this is fake, and slam their camera on the ground or something.
But I thought, huh, the news runs the election.
These guys run the election.
That was the first time I ever thought that.
And then I thought different things because Here's the ball.
And these guys have civil and criminal liability.
If they say anything, that's why I wonder why they don't do press conferences.
So here they got the ball.
Now they pass the ball to somebody who has no civil and criminal liability, which is the news.
Right?
And now the news is holding the ball, and they're the ones—they're the messenger.
You know, they say kill the messenger, different things, but they're the messenger.
They're the guys who's going to tell everybody about it.
So you never hear from this guy.
The ball's over on this side.
And that's what—I mean, I felt that I saw, and anybody who said—and the news will be going like, no, they got the ball— And look, these people are lying saying...
Or Trump and them are telling more lies about the election voting machines or Lindell or everything.
But I don't know who is who in the zoo.
We don't know who's a good guy.
We don't know who's a bad guy.
We know nothing.
We don't know too much of our history.
You know, it just...
Life's tough to kind of sift through everything going on.
I kind of like to think about political stuff, but I don't got the time to find out every bill getting passed through the City County Council.
And I grew up with these people, and still, you'll see different things.
They were trying to pass this bill.
It's a...
What they're going to do is they clean up the downtown, but they put a lien on the owner of the property.
He gets a lien put on his property.
So all the commercial people kind of went along with it, and everybody were like, hey, we're just going to pass that bill to you, and you're going to pass that bill to your employee, and now they're going to put parking stalls out there.
Everybody's just going to go to Walmart.
Nobody's going to come to Hilo's downtown anymore.
Everybody got to kind of wake up, you know, and kind of figure out what's going on a little bit.
And so as soon as they were done with Hilo, they didn't get it passed.
My mother had to jump on the Downtown Improvement Agency just to get the council to not bring the bill up again because they kept bringing it up.
And all they did was pick up and move to Pohoa to get that bill passed in Pohoa.
And then Kau or whatever else, whatever else they do these things.
Tulsi, there's all this talk, it's fascinating, I'm sure you've seen this, but there's a video that shows like 20 minutes of the Democrats denying the results of the elections.
It's really crazy, because it's Hillary Clinton, he's an illegitimate president, he lost the election, the Russians hacked the election, all this crazy stuff.
But when Trump says it, then it becomes a serious threat to our democracy.
There is no doubt there are improvements that need to be made to ensure the integrity of our elections.
Period.
Full stop.
This is something that I sought to address while I was in Congress with a very, very simple piece of legislation.
That would have said, or that would have implemented federal funding for each state to require either a paper ballot or a paper record of an electronic vote that's cast.
That way, if there are any questions about the integrity of the election or the vote count, you would have the ability to conduct a paper audit of that election.
We've seen time and again through these DEF CON hacking conferences they have in Vegas almost every year, how, you know, children, 12, 13, 14-year-old kids go in and they do these demonstrations.
Hey, we're going to time you.
Can you hack into this voting, electronic voting system from whatever state?
And these kids are able to hack into these systems within minutes.
Kids.
What to speak of somebody who may try to do a concerted attack and manipulate the outcome of an election.
So my bill is very simple.
We know these vulnerabilities.
States and counties have the federal government does not have the authority to administer elections.
Period.
That is run by the counties in the states, and that's why the laws are very different in how they choose to do it.
So my bill said, okay, well there is funding that the federal government provides to these counties and states to administer these elections.
This federal funding should come with a baseline requirement that these elections are auditable by having some form of a paper record.
Nobody in Congress was interested in passing that legislation.
Even though we had statistics, and I believe this was in 2017, where the state of Virginia has, or the Commonwealth of Virginia, as they say, has off-year elections.
So they don't hold their statewide elections on the same year, even-numbered years.
And that year they had, was the first year that they had implemented, 17 or 19, but they had first implemented having some form of a paper record.
And it was the year that they did not get a single question.
The State Office of Elections did not get a single question or complaint about the integrity of their elections.
And they did it because they saw, oh gosh, these electronic voting systems are really vulnerable.
We need to do something about it.
And they took action.
The fact that this is not the case across the country is very concerning.
It is concerning that you see so many of the Democrat elite dismiss people who merely ask questions about voter fraud.
Well, no, no, no, it doesn't occur.
When I was in Congress, I shared a house with my sister and her husband there in D.C. when election time came around, they got a few ballots from the previous owners of the home who had since been deceased.
I don't know how many people in the country are getting ballots mailed to them to be filled out at home and returned with the names of people who died.
And there's no verification of that.
So there are very clear steps that can and should be taken to increase and improve the integrity of our elections that the whole Oh gosh, the ballot stuffing where they pay people to go out and get ballots filled up in older care homes and these other places.
There are a lot of questions around that process and ensuring the integrity that needs to be addressed.
But even if you won, let's say you did win, even though you don't know, say you won.
What forces the news to tell the truth of who won?
There's no election law.
There's no election law that the news is under.
There's no law of anything, right?
That they have to say this.
They're under no civil or criminal liability to say anything.
So even if you win the election, that's why I wonder, you know, when Stephen Trump or Lindell come in and they start talking about the mail-in ballots or the voting stuff, How come nobody's talking about the guy who tells everybody who won?
Our whole lives, we never got to see the phone call that they say they got when, oh, they just called us right now and so and so on.
Now they even do it like a projection style before the counting is even done.
They say who won.
I mean, we got to kill the messenger.
We have to make a law.
That has a press conference.
If you're going to announce something, if Dana's going to announce something, everybody.
We've always done press conferences.
That's what we do.
That's what people do.
They do press conferences and the press comes.
But this one, they call the press behind our backs and the press says it.
Is that an accident?
And the whole time we're looking here, the ball's over here.
But what about these guys?
Are we never going to look at these guys?
I'm waiting for Trump to say, well, let's go look at these guys for a little bit.
We didn't see what happened.
And it makes you wonder, why does CNN, Google, like you said, it's been curated.
Fox and all these people, there's nothing that holds them to that they got to tell the truth.
What we need is the press conference.
So if the guy doesn't tell the truth, he's incriminating himself right there.
He works for the government.
I'm sure he has to have signed some kind of oath, whether civil or criminal, liability, that he has to tell the truth and then have all the news.
Just if that was the case with the news, they had to tell the truth.
They would be in a lot of trouble.
Just imagine just the war in Iraq, just the weapons of mass destruction, just the Russia collusion scam that they talked about forever, that the people responsible for that are totally being taken seriously in other manners.
That is, I mean, it is not when people in the mainstream media talk about, you know, the elections and election fraud and, you know, outside forces coming in and trying to undermine and usurp our elections.
They obviously never talk about themselves and how much propaganda they put out to create this facade of a democracy where essentially they work with the power elite in Washington from one party or another.
I mean, they basically decide, hey, here's the people that we were OK with voters being exposed to.
These are the acceptable people.
And here's the people who are unacceptable to the elite.
And therefore, we got to destroy them.
And this is what I went through when I ran for president in 2020, the Democratic primary from the very first day I announced through the entire campaign.
It was it was already decided that I was not a candidate that they found acceptable.
We are seeing the very.
And so they did everything they could to discredit and smear and, you know, media blackouts and all this.
They repeated the line over and over and over again, and it worked.
People believed it.
And you're seeing the same thing happening now with RFK. They decided, hey, this guy is speaking way too much truth, and so we're going to do everything we possibly can to block voters from hearing him, and we are going to try to smear and discredit him with lies so that if they do hear him, they're not going to believe what he says.
Me and my friend talking the other day, and we're like, yeah, we came to the agreement that, you know, you walk in, what's the only thing you don't see in the cave when you look at all those...
All those different pictures of UFOs and dinosaurs and stuff.
You don't see a caveman.
See what you don't see, you know?
It's funny.
It's funny what is out there and what we take as fact.
I think the thing that is so alarming is that, again, I'm going back to the funding for Ukraine.
The fact that there are Democrats and Republicans in Congress who have blocked every attempt of accountability for how that money is being spent, how our money is being spent, Says it all.
They don't want us to know where that money is going.
They don't want us to know how it's being used.
They don't want the corruption that continues in Ukraine to be exposed.
They don't want us to know the truth.
They just want us to continue to support them writing this with this blank check, essentially, without any justification.
And tearing people down who just say, hold on a second.
How does spending hundreds of billions of dollars of our money Help us.
How does it help the American people?
How does it help our national security interests?
It doesn't help us, and it undermines our national security interests because the consequence of this that we are directly facing because of the Biden administration and the warmongers in Washington is we are now closer to the brink of nuclear war than ever before.
Which the fact that no Democrat in Washington, no Democrat in Washington that I've heard at least, and I've been watching pretty closely, has stood up and said, well, hold on a second.
All of this evidence that's coming out, more and more evidence that's coming out about the corruption of Hunter Biden and President Biden's culpability in that entire mess...
No one is saying, hey, we should probably look into this.
They're dismissing it all and saying, oh, you know, the only thing Joe Biden talked about with Hunter Biden's, you know, Ukrainian Burisma executive counterparts, they talked about the weather.
I heard a congressman say this to the media, like, what are you guys even worried about?
But then, you know, you hear all kinds of things like, oh, well, how is it that, you know, Joe Biden's grandchildren have $5 million in their trust account?
Like, where does that—like, who—I don't know.
But the fact that they're not even—that there's not just an accepted— Standard in Washington saying, well, these accusations are being made.
There is evidence in communications, written evidence that couldn't have been fabricated.
We, as elected representatives of the people, have a responsibility to objectively investigate this and see where it leads.
So this is what I mean when you look at like, well, okay, so how much money are they actually accounting for that's going directly into his bank account or whatever?
And the fact that the mainstream media, those two whistleblowers from the IRS, the IRS investigative agents, who came out and said basically they were stopped from doing their job and looking into Hunter Biden, By their superiors.
The fact that the mainstream media called them so-called whistleblowers, immediately undermining what they were actually doing, putting their entire career and reputation and safety on the line, again, straight out the gate.
If you're not falling in line with what the power elite, Democrat elite, wants you to do and their partners in the media, you are immediately discredited.
The fact that they suppressed it from Facebook, they suppressed it from Twitter, they did all that.
And when Zuckerberg was on the podcast and he said the FBI had contacted them about that, that was a sobering moment.
I was like, wait, what?
And then when the Twitter files come out and then you read that, you know, then the 51 intelligence, former intelligence agency guys that had signed off on that, that this was Russian disinformation when they had known it wasn't.
That right there, when you talk about interference with our elections, when you look at some of the stuff the media is talking about and you see what happened there, weeks before that 2020 election, I think that the whole...
That letter came out from the 51 former senior intelligence officials in October, just prior to the November election in 2020, stating this laptop has all the hallmark of Russian disinformation based on nothing.
And then you go back and you look at, well, why was that letter instigated?
Well then, you know, whatever, campaign senior advisor Tony Blinken to President, to then Vice President, or I guess former Vice President Biden, made a call.
He made a call to Mike Morrell within the CIA, or former deputy of the CIA. And then he called a friend and there was a CIA staffer, an active CIA staffer, who helped orchestrate that letter within like a 24-hour period of time.
And this is all on the record.
Mike Morrell said this to Congress in private testimony that's since been released.
But this was instigated because the Biden campaign told him, hey, we need Joe Biden to have a good talking point to use in this next debate against Trump, because we know Trump is going to bring up Hunter Biden's laptop.
And we need to give Biden a talking point so that he can immediately dismiss the whole topic of the Hunter Biden laptop.
That letter from the 51 senior former intelligence leaders gave him that talking point.
He used it in that debate.
And it's what was used as the excuse to shut down the New York Post and to shut down anyone who tried to publish the contents of that laptop.
The idea is that we're involved in a simulation, that all life is really just a simulation.
And the real problem is when you go to probability theory, which I don't totally understand, but when they talk about the probability, it's more probable that we're living in a simulation than we're not.
And if the simulation can exist, and if likely as technology advances will exist, It will probably be undiscernible from reality.
And the idea of an entire universe that's most likely filled with intelligent life forms that this simulation hasn't been created is smaller than the idea that a simulation doesn't exist.
Whether it's real in a simulation or whether it's real in a carbon – or there is no carbon reality.
There is no concrete, rock-solid reality.
Everything is a simulation.
If you really get down to, like, what atoms are, most of atoms are empty, you know?
It's just massive empty space that's very confusing.
And then when you get to subatomic particles that exist in different spaces at the exact same time, and somehow or another can be both in a superposition where they can be both moving and still, like, okay, what is this thing that we're arguing about?
What is this life that we're living?
And how much of this is concrete and real?
And how much of this is just...
You're talking about childhood trauma and people that are fucked up.
Most people.
Most people are a little fucked up.
And they're just swimming through this world of possibilities and anxiety and not knowing what's...
And then you're being lied to by the people that are supposed to be there to take care of you.
But it's so obvious that they're not concerned with taking care of you.
They're concerned with...
I mean, from the moment they get into the White House, they're concerned with re-election.
I mean this is – when our founders kind of formed these founding documents of the United States of America, their vision was having come from the past of the Queen of England and these authoritarian leaders – They expressly intended to keep government as having a very, very, very limited role in our lives.
A very limited role in our lives.
When you look at the Constitution Bill of Rights, it's limited to saying what the government is not allowed to touch, what they're not allowed to do.
You look at...
There's a reason for that, for us to express our individual sovereignty, to think for ourselves, to live our lives, to be able to truly live free.
When you look at, for example, what actually happened after the Lahaina fire blew through and destroyed the entire historic town of Lahaina, what happened?
Government didn't show up at all.
It was people helping people that was the most beautiful thing that rose up from this disaster.
And we've seen it in other major disasters as well.
You know, in Hawaii, we call it the aloha spirit, that love, that care, and that compassion that we as people have for each other, whether we are friends or family or total strangers, recognizing someone in need.
And even if you have nothing at all yourself, stepping up and saying, here, here.
I'm here for you.
And that's what we saw in an incredible way happening all across West Maui, Maui County, but also the support and help and heart and prayers that was coming in from people all over the country and around the world.
When we talk about going back to the basics of limiting government's control, of limiting the responsibilities that they have, and instead allowing people to live and take care of each other, I mean, this has application in every respect.
You talk about education, BJ. And how little choice parents actually have in being able to choose what kind of education is best for their kids.
Is it a home school?
Is it a charter school?
Is it a religious school?
It's like, what is it?
Parents in so many cases, and increasingly so under the Biden administration, are seeing their rights as parents to care for their kids in the best way that they know being taken away.
And school officials and education unions literally, and the Biden administration literally saying, That we have the right to determine your child's education.
You, as a parent, do not.
Parents getting arrested by going to Board of Education meetings, having themselves be silent.
But parents going to these meetings to complain about the education their children are receiving and the propaganda the children are receiving and then them getting arrested and also attempts for them to be labeled.
Because they want a generation of people to be raised who are conformists, not critical thinkers.
That's what it comes down to.
It is about exerting that control and making sure these little kids, from the very beginning, No, hey, yeah, I'm on a tight leash and these are the boundaries and this is how I must live my life and operate under the authority of these people who've appointed themselves.
I think they're going to put Trump back in because I think that's why they're doing this whole pandemic and everybody's going to say, that's a believable story.
And I hope Trump goes out there and says, Johnson and Johnson, Pfizer, Moderna, all you guys are going to prison.
You know, I did Warp Speed to help the people and you guys made a myocarditis shot.
Fauci, you too.
You know, and I want to see, you know, something like that.
By they, I mean the Democrat elite that have vast control.
It's not just the President Biden or the Biden administration.
It's the media.
It's the politicized Department of Justice.
The timing of all of these charges against Trump is not an accident.
The fact that they want to hold multiple court hearings for these charges the day before Super Tuesday, which is a major turning point in any candidate's election.
They want to kick off these court hearings the day before Super Tuesday.
And that's what they're doing is, again, these terrible things that are happening in our country are happening because we have people in power who care more about themselves and their power than they do about the people, this country, our constitution, our democracy.
They are setting this incredibly dangerous precedent.
That now, much like many banana republics in the world, whoever's in power has the ability to politicize and weaponize that power to go after their political opponent.
Take away whatever people think about Trump or whatever.
The consequences and implications of what is actually happening and what so many of the Democrat elite are justifying in the name of protecting democracy is actually destroying it.
And when you look at the charges, like when he gets indicted, where the day before there's a scandal, there's a chart of the revelations that have come about about Biden, and then day after Trump gets arraigned.
You look at what the FBI and what the government was doing before that election even happened to try to take him off the field, to try to eliminate him from being a choice that voters could seriously consider.
You look at what the mainstream media, even Fox News did at that time to try to make it so people didn't take him seriously.
He's the guy that broke through.
And so what did they do?
Every single day of his presidency and now for years beyond, continuing to try to make sure that he is not allowed to carry out the things that he was talking about.
And he is the guy who's, as you've talked about, he's the guy who talked very openly about the military industrial complex and their power and the deep state and these entities.
That's where so much of what I'm dedicating my time and energy to is using every platform I have available to talk about the fundamentals of who we are as Americans.
What were the values and principles this country was founded upon?
And we can have different ideas on political issues here and there, but if we're standing on a common ground of recognizing our fundamental rights and freedoms, That is a pathway forward for us to make sure that we do all that we can to protect it, that we be critical thinkers, that we seek out the truth, that we speak the truth, that we're willing to have conversations with people who we might disagree with and know that, hey, you know what?
I still respect you.
You're still my friend.
It's cool.
And by doing so and exercising our responsibility to vote for people who actually care about the people versus more of these same politicians who clearly only care about themselves and their own power, we can and must start to make that shift to save our country.
I have seen, I have experienced what the power elite and all of their propaganda arms are capable of and how they tanked my candidacy in 2020. If there were a viable path forward, I would take it.
There are different possibilities that I'm looking at, but my goal is to serve our country, and my goal is to be in a position to make the most positive impact to serve the American people in our country.
I was telling Pat earlier, BJ, you walked away, but I remember as a kid growing up in Hawaii who loved martial arts, at the very beginning, seeing BJ's rise coming out of Hawaii, obviously we were so proud.
I was very much a tomboy in martial arts and all kinds of stuff as a kid growing up.
And it was when you guys came out with your white Ruka shorts with the black belt.
Man, I just moved back in with my mom because she's getting older and I was cleaning out my house and you kind of realize life, it's a few memories and a couple pictures.