In Knowledge Fight #1018, Dan Friesen and Jordan Holmes dissect Alex Jones’ February 5, 2025 episode, where he falsely claims Trump is dismantling the CIA via buyouts and purging dissenters, citing Jim Himes’ warnings. Jones also peddles conspiracy theories about Doge infiltrating the FBI, Politico’s payroll, and brain-boosting viruses, ignoring facts like USAID’s $44K subsidy or real-world Social Security errors hurting beneficiaries like 82-year-old Ned Johnson. His interview with arms dealer Victor Boot—swapped in December 2022—contradicts Trump’s "peace" rhetoric while Jones cycles through discredited claims, revealing a pattern of detached, predatory storytelling that thrives on absurdity yet still influences his audience. [Automatically generated summary]
I was thinking about how there have been, like I haven't had a food thing in a while, and I think that it's been slow over at the unnamed grocery store, and I think that what it has to be now, because I think that was unsatisfying anyway, as a 2025 thing.
Trump and Musk and us, all of us, we are over the target.
Now, the developments are so incredible that I'm going to do my very best to go over it all here and break the latest information as it comes out.
But what has been revealed, and then what Trump's doing, Trump offered to have all the employees of the CIA quit and buy them out, and then under the law, if they don't accept that, he says all of them, knowing it's the bad ones that'll quit, then under the law, they have no recourse when he fires them.
That's why he's doing that.
all of the CIA.
That's how you abolish an agency.
And then, of course, Trump won't completely get rid of it.
This is not a person celebrating a president attempting to make reforms in the CIA.
This is celebrating a hostile takeover of the country's intelligence community, replacing the CIA with ideologues and loyalists.
Trump's new administration had the CIA send them an unclassified email that listed the past two years' hires by their first name and last initial, which was a crazy thing to do.
Jim Himes, the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said, I wish this was more interesting or complicated than it is, but it's pretty simple.
Trump is taking over the government and purging dissent with the offer of a buyout being the carrot that's going to be followed by the stick if need be.
Also, Trump did this in early February and he's still alive.
If the premise is supposed to be that JFK was killed because he was going to get rid of the CIA, this kind of hurts the conspiracy.
The FBI has been illegally paying all sorts of groups to infiltrate.
To set people up, they paid the provocateurs.
They had thousands of them there on January 6th.
The FBI director perjured himself to Congress.
He's already been caught in lies.
It's a lot bigger than what's already come out.
I mean, for God's sakes, there's video of hundreds of them in Antifa gear putting Trump gear on.
I mean, it's ridiculous.
And feds that broke through the windows, fake arrests and taking their handcuffs off and high-fying them.
We have them.
So you're hearing the media, oh, it's about the J6 committee and the illegal stuff it did, destroying evidence, witness tampering, paying people, falsifying evidence.
Now that's a small part of it.
It's the people that ran the J6 in Congress with Pelosi, quarterbacked the attack with a special FBI unit.
So all this stuff about January 6th is bullshit, but if Alex has all these names and all that stuff, then he should probably report them.
I know he whines about Ray Epps and all that shit, but based on the level of the case that he's saying he can make, he needs to provide more details.
I think that Alex is telling a stupid story here.
If Nancy Pelosi and the secret FBI unit here, they plan January 6th, which in Alex's mind is a false flag attempted overthrow of the country, am I supposed to believe that they left behind clues that Elon Musk's crack team of young racists are just going to walk in and find?
If they're willing to go through so much effort to break the law in secret to get their way...
Don't you think they would have killed Trump or Musk by now?
They wouldn't just leave like, uh-oh, they're gonna find the murder weapon.
Please.
These globalists and Alex's head have the power to pull off any fantastic villain plot he can imagine, but are somehow limited by stupid shit like paperwork.
If there's some evidence in the FBI that proves that Nancy Pelosi and a secret team planned January 6th, they aren't gonna leave it to some possible court injunction to say that Musk's guys can't look at that stuff.
If they're evil enough and good enough at planning to handle the first part, they wouldn't handle the second part the way they have.
It's character inconsistency.
This is gonna become a major problem for Alex as the second Trump administration goes along.
The opposition that he's built up as being all run by demons and super competent conspirators has shown itself to be pretty incompetent against Trump's blitz of seasoned power, which makes no sense.
They're supposed to have superpowers.
They can see the future in shit.
They've been doing this since...
Jesus was alive.
As time goes on, we'll likely see the institutional power that exists as an opposition party to Trump lose a lot of the traction that it has.
The Democrats, not all but many, seem to be unable to navigate this moment politically, which limits the checks on power that Congress can have, and the Supreme Court is dubious at best.
I imagine that we're going to see a lot more grassroots type of entities that are going to exist as forces actually pushing back against Trump.
So the move you're going to see is Alex connecting these things to his existing villains.
He needs to do that for narrative purposes, like how he used those fake contracts that someone found online to claim that Soros was behind the Black Lives Matter protests.
And that's what's going to happen.
You're going to see organic things connected to Hillary Clinton.
One thing that I would, I think, about these particular people is I feel a lot more comfortable when they and law enforcement are in a far more confrontational.
I do not like them feeling like law enforcement has their back.
And their death throes are spectacular and also dangerous, and we're now at the maximum point of danger where the COG globalist system is being taken over by Trump.
I'd use the analogy of in 2001 Space Odyssey when the astronaut gets back in to turn off the AI that just killed the other astronauts, and he gets in the airlock and he's turning off the brain functions, and the robot's saying, I'm afraid, Dave.
I'm afraid.
And then, as his higher functions turn off and he goes, I'm losing my mind, Dave.
So I think that oftentimes people try to use movie metaphors and shit to make concepts more understandable to lay people, putting in quotes, because it's a little condescending.
But in Alex's world, he just does movie stuff.
He's not even trying to make a hard-to-understand concept more relatable.
Yeah, I think a lot of people want the idea to be like what you described.
It's like, oh, well, I read all this Play-Doh, right?
But, you know, we're several thousand years later, so we've got a lot of culture built up, so I can kind of lead you through those ideas through Star Wars or whatever.
For people that don't understand statutorily, when Trump goes to all these federal agencies and says, all of you can quit.
Anybody.
And I'll give you a one-year buyout of your salary.
In the executive branch, under the law, there's a lot of people you can just get rid of outright, but other people, there's a procedure where they can have some legal standing and tie things up in court.
So Trump has initiated the different laws and provisions that if he gives them a buyout plan and then they don't take it, they can be fired.
So it's hilarious to watch all this happening.
And then, of course, they said, why are you putting McMahon in at...
Department of Education, he said to shut it down.
But first, we've got to find out where all the money's been stolen and the criminals are.
But we'll be shutting it down and giving it back to the states.
And they just go, oh.
They're like, you're not going to shut it down, are you?
He's supposed to go, oh, no media.
No corporate media.
Yeah, I'm going to shut it down.
And they just go down the list of the agencies that are who are globalist Parasites at war with us on record.
Kind of feels like maybe she's actually just a super rich person who Trump knows well and is easily controllable based on the dirt he undoubtedly has on her and her husband.
I think that would be a compliment to me, personally, if somebody was like, oh, the only reason Jordan was hired to helm this organization was clearly to destroy it.
So it's interesting that Doge discovered there's $100 billion in fraud around COVID relief spending because an AP investigation from 2023 found, quote, that fraudsters potentially stole more than $280 billion in COVID-19 relief funding.
Another $123 billion was wasted or misspent.
This investigation was made possible by the Biden administration's Department of Justice having a pandemic response accountability committee, which was overseen by Michael Horowitz, who was an inspector general.
Surprisingly, he wasn't one of the ones that Trump immediately fired after getting into office, but he probably won't last all that long.
This huge amount of fraud was facilitated by pandemic relief programs that began during Trump's first term and were run with almost no oversight because the severe need to aid small businesses and And it's very unfortunate.
According to the Associated Press, the government has charged 2,230 people for this kind of fraud as of 2023 when this report came out.
Doge is itself a fraud.
Since beginning this campaign to pretend to cut government spending, they've posted a ton of dishonest numbers meant to make Musk look more competent than he is.
For instance, there have been grants that they've claimed to have cancelled within USAID that have already been paid out.
So in essence, they're claiming the value of those contracts as savings, where in the real world, they haven't saved anything.
In other cases, they've made really simple and intentional errors.
There was a case where Musk claimed that he'd cut three USAID agreements that combined up to $2 billion.
He got that number because they pretended that each program was worth $655 million, but in the real world, they were all contained within the same $655 million contract, so he was triple counting it.
They're making mistakes like this because Doge and Elon are working from the same playbook as Alex.
They're abusing the cement while it's wet, knowing that this is the only time when you can make an imprint on it.
You rush out with all these flashy headlines about billions of dollars, perfect for everyone on social media to repeat and get all worked up about because you know that if you waited until people had access to relevant information, your narratives would have zero impact on that dry concrete.
Alex understands this dynamic and he's built an empire of bullshit on it.
But now we have a government behaving in the same way, which kind of helps you understand why, like, there is a gravitational pull between Musk, Alex, Trump.
Like, there's an underlying, very much bigoted worldview that they all share.
But there is also, like, an operational, like, this is the way this works kind of similarity.
Yeah, and now that they've got a situation where they can...
I don't think anybody would be or should be worried about a propaganda agency anymore because they'll just say something and then people will defend them for free.
And then the fight will happen and it'll just be the fight.
It's the same fight that's been going on for 30 years or whatever.
Yeah, and I think that you also should be, like, I can't imagine why anyone would be concerned about, like, saying something that would get them in trouble.
You know, like, Elon, probably for a lot of these tweets, in a normal world, as we've understood it, as we were younger, you'd get arrested for that.
Now Doge, for two days, is at the FBI headquarters.
And people go, oh, Doge, that's Elon Musk computer programmers.
No.
That's what the media focuses on, and they're great.
They know, find the back doors, where the back doors are.
They built the NSA modern system.
We've had the former director of it on, William, many, many times.
Starting in the 90s when they, quote, upgraded it with back doors for all of the CIA fronts and contractors, Booz Allen, all of them.
And that's all getting shut off.
So it's the opposite of what they say.
But who's really at the FBI is all of Kosh Patel's intelligence people.
And that's from the Department of Doge, where Trump can immediately send his teams into audit and then instantly start flooding the corruption out, flooding the crimes.
And you try to even chronicle it, it's literally thousands of stories just in the last 24 hours.
Here's another one.
And I already knew this.
I've explained this for years.
It's come out many times, but not the full gravity.
You hear about it in Europe, where the government pays the private media, but it's really state-run.
You hear about the U.K. and Canada, because they don't even hide it.
Well, just the U.S. aid fountain, and that's small, but it was the most arrogant, and the State Department had full control of it statutorily, so it was the easiest to go into and the most arrogant.
What does that even mean?
The damn law says the State Department runs it.
It reports to them.
So...
You've got it coming out.
It's already devastating.
The New York Times, Politico, all of them, we're getting hundreds of millions of dollars a year.
To attack patriots.
Smoking gun.
Like I told you once ago, it's not just 300 million that Biden put in a year ago to Reuters, that's MI6, to then run hundreds of other publication attacks on Elon, his family, his businesses, PIs, harassment.
I said, it's going to be a lot more.
And now they found billions.
Over $2 billion in what they just released yesterday of federal money given to the corporate media.
So if I understand Alex correctly, Doge is a fake organization that Trump created that's full of hackers who report only to Elon Musk, which serves as a front group for Trump to send in loyalists in the organizations like the FBI to internally investigate government bodies that they don't like.
If Doge is a way for Trump to send in Kash Patel's people to subvert the law, it really seems like a flagrant conflict of interest for Doge to be looking into the FBI.
I don't know.
This is all insane, and it's just really funny to imagine 2001 Alex Jones trying to justify supporting this shit.
But as that clip went along, we saw Alex seeming to get into a specific.
He's covering Elon's revelations of all this supposed illegal spending by just waving at a giant pile and saying, he's doing so much, it's impossible to cover it all.
He seems to be continuing to do that here, but then he kind of gets into specifics.
He says that USAID paid corporate media billions of dollars to run attacks on patriots.
So Alex already misreported the story about the BBC getting money from USAID, which was actually money that went to the BBC media action charity, and he never made a correction about that, so he's not really starting off from a place of credibility.
The next media outlet that people were posting a lot about was Politico, which was not propped up by government funding.
USAID had paid Politico $44,000 in 2023 and 2024 for subscriptions to Politico Pro, which is a policy tracking site.
The government paying for those subscriptions is like how your job might cover your access to Microsoft Office.
Like, this is just grasping at straws.
Then Elon Musk made a lot of noise, claiming that the New York Times was essentially state-funded by posting a screenshot that appeared to show tens of millions of dollars being given to the Times.
This was a fraudulently presented screenshot posted by notorious idiot and social media troll Ian Miles Chong that included all spending listed on the website USA Spending when you searched for the words New York Times.
Newsweek reviewed this and found that it included a bunch of unrelated spending to things like the New York Genome Center.
off the bat, this story is a fraud.
As it turns out, in the past 17 years, the New York Times has received approximately $3.1 million in government spending, almost entire on subscriptions for employees.
The thing to understand here is that Elon Musk is the person who's supposed to be working around the clock to save all this government money, and he's amplifying bullshit tweets from known idiots that lie about what the government is spending.
He doesn't care at all about the core issue he's pretending to engage with.
This is just a matter of finding things that shitheads online can misrepresent in order to provide cover for the real agenda that's going on, that's being perpetrated.
They'll put out corporate news, and you'll notice at the timestamp when they have an attack on me.
Sometimes thousands of articles a day.
2017, 18, 19. And it would all have the same exact to the second time code, and the articles were all very similar, because they all had agreements with each other, too, that, well, we're all getting the same money, but we do want the ratings, so we all agree to publish at the same second.
These are totally illegal coordinated attacks.
It's illegal for the federal government to censor somebody, but it's really illegal to have them pay people to do that.
Musk just posted, not for long, which is obviously a huge waste of taxpayer money.
That's an understatement.
It's not just Politico.
The Associated Press has been raking in millions of dollars in government money for years.
The AP's bias also makes perfect sense.
The bias?
It's not a bias.
It's a weapons system operation mockingbird of the CIA 2.0.
You know, when you get 2,000 articles published the same second that you go to kids' graves and piss on it, when you never did it and no one ever did it, but they don't care, that people are like, come on, Alex, there's not 2,000 articles a day that you peed on graves.
Come on, Alex, there's 500 articles a day that you beat up your employees and there was a fish tank with a fish in it that belonged to one of the employees' nieces and you grabbed it and ate it.
Never had a fish.
Never killed the fish.
Got a fish tank at home, a saltwater tank.
I love my fish.
Got some fish that's been alive 11 years.
My little cutie doesn't have a name for it.
But the point is, is that my fish's name is top secret.
The point is, is that that's from the Wolf of Wall Street.
It's interesting how this is like a compounding lie.
On the first level, Alex is lying about what people have accused him of.
No one claimed that he ate an employee's fish.
His former employee said that he threw away a goldfish that another employee had brought to the office in a bag.
Alex has attached the Wolf of Wall Street thing on to create a straw man to pretend that his enemies have accused him of something in a movie.
Similarly, no one accused him of peeing on any child's grave.
We've been over this a ton of times, but Alex has created this accusation up so he can defend himself from a fake charge and ignore the reality of what he did and how his actions have affected people in deeply traumatic ways.
These accusations aren't real, and they weren't published in the corporate media, let alone in thousands of articles that were set to release simultaneously to the second.
This is a further layer of the lie that Alex is trying to perpetuate.
I think it's believable that some random people on Twitter accused Alex of eating a fish or peeing on someone's grave, but that would be the result of them not reading the actual stories about these subjects.
It feels like it's often the case that Alex doesn't touch any real stories, choosing instead to complain about social media while pretending that he's upset about something real.
So you might see somebody say something in a tweet and be like, oh the corporate media is accusing me of this.
To promote Wolfgang Halbig, who was actively harassing these parents, and is part of the inspiration for why people would have sent them a message in a letter that says that I peed on your kid's grave.
So Politico had a payroll issue on February 4th, which they say was caused by a technical glitch that led to a delay.
By the morning of the 5th, when Alex is doing this show we're listening to, employees had already been paid.
But because Elon and Trump have been targeting the media, and Politico is one of the entities that they've made erroneous claims about, the dipshits on Twitter began connecting imaginary dots.
This payroll issue must be because Elon stopped their money, and now there's no money!
This is right-wing and online idiots engaging in a large-scale creative writing exercise where they're coming up with the reality that they want to impose on everyone else.
Effects happen, and then the cause is decided based on whatever the loudest voices on Twitter want it to be, and that becomes reality.
But, in the real world, USAID paid about $44,000 for subscriptions to Politico in the past two years, and it's estimated that Politico Pro subscriptions accounted for about $100 million in annual revenue, so I don't think that ending these USAID accounts would make that much of a dent in their ability to pay their payroll.
It would leave the government workers without access to an important information tool and make their jobs harder, but...
The people who are now coming into the government aren't interested in doing those jobs anyway, so it doesn't really matter.
Yeah, sometimes you do just see in real time, like, a caveman 20,000 years ago, like, doing a thing, then lightning striking and being like, that was God.
The value of lightning striking and you telling yourself, God did that, I can't do the thing I was doing when lightning struck, is to protect yourself from being struck by lightning in the future.
It is a coping mechanism or something in order to gain control over your own actions and outcomes.
If you are looking at this through the same prism, Politico had a payroll issue.
This is a fantasy version of what Elon's doing, but it's unbelievable to think that Alex could say this with a straight face.
I get that he's in favor of what Elon and Trump are doing, but based on the entire premise of his career, there's no way Alex shouldn't think that this is anti-democratic tyranny.
Like, what he's describing is so on-its-face fucking illegal and just taking over.
Like, it's a coup.
What he's describing is...
Before people are confirmed to be the heads of organizations, give me your top guys and we'll send an army in to force these agencies in line.
It's crazy.
Imagining that Alex could support that is...
It's funny.
If you replaced Musk and Trump with Soros and Obama, it becomes a little easier to understand what a sellout Alex is.
Except he's not really.
This is in line with everything he's always wanted.
The problem and the confusion comes from the fact that he spent all of those years pretending to support liberty and democracy.
The John Birch Society could hardly have dreamed of a better turn of events.
A billionaire who's deeply indebted to the government to enable the accumulation of his wealth is taking over the government and running propaganda campaigns against government spending that he doesn't like on the social media platform he owns.
The opposition party can't do anything to stop it, apparently, and the ruling party is just entirely capitulated to the billionaire who's reshaping the government in front of our eyes.
Corporate interests will reap huge benefits in terms of tax breaks and relaxed or eliminated regulations and worker protections, and everyone else is going to get fucked.
This is going to cause huge problems, but Elon owns Twitter, and I think he's kind of banking on being able to use that to divert blame onto other people for the consequences of his actions.
And, like, I just can't, I can't imagine someone who pretended to be Alex being this.
So I think that there's a misunderstanding that people have with propaganda.
Almost anything that's meant to convey a point can be described as propaganda after the fact.
But not everything is propaganda in the casual sense of the word, the way people generally mean it when they say it.
That definition is more like stuff that's designed to make a point by obscuring some aspect of reality because it's inconvenient to getting the message across.
It's generally stuff that's deceptive, and you can definitely argue that some deceptive content has been used, and it's made to further positive goals.
So you can make that distinction and argument about propaganda, but Alex is...
The important thing here is the fact that Musk tweeted out that he bought into American jingoistic propaganda, because that is a word that has a meaning.
It's not about the U.S. being the pearl of the Renaissance or whatever dumb shit Alex can riff out.
Jingoism is inherently belligerent and militaristic.
Jingoism is aggressive, and it starts shit.
The U.S. overthrowing the Hawaiian monarchy to make it a state is jingoism.
Alex was supposed to be this big peace guy.
You know, Trump's the peace candidate.
And he's over here beating off about Elon tweeting that he loves jingoism.
When Musk says that he bought into the U.S. jingoistic propaganda, he's saying that he's an idiot who bought into colonialist ideologies.
That's what he wants to make real.
That's what he's expressing in this tweet, and what Alex is celebrating.
The third Bourne movie for Fourth Bourne, I forget what it was, where they give them a virus that goes in and reconturs the brain and it super advances your intelligence and also your physical abilities?
They have that.
The problem is it kills a percentage of people that do it.
And it doesn't mean there's not going to be big obstacles in the future, and this power is dangerous.
We have Promethean fire.
That's not just a Greek legend.
This is it.
We are the new Atlantis.
Whether Atlantis existed or not, we are Atlantis.
Look around you.
Fish people.
There's been other advanced human civilizations which blew each other up before.
And this time, we don't really want to do that, do we?
So...
That's where we are, and there are people that are scared of the Atlantean moment and saying we will blow ourselves up, so they want to bring in, cull everybody, suppress technology except for a very tiny elite, and that'll never work.
That's probably what caused the last war that blew everything.
And I think that maybe we should reorganize the world in such a way that people actually can separate who wants an explanation from who's playing, I'm just asking questions, games.
And it's kind of funny, because if you pay attention to this clip, you will see very clearly that Alex did not know why Al Green had suggested impeachment.
This reportedly has already been done, but we haven't seen it yet.
We're checking.
Texas Democrat to bring first articles of impeachment of Trump's second term.
He's done this many times, but this is the latest in this administration.
Democrat Rat, Representative Al Green of Texas, said today that he has just brought articles of impeachment against Donald Trump over the alleged threat.
Of ethnic cleansing in Gaza.
On Tuesday, Trump said during a news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the United States wants to take over the Gaza Strip, drawing backlash from some lawmakers and praise from others.
The movement to impeach the president has begun.
I raise the announcement that I will bring articles of impeachment against the president for the dastardly deeds proposed and dastardly deeds done.
Green said Wednesday, all Trump did was propose it.
So you can definitely tell that Alex had no idea why Green proposed impeachment before he started reading that.
Alex is not ready to defend Trump saying that the U.S. should take over the Gaza Strip, and you can tell because the best he's got in terms of defending ethnic cleansing is calling it, quote, paying them to move somewhere nice.
Alex doesn't care about the Palestinian people at all.
And any attempt to pretend to care about this issue previously was mostly based in not wanting to risk losing the deeply anti-Semitic ends of Trump's base before the 2024 election.
He wouldn't care if Israel killed and displaced every Palestinian person.
He does not give a shit at all.
And you can, like, what I'm saying, like, he didn't know why this impeachment was suggested before starting that.
It's so clear if you listen to just the rest of how it goes.
During Trump's first term, 2017-2019, Green, who represented the Houston area, unsuccessfully attempted to impeach the president on three separate occasions.
So, they are beyond scared.
Look, I know our audience knows they're lying.
You know the law.
But I want to go over it some here and I want to play some of the clips.
Of the unprecedented hoaxing that is going on right now by Chuckie Schumer, Pocahontas, Hakeem Jeffries, all of them.
They're all over corporate news.
They're all over press conferences saying he's in your private info.
He's going to give it to the Chinese hackers.
People aren't getting their Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid.
All of that's a lie.
You're not going to get those payments if we go bankrupt, which we already are.
We have to shut this down, grow the economy, or we're screwed.
And that starts with cutting energy prices by half within one year, and Trump can do it.
So you can tell that Alex is eager to go on to another subject.
He just moves right along.
He thought that the Green impeachment was going to be about something fun that he could yell about, but as soon as he realized that it was about Gaza, he bailed.
There's a lot of window dressing on his next point, but the thing Alex is trying to argue is that the Dems are lying when they say that Elon's meddling will affect their Social Security payments.
One of the benefits to us being a little bit in the future is we know that Alex is very much wrong.
He's entirely wrong about the Democrats lying about this.
An 82-year-old man in Seattle named Ned Johnson was erroneously declared dead, which led to him losing his Social Security benefits.
This was in the context of Elon gaining access to Social Security records and Medicare data and making a big deal out of how many dead people are receiving benefits.
This is a guy who was alive and receiving benefits, but could easily have been accidentally seen as a case where someone was scamming the system and shut off from the things they need.
This is one person, but his case illustrates something that could happen and might very well be happening to a lot of people.
Beyond that, the funding cuts that Trump and Elon are pushing have led to shrinking of the workforce, which necessarily means less Social Security reps and offices to serve the people who rely on it to survive and have paid into it their entire careers.
Doge aimed to close 47 Social Security offices, justifying it by saying that hearings that were done there, like they were in-person hearings, and these can just be done virtually.
Simultaneously, Trump's administration has created new anti-fraud rules that require you to apply for benefits in person and do things like change your direct deposit information in person as well.
If you want to make these changes, you've got to go in.
It's almost like they're trying to destroy this thing by making it impossible to use.
Social Security is an incredibly powerful and beloved government program that keeps countless retired people out of poverty.
Everyone knows that it's politically toxic to touch it because it works and it gets rid of a lot of poverty and getting rid of it would kill a ton of people.
That's why there's been a bit of mixed messaging from Trump on the issue.
He's a political figure and needs to get voted into office, so he's sworn that they weren't going to take Social Security.
Yeah.
a huge Ponzi scheme and he wants to destroy it.
The administration is incoherent because Trump still kind of needs to be liked as that figure and Elon doesn't.
Yeah, I mean, the problem, I guess, would be that, you know, naturally the people who are most going to be affected by Social Security are also a majority of the people who voted for Trump.
And it's just not going to bounce back on him because they have complete control over what those people think.
And I think that to the extent that it is going to bounce back, it'll be...
Yeah.
any bounce back or consequences in terms of political capital for the GOP.
And that is really, really sad because people are going to be severely hurt by it.
Between the people who are directly hurt by these cuts and making these things more unaccessible and their children who may need to take on new financial burdens in order to help keep their parents alive, it's just a load of shit.
And they're doing this willingly and knowingly.
They know exactly what they're doing.
But you can see there how much Alex is just like, whoops.
Elon Musk just posted this, and it's right here in the federal documents they've been releasing this, just to the public.
Could someone explain to me why the Department of Defense provided $9,147,000-plus to Reuters for active social engineering defense, ASED, and large-scale social deception, LSD?
That's how...
In the grants, at usspending.gov, Department of Defense, Thompson Reuters Special Services, that's MI6.
You can look it up.
Remember the $300 million targeting Musk last year from the Biden administration?
About how to brainwash the public under social engineering, defense system, electro, electronics communication, North American industry classification system, active social engineering, defense, large-scale social...
Thomas& Reuters has a company called TRSS that they run that offers software and information services.
In 2018, when Trump was in office, the government offered up a contract that involved preventing large-scale social manipulation online, including through cyber attacks.
The contract was competitive and TRSS won the contract and served as the testers on a defensive platform.
Alex and his ilk are pretending that this is about Reuters, the news service, being paid to engage in social manipulation and engineering, but that's because they're malicious and stupid.
And Musk gives up the game when he says, can anyone tell me why this money was spent?
When he does that, because it's transparently dishonest.
He's playing the same game that folks like Alex have for years where you pretend to ask questions when in reality you have a very firm answer that you're pushing and again this goes back to the like the ways that these people do make sense together yeah they play similar games yeah uh even if the boards they're on are very different yeah and it's predicated almost in Mm-hmm.
The idea of Elon Musk saying, can somebody tell me why this money was spent without somebody else going, I will hit you in the face for all the things that you have spent money on, you waste of humanity.
And they're funding the BBC with your tax money secretly.
And they can't make payroll.
Staff at Politico did not get paid for their last pay period.
The company just sent several emails, employees saying it believes there was a financial error and is looking into how to fix the issue.
And that's the theft they're talking about must, cutting off all this illegal crap, because the president has that executive power when he believes it's fraud, and now they're going to try to defend, in congressional hearings, you know we're coming, that Trump's cut off the money to carry out, quote, active social engineering defense and large-scale social deception.
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Yeah, it feels so much like when I was working the graveyard shift at a hotel every morning at, like, the 4 a.m. hour.
ESPN would show the old Mike and Mike radio show on TV, because whatever.
It was the early thousands.
We did that back then.
And it would have just, like, the list of topics that was a circle.
Every hour they would go through the same, like, hey, by the way, last hour we talked about this, but this hour it's like, how's fucking Kevin Euclid doing this year, you know?
And it was like, it was just a rotation.
It was the same thing over and over and over and over again.
So Alex is once again interviewing the merchant of death, former arms dealer Victor Boot.
Like, this is crazy.
This is, like, I think that if you're a peace guy, like Alex likes to pretend to be, the only interview you can have with this guy is incredibly confrontational.
So that's interesting, because just the other day, as we're recording this, Trump carried out a large-scale attack on Yemen meant to take out the Houthis.
Trump said, quote, they will be completely annihilated.
So I just don't understand where anyone's head is at.
Alex is supporting Trump, who's the peace candidate, who's bombing Yemen in order to fight the Houthis, who the guy who Alex is interviewing as a really cool guy is selling arms to.
Or is it that there are so few people who are just willing to straight out and out be a weapons dealer that, like, people are already looking for weapons and you've got weapons.
I was thinking, they need weapons, they have weapons, you just need a guy in between who doesn't need to be like, hey, how can I get you into an extra set of weapons today?
See, now this is the problem for me, is now I have an in on the arms dealer.
Because I remember being in sales.
I remember going to conferences where there would be all these sales people all in a room together, all just sales talking into each other about, I hit this blank number or whatever it is like that.
The idea that there would be a weapons dealer conference.