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| Today. | ||
| Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the war room. | ||
| Join to you live on this second day of the year 2026. | ||
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We got a lot to talk about today. | |
| Yes, we're going to be getting into the calls to ban the First Amendment to stop anti-Semitism. | ||
| Just how ludicrous, predictable, and evil that is. | ||
| We're going to talk about Trump's threats against Iran. | ||
| Yeah, a lot of Israel talk today, whether we like it or not. | ||
| But we're actually going to save the Daily Dispatch for the next segment. | ||
| I want to start today. | ||
| A little compilation I put together of all the most impactful videos of the year 2025. | ||
| So here's a little compilation I put together with a little Dr. Strangelove vocals to add to it. | ||
| But these are videos that are presented in order. | ||
| This was the year 2025, and what a year it was. | ||
| Let's watch. | ||
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Mandre, I suppose it never occurred to you that while we're chatting here so enjoyably, a decision is being made by the president and the joint chiefs in the war room at the Pentagon. | |
| When they realize there is no possibility of recalling the wing, there will be only one course of action open. | ||
| Total combat bond. | ||
| He said war was too important to be left to the general. | ||
| When he said that 50 years ago, it might have been right. | ||
| But today, war is too important to be living with politicians. | ||
| They have neither the time, the training, nor the inclination for strategic thoughts. | ||
| They don't know what the f they're doing. | ||
| You understand that? | ||
| Our recalling 843rd bombs are quickly being reduced to a very low order of probability. | ||
| If fired of us, we have done nothing for them to suppress their retaliatory capabilities. | ||
| We will suffer virtual annihilation. | ||
| Good chance of peace. | ||
| Hell, we're not fired with our spirit artists. | ||
| We'd easily assign three missiles every time and still have a very effective reserve force for any other six. | ||
| Unofficial study, 300 people just indicate that we would destroy 90% of their nuclear capabilities. | ||
| We would therefore prevail and suffer only modest and acceptable civilian cashmeres. | ||
| The remaining forces would be badly damaged. | ||
| We are rapidly approaching the woman of truth, both for ourselves as human beings and for the life of our nation. | ||
| Truth is not always a pleasant thing. | ||
| But it is necessary now to make a choice, to choose between two admittedly regrettable, but nevertheless, distinguishable post-war environments. | ||
| Here is the InfoWars crew, which means the viewers and listeners have made this all possible. | ||
| I want to salute you all as we close out the year 2025, 2026. | ||
| Regardless, we stood on the side of right. | ||
| We didn't sell out. | ||
| We stood for humanity, and God's watching. | ||
| That's the only audience that matters. | ||
| So, I'm going to tell you right now, God loves you guys. | ||
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I appreciate you. | |
| Here's the InfoWar. | ||
| All right, folks, the InfoWar lives on into the year 2026. | ||
| Not a lot of people thought we'd be able to accomplish this feat, but here we are. | ||
| Of course, thanks to you. | ||
| Please do continue to support us at the AlexJonesStore.com, the AlexJonesStore.com/slash Harrison. | ||
| If you want to let us know the essential, we'll be back from the other side to do your daily dispatch and get into all of the news of the day, which is pretty horrible. | ||
| Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| This is the warroominfowars.com banned.video on the second day of 2026. | ||
| We got a lot to talk about. | ||
| I hope everybody enjoyed your New Year's break. | ||
| I know I did getting drunk on champagne and rambling for an hour. | ||
| I genuinely have no idea what I talked about from midnight to one of you on the Alex Jones show. | ||
| So I hope it was good. | ||
| I hope it was fun. | ||
| I don't drink very much, so just like a couple bottles of champagne and I'm out. | ||
| But that was very fun. | ||
| But we're back to the grind now, back to the business of trying to save the world from itself. | ||
| And it ain't going well, folks. | ||
| So we're going to do a little survey of European countries in just a second. | ||
| But let's begin today, as we do every day, with our Daily Dispatch. | ||
| All right, here it is, folks, your Daily Dispatch for Friday, the 2nd of January, 2025. | ||
| Trump says U.S. will intervene if Iran kills protesters. | ||
| It was not possible whether there'd been planning for such a move or whether the administration would actually follow through on Mr. Trump's threat, but I have the feeling that this is probably related to Benjamin Etanyahu's visit to Mar-a-Lago and perhaps an agreement was made there. | ||
| This is doubly disappointing for me, not only because it shows that once again, Donald Trump is in league with Israel as they continue to try to kill everybody who's against them in the Middle East and willing to play footsie with another Middle East war, which in this case would probably very quickly become world war. | ||
| So that's disappointing in and of itself. | ||
| It's doubly disappointing because it shows that Trump still doesn't have the brass balls required to deal with existential protests. | ||
| I find that disappointing too. | ||
| Trump puts out this tweet saying, if you dare to shoot the protesters, we'll attack you. | ||
| And it's like, no, Trump, you're supposed to shoot protesters. | ||
| You taught us that. | ||
| What happened when the looting shooting starts? | ||
| Wasn't that the motto? | ||
| So a little hypocritical, I think, a little hypocritical, but also reveals a very convenient method of manufacturing geopolitical conflict and weaponizing international relations. | ||
| See, it's pretty simple. | ||
| You spend money and you send agents into Iran to foment rebellion, to foment protest. | ||
| And then you have America say, if you try to stop that protest, then we'll attack you. | ||
| So now Iran, I guess, is stuck between either allowing the almost certainly manufactured protests in Iran by Israel, basically hollow out their country and destroy it from the inside, or try to crush the protest and be attacked by America. | ||
| A real lose-lose situation we're setting up for Iran. | ||
| And when I say we, of course, I mean everybody except for we, not us, not the Americans. | ||
| We have no business in any of this, but our governmental system is completely controlled by the Israeli influence, money, diaspora, and cybersecurity. | ||
| We'll get to that too in a little bit. | ||
| Meanwhile, FBI says it thwarted planned New Year's Eve terrorist attack in North Carolina. | ||
| FBI says the team was planning Islamic state-inspired hammer and knife attack on Jews, Christians, and LGBT plus people. | ||
| The FBI said it thwarted this alleged plot to carry out a New Year's Eve terrorist attack on a grocery store and restaurant in North Carolina in the support of the Islamic State. | ||
| Christian Sturdivant, 18 of Mint Hill, African-American guy, Muslim named Christian. | ||
| Okay, a little weird, but thank you, FBI, for pretending you do something. | ||
| Wonderful. | ||
| Meanwhile, more than 1,000 cars were burned in France as New Year's Eve celebrations in Europe turn into fireworks war between migrants and the police. | ||
| The suicidal policy of unchecked mass migration is taking its toll on European nations. | ||
| And we'll revisit this story just as soon as we're done with the Daily Dispatch. | ||
| Meanwhile, ethics questions swirl around Somalia's UN ambassador tied to an Ohio healthcare company. | ||
| Somalia's permanent representative to the United Nations, Abukhar Dahir Osman, is facing growing scrutiny over his connections to the Ohio healthcare company, Progressive Healthcare Services Inc. | ||
| This comes as federal investigations into suspected Somali-linked welfare fraud stretching from Minnesota to Washington, Ohio, and Maine continue to intensify with allegations that some entities, daycares, healthcare, or transportation service companies, were merely a front operation to extract taxpayer funds. | ||
| And yeah, it turns out the ambassador to the UN from Somalia is a healthcare administrator from Ohio somehow. | ||
| So I think we're at war. | ||
| I think we're at war and nobody bothered to tell us. | ||
| Meanwhile, and finally, corrupt criminal prosecutor Jack Smith wanted to indict President Trump based on what Smith thought Trump thought. | ||
| Do you understand what it's saying? | ||
| He wanted to indict Trump because he imagined Trump was being corrupt. | ||
| He thought, if I speculate about Trump's mindset, I think it's bad. | ||
| Therefore, he must be bad. | ||
| The Conservative Treehouse released a video of Jack Smith's interview before Congress. | ||
| Smith shows a rotten soul who believes he is God. | ||
| His efforts to get President Trump were based on what he thought President Trump thought, saying, I don't care if you support President Trump, Ron DeSantis, or the Easter bunny. | ||
| Any American who doesn't realize the tenuous future of our union after reviewing the information within this testimony is going to forever live in a collapsed dystopian nightmare if they vote for any representative, political representative who supports it. | ||
| Yeah, about that. | ||
| I think most of us are coming to the understanding that it is over, basically, for the American government. | ||
| We have to figure out how we deal with this situation. | ||
| But yeah, the whole thing is corrupt beyond words. | ||
| And the one guy that we sent to Washington to drain the swamp, I saw somebody yesterday put it pretty interestingly, the guy we sent to drain the swamp made it a protected wetlands. | ||
| That's kind of how it seems. | ||
| That's very much how it seems, actually. | ||
| And whether this is because Israel gave him a golden pager and said, we'll kill you and your whole family if you don't go along with it, or whether he thinks that he's going to be able to get out of this with a bag of cash and his name intact, it's all delusional, folks. | ||
| The future is very clear. | ||
| Either we take the brief respite we've granted ourselves of the next few months at this point to absolutely and frankly brutally crush the left in every possible way, or it's over. | ||
| Like it is absolutely over. | ||
| 100% over. | ||
| Completely done. | ||
| And I'm like not even exaggerating. | ||
| Like they're going to give citizenship to everybody that's here illegally. | ||
| They're going to open the border to tens of millions of more illegals. | ||
| Like that's it. | ||
| It's over at that point. | ||
| So I don't think we're going to do what's necessary. | ||
| At least Trump's not going to do what's necessary. | ||
| So what do we do now? | ||
| Really can't express the level of disappointment. | ||
| The. | ||
| The quote that keeps going through my head is the Batman quote. | ||
| You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain. | ||
| And that's sort of where Trump's at. | ||
| Anyway, we'll talk about that and what needs to come of it, but we've got a bunch of other stuff to cover first. | ||
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| Now, as we had the story in the Daily Dispatch, more than 1,000 cars burned in France as New Year's Eve celebrations in Europe turn into fireworks war between migrants and the police. | ||
| And I think we'll take a little survey. | ||
| We'll do a little jaunt around Europe and what was going on New Year's Eve. | ||
| And we'll start with probably the most viral video out of Europe. | ||
| We'll start with clip three. | ||
| This is a German streamer who wanted to show that it was still safe to go downtown. | ||
| And there she was pelted in the head with a rock. | ||
| Yeah, from about three feet away, a Muslim migrant cracks her in the head with a brick. | ||
| I think it happens again. | ||
| She says if I was a two-meter more people throwing stuff at her. | ||
| If I was a two-meter tall, if I was a six-foot-tall bouncer, they wouldn't have done that. | ||
| Yeah, maybe. | ||
| But you're a German woman. | ||
| So you're like a whore. | ||
| You're like a whore, like a dog. | ||
| You're not covered. | ||
| You're kind of like a walking piece of trash, actually, in the mindset of the men that you have surrendered your country to. | ||
| This is the scene throughout all of Europe. | ||
| So let's go through some of these. | ||
| And I don't mean to depress you, but it is depressing. | ||
| So let's start with clip 26 here. | ||
| Take a look at Frankfurt. | ||
| Here's the German city of Frankfurt. | ||
| Not a German in sight. | ||
| Not a woman in sight. | ||
| No joy, no fun, no celebration, no music, no dancing, no children, just Middle Eastern men. | ||
| Just nothing but a spirit of menace and stress as all of the Germans, I guess, cower in their own homes. | ||
| Okay, let's go to Berlin. | ||
| Let's continue through Germany here. | ||
| Clip 27. | ||
| We see some Berlin fireworks going off. | ||
| A wonderful, lovely fireworks display. | ||
| So as the article says, fireworks battles between the authorities and the immigrants broke out. | ||
| What they mean is that the migrants attacked everybody with fireworks. | ||
| And then when like the fire department shows up to put out the fires, they attack the firefighters. | ||
| That's what we're talking about. | ||
| So I believe this is Berlin as well. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| Berlin, of course. | ||
| Ancestral seat, the German people. | ||
| No Germans. | ||
| Not a lot of Germans. | ||
| And again, no women to be found anywhere. | ||
| But you do have heavily armed police. | ||
| Heavily, you know, SWAT team police. | ||
| Air filled with smoke as explosions go off and they do their creepy and frankly very gay dances from their home countries. | ||
| Isn't that lovely? | ||
| Yeah, not Germany. | ||
| Not Germany. | ||
| No, the Germans are scared. | ||
| The Germans are inside. | ||
| The Germans, I guess, are watching some sort of sanitized version of this on screen. | ||
| But let's move on. | ||
| It's not just Germany. | ||
| Let's go to 29 here. | ||
| This is Brussels. | ||
| There's a Belgian going around with his AK-47. | ||
| Here we have Rome. | ||
| This is in Rome. | ||
| This is 20 meters from the Coliseum. | ||
| A fight breaking out between North Africans and Pakistanis. | ||
| What should be happening is the North Africans and Pakistanis should be fighting each other inside the Coliseum for the entertainment of the Italians. | ||
| Now, this is an interesting one. | ||
| This is an interesting one. | ||
| This is in Paris, or it's in France. | ||
| And these apartments are extremely, they're owned by extremely wealthy people, and they have an extremely good view of the fireworks. | ||
| And so the crowd of seething, jealous, socialist idiots. | ||
| Let's go back to that. | ||
| I want to keep watching that old one. | ||
| Hold on, go back. | ||
| We'll watch the Belgian men shooting their guns in the air in a second. | ||
| But do you understand what's happening here? | ||
| See, these people in these apartments have a beautiful view of the fireworks that the people on the ground don't have. | ||
| So the people on the ground are using laser pointers to try to blind the people on the balconies up there. | ||
| Not that that means they suddenly get the view. | ||
| Like people on the ground can't see the fireworks from up there. | ||
| It doesn't matter. | ||
| They just don't want you to have it. | ||
| See, they can't have it, and so they hate you for having it. | ||
| They don't have the balcony with the nice view. | ||
| And so you having that balcony, they perceive as an attack against them, as an insult against them, as having been stolen from them. | ||
| And so the people that own these apartments can't enjoy them, can't appreciate them, can't spend that romantic New Year's Eve watching the fireworks on the horizon because a seething mass of socialist morons are angry that you have something that they don't. | ||
| So this one video is a little different than all the others, but sort of tells you why all of the others exist, right? | ||
| This is what the French people are getting up to. | ||
| Hating people that have more than them simply for having more than them, even though it's not like they can. | ||
| They just are miserable and want you to be miserable. | ||
| That's about the end of it. | ||
| Okay, now we can go on. | ||
| This is Lisbon, Portugal. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| Sorry, not Brussels. | ||
| I was confused because they all look the same. | ||
| This is in Portugal. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| Some pistols, some AKs, right? | ||
| This is in Europe with all of that severe gun control. | ||
| And while this is obviously, you know, a very potent example of the lawlessness and lack of respect that the immigrants have for the laws of the country that they're invading, but it also represents the fact that these populations coming to these European countries do in fact see themselves as soldiers. | ||
| They are in fact heavily armed. | ||
| And if the European people were to try to kick them out, they would fight to stay and probably kill a lot of people. | ||
| So when we show you these crowds of nothing but Middle Eastern men, remember, they're enemy soldiers on your soil. | ||
| And they're heavily armed. | ||
| Their mosques are packed to the brim with guns. | ||
| And I'm not even saying that facetiously. | ||
| Literally, they routinely bust mosques, having entire weapons caches of thousands of guns. | ||
| Keep the change, you filthy animal. | ||
| Lisbon, Portugal. | ||
| That's one we just saw. | ||
| And we can move on. | ||
| This is in Barcelona. | ||
| This is Barcelona. | ||
| The people from Barcelona, they'll know that you're an outsider if you don't lisp like that. | ||
| They'll be insulted if you don't adhere to their particular speech impediment that they've all adopted. | ||
| How they feel about a million random Indians taking over their entire city and beating up random people, I don't know. | ||
| But they really hate when you mispronounce the name of their city. | ||
| That's what they're really concerned about. | ||
| They have a lot of pride in their city. | ||
| Do you understand? | ||
| And so if you say Barcelona rather than Barcelona, they'll be insulted. | ||
| But anyway, here's 10 million Indian men punching each other in the middle of their city. | ||
| So I guess they can pronounce it however they want. | ||
| Meanwhile, clip 34 here, migrant gangs attacking random people and rescue workers with fireworks during yesterday's New Year's Eve celebrations in Birmingham, England. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| So we've seen Spain, Brussels, the Netherlands, Germany, France, Portugal. | ||
| This is now the Netherlands. | ||
| It's the same everywhere. | ||
| It's the same everywhere. | ||
| 35 here, video showed, oh, actually save 35. | ||
| We're going to go to 35 later. | ||
| This again, Birmingham, UK. | ||
| We'll return to 35. | ||
| 36 here, North Africans creating chaos in Florence with Italian families fleeing. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| I haven't burned the Christmas tree yet, so there's that. | ||
| All right, Florence, you know, home of the Renaissance, Michelangelo da Vinci. | ||
| There you can see probably the most iconic building in Europe, maybe, second to the only the Eiffel Tower. | ||
| The Duomo at the Florence is called the Duomo, or is that Milan? | ||
| I know Milan's called the Duomo. | ||
| Yeah, the largest dome ever built until like the Astro Dome, I'm pretty sure, in the 1960s, designed by some of the Renaissance's most famous. | ||
| Anyway, what am I talking about? | ||
| There's a giant brawl of a bunch of sub-70 IQ barbarian retards throwing plastic chairs at each other. | ||
| So that's what Italy's up to now. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Yes, it was once home of the Renaissance. | ||
| Now it's home of whoever these guys are and whatever, I don't know, destruction they wrought. | ||
| Because building isn't really in their style. | ||
| Let's go to clip 37 here. | ||
| God only knows where this place is, somewhere that speaks German. | ||
| Prinzenhof in Leidenstam. | ||
| See, what they do here is they light a car on fire, and then they lie in wait, and you can see they're filming before the fire department shows up because this is a game they play. | ||
| They light a fire, and when the government shows up to put the fire out, they attack the police officers with fireworks. | ||
| So the police end up leaving without even putting that out because the fire itself was literally a trap by Muslim gangs to assault the firefighters. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| We go to 38 here. | ||
| This is the tower of neo-Gothic Vandelkirk Church in Amsterdam. | ||
| It has now collapsed after being engulfed in fire on New Year's Eve. | ||
| So another arson attack, just like happened in Notre Dame, this time on a hundreds of year old church in Amsterdam that withstood world wars and bombing campaigns and plagues and religious revolution like the Reformation only to succumb to suicidal empathy, | ||
| post-war consensus, and neoliberal refusal to acknowledge basic human reality. | ||
| Okay, now we can go to clip 39 here. | ||
| All right, so is there any that we've missed? | ||
| Because this is Antwerp. | ||
| This is Antwerp in Belgium. | ||
| So I don't know if a single European country escaped the diversity here. | ||
| I don't know if they escaped, any of them escaped enrichment during the New Year's Eve celebrations by the hostile invading foreign men. | ||
| And in all these videos, the crowds are all men. | ||
| They're all non-Europeans. | ||
| No women, no children, no fun, just violence, murder, chaos, menacing. | ||
| And if you do happen to want to, I don't know, enjoy New Year's Eve festivities in your hometown as a German, just don't be a woman. | ||
| Just hope you're not a woman, or else you're going to get a brick to the side of the head multiple times in a 10-minute window. | ||
| So that's Europe. | ||
| That is the state of Europe at this point. | ||
| And now we can go to clip 35 here because this is a, frankly, horrifying video. | ||
| And it shows the fire beginning to spread at a Swiss ski resort. | ||
| Now, this fire would eventually and rapidly spread, leading to the death of 40 people. | ||
| So this fire that they are watching, filming with their phones, dancing around, basically ignoring, went on to kill 40 people in this club. | ||
| So I don't know if I could imagine a better symbol of Europe at this moment. | ||
| While the fire is small and manageable, nobody's doing anything to put it out. | ||
| Nobody even seems concerned at the danger that they face. | ||
| Instead of putting out the fire, it goes on to rage and kill 40 of them. | ||
| While the warnings being shouted are drowned out by some, I don't know, ghetto trash music blaring through the speakers. | ||
| And apparently the exits were blocked. | ||
| I think that's basically where Europe is at. | ||
| Although they may have gone beyond. | ||
| They may have gone beyond. | ||
| When you watch these videos, I mean, I assume that there is an equal or greater number of Europeans somewhere out there. | ||
| I guess they're all hiding in their homes. | ||
| I guess they're all having private parties. | ||
| But when you look at the street, a European street, and who's in public, I have a really hard time believing the Europeans are the majority in their own countries. | ||
| I think they might be lying to us. | ||
| I think the Europeans might already be less than half of their own countries. | ||
| That's at least what it looks like with every single video that you see. | ||
| Every single country in Western Europe. | ||
| Hopefully it's not too late. | ||
| Hopefully we're still at that moment where the fire is starting to rise. | ||
| It's starting to catch the ceiling tiles on fire. | ||
| Hopefully enough people will listen to us who are sitting by the exit saying, get out now, fight the fire. | ||
| Hopefully it doesn't consume us all. | ||
| Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| This is the war room. | ||
| You know, I posted a tweet about the video that you just saw of the fire breaking out. | ||
| Apparently, what happened is they attached sparklers to champagne bottles and people were holding them up. | ||
| Other people on somebody's shoulder holding them up and it caught this foam padding on the ceiling on fire, noise-dampening foam that they put there. | ||
| That's extremely flammable, and the fire spreads extremely quickly. | ||
| And so I retweeted that video saying, this is us. | ||
| This is us, a bunch of drugged out morons doing nothing while the fire is manageable, giggling at the flames that will soon just consume them, while a deafening soundtrack of incomprehensible ghetto gibberish drowns out the warnings. | ||
| And I had people respond to that. | ||
| A lot of people saying, yes, that's exactly. | ||
| That is what a brilliant deduction, sir. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| I agree. | ||
| Other people mad at me for insulting people who died. | ||
| I don't know if anybody in this video actually died, but I'll say that's kind of the attitude I think that we have to get over. | ||
| Like if you could go back in time and be at this place with these kids, would you say, well, why are you blaming them? | ||
| They're just kids. | ||
| They're having a good time. | ||
| You never had a good time. | ||
| You never made a mistake. | ||
| No, you'd be saying, get the hell out of here, you freaking idiots, right? | ||
| You'd be harsh. | ||
| You'd be kind of mean to them because you want them to survive, right? | ||
| That's kind of what we need at this point. | ||
| That's what we're trying to tell you. | ||
| Guys, the house is on fire. | ||
| Pay attention. | ||
| Get up. | ||
| Run. | ||
| Fight the fire. | ||
| And we have a bunch of people going, why are you trying to ruin our buzz? | ||
| We're having a party. | ||
| Okay, then you're all going to die. | ||
| I don't know what to tell you. | ||
| All right. | ||
| I just thought there's something symbolic about the video itself, and then there's something symbolic about the response. | ||
| Why are you being so harsh to these people? | ||
| You know, there's kids having a good time getting drunk. | ||
| It's like, why are you making excuses for somebody whose behavior caused them to die? | ||
| Wouldn't you want to warn them? | ||
| Don't you want their tragedy to be an example to other people? | ||
| Hey, when the building you're in is on fire, don't throw your hands up and start dancing like it's cool. | ||
| Don't start filming it with your phone. | ||
| Get the hell out of there while you can. | ||
| But this is sort of the issue that we're dealing with. | ||
| We are actually kind of the same thing as the other videos we were playing. | ||
| We are the firefighters arriving to try to put out a blaze and getting thrown stones thrown at us. | ||
| That's just the world as it is, the world as it exists today. | ||
| So I thought that was rather illustrative of what we're dealing with here. | ||
| I guess we can continue to talk about immigration for a little bit. | ||
| I almost, I'm sort of torn because I got to get to the video that's gone totally viral of the Israeli billionaire saying it's time to end the First Amendment. | ||
| I'm torn between because I know it's going to take me a while to cover that in the way that it should be covered. | ||
| But I also know once I start talking about it, that's all I'm going to be talking about. | ||
| So I kind of want to talk about, let's just finish it up here. | ||
| Let's just go to clip 14. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Indian in Canada says she litters because that's what taxes are for. | ||
| This is the mindset of the people that we are importing. | ||
| Clip 14. | ||
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I will throw garbage on the road. | |
| I pay my taxes. | ||
| The government has hired sanitation workers. | ||
| should do their job. | ||
| If the road is dirty, it's not my fault. | ||
| It is the sanitation worker and the government who's not cleaning it 24-7. | ||
| Hey, dude, that's not a garbage can. | ||
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It's not just at morning, 7 o'clock time that you send in sanitation workers to clean the road. | |
| I will dirty it anytime. | ||
| Yeah, pick it up right now. | ||
| Let's go. | ||
| Pick it up, put it back in your trucks. | ||
| You don't litter here. | ||
| You can't litter here. | ||
| What's their culture? | ||
| Yeah, put it in the truck. | ||
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| You don't litter here. | ||
| I'll phone the police. | ||
| That's a $2,000 fine. | ||
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| I'm sure they'll hit him with a fine. | ||
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Oh, my God. | |
| This is actually fucking disgusting. | ||
| Yeah, this is what it's like. | ||
| Just trash literally everywhere. | ||
| Well, hey, Ditch Bay, I paid my taxes. | ||
| Like, well, first of all, you don't pay taxes, lady. | ||
| You clearly just got here. | ||
| What are you even talking about? | ||
| Anyway, I mean, do I need to explain the mindset? | ||
| Do I need to explain why it's bad to litter just because ostensibly somebody might take care of it? | ||
| Doesn't matter. | ||
| The reason it matters is because this is like one of these unspoken things. | ||
| I don't know if you're not supposed to talk about it or what. | ||
| It's sort of a cognitive dissonance that the left has, the liberals have. | ||
| See, white people, by and large, and as a population, are like the only group of people that are environmentalists. | ||
| I'm sorry to tell you this. | ||
| You can try to prove me wrong, but you got like Japan and Europe very concerned about preserving nature. | ||
| Not anywhere else, really. | ||
| Obviously, not India. | ||
| The entire subcontinent is a trash heap, to be quite honest with you. | ||
| Obviously, China seems to not only not care about nature, but seems to be actively doing everything it possibly can to destroy nature itself as like a concept. | ||
| The fishing depletion. | ||
| There's a post today. | ||
| I'm not sure if I have it handy here. | ||
| Yeah, here it is. | ||
| From Koji Kuwaguchi. | ||
| Rivers full of acid, farms wiped out, people left without water. | ||
| This is Zambia now. | ||
| And basically talking about, I'll pull it up here so I can give you the full story. | ||
| But essentially, China came in to Africa where, you know, obviously the Europeans left, abandoned Africa for the most part. | ||
| And then China has come in and is basically treating Africa significantly worse than Europeans did. | ||
| A Chinese-owned mine spilled toxic waste into rivers, killing fish, ruining farmland, and poisoning drinking water. | ||
| And why? | ||
| So China can get copper for EV batteries while locals suffer. | ||
| Zambia is paying the price. | ||
| China is making the profit and the world watches in silence. | ||
| If China really cared about Africa, they wouldn't treat people like this. | ||
| Clean up the mess, protect communities, stop putting money before human lives. | ||
| When rivers die, nations can't thrive. | ||
| Zambia's pain shouldn't be hidden. | ||
| And here you can see what was once a thriving river ecosystem is just toxic sludge. | ||
| Thanks, China. | ||
| So, you know, it's one of these things. | ||
| It's like, do we want to preserve ecology? | ||
| Do we want to preserve the world? | ||
| Are we environmentalists? | ||
| If so, why are we bringing in a million Indians to Canada? | ||
| Do we like salmon being able to breed in their ancestral homes and continuing existence generation upon generation? | ||
| You are in favor of that, then why are you bringing in Indians who don't care about poaching rules and are depleting the supply to the point that it will never be able to return? | ||
| Do we care about these things? | ||
| I mean, if you don't care about the wildlife, if you don't care about the animals going extinct, like the penguin, penguin, beautiful little like armadillo-like creature from India, used to be everywhere, practically extinct now because China, I don't know, thinks it gives them boners or something. | ||
| Same reason the rhino is extinct now, the white rhino, last one died, I believe two years ago, something like that. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Because Chinese idiots think their horn gives them boners. | ||
| Like it's like our responsibility. | ||
| It's like even if we didn't want to, we have to defeat these people. | ||
| Like we have to save the world. | ||
| We really, it's like a burden on us, but nobody else cares. | ||
| And so if you don't care about the earth, if you don't care about animals, if you don't care about nature, first of all, I'd ask what the hell's wrong with you. | ||
| But do you care about humanity? | ||
| Because humanity, you know, we eat things, right? | ||
| You understand that we require sustenance that comes from the earth. | ||
| And then a lot of those are animals. | ||
| And if the Chinese go around and systematically deplete fishing areas to the point that there are no more fish, so they can't replenish, that's an end of life on earth. | ||
| So do we care about this? | ||
| I mean, they're systematically destroying the plankton population, right? | ||
| Or like krill. | ||
| They scoop up all the krill in the oceans. | ||
| Do you have any idea how many animals rely on krill as their main source of diet, right? | ||
| We're already seeing signs of this, like a penguin colony in South Africa, 60,000 of them dying this year of starvation because their food source has been stolen from them by the goddamn Chinese. | ||
| I don't know about you. | ||
| Personally, I care a hell of a lot more about 60,000 little penguins I've never met than a billion Chinese people. | ||
| To be honest with you, I'm on the penguin side. | ||
| Now, if the penguins were stealing all the Chinese people's food, we'd have a different story. | ||
| But honestly, I don't want to joke about this because it's like, no, no, no, literally, what are we doing? | ||
| Why are we allowing these cultures that have absolutely no respect for nature come in and destroy what we have preserved? | ||
| It's very, very infuriating. | ||
| So there's that. | ||
| Let's go now to clip number 13. | ||
| We'll finish off with the immigration topic since it's quite often framed as a racial one. | ||
| It's not. | ||
| It's not. | ||
| If you're an American, you're being screwed over by Somalians. | ||
| If you're American, you're being screwed over by everyone else in the world, pretty much, especially by Indians, especially by Mexicans, especially by Israelis. | ||
| So there's racial aspects to this. | ||
| Obviously, I'm not downplaying that in the slightest. | ||
| The reason these populations have been imported into our country is on a racial basis by people who hate white people and want to see us destroyed. | ||
| So it's not wrong to bring that up. | ||
| But the damage that they cause is multiracial. | ||
| It's across all barriers. | ||
| If you're an American, you're being screwed. | ||
| Let's go now to club number 13. | ||
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Be online, making threats talking about, yeah, go to work. | |
| Yeah, do this that in the third, working 50 hours a week. | ||
| Why give benefits? | ||
| And then you got the other damn somebody talking about, yeah, Trump not going to be around to see that we take it over. | ||
| Let me tell you something right about now. | ||
| All that damn trash talking, you better hush your damn mouth. | ||
| You want to know why? | ||
| Because we are not playing no damn games. | ||
| And then at the same damn time, you're talking about taking over. | ||
| That is a declaration of war. | ||
| That is really a threat to national security. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Because you are a foreigner. | ||
| You are an immigrant in this country, really a rescued. | ||
| And you over here running your damn mouth when you already are outnumbered, outmanned, and outgun. | ||
| You are not with the smoke. | ||
| Let me tell you. | ||
| You do not want the smoke as an immigrant. | ||
| You want to know why? | ||
| Like I said before, we got guns in the black community, guns in the white community. | ||
| It's veterans in the black community, veterans in the white community. | ||
| Most communities know about war and know about guns. | ||
| And let me tell you something. | ||
| Even though we might have our differences, but if it comes down to us defending our country from anybody that's up there making the threat, let me tell you something. | ||
| We would put all that aside and we would come together and defend. | ||
| Let me tell you something. | ||
| Stop running your damn mouth. | ||
| That's one of the main reasons why we want a lot of y'all immigrants out. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Because you were very hateful and very ungrateful. | ||
| And I'm tired of your own hair running your damn mouth, talking this, that, and the third. | ||
| I'm sick of y'all doing that. | ||
| But then at the same time, you want to be waving the flag of your country and you love your country so damn much. | ||
| Why the hell are you here? | ||
| You over here from another damn country that you did not fight or believe the dies for. | ||
| Did not build and you running your mouth. | ||
| You up there trying to make damn threats. | ||
| Let me tell you something. | ||
| You better keep your damn mouth shut. | ||
| We're not playing with y'all. | ||
| You don't want no damn smoke on American soil. | ||
| Do you think it's a game? | ||
| Hell no, it's not a game. | ||
| We're not playing with y'all. | ||
| You're coming from another damn country that you did not build. | ||
| And you over here running your damn mouth. | ||
| You got a hell of a nerve to be doing that as a damn immigrant. | ||
| When a lot of you immigrants, you ran away from your damn country, but you did not build it. | ||
| But then you got a nerve to come over here and talk about immigrants built America. | ||
| Then why the hell you can't build up your own? | ||
| Why are you always running and fleeing from your damn country? | ||
| But then you want to come to this one that was already full and blood and die for, already built, and you didn't do nothing for it. | ||
| You ain't staying for it. | ||
| None of that. | ||
| And you running your damn mouth? | ||
| Yeah, that guy's on my team. | ||
| I don't know how we're picking teams, but I want that guy on my team. | ||
| And that's the thing that, like, InfoWars has always understood. | ||
| And I've always understood. | ||
| Like, yes, there are racial differences. | ||
| Yes, there's racial issues that we have in the country. | ||
| Yes, there are problems with our racial dynamic that we have to deal with. | ||
| But at the end of the day, that classic meme that people always make fun of, it's true, man. | ||
| This is what the powers that be fear. | ||
| The division, some of it's real. | ||
| Some of it, I'm not saying, you know, it's all fake. | ||
| It's all manufactured. | ||
| Like, no, it's very real. | ||
| I get it. | ||
| But at the same time, you can just see the image of the black guy and the white guy at each other's throats, yelling back and forth, white supremacy, crime rates. | ||
| And then, like, but then those two people, as they're like grabbing each other's lapels, about to get into a fight, can turn and see the Indian person and go, oh, wait, no, we're on the same team. | ||
| Oh, right. | ||
| We actually need to be with each other so we can defeat the outsider who's not like us, who doesn't share our ideas. | ||
| And as different as you could say, white America and black America are, you know, in some of the details, overall, we got the same spirit. | ||
| We were created by the same impulses. | ||
| And at the end of the day, black people can learn from white people, white people can learn from black people. | ||
| And we both have shortcomings to make up. | ||
| But at the end of the day, we're all Americans. | ||
| And as different as we may be, go to a different country. | ||
| And when you hear an American accent, it's like, oh my God, brother, you know, you and I, we understand we are American. | ||
| I'm like, oh, these people around here. | ||
| So I think that's actually a beautiful message of unity and solidarity in the face of hostile outsiders. | ||
| I think we should all be able to vibe with, right? | ||
| Now, I do want to continue on this a little bit. | ||
| I know I'll get into the Israel stuff in the second hour, but there's more. | ||
| There's more to get into. | ||
| In fact, I put in the video of Mamdani talking about the warmth of collectivism. | ||
| This is a different Mamdani one. | ||
| I'm sure everybody's seen the video, but if we can pull it in, yeah, we can go to clip 17 here. | ||
| This is just hilarious timing, frankly. | ||
| Mamdani was sworn in as mayor in a defunct subway system at midnight on January 1st. | ||
| I don't know why the handover of the keys of the city of New York looks quite so much like a set piece from a Batman movie, but apparently that's what happened. | ||
| So he came out and gave his first speech yesterday. | ||
| And in that speech, he talked about shifting from the frigidity of rugged individualism to the warmth of collectivism. | ||
| The warmth of collectivism, you understand, is the brief but powerful heat from the fire of burning your civilization down. | ||
| I think that's what he's referencing. | ||
| But here he is talking about how the cost of child care will no longer be a burden. | ||
| Now, I want to remind you of the biggest story in the world right now, which is the fact that immigrant communities in America have siphoned billions of dollars through fraud away, specifically through child care scams. | ||
| So here Mamdani is showing that they know, they know what's going on, and they're signaling to all of their cohort: we're about to expand the fraud that much more. | ||
| Let's watch. | ||
| Here, where the language of the New Deal was born, we will return the vast resources of this city to the workers who call it home. | ||
| Not only will we make it possible for every New Yorker to afford a life they love once again, we will overcome the isolation that too many feel and connect the people of this city to one another. | ||
| The cost of child care will no longer discourage young adults from starting a family because we will deliver universal child care for the many by taxing the wealthiest few. | ||
| Those in rent-stabilized homes will no longer dread the latest rent hike because we will freeze the rent. | ||
| Getting on a bus without worrying about a fare hike or whether you'll be able to get to your destination on time will no longer be deemed a small miracle because we will make those buses fast and free. | ||
| Okay, yeah, we can turn this off. | ||
| These policies free stuff. | ||
| I'll give you this for free and I'll give you this for free. | ||
| Which is hilarious because the people that he's talking to there, the people who got him into office, are the middle-class white people that don't need anything to be free. | ||
| People that would need it to be free have no issue jumping the turnstile and getting it free anyway. | ||
| So not actually serving anybody there. | ||
| But one interesting aspect of the New York City mayoral election is that if the vote had been held by only people born in New York City, he would have lost by a pretty wide margin. | ||
| Sort of tells you exactly what is going on here. | ||
| And it's happening in America. | ||
| Specifically, it just happened in New York City. | ||
| You have a bunch of people, not from a place, arriving to a place and then changing the fundamental reality about that place to be that much worse. | ||
| Like, I think we need to, well, we need to do a lot of stuff, but if we're going to keep this whole facade, this mockery of Republicanism. | ||
| Say again. | ||
| Oh, we have that new book. | ||
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| All right. | ||
| Here's Mamdani. | ||
| And this phrase will go down in history, I think. | ||
| But again, it shows you where this country is headed. | ||
| Let's watch. | ||
| We will draw this city closer together. | ||
| We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism. | ||
| If our campaign demonstrated that the people of New York yearn for solidarity, then let this government foster it. | ||
| Because no matter what you eat, how you pray, or where you come from, the words that most define us are the two we all share. | ||
| New Yorkers. | ||
| Ah, yes, the warmth of collectivism. | ||
| As Gateway Pundit puts it, this line from Zorhan Mamdani's inauguration speech should terrify freedom-loving Americans. | ||
| Saying, we'll replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism. | ||
| As I note, rugged individualism is called Americanism. | ||
| It's what built this country. | ||
| It's a rejection of the idea by the mayor of New York City. | ||
| A rejection of this idea is unsettling enough, but the second part of the sentence made it even worse. | ||
| The warmth of collectivism, he's coming right out and admitting he's a communist. | ||
| Collectivism is the central tenet of communism that destroyed the Soviet Union and starved millions to death all over the world, especially in China under people like Mao. | ||
| Let's go now to clip number 20. | ||
| How long is clip number 20? | ||
| I have to save this for the next seg. | ||
| All right, we're going to save clip 20 for the next side because I have a video of a Romanian person basically explaining that, yes, this is communism. | ||
| Yes, this is exactly how it always starts. | ||
| And it always ends in the same way as well. | ||
| Total and utter, complete disaster. | ||
| Now, it might be a little different for New York City because you have a lot of very wealthy people in New York City who want to see America become less individualistic, who want to see America become less rugged, who want to see America become more collectivist and whatever that means. | ||
| And all that means is that you can push whatever policy you want and claim it's for the greater good and anybody against it is therefore against the greater good, is therefore evil and is therefore not worth listening to. | ||
| It's a very simple algorithm calculus they're running here. | ||
| But obviously they don't want real collectivism. | ||
| They want certain collectivism. | ||
| But I guess the question now, the ball is in white people's court. | ||
| Okay, if the future is collectivism, are we going to collectivize? | ||
| How do people like Zorhan Mamdani feel about our collective having an identity and Things that we want, things that would benefit us and not others. | ||
| He doesn't want universal collectivism. | ||
| He wants anybody who agrees with his idea of a communist revolution to have power, and anybody who doesn't to be isolated and destroyed. | ||
| That's what he means by collectivism. | ||
| The warmth of collectivism is the warmth that comes from the fire of your house burning down. | ||
| That is the warmth that he's talking about. | ||
| And framing it this way is just, I see it as sick. | ||
| We'll show you what happens when this type of rhetoric is embraced on the other side. | ||
| Stay with us. | ||
| So, again, let's go to this video. | ||
| This is a Romanian man warning Americans about what exactly has come to our shores. | ||
| Zorhan Mamdani, obviously a communist. | ||
| Now, the real frustrating thing about this is that we have laws on the books specifically about immigration and communism. | ||
| And that if you are an immigrant, when you take your oath and just part of the naturalization process, you're not allowed to even associate with communists. | ||
| You're not allowed to join any communist causes. | ||
| Like, you're not allowed to do that. | ||
| And you make a vow, along with a bunch of other stuff, like surrendering allegiances to any foreign place, that obviously Zorhan Mamdani has violated. | ||
| So why has he not been denaturalized and deported? | ||
| Because the people that run our country are in on it or cowards or both. | ||
| Let's go to this Romanian man telling us what we all know is coming next. | ||
| Let's watch. | ||
| We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism. | ||
| Famous words spoken by every communist in history. | ||
| Hi, my name is Bargdan, and this is exactly how communism came to power in my country, Romania. | ||
| Via collectivism. | ||
| First, they confiscated private land. | ||
| Then they used terror to enforce collectivism. | ||
| The regular Romanian citizens were arrested, beat up, humiliated publicly, left to rot in prison, and some even executed. | ||
| The next step for collectivism was destroying the independent farmer class. | ||
| These people were a threat to the regime because they were able to stay self-sufficient and did not rely on the state. | ||
| Independence was and still is the biggest threat to communism. | ||
| They made it in such a way that owning more than others was a crime. | ||
| Once all that happened, the communists started confiscating the food from farmers, leaving families to die. | ||
| They also confiscated the livestock raised by people. | ||
| This resulted in famine, malnutrition, and the collapse of productivity. | ||
| Romania literally went from being the number one exporter of grain in Europe to chronic shortages of food. | ||
| But that wasn't enough. | ||
| The communists then banned free market. | ||
| No free sale of crops, no private trades, no bargaining. | ||
| Classic socialist failure. | ||
| But collectivism wasn't just economic, it was cultural as well. | ||
| In Romania, they attacked the church and religious people. | ||
| They replaced family authority with party authority, all with one goal in mind: replace faith and family with the state. | ||
| 15 years later, the communists declared victory. | ||
| 90% of all farmland in Romania was collectivized. | ||
| Bottom line, Romanian collectivism was forced, violent, economically disastrous, morally corrupt, and designed to control, not help. | ||
| Only for today in the United States of America to be in New York City. | ||
| I swear to God, some Americans are the dumbest morons on the planet. | ||
| Well, they're not Americans. | ||
| That's the key. | ||
| Again, from Cremio, I think is how you pronounce that. | ||
| If you had to be born in New York City to vote in the mayoral election, then Mamdani would have lost. | ||
| Mamdani won due to a coalition of transplants. | ||
| Exit polls clearly illustrate that Mamdani lost among native New Yorkers. | ||
| So there you go. | ||
| He won seven or yeah, if they'd been in New York for less than five years, he won them by 71%. | ||
| It's actually like a direct correlation to how long you've been in New York to whether or not you like Mamdani. | ||
| So even though 45% of the electorate was born in New York and did not support Mamdani, he still won because he had a massive amount of the votes from transplants from the Midwest that are living off their parents' money or transplants from overseas that are bringing their ethnic ideology along with them. | ||
| It's not American. | ||
| It's an invasion. | ||
| It is an overthrow. | ||
| We'll be back on the other side. | ||
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| And Israel. | ||
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| Stay with us, folks. | ||
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| Second hour of the war room is on. | ||
| We're going to get into Israel here in just a second. | ||
| Final story before we do. | ||
| Just one of these stories that sort of makes me kind of lose hope a little bit because there are certain things, like there are certain instances where I might disagree with the policies being pursued because I disagree with the underlying argument, but at least there's an argument there. | ||
| At least it's like they pretend to have a reason to be wanting to do something, even if it's, you know, fraudulent. | ||
| There are so many examples of this, right? | ||
| Like I can be against, I can be in favor of voter ID, and I understand that people against voter ID, some of them might sincerely think that voter ID is a way to stop black people from voting. | ||
| Now, that's a lie. | ||
| It's obviously a lie. | ||
| They just want to cheat in the elections, but they can't say that. | ||
| So they have to come up with a reason why you're racist if you don't let them. | ||
| Okay, but at least there's an argument there. | ||
| At least they can say, hey, you know, look at the percentage of black people that don't have government-issued IDs. | ||
| You're saying all of them can't vote. | ||
| Maybe that's unfair. | ||
| Again, it's a stupid argument, but at least it's an argument. | ||
| Then there are other instances of things like this, where there is no reason this should exist. | ||
| There's no excuse for it. | ||
| There's no justification for it. | ||
| And the fact that it exists at all is sort of a condemnation of our entire system and means the whole thing should be burned to the ground and rebuilt. | ||
| What I'm talking about is the fact that there is a policy in Minnesota where a single registered voter can vouch for up to eight other people seeking same-day registration and vote. | ||
| What? | ||
| What is the excuse for this? | ||
| What is the argument for this? | ||
| Essentially, what they're saying is every one voter can vote eight times. | ||
| Every one voter can show up, have an ID, present themselves as a confirmed registered voter, and then go, I have seven friends with me. | ||
| They're all named Bob, and they want to vote too. | ||
| And they all get to cast votes. | ||
| What? | ||
| What? | ||
| What is the argument for that? | ||
| How did this ever get implemented? | ||
| Like, what are you talking about? | ||
| I mean, I felt the same way about mail and ballots, but I guess that ship has sailed, although we should be clawing it back with everything we've got. | ||
| There's no justification for this. | ||
| There's no reason to do this. | ||
| There's no problem being solved that this fixes. | ||
| People were showing up to old election sites to vote with their seven friends, and they were like, but I'm vouching for them. | ||
| And sorry, that doesn't work that way. | ||
| Like, we need a law. | ||
| We need a law to fix this. | ||
| I'm here to vouch for other people. | ||
| What are you talking about? | ||
| Made for fraud? | ||
| There's no other reason you would have this policy. | ||
| There is absolutely no reason why you should be allowing one registered voter to pledge on their word of honor that trust me, these seven other voters are also have never voted before. | ||
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| Under Minnesota law, the registered voter must go with the person or people they are vouching for to the polling place and sign an oath verifying their address. | ||
| According to the Office of Minnesota's State Secretary of State, a registered voter from your precinct can go with you to the polling place to sign an oath confirming your address. | ||
| This is known as vouching. | ||
| A registered voter can vouch for up to eight voters. | ||
| The website reads in a state where we've just learned that the fraud committed by the Somali community is equal to the GDP of the country of Somalia. | ||
| I'm sure you can trust their oaths, right? | ||
| I'm sure if they cross their heart and hope to die and take the Boy Scout pledge, they definitely always tell the truth, right? | ||
| Like, it's stuff like this. | ||
| I'm trying to think of another good example of like how this feels. | ||
| And I can't even, I can't even think of one. | ||
| Just why? | ||
| Why would you have this law? | ||
| Why is this policy in place? | ||
| Who made this argument? | ||
| Who put it in place? | ||
| And now you know how it's going to go if you try to repeal this utterly asinine and completely pointless. | ||
| I mean, if you're not using this for fraud, it's a pointless law. | ||
| Completely pointless. | ||
| But you know that getting this law passed, we don't even know how it got, but it just appeared one day. | ||
| One day, somebody decided somewhere in the bureaucratic chain of command, hey, you know what? | ||
| Let's just let people commit voter fraud. | ||
| And that just, so it just happened. | ||
| Now here we are, like learning this is the case, however many years after it was implemented, on top of the driver's licenses for all that Jim Waltz does. | ||
| It's like, do you understand? | ||
| So crazy. | ||
| It is just so crazy. | ||
| But that might as well, I mean, mail and ballots really aren't any less crazy. | ||
| This, this essentially, like, what is happening here is they're making it to where you can walk up to a voting place and say, yeah, I'm going to vote for me, but I've got seven friends in the car that all want to vote the same as me. | ||
| So here's eight ballots. | ||
| And they go, okay, sounds good. | ||
| Oh, but do you promise? | ||
| Yeah, I promise. | ||
| Okay, well then great. | ||
| As long as you promised, then you get eight votes instead of one. | ||
| And of course, Keith Ellison yesterday, who played the video talking about how Somalis are completely necessary for my entire campaign. | ||
| I wouldn't be here without them. | ||
| And remember, don't just vote. | ||
| Get other people to vote. | ||
| That's what he's talking about. | ||
| You go with your eight friends to one polling place that you're actually registered at. | ||
| Then your seven friends vote at whatever address you give them. | ||
| Doesn't matter. | ||
| They never check it. | ||
| Then you all go to the next polling place where your other friend is registered. | ||
| Now you get to vote again. | ||
| And you can just hop from place to place, each of you voting at the place every single time under a different name, under a different address. | ||
| They have no way of checking. | ||
| Once you cast the vote, it gets thrown in the pile with all the other votes, indistinguishable from all the others. | ||
| It is just fraud. | ||
| The only reason this exists is for fraud. | ||
| So it shouldn't exist, I guess, is what I'm saying. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Again, it's like, do I even need to explain this? | ||
| I mean, there's no reason for it to exist if it's not for fraud. | ||
| So that's what it's for, obviously. | ||
| And of course, Trump really outdoing himself. | ||
| You know, the man loves to set records. | ||
| The man loves world records. | ||
| He loves to be the best at stuff. | ||
| He has been the best trickster we've ever seen. | ||
| I mean, he really painted himself as one type of person. | ||
| And then he really is not that type of person. | ||
| He is really working his way up the charts, in my opinion, as maybe one of the worst presidents, because it's not about how bad he is as a president. | ||
| It's how bad he is at handling the situation that we've given him. | ||
| Like, you can be a bad president, but if it's, but if you're a bad president after the Second World War, it doesn't really matter because we're doing fine. | ||
| Because everybody's doing fine and everybody's going to do fine. | ||
| It doesn't really matter. | ||
| It doesn't matter what you do. | ||
| America's on top. | ||
| America runs the world. | ||
| We're good. | ||
| So you can be a bad president there, and it doesn't actually rank you amongst the bad presidents. | ||
| But here we are in the crucible. | ||
| Here we are at this final challenge that will determine the fate of not just our nation, but the world. | ||
| And Trump, even being a good president, still makes him one of the worst presidents because we are in a crisis situation and he's not handling it. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| And again, I don't know. | ||
| I mean, it's been a year of not wanting to abandon Trump, but gee, what's going on here, Trump? | ||
| And at this point, I mean, we end the year with $4. | ||
| Whatever billion dollars for refugees being proposed by the Senate, the Republican Senate. | ||
| Donald Trump threatening to go to war with Iran over their ballistic missile systems now. | ||
| That is just their ability to defend themselves and make war in total. | ||
| Russia is expanding the Ukraine war and is on the march and has just finished conquering 30-plus Ukrainian outposts in one month. | ||
| The smally fraud is absolutely exploded, but nothing's being done about it except for Tim Waltz being requested to come testify to Congress. | ||
| And so in a time when the sun is shining and the grass is growing and everybody's doing fine, a bad president can seem like a good president. | ||
| But here we are in this life or death moment where major critical actions have to be taken and they're not being taken. | ||
| The opportunities are slipping through our fingers. | ||
| The breathing room we have now is being completely and utterly wasted. | ||
| So even if he's a good president in any other time period, in the time period that we are now, He seems to be one of the worst options we could have. | ||
| Then again, we could have had Kamala Harris. | ||
| I guess it always could be worse. | ||
| But there's something about the opportunity that he's wasting, the victory that he's squandering that really makes him worse, in my opinion. | ||
| Donald Trump yesterday, we are removing the National Guard from Chicago, Los Angeles, and Portland, despite the fact that crime has been greatly reduced by having these great patriots in these cities. | ||
| And only by that fact, Portland, Los Angeles, and Chicago were gone if it weren't for the federal government stepping in. | ||
| We will come back perhaps in a much different and stronger form. | ||
| When crime begins to soar again, only a question of time. | ||
| It's hard to believe that these Democratic mayors and governors, all of whom are greatly incompetent, would want us to leave, especially considering the great progress that has been made. | ||
| Question mark, question mark, question mark, President DJT. | ||
| Okay, well. | ||
| Maybe you should listen to some of your own speeches, sir. | ||
| Maybe you should go back to 2016, listen to your own speeches, where it didn't seem like you were confused back then why these Democrat leaders are failing. | ||
| It's on purpose. | ||
| It's the same thing that we've been yelling at Trump about literally for the last year. | ||
| It's not incompetence. | ||
| It's not stupidity. | ||
| It's not like they don't know that the crime rate goes down with National Guard there. | ||
| It's not like they don't know their cities are being ripped apart by legal aliens. | ||
| It's on purpose. | ||
| They do it by design. | ||
| They're traitors. | ||
| And the judges that order Trump to remove the police are also traitors. | ||
| So again, if, you know, I don't know what to tell Trump. | ||
| I don't know what to tell him. | ||
| Luckily, other people are telling him with extreme malice. | ||
| Let's go to clip number two here. | ||
| This is Andy Frizzella. | ||
| He's been going viral for good reason. | ||
| Showed a couple of his videos yesterday. | ||
| Here's his latest talking specifically to Donald Trump. | ||
| This right now, and I mean this. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Donald Trump, you've lost touch with your base. | ||
| You've lost touch with reality of what people actually want to see. | ||
| And the people around you are either not telling you the truth or you're in on it. | ||
| And if you're not in on it, I would appreciate for you and I to have a discussion so I could inform you about what these people really want. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| So this can go on Twitter and, you know, you can have your people call me and I will get my happy ass on an airplane and I'll sit down and enjoy a motherfucking Big Mac with you and we will get real clear about what people actually want because the mother around you are either full of or you're in on it. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And that's where people believe right now. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| And here's the thing. | ||
| A lot of people believe that. | ||
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Yes. | |
| And here's the thing. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| I said on last show, you're going to go down as the president who had the opportunity to fix this country and chose not to. | ||
| And you might say, oh, well, that doesn't really matter. | ||
| Well, you know what? | ||
| It's going to matter because your kids are never going to, your kids are going to get blackballed in America. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Your legacy is going to be ruined. | ||
| The Trump name will be a joke. | ||
| And I know you care about those things. | ||
| And you should. | ||
| And I believe, I truly believe that deep down, he still cares about America. | ||
| Maybe I'm stupid for thinking that. | ||
| He needs to understand. | ||
| And I stand by what I said on the last show. | ||
| Everybody who voted for him, everybody who stood for him, everybody who stood by him, you guys need to put pressure on him. | ||
| Real talk. | ||
| So, and it needs to be relent. | ||
| It needs to be unrelenting pressure to do the things that he said he was going to do. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| And instead, he's doing everything else. | ||
| He's doing everything his donors want him to do. | ||
| He's doing everything Israel wants him to do. | ||
| He seems to be doing everything Ukraine wants him to do. | ||
| Just not the American people. | ||
| He tweets out like he knows what we want. | ||
| And he thinks that that's sufficient. | ||
| Can't tell you how many tweets I've seen recently. | ||
| And it's everybody around him. | ||
| And every day, multiple times a day, I see somebody from either his administration or his family or his sphere of influence say something. | ||
| And then underneath it, there's people going, you are in office. | ||
| What are you talking about? | ||
| Whether it's JD Vance, Don Jr., Stephen Miller, they're all out here going, this is terrible. | ||
| These people should be arrested. | ||
| And somebody else is going, tell your dad, Don Jr. | ||
| Does he not know this? | ||
| And how insulting is it? | ||
| And the humiliation of it all when in the midst of this giant scandal about Somali fraud and we're just being ripped off endlessly, Donald Trump comes out and says, Yeah, you know, we're going to have to go to war with Iran. | ||
| You tell me which is the bigger A, concern to the American people or B, big, bigger potential expenditure. | ||
| Right? | ||
| Just one of these things. | ||
| You want to build a wall? | ||
| Impossibly expensive. | ||
| That'll cost $10 billion. | ||
| So we don't build the wall and we end up spending half a trillion dollars. | ||
| Yeah, your dad is president, bro. | ||
| Tell him to do something like there really is no excuse, honestly, because anything that you come up with as a reason why it's going this way doesn't actually count. | ||
| Like, obviously, it's Israel. | ||
| Susie Wiles was Netanyahu's campaign manager. | ||
| I mean, it's just beyond obvious, you know, who's pulling the strings, you know, where this influence is coming from. | ||
| And some people speculate: well, it could be the Epstein thing because they have blackmail on him. | ||
| Could it be the golden pager thing? | ||
| I mean, when you have Mossad routinely giving interviews where they're like, we can blow up anybody at any time. | ||
| We can kill anybody everywhere. | ||
| And I mean, they're not lying, right? | ||
| That's what part of the psyop of the Gaza war has been. | ||
| And that's the thing you really have to understand. | ||
| I'll show you some videos that really should send a chill down your spine. | ||
| But Israel has spent the last two years ruthlessly slaughtering thousands and thousands of children and innocent people, and nobody can stop them. | ||
| They've carried out the most horrific terror attacks against innocent people the world has ever seen. | ||
| The Lebanon pager attack is a terrifying thing. | ||
| They had no idea who had those pagers. | ||
| They had no idea whether they were actually hitting their combatants. | ||
| And the pagers didn't even kill people. | ||
| It was just a vicious maiming attack against everybody in Lebanon who may have happened to be near one of those pagers that might have at one point been in the possession of Hezbollah. | ||
| And nobody can stop them. | ||
| And nobody can even make them pay for it. | ||
| Nobody can, like, they're getting away with all of it. | ||
| They've spent the last two years in front of everybody committing the most heinous abuses the world has ever seen. | ||
| Bar none. | ||
| Images worse than the Holocaust. | ||
| Images worse than the killing fields with Pol Pot. | ||
| I mean, I don't know if since Genghis Khan, there's been such a reveling in the brutality that we've seen on display for two years. | ||
| And they haven't paid a single price for it. | ||
| They've gotten completely away with it. | ||
| Nobody can stop them. | ||
| They've spent two years slaughtering innocent people and children, and nobody can stop them. | ||
| So that's the mindset we're dealing with. | ||
| That's the position from which they are approaching things. | ||
| But when you think about all of these things, you realize these are not good reasons because Donald Trump can speak to the American people with no filter. | ||
| Donald Trump can call a press conference, be going live, and say exactly what's happening. | ||
| And if it's blackmail and he thinks he's preserving his reputation, that's nonsense, right? | ||
| If he doesn't do what he has to do, the only reason that his reputation isn't complete trash right now is because his supporters who still believe in him, you disappoint us. | ||
| Or we're going to hate you more than the left hates you now. | ||
| If this is because he's been threatened with some lifelong lawfare regime and they're basically saying, hey, play along with us, serve out your time, and then we'll let you retire at ease. | ||
| He'd be a fool to believe that, wouldn't he? | ||
| There's no way he would fall for that. | ||
| What's the guarantee? | ||
| What's the guarantee that they uphold their end of the bargain? | ||
| Once you're out of office, they can start to abuse you again. | ||
| You can say, but you promised. | ||
| They don't care. | ||
| So I don't think it's that. | ||
| You know, Benjamin Nanyahu gives him a golden pager, not exactly a subtle threat. | ||
| But you don't think the American people would defend you from that if you came out and said, hey, guys, Israel's threatened to kill me if I don't do what they say. | ||
| And this feels weird because this is kind of exactly the speech I gave to Charlie Kirk a month before he died. | ||
| The same thing was happening with him. | ||
| I tried to tell Charlie Kirk the same thing that I'm telling Trump now. | ||
| You're in charge, dude. | ||
| You can't play games with these people. | ||
| You can't try to appease these people. | ||
| You can't play along with them thinking that you can get through it. | ||
| The only thing to do now is go absolutely public with all of it, tell the American people what's going on, and then solve the problem. | ||
| But if you try to take us to war with Iran, it's not going to go well for you. | ||
| So that's what I mean when you say, like, well, all of these excuses they have, well, maybe they're blackmailing it. | ||
| Maybe he's using the Epstein to blackmail them. | ||
| And it's like, none of these things count or matter. | ||
| Because if somebody's threatening you and you get on national TV and say, that guy's threatening me, guess what? | ||
| That guy can't do anything to you anymore. | ||
| Suddenly that guy is incentivized to do everything he can to protect you because if anything happens to you, he's going to be blamed. | ||
| So he's got to be in on it, right? | ||
| He's got to just be in on it. | ||
| Blackmail doesn't make sense. | ||
| I don't believe he's so disconnected that Don Jr. Express to him what the American people are feeling. | ||
| And just like I told Charlie Kirk when he was having trouble with Israel, telling Donald Trump right now, just come out and say it, dude. | ||
| You are the golem. | ||
| It's time to arise. | ||
| They made you. | ||
| They can't defeat you. | ||
| If you attack them, I'm going to try to lay out for you here in this segment, a very nebulous and difficult to define reality. | ||
| That is that right now there's being constructed a worldwide censorship grid, but it's not just censorship. | ||
| It extends beyond that a grid of legal protection designed specifically for Jews and for Israel, and for nobody else, and it's the type of thing that's so ubiquitous and widespread it's hard for me to explain it because it manifests in so many different ways. | ||
| So, before we get into that, I do want to remind you that we have survived censorship. | ||
| We have survived the attempts to shut us down, the lawfare. | ||
| Many of the strategies that I'll lay out for you here we've already been subjected to and survived thanks to your support at Thealxjonstore.com. | ||
| So I do ask you, go to Thealxjonesupport.com and guarantee that this censorship proof system that we've built continues operation, because at the end of the day, they can't stop you from buying a product that you want. | ||
| The end of the day, our system still depends on capitalism to some degree to function and, while all of our other rights are being stripped away, capitalism still reserves a certain sacred sacredness amongst the minds and the laws of our country, and so if we have a product that's legal and you have money that's legal, then we can exchange that and there's nothing a lot anybody else can do to stop us right. | ||
| So we took that advantage, that reality, that like okay, for our system to function, people who want to sell products and people who want to buy products have to be able to do that. | ||
| You can't limit it, you can't, you know, get too much in the way. | ||
| Despite their attempts with regulation, they have to let you buy from us, they just have to. | ||
| We realize that we use that and now, no matter how much they try to crush us, we can and will survive because you support us, because you go to the Alexjonesstore.com. | ||
| So do not underestimate how important your support truly is, not just for us but for what we represent, this fight for freedom, in particular freedom of speech. | ||
| And they've gotten to a point in the construction of this control grid that they're. | ||
| Announcing. | ||
| Announcing it and making it public and preparing the arguments to justify what they intend to do. | ||
| This isn't about convincing you. | ||
| This is about they're doing it, and they need morons in America to imbue and imbibe the arguments that justify it so we don't get too mad. | ||
| That's what's happening here. | ||
| Again, this isn't a guy saying, here's what I think might happen in the future. | ||
| He's saying, This is what is going to happen. | ||
| And he's not saying, I want you to agree with me and come along with me. | ||
| He's saying, This is what's happening, and here's how you argue in favor of it. | ||
| So, this guy's video has gone viral, and I'll show you not just the clip that's gone viral, but then the expanded longer version. | ||
| We can get into it. | ||
| But first, here's the clip: 16. | ||
| Israeli cybersecurity billionaire Slomo Kramer says it's time to limit the First Amendment. | ||
| Let's watch. | ||
| I know it's difficult to hear, but it's time to limit the First Amendment in order to protect it and quickly before it's too late. | ||
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What do you mean? | |
| I mean that we need to control the platforms, all the social platforms. | ||
| We need to stack rank the authenticity of every person that expresses themselves online and take control over what they are saying based on that ranking. | ||
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The government. | |
| The government should step on it. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| So, again, this is a foreigner who, frankly, has no right to say anything about America. | ||
| But I think we need to take what he's saying seriously. | ||
| I mean, not just write it off and say, well, this is America and this is the First Amendment. | ||
| Come and take it kind of thing. | ||
| No, we need to treat it seriously and maybe take what he says into account. | ||
| Because to be honest with you, that guy and what he said, I'd be fine if it was illegal. | ||
| I'd be fine if we had a law that said anybody from Israel named Shlomo that wants to talk about American politics is going to be expelled from the country immediately and never allowed back. | ||
| You know, maybe the First Amendment is a little bit too expansive. | ||
| I mean, after all, the First Amendment is the amendment that enunciates our freedom of religion. | ||
| So, I mean, if you want to get rid of the First Amendment, let's get rid of all of it, right? | ||
| I mean, he's talking about limiting it. | ||
| Why limit? | ||
| Why should there be freedom of religion in this country? | ||
| Because, see, it's two sides of the same coin. | ||
| It's these corresponding rights that are indelibly tied to one another. | ||
| See, you have the right to be Jewish in this Christian country, and we have the right to talk crap about you and your religion and your country. | ||
| And it's the same right that guarantees both of these things. | ||
| So if you want to get rid of the First Amendment, I'd say be careful what you wish for. | ||
| Maybe we'll just outlaw Judaism. | ||
| Well, if the First Amendment's, I mean, we have to preserve the First Amendment after all. | ||
| And obviously, the biggest threat to the First Amendment, like maybe he's right. | ||
| You know, the more I think about it, maybe we have to limit the First Amendment to save the First Amendment. | ||
| Maybe the First Amendment is under existential threat from scumbags like Shlomo here, and maybe they don't deserve the right to speak in our country. | ||
| I mean, maybe this argument could go both ways. | ||
| Or maybe the American people need to understand the value of our First Amendment. | ||
| Maybe first among the populations in America to appreciate the First Amendment should probably be the Jewish people. | ||
| Maybe we should all understand that this Shlomo character with his foreign accent is your enemy if you're an American. | ||
| Regardless of your race, color, or your creed, he is against you. | ||
| He's against your rights. | ||
| He's against your freedoms. | ||
| And the problem is he has billions of dollars, a kingpin position in cybersecurity, and the backing of Israel's Unit 8200 to make his case. | ||
| Now, if you don't know about Unit 8200, he was a member of it, Shlomo Kramer, as you can find on his Wikipedia. | ||
| Kramer served in the Israeli Defense Forces Unit 8200, a cybersecurity and intelligence team whose operations include gathering, analyzing, and decrypting data. | ||
| Over the years, the unit has produced many of Israel's top high-tech entrepreneurs. | ||
| After completing military service, Kramer earned a master degree in computer science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a bachelor's degree in mathematics and computer science from Tel Aviv University. | ||
| And he's known as the Godfather of Israeli cybersecurity. | ||
| And this is where, like, what he laid out there, actually, I was going to go to the longer clip. | ||
| I think I have everything I need in that little clip, although we'll go to the longer one to see what else he says. | ||
| But he sort of lays it all out there, right? | ||
| He says we need to limit the First Amendment. | ||
| We need to control social media platforms. | ||
| And we need to guarantee the authenticity of everybody on the internet. | ||
| So when you talk about the Israeli control grid, it's composed of a couple component parts and a couple key aspects that are being adopted by governments worldwide. | ||
| Sort of the keystone of all of this, the keystone of the arch is the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism that has now been adopted by every branch of our federal government, has been written into law in England and New Zealand and Australia and just about everywhere that doesn't have First Amendment protections, including Canada. | ||
| And what the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism, that's the International Holocaust Remembrance Association, what it says is that any criticism of Israel shouldn't be allowed because that's anti-Semitic. | ||
| Any criticism of Jews, Jewish groups, Jewish people, crimes they commit, real or imagined, it's all anti-Semitic. | ||
| So in a word, it's the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism is the black magic by which they transmute criticism of an individual into criticism of a group, so it's therefore illegal. | ||
| So you can't criticize George Soros. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Because he's Jewish and what he does comports with Jewish stereotypes. | ||
| Remember, hate speech is when reality matches the stereotype. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| No one's going to get mad at you for, you know, saying the black people are all doctors and dentists or whatever, but you would if they were Jews. | ||
| See, because one is a stereotype, and if reality comports to it, then you're bad. | ||
| So you've got the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism being employed by countries and governments and corporations as well, because you'll get, you know, they'll send an attaché, they'll send an ADL representative or whatever to Facebook and say, hey, we just want you to adopt this definition of anti-Semitism. | ||
| You're not anti-Semitic, are you? | ||
| Okay, well, these are the, you know, Council of Jews, and they say that this is the definition of anti-Semitism. | ||
| Will you adopt it? | ||
| Oh, you will? | ||
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| Now we have a list of videos for you to delete. | ||
| And then they'll get them to delete them. | ||
| So whether it's corporations or government, they're adopting this definition. | ||
| And that's doing a lot of, you know, heavy lifting. | ||
| Because on top of that, it goes beyond just sort of like negative freedoms, right? | ||
| It goes beyond just saying, you can't say this and you can't say this. | ||
| It's also about like telling the story the way they want it told. | ||
| It has all the elements of a cult, as we've explained. | ||
| Like it's, they call it anti-Semitism and they call it Holocaust denial. | ||
| Even if you say, I agree with the number, I agree with the amount, I agree with all of this, but you say, but I don't think they actually wanted to kill all the Jews in the world. | ||
| I don't think that was their goal. | ||
| I think they wanted to expel the Jews. | ||
| I think they wanted to kill the Jews that fought against them. | ||
| I think they killed a lot of Jews on purpose, but I don't think it was their goal to genocide the entire Jewish race to a person. | ||
| Well, have fun in jail. | ||
| Like if you were in Austria, you'd go to jail for that. | ||
| If you're in Australia, you go to jail for saying what I just said. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Because you have to positively announce, you have to actually make the statement. | ||
| You have to affirm. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Crew, you have to positively affirm that the Nazis wanted to kill all of the Jews. | ||
| And that's what led to the Holocaust and the gas chambers. | ||
| And that's all absolutely true. | ||
| No doubt about it. | ||
| And you have to assist, insist, not just in the method and the outcome, but the purpose of it all, right? | ||
| It's a cult. | ||
| It's a religious compulsion. | ||
| Okay, but you have, so that's sort of the groundwork that you're laying there is this compulsory language, compulsory mindset that they're forcing everybody to have. | ||
| Then you've got, so you've got social media, you've got news media, you've got entertainment, right? | ||
| All of the vectors of information have to be controlled at choke points. | ||
| Either you have to have somebody who is in a position of a censor in your social media companies, or you have to have your algorithms dictate what is allowable or not, but you can put people in positions or create processes by which one or two people can censor everybody. | ||
| You don't have to do it piecemeal. | ||
| Then they want to go after you for talking about this stuff. | ||
| They want to arrest you for anti-Semitism like they're doing in Australia. | ||
| And so they need to know who you are. | ||
| So they need to get rid of anonymity on the internet. | ||
| So again, this guy really lays out, well, so we have that guy, Kramer, saying, you know, we need to get control of the social media companies, which they already do have to a very, very large degree. | ||
| And of course, they're making this statement on CNBC. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| I mean, they already have the news media, they already have the entertainment. | ||
| They're working on really solidifying the grasp of social media companies. | ||
| And again, it's like, it's almost too much information. | ||
| Like, because even just talk about this, I've talked about the TikTok sale and the way that that went and the 600,000 Chinese foreign students that we're allowing over here because that was all part of the agreement. | ||
| And the way Larry Ellison and his son are doing this and the way his son is tied into digital ID in the UK and digital ID in Australia, both of which are, of course, complying with this. | ||
| And then you can talk about Larry Ellison himself on stage with Tony Blair, who is slated to be in charge of the Gaza Reconstruction as far as the international community. | ||
| And Tony Blair's son actually is the one running the Digital ID. | ||
| And of course, Larry Ellison is communicating with Ehud Barak and Jeffrey Epstein about connecting Rubio and Tony Blair because they're both very viable puppets before they really took off politically. | ||
| And that's why they took off politically. | ||
| And Larry Ellison's on stage with Tony Blair saying, well, for AI to really be an effective control system, you have to have all the information in a unified place. | ||
| And that's why you have organizations like Palantir, who just recently had like $10 billion worth of all these various contracts all consolidated into one Palantir contract, since they'll be the operating system on which this surveillance/slash censorship grid is built. | ||
| And it really goes on and on. | ||
| I can show you like a million different reasons. | ||
| I mean, TikTok hate speech manager is former IDF soldier from the same unit 8200. | ||
| So we basically just have Israeli cyber security spies, like literal died in the wall, trained. | ||
| They took an oath, like Unit 8200 operatives as billionaires controlling our cybersecurity, in charge of TikTok censorship, in charge of Facebook censorship. | ||
| Obviously, I've talked endlessly about the fact that when Donald Trump was kicked off of Facebook in 2021, it's done so at the behest of the oversight board that Facebook had, who was in charge of the oversight board? | ||
| The former justice minister from the state of Israel. | ||
| Okay, so they've already been in control of this stuff for a long time. | ||
| TikTok hate speech manager, a former IDF soldier. | ||
| And so what happens as soon as TikTok is forced to hand over control to this Zionist operative who herself makes videos about how she was trained by all these Jewish groups and knows what her role is and is going into TikTok specifically as an operative for her ethnic group and will serve their interests exclusively. | ||
| Like you don't have to speculate. | ||
| I don't have to like say, oh, she's Jewish. | ||
| That's why it's bad. | ||
| It's not bad because she's Jewish. | ||
| It's bad because she's a foreign operative, a spy, an interloper who is censoring people for the benefit of her ethnicity, regardless of what the truth is. | ||
| Because as soon as that happens, what goes on? | ||
| TikTok's new ownership is labeling a post merely describing Epstein reporting based solely on publicly available documents as misinformation. | ||
| See how that works? | ||
| This was a video called Epstein's Work with Israel is not a secret. | ||
| We have the evidence. | ||
| Here's the latest. | ||
| And that had its visibility restricted. | ||
| Because in a global community, it's natural for people to have different opinions, but we seek to operate on it. | ||
| Yeah, it doesn't matter. | ||
| They censor true information that makes them look bad. | ||
| Let me say that again. | ||
| They're censoring true information because it makes them look bad. | ||
| That's what happens when people like this get in charge of social media companies. | ||
| It's not about the truth. | ||
| It's not about protecting anybody except for themselves and the consequences of their own actions. | ||
| It wasn't out here saying all Jewish people are guilty because Jeffrey Epstein doesn't matter. | ||
| The IRA definition says that what you're doing is accusing Jeffrey Epstein of a Jewish stereotype. | ||
| Being involved in an international blackmail ring based on pedophilia. | ||
| Sounds Jewish to me. | ||
| Can't say that. | ||
| Can't say that. | ||
| Sorry, the IDF Unit 8200 operative in charge of what's true or not says that's not true. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Tikva Fund, after securing a $10.4 million grant from Trump administration, pushes censorship to advance Zionism. | ||
| The Jewish American neoconservative Tikva Fund, which the Trump administration awarded over $10 million in September to counter the pathology of anti-Semitism and teach the Talmud, has already gotten to work pushing censorship to advance Zionism. | ||
| New York Times last month told a remarkable story of how a record $10.4 million grant to the Tikva Fund secured from the National Endowment for the Humanities was rammed through. | ||
| And then, of course, that gets, and you know, they would never, obviously, they would never do this for Christianity, obviously, right? | ||
| And that's where, you know, it's very useful for this religion to also be an ethnicity, to be a race, but it's not really a race, but it's a religion, but you don't have to believe in the religion to be a part of it. | ||
| And this goes back and forth, and you can debate about it forever. | ||
| The end result is a 50-foot-tall menorah on the White House lawn when the nativity scene is banned. | ||
| Because, you know, there's a law against religious celebrations on certain government property. | ||
| But when you say this is just a celebration of culture, not religion, then suddenly you can celebrate it. | ||
| Happens over and over. | ||
| So we're paying for that too. | ||
| And that's just like all of this is just the tip of the iceberg. | ||
| Netyahoo says Israel expects global crackdown on anti-Semitism in the wake of Bandi Beach shooting. | ||
| Nanyahu rushed to blame the Australian prime minister for the Bandi Beach shooting, citing his support for a Palestinian state, saying your governor did nothing to stop the spread of anti-Semitism. | ||
| You let the disease spread, and the result is this horrific attack on Jews we saw today. | ||
| And so, of course, the result of that has been Australia ruthlessly cracking down on white people in Australia, while the people that actually carried out the attack are being given protection. | ||
| And explicitly, Jewish groups in Australia are not only not having their guns taken, they're having laws written to specifically and exclusively provide weapons for the Jewish groups and nobody else. | ||
| So while white Australians are having their freedom of speech destroyed because of this terrorist attack and having their weapons confiscated because of this terror attack, Jewish groups in Australia are being given extra allowances to allow them to arm themselves, to allow them to have guns at their locations. | ||
| Same thing happens in the UK. | ||
| Same thing happens in New York City. | ||
| You can't have guns, but every synagogue has armed guards surrounding it. | ||
| Trump's Israel-born pick for U.S. anti-Semitism czar plans to work with social media to suppress hatred or, you know, the truth, whatever, tomato tomato. | ||
| Zionists top power, influence, and victimhood at Mira Mountainson's Israel Haim Summit in New York. | ||
| And really it just goes on and on. | ||
| But what you have to understand is it's about seizing the methods of communication by hijacking bottleneck positions like safety, you know, advisor, whatever it is, whatever position you can get yourself in to then therefore have veto power over other people's free speech. | ||
| That's what they're capturing. | ||
| And it's being done through digital ID. | ||
| It's being done through massive surveillance. | ||
| It's being done through digital security and cybersecurity through things like the digital dome or the cyber dome that Israel is apparently now managing the cybersecurity for both Germany and America. | ||
| So it's about cybersecurity. | ||
| It's about digital ID. | ||
| It's about censoring social media and correspondingly have that digital ID to identify who is saying what on social media in order to put them in prison because at the same time they're passing laws and limiting the First Amendment here in America and passing the IRHRA definition of anti-Semitism everywhere else and throwing people in jail for saying the truth or censoring them for reporting on news stories that are validated. | ||
| And this is all happening at once and it's happening worldwide in a unified strategy, unified method. | ||
| And it's not just okay. | ||
| It's necessary to oppose it. | ||
| And honestly, the people that need to oppose this most are the Jewish people for their own good, honestly. | ||
| Because, and, you know, part of me is like, do we need to be more anti-Semitic? | ||
| Like, do we need to start being collective-ist? | ||
| Because I don't have a problem seeing George Soros do something bad, and I don't blame all Jews for it. | ||
| I see Netanyahu do something bad. | ||
| Doesn't affect how I feel about the friends I grew up with, right? | ||
| That's never been an issue. | ||
| But now we've got these people like old Shlomo Kramer over here making these claims. | ||
| And like what we need is all the other Jewish people in the world to go, no, man. | ||
| No, we're not with him. | ||
| We are not with him. | ||
| We disavow him. | ||
| Maybe that, maybe it needs to be like, whoa, wait, if one Jews does something, we all get blamed for it. | ||
| So maybe we need to control some of this because clearly they're on the march. | ||
| Like clearly, there are Jewish influence groups, there are Israeli groups, there are billionaires instituting tyrannical measures in your name. | ||
| So like it is kind of on you to reject this. | ||
| It is kind of on the Jews to actually take their historical position of champions of the First Amendment because of the value of having a society where you can speak and worship freely. | ||
| So if you think abandoning that because of Israel's behavior over the last two years is a wise thing to do, I would advise against that. | ||
| And just know that the Jewish elite are using you, very simply. | ||
| The Israeli elite are using the Israelis. | ||
| And they're using the Palestinians. | ||
| And they're using the Nazis because they require anti-Semitism because without actual genuine violent hate, they can't pass any of this stuff. | ||
| That's why we always try to keep our criticisms specifically to the people doing these things. | ||
| And when they are doing it on the name of Judaism, in the name of a religion, we have to call that out. | ||
| And really, the burden is on the people of that religion to stand up against this. | ||
| They're the ones that are going to suffer if these people get what they want. | ||
| Even though they say it's for you. | ||
| This is a reminder that celebrating Christmas is not halal. | ||
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| Wishing people a happy Christmas or a Merry Christmas is not halal. | ||
| So as a Muslim, you should be confident in your religion. | ||
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| Don't try to be someone that you are not. | ||
| Islamist extremist threats continue to threaten Christmas and New Year's celebrations worldwide. | ||
| In Germany, security forces arrested five men, including a suspected imam, for planning a vehicle ramming attack on a Christmas market in Bavaria. | ||
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And this comes after heightened security measures were put in place following car ramming attack at a Christmas market in the city of Magdeburg last year, which killed six people and injured more than 300. | |
| And authorities say he called for the attack to be carried out with the aim of killing or injuring as many people as possible at the market. | ||
| In Poland, a 19-year-old student was detained for allegedly preparing an Islamic state-inspired bombing at a Christmas market, while Turkish police conducted raids detaining over 115 suspected ISIS members accused of plotting attacks on churches, synagogues, and New Year's gatherings during the festive period. | ||
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Authorities have taken dramatic action ahead of the hot holiday season. | |
| More than 100 suspected members of the Islamic State group have been arrested in a massive counterterrorism sweep. | ||
| Remember, Turkish has a long border with Syria, nearly 900 kilometers where jihadist groups remain active. | ||
| That proximity has made the region a key concern for the Turkish security forces. | ||
| And this operation comes shortly after a deadly attack in Syria on December 13, where a lone ISIS gunman remember kills two U.S. soldiers and an American civilian. | ||
| Hugh, this is 70 strikes inside Syria, ISIS targets. | ||
| That's significant. | ||
| Having covered the Pentagon for a long time, that's not minuscule. | ||
| And this is in response to the killing of those three soldiers that you saw the president meet at Dover Air Force Base. | ||
| This is a much needed and much welcome message to every enemy of America in the world that if you harm, and the president put in caps in his true social, if you harm or threaten any American, especially our servicemen, he will hit you harder than you have ever been hit before. | ||
| And so those people in ISIS, or whether or not they're in ISIS, I'm not sure, who are getting hammered tonight. | ||
| A-10s mean they're close. | ||
| They're in close and they're pounding the ground. | ||
| This is the best thing President Trump could do to protect American troops and civilians abroad. | ||
| I applaud him completely. | ||
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| The Islamic State also issued explicit threats urging supporters to turn the holiday into a season of terror. | ||
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| It was described as a newsletter, whatever that means, calling for the Christmas period to become a season of terror, attacking Christians and Jews. | ||
| And they mocked the fact that we've taken security measures at our Christmas markets, like those hostile vehicle mitigation bollards that we saw recently at Birmingham Christmas Market. | ||
| And we've seen all sorts of Christmas markets being patrolled by armed police. | ||
| This is a quote. | ||
| They said, to engage crowds of Christians and Jews in the heart of Europe, America, and the Jewish state, running them over with buses, beating them and smashing them with heavy hammers. | ||
| And we've seen across Europe, we've seen in Germany, in Belgium, in France, nativity scenes have been destroyed. | ||
| Baby Jesus statues have been decapitated and stolen. | ||
| A donkey was actually punched in the face. | ||
| But it wasn't just limited to Islamic hatred. | ||
| Hindu nationalist groups intensified attacks amid the Christmas season also. | ||
| Reports documented over 700 incidents of violence against Christians throughout the year, including assaults on carolers, vandalism of church decorations, disruptions of prayer meetings, and mob harassment, with organizations like the Vishwa Hindu Parishad urging Hindus to boycott the festival, while New Year's has become a display of global cowardice. | ||
| In Times Square, at this time, we are continually operating in a heightened threat, and please be conscious of your surroundings. | ||
| Federal agents have arrested a Texas man for allegedly trying to help ISIS. | ||
| The newly uncovered plot comes as DHS issues a warning urging people to remain vigilant during their New Year's Eve celebrations. | ||
| All right, folks, that is the latest from John Bound. | ||
| You can, of course, find and share that video at banned.videoinfowars.com. | ||
| Have a courageous new year. | ||
| Share that report. | ||
| Share all the links. | ||
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All right. | |
| Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen, to the third hour of the war room. | ||
| I'm your host, Harrison Smith, coming to you live this Friday afternoon. | ||
| Glad everybody's here with us. | ||
| I'm very happy to welcome the bubbly little fairy of doom herself, Tiffany Cianci. | ||
| You can follow her on X at TheVino Mom. | ||
| She does a lot on TikTok as well. | ||
| You can find her link tree there on her X account at TheVino Mom. | ||
| Once again, Tiffany, how are you today? | ||
| You know, it's the second day of the year and a busy news day in private equity, and there's a lot to talk about. | ||
| So I've been busy from yesterday at about 12 a.m. when my phone started buzzing. | ||
| I have trouble believing you're ever not busy, Tiffany. | ||
| I think it's the first time we've ever connected online. | ||
| You're usually in studio with me. | ||
| This will be a little different. | ||
| Second time. | ||
| Before we get into the news of the day, I'm going to the second time. | ||
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Okay. | |
| It's fun when you're in studio because you bring in energy that is infectious. | ||
| But before we get into the news of the day, I want some advice from you because this literally happened to me today. | ||
| My wife comes up to me and says, our son, like she's taking my son, he's four years old. | ||
| We're going to the birthday party at the trampoline park. | ||
| And I'm like, the what? | ||
| The trampoline park? | ||
| Because you have told us the most crazy horror stories and I even know these horror. | ||
| And even the kid whose birthday it is broke his arm at the place a while ago. | ||
| And so I'm like, oh, I don't know if that's a good idea. | ||
| I don't, I don't think you should do that. | ||
| And I'm like struggling, but it's my son's best friend. | ||
| He wants to go to the trampoline park. | ||
| What do you do? | ||
| What do you do? | ||
| Because you've exposed, maybe you can lay down the groundwork a little bit. | ||
| Why would I be so scared of trampoline parks? | ||
| What is it about trampoline parks that you've revealed that would make me so scared? | ||
| And then the follow-up question, how do I deal with this with my son? | ||
| Right. | ||
| So everything you do with your children poses some form of risk and we can't wrap them in bubble wrap. | ||
| Obviously, I don't think we should wrap children in bubble wrap. | ||
| They need to learn to take risks in safe environments. | ||
| They need to learn to take risks because it's good for their development. | ||
| But a lot of the trampoline parks in the United States are owned by private equity firms that put money ahead of safety. | ||
| And in particular, there's a private equity firm called Unleashed Brands that owns a park group called Urban Air. | ||
| And I've done a lot of reporting on them because children are literally dying in their parks. | ||
| They're falling off zip lines in their parks. | ||
| They're getting hit in unsecured go-karts in their parks. | ||
| My son was hurt in one of their parks. | ||
| I almost fell off of a zipline in their park years ago. | ||
| They're very dangerous environments because they put money ahead of children. | ||
| And I will tell you that I've dealt with the exact same problem that you're dealing with. | ||
| My son, one of his closest friends, Adi, her family sent home an invitation a week, two weeks ago now for an urban air birthday party. | ||
| And it happened to be the day before the little girl died at the Urban Air Adventure Park in Florida. | ||
| And they saw the news the following day and sent me a text message immediately and said, do you have any recommendations? | ||
| We want to cancel this birthday party. | ||
| And I said, sure, I'd be happy to help you out. | ||
| Let me introduce you to some friends I have. | ||
| Let's find another party. | ||
| My son gets invited to parties there all the time. | ||
| And it is very hard because you don't want your child to be ostracized. | ||
| At the same time, there is not a social, like barometric marker that is worth your child's life. | ||
| Period. | ||
| And what you need to know is when you go to these places, you want to find a place that's family owned. | ||
| You want to know what their contracts say that you're going to sign at the front door. | ||
| If their contract says you're signing away your right to seek a jury trial, if they say that you're signing a confidentiality agreement, if you click a little box for a liability waiver and it says if they kill your kid, you can't hold them responsible. | ||
| Then that's a huge problem. | ||
| I would never tell anybody to not sign the document or to use a false name because that would be crazy. | ||
| Right. | ||
| But I know folks that have. | ||
| It's hard. | ||
| And I've had really hard conversations with my children and I've actually shown my children videos of kids falling off the zip lines in those parks. | ||
| I wouldn't recommend necessarily doing that for a four-year-old. | ||
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| But what I did do recently when they had to miss a party at an urban air was I volunteered to pay for a private play date somewhere I knew was safe at a small business. | ||
| And we picked up their child and we went for a private play date to celebrate their birthday. | ||
| And then we went out for lunch and ice cream afterwards. | ||
| And it was awesome. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And it was more FaceTime. | ||
| Because it's tough because, yeah, you're in this position where it's like, all right, like in all likelihood, it'll probably be fine. | ||
| You know, tons of people go to these things all the time. | ||
| Maybe I'm blown, but then, but then it's like, you know, that if anything were to happen and you knew there was a risk and you didn't say anything or if you, God, you just, you would never, you know, live down that guilt. | ||
| And so the knowledge is a burden. | ||
| It'd be so much easier to just, oh, birthday party, everybody. | ||
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| Sounds fun. | ||
| It would be so nice to not know that because it's not just that they have these liability waivers that allow them to brush this off, but also they have NDA. | ||
| So you can't publicize that your kid got hurt. | ||
| So you can't, so people don't actually know. | ||
| Oh, these places, people get hurt all the time because you're not hearing the stories of it happening all the time. | ||
| So I just know, like, we ended up, we let him go. | ||
| He went, he was fine. | ||
| He came back. | ||
| We made sure that it was the, it was little kids only, right? | ||
| Because that's a big issue with the trampoline parks is the big kids and knock the little kids over and there's no, there's no controlling them. | ||
| But like this type of stuff really does have like a personal impact when you know the reality about this. | ||
| You have to be a little bit more careful. | ||
| And I just, I just really, I sat, I kneeled down with my son and just said, look, these plays are dangerous. | ||
| And if you're, you know, if you even get close to getting hurt, you're going home right away. | ||
| So just safety's on you, bud. | ||
| So everything was okay. | ||
| But that's the type of like, you know, decision you have to make when you're aware of what private equity does. | ||
| So what is private equity up to these days, Tiffany? | ||
| I mean, my God, it's like they, it's like they're just an all-consuming fire. | ||
| And every time I turn around, they're, they're inflaming some new industry or corporation. | ||
| What are they up to now, Tiffany? | ||
| So there's a lot that's happened actually since the first of the year, quite literally at 12.01 a.m. on the first, Saxon announced that they were likely filing for bankruptcy and that they weren't paying any of their bills. | ||
| They had a private equity-backed acquisition of Neiman Marcus and they owed a $100 million payment and they can't make it. | ||
| And so we see right out of the gate the very first major bankruptcy on a billion dollars in debt out of the gate. | ||
| And we talked recently about the fact that 70% of all major bankruptcies in the United States last year were private equity backed companies. | ||
| We had the first one quite literally at 12.01 a.m. on the first of the year, but it was not long to be the headline of the day because just a few hours later, the founder of a company called Sprinkles, the company that started all of the cupcake fads of the early 2000s back in 2005, Christine Nelson, who brags about her exit in 2012. | ||
| It was actually in 2014, but she brags about her exit in 2012 as a founder, went online and made a heartfelt video I actually sent to your team that is going super viral everywhere, but not for the reasons she thought it would, where she said, guys, I'm horrified to tell you all that Sprinkles closed their doors yesterday with no notice and screwed over all of their employees. | ||
| She didn't say any of that, of course, but let go of all of their employees nationwide with no notice after they made them work all holidays through the entire holiday season to get as much money out of them as they could. | ||
| They gave them no severance. | ||
| They closed down all locations. | ||
| They left all of their franchisees with no suppliers and no way to continue operating their small businesses. | ||
| And she said, when I sold to private equity, I really believe my legacy would go forever. | ||
| Well, the comment section, the comment section delivered. | ||
| And I'm kind of surprised she's left the video up, if I'm being honest. | ||
| Well, we have to have that video. | ||
| Do we want to go to that now? | ||
| Sure. | ||
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| So tell us again. | ||
| This is the Sprinkles, the founder of Sprinkles, who I guess sold her business. | ||
| You said in 2014 is when it finally went through. | ||
| Yeah, she's quite famous as the host of Cupcake Wars on the Food Network. | ||
| So most people recognize her. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And so, but this was a video she made recently about the fact that Sprinkles just shut down. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| So about a day ago. | ||
| All right. | ||
| So here she is, the founder of Sprinkles, who sold her country, sold her company in 2014, making a video about how it just went bankrupt. | ||
| Let's watch. | ||
| A few days ago, I learned that Sprinkles Cupcakes, the company I started in 2005 and then sold to private equity in 2012, will be closing its bakery doors today. | ||
| Just to say that out loud is completely surreal. | ||
| Even though I sold the company over a decade ago, I still have such a personal connection to it. | ||
| And this isn't how I thought the story would go. | ||
| I thought Sprinkles would keep growing and be around forever. | ||
| I thought it was going to be my legacy. | ||
| It's hard to describe how I'm feeling right now, but one thing is for sure. | ||
| I am incredibly grateful for all of the joy our cupcakes brought to millions of people over the years. | ||
| I have so many amazing Sprinkles memories, which I plan to share over the next few weeks as I process this news. | ||
| In the meantime, if you have a special Sprinkles memory or story, it would be so meaningful to me if you would share it in the comments. | ||
| I built this company as a point of joy and connection, and I would love to honor that. | ||
| So share your favorite Sprinkles memory below. | ||
| Man, talk about looking at the silver line of the cloud. | ||
| She seems very, very upbeat for somebody who's just been betrayed and have her entire legacy ripped out from under her. | ||
| Should we go to some of these? | ||
| I understand we have a couple comments, pictures of comments we can look at here. | ||
| So I'll read these out loud and we can comment. | ||
| So Tiffany, you responded, don't worry, you'll be able to buy back all the inter you'll be able to buy all of the intellectual property back in the bankruptcy. | ||
| You can own it all over again because that's just how this works. | ||
| I'm sorry, this destroyed your legacy, but by selling it to private equity, you destroyed your legacy and it breaks my heart for you, but it breaks my heart more for the employees that are actually losing everything. | ||
| Redhead Forever, if you wanted a legacy, private equity was a bad choice. | ||
| After 18 years working there, they notified us one day in advance without any benefits, only with a check for the work already done. | ||
| So sad. | ||
| Good memories. | ||
| Happy New Year's for me. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| So that's one of the employees there is the next one. | ||
| It's weird to imagine selling to private equity and thinking it would live on. | ||
| It's delusional, actually. | ||
| Oof, brutal, but true. | ||
| It's so sad they gave the employees one day notice and no severance. | ||
| S key, next person says, I'm thinking about all the staff who helped build your success and continue to help the private equity firm build success. | ||
| And now they're all unemployed. | ||
| Private equity might have made you a wealthy woman, but it was a death note to your staff and your company. | ||
| Next person says, babe, be for real. | ||
| That's exactly what private equity does. | ||
| Next person says, I was obsessed with sprinkles. | ||
| Not anymore, I guess. | ||
| You were the owner. | ||
| I didn't realize you sold to private equity. | ||
| That's another aspect of this is that it always happens quietly. | ||
| So the customers have no idea they're now supporting these giant vampiric corporations. | ||
| At least you got your money, right? | ||
| Who cares about all the employees so long as you got your millions of dollars? | ||
| Private equity only destroys. | ||
| Did no one explain private equity to you? | ||
| Okay, so people are realizing. | ||
| Now, is this just the TikTok crowd recognizing? | ||
| I think people are waking up to the reality of private equity. | ||
| But what is your comment on those comments there? | ||
| Honestly, what concerns me is that there's one caveat that was left out because first, I'm so proud of the TikTok crowd. | ||
| Those comments had 35,000, 50,000, 100,000 likes at this point. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| And the TikTok audience is really becoming acutely aware of private equity, the dangers it poses, how it works, and the nefarious strip mining nature of it. | ||
| But what really concerns me is that in 2022, they made big announcements that they were going to sell 100 franchises and they started selling internationally to franchises. | ||
| Now, franchising is another thing I talk about a lot, especially where private equity is concerned. | ||
| When you buy a franchise with a company, they give you suppliers, recipes, marketing. | ||
| They sign a contract with you for a decade for all of these services and all of those franchisees that they require a million dollar investment minimum to open one of their stores. | ||
| That's the same amount of money you need to go start an urban air, by the way. | ||
| That's how much they thought their intellectual property was worth. | ||
| They required a million dollars of these people minimum up to 3 million. | ||
| And they just got left in the wind. | ||
| They no longer have suppliers. | ||
| They no longer have marketing. | ||
| They no longer have brand recognition. | ||
| Their entire small business is destroyed. | ||
| And so is everybody they employ. | ||
| There is so much that is fallout when private equity destroys an industry or a business or a large company that anchors a parking lot that is supposed to bring in customers. | ||
| Yes, the company goes. | ||
| Yes, the employees suffer. | ||
| But it's the domino effects across the industry that really upset me today. | ||
| Actually, it was announced, I guess, like three or four days ago. | ||
| I sent an article over that a major arts and craft supplier that's been in business for like 50 years, 40, 41 years maybe, is now filing bankruptcy and closing down because of Joann's and AC Moore and all of the other private equity acquired craft brands that have closed down. | ||
| They simply say there's nowhere for them to compete anymore, right? | ||
| So there's all of these downrange effects. | ||
| And we have got to stop acting like there is a way to focus on an, yeah, there you go. | ||
| That we can have an economy that focuses all of our efforts on creating billionaires instead of creating wealth, right? | ||
| I was speaking to somebody yesterday and they said that the biggest, the scariest thing about an economy that rewards private equity is that when you start focusing on creating just wealth for very, very few, you work on creating billionaires of those that already have a lot, you create a lackadaisical society that no longer believes they can create wealth for themselves because the economy is no longer built for it. | ||
| And when that happens, economies and civilizations fall. | ||
| We have become an economy. | ||
| That's very interesting because, yeah, that aligns exactly with what we've been talking about, well, that we've been talking about forever, you and I. | ||
| And, you know, I've been talking about this sort of in a more ambiguous way, but just the idea that, yeah, when your culture is dominated by the biggest hucksters and scam artists in the world, it is a depressing realization. | ||
| It is a wet blanket on the ambitions of driven people. | ||
| They realize, okay, best case scenario, I sell a company to private equity and only just have it destroyed. | ||
| Like, why would I even put in the time? | ||
| So that's interesting that there's, there's some crossover with sort of the mindset that's coming about because of all the Somali fraud and people going, what the hell? | ||
| I work all day and this guy's got a better house than me. | ||
| He just drove last year and started up a fake business and he's living like a king. | ||
| Why should I keep working? | ||
| Why should my tax dollars go to him? | ||
| Same sort of thing here. | ||
| Private equity has this dampening effect down the line. | ||
| And, you know, this stuff, it sort of flies under the radar. | ||
| Nobody makes a big deal out of it to the extent that I read this headline and just assumed it was talking about Joann's. | ||
| When it said 40-year-olds craft, arts and craft chain files chapter 11 bankruptcy, you just sent this article over. | ||
| I was just like, okay, she's sending an article about Joann's because, you know, we're going to talk about that. | ||
| I didn't realize, nope, this is from five days ago. | ||
| Five days ago, the arts and craft retail chain files for bankruptcy, facing financial distress from economic headwinds and tight lending restrictions. | ||
| Arts and crafts retailers such as Joanne's and Beverly's closed down operations. | ||
| Another arts and crafts supplier filed for a chapter 11 bankruptcy due to economic pressures and lending issues. | ||
| But of course, this is cause and effect. | ||
| The 18 store chain is one of the largest independent crafts and supplies retailers in the country, and it's shut down now. | ||
| Probably, if I had to guess, tell me if I'm wrong, Tiffany. | ||
| Same as Joann's. | ||
| It was perfectly profitable until suddenly they went bankrupt. | ||
| Correct. | ||
| And what's really, really scary about what we're seeing right now is we're down, first of all, to only two craft chains left in the United States. | ||
| We have Hobby Lobby and we have Michaels, right? | ||
| That's it. | ||
| That's all that's left generally. | ||
| There's a few mom and pop fabric stores. | ||
| All these is now selling all of the leftover intellectual property and assets of Joann's. | ||
| They bought it in liquidations, these all these like discount chains, right? | ||
| But once that's gone, people won't be able to buy it. | ||
| And what you see right now is we're about to see what the end of the game monopoly actually looks like for an industry because Michaels is owned by private equity and Michaels is in debt up to their eyeballs, right? | ||
| They are completely indebted to the hilt. | ||
| And as a result of that, we've seen them making serious cuts. | ||
| But what we saw this year were hundreds of viral videos of them screwing people over on Black Friday by covering up real prices and doubling them and then calling them a sale. | ||
| And people are hip to it now. | ||
| They get it. | ||
| They know what's happening. | ||
| Nobody's fooled at this point. | ||
| People can check. | ||
| They can look at what things have been selling for online. | ||
| They know. | ||
| And it's not going to work anymore. | ||
| And in the game of monopoly, if monopoly works out the way monopoly is meant to be, which is a warning, not a game, it's a warning that eventually one person owns all the property and no one else can afford to rent, right? | ||
| And you flip the board. | ||
| Well, if the game of monopoly plays out the way it should, in fairly short order, Michaels will also need to file a bankruptcy. | ||
| And the way that they demonstrated desperation during the holiday season really showed that. | ||
| And then Hobby Lobby will be the last man standing. | ||
| And I tell you, it doesn't matter how you feel about Hobby Lobby's personal beliefs or what you feel about their Christian ethics, right? | ||
| What matters is that that same Christian-driven ethical background and backing that they have in their mission has made it so they've taken on no debt. | ||
| Hobby Lobby has grown slowly, quietly. | ||
| They never take out any loans they can't pay off within one quarter in cash. | ||
| And they've expanded their footprint across the United States. | ||
| And in this game, private equity will bankrupt all competition. | ||
| And then the FTC is going to go after Hobby Lobby like it's their fault. | ||
| We're going to get probably a Democratic president in there and they're going to go in and try to break them up when they were already broken up and private equity forced us to this point. | ||
| There was already competition. | ||
| Hobby Lobby didn't bankrupt AC more. | ||
| Private equity did. | ||
| Hobby Lobby didn't bankrupt Joann's. | ||
| Private equity did. | ||
| Hobby Lobby didn't bankrupt Hancock Fabrics. | ||
| Private equity did. | ||
| And they'll do it to Michaels too. | ||
| That's where we're at. | ||
| That's just, it's, it's so rapacious. | ||
| And it's like, it would be different if it's just like, oh, this happened to Joann's, but like, what a fluke. | ||
| But like, no, clearly this is the outcome. | ||
| This is the desired. | ||
| I mean, why would they keep doing it when this keeps happening if this wasn't the desired outcome, right? | ||
| So that's what makes the whole thing, again, just baffling to me is it's these people killing their own golden goose. | ||
| It is so greedy. | ||
| Can you expand a little bit more? | ||
| Because I think there's a lot to what you just said about the Christian ethics of Hobby Lobby. | ||
| Everybody knows Hobby Lobby doesn't even have barcodes because the founder was like, no, that's the mark of the beast. | ||
| I'm not doing it. | ||
| So it's almost like Hobby Lobby has burdened itself. | ||
| Like it's hard to run a store and do inventory if you don't have barcodes. | ||
| That's a really convenient, time-saving technology. | ||
| So it's almost like with this handicap, they're still winning. | ||
| And I do think it's thanks to that, that same Christian ethos. | ||
| Can you expand on that a little bit? | ||
| Yeah, absolutely. | ||
| So when you look at the way that private equity engages in business, their goal is to extract as much revenue as possible and to do it by stacking debt on a company and then taking that money, even though they have no intention of paying it back and dividending it back to themselves and some of their investors. | ||
| That is their playbook. | ||
| That's what we saw at Toys R Us. | ||
| It's what we see at Michaels right now. | ||
| It's what we saw at Joann's. | ||
| It's what we saw at Payless Shoes. | ||
| We've seen it at store after store. | ||
| We saw it at Party City, right? | ||
| They take on debt. | ||
| They know they will never pay back, but they bear no liability. | ||
| They bear no risk. | ||
| They hide it behind a fake LLC that's going to bear all the risk and it's going to disappear and taxpayers will pick up the bill. | ||
| Well, the Hobby Lobby family does not practice in that way. | ||
| They know that at the end of any circumstance where you're going to end up in bankruptcy or you can't pay a bill or a debt you've taken on, it passes that bill to the taxpayers, right? | ||
| It passes that burden to the taxpayers. | ||
| And every single one of these bankruptcies that we're seeing, the taxpayers are picking up this bill, which nobody is talking about. | ||
| We are the ones that will ultimately pay because other companies that are owed the money that they're now bankrupting out of will go bankrupt and then their employees will lose jobs and then we will be paying all of those bills. | ||
| We will pick up this bill. | ||
| At the end of the day, it will roll down to the taxpayers eventually. | ||
| Hobby Lobby does not believe in taking on debt. | ||
| They don't believe in paying userist levels of interest. | ||
| And all of the debt that private equity takes on is adjustable rate debt, which is considered usury in the Bible in biblical terms, right? | ||
| They won't do it. | ||
| So if they take on debt, if they have to take on debt, they never take on debt that they can't foresee immediately paying back in cash. | ||
| They won't carry debt forward. | ||
| They also buy their real estate. | ||
| They don't lease things and they work really hard to create security for their employees. | ||
| They're very dedicated to that. | ||
| And they also don't shortchange their labor, right? | ||
| They actually overstaff their stores. | ||
| They want to make sure their customers are taken care of. | ||
| And for the record, I just went to my first hobby lobby in Texas a few weeks ago. | ||
| It's bigger than a football stadium in Maryland. | ||
| So it was wild to me because I've been to ones here. | ||
| They're about a quarter the size, but my goodness. | ||
| You could get lost in the ones here. | ||
| There's not to be trifled with. | ||
| But they've done all that without taking on debt. | ||
| They've done all of that doing it by paying in cash with the money they had and not overexpanding. | ||
| They've done it by staying true to their values. | ||
| And that's why in the game of Monopoly, they're likely to win. | ||
| There is something so deeply profound about that. | ||
| And I know Chick-fil-A has maybe gone a little off the rails recently, but same thing there, right? | ||
| If you approach this ethos with we're going to take care of our customers and we're going to take care of our employees and we're going to be a family and we're going to do things right, even if we don't have to, even if it costs us a little bit of money, we're going to make sure everybody has a good experience. | ||
| And that actually, conversely enough, is the more profitable thing to do. | ||
| You actually end up more successful by not pursuing your greed at all costs. | ||
| It's sort of contradictory, but it's one of the mysteries of the world. | ||
| We'll be right back with more. | ||
| Tiffany Siancy, don't go anywhere. | ||
| Cool. | ||
| I'm talking to Tiffany Sianci, but before we go back to her, talk about private equity and the way that it seems that they are ravenously chowing their way through every industry in America. | ||
| I want to remind you of what capitalism in its purest and most beautiful form looks like. | ||
| And it looks like one guy with an idea or an invention or an angle on a product that builds it up from the ground floor, that hands it off to his kids. | ||
| That to me is sort of the ideal capitalist structure: somebody who has put the blood, sweat, and tears, taken the risk, and then gets to get the benefits. | ||
| Unfortunately, what happens so many times is when that person gets to an age they want to retire or whatever, they end up selling their baby to a bunch of bankers who are using other people's money, who don't give a damn about the product or the customers or anything, and are just there to maximize profit, even if that means destroying the business itself. | ||
| And it's basically just what happens over and over. | ||
| Now, there's a few companies in America that have avoided that trap. | ||
| Hobby Lobby is one of them, as we discussed in the last segment. | ||
| And InfoWars is another one. | ||
| InfoWars is absolutely another one. | ||
| And there's something about the freedom that a company has when you like InfoWars is, and all companies should be really an absolute monarchy. | ||
| Of course, it's different for us because we've got the courts meddling in our business, but prior to being, in my opinion, illegally sued and forced into this position, it's Alex Jones. | ||
| It's his company. | ||
| It's his baby. | ||
| He built it up. | ||
| It wouldn't exist without him. | ||
| It only exists because of him. | ||
| And without him, it's not really the same. | ||
| It wouldn't be the same. | ||
| And it wouldn't exist anymore. | ||
| And what this represents, again, as I was pointing out, like this, this just is capitalism. | ||
| This is how it's supposed to work. | ||
| What private equity is, is a total perversion, a total warping of capitalism into something unrecognizable. | ||
| What we do here is very simple. | ||
| We've got good products that we want you to buy. | ||
| And when you go to thealxjonesstore.com and buy the colostrum, the bovine clostrum plus, or the ultramethylene blue, or one of our new, more popular products, the ultimate power energy drink mix, whatever you buy at thealxjonesstore.com, it's going to be a fantastic product. | ||
| You're going to love it. | ||
| This is what baffles me about private equity. | ||
| Like, why would we do anything other than sell you a fantastic product at the best possible price? | ||
| Like, it's so simple. | ||
| And when you actually have just very, you know, simple priorities, like we want our customers to be happy, it turns out you do really well. | ||
| It turns out like that's all you really need. | ||
| All of this manipulation, all of the schemes, all of the, oh, we'll load this up with debt and we'll transfer the debt over there and then we'll do this. | ||
| Might seem like it's getting you profits in the short run. | ||
| That's not how you build a strong and powerful and resilient business, which is what we've done here. | ||
| So if you like capitalism in the way it's supposed to work, if you like free speech and the way it's supposed to work, I hope you can support us at thealxjonesstore.com because you don't want to see InfoWars in the hands of BlackRock folks. | ||
| You don't want to see InfoWars in the hands of the Apollo group. | ||
| And that's what would have to happen if you didn't support us. | ||
| We'd have to go find funding elsewhere. | ||
| I'm kidding, of course. | ||
| We would never do that because if you don't support us, we just go away. | ||
| That's how it works. | ||
| If you want us around to talk about this stuff, I do encourage you to go to the alexjonestore.com and participate in capitalism in the way it's supposed to go. | ||
| So, Tiffany, I know we've already covered a lot here in the first half. | ||
| In the second half, here, what do you want to get into? | ||
| There's this amazing article from the Telegraph. | ||
| This happens to me in some articles. | ||
| I'm like, oh, that's a good point. | ||
| And I start highlighting it. | ||
| Oh, that's a good point. | ||
| I started highlighting it. | ||
| By the end of it, I have literally the entire article highlighted. | ||
| So instead of reading the article verbatim, it's called Private Equity Barons Target Savers and Hunt for the Perfect Bailout. | ||
| It's from the Telegraph. | ||
| It seems like private equity is feeling a little uncertain going into 2026. | ||
| What's all this about? | ||
| So one of the articles I sent over is from the New York Times, and it says that there's a rot in investors sense a rot in private equity, a circular deal, something, something. | ||
| What's happening is that in the past, you and I have talked a lot about the fact that private equity is having trouble selling their assets because they've stacked them with too much debt. | ||
| They can no longer secure fair market valuations for the products that they, the items that they're trying to sell. | ||
| Right now, it is estimated in the United States that they closed out 2025 with between 31,000 and 37,000 companies they could not sell. | ||
| That's the backlog right now in private equity. | ||
| 31,000 is what's being published, but that doesn't include tracking any of the small firms. | ||
| Now, right now in America, we have more private equity firms than we have McDonald's. | ||
| That should terrify everyone. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| It is now the investment firm for the Ivy League Nepo Babies of Choice, right? | ||
| And they have a 31 to 39,000 company backlog they cannot sell because they've stacked them all with too much debt. | ||
| They're no longer worth what they're claiming they're worth and they have to close out their funds. | ||
| For anyone that doesn't understand how a private equity fund works, the private equity firm takes no liability. | ||
| They create a fund that has some investors. | ||
| They borrow the money from other people. | ||
| They don't use their own money or very little of their own money. | ||
| They borrow the money from pensions and banks and other investment mechanisms, a lot of public pensions, especially. | ||
| And then they go and they buy things with that and debt. | ||
| They stack the debt on top of the company and the company that they are buying owes the debt back. | ||
| It's the equivalent of me buying a car and saying, I get to have the car. | ||
| I get the benefits of the car. | ||
| I get my credit report better for having the car, but the car owes the payments and the car needs to go figure out how to pay for itself. | ||
| And while the car is paying for itself, I'm going to sell its parking space. | ||
| I'm going to lease out its tires to someone else. | ||
| I'm going to sell back its contract for its permanent maintenance package. | ||
| And I'm going to dividend all that money to myself. | ||
| And somehow the car still has to pay for itself. | ||
| And then I borrow more money, and the car is going to owe that too. | ||
| That's quite literally how it works. | ||
| Well, in the past, over the last two years, as interest rates went up, all of the debt they stacked on top of these companies got very unsustainable. | ||
| And that debt is adjustable rate debt. | ||
| So they're paying, you know, in many cases, between 14 and 18%. | ||
| And if they're distressed asset acquisitions, 21% interest on these billions of dollars. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| So what's happened is they started doing something called secondaries trades or secondaries market sales, where, like, if I have ABC private equity and somebody else is one, two, three private equity, and I have a billion-dollar company I can't sell, and they have a billion-dollar company they can't sell, and both of our funds have to close contractually. | ||
| We just sell them to one another because the free market says they're not worth what they're worth. | ||
| But we need to close out those funds. | ||
| So we go borrow from more unsuspecting pension holders. | ||
| We sell them to one another for the fake valuation we gave each other, and we use that money to pay out our investors from the first fund. | ||
| Now, the Financial Times has called that like a pyramid scheme for years. | ||
| For the past three years, they've called it a pyramid scheme over and over again. | ||
| And that was bad enough. | ||
| The free market wasn't doing anything. | ||
| There were no fair market valuations. | ||
| It was all just guesstimations about what they said they were worth. | ||
| Well, in this New York Times article, it comes out that $100 billion in sales couldn't even be sold through those methods in the last two quarters of 2025. | ||
| So they instead started something new through something called a continuation fund. | ||
| This is where ABC private equity has a billion-dollar company I can't sell. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| And I have a fund that has to close out. | ||
| So I create ABC company fund two. | ||
| I go to different investors and borrow their money saying I'm going to buy a bunch of stuff. | ||
| And then I sell my asset to myself with somebody else's money. | ||
| And then I use that money to pay out the investors from the first fund. | ||
| It's a Ponzi scheme. | ||
| It's the purest explanation of a Ponzi scheme. | ||
| They are creating funds in their own company and buying their own assets through other funds with other people's money for 50% increased fake valuations when those companies could not sell on the open market. | ||
| And they're kicking the can another 10 years down the road. | ||
| And in the process, a bunch of unsuspecting pensioners and 401ks are about to get left with these unsellable assets while they strip mine more and more and more out of them when no one else would buy it. | ||
| And that is a hundred billion dollars American money in just the last two quarters of last year. | ||
| Now they have 31,000 to 39,000 more companies they need to move immediately. | ||
| How do you suppose that's all going to get done? | ||
| I mean, as you just as you describe it, I mean, it's literally a Ponzi. | ||
| It's not even a sophisticated Ponzi scheme. | ||
| It's just a straight up Ponzi scheme. | ||
| And so I guess what's happening is that the Ponzi scheme, Ponzi schemes always come to an end, right? | ||
| You always run out of other people's money eventually. | ||
| And that is seeming like it's right around the corner. | ||
| So private equity in a panic is looking around and going, let's open up the pension funds and just get that cash. | ||
| So instead of correcting their behavior or, you know, suffering the consequences of this shell game they're playing, they are expecting us. | ||
| Well, we are bailing them out. | ||
| We are now bailing them out. | ||
| Our pension funds are now going to fill the coffers that they deliberately emptied in this ravenous Ponzi scheme that they're running. | ||
| It's I have no words. | ||
| Six months ago, when Trump signed the executive order giving them access to our 401ks, everybody said 401ks were the golden goose bailout they'd been dying for. | ||
| Now, the Telegraph, that article you just had up, said they're seeking a bailout with retail investors. | ||
| They are desperate to find money anywhere they can find it. | ||
| And while they tried to spin it and said, oh, we had all these sales close out in the last quarter, they sold them to themselves. | ||
| When we have now trillions of dollars of unsellable assets, estimated $3.9 trillion in unsellable assets, 31,000 plus companies they cannot sell. | ||
| And now they're looking for the perfect bailout in retail investors. | ||
| Well, every statistical study has shown that for a retail investor to make money in private equity, they need to invest at a minimum, like $4 million. | ||
| That's not a retail investor, but they're going to come very soon and they're going to start offering all of us the deal of a lifetime. | ||
| They're going to say private equity is no longer for just the ultra-wealthy. | ||
| We don't need just qualified investors, which means 1 million plus in dry powder, by the way. | ||
| That's what they call a qualified investor. | ||
| They're going to say it's your turn. | ||
| You guys are finally allowed in. | ||
| That is not us getting the deal of a lifetime. | ||
| That's them socializing the risk as the downfall of their industry begins. | ||
| They need us to socialize the risk so that the government doesn't have to give them a formal bailout because they've already done it with our 401k funds. | ||
| That's all this is. | ||
| And yeah, and that's literally, I mean, the way they're trying to sell this is so, it was actually my next question. | ||
| So I'm glad you mentioned it again from the Telegraph article. | ||
| They say these self-proclaimed masters of the universe and private equity are in the throes of an unparalleled crisis with everything heading in the wrong direction. | ||
| Never before have they faced such adverse conditions. | ||
| Values, exits, and returns are all under pressure. | ||
| Against this woeful backdrop, cash-strapped private equity firms have embarked on a frantic dash to find alternative funding, starting with unsuspecting retail investors. | ||
| And it goes on to say: Trump signed an executive order issuing an order instructing Washington regulators to make it easier for roughly 90 million U.S. savers to invest in private equity and other so-called alternative investments, such as private equity, cryptocurrency, and infrastructure deals. | ||
| Similar initiatives are also being rolled out in the U.K. | ||
| So, again, just like everything that we face, this is rolling out in a global way because it's a global attack that we're under. | ||
| Under the government-led Mansion House Accord, 17 of the largest pension providers have pledged to invest up to 50 billion pounds to private markets by the end of the decade. | ||
| And the way they're pitching this, Hargreaves, one of the guys pulling this off, said it was part of the firm's quote, mission to democratize investing. | ||
| One analyst called it a watershed moment. | ||
| So that's exactly what you're talking about here: a mission to democratize investing. | ||
| In other words, we're taking all of your money. | ||
| I mean, it's so blatant. | ||
| Are they even trying to get people to fall for this? | ||
| Or like, what is the, what is the pitch here? | ||
| Because this is not democratizing anything. | ||
| And I don't think anybody's going to fall for that. | ||
| So why are they trying to pitch it this way? | ||
| People are absolutely going to fall for it. | ||
| People have fallen for this. | ||
| Every time Wall Street has socialized risk or democratized risk in other instances, people will fall for it. | ||
| And unfortunately, it's going to be the people that are most vulnerable. | ||
| It's going to be people that have the least amount to lose. | ||
| And I'm going to say one of the things that I think actually is going to play into this and that they're counting on playing into this is that there have been a bunch of studies recently that came out that said 37% of Gen Z believes that gambling is the safest way to use their money because there's no other way for them to get ahead. | ||
| And right now, what we've seen is a proliferation of gambling as young Gen Zers believe that they're more likely to win the lottery than to actually be able to save for retirement in this environment. | ||
| And that is a circumstance that has been created by the finances and the economies of us creating an economic mechanism that only serves the ultra-wealthy and creates billionaires instead of a wealthy middle class. | ||
| That is what we have done. | ||
| We have created a circumstance where we have young people that cannot own a home, that will never be able to save for retirement, that are going to rent forever, that will never pay off their student loans. | ||
| And people can be upset. | ||
| They can say they should work harder. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| It's not going to work. | ||
| So right now, they've created a circumstance where people think that gambling is the safest way. | ||
| And when they are approached with this opportunity, they're going to take the little bit of savings they have and they're going to go all in and they're going to lose everything. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| Thinking that this is the one thing that can save them. | ||
| That is how they're going to sell it. | ||
| And it is up to people like you and me to get out there ahead of it and to convince people that this is so dangerous and that this is not a democratization of investing. | ||
| This is not a watershed moment for allowing retail investors into the ultra wealthies playground. | ||
| This is a socialization of the risk. | ||
| And we know that because Harvard and Yale are selling off all their private equity stakes. | ||
| They sold off $8 billion when Yale is the one, they're like literally the fund that first pioneered investing in private equity as a sovereign fund or as a private fund. | ||
| When all of the pensions followed them, the pensions started losing everything. | ||
| We talked about that last time I was on. | ||
| There are pensions that are seeing 4% returns after a 10-year investment with their private equity investments. | ||
| When if they'd been in the stock market, they would have gotten 46%. | ||
| And now they've had to let go of 6,700 teachers. | ||
| I think that was in Oregon. | ||
| 6,700 teachers do not have jobs because they invested in private equity. | ||
| And what we're seeing in the New York Times article I sent you is that dozens of pensions are seeing the same returns and they're getting out. | ||
| And now private equity has no one else to borrow from to create these continuation funds. | ||
| And so either everything goes belly up or they find money from retail investors. | ||
| And they have become increasingly desperate. | ||
| And that's where we are. | ||
| What is the risk of letting them go belly up? | ||
| Like, obviously they should go belly up. | ||
| I mean, in capitalism, if nobody's buying what you're selling, you go out of business. | ||
| That's the way it's supposed to work. | ||
| And I was going to ask you about that because, yeah, in this article, they have, you know, all of these, the teacher retirement system of Texas, which oversees a $200 billion plan, has shifted almost $10 billion out of private equity and into other asset classes. | ||
| So there are these groups who are recognizing the danger of private equity and moving out of it. | ||
| But I guess that's what's causing the panic in the private equity. | ||
| And they're looking around going, if they won't give us the money, we have to steal it from them through the government by raiding their retirement funds. | ||
| I mean, this is the most blatant betrayal of capitalism I think I've ever seen. | ||
| So what would be the risk of just letting them go belly up going, hey, you can't get our retirement funds. | ||
| If no one's going to give you money willingly, then you got to go out of business. | ||
| I mean, I can understand if it's like, you know, 2008 and it's the, you know, the real estate market and these big banks fall. | ||
| They're too big to fail. | ||
| I don't agree with that anyway. | ||
| I think they should be let to fail. | ||
| But at least there's the argument. | ||
| What's the argument for private equity? | ||
| Is private equity just too big to fail now? | ||
| Is that it? | ||
| The problem is that they have $12 trillion under asset management right now, $12 trillion of companies. | ||
| That is a massive percentage of our, and the problem is really the percentage they have of whole industries. | ||
| If you saw Tucker Carlson this past week, he had on somebody who I wish it had been me, but he had somebody on to talk about veterinary care and how they've captured 50% of all veterinary emergency services. | ||
| They've captured 75% of veterinary care in many industries and that they've captured almost the entire vertical supply chain for veterinary care and their medications and their transportation and their like services companies. | ||
| And so they've captured the entire industry. | ||
| It's all owned by private equity now. | ||
| Now, there's a lot of reasons that this is a problem and why they should be allowed to fail. | ||
| They absolutely should be allowed to fail. | ||
| The problem is that we have become a country that is very, very good at providing socialism to corporations and billionaires and providing the downstream penalties of capitalism to American citizens. | ||
| And while what you said with 2008, I am with you. | ||
| I don't agree. | ||
| Airlines should be allowed to fail. | ||
| Car companies should be allowed to fail. | ||
| I don't think it's the free market. | ||
| When we ban competitors of our car companies from importing cars to the United States, people should be able to get affordable cars. | ||
| I think that if Elon Musk has a Tesla and he doesn't want to compete with BY, I think it's BYE or BYD in China, which is selling two cars for every one car he sells, then he should make a better car. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| That's capitalism. | ||
| That's the free market. | ||
| And if we're manipulating that market, then capitalism isn't working. | ||
| But we have consistently provided socialism to corporations. | ||
| We have consistently provided socialism to billionaires. | ||
| They never suffer. | ||
| There's always a bailout. | ||
| No one goes to jail and the Americans pick up the tab. | ||
| And everyday Americans don't have anything left to give. | ||
| They have nothing left that they can give. | ||
| And until we, I mean, we're going to have to get really loud because there is going to come a time in very short order where we are going to be asked to bail out these companies. | ||
| We are going to be asked to look the other way as these companies get more tax loopholes or more tax benefits. | ||
| And we are left with a few monopolies that own everything because of what's happened here. | ||
| And we have no choice, no, no affordable access to goods. | ||
| And it will have absolutely been a bed of our own making. | ||
| And we have to do something fast. | ||
| God. | ||
| And, you know, it's not just taking out these sort of like obscure things. | ||
| It's like these brands that have been around for decades. | ||
| I mean, Joann's is like, that was a beloved brand for a while. | ||
| 97 years they were in business. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And profitable the entire time. | ||
| The entire time until private equity gets involved. | ||
| But Saks, I mean, that's Saks Fifth Avenue. | ||
| That's Neiman Marcus. | ||
| Like these are, these are iconic brands that I guess now are going under. | ||
| Tell us what's happening with this because I didn't even see this story. | ||
| It broke just, I guess, yesterday. | ||
| You said it was the first of January when this happened. | ||
| Saks CEO steps down as luxury retailer struggles under heavy debt load. | ||
| That's the signature of PE, right? | ||
| Luxury retail giant Saks Global teeters on bankruptcy following a $100 million debt snag. | ||
| So Saks Fifth Avenue, Sachs Global, this iconic American brand, not long for the world. | ||
| Tiffany, I mean, what's going on here? | ||
| So Saks Fifth Avenue owns Bergdorf Goodman's, Neiman Marcus, a host of other luxury brands. | ||
| They wanted to acquire Neiman Marcus, which is actually, I think, founded in Dallas. | ||
| I think it's a Texas-based brand. | ||
| They wanted to acquire them a couple of years ago. | ||
| They borrowed billions of dollars. | ||
| I think it was like $3.8 or $4.8 billion. | ||
| They stacked it on top of the company and created a new private equity fund, Saks Holdings. | ||
| And it was funded by several private equity firms, authentic brands, IFG, I think, and then Amazon backed some of it because they wanted to be the shippers, right? | ||
| They wanted to have like a Saks Fifth Avenue Amazon storefront and they backed the deal. | ||
| Well, if you look right now, we have a K-shaped economy and it showed very clearly that when you look at Black Friday sales that just took place, right? | ||
| We saw that about 50% of Black Friday sales for the working class was done using like a buy now, pay later app like Klarna, right? | ||
| Well, the wealthy are lifting up our economy. | ||
| They said more than 50% of all spending came from the top 10%. | ||
| They're lifting up the economy. | ||
| So what I want everybody to really consider right now is that if all of our economy is being floated right now by the ultra wealthy spending enough money to keep the economy going and the two stores that most deliberately cater to those people can no longer make enough to pay their debts, I want you to understand what's about to happen. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Because if they're the only ones spending and even their stores can't meet the debt burdens, all we have done is strip mine everything that was left from our economy. | ||
| And there's simply nothing left to save. | ||
| There's simply nothing left. | ||
| I don't like, I don't like saying that this is a very dangerous canary in the coal mine. | ||
| But if the stores that cater to the ultra wealthy, the ones that are still spending, cannot meet their debt burdens, then there's already too much gone, in my opinion, for many, many, many companies in the United States to survive the economic reality of what we're going to face in the coming years. | ||
| And I think people need to, Rex, I agree with everything that you're saying. | ||
| And really, to me, sort of astonishing part is like, how do you not make money with the name Saks? | ||
| I mean, it's such an, you know. | ||
| It's just like, what, it's like hearing that McDonald's is going down or something. | ||
| It's like, even at the worst, you could put me in charge of Saks Global. | ||
| I guarantee you I could make a profit just off the fact that people know the name Saks. | ||
| They know Saks Fifth Avenue. | ||
| It's got this air of, you know, rarity and exclusivity. | ||
| And you can't make that work. | ||
| It really is symbolic, I think, of what's going on here is that it's these prestige old. | ||
| There's absolutely no natural reason why this should be going down. | ||
| The only reason these places are going down is because of this private equity, these machinations. | ||
| And that I think is what people need to understand. | ||
| What can we do about it? | ||
| If you have your money in these pension accounts, does that give you some leeway? | ||
| Can you actually influence this? | ||
| If you're a stakeholder of Michael's, I don't even know what their situation is, but could you try to stand up against private equity by using what little influence you have? | ||
| Like what can people do in our own lives to either separate away from this or try to combat this? | ||
| So we actually do have some things that we can do. | ||
| We have some power, especially in the 401k sector. | ||
| So immediately, I encourage every single American that has a 401k, I mean this minute. | ||
| I mean, don't wait for tomorrow. | ||
| Go find your fund manager's email and you want to send an email saying that under no circumstances do you authorize a single investment that would put your money in any fund that is investing in private equity, period. | ||
| Because that is one place we actually are allowed to very well documented, in a well-documented way, demonstrate and flex that we are not allowing it. | ||
| Now, pensions, you have a lot less control. | ||
| There's a board that oversees a pension. | ||
| Many times it's very political and a lot of them have predispositions towards private equity or away from private equity. | ||
| But when it comes to a 401k, you have all the control in the world, but you actually have to do it. | ||
| If you don't say it, if you're not explicit, if you don't put it in writing, they absolutely have the authority to invest your money any way they see fit. | ||
| And so I strongly encourage everybody to do that. | ||
| I also encourage all of you always, in the shoes you stand in, to go find the small mom and pop businesses that will still be standing when all of this falls because we've got to start lifting them up now and rebuilding American excellence. | ||
| 100%. | ||
| Just be conscious of where you're spending your money and where your money is being invested. | ||
| Don't let these people screw you over without even your knowledge. | ||
| Tiffany Sianci, amazing, as always. | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
| Follow her on X at TheVeenoMom. | ||
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