Dave Rubin analyzes President Trump's strategic friendship with Zorhan Mamdani, suggesting it aims to undermine the latter's base amidst accusations of fascism. The segment critiques Mamdani's shifting police stances, contrasts Marjorie Taylor Greene's resignation with Eric Swalwell's controversial California gubernatorial run, and exposes Afton Behn's cultural hostility in Tennessee. Rubin concludes by revealing X's discovery of thousands of foreign-based accounts manipulating American discourse, arguing this constitutes a massive intelligence operation fabricating a fake right-wing civil war online. [Automatically generated summary]
So if your calendar is just completely missing right now without me, I've just warned you.
There's a turkey coming.
You're going to be spending time with some family.
Probably got a crazy aunt who's going to say some loony shit.
It's all going to happen this week.
We are live today and tomorrow we'll be pre-taping our Wednesday show.
Then I have a little, just like a two-minute message for you on Thanksgiving.
We didn't want to drub you with politics and I hope, really, I hope everybody takes a little time this week to spend some time around family and friends and loved ones and enjoy themselves and truly to be thankful, right?
Like how about we extend it all week?
Let's just be thankful all week for this incredible country and all of the goodness and freedom that we still have that's constantly being hacked away at by bad people, many of whom we will talk about on the show today.
And sort of, I said this a couple times last week, but right now something in the news is just kind of thick.
There's just like a lot going on.
So it's a little bit of everything today's show, sort of as we've been doing the last couple days, a little about it.
Zorhan showing up to the White House, which happened on Friday.
Marjorie Taylor Green is retiring, although sort of announced to come back in her retirement.
Eric Swalmell, a man who once parted on MSNBC, will be running for governor of the communist country of California.
And then we're going to end on what actually I think is the biggest story that broke over the weekend, which is that X, formerly Twitter, they have now publicly added where accounts were created and where they are tweeting from.
And it turns out that there are literally thousands and thousands of major accounts with hundreds of thousands, if not millions of followers who are pretending to be American.
And they are often operating in a ton of them in Pakistan, in Saudi Arabia, in Bangladesh, all of these crazy places.
And we have been just so manipulated.
It's what I'm always saying about social media.
We thought it was a mirror and it turned out to be a funhouse mirror.
So we'll get into all of that and more.
But let's start with the communist visiting DC.
That's right, Moron Zamboni showed up at the White House on Friday and he and Trump had a little chat.
And then they had an extremely interesting press conference after everything about this, the optics of Trump sitting at the desk in the Oval Office with Mom Dami standing there, the overt smiles by Trump, the several times he touches him.
There was just an awful lot of subtext to it.
But here is Donald Trump saying that he's confident that Zorhan can do a good job and that may shock some people.
Okay, so there's a whole bunch here because the base reaction to that, if you have not seen that video before, you probably just reacted like my initial reaction was, which was kind of like disgust, right?
This guy is a communist.
He has called Trump a fascist a million times.
We know he is trying to import all of the bad ideas that all of our ancestors fled.
And it's deeply sad that the once great home of capitalism in America, New York City, could be going in that direction.
So that's sort of like what the immediate answer is.
Why is Trump smiling?
Why are they playing nice?
All of that stuff.
Now let's do the, I would say, slightly more thoughtful analysis, which first would be you keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
I think that's the main thing that Trump is doing there.
Okay, that's number one.
Number two, he's just playing politics.
Whether you like it or not, you are going to have to work with people who are pretty terrible.
And Zorhan may think that Trump's terrible and Trump may think he's terrible.
But at some point, you are going to have to work together, whether it's through funding issues or if there was a terror attack in New York, the financial system that still exists there, at least for now.
There's a lot of reasons.
So there's some of that.
But I think Trump was actually doing a little bit something deeper than all of that there, beyond just playing politics and trying to bring the guy in and all that.
I think what he was also trying to do was by being so friendly and smiling, we're going to show you a couple more videos.
He wanted that to kind of stick with Moron Zamboni, right?
All of Moron Zamboni's supporters think Trump is a fascist and is Nazi and is Hitler and all those things.
And again, those are his own words, calling him a fascist and everything else.
So by sitting there with Trump as Trump keeps touching him and smiling, and I think he's going to do a great job and I'm looking forward to working with him, it's actually putting a little stank on Zorhan with his own base.
So I think what Trump did right there was quite effective.
Then they did something even a little more effective, which is they had Jack Pasobic, they had the, you know, the press corps there, and they threw to Jack Pasobic, who's obviously a huge Trump supporter, big in MAGA world, to ask Zorhan over his stated plans to tax white neighborhoods more.
I want to know one of the policies as well that Mayor Lekmandami talked a number of times about on the campaign was shifting the tax burden for property taxes from what he called minority communities to white-based communities and putting more taxes on white people.
I also noticed that in your acceptance group, you didn't mention anything about America or Christians or white people in general.
And so I didn't know if that was one of the policies that you guys had spoken about.
Well, if you want people to think that all white people are rich so that brown people can be angry at them, I suppose you can do that.
But everything that this guy represents, yes, it is well packaged.
We've been through this already.
Like the suit fits, okay, fine.
He's got the smile, whatever.
Like, and that just works.
He's never actually accomplished anything.
He's never done anything.
He's never run a freaking shoe store or anything else or worked part-time at McDonald's as far as I know, which, by the way, is a perfectly honorable thing to do.
He is a child of privilege, the thing that his supporters hate the most.
But yes, he is, he does want to tax what he's calling white neighborhoods because he thinks all white people are rich.
He does want to tax them more.
Then it continued, and this is the main takeaway of the entire thing.
Here's Zorhan being asked if he thinks Trump is a fascist, something he has repeatedly said over the last year.
unidentified
Asked about your comment calling the president a fascist, and your answer was, both President Trump and I have been clear about our positions and our views.
Are you affirming that you think President Trump is a fascist?
In that press conference with President Trump, a reporter asked you whether you believe that President Trump is in fact a fascist, a word that you've used in the past.
You were about to answer.
Then President Trump sort of jumped in and he said, quote, that's okay.
You can just say yes.
It's easier than explaining it.
So Mr. Mayor-elect, just to be very clear, do you think that President Trump is a fascist?
And I think what I appreciated about the conversation that I had with the president was that we were not shy about the places of disagreement about the politics that has brought us to this moment.
There's something about it that's like, it's like purposely insulting.
Does that seem right to you guys?
Like, there's something about the way he's doing it.
Like, he's trying to be funny about asking you for money.
So he ran this entire thing on money doesn't really mean anything.
And we're going to take all the money from those people and we'll give you all this stuff for free.
And then with the music in the background and the quick jump cuts, it's actually, and maybe that's part of it.
I got to get someone on to study this.
Maybe we need like a linguistic expert or something or a video editing and somebody.
Like there's something about it.
Like it's so, it's all like kind of a throwaway.
Like now I'm being cute.
Now I'm just being cute because I need money because now you morons elected me.
So I'm going to have to partly tell you the truth, but at least we'll do it with jump cuts.
Good luck, New York.
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Okay, so what's going on politically besides the Marxist meeting the fascist?
Well, Marjorie Taylor Greene has announced that she is stepping away from Congress.
This woman has got more drama than a bravo show in Sweeps Week.
Listen to this from headline, this from Fox.
Marjorie Taylor Greene announces resignation from Congress after President Trump withdraws endorsement.
President Trump called Green a ranting lunatic in a truth social post dropped last week.
Now, I don't pat myself on the back that often, do I?
But I will for this moment, because what did I say last week when the whole thing was going on and everyone was like, she's fighting with Trump over Epstein and blah, blah, blah?
I said, I think what they're actually fighting over is that he's looking at some numbers and it doesn't look like a Senate run or a governor run is going to work for her in Georgia.
So that's what they're really fighting about because he's probably not going to back her.
Anyway, they have the fight and now she's just stepping away from Congress altogether.
Listen to this from Leading Report.
Breaking Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene fires back at President Trump for calling her a traitor.
I was called a traitor by a man that I fought for for six years.
I gave him my loyalty for free.
He called me a traitor for standing with these women and refusing to take my name off the discharge petition.
Let me tell you what a traitor is.
A traitor is an American that serves foreign countries and themselves.
Okay, so it's a pretty damning statement.
Again, the implication is that Trump is serving foreign countries and that he's serving himself as he's fixing the country.
And I don't want to waste time going through the 10 months of great things that he's been doing.
But also that she says, what did she say?
She did it selflessly.
She did it right.
What was the exact line?
Selflessly, is that the word that she said?
Selflessly on there.
It's like, lady, I'm pretty sure you got pretty famous and I'm pretty sure you got a lot of notoriety and everything for writing Trump's coattails.
Now, for whatever reason, politically or you see the tea leaves changing or you see frustration with MAGA or whatever, you're moving on.
Like it's just, that's how politics works.
That is what it is.
So we're going to show you a portion of her resignation speech where she sort of announced if they don't go the way she wants them to go after her, she's going to come back, which is strange to announce the retirement and the comeback in one shot, but okay.
My only goal and desire has ever been to hold the Republican Party accountable for the promises it makes to the American people and put America first.
I have too much self-respect and dignity.
I love my family way too much.
And I do not want my sweet district to have to endure a hurtful and hateful primary against me by the president that we all fought for, only to fight and win my election while Republicans will likely lose the midterms and in turn be expected to defend the president.
So you're not going to run because it's going to be tough.
I mean, that's basically what she just said right there.
I'm not going to put my district through a tough race.
What is politics?
What have you been doing all these years, right?
You've been fighting with everybody.
And I get it.
And I try, as I said last week, I'm not going to do it every day this week.
The giving the devil his do thing.
Like she's trying to have a little bit of a mea culpa around, oh, I've been kind of mean.
But what are you saying?
If this is the fight of everything and you're, this is the most important thing, you just don't, like if you really care about the people of your district, you, and you think you're the best to fight everything, like, why wouldn't you be fighting right now?
Which again, I think that's probably more proof that she just doesn't think she can win in her own district.
I refuse to be a battered wife, hoping it all goes away and gets better.
If I am cast aside by the president and the MA political machine and replaced by neocons, big pharma, big tech, military-industrial war complex, foreign leaders, and the elite donor class that can never ever relate to real Americans, then many common Americans have been cast aside and replaced as well.
There is no plan to save the world or a 4D chess game being played.
When common American people realize and understand that the political-industrial complex of both parties is ripping this country apart, that not one elected leader like me is able to stop Washington's machine from gradually destroying our country.
And instead, the reality is that they, common Americans, the people, possess the real power over Washington.
Then I'll be here by their side to rebuild it.
I'll be resigning from office with my last day being January 5th, 2026.
And I look forward to seeing many of you again sometime in the future.
I got to say, guys, I know she's kind of smiling in that and she's saying things that sort of directionally sound right, but something, something does not seem right here.
If you believed any of that, you've been a fighter all your life.
Why would you not continue fighting now?
But if so, the machine that's so evil, that's kicking me out, if that machine replaces me with someone that the machine likes, then I'll get back in and fight again.
It actually makes no sense.
And then this thing that everyone seems to be doing, like just to list off all of these things.
So it's the neocons and big pharma and foreign donors and elites and all of those things.
Well, lady, to whatever extent any of that is true, how do you think stepping away now and coming back after they've strengthened themselves is any better?
I just genuinely don't understand it.
Here's Trump on Truth Social.
Marjorie Trader Brown, because of plummeting poll numbers and not wanting to face a primary challenge with a strong Trump endorsement where she would have no chance of winning, has decided to call it quits.
Her relationship with the worst Republican congressman in decades, Tom Massey of Kentucky, also known as Rand Paul Jr., because he votes against the Republican Party in really good legislation, did not help her.
For some reason, primarily that I refused to return her never-ending barrage of phone calls, Marjorie went bad.
Nevertheless, I will appreciate Marjorie and thank her for her service to our country, President DJT.
And then because so much of this is KFAB, right?
I'm always telling you guys about K-Fabe.
This is the concept in WWE wrestling where it's like we're watching a staged reality, but we're all kind of in a story and this one turns on this one and this guy disappears for two years and then makes a comeback and now hates the guy he used to love.
And the two guys who used to love each other now hate this guy and Jake the Snake Roberts and everything else.
Here's Trump already saying that he would be willing to make up with Marjorie Taylor Greene.
unidentified
I'm fired with Elon Musk, and you guys were able to work it out.
No, I get along with everybody.
We see the same thing happening between you and Trump.
I think it's the same thing that he's sort of doing with Mamdani.
Yo, you said horrible things about me.
I'll be nice to you now.
We'll fight later.
So Trump, there's nobody that is better at this sort of thing than Trump, right?
Playing the game.
Now, particularly interesting to this, because you may not care.
Okay, so Marjorie Taylor Greene, I get it.
She's been like in the media a lot.
You may not particularly care about her outside of her district in Georgia.
However, the margins right now in the House are so slim that this actually is important.
So listen to this.
The budget resolution, the thing that we just passed that opened the government passed 217 to 215 with Massey as the GOP no.
And then what that shows you is that if basically one other person defects from the Republican Party, they're in super trouble.
So meaning they have a very slim majority.
You're potentially losing her seat now.
Massey votes both ways, right?
So he doesn't always vote with the Republicans.
He has his reasons as a libertarian.
But this basically could throw the House up.
Think how much, so with a razor-thin margin of one or two votes, think how much power that puts in the hand of just some random congressman in the middle of nowhere if you want to just get some notoriety and stop Trump right now for whatever the next piece of legislation that comes on down the down the pike.
So there is something, there is something deeply important to the politics of the day here.
Thought we'd throw back to that Trump in the Burgundy scarf thing.
People are really into that.
It's a good look for him.
You know what I mean?
He says, I'm a man.
I wear a scarf, but it's not a pink scarf.
I'm still a president, for God's sakes.
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There's a place about 3,000 miles that way from here called California.
It was once the dream of America, right?
It was once, not only because of its natural beauty, but because you had to, Americans, we like to, we like adventure, right?
We like exploring.
We like finding new things.
And we started, most of us, because Europe's across the Atlantic, we started on the East Coast.
And then Americans kept moving west and west and west, right?
And we built this incredible place called California.
And unfortunately, over the last 10 years, largely because of one man, Gavin Newsom, it has turned into what was once the American dream.
In many ways, you could argue it's the American nightmare.
It's giant government.
It's high taxes.
It's high regulation.
All of the COVID stuff.
It has pushed literally over a million people out in the last four years who want to escape for various reasons.
Or someone like Elon Musk, who's taken several companies out of Cali, moved them to Texas, and then Gavin actually applauds when he gets rid of someone like that and doesn't worry where the tax money is going to come from for some reason, even though that's what he needs for all his crazy pet projects.
Well, if you thought it was bad under Gavin Newsom, it could get worse because Eric Swalwell, a man who slept with a Chinese spy named Fang Fang.
Yes, that is true.
He also farted on television while he was talking to Chris Matthews.
Here he is on Jimmy Kimball because it's all theater, announcing that he's running for governor.
And our state, this great state, needs a fighter and a protector, someone who will bring prices down, lift wages up.
And we can say that we're the fourth largest economy in the world, and we are.
And I love to brag about that.
But what does that mean if you can't afford to live here?
So I've been in these fights as a city council member up in Dublin, my hometown, as a prosecutor in Oakland, and taking on the most corrupt president ever in the U.S. Congress.
But I'm ready to bring this fight home.
So I came here tonight, Jimmy, to tell you and your audience that I'm running to be the next governor of California.
Wish it was like old school Johnny Carson and then just a pie got thrown into his face as he said that.
That would have been great.
Swalwell, all of the frustrations you have with California are because of your party.
You have a super majority over there.
If you're upset that people can't afford things in California, it's partly at least because of you.
And by the way, it's also who was the president for the last four years?
Trump's only been in office for 10 months.
The last four years, it was, well, it was, we don't know who it was exactly.
There was the old man, there was a pen, there was a crazy lady.
But the point is, it was your guys that did all of this stuff.
So now you're going to run.
And it's like, all right, yeah, you were a congressman.
You were a lawyer in Oakland.
Oakland's just an epicenter of loveliness.
Just absolutely awful.
And this guy, he's just nothing, right?
I have Joseph checking right now.
Like, has the guy done anything?
Did he do anything in life?
Did he?
Two bills passed in 2013.
He passed two bills in 2013.
Like, again, it's in some sense, it's like the mom dami thing.
And by the way, Eric Swalwell, you may remember, he ran when Kamala was running and Joe Biden was running, when they actually had a primary a couple election cycles ago.
He ran for president.
They let him in one debate.
He polled at zero and left.
Like nobody likes the guy.
Good luck, Callie.
Like, I don't care.
I got my own problems.
Here he is also telling us that he would like people to be able to vote by phone because that sounds great.
If we can do our taxes, do our, you know, our, make our health care appointments, you know, make essentially your, do your banking online, you should be able to vote by phone.
Make it safe, make it secure, but it's actually already happening.
all over the United States.
I want us to be a blue state that doesn't do just a little bit better than like Georgia or Alabama when it comes to like voting access.
I want us to max out democracy.
Also, as it relates to democracy, if you wait in line for 30 minutes or more, if you do want to vote in person, I think you should fine every county for every minute that a person has to wait longer.
I said a pie before, but a frying pan would be fine too.
He said that multiple, what was that, multiple counties vote by phone?
We just checked.
Zero.
Nobody votes by phone.
I mean, think about, we already have a problem in that places like California don't ask to see your ID when you vote.
They ask your name and your address.
So literally, and I remember this when I lived there, when I would go vote, one time I actually showed them my ID and the guy kind of freaked out, right?
And he goes, Dave, I don't need to see it.
He actually knew who I was.
But like, think about that.
They don't want to see your ID.
So if you know your neighbor's name and you know your neighbor's address, you can literally just walk in and vote as your neighbor.
So neighbor, so you now want this to be on the phone?
Well, hi.
I'm Jim Henson.
I don't know why that was the name that popped into my mind, but it's like, cause they're all Muppets.
That's why I think.
Ron DeSantis, a man here in Florida who's cleaned up this place, got something great going here.
He put this out on the Twitter machine when he saw that video clip.
Vote voting by phone?
No.
How ridiculous.
Yeah.
And again, guys, it's like decline is a choice.
Like you can choose it or not.
Also, farting is often a choice, sometimes involuntary, though.
That's, well, it's a side story in a printout day.
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Republicans decided that they're going to start this narrative that me, the state representative who represents downtown Nashville, doesn't like the city because I hate the city.
unidentified
I hate the Bachelorettes.
I hate the pedal taverns.
I hate country music.
I hate all of the things that make Nashville barely.
We all get annoyed with tourists, but that doesn't mean I love my city.
Like even in her apology, even her fake apology tour, she can't even get it right.
Like, what is going on over there?
Please, people.
I also want to say that one of the best gigs that I ever did, I mean, top three, I'd say the top one probably was the Sydney Opera House with Jordan Peterson a couple years ago.
But one of the second ones, second or third, was the Grand Old Opry in Nashville to be in that room and perform there, live, sold-out crowd.
The acoustics were amazing.
The Dolly Parton green room, like it was awesome, absolutely awesome.
Anyway, here's a bit more as MSNBC even blindsided this lady with some of her old tweets.
She's asking you your opinions about things that you might be creating legislation around.
I mean, it's just perfect.
She hates country music.
She can't remember her own tweets.
Like, how is this happening?
Like, get it together, Tennessee, Nashville.
Come on, we're all rooting for you.
And also, by the way, apparently now, as of November 15th, you're telling me, it is officially MS Now.
It's not MSNBC anymore.
So we're going to have to, that's going to take a little while to get in my brain properly.
But you know, if MS Freaking Now or NBC or MSN Retard, whatever it is, if they're going after you as a Democrat, like you might want to think about what's going on here.
But the Democrats aren't wacky, Phoenix, roll for me, would you?
They are a bit wacky.
And here, we played this for you last week.
Several Democrats did one of those videos where they just all say something directly to the camera and it looks like they're all about to cry.
So then you start going, oh my God, they must be saying something true, where they were all telling their, they were telling current members of the military to ignore Trump's illegal orders.
And as I said during when we played it last week, they never said what the illegal orders are, which I thought was rather interesting.
Well, anyway, here's a little of the video and then we'll show you some of the fallout.
Well, then why'd you shoot that commercial, you dumb broad?
Like, what are you doing?
What are you doing?
You put up that video saying, telling them to step away, right?
They're the ones that are going to pay the price, not you, for doing illegal things or for Donald Trump doing illegal things.
And now you cannot think of any of them.
And to connect this to Nuremberg, which was so disgusting, you know, the argument in Nuremberg during the post-World War II trials was that many of the Nazis said, well, I was just following orders, right?
And that, and then Nuremberg basically said, well, that doesn't count.
That doesn't count.
If you do horrible things, you know, you're going to pay the price for it.
Not just, oh, it came all the way down the chain, so I did horrible things, right?
So that she's invoking that and then can't even tell you.
Donald Trump didn't say go kill a citizen, which is what Hitler was doing.
That was what the Nuremberg trials were about.
However, Trump's not taking this one lying down.
He retweeted this from just a random account, a guy by the name of Jim Moran.
He wrote, go get all those traitorous sons of bitches for sedition.
At the very least, those pompous, traitorous communists should be impeached and prosecuted.
So Trump definitely not tamping this one down.
It's getting a little hot in here as they see.
What's that video?
It's getting hot in here.
It's getting by Nelly.
Hey, I'm not a fan, but you know, it was hot in the room and he wanted it to cool off.
Oberon MSN now, they don't cool anything off.
So here they are celebrating that ICE vehicles are getting their tires slashed.
It is dangerous behavior, but it is a demonstration that the American public, when they're not being listened to, these are the options that they'll take.
I hope this administration listens and pulls back these ICE raids.
And then it just makes you wonder, like the guy's a school official.
Like, what are they teaching the kids and everything else?
And then some weirdness.
I mean, you know, this is related to doxing and, you know, just threatening neighbors and just everyone kind of being on edge, which is a damn shame.
As I said, this is Thanksgiving week.
We should all be so thankful for this country right now.
But apparently in Ukapia, Texas, Yucapi, California, actually, leftists are terrorizing random people by sending them rather disturbing Christmas cards.
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On the outside, they look like normal Christmas cards, but on the inside, troubling messages.
What is this?
Several of these cards and notes were left at the doorsteps of homes in a quiet Ucaipa neighborhood Monday night, leaving residents on edge.
I pick it up, open it, and it reads, Santa, I want the head of a Nazi under my tree.
And then I was like, whoa.
One after another, each card and note carrying violent and threatening messages.
They're trying to like cause chaos or something before the holidays and really scare people.
And I'm telling you right now, when it gets to politics at the Thanksgiving table, which one way or another, it always ends up there somehow, as much as you try not to do it.
But when your crazy aunt Karen is babbling on about whatever, I want you to tell her about this story because we are being manipulated in so many crazy ways.
It's not just a Christmas card showing up saying the Trump's a Nazi.
There has been an absolute foreign intelligence operation hitting us across the board.
And much of it has just been exposed this past weekend.
This is from Mike Solana over at Pirate Wires.
X just released a major profile update revealing the location of every user on the platform, triggering chaos among foreign rage farmers and slot peddlers LARPing as American, the massive ranks of which have apparently shaped our culture for years.
Okay, so we're going to show you a bunch of examples of this in just a second.
But I tweeted something that I think we read on the show last week that we just have no way to know how we've been manipulated.
You know, when Elon took over X, we got the X files, right?
Or the X Files, they called them the Twitter files, I guess, at the time.
They really were kind of like the X Files now that I think about it.
And we found out that under the hood, I mean, I went there myself and I sat with engineers and I saw the way the entire system worked.
And the entire thing was based on shadow banning and how to make sure if you tweet at this person, that person won't see it.
It was a crazy, crazy system.
Okay.
We found out about that, but we didn't find out about what about the YouTube files?
What about the Facebook files?
Like, what have all these other companies been doing?
The other thing that's happened over the years, and if you, for those of you that are on these things for years, like you can start seeing the rhythms of it.
Six years ago, let's say when bots really got activated, they were all kind of obvious because it was like cut and paste things and it was like the same kind of profile picture.
And it was, you know, the name would be like Alex, 1496824239642.
And it was kind of obvious.
But over the last two or three years, the bots have gotten much more sophisticated.
And you really can't tell when they're real people or not.
But what really has happened on X, and this has been particularly in the last two years, I would say post-October 7th, is that these massive accounts appear out of nowhere.
They seem like they're American and they tweet about American news all the time and they're extremely hostile.
Like they're very focused usually on breaking us apart.
And something very weird has been happening.
It has been obvious.
So now it is coming out because X decided to release where the accounts were created and where they're downloading the Twitter, the X app.
And suddenly we are finding out that massive accounts with hundreds of thousands of followers are not American at all.
So let's just, we can just run through some of these.
I don't have to read all of the stuff.
But these are, whether you know these accounts or not, these are huge accounts that most people think are American that have been shaping our discourse.
Suppressed news right there, which comes from North Africa.
There you've got Conscious Philosopher, which is always telling people about the better way America used to be.
That's from Serbia.
Clash report.
Sounds like it could be on, you know, Newsmax.
It's from Turkey.
We can keep going here.
Israel exposed.
This is one of the huge ones that constantly lies about Israel.
Well, that's from, I can't believe it, Saudi Arabia.
Jeffrey Epstein is an account from Norway.
Shocker, you want to keep going here?
I mean, we got a whole bunch of these.
These, there's a ton of these.
So there are these people that pretend they are from Gaza and they've been like live tweeting the war, you know, even though we told they had no food and no electricity.
So here's Mahmood in Gaza.
All I hear now is F-35's an intense bomb south.
Turns out he's in Poland.
So unless Israel was bombing Poland, that guy was a complete liar.
Then there's a couple other accounts that say they are from the U.S., but they're using a VPN.
Now, I understand people use VPNs for all sorts of reasons.
But as a little bit of subtext of what's going on here, the Fuentes update accounts, Red Pill Media are using these VPNs.
So it doesn't, and you can tell if people use a VPN if they have an exclamation point in their location.
So it's just very, very interesting.
And this I thought was particularly interesting.
This is from Jefferson Kulak on the X. About half of Nick Fuente's top 20 followers connected via overseas accounts.
That's billing and app store access access.
So think about that.
We've been talking over the last couple of weeks about this kid, Nick Fuentes, who Tucker put on, and Tucker could put whoever the hell he wants to put on his show.
But this is a kid who's on Team Hitler, who loves Stalin, who every time you tweet, his people bombard you.
If they don't like you, they bombard you with the most evil, noxious stuff you could possibly imagine.
Turns out half of the big accounts that follow him are foreign.
So we have been manipulated in crazily, crazily effective ways by bad actors.
I put this up yesterday and it caught fire.
This is an absolutely massive story of foreign ops shaping our political and cultural discourse.
Will mainstream media even cover it?
Will the set of influencers who fell for it look in the mirror?
Stay tuned.
Now, I'll do the latter part first.
Will the set of influencers who have been buying this?
Like you can get a shit ton of clicks by going to conspiracy theories, by doing things that will burn down America, by making everybody hate everybody.
It's all the reverse of what I do on this show, right?
And I'm not saying I've never fallen prey to some of the behaviors of X and said things that are crazy and everything else.
None of us are perfect, of course.
But there's been a certain set of people that particularly for the last two years were getting crazy amounts of retweets, crazy amounts of likes, were sharing accounts that they thought were from America and they weren't.
That's deeply, deeply interesting.
And we better start unpacking and understanding that.
And then I think the previous point is the important one.
Is mainstream media even going to cover this, right?
We always talk about there's a huge chasm between what mainstream media covers and what online media covers.
Mainstream media might be interested in this story.
And if they aren't, we should think about that.
So we will see in the next day or two.
I thought this was quite good from Insurrection Barbie on X.
It was all astro-turfed.
The whole MAGA civil war was astro-turfed.
It consists of some libertarians who shock of shocks are isolationists and people who are not in America.
That's why polling on the Iran strike came back in Trump's favor.
I never get tired of being right.
So you get what she's saying there.
So this is, this is, and I think this is right.
I think we read you a poll last week that showed that the thing that Trump was polling highest on was the Iran op.
Something like 80% of Republicans were supportive of that.
But if you go online, it seems like everybody's an isolationist and everybody hates Israel and everybody hates America doing anything in the world.
And now we find out it's a couple influencers, like it's like the Tucker Fuentes class being fed in by bots and foreign agents and everything else.
So this is an unbelievably massive story.
And to whatever extent over the last couple of weeks, I've been talking about this right-wing civil war.
One of the things I've been thinking about a lot privately, I've been thinking about a lot and sort of trying to connect that to what goes on in my life is how much of this is leaking into the real world.
And it's very hard to tell.
And when I go out and I play basketball with my guys or I meet people in the stores, like I think most, most, I don't know one Trump supporter that has abandoned Trump.
I don't know anyone that thinks he's suddenly evil and compromised and everything else.
Maybe you want some things to happen faster.
Maybe you're not sure about every decision.
But if you go online, the hate that has been manufactured there to Trump and MAGA, now we're finding out.
Again, it was like a very specific set of libertarians that don't like him.
That's the Thomas Massey version of it, right?
And that's why Trump doesn't like him.
And then it was just astro-turfed by foreign actors.
And that is profoundly amazing.
But I didn't want to end on that.
And we will definitely be covering that story more.
So I did want to end with this, in case you didn't see it over the weekend.
We put up an interview that I largely was able to do without talking about politics.
But I had Cheryl Hines on.
And for those of you that watch Kirby Enthusiasm, she played Sheryl David, Larry's wife.
They did it.
The show took, it wasn't 24 seasons.
How many seasons did they have?
I'm going to guess around 14 or so, something like that.
But it was the course of 24 years because they took some years off.
We'll get the number on the seasons.
Oh, she's a great actress.
And she also, as you probably know, 12 seasons over the course of 24 years.
She is married to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
So, you know, we've played a couple clips of her over the last few weeks as she's gone on this book tour, which is mostly to talk about Kirby or enthusiasm in her acting career.
She suddenly ends up on The View and she ends up on these other shows and they're attacking her over politics.
So I asked her what it's been like for her as she's evolved and as she's gone on this journey with Bobby to come from liberal, lefty Democrat Hollywood and then meet all of these scary Republicans.
You know, you're a Hollywood person.
So now suddenly you're kind of welcomed in these right-wing circles and that it was surprising for you to find that these people were kind of nice and kind.
And I went through a version of that myself 10 years ago when I was kind of evolving.
And are you still kind of surprised by it that these conservatives are usually pretty kind of nice and open-minded and tolerant and decent and all that stuff?
I mean, that being said, I don't know what I was expecting.
I guess I was expecting, you know, the flip side of what I'm experiencing with maybe the left, because the left, some people are very emotional and upset.
And then my experience with the right has been, they have been accepting and warm.
So the reason I wanted to end that and connect that to the previous segment about the bots and everything else is that if you go online, particularly over the last couple of weeks, it has seemed that there has been this massive right-wing civil war and MAGA's falling apart and all of this stuff.
And I've desperately tried not to feed into that.
I try to criticize things and people as in like sort of in their own little box and not add fuel to the fire all the time and everything else.
And it turns out now we have the evidence that much of it was fake.
But what is real?
It's what Cheryl said right there, because it's what I went through.
And I have no doubt, I mean, I know this for sure.
It's what many of you have gone through as you've evolved politically, as you woke up because of COVID or as you woke up because of identity politics and you were kind of just like a default moderate liberal.
You suddenly found a home on the right.
And the right has something that is deep and rich that is a wide tent right now.
And that is what Trump has been doing.
So that people like her and Bobby Kennedy are now on the right.
I know right left doesn't mean anything in some sense anymore.
Like that a whole bunch of us that are willing to agree to disagree and just be kind and love each other and be part of a really the America that the founders wanted, we have a home right now.
And it's not the home that's being astro-turfed and destroyed by sort of opportunists and grifters and foreign actors.
And you've got to figure out which home you want to be in, which home I want to be in.
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