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Remember, I told you that Apple had this uh great new feature for their their AirPods, and it would allow you to put them in and it would translate um several different mostly Europe, I guess, European languages, and it would do it sort of instantly.
Well, the only place you're not going to be allowed to do that would be in Europe, where they speak English, French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese, the very languages that are translated, and it looks like, according to Politico, that it's Apple pushing back against the the uh the newish digital markets act in Europe that is sort of punishing for the big tech companies.
And Apple's decided that Europe can't have nice things.
I kind of like that.
It's not like a a hard pushback.
It's just telling them, hey, we just spent like a hundred million dollars developing this feature that is primarily useful for Europe and Europeans, and uh you can't have it, it's just not available to you.
Now I assume, but I don't know.
Hmm, yeah, I don't know, but I would assume that if you were an American and you were traveling to Europe, you could get the app in America and it would work in Europe.
I don't know about that, but I'm guessing it might.
And uh I I like I like that little subtle, you know, you don't want to go too hard at governments because they can pay you back in a bad way, but you want to push back.
It's like, uh, well, you know, if you were in America and you had more reasonable digital laws, look what you could have.
But sorry.
Well, we've learned more about Tyler Robinson, the uh murderer of Charlie Kirk.
And uh I think we all had the same kind of experience yesterday when I saw the news that the uh that he lived with a trans partner.
I said to myself, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, okay.
All right, got it.
Because, and uh, I don't know if I you can tell me if I told you this.
I don't think I said it live, but I thought it really hard.
As soon as the news broke about Charlie's murder, I uh I just leapt to the unfair, biased, totally you know, bigoted first impression that oh no, it was some radicalized trans who shot him.
Then I found out that it's Tyler Robinson who's not trans, and I thought, oh, oh my god, I'm a terrible person.
I didn't realize How bad a person I was that I made this like crazy left field assumption.
You know, it was just sort of a I felt I picked up some kind of pattern in the universe.
And I thought, oh, I am I'm a piece of garbage for assuming this about an entire you know demographic group blaming them when there's no evidence whatsoever.
No, the shooter was not trans.
It was only the boyfriend of a trans.
And as you know, completely different.
Is it?
Well, we don't know if he was planning to be trans, some people said, but I don't really understand how that would work, because if his trans partner liked him the way he was, would the trans partners still like him if he turned into something like the trans partner?
I don't know how that works.
That doesn't seem like it would work.
So I suspect he was not planning to transition, but I don't know.
Um the reason I assumed it was trans is that I wasn't aware of anything else that was creating that level of hatred.
And then on top of that, there are I think half a dozen notable uh trans shooting uh public shootings.
About I think they're about half a dozen now, just in the past, I don't know, couple years.
That's what Mike Benn said.
He listed them all out, so you could you can check with him.
And uh Mike Benz was wondering, you know, is there something in the water?
What exactly is making this specific demographic um be a little bit more murdery than you would expect for their small numbers?
And that's a really good question.
Some people are going to say it's um the the chemicals in their body, um, even though this guy wasn't trans.
Uh, it's still an interesting question why so many of them are involved in one way or the other.
The other possibility is that if you're the kind of person who can you know transition, you probably have a feeling about the rules of society, meaning that maybe you don't respect them as much because you think, you know what?
Society's rules says I have to be this, but I'm pretty sure I'm this other thing, so I'm going to transition.
So it could be that what's happening is that the trans effect is becoming a filter for people who are already inclined not to follow all of society's rules.
And one of those rules might be don't shoot people.
So that might be the only coordination.
So it's either, I'm guessing it's either something chemical that has to do with the transition or something like SSRIs or something like that.
But remember, trans doesn't apply to the shooter.
So we're we're a little off topic talking about that.
It's related though.
So I posted uh was it this morning?
Last night, I guess.
Um, I posted the following.
And it got, as of this morning, I think he had four million views.
Now, on the size of my account, uh, a pretty good tweet or a pretty good post where people thought, yeah, I agree with that.
I might get 80,000 views.
I got four million on this one.
So that's sort of a big deal.
It's a real indication of where people's minds are.
And this was the post.
I said the clerking has begun.
All that energy has to go somewhere.
The great machine is booting up.
That's all I said.
And people were left to themselves to figure out what the great machine was.
Probably some people thought it was God.
Some people thought it was the MAGA, some people thought it was Republicans.
I don't know what they thought.
But uh, I'll tell you what it is in a moment.
But uh it did seem to me that Charlie uh Kirk was uh controlling and creating a tremendous amount of energy during his life.
And I think a lot of us were surprised at how much it was.
Um, if he weren't paying attention to that domain pretty closely, you wouldn't know that he might be the reason that Trump got elected.
I And I feel like there are lots of reasons.
It's not one reason.
But I don't think he could have been elected without Charlie Kirk.
Charlie Kirk also probably was advising people and doing things, and you know, the colleges are all moving to the right.
It's really hard to underestimate or overestimate how big his impact was.
I was a little bit unaware, but I was catching on right before he went.
Now, believe it or not, I forget if I told you this.
Um, uh, prior to his assassination, I had been preparing um a segment for my show here, in which I was going to tell you, you know, if you haven't noticed, this Charlie Kirk thing is way bigger than you think.
And I was going to talk about his talent stack, because his talent stack, you know, his combination of specific talents, was really well created by him.
So he didn't uh graduate college, but he's apparently fantastically well read, which I imagine he probably does in all those as many, you know, plane flights, but he doesn't waste his time.
Apparently, he didn't.
He he would read, you know, important historical, contextual, sometimes religious things.
So he was really, really able to do these debates.
So he was super well-informed.
That's the first talent.
He also had incredible communication skills, and he had um he had the religious background on top of it, and then he had all the networking skills.
I mean, amazing networking skills.
On top of that, he had charisma.
I mean, these are a lot of talents, some of them natural, and some of them he developed, but it's not an accident that he had that much impact.
Um he was a guy who put together his talents really smartly, and that's what I was noticing.
I was just noticing it maybe two weeks ago, and I thought, man, I'm gonna do a whole thing where I tell you he's gonna be your next president.
Do you know how many people were having that same thought at around the same time?
Not next president, but future president.
A lot of it turns out a lot of people are now admitting that they had recently had the same thought.
This guy's gonna be president someday.
And so we felt it before he was assassinated.
You could feel his rise, and you didn't know what the limit of that was.
It didn't look like it was limited at all.
And so I think that much energy has been released.
And uh when I talk about the great machine, this is what I'm talking about, the mega slash conservative machine.
You have probably noticed that the Democrats seem somewhat um spookily organized, often in ways that we don't know because it's a hidden organizational structure.
You know, the billionaires funding things that go into these dark NGOs that some of it comes back to the politicians, and you know, it's hard to it's hard to see the gears of the machine, but thanks to people like Mike Benz and and others, we're now seeing the gears.
So we understand the Democrat machine, and it is corrupt and vile and broken, but it had a good run.
Now it's run is probably reaching an end.
The MAGA slash conservative Republican machine, which some would say those are three different things, probably you can't put them in the same category.
Today you can.
Yeah, today you can, because there is now a common mission, and there are some things that we've all decided, not preferred, decided.
And watching the the gigantic mega Republican conservative machine come online, it was like it just booted up, and it it was it had everything it needed except Fuel.
And Charlie just fueled it up.
So you're seeing this tremendous somewhat coordinated machine coming online.
And we don't know how powerful this is, but I'll say a few things.
I do think that the people on the right, let's collectively call it all those groups of people on the right.
I believe they all had the same feeling when they saw the news about Charlie.
What can I do?
What can I do?
Many of them are going to church today.
Apparently, a whole bunch of people said, you know, I haven't been to church in a long time.
I'm going.
That's big.
I mean, that's big.
Um, we're finding that people in other countries are weighing in.
I didn't realize that his reach was international.
How many of you knew that?
There are people in all kinds of countries saying that they were affected personally and deeply by it.
It's hard for me to imagine somebody being assassinated in another country that I would have like a personal feeling about.
But people are having this about Charlie.
And people like me, I've seen a whole bunch of people who are, I'll say in my category, which is somebody who's involved in politics but didn't know him at all, had never met him.
We only know him from his public work.
we felt this personally.
I haven't quite had that experience before.
I mean, certainly, you know, there are deaths that make me unhappy and sad and maybe angry and stuff, but it never felt personal before.
A lot of people are taking this personally, and I think that's why that's activating.
And, One of the things that people are doing is they're trying to figure out who to listen to.
Who do you listen to?
And who do you follow?
And who is taking leadership?
Well, the wonderful and beautiful thing about the political right is that it looks for leaders.
I don't know what the Democrats do.
But on the right, people look for leaders when they need it.
And it might be a different leader, it might be a collection of leader, it might be a handful, it might be a thousand.
But they look for the leaders.
The reason my traffic on X is through the roof is You know, my normal 80,000 views is now a million, you know, four million.
Um that's because a lot of you said, before I act, I'm gonna see what some people I trust say about it first.
And so you checked in with me.
That's why my views are through the roof.
People said, All right, gotta figure out what people are saying.
Not just me.
I mean, I'm not in charge of anything, but you know that they looked at probably 20 different people who they knew would have a take that might influence how they say things, maybe a reframe, maybe some inspiration, maybe something to make you feel better.
And you know that I know that you're gonna be looking at me as you know, one of the people, not the only person.
So I have an automatic responsibility to lift my game and to fill that role.
So it's like leadership, but it's almost it's it's sort of not my it's not my doing.
It's sort of like people put you in that position, then you go, oh, I guess I'm in this position.
Let me try to be useful.
You've seen that Elon gets more involved.
You've seen that uh some of your favorite uh persuaders, I always mention Cernovich, for example, have dedicated themselves to all right, we're gonna do something about this.
This can't stand.
We're we gotta fix a lot, and we're we're no longer just talking, we're past the talking stage.
I do not believe, in case you're worried, that we're anywhere near something like a civil war.
I keep hearing people talk about it.
No, we're not.
No, we're not, we're nowhere near it.
There, you know, there's always violence, but no, no, there's no civil war.
It's just not gonna happen.
Uh, we're we're nowhere close.
Did you know?
I I came up with this term Kirking because it's hard to capture all the things that are happening.
But there's something about Kirk and the situation and his life and the way he led it that is unleashing tremendous amount of energy, which I'm hoping is positive.
It looks like it.
It looks like positive energy.
But did you know that Kirking is Scottish for going to church?
And that Kirk might actually be derived from the word church.
Did you know that?
well now you do wall street journal was writing about the international impact um So it galvanized a bunch of right wing people in other countries.
So other countries are using him as a rallying cry.
Sorry, I gotta put my thumb down.
I can turn that off somehow.
There's a menu option I was told.
All right, I'll go look for that later.
Um apparently a day after uh Kirk was killed, uh there's an event at a UN what the European Parliament erupted in shouts and despounding after conservative members were denied a moment of silence to honor him.
So this is global.
Um I did not see that coming.
I saw an article by John Nolte in uh Breitbart.
Uh, that is so well written.
I wish, you know, I'd love to read you the whole piece, but I'll just recommend it.
I'll just read a few passages and you'll get the idea.
Um it has to do with when I get when I talk about the great machine coming online.
It's because I have a system view of things.
You know, I don't look at what the one person is doing or the one goal or the one objective.
Uh I look at the system.
I look at all the stuff and see if it's moving in one direction.
And uh that feels to me what uh Nolte came up with.
So let me just read a few pieces from him.
He said uh he said uh about how people are reacting to it.
You said uh several points.
He said we understood what a change forever and why.
We mobilized, we've prepared for action.
We instinctively knew what uh that action would be.
So this is what I'm talking about.
The machine is self-organizing and coming online.
We knew we had the power to take that action, yes.
Um we took that action and are doing so effectively.
Yes.
We share an unprecedented resolve.
I've never seen this before.
Looks unprecedented to me.
And we're in it for the long term, forever if needed.
It feels like it.
This doesn't feel like today's flavor.
That this feels like Charlie's with us forever.
He's becoming a part of us.
And this is more from Nolte from Breibart.
He goes, and here's the healthiest part of what's happening.
No one is standing around helplessly complaining about how the regime media aren't fair.
Right?
No one's crybabying about media bias, no one's wringing their hands that the media aren't doing to the left what they always do to us.
Instead, based entirely on group instinct, we instantly understood that it was up to us to hold accountable those who celebrate Charlie Kirk's murder and those on the organized left, Democrats, Media Academy, etc., who put on who put a fatwa on Charlie Kirk and the rest of us with their 24-7 Nazi and fascist and white supremacist talk.
I'm gonna go on a little.
Now, this is not the whole piece.
I just picked out the parts that I thought were best.
He said, uh, this has never happened on our side before.
I agree.
The corporate media Have lived in our heads forever, but the martyrdom of Charlie Kirk finally evicted those demons.
God, this is such good writing.
It's just really good writing.
Better still, instead of empowering the media with our complaints, instead of giving the media control of our emotions as we rage against their countless sins, we've transformed those sins into something useful.
Fuel to make our arguments, bringing converts and hold the evil accountable.
All at once we become impervious to the media's usual tricks with the dual revelation that number one, the media are irredeemable and not worth our time.
And two, through alternative and social media, we hold the power in our country.
There's an old joke about a kid who was born and he he never talked.
and he's about eight years old and he's never talked his parents are worried and everything and then one day um the one of the parents uh drops a i don't know a potter pan on his foot and the kid suddenly yells oh oh sorry i've got a six-year-old nephew in south africa who's listening so i won't use the words that the joke uses
But he yells, oh G D it, my eff and foot.
And the mother says, What?
You can talk?
He goes, Yeah, I can talk.
And she goes, Why have you never talked until now?
And the kid says, didn't have anything to say.
And that's the joke.
And uh it feels that way on the political right.
They always had the power, they always had the ability, they just didn't have a big enough reason that we would all act in unison.
Now we have it, and everybody sees it, everybody feels it, and we are working as one.
Now it doesn't mean it's perfectly coordinated, you know, that the world's a messy place, but all the energy is moving in the right direction, and people are looking for guidance to make sure they're moving in the right place.
They're checking in with people, they're talking to people, they're influencing people who need to be influenced.
And more important than any of that, I'm sorry, nephew, South Africa.
Can you close your ears for a minute?
All right, thanks.
Thanks.
We don't give a fuck what people think about us right now.
And that is freedom.
Now it's easier for me because I'm canceled, and it's also one of the reasons why I have more responsibility in this than most of you.
I get to say what you're not allowed to say.
Now I don't know what it is you'd want to say, but I guarantee there are things you want to say that are over the line, and you don't need that in your life.
But I'll do it.
I'll do it.
In fact, by the end of today, I expect that I'm going to be in a lot of trouble because there's a topic coming up that I don't even know if I can survive.
But I can do it, and it probably needs to be said, so I'm going to say it.
So you might want to wait around for that.
That's toward the end.
Um there is a massive movement toward canceling the people who mocked the death of Charlie Kirk.
I did not see that coming.
I did not believe that the uh that the right would go after them.
And if they did, I didn't think that anybody would fire them.
I thought their employers would say, Oh, it's free speech.
We don't do that.
But they didn't do that.
Apparently, the political right, and not say uh Robbie Starbuck is a big part of this.
Uh, they now know that if they displease the political right, that it is organized enough to bring down their stock price pretty much immediately and just leave it there.
And so big companies now say, and this is maybe different, um, we'd better take this really seriously.
And are they?
Yes.
The scariest thing is how many of these people getting fired are teachers.
Have you noticed that?
There's for some reason there's a weirdly disproportionate number of teachers who are celebrating the death of a of an American who was just a good guy.
And most of them are getting fired, which is exactly the you know the satisfying thing for us, because I think the political left, or at least some part of it, had gotten to the point where they thought that killing people on the right was justified under a variety of reasons that were up to them subjectively.
And now they're learning if you fuck with somebody on the right, sorry, nephew, um there's gonna be something to pay.
There's a price, and we're gonna make sure that you know there's a price.
So people getting canceled like crazy.
There's one of my favorite stories was Office Depot uh denied somebody uh printing of a Charlie Kirk poster.
The poster was not offensive, it was just celebrating you know his power in life and his maybe his power after death.
Uh, but nothing, you know, nothing anti trans or racist, nothing like that.
It was just a pro Charlie Kirk poster.
And the weird looking monster creature, barely human thing that worked there, said, Oh no, we can't do that because it's propaganda.
As if they wouldn't do it if we were left propaganda.
Of course they would.
So Office Depot got the complaints because the person who got turned down for service took the video of the interaction, and uh they fired the employee who uh made the decision.
And then, do you know what happened next after Office Depot rapidly, very rapidly to their credit?
I'll give them full credit for this.
Rapidly they fired the person who looked like maybe the supervisor who was the one who said we can't do this.
And then the conservatives said, uh, there was another employee standing next to that one.
You need to fire that one too.
Because that employee was not arguing with the decision, and that was enough.
And what did Office Depot do?
Did they say, no, no, this employee was just standing in the general area, um, wasn't disagreeing, wasn't agreeing, but really, you know, their boss was the one making the decision and was standing right there.
So it's not them.
Well, that's what they could have done, right?
Office depot could have done that.
They fired the second person right away.
As soon as it soon as it became a trouble, boom, gone.
So things are changing.
Um let's see, what else?
How many other people are getting uh uh apparently blue sky, that's the uh sort of poor wannabe uh ex-platform, you know, the competitor to X that all the Democrats went to because they thought, oh, we must get off of X so that we can find this heaven-like situation on this other platform.
Well, Blue Sky turned into a cesspool, and apparently um there was a guest search feature, meaning you didn't have to be a member, but you could search for things on Blue Sky.
And uh conservatives were using it to search for people who could get fired for their uh terrible comments about Charlie Kirk.
And I guess they were finding quite a few, because Blue Sky was just it just became a cesspool at some point, people say, and uh Blue Sky turned off their guest feature option.
They they were so concerned about how many of their uh their followers would get banned that they had to make it hard to find them.
Ow.
Um then uh I saw that uh this is a weird day for me because uh I think Elon reposted my content three times just this morning, and one of them was my video about the hypnotized Hitlerians who were in a bubble,
and my observation that the the thing that you have to be most amazed at there were so many people who were sure that everyone who mattered agreed with them that they would go in public and act happy about the death of another human being, an American who is just trying to make things better.
And apparently, thousands and thousands of people were in such a deep hypnotized, what I call the Hitlerian bubble that they see they see Hitler everywhere and they can't get out of the bubble.
you realize how many there were.
There were a lot.
And as I say, they are victims because they are clearly brainwashed and they're under the influence of just horrible influences.
But that doesn't take away their responsibility.
Absolutely.
So, you know, as I often say, I don't believe it in free will.
Sometimes things just happen.
But you still have to punish people and reward people as if they had free will, because otherwise the whole system falls apart.
And you could argue you don't have any choice but to reward them because you don't have free free will.
But that's another conversation.
My point is there are a whole lot of people who believe that that was appropriate behavior, because apparently they had never left their bubble.
Try to even imagine that.
Try to imagine that they were so insulated in their point of view that they thought enough people would share it that they couldn't get in trouble for their job because of something they said.
Now, um wow.
All right.
Um, the LA mayor, Karen Bass, um, is I think the only mayor who has given uh orders to not fly the LA flags at half mast.
Post millennial is reporting on this.
Now is there any way to interpret that other than the mayor of LA is a racist?
Do you think there's any chance that if the White House ordered flags to be a half mast for a black American, you think she wouldn't lower the flag?
You all know the answer.
Of course she would.
Of course she would.
This is racist, it's pure racist.
And uh you never want to go full racist if you're a mayor.
What a horrible human being she is in so many ways.
Um apparently the New York Times was writing about the Kirk story and made one of the just horrible factual errors to uh malign him, and I'm gonna talk about those some more because a lot of people have this view that Charlie Kirk had said or did things that were super racist or sexist or otherwise objectionable,
and I've been asking online can somebody give me an example that's in the full quote, but also the full context.
So I asked that directly.
I want the quote, but I said directly it's gotta be in the context.
What do you think happened?
I'll tell you what people sent me.
Not a single person gave me an example where the quote was shown and the context.
Zero.
A lot of people tried, they all played the game, but the only way they could make him bad was to change what he said into their own words, because his words were not any of those things.
And if they could find a quote that if you took it in a context, you know, you could make it look bad, they did.
So they either removed the context or they changed the quote into their own paraphrasing, which was you know wrong, and that's it.
But even the New York Times was doing that.
So the New York Times had a claim that they just printed the Daily Colored News Foundation is reporting about that.
So they issued a correction, but here's what they had falsely accused him of.
They had falsely accused them of saying that uh Jewish communities are quote pushing the exact kind of hatred against whites that they blah blah blah.
Now it turns out that the real context, which the New York Times clearly should have known, was he was talking about somebody else's quote, and he was disagreeing with it.
So in other words, they took somebody else's quote that he was publicly disagreeing with, and it's the only reason he mentioned it, to publicly disagree with it.
And then they attributed it to Charlie and said, Well, look at that terrible guy.
Can you even believe that?
Like that, and that's like your paper of record, you know, your your most respected publication.
How many people saw the correction?
You know how this game goes, right?
Not many people would see the correction, but how many people saw the claim that he had said this this bad thing?
Millions, maybe millions?
Yeah.
So then one of the questions uh I asked, which was being also asked by a uh a mere odom.
So before I saw his post today that I'll tell you about, I was saying to myself, how do Democrats explain the fact that Charlie Kirk had a number of uh really close black friends and colleagues?
How do you explain that?
Do Democrats think that once you become a Republican, you can't identify racism, or that you're okay with it, even if it's against you, and that all you have to do is be a Republican, and you'll you'll hang out with Hiller and you'll be friends with them.
Hey, we're both in the same team.
Ah, maybe you say a few things I don't like, but uh what is that what Democrats think?
That don't they understand that the people who are closest to him spent the most time with them, they don't have the same opinion that is in, let's say the New York Times.
I don't believe there is a single uh black person who knew him well who has said, Oh, yeah, the things you say about him are true.
Have you seen one?
I haven't.
I've now seen anybody who knew him well, and that's gazillion people, and a lot of them are black.
Not one of them is saying, Well, you know, he did say this thing I didn't like.
None of them, because that thing he didn't like didn't happen.
It's all made up, and I'll give you some uh more examples on that.
So I asked uh on X, can somebody give me an example, as I said, that's in context and a direct quote, something that you think is horrible.
And uh one gentleman whose name is oh, did I not put his name down?
All right, well, I forgot to take his name, but it was an anonymous account.
But he gave me a list of uh, let's see, uh seven, eight, nine, nine different offenses.
So he really put some work into it.
They're they're all summarized.
Uh, nine different offenses.
How many of the nine examples were a direct quote and also in context?
You know the answer.
None.
Zero for nine.
Let me give you an example.
Um at some point, oh, fury trending X is the person who had this Fury trending X. So this is a claim I saw a few people make.
Um, that Charlie said about black pilots, quote, I'm sorry, if I see a black pilot, I'm going to be like, boy, I hope he's qualified.
Is that in context?
So they got the quote right, but remember, you have to get the quote right, but also in context.
Here the quote is probably correct, but the context is wrong.
Was Charlie talking about anybody's genes?
No.
That's nothing to do with anybody's genes.
Was Charlie talking about anybody's culture?
No.
Had nothing to do with culture, Had nothing to do with genes.
Indeed, it had nothing to do with being black.
The comment would have worked because it was a comment about a system.
The system is DEI.
And the system, the way it works in the real world, not the way it would ideally work, but the way it works in the real world, is that the people in charge are going to make sure they hit that DEI target to have enough black pilots, and they will, because they're human beings, the bosses, who might all be white, by the way, uh, are gonna pick people with maybe a little lower qualifications.
And this would be true if you're talking about black people, brown people, yellow people, any kind of people.
Doesn't matter what color they are.
So this is actually a comment which doesn't have anything to do with race, except that uh except that the DEI focuses on a particular race.
So I explained that.
Do you think they said, oh, no, of course not.
Um and then there are a bunch others where you that uh I won't go over them all, but they're all they're all things which are obviously in a context when the quote is right.
So this is the trick.
You should look for this trick.
If the quote is in quotes and the right quote, the context will always be wrong.
If the context is right, or or let's let's say it a different way.
If they don't use a direct quote and they paraphrase what he said, the paraphrasing is never right.
It never matches what he said.
So it turns out that the left has developed this whole mythology around Charlie Kirk in which they imagined he thought and said things they never thought or said.
Now, that's the only way I can explain why he's got black friends and black supporters who know him well and know very much what he said and what he thinks.
There's no other way to explain that.
You know, that there's not a certain set of black Americans who don't recognize racism or don't care about it.
That's that's not a thing.
So I was pointing out to uh gentleman named Amir Odom, who's a young black gay uh influencer online, and he went online to let you know that none of those things were true from his personal experience.
And apparently Charlie Kirk mentored him.
That's right.
He mentored him, and uh Amir says that he wouldn't be where he is, as now he's he's made uh made a go of it.
He's doing some good influencing online, and he says that Charlie was the whole time mentoring and positive and stayed in touch with him the whole time.
So did he know that he was gay?
Yeah, he's he's out, he's open.
Did he know he was black?
Yeah, he did.
Did that stop Charlie from being his close friend and helping him, helping him business?
Didn't make any difference at all to Charlie.
Now, I I had a little bit of the same experience in which I spent pretty good chunk of time over my life mentoring uh black people who asked for help.
And I would say, yeah, I got some advice.
And I often stayed in touch with them.
There are people I've now known for years who you check in with me once in a while.
It's very common.
Did I did I not give them advice because they're black?
No, it never even occurred to me.
Of course I'm gonna give him advice if I have the advice and they need it and it would help.
And uh did it did I enjoy my interactions?
Yes, every time.
Yeah, there the these are people who are I consider my friends.
But the left, they they live in a sort of a bubble hoax world.
Anyway, Amir is if you want to follow him on X, he's at uh Amir X Otum, A M I R X O D O M. And this is me, uh, giving Charlie a little boost because if he wanted Amir to do well, I'll I'll honor that.
So I'd like him to do well too.
So I will tell you, maybe you should follow him.
So if you're on X, give him a follow.
All right.
So I believe that there's something coming that's pretty big, which is there's going to be this gigantic Charlie Kirk cognitive dissonance experience for the left.
Um, because they don't have a theory to explain what's going on right now.
So the only way they can explain it is to assume that half the globe are uh Hitlers themselves, or they don't know what they know, or so there's gonna be a whole bunch of trying to understand the world that they're observing.
I don't feel like I have any confusion about the world I'm observing.
But the Democrats are gonna have a big problem because they're gonna have to figure out why everybody says this guy is an angel, but they've been acting like he's so such a bad person, have to kill him.
At some point, this won't apply to everybody, but at some point there'll be a healthy number of Democrats who realize that they were on the side of killing an innocent man, meaning that they didn't act on it, but they were they were sort of happy it happened, maybe, and then they're gonna find out that he was nothing like they thought.
And this will be one of the biggest mistakes of humanity.
It's one thing to kill somebody because you're gonna get something out of it.
This was not that this is killing somebody and getting the opposite of whatever it was you wanted, because you're gonna get a lot of that.
You're gonna get a lot, and it's gonna be the opposite of whatever you thought you wanted.
But it's because you killed the wrong guy.
I saw somebody say today, was it uh King John?
Uh he goes by that King John online.
Um, I believe it was he who said today that uh they killed they killed our son.
Boy, do I feel that.
You know what I mean?
Those of you who know my story know that that hits me hard.
Um, anyway, that's what they got wrong.
If you kill our stranger, we might be mad, but we'll probably not change our schedule over it.
If you kill our son, all of our son, we're we're gonna change our schedule, right?
Tomorrow won't be the same as today, because you killed our son.
And uh that has more I think that has more meaning in you know more than one way, if you know what I mean.
Well, some are saying, there's a little action on this online, that uh the Smith Munt Act, that's where the government used to the government used to make it illegal to intentionally lie on the news.
So, but then uh I believe it was Obama who changed the law so that it became legal to lie to the country and propagandize and and uh persuade, mostly from our intelligence people.
But basically, in general, it became no longer illegal to intentionally lie about the news if you're a news entity.
Intentionally, it's legal.
And so there's a movement to go back to the way it was to make it illegal, because we think we'll be better, and apparently Trump reposted a video that was calling for that.
So that would suggest, if you know the the Trump way of acting, that he's testing that.
He he's putting it out there with his name on it, just to see what happens, and if he finds that at least his base is solidly in favor of this change, I think he'll act.
Um yeah, but it only affects people who are intentionally lying.
So you could still say, Oh, I didn't know I thought the Russia collusion was real.
Oh, I'm so surprised that it's not real.
But if you found uh bunch of documents that you know very clearly make it look like it was a ploy, well, maybe you got some legal trouble in that case.
And then some people are suggesting that instead of calling it the Smith Munt Act, uh, that it would be called the Charlie Kirk Act.
I don't know if that raises the chance that it'll get implemented, but some people are thinking that.
All right, well, on uh international topics.
Looks like Trump is looking to fast track the uh immigration here of white South Africans because they're uh under the theory that some of them are being uh put in danger.
So the AF Post is writing about this.
Um Trump administration launched a program, they're fast tracking these immigrants because of their perceived danger.
Um let me tell you, that's gonna be a hard one to sell in a diverse country.
I don't know if there's any.
I I hope there's some analogs to this, as in their other cases where other ethnicities have been targeted for you know fast immigration.
Somebody somebody needs to tell me that.
Um, it would be awkward if the only time that happened was with white people.
Now, I'm still all for it, by the way.
It doesn't even if the only time it happened was for white people, I'm all for it.
All for it.
But it might be a hard sell.
I guess London had one of the biggest nationalist rallies in modern history, just enormous.
Um, Tommy Robinson, who I don't know a great deal about, but he seems to be a uh previously jailed free speech guy, and I think free speech was the purpose of it.
They had a surprise guest by video, which was Elon Musk, and uh he seems to be completely down to that movement, and it's big.
And uh they had and this is uh in London, and they held a minus silenced honor Charlie Kirk.
Now it's hard for me to imagine that there's anything that would happen in another country, that the United States would have an enormous um event and have a minute of silence for that person from another country.
So this is big.
And I don't know that we can even size it yet, because we don't know if it's still growing.
We don't know how big it is, and we don't know how how fast it's growing, and we don't know where it's growing.
It's big.
So I wouldn't underestimate it.
Overestimate it.
I always get those two confused.
Anyway, all right, here's where uh um I'll get myself assassinated.
The Washington examiner says uh that the Gaza conflict is driven some uh APAC-backed Democrats to stop taking money from uh APAC.
So APAC is the uh totally legal, totally transparent uh American entity that supports Israel, and uh they work really hard with Congress.
You know, they pretty much every Congress person has what they call their APAC person, and almost all of them get money from um from APAC.
So uh some of them are mad about the way Gaza is going, so they're just saying we're not taking any more of your money.
Um, not many, just three House Democrats so far, but that's notable.
And uh here's my take.
I don't trust any politician who takes money from APAC.
So let me let me say that as clearly as I possibly can.
When it comes to only about things about Israel, or let's say the Middle East, uh, I wouldn't distrust them necessarily on any other topic.
But if you're taking money from APAC, I don't believe anything you say.
And I'm not gonna change that opinion because that's how money works.
The whole point of money is that it influences people.
They wouldn't be giving money if they didn't think it worked.
Do you think they'd be wasting all that money?
Hey, here's the money.
What do I need to do?
Nah, nothing.
Will you ever ask me for a favor?
Oh, God, no.
It's just free money.
No, they give them money so that they can influence them.
So if you want my Trust on any decision that has to do with the Middle East.
If you're taking money from APAC, shut the fuck up.
I don't want to hear anything you have to say.
Because I would consider you completely untrustworthy and not necessarily on America's team for just those decisions.
Is that clear enough?
All right.
Now, by the way, APAC's completely legal, as long as it's legal, um I I will also observe at the same time I say that I will never trust anybody who takes APAC money on an on an Israel question.
Um at the same time, I can observe that Israel is really good at this.
They're really good at it.
And you you know, I can hold both thoughts at the same time, right?
That their skill level for supporting their own national best interest are really good.
Really good.
Now I'm gonna double down.
You might have seen some video of Marco Rubio and Mike Atkabee uh with Netanyahu, and they were wearing the little little beanie caps and they were you know touching the wailing wall with reverence.
I hate that.
Now I know you're gonna disagree, and you're gonna say that you know you're religious, so it's just a religious thing.
Um the Judeo-Christian crossover is so strong that even though it's you know more of a Jewish thing, that it's still enough of a Christian thing that as long as it's you know a sincere religious, if it's a sincere religious um action, then it's laudable.
You know, you you would actually say, I like that.
I like that our leaders are you know religious and taking that stuff seriously, and I also like that uh the US is uh respecting Israel in that way.
All right, here's my problem.
If you look at this from a persuasion perspective, it is a plus a plus.
If you can get somebody to do that on camera, put on the little the little Jewish hat and touch the wall and and act like it's magic, you know, as religion works.
Um you have turned somebody into your bitch, because that is such powerful persuasion that you will not know it, but you will be bonded to the Israel experience in a way that is not illegal, it's you know, it's not even a moral or unethical, it's perfectly allowed, but it's really powerful.
I object, not because it's a moral, unethical, none of those reasons.
It's not illegal, nothing like that.
It just works too well.
And uh when I see Marco Rubio go over there and uh basically look like Netanyahu's bitch, I don't say to myself, oh no, this is just ceremonial and it has nothing to do with the work, you know.
You see just showing respect.
No, I I look at a guy who's been hypnotized essentially.
So to allow yourself to go into that situation, um, it's just a terrible look, terrible look.
But from Israel's point of view, brilliant.
It's it's good for their self-interest, it's good for bonding with the United States.
It's genius, really.
I mean, it's it's just really strong persuasion, A plus.
But for us, I would say if you're gonna do it, don't do it on camera.
That's probably impossible.
But I would have no problem if they did it privately.
But you put that on camera, and it just looks like our people bowing to Netanyahu.
Not cool.
Absolutely not cool with me.
All right, but all legal, all ethical, all moral.
You know, not none of the standard complaints.
It's just better for Israel than it is for us.
So from an American self-interest perspective, I hate it.
And I would encourage nobody to ever do that again.
All right, um, except privately.
Privately is fine.
You know, if it's something you wanted to do, because it is, I mean, it's a historical site.
I can imagine a lot of people wanting to experience that.
Just go put it on camera.
All right, uh, Russia's getting provocative and doing a bunch of war games near the border of the NATO countries, they're testing drones, and they're they might be testing some defenses.
And um, I don't know if that's preparation for something to come or they're just um rattling their swords for uh for a fact.
We'll see.
Um apparently, meanwhile, Ukraine has continued to attack Russia's energy facilities.
So they uh what did they do?
They they just uh torched uh the Russian Kirichi refinery and they took out a chemical plant a thousand miles inside Russia and they got an oil supply line.
So it does seem that Ukraine is going hard at taking up the energy infrastructure in Russia, and it seems to me that the people trying to take something out usually have a big advantage over the people trying to protect them, especially since they're spread out all over the place and and the drone weapons are hard to stop in the first place.
Um unless you you know you had serious, you would need national defense basically everywhere.
So that would be hard to stop.
Um so we'll see what happens there.
Meanwhile, the uh Sinaloa cartel worldwide operations news nation is uh acting like the US is taking a big step toward dismantling the entire Sinaloa cartel.
Now I told you that there was this major uh seven foreign region operation in which uh 617 Sinaloa cartel got arrested in various countries, but apparently there are tens of thousands of them in 40 countries.
617 people, not even uh drop in the bucket.
Um, but and then there's some reporting by news station that uh the US is working with Mexico to do this.
I don't believe that.
Do you believe that Mexico is cooperating against the cartels?
The only way it makes sense is if they're the government is in the pocket of a different cartel, and the only thing they're doing is getting rid of the competition for the one that's their cartel.
That's the only way I can understand what's happening.
Otherwise, I would assume Mexico's not helping at all, and we're just pretending they are.
Um then uh apparently a bunch of stealth jets have been delivered now to Puerto Rico, uh, meaning that there are jets, but they're based in Puerto Rico, and that would be getting ready to put some pressure on Venezuela in ways that we don't quite know.
But uh, that's a lot of firepower for that part of the world.
So I presume that's partly to scare Venezuela and partly because there's a good chance they're gonna use them.
And they're really good ones.
Well, Connor McGregor is uh, as you know, running for president or wants to run for president in Ireland.
I don't think he'll actually get to be on the ballot because they've got a weird system that might keep them off.
Um but he was uh saying some good things about uh Elon Musk.
Um, and he said, Elon is an actual superhero for real, he's a great man.
He gave me a lot of his time, pledged his support.
He even offered financial support, but I said I'm not after that.
Now that's the sort of thing that if somebody said he offered financial support, but I turned it down.
You wouldn't necessarily believe that, would you?
But Elon uh responded on X and confirmed that he had offered to help fund his campaign, but he got turned down because he said I don't need that.
Well, he doesn't need it yet, it's because he's not on the ballot.
Maybe that will change.
I don't know.
Meanwhile, somebody called Penskey Media, so I guess they own some uh um magazine-like content of some kind.
I don't know what they own.
But they're doing Google over the AI summaries.
You might know if you do Google search that the first thing that comes up now is Google's own AI that's that gives you a summary, but it doesn't necessarily give you a link.
And the summary is usually all you need.
So if you had created some content, you know, let's say let's say uh, you know, you were in Olte's uh story on Breid Bart, you write that thing, and then somebody says, Oh, I want to go look at that story, because you know, I saw it somewhere, but I didn't read it, so I want to go look for it.
If they Googled it, it would come up with a summary, and they might say, My example is bad, but you'll get the idea.
They might say, Oh, the summary is all I needed, and then they'll never go to the content, which means that the people who spent all the money and had the business models to create content would in effect be giving it away for free to Google, and it would just become Google's content because Google would take it, turn it into AI content, and then say, Well, now it's our content, and they're being sued for that.
So that will be interesting.
Do you remember I keep complaining about uh all the so-called robots that are coming, and how every time you see a demonstration or a claim about robots, oh, the robots are coming, that the robot is only do ever doing one thing because only robots can only do one thing at a time.
You know, they they can't be general robots, nobody knows how to do that.
Well, here we go.
Uh yet another video of a laundry folding robot.
And the post said, oh, here it comes, you know, the age of robots is is here because we've got this robot that can fold laundry.
Obviously, since that's one of the hardest things, is suggesting that they can do all kinds of things if they can fold laundry.
But I'll remind you that the first time, the first time I saw a video about a robot folding laundry, and it was, it was folding laundry, was 30 years ago, and just about once every year or two for 30 years.
Is this different?
Do you think that after 30 years of fake robots that really couldn't, you know, you can't commercialize them to fold your laundry for whatever reason.
Do you think it's real now?
Uh I don't think you can have a robot that folds your laundry.
Because why would you buy one that only does one thing?
You would wait until there's a general purpose robot that can do that and make your coffee as well.
But we're, in my opinion, nowhere near a general purpose robot, in my opinion.
Because if we were, you would already see them.
You you would see at least the first draft.
And the only things you see still are one robot doing one thing.
Don't get excited about that.
Well, my terrible piece of crap state called California, uh has advanced a bill.
Newslub hasn't signed it, but they've advanced a bill to give college admission priority to descendants of slaves, um, according to just the news.
Um let me say that again.
They want to give priority to descendants of slaves.
Um are you actually telling me that they're not already doing that?
They've been doing that for 30.
All right, nephew, nephew, uh, you gotta, you could have to put on the earmuffs.
My nephew in uh South Africa.
Um, they've been doing this for 30 fucking years.
They've been favoring uh black applicants, and you know, and gay applicants and women and you know, all the protected classes.
I don't even know if this would be new.
Like was there somebody who was going in and they were black, and then somebody said, Oh, you're black, okay, okay, that's good.
But are you a descendant of slaves?
Well, well, I don't know.
I'm black, but I'm I don't know if I'm a descendant of slaves.
Oh, whoa, I can't give you any special admissions, because you're you're only black and American, and you're you can't move your descendant of slaves, so you don't go to the front of the line.
But since you don't go to the front of the line, We'll put you second.
We're still putting the white guys last.
I mean, you're still way ahead of them.
But you know, we give you a little extra bump if you were descended from slavery.
All right, it's stupid.
It's insulting, it's racist.
Fuck you.
Fuck you, California.
For even trying that.
By the way, I should tell you that some years ago, I blogged that the way to do reparations would be with some preferential funding for uh black Americans who want to spend one generation catching up educationally.
And I thought, okay, if you if you're gonna do it at all, do it in a way that really fundamentally makes a difference.
Don't just give people a bunch of money that they don't know how to spend.
Because poor people don't know how to handle money.
If you saw give a poor person, I don't know, $100,000 for reparations.
How's that gonna work out?
I mean, they would like it, but it's not likely that they're gonna turn it into a small business or something like that.
But if you said, here's the deal, we do have this systemic racism, and uh um everybody else seems to have better education on it on average.
So if we can spend one generation, and we'll put a time limit on it, we'll say, all right, for this generation, your ability to get into college and have it paid for by the by the government would be almost complete.
You wouldn't have to worry about getting into college at all if you were black.
We'll just take care of that for one generation, and then everybody's closer to even after that one generation, you say, all right, are we good now?
Because that would work for me.
But uh it's gone too far.
There are too many uh there are too many ways that white people are just discriminated against in employment in the United States for me to be okay with any more of it.
So I'm not okay with it.
All right, well, we'll see if I get assassinated today for my opinions.
Um I know I should be more afraid, but I'm not.
Um but I'm not.
And I would hope that you are not either.
Uh those of you who should be afraid, if you're a bigger account, etc., be careful.
You know, that the Tim Pools of the world.
Um, be careful.
Yeah.
I don't think I'm in that risk level, but uh, and plus I I never go out in public.
I don't I don't do public events.
I think I told you that I stopped doing public events uh early in the Trump experience because I considered it too dangerous.
So just think about this.
I live in a country where it's not safe to go in public because of my opinions, and my opinions are that I support somebody that the majority of voters supported, the majority, and it's still not safe to go and I wouldn't go to Berkeley for sure.
No, I mean I wouldn't be worried about, I wouldn't be worried about an airport or something, but I I definitely would not go somewhere where there's publicity and a set location and a set time, because that's what gives the the planners enough time to do something bad.
So I just won't do that, and I haven't done that for years now.
All right, everybody.
That's all I got for you.
I'm gonna say a few words privately to the local subscribers.
I will tell you, um, most of you know that I continued doing uh the Dilbert comic even after I got canceled, never missed a day.
It was always continuously published, but I put it behind a paywall, so it's on the locals platform and also on X. You can subscribe.
But the reason I'm telling you is because uh don't be drinking coffee when you finish today's Dilbert comic.
It might be the funniest thing I've ever written.
So don't be drinking coffee, and of course, it's a joke I could not have done if I had not been canceled.
You know, I can I can take a little extra chances, and I definitely couldn't have done that joke in the family newspaper.
