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I'll start the actual show at the top of the hour.
Don't make me say 500 times how many things are broken this morning.
It's everything.
Everything that should be working is not working.
But I'll get into that at the top of the hour.
For now, I can see your comments and you can chat with each other.
All right.
So I'm now coming to you through the studio, the Rumble Studio, which partially works, but not the audio.
Yes, I was all excited because my iPhone can operate as a microphone, which I would need to use to have good audio.
But the moment I needed to actually use it for real, it no longer shows up as an option.
And I'd love to tell you, I'd love to tell you that I had notes, but I don't really have any notes because the printer didn't work.
So the sound doesn't, so the microphone doesn't work, and my other microphone doesn't work, and my printer doesn't work, and locals doesn't work if I use it without the Rumble Studio.
So it's that kind of a day.
And I would be sitting in my normal place because my body doesn't work.
If I sit at my desk here for four hours, I'm just crippled after that.
So I had to get in a different position.
So my body doesn't work, the printer doesn't work, don't have any notes, the microphone doesn't work, and the other microphone doesn't work, and locals doesn't work.
But at least I have coffee.
No, I'm just kidding.
I don't have a coffee warmer over here, so I don't have coffee.
But at least the coffee has the simultaneous sip written here, so that I'll be able to do the simultaneous sip because I'll just read the coffee cup.
Oh, wait, it's the wrong fucking coffee cup.
It's the only one that the letters have come off of.
So I don't have the simultaneous sip.
I don't have fucking coffee.
I don't have a coffee warmer.
My goddamn fucking printer is broken.
Locals is on the Fritz again, two days in a fucking row.
And two microphones don't work.
Both of them should.
How's your day so far?
Absolutely every fucking thing is broken this morning.
Every fucking thing.
So that's how I'm starting off.
But will I be able to compensate?
Probably.
I'll do my best.
I'm using digital notes.
You're going to have to do the simultaneous sip from memory.
And I'll pretend I'm drinking coffee.
And as long as I don't sit up and crunch over, my back won't hurt.
Although it does hurt right now.
So there's that.
Oh.
Look at that.
Ta-da!
That one works.
We have learned today that whatever you do, don't use the one broken mug.
I made a mistake of running it through the dishwasher.
Did any of you have that problem?
You ran it through the dishwasher and then took the letters off.
Ramp, ramp, ramp.
You're back in 2017 Periscope, huh?
Oh, those are the days.
But do you remember how bad Periscope was?
Periscope was an absolute disaster.
That thing never worked.
And still, we loved it.
All right, it's time for a show.
What do you think?
You guys ready?
All right, if you're just joining us at the top of the hour, let me give you an update.
I couldn't print out my notes because my printer is not working.
And I'm not using my microphone because I had to relocate because my back is killing me.
But I was going to use my iPhone as a microphone because it shows up as one of the options.
And that would be really good.
Except that doesn't work now.
Even though I tested it ahead of time, it no longer shows up as an option.
So you're going to have bad audio.
My notes are going to be read from the digital device.
And I wish I had coffee.
But that wasn't going to happen today.
So I'm going to read the simultaneous sip because I now have a cup in which it is written there.
By the way, if you don't have your cup, what is wrong with you?
You ready?
All right.
All right, let's get ready for the simultaneous sip.
All you need is a cup of mugger, a glass, a tanker, chalicistein, a canteen, jug, or a flask, a vessel of any kind.
Fill it with your favorite liquid.
Oh, wouldn't it be good if I had coffee?
And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure.
The dopamine of the day, the thing makes everything better.
Boy, it better.
It's called the simultaneous sip.
And it happens now.
Although one of us is just pretending.
Wouldn't that be good if I have actual coffee?
All right, no, I don't really.
I don't need any coffee.
I had enough today.
All right, people.
Let's talk about the news.
And by the way, after this show, Owen Gregorian will be hosting a spaces event on X.
And you don't need to pay for that.
You just need to show up and look for Owen Gregorian.
Just do a search.
You'll find him.
I also reposted it.
So if you go to my account, you'll find it.
The link after the show will be a few minutes after the show.
All right.
In technology news, there's a Rice University professor.
Wow, I didn't even know that Rice had a university.
Do all the food groups have their own university?
Or is it just rice?
Maybe just carbs?
Is there like a potato university?
I don't know.
Well, there's a rice university.
I know it's not about the rice.
I'm just joking.
Just joking.
Anyway, the Rice University chemistry professor, James Tour, he says that there's a way for the U.S. to get some rare earth stockpiles because they figured out a new and efficient way to recycle the existing rare earths.
And apparently, you can recover almost 100% of them.
So if you've got rare earth materials in your old devices, they can now, quite easily, with some kind of new process, recover it.
And did you know that Trump has already signed rare earth mining and resource deals with 11 countries?
So he's got 11 countries that have made deals with us, and now we have this new recycling thing.
I got to say, I don't know how long it takes before we can be independent with rare earth, but there's definitely activity, and they're definitely doing the right stuff.
So we'll see how far that goes.
So apparently, Tesla has rolled down a new software update for their vehicles.
And now I guess Grok is part of the car.
So you can talk to Grok in your car and you can just tell it where you want to go.
And the full self-driving will kick in.
So basically, you just sit in your car and you say something like, take me to Bob's house.
And Grok would probably say, Bob, Bob, who?
And then you say, oh, Bob, whatever.
So you would just talk to it, and then it would start driving.
Is that wild?
What would be better than just talking to your car and having it drive you somewhere?
Everybody who experiences that, and I have not yet experienced it, but everyone who does is just blown away.
Like you can't imagine that anybody would use any other process.
The thing I used to fantasize about is that I could take a vacation just by walking out to my car.
So I just get in the car, you know, with maybe one piece of luggage, and I'd say the car, take me on a scenic trip to some park or something.
And make sure that when it's lunchtime or dinner time, they find a nice restaurant to pull over for meals.
And I think it would just do it, which would be pretty amazing.
Anyway, I also saw that Elon is trying to figure out how to combine the stocks of, well, there is, I don't think, is there stock?
There's no public stock yet for SpaceX, which is why it would be difficult to combine it with Tesla, which is public.
But he's trying to figure out how the Tesla stockholders can get some upside benefit from some kind of ownership of SpaceX, which would be awesome.
I'm a Tesla stockholder.
I don't have much, but enough to mention.
That'd be very cool.
All right, let's talk about everything that's corrupt.
I feel like lately my podcast has the same theme.
Well, somebody stole $100 million and somebody else stole $1 billion.
It's all just the same story.
All I'm doing is changing the names of the organization.
Anyway, I guess the U.S. Department of Transportation told Tim Walsh, governor of Minnesota, that they've got 30 days.
The state has 30 days to revoke all licenses issued to illegals.
I think this is for commercial.
These are commercial driver's licenses.
So they don't want the people driving trucks and doing commercial work to be illegal.
But apparently one-third of all the non-domiciled commercial driver's license in Minnesota were issued to illegal immigrants.
One-third.
So that's apparently going to be reversed.
Wall Street Apes is posting on that on X. According to Fox News, the Minnesota fraud, which we keep talking about, the fraud seems to be in a variety of places in Minnesota.
So the whole state of Minnesota appears to be just a criminal enterprise at this point.
But they think that the total amount stolen might be as high as $8 billion.
Can you even hold that in your head?
That's the amount that's stolen within just the last few years, I guess.
$8 billion.
I keep telling you that there are too many people driving nice cars to make any sense for how many nice good jobs there are, or even how many people have inherited it from their parents or whatever.
There just seem to be way too many people who have nice houses and nice cars compared to the number of good jobs there are in the world.
And I kept thinking for a year, by the way, for years I've thought this.
I thought, what percentage of all the rich-looking people, rich-looking, meaning you have an expensive car or nice house, what percentage of them got it from crime?
And I've always assumed it was at least 20%.
And now I'm going to up that.
I mean, it might be as high as 50% of all rich people are criminals.
And it's these white-collar, corrupt, NGO, money laundering situations.
I love it when it's stupid.
People come into the comments.
Let me repeat what a stupid person here says.
This is all in caps.
You believe everything you see on Fox News.
No, I don't.
You're just a fucking idiot.
I don't believe anything I see anywhere.
And I don't believe you are as dumb as you're pretending to be.
But maybe you are.
Maybe you are that dumb.
Well, let's look at the other frauds.
Let's say now there's some thought that there's a massive Obamacare fraud that would be not just in Minnesota.
But in 2023, according to Stephen Moore, maybe as much as one in three people who got Obamacare subsidies may have been frauds.
It's possible that $21 billion has been fraudulently taken out of the Obamacare process.
21 billion dollars.
All right, so let's see.
We've got all kinds of fraud in Medicaid.
We've got it in basically every program that you could have fraud.
The SNAP, driver's licenses, fraud, fraud, fraud.
How about the SBA, Small Business Association?
Well, the head of that, Kelly Loeffler, has required that everybody who's getting the SBA benefits have to essentially provide evidence that they're legitimate.
So it's sort of an audit.
I wouldn't call it an audit exactly, but Kelly Loeffler is making sure that only people who deserve these SBA benefits, their loans, generally loans for small business, are getting them.
So what do you think she'll find?
Take a guess.
So it's the beginning of the process, and the SBA is trying to find out how much fraud there is in the SBA.
Just take a guess.
Where do you think that's going to come out?
I'm going to guess that one-third of all the loans are fraudulent.
Anybody want to take the other side of that bet?
Do you want to bet that it's less than one-third?
I'm going to say one-third of them are totally fraudulent because that would be similar to all the other frauds.
Like everything is fraudulent.
Everything that hasn't been scrupulously, you know, audited, it's just full of fraud.
Well, let's see.
But at least the DEA, you know, that organization, the DEA, that are making sure that the drugs are not coming into the country.
Oh, wait, the top Obama DEA official has been charged with laundering money for the Mexican drug cartels.
Oh, according to Zero Hedge.
So the DEA is corrupt.
It's everybody.
Just everybody's corrupt.
Do you ever wonder why we couldn't stop the drugs coming from south of the border?
It's not a big mystery.
It's because of corruption.
Otherwise, I'm sure we could have done a pretty good job of stopping it.
But corruption's got to be the worst when people have money to bribe you, but also guns to shoot you, and you know that they would do it if they have to.
How do you get past that?
Well, they can bribe anybody, and they can kill anybody.
But first, they would torture you.
Yeah, I think that's the problem.
Well, we found out a little bit more about the pipe bomber.
The pipe bomber has admitted that he put the pipe bombs there.
He is described as a, as Jake Tapper would say, a black man who he thinks is white.
No, just joking, but he did call him white before he knew he was black.
I have to admit that I assumed it was a white guy.
I know.
Maybe I'm a little bit racist against white people, but when I hear that somebody is planting bombs, I just automatically think that's my people.
I go, that's my people.
Damn you.
You're making me look bad.
And then I find out it wasn't a white guy this time.
It was a young black man who is being described as almost autistic.
Almost.
If he had been a little bit more autistic, apparently those bombs would have been functional.
I don't know if those were real bombs.
Was it Thomas Massey?
I saw a post on X where Thomas Massey was asking the question, if a pipe bomb is made with a kitchen timer that only goes up to an hour, how likely is it that it was set for some number of hours?
There's something inconsistent about what we know about the bombs and the idea that it actually could have been functional.
So it's still a mystery.
I think one of the most impressive things about this story is that Mike Benz apparently had been sort of onto the notion that it might be a black guy from day one because he had $300 sneakers, footwear.
Now, obviously, there could be people of any race who have expensive footwear, but if you were just doing a, what would he call it, an FBI profile, and somebody said, oh, somebody with really expensive footwear, you'd probably lean black, you know.
In this case, obviously it doesn't mean that only black people wear good sneakers, but he would have been right if he'd made that guess.
And do you remember when Christopher Wray told us that the cell phone data was corrupt?
And then we found out that what was corrupt was apparently Christopher Wray or the FBI.
So let's see, the SBA might be corrupt, the FBI.
And I think it's really clear at this point that they were intentionally not pursuing it.
Now, I don't know why yet.
I'm guessing that the narrative didn't work.
That if the narrative did not support the idea that it was a bunch of MAGA people who were the dangerous ones, that they just didn't want to put that out there.
So that's why I think it got stalled for several years.
But as soon as Bongino and Kash Patel fired the people who were in charge, as soon as they got rid of all the people who were working on it, they solved it.
So I don't think we have to wonder what was going on there.
Clearly, it was just corruption of some type.
So that was corrupt.
Let's see.
And now we're hearing that the pipe bomber may have believed or worried that the 2020 election was stolen, except that we know that he was getting his bombs ready in 2019.
So that story doesn't hold together.
So pretty much everything we know about the pipe bomber looks like it could be fake.
If you're just joining, the reason I'm not in my regular chair is that I'm having just vicious back problems.
And so if I move out of this position or hunch over my computer too much on the desk, I'll be in bad shape.
All right.
What else is happening?
So apparently there's some kind of new government document.
Trump's got this national security strategy document that just went out, and he's mocking Europe.
So he's talking about Europe and he says, quote, their economic decline is eclipsed only by the real and stark prospect of civilizational erasure, civilizational erasure.
That's what Trump is accusing Europe of doing, basically erasing their own civilization.
He says if present trends continue, the continent will be unrecognizable in 20 years.
And apparently, they have lost their global share of GDP.
This is the European Union.
They've lost their global share of GDP that at one time in 1990 was as high as 25% of the global GDP.
Now it's down to 14%.
Uh-oh.
I wonder if the European Union is doing anything else that could destroy their future.
Oh, yeah.
Apparently, they've got this new law that they're using to go after X and go after Elon Musk.
And they're fining him $140 million.
And I guess they're finding the company, but they're also finding Elon Musk personally.
And what was it that they wanted?
The European Commission says what they wanted, or what they're complaining about, is they say that X had a deceptive design of its blue check mark.
Does that sound real?
Do you think that X has a deceptive design for its blue checkmark?
Well, I haven't noticed a problem.
Have you?
Is there anybody who doesn't know what the check mark is?
Or maybe this is old?
Because they, you know, didn't they change what the check mark means?
What kind of problem is that causing?
That's ridiculous.
They also, European Union says that X lacks transparency of its advertising repository.
Really?
That's the problem that Europe needs to worry about is lack of transparency of its advertising repository.
I don't even know what that means.
Doesn't sound like a big problem, but okay.
And they're also accusing X of failure to provide access to public data for researchers.
Okay.
Do the other platforms do that?
What kind of data is this?
Now, I haven't heard Elon Musk's response to the specifics, but I suppose it's bullshit.
And Elon's pushing back pretty hard.
Michael Schellenberger says that it's not about, well, basically, he says it's about censorship, that the real purpose of the European Union is to control an American company and specifically to control the free speech of that American company.
So as Michael Schellenberger points out, that is very incompatible with NATO because we should not be battling NATO.
I mean, they're NATO countries.
Why would we be, why would we be, why?
Why would the United States spend money and put its own people at risk to defend the European Union that is trying to take the free speech away from Americans?
Our most cherished, probably the most cherished of all of our rights.
I don't see Russia doing that.
I don't see China.
Well, maybe they are, but I don't know what they're doing.
But why is the European Union trying to mess with our freedom of speech?
That's not cool.
Elon Musk posted on X abolish the EU.
Do you think it's time to abolish the European Union?
I'm going to say we don't have to do anything because they're abolishing themselves.
As I just said, the Trump administration's document that just came out basically says Europe is doomed.
And if they just stay on their same course, which it looks like they will, they're not going to have a NATO.
They're not going to have an economy.
They're not going to have rights.
And they will just flood their own zone with people from other countries who might be fine individuals individually, but if you bring in lots of them and you do it suddenly, which is the way they're doing it, then you're bringing in a culture.
There's a big difference between bringing in a person who might be just a fine person versus bringing in lots of people suddenly from places that are very different from your place.
That would be importing a culture.
And there's no reason to believe that that's going to go well.
So you don't need to abolish the EU.
They're abolishing themselves.
So the EU is corrupt and stupid and everything else is corrupt and stupid.
What about our news?
You may have heard about this, but David Sachs has been the target of the New York Times hit piece.
And I won't go through all the things that they got wrong and how bad they are, but it's pretty bad.
So bad that some other tech Titans have weighed in to say, basically, this isn't cool.
It's so obviously just a hit piece and doesn't seem to be trying to be news or useful.
It's just a hit piece.
And yeah, I've seen some speculation about why they would target him in particular.
And I guess Jamath from the All-In Pod, you know Jamath, he was saying that the reason for this hit job of what you would call a non-establishment figure is, quote, the whole point was to get enough chatter so that people like Sachs and other people in the future just say, I'm not going to try this.
You know, they would be essentially frightened away from doing anything useful for the Trump administration because it's too dangerous.
Now, the media has been doing that for years.
The media has been doing hit pieces on Trump supporters and Trump administration people, trying to take them out one by one.
So I don't know if it's any more complicated than the fact that both sides are trying to pick off the best people from the other side.
So when I see them doing a hit piece on somebody like Stephen Miller or a hit piece on, I don't know, JD Vance, hit piece on Sachs, the first thing I say to myself is, oh, the other side must think these are the most powerful or influential people.
So they're trying to pick off their best people.
That's all it is.
I don't think you have to go deeper than, oh, this group of people do a really good job and make Trump look good.
That's all you need.
And then you get a hit piece.
I too have been the subject of hit pieces, Bloomberg in the first term.
Have I ever told you that the mistake I made with Bloomberg?
If you ever become a public figure, let me give you this advice.
If somebody from a major publication says, we'd like to do a profile on you, morning, morning, morning, that's the first warning.
That's the red flag.
And here's where it's worse.
We'd like our reporter to spend the day with you, sort of, you know, see how you live and go through a day with you.
Do not do that.
You will be immediately flattered.
that some big entity wants to spend the day with you and write a big piece.
It's not going to go well.
It is a hippies.
They would only do the stay all day with you unless it's a hippies.
That's the only reason to do that.
So do not let the media spend a day with you when you become a public figure.
If you're not a public figure, it might be different.
But if you're associated with the political side, do not do that.
I made that mistake.
Boy, it was a bad hippies.
What about the Washington Post?
Well, the Washington Post is doubling down on their reporting about Pete Hegseth, and they are the only news entity who is reporting this, and everybody else is saying it's fake news.
But the Washington Post believes that Hagseth did give an order to kill them all regarding the Venezuelan drug boats.
All the other entities say that didn't happen.
And in fact, the Admiral, the Admiral in charge, who would definitely know if it happened or didn't happen, says didn't happen.
The Admiral in charge says it didn't happen.
Now, if you were the Admiral in charge, would you risk your entire career to lie about something that would have a high potential of being found out as a lie?
Like toward the end of your career?
Would you do that?
I wouldn't.
I wouldn't do that.
So I tend to believe that the Admiral is telling the truth because it would be a bad time to tell a lie.
So yeah, if he says it didn't happen, I'm going to say it didn't happen to.
So the Washington Post, corrupt and stupid.
The New York Times, corrupt and stupid.
Your European Union, corrupt and stupid.
We've got the SBA that we're probably going to find out is corrupt and stupid.
We've got the FBI, corrupt and stupid.
The DEA, corrupt and stupid people working for it.
Obamacare, corrupt and stupid.
Minnesota, the entire state, corrupt and stupid.
And the good news is there is some good news.
We'll get to it in a minute.
But I think I'm having too much fun being right.
How many of you remember me saying, before any of these stories broke, so before you had heard anything that I'm talking about today, do you remember me saying that every big organization ends up being corrupt?
If there's a lot of money and a lot of people involved and you're not auditing it really rigorously, what do I say happens every time?
It's always corrupt, every single time.
You don't even have to guess every time.
A lot of money involved, a lot of people involved.
Time has passed, enough for people to figure out how to game the system and there's no extensive audit.
It only goes one way.
all right let's see what else is happening um do do do do we got lots of stories today Oh, so Joe Biden was allowed to leave his bedroom and talk in public again.
And I'd like to do a quote of Joe Biden talking at some LGBTQ event.
And he did his Joe Biden thing where he gets angry, like angrier than you think he ought to be for the topic.
And he said, and I quote, we're the United States of America.
So if you didn't know what country you were living in, Joe Biden is here to remind you that it is the United States of America.
Wow, wow, wow.
That's where you live.
I thought I was in the United States of America, but apparently it's Amerigal.
Wow, wow.
All right.
I didn't know if I was going to do this, but I'm going to do this.
I've been fascinated by the reporting of Emerald Robinson.
And if you have not been watching Emerald Robinson's reporting, you're missing a really good show.
Now, the thing I don't know is what's true.
So I don't know what's true, but damn is it interesting.
And it's so interesting, I wanted to find the thread and just read it to you.
Because if I try to give you the summary of it, you're going to miss some of the best parts.
But let's see if I can find it first of all.
Here we go.
So Emerald Robinson has done lots of different threads on this.
This is a new one, but it goes over some territory that you may have heard before.
All right.
Now, remember, I'm not claiming that this is all true.
I'm not making that claim.
What I will claim is that if it's true, holy hell.
I also think that it's the sort of thing I never would have believed maybe two years ago, five years ago.
It's the sort of thing I wouldn't have believed at all.
I'm not saying I believe it yet, but I don't see anything wrong with it.
The people involved all seem credible, at least the ones who are named.
There are some whistleblowers who are not named, so that's always a red flag, the unnamed whistleblowers.
But let me just read what she says is reality, okay?
And pay attention to all this because it's just mind-blowing.
But I don't know if it's real.
So after I'm done, I'll ask you, and then in the comments, you tell me, does that sound real?
All right, so Emerald Robinson on X. Number one, a few weeks before the 2024 election, Senator Mullen and former Senator David Perdue finally arranged a meeting between Trump advisor Susie Wiles and the one man who could explain exactly how America's election systems are rigged.
Who do you think the one man is?
Who is the one man who actually would be able to know if the elections are rigged?
Well, the meeting took place at Mar-a-Lago.
Susie Wiles had publicly said that the election fraud was not real and that people who thought so were crazy.
That was a popular line of thought at the time.
After the briefing, she didn't know what to think because it sounds pretty credible.
And then she asked for a piece of cake.
She ate it slowly, which I love the writing.
Isn't that great writing?
It goes from talking about whether the election was rigged and she had her mind changed and she had a piece of cake.
She ate it slowly.
That's just good writing.
Then she made the decision.
Trump's team should be briefed too.
All right.
So the idea that the elections were rigged had not been getting through Susie Wiles.
She had been presumably not taking that message to anybody because she wasn't convinced.
Now she was convinced, or at least convinced enough that she thought they needed to hear it.
That doesn't mean it's true, but that she apparently couldn't see a problem with it.
Number three, in the end, the man, we don't know who the man is yet, but the man who by her telling is the one person who could figure out if this was if the elections were rigged.
In the end, the man stayed at Mar-a-Lago for three days to brief everyone.
There was only one man who Wiles trusted to confirm it all, Elon Musk.
A call was made.
The man found himself in a room with Musk.
So this is a man, the man is not Musk, but he was put in a room with Musk because Musk would be good at figuring out if this was true or bunch BS.
Musk declined to sit through a full briefing and he said, just give me your data.
That sounds very much like Elon Musk, doesn't it?
He wouldn't sit through the briefing, but he definitely wanted to see the data.
So Elon Musk read the AI summary.
So I guess he used AI to summarize a bunch of data that they gave him.
So he read the AI summary of the technical data, and then he picked up his phone and made a call.
Quote, we have a problem.
It's true.
Then Musk got on a plane to host a Trump rally in Pennsylvania.
You remember that?
Trump rally in Pennsylvania?
I believe that's the one where Trump's a year got shot.
It was October 17th, 2024.
Musk on stage and attacked Dominion, Dominion being the hardware, the maker of the election machine hardware.
According to Emerald Robinson, Elon Musk said at the rally, quote, there's always the question of Dominion voting machines.
It's weird that they're used in Philadelphia and Maricopa County, but not in a lot of other places.
Doesn't that seem like a heck of a coincidence?
So I guess that's what Elon said on stage.
Musk was warning us the system was rigged.
All right, number six.
How could the steal be stopped a few weeks before the election?
Now, imagine you were them and you believe that the system was rigged in the past, was also rigged for the future, and an election is coming in a few days, or not a few days, but not very long.
How could the steel be stopped a few weeks before the election?
The man who briefed Musk had a team, Patrick Byrne and Gary Bernstein.
Now, you know Patrick Byrne because he's been talking about the election rigging for a long time.
And he says he has all the receipts and has been deeply involved to the point of he wouldn't be guessing.
So if the things that Patrick Byrne says in public are true, and he does seem very credible, I don't know if it's all real, but he seems credible.
If that stuff is real, we're in a lot of trouble, or we were.
So the election is coming up in a few weeks.
And this group of people, including Elon Musk and Patrick Byrne and Gary Bernstein, believed that the system was riggable and probably would be rigged again in the coming election, a few weeks away.
They had worked for, let's say, this team had recruited a dozen people. who knew how the rigged system was built in Venezuela.
They had worked for SmartMatic, that would be the software part of the election systems, and Maduro, the head of Venezuela.
So allegedly, there were a dozen people that they could find who had inside personal knowledge of how the machines were rigged.
Now that's a hell of a claim.
This group of whistleblowers were hiding in a hotel in Gestad, Switzerland before the 2024 election.
That's where General Flynn flew to see them.
Flynn asked, how long has election fraud been going on?
They said, Venezuela now rigs it in 72 countries for the last 20 years.
All right, now this is where it gets to the point where I say, really?
72 countries, just Venezuela, and they've been getting away with it for 20 years?
That's a hell of a claim.
And you can see why it's hard to just embrace this entire narrative completely, because there are parts of it that could be true.
They could be.
But boy, you'd really have to take a big bite on this to believe that Venezuela, of all places, was controlling the elections in 72 countries for 20 years.
It's a big claim.
All right, we'll go on.
The whistleblowers from Venezuela had video meetings with Musk's team and Trump's team to explain technical details of the election fraud.
So do you believe that Trump's team and Elon Musk were briefed by the whistleblowers in the technical part of how it was done?
That's the claim.
The most important detail, the Dominion IP addresses had been located.
So I don't know how that is connected to everything, but apparently if you have the IP addresses, that gives you a little bit of a backdoor into figuring out who did what.
Beyond that, I don't know exactly how the IP address part fits into it, but apparently it gives you some visibility into something that they hadn't had before.
And they bought these IP addresses for $15 in Bitcoin from an anonymous Japanese account.
Okay.
The relevant data and IP addresses were now verified.
Okay.
That's when Senator Mullen came to the rescue again.
A cybersecurity team got the data.
Now, I don't know who the cybersecurity team was, but let's call them hackers.
So once the understanding of how the hacking happens and the IP addresses were available, I guess that means this cybersecurity team could hack into the existing system and do their own damage that would be separate from whatever the alleged bad people were going to do with the system.
Three days before the 2024 election, Dominion's office in Serbia, so that's where some servers were, was hit.
Their computers were useless.
So I interpret this as they hired a bunch of hackers who now had enough information with the IP addresses and with understanding of how the systems worked that they could hack in and basically take down the back operation that was going to do the rigging.
So they were all ready to rig the 2024 election and unbeknownst to them, the good guys hacked in and crashed their systems.
And that would be why Trump won, allegedly.
On election day, nobody knew if cybersecurity team had been successful knocking out the Serbian computers.
Everybody at Mar-a-Lago had to wait for the results without a certainty.
The man who had briefed Musk flew to Oslo that day.
His team would flee the USA if they failed.
So the thinking was that these whistleblowers would literally be murdered if things went south.
Emerald says, this is an Emerald Robinson long post that she posted today.
Imagine the moment on election day.
Trump had no idea if he would win.
So Patrick Byrne watched results from Qatar or Qatar, if you prefer.
So Patrick Byrne got out of the country because he must have been worried about what could happen to him.
Gary Burnson watched from Switzerland.
So two people who knew the most about this left the country because they thought they would get killed, basically, if things went south.
All of them would be hunted down if the 2024 election fraud was successful, meaning that the bad guys got in charge again.
And all of them would, and the USA would be finished.
Number 12, Trump was upset with his own staff after Elon Musk verified the fraud was real.
So again, that's a big claim.
Is it true that Elon Musk could and did verify that the fraud in the past election was real?
It's a big claim.
If Elon Musk says that's true, then I will believe that's true.
It's not something he would lie about.
But I haven't heard him say that.
He'd been, now this is talking about Trump.
Trump had been gaslit for four years by his team to drop the topic.
In fact, his staff hired a Cuban intelligence asset in 2020 to, quote, investigate the fraud to lie to Trump that her elections were fair.
Okay, again, that's a big claim that his staff hired somebody to essentially lie to him.
You'd have to show me some evidence of that one.
Number 13, that's the thing about Trump.
He always hired the wrong people.
This is Emerald Robinson's opinion.
His own advisors had tried to keep him from meeting with the team that saved the 2024 election.
People like Boris EP and Chris La Civita had blocked the truth at every turn.
Again, these are allegations.
I don't know what's true.
Let's call the team that, and Emerald says, number 14, let's call the team that saved the 2024 election the three Musketeers.
That's the man who briefed Musk and Gary Bernstein and Patrick Burns.
I've now interviewed them many times, along with SmartMatic whistleblowers from Venezuela.
I've confirmed key facts with the ODNI.
So she's done the work.
That doesn't mean it's all true, but she's definitely done the work.
Here's where the story gets really wild.
It's wilder than that.
Okay, the three Musketeers were also the ones who warned Trump about election fraud after the 2020 election.
Where do you think Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani got their information about SmartMedic?
And Judge Denine got them connected.
Number 16, so Trump had good intel about the fraud two days after the 2020 election.
So you can see why he was so insistent that it was rigged.
But then Trump called in Kushner to, quote, gather a legal team to handle it all.
Kushner's team was briefed next, but they dismissed the intel and did nothing.
Again, these are allegations.
I don't know what's true.
Rudy and Sidney were hung out to dry with no help.
Yeah, if this is true, then Rudy and Sidney were hung out to dry with no help.
Number 17, let's return to 2024.
Trump has won.
It's Christmas.
The whistleblowers from Venezuela are moved from Gestad to Bahamas on tourist visas to protect them.
They're being hunted by the cartel.
They need to get into the USA to testify and bring down the rigged voting machines.
It's February 2025.
Time is now up.
With their visas expired, the whistleblowers would be sent back to Venezuela and killed.
So Patrick Byrne got a catamaran out of Florida and sailed in the worst storm possible to the Bahamas in order to smuggle them all into the USA.
Jesus.
Number 19, why is this happening?
After all, Trump's now back in office.
The most important whistleblowers in American history are stranded because Team Trump does not have its act together again.
Finally, Tom Homan saves the day and sends two guys from DC to bring them all into the USA.
Number 20, it's April.
Trump authorizes Task Force on Election Fraud.
The DOJ, CIA, DHSD, and I guys meet the whistleblowers.
Then the agencies start a fight over who has control of the investigation, of course.
None of those guys return for interviews or casework.
They disappear.
Team Trump fails again.
21.
What's going on exactly? says Emerald Rubinson.
Our intel agencies are so compromised that none of them really want to investigate election fraud because they're involved in rigging the elections too.
And Trump didn't bother to fire all these people.
22, it's June.
Two whistleblowers are so upset with the handling of the investigation, they leave the USA in secret.
It's all about to fall apart.
Tulsi, Tulsi Gabbard, has to bring new guys from the three-letter agencies to start all over.
Those guys are shocked beyond belief after the interviews.
It's July.
The investigation report, the investigation report is done.
Tulsi prepares to bring the full report on 2020 and 2024 to Trump.
Trump's own White House advisors tell Tulsi to not include the 2020 evidence.
So she gives Trump a partial report.
Trump is now angry with Tulsi because of leaving out the 2020 stuff.
So Trump gets tired of waiting for these reports.
He wants to know if Venezuela really runs America's election.
So at this point, Trump is not yet convinced that this whole Venezuela thing, the narrative is correct.
So he's still looking for confirmation.
So, who does he finally call to brief him?
Who is Trump finally called to brief him?
Well, the Three Musketeers, of course, not the CIA or DNI.
That's when Trump decides it's time to overthrow Maduro.
Oh, does everything make sense now?
That's when he decided he needed to overthrow Maduro?
Maybe.
Maybe.
How did the Three Musketeers do all of this?
Well, Patrick Burns spent $80 million of his own money to protect America.
Houses, cars, Bitcoin, all gone now.
Gary Bernston mortgaged his house.
They're all broke now.
No one has been paid back by Trump or Trump admin at all, not one cent.
And that's the end of the threat, end of the thread.
Now, show me in the comments: does that ring true?
Because it does connect all the dots.
Doesn't mean it's true, but it does a good job of wrapping everything up in a nice little package, doesn't it?
I'm just looking at your comments to see if you believe.
Is the kraken real, or is this just more kraken?
I don't know.
Yeah.
And then I imagine if you were to look for another source or you tried with AI, it probably would tell you that the credibility is low.
That's my guess.
So let me say again as clearly as possible.
I don't personally know if any of that's true.
How would I know?
I just know it's a hell of a complete story.
And there's nothing there that's impossible.
None of it's impossible.
And we've just gone through how many years of, oh my God, I didn't think that was possible, but it happened.
So I always go back to my question.
And my question goes like this: What would be the purpose of electronic voting machines except to rig an election?
What would be the other reason?
They're not faster.
They're not cheaper.
They're not easier.
So why?
I only know one reason for machines, given that paper would be more reliable and easier to audit and everything else.
The only reason I can think of is that you intend to rig an election.
Now, I've been saying this for several years in public, that there's no other reason that has even been presented for why there would be machines.
I'm not even saying I would agree with it or don't agree with it.
Nobody's even tried to make the argument that there's some legitimate reason.
So if nobody's going to make the argument that there's any legitimate reason for them, what am I supposed to think?
Well, I don't know if Emerald Robinson's narrative got all the details right, but I know it would be perfectly consistent with observation.
And it would be consistent with essentially everything we know to be true.
And it would be consistent all the way through to why is Trump so intent on overthrowing Maduro.
And the reason might be that Maduro has been controlling our elections and Republicans will never be able to win again unless he's overthrown.
So this could be as much about domestic elections as it is about narco boats.
Because aren't you saying to yourself, huh, is blowing up these boats really gonna change the world?
But it makes a lot more sense if you believe that the real intention is to depose Maduro and maybe and maybe also get more information about whether the machines are rigged.
80 million votes alone.
Yeah.
I mean, just the fact that the total number of votes and the way they came in was non-standard.
This would explain that.
So that's Emerald Robinson's take.
I've been enjoying quite a bit reading her narrative, not knowing if it's true, but I'm enjoying it and she's put a lot of work into it.
It looks like really good work.
So I just wanted to make sure that you had at least some knowledge about that narrative and her work.
Okay?
Did you enjoy that?
How many of you enjoyed the reading of Emerald's work?
I mean, I want to make sure she gets the credit because I'm just reading her work.
All right.
Tell me in the comments if you enjoyed that or not.
Well, let's talk about the climate hoax.
The LA Times has now gotten a big opinion piece about how the climate hoax is falling apart.
There's not bad Steve Malloy of Junk Science is calling this out.
And I guess the point here is that it's not just the LA Times that's allowing an opinion piece to debunk the climate hysteria, but that there was that big paper that was recalled.
And a lot more people are willing to say, hey, this climate stuff looks sketchy.
Now, if I tell you that if you believed all the Venezuelan election machine stuff, if you believed that, how hard would it be to believe that the climate stuff was always bullshit?
It'd be pretty easy to believe, wouldn't it?
If you'd never seen how wildly unlikely reality is, you probably wouldn't believe that it's even possible that the whole climate thing could be fake and fake for 20 years and all the scientists would be either lying or mistaken or covering their ass.
But it's totally possible.
It is totally possible that this has never been real and that a trillion dollars has been fraudulently moved around because people tried to make you think it was real.
Let's see, what else?
What about Minnesota's state disability numbers?
Oh, well, it looks like Eric Doherty is writing about this in Acts, that the new license application soared 283%.
Basically, all the signals were there that there was some kind of massive state disability fraud going on.
And it was a Somali fraudulent thing.
So let's see, the state disability is bad.
SBA will probably look bad.
Basically, everything that's a big pile of money is money laundering.
In other news, Letitia James Did not get indicted, which is weird because you've heard the old saying that you can indict a ham sandwich.
So the grand jury looked at the evidence and said, ah, this is bullshit.
And we don't know their reasoning, but probably it was because it's such small potatoes and probably because it looked like it was a political hit piece.
That's my guess, but I don't think we have a way to know what the grand jury was thinking.
We only know that they decided not to go forward with it, which is unusual.
I don't think that's the worst thing in the world.
And I also don't mind that the Department of Justice tried, you know, they tried.
And if it doesn't work, it doesn't work.
I do think that justice would have been served if she had been treated the same way Trump was.
Because correct me if I'm wrong, but Trump had no victim at all, right?
In her case, there was a victim, but a very small one.
You know, it was a bank and it wasn't that much money for a bank.
But it was way more than Trump cost anybody.
He didn't cost anybody anything.
The banks were happy to work with him again if they had a chance.
So I would have been more entertained if things had been harder for her, but I also don't mind if the grand jury process works the way I want it to.
So that would be fun.
All right.
What else?
Inflation doesn't look so bad.
Apparently, according this is according to OAN, One American News, that if you look at the core index, it's only 2.8% this year, which wouldn't be that bad.
I think people will disagree about whether inflation is bad or not, but it doesn't look too bad.
And then also, Jeffrey Small, a partner at the Retirement Income Source, is predicting that the Fed will not cut rates next week, but they might wait until January.
But everybody expects them to cut rates.
So inflation seems to be roughly under control.
Interest rates look like they might be coming down.
And that's all good.
Here's some more good news: ATT is scrapping its DEI policies, including worker training that called racism a uniquely white trait.
New York Post is writing about this, Taylor Herslik.
Well, this is a to me, this completes a circuit because when I worked for the phone company, it was right after the divestiture.
ATT got broken up into these separate local phone companies.
And I worked for one of them, Pacific Bell.
And Pacific Bell was just flat out racist, just absolutely flat out, not hiding it, completely overt, flat out racist against white men.
And I had to live through that.
It's the reason I'm a cartoonist is because I couldn't get promoted.
They told me that directly.
They said, we can't promote you because you're white and male.
And when I tell that story, I've been telling it for, I don't know, years, but when I used to tell the story, people didn't believe it.
People believed, especially black Americans, they thought I was making it up because they couldn't process whether you're white or black.
Couldn't process the fact that the boss would tell me directly you cannot be promoted because you're white and male.
I was told that directly.
And the reason I was working for the phone company is that I had been working for a bank, and they too told me directly in San Francisco, we cannot promote you because you're white and you're male.
Now, but now it's 2025 and people have been, I think, exposed to how that whole world was working.
Now you know it's true, right?
Wouldn't you agree that that is no longer even a wild idea that I was told directly in completely clear language that they were going to discriminate against me with no end in sight?
Now it's completely believable, isn't it?
So if you wait long enough, I had to wait decades to be cleared, but there it is.
You remember American Eagle, the clothing company?
And remember, they had Sydney, what's her name?
Sidney Sweeney.
Right.
So Sidney Sweeney did the provocative campaign, and apparently it was really good for sales.
So their sales are up 136% since the Sweeney ads.
That's pretty good.
So what have we learned from that?
People like breasts.
I know, I know.
Surprising, isn't it?
But if you pair breasts with pretty much anything, people will pay attention.
So there's your lesson for the day.
Breasts, we like them.
Well, there's a new Trump administration, what would you call it, a new fee for illegals who are caught coming into the country.
They will now be imposed a $5,000 apprehension fee so that any illegal migrant caught in the country will have to pay $5,000 to pay for their own apprehension.
Now, the first thing I thought is, how many people coming across the border have $5,000?
I mean, they would be coming here because it's hard to get $5,000 where they were.
But if they're including people who have been working here for a while, which presumably it would, they might actually have $5,000.
Or at the very least, it would scare them into self-deporting because they wouldn't want to be on the hook for $5,000.
But we'll see.
I don't know how much of that you're going to be able to collect.
But if you could actually collect it, it would be big dollars pretty soon.
Well, the Supreme Court is going to take up the case of birthright citizenship.
The question of whether you're automatically an American citizen.
If you're born in this country, you know, no exceptions.
And you know what that makes me think?
It makes me think that maybe Trump is not an authoritarian.
If you were an authoritarian, would you need to go to the Supreme Court to get permission to say that people born here in some cases are not citizens?
I mean, that's pretty good, pretty good evidence that he's not an authoritarian.
He just has to wait for the Supreme Court to tell him whether he can do it or not.
And if they say you can't do it, he's definitely not going to do it.
Do any of you think that if the Supreme Court says, boom, you cannot do this, well, you can't block them from being citizens, the Constitution is clear.
If it says that, and I sort of suspect it will, are you going to think that he's an authoritarian?
That'd be a pretty weak authoritarian.
All right, another news.
Marjorie Taylor Greene was on 60 Minutes, and she's talking about a heated conversation she had with Trump over the Epstein files.
And what Marjorie says is, we did talk about the Epstein files, and he, meaning Trump, was extremely angry at me that I had signed the discharge petition to release the files.
And Marjorie says, I fully believe that those women deserve everything they're asking.
They're asking for all of it to come out.
They deserve it.
And he was furious with me.
He said it was going to hurt people.
How do you feel about that?
First of all, do you think that she's accurately relaying what happened?
I'm going to say yes, because I find Marjorie Taylor Greene to be very credible in terms of truthfulness.
I don't think she would lie about something like that or anything else.
I mean, she doesn't seem like somebody who's dishonest.
But that would suggest that everything you suspected was true.
That the reason we haven't seen the files is that there are important people who are able to say, you know, if this comes out, you're in trouble.
Or don't ruin my life or something.
But it's definitely about important people.
And how does that make you feel?
I think almost all of you are in favor of the files being released, even if it completely destroys families and lives that otherwise would not be destroyed, right?
Wouldn't most of you say, well, let the chips fall.
You know, they did what they did.
If they want to defend themselves, they can.
If they want to say, well, we were just buddies and I didn't do anything wrong, they can.
But the moment their names come out, presumably, there will be women who were young women then, but not so much now, who will say, yeah, now that his name is out, that guy abused me.
Well, you don't recover from that.
That would be the end of your business life.
It would probably be the end of your marriage if you're married.
It would destroy people.
But do the victims have that right to destroy these lives, even if a few extra people got destroyed who may have just been sucked into the, I don't know, the airplane ride or the island, but didn't do anything beyond that?
Or do you believe that there's no such thing as an innocent person who flew on the plane and went to Epstein Island?
It's kind of hard to believe they'd be totally innocent.
Yeah.
So, I don't know.
So, at least we know the answer, which feels partially satisfying.
I mean, the people who need to be satisfied are the victims, and they're definitely not satisfied.
And I feel like this is a tough one.
Remember, we don't know what Trump knows.
So he knows who the people are, and he probably knows them personally.
Some of them are probably personal friends because, you know, he knows everybody important anyway.
But what if he's literally just protecting some people because he doesn't think that they did anything wrong, but they would be lumped in with the people who did, definitely did things wrong.
How would you feel about that?
And I'm not saying that that's the situation, but suppose you knew somehow, suppose somehow you could know that he's really protecting people who didn't do anything wrong.
Do you think in that case you'd still want to see the names?
Because it would destroy them.
Their lives would be destroyed.
That's a tough one.
You know, if I put myself in that position, I hate to say it, but it might depend who those people were.
You know, if there were people who genuinely were good people and just found themselves trapped into this wrong situation, it would be hard to throw them under the bus.
On the other hand, it's the only way we'll get past it.
So it could be that if I didn't know them personally or have any connection to them, I might say, well, you made your choices.
Life is tough.
You're going to have to deal with it.
It's not for us to fix.
Yeah, it's a tough one.
I have some empathy for the situation that it puts Trump in because he doesn't want to destroy innocent people.
And here I am making an assumption that some of them might be innocent.
I don't know that.
Maybe they're all guilty.
But I wouldn't want to destroy innocent people if I could avoid it.
Yeah.
Anyway, there's no good answer.
Every answer is very unsatisfying in this case.
But the only way we'll get past it is just see everything.
So I guess I would be in favor without knowing who those people are.
I'll make you a deal.
All right, make you a deal.
I will be strongly on the side of full disclosure, but I will also be strongly on the side of defending anybody who doesn't have really solid accusations.
So if there are people who don't have any women making specific accusations, but they were just somehow got dragged into that world, I'll defend them, but only if they don't have a specific criminal allegation.
If they have a criminal allegation, not my problem.
That's between them and the law and the accusers and the public.
I'm not going to defend anybody who has a legitimate criminal allegation.
That's just not, that's not my problem.
So that's the best I can do.
All right, it's 8.13.
I'm going to say a few words privately to my locals beloved subscribers.
I hope you got something out of this.
If you're joining late, the reason I'm in this comfy chair is that my back is just killing me from hunching over my laptop.
So I just couldn't do it for another day.
I'm hoping that once my back feels a little better, I'll just go back to my normal show.
But today, I had to do the best I could.
All right, everybody.
I'll see you all tomorrow.
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