For the past few weeks, we have seen a lot of strange things: trans shootings in churches, the murder of Charlie Kirk, violence with antifa everywhere, and apathetic democrat leadership. The persistent and pervasive nature of news and the versions of a story are overwhelming, even for those of us who are in it every day. In this episode, Lynda talks about all of these and more, and how nothing really seems to make much sense at all. @LyndaMick @RogueRecapSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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What's up, you guys, and welcome to the rogue recap.
Uh, we're a couple weeks out here from the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
And if you're like me, you're questioning a lot of what we were told about the killer and about the murder and about the weapon and the text messages and just so many things surrounding that entire case.
And I feel like I don't know about you guys, but I feel like I'm in a perpetual psyop.
And the last couple of shows I've done, I've talked about the gaslighting, constant gaslighting, right?
Like, look over here, shiny ball, or you know, it's you, it's not me.
Like I just want facts.
I'm so disinterested and disgusted with the copious amount of fake news and fake information that just seems to be at the ready.
And it's everywhere.
I mean, I go on now, I saw this thing last night, my brother sent it to me, and I was like, holy shit.
It's an AI, it's an open source AI that you can go in, you pick the face and the voice that you want to be.
And then you basically speak whatever it is you want the character, the actor, whatever it is, the singer to say.
And it was so creepy.
I was completely freaked out.
I mean, this guy was freaked out, you know.
He went on to say, and I would play it for you, but you're one of those visual things.
But he's basically like pretending to be Taylor Swift, who I can't stand.
But he was like, hey, I'm a dude, I'm here at home.
I am not an engineer, I am not a Hollywood director, I have zero professional equipment.
This is an open source product, and I am able to look and sound exactly like a wicked famous person.
And unless you're really looking, you're not gonna notice any differences, right?
Like if you're just passing through and doing like your nightly scroll wherever you do it, everybody's different.
You know, I have friends that call it the doom scroll.
My one son always says he's like, I'm doing the doom scroll, and it's basically where you kind of go through all the terrible news of the day.
I've given my husband a strict rule.
I said, you gotta stop.
I can't, you gotta watch that crap on mute because all I do all day long is listen to horrible things.
So if we go to bed learning about, you know, the radical Islamization of all the various Western cultures, countries, the invasion, the lack of assimilation, like all I'm gonna do is have nightmares all night, so it's it's gotta stop.
But it was wild to see this guy.
He was as freaked out as I was watching it.
I was like, oh my God.
But again, it just you have to have like a moment where you like hit the pause, and then you do like what I call the AI check, right?
You run it through the AI check a meter and you say, is this real or not?
And one of the things that I do, because I do a ton of work in this space in media.
If I'm creating a meme or a graphic or a video, and I need to use something, and obviously I don't want to get into a licensing issue or have any of those kinds of problems, I will create something.
I'll create it in Grok, I'll create it in one of these open source platforms.
And I'm like, it is super easy.
Now, what I will tell you is I don't think it replaces human talent.
I'll still give it to my graphic designer and I'll say, hey, can you make this look perfect?
This is what I want.
This is my, you know, amateur effort.
Please take it and make it professional.
So I think there's something to that.
But it just scares the crap out of me.
I mean, they can take your voice, they can take your face, your likeness, they can take your inflections, your hand gestures, like all these things that are so personal to each and every one of us, and you're like, oh my God.
It's kind of like when people would say Biden doesn't have a body double or Clinton doesn't have a body double, and you'd see Hillary Clinton after the 9-11 collapse.
And you can call me conspiracy theorist all day long.
But ladies listening to this are going to agree with me 100%.
As a woman, there are certain things you always do the same way.
Okay.
Your hair goes the same way unless you're styling it for a special event.
You put your pocketbook on the same shoulder.
You wear certain rings on the same fingers.
And when Hillary Clinton collapsed that day at that 9-11 event, you'll notice when she came back out and they said she was fine.
Her rings were on the wrong fingers.
Her purse was on the wrong shoulder.
Her the way she moved and the way she was talking were different.
I was like, uh, yeah, I'm sorry.
This is like an amazing actress, but this is not Hillary Clinton.
No way, no hey.
And it, you know, these are the things, you know.
It's like when they said, you know, Joe Biden came out that day and he had that super deep voice.
And they're like, it's COVID.
I'm like, uh, yeah, it's 2024.
It's not COVID.
Uh, I don't know what it is, but it's not COVID.
He's also six foot five.
I don't know when that happened.
They're like, oh, it was a camera angle.
I'm like, um, okay.
Everybody else looks the same height.
Just stupid stuff, you know.
But the problem is is they made everything so impossible to ask about, so impossible to question.
And I feel that way about, I mean, even look at President Trump yesterday at the, you know, the UN, the teleprompter doesn't work, the microphone doesn't work, the escalator stops working.
And can we talk for a hot second about the Secret Service?
Holy shit.
They didn't even move.
I'm like, I'm sorry.
Uh, the president of the free world is currently stuck on an escalator that just suddenly stopped moving in the middle of the UN, which is like, you know, terrorist nation there.
Nobody there is our friend.
I don't know why the hell it's in the middle of New York City.
Please leave.
Please put that stuff in like, I don't know, Somalia or Africa or I don't know, London, anywhere else, because it doesn't belong here.
We don't want you here.
Take your free Palestine protest and shove that shit up your ass and take it over to some other country where people want to hear your noise.
We don't want to hear it.
I have zero interest in having people that want to recognize Palestine as its own state and not acknowledge what has happened with Hamas and say that there's nothing more to see here in the city of New York.
It's ridiculous.
And let me tell you something else.
As somebody who works in New York, and I have many friends that work in New York, and we've all been going in and out of the city for the last couple of weeks because they have like a week of prep and then they have two weeks of this nonsense.
And obviously, this week was nuts because we had Zelensky, we had Erdogan, we had Macron, you know, we had uh we had um uh Trump, you know, it's a lot of people, okay, fine.
But they close down.
So the United Nations is in Midtown on, you know, on the east side on the East River.
And so where I work is on the west side.
And I can tell you they have streets closed down all the way to Eighth Avenue, you know, in the middle from 57th Street down to 38th Street.
You can't get anywhere.
I'm they literally are not letting people walk on the street.
Yesterday, I went to get out of my office, and they're like, oh, you can't exit on this side.
So you walk across the building, you're like, oh, you can't exit on this side.
I'm like, um, all right, so not trying to be a wise ass, but neither side is allowing you out of the building.
Like, what are you guys doing?
Like, it's just stupid.
And like, there's no traffic control, there's no, they're not controlling people like you know, pedestrians in New York City think they rule a roost.
They have zero regard for moving vehicles.
Mind you, it took me three and a half hours yesterday to drive into Manhattan because I missed my train.
And I guess in some weird way it was a blessing because there were no trains out of Manhattan last night.
There were no trains in and out today.
It's it's just I've honestly, some of the things that we are unable to do as a first world nation in 2025 frighten me.
I'm like, all right, I don't know who's running these things, HOCL.
But I can tell you one thing, New York is a hot mess.
And we don't need the UN there, so please leave.
So that's my final statement on that.
And the NYPD, my God, what a terrible job they did yesterday.
I watched them stand there and do absolutely nothing in the midst of massive traffic, pedestrians Crossing on the don't walk, creating more traffic, a little bit of effort, a little bit of involvement goes a long way.
And as somebody who supports our police, I gotta tell you, these are easy things, guys.
Just get involved, help out.
They are so quick to scream and yell at you if you go the wrong way.
I'm like, well, help people out go the right way.
Nobody knows where they're going.
Nobody knows how to get from point A to point B. You just scream it at people.
It doesn't help anybody.
I really at points look around and I'm just kind of like, I think humanity has definitely taken a turn for the worse.
And if we've learned anything through this Charlie Kirk experience, the dichotomy between followers of Christ, people who believe in, you know, morals, the sanctity of life, the sanctity of marriage, there is a palpable difference between those individuals and the people that are screaming at current campus,
you know, Republicans and people that are trying to open TP USA locations, and some of the folks I follow, like Cam Higby, you know, he's out there and he's filming these lunatic Antifa members, which have just recently been designated a terrorist group by our president.
And I have no idea why in the world, uh ICE, our National Guard, our law enforcement is not having a heavier hand with these people.
I mean, they are surrounding federal buildings.
They are using bull horns at night to protest and scream outside of hotels.
I mean, isn't there like a sound ordinance or some sort of, you know, um I don't know, there's got to be something where you're like affecting the public at two in the morning on a bullhorn where it's like, hey, asshole, you know, some people have to get up and go to work tomorrow.
We realize that you guys are all paid and and bought by uh Soros, but the rest of us, we still have a paycheck.
So if you could just, you know, shuffle along, thank you very much.
Last I heard you get paid whether you protest or not, so you should be good.
But there's just this very strange, you know, dichotomy of the way we behave, but also the way we're treated.
You know, even today with this shooting this morning at the ICE facility in Dallas, Texas.
You know, the shooter, again, is a gamer on a Discord.
I don't know if he's trans or not, who the hell knows?
But it's like he shoots three people, he shoots the detainees, not the officers, then he shoots himself, and then people like Gabby Gifford, who was a victim of gun violence, comes out and says, This is what's wrong with America.
It's gun violence.
I'm like, you've got to be kidding me.
It's not gun violence.
You know, guns don't kill people, spoons don't make people fat, cars don't run other people over.
It's people.
People do that.
I don't know where we got lost in the accountability area of life, but there has to be some because there are millions upon millions of law-abiding second amendment respecting gun owners all over this country, myself and my husband included.
And we don't ever misabuse.
We're not out there shooting people up.
Our guns are in biometric safe so that nobody gets hurt.
And let me tell you something.
Criminals who have the will and the mindset to commit a crime are not interested in gun laws.
Again, please take a look at Chicago.
Some of the most stringent gun laws in the country.
California, Cartel City.
Nobody can have a gun.
People are getting shot every day.
Every single one of these blue cities, every single one.
They're run by Democrats who are inept and they're far more interested in talking about equality and how they're, you know, they're oppressed and they have issues than they are about solving problems.
They just want to keep everybody down because if they can keep you down, they can keep you on the dole.
It is that simple.
And so we have to be very, very forceful with our elected officials that currently have the reins, Republicans.
And I won't, we never even talked about the Ilhan Omar thing last week.
I mean, we had an opportunity to censure and get this creep out of our country and force scumbag Republicans voted against our own party and with the Democrats.
Why?
What are you people doing?
This is the kind of shit that really pisses me off.
This is the kind of stuff that makes me say, who bought and paid you?
You know, what happened that you felt like you needed to turn on your own people and vote for this woman who hates America.
All that she does all day long is tell people how Somalia is her first love, and America is a terrible, hateful country, and we need to be careful.
Shut up.
Please, if you love Somalia so much, take your husband, your brother, whatever you call him with you and go back.
Please leave today.
We would love for you to go.
That much I can promise you from the bottom of my heart.
And I sincerely do not know what people are doing with these Republicans, Corey Mills being one of them.
I mean, my God, I just could not believe from the I there are very few things that leave me speechless.
That was one of them.
And I was just like, uh, why in the world would you vote against what is happening here with Ilhan Omar?
This is a unique opportunity for us to finally get this scumbag out of here.
And what are we doing instead?
Oh, I know.
We'll just we'll just keep it here.
It's great.
And I'll be honest with you.
If you are, if you are a constituent of one of these people, I pray to you that you get them out of here.
So I'm gonna tell you what these jerks said.
Corey Mills says we may not like or agree with what someone says, but that does not mean we should deny their protected First Amendment right.
Bullshit.
Tom McClintock says this disgusting and hateful speech is still speech, and it's protected by our First Amendment.
Bullshit.
Jeff Hurd says, I voted against today's censure because it tried to strip another member of Congress from committees and to silence her for exercising her first amendment right to free speech.
That's that's absolutely not what is happening here.
And let me tell you something else.
Ilhan Omar is not saying things that are just like, oh, I don't like this person or I don't like this.
She is lying about somebody who is literally not here anymore to defend himself.
It's repulsive.
That's a completely different thing.
And we're not, we want to censure her for being an elected member of Congress lying about somebody who was assassinated for literally expressing their freedom of speech, and now you think that you should protect hers because she bashes him?
What planet are we on?
It does not make sense.
Not to mention the fact that she's committed immigration fraud and is somehow a multimillionaire from being in Congress.
Can we please just look at the things that we need to look at to get rid of her?
It's it's hate speech.
She's all about hate speech.
She's the one who says she's a victim of it every single day.
Well, let me tell you something.
For somebody who is a victim of it every single day, she sure as hell is pretty good at it.
She really is.
But anyways, back to Tyler Robinson.
If you're like me, you're starting to wonder what the hell is really going on.
And I'm not saying that he's not in on it in some way, but there's just something very strange about the whole Tyler Robinson, Lance Twiggs, the weird text messages between them.
They look like they were written by somebody in their 40s, not somebody in their 20s.
Not to mention the fact, why would anybody write their entire um basically a timeline of what they did to murder somebody in a text message?
I mean, does that seem believable to anybody else?
It's I mean, it's evidence.
I don't know.
It just feels wrong to me.
I'm sure we won't get the truth on that.
Just like we don't have the the truth still on Thomas Crooks who tried to kill President Trump and Butler.
I mean, we don't know anything about that guy.
Not one damn thing.
We got Ryan Roof, he got, you know, he was found guilty on all charges.
Then he's trying to stab himself with a pen.
I'm like, okay, so clearly we're trying to get into the mental health institution so we don't have to live the rest of our life in jail.
I mean, it's just not hard, guys.
You know, this stuff is so insane.
And the problem is too is that when you try to talk about it, like I said, people start freaking out.
You're not allowed to say that, you're not allowed to say why am I not allowed to say?
I tell you what, that's I'm gonna, I'm gonna uh call for my first amendment right To tell you people that you're all full of shit.
How's that?
Congratulations.
You're welcome.
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