Dave Smith and Tucker Carlson dissect the chaotic U.S. political shift from Trump’s assassination attempt to Kamala Harris’ manufactured presidency, exposing an oligarchy replacing democracy—where Biden’s cognitive decline and the 25th Amendment’s absence reveal systemic rot. They link the shooter’s ties to FBI headquarters to elite orchestration while dismissing Olympic distractions as manufactured outrage, warning that opposition energy fractures amid establishment discipline. Smith urges Trump to pivot to non-interventionist foreign policy, like opposing Israel-Gaza, and sue tech giants for censorship, framing 2016’s success on immigration and anti-war stances as the path forward. The duo also critiques vaccine narratives, citing repeated infections despite shots, and calls out the Biden coup as a blatant power grab, concluding that propaganda—from Goebbels to January 6th labeling—now crumbles as truth-telling becomes the last resistance. [Automatically generated summary]
It is really, it's unbelievable, and I think that...
Both me and you, when I interviewed you on my podcast, which I don't remember when that was, but it was several months before I came out here, and we were both kind of talking about how trying to make predictions about the rest of 2024 is difficult, but the one thing you know is it's going to be crazy.
It's going to be something really wild.
You could just feel that.
And at this point, you're like, how do we even accelerate from here?
And I think we're going to, by the way.
I think we've got several more crazy things to go.
Gavin Newsom or Hillary Clinton or Michelle Obama?
And everybody.
Even in the corporate media, in the moment when they admitted the emperor was naked after that debate, even all of them were speculating about who the person.
Yeah, right.
Exactly.
Even all of them were speculating about who it would be if Joe Biden dropped out and Kamala Harris was not the person because she's so, I mean, awful at this and deeply unpopular.
And so now they've switched into a new emperor's new clothes mode where there is this totally astroturfed fake Kamala Harris went from being the most unpopular vice president ever to a cultural phenomenon.
I like to call them storms, like when you're in the middle of a massive propaganda storm.
I always love the example, and I mentioned this last time, I don't know why, just this example, when Donald Trump said he was going to pull out of Syria, which he ultimately backed down on and didn't do, and for two weeks in the media, it was the Kurds!
Maybe we've been taken in by this illusion that it's about people when really it's about machines, the machinery of the party system, particularly the Democratic Party.
And it just kind of doesn't matter what Kamala Harris is like, what her record is, what she believes, what she'll do or not do.
Well, I mean, look, there's lots of examples of that, like every foreign policy decision in the last 20-plus years.
Yeah, they actually can't do everything.
We can do a lot.
I mean, we can take down nations.
We can't build them.
We've learned that.
But, you know, with Joe Biden, there was a really weird mix of things that happened.
And one of them is that there there is a kernel of truth, just a kernel of truth to the corporate media narrative, which is that obviously, you know, like me and you were talking, I think, at least since 2019 about Joe Biden's very obvious cognitive decline.
It was very clear when he came back around after being vice president.
If you listen to him back in 2016 when he made the decision not to run, he said it was because he wasn't over his son dying or whatever.
But we know it was really because Obama pushed him out in favor of Clinton, even though it was kind of his turn.
Traditionally speaking, he was the vice president.
But back then, he kind of was Joe Biden.
And then once he came back around running in 2019, it was like, whoa, this isn't Joe Biden anymore.
But the kernel of truth to the media narrative is that it's also true that it got drastically worse.
Like, it got, whatever it was, it went from being a thing where, I mean, I remember on your Fox show in 2019, you'd be, like, playing these clips of him where he'd go, he'd get the state wrong, he was telling these weird...
It was transparent to me.
It was very clear, but he was still a little bit like hit or miss.
So if you look at, first of all, the distinction, which I think should be obvious more and more to people, is that the distinction politically that matters right now is not left versus right.
That is just not true.
It's one thing that, man, it drives me crazy amongst Republican voters and even Republican leaders that they still want to see things in that distinction.
They still want to go the far-left Nancy Pelosi or whatever.
It's like, yeah, she's not really far-left.
She uses far-left language, but these people, it's not...
The distinction is like establishment versus dissident.
Or corrupt versus honest or something like that.
That's why Glenn Greenwald is not on the opposition team to us and Mitch McConnell is our ally, right?
It's not about that.
That's for sure.
Right.
So one of the things that the establishment has, which is really something I've been marveling at lately, is they have unbelievable message discipline.
Something that us...
The dissidents could never dream of happening.
I mean, it's just unbelievable.
You know, you see some of the compilations of the corporate media.
Well, my good friend, Michael Malice, who you had on your Fox show, wrote the book on North Korea, and he's just a really smart guy and hilarious and a great guy.
But he pointed this out, that A few years ago, when Joe Rogan was taking ivermectin, his doctor prescribed him ivermectin.
Well, it's amazing, right, just that even of these people who work in places that you used to work and some places you didn't work, but like people of the New York Times or the Washington Post or CNN or NBC or CBS, that like all of them, at least in their own minds, still pretend to be.
Journalists.
And yet they're somehow able to just repeat the talking point exactly verbatim as everyone else does.
So anyway, my point is we don't want to be that because we don't want to all just be mindless drones.
However, it's amazing to me that Donald Trump, none of his surrogates, no one on the pro-Trump side seems to be able to effectively hit Kamala Harris with what is the most obvious thing to hit her with.
It's the greatest scandal in American history, which is like what you just said, that we don't have a president.
The president of the United States, everybody has essentially admitted, is too senile to run for president.
Yet he's going to be president until January?
We are in a proxy war with the biggest nuclear power in the history of the world, and we have another...
Proxy war-ish type thing that looks to be devolving into a wider regional war in Israel, and we don't have a president.
This is like the biggest scandal in the history of the republic, if we're a republic anymore, and Kamala Harris is directly implicated.
She was one of the major people lying through her teeth that Joe Biden is sharp as attack in private meetings.
And it seems like somehow the Trump campaign has not been able to effectively hit her for this.
It's like right there in front of us.
You pulling Joe Biden out was admitting that he's too senile to run for president.
And yet you're not invoking the 25th Amendment.
This is what it's for.
He clearly can't be president.
What does it say about the machine that they're quite happy with that?
I mean, I think Obama has influence, you know, but I don't know how much Obama really ran the government when he was president of the United States.
You know, I certainly know that he definitely, at the very beginning, got rolled by his generals, and I think that he, you know, I don't exactly know where he was on some of these issues, but at least with, like, what he ran on.
In terms of healthcare was not what Obamacare was at all.
In fact, if you remember way back in ancient history in 2008, he...
Hillary Clinton was the one who was for the individual mandate.
I actually thought it was a great line he had in the debate.
He was like, the individual mandate solves the health insurance crisis in the same way that mandating you buy a house solves the homelessness problem, which was like a great line.
How does that help anything to mandate you buy something that you've already deemed you can't afford to buy?
But then that's what Obamacare ultimately was.
And why is it?
Oh, this is good for the insurance companies.
So it seems to me like he was always getting rolled by what are the powerful interests, which are essentially big business that owns the government, uses the government as a tool to increase their profits.
I don't think there's one issue ever where it's like, no, she believes in this, and she's going to stand up and try her best to make sure this goes through.
It's kind of like, you know, she was an aggressive prosecutor in California.
But if she was a prosecutor right now in California, I'm sure she'd be one of these progressive prosecutors.
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Before we get into the details of what's actually happening right now, what is to speed ahead a year, no matter who wins, does anybody believe that our system functions as advertised?
I think our system has worked this way for a very long time.
What's really drastically changed is that people have really woken up to it.
It's a mix of several things.
Obviously, the internet is a huge part of that and social media and stuff like that.
And then also just the Trump phenomenon.
That's right.
The deep state coming out of the shadows to some degree.
I know I've heard you talk about the clip before, and I've played it a million times on my podcast, but where Chuck Schumer was on with Rachel Maddow, which is an amazing moment because she goes off script, and she even says before she asks the question, she goes, I don't mean to put you on the spot here.
But president-elect Donald Trump, this is in January of 2016, he's won the election, but he's not president yet, because president-elect Donald Trump was just tweeting, you know, whatever, talking shit to the CIA or whatever, and he just off the cuff in a real moment goes, I would not do that.
It was like the most honest thing Chuck Schumer's ever said.
But I never really believed, I mean, I was an idiot, obviously.
I didn't really believe any of that.
I was hunting probably 10 years ago down in South Texas, right in the Rio Grande on somebody's ranch.
And this guy comes out with a box about this big and an aerial, like a fiberglass line that went up.
And the end of it was connected to a raccoon tail.
And it was a coyote call.
And they turned this thing on and it made the sound of a dying animal.
Like just from the depths of Hades, these sounds.
And then this tail would...
Whip around in the air.
It's the weirdest thing I've ever seen in my life.
And out of nowhere, within about three minutes, all these animals showed up.
There was a big cat, all these coyotes.
And I thought, that's kind of what Trump is.
He's like a coyote colleague.
He shows up and out of this landscape that looks desolate, like nothing's going on, all of a sudden the predators come out and you see for the first time that you were always surrounded by these things.
Well, no, but I'm saying that stuff we know is real, right?
Even the Time magazine piece that they ran.
So if you had a guy...
In Donald Trump, who the entire media class and political class told you that it cannot be this guy.
And not just like your opposition, like Mitt Romney, the former, the last nominee before him said, anyone but this guy.
Everyone said, you can't have this guy.
And the voters decided, no, we want this guy.
This is who we want.
And so they framed him for treason.
They framed the sitting U.S. president for treason with a foreign hostile power.
That completely collapsed.
It's weird.
You don't hear anything about that anymore, right?
Isn't that just that in itself so crazy that Vladimir Putin's plant is possibly going to be president again and no one in the media is even mentioning that as a thing and yet also not apologizing?
Like, it's like, they're not, how can you do neither of those things?
How can you either say, like, oh, Russia's about to have control of the White House again, or, hey, we were wrong about that whole Russia having control of the White House thing.
But anyway, so they frame him for treason, they impeach him twice, they raid his home in Mar-a-Lago, they, you know, all these things that happen, how would you ever, after that, if Trump loses, let's say, how would any Trump supporter ever accept that this was real?
You know what I mean?
That our team actually lost and your team actually won.
So you made such a smart point at breakfast, which I wish we had filmed because it was great, but about how there's no effort by the establishment in Washington, both parties, to win over people who support Trump.
There's no effort to convince them, to cajole them.
It feels like the people who run the country actually hate a lot of the country for real.
I recently re-watched Pat Buchanan's speech from the 1992 convention, which was an amazing speech.
He was a speechwriter for Nixon.
He was really, really good at writing speeches.
That was kind of his thing.
Media flipped out about it.
They called it the culture war speech.
I remember.
It wasn't really that culture war-y, really.
But there was this one point where he said something along the lines of, he was talking about being on the campaign trail.
He had run and challenged George H.W. Bush, and this was him coming back in to throw his supporters behind H.W. A mistake, in my opinion, but gave a great speech regardless.
But he said at one point that he was out there, you know, when he was talking to people who were really struggling.
You know, there's some woman who was talking about how she lost her job.
And they were going to maybe take her kid away from her.
And then there was some guy who worked at a plant that was going to close down.
And he was like, please save our jobs.
And he's kind of like touching moments.
And his message to the Republicans was like, look, these people are our people.
They're our fellow countrymen.
And we have to get back in touch with them.
And he said at one point, he goes, they don't expect miracles from us.
But they have to at least know that we care.
Like, that's kind of it.
And it's amazing how little it takes.
You know, like, one of the things about this Waltz guy, which he is, one of the things that I think is one of the reasons why they picked him, is that he at least gets that you're supposed to talk about issues that maybe regular people might care about, you know?
And it almost, this is why some of these old distinctions aren't as meaningful anymore.
Like, you know, you have to keep in touch with what people want, and you sort of have to deliver some percentage of it, or at least pretend you are, right?
Although there's, you know, I think Trump supporters and people who are, I think, truly dissidents of this regime have to, you know, You know, look, like I said, we're never going to have the message discipline of the establishment, and that's okay.
We don't want that.
I think we do have to be wiser about, like, how exactly are we going to attack this thing?
You know, like, I'm a hardcore libertarian, and that's a very small group of people in this country that are not.
There's some, but there's not that many.
Now, there's enough that Donald Trump came to the Libertarian convention because it's...
It's a election presidential elections are close these days and any little block like helps but if you're talking about like Trump supporters it's okay hey you got tens of millions of people in this country and you could see where look there's there's real lessons to be learned um from last year's uh the boycotts of target and bud light just in that forget even like politics just in terms of being consumers hey look at the power you guys have if you decide to do something You can really do something,
and you can change the direction of the culture, the direction of the country, but you've got to be really smart about when you decide to do it and who you decide to go after.
Man, it was frustrating to me to see.
So Donald Trump gets shot in the head, does this, and it's the reason why he's alive.
If he hadn't done that...
His brains are blown out on national television.
Now, what we know about this, and obviously there's a lot more to uncover, but let's just say best case scenario, it was a wild failure.
You know, like a failure that you really can't even imagine.
I've just seen some of the videos.
This kid is walking around and scoping out the area for...
Over an hour before he's there, he's allowed to be on a roof that's 150 yards away from the former president of the United States of America.
I don't like that stuff either, and I think it's awful that they're shoving that in everyone's face, and that shouldn't have been at the opening ceremonies.
But hey, no!
No, no, no, no, no.
Outrage is a finite resource, just like everything else.
And we are outraged about this thing.
Not that.
We're outraged about this.
And all it would take would be a little bit of focus.
Okay, we're not going to have the message discipline of the corporate media, but just a little bit of focus from the dissonance to just pick four things that we're going to focus on.
All of our energy.
We're getting to the bottom of that assassination attempt.
What the hell happened there?
They could do it.
We could figure that out.
This isn't Kennedy where we have one...
We only support America first non-interventionist candidates.
And anybody who has anything to say to you about war with Iran is your enemy.
You're not on their side and you're not supporting them.
I did see there was, I can't remember who, somebody at the Blaze who had, they had reported that, you know, because, you know, it's not just the government who's tracking your...
Yeah, so they had a phone from the shooter's house that had gone to D.C. and been at this spot that's known to be where FBI meets with their informants and stuff like that.
And then, of course, it's like, look, let's just say there's a serial killer.
Uh, in a neighborhood and they've killed like 11 people.
And then there's a 12th person who's dead and you see that serial killer leaving their house on video.
It's like, okay, I'm not saying that's maybe not enough evidence to go to a court of law and, and prove beyond a reasonable doubt that this person killed them.
But I'd be like, if we're all just looking at that, we're like, I'm pretty sure my starting assumption is going to be that guy did it.
The Biden administration clearly planted or allowed the planting of, but I think they clearly did plant, pipe bombs on the morning of January 6th in front of the DNC and the RNC. Kamala Harris was at the DNC that morning.
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So I don't know why no one is focused on that stuff, but if the Secret Service, heavily armed federal agency, Is a political tool, then, I mean, then it's like you really have to rethink the terms, don't you?
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Yeah, I thought until, I mean, they kind of sent the signals over the last couple weeks that he was out, but I was assuming Mark Kelly was going to be the guy because he's, from what I understood, they were friendly with Harris.
He's got kind of this thing where his wife was shot and he's an astronaut.
And there is just something about that that's like, you kind of can't help, but it is an archetype of a...
What world are you living in where you look at that guy and you go, man, just dripping with charisma, you know?
It's like, so they're doing that right now.
Like, I just, and this is just totally anecdotal and I don't know what it means, but I have, personally, I've gotten, like, 30 text messages about donating to Democrats in the last two weeks, and I've never donated to...
No, I donated to Tulsi Gabbard when she was running in 2019. Because it was like the thing where you needed individual donations to make the debate stage, and I just wanted her on the debate stage.
They're doing all types of maneuvering.
To give the impression that there's, you know, enthusiasm and support for these guys, including things like having, I don't know, I'm out of touch and all that, but having like all these like rappers or whatever at her event.
So you get a bunch of people who are like going to see, you know, the rapper and then you go, look at all these people coming to Kamala Harris's event.
They have all of their like techniques that they use.
Well, Kamala Harris and her fake husband kissed each other with masks on.
I mean, what?
It's just so...
I guess...
Look, I think I'm pretty libertarian on the...
I am.
I mean, I've been in TV my whole life.
I know a lot of people with weird personal lives.
I'm not a judger at all.
Yeah, sure.
However...
If everybody in power has some sort of weird celibate, you know, Mitch McConnell and his wife and Kamala Harrison, her husband, this Tim Walz guy, like, there's just no chance these are normal marriages at all.
And they were jumping on J.D. Vance for, I think it was with you, I think it was an old clip where he was just talking about, like, all these childless people making decisions for the country.
And look, like, I'm not, again, I'm...
I'm with you on that.
I'm not, like, judging people.
I don't think...
There are some people who shouldn't have kids, you know?
It's the best thing I've ever done, but I certainly think there are people who wouldn't make very good parents.
There are people who are very bad parents who probably would have been better off not being parents.
Which is what's so strange about them going with the line of J.D. Vance being weird.
Like, I understand...
They're in, like, a little bit of a pickle where they're like, okay, they have to find rhetoric, you know, Trump just got shot, so they have to kind of pull back on, like, the Nazi stuff, because it's not really working, and also it's really hard to say you're not kind of, you know, it's really hard to be like, oh, the right-wingers are inciting violence when they say fake news, but, like, we're not inciting violence when we say democracy's on the line unless this guy's taken out, you know?
I mean, I do think that, like, look, as we've kind of learned, like, a bit from the Jeffrey Epstein thing, and, you know, I guess we're, you know, so we find out that there's this child pedophile blackmail ring.
That was pretty clearly involved a foreign country, and it's going around compromising political leaders and influential people.
And I guess we're supposed to pretend like that must have been the only one.
And it's over now.
I mean, we never got to the bottom of it.
And sure, all of the cameras malfunctioned, and the guy committed suicide, and we never get the client list, and we never get any of this information.
And I've said that a bunch of times, and every time he tells someone I know that, you know, that's outrageous, he complains, and I hope he'll sue me over that, because it's true.
And my greatest heroes, all of them, first and foremost, I was talking to you about before, is Ron Paul.
And he always just told the truth.
Even when it was like something that would get him booed out of an arena or something that would be like very controversial, something that would make him look bad.
But you've got to wonder, like, the Epstein, I did not take the Epstein murder, which it was a murder, not a suicide, seriously at all.
And then, you know, I spent a lot of time learning about it and talking to his brother Mark about it and I think becoming something of an expert on it.
He was murdered.
But then you have to think, well, he was murdered not in his bedroom or on West 57th Street.
He was killed in the special housing unit of federal lockup in Manhattan, like the most, like the inner sanctum of the vault.
So, okay, then the next, I guess, conclusion would have to be anyone with the power to do that.
Can pretty much do anything in this temporal world, right?
So that's a pretty formidable, whoever did that, and we could, you know, I have theories on it, but can't prove it, but somebody did it, and those are the people that, like, maybe you shouldn't criticize.
Yeah, I mean, there's certainly, there's a point to that.
There's also, you know, I also, you know, like, having little kids, like, I also, I have a son, and I do feel an enormous pressure to, To be an example for him and to be a man, it was a pressure I never felt until I had a son.
Maybe that's the sexist in me.
I mean, I just didn't feel that same pressure with my daughter.
My wife is also like, she's so great that I always just kind of felt when we, our first was a daughter and I always felt when I had her, I was like, oh, like, I was like, okay, my job's pretty easy.
But I think one of the foundational things about being a good man is telling the truth, and even when there's some risk involved in that.
So I do also feel kind of a pressure that it's like, well, no, then those are the people who are exactly who I should be criticizing and talking about.
That's exactly right.
Now, as far as, you know, I would just say my only pushback on what you said is that It's not, yes, they can touch someone in, you know, a secure prison.
So that's certainly something they demonstrate they have the ability to do.
Also, I don't know that it was ever supposed to get to that point, and I don't know that we're supposed to know about it, and we're supposed to be having this conversation right now.
So clearly it didn't go exactly according to plan, right?
We hear a lot from viewers about big tech censorship and those reports are more frequent than ever right now.
Censorship meaning shutting down your access to information.
Not lies or misinformation but true things.
It's only the truth that they censor.
Facts that get in the way of the lies they're trying to tell you.
The net effect of this, of course, is interfering in the 2024 presidential elections.
That's why they're censoring more than ever now because the stakes are even higher.
You're probably not shocked by this, but the specific examples of it do throw you back a little bit.
We've seen screenshots and videos showing how a Google search to learn more about the attempted assassination on Donald Trump instead push users to information on Harry Truman or Bob Marley or the Pope.
Anything other than the relevant truth, which is that they just shot Trump in the face.
They don't want you to know that because it might help Trump.
We've seen examples where Facebook marked true photos of a bloodied and defiant Trump as misleading.
Somehow those pictures were a lie and then limited their visibility.
Its AI assistant explicitly denied the shooting ever took place.
This is insanity, but it's at the core of big text editorial policy, which is denying the truth to you in order to control the outcome of this presidential election.
That's not democracy.
We've seen examples where a generic search for information about Donald Trump was automatically rephrased to show positive stories about Kamala Harris instead.
Is there any clear example of election interference?
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So if you're trying to figure out what the U.S. will look like next year, 2026, and into the future, worst case is kind of what's happening in the U.K. right now, it seems like.
Yeah, and this is why, like, you know, people, especially, particularly like the dissidents that I was talking about, like, you really got to be smart in the way that you fight these things.
And so, you know, like I, I was talking about when there was, there was one, one of Donald Trump's like trials, there was a big like kind of group of Trump supporters who were outside protesting.
And I, I remember I tweeted that day and I was like, Hey, dear Trump supporters, if you happen to see a barrel chested man outside screaming storm, the courthouse, just go ahead and don't storm the courthouse.
You know, it's like, let's just like, let's be smart about the way you try to go about this.
Can we establish that anybody who screamed, let's storm the Capitol, I can think of two people who did, who was not arrested, didn't spend time in jail.
And so, I mean, just all of the things together, you can kind of obviously see what it was.
But, so you don't want...
You don't want to riot.
You don't want to do things like that because then that would be an excuse for our government to do exactly what the government in the UK is doing right now, right?
It was crackdown on Facebook posts or whatever, you know?
And so you don't want to fight it that way.
But, you know, I do believe, like, this country can still be saved or it could be a lot less worse than the possibilities are.
The country's been in very bad points before.
not exactly the same as where we are right now.
What's, uh, what's, what's scary about the current position is that it's, it's all of these factors plus the like financial realities.
Uh, they, they kind of create this weird super storm of things where it's a cultural phenomenon, a political phenomenon.
And then it's also just like a debt and, and, uh, derivatives and bonds and like things that are like all completely unsustainable.
But I do think that like, like I was saying, like there's, we have a big opportunity if we could really just focus and kind of get people who, We have these giant platforms like this show.
It's really incredible.
I don't think you can overstate how amazing it is that the dynamics have shifted technologically and culturally to the point where, say, someone like...
Okay, so Bill O'Reilly, obviously a very different person than you, and was never...
Was never a critic of the regime in the meaningful way that you were at Fox News, but he was the number one cable news show at the 8 p.m.
hour at Fox News.
And they fired him, and he largely went away.
I know he's still got his show, he's still got a little bit of an audience, but he's not really involved in the national conversation anymore.
Like, Bill O'Reilly was, like, moving the national conversation at one point.
It also probably has something to do with you having a younger audience than him because Bill O'Reilly's audience was much older and it's much tougher to get that audience to go over to...
Brian Stelter ain't the mainstream, you know what I mean?
It's you and Rogan, and Candace Owens' show is taken off, and there's all these big shows.
And so, okay, we've got a new tool in our disposal here.
And, you know, it's like, part of the thing that's so frustrating to me, watching Trump's campaign so far, it's like, I don't know who he has running this thing.
But it does not have the brilliance that Steve Bannon had in 2016, where they really figured out, like, this is the lane you run in.
And there's so many things about...
And so, anyway, I guess what I'm saying is that, like, these audiences, man, need to pressure Donald Trump right now to be better and to run a smarter campaign.
Then they handed us the greatest financial recession in a hundred years.
They gave us the Obama recovery, which was like the most, you know, crony recovery built off.
0% interest rates and record high government spending.
So the recovery, essentially, was Wall Street and the suburbs of Washington, D.C. Then there's the rise of wokeism, all this insane stuff that they're pushing on people.
Now they've given us this disastrous war in Ukraine.
But they allowed the conditions for this to happen and then used that to have the biggest crackdown on the liberties of the American people in our nation's history.
And all on the basis of pseudoscience.
science.
It was all completely wrong.
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Okay, so they've So, like, the lane here is that you, Donald Trump, represent the repudiation of all of that.
And that's how you won in 2016, obviously pre-COVID, but...
That's how you won in 2016. You were a repudiation of the Bushes and the Clintons.
Not just the Clintons, not just the Democrat establishment, but also the last Republican president.
You got on stage and said he lied us into war.
I mean, like, this is what gave you that energy.
This year in the campaign, I mean, look, however you feel about Israel.
The fact that Donald Trump has made the whole campaign, you know, his convention is the pro-Israel convention, and then it's like, oh, Kamala Harris, she's a Palestinian.
Chuck Schumer's a Palestinian.
They're all a bunch of leftists.
Like, well, now what?
You're supporting the status quo, which is that America supports Israel?
That's what every powerful person in D.C. believes.
All of them, including Kamala Harris, by the way, who's a part of an administration that is...
Completely supporting Israel's war in Gaza right now.
What is this weird invention?
And then he even frames it as they're all these left-wing socialists.
So he's almost like...
Putting himself in the position as the defender of the establishment against the radicals who would overthrow the establishment and what, have a revolution of the workers or something like that?
First off, it's not true.
That's not at all what's going on.
They're the defenders of the establishment.
They use some left-wing rhetoric to pit people against each other and create a culture war to distract from their terrible policies, but they're not Marxists.
This is so ridiculous.
You know what I mean?
First of all, look, Donald Trump, I'm not saying...
Well, I also will say one of the things that was kind of magical about Donald Trump's 2016 campaign, which really, I mean, it just, it can't be overstated how amazing what he did was, however you feel about him.
And the guy on a shoestring budget.
He went out there and just, through use of social media and his kind of bombastic personality, was able to completely dominate the news cycle and took out the Bushes and the Clintons, the two most powerful political families in modern American history.
He took both of them out in this crazy upset.
Part of the way that he did that was that there were these issues that were overwhelmingly popular.
That no one else wanted to touch.
It was like if there was like a poker game and there was just like pocket aces that like everyone's like, I don't want those cards.
And then Donald Trump was like, I'll play those cards.
Those are very good cards.
I'll play.
How about build a wall?
Stop the flood of illegal immigration.
Like, how about we can have immigration, but, like, we get to decide who comes in and does it.
That's wildly popular with people.
Open borders aren't popular.
I mean, it's hard to even find polling on them because it's so unpopular that people won't even ask the question.
You know, like, they ask, like, do you want higher levels of immigration or lower level?
But the only polls I've seen, it's like...
Single digits, you know, maybe 7% of people support open borders, maybe less than that.
But so he's just playing these, hey, we shouldn't fight stupid wars.
It turns out that's a wildly popular position.
However, I will say with this, you know, the majority of Americans don't want to support Israel's war in Gaza, but he won't play that card.
For whatever reason, maybe it's because he believes it.
Maybe it's because Jared Kushner convinced him of this.
I don't know.
But he's not going to play that card and just say, hey, we're broke here.
We're $35 trillion in debt.
We can't afford to prop up other...
Listen, I'm like a strict non-interventionist.
I'm like John Quincy Adams.
I don't think America should fight anything.
If we're attacked, we destroy those people.
But that's essentially it.
But when a couple months ago went around in response to Israel killing an Iranian, when they launched those missiles at Israel and a team of nations led by the United States all helped defend Israel.
It was Jordan and Saudi Arabia were involved too, by the way, which goes to show you the real dynamics of that region.
But no one's really complaining about that.
Like, okay, fine.
I'm a non-interventionist, but, like, if missiles are coming toward Israel, go ahead.
Shoot them down.
Fine.
That doesn't mean we have to help them.
That doesn't mean we have to fund them fighting their war.
And then also just the fact that, like, there's a foreign country.
We're not allowed to criticize, and people's careers get ruined over that.
I'm sorry, listen.
If you want to be America first, what does America first mean, right?
It means we shouldn't have fought the war in Iraq or whatever, something.
Okay.
Who really wanted us to fight the war in Iraq?
You know, I'm just saying it's like, no, like, all these guys, and it's like they come back in now with the NatCon movement.
Douglas, Colonel McGregor had a great article about this earlier this summer.
He co-authored it in the American Conservative.
But it's like all this new NatCon movement that has all this kind of like pro-Israel stuff coming into it.
The title of the piece is Neoconservatism by Another Name.
It was a great piece.
Everybody should go read it.
But it's like, well, who do you think the neocons were who wanted us to fight the war in Iraq?
Like I said last time on here, go read A Clean Break, A New Strategy for Securing the Realm by Richard Perl and David Wormser.
It was about overthrowing Saddam Hussein for Israel's benefit.
I'm not against Israel.
I'm Jewish.
I like Israel.
It's a cool country.
The people there are great.
I'm just saying that if you're America first, then the guy, Benjamin Netanyahu, the guy who testifies before Congress that we should go overthrow Saddam Hussein and launch a regime change war against Iran and launch a war in Libya, that's not your ally.
The whole America first thing is that we don't think we should go fight all of these stupid wars.
You know, unless there's some coherent justification for them at least.
But so, okay, so Donald Trump, He needs to just play.
There's a few things that he could laser focus on right now, and he should.
Donald Trump should be asking himself the question that Hillary Clinton asked herself in 2016, the most obnoxious question ever, but why are you not up by 50 points right now, Donald Trump?
Why is that?
Listen, just run on this.
No more stupid wars, period.
We're not fighting any wars of choice.
We are only fighting wars of necessity, which we do not have any right now.
Iran?
Puny little Iran is a threat to the United States of America?
So they always tell you it's the most important election of your lifetime, but of course, this one actually is.
That's demonstrable, and it's also, because it is so important, being censored at every level by the tech companies.
So we were thinking about this a couple of months ago, and we thought, why not get on the road live in front of actual people, live audiences, coast to coast, a nationwide tour where we can't be censored?
That'd be good.
It would also be fun.
So we're doing it.
We're going to be on stage with some of our friends, some of the most fascinating people we know, the most recognizable people we know, responding to what is happening in America this September in real time.
It'll be just like the podcast, but it's going to be live.
So we're excited to announce our friend Larry Elder.
Is coming to join us in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Our friend John Rich will be there with us in Sunrise, Florida.
We're adding more stops.
We just added another stadium show in Reading, Pennsylvania.
We'll be joined on stage by Alex Jones.
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But one of the things that's really interesting that's changed very drastically in a short period of time on the kind of the right in America is that at least what I get now, the talking point for Donald Trump, like from Donald Trump's supporters, is that there were no new wars.
He didn't start any new wars, which is, I do love that that's the talking point.
Like, it's never like, he killed all the terrorists, or he was so...
Where the Democrats are wimpy, his supporters are bragging that he didn't get us into a new war.
Now, okay, the reality is that he came pretty close, actually, in Iran and Venezuela.
And even when Trump was being manipulated by some very not good people that he had around him to strike Syria, it does seem like most of the reporting was that that's how they got him.
Was with being like, look at these dead kids from these chemical attacks.
Oh, the fake poison gas attacks.
Yeah, yeah.
And then just, you know, and so kind of like played on that feeling that he has to be like, you know, you got to do something to stop this.
So one of the reasons nobody pushes back against the big picture claims that, you know, for example, Iran is her greatest enemy or that Putin is going to try and overrun Czechoslovakia or this is freaking insane, is that anyone who talks like that puts himself at risk.
And I would just, you know, Scott Ritter.
I'm sure you saw this week at the FBI, rated as how, you know, this is a former arms inspector, U.S. government employee, who's been opposing American foreign policy nonviolently for 20 years, and they keep throwing him in jail for it.
Well, there is, yeah, there's risks that are attached to opposing the war machine, because that's kind of the whole game.
And so, look, I also do recognize that, like, I'm just, you know, talking shit into a microphone and that Donald Trump, the pressures and the forces that he has to deal with here are certainly things that I don't completely understand.
But from what I do understand of this is that I know it's the correct...
And it would be enormously popular with his base.
And then there's other things, too, that he should be laser-focused on.
I mean, obviously, immigration.
I mean, it's unbelievable, unbelievable that what he decided was his signature issue, that he ran his campaign centered around, has been basically, has won the day.
And that he was labeled a Nazi.
And now you got the mayors in blue sanctuary cities all talking about how the influx of migrants is destroying their cities and stuff.
Forever.
He's obviously got pocket aces right there that you play this card.
And the other thing is the censorship, which really should be more of a focus of his campaign.
And I'm stunned that it's not.
I mean, he's back on Twitter today, by the way.
I mentioned that to you when I first came.
I just saw that on my way over here in the taxi.
He's back on Twitter.
So yeah, has to be back on Twitter to win this thing.
But he got kicked off of Twitter.
And not just him.
He shouldn't make it just about him.
That should almost be like an afterthought for his campaign.
But like all of his supporters.
You know, like, it's in his self-interest to defend these guys.
Everybody through 2020, I mean, if you were, like, critical of the lockdowns, everybody was getting silenced left and right.
And that is, he should make this campaign like a referendum on free speech.
And that the only way free speech is going to happen is when I'm in there.
And he should threaten the shit out of all of these companies.
And not, because Khrushchev didn't even mean it with force.
He meant their economic model was going to be better.
No, I want force.
I mean, with force.
Listen, that is the only thing these companies are going to respond to.
But if they think that Donald Trump, like if Donald Trump could really say in a believable way, like he'd say, hey, Google.
I'm going to win this election, which, look, as of right now, there's at least a very good chance he's going to win this election.
And he goes, my sole mission in life every morning when I wake up till I go to sleep that night is going to be to take you guys down unless you stop censoring.
Right now.
Like, I don't mean when I get in.
I mean, from now until the election.
Because, you know, you see all this stuff like Elon Musk was posting about it.
Like, they were totally, there was never any evidence to suggest that you could not get COVID or transmit COVID. You know, even in the original, what was it, the Pfizer study where I think, like, it was...
If I'm remembering this correctly, it's been a while since I read it, but I think it was like in the unvaccinated group, two people died of COVID, and in the vaccinated group, one person died of COVID, and then they extrapolated from that that it's 100%, you know, reduction.
But there was still a person who died of it in there.
This idea that you can't, like, this was never true.
The beginning of his administration made his number one priority to, by any means necessary, get every single American to take this vaccine.
Luckily, with the skeleton of constitutional, limited, republic procedures that we still have, the Supreme Court struck down the worst of his mandates, like the OSHA mandate, which would have had every midsize and large business in America.
Who I just want to say for the record I really love and I revere as a pioneer in media really more than, I mean, Roger Ailes' level kind of changed everything.
I just always want to say that because I really believe it.
But he seemed to endorse Bobby Kennedy.
Then he comes out and says, no, I just like Bobby Kennedy.
I like Bobby Kennedy too, for the record.
He's a nice man.
But I was not endorsing him, Rogan said.
And I don't really like talking about politics that much.
I'm summarizing.
But if you want to know what I think, just listen to Dave.
That was kind of funny and cool that he said that.
Which was, I was like, yeah, that is really, but I was like, I'll take them.
I love this.
I like the looters.
But also the moment really is, it's because Joe is such a like, I know him pretty well.
We're pretty good friends at this point.
He is exactly what you say.
That's him.
If you watch the show, you already know who he is.
Like, he wasn't, he doesn't even think, like, I'm going to be making an endorsement today on my show about which candidate I want to throw my people's support behind.
He literally just, someone asked him a question, and he was just having a moment.
Like, he was just like, I do like this Bobby Kennedy guy.
You know, he seems kind of like, he's read books about stuff, and he wants to discuss ideas and not just, like, personal attacks.
And, yeah, I mean, I kind of, I tend to agree with that, too.
I also just, by the way, I mean, I was just so...
Furious at Trump supporters who were, like, giving Rogan shit for that.
And then I just thought it was maybe the stupidest thing Trump's done in the campaign so far was that he posted on Truth Social attacking Joe Rogan for it.
And it's like, man, it's Annie.
Is anyone around him to just be like, no, you don't go to war with Joe Rogan.
And it's really just the flaw in Trump is that he said it'll be interesting to see how much Joe Rogan gets booed at the next UFC event.
And you're like, do you really think Joe Rogan's going to get booed at a UFC? Okay.
All right.
I know that Donald Trump, I know how your mind works.
And there's great things about it.
And then there's things that hold you back.
But I know that you think that since they love you at the UFC event, they're your people.
And they'll hate anybody who's not supporting you, but actually they really love Joe Rogan and they're not going to be booing him.
And it was just so stupid to fight this fight with him.
Anyway, you know, to the Bobby Kennedy stuff, I was...
When he first started running and I had him on my show and I was just like, I just loved the guy.
And I thought, you know, his...
Positions on Ukraine and on the vaccine I thought were heroic.
And it was amazing.
What was so amazing about his campaign was that he was running as a Democrat and he's Bobby Kennedy.
His name is Bobby Kennedy.
And he's not like some peripheral Kennedy.
He's Bobby Kennedy's son.
He's Jack Kennedy's nephew.
And here he is giving Democrats this It reminded me a lot of the Ron Paul presidential campaigns, where because Ron Paul was such a conservative person, and because right after his name, there was R, Texas.
You could be a real American patriot and oppose these wars.
And in a similar fashion, I felt like Bobby Kennedy was giving Democrats permission to abandon these, which were, look, I mean, if you think about it, I said just a second ago that the vaccine was Joe Biden's first, you know, We're all in on the vaccine.
And then his second big thing was all in on the war in Ukraine.
This is the Biden administration.
So he's this total repudiation of Joe Biden, but being like the true Democrat, what we're really supposed to be, you know?
And so there was something amazing about his campaign.
You know, I understand why he made the move to go independent, because there's not a real...
I do think that, and me and him, he came back on my podcast to his credit and we argued about this.
I do think it's strained our relationship a little bit, but I could get past not being good on Israel, from my perspective, of course.
And I could get past...
I could probably tolerate all the way up to Vivek Ramaswamy's position on Israel, which essentially was he was taking the non-interventionist position, but doing it...
In a way where it's like, I am not picking a fight with AIPAC, you know what I mean?
I think his answer at the debate was something he said.
He goes, I'll tell Netanyahu that I'm going to kill the terrorists on our southern border, and you go kill the terrorists on your southern borders.
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I was kind of like, I'm not funding your war, but totally support you doing what you're doing.
Going around with Rabbi Shmuley as your campaign advisor, just like, to me, once I saw that, I was like, I'm just, I can't, I just can't.
It's too much for me.
So, and I do think, again, kind of like I'm saying with Donald Trump, I mean, he's just, pocket aces, you don't want to play these pocket aces, okay.
I mean, Democrats, like, 70% of Democrats.
I think 50% of them consider it a genocide.
On the Republican side, obviously, there's a lot of America First people who could be persuaded that we shouldn't be involved in these conflicts.
I think Bobby Kennedy had a real chance to make—like, if he was non-interventionist on this war, I think he would have made some huge waves, and I think that really hurt him.
He also—he lost a bunch of people on his campaign staff.
Because he was the anti-war guy.
I had a whole bunch of young anti-war people who were like, oh no, I'm not going to be a part of this now.
As a political matter, it feels like there is a significant chunk of people, I don't know how many in the millions, though, who support Bobby Kennedy, clearly repudiate the priorities of the Biden-Harris administration, don't want to vote for Trump.
I mean, if Donald Trump, if he were to drop out of the race and endorse Donald Trump, I think there's a very good chance he could end up in his cabinet.
I don't know if that's going to happen if he stays in the race the whole time because I think it will be seen as like, well, no, I mean, you can't, you know.
And so I do wonder, I really don't know the answer, but is it Bobby Kennedy, if he were to drop out and endorse Trump at this point, don't people kind of already know they had the option to support Donald Trump?
And if they're still not supporting Donald Trump, there's probably a meaningful reason why.
And one of the things that kind of is, I think, probably the reason why none of them will agree to have Bobby, in any of these debates is because if they were to, then the topic of Trump's handling of COVID would have to come up.
And Donald Trump is kind of lucky in a situation.
There's always this dynamic in some issues between Democrats and Republicans.
So, for example, when Barack Obama was president, all of the Republicans at that point, their criticism of him was that he was too soft.
On foreign policy.
He won't even say radical Islamic jihad and, you know, dumb Marco Rubio, you know, points like this.
And so then he totally gets off the hook for his very aggressive foreign policy and the war in Libya and Syria and Yemen and all these wars that he started.
By the way, all on the side of Al-Qaeda.
And no one ever gave him any pushback from that.
He never got held accountable or had to answer for any of that because the Republican talking point was he's weak on defense and we're tough on defense.
And likewise, with COVID, because the Democrats' whole narrative the whole time was that he's not reacting enough.
No one ever really gives Trump a hard time.
I guess DeSantis tried to a little bit when he ran against him, but it just fell flat.
You know, I think essentially what happened, right?
Because if you think, it's like really Al-Qaeda and ISIS are the two terrorist groups that have actually hit the United States of America and Europe.
And you know what I mean?
Like committed acts of terror against them.
Both were armed and funded by the West at different points.
And that's pretty appalling when you think about it.
But really, I mean, what happened is, and I don't know exactly how much...
Of this was the propaganda, or how much of it was genuinely believed by people who were pushing it.
But certainly the stated propaganda, which was stated when Benjamin Netanyahu testified in 2002 in front of Congress as a regional expert and explained how if you overthrow Saddam Hussein, democracy will sweep the region.
This will put pressure on Iran and then they will have less influence on the region.
And a lot of these neoconservatives seemed to actually believe this.
Now, I don't know if they did.
It seems to me like some of them actually did.
It's the dumbest thing in the freaking world to think you would have believed there.
You had...
In Iraq, where you have a Shiite majority that is held down by a Sunni minority, that if you overthrow that government and install democracy, which means the Shiites, right?
Like, because they're 60% of the country, so they win, that this will hurt Iran?
And anyway, so what ended up happening after the Iraq war, after we toppled Saddam Hussein, was that Iran got drastically more influence in the region.
Now, it's possible that people like Dick Cheney and Benjamin Netanyahu and them kind of knew that was going to happen.
And then they were like, well, then we'll just topple Iran next.
So it'll all be fine.
I don't know exactly.
But there's no question.
And there was a piece, I believe it was in The New Yorker, called The Redirect.
In either 2006 or 2007, where basically what was decided was that now that Iraq backfired so much, and Iran has so much more power in the region, that now we gotta go take the Shiites down a peg.
And this is really what was behind the attempt to overthrow Bashar al-Assad.
And by the way, this, not...
Overthrowing our democracy and not putting bounties on US soldiers' head in Afghanistan or whatever the other lies that they made up about Vladimir Putin.
The real crime that Vladimir Putin committed was he denied the US regime change in Syria.
And you could look at the way Vladimir Putin was talked about before Syria versus after Syria.
It is so stark.
George W. Bush said he looked into Vladimir Putin's eyes and he was a good Christian and Hillary Clinton had her reset button.
It wasn't until he denied the American war machine a regime change that he became Adolf Hitler.
He's hell bent on reconstituting the Soviet Union and all this other crap.
that's really what it all started and he saved Assad Apparently he was close to Hafez al-Assad, Shah al-Assad's father, and Assad called him and said, I need your help, and he dispatched troops immediately, which, by the way, you know, whatever you think of the geopolitical balance or whoever side you're on, that is kind of the key to long-lasting that is kind of the key to long-lasting alliances, is defending your allies with troops when they ask you to.
But I think it was, I think I heard you use the, uh, the analogy or metaphor, uh, But it's like the old, like, once they see your face, they have to kill you.
And there is this feeling, and I do think this is also part of what freaks them all out about Donald Trump, is that, okay, so first of all, like we were saying before, he's leading a movement of really, every tough man in America pretty much loves Donald Trump.
Maybe not every, but, you know.
The overwhelming majority of tough men in America love Donald Trump.
Then he's running a campaign that is very specifically pointing a finger at D.C. and saying, these guys screwed you over.
And he's also like a wild man.
Like, he can't control what he says.
It's the most charming and frustrating part of Donald Trump.
You know what I mean?
Like, even if he wanted to, he couldn't control himself.
You know what I mean?
Like, he's gonna say it.
It's gonna come out of his mouth.
And then he's saying things on the campaign trail in 2016. Like, and you know, he says it in this kind of sloppy, Trumpian way, but he would be like, Obama created ISIS. You know, Obama did that.
Which is, like, not exactly true, but, like, there's a lot of truth to it.
You know, like, it's like, well, no, he didn't, but he did knowingly fund and arm them.
But so I was on, I did a debate on that show and I was kind of like talking about how it was crazy for all these people who have like the Ukrainian flags and we care so much about Ukraine and all of this stuff.
It's like, do you recognize that we hold all the chips?
Like the United States of America holds all of the chips.
We could get this war to stop in almost any way we wanted to if we want to just play our ultimate trump card, which is that we'll leave NATO. I mean, there's no reason for us to be in NATO anyway.
Now occupied by people with no skills whatsoever, totally pointless people, pure parasites on our economy and culture, would be lost if we get rid of NATO. Yeah, well, that's the problem.
You know, which, by the way, we didn't even really get into the coup, but it is pretty crazy how much of a blatant coup we just watched.
I've seen people like Democrats on social media and stuff, and they'll call like...
People like us out, and they'll be like, well, first you said the guy was too senile to run, and now you're saying it was a coup when they removed him.
You're like, yeah, both are true.
I don't know what to tell you.
The guy is clearly senile, and also, he is still the President of the United States of America, and there's a process here.
And by the way, it's totally unclear, and I would say, we don't know for sure, but I would say, like, the high likelihood is that he didn't ever agree to it until after the letter was out.
I mean, look, it is, you cannot overstate how bizarre it is that a few weeks...
Before the Democratic Convention, when Joe Biden had already gone through a couple weeks of all these calls for him to step down, at every single turn said, no, I've made up my mind.
I am not stepping down.
It's me versus Trump, so get used to it.
I beat him last time, and I'll beat him again this time.
That morning, the morning that the letter comes out, was Sunday.
His surrogates are going on the Sunday talk shows and saying, enough with this noise.
Even after Pelosi and Schumer meet with him, even after the 90 million or whatever is held back from his country, he's like, no.
And then, you're telling me, the sitting president of the United States of America, a few weeks before the convention, is announcing that he won't be seeking re-election, and this is not done in an address to the nation?
This is done on personal, stationary, and just tweeted out, and then in a separate tweet, he endorses Kamala Harris, and it's not for days later that we hear from the president?
They just get up, I don't know, put on one of those masks that you guys pretended worked for so many years.
He can even be an edited video.
It doesn't have to be live.
I mean, just like, I know he stumbles a lot or whatever.
It could be two minutes.
But how do you not address the American people about that?
And it just, it really seems like, and of course, Cy Hirsch had that reporting on the call with Obama, where they threatened, they had Kamala Harris on board, we're going to invoke the 25th Amendment.
But my suspicion is that...
That phone call happened.
You know, like, the Schumer and Pelosi strong-arming didn't work.
Obama comes in.
We're going to remove you from office, and this will be your legacy.
And then the letter is tweeted out already, and it's presented as a fait accompli to him.
I mean, Joseph Goebbels, not to make everything a Nazi reference, but it was 5-4, crippled, never fired a gun on his life except into his own head in the end, never commanded an army.
You know, he was the political chief of Berlin, but he was the propaganda chief, and therefore he was the pivotal person in the Nazi government.
He was because he was in charge of people's brains.
So that, you cannot, and I'm not comparing anyone to the Nazis.
I hate Nazi references in general, but that's just true.
But what do you think, I know I'm so far afield again, but I don't know the answer to this.
What distinguishes someone who falls for the crudest kind of propaganda, January 6th was an insurrection, Don Lemon smart, whatever the lie is, from you?
I don't say this like attacking right-wing America.
It's something, like, to be humble about.
But, like, in 2002...
In the run-up to the war in Iraq, so many of these people who are great now about seeing through all of this just knew it as a certainty.
Obviously, Saddam Hussein has nuclear weapons, and he clearly was involved in 9-11, and he's going to hand these nukes that he doesn't have off to the terrorists he's not friends with, and they're going to nuke Kansas unless you go support overthrowing him.
They just knew that.
And essentially, what are you, some type of wimp if you don't agree with them on that?
And they didn't even kind of realize that they were doing It's not the exact same thing as some 20-year-old who tells you about climate change.
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Shocking.
That in an election year, with everything at stake, Google would be putting its thumb on the scale and preventing you from hearing anything that the people in charge don't want you to hear.
But it turns out it's happening.
So what can you do about it?
Well, we could whine about it, but that's a waste of time.
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It's not intentionally deceptive.
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