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We are looking at what one person described as a four and a half deviations above the mean of fireball sightings.
At the same time, there have been reports of drone incursions over air bases, with some reports saying they are military grade.
They are jam-resistant.
Something may be happening or nothing.
Could just be commercial drones, but the reports are that these are not commercial tagged.
So what are they?
Could it be that something else is going on as this war expands?
Honestly, we don't know for sure, but it is a crazy story because, of course, yesterday we talked about these Chinese individuals that were indicted for planting a bomb at Central Command.
We're also learning the U.S. has deployed drone war boats into the Strait of Hormuz, and we've got a crazy video that apparently shows, they claim it shows, anti-regime forces in Iran opening fire on the IRGC.
Is this propaganda?
Is it real?
We don't know for sure.
But we'll talk about that in a bunch of other news.
Indeed, my friends, we have got a lot to break down.
And in less important news, of course, there's a viral video of a young Gen Z influencer.
You'll learn his name later because I hate saying his name.
But he's unloading a handgun into a crocodile, into an alligator in Florida and doing otherwise very illegal things.
And now he's in jail.
It's clavicular, by the way.
I know people are like, who cares?
Well, I think this reflects upon social media psychosis and how the younger generations are so desperate for attention because they don't know what else to do, they resort to doing meth, sterilizing themselves, shooting animals, and otherwise getting arrested.
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You know, joining us tonight to talk about this and so much more.
I am sometimes referred to as America's number two election denier.
That's a recent one left for the book that I just had published.
But I've been in the election integrity space now for over five years since the 2020 election was actually still ongoing.
Prior to that, I was an Army military intelligence officer.
I left the service after six years at the rank of captain.
I tend to see the world from a strategic view, so I think it's kind of interesting that we are talking about drones being sighted over U.S. Air Force bases.
I like to apply a strategic view to what's going on in the world.
I have a long-term outlook on things, so I'm a little less susceptible to being downed by black pills online.
These are missiles being launched by China being intercepted, or, as Kellen said, they are probes being deployed by three Atlas from the aliens seeking to come down and monitor us and our military is intercepting them.
Or it could just be that people are paying attention because social media tells them to, and they're actually not seeing anything too crazy.
It's just normal.
But anyway, here's the actual news.
And the reason why I actually think it's important to talk about this is that many people do believe something else is going on.
With reports of the UFO disclosures, with aliens.gov being registered, people are pointing out that we are seeing way more fireballs than normal.
Space.com says it's happening beyond the U.S. van, beyond the U.S.
France, Germany reporting sightings March 8th and 11th.
Many fireballs lasted a long time and were seen across wide areas.
They say there's definitely been a clustering of fireball sightings.
Quote, this is the question everybody wants answered.
I think we are looking at slightly elevated meteor activity, though still well within statistical expectations, and increased awareness and reporting, which happens whenever big events occur.
So it sounds like what they're saying is nothing to see here, guys.
It's just someone on social media said it was happening.
Everybody started looking up and seeing it happen.
However, Owen Schroer recently put out a video saying he saw vehicles in the sky over Austin.
One of them fell and burst into flames and the other two immediately dispersed.
People then immediately started to claim, no, no, he was just looking at contrails from planes in the twilight of dusk, which makes no sense because that doesn't describe what he's actually claiming he saw.
With this, many people are questioning whether or not what we're actually looking at is sophisticated drone warfare, which we all know has been escalating over the past several years.
And with reports of these drone incursions at Air Force bases, could the question be, we are intercepting drones.
Well, you know, the cultural impact of this, this is going to definitely spawn some conspiracy theories because we have a lot of those that are like there's been a movie and now there's an event.
So there was a Greenland 2.
Greenland came out with Gerard Butler.
So that might be one of those.
But, you know, the cultural impact of aliens, I think, is that Americans need to know the best illegal alien we ever had was E.T., who learned English and then went home.
I had just stopped working there two months prior.
It was like August, I think I quit.
I have friends who still work there.
They saw the UFO.
I believe them.
My one friend said that they were on Mannheim Road, which is just to the, I think, the east of O'Hare Airport.
And he was at a red light.
He said, everybody got out of their cars and were just like, not everybody, but a bunch of people got out of their cars and were just staring up at a saucer floating above the airport.
There's that video of that guy, what's his name, Chris Bledsoe, he talked about the other day, where he said, in April of 2026, Israel and Iran will be fire missiles at each other and the orbs will rise up from the ocean.
He claimed that after he got abducted by aliens in 2007, which I know all this sounds nuts, he said that, what was I going to say?
I disagree, though, because we've talked quite a bit about the generations of warfare.
And fourth generational warfare is so third generation, I believe, is nuclear.
It's where you go to mass destruction.
Fourth generational is insurgent, where you have proxy wars and militia groups, and it's guerrilla where both powers are pretending like they're not at war.
Fifth generation is where they say you're getting into psychological operations, the manipulation of a population.
And the way to describe it is: imagine you could go to Genghis Khan and say, do not trample the fields on horseback with bow and arrow because I can win you the entire landmass of Asia with just a thought, with a pen.
He'd be like, prove it.
If warlords knew by saying words, they would have everyone bow to them, they wouldn't go to war.
That being said, I actually think that there is a step between psychological warfare manipulations, post-nuclear war, and that is genetic warfare.
So the use of biological agents to wipe out populations.
So imagine this.
You go to a warlord and say, okay, three options.
Horseback, bows and arrows.
That was the dominant weapon at the time.
Run through the fields, take everybody out.
You own it, right?
Okay, you could do that.
Or I can write down on all of these pieces of paper, and everyone will bow to you as a god once they see you.
We'll have to distribute the paper.
Could take some time.
Some people will still resist and they'll be fighting.
Or I have in this vial a virus which will kill everyone of a particular persuasion and you don't need to say a single word.
You will walk in as a liberator.
I actually think many of the leaders will be like, release the virus.
So before we get to the point where we try to fight for the mind of an individual, why not just purge anyone who would oppose you?
Psychological warfare is still a battle, a battle for the mind.
And so it's certainly safer and less resource, it's less resource-extensive.
But I would actually argue that if you went to like Putin, for instance, and you're like, do you want to own the world right now, have everything under your sphere of influence?
Okay.
Do you want to fight for 10 years trying to plant these ideas?
He'd be like, well, if I have to, would you rather just shoot everybody?
He'd be like, I don't know if we have the resources for that.
Would you rather unleash a virus that kills anyone who would dare oppose you and leaves only the docile?
That's easier.
A virus that kills your enemy is the least amount of work.
So I actually think, again, the point is, in the generations of warfare, psychological warfare, I think, actually may be behind us or in front of us.
But I think it's much easier just to release a virus targeting a certain genetic subset.
The other thing, too, that most people don't realize is my understanding is that actually before the Europeans even arrived, there was a pandemic, an epidemic that had hit Native American tribes across the North and Central America already.
Well, the thing is, because the theory between why the Native Americans were less developed and more susceptible to diseases was land mass and a population density.
So in Europe, you have thousands of years of history and all of these people crammed into a tight peninsula where you can't go anywhere.
Some people escape to the other islands, they move about, but eventually you're looking at coast.
You've got only a certain amount of arable land and then someone else says, I want that land and I want fishing for my family, not you.
So they fight.
Fighting results in competition, which results in advancement of technologies, social development.
The Native Americans, they'd be sitting there nomadic, fruits and veggies, whatever they needed, hunting.
Another tribe would come up and they'd be like, oh, don't look at us.
They would just break apart.
They'd leave.
Now, they certainly did have warfare.
They brutalized each other.
Certain tribes would go and steal.
However, if you were one of the more peaceful tribes and you were chilling, smoking a peace pipe, and then a scout came by and he ran up and he was like, hey, look, you know, the Apache are coming.
You just leave.
There's no reason for competition.
So interestingly, this is reflected in evolution across the board.
The funny thing about these theories is that these blank Slater lefties are like, that's not true.
Winter and competition had nothing to do with why people are smarter or stupider.
When in reality, we know for a fact, why are birds not aggressive?
I mean, there are a lot of guys who are going to be like, because it's, here's the thing.
If you've got a trained security force and you're on a highly defensible ship and you actually encounter a smoker of pirates, you're usually not at risk.
Like you are going to wipe them out.
And so it's kind of brutal, but I've heard stories that they're like, I mean, I'm on board and you can pay us and you can do battle.
I was talking about joining military intelligence last night.
Because the stuff we talk about, we're at the level where if you're going to go to the next level, I don't want to say it online because I don't want the Chinese spies to hear it.
I'm just saying that during Occupy, when I was starting all of this media stuff, I was also, me and my buddies were hacking drones and making them do like surveillance stuff.
We actually had this little ground drone.
It's a remote control little car.
It was a ball with big wheels.
And you could throw it on the ground and roll it.
And it would always land upright.
Had a camera and it you can control with your phone.
So we could hack the feed from it to the internet so that I could drive this little ball past a police line and film what's going on.
And we had that.
We also had these drones.
We actually built a rig where I hooked the drone to my backpack.
I had a computer running in my backpack.
And then I could take the drone off my back just by lifting it up off a hook, putting it down and launching it.
And the video feed went into the computer into a hotspot and broadcast the drone footage to the internet.
So we used to do all kinds of crazy hacks.
So, you know, I'm thinking about what's going on with these ships.
And I'm thinking about how sad it is that the most effective thing is just to shoot the pirate.
And I'm like, there's so many fun weapons you can do that would disrupt piracy in a way they'd never come back for.
I don't know that we want to torture the people alive, but the honest thing is like in terms of effectiveness, the most effective thing is just to shoot a bad guy who's trying to kill you.
I mean, I imagine in the future there will be, especially after the Ukraine war, all the things that have been learned, I imagine it does make sense for a ship to have drones with some kind of ordnance on it and fly the dummy ships.
And then what happens is they carry it on there on their themselves back into the colony where it starts to eat at their exoskeleton that they all start dying of dehydration.
So the idea is, I actually, you know, again, more to the point, going back to like the generations of warfare, it's very rudimentary to be like, we are going to attack this person or group of people.
I think beyond that, biological warfare, like this, sending a person back into their country.
So a lot of people think COVID, for instance, was this because it targeted Asians, the ACE2 receptors in their lungs, which meant Asians were more heavily impacted by the virus.
And there are conspiracy theories that the virus wiped out hundreds of millions of Chinese.
The crematoriums were running.
Like, this is a crazy theory, but seriously, we should, I should pull something up right now so we can talk about it.
But I'll just say this.
We know that during COVID, crematoriums in China were running 24-7 nonstop.
And I did do a video on this a couple months ago.
There is a Chinese influencer who was like, where are all the people?
And he goes to like city center and the marketplaces and he was like, here's a video from 2018 of the market and it's crazy.
And it's like, here's a video now and it's just dead empty.
Do you think as you're talking about like chemical warfare and like bringing the poison back to the queen to destroy the nest, that we can do the same thing with psychological warfare, that you can poison the minds of civilian and then have them bring that idea back?
Because that's kind of what communists administration is doing.
You could make the argument that the efforts to take Iran off the map as a global funder of terrorism would be something akin to that, but it's not one-for-one kind of.
Multiple waves of unauthorized drones recently spotted over strategic U.S. Air Force base.
Now, here's what's interesting.
Adam Cochran says, sophisticated drones attacked the U.S. base where we store the nuclear bombers.
The drones had non-commercial signals, were resistant to jamming, came in waves of 12 to 15, swept over sensitive areas of the base, had long-range control links, were more advanced than anything seen, unlike a seen in Ukraine, beyond Iranian capabilities.
Some people, it was reported apparently there was weapons testing.
It's the second base incursion of a sensitive site in the U.S. in the last two weeks.
Now, actually, I think, let me pull this image up that you have, Seth.
Everybody was up in arms about the, I think there were multiple spy balloons, but this was the first one that crashed over in the Atlantic Ocean off of South Carolina.
So I wrote a substack piece about this over on CaptainK.us, and this was viewed from more of a geopolitical military intelligence perspective.
I like to zoom out to see the whole picture.
And of course, it was launched in China, made its way up northeast, came across the Bering Strait.
Now, where it starts in our territory goes over two bases in Alaska.
Now, Fort Wainwright happens to be an Army base where there's a striker brigade headquarters.
I actually served in that brigade my last assignment.
So you have Fort Wainwright, which is a striker brigade headquarters.
You have Islison Air Force Base next to it.
But then you have Fort Greeley, the Army's cold weather training center, and it comes down through Canada, passes through Fairchild Air Force Base in Washington.
So Fairchild Air Force Base is an airy feeling hub.
And then it goes through the Rocky Mountain states.
Malmstrom Air Force Base, of course, is a big missile site.
You have Mountain Home, Idaho, which is a 366th fighter wing.
Grand Forks Air Force Base, North Dakota, off to the north.
This is air mobility.
Minot Air Force Base, nukes.
You have Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming, Minuteman 3, ICBM Base, Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota.
So long story short, the spy balloon tracked its way across our key air installations.
Apparently, you know, that's the shock really when we talk about, you know, I don't want to steal your thunder, but the drone story, not able to detect this sort of incursion or deal with it is the big problem here.
If we look at it through a perspective of it must be a spy mission for the United States, it would just simply be a transit because you don't want to miss, number one, having it available to go over mostly land would require it coming across the Bering Strait rather than get swept away by ocean winds.
But then going across through Canada through our strategic sites, that balloon was equipped with all sorts of optical capabilities.
It seemed very primitive, but it was actually very sophisticated.
And it's just so happened to cut through our really important missile bases in the middle of the country.
So they're collecting intelligence.
This is the thing about warfare is it's a game of skating where the puck is going to be.
You need to know what your enemy is going to be doing in the future rather than right now.
So magic school bus is very female-oriented, in my opinion, right?
Everybody, let's have fun.
We adventure.
Dr. Stone is action combat magic school bus.
So basically, the story is at some point, everyone in the earth has turned to stone for some reason.
3,000 years later, this super genius Japanese kid wakes up, breaks from his prison, has to rebuild society from the ground up.
And one of my favorite parts of the show is they get into a tribal conflict with a group of people that don't want technology back because it destroyed the earth.
And he, of course, is a scientist who wants to reignite the earth.
And so he says, we are going to create the most powerful weapon known to man, which is any guesses?
Yeah, it's and I knew I was watching the show, and the moment he says it, I was like, it's going to be radio.
And it was radio.
The ability to communicate on the battlefield can win you a war without a gun.
If you've got a bunch of guys with guns and they're pointed straight ahead thinking you're coming, and then you tell your guys via long distance, hey, they're walking towards you, pincer attack.
And they break apart and go around, you can with rocks.
So the ability to communicate, the ability to transmit information over long distances is more powerful than anything.
That's why even right now in modern warfare, they're saying the fifth generation is information, manipulating the minds of individuals.
The communication is more powerful than the nuclear bomb.
The people that are shutting down the internet, I feel like, are fighting a losing battle because it is once the citizens get access to the data, it's like these regimes are done.
Well, I mean, I suppose if you're saying that once they actually get access, yeah, but North Korea has a pretty good hold on information that goes in and out.
I genuinely believe there is a scenario where the U.S., in an escalating conflict with China, brings an Anthropic and says they're already doing this using AI to target and locate individuals.
They say, let's say China escalates the conflict and we start getting war, which genuinely puts the U.S. at risk of like, hey, man, we're budding on World War III.
Heg Seth then says, why can't we react fast enough?
How are they flanking us in the Pacific theater?
And then someone says they are using advanced AI to predict our movements based on fueling patterns, based on resource distribution.
They know that when we brought in a major shipment of aluminum from Canada that they can see on satellite, the AI is predicting what we're going to build and where we're going to put it.
And so then he says, how do we preempt that?
And they say, well, we are using AI systems all the same, but we're behind.
And then he says, if our AI isn't fast enough, then we lose.
And they say, well, actually, the issue isn't the AI isn't fast enough.
It's that we are monitoring the AI.
We could go faster if we turn over defense to the AI.
Instead of it recommending where we fire, we let it fire of its own accord.
It will be advanced by 15 minutes.
We will absolutely.
And then they say, do it.
And then they turn over weapons control to the AI.
And then we get, I wouldn't call it a Terminator scenario, but we get a very, very terrifying reality where weapons are being fired without human approval, missiles are being launched, and then China reacts and says, what's happened?
And they say, sir, they have just handed over full control of their missile systems and defense systems to their AI to just fire of its own accord.
We will not be able to preempt this with human fail-safes.
And then Xi Jinping says, do the same.
And that's the AI mutually assured destruction where the AIs are just in a battle and we're sitting back and watching it happen.
I think when the computers go quantum and they can exist in the maybe state, that's when if they have control of the weapon systems and they don't have to fire, they can think about it.
Quantum computing is not going to be able to take 300 different factors in war and then make a prediction.
This is actually, we actually covered this like a year ago.
Someone broke down why quantum computing is basically only good for cracking crypto because it won't be able to look at the entire battlefield and then calculate where to fire the missiles.
Yeah, the applications are very different, what they're useful for.
Quantum computing is great for certain applications, and it does things that a regular computer can't, but there are things that regular computer, that regular computers can do that quantum computing just couldn't do.
It's not like a regular computer just like gassed up and super powerful.
Well, so these systems are useful for narrowing down the battlefield, but there are a number of things that no advanced technology can change about warfare.
You still have to feed armies.
You still have to fuel ships and planes and logistics or armies.
Well, back in my day, which seems like so recently, but it was 13 years ago now, brigade combat teams were able to deploy anywhere in the world within 96 hours.
So the first brigade of the 25th Striker Brigade Combat Team up in Fort Wayne Wright, Alaska, we had the port of Anchorage to our south about six hours and supposedly get everything on a boat and send the troops in within 96 hours.
So people with these systems can figure out where our refuel points are, where the places that ships may be sailing, where planes are going to fly.
Even people with primitive ability to project power, like Taliban, they would look for aircraft flying over the same landmarks.
And that was one of the guidance air crews.
Make sure you vary your flight patterns.
So some of the things about military intelligence stay the same through all the ages.
The other big component there was that the, I believe this was the Union began using breech-loading muskets, and the Confederates were still using muzzle loaders.
So the Union, it would take them about 20 seconds to reload, whereas the Confederates take about a minute and a half.
So, so here's the issue: the amount of energy required for a laser weapon to be effective is orders of magnitude, like a hundred orders of magnitude greater than the amount of energy.
It does require a lot of cheese, but they would say, like, the Nazis can't attack France, it's impossible.
No one, and then all of a sudden, the Panzer tank, the Tiger tank, the tank that just tore through the mountains in the woods that no one knew existed.
You put on the belt and it electrocutes your abs into working out.
And they said, now you don't even got to think about it.
You're exercising while you're sitting at work, which is really dumb, but people did anyway.
And so when I was like 22 or 23, I told my friend, let's, so the way it works is I think it's, what is it, like low amperage, high voltage, or something like this?
I forgot the mix.
So it's painless, but it causes a muscle contraction.
And I said, okay, why don't we put that in a glove so that if you grab someone's arm, the same effect will lock their muscles.
They'll feel no pain, but they can't move.
This would allow you in combat to disable somebody without causing extreme pain and they can't fight back.
So we actually started working on prototyping this out.
And this guy that I worked with was like a big action sports guy.
He's like, bro, I'll hit up Insert famous snowboarding equipment company and we'll get gloves to sponsor it.
And then we'll like film it.
And he hit them up and they're like, this is the coolest thing ever.
And then they agreed to send us some free gloves.
And then they did.
And then immediately emailed and said, my boss freaked out and said, What is wrong with you?
We don't make weapons.
Please don't do this.
So the idea was in the thumb and middle finger, you will have electrodes that when you make contact with the skin, it would have a taser-like effect without pain.
You can then have, I was like, we can take a basic taser and we can attach the components of the taser to the back of the glove right here and then have the electric on the finger for a full taser.
And you can stick people.
I was like, or we can do the contraction type.
And then I said, it gets better.
With the full taser, you could actually take a sword and put contacts on the sword.
So when you're holding it, it makes the current run up to the sword.
So you actually can electrocute people with the sword or slash them.
So let's say they try to deflect the sword.
You can touch the sword to them, completing the circuit and tasing them.
They have sun lamps that the way it works is you set the time you want to wake up and then within 10 minutes, it slowly starts lighting up and then it starts playing sounds.
So you know I can't stand alarms like that stuff.
You're sleeping.
You're in a peaceful dream.
I'm riding on the back of a Pegasus and Ian is behind me and we're giggling and laughing together.
And then all of a sudden, and I'm like, my heart's going crazy.
And I'm like, Ian, and then I'm like, my head hurts.
And I'm like, so I like the very light chill kind of stuff.
It's like, here's Cash enjoying a beautiful spring day and having a cigar.
Here's Cash enjoying summer's weather with a vehicle.
I don't understand how any of this is like, haha, we got you.
It's like, oh, okay.
I mean, it is, it does suck that they got your emails and it's like, did you guys know that Cash's favorite food is like, you know, curry or something?
It's like, well, he's Indian, I guess.
I don't know.
I don't actually know that it's true.
I love curry, by the way.
But I'm saying like the most embarrassing thing is going to be that, you know, he orders his steak well done with ketchup, I guess.
Yeah, it's like, oh, hey, we found out he's kind of a normal guy.
The thing is, this is sort of a sight of what's to come.
I think especially if AI does autonomate, and they call it the apocalypse, the APO, meaning the removal of the calypse, which is the veil, removing the veil where it just correct.
So apparently after the fall of the Soviet Union, people were basically like looking at each other and being like, I know what that guy's into, but he knows what I'm into.
Ultimately, the capacity for information gathering has surpassed the human brain's ability to comprehend it.
People are so zoned out with the daily news cycle.
And I don't mean to bring up a memory we all wish we could forget, but it's six months later and nobody really even talks about Charlie Kirk being shot anymore.
I mean, just today or just yesterday, Michael Rappaport tweeted out, has Candace come any closer to solving Charlie's murder yet?
Because it's the only thing that woman talks about.
And I got to be honest, the only thing that is guaranteed to get views on YouTube right now is talking about how Erica Kirk was involved in Charlie's murder.
And then eventually they're going to be like, okay, here she is blighted up and beaten again.
The cops would eventually come in.
Look, if a woman shows up and she's totally fine with no harm to her and she's like, I was abused, they'll be like, I mean, you can't accuse a guy of a crime without proof.
Jointly, then all the money she gets pays at the same tax rate as myself is one lump of money.
That means if you are ultra-wealthy and you're, this is what people think.
This is how it works.
Imagine a guy's a billionaire and he says, I am going to marry this woman and she can spend my money as she sees fit, but she ain't going to pay taxes on it because it's not income.
That's just not correct.
That's just not how it works.
She can join in with you and all the money is taxed, the highest tax bracket, or she can say, my money is my money, taxed at the lower bracket.
And then I give her money and it's taxed income.
You don't like the craziest thing to me is that people think, I guess it's just a lack of experience or understanding.
People, you can't give family members money.
It's taxed.
The gift limit from the IRS applies to all people, regardless of their family.
The only exception is dependents.
You can give dependents money.
So went over this the first thing I did when I made money.
I said, I'd like to buy my mom a house.
And my accountant says, you cannot do that.
And I said, what?
Why not?
And he goes, it will be income.
She must pay taxes on that house.
And I said, so what does that result in?
And he was like, okay, well, a $300,000 house, for example, you buy that, you gift it to your mom.
That's $300,000 in income.
She will owe, you know, 23% or whatever.
So she's going to owe $60,000 to the IRS.
And if she doesn't pay it, they'll seize the house.
Oh, you're saying if we file taxes jointly, that's one person.
And that means, so let me explain.
If I am married and we both say we are filing as a married couple, if my wife goes and takes a job for $100,000 a year, she will pay $37.5, the highest tax bracket.
No, if you're jointly filing, you just told me that if you file jointly understanding, you just the first thing I said was joint filing makes your income one.
It's crazy.
Did he tell me that if you file jointly and the woman spends the money, she has to pay double income tax on it?
When you marry someone, you can file jointly, which means your spouse has to pay taxes at the same rate as you because her income and your income is the exact same.
Prior to, there was a point in time where women were considered, the way that Ian's saying, they were considered property because they were not responsible for their own behavior.
They couldn't own property.
They couldn't have bank accounts and stuff like that.
So the reason that women were considered property.
I know that perspective is fairly unpopular, but like people, people need some kind of guide rails.
And with religion not giving them the guide rails that they used to have, I think that there still needs to be something that keeps people kind of on the straight and narrow.
At the very least, incentivizes them to keep on the straight and narrow, even if it isn't, you know, you're going to get thrown in jail for it.
And I think this dude should be in prison for a long time.
He's a meth addict, self-described meth addict who sterilized himself, has hopped up on a whole bunch of goofballs and now is on camera shooting illegally into these animals.
Doesn't matter.
Now, maybe they faked the whole thing and it's a fake gator.
They put it there and propped up.
I really doubt it because most people don't know and they probably assume it's not illegal to shoot a carcass.
They're in the Everglades.
You can't do this even on private property.
And the response from people are like, they're in the middle of nowhere.
This is the kind of stuff where Democrats will come out and see and say, this is a legal gun owner and they're not killing people, but this is the kind of reckless, psychotic behavior.
Yeah, I think that we need to look at the generations.
I was 23 when I got my first smartphone.
So I at least got to grow up through high school and most of college without one.
So there was a period of time when the internet came out where we had some connectivity to each other, but not completely always connected, where everybody was recording something all the time.
So this generation clearly is needing constant stimulation, constant stuff to look at and click.
And they can't repeat the same stuff.
So it's going to get more and more extreme.
And if somebody ever comes by me and my wife and sprays us with a super soaker like we saw yesterday, they better be able to run.
There was a big video yesterday where somebody was going down the street spraying everybody with a super soaker.
And then once people do stuff like that, they don't realize that there's real people with what's really crazy about these videos is how many times they're flagging each other, basically.
Like, I'm surprised these retards didn't die.
Like, dude's waving his gun around like a moron.
They have no discipline.
Clearly, they're shooting into open fields.
I'm like, yeah, that's how someone gets shot in the face.
I don't think he's done like airbrushing, maybe, but, and you can exercise, but I don't think he's done the more extreme things that he's claimed to do.
Like his ears are uneven, his eyes are off.
Like, I don't believe this guy is actually working really, really hard in terms of the extreme things like hitting himself with a hammer and getting surgeries.
I think he's probably just generally working out, maybe taking testosterone, but that seems weird for a 19.
What will happen is you push it and then it starts growing in that direction until it gets pushed in a new direction and then it starts growing in that direction.
I think social media is largely fake, but the point is whether or not this guy's real or it's all just one big reality TV show, which is, I think it's probably reality TV.
I don't think I had arrested.
I think the shooting that they were doing is probably all staged and fake and they're lying.
Like there might have been controlled backstop you can't see off camera because they want to make shock content.
I do think it's possible there are a bunch of retards went around shooting guns.
I mean, the monetization on X is there are good things and bad things about it.
Because you do see people trying to make more nuanced posts with intelligent takes.
But, you know, there's still the situation where it's like you get some kind of slot picture or whatever, and you make a dumb comment and it goes viral for some reason.
Or you just say something that's controversial and people are just like, oh, some of the biggest posts that I've ever put, it ends up like breaking kind of out of my bubble and it goes into spaces with people that strongly disagree with me.
And then the replies are just a never-ending stream of criticism and telling me how stupid I am.
But it's like, I mean, you made me a boatload of money this week, you know?
Well, that's why people screenshot folks when they want to rip on them so they don't get any benefit from the share.
But it's, I think that people that put content out there, if X is making revenue on it, then that makes sense to me.
You know, I've had friends that played Major League Baseball and you talk about some of these players' salaries.
Well, if they're contributing to the team's bottom line, then of course that's your share of this.
But I think that people game the system.
People are quick to, they don't want to do their own research.
I say it all the time.
We have more access to information than anybody, any people that have ever lived before, but less discernment than any group of people that ever lived before.
All this stuff is out there to research and analyze.
You know, I think if you're a Republican or a Trump supporter, of course, you want to do everything possible to keep a Republican majority, but the damage is already done because people disengage during primaries, which is the time to get rid of these useless incumbents.
So really, the best you're going to get is really the same we have now.
But I think in the long run, that Democrats taking the House will arguably be a better blessing for the American right than the Republicans holding it because you're going to have Trump's economy will probably turn at some point.
It takes a long time to turn an aircraft carrier around.
The Dems are going to abuse the power.
And just like in 23, when Trump had done two years of being blamed for J6 and elections, it's going to unify the right.
People's short memory spans are going to come into play here.
And all of a sudden, if Trump's economy turns, then you're going to have in 2028, everybody's going to be running Republican again.
He starts rising up, and then you get the DeSantis faction and the Trump faction fighting.
And then once we get closer to 24, everyone started uniting again.
So here we are.
Everyone's like, oh, MAGA's, the coalition is fractured and things like that.
Like right now, after the Democrats went in the House and they start just beating the crap out of people, then you're going to get the right rallying against a shared enemy.
I don't think we ever change this, to be completely honest.
Let me clarify.
I don't think in the short term we change this.
In the long term, maybe things will change.
But if you're once you get to that level of power, the amount of work you have to do to maintain that power, you're not going to swing one way or the other.
You're going to just float.
You don't want to be rallying anybody.
You'll draw attention to yourself.
Marco Rubio is doing real well in the polls by kind of just being quiet.
He's doing his job.
He's not fighting anybody.
He's not posting insane things like F the Democrats or whatever.
J.K.K. Rowling reacts to HBO's Harry Potter race swapping controversy.
Incorrect.
She did not.
She reacted to the trailer.
And in response to it, someone said, the trailer for the new Harry Potter looks bloody Marvels.
Can't wait.
Neither can the rest of the world.
It's just it's going to be incredible.
I'm happy with it.
She did not directly address Black Snape, but I love, love, love, love that they're doing this because it changes Harry Potter fundamentally in so many ways.
So Hermione Granger is going to be mixed race, giving Mudblood a new meaning.
And Snape being black changes everything.
There's this funny quote from the book where Harry Potter's mom is like, you know, what is it about Snape that, you know, you won't leave him alone?
And James Potter says it's nothing about him other than he exists.
And so everybody's like, oh man, if they follow the book to the T, it's going to be about Harry Potter's white supremacist dad picking on the black kid and his mom, who, despite knowing the black hit her whole life, refused to date him.
Before it was just like childhood friends and she chose the jock instead of the nerd.
Now it's a race thing.
And then the other thing that's funny is in the first book, they constantly accuse Snape of trying to steal the Philosopher's Stone, Sorcerer's Stone, depending on your region.
And it's going to be really funny when like the kids are like, Professor Tumbledore, it's the black guy who's trying to steal everything.
Like some people have said Adrias Elba should not be James Bond because James Bond's white.
And I'm like, no, no, no, no.
Adrios Elba can absolutely be James Bond.
I have no, he'd be fantastic.
I don't care about his politics or whatever, but he is built.
He could be a James Bond character.
I have no problem with that.
I also respect people saying, we want a traditional Englishman to play James Bond, to which I say, fair point.
So I'm like, I think if you're talking about a British spy, Adrias Elba's fine, but I do get why you'd rather have an Englishman who is traditionally Englishman a white guy.
But I'm not going to get all that bent out of shape.
Now, Anne Boleyn, when they made Anne Boleyn black, I'm like, come on, guys.
I don't know if it's fair to call it a remake because it's a book and they did an adaptation and they're doing another adaptation.
So the original movies deviated a bit and left a lot out.
The idea is with this new HBO series, they can keep a lot that was left out in the books in the actual story now.
I'm going to be honest with you, I am not going to watch it.
And I am, this is.
I read the first book when I was a little kid.
I think I was like fourth grade.
Read the second book right when it came out.
I was eagerly awaiting each book, excited as a child.
I remember when they announced like the final book will be coming out.
I remember when there was that controversy where someone standing in line at a bookstore screamed, Snape kills Dumbledore.
And everyone started screaming.
The video went viral.
And could you?
Bro, reading the half-blood prints at the end, and everybody was speculating, like, why did Snape do it?
And there were theories.
It was so much fun.
And then the last book came out.
When the movies came out, a lot of people don't understand that flight was actually a really big deal for Death Eaters.
And at the end, where he's like, let's do it together.
And they jump out.
It's all for the movie.
And it omitted so much.
Like Ovada Cadavra, for instance, in the books, when they hit you with it, you just, your life is gone and you collapse.
In the movies, they get blasted back 20 feet.
In the movies, Harry casts Expelliarmus, which always just makes your wand fly to your hand, but Draco goes flying back 20 feet and crashes on the ground, right?
All of that stuff.
Let's see if they can stick to the actual books.
That being said, I can tell you all about Harry Potter because I grew up with it and I will not watch this.
So this meant that the rival team scored 17 goals.
The difference was so great that at that point, they could not catch the snitch until they at least caught up a couple goals, which actually that makes it a fine game, meaning typically catching the snitch will win you the game if you can do it quickly.
But if you're down way too much, now you can't end the game intentionally.
So it actually is an interesting strategy then where it's like, if you are losing by 15 goals, you have to make up goals before you can try and catch the snitch.
I think the bigger problem is that the whole series is loaded with plot holes and things that make no sense.
And then what happens is throughout the book series, it's kind of fine until you get into the Fantastic Beasts where all of a sudden it's like anyone can apparate.
And it's like, okay, then what's the point of the flu network?
Some people can't.
Some people are, she's a, what is it, a maledictus.
She turns into a snake.
Some people can be transfigured into animals, or they can choose to, and it's really hard to.
And it's like, huh?
Like when Mad Eye turns Draco into a ferret or whatever, it's like, we don't use transfigurations as punishment.
But it's like others have to train to be able to do it, but someone could just do it to you.
Whatever, man.
Like, it's fun.
I love the story, but there's so much that's wrong with it.
Prior to all the woke stuff happening, people didn't really notice, like, particularly in theater where it was a fairly selective group of people that were going to see plays and stuff like that.
Whereas nowadays, with the, or at least not maybe not now, but you know, from say 2013 to 2023, like the culture in the U.S. was doing so much to try and try and like trying to shape the opinions of people so that people started to notice and push back.
That being said, what goes up must come down, and some bullets have terminal velocity high enough to injure or kill.
It is your responsibility to be safe and accountable for every shot you fire.
Indeed.
Android Woz has a question.
Given the Chinese bombing attempt on CENTCOM, do you think China directed the attack rather than solo actors?
If so, was it because they feared the U.S. solidifying global hegemony through our recent actions, or was it perhaps just an opportunistic shot while we're busy?
There was an American in China that set off a bomb near one of their buildings and then fled to the U.S., that would have been an international incident.
So I just don't think that the Chinese would do it.
That's why, because I can't imagine our government doing it that overtly.
I think it's funny how people are referring to these two factions of Charlie Kirk supporters as the Sunni Kirks or the Shia Kirk supporters.
Because I made this joke where I said, I'm launching a new debate show, but instead of debating, it's just me and another person pulling up texts Charlie Kirk sent us to justify our positions.
And then, you know, Pesobic was like, SUNY Kirk versus Shia Kirk, which is like basically it.
But that's all everyone's doing.
Like all of these personnel are like, you know, Charlie Kirk said to me this thing that proves my point.
And then someone else goes, well, Charlie Kirk said to me this thing that proves my point.
There are people posting clips of Charlie Kirk after the 12-day war saying, I stand with Trump on this war.
And then there are other people pulling up clips from before the war saying no war with Iran.
A lot of people are getting ahead of, I'm not saying that just like you, you know, I think that there's good reasons before it all kicked off.
When people are really doomcasting about what's going on in Iran right now, then they're looking at remembering Afghanistan and Iraq, where the 4th Infantry Divisions camped out in hardstand buildings for a nine or 12-month deployment cycle, even went up to 15 months at some time.
And you had contractors there making three times what the green suiters are making.
People are looking back at that.
And really, to run everything back to what we talked about earlier, all throughout history, counterinsurgencies have been massive failures, unless they're on islands and you can use the Navy to cut off the flow of personnel and arms, divide the population, and destroy the enemy.
So Iran is different than Iraq.
It's number one, it's four times the geographic size of Iraq.
Population is about double.
And you have massive terrain advantages for any force that is trying to defend.
I think the only hope for bringing things to a legitimate regime change would be for the local nations or for the locals to be able to displace that government because we're not going to be able to do it.
And I don't even think President Trump would do that.
I do think we have special operators in the country for sure.
I do think they'll take Carg Island, but I don't see a massive conventional operation on this.
What we need to do, obviously, is to build a flying city that can carry all of our armaments and troops that goes over any of our enemies and destroys them to prevent any opportunity.
I don't like no-fault divorce, but even some of the most conservative people I've talked to about it are like, you have to let women escape abusive relationships because they couldn't be available.
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We're going on tour this spring with Dead Eyes and Born of Osiris.
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