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Feb. 2, 2025 - Viva & Barnes

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Ep. 249: Confirmation Hearings RECAP! Canada-U.S. TRADE WAR? Bureaucrats Sue Trump! Viva Barnes Live

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	Radical liberalization of hard drugs.
	He teamed up with the BCNDP to decriminalize fentanyl crack and heroin.
	He lowered jail sentences for mass producers of deadly fentanyl.
	And 80% of the fentanyl made in Canada is done so using ingredients that are not even regulated, but come right into our country where they're cooked into that.
	poison now threatening our trade relationship with the U.S.
	Will he reverse his radical liberal drug agenda to save lives?
	He's not there to do the work of delivering based on science, based on compassion, based on a public health approach on dealing with the toxic drug epidemic.
	He is instead continuing to try to score cheap political points on the backs of the most vulnerables.
	That's not serious.
	That's not responsible.
	What is not responsible is allowing 80 percent of the chemicals used in fentanyl manufacturing to come in unregulated and legally.
	What is not responsible is decriminalizing crack heroin and fentanyl.
	And then after you see that it leads to a massive increase in deaths.
	Then two weeks ago, he, the bloc and the NDP all voted in favor of a committee report to decriminalize fentanyl right across the country.
	At a time when Canadians are dying and our border could be closed.
	Will the prime minister confirm that he has reversed himself and now opposes decriminalization?
	It's an amazing thing, actually.
	I didn't really pick up on this the first time I listened to this clip, which was provided to me by Jeffrey Sirois in response to the discussion that's going on right now on the interwebs over the imminent tariff war between...
	Canada and the United States of America.
	I just want to play it one more time because it's right at the beginning where he says, where he acknowledges that there's a risk of it interfering with our border relations with America.
	He teamed up with the BC NDP to decriminalize fentanyl crack and heroin.
	He lowered jail sentences for mass producers of deadly fentanyl.
	And 80 percent of the fentanyl made in Canada is done so using ingredients that are not even regulated, but come right into our country where they're cooked into that poison, now threatening our trade relationship with the U.S., Now threatening our trade relation with the U.S. It's so freaking wild to watch this in real time.
	That's what Pierre Poilievre said in December.
	And I know this because I've kind of been following these things.
	Now threatening our trade relations with the U.S. And what does Pierre do today?
	What position does Pierre take now when he thinks that playing tough with America over tariffs and trade is the popular thing to do in Canada?
	What does he do today?
	Well, you know what he's going to do today because I've called Pierre Poilievre a fair-weather politician forever.
	Not even necessarily as an insult.
	It might make him a better politician because he's fair-weather and he will evolve.
	As per public opinion.
	But back in December, this issue, the fentanyl crisis in Canada, set aside the terrorist stuff, we'll get to that in a second, now risks our border relations with America.
	Change your path, Justin Trudeau.
	Oh, what's that?
	Now it seems to be kind of cool to play strong to big bad Trump.
	And so what does Trump, what does Pierre Poliev do now as relates to the tariff war?
	He puts out a tweet that says we must put Canada first.
	That is why...
	That is why common-sense conservatives condemn President Trump's massive unjust and unjustified tariffs on Canada's already weak economy.
	Well, you know what's really good?
	If you already have a weak economy, Pierre, and you've already acknowledged that the drug issue and the terrorists crossing into America creates a national security threat for America, you know what's really good?
	You should probably fight a tariff war with America right now.
	You should call it massive and stupid and unjust when just last month you acknowledged specifically why it was a concern to America.
	So Pierre Poilievre, thinking that it's popular in Canada to get involved in basically a land war in Asia, to quote Princess Bride, to get involved in a war that you will not win and that the only people who will suffer are going to be the citizens that you purport to represent.
	Now he decides that's the tact his ship is going to realign with.
	By the way, just so you know, it wasn't just fentanyl.
	There's a number of arguments going on here.
	There's a tariff war.
	Trump is now slapping a 25% tariff on stuff coming in from Canada because you guys don't want to secure your border.
	We've got fentanyl issues.
	We've got terrorists crossing into America from Canada at eight times the rate of terrorists crossing into the United States from Mexico.
	Many of you might not know this, but if you watch the channel, you do.
	What was this one?
	I was in response.
	I never thought I would say this in my lifetime.
	The United States of America is an enemy to Canada.
	That's right.
	I'm not trying to put anyone on blast.
	I genuinely want to wake people up.
	How Justin Trudeau's government was compromised by the CCP.
	Was, is, and I think the liberal, the conservatives are as well, which might explain them playing into this idiotic game of chicken with a freaking Mack truck.
	If you're going to play chicken, you don't play a chicken with a Mazda Miata versus a Mack truck.
	That's what Canada is trying to do.
	They have some ways to strong-arm America a little bit.
	Hydroelectricity into the northern states that need excess electricity.
	But by and large, the Mazda is playing chicken with the Mack truck.
	Do you remember when Canada was training Chinese soldiers on Canadian soil?
	Oh, illegals crossing at northern U.S. border continues to skyrocket.
	Hundreds of terror suspects arrested.
	Somehow people don't seem to realize whether it was pretextual to renegotiate NAFTA.
	In which case, congrats, you dumbass.
	You took the bait and now you're going to renegotiate NAFTA when all you had to do was agree to cut the fentanyl production in Canada and stop terrorists from crossing the border.
	Whether or not it was pretextual, congrats, you screwed up.
	But whether it was pretextual or not, many people don't understand that Canada literally has become a national security threat for America.
	You got a government that has been compromised by the Chinese Communist Party and by radical Indian elements, not to a small degree.
	You got a country that has decriminalized hard drugs.
	And you have a president that's coming in and saying, yeah, maybe we are getting taken advantage of under NAFTA.
	I don't care that I'm the one who negotiated.
	I don't like the deal anymore.
	You know what?
	I'm going to use the terrorist crossing, your unsecured border, and your fentanyl as a pretext.
	Fix it, or we impose tariffs.
	Oh, Canada's a proud country.
	We don't have to succumb to this crap.
	We're going to fight fire with fire.
	It's just that we're a match and you're a blowtorch.
	And so, if it was pretextual, congratulations, you're going to have mandatory forced renegotiation of NAFTA, whether you like it or not.
	And the bottom line?
	Canada needs to fix its...
	The Canadian government needs to fix its stuff.
	To not swear until we're eight minutes in.
	They need to fix their stuff.
	And if they don't want to do it on their own, well, they're going to have Big Brother twist their arm back and start hitting themselves.
	So it's wild to see what's going on right now.
	I don't think it's going to last long.
	I just think that the Trudeau government is a little more stubborn and a little more suicidal than the Colombian government.
	Remember? By the way, you remember when Colombia said, we're not taking back our own criminals?
	What, do you think we're stupid?
	We let them go for a reason.
	Oh, tariffs?
	Well, we're going to fight tariffs.
	And it was like, we're going to pay more for coffee.
	You got AOC, like, I don't care if there's rapists on the street.
	I don't want to pay more for coffee, even though I'm already paying more for coffee by going to Starbucks where I pay five bucks a cup.
	Colombia buckled overnight.
	I'm predicting it now.
	The Canadian government will buckle.
	Although they have to make it look like they're not buckling.
	They're going to have to make it look like we strong-armed a negotiation with Trump.
	They're going to buckle.
	But they want to play hard and they think it's popular.
	And Justin Trudeau needs a crisis in order to distract from his failed government.
	He needs a crisis in order to distract from the failed state of Canada right now.
	And people are saying, well, you know, if Trudeau is on the ropes, why is Trump giving him this chance to use Trump as a pretext?
	This is exposure for the world.
	Many people don't necessarily realize that there are, I think it's eight times the number of terrorists or people on terror watch lists intercepted at the Canadian border compared to the Mexican border, whereas you have something like, I don't know, tenfold the illegal immigration crossing from the Mexican side to the American side.
	So understand what that means, that you've got...
	Domestic policy that is resulting in eight-fold terrorist watchlist encounters coming from Canada to the US.
	Maybe it's because Justin Trudeau has been handing out foreign student visas to adversarial countries like Cotton Candy.
	And these students who come in on these visas and then, I don't know, 5% default and they never show up to classes?
	You create a national security threat, you refuse to fix it or even entertain the notion of fixing it, and then you get slapped with tariffs, and then what does Chrystia Freeland say?
	She's never met a Canadian she's not willing to throw under the bus for her globalist agenda.
	What does she have to say here?
	Is this it?
	Oh yeah, yeah, let's go here.
	This is what Chrystia Freeland has to offer.
	I would publish a retaliation list.
	We have huge leverage over the United States because we are their single biggest export market by a long shot.
	We have huge leverage over the United States.
	A retaliation list.
	Oh my goodness.
	I thought Trump was the one making an enemy's list.
	Let's make a retaliation list.
	We have huge leverage over the United States because we are their single biggest export market by a long shot.
	We have huge leverage over the United States.
	It's not a sign of weakness to understand what it means to negotiate from a position of weakness.
	It's actually a sign of strength.
	When you understand your position, you don't overplay your hand.
	We have huge...
	Hey, see where it goes.
	What are they going to tariff, though?
	Ah, Tesla EVs.
	Nice music.
	U.S. alcohol.
	By the way, they're going to tariff U.S. alcohol.
	Do you know how much you're paying for alcohol that's Canadian-made?
	I can tell you this because I know it from experience.
	The amount that they tax on Canadian liquors...
	Puts Canadian distilleries out of business.
	It makes the SAQ rich.
	That's the Société Alcool de Québec.
	It makes the government entity wildly profitable.
	And their employees.
	What else are they going to do?
	Freeland. Yeah, Freeland.
	Freeland my ass.
	They love the environment so much that they're willing to forego the environment in order to penalize Trump.
	They're going to...
	100% tariff on Teslas.
	Where are they going to get their EVs from?
	Oh yeah, China.
	Well, it doesn't really make it.
	Oh, but you're pushing.
	Trump is pushing Canada closer to China.
	They're dumbass.
	They've already been infiltrated by China.
	Trump is not pushing Canada any closer to the country that already infiltrated the government.
	He's just exposing it for the world.
	Oh. But now, by the way, speaking of governments being idiots and...
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	We're going to continue the tariff conversation and we're certainly going to get into the ostrich farm conversation because we had a...
	I guess we can start off with a bit of a white pill.
	Barnes is in the backdrop.
	Come in, Barnes, if you're waiting.
	We had a bit of a white pill.
	A white pill from Canada following Barnes's white pill with Tyson Foods and the Settlement.
	Robert, you heard the news?
	I mean, look, I don't think...
	I don't know if social media had anything to do with it, but that ostrich farm story where they were ordering the culling of over 400 healthy ostriches on this British Columbia ostrich farm called Universal Ostriches in Edgewood, British Columbia.
	Canada Food Inspection Agency comes in and says, we tested a couple of dead ostriches.
	They tested positive for the avian flu with a PCR test.
	Order the slaughter of all of them.
	And there was some social media outcry, some backlash, and a federal court on Friday issued the injunction enjoining the order of this CFIA agency until the order itself could be reviewed, which I think is basically, it's never going to get enforced because the reason the order was issued was, you know, to prevent the spread of the avian flu.
	These ostriches now are living with antibodies, so I don't think it's ever going to happen.
	But that's the good news coming out of Canada.
	Robert, sir, how goes the battle and why do you look so dapper?
	Good, good.
	We got a busy Sunday.
	We got all the confirmation hearings.
	Robert Francis Kennedy Jr.
	Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel that dominated a lot of the news cycles and some of the legal issues that were raised connected to each of their confirmation hearings, including vaccine-related issues as it concerned Kennedy, the truth about Ed Snowden, as there were a lot of media lies last week as to Tulsi Gabbard, and then January 6th, controversies as it related to Kash Patel.
	Then we got something that's kind of slipped under the radar because Gabbard wasn't challenging it at this point, but a federal court found that the application of Section 702 under the FISA laws was being applied unconstitutionally by the Obama administration in its prosecution of certain alleged would-be terror supporters.
	We got Trump versus the administrative state and the bureaucracy.
	They're suing everywhere, saying that they are the ones entitled to run the executive branch rather than the elected head of the executive branch, President Trump.
	The state of Indiana suing its own cities and counties and sheriffs because there's some that are refusing to enforce the federal immigration laws and are trying to be a sanctuary city within a state that's not a sanctuary state.
	The FBI frame-up that we talked about way back at the time it happened, further confirmed by judges this week concerning the Michigan case, that's a case I think that's been overlooked in the pardon discussion.
	Just like the Mackie meme case, that pardon, in my view, should already be issued.
	The same is true, in my view, of the federal side of those Whitmer fed-napping cases.
	The court admitted that the FBI has been busy creating fake militias all across the country.
	That's no longer a conspiracy theory.
	It is a court finding by a judge supportive of the FBI's efforts in that regard, by the The city of New Orleans sued, along with some of its vendors.
	For the terror incident on New Year's Eve because the city was too busy with diversity, equity, and inclusion hiring and worrying about the Super Bowl rather than worrying about the Sugar Bowl.
	The Second Amendment, another win against these laws prohibiting 18- to 21-year-olds from being able to have access to the tools and means of self-defense.
	The right to teach at the beach, the case against the city of Newport.
	AI copyright, a subject we've been following.
	The Copyright Office issued a big report giving its interpretation of when AI can and cannot be copyrighted.
	We got porn copyright trolls, which is its own unique animal.
	So that wraps up this week's agenda.
	And I know nothing about that last subject.
	I'm curious to hear where we go with it.
	Yeah, I guess, Robert, we'll start, everybody, we start on YouTube Rumble.
	We have to start, obviously, with day two.
	No, because day two of RFK was last week with day one.
	Shit, we haven't even had a Sunday show since.
	Bernie Sanders is done for life.
	I feel bad.
	Because I think he has destroyed whatever legacy he might have had enduring with people who were too ignorant to what an absolute rapacious hypocrite he is.
	He came out and was grilling RFK Jr.
	I forget what about.
	And RFK comes back.
	The onesie.
	Oh, the onesie.
	You're selling unvaxxed and that's okay.
	Something along those lines.
	Selling onesies.
	Unvaxxed, unafraid, little onesies by Children's Health Defense.
	Which was an organization founded by Robert Kennedy, but which Robert Kennedy has withdrawn from several months ago.
	So he's going after RFK.
	Do you approve of this message?
	They're selling for $27.
	That's terrible.
	And then RFK comes back to Bernie Sanders with the most blistering comeback ever, because I think it destroyed a man.
	He said, look, all of you were bought out by Big Pharma.
	Bernie, you were the number one senator to receive Big Pharma donations in 2020.
	And he went, I knew you were going to go to this place.
	I received them from individual donations, not from any PACs.
	And I was like, first of all, none from executives, none from CEOs, which is also a lie, because he did, and then he had to return that money when it became known.
	His argument is that he only received one point some odd million dollars, the most of any senator, from individual donations from people employed by the pharma industry.
	His argument is that it's from the workers because I'm so good for the workers, they want to support me.
	It was three times what he got in 2016.
	He comes out and makes this known to the world.
	And then I, I believe I eviscerated a man in real time on the internet, but then...
	You know, just for fun, went back to 2020 to see where else he got his money from.
	And then he's like, there was only $1.5 million of $200 million.
	And I go, oh, shit, that's right, because you got about another $10 million from Amazon, Apple.
	What was the other one?
	Oh, geez.
	Google? From the Defense Department?
	From New York State?
	He got $10 million from big corporations set aside from Big Pharma.
	What do you make of it?
	Steel man the argument.
	Okay, he just got donations from individual employees within the sector.
	That is not...
	Political Action Committee support.
	I cry bullshit over that.
	That seems like laundering the support through other means.
	Yeah, that's exactly what it is.
	And as you note, it's not historic support.
	So, you know, go back and look at Bernie Sanders recipients from those connected in the insurance industry or the medical industry or the big pharmaceutical industry or the defense industry or the tech industry.
	And look at it up until prior to 2020.
	And prior to 2020, he got very little support from the pharmaceutical industry.
	He was one of the bottom recipients of anybody tied to the pharmaceutical industry.
	Then in 2020, as you know, he becomes suddenly overnight the number one recipient of pharmaceutical money, along with a lot of other industry money that just flowed in to his presidential campaign of 2020, unlike 2016.
	2016's campaign was very dependent on small donors.
	2020's campaign was not.
	Now, it didn't matter.
	Obama and Biden knifed him anyway.
	The Democratic Party ran him over anyway, because that's what bend over Bernie does in the bend over Bernie era.
	But I agree.
	There were a whole bunch of people.
	I would call it the left.
	I was curious why Trump decided to put all three of these people, Kennedy, Gabbard, and Patel for confirmation hearings.
	When Kennedy and Gabbert themselves said that they would face fierce opposition because they're legit.
	And to give people context, I don't believe anyone has been turned down by the Senate, nominated by a president since John Tower in 1989.
	And that's because the guy was such a hopeless drunk, they were afraid he might hit the red button.
	But, that being said, you know how legit...
	Kennedy is, by who his opposition is and the degree of the intensity of the opposition in D.C. Same with Tulsi Gabbard, same with Kash Patel.
	Schiff was about to have a stroke up there, just the possibility Kash Patel would be running the FBI.
	And that's exactly who we needed as reform agents.
	But I was curious, knowing the hostility they would face, why go through it?
	And then I realized, watching all the hearings, Trump was going to expose...
	Both who within the Republican Party are sellouts and traitors.
	And two, the Democratic Party is completely closed off to the independent populist movement that fueled Kennedy's campaign.
	This whole independent left populist movement that Bernie Sanders represented and Elizabeth Warren represented more than anyone else in the Senate.
	Because they had become pharmaceutical stooges during the COVID era, Trump knew they're going to expose themselves to the world.
	That if you're a left populist, independent populist, if you're one of those working class minorities, millennials, and Zoomers who has been trending away from the Democratic Party, who just gave the Democratic Party their most negative rating in the entire polling history of the Democratic Party to a Democratic-leaning pollster at Quinnipiac University, the message was watch who Bernie Sanders now really is.
	Watch who Elizabeth Warren now really is.
	Watch who the Democratic Party now really is.
	Watch how even lifelong friends of Robert Kennedy will betray him for the Democratic Party in the pharmaceutical industry.
	Watch how people like Cory Booker and Gillibrand and others like that that had said that they were opposed to big food and opposed to big pharma, watch them bend over backwards for them.
	And you could see it all over social media.
	I heard it from friends and family.
	That are on the independent left or the populist independent left, however you put it.
	People who in particular like Bernie Sanders.
	And they were bitterly disappointed.
	And many of them were shocked.
	They didn't know that Bernie had become the biggest farm of horror on the Capitol.
	But he did in 2020.
	And in the name of the idolatry of vaccines.
	That's the other thing that a lot of people didn't fully realize.
	That the vaccine worship looks like religious worship.
	That all of a sudden, I take a drug, I just put the word vaccine on it, and magically and miraculously, it's perfect.
	Like it came directly from God.
	That's how these people were acting.
	That's why you had memes as Elizabeth Warren, as the priest of the vaccine hood.
	You had a Bernie in a onesie that said, you know, the vaxxed and very afraid.
	Let me play this, Robert.
	...
	of his anti-vax position.
	Look, he says he won't go to work for drug companies because the American people have the right to know that the decisions made while he is secretary of HHS are only for the good of the American people.
	And yet, he wants to keep a piece of the action on every one of these anti-vax lawsuits.
	And what that means potentially is as Secretary of HHS, he can make those lawsuits a whole lot more profitable.
	In fact, he may have the opportunity to bankrupt the vaccine manufacturers and then nobody gets.
	That's all we needed from that.
	Yeah. Well, I mean, what's extraordinary about this is, one, the confession through projection.
	Pretending that Kennedy's motivated by money, right?
	Not Elizabeth Warren.
	It's been a corporate whore her whole political career.
	Has been a war whore as well on top of that.
	Not just being a fake Indian.
	She's a fake consumer advocate.
	She's a fake populist.
	I mean, this is someone who spent their life helping big banks and big creditors and big credit card companies stiff over ordinary people in bankruptcy.
	When people told me, oh, some of my friends, some of my family left, oh, Warren is this great candidate.
	I'm like, what world are you living in?
	What propaganda have you been reading?
	And then the...
	Second component of it is the degree to which she's admitting that the pharmaceutical industry is causing net harm.
	A pharmaceutical industry doesn't have to worry about Robert Kennedy or worry about being bankrupted if their products are safe and effective.
	It's only if their products are not safe, if they're not effective.
	In other words, what they're all admitting is...
	Vaccine companies existed for forever prior to the special immunities passed in the mid-1980s, right?
	I mean, the only drug companies that went bankrupt on a vaccine prior to 1986 was ones who deliberately put out a vaccine that was dangerous and ineffective and not what they said it was.
	That's it.
	Nobody else faced such consequences.
	What it is, is they realized that any objective measurement in front of an honest, independent jury...
	Would, if given that evidence, come to the conclusion that these vaccines are net negative?
	And that's the reason why they got their political pals to give them immunity.
	Immunity not only if you're on the kids list, immunity if you can just find an emergency and call it a PrEP Act vaccine.
	Even though it's not even a vaccine.
	Senator Cassidy's like, I'm worried about whether people are having doubts about vaccines and that somehow it would be a...
	Bad legacy for Trump to have Kennedy in there.
	What he doesn't realize is the country is already doubting vaccines because of these lies.
	Like the Democratic senator is like, you know, science can be contested, and that's why you shouldn't contest science.
	It's like, okay, that didn't even make sense.
	But it's idolatry.
	It's, oh, hey, what you're talking about is heresy.
	And even if the heresy is...
	Factually true, we have to suppress it lest people believe in other heresies.
	I mean, that's what they are, I think, to a lot of normies.
	I see why Trump put Kennedy through this.
	He put it up so the whole world could see, so that his own party could see, so that the independent voters that put him over the top could see.
	That the Democratic Party has nobody representing them anymore.
	And that they're very icons and allies that they thought were their icons.
	Just look at what Jimmy Dore is talking about.
	Look at the Young Turks.
	I mean, you're talking about traditional left-oriented commentators.
	Glenn Greenwald, Aaron Maté, all the rest.
	But it wasn't just there.
	You could find a lot of normies on social media.
	Who are like, I had no idea this was the case.
	So it's not just Nicole Shanahan, who is constantly red-pilled.
	By the realization that all the people she helped put into power four, six, eight years ago were always traitors to what they claimed to be supporting.
	Like Warnock.
	As soon as Warnock got in the Senate, he was for sale.
	I mean, he got more pharma money quicker than anybody as a new senator.
	That's why he's against Kennedy.
	But I think it's a shock to the normie out there.
	Just like on the Tulsi Gabbard confirmation hearings, it was a shock to discover just how much the so-called anti-surveillance state crowd...
	On the Democratic side, it's actually completely in the deep state's pocket.
	Again, Kennedy, Democratic royalty.
	Tulsi Gabbard, longtime Democrat.
	That's who the Democrats are going after.
	And what Trump did is he set this up.
	He wants these people in, but I see why he didn't go to the confirmation process.
	It's because he wanted those independent voters who were divorcing from the Democratic Party to realize they got a divorce divorce.
	There's no getting back together a little while and seeing if it works out.
	It's time for full separation.
	And the people who delivered that, two of them, were Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.
	They hand-delivered their populist voters over to Trump and away from them, not even realizing how damning and damaging this was.
	I mean, you have Bernie making that preposterous onesie complaint that all it did is boost...
	Children's Health Defense ran out of onesies, so they had to order new ones, and they put up a special discount code, everybody.
	You can go get one of those unafraid, unvaxxed onesies, and if you want a discount code, just enter discount code BERNIE is how they came up with it.
	Kennedy held up very well.
	Gabbard held up very well.
	Cash Mattel held up very well.
	Not a surprise that he knew that.
	Democrats... Damned themselves with their own key voting group that's going to decide the next elections for the next generation.
	And they made potentially fatal damage to themselves by so viciously and bitterly attacking their former allies that are the most legitimate, authentic, populist side of that equation.
	So you had Elizabeth Warren trying to get RFK Jr. to undertake not to sue vaccine makers or pharma company.
	You had Bernie.
	Revealing to the world that not only is he a big pharma whore, he's just a big corporation whore at large.
	That was the RFK hearing.
	RFK's amazing.
	Tulsi Gabbard.
	What's amazing with the Tulsi Gabbard hearing is that the Democrats, the scoundrels that they are, think that they're making a point by getting Tulsi to say, you're repeating talking points which are factually correct about Assad.
	the gassing in Syria.
	But these are things that Russia is saying as well.
	And therefore, because you're parroting Russian talking points, which happen to be factually I mean, she was amazing in that compose, but there are dumb people trying to make people who are smarter than them look stupid and it's not working.
	Tulsi Gabbard comes out and basically says, I shed no tears for the fall of Assad.
	But you are funding and financing and training a replacement that is going to be worse than the old one.
	It didn't work in Libya.
	It didn't work in Iraq.
	And you're trying to do it here thinking it's going to work here.
	You guys are part of the problem.
	And, I mean, it was beautiful.
	But the question is this.
	Are the normies even paying attention to watch this?
	I say that they are on a scale that we've never seen before.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	I mean, that was the other reason I realized Trump did this.
	Because remember, for those that don't know that...
	The original talk was, throughout the summer and fall, as Kennedy himself talked about with Tucker Carlson, was that he and Gabbard would likely have unappointed roles.
	That they would have a significant role in the Trump administration, but that due to the institutional hostility in Washington, they would likely not be in Senate-confirmed roles.
	And instead, Trump went through this, and it's evident now why.
	Because with Tulsi Gabbard, you saw...
	Who is really behind the surveillance state?
	Who is behind the deep state?
	The extraordinary thing was not only their sort of obsessive attacks and nasty attacks and fake attacks on Gabbard, but particularly their made-up claims about Ed Snowden.
	So for those that don't remember, what Ed Snowden did is Ed Snowden was an independent defense contractor who realized, who was a believer in Obama, Who realized that the Obama administration was systemically spying on Americans illicitly and then was lying to them and the Congress about it.
	And the question was, what was he going to do about that?
	And there's some suggestion, well, just go through the internal whistleblower chain.
	What happens when the person you're supposed to report to about blowing the whistle Let me stop you there just for one second.
	Every now and again I get confused between collateral murder, which was Julian Assange releasing classified documents, versus Ed Snowden, which was the surveillance state.
	Even if I want to steelman the argument...
	Oh, that he revealed certain techniques.
	That he released certain techniques the world didn't know.
	And the argument is, okay, that's...
	But fundamentally, what it is, it's a deference to the government.
	It's that you should always defer to the government, you should always defer to the chain of command, and you should never expose the government without the permission of the government.
	That's really the only argument that they're making.
	Because there's no credible claim that if he had gone through the chain of command internally, that the whistle ever gets blown.
	It just doesn't happen.
	It never happens.
	I made the joke like he might get invited into the back of a pickup truck in the back of an Arby's where he's going to Epstein himself.
	Yeah, exactly.
	So he had no choice but to go public.
	And it was an incredibly brave and bold thing to do.
	Now, Gabbard's not in a position where she can say that anymore because of the hostility of the Senate, but it showed people that are on that left populist side, independent populist side, for whom Ed Snowden is not unpatriotic.
	He's the ultimate expression of patriotism.
	Well, that's what I noticed when I realized that I wasn't exactly confident in my own assessment because I sort of understood both sides and was teetering.
	In the chat when we were live covering this, and they were asking, is he a hero or a traitor?
	I don't think I saw anybody in the chat say he was a traitor.
	I mean, everybody in the chat, and there were thousands of people watching, said he's a hero.
	I can't understand what he did.
	I worry about the government doing bad things to me more than I worry about foreign governments and individuals doing bad things to me.
	That's why I always favor the Constitution, even if it means letting a criminal go free.
	Because the criminal is far lesser risk and danger to me than the government.
	Unlimited and unconstrained by the Constitution.
	I mean, what Ed Snowden did was, and he went to great lengths to try to limit any collateral damage in any national security aspect.
	Try to keep it as broad as general.
	Just provide enough detail to substantiate how and the reality that the American people were being illicitly spied on.
	But it's amazing that those people up there were so hostile.
	These are people that, what it is, they're just revealing the degree to which the Democratic Party is in the pocket of the deep state and the big pharmaceutical industry and the Bill Gates and George Soros of the world.
	And even their supposed populist allies are actually in their pocket.
	That's what this week disclosed between Kennedy, Gabbard, and Patel.
	And with Patel, you have this extraordinary...
	The interaction between he and Schiff and he and Klobuchar.
	And what's amazing is that they're still pretending that there's a bunch of independent voters who give a rat's rear end about January 6th.
	I mean, Schiff is still living in that fantasy land.
	In fact, this week was the most revealing, as Richard Barris was talking about, People's Pundit Daily, in terms of the Democratic Party's disconnect to its own base.
	It is completely disconnected.
	And this week it was busy.
	The number one impact, no matter whether they get confirmed, don't get confirmed, the number one impact of this week is the damage the Democratic Party did to its own brand amongst the key voters who are going to be deciding elections for the next generation.
	I want to pull up the video because I want your professional opinion on this.
	Tulsi Gabbard, what do you think?
	The odds are now...
	Starting to climb that she gets confirmed.
	I mean, I'm still on board with all three.
	I think all three will get confirmed.
	It's a question of by how much.
	I mean, I know there were some Republicans flirting with it.
	Trump has made very clear these are his three most important nominees to be confirmed.
	So I really don't see Cassidy.
	Cassidy may have his disagreements with Kennedy, may have his disagreements about the trend of the vaccines, etc.
	Though if he logically thought it through...
	If you're pro-vaccine, the best person to be put in that position is Kennedy.
	Because if Kennedy comes out and says this vaccine is actually safe and effective, people are going to believe him.
	They're not going to believe the government.
	They're not going to believe anybody else you put in.
	So if you're Senator Cassidy and you really want to restore faith and confidence in the medical authorities and in the government and in vaccines, the best way you can do so is to put Robert Kennedy there.
	Because he's sincere and authentic and wanting to make sure they're safe and effective, and people are going to believe they're safe and effective if he says it.
	So you're only undermining faith and confidence by undermining Kennedy.
	The senator's like, oh, I'm worried about people's second-guessing science.
	That's the problem.
	When you tell people they can't second-guess something, then they're not going to believe it at all.
	I remember, for example...
	Just in case nobody saw it, I don't know if this is my cut or the original.
	Sometimes science is wrong.
	We make progress.
	And when you continue to sow doubt about settled science, sometimes science is wrong.
	And when you continue to sow doubt about settled science, sometimes science is wrong.
	It makes it impossible for us to move forward.
	That was my cut to make...
	You know, make her look even stupider than she looks.
	When you question settled science, but sometimes science gets it wrong.
	So you're an idiot.
	Who was that?
	Hassan. From New Hampshire.
	And so their disconnect.
	They also don't realize this isn't 2018, right?
	That they could sort of push back against Trump back in 2018, 2017, when he wanted to put Kennedy in charge of a vaccine safety committee.
	And he got a lot of negative pushback, so he backed off.
	Now he was like, screw it.
	I'm going to put Kennedy in charge of the whole Secretary of Health and Human Services because that's what I should have done the first time.
	And all these people think, oh, well, we'll just criticize Kennedy for raising any doubts about vaccines.
	Don't realize after COVID, when the government lied about a drug that wasn't a vaccine, it just wasn't.
	COVID vaccine is not a vaccine.
	It does not prevent transmission or infection.
	It's a therapeutic.
	The report from the subcommittee concluded as much.
	Kieran Moore out of Ontario said as much.
	It's a therapeutic at best, except it doesn't make you...
	Exactly. It's a therapeutic that is also not safe and not effective.
	Not effective at preventing COVID-19 in any meaningful way.
	Supposedly it reduces its effects.
	That has not been proven to any substantial degree either.
	And then it's not safe at all in the way that it was being projected as.
	Because of that, we did the Four Freedoms poll with Richard Barris.
	He's been talking about it, 1776 Law Center, thanks to all those supporting 1776 Law Center.
	Because part of what we did is we did a poll last spring, early summer, and gave it to everybody on the political side, on both sides, by the way, Democratic and Republican side.
	And what it detailed is how much people are committed.
	to food and freedom and medical freedom.
	And medical freedom politics changed after COVID.
	People don't have the same reflexive deference and complete confidence and trust in the medical establishment.
	And Democrats should know that.
	Otherwise, Biden wouldn't have been busy pardoning Fauci if, in fact, there was no skepticism out there.
	And now more and more people know about the bioweapon labs that they were pretending didn't exist and the ties to those in COVID-19.
	So what they don't realize is that they're just on the wrong side of history, and they're on the wrong side of where these voters are.
	And they're relying, and they're giving false information about the so-called vaccine, false information about the Snowden, and false information about January 6th defendants, all in an effort to try to derail Patel, Gabbard, and Kennedy.
	And all it really did is derail the Democratic Party's ability to reunite with what used to be part of its base.
	Robert, during the hearings, it was Adam Schiff, Cory Booker, and I forget the third one, who were seemingly giving Patel legal advice during the hearings that he could disclose the subject or he could disclose the nature and tenor of his testimony before the grand jury in the Trump prosecution case.
	I got the feeling they were trying to get him to disclose something that they knew he was not legally allowed to disclose because it's what Adam Schiff was basically doing during the Russiagate hoax by lying and then knowing that anybody who came out to contradict his lie, It really depends.
	He may have been given specific instructions.
	So generally speaking, if you're called before a grand jury, nothing you say, nothing you experience, not even the questions you're asked, are in fact confidential.
	Prosecutors will try to intimidate you into believing that it's secret and confidential.
	But generally speaking, just the fact that it's before a grand jury does not make it confidential, despite misleading representations by the prosecutors.
	However, there are circumstances where they seal the records for other reasons.
	So they may seal the records because of some form of executive branch privilege, some form of presidential confidence that should be there.
	Maybe because he had access to classified materials.
	My guess is...
	That they were trying to sucker him to disclose things, not because they were secret before the grand jury or sealed before the grand jury, but because they likely concerned access to materials he saw when he was a member of Nunes' committee that were being kept secret.
	And my guess is some of his testimony concerned some of those things.
	And they were trying to sucker, oh look, the incoming FBI director just disclosed classified information.
	He can't even tell the difference between.
	That, I think, is where they were really trying to go.
	And he wasn't dumb enough to take that bait.
	Just like he wasn't dumb enough to take the bait when Chip was like, look, we wanted that drama.
	Look to your right.
	Look to these poor Capitol Police officers where Chip's busy just lying like crazy.
	Which he can do, of course, because...
	Congress gave themselves immunity from libel, so they can libel anybody they want.
	If you ever want to libel somebody, run for Congress, win.
	And once you win, you can libel anybody you want because the courts have decided that Congress gave themselves the complete immunity and liability.
	I think that's a mistake, but it is where we're at.
	That's why, by the way, they waited until especially...
	When you have the most protection is when you lie in a committee or you lie on the House floor.
	That's when you have maximum privilege because then you have constitutional speech and debate clause immunity on top of their Westfall Immunity Act that they gave themselves.
	And consequently, that's why you get the biggest libels when that starts.
	When they just start making random stuff up.
	Or making up whatever they want.
	And this is how the Democratic Party rules.
	But what's different is you should use that...
	Use that against the Wall Street guy for Secretary of Treasury, say.
	Now, of course, they're not going to do that because they're really neo-corporate Wall Street in the pocket as well.
	But what they reveal, who you don't use those nasty, dirty tricks against, are Democratic royalty like Robert Kennedy, are longtime former Democrats like Tulsi Gabbard.
	By the way, several of whom voted Democrat down ballot this last presidential election.
	That's how they got split tickets out of Michigan and Wisconsin and Arizona and Nevada.
	And what it is, is Trump just reminded them and gave them a crash course and why that was a mistake.
	I mean, these were the most watched confirmation hearings that I can remember for cabinet positions.
	No, look, that was my observation as well.
	And it wasn't just that they were watched.
	It's that they were watched by people with large audiences themselves.
	I mean, it was a veritable force multiplier where never have they seen this much sunlight and scrutiny in real time, which is why the likes of Bernie and Hassan or Hassan got absolutely roasted on social media in ways that...
	Would have never been the case 10 years ago.
	And it's not 2016.
	It's 2024, 2025, and you've got tens of millions of people watching in real time like you've never had before with these confirmation hearings.
	You still think all three get through?
	Bernie Sanders, although you can go to sports picks, I don't know if you have any choices on these.
	Does Bernie yay or nay on all three?
	He's going to go nay, or do you think he has a...
	I mean, right now, the betting markets are saying he's going to go nay on all three.
	It would be the...
	He'll definitely go nay on Patel, even though he supposedly cares about civil rights.
	He'll go nay on Kennedy, even though he supposedly cares about Big Pharma and Big Ag.
	And he'll probably go nay even on Tulsi Gabbard, even though Tulsi Gabbard's stake took huge risk for him in 2016.
	It's just who he is.
	Maybe he'll break on one of the three, but the Democrats are exposing themselves.
	It would have been smart of some Democrats to cross over.
	If Fetterman wants to have this independent rep that he was experimenting with over the winter break, vote for these kind of nominees if he wants that.
	Kennedy, for example, the Amish are paying great attention to Kennedy's nomination more than any other action the administration can take, of which the Amish by themselves can decide elections in the state of Pennsylvania.
	Food Safety News reported they made sure that Trump was always going to win Pennsylvania this past cycle.
	If they're smart.
	Will Sheldon Whitehouse from Rhode Island show what a traitor he is by betraying a personal best friend from the time for the last, what, 50 years?
	Is that how much politics matters more to him?
	So that's what we're going to find out.
	Is there anybody with a conscience left?
	In the Democratic Party.
	And then who are the traitors in the Republican Party?
	I think there may be a surprise or two.
	I think people are thinking Susan Collins is going to vote no on all three.
	I don't think she is.
	I think the assumption is that Murkowski is going to vote no on all three.
	I don't think she is either.
	Now, the question is, speaking of Torch and his legacy, while Bernie was doing it on the left, Mitch McConnell was busy doing it on the right.
	He's basically John McCain-ing himself in live time.
	I'm looking at the Kalshi markets, and Lisa Murkowski is up big.
	She's had a 30% chance of voting for Tulsi Gabbard.
	Bernie's almost 10 to 1, or he was...
	No, Fetterman was 10 to 1 yesterday.
	Bernie was like 8 to 1. So, fingers crossed.
	I just made a joke of a tweet that if Bernie doesn't vote for Tulsi Gabbard, he's a racist misogynist.
	Dems de rules.
	Dem, bada bing, bada boom.
	To be continued...
	Oh, yeah, sorry.
	When is the vote on Tulsi...
	When is the vote on all three of them?
	I assume it's going to be this week.
	They did a bit of a break.
	Now, some people have asked if they don't get through, can Trump recess appoint them?
	The answer is yes.
	He either has to wait for a certain proper recess to occur, or he could try something that hasn't been done in a while.
	But most legal scholars agree that there's substantial debate, but there's at least a good number of legal scholars that support the proposition that the president could recess the Senate himself by order.
	It's just a power that I think has never been exercised before.
	But Trump might explore it.
	Because the reality is that the more debate centers on people like Kennedy and Trump and Gabbard and Trump and Kash Patel and Trump and FBI reform and illegal spying and Ed Snowden and vaccine safety.
	You know what that is?
	It's called win-win-win-win-win-win-win-win-win for Trump no matter what happens.
	As long as these are the topics being debated, and these are the images being projected on people's TV screens, and the names being cited over radio and podcasts, that helps Trump.
	Democrats are so out of touch, they think Kennedy is unliked.
	It's like, can't they read a poll?
	The most well-liked cabinet nominee of President Trump is Robert Kennedy.
	He is exceptionally well-liked.
	The more exposure he got, the more his approval ratings went up.
	What's extraordinary is I thought when he joined Trump that that would probably take a severe hit on his likability, given some portion of that comes from the Democratic family legacy.
	It didn't.
	In fact, he went up with as many people as he went down with.
	So, I mean, that's how out of touch they are.
	They don't realize.
	I mean, one reason why we did the Four Freedoms poll with Richard Barris was I realized a bunch of Republicans didn't realize this back in the summer.
	I was like, I'm seeing it in a lifetime.
	And we dug in.
	One in three Americans believes they or someone very close to them suffered a debilitating and disabling injury or death from the COVID vaccine or was discriminated against related to the COVID vaccine.
	And disproportionately, they're working class minorities, millennials, and Zoomers.
	That's what was driving Kennedy's movement.
	The other thing they're strong believers in is food freedom.
	They're looking to find ways to feed themselves and their kids healthier than they grew up because they're witnessing The adverse effects of the bad food we've been stuck with is corporatized, monopolized, industrialized, mechanized food supply over the past half century that government regulators help facilitate.
	It's the Democrats who don't realize it.
	They're the ones who are still disconnected, not understanding how big this voter group is becoming.
	I mean, consider, for example, Big Pharma had a week to stack the Kennedy room, right?
	I mean, it's the most powerful lobbying group in all of media.
	The reason why J.D. Vance pointed out on Joe Rogan, the reason why Big Pharma's advertising in America isn't to get people to buy their products, because they have to list all the bad side effects in those ads.
	Those ads are about buying the complicity of the media political establishment.
	So they keep their mouths shut.
	And they buy them off with lobbying deals.
	I mean, for example, the last Secretary of Agriculture under Biden just given a sweetheart gig in big corporate agriculture.
	Right away, as soon as he leaves, right out the door, bam, there's the payoff, there's the after-the-fact bribe.
	So that's what the American people want.
	So Trump is going to find a way to deliver.
	That's why if you're Senator Cassidy, you vote for Kennedy, because that actually gives you more access and control than otherwise.
	Otherwise, Trump is going to go forward on this no matter what.
	Kennedy's going to be in a position of influence no matter what.
	Gabbard's going to be in a position of influence no matter what.
	So if you're Congress, don't you want those people to be people you can subpoena because you have regular supervisory authority over them?
	Or do you want them to be outside of your supervisory authority with any degree of ease and simplicity?
	So smart politicians would vote yes, even if they don't agree with Kennedy, don't agree with Gabbard, don't agree with Cash Patel.
	Because it's the only thing that's going to restore confidence in any of these agencies.
	FDR saved Wall Street.
	He didn't destroy Wall Street.
	Because he didn't blame Wall Street for the collapse of the economy in 1929 to a certain degree.
	So, I mean, there's a smart way to handle this and a dumb way to handle this.
	And the only question is, do Democrats or Republicans in the Senate know it's smart or not?
	And that's what's not always clear.
	I think in the end, one way or another, all three of these people are going to have a substantial impact on the Trump administration.
	The only question is whether the Senate is the lead obstacle or the lead ally in that process.
	I'm going to read some Commitube chats before everybody goes on over to rumble because we're going to migrate there now.
	And I got a couple of questions afterwards.
	Robert, we got your cut to make the senator look more stupid.
	Can't be done.
	She is already at her max.
	I did love it.
	Who was the comedian that did the great cut up?
	Oh, it was Ty Fisher who did...
	How do I stop sharing?
	It was Ty Fisher who did a hilarious...
	You can't steal his stuff and not give him credit.
	You need to let people know who the creator is.
	Canada and Mexico teaming up to protect their Chinese drug smuggling and human trafficking operations into the U.S. says everything.
	I won't read the last part, but I definitely agree with part of that.
	And I'm going to get to the rumble rants after this.
	I'm just trying to...
	Are you going to become a bootlegger and start sneaking that Canadian liquor in over the border?
	The irony is, I just saw a tweet that said, you know, in Canada, they're saying, buy Canadian liquor instead.
	The liquor commissions put Canadian manufacturers out of business with their costs and their taxation.
	So people don't realize this.
	Florida Dad says, autism dad here, so we get vaccine for all the time.
	The worship of every COVID vaccine really tanked the reputation of old school, no IP legacy vaccines that actually did what they're designed for to do.
	Absolutely. I mean, that's the ultimate irony.
	I had never asked questions.
	They kept trying to suggest that Kennedy's obsessed with taking vaccines on or off the market.
	It's utterly false.
	It's just a libel.
	Like all the Samoan measles nonsense.
	It was one big fat lie that was about them covering up for the fact that there was a bad measles vaccine they gave out.
	That's what they were trying to cover up.
	A lot of, like, the polio outbreaks over the last 50 years have come from vaccine.
	Polio vaccine!
	You know, this is not realized by a lot of people because the media suppresses any story skeptical of vaccines since the mid-1980s.
	I mean, you go back late 70s and you can find CBS 60 Minutes talking about the disaster of the swine flu vaccine of 1976, where it helped sink and park Gerald Ford's presidential election that year.
	It was one of the key factors that hurt him.
	So it used to be something that was broadly, properly discussed, and now it has to be completely suppressed, and everybody has to pretend that everything's safe and effective.
	But as to Kennedy, he's never called for banning things.
	He's called for informed consent.
	His consistent message has been, people should have the right to choose, and if you're lying to them...
	Then you should not market a product.
	Like, his petition wasn't to take the COVID vaccine off the market.
	His petition was, you cannot label this product safe and effective for six-month-olds when it's not, and you don't have the science to say that it is.
	And when, as Senator Paul reiterated, no healthy child, and that was not a child that didn't have a bunch of other health problems, no healthy child died from COVID, according to Senator Paul.
	And that's because that's what the data supports, which means you absolutely didn't need to have a COVID vaccine for a six-month-old or for a six-year-old.
	Kennedy's point was informed consent that, hey, if you can make it available, just don't lie to parents about the safety or efficacy or what it is.
	It wasn't a vaccine.
	It didn't prevent infection or transmission.
	So it should never have been labeled a vaccine.
	The latest stats now of that age group of young men, one in 2,000.
	For myocarditis.
	Pepe said we should give dollar-for-dollar retaliatory tariffs.
	F-ing stupid.
	American economy is Mike Tyson.
	At the peak of his career, Canada is a lightweight golden glove at best.
	They're idiots, but they want to cause the crisis because it'll give them something to manage and it'll give them something to distract the population from.
	Guys, make your way over to Rumble.
	And by the way, apparently I'm getting a message that Rumble rants are not going through.
	I'll see what's going on with that.
	I see a whole bunch right now.
	Excellent. Viva saves a great blue heron, then 400 ostriches.
	What shall he say?
	Oh, you know, that's my...
	Yeah, I guess it's one of your relatives, too.
	It's my...
	What the Native Americans call my totem bird is the great blue heron.
	Robert, that is so freaky because every time we see a blue heron, it's my father-in-law's animal.
	We say, oh, there's Grandpa D. And...
	The lawyer that I used to work with called me a bird because she said I behaved like a bird for good and for bad.
	It's a bizarre, bizarre world.
	Question for Barnes.
	Jack White has a few commie chats.
	Question for Barnes.
	What are your thoughts on academic agents' predictions he made on the Duran 10 days ago?
	Do you think he's giving the powers that be too much credit?
	Weasel out of the hearing.
	I'm not sure about that one.
	I usually follow the Duran, but I'm not remembering that off the top of my head.
	Okay, and we got, I think it's Jack White up here as well.
	They did predict, you know, a lot of what Rubio would say and where Trump is heading and where Putin is heading in terms of spheres of influence.
	And then you see, I mean, I saw, you know, Alex was talking about Alex and Alexander on the Duran, which you can find, duran.locals.com, also Rumble, YouTube, etc.
	But then I saw Rubio using the exact same language that they had been using.
	Days before to describe where they saw likely where Trump was heading and where Putin is heading.
	And Putin is doing the smart...
	There's a foreign leader that knows how to...
	Pierre, what is his name?
	Poitier. I mean, anybody named that, you can't take seriously.
	I'm sorry.
	But you look at those types and you look at Denmark and how they're handling Greenland.
	Contrast it to how Putin is handling everything.
	Even when Trump is out there taking all these shots at Russia, all Putin comes back with is, you know, the Ukraine war never would have happened if they wouldn't have stolen the election from President Trump in 2020.
	So he knows how to work with Trump.
	Whereas a lot of these other foreign leaders, but some of them get it quickly.
	I mean, the Colombian guy, Colombian president, I mean...
	Did he reverse it like, what was it, two hours?
	Twelve hours.
	But he gave AOC...
	And the Panama president, same thing.
	Panama president, he talks tough.
	We're not giving you nothing.
	And then he comes down, says hello, and brought whatever message Trump sent.
	And he's like, now that we think about it, we don't think China should be running the Panama Canal after all.
	And then look at Venezuela.
	Even Venezuela, they released...
	I think those are guys that the Biden administration sent down to overthrow the government, by the way.
	Why are Americans being held prisoner in Venezuela?
	I think it's the same people.
	But credit to Trump.
	I don't know what he did.
	He somehow gets them to release them all.
	So, I mean, everybody's folding in record time.
	We'll see what happens with Canada.
	I bet the president of Mexico folds pretty fast.
	We'll see.
	But so far, all these others are just rolling over.
	One after the other.
	We got from Jack White.
	This question for you and Barnes.
	Do you think if the courts keep using standing and latches to weasel out of hearing cases, it will start causing people to investigate the origins of those doctrines and start challenging their validity?
	I know Barnes doesn't like latches.
	At least more blowback within the court of legal opinion and maybe hopefully within some of the legislative branches and things like that.
	That would be the hope.
	Yes. Okay.
	And then I think, well, Bill Tong, King of Bill Tong, doesn't seem to be able to get his chat through, but Bill Tong, want more protein for your diet?
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	And then we've got Randy Edwards says, obtaining a secret clearance essentially requires an oath as part of the application process.
	You must sign a form.
	Snowden's job requires a high level security.
	Well, there's no question he broke the law.
	The only question is, is he a traitor or a hero?
	That was good because he did it.
	Well, the other thing I would say is there is a defense called justification.
	So if you believe what you're doing...
	And you can show evidence that it more greater serves the public interest than strictly complying with the letter of the law.
	Then the law actually allows you, as a complete criminal defense, to take that action.
	You think about it, there are all kinds of scenarios where we can imagine, like let's say you need to violate traffic laws to save somebody's life.
	We recognize, well, that's appropriate to do.
	That's not illegal to do.
	Even though it violates the letter of the law, it actually doesn't violate the law because the spirit of the law is defended by the justification principle.
	In my view, Ed Snowden has a complete justification defense.
	Problem is, American courts are not recognizing that defense in key whistleblower cases because they're corruptly handled out of the Northern District of Virginia by a select set of judges whose goal is to make sure the deep state is well served at all times.
	Which, at least one, you know, the Eastern District of New York finally proved itself useful at finding certain aspects of these FISA laws unconstitutional this week.
	All right, hold it, and we're going to save it for a rumble, people.
	We're going to merge over there.
	Just an announcement, by the way, and I'm a little nervous about it because it's going to be an interesting interview.
	Roger Verre.
	Roger Verre.
	Verre? Geez, Louise.
	Verre. Roger Verre.
	Anyhow, I'm interviewing him tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock.
	Sweet. It's going to be interesting.
	And full disclosure, I have a Calci prediction that he will get pardoned within Trump's first 100 days.
	But, because I, you know...
	It's like the Snow...
	You saw a lot of lies last week about the Ulbrich case.
	A lot of lies this week about Snowden and the vaccine cases.
	Let me stop there.
	And there's been plenty of lies about the Roger Ver case.
	Well, the Ulbrich...
	Well, Ver, I understand now the political dynamic within the cryptosphere.
	But that doesn't mean someone gets left away for 109 years.
	He's an old-school purist.
	It's why it's called Bitcoin Jesus in part.
	Big believer in Bitcoin, but also in the original...
	Democratizing principle of Bitcoin.
	There's some people who are only in Bitcoin to line their pockets.
	That's a Bitcoin maximalist.
	And there's others that believe that's the best way to get Bitcoin's adaptability.
	So there's been different debates within the Bitcoin community of which Roger Ver is taking his side to consistently whatever he believes will democratize Bitcoin and make it a way of financial freedom independent of centralized banks and centralized planners in the government.
	But as his motion to dismiss...
	Details. Like, I saw talk about, oh, he just has to pay the tax.
	They won't tell him how much tax he owes.
	He asked how much tax they think he owes.
	They won't even tell him how much he owes.
	Look, I'm not fleshing this out as a defense to him.
	It's just like, people don't understand.
	Hate the guy, fine.
	For whatever the reason.
	Like, hate Andrew Tate.
	But you don't bypass due process and you don't bypass civil remedy and try to lock someone for the rest of their life.
	And you don't encourage the government to weaponize the criminal prosecutorial power to put in prison its political dissidents, its political critics, least of all to empower them to do that in tax law because that they could do to every single one of us.
	They don't get to make new tax law through a criminal prosecution.
	And everyone's like, well, he should have just defrauded the government.
	Reassess. Go civil and then see if he actually owes anything first.
	Exactly. So 10 o'clock tomorrow.
	If he owes something, why won't the government tell him what it is they think he owes?
	The details will be fleshed out because I had to make sure.
	Did the government really bypass?
	Any civil recourse?
	And the answer was yes, and he had inquired, allegedly, for years.
	Oh yeah, absolutely.
	He even used the Freedom of Information Act, according to his motion, where they have the underlying documents to support it.
	Then he filed it.
	He actually filed Freedom of Information Act requests to beg the government to tell him how much they think he owes.
	And they still wouldn't tell him how much he owes, and they wanted to put him in prison for 109 years.
	I mean, everything, again, it's classic.
	What do you look for with lawfare?
	January 6th cases, Ross Olbert cases, these cases, the Douglas Mackey case that's still up on appeal, the meme maker case, where they prosecuted a guy for making a meme, the Watchman case out of Michigan, the pro-life cases, like the January 6th cases, all have, and some of the vaccine cases, all have certain things in common.
	And what it is, is when you're looking for lawfare, look for a, they're pursuing a novel theory.
	They're pursuing, it's a selective prosecution, in other words, that similarly situated people were not similarly prosecuted, and look for government malfeasance and misfeasance, various forms of misconduct in the process.
	They will have never complied with due process because they can't to prosecute someone for bogus reasons.
	Well, you have all three in January 6th cases, all three in the Snowden case, all three in the Assange case, all three in the Ross Ulbert case, and all three in the Roger Veer case.
	It is a complete novel theory of prosecution.
	It is entirely selective.
	Nobody else has been prosecuted that's similarly situated to Veer.
	And there's massive government misconduct, including top, high-ranking Justice Department officials, lying under penalty of perjury, not only to the United States courts, but to courts overseas.
	Yeah, the lies about Ulbricht were just amazing.
	The hitman that he hired a hitman when that...
	It was totally fake.
	They made up the story so they could get a judge and jury in their pockets without people looking twice at the absurd, novel nature of that case.
	Why do you avoid talking about Dr. David E. Martin?
	It makes no sense.
	He has all the evidence.
	It says LKD 505.
	This is over in our locals.
	I don't know who avoids talking about it.
	Honestly, I don't know who that is, to be honest with you.
	I'll screen grab that.
	Thinks Now says, ha, sternly worded letters.
	Buffalo Betsy, did you see the stuff going on in Minnesota legislature?
	I didn't.
	Jigum Gigum has a great meme here just because.
	He's made a meme out of my sister.
	That's my sister Martha's face he put on there.
	Yeah, I think you glitched out.
	I don't know if it was on my end for a second there.
	Hold on, let me just go back here.
	Canada's government should watch all YouTube videos of EVs bursting into flames in China.
	They need a preview of coming attractions.
	That's from the engaged few.
	Snookums after COVID experience.
	I thought we weren't trusting the PCR test anymore.
	That was for the ostrich.
	Can you recommend a Canadian organization comparable to 1776 for us Canadians to support?
	I would say the Justice Center for Constitutional Freedoms.
	Yeah, yeah.
	JCCF, they're amazing.
	That's really good work.
	Isn't your brother still up there?
	Last one.
	My brother's still causing trouble.
	He's not with the JCCF.
	He's independent and causing trouble.
	I like Rebel News, but I know people have their issues with Rebel News.
	JCCF, people have their issues because the president did something wrong in a trial where he was trying to find the judge breaking COVID laws.
	Grow up.
	Alright, that's it.
	We're doing it now.
	Do you think we could bring a copyright suit against Angela Merkel?
	Because she's stolen your name.
	She's stolen your name and put Freiheit on the front of her memo.
	She's destroyed it.
	Yeah, you think of the damage he's done in your game.
	All right, we are ending on Commitube and Twitter.
	Come on over to vivabarneslaw.locals.com or Rumble for the rest of this.
	And the entire stream will be up.
	Audio as well on Podbean, Podformat, whatever the hell you know.
	And clips.
	Okay, updating now.
	Rumble and Locals for the rest.
	See you later.
	Robert, so what was going on with the FISA stuff?
	Update us on that while I do one thing while you do that.
	Sure. So there was an individual prosecuted under the Obama administration that basically said he was going to go over to Afghanistan and Pakistan to aid in terror attacks on U.S. military soldiers stationed in Afghanistan.
	When he was prosecuted, he ended up pleading guilty, 15 years in federal prison.
	Then it came out after he had cut his plea deal and that, in fact, they had actually originally sourced a lot of the information concerning him from Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
	For those who don't know the background of the FISA laws...
	What came out in the late 60s, early 70s, and particularly the Church Committee and the House Un-American Assassinations Committee and other committees investigating the intelligence community, was that the intelligence community was using a loophole of spying on Americans by spying on foreigners.
	And like, oh, we're not spying on an American, but Americans just happen to be on the conversation.
	That kind of routine.
	So they pass the laws to try to restrain the intelligence community.
	And of course, the intelligence community uses it to expand the scope of their authority, particularly George W. Bush.
	In 2001, after the terror attacks, just starts mass gathering everybody's intel and information.
	He keeps it a secret.
	Tries to keep it a secret the whole time.
	It gets finally disclosed that he's doing this in mass.
	So they change the FISA laws.
	Particularly, they create Section 702 of the FISA laws to allow them to mass.
	Incidental information.
	Mass gathering everybody's emails and text is what they're doing.
	They're gathering all of it.
	And they have been for a long time.
	Operation Echelon and some other things you can go back and find.
	Even discussed in books by Dan Brown, no less, by the way.
	The Angels and Demons guy.
	Mary Magdalene, Jesus Had a Kid, that kind of thing.
	That guy.
	He actually did a very detailed version of what's really going on even before all the Snowden details came out.
	In a fiction book that he wrote.
	There are other versions of that.
	But so what they're doing is, so they get the Supreme Court to wink and nod and say, it's okay to incidentally gather all of the information on Americans under this Section 702.
	But what they're doing is after they incidentally get all of your messages and emails and, you know, camera footage from inside your own house using your own computer or cell phone or...
	Or even your Nest thermometer device or all the other smart technology they got going on there, including your oven, including your energy keeper, potentially a smart meter, stick it on your home, getting constant intel and information and feeding it back that's going into these mass government databases.
	What they're doing is, of course, they're starting to search those databases.
	So they put in a query.
	And by doing the query, the thing that they promised the Supreme Court, don't worry, we're never going to use this to intentionally...
	This is just incidental information that's just sitting there.
	But of course, once it's sitting there, that's what they were going to start searching it for.
	And what they had failed to disclose when they prosecuted this person accused of supporting terrorism was that they had falsely identified him as a non-citizen.
	And non-citizens, and often they would say something that was being intercepted abroad.
	Because, by the way, somehow the Fourth Amendment doesn't apply outside the United States, but they can tax you even when you live outside the United States.
	I always found that interesting interpretation of the Constitution.
	Citizenship extends to take property from you whenever we want, but it doesn't exist to actually protect you wherever you are.
	It's always convenient how those courts decide that.
	The real reason the courts don't apply to the Fourth Amendment outside the United States, they don't want to apply it to a war zone.
	It's that simple.
	They want to get around any war issues, military issues, national security operations, etc.
	They don't want that to interfere with our poor deep state.
	So they go in and it discovers that they were doing searches and that's how they got this guy and they had falsely identified him as a non-U.S.
	person. Well, it's a patently illegal search under the law.
	No, they had no warrant for it, no probable cause for it.
	It wasn't otherwise reasonable.
	It goes up to the Second Circuit.
	The Second Circuit, the district court judge just assumed it was okay.
	What does that tell you about federal courts?
	Oh, yeah, I don't even have to do a Fourth Amendment analysis.
	If they already had the evidence, surely they could search it for whatever they wanted.
	When, in fact, the doctrine has long been, just because you have something that you can be searched, doesn't make any search of that evidence that you have in custody actually constitutional or reasonable.
	Because you might get somebody's phone incident to an arrest.
	That doesn't allow you to then search their entire phone.
	So this has often been the case, but it's often missed by lower courts and prosecutors and some rogue cops and officers.
	The judge went back and looked and said, when you're busy using that incidentally searched information, you're searching it, you've got to have probable cause or it's got to be with a warrant.
	Because that's a separate search.
	The only reason why you have that evidence is you promise not to search it.
	So you don't get to turn around and search it and claim that because you already have it, you now can be exempt from the Fourth Amendment.
	So fundamentally, it found a way in which they're using Section 702 unconstitutional in America.
	And frankly, it's always been.
	The only question is whether the higher courts will go along with this or whether they'll find another excuse to let the deep state out.
	But then going back to Tulsi Gabbard, not condemning the 702 discussion during the confirmation hearings, is she just...
	Playing politics?
	Or is there a use for the 702?
	Well, I mean, I do think she's in a different role.
	So if you're being asked to be...
	If you're in the intelligence branch, you want all the intel you can get, right?
	So she's being asked by President Trump to look at all the intel.
	She's not being asked to do a policy analysis of what intelligence mechanisms should we or should we not do.
	So her point is the Supreme Court has interpreted this as constitutional.
	So whatever she may feel about it as a member of Congress...
	Is different than what she's being asked to do as an executive branch member.
	I mean, it's like Robert Kennedy's position on abortion.
	He's like, you know, I have a different opinion than President Trump on abortion, but I'm working for him.
	And so I'm going to be implementing President Trump's policy on abortion.
	And so I wasn't as bothered by Gabbard walking back her position on that, because to me, she's changing.
	She didn't say it's now magically constitutional or legal.
	In fact, she criticized the illegal use of it in the past.
	She just said that in this role, she is not there to second-guess the mechanisms and methods by which that information is gathered.
	That's a role for Congress and the president, not for her.
	And I would agree with that.
	But she says we're going to stay within the rules because they've often not followed the rules.
	And in fact, a lot of what she's complained about in the past has been like what happened here.
	What happened here was always illegal.
	Section 702 didn't allow this either.
	So I think her position, it's a reasonable compromise given what she's being asked to do by President Trump.
	But it tells you how bad the mindset is in Washington that they love this power and they're addicted to it so much that they're not willing to second-guess its use.
	Because, by the way, one of the prime victims of illegal searches, as she pointed out, was the United States Senate.
	Because it was the Senate that was illegally spied on repeatedly in the past.
	I know we're going to get into this.
	We're going to touch it, or at least this will be the segue into bureaucrats suing Trump.
	The news is breaking faster than I can keep up with it.
	And when two liars say something that I know is a lie, I want to flesh out the details for those who might not understand what's going on here.
	It's confusing.
	Elon Musk is coming out and saying, look, we're cutting...
	Doge is cutting spending.
	And people take that to mean like the proverbial we, like the Adam Schiff saying, when you say we, do you mean you?
	He's like, no, I meant like it's being done.
	Oh, so whatever.
	Elizabeth Warren just said no one elected Elon Musk at the same time as...
	AOC saying it's a five alarm fire.
	Nobody elected Elon Musk.
	Having an unelected billionaire, his own foreign debts and motives raiding U.S. classified information is a grave threat to national security.
	This should be a nonpartisan issue.
	And then you got Kyle Griffin, who is another confirmed liar, talking about this.
	Do you know what's going on?
	My understanding is that Elon Musk is not accessing any confidential or classified information as relates to payments going out, but rather people are sort of misunderstanding when he's saying Doge is making government more efficient and we are freezing these payments to these entities, hundreds of millions of dollars to these corrupt entities.
	The we is a proverbial and not Elon Musk accessing any classified info.
	Would you know what exactly is going on with that?
	So the, I mean, well, two things.
	One, in my view...
	Only the president can decide what is and isn't classified.
	So if the president's giving somebody access to something, it's not classified, at least as to that person.
	Because the president gets...
	There's this effort that was made evident by the prosecution of President Trump to say that the bureaucratic state, unelected officials, get to decide what is and is not classified.
	And even gets to keep it secret from the elected exec president of the United States.
	That's insane.
	We no longer have a constitutional republic if that's the case.
	We have a deep state.
	We have an administrative bureaucratic state.
	We have a bureaucratic tyranny that is running our government and not the elected representatives, which is not a constitutional government.
	So I've never agreed with that at all.
	So that's where it's like...
	That's Assange's point.
	That's partially Snowden's point.
	Secrecy is what tyrants rely upon.
	So the no more secrets mantra of Julian Assange...
	It was predicated on the only way tyrants succeed is with secrets.
	Take away secrets, you take away tyrants.
	And I think that there's good evidence and argument in that favor.
	But it reflects the whole mindset.
	It's been so revealing that Democrats like Selena Gomez and the rest are out there crying and bailing about these poor criminals that are being deported.
	So that's been educational to a lot of normies.
	They're like, oh wow, the Democratic Party really is completely in bed with illegal immigration and doesn't care that these violent criminal gangs are coming in.
	And they're crying over violent criminal gangs.
	The other people they're crying over, they're crying over foreigners in terms of tariffs.
	They're crying for Canadians.
	They're crying for Mexicans.
	They're crying for China.
	They're not crying for Americans whose jobs were lost and wages were stripped.
	Because of these bad trade deals that have been done in the past with countries like China and Mexico and Colombia and China and the World Trade Organization entrance and all that nonsense that Clintons and Bushes both facilitated.
	But on top of all of those components, they really believe these bureaucrats are like God's gift to the world.
	And you see it reflected in these administrative state losses.
	State of New York says, you can't decide what money is to be spent.
	Biden has already authorized this money, so judicial branch, come to our aid and empower the bureaucratic branch to make these decisions.
	My favorite one, though, is the various government unions suing over President Trump's challenges to changes to Section F, which say, oh no, we the bureaucracy wrote our own rules, and the elected head of the executive branch can't change those rules.
	We, the bureaucrats, get to determine whether we have to work at the office or not.
	We decide whether or not how many days we have to be in the office.
	We decide whether or not we want to retire or not.
	We decide whether or not where money gets spent.
	And it just shows the mindset of how insane it got.
	And you see the moral rage of the professional class Democrats that are making clear to everybody, we represent foreigners and bureaucrats.
	And the deep state.
	That's it.
	They only represent foreigners, the bureaucrats, and the deep state.
	Even Zelensky's now ratting out the deep state saying, you know, most of that money they authorize, we actually didn't see much of it.
	Remember when, I forget it, it was CBS News who had to retract their documentary saying how 70% of aid was not making it to the end.
	Of course not.
	And what Doge is exposing is all these politically motivated I was curious when these suits were filed.
	Are they alleging Trump is violating a constitutional provision?
	Are they alleging Trump is violating a specific congressional directive about legislative authority concerning the purse?
	Because then they would have a claim.
	They're not claiming either one.
	They're claiming that their own regulatory agency rules overrule the elected head of the executive branch.
	They're not claiming constitutional or congressional authority for their lawsuits.
	They're claiming that they get to dictate their own terms and conditions.
	What has happened, and this is being detailed by some data researchers online, I think one of them is even called Data Republican or Data Researcher or something like that.
	And he's helping out Doge and the rest.
	And what they're figuring out is money's being spent that was never specifically authorized or approved by Congress.
	Sometimes it is being spent in direct contradiction to Congress's directives.
	And last but not least, it's being used to prop up a huge political machine.
	When you dig into all these NGOs, you dig into all these grants, you dig into all the way the money is spent in academia and non-profits around the world.
	It's basically just a Democratic political machine.
	The reason why AOC is going nuts is because her true friends aren't the ones working in the factory or working as a bartender or working as a barista.
	It's people working in the entire apparatus of government contracts.
	That's what they're doing.
	Democrats just took the political machine of Tammany Hall and made it global.
	Bill Clinton specialized in this.
	He specialized in the Clinton Foundation at capitalizing and enriching himself off of it.
	But that's what they're discovering with these contracts.
	I think even Trump was shocked.
	We're spending money to get condoms to the Palestinians?
	It was Gaza-Mozambique.
	Even in Mozambique?
	Why are we spending a bunch of money to give condoms to foreigners?
	What are we doing?
	The misunderstanding, and it's quite understandable, I don't think people knew there was a Gaza-Mozambique.
	They were giving...
	However many millions of dollars in condoms.
	People are like, it's not 50 million, it's only 10. They're giving millions of dollars in condoms to Gaza, Mozambique.
	And most of that is not going to end users.
	What you will discover is that most of it's going to the professional managerial class.
	It's the way the welfare state is designed.
	The welfare state is designed to hire five bureaucrats to feed one poor person.
	What it did realize is that Hamas uses condoms.
	For terrorist purposes.
	You go back and look this up.
	They would use them, fill them with helium, and use them to carry explosive incendiary devices wherever it may land.
	I guess condoms are better than balloons because they're that much lighter.
	Also, if they're being given to you for free, take them.
	But this was gas in Mozambique.
	People are just realizing how the rest of the world is pilfering off of America, and it might be coming to an end.
	A huge amount of money.
	To employ people and get money to Democrats.
	That's really all it was.
	The Democrats and the deep state.
	Those were the two groups getting all the money.
	That's why they're going berserk.
	That Trump's all of a sudden saying, let's take a look at this.
	Before we spend it, he even hasn't said, don't spend it.
	He has simply said, before we spend it, let's make sure it's actually constitutional and congressionally authorized.
	Because some of this was like, he's taking USAID, putting it under the State Department.
	It's like, no more of these separate little deep state pockets.
	That's what he's learned, and that's why they're going berserk.
	They're going berserk not because the end user is going to be denied a benefit they need.
	That isn't realistically going to happen.
	It's because their bureaucratic self-enrichment political machine parasitically taking from the prosperous side of American society to line their pockets and empower themselves at the expense of the American people is going to come to an end under President Trump.
	Let me refresh because I can't seem to share the screen anymore.
	Hold on.
	I am back right now.
	I want to show...
	As you mentioned this, I want to bring this tweet up from Chris Pavlosky in real time.
	Chris just tweeted out, Prediction, Elon Musk's doge is going to uncover...
	He's going to piss people off by calling it Elon Musk's doge.
	It's President Trump's doge.
	Elon Musk was never elected.
	Yeah. Okay.
	Elon Musk's Doge is going to uncover an unprecedented amount of fraud and corruption in numerous government departments.
	Everyone should buckle up.
	It's going to be the best show on earth.
	Because it's massive.
	It's systemic.
	It's two things.
	It's a deep state Democratic Party of money laundering.
	And secondly, they never do it.
	They never actually follow the law in the way they do it.
	That's why I've often said follow the money is the way to...
	Get rid of a lot of the corruption of the deep state and that the Democratic Party has tried to do.
	And then the second layer of that is getting rid of the personnel so that they can't abuse their positions of power to derail the elected head of the executive branch from delivering on what the American people want.
	Like these dimwits are yipping on their little Reddit discussion boards.
	Their other discussion, they're admitting they are out to sabotage President Trump on a daily basis.
	That's why they're getting fired.
	And then they're panicking because President Trump is delivering this time at removing the institutional obstacles to getting through what the American people want done, which is no more of this ridiculous spending on these ridiculous things and no more abuse of power by the unelected bureaucrats.
	And that's what Doge is doing, what the president was elected to do.
	Now I want to share this one because this is from Bill Tong.
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	I don't know if there's still a problem.
	I think next week we may have to be Monday because you know what next Sunday is?
	Oh, it's the Super Bowl, so we're not doing it on the Super Bowl Sunday.
	That's right.
	I'll have a bunch of bets out at sportspicks.locals.com.
	We got some political bets up on the betting markets.
	Made a lot of money on the election.
	Made a bunch of money on the pardons.
	Let's hope some of these nominate.
	Guess what else we're going to have now that Kausi's got them up?
	We got bets on.
	On the Oscars!
	I did give away my little secret strategy last week.
	I've got a bit of a problem where I cannot venture past the surefire things in politics that I believe I have insights in terms of betting because it'll be a dark, dark place for me to go.
	I have a bit of an obsessive compulsive personality.
	Old Man Toby.
	Viva, I am a DLA employee, not in D.C. We have a union contact.
	Can the president just cancel that with no legal dispute?
	Almost all of us are disabled and veterans.
	In a second, Randall gets that.
	No union contracts can be canceled.
	So what president has, in that sense, what Trump has done is froze discretionary spending that was not specifically congressionally authorized and that it concerns not ultimate domestic U.S. benefit users.
	You know, like people that need medical services or something like that.
	So they've tried to hit the panic.
	They've tried to scare everybody into thinking Medicaid or Medicare or Social Security or some disability payment or veteran payment.
	Trump isn't messing around with any of that.
	This is about the massive amounts of monies set aside for NGOs domestically and across the world that have nothing to do with helping ordinary people and everything to do with empowering and enriching the deep state and the Democratic Party.
	Then there was one more up at the top there, which I'm going to get to.
	It says, unlike Social Security, bureaucratic retirement benefits are not protected by law.
	POTUS should be able to eliminate government retirement benefits just like Boeing did to their salaried retirees.
	And Defrauded in China says, The China Hustle.
	On Monday, Bartiromo will discuss deregistering all Chinese stocks, I think he meant, with J.D. Vance due to massive $100 billion accounting fraud.
	See The China Hustle on Amazon.
	Biden abetted.
	And then let's just get a couple more over on vivabarneslaw.locals.com.
	Did I close the window?
	I did not close the window.
	I would not have done such a thing.
	Well, I can't find it right now.
	I'll bring it up in a second.
	What the heck is my problem?
	I'm right here.
	It's the second window in over here.
	Oh, here we go.
	Okay, good.
	I just want to bring up a...
	I'll bring those up in a second.
	All right, Robert, what do we move on to?
	There's another lawsuit.
	Is it the...
	It's another lawsuit.
	But the other aspect of all this is the big sanctuary city debate that's ongoing, along with birthright citizenship.
	So it's can Trump curtail the government bureaucracy?
	Can Trump curtail the deep state and Democratic boondoggles and pockets of cash and political machine they've built up?
	Those are being decided in these bureaucrats versus Trump lawsuits.
	The birthright citizenship courts are already intervening.
	By the way, in both cases, federal courts rush to help the bureaucrats.
	They intervened to stop Trump from being able to freeze funds.
	Then they intervened and stopped Trump from being able to make changes to Schedule F right out of the gate.
	So the question is, how much will the bench and the judiciary overstep again and try to now direct budgets and direct the executive branch?
	So we'll see how that's going to work.
	They've already overstepped their bounds for years now.
	Will they continue?
	To overstep their bounds and abuse their role within the judicial branch.
	This is the elected head of the executive branch, but their allies in the professional managerial class and the Democratic Party in the deep state are demanding the judges weaponize their power to protect their prerogative against the American people.
	That's what's really going on.
	But another extension of that is these sanctuary state issues.
	Like, look, I'll give Trump credit.
	He wasn't messing around with Newsom.
	He was like, I'm going to declare an emergency and I'm just going to get the water down there.
	End of story.
	It's a, you know, Newsom wants to screw around.
	Okay, fine.
	Declared emergency.
	Federal power.
	Get it done.
	It's already, and now the water is flowing to South, and had it been done all along, then there would have never been such devastating fires in the first place.
	So the, and the president's right to get rid of FEMA.
	We don't need FEMA.
	FEMA's a waste of space.
	That, you know, there's a reason why Alex Jones always broadcasts, you know, from FEMA Center 17 in the heart of all, you know, da, da, da, da.
	FEMA Center number one.
	We don't need FEMA.
	FEMA was designed during the anti-communist era.
	It has all kinds of nefarious activities that it's engaged in over the decades.
	And what we've seen is FEMA weaponized things politically during the Biden administration to favor and disfavor particular groups and institutions.
	And for reconstruction purposes, completely, utterly failed in Western North Carolina.
	So I think given on that...
	Trump's right to want to get rid of that agency, right to want to get rid of USAID.
	USAID isn't about helping poor people around the world.
	It's about overthrowing governments and empowering the deep state around the world.
	So similar to sanctuary cities, what's unique here is the state of Indiana passed a law to say no sanctuary cities.
	So this should give a map to Florida, to Georgia, to Texas.
	If you're a conservative state, but you've got these little commie jurisdictions like Austin, Texas, like...
	Parts of San Antonio, like the parts of Indiana even, where these sheriffs were going to refuse to help federal law enforcement.
	The state passed a law saying you have to as a matter of state law.
	So now they're suing the sanctuary city sheriffs and police officers to force them to actually obey state law because they're willing to violate state law and federal law just to aid and abet their illegal immigrant pals, not realizing how this looks in the court of public opinion.
	There's a reason why overwhelming numbers of Americans support every single one of Trump's immigration strategies, including mass deportation that they used to oppose, including building a wall that they used to at times oppose.
	Massively support it.
	And here's these Democrats running around, spending all their effort, all their energy, all their emotion.
	Defend illegal immigrants.
	Defend foreign aid.
	Defend foreign wars.
	They're just more revealing about it.
	But I think the state of Indiana will win that suit, and it does give a roadmap for conservative jurisdictions to actually follow through on enforcing the law.
	And then you've got states like Arizona, where the Democratic governor is in bed with the cartels, where the senator that just got elected from Arizona has family ties to drug cartels.
	So the Biden-Trump administration is probably going to have to override the governor down there.
	Already, millions of dollars missing from the Arizona Treasury.
	Like, that wasn't a predictable outcome with that governor sneaking in by hook or by crook, as the case may be.
	We'll see how these cases progress, but I think what Trump is showing is if the state's not willing to play ball, he's just going to override them.
	He's like, yes, your funds are going to be at risk.
	You can go beg to judges and try to get the judges to be in your back pocket and restore it.
	But every political mechanism and tool available is going to be used to make sure our laws are actually enforced in America.
	Is there, above and beyond, like, I don't know a civil remedy, but to not enforce the federal law, is there not jail time?
	They're arresting criminals, right?
	Nobody's asking them to go round up people at the local restaurant.
	I mean, they're only asking them to put some hardcore criminals that they arrest for hardcore crimes against American citizens to hold them so they can be deported.
	And they're refusing to do it.
	They're often releasing them, including rapists and murderers and child molesters.
	But it doesn't...
	I mean, I'm an idiot.
	It doesn't make sense as to how they're not violating some federal law.
	Criminal law that will allow for their criminal prosecution.
	To me, the Justice Department has the full power to investigate whether or not these local law enforcement have gone further.
	In California, they're not just refusing.
	Under the Constitution, you cannot be forced in local state government to do the federal government's job.
	That's why, in fact, the sports betting laws, in part, were struck down.
	You can't be forced to do the federal government's job, and that's where they created these sanctuary cities.
	And to the degree that local law enforcement's just refusing to do the federal government's job is fine, unless you have laws like the state of Indiana, where you have to under state law do so.
	But they're going much further.
	In California, they're creating a warning system to warn people when the ICE is coming.
	That's aiding and abetting illegal immigration, which is a federal crime.
	Like all the NGOs did, like George Soros is neck deep involved in.
	For example, they found out who was behind.
	All the dark money coming in to attack Kennedy, including this completely fake petition campaign, supposedly fined by, you know, like 60,000 doctors.
	You dig in, almost all the signatures aren't from doctors at all.
	Well, guess who was behind it all?
	Of course, it's a foundation tied to Bill Gates.
	That on the illegal immigration side, you have Gates ties, but you also have a lot of George Soros ties.
	And I believe what these government, I think there needs to be prosecution.
	Whether it's done by the Office of Civil Rights under Harmeet Dillon or done by a different Justice Department official, the Justice Department needs to take a serious look at prosecuting those places that go beyond just refusing to give aid and aiding and abetting illegal immigration.
	The reality is the Biden administration aided and abetted illegal immigration at scale.
	They did it through the funds given to NGOs.
	They did it through the way they turned these apps into ways to get into the country illegally effectively.
	They did it in ways that were beyond legal changes in policy.
	And I think they have to, just like Trump has to disempower them, take away their money, take away their jobs, you have to also have criminal prosecution of these people that are engaging in mass crimes against the American people, at least at some level.
	Or there's not going to be faith and confidence in our American government.
	I actually never really appreciated it that way, where sanctuary cities, it was not a question of saying, we won't round them up for you.
	They went to say, well, if we arrest them for something, we're not going to continue to detain them for you.
	And even when they receive a detainer warrant, they're rejecting the detainer warrant.
	So, I mean, that's a whole different animal.
	It's one thing to say we're not going to be your enforcement operation.
	It's another thing to say we're going to reject a warrant, detain a warrant.
	But hold on.
	That's refusing federal authority.
	So let's just say they'll say we're not going to round them up and we're not going to do anything.
	Can the feds come in and do it?
	I mean, I don't know how...
	See, that's where they're going past it.
	The state is making it difficult for the...
	They're refusing to recognize federal legal service of process.
	They're refusing to recognize the legal authority of federal agents when they show up at the local jails to take those people into custody.
	And it's like, okay, now that to me is going past not aiding, and it's actually interfering.
	But they're going even beyond that.
	They're creating a warning system so that when they know ICE is coming in, they can help the illegals escape.
	Imagine if that was fugitive escapes.
	You'd be arrested for aiding and abetting a fugitive in a moment.
	So to me, this is federal crimes that these local authorities are engaged in.
	And unless they're criminally prosecuted, it will continue unabated.
	I want to see where there was a story where allegedly...
	A Venezuelan Spanish-speaking person in public was rounded up and then had to prove that they were a citizen based on a, you know, blurred out anonymous video interview.
	And I said, I'm calling it this is bullcrap in advance and I want to follow up and see if it is.
	Because now they're talking about, oh, they're just rounding up people speaking Spanish.
	It's the dumbest thing I could possibly imagine.
	I mean, admittedly, I'm in Florida and there's a lot of people speaking Spanish.
	The idea that anyone would think they're actually doing that is preposterous.
	Absolutely. I mean, it relates to the same way there's still a lot of work to do in the Justice Department.
	I'm hopeful for Harmeet Dillon.
	Harmeet's still got to prove it.
	Leo Terrell, I'm hopeful for him.
	I'm hopeful for some of the other people that are over there, but want to see it delivered.
	Because another area that's missing, just like we mentioned the pardons being missed, and a lot of FBI, they're going crazy about the FBI agents getting fired.
	Praise God.
	The other FBI agents that should be fired, and everybody at DOJ that should be fired, is anybody who is involved in creating these fake militias.
	So a state court in Michigan, and remember when I went out there on a limb and had all these people bashing me, I said from the very beginning the Whitmer kidnapping plot was a fed entrapment plot.
	It screamed fed entrapment all over the place.
	You didn't have to be a super genius to figure that out.
	You just had to have your eyes open and your ears open.
	And, well, the state court judge that affirmed their convictions and still affirm their convictions admitted that it was, in fact, the FBI, in his own words, that, quote, created the 3% militia entirely.
	It was entirely their creation.
	The FBI, all the three percenters across the country, created by the FBI.
	It was the biggest militia operation created since Operation PACCON, which was back in 1991, which, by the way, a certain attorney general was a U.S. attorney connected to it, named Merrick Garland, that led to, guess what, the Oklahoma City bombing.
	So it was directly connected to Operation PACCON.
	If you were at Viva Barnes Law...
	.locals.com.
	You could have seen the hush-hush on that many years ago and have foreseen this coming as well.
	But there they admitted the FBI created the three percenters.
	It was an FBI, another conspiracy theory, proven completely true.
	Now what's disturbing is you've got a state court judge who's like, that's okay.
	Entrapment's okay.
	Jury doesn't need to hear that evidence.
	Nah. I'm fine with convicting you guys of terrorism.
	I mean, people wonder, why does Barnes not like all these terrorism laws?
	Because this is who it ends up getting used against.
	A couple of guys in their basement who were put in...
	One of the people that was convicted wasn't even part of the watchman or militiamen or whatever it was.
	He was only part of the three percenters.
	Which means an FBI-created agency.
	Militia. Everybody connected to that militia should be dismissed and fired, and everybody created to it or defended it or profited for it should be fired, and whoever created it should be put under criminal investigation for systemic violation of the civil rights of Americans.
	It's another area of extraordinary abuse of conduct by the FBI.
	Not just the J6 cases.
	Not just the pro-life or protest cases.
	Not just the President Trump cases.
	Not just the crypto cases like Ross Ulbrich, like Roger Ver, but also every single one of the...
	Not just the meme cases like Douglas Mackey, who also should be pardoned ASAP, or the Steve Bannon or Peter Navarro cases connected to the select committee, but also...
	These fake militia cases.
	And now it's been proven beyond any doubt what we said from the very beginning, which was this was fed-napping, not kidnapping.
	We called it at the time, it became clearer over time that the amount of FBI agents, informants, confidential human sources outnumbered the number of defendants and that these were men who were, I say, psychologically vulnerable in that they were, you know, unemployed. I don't know what else.
	And they were basically duped into...
	They created the crime so they could then arrest the people for participating in a crime that they manufactured.
	And they kept begging them to do it.
	They kept asking them to do it.
	They kept inspiring them to do it.
	They didn't want to do it.
	They never did do it.
	It was all a fate.
	It was a dry run for January 6th.
	And they were the ones that...
	In any other government...
	If this was Trump's FBI that had created this, at Trump's demand, like created, say, a fake Antifa group to infiltrate the left and create a bunch of violence and other activities, it'd be nonstop news for months.
	Here, they disclose that, in fact, the feds created this.
	I mean, you were kicked off of Instagram, kicked off of Twitter, kicked off of Facebook if you said that the three percenters were feds.
	And now it's undisputed as a state court judge has confirmed, yes, the entire three percenters were a FBI-created fake militia.
	This should be a massive scandal, and the Trump administration should use it.
	To crack down on the rogue agents within the FBI.
	And I hope Cash Patel does exactly that, which is what Schiff is so nervous about.
	And it's amazing.
	No doubt they want to do that as well so they can try to abridge or annul an amendment of the Constitution, which is legitimate militias, which are constitutionally protected.
	They create these violent militias, which are FBI-manufactured entities, so they can then say, we need to now amend the Constitution and repeal the Second Amendment.
	Robert, it's actually amazing.
	Here, look at this.
	This was the story.
	Puerto Rican family detained by ICE in Milwaukee after being observed speaking Spanish.
	Ed Morales.
	This guy gets me, not gets me, he got me, never got me once.
	He's a liar.
	Whatever he posts is a lie.
	You can almost know right away.
	So you had a debate with my family over the Roman salute of Elon Musk.
	There's some of my family members that are left and sincerely believe that that was a Nazi salute.
	And I was like, be wary of things that are too good to be true.
	Like, you get this on the right, and I will not retweet something that's like, you know, that's too much on the nose.
	Probably not true.
	This is so obvious on the left.
	But the left is also taking the bait.
	Anytime you're advocating for illegals, you are going to hurt your political appeal in America.
	And they think they're trying to convince, hey...
	Puerto Ricans.
	Hey, Mexican-Americans.
	Hey, Venezuelans.
	Hey, Colombians.
	Hey, Cubans.
	That really trumps anti-immigration policies against you and it's going to be used against...
	They don't believe that.
	They're the leaders of the ones calling for immigration crackdowns.
	And just to look at it, this is the same story and AOC posted it.
	But they're only going to round up immigrants committing crimes.
	No, ICE is already rounding up innocent Americans.
	And I said it at the time.
	She's been lying through her teeth.
	I'm predicting it is bullcrap.
	And lo and behold, It's such bullcrap, Robert.
	Even Snopes has to say, we reached out to ICE about the story.
	Yadda, yadda, yadda.
	Milwaukee police said it was not aware of ICE activity in the area when Telemundo posted the story.
	Similar. So even their anonymous source did not confirm the date or exact location of the alleged event, only saying that the family was stopped in a chain of stores that existed in the U.S. and Puerto Rico.
	Even Snopes is calling bullshit on this, and I'm very happy to say I was ahead of the curve on this one.
	Yeah, I mean, the focus is going to be on criminal, those tied to criminals.
	He got Venezuela to...
	Here's the other big news.
	He got them to accept.
	Venezuela, in my opinion, deliberately sent their violent gang members, released them from prison, to send to the U.S. as payback to the Biden administration, sanctioning the Venezuelan regime.
	The Trump...
	He sent Rick Rennell on one plane and not only got the hostages back, got Venezuela to say, you can send back all our criminals.
	The criminals we sent up there to reduce our crime rate and get re-elected here, you can send them all back!
	It's like, just like that!
	Trump got them to persuade.
	So, the local politicians...
	If they were smart, they would not be making illegal immigration the center topic of discussion.
	They wouldn't be making government bureaucrats the center topic of discussion.
	They wouldn't be making the surveillance state and the harassment of whistleblowers by the Democratic Party a center of discussion, and yet they are, because they're that politically out of touch with their own voters.
	What are we moving on to now, Robert?
	Speaking of being politically out of touch with their own voters, the city of New Orleans did their own little California mayor, L.A. mayor routine by completely, inadequately protecting the city of New Orleans on New Year's Eve when the Sugar Bowl was being hosted there.
	So we had two big events.
	Other than Mardi Gras and the Super Bowl, it's the biggest event New Orleans was going to have.
	But because New Orleans has the Super Bowl upcoming, around Mardi Gras, no less, All the politicians were paying attention to that.
	And because they've done all these diversity, equity, inclusion employees and a lot of their incompetent, corrupt pals and idiots that got to get appointed, they didn't follow their own security plan.
	For the city of New Orleans and for the French Quarter.
	Basic barriers weren't put up that were supposed to be put up.
	Basic security protocols in terms of placement of officers was not put there.
	Had they done those basic steps, then they would have been able to avoid that person from being able to drive right into the heart of the French Quarter on New Year's Eve.
	And that because this was a cognizant, conscious issue ever since the 2016 Paris road attacks and prior attacks, the fact they violated their own plan, the fact that some vendors were complicit in the violation of their own plan, has led to a mass class action suit against the city of New Orleans and those vendors.
	Because they can be sued when they create an expectation of safety and almost put you in their own custody, if you will.
	That's a circumstance in which they can be sued under certain circumstances.
	Otherwise, they're subject to state law in New Orleans and Louisiana about when you can and can't sue a city government.
	But they're also suing all the vendors connected to it.
	So it'll be an interesting case to sort of follow forward.
	When politicians are responsible for their security failures.
	And remember what the superintendent Ann Kirkpatrick said at the time.
	Listen to this.
	Bourbon Street is open.
	Chief, where do those archers come from?
	Those yellow archers, where do they come from?
	Actually, we have them.
	I didn't know about them, but we have them.
	And so we have been able now to put them out.
	Okay. Can you imagine?
	Those were there the entire time.
	If they would have just put those out, they would have stopped the car from coming down at the location they were supposed to be at.
	Can you imagine?
	She says this after 15 people were murdered.
	That's what happens when you get these diversity, equity, inclusion people.
	When you're picking people because of their sexual preference rather than for their skills and their merit, you're going to have idiots.
	Like the idiots that were in charge of protecting against the fires and the idiots protecting safety in New Orleans.
	Terrible timing because Mardi Gras in the Super Bowl is literally right around the corner.
	Outrage. Let me read...
	New Orleans does have some of the best food in the world.
	Just FYI.
	A.M. Drum over in Local says, Schumer is being investigated for threatening the Supreme Court.
	Will he suffer any consequences?
	No, unfortunately.
	He's always threatening everybody.
	That's Schumer.
	Remember what he said?
	Credit to Tulsi Gabbard.
	She threw it right back at the Senate.
	As Senator Schumer said, the intelligence community has six ways this Sunday to get back to you.
	You notice that on her substantive statements, in her opening statement, they generally didn't respond to a single one of them.
	That was the other shocker to a lot of people.
	There are people that tuned in that aren't even Gabbard fans, that are sort of concerned about the, you know, aware of the intel.
	People like Ezra Cohen and other people that tend to be aligned with the establishment.
	And they're like, this was a terrible hearing.
	I wanted to hear what Gabbard substantively thought about these critical areas of impact to her job.
	And they're not asking any question about her job.
	They're just doing smear campaigns about Ed Snowden.
	And so they couldn't substantively answer any of those critiques.
	I mean, people just got a crash course at who is really in the United States Senate.
	And the only biggest question I have left is, will Mitch McConnell become full John McCain?
	Where McCain just destroyed what legacy he had left with conservatives.
	Well, McCain, if McCain votes against Gabbard and Kennedy and Kash Patel, he will be shredding the last bit of credibility and respect he had within large parts of the conservative normie community, who will never see him the same way.
	He'll go down as somebody that you don't want to think about.
	He'll have no legs at all in the state of Kentucky.
	The turtle soup when this is done.
	Yeah, I think he said McCain and not McConnell.
	I'm just looking at the...
	Oh yeah, I'm saying he's like McCain.
	I mean, that's what happened to you.
	There were still some normies that still believed in McCain until he voted to keep Obamacare.
	And then they're like, oh, the last conservative believer in McCain was like, oh, I'm done.
	He was faked the whole time.
	He ran on overturning McCain, Obamacare, and here he is, the sole senator to keep it alive.
	And they're like, I'm done with him.
	Vinito. McConnell is going to be on the same path.
	The man who delivered the conservative Supreme Court is on path to torch what was left of his credibility by just being a reflexive anti-Trump vote the last two years of his career, coming from a state that voted for Trump by more than 30 points.
	He's at 7% in the markets to vote for Tulsi Gabbard, to confirm Tulsi Gabbard.
	That's an embarrassment on Mitch McConnell.
	An honest Justice Department would have Mitch McConnell and his wife and his family under criminal investigation for illegal activities connected to China trade.
	You think his Chinese sister-in-law who died in the Tesla accident?
	Oh, that may be right.
	Yeah, that is right.
	I'm just connecting dots that might not connect.
	Okay, hold on.
	Hold on.
	Let's get back over here.
	That was from Allie Michael.
	Oh, Allie Michael says, why hasn't the Army disclosed the name of the third pilot on the helicopter that caused the crash with the AAJ?
	They did.
	They did.
	They just disclosed her.
	And we now know why.
	She was close to the Biden administration and worked in the Biden White House for the last two years.
	So you had somebody who was probably given a military promotion that probably didn't deserve it because of political connection.
	And they kept the name secret for a while because they knew that combination would be revealed.
	When Trump came out and said, you know, it's, it blames it on DEI.
	He comes out, blames it on...
	He was right.
	As usual, Trump was right.
	Well, this is where I say, like, when Trump says something, he probably has more information when he says it.
	Whether or not, you know, I, whether or not I would politicize it, you know, people are reeling from tragedy.
	Well, the media was already politicizing it, so he had to politicize it back at him.
	That's what, I mean, that's sort of what I said.
	Like, they're already blaming Trump and his FAA cuts, which are barely, what cuts they're talking about that are a week old.
	Had nothing to do with it.
	No. You know, you like to have real...
	And they clearly have not adequately...
	I mean, this was...
	Remember, the FAA was who Biden said, make sure you hire mentally disabled people.
	I mean, that was part of his diversity, equity, and inclusion.
	I was like, hold on a second.
	We're going to hire mentally disabled people to fly planes?
	And to be in the FAA?
	And to be managing the tower?
	This doesn't sound like a good idea.
	Just think it out loud.
	Robert, this is coming from a member in our community.
	Who's the member?
	It is Cynical RN, Cynical Registered Nurse.
	Is this not prosecutable?
	Is this town hall?
	Oh, yeah.
	I think it is because Illinois Democrats are going out there and a bunch of Democrats across the country, California, elsewhere, are saying they're going to help.
	Things like, we'll help you change your name.
	On your state driver's license if you're illegal, just so you can't be tracked by ICE, even though right now the only people ICE is tracking are people that have already been ordered deported because of their criminal activities.
	That's who Trump is focused on, focusing on literally the worst of the worst.
	So I think it's extraordinary that you're seeing who the Democratic Party really is.
	I mean, Germany is at risk of electing the first sort of...
	True populist right party, and really it's history, because the Nazis were commies.
	They didn't like the commies because they were more pure commies than the commies in their mind.
	They wanted racial communism rather than the national communism like the fascists, or rather than international communism like the commies.
	But they're all commies at heart.
	But they're about to elect AFD purely around immigration, and that's Germany.
	Where they've been guilted into accepting massive illegal immigration as somehow that relates to the Nazis a century ago.
	Which is like, there's no correlation there.
	But Musk has been very outspoken.
	But that's why they're in trouble.
	And here they are running around finding every excuse possible to facilitate the illegal spending of money, the illegal employment of bureaucrats, and the illegal immigration of people into the United States of the most dangerous criminals known to man.
	All right, we got, let me get here.
	Barnes, can you tell someone at Doge that the loans to energy companies in Biden statutes are forgivable, thus really subsidies, says Dan Bridge.
	Interesting. What else do we have left on the menu for the...
	We got a big Second Amendment win, 18 to 21-year-olds in a federal court.
	Another federal court has ruled that, in fact, you can be able to, that any limitation on 18 to 21-year-olds being able to buy guns is a violation of their Second Amendment rights because it is not rooted.
	In American legal history.
	So that was a nice Second Amendment win.
	We got a right to teach at the beach.
	We've got a couple of cases saved for the after party over at vivabarneslaw.locals.com.
	The right to teach at the beach.
	AI copyrights.
	Porn copyright trolls.
	And those are the three we got left.
	Let me do actually, while we're on the Second Amendment, I wanted to put this on blast because I'm on the phone with Dexter Taylor last night.
	He's calling from the Coxsackie Correctional Facility, and he's still rotting away on those state charges, and he was mildly enthused that his story had gotten to Donald Trump Jr.
	Let me play this clip here.
	John's familiar with the Dexter Taylor story.
	Any help that we could get with the Dexter Taylor story through DOJ.
	It's sort of like us, right?
	It's like New York, yeah.
	It's done in New York.
	They do it in the States, so you can't get that federal pardon, right?
	They tried going after us that way.
	Where my partner's guilty of it.
	It's all nonsense.
	So we got to fix these problems because they shouldn't be happening and they shouldn't be weaponizing government.
	Exactly. Donald Trump Jr., congratulations.
	Thank you so much.
	Biggest political comeback.
	Thanks. I'm glad that it's gotten to Don Jr.'s ear and then hopefully it's one step closer to Don Sr.'s ear, to Trump.
	We've talked about it a little bit, civil rights violations.
	First of all, I'll share the tweet so we can put it on blast and make sure that Team Trump knows of Dexter Taylor.
	I'm sure he knows of Tina Peters out of Colorado State Chargers, so there's no federal intervention.
	But what can they do, Robert?
	Well, I mean, I think the Office of Civil Rights can do a lot.
	The question is, do they?
	So the Obama administration used the Office of Civil Rights.
	I'm just asking the Office of Civil Rights to do their federal job and to limit the impact of these politically motivated prosecutions by state officials.
	The Office of Civil Rights and the federal civil rights laws only exist so that the federal government can stop state governments, particularly law enforcement and courts.
	Remember, they were prosecuting Martin Luther King under state law.
	They were prosecuting the civil rights movement under those state laws.
	That didn't stop the FBI from stopping the states from doing so.
	That didn't stop us from using the National Guard when necessary.
	So that's what the Office of Civil Rights is there for.
	And to me, what the state of New York and state of Georgia did to President Trump was violate his civil rights and a bunch of other people.
	And the same is true of what they did with Tina Peters and what they did with Jeremy Brown and these other state cases that are still pending against Rudy Giuliani and others in Michigan and Arizona, that all of these proceedings should be looked at by the Office of Civil Rights for whether or not they've used their state powers to violate the constitutionally protected rights or have tried to selectively prosecute people for their political speech affiliation and association as the First Amendment protects.
	Because that gives the Office of Civil Rights the constitutional authority, but I would say the constitutional and congressional obligation to stop this from happening and put an investigation in it.
	And if the reality is if the Office of Civil Rights open investigations into these cases, these cases are going to...
	They're going to rather drop these cases than be subject to continued civil rights investigation because you're going to find damning materials about how politically motivated it was in various communications and if you follow the money behind the scenes.
	This includes the would-be, wannabe next governor of Michigan, Benson, who is leading the prosecution of people falsely in Michigan on these laws.
	So will the Office of Civil Rights deliver what they were set up to do?
	That's the open question.
	Or will they be too nervous?
	To take corrective action against these abusive states.
	Robert, before we head over to the locals after party, I'm going to read some super chats, but I also want to shamelessly plug Louie the Lobster returns to the sea.
	Robert, I'm thinking of like, if we maybe give like 50 to the next 50 supporters and I'll sign it and mail them off, that would be something great.
	But Louie the Lobster returns to the sea, everybody.
	Let me give you the link.
	An Amazon link.
	It's on Amazon, self-published.
	Here's the link.
	All the art was done by a young daughter of one of the board members.
	Absolutely. And I'll just flip to a random page.
	Look at this.
	This is when...
	Here we go.
	Check it out, people.
	You need sweet books to give to the local neighbors.
	You can put it in your kid's local library.
	You can put it in the local school library.
	And what it is, you can go and use Louis the Lobster to replace the various pervert books the left is trying to stick in there.
	Well, speaking of...
	Copywriting porn.
	We'll talk about that in a bit.
	Here, let me bring up Defrauded in China.
	It says, the connections between the China Hustle will be revealed as one of the largest thefts, bribery, scams, and cover-ups in United States history.
	In my humble opinion, thechinahustle.us.
	We got MS Sidloy, who's another one of our amazing members of the community.
	It says, aircraft to use ADS-B transponders when in civil airspace, no aircraft should ever be...
	Two miles from a runway along the runway's approach vector.
	FAA should never have a lot of helicopters to fly that close.
	I need to add what I wrote about in the crash in D.C. On Friday, I wasn't aware that the crash was at 300 feet.
	That is 30 SB4 landing one mile from the runway in addition to what I wrote requiring, okay?
	The Trump administration has appointed Darren Beattie as the acting secretary for public diplomacy and public affairs.
	Is this true?
	That can't be true.
	That's got to be a troll.
	I mean, I like Darren Beatty, but I seriously doubt that's the role they would have appointed Darren Beatty to.
	I'm going to look that one up in a second because I thought I would have known also.
	I'm in touch with Darren.
	Defrauded China on Monday.
	Oh, I got that one.
	Lake and Riley Law opens up all kinds of avenues for holding sanctuary states responsible for crimes perpetrated by illegal immigrants.
	And that's it.
	No, it blows my mind where you have like...
	A prosecution of Second Amendment constitutional law of the land rights in New York.
	Not even ignorance, but defiance of federal law when it comes to cooperation with.
	And people are getting literally killed as a result of this.
	We might have a few sidebars coming back.
	John Eastman reached out and said he would love to do a broad discussion of the birthright citizenship topic.
	I thought that'd be funny.
	I mean, obviously, he's a great scholar.
	Great. It'd be fun to have him on for a sidebar in general.
	Well, I'm supposed to have him on the week after the election and then things just got away.
	Yeah, that's okay.
	Email, so that'd be fun.
	And then one of the people connected to the USS Liberty wanted to have that discussion one more time.
	So yeah, at some point we can set that up as well.
	Absolutely. The Daily Wire keeps finding itself in the middle of various debates.
	Was I proven right or not about Jeremy Boring being kind of an idiot when it comes to CEO?
	I mean, God bless him and everything.
	But look, you got the Crowder disaster, then the Candace Sutherland disaster, now this new chick that they lost and tried to replace with somebody else and it totally failed.
	And then he's like weird state of the...
	Daily Wire addressed by Borey.
	I mean, God bless him.
	The guy's just incompetent.
	Let's just be honest.
	I mean, I know other stories I'm not going to get into details on, but just say everything about how he's handled things has said disaster, disaster, disaster, and disaster.
	The Daily Wire, you know, Ben Shapiro can be your face of operations.
	He's good at what he does.
	I mean, I don't agree with Benji on a good range of topics, but he's privileged to be at his thing.
	Though they always go nuts and take the bait whenever Tucker trolls Ben Shapiro at all.
	If Tucker puts out, maybe you shouldn't cheer the bombing of little children.
	They get into a big debate.
	It's like, that's not the thing to debate Tucker on.
	You probably shouldn't cheer the destruction of little children.
	I get it, being upset about what happened October 7th, but that was Tucker's point on that subject.
	But man, these guys are just incompetent, God bless.
	Is it true?
	It's according to ABC News.
	President Trump's administration is filling one of the State Department's top positions with controversial conservative journalists who has promoted conspiracy theories related to journalism.
	There's a bunch of people in the State Department that she knew needed to be replaced when she was there.
	This is the great documentary.
	Director Plot Against the President introduced Kash Patel to the world.
	That's how Kash Patel is where he's at, to be honest.
	I mean, Kash Patel has had a great resume.
	But why he got on the political stage to where Trump could see him was...
	How he was featured in Plot Against the President by Amanda Milius.
	She deserves a lot of credit for that.
	In injecting true filmmaking cinematic talent into the conservative cause, which quite frankly, the conservative cause kind of lacks.
	Cernovich had done some cool documentaries before that, but there aren't a lot of good, high-quality, conservative documentary makers like Amanda Milius.
	But she had identified...
	I mean, knowing Beatty, that's an interesting position to put Beatty in.
	So that's just classic.
	We'll see.
	Maybe the news got it wrong.
	They would go absolutely berserk if Beatty was handling the press conferences and things like that.
	Can you imagine?
	But it's some sort of public diplomacy role is what Beatty got.
	Yeah, let me bring it back up here.
	It says, President Donald Trump's administration, he's filling State Department's top positions with controversial journalists, conspiracy theorists.
	Okay, the source said that the man, Darren Beatty, will now be acting...
	Undersecretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs.
	So-called top 10 position that State Department's website describes it as leads America's public diplomacy outreach, which includes messaging to counterterrorism and violence.
	Can you believe they call his journalism into January 6th conspiracy theory?
	The man has done better work.
	I guess it was conspiracy theory.
	It was all conspiracy truth.
	That's what it was.
	Because something's a conspiracy theory doesn't make it untrue.
	What he was reporting was truth.
	But it is the...
	Okay, I'll see that.
	I'll believe that when I see that.
	That particular position doesn't instinctually strike me as one I would have thought he would be in.
	But hey, who knows?
	Who knows?
	I mean, he's very competent and capable.
	It's just he has been sort of a naturally provocative public presence over the past four years just by his personality.
	So that's why that position would surprise me if it was actually official.
	It's interesting.
	You can have other jobs and other income while doing the same thing, or do you have to accept that as a full-time position?
	It depends.
	Some of these board positions are basically, they're nice little gigs you get that you get paid like 200 grand to sit on some government board that doesn't require you to do much work, frankly.
	That's what Doge is discovering, is that about 80% of our government workers don't work.
	This is why whenever we shut it down, people are like, Nobody's missing anything.
	Well, what is it we're supposed to be missing?
	Because it turns out all the unessential government services are truly unessential.
	All right, we're going to do this.
	We're going to get over now to vivabarneslaw.locals.com.
	I'm just going to...
	Go give everybody the link there and link to Louis.
	That'd be like them saying they've announced Robert Barnes to be the press secretary to defend the Central Intelligence Agency.
	I would be skeptical if you see that.
	No, I would say attorney general, you'd have to pass through the Senate.
	Oh, sure, sure.
	But some position where I would be defending an institution that I'm not a big fan of.
	I mean, people forget what put Beatty on the stage to begin with was his talk of color revolutions.
	He went on with Tucker Carlson detailing how America was in the middle of its own color revolution in 2020.
	So that's why, I mean, I think he would be a useful person to have at the State Department.
	But I can imagine the State Department going absolutely berserk if he was appointed to a high-level position.
	Well, next news you're going to hear, Robert, is I'm going to be the diplomat to Canada.
	Yeah, leave a fry ambassador to Canada.
	Ambassador, sorry.
	You should take your tariffs laying down and quit whining.
	Quit sending in that fentanyl.
	Quit sending us bad beer.
	Well, no.
	Can I get Molson Blue Light?
	No, forget Molson Blue.
	You should be proud of Canadian beer, and it's terrible Canadian beer.
	No, no, because you're drinking the wrong beer.
	You get Mosey.
	It's one of the Unibrew things.
	These strong Belgian origin beers.
	I'm going to read a few.
	Oh, yeah.
	Those are good.
	I don't think of those as Canadian.
	I think of that Molson Light crap as Canadian.
	Other than maple syrup, what's any good that comes from Canada?
	Poutine? Well, yeah, but it hasn't come down here yet.
	I'd say Canadian bacon is delicious.
	Isn't that ham?
	Maple syrup.
	It's thicker.
	It's a thicker cut.
	Not that I know, because it's sacrilegious.
	All right, so we've got some Canadian bacon.
	All right.
	We've got Canadian bacon and poutine and maple syrup.
	Anything else?
	Viva Fry.
	Viva Fry.
	Those are the four things that are worthy exports of Canada.
	Rick Moranis, John Candy.
	Oh, the comedians.
	I gotta give you the comedians.
	Yeah, a lot of comedians.
	But of course, they only come down to America to escape Canada.
	This is...
	Alright, so we're going over to Rumble.
	Locals. VivaBarnesLaw.locals.com While everyone does that, I'll just read one more from...
	Okay, I can't.
	We'll get them all when we get over on the local site.
	We have the right to teach at the beach.
	AI copyright.
	And a new form of copyright troll.
	Porn copyright trolls.
	Okay, I'm giving the link, and then we're done here.
	Link. Link to locals.
	Locals, and that's it.
	Locals. Do it.
	Bada bing, bada boom, and we are done.
	Otherwise... Oh, sorry, that's what I was going to say.
	So tomorrow...
	I'll take the archivist position, because then I'll just announce what's in the Constitution or not.
	And say, Constitution amended.
	Jake Tapper is hereby permanently committed to Guantanamo.
	Well, Robert, on Tuesday, which was the other thing I forgot, a live interview with Enrique Tarrio in studio.
	So it's in his studio, 1230.
	So stay tuned.
	So tomorrow, Roger Veer, Tuesday, Enrique Tarrio, and the rest of the week is going to be awesome.
	So we are ending on Rumble.
	Come over to vivabarneslaw.locals.com.
	And if not, we'll see you tomorrow.
	And next week will be Monday in honor of Super Bowl Sunday here in America.
	Absolutely. All right.
	And Robert, what do you have coming up this week?
	Anything? So it might have a what are the odds tomorrow if it fits with Barris' schedule.
	Because I thought I looked up about like an hour right before I came on the show.
	My calendar said I had to be in court tomorrow morning in Philadelphia.
	And I was like, oh, crap.
	I was like, how did I miss this?
	And then I look it up and it was actually continued.
	I was like, oh, man.
	I thought I was going to be on the red-eye to Philly.
	I was going to have to prep at the last second.
	I was like, how in the world did I miss this?
	Luckily, I didn't miss it.
	So it got continued by the court.
	So we'll have, like last week, we'll have a lot of bourbons with Barnes each night around 9-ish Eastern Time, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
	Friday, I'll be able to do a big Super Bowl prep over at sportspicks.locals.com.
	We'll have a fun Saturday night movie to watch, maybe Advice and Consent.
	Henry Fonda movie about the advice and consent process with the latest debates.
	Might be the Saturday night movie that Simon will watch.
	And then we'll have the, maybe even put out a fun, maybe like some sort of award somebody can get over at Sports Picks for the best.
	Like you can bet squares where you can bet what the last digit will be of the score after the first quarter or second quarter.
	There's all kinds of fun little things.
	I'll probably find some sort of fun project people can participate in and hope we make some money on the Super Bowl.
	And then, you know, after that, we have the Oscars and then March Madness.
	And the Calci's markets keep expanding, expanding, expanding.
	So it's creating more and more opportunities.
	So that's going to be fun.
	And then I got a big trial in March about a case I'll be discussing more the next couple of weeks here.
	The crazy case in Seattle and how nuts King County has become.
	All right, done.
	We are updating and we are off rumble as of now.
	Peace out, peeps.

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