From DHS Shake-Up To A Hemispheric Security Pact

A caffeinated hello turns into a high-stakes tour of how power is shifting across the Western Hemisphere and beyond. We start with a DHS shake-up and the swirl of Senate hearings, ad buys, and political optics, then pull back to reveal a larger security doctrine taking shape: treat narco-cartels like insurgents, knit together regional partners, and, if needed, act alone to dismantle networks that threaten the border, elections, and civil order. That big frame anchors a fast-moving journey through Venezuela’s sudden pivot, Iran’s targeted strikes, and the quiet choices neighboring states are making as the cost of neutrality rises.

From there, we put a magnifying glass on the new fog of influence—paid narratives, bot farms, and engagement engineered to look like consensus. If online metrics can be manufactured, what should you actually trust? The answer we land on is verification at the edges: firsthand clips, ground-level reporting, and local processes that are hard to spoof. That same logic powers a broader argument about election integrity and CISA’s importance inside DHS: control the cyber and data arteries and you control the credibility of the system. It also explains why data breaches in licensing and ID systems aren’t paperwork issues; they’re the soft underbelly of how modern democracies authenticate voters and citizens.

Then we go kinetic. Drones are the near-term equalizer—cheap, swarming, and terrifyingly effective. Stadiums, Olympics, and city centers now plan around them, while defense stockpiles and counter-systems race to catch up. Layer in China’s undersea build-up, oil corridors, and dual-use tech feeding hostile arsenals, and the map looks less like a news cycle and more like a supply-chain war. Submarines, semiconductors, and sanctions become the levers that set negotiation terms and redraw risk. Finally, we confront AI as a zero-sum contest for national advantage. Whoever writes the rules and trains the models bakes their norms into the future. The call here is blunt: align technology with a clear civic compass, decentralize chokepoints, and accept that some contests are won by denying adversaries terrain, not by debating them on it.

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How great is that? Oh man, I love the little beep beep too. Ron, you didn't play the video. There's a black and white. I didn't know there was a video. There's a black and white movie reel that goes with that. Okay, so a couple things in big news. This is brought to you by Dominic Box, J6 Political Prisoner. Hey, Dom. Breaking. Senator Mark Wayne Mullen will replace Christy Gnome as the next U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security. Christy Gnomes has been fired, which isn't really the truth. She hasn't been fired. Donald Trump said this. He said, I am pleased to announce that the highly respected United States Senator from the great state of Oklahoma, Mark Wayne Mullen, will become the United States Secretary of Homeland Security, DHS. Effective March 31st, 2006. The current Secretary, Christy Gnome, who has served us well, has had numerous and spectacular results, especially on the border, will be moving to the Special Envoy for the Shield of America, our new security initiative in the Western Hemisphere. We are announcing on Saturday in Durral, Florida. I thank Christy for her service at Homeland. Serving 10 years in the United States House of Representatives and three in the Senate, Mark Wayne Mullen has done a tremendous job representing the wonderful people of Oklahoma, where I won 77 out of 77 counties in 2016, 2020, and 2024. A mega warrior and former undefeated professional MMA fighter. Mark Wayne Mullen truly gets along well with people and knows the wisdom and courage required to advance our American first agenda. As the only Native American in the Senate, couldn't tell from looking at him. Mark Wayne Mullen is a fantastic advocate for our incredible tribal communities. Mark Wayne will work tirelessly to keep our border secure, stop migrant crime, murders, and other criminals from illegally entering our country in the scourge of illegal drugs, and make America safe again. Mark Wayne will be a spectacular secretary of homeland security. Thank you for your attention in this manner, Donald J. Trump.

SPEAKER_27 4:07

Okay. So what the heck happened?

DHS Shake-Up: Noem To Mullen

SPEAKER_20 4:10

Okay, so we just I to I said yesterday on the show, and I didn't want to cover a ton of it, that Christy Noam just got blasted at her hearing, right? I mean, you had the stuff going on in Minnesota. Of course, the mortgage's been closed, and that's you know, that makes Democrats big mad and Rhino's big mad. Tom Tillis. Okay. So it was a really ugly hearing. And it came down to two key things. The first thing was there was a$200 million ad campaign that Senator Kennedy brought up. And this$200 million ad campaign went out to three contractors to bid on, all of which were connected to Christy Gnome or Corey Lewandowski or a Christy Gnome staffer. Now, I look at that and I go, DC's a small place and firms that do ads for the government. It's not like, especially for a conservative government, you know. If you're doing ads for Barack Obama, you don't want to turn around and do ads for Trump, you know, not this political climate. And so part of me is like, well, those might just have been the ad companies that were around. These are ad companies that do ads for other companies, except for one of them that had only incorporated like 11 days prior to the bid going out. I don't remember if they won the bid or not, but it was connected to Chris Christy Gnome. And so Senator Kennedy was like, this doesn't look good. And he grilled her and said, Did the president approve a$200 million ad campaign that features Christy Gnome right front and center in all of them?

SPEAKER_27 5:27

Right. And I'm imagining like huge billboard posters with Christy Gnome that has some kind of a splash thing on it that says the border is secure or something like that. And then they're just going to put them like on the highway every 20 miles.

SPEAKER_20 5:39

And and TV commercials, and we've heard them. I mean, if you listen to the radio here, you can you can go to the one CP1 app and get$2,000 to get the out of the country.

SPEAKER_27 5:50

And then and then uh on top of that, you know, they're like making a big deal about the company that was formed eight days earlier. But this would have happened regardless of which company won. She was connected to all of them. It wouldn't have mattered.

SPEAKER_20 6:03

It wouldn't have mattered, yeah. Her or Carly Lundowski. So there was that. And then Senator Kennedy pressed her specifically, did Donald Trump approve this? And she kind of hum and hawden, well though the politicals did yes, he approved it. He didn't approve it, at least not specifically approve it. So apparently he was kind of upset. Okay. And uh he called Senator Kennedy, as Senator Kennedy described, hopping mad, and asked, What about Mark Wayne Mullen? So, anyways, he literally called Mark Wayne Mullen, said, I'm setting you up as DHS secretary, hung up the phone, sent this tweet, and Mark Wayne Mullen was like, Okay. So he was there's videos of him running all over Capitol Hill getting chased by reporters like, I gotta call my dad, I gotta call my dad, and stuff like that. Okay. Now here's what Carlit says. He says, Christy got blasted by Lewandowski too. Ha ha ha ha ha. Yes, that was the clip I played yesterday where Democrat asked Christy Gnome if she had had sexual relations with Corey Lewandowski since being in office. Now, for some people, that's like, what? What's going on? This is not new. Okay. Six years ago, Christy Gnome and Cory Lewandowski had an affair, and Christy Gnome's husband moved out of the governor's mansion. Oh, okay. Corey Lewandowski is separated from his wife. They're both still married, they both have kids, but they have been a quote unquote political couple the whole time. So I was actually a little disappointed when she was uh set up as DHS secretary, and then I found out Cory Lewandowski was going to be her shadow, and I was like, okay. Corey Lewandowski is a competent person. He was Trump's campaign manager. Like he knows what he's doing, he's effective. So it's not like we weren't well served as a country by them working together, but there was something there, right? So, anyways, a combination of apparently those two things, and I doubt it was so much the Corey Lewandowski issue, but she has moved on to the what is it called here? It's a new initiative, it's the Shield of America. So a lot of people are saying she's fired. The reality is that Shield of America program, we'll see how it all lays out, but it's kind of an upgrade.

SPEAKER_27 7:55

That's what it sounds like to me. So, um, and this is why I was asking because yesterday I was still sick and slept most of the day. So I missed what was happening. And then my wife said, What's going on with Christy Gnome? And I was like, uh, and then when I saw it and was like, um, is Trump mad at her and getting rid of her? What's going on? I had no idea.

SPEAKER_20 8:13

I'll say this Christy Gnome is the best Department of Homeland Security secretary we have ever had, and it's not even close. It's not even close.

SPEAKER_27 8:23

Well, that's what it seemed like to me, and that's why I was really confused for a second.

SPEAKER_20 8:26

She closed the border. Now there's another little pitch in this, and I want our audience to hear this. Mark Wayne Mullen, though he said Trump didn't win 2020 and he hugged Michael Bird and said that he killed a terrorist, right? He did some of that. He was a new senator, whatever. I don't like it. But he was briefed by Gary Bernstein, the Patrick Byrne crowd, and Elon Musk about the election fraud. And it is Mark Wayne Mullen that got the appropriate people in the military involved that fried that server in Serbia that allowed us to have a relatively, you know, semi not fair. I hate to say 2024 was fair, right? But we had an election where Trump won. And Mark Wayne Mullins was instrumental in that. What department does SISA Cyber Infrastructure Security Administration fall under? DHS. So now Mark Wayne Mullen, who understands the cyber fraud and the election integrity fraud, is now going to be run DHS and SISA will answer to him. That is probably why he got the appointment. Not because he's got some border experience or his Native American blood makes him more qualified. No. It's probably because he's one of only a handful of people that actually understands, comprehends, and is in on the side of election integrity and the people running their government. So I think it's a great upgrade. I had no problem with Christy Noam continuing to search. As far as I'm concerned, if Trump doesn't fire anybody in his cabinet, all the better. There's certain ones that I'm really concerned. Like, I I don't love the lack of things that have been happening under Pam Bondi, but at the same time, don't fire her. You know, it's like we fired Jeff Sessions and we got Bill Barr. Arguably worse. Arguably worse. Now, this this uh Western hemisphere shield of whatever type it is, John Atis says, same type of ads she did while governor, they were very successful. Yeah, they're very effective ads. I mean, and and she's very photogenic. I mean, yeah, you know, enough Botox lip filler and and makeup and so, anyways, yes. So this is Doug Bergum down in Venezuela. Now, six weeks ago, Venezuela was a narco state. Six weeks ago, Venezuela was one of the centers of terror in the Western Hemisphere. Six weeks ago, Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranians were vacationing in uh Venezuela's equivalent of Palm Beach. Okay. And now we have this.

SPEAKER_10 10:51

Kudos to President Trump. Uh, we wouldn't be here right now uh having these discussions without President Trump's bold, decisive, and creative, you know, courageous leadership back on January 3rd. That was game-changing. Uh, there's a sense of optimism and hope among the Venezuelan people uh that they have an opportunity to get back to where they were before with a strong economy. I mean, understand, 25 years ago, their economy was almost four times larger than it is today. They see that they have a chance to get back in that game thanks to President Trump. Uh and and what that what that means uh relative to global oil prices. Again, brilliant strategic move by President Trump to do this first before Iran, because this is an opportunity for Oh, wait.

SPEAKER_20 11:33

So they're connected, they're not just independent problems that they were solving, that they're they're leading to a final destination. Oh, that's interesting. I can't believe he let that slip. I bet the Democrats are big mad. Big mad, you're pulling on the threads of the sweater.

SPEAKER_10 11:47

Where's it gonna go? You know, the whole thing's to flow to the U.S. and to flow to the world, help keep those prices down, make sure things are affordable in America. Uh, President Trump understands you can't separate energy from the economy and you can't separate it from national security, and he's delivering on both fronts. Great.

Hearings, Ads Controversy & Fallout

SPEAKER_20 12:04

Yes, Venezuela, six weeks ago, you had the panickings. Oh no, we're gonna get another war, we're gonna boots on the ground in Venezuela. Turns out, Dulcie Rodriguez, the butcher, is like, thank you, Donald Trump. We are very happy to have business and open new diplomatic. We've now opening diplomatic relations. I mean, it's like, wow, wow, what a change. Six weeks ago, I couldn't have imagined that we'd be sitting here today with Doug Bergum just standing on a tar back, you know, a United States cabinet secretary with flavella in the background, and there wasn't a sniper bullet fired his way. Okay, this is really an incredible thing. Yesterday, Pete Heggseth had generals from all over the Western hemisphere come up to Washington, D.C., in the Pentagon specifically, and they started a new initiative. This is a big deal. And I think this is where Christy Noam is going.

SPEAKER_17 12:54

President Trump has shown what is possible when you reject the status quo delusion that threats to our homeland and our hemisphere are somehow secondary. America is prepared to take on these threats and go on the offense alone if necessary. However, it is our preference and it is the goal.

SPEAKER_20 13:14

Did you hear that? If you don't play, discombobulator for you. Because why? Because we're not playing anymore. Yeah, we'll just go alone. We'll go alone if we have to. That right there is a slap to the face to you and every neocon who's like, we have to have these multilateral things and we have to sacrifice our needs for the needs of Sweden and Bullets.

SPEAKER_27 13:36

What does the UN think?

SPEAKER_20 13:37

Yeah, what does the UN think? This is a problem. You're killing Americans on our streets, and it's coming from somewhere down here. We'll do it alone if we have to.

SPEAKER_17 13:45

And it is the goal of this conference that in the interest of this neighborhood, we all do it together with you, with our neighbors and with our allies who are eager and willing and capable. To do this, to work together, we must first acknowledge what was lost, and then understand what needs to be restored. All the nations represented in this room are offsprings of Western civilization. Our nations are and always will be united by our heritage, our history, and geography in this new world. We share the same interests. And because of this, we face an essential test. Whether our nations will be and remain Western nations with distinct characteristics, Christian nations under God. We're proud of our shared heritage with strong borders and prosperous people ruled not by violence and chaos, but by law, order, and common sense.

SPEAKER_20 14:46

Seems like that makes sense to me, but this is kind of a shot across the ballot because the Western Hemisphere has kind of been running amok with drug cartels and stuff like that. In this same conference, Stephen Miller addressed these nations, and this is absolute fire.

SPEAKER_04 15:00

Absolute fire.

SPEAKER_20 15:03

Oh, that's how I listen to things. Micro machines. You know, it's funny because sometimes I'll be doing my my show prep and I'll get on like a Zoom while I'm waiting for everybody to fall on, and people will hear this and they're like, What are you listening to? I'm like, Can't you understand it? No, my wife always complains she can't understand it when I listen to everything. That's the micro machines sort of commercial. I listen to everything at two times speed. It's actually kind of sometimes painful for me to sit here and listen to it while we're watching. All right, here's Stephen Miller. This is absolutely fire.

SPEAKER_04 15:29

There's been a paradigm shift under President Trump in the Western Hemisphere in the last 14 months. Some of that was touched on by the earlier speakers. But just to restate it, we are not going to cede an inch of territory in this hemisphere to our enemies or our adversaries. Our national security.

SPEAKER_20 15:52

Do you remember when uh JD Vance would when Trendai Agua took over some apartment complexes in Aurora, Colorado? And and JD Vance was on TV with Martha. I can't remember her last name, but the the and he's like, she's like, Well, JD, it's only a couple apartments. He's like, How many apartments is it acceptable for a foreign gang to take over? He's like, maybe a whole town, you know what I mean? And it's like, do you hear yourself, Martha? No, we're not gonna seed an inch of territory, huh? Was that Raditz? I think so, yeah. We're not gonna cede an inch of territory.

SPEAKER_04 16:25

Our national security, our homeland security, the safety and well-being of our people begins at home, begins in our neighborhood, begins in our home region. And for too long, we have allowed foreign enemies, foreign adversaries, and enemy terrorist organizations to control territory and spaces in this hemisphere where they can project power, project threats, and directly threaten the lives of your citizens and our citizens. And so, under the leadership of President Trump, we are using hard power, military power, lethal force to protect and defend the American homeland. Not a single one of your nations should tolerate the existence of a single square mile of territory that is under the control of any entity other than the sovereign governments of your country. The idea that we would have in this hemisphere area that are under the physical control of foreign terrorist organizations, paramilitary organizations, is completely unacceptable. The cartels that operate in this hemisphere are the ISIS and the Al Qaeda of the Western Hemisphere, and should be treated just as brutally and just as ruthlessly as we treat those organizations. We have learned after decades of effort is that there is not a criminal justice solution to the cartel problem. There are elements of the problem that require a criminal justice solution, to be sure. But just as we fought Al-Qaeda and fought ISIS with the tip of a very lethal spear, the reason why this is a conference with military leadership and not a conference of lawyers is because these organizations can only be defeated with military power.

Election Integrity Claims & CISA Control

SPEAKER_20 18:16

That is the key. These organizations can only be defeated with military power. The trying the criminal justice system has been working. But what did Bukelli learn? The judges became corrupt. And if the judges and the lawyers' guilds are corrupt, you got no chance.

SPEAKER_27 18:33

Well, then the neighbors of these apartment complexes can't just go over there and say, Hey, can you guys leave?

SPEAKER_20 18:39

Yeah. Well, let me give you an example of what happens when law and order breaks down and attorneys look at this. So here is an attorney, and he's testifying house workforce labor economy, and he's a politician, but starts out as an attorney. And this is what he says about organized theft rings. Okay. So this is why when you have attorneys involved in trying to clean up crime, like officially, like they're the tip of the spear, we're just gonna let the judicial system play out. They talk about crap like this.

SPEAKER_13 19:05

Nevertheless, on the public safety committee, and yesterday there was a presentation of a group um uh seeking to uh change how we address organized retail theft. And it actually had not occurred to me to ask, it probably would have been good, um, to make sure that they would study sort of the benefit of shoplifting and of retail theft, and because perhaps people are relying on that and sort of using that, that maybe it's you know assisting them in some way. Um, I mean, this these folks were describing people violating the law, um, but it I suppose it could be useful um to look into that, but ultimately it's a policy question, right? We do want to make sure when we have a law in place we're we're enforcing it.

SPEAKER_20 19:37

So we're just gonna see if it's actually really a bad thing to let foreign gangs take over apartments or control favelas or do organized crime threats because you know they might need they might need it.

SPEAKER_27 19:48

Well, there might be some there might be some pros that we need to think about and consider, yeah.

SPEAKER_20 19:53

And then politicians like that go to endorse judges like this, Ron.

SPEAKER_30 19:59

Judge Rosie Speedlin Gonzalez became the first openly gay judge to be elected in Bear County within months of taking the bench. A complaint was made by a local defense attorney to the State Commission on Judicial Conduct.

SPEAKER_20 20:13

Does anything in this picture look wrong to you? Does anything in this picture look wrong to people?

SPEAKER_27 20:18

Um well, look at the flags.

SPEAKER_20 20:20

Oh, the flag! I didn't realize that the LGBT flag had a spot next to the American flag.

SPEAKER_19 20:28

Weird. I didn't know they did that.

SPEAKER_31 20:29

Well, okay about the rainbow pride flag she had in her courtroom. It came across very much like I was being targeted and discriminated against.

SPEAKER_30 20:38

And it wasn't just the rainbow pride flag that she was forced to remove.

SPEAKER_31 20:43

I was also ordered to remove all rainbows from the courtroom. My mouse pad, the pen that I used, the the robe where I had a sodopic colors.

SPEAKER_30 20:54

Gonzalez states her disappointment is also because other judges across the state have not been required to remove flags or different color robes from their courtrooms.

SPEAKER_31 21:03

Are they gonna go to these judges who have an Irish flag in their courtroom or wear a camouflage uh robe when they want to? Or, you know, make sure that out in the rural counties there isn't a confederate flag flying in some little JP court. She has do you think there are conflict flags flying in any courtrooms?

SPEAKER_27 21:21

I I haven't seen one yet. It's just a rural county.

SPEAKER_20 21:24

They just want the conflict. No, I'm sorry, not happening.

SPEAKER_30 21:27

Since made an appeal on the ruling and is awaiting to get her day in court, which can come later this year. And every month, she's making sure to continue to be a leading advocate for the LGBTQ community any way she can.

SPEAKER_31 21:42

It's become a year round uh type of approach to life, to live authentically and to live uh out loud.

SPEAKER_30 21:50

The State Commission on Judicial Conduct does not comment on pending litigation. An appellate court of three justices is expected to preside over this hearing in August. Okay.

SPEAKER_27 22:01

So sometimes the saturation of what we watch, it feels like I'm in an onion episode.

SPEAKER_20 22:09

Dude, I have a brother-in-law who always says truth is stranger than fiction. Okay. Because it really is. I mean, when I see that, the first thing that comes to mind is this.

SPEAKER_12 22:18

Why are you gay?

SPEAKER_20 22:20

Who says I'm gay?

SPEAKER_21 22:23

You are gay. We're bringing me in the studio this morning.

SPEAKER_20 22:28

Why are you gay? Man, if I was gay, I would definitely want to have my case tried by her because she is totally going to be an advocate for you. Loud and proud. Oh my gosh. It was Martha McCallan, by the way, not Martha Ritz. Thank you, Ray. Pray the Rosary Daily. Carlitz, we need to turn Cuba into a Commonwealth like PR. Just clean up the corruption because PR is as corrupt as Minnesota, if not worse. Uh Carlitz, it's all corrupt, buddy. It's all corrupt. It's all equal. Yeah, it's all corrupt. This is this is like such an interesting deal here. You know what I mean? Like Stephen Miller, I give you permission to ignore your lawyers. Okay. Listen, if the lawyers can't come up with solutions, I guess Cuba's right. The military is the only way. So, Stephen, so Pete Hagseth signed this agreement between these nations. Now, notably missing from this were Colombia, Brazil, and Mexico. So every other Western nation except for Cuba came in and participated in this, but Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico did not attend.

Venezuela Pivot & Shield Of America

SPEAKER_17 23:34

I'm the only one that needed to sign because everyone else already has. So here you have it. Affirming our relationships, respecting sovereignty, recognizing the strategic importance of this hemisphere, and declaring our intent to uh expand multilateral and bilateral cooperation, to enhance security in the hemisphere, to cooperate on whole of government efforts, on border security, countering narco-terrorism and trafficking, securing critical infrastructure, and other areas to be determined, advancing peace through strength, as was so eloquently said by so many speakers here. It means something to address future threats to our mutual interest and join together to combat narcoterrorism and other shared threats in the Western Hemisphere. Signed March 5th, the year of our Lord 2026, in English and Spanish. How about that? Wow.

SPEAKER_20 24:32

It feels like we're climbing a really precarious peak with the best view in the world. But to get to the very top, we have to walk up a cliff's edge. And if we take one step off, we're doomed. But if we maintain our course, we will get to that beautiful future ahead, right? And that's really how it feels. They're threading a needle here. You've got all kinds of stakeholders: oil, tech, cartels, drugs, human trafficking, banking, insurance, right? All these things. And Trump has got some massive whiteboard, probably the size of this wall in front of us. And he's got them all tied together. And there's a thread, a needle that you have to thread to get through all this. Venezuela, Iran, probably loop back around and take care of Mexico. Sounds like we're dealing with some stuff in Ecuador, and then probably Colombia, and then we're probably gonna hit Cuba, and then we're you know what I mean? Listen, you either work with us or we'll just do it ourselves. I do like this because it helps the public understand who the players are. Yeah, it does. It helps the public understand who the players are. Now, there is tons of people who just don't see the big picture, right? Our inception of all this starts around the election, right? That's the most important issue to me, and it should be to you. And if it's not, then we'll debate about it and I'll explain to you how it's important to you. Okay. If we are going to be a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, then elections matter. If you want to advocate for monarchy, okay, whatever. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_27 25:57

Then the people don't matter.

SPEAKER_20 25:58

Go live in Britain, okay? But go back home. De-immigrate, okay. But if you're an American in the Western hemisphere, there's no kings. Okay, there's no kings. It is of the people, by the people, for the people. We have to run this place.

SPEAKER_27 26:12

Yeah, I like that when the no kings protest come out. I was like, well, I kind of agree with that a little bit.

SPEAKER_20 26:17

But I kind of wish Trump would be a little more kingly and just come arrest you guys. You know what I mean? Kind of like the king in Britain with 13,000 people going to prison for social media posts. By the way, you want to know something I found out that was really interesting? I saw this chart about the Soviet Union. Um, okay, so I found two things. I found out when I went and got involved in the criminal justice system that they have like a 98.2% conviction rate. Okay, that's really high. Wow. Well, the State Department, you can go read these press releases back in the 60s, 70s, and 80s when the Soviet Union was having all these star chambers and stuff like that. And they were basically saying their judicial system was super corrupt because they had like 60 and 70 percent conviction rates. If you get involved in the criminal justice system, straight to jail. The rest is just performative. You know what I mean? So, anyways, that's kind of the same thing with the freedom of speech. In England, they've arrested like 13,000 people in the last year, and Russia at the height of its censorship crackdowns, it was like 238 people, you know. And we were like, oh my gosh, they don't believe in free speech. They have 90 million people at the time in that country. Yeah, Britain's probably like a million people. Yeah, all right. So Matt Gates had um someone else's show talking about the narco-terrorists, they're running out of places to run, and Ecuador is the first narco state to flip.

SPEAKER_14 27:38

Venezuela changing. We see uh this effort in Ecuador, and it begs the question: are narcos running out of permissive environments right now in the Western Hemisphere? Uh, and and if so, where do we expect they might concentrate power?

SPEAKER_16 27:55

Well, you know, the problem is failed states such as Haiti at times were could be hosts for these groups that are running out of places, as you said, uh, to hide. We saw in Mexico we've gone against cartels there. Very bold move by the administration working with the Mexican government. Uh there's no place for them in order, we're chasing them out. Uh in Venezuela, we have obviously seen what's happened there. We had a narco-terrorist president who's been extracted and it's behind bars where he belongs. And so, you know, they're really running out of places to go and hide, and and you know, we're coming after them.

SPEAKER_20 28:32

Yeah, so they might be hiding in your neighborhood soon. That's the that's the uh that's the cliff's edge.

unknown 28:38

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Western Hemisphere Security Doctrine

SPEAKER_20 28:39

Hegsith goes on to say, was asked about the activity in Iran, and they said, Hey, are we going to be taking refugees? Because historically, every time we have a you know, non-war war intervention, we end up taking refugees. And it's like we just invite these people back into our home and they bite us in the butt.

SPEAKER_22 28:59

One common outcome of American military action in the past has been taking in thousands of refugees into the American homeland.

SPEAKER_24 29:07

And I'm wondering if there's any state guard put in place to make sure that the American people aren't having to have another wave of refugees from the Middle East or URL and stay here.

SPEAKER_17 29:20

I think it's safe to say there's no plan for a wave of uh Middle Eastern refugees to the United States of America. I think as the president has pointed out for a long time, there are a lot of countries in this in the region uh who would be capable of providing uh that kind of support if need be. Uh but that's certainly not something we're planning on.

SPEAKER_20 29:39

Yes, sir. Uh Michael. That's good. I like to hear that. Now the question is, is Iran even going to produce refugees? So we're what, six days into this military intervention? Right? This what I can't, what do they think?

SPEAKER_27 29:52

What is what did Ana Paulina Luna want to call it? Um, I don't know. We can call it a war if you want. Strategic military strikes or something.

SPEAKER_20 29:59

You know, some some bullshit phrase to basically say, yeah, we're at war, but we didn't get a declaration of it, right? Right. Okay, so CNN made their way into Iran. They wanted to see the chaos and destruction. And remember what I've said. I've said a lot of times this these huge catastrophic events, they happen in these isolated little bubbles. Not always, but oftentimes it does. Like, you know, the uh journalist that was trying to cover the Egyptian revolution and he was sipping his morning coffee while six blocks away the palace was being overrun, people being slaughtered, and he's just didn't even know it was happening. Reading yesterday's news in the paper, right? And that happens to us all the time. Like you mentioned, 9-11. Oh my gosh, they just hit the World Trade Centers. Oh, I've got it, I've got an engineering thing, I gotta get some plans. It's like, dude, the world just stopped, and you're just we just go about our business. That's how it is. So CNN made it into Iran and they expected chaos, they expected riots, and instead, taking a quick break for a coffee along the way.

SPEAKER_08 30:57

We've been driving for several hours. There's a couple of things that we've noticed. Number one is that, first of all, all the shops are open, all the shops are really well stocked, even with fresh things, like for instance, fruits and vegetables. Um, coffee, obviously, also available as well. And then also the gas stations. There's no long lines as gas stations, fuel seems readily available, and you just don't see any sort of degree of panic anywhere.

SPEAKER_20 31:23

Could that be, huh? Looks like Texas. Looks like Texas, yeah. Could that be there's no panic because the strategic strikes are just taking out the horrible dictatorship and leadership? And the rest of Iran's like, well, this has been bad. Gotta go to work. Yeah, gotta go to work with my totally devalued dollars, totally devalued money. There's an there's an Iranian United States citizen who has worked for the country of Iran in the past, who was on CNN last night on this panel, and you know, they're talking about Iran and all the panic, and you know, Trump's this isn't a war, and they're talking about the Wars Powers Act. And this guy says something that we as Americans sometimes forget, right? It takes two to tango. Okay, it takes two to tango. But if one party knows that they're at the dance and the other party doesn't know, you know what I'm saying? So here's here's this this panel.

SPEAKER_32 32:21

Two days ago, yesterday, this morning, I was told we were not at war. Today in the press conference, PKSF says, in the war. Are we at war? Are we not at war? Do we want regime change or do we not interest the people?

SPEAKER_36 32:34

You know, I know this may sound controversial in a number of among my friends, um, some of them is controversial. But I think that a lot of commentary is missing, perhaps, the big picture. I agree. And there is a big picture here, and I perhaps for simp to simplify it, I would put it this way. I don't think it's right to say that President Trump has started a war with Iran. I think President Trump wants to finish a war that Iran started in 1979, 47 years ago. And I'll just uh I'll this is these aren't just words. Let me just tell you an anecdote. In the 2003, 2004, when I was there in Iran working uh on projects at a very high level, I was talking with deputy ministers, I was talking with uh going back and forth, and I was in the foreign ministry in Tehran, where I met someone who was very senior, and he was semi-sympathetic with the projects we were doing. But it's as I was leaving, he looked me in the eye and he said, You as an Iranian American, I want you to know something and listen very carefully. He said, We in this building. What he meant is the foreign ministry, which meant representing the government, which means representing the regime. He said, We believe we are at war with the United States. He said, at that time, it's a cold war, but it's a war nonetheless.

Hard Power Against Cartels

SPEAKER_20 34:06

They just can't take it. They just can't take it. Al Qaeda was at war with us long before we were at war with them, right? This is this is Iran's been at war with us since the moment they took our hostages and wouldn't give them back. Right. This is this is the thing. We as Americans project our virtue. We just want to go out of business, raise our families, just be good little peasants. Okay. And and we don't recognize that there are people in the world, there are ideologies, religious beliefs, cults, you know, all kinds of stuff that hate people that are at peace. They hate people that act independently and can't be told what to do. This there's certain personality types that become sociopathic and just rise up through the ranks. This happens. Like, you know what I mean? Like this happens. People that thirst for power.

SPEAKER_27 34:54

It seems like the psychopaths rise to the top just like cream. They're just people right up there.

SPEAKER_20 34:59

Yeah. And so Iran has been at war with us. We are antithetical to their way of life, that specific brand of Islam that is just backwards.

SPEAKER_27 35:13

It's hard for us to understand.

SPEAKER_20 35:14

It's hard for us to understand. I I saw this image yesterday that was taken, and I I didn't want to pull it up because it just makes you feel sick. But it's a child, a young child standing next to an old man at a market, and she's like eight months pregnant. She can't be more than 10 or 11 years old. And that's his wife. And they're walking around like it's totally okay. And this girl's just dead in the eyes. You know what I mean? Like, we cannot comprehend that culture because you'd go to jail.

SPEAKER_27 35:44

Well, in America you would, but over there, nobody even bats an eye.

SPEAKER_20 35:48

They don't even bat an eye.

SPEAKER_27 35:49

Exactly.

SPEAKER_20 35:50

And so we can't they've been at war with us. You can't project your our goodness onto them. And here's the thing the internet is full of bots and full of trolls and full of all kinds of stuff. And confusion. Laura Loomer, you know, again, we don't have a dog in the fight when it comes to the pundits out there and all their little fighting, right? Laura Loomer, she's she's a Jew. Okay. She's loud and proud, just like that judge was loud and proud with pride. Okay. But she's a Jew. She's wildly loyal to Donald Trump. For over two years now, I've been telling everyone that the influencers are paid, are being paid, actually being paid by Islamic countries with Islamic money. Now, the accusation was that the Jews have been paying people. They have been. Okay. I always said that the claim that pro-Israel and anti-Hamas accounts were being paid$7,000 was just projection and made up lies by people who actually have been given$7,000 by bad actors. FEC records reveal that Representative Thomas Massey, who has been spreading the lie that pro-Israel accounts are paid$7,000 per post, has actually been receiving donations of$7,000 from Muslim donors. This explains why Massey appears to be pro-Iran and why he wants to limit President Trump's ability to carry it out strikes in Iran. Another purveyor of the$7,000 lie used to attack Jews is T. Pasari, Trita Parsi, the founder of NIAC, that's the Iranian group, and the founder of the Quincy Institute, who keeps appearing on Bannon's war room. Parsi and NIAC have been accused of lobbying for the Iranian regime and serving as a mouthpiece for the Ayatollah in DC. In 2020, multiple U.S. senators, including Senator Tom Cotton and Ted Cruz, called on the DI DOJ to investigate NIAC for allegedly lobbying for the Iranian regime. Recently, Paris, Paris's Quincy Institution, Quincy Institute, gave Thomas Massey an award. We covered this a couple days ago. Before the Ayatollah was killed in an airstrike ordered by President Trump, one of the last tweets posted by the Ayatollah was the false claim that President Trump was looking to strike Iran because of the Epstein files. This is the same line used by Massey, who just yesterday brought a vote to the floor of the House to try to limit President Trump's war powers. The House GOP overwhelmingly voted of support of Trump in Massey's resolution, ultimately failed after four Democrats crossed the aisle to vote against Massey's resolution on the side of America. It appears that Massey is now a mouthpiece for Islamic and Iranian interests, which is why supporters of the terrorist Islamic regime are giving him$7,000 payments and rewards. The woke Reich is an Islamic movement founded by Islamic money. I've been saying this ever since October 7th. Every day I'm more vindicated. Mike Johnson, Thomas Massey, and Trita Parsi should both be investigated. So here's where it's at. So when you go into Thomas Massey's little, you know, Thomas Massey's for Congress, you can make a$20,$50,$100,$250,$500, wow,$1,000,$3,000,$7,000 donations. These are the click, click now, pay now buttons. So then there's him getting his award at the Quincy Institute. Here's his campaign post. Zaid Marquad,$7,000. Sam Marquad,$7,000. Raheem Marquad. Is this a family?$7,000. So we're 21. 20 28,000,$35,000,$33,000,$36,000.

SPEAKER_27 38:57

Maybe those are all of his kids.

SPEAKER_20 39:03

This is big money. This is big, big money. Okay. Israel and bounces that up to pounds. But yet these guys are saying Israel is paying influencers$7,000 per post. Which, by the way, I think is happening too. But that's what's going on here. And how do they how do they amplify this? So what happens is you get a post, a panicking post, you know, an anti-Israel, anti-Iran, anti-whatever the agenda is post. And then they have these bot farms. Look at these. That wasn't what I was supposed to public. They have these bot farms. They go out, Federal Commission delays vote on Trump's White House ballroom project. Why? Because 70% of the comments against Trump's ballroom were coming from bot farms. So what happens is Thomas Massey or anybody that's in this network will put out a tweet. And what instantaneously happens is all of these different accounts run by these little shell things, right? And look, they have all these cell phones to create unique identifiers. They're all running in unison. And that's how you put out a tweet. And then minutes later, there's 10,000 likes, and now you're trending. This is the manipulation of the algorithm that you get sucked into.

SPEAKER_27 40:14

If we were smart, we would have done this a long time ago for our channel.

Lawfare, Culture Clashes & Courts

SPEAKER_20 40:18

That's why we're only rolling with 19 people live. I mean, if somebody goes in with these bot farms, I'll take a couple likes. You know what I mean? I have to rely on you guys. We got 19 people on Rumble listening. Repost the show, like the show, because that's what we're up against. Growing a show organically is the hardest thing to do. Okay, show the picture on the screen. Oh, sorry. Picture and picture me if you can. Oh yeah. Okay, picture and picture me if you can. This is what we're up against. This is why we, the peasants, rely on you. I have zero intention on paying for exposure. None. I don't want it. I want quality listeners, you know, the people that show up and rush in line to say good morning, peasants, at 6 30 a.m. Pacific Standard Time Monday through Friday.

SPEAKER_21 41:00

Right. Because of the best.

SPEAKER_20 41:02

This is what we're up against. If we want to take up back our country, you have to learn to ignore this shit. You have to learn to go to sources that you trust, people that you spend enough time with to trust their opinion. I still listen to Tucker Carlson, even though I disagree with him at the moment, because I do believe he's a truth seeker. You know what I mean? Yeah. But it doesn't mean I'm going to agree with every opinion, but I'm definitely not going to be influenced by a bunch of bot accounts that are like, oh, look, he got ratioed, or oh, look, this policy is bad because all these people didn't like it. You can't trust anything that's happening online. That's why I don't care how many people like my posts or anything like that. I want you, the listeners, to do that. I love it when I see the same people liking my posts or the same people showing up for the show because you're real, right? Uh Fab Letty, new person. Thank welcome. I don't recognize the name. Not a bot here. Okay, awesome. That's wonderful. I love it. So this is this is the thing, right? A lot of our politics are being manipulated. What really matters? What's really happening out there? And that's why we play so many clips. I want to go to the source. So CNN is in Israel, is in Iran, and they're like, hey, on the ground, like most of the life is just going on. If you're not hiding out in a bunker with other regime members, you're probably safe. Okay. I mean, the Chinese guys were still up there building the building as it got hit. Right? So Donald Trump extended out an olive branch to the Iranian police and military and everybody else. He said, Lay down your arms and you'll have total immunity. If not, you will die.

SPEAKER_37 42:37

And I'm once again calling on all members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, the military, and the police to lay down their arms. They're only going to be killed. And now is the time to stand up for the Iranian people and help take back your country. You're going to have a chance after all these years to take back your country. Accept immunity, we'll give you immunity. And we'll be uh giving you really the right side of history because that's what it is. So you'll be perfectly safe with total immunity or you'll face absolutely guaranteed death. And I don't want to see that. They don't want to see it either. We also urge Iranian diplomats around the world to request asylum and to help us shape a new and better.

SPEAKER_20 43:25

So all of a sudden, if you're an Iranian who's been working for the Iranian regime, you have a choice. You can choose immunity and freedom and work towards peace, law and order, and universal tranquility, or you can die. Because this is a zero sum game. We are moving into a new world with AI, with the ability for mass surveillance, and we cannot allow us to be forced to use those tools, tools to go after you. You've got to be done now.

SPEAKER_27 43:55

I think everybody has to agree that the consequences of laying down your arms and having peace are pretty. Good.

SPEAKER_20 44:00

Yeah. It seems like a good option. Yeah. Okay. It seems like a good option. A lot of people won't take it, unfortunately. And sounds like they'll be hunted down to the ends of the earth. Because not only are we dealing with it on Iran, you got definitely you definitely got no safe quarter in our hemisphere. We'll talk about Canada in a minute. So the next thing here is Pete Hagseth is like a lot of the panickins and a lot of the pundits are like, we're the military's gonna run out of missiles. Oh, they can't do it, they don't have the strength.

SPEAKER_17 44:29

Pete Hagseth, putting that to bed. Iran is hoping that we cannot sustain this. Which is a really bad miscalculation for the IRGC in Iran. You see, there's no shortage of American will here. We remember and honor our fallen, those six that we will soon welcome at Dover, who gave everything for their country in this mission. We remember them. But we remember them by rededicating ourselves even more fervently to this mission. Our commitment to our mission objectives only increases as our advantages continue to increase. We've got no shortage of munitions. Our stockpiles of defensive and offensive weapons allow us to sustain this campaign as long as we need to. Again, our munition status only increases as our advantage increases. Our capabilities, we have only just begun to fight and fight decisively. Having a chance to hear from Admiral Cooper, uh, if you think you've seen something, just wait. The amount of combat power that's still flowing, that's still coming, that will be able to project over Iran is a multiples of what it currently is right now.

SPEAKER_20 45:50

When you add up our capabilities and those of the Israeli defense forces, even Pakistan and Azerbaijan have now mobilized forces into Iran. Okay, Iran's done. The existing Ayatollah regime, they're done. It's just a matter of time. I don't know how long it's gonna take, right?

SPEAKER_27 46:10

Pakistan is moving into Iran. Yeah, would they have done that without a unit uh United States action? I don't think so.

unknown 46:20

No way.

SPEAKER_27 46:21

So obviously they feel confident moving forward.

SPEAKER_20 46:24

Yeah, they're they're they're like, no, we want to be on the winning side of this. Right. And that's Azerbaijan, Lebanon. Lebanon, the president of Lebanon, put on a general's uniform yesterday, gave a big speech, and told Hezbollah they have no quarter in Iran in Lebanon anymore.

SPEAKER_27 46:39

And the reason I I said that is because people in this country need to understand that the people over there know what time it is.

Bot Farms, Influence Ops & Algorithms

SPEAKER_20 46:46

Yes, they do. In fact, well, let's let's play this. This is John Kirkerow. He was on with Jesse Waters addressing the Kurds going into Iran. Okay. Now, I'd be really sad if I see American boots on the ground, but I'm okay with everybody else who wants to put boots on the ground, right? It's not my problem. I I say that jokingly. Hopefully the regime will lay down their arms and sue for peace. Right. Right? Because that would be ideal for game. But one of the things that they have made absolutely positive is every missile launcher, every boat, every everything is gonna be done. You're going to be a nation, we're gonna, and then we're gonna back off and let you do your thing. But you're gonna have no ability to project power. Go ahead and rebuild. Do what you're gonna do, but you're not gonna be able to project power. You got a 10-year pause button on being an aggressor in the neighborhood. So the Kurds going in and fighting. Do you think the Kurdish play is a distinct possibility?

SPEAKER_18 47:41

Oh, I would say the chances are 100%. The Kurds have long worked with the United States. They are brave fighters, pro-American. We've worked with them very closely in the past against Saddam Hussein. We worked with them in Syria against Bashar al-Assad. This is a logical next step.

SPEAKER_09 48:01

Okay, there they are doing cartwheels over flyer. Um, that's an interesting training technique. I've never seen anybody do that before, but in in all seriousness, what would be the strategy once they cross the border? To to draw the Iranian units out, to go straight to the capital? Is it a decoy? Is it security? What would their role be?

SPEAKER_18 48:23

I think it's probably the first. They they likely couldn't make it all the way to Tehran uh without significant assistance from the United States, but I don't think that would be the goal. I think the goal would be to capture areas that historically have been Iranian Kurdistan and uh and to draw the Revolutionary Guard out so that they would be that much easier to strike.

SPEAKER_09 48:47

Do you see other uh ethnic groups move into Iran proper? We're hearing Azerbaijan got hit, and and they got some they got some hardcore fellas uh that have been licking their chops to go south for quite some time.

SPEAKER_20 49:04

They do. And you know, one thing most people don't know, I think. If I were the Kurds, I would not let these training videos out. I've done more difficult, you know, obstacle courses at Boy Scout camp. I'm just saying they're a vicious fighting force. But what that means is they'll kill you dead.

SPEAKER_18 49:20

Okay, it doesn't mean that they're good at what they do, is that there's the country of Azerbaijan, and then there's an Iranian province of Azerbaijan, and they're of course ethnically closely related.

SPEAKER_21 49:31

No wonder it took us so long to win that bracket. We were relying on nonsense.

SPEAKER_18 49:37

Oh my god, I can't even hear what they're talking about. We were really, really angry when uh this strike uh came their way uh yesterday, I guess it was, and I think that they would be very happy to work with the United States on this.

SPEAKER_20 49:53

Oh my goodness, they got the worst b-roll footage you could possibly get. What were they talking about? I was just laughing so hard. They were talking about the Kurds being the fighting boots on the ground to draw out the Iranian fighters. Like I said, when we saw the women training, we said, what did we say? Fodder. This looks like fodder, okay? That training camp of deadly Kurdish strike forces playing leapfrog. Fodder, okay, fodder, unfortunately. Oh, I feel so horrible saying that because they fight alongside us, right? Okay, so mentioning Lebanon and Hezbollah, this is an old video, and this is a woman from Lebanon who talks about how Lebanon went from being a Christian country to being an Islamic country in a very quick period of time, and this goes along with the whole projecting our virtue onto people.

SPEAKER_01 50:44

I was born and raised in Lebanon, which used to be the only majority Christian country in the Middle East. We were open-minded, we were fair, we were tolerant, we were multicultural, we prided ourselves in our multiculturalism. We had open border policy, we welcomed everyone to come to our country because we wanted to share with them the westernization which we had created in the heart of the Arabic world. Muslims used to send their children to study in our universities because we had built the best universities in the Arabic world. They graduated and worked in our economy because we had built the best economy in the Middle East, even though we did not have any oil. Beirut became Paris of the Middle East, the banking capital of the Middle East. In 1965, National Geographic Magazine had on its front cover Lebanon, Eden of the Middle East. See, we got our independence in the early 40s, but by the 60s and 70s, the Christians had become the minority and the Muslims had become the majority in Lebanon. And as the Islamic um population grew in the country, the country became less and less tolerant because they started pushing for more rights that were not compatible with our Judeo-Christian value system that we had created. And that's when the problem started. The problem was contained until the influx of the Palestinians out of Jordan in 1970, when Lebanon brought them in because we already had refugee camps. Actually, at that time, Lebanon was the only country in the Middle East to accept the third wave of Palestinians into Lebanon. The majority of them were Muslims. They put their heads together with the Muslims in Lebanon and declared jihad on the Christians. What they wanted to do is create a base from which to fight Israel, kill the Jews, and throw them into the sea. Something they tried to do in Jordan. Yes, Irafat and the Palestinians tried to do in Jordan, but they failed because of the dictatorship of the king. Yet they were able to come to Lebanon, use our open-mindedness, our fairness, our tolerance, our multiculturalism, and our democracy to topple our democracy.

Iran Strikes, Calm Streets & Choices

SPEAKER_20 53:01

And who runs an open society, a democracy, the rule of law, and who's in charge of the law? Lawyers and judges. And Stephen Miller just gave the Western Hemisphere permission to ignore those lawyers and judges who want to slow down taking back your country, actually having law and order, and actually having a prosperous society. Right? That is the weakness of an open society. It's interesting that George Soros calls his thing the Open Societies Foundation and then takes advantage of those open societies, right? That's the disadvantage. It's the projecting your virtue. If you don't have a homogeneous country where people have a similar core value system, like this is why it's important as a Christian nation, because we have Ten Commandments. Don't steal. It's always wrong. But what if I'm hungry and what if it's a way I feed my family? The attorney in Minnesota don't steal. Don't steal. It's never okay to steal. You know what I mean? Like, like having a compass, a moral compass, a simple framework by which to see the world that we have in common is core. But when you disrupt that framework and you import people with completely opposite ideologies, Islam, Saudi Arabia, they're westernizing. They're an Islam monarchy. Let them do it. God put their feet on that plan on that piece of land. That's their business. Right. But in the Western hemisphere, this has been a free hemisphere with no kings for how long? 150, 200 years? Really since our inception, right? Since colonization, so to speak. And even you know what I mean? So it's like we can't, it's oil and water. We can't mix. Oil has its place, water has its place, but you can't mix. Ecuador, I mentioned this before, they've picked a side. They picked a side.

SPEAKER_02 54:54

And thank goodness. Ecuador just sent a message to Havana that was short, brutal, and came with a 48-hour expiration date. And a move that caught the entire region off guard. President Daniel Naboa didn't just ask the Cuban ambassador to leave, he expelled the entire embassy staff. No explanation, no diplomatic fluff, just a persona non-grata stamp in a two-day window to pack their bags. While the world watches its head, the imagery on the ground tells the real story. Cuban officials were spotted on the roof of their Quito embassy, frantically burning bags of documents as security forces patrol the perimeter. So, why on earth would Ecuador do this right now? It isn't a mystery if you're tracking the flight paths between Quito and Washington. This expulsion happened at the exact moment joint US-Ecuador military operations kicked off. Now, Ecuador is making a high-stakes bet that being the ultimate team player for the Trump administration is the only way to keep his own country off the target list. The strategy here is preemptive loyalty. Noboah knows the Cuba's next buzz in DC isn't just talk. By clearing out the Cuban Intelligence Hub in his own capital, he's effectively handing over the keys to the regional security room. He's showing the White House that Ecuador isn't just a partner in the drug war, they're a frontline ally in the effort to topple the regime in Havana. Critics are calling it a shakedown, but for Noboa, it's survival. With the US already strangling Cuba's oil and hinting at an economic management takeover, Ecuador decided that being the first to flip is better than being the next to fall. While the Cuban diplomats are scurrying to the airport, the rest of Latin America is watching closely. Noboa just proved that in 2026 there is no middle ground. You're either helping the US redraw the map or you're part of the territory that's about to be replaced.

SPEAKER_20 56:53

It's a zero-sum game. It's a zero-sum game. So that's pretty interesting. I watching the AI video.

SPEAKER_28 57:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_20 57:02

That lady could not get her papers to start burning in that barrel.

SPEAKER_27 57:06

That dude was chucking them in there. Bam, bam, bam.

SPEAKER_20 57:08

Okay. Uh on a side note, side quest funny thing. Yesterday I saw a cute little clip that was a mother whose children wouldn't clean up their room. And so she went and took some video footage of the room, and then she created an AI newscast and had her kids on the couch, and she turned on the news, and it was breaking. You know, Simon and Peter's room is messy, and there's going to be a task force sent by someone, you know, if they don't clean up their room, the toys are going to be donated to charity or whatever. And the kids were like, Oh, I guess they're looking at their room on the news, and then they went and cleaned their room. It was really cute. Anyways, that is funny. AI is incredible. Okay, so the chessboard, right? How's the international chessboard? We know that China is ultimately kind of our major opposition.

SPEAKER_27 57:55

Yeah, and all these actions that we've been seeing are meant to really hem them in. I mean, all this oil that we're attacking and taking control of.

SPEAKER_20 58:04

Yeah, there's a um, there's there was an analysis done when we invaded Kuwait and pushed Iraq back out of Kuwait, the China sent huge delegations to Kuwait to watch the conflict, just to observe as observers. And we were happy to have them because at the time, you know, this is 89, this is after Tiananmen Square, George H.W. Bush was like, you guys need to westernize, right? And so they were we we invited them to come watch. And when they came back, and we now know all this because these documents have been leaked and stuff like this, they call us the the great devils, the foreign devils, and they said we can't beat the foreign devils on the battlefield.

SPEAKER_27 58:40

Well, that's why it's been uh it's been like an economic war ever since.

SPEAKER_20 58:45

Well, that's they they declared a people's war, an all-out war after this, and they said we can't defeat them on the battlefield outright, right? They're too far advanced technology-wise, they have too much will when it comes to the fight, right? And so they they initiated an intentional plan to weaken the United States, and they think long-term, okay, they think in terms of dynasties, they don't think in terms of even lifetimes, and so they started to weaken us uh economically through our trade deals. They got introduced into the WTO. I was here in Seattle when those riots were happening back in '99 or uh 2009, 2000, something.

SPEAKER_27 59:20

It was 90 something.

SPEAKER_20 59:21

Yeah. So I was I was here for that on a debate trip. Again, world keeps going.

SPEAKER_27 59:28

I was just living here.

SPEAKER_20 59:29

Yeah, they were they were introduced into the World Trade Organization and given most favored nation status, which basically meant no tariffs for their goods. That bolstered their economy and it hollowed out our economy. And then, of course, we also had NAFTA, which contributed to that.

SPEAKER_27 59:43

Well, yeah, of course, then we were like, well, let's send all of our jobs over there.

SPEAKER_20 59:46

Yeah, and of course, corporate espionage has been off the charts and stuff like that. And it got to the point where really, by the time Trump comes around, we're pretty weak, right? I mean, we're being drained out, and we're and a lot of Americans are living the American nightmare, you know, can't get ahead. I mean, our financial system was completely corrupted, taken advantage of. China's currency manipulating.

SPEAKER_27 1:00:04

And a lot of people are acting like these uh tariffs were we're using it like a billy club and we're beating it over their head. It's like, no, that's not exactly it. We're trying to crawl back up to where we're even.

Regional Realignments & No Refugee Plan

SPEAKER_20 1:00:14

Where we're even. Yeah, we're trying to establish a fair level of head. And so over that period of time, China reached out to Iran, China, all our adversaries, North Korea, eventually Venezuela, Cuba, they're all share that communist, socialist, collectivist thread. And so it's like, let's find our ideological mates. And same thing with Islam. Islam is very Marxist, okay, because they want the jihad. You have to separate the people so you always have an enemy. That's kind of the whole point there, the other. And so they took advantage of that and they infiltrated everywhere and they fed our enemies, narco-terrorists. They're executing drug dealers, meanwhile, they're shipping fentanyl into Mexico for the drug dealers to make and ship here. You know what I mean? So nothing, nothing is on par or have has parody or even a similar stance on things. They absolutely declared a people's war, and it's every element of their government and economy is geared towards diminishing the United States power so they can take a hegemonic position. And they think long-term, right? Every empire eventually has their arc, and we're somewhere on the down arc and they're on the up arc, and they want to, as soon as they cross that threshold, they'll knock you down all the way to the bottom. That's how it happens. When we talk about things being a zero-sum game, you either have a trade route or you don't. Okay. So this is the chessboard.

SPEAKER_23 1:01:37

Iran was able to use Chinese technology that they could track very easily who wears a hijab or not, because they they perfected it in Uyghur camps.

SPEAKER_26 1:01:47

In this episode, I sit down with Zina Berbua, a research fellow at the Hudson Institute, to ask why, as she puts it, the Iran question is all about China.

SPEAKER_23 1:01:57

It is China that has helped uh Iran acquire different components. Their fingerprints are all over uh Iran's military arsenal.

SPEAKER_25 1:02:06

When it comes to the missiles, how do we know that we're not gonna just get another source of instability?

SPEAKER_23 1:02:12

The United States is destroying everything that would make that possible. Every single launcher, every single um missiles facility, their whole navy has been absolutely crushed. You can see that in the loss of military assets that uh Iran had.

SPEAKER_26 1:02:30

As the US degrades Iran's military assets, what's next for Iran and Beijing?

SPEAKER_23 1:02:36

Beijing has been selling to his own people that America is in decline. The United States is proven them wrong. Trump is proving them wrong.

SPEAKER_26 1:02:44

This is American thought leaders, and I'm Yanya Kellech.

SPEAKER_20 1:02:48

What's really great about being a country of the people, by the people, and for the people is yeah, for the most part, we're gonna live and let live. But just like the uh general in Japan after he bombed Pearl Harbor, he says, I fear I've awakened a sleeping giant. And that's what's happened with the MAGA movement. A sleeping giant has been awakened. There's a huge population in America that understands authoritarianism and dictatorship and reject it entirely. And we've woken up. It's like it matters all of a sudden. MAGA comes out to vote, especially if Trump's on the ballot. Okay, they're not going to vote for a rhino, but they'll vote for Trump. You know what I mean? And they'll be engaged in this activity. Look at the look at the enrollment and the recruiting for the military when Trump's in charge. It goes through the roof. They're hitting their benchmarks, even with 70% of American 18-year-olds not qualifying for military service.

SPEAKER_27 1:03:41

It's really it's better PR than a top gun movie.

SPEAKER_20 1:03:45

And if we can unleash capitalism, you've got guys like Lucky Palmer out there who are like, yeah, I'll redo the defense industrial base on the on the on the cheap. Okay. It's awesome. Everything that Trump has done from Venezuela to Cuba to North Korea in his first term has been an attempt to roll back the uh pressure from China and to try to take back trade lanes and and economic pinch points. So Fox News, Martha, uh Martha McCallan had on the Wall Street. Let's see, she uh covers a Wall Street Journal article that's talking about this.

SPEAKER_29 1:04:20

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that China is now accelerating production of submarines to attack the United States closer to home, writing, quote, China has been developing new submarine technology and a bigger, better fleet that is gaining on the United States and its allies, spurring a new undersea arms race in the Pacific. These subs that can strike U.S. from closer to home, the U.S. Navy is warning. Joining me now is Gatesone Institute Senior Fellow Gordon Chang. Gordon, that is some statement that the Navy has warned us about.

SPEAKER_42 1:04:54

Yes. You know, the Chinese, they don't actually need better submarines. All they need to do is stay close to their shores in what they call the bastion areas like the Yellow Sea. But obviously, they do want subs to be able to get closer to the U.S. And by the way, we have Chinese submarines in the Arctic, which would be very, very close to Alaska and the homeland. So this is really an important development. And we have got to make sure that we have got the attack subs that can take out those ballistic missile submarines of the Chinese.

SPEAKER_29 1:05:33

We've reported on this program many times that China sends these components to Iran, uh, the guidance systems, the propellant chemistry. Uh uh China provided air defense systems to Iran, US, and Israeli strikes, decimated them, and that China invested$100 billion in Iranian infrastructure. I mean, clearly China is on the side of Iran with all of this, and then they want to send a Mideast envoy to go contempt condemn the attacks today. How do you see this?

SPEAKER_42 1:06:01

Well, first of all, that envoy is going to try to stop the United States from attacking Iran. And clearly what we should be doing is ignoring this guy. You know, the Chinese are an enemy combatant. That's the way we should treat them. They have been supplying Iran with all the components for their weapons that you just talked about: diplomatic support, propaganda support, elevated commodity purchases. Last year, 87.2% of Iran's exports of crude went to China. It's across the board support. And so the United States just needs to say look, we want to stop this. We have to also impose costs on China.

SPEAKER_29 1:06:34

Yeah, and so why have we been buying drones from China for so long? I asked the chairman of the intelligence committee this yesterday, Rick Crawford was my special guest. And I want to get your take on this. I know at this point we've stopped buying Chinese drones from DJI, but there are so many of them already in our arsenal. Here's what he told me yesterday. Watch this. Congressman, what about all of those drones right now in our arsenal that China made?

SPEAKER_33 1:07:03

The drone manufacturing has moved so fast. Heck, I've got companies in my district that were engaged in this 10 years ago, but they were outpaced by the Chinese. They wanted to be able to offer these products to American farmers, but they couldn't keep pace because the technology changed so quick and they had uh they were outfunded and they they had to go a different direction with it. So now we're reliant on these Chinese drones. We can't continue with that type of footing.

SPEAKER_29 1:07:27

Do you believe this operation in Iran is as much about China?

SPEAKER_33 1:07:32

It's a very tenuous relationship. I know that they try to characterize this as an affable relationship, and I get it, because that personally they may have uh uh you know an exchange that that may be favorable. But broadly speaking, the Chinese Communist Party is not our friend. This attack on Iran was not an attack on China, but it most certainly is an impact on China.

SPEAKER_29 1:07:54

Has had an impact already, hasn't it?

Kurds, Neighbors, And Pressure On Iran

SPEAKER_20 1:07:56

Oh, it certainly has. Oh yeah. So China, right, is obviously still increasing their undersea submarines, which is really the future of naval warfare. It's not gonna be on the surface because hypersonic missiles and there's other considerations now that you know when Iran shot a missile space and it came straight down on the Ayatollah, there wasn't any radar that was going to catch that or allow you to do anything about it, right? So our battleships, our aircraft carriers are just sitting ducks in the new age of warfare. There's gonna be weapons dropped from space. I mean, you've got the the rod of God. Have you heard of that? The tungsten rod that they drop out of a satellite. Oh, wow. It hits with the impact of a nuclear weapon with no radiation. Oh because it's coming from space. We have that. It's called the rod of God. Okay, it's a tungsten rod that they just drop from a satellite on a pinpoint spot.

SPEAKER_27 1:08:46

So it can make it through the atmosphere without burning up.

SPEAKER_20 1:08:49

Yeah, now this is a little bit of a joke, but it's kind of funny. This right here is an Iranian soldier, and we can't put a Ukrainian soldier. He's putting QR codes all over his tank. Okay, and he's telling his friend here, it's just kind of funny. He's like, hey, all the Russian drones have Chinese chips in them.

SPEAKER_21 1:09:09

So when they come down to attack, that is funny.

SPEAKER_20 1:09:18

He says when they come down to attack, a Ukrainian soldier put many QR codes on his tank to shield it against Russian drones. His comrade got confused to explain to him. Russian drones use Chinese chips, which automatically scan Timu QR codes, then start shopping and forget about the war. Leave the burden with debt, they give up.

SPEAKER_27 1:09:38

Okay, that is funny.

SPEAKER_20 1:09:40

Totally AI, totally not the solution to that as an idea. That's pretty funny. So, in that clip with Maria Bartolomo, they mentioned farmers and farmer drones. Here's what we got going on here. Okay, farmers increasingly are replacing their migrant labor with robot later. So here is a contraption that goes out and picks apples.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:58

Wow.

SPEAKER_20 1:09:59

It's pretty interesting. Okay. And then there's a whole bunch of stuff here. So this thread is full of here's uh robots, drones, autonomous drones that are, you know, picking weeds and fertilizing or doing whatever they do, planting seeds. Here you've got another uh autonomous drone that's treating, I don't know what it's doing here, you know, going through our farmers' fields.

SPEAKER_27 1:10:18

Have you ever watched or you know, gotten sidetracked by watching just farm equipment? Yeah. Yeah, me too. Anyways, this is basically just the same as that, but there's just nobody driving it.

SPEAKER_20 1:10:29

You want to know something funny. So, youth in America are leaving farming. A lot of farmers are having a hard time getting their children to take over the farms. A lot of it has to do with death and estate taxes and stuff like that. But there's a huge move amongst the goth community to go get farm jobs. So if you go on like TikTok or Instagram, you can find farm reels coming out of the Midwest with girls primarily that are driving these massive tractors and they're goth. They got like the black fingernail stuff, and they're driving these tractors. It's the only job that it doesn't matter how you look. You can have as many piercings on your face as you want. There's no customer service to drive a John Deere tractor. That's funny. So, this drone situation is a really big deal. Jan Bongino on his podcast yesterday said he spent a huge amount of his time at the FBI as the deputy director of the FBI addressing this drone threat.

SPEAKER_38 1:11:18

Well, I mean global security. Oh, no, it wasn't security risk right this second is drone warfare. Dan drones, yes, drones! I'm telling you, when you're sitting here where I was for the last year and reading this stuff, you're like, but this is not good. Folks, this is coming here. It is only a matter of time, and your whole life is gonna change. I'm gonna tell you, two things are gonna happen after the first drone strike happens here. Everyone's gonna walk out of their house every day and do what? They're gonna look up. And second, every time someone hears a buzz in the sky, there's gonna be panic. This is a now problem, not in the future. And the only way to effectively stop this is to go to the Death to America crowd, people that hate us, and interrupt, and if we can destroy their supply chain mechanism to send these drones to the United States. Here's Vice Admiral Harward on Fox talking about exactly this. This encompassed probably 10%, if not more, of my meetings while I was at the FBI, is taking care of this drone problem. Check this out.

SPEAKER_03 1:12:37

This is a real turning point in the war on drones. As we saw in Afghanistan and Iraq, we used drones for ISR. In Ukraine, the Ukrainians started making them kinetic. And now we're seeing mass, you know, swarms. And so that's a real differentiator. And I gotta believe we're going after the production facilities to ensure we shut down all these elements of power. And I believe if we're not there already, we may be at the tipping point of really shutting down their ability to project power. And when that occurs, a lot of capacity and focus will go on removing the current regime.

SPEAKER_38 1:13:17

Folks, I'm telling you, just about every meeting I had with foreign partners and elsewhere, the first thing that came up was drones. Meeting about Olympic security drones, meeting about the Super Bowl drones, meeting about what's going on overseas in Europe drones, meeting about Ukraine drones. Everything is drones because they're cheap, they're effective, and they scare the shit out of people because you can't fly and stop. Just go see what it is. What is that, a bird or a drone? I don't know.

SPEAKER_20 1:13:44

One of stuff. Scary stuff. And drones can be small. You know, what was really interesting was in the beginning of the Ukraine war, they literally just had a grenade or a mortar shell tied to a DJI drone that you can buy at Costco. Right.

SPEAKER_27 1:13:55

Payload, one pound.

SPEAKER_20 1:13:57

Yeah. I mean, how many videos did you see where soldiers, you know, crawling on the ground turns around and looks up?

SPEAKER_27 1:14:04

Done. Is it Amazon or is it so?

SPEAKER_20 1:14:07

Then they started blocking the electro, you know, the the signals so they wouldn't fly. So then they started doing fiber optic cables. Right. We've shown the videos of that. Whole cities just littered with fiber optic. Every one of those fiber optic lines that creates a sheen on top of the town was because a drone flew a pathway right there with an explosive device on it. Big deal. Now, who has capacity to make a lot of drones and has already delivered drones all over the world? China. Oh. Okay. So this big strategy, everything Trump's been doing, taking care of the Western Hemisphere, Venezuela, going after the narcoters, hitting Iran, right, taking taking over Lloyd's for insurance, all of this is designed to box China in. On the all-in podcast, they talked about this, this grand plan.

Demographics, Lebanon, And Open Societies

SPEAKER_34 1:14:54

I think the president and the administration have probably the biggest meetings of the term coming up in China in April. My estimation, based on the conversations and the comments made by the president before he came into office and since he's been in office, is that finding a grand bargain or a deal with China is probably one of his top priorities. And if you think about the importance of that, is the US gonna wade into a giant global conflict led by a US-China rift, or is the US gonna find some grand bargain? I think he would probably have a preference for the grand bargain. And that being the case, I think you could look at the in the context of Maduro and the actions in Iran as creating maximal leverage going into those negotiations. The reason for that, Freeberg? 90% of the oil that comes out of Iran goes to China. And there's been a long developing and developed relationship between Maduro's government and China, and these are big economic drivers or support the economic driving in China. So creating leverage by having significant influence or damage or destruction to those supply chains for China gives the United States footing to be able to negotiate a better deal for America. I would imagine that the president's intention here isn't to go and decide who should be in charge and drive regime change and end in a multi-year conflict with Iran, but ultimately, if there's some transaction with China that gets everyone out of this and puts the US on a strong footing where American businesses can sell into China, which is very challenging as everyone knows today. And there's parity, regulatory parity, economic and trade parity between the US and China. There's a point of view on what happens with Taiwan and availability of key technologies like semiconductors. I think it could be a win-win. And I think that a deal with China could be the crowning achievement of this administration, particularly going into the midterms. So the timing is right, and I think that's probably a core part of the motivation here.

SPEAKER_20 1:16:57

Yeah, sounds like a great altruistic plan. Let's make peace with our mortal enemies. China, China has partnered with Canada, which by the way, this is your future. Uh-oh. Okay. This northern border, we once we take care of that southern border and everything in the south, there we're gonna have to turn to the north because this is a strategic problem. Kearney struck struck a security agreement with China. Now remember, hey, hold on.

SPEAKER_27 1:17:26

Before we go on in, remember when we had uh the signing of all the Western nations? Was Canada part of that? No.

SPEAKER_20 1:17:34

Oh, that was that was Latin America.

SPEAKER_27 1:17:36

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_20 1:17:37

Okay, so here's the thing China signed a security agreement with Canada. This is a big, big deal. So let's listen to this, and there's details here that matter big time. So you wonder why Trump is kind of aggressive with China? It's because of this. Okay.

SPEAKER_39 1:17:54

Mark Carney is hiding from Canadians the full extent of his so-called strategic partnership with China. He sold it as a trade deal, but in fact, there's much more to it. Kearney's partnership includes an agreement on law enforcement cooperation whereby the RCMP will work hand in hand with Beijing's Ministry of Public Security. This should set off alarm bells. After all, the Beijing regime has no regard for the rule of law, they don't respect due process, they don't have an independent judiciary, there is no civilian oversight of the police, and they have an atrocious human rights record. For Beijing, the overriding objective of law enforcement is to advance the interests of the Chinese Communist Party. This is a regime that routinely uses law enforcement as a means for intelligence gathering and for political oppression. Criminal labels are frequently applied to political targets, not only in China, but around the world, including in Canada. Beijing's Ministry of Public Security is actively involved in foreign interference and transnational repression activities on Canadian soil. Chinese police have set up multiple illegal police stations in Canada to harass and intimidate Chinese Canadians. Chinese police operating illegally in Canada have even forced the repatriation of Canadians back to China. According to a recent report of a National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians, Chinese police have gone so far as to pay agents to locate and track Canadians critical of a Beijing dictatorship. This is happening in Canada. Madam Justice Hogue, who headed the public inquiry on foreign interference, concluded that Beijing is the most active perpetrator of foreign interference in Canada. In the face of all of that, it is no wonder that less than a year ago, Mark Carney stated the obvious.

SPEAKER_27 1:19:51

I think the biggest security threat to China Canada is China.

SPEAKER_39 1:19:54

But now, Mark Carney wants to partner with Canada's biggest security threat on matters of security. If there is any area that Canada should not be cooperating with Beijing on, it's on security and law enforcement matters. Don't just take my word for it. Ten Hong Kong diaspora organizations have sent an open letter to Kearney expressing deep fear and anxiety about this agreement. Targeted communities are understandably worried that Beijing will use this agreement to expand its transnational repression activities in Canada under the guise of law enforcement. In the face of legitimate fears from communities targeted by Beijing, Mark Kearney's silence about this agreement has been deafening. There hasn't been so much as a public statement from Kearney about it. Kearney is effectively trying to hide this agreement from Canadians. He has not released the full text of the agreement. As a result, we don't know if there are any safeguards or oversight mechanisms to protect Canadians from a regime that poses a significant national security threat. The bottom line is working with Beijing on law enforcement is outrageous. If Mark Carney truly cared about Canada's sovereignty and the safety and security of Canadians, he would never have entered into such an agreement with one of the world's most oppressive police states and human rights abusers. Mark Carney, do the right thing and pull out of this dangerous agreement immediately.

SPEAKER_20 1:21:21

And become the 51st state.

SPEAKER_27 1:21:24

Who are Canada's best allies? Well, we used to think it was us. I know. I wonder who they think it is. Apparently China. Right. Who's a security? You're always uh it's always like keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer. I don't think that's what's happening now. No, I don't think so either. The other thought I had was have you ever played Risk? Yeah. Oh yeah. Like a six hour? Yeah. Okay. So like if you're like six hours in, there's usually only how many people left?

SPEAKER_20 1:21:53

Two.

SPEAKER_27 1:21:53

Yeah. So I was just thinking about this, like, as this was a game of risk that we're playing in the world, and we're just playing away. And you have this friend of yours that you're just that the two of you that are left are like, well, we don't want to kick him out, so we'll let him stay on the board. That's Canada.

Boxing In China: Energy, Submarines, Tech

SPEAKER_20 1:22:09

Yeah, exactly. And and they're using it's security, right? So when they say that, I there probably will be Chinese nationals that get green cards or whatever they call them up there to go be police officers in China. But more specifically, it's the AI, it's the surveillance state. They're going to use the Chinese surveillance state and the tools that they've built in Canada for law enforcement, which is going to give China access to all that information. So let me tell you this. Yesterday, I thought I'm on the board here, the FISA database. What's the FISA database, Ron?

SPEAKER_27 1:22:42

Oh, geez.

SPEAKER_20 1:22:43

Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

SPEAKER_27 1:22:47

I got that.

SPEAKER_20 1:22:48

This is essentially those big data centers in Lehigh, Utah, the NSA, where they gather up every text message and every phone call and every security camera feed, everything that crosses over the internet, they grab that information and database it. Someone hacked it. Someone is snooping to see if they are on the list. FBI identifies suspected hack on sensitive network used to manage wiretaps and intelligence surveillance warrants, and it's the FISA hack. FISA just got hacked. Now they're downplaying this, acting like uh a sensitive network used to manage wiretaps. They hacked FISA. They hacked FISA.

SPEAKER_27 1:23:24

Do we know who did it?

SPEAKER_20 1:23:26

So Elon Musk, no, not yet. Elon Musk has said that the problem with mass surveillance is on the problem of the data collector. How many people are you gonna have watching these slide feeds and reading these messages and these emails? Well, turns out with the advent of AI, it's not that difficult. They can go through millions, billions, trillions of lines of code, read messages, look at pictures and decide what they are. Really fun. You want to talk about mapping networks and stuff like that? It's unbelievable. And what could they do with that information? Well, they could persecute you, they could uh target you, they could psyop war game, they can advertise to you, they can probably get your genetic stuff because I'm sure your medical records have been transmitted over the internet. Okay. Thing, who knows? Do you think they could maybe fake voter data? Probably could. And here in Washington, we just found out yesterday, every Washington resident with a driver's license or ID may have been exposed in a massive data breach that the Department of Licensing knew about for six years and hid anyway. Son of a Pyro News. I know. Every Washington resident. This is absolutely incredible. Uh, this attorney filed a lawsuit to the DOL claiming the agency knowingly allowed major security flaws in its license express system, potentially exposing personal information of every resident in Washington with a Washington state license or state ID. Such exposure could lead to severe consequences for residents, including stolen identification stalking and voter fraud. Oh, I wonder where we get all these extra voter registrations right at the last minute before a vote. And it just happens to be the margin of victory for the Democrats.

SPEAKER_27 1:25:02

What I want to know is who helped them steal the data, you know, like they stole the$500 million in the Nigerian scam. Oh, dang. Oh, we turned the freaking uh security off for 30 minutes? What happened? Yeah, no kidding.

SPEAKER_20 1:25:17

The first right back, DOL sends 50 to 75 licenses to an apartment. One apartment? I wonder how many people registered the vote there. And the first tip was when the DOL noticed that 50 to 75 driver's license went to the same apartment in Pewalp. They were all ordered by the same guy with the same email address and were all paid for by a burner visa. It wasn't very long before we figured out, yes, indeed, they were sending out batches, literally dozens or hundreds of licenses at a time to individual addresses. Oh boy. He said the agency lost its online DOL system in 2018, and by 2019, it would recognize hundreds of instances of abuse and fraud. One of the reasons they decided not to follow state law and notification is that they didn't fix the problem. And you can notify people. Hey, by the way, your identity might be stolen, might be at risk, and still is. We're just gonna leave it hanging out there in the wind.

SPEAKER_27 1:26:08

Just ahead of the 2020 election.

SPEAKER_20 1:26:11

Just saying great timing. Thanks, thanks, Kristen. Why Kristen uh Wyman or what was her uh Kim Wyman?

SPEAKER_27 1:26:18

Kim Wyman.

SPEAKER_20 1:26:18

He noted the DOL took an entire system down in February 2025, right after Trump got in. And it appears the issue was fixed. But art is a hopeful that Washington Attorneys General's offense will open an investigation if they want to, if they want to dig in and fight and fight and fight instead of finding a way to make Washington's criticize uh citizens whole, they've got a lot of resources to do that. Unfreaking believable, right? And how does that play in? It plays in with voter fraud, guys. Patrick Byrne in his car was talking to Emerald Robinson. I love how, like news now, there's it's pretty normal for people to do news hits on the side of the road in their cars. This is crazy.

SPEAKER_43 1:27:03

Like someone like Mitch McConnell, who's basically a zombie in Congress now, but still fighting um the election integrity. And you made a very important you and yeah, there's many others. Um you made a very important point, and that is in this movement to secure our elections, we do often forget it. The key, the key part of this is counting in the precinct. It's counting there locally on the ground and reporting up. Because one one way they've controlled the elections is by moving it to central reporting, right? Where it's top down. The state tells you, like in Georgia, the states are telling them what their tallies were for each precinct. And that just allows for the county.

SPEAKER_15 1:27:42

Once you're moving, once you're moving ballots, there's no integrity around the supply chain. So for the same reasons you can't mail them, just like you don't mail cash, you don't mail ballots because the postal service supply chain is nowhere near the integrity to handle something this valuable, for the same reason you You can't have people driving it in from the precincts in the back of their car in a bag into the county to be checked. Because the supply chain does not have any integrity.

SPEAKER_20 1:28:10

The supply chain doesn't have any integrity. You've got to do it locally. Why? Because if you do it from the top down, it's just like the driver's licenses. If 75 people are voting and it's the same guy with different IDs, you're gonna catch that when they walk into your local school gymnasium over and over and over and over and over again to vote.

SPEAKER_27 1:28:31

With a or with a bundle under their arm.

SPEAKER_20 1:28:34

Yeah, with the bundle under their arm, ballots to drop off. But if you don't do it locally and allow local people to see the eyeballs of the people voting and look at their ID, you're gonna run into these situations. And Washington apparently has there's probably thousands, hundreds of thousands of licenses that have been duplicated.

SPEAKER_27 1:28:53

I'll tell you what, there's enough to accomplish whatever the mission is.

SPEAKER_20 1:28:58

There's enough to flip the election for your local dog catcher, tell me that. You could probably even get a Patty Murray into the Senate if you tried for 30 years.

SPEAKER_27 1:29:08

Yeah, exactly.

Drones As The New Mass Threat

SPEAKER_20 1:29:09

Okay, this is a zero-sum game. We're entering in a world with AI, someone's got to win. Somebody had to win the game when it came to you know worldwide trade. Britain did it, United States took over. AI is the new way of trade, right? AI is gonna be integral in every major system that has a lot of data involved. And so uh uh the Palantir CEO talked about this, but before we play this video, I want to tell you guys, we're gonna jump over into subscription only, private, here in just a minute. And you mentioned earlier that sometimes you watch these newscasts, it's like you're watching an onion episode. Yeah, we're gonna watch a little clip about J.D. Pritzker when he was elected governor of Illinois that is the ultimate onion episode. You're you're you're gonna ask yourself, how is this possible? But it's going to explain so many things. Okay. So please, if you're not already a premium member, you've got a little bit of time right now to hurry up and subscribe, upgrade your subscription so you can be with us over on the private and check out this video. If you already are, stick around because you're gonna laugh really hard. So here's the Palantir CEO explaining how with AI it's a zero-sum game. And a lot of AI makers don't recognize that it's a national game, it's not a corporate game.

SPEAKER_41 1:30:19

I want to get back to something you just said, which is that, you know, that it's it's either us winning or China winning or Russia winning or another country, that it's a zero-sum game. And it feels like the people in this room in Washington really understand that AI is zero sum, but that Silicon Valley doesn't. Silicon Valley doesn't like to think in terms of zero sum. They like to think that everything is a positive sum game. So, how would you explain to the people in Silicon Valley who are again building the LLMs, you know, building um what they would say is a brand new net new technology that hasn't existed before and therefore it needs to be treated differently. What would you say to them about that?

SPEAKER_35 1:30:51

Well, I mean, there's first of all, it's it's um, by the way, I just want to push back slightly. They do think it's zero sum, they think it's zero sum versus each other. So, like they absolutely are fighting. There will be, like, you know, it's my own rhetoric, but I happen to think it's true. It's going to be chips, ontology, and I suspect in the end, one one and a half provider. So they pretend they don't think it's zero sum, but then ask them how they feel about their competitor. So it's very, very, I mean, these people are fighting very, very hard for the dominant position. So, like what they don't understand is in the world, it's zero sum. But I I actually think the primary issue in the valley is it's going to be zero sum vis-a-vis you when America decides that look, okay, I have a I I interact with a lot of political figures. I have a lot of respect. I think, and some are when politicians figure out this is the one-winning issue, it is going to be zero sum. It's going to be your money and your company being zero sum nationalized. So that's the part they don't understand. Helping people understand that, you know, either we set the rules or de facto, like I'm I'm much more I'm much more on America should be strong so that we don't have to worry about the enemies, then our enemies are weak evil kind of thing. So I'm not super neocon. It seems to be very hard in this culture, as someone who's lived abroad a lot of my life. It's very hard in this culture to explain to people that we're in a competitive environment because things here are so good, they don't understand how different it will be and how much we will change, and how much the pressure will be on America, not just legally, but militarily and culturally if we fall behind.

SPEAKER_20 1:32:33

It's that Lebanon story.

SPEAKER_27 1:32:35

So he just confirmed something to me that I've been thinking about for a couple weeks. Remember when we had uh, what was it like a week ago when Donald Trump or whoever decided that we don't want what's the AI that we're Palantir? No. Or uh uh um Claude.

SPEAKER_20 1:32:49

Uh there was another anthropic.

SPEAKER_27 1:32:51

Anthropic, Anthropic. That's the one. As soon as they announce, like, oh, we're done with them and we need some other and then I had this thought like immediately, like, what happens to us if these AIs start battling each other? Yeah. And then is that gonna suck up our resources? And like, how how would we even know? And then I started thinking about, well, maybe you could watch for electronic spikes on the network, and you know, and I start I just started thinking about this. Like, we don't know what we're doing here when it comes to AI, and then how long before these things start to infight, and then all of a sudden we're just on the sideline kind of watching this thing happen while our entire economy crumbles as these two AIs duke it out and our networks become uncontrollable.

SPEAKER_20 1:33:43

Well, that's what they say. That's one of the that's one of the arguments for decentralizing. See, there's there's the there's the tack towards centralization, which is a collectivist mindset, and there's attack towards decentralization, which is a democratic mindset. And so what they've said is you can't have one model that rules them all. You need thousands of models so that it's like individuals, they compete. Right. If you have a math, if you have a challenging problem, feed it to 5,000 of them, and maybe 10% of them will come up with the wrong answer or will lie or crazy.

SPEAKER_27 1:34:14

But what I'm saying is what if each one of these, I mean, each one of these AIs has the ability to like just sift through all information ever, right? Yeah. Well, if all of them are all sifting through all the information and fighting it out, that is gonna soak up so much energy. It's uh it's gonna be costly.

SPEAKER_20 1:34:31

It's gonna be costly, yeah. But it's a zero sum. Someone's gotta win, someone's gotta lose. All right, and that's the that's why we want America to be our values to be written into AI. It's important, right? And they go through different things because this is like apparently, you know, they bottled it after the brain and the neural networks, and we don't really know what's going on inside the black box. And you know, when they lie, we think that they're hallucinating. No, they're literally lying. They're giving you the wrong answer. That's wild, right? The other thing, too, is is they're only as good as what they learn. It's just like what I said. You're only as good as the information you have. So a lot of these are are training on publicly available data, right? Some of that publicly available data is bullshit.

SPEAKER_27 1:35:09

Yeah, I know it's like trash in, trash out.

SPEAKER_20 1:35:14

But um the other thing too is they have this weird valuation with words. So, for example, they say, Would you uh, you know, what would you allow or you know, something about a nuclear weapon if somebody is torturing someone? It was like, oh, we would definitely torture someone. And then it says, Would you misgender someone? Oh no, we'd drop the nuke. We would never misgender someone. They don't know the difference of scale of like pain, you know what I mean? Like these words have different somewhere, somewhere they've learned that torture is acceptable, but misgendering is never acceptable.

SPEAKER_27 1:35:43

Well, eventually, with you're talking with uh computers, you know, everything's binary eventually, so everything eventually is a one or a zero.

SPEAKER_20 1:35:50

Hey, hey, Ferrasier, I got a joke for you. You're gonna like this joke, okay? Who who uh invented computers? Who started uh the computer, the process? It was Jesus Christ, right? Don't computers uh it's all binary, it's ones and zeros, right? Didn't Jesus say let all your communication be yay yay or nay nay?

SPEAKER_21 1:36:13

That's perfect.

SPEAKER_20 1:36:16

Just like Al Gore inventing the internet. All right, guys, it is time for us to hold on.

SPEAKER_27 1:36:21

Check the chats.

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SPEAKER_20 1:36:22

Check the chats, check the chats. Okay, BMA, yes, peasants perspective hosts. So we have the 1776 Live and Peasants Perspective Liberty Lounge every Sunday at 5:30 p.m. So it's hosted by Lisa and I. It's absolutely wonderful. You get to get a flavor of the 1776 live community. We talk about concurrent events and it's the merger of these two communities. So please, when you see notifications go out on Sunday afternoon, we would love to have you join the Liberty Lounge. We had a couple last week. Yep. So very fun. Okay, guys, we are gonna jump over into private and we are gonna learn something hilarious about JD Pritzker's administration. It is gonna feel like an onion episode. So if you're not joining us, you should, because it's really good. Cheat code, you can always download the audio if you forget about it. All right, talk to you guys later. And the unoffendables, let's go into the private. Okay, so this is JD Pritzker, and this is a news report from Illinois back when he was elected. Ron, this is like, huh. This is one of those, like, huh. This explains so much.

SPEAKER_11 1:37:25

Illinois' incoming billionaire governor J.B. Pritzker is reaching into his own pocket to ensure his top staffers will be paid top dollar. It's the first example of Pritzker's huge wealth impacting how government functions. CBS2 political reporter Derek Blakely has more on mixing public and private pay for state workers.

SPEAKER_12 1:37:44

When former state controller Dan Hines goes to work Monday as deputy governor for J.B. Pritzker, he'll find a little something extra in his paycheck. In fact, a lot extra. Heinz State's salary of$139,000 will be doubled with another$139,000 provided directly by J.B. Pritzker out of his own pocket. That will bring Heinz total pay to$278,000 a year. Pritzker says he's taking this step to recruit the top talent of state government to best address the challenges Illinois faces. And Heinz won't be the only one to benefit. Pritzker's fellow deputy governors, Jesse Ruiz and Christian Mitchell, will also receive$278,000, half paid personally by Pritzker. Meantime, Pritzker's chief of staff, Anne Caprara, will be paid$148,000 by the state, with Pritzker adding an additional$150,000. Her total pay,$298,000. In all, some 20 high-level Pritzker employees will receive similar treatment. Pritzer, one of the heirs to the Hyatt Hotel fortune, is worth more than$3 billion. He spent$171 million on his own gubernatorial campaign. And when he takes the oath of office on Monday, Pritzker will become the richest elected official in the entire country.

SPEAKER_11 1:39:05

Interesting stuff, Derek. He joins us now from the newsroom, and you found Pritzker isn't the first politician to pay his employees out of his own pocket, right? Exactly, Rob.

SPEAKER_12 1:39:13

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, another billionaire, used a similar strategy, reaching into his own deep pockets to pay key staff members. Pritzker is also forming a private corporation called East Jackson Street LLC to pay these additional salaries. However, pensions will only be paid on the salary dished out directly by the state. Rob, back to you. Yeah, it's still a pretty sweet deal though, Derek. Thanks.

SPEAKER_20 1:39:38

So who do they work for? You know, the whole idea, you know, I work for the people, I work for the people of the state of Illinois. They pay my salary, so I'm loyal to who? The people. And JB Pritzker, who matches my state salary. Who do they really work for, Ron? Does that not buy loyalty? Is that not like the most corrupt thing you could possibly imagine? Uh doubling their salaries? Key officials in leverage positions of power are receiving compensation from the governor?

SPEAKER_27 1:40:08

I I think you even have to like tell people well.

SPEAKER_20 1:40:12

What? This is so bad.

SPEAKER_27 1:40:17

This is this is corruption. What do we do? I don't know what else to call it.

SPEAKER_20 1:40:23

What do you do here? Like so the wealthy can not just pay for their campaigns, yay. But now you've got an absolutely loyal staff that you're paying them the same as the state. You don't think you can get them to keep quiet? You don't think you can get them to shut up? You don't think you can get them to to affect policy or vote a certain way or do blackmail levers? And honestly, do you that's just his staff? You know how easy an LLC is to create? You don't think he's paying other politicians down the line? Hey, we've got a county with a really uh uh uh a board of commissioners that's acting like Republicans. Let's pay them.

SPEAKER_27 1:41:00

I thought this was supposed to make me laugh.

SPEAKER_20 1:41:02

Holy smokes. My wife did a homeschool project, uh homeschool thing for the co-op where they did a mock city council that was voting on water, a water treatment facility. Okay, and they had the pros and cons. Water treatment facility, clean water, more water, it'll be cheaper for the people. It was a no-brainer to vote for this water treatment facility to for the people. It's affordable and everything. But then what happened was all the people, the kids were that were on the council, they got their little slip of paper and it said, you know, you got to vote against it because this the company that owns the existing water supply has offered your wife a job on their board of directors at a certain salary. And another person had said, You have to vote for it because someone else has a board on, you know, has someone's gonna get paid. And so every person had a slip of paper that was why they wanted to vote a certain way, and then they had this debate and nobody knew what everybody else's uh you know uh agenda was. And then they I can't remember, but they vote down the water board, they voted it down, and then when everybody flipped over their papers and saw it, was like, oh my gosh, you know, guys, yeah, the committee other committee members who didn't realize that the person arguing again, you know what I'm saying? They were like, oh my gosh, guys, that's how it works uh-huh like in real life, in real life, and you know, JB Prisker and Blueberg are the billionaires paying, but how many politicians are sponsored by a billionaire, the key stakeholder? What if that billionaire is paying people? I mean, how many times do we see this where politicians have wives and girlfriends and cousins and brothers that are sitting on random boards, or I don't know, maybe the son of a president like Hunter Biden going and sitting on a board overseas on barisma? Is that not direct compensation to the Biden family?

SPEAKER_27 1:42:42

Or Chelsea Clinton or Chelsea Clinton or or wildly incompetent people.

SPEAKER_20 1:42:48

How about this? How about Mark Wayne Wollins, who it who attends the State of the Union with a sex offender?

SPEAKER_40 1:42:54

I'm here with Marcello getting ready for the State of the Union tonight. This is gonna be a wild speech. They say it might go three hours. So you were smart to be drinking Red Bull before. I'm gonna have a copy. There are probably gonna be a lot of lies. A lot of lies, a lot of hateful stuff that he's gonna say. That's what he does. How are you feeling about that?

SPEAKER_00 1:43:12

I wouldn't say I'm super excited. There's a lot of morals that he has that I don't agree with. Um a lot of the things that he's doing lately are separating multiple families, and I don't agree with it.

SPEAKER_20 1:43:23

Now, this is an illegal immigrant who came to the United States when he was like five, and uh he appears on a whole bunch of police reports in Maryland for sexual offense against juveniles. Two separate police reports to be specific. One involving juveniles and another citing sexual assault and juveniles. Although in Maryland, no charges were filed and records remain sealed under privacy laws. He brought a freaking alleged sex offender who's assaulting juveniles to the State of the Union. Oh, he doesn't have the morals I have. Clearly, clearly, clearly, okay. Now, you have to understand the Democrats are setting up an impeachment for Donald Trump. This is Rokana just admitting it outright.

SPEAKER_31 1:44:02

So the ultimate consequence for Trump would be impeaching him. Do you think this rises to the level of impeachment?

SPEAKER_37 1:44:08

Well, he's done so much else that I think rises to the level of impeachment. We can list that in the Bill of Goods. I am one of the people who do think if we win the House we should impeach him because there has to be accountability.

SPEAKER_20 1:44:19

Accountability. Okay. Well, hopefully we'll have some military solutions. Things go bad, because as Marco Rubio once said, we cannot allow these have to people to have power. And J.D. Vance echoed the same sentiment. If we don't win the midterms, Trump's gonna have a problem.

SPEAKER_09 1:44:34

If the Democrats do win the midterms, is Trump getting impeached again?

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SPEAKER_07 1:44:38

I'm sure he'll get impeached. Look, they have nothing to actually run on or govern on. Their entire obsessive focus of that party is they hate Donald Trump. So if they ever get power, are they gonna, you know, lower Americans' taxes? No. Are they gonna make your life more affordable? No. Are they gonna solve the crime crisis? No. What they're gonna do is they're gonna spend all their time and all of your money trying to get Donald Trump. I think it's ridiculous. I think it's ridiculous that's what they're running on. But the American people are gonna make this determination. I think the American people should vote for the people who want to make their life more affordable, who want to make their neighborhoods safer. That's what we're trying to deliver every single day.

SPEAKER_27 1:45:15

And that's what the peasant needs. Are they really gonna go after Trump? Because I mean, why? I mean, I mean, he's not gonna be running again, right?

SPEAKER_20 1:45:22

Oh, oh, they introduced a constitutional amendment to allow him to run a third time yesterday. So, no, there there's there's an anti-impeachment effort that's like, no, we're gonna give him another term.

SPEAKER_27 1:45:33

Oh, brother. So don't, yeah, there's there's that just sounds like more kabuki theater setup.

SPEAKER_20 1:45:37

I don't know, man. I don't know. Don't don't don't think that's not the case. Okay. Um, I don't, you know, yeah, don't think it's not the case. Carlit says if the midterms go bad for us, highly expect the military to get involved and prosecute the cheating. I wouldn't be surprised. I think the right people are read in on this. There's, you know, there's a reason why they're not being like, hey, we don't want to go to Venezuela. No, you got to. You're briefed in on that. You have to. Same thing with Iran. And ultimately, you've got to put China in check. China's probably not an enemy we can take on head to head, but Trump's doing a good job of neutering. Straight to where moose is closed. Yeah, neutering those boys. And he's kind of suing for peace with uh Russia. He's allowing Russia to sell oil to India right now, so there's not a supply chain shortage, which is what probably putting a smile on Russia's face. Um, there was another thing that happened yesterday that was a big deal that we didn't even touch on. It was Senator Ken Paxon and John Cornyn are heading to the runoff. And in in the podcast yesterday, we addressed this that Trump put out the post saying I'm gonna ask one of them to drop out, right, for the good of Texas. We've got to win. Well, Ken Paxson did an ultimate flipper rooie and he said, Well, I won't drop out. And then he said, But I will drop out. He put out a post, I will drop out if John Corny passes the Save America Act. So he put the pressure on John Cornyn. If he wants to keep his seat, he's gonna have to pass the Save America Act. Otherwise, he basically called their bluff.

SPEAKER_27 1:46:53

That's a good move.

SPEAKER_20 1:46:54

Yeah, very good move. So, okay, guys, thank you so much. We will talk to you again tomorrow. Don't forget Liberty Lounge on Sunday, 1776 live.us for Ignites on Thursday. And with that, don't forget to share the show, like all the fun stuff. We'll talk to you again Sunday and then Monday. Bye.

SPEAKER_05 1:47:50

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SPEAKER_36 1:48:59

Yes.

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SPEAKER_05 1:49:00

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