How Political Entertainment Turns Rumors Into Reality

If the news feels like a scripted series lately, we get why. We kick things off by breaking down how political narratives are built to be bingeable, using a clip about the Hunter Biden laptop storyline to talk about “plot-first” coverage, whataboutism, and the way partisan media turns governance into entertainment.

Then we bounce from international shakeups to the street-level problems no headline can neatly solve: UK leadership turmoil, a Colombia election framed around law and order, and the reality of fentanyl in Seattle parks as the city tries to clean up for big events. Along the way we question how the justice system, defense attorneys, and public policy can accidentally create a churn that keeps the same crisis alive.

The back half turns into a deeper “who do you trust” audit. We react to Tulsi Gabbard clips about DEI spending and workplace culture inside intelligence agencies, then pivot hard into the AI economy: token costs, enterprise subscriptions, bubble-like valuations, and why some companies may be paying more for AI usage than for humans. We also dig into Bitcoin as a hedge against debt-driven instability, and we end with a real-world data center story that raises uncomfortable questions about zoning, privacy, and surveillance in residential neighborhoods.

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Transcript

Cold Open And The Empty Chair

SPEAKER_11 0:30

Let me cake.

SPEAKER_07 0:36

Every time we turn the room, we're getting the screen. The revolution's gonna be true for the case for sure. It's gonna be it's a little guy. It's a little guys. Peasants, ma'am. We're just peasants. Every one of us. You watch those old movies, you see the peasants in the background with the kings and kings walking around. We're those people. We're those people. Good morning, peasants. Welcome to another episode of The Peasants Perspective. Made it. Stepped outside for just a moment. Came back in, and Ron's like, we're going! We're going. Well, good morning, peasants. Welcome to another. Welcome to another episode of The Peasants Perspective. We're here. We're here. I promise. Oh man, what do we have in the chats? If we had some people say hi, Ed.

SPEAKER_09 1:33

Oh, shoot. Probably.

SPEAKER_07 1:37

Carlitz. He's not even up yet. Pony Boy. Good morning. Back on top. John Attack is okay. Different start. Good morning. Different start. Did we do a different start?

SPEAKER_10 1:47

We did. What start did you do? So uh for the audience, for Taylor, I didn't tell Taylor I was gonna do that. So I didn't know I was gonna do that. So what happened was, Taylor, when you left, I um your alarm went off to start the show.

SPEAKER_08 2:06

Uh huh.

SPEAKER_10 2:06

And I thought, and I was sitting there looking at camera one, going, hmm, this would be a really uh interesting moment if I just went ahead and started the camera and showed Taylor's chair empty with his alarm going off, and I wonder what that would feel like. And I thought, oh shoot, what if this was the end of the show because Taylor was gone? And I was like, oh my gosh, people are gonna be so sad.

SPEAKER_07 2:31

Taylor's gone. Okay. So you're trying to like fake him out like that, like a Charlie Kirk type of thing? Like in the chair?

SPEAKER_09 2:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 2:40

Oh I'm playing around with my headphones here, apparently. Short these things. It's working. They work. Sometimes they're better than others. Probably ran to get his drink. Oh well.

SPEAKER_07 2:53

So we got Pony Boy, good morning. That's exactly what we're gonna start. Good morning. The empty chair. Doug Wyatt, good morning, peasants. Pony Boy probably ran to get his drink or let go of a drink, something like that. Just me underscore Pacific Northwest. Hi, everyone. Oh, glad you guys have all made it. Alright. I know why you guys show up bright and early. You're here to watch me switch my sound over. Make sure we gotta make it through the checklist. We gotta make it through the checklist. Okay, you guys are here for the simultaneous sip. All right. And what we need for the simultaneous sip is a cup or mug, or you know what? This sound thing. I can't do this if I'm not. Put these headphones in and gives it, it's like I need the feedback.

SPEAKER_08 3:36

I need it now. What's the deal? Apparently I've got.

SPEAKER_07 3:42

I'm plugged here. We're all plugged in on this. You sound great. All right, there we go. Yeah, I know I sound great. It's my microphone, my headphones have a short. All right, I know why everybody showed up. You hear showed up for the simultaneous sip. And all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or a chalice, a snine, a canteen, jug, or flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it now with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better, the simultaneous sip. And it starts right now.

How Media Manufactures A Storyline

SPEAKER_05 4:10

Enjoy about emails again. This time, emails from Joe Biden's son, Hunter. So let's take a look at how a storyline is manufactured. In this case, a loudly anti-Biden storyline, redounding to Trump's benefit. First, it helps to really view this as storytelling, not so much as news coverage, but as political entertainment, where crushing the other party is entertaining.

SPEAKER_07 4:35

Fox News. What I love about this news is it's such revelation of the method.

SPEAKER_05 4:40

The beating red heart of the right-wing media machine molds reality into a serialized TV drama. That's how Box recently put it. Think Lost for 24. Think Game of Thrones or Breaking Bad. Think Westworld or The Wire. Every day, every night, there are what appear to be new developments in this entertainment drama, some new twist to keep you watching. A new storyline was introduced right on time. There it is, the New York Post front page announcing Biden's secret emails. More shadiness involving Hunter Biden. As political entertainment goes, this is not a brand new TV show. It's just a new season of the show. Hunter Biden's business dealings in Ukraine were a key part of the plot last season in the impeachment of President. Hunter has already apologized. Well, he's already admitted to poor judgment and swampy behavior. Is this real? His father has said that it will not happen again. And at this point, most people have moved on. But Trump needs a closing argument. So he and his media allies usually rely on whataboutism. Right? So you ask about the Trump family's swampiness and they say, What about Hunter Biden? You raise Trump's legal exposure and they say, What about Obamagate? You might say, or liberal critics say, Trump is compromised, and they say, no, Biden's compromised. Whataboutism is like a glue that holds the base together. It also supplies hours and hours of TV drama. So stay mad and stay tuned. That's what it's really about. Let's get back to the new season storyline. Let's break down how this all happened. Because it was launched, as I showed you, by the New York Post, and then promoted by another Murdoch media property. That, of course, is Fox News. You worry about Trump's corruption, and Fox says, what about Biden? Every hour of the day. So Fox is a producer of this serialized drama, but there are big questions about who might have created this show. And that's what's probably most important here. CNN reported on Friday that US authorities are seeing if those emails we just talked about are connected to an ongoing Russian disinformation effort. Now we already know some of the American producers of this drama because the New York Post says it was tipped off to the existence of the emails by Steve Bannon. Steve Bannon. Then Rudy Giuliani gave the post a copy of a hard drive containing the emails. Now here's where it gets even weirder. The post claimed that the emails were found on a laptop computer that was brought to a repair shop in Delaware in the spring of 2019. And a shop employee saw the emails and then was worried about getting in trouble or getting in danger. And he made copies of them. There's a lot about this story that does not add up. And the employee has not helped matters. He has contradicted himself in interviews with reporters. And for all we know, these emails are made up, or maybe some are real and others are fakes. We don't know. But we do know that this is a classic example of the right-wing media machine. A tip from Bannon and a hard drive dump from Rudy led a former producer for Sean Hannity show to write a story for the New York Post that gets splashed on the front page that Rudy then used to trash the Bidens all over Fox, and they're doing it almost every hour of the day. And Trump has been hyping the drama for days on end, and this is how it goes on and on. Now let's ha dude.

SPEAKER_07 8:06

That was a very long sip. But dude, I saw that clip, this flashblack from Brian Stelter, right? The Fox News is just making up the narrative. Now, there is some truth to that, the way that they narrative and storytelling. Oh yeah. But don't tell me CNN doesn't do the same thing. Oh I mean, holy cow, we have the undercover footage of Project Bear Toss. Uh, after COVID's over, the next thing's gonna be climate change. Like totally pre-planning the news events. What I love about that is it like it totally discredits real thing. Oh, this is just another play in the plot. Oh, yeah. Blame the Bidens again. Blame the Bidens for what Trump did. What a hilarious thing. I had I did I didn't know where else to fit that in the show. And I was like, this has got to be heard, right? This is like mockingbird media 101 kind of stuff. Bray the Rosary Daily, good morning. Glad

UK Resignation And Colombia’s Crackdown Talk

SPEAKER_07 8:56

you made it. Big news out of the UK this morning. Big, big news. So Keir Starmer, this guy has weathered more scandals than any other prime minister I can think of. Let's see, he's weathered uh Epstein releases, which took out members of his cabinet. He's got the UK rape gang scandal. He had the Harry Novick scandal that came in on top of him. Just recently had the stabbing. What else? What else did we have? Uh his failure to meet his NATO agreements and help the United States and Iran. Uh what was the other? There was another one recently that was another big one that he just went through. Oh, this the the election where they lost all the seats in all the lower level, you know, like like what we would call our city councils and town councils, where they lost all the seats. Well, officially this morning, Keir Starber's out.

SPEAKER_04 9:45

Every decision I've taken has been about putting the country I love first. That is why I will resign as leader of the Labour Party. I have spoken to his Majesty the King this morning to inform him of my decision. I will ask the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party to set out a timetable with nominations opening on the 9th of July and completed by the summer recess. He's out.

SPEAKER_07 10:16

So he has officially resigned. He's out in September. He's gonna stick around for the election. I'm sure so that they can, you know, put their finger on a few scales here or there. But uh that's that's pretty interesting. I mean, another one bites the dust, man. It's been like one after another. England has had seven prime ministers in ten years. Oh, wow, that's pretty rough. Pretty rough. Seven prime ministers in ten years. Oh, yeah. In other international news, as far as world leaders go, down in Colombia, we had a huge break. Trump endorsed right-wing Colombian president, candidate Alberto de la Esprella stuns the world and wins the presidential election. He plans to go full Bukele mode, locking up criminals in mass, destroying the cartels, and cooperate with President Trump significantly better than the current leader. Under my government, any bandit who resists will be eliminated as appropriate. And if he submits, we will imprison him in a mega prison so he can pay his debt to justice as they should. The only peace process I believe in is imposed by the force of arms and the laws of the republic. Massive win in Latin America. So this is another one of those big ones here. Donald Trump said, Colombian President El Tigre, the tiger, Alberto de la Esprella, is a smart, strong, tough leader who fights tirelessly for us and loves his country and the people, just like I do for the United States of America. As President Alberto, Alberto Belarado, ooh, I'm probably saying it wrong, we'll all will be tremendously successful in leading Colombia to grow the economic economy, jobs, create jobs, promote trade, stop illegal immigration, crack down on crime and drugs, and restore law and order. He is running against a radical left Marxist in the runoff on Sunday, June 21st. Already happened. The result of this election is very important for the future of Colombia and its relationship with the United States, which, if Alvarado wins, and because of his competence and love as his country, will have the sole total support and strength of the United States behind him. Because of his tremendous accomplishments in life and his political support for me, it is my honor to give him my complete and total endorsement. Get out and vote for El Tigre. He will not let the wonderful people of Colombia down. It will rise to a new height of greatness, President Donald J. Trump. So I saw a little chart the other day. Shantini, good morning, peasants. Glad you made it. I saw a chart the other day down in South America. The communists have lost four countries since they got rid of USAID. USAID. So I think it's a combination of things. I think it's a combination of taking over Venezuela, dealing with Venezuela, and cutting off of the funds, USAID. It sounds to me like there's a little red wave in South America happening. That's pretty interesting. That's

Carville Vs Vance On Trump

SPEAKER_07 13:02

pretty interesting. Do you remember? Do you know who Joe Carville is? Uh yeah. Joe Carvel. Yeah, bald dude. He's a Louisiana guy, always wearing like Louisiana Tiger styles. He's got a good little accent. New Orleans. Yeah, he's got the Louisiana accent. So this guy is a he is a Roger Stone type character. He's a political operative. He's been around forever. He was a huge person in the not Obama, but in the uh Clinton orbit, right? He was a huge political consultant. Well, he's kind of aging out, and the TDS infection has gone absolutely metastasized. It's into his kidneys, his brain, his liver, it's everywhere. And I want to I want to contrast the way he talks about Donald Trump and the way JD Vance talks about Donald Trump. This is pretty interesting. So here's James Carville, who's absolutely certain that Trump's gonna be out by April. Six weeks.

SPEAKER_16 13:54

No one's gonna doubt me when I tell you he's gonna be gone by April of next year. He's the fat bastard is just falling all over himself. Don't know where he is. He can't get out of a chair. Go look at the approval ratings. Look at there's a new look at a new poll coming out in the Wall Street Journal. Oh my god, never seen anything so devastating in my life. You're on a burning ship. Unpleasant might think that you gotta jump in the cold seat. That's your only shot, dude. Jump in the cold seat, leak, get cutouts, get burner phones.

SPEAKER_07 14:36

He's telling members of the cabinet, it's a burning ship. He's going down, he's going down. A guy can't even get out of his chair. Get your burner phones now, start leaking. Oh my goodness. That this is one of those things where it's like, do these guys see the same president we see? Right? Do they see the same president we see? And I think Jamie Vance spins it best. We started out with Brian Stelter talking about how Fox News builds the narrative, right? It's WWE. And while there's a little bit of truth to that, that is not something that CNN or MS now is not trying to do every single day as well. They're trying to narrative build, right? Well, you've got James Carville out there who's completely running with this idea that Trump's dementia ridden, his health is failing. Basically, all the things that we watched Joe Biden have happened to him for four years, are now happening to Trump. Well, JD Vance, who probably spends more time with Trump than most other politicians, I mean, maybe only his like Susie Wiles spends more time with him than J.D. Vance. Listen to J.D. Vance talk about Donald Trump.

SPEAKER_13 15:38

People would say that he was dumb or that he wasn't very smart. He's super smart. Like he reads a lot, he understands people at an instinctual level better than anybody that I've ever known. From a pure IQ perspective, he's a very smart person. If you give Donald Trump an IQ test with the other 45, 46 presidents that the United States has had, I guarantee he'd be either near the top or at the top. And the entire American media in 2016 had convinced me at least that he was not a smart person.

SPEAKER_07 16:12

And I think that's it. The media has convinced most of the country that Donald Trump is not a smart person. Well, the media's convinced us of a lot of things that are not true. Media has convinced us of a lot of a lot of things. I just find that I find it kind of interesting, right? Like when it comes to Donald Trump, Donald Trump really won me over in 2016. I just looked at him as not Hillary Clinton. That that was my entire voting, you know, decision. He is not Hillary Clinton, so I'm gonna vote for him. And he won me over. I mean, the way he ran his first term, the way he fought for certain things like building the wall and just went around the bureaucracy. Fine, we'll take it out of the military budget. Billion dollars. What's that to the Pentagon? You know, it's a couple tomahawks. Like, like I thought that was really incredible the way he did that. And obviously, you guys know the story. I got a little bit too involved in showing up to help him on January 6th, and it worked out a little rough for me. But nonetheless, like he's proven to be just incredibly intelligent. Every time they think they have Donald Trump backed up to a corner, they don't. They totally fail. And I think a lot of it has to do with just this root corruption that happens inside the government. A lot of politicians get completely comfortable with the corruption, and it starts to reflect on them. And the only way that they can survive certain scandals is to get on board with the narrative, right? To get on board with whatever, whatever the story is, the media will continue to prop you up and look up, look, turn a blind eye to your culpability. Trump doesn't really play that game, right? He's not, he doesn't owe the government anything. He hasn't been in government, he's only ever been the president. He doesn't, you know what I mean? He comes in right on top, he's got the president seat. He doesn't have a path to get to presidency where he, you know, kissed too many babies and shook too many hands and cut some deals a senator or house or some cabinet secretary somewhere. And so we kind of get a much more when he's the president, we get a lot more transparency around our country into what's really happening.

Seattle World Cup And Park Fentanyl Arrests

SPEAKER_07 18:15

Over in Seattle, right? What's happening at what's actually happening in Seattle? So we've had the World Cup descend upon the area. Have you seen some of the tourists around here? Not really. I haven't seen any either myself. Although I did go to Costco yesterday and I was blown away at the number of Asians that were there.

SPEAKER_10 18:32

Oh, you know, I did notice that. Did you not?

SPEAKER_07 18:35

There's something happened. Like that, like, you know, we have a diverse community, but not that diverse. So I wonder if a lot of them are here uh like as tourists to watch the World Cup.

SPEAKER_10 18:48

Yeah, because we are tech adjacent, so you would think there'd be a higher percentage, but there's not. Yeah, there's not. But anyways, that was yeah, I was at Costco.

SPEAKER_07 18:57

I was like, what happened? I was like, this is weird. So I can only assume it's the tourists that have kind of descended on the area, and I think it's a lot more happening over in Seattle. And so obviously, leading up to the World Cup, there was a real push by the city of Seattle to try to clean up the streets. We know for a fact they were relocating some of the homeless people across the Puget Sound. Yeah, exactly. Well, over on North Beacon Hill, there was remember that clip we put we played a couple uh it was about a week and a half, two weeks ago, with Brandy Cruz walking through the park showing the open-air drug use and the solicitation, just as they walked on the trail.

SPEAKER_10 19:34

I don't remember the specific instance, but I remember seeing a bunch of clips like that.

SPEAKER_07 19:38

Yes. Well, apparently they're getting pretty serious out in the park. They've had a couple fentanyl close scares out there. So the cops made it out there.

SPEAKER_24 19:48

North Beacon Hill, Lewis Park has hundreds of people. We had three guys, lights out, hit the Fetty pretty heavy. They were in possession of it, we're in a park. We are witnessing here Mayor Wilson's 90-day plan in action. This is an arrest happening. We've got multiple officers here, including a sergeant. One of the officers told me that it's the defense attorneys that are actually letting all these guys off and trying to get them out of direct court and out of having to go to jail and out of going to treatment. So, to the defense attorneys, if this was your kid, would you want him in jail or treatment or try to talk him out of coming back out here and overdosing on drugs, having to pimp, traffic, steal, thieves, siphon gas, flip their gas card. This is out of control. We need to get the fentanyl out of the parks. And three men were doubled over. It's Friday. It's paying strong bat came into town. Everybody's just out of it. It's hot. Been pushed into the park. Officer Nicole came up and asked me to stay involved and be a part of the community outreach, which we will, of course, do. Sergeant also came up to me, asked me to stick around. Seattle Police Department wants to work with We Heart Seattle. So we are in. We will help in any way we can. I was just out here. I'm gonna, I told these guys right now, I'll take these guys to treatment. This is amazing. And we help those gentlemen get the help they need.

SPEAKER_07 21:08

That is a north beacon. We arrested three users. How great is that? Woo! No, but seriously, like any any kind of effort in this way, the cops show up and they start taking some people out of there. It's a good thing.

SPEAKER_10 21:20

Yeah, sure. It feels like you know, it's different than the normal dude, nothing.

SPEAKER_07 21:24

Yeah, it feels like you're taking one scoop out of the mountain, you know, to like fix the problem. But it's pretty significant that they're doing something. They did say something really interesting there. They said it's the defense attorneys that are getting these people cycled right out real quick. I thought we already knew that. Well, yeah, I mean, that's what defense attorneys do, right? A good defense attorney is going to work on behalf of his client. Sure. But we have a funny system here in America, right? So we have the public defender's office, which is a part of the court, right? All attorneys are ultimately officers of the court. You have the public defender's office, and they're still part of the government, right? They again. Give you an attorney because you have a constitutional right to one. And they've we've kind of set the system up where it's geared to to dissuade anybody from quote unquote representing themselves. Not that these particular people have any capacity to represent themselves. You know what I mean? But at the same time, what we're seeing here is the system basically is self-defeating, right? There's something in the system here that is self-defeating. So you've got drugs on the street, the people get arrested. It's mostly petty crimes, stuff that wouldn't result in a huge long jail sentence, but would likely result in enough time in jail that they would get sober, which at least puts them back into the right mental space to make a choice.

SPEAKER_10 22:42

These public attorneys, what they do is they shepherd the system along the way to ensure that the policies that are in place are enacted.

SPEAKER_07 22:51

Yeah. Are you talking about all the soft on crime policies? Yeah. Exactly. Yes. They they kind of shepherd through that. Yes. But what we what we find, and this is something that as peasants, we struggle with, because we really want the police officers to do their jobs. We want the system, the government, which is a direct reflection of the constitution of the people, right? We want it to produce law and order. We want it to follow common sense guidelines. Like, hey, don't sell the drugs if you're the government, right? Like, hey, if you arrest somebody because of one of whatever violation of law they're found with in that North Beacon Hill Park, you want to see that you want to see the law see it take its course. You want to see the whole process play out. You want to see the person get sober by spending, you know, 30 days in the tank or something like that. That kind of stuff, right? You just want to see it work. But more and more, as we drill down into the system, we learn things about our government that we wish we would have never learned.

FBI Dark Web Market And Fentanyl

SPEAKER_07 23:47

I saw a little clip this weekend. It was it was put out by Ken Silva at JD underscore cashless. And it the post says this CHS, that's confidential human source, backed by his FBI handlers, encouraged the sell of fentanyl on a on a website called Incognito. So what this is, this website incognito is one of these fake dark websites. So it's like a Craigslist for the dark web, so to speak. Okay. Well, apparently, this Ig Tognito, which is this dark web marketplace, I think they tried to recreate the Silk Road concept, except it's under government control. So it's a giant honey trap. So what happened was the FBI secretly controlled a staffer who was running this website, this dark web drug market, and he did that did a hundred million dollars in sales. So this website's not some little you know website doing 50 grand in annual sales. This is a hundred million dollars. This is pretty significant. It's quite a bit. The informant allegedly approved the sale of drugs even after warnings they contain fentanyl, fentanyl, including dealers whose pills led to a confirmed overdose. So we're here we have the FBI running through a confidential human source, a dark web website that is an that is an online drug market. And they know that the fentanyl sold through this drug market that they're sponsoring has led to a death, and they still encourage it to go on, despite this staffer's desire not to do that. So this is what it said. Against Mr. Lynn, this is the this is uh one of the people there wishes the FBI through this confidential human source facilitates the sale of fentanyl on incognito. The CHS, backed by his FBI handlers, encouraged the sell of fentanyl in incognito. Within months of joining incognito, CHS tried to lift incognito's ban on fentanyl cells. So they had a ban on fentanyl cells on this website, and the confidential human source tried to lift the ban. In a conversation with Mr. Lynn, Mr. Lin is the one being prosecuted, on July 19th, 2022, the CHS argued that the permitting fentanyl to be sold on incognito was more consistent with the dark web's quote, energy of free markets, allowing people to put whatever they want into their bodies. It's their choice. Mr. Lin demurred. He ultimately agreed to let users vote on whether to permit fentanyl, but that he advised the CHS he would code the poll so that no matter how users voted, fentanyl would remain banned.

SPEAKER_09 26:23

Hold on, there's so many crossovers here. Can we code some uh Trump votes?

SPEAKER_07 26:30

Yeah, exactly. So here you've got the government, the FBI, through a CHS telling this proprietor of this website who does not want to sell fentanyl on the website that you need to do it. He's like, Well, we'll put a poll out to like make it seem like everybody gets a voice, but I'm gonna rig the poll to make sure that we keep fentanyl banned. And they're like, Oh no, you're not doing that, and they still allowed it to be selled on the website. Again, we get into the layers of this, and it's like, okay, so I don't know if any of these sales made it to North Beacon Hill, right? But it just kind of goes to show like the whole Barry Seal scandal with cocaine being brought into the United States. The guy was a CIA operative, the CIA is bringing the drugs, you've got the Seattle PD fighting the drugs, you've got the defense attorneys letting the users out. This is like a military-industrial complex around drugs, drug use, drug dealing, websites, the judicial system. It all ties in. It's just this cancer of you don't even know who the real criminals are.

SPEAKER_10 27:33

I'm discovering what the drug war, the war on drugs, is just the war on the competition.

SPEAKER_07 27:39

That's just it. Now that we're taking out all these cartel leaders in Mexico and Venezuela and Colombia, we're coming. Like someone's gotta provide the crack cocaine.

SPEAKER_09 27:49

This is a hard corner, bitch.

SPEAKER_07 27:54

Only the CIA sells in the USA, baby.

SPEAKER_09 27:58

Let me flip some gigs.

SPEAKER_07 28:00

FBI's the low-lever dealers, CIA just gets it across the border. Oh my goodness. And the cancer goes really deep,

DEI Slush Funds And Intel Agency Culture

SPEAKER_07 28:08

right? Even when we get into things like gender dysphoria issues and stuff like that. So uh uh Tulsi Gabbard was on the Megan Keller show, Megan Kelly show. And there's two clips that I want to share with you here. And this again, I'm just it's a peek behind the curtain. I'm not trying to put too many things together, connect too many dots. It just goes with the general theme. You can't trust the government, right? When it comes to the people, it's innocent until proven guilty. Well, some of these dots connect themselves. Yeah, when it comes to the government, it's guilty till proven innocent. Here's Tulsi Gabbard talking about how the CIA had a had a special corner of the CIA for sexual deviance and gender reassignment money, slush fuck.

SPEAKER_02 28:53

Oh boy. But the thing that we just announced today, in fact, was the closure of this uh office of human capital. Completely different part of the organization. Uh, and one that sounds like, okay, well, maybe this is like talent management. You're trying to go out and see, well, where's the best talent and where are the gaps we need to fill, which is what I thought. Uh, but it turns out that it was an office where the previous administration kind of hid a bunch of their DEI people, knowing that this action was going to be taken by President Trump, and there was a a a slush fund there that they would use to fund people millions of dollars to go to DEI conferences and talk to other DEI people. Uh, and so we shut that down at a savings of $150 million today. The thing that I think a lot of people would be surprised by when people talk about DEI and you hear, you know, whether it's CNN, MSNBC, they talk about DEI and they criticize the president for his actions and the actions that we are all taking to get rid of this, claiming that we're against diversity and all of this other crap.

SPEAKER_07 29:57

When I came in here, I was able to talk about she was able to basically what they were doing was they were funding different members of the government that were like these D, whether they were transgender or they were just these DEI specialists. And that is what created this zeitgeist, right? They it's just like the Southern Poverty Law Center funding their own Ku Klux Klan members. Yeah, these DEI people are the ones that were going out. It was being funded by the CIA. It didn't exist in a vacuum. 150 million per day. Is that what it said per day? Per day. Where did I miss that? I thought it was 150 million. Just play the whole clip again.

SPEAKER_02 30:35

150 million one one that sounds like, okay, well, maybe this is like talent management. You're trying to go out and see, well, where's the best talent and where are the gaps we need to fill, which is what I thought. Uh, but it turns out that it was an office where the previous administration kind of hid a bunch of their DEI people, knowing that this action was going to be taken by President Trump. And there was a slush fund there that they would use to fund people millions of dollars to go to DEI conferences and talk to other DEI people. Uh, and so we shut that down at a savings of $150 million today.

SPEAKER_10 31:13

Oh, today. Today. I'm sorry. Today. Oh my gosh. Well, that's that's why maybe somebody on here heard me go, oh, I thought it was per day.

SPEAKER_07 31:22

Oh my goodness, per day. That's amazing. But no, today. 250 million. That's not that's not a small amount of money. I mean, you get a couple hundred people that are committed to the cause that are going to go out and spread the doctrine of DEI. That's enough. That's enough to spread the seeds all over the place. Again, some of this stuff didn't start in a vacuum. Drugs, drugs are hard to get north, right? If you're trying to smuggle some Colombian bam bam into the United States of America, it's not an easy task. You've got multiple borders you have to cross, like you have to corrupt some people at some border crossings and things like that. Well, in some countries, it's also like the death penalty. Yes, it's not an easy task. And so obviously, for it to be happening at the scale it happens, there has to be some type of institutional buy-in. When we talk about DEI, this is wildly unpopular. Wild 80, 85 in North Kitts, epic, quote unquote, hard blue part of the county, 85% is opposed to girls or boys using girls' bathrooms under the guise of transgenderism. Most people are extremely uncomfortable with a lot of what DEI pushes, right? I mean, it's not just like, hey, don't make fun of people. Hey, don't mention someone's skin color. Hey, don't talk about someone's sexual orientation in a derogatory manner. Okay, check, check, check. Let's live the Martin Luther King life, right? But we're we're to the point with DEI where it's like, hey, take your kids to the drag queen story hour. Hey, give them a couple singles so they can learn how to pay the stripper. You know what I mean? Like we've we the books that they have in schools are this is straight up borderline pornography. It's porn. It's porn. Yeah, it's absolutely horrible. And where is it coming from? Where's it coming from? Where's the natural spring where this stuff is popping up? And it's like, it's not because normal people who have children and put them into school, even if you're a freak, right? By the time you have kids, it kind of mellows you out, and you're like, hey, you know, maybe and don't want to pass on some of this behavior. And it's it was universally accepted in our culture in America that there were certain things that kids were too young for. You wanted to preserve their innocence.

SPEAKER_10 33:37

And you hear it all the time like, Well, I used to be liberal and then I had kids.

SPEAKER_07 33:41

And then I had kids. All of a sudden, I used to be liberal and then I had kids. Exactly. And so there's a there's a desire to protect that. Where is it coming from that we see the most the most uh degrading parts of our society being mirrored into the classroom? Well, obviously the CIA is peeing paying some DEI people to go spread that nonsense all over the place. And where does that come from? Well, the the intelligence agency itself sounds like it's kind of um the word that keeps coming to my head here is degeneracy, uh right, source of degeneracy. Here's Tulsi Gabbard and Megan Kelly talking more about what Tulsi Gabbard found when she went into the ODNI.

SPEAKER_03 34:23

Wasn't there a group? Which Intel agency was it that had the people talking about transgender surgeries and non-binary this and there's a national security agency. Yeah, there's sex groups, polyamory. Yeah, I mean, on and on.

SPEAKER_02 34:37

This is this is a great example. So so there was a uh uh uh someone who snuck into that chat um that was not a part of that was not an employee there, and they screenshotted what they saw and leaked it out on X. Uh, and again, this is a chat group that was created and administered by the NSA, one of the premier intelligence collection uh entities that we have. And uh it it was obscene. It was obscene, yes, it was about all of those things. It was talking about sex toys and sex tricks for people who had gone through uh you know some kind of transgender surgery or during the workday. This is this is during the workday on an intelligence-hosted work group, uh, and the supervisors, obviously, as soon as I found out about it, I said anybody who's involved with this is getting fired and getting their security clearance revoked. Uh, which which there were some movies like, oh gosh, aren't you? Like, that seems extreme. Like, no. Imagine you're in any office and you're having these kinds of sexually explicit conversations in the workplace. It is how I don't care what your sexual orientation or whatever your private choices are, this cannot be happening in the workplace, and it must not be happening in our premier intelligence uh agency that has people who have the highest clearances uh that that anyone can hold. Wow, the the plot thicket.

SPEAKER_07 36:07

Now, I always thought our intelligence agencies were to go try to find al-Qaeda or try to find that Russian terrorist that's about to let off a dirty bomb in New York City or something like that. I didn't realize that our intelligence agencies that the people gravitated there because of the secrecy. Right. I mean, I I assumed they were secret because they were dealing with top secret classified information. Turns out they were using these government servers and devices to have the most degenerate sex talk that you can imagine. And had it not been for someone infiltrating that group and taking screenshots, we wouldn't know. So you've got deep degeneracy in the intelligence agencies, which then create a $150 million slush fund and an entire division of employees that are entirely focused on DEI, which at the end of the day, by your fruit, you shall know them. What is the result of DEI? Mainly degeneracy and increased, increased, uh increased awareness and promulgation of racism itself in the guise of anti-racism, right? It is like again, we pull back the curtains a little bit, and what do we see in our government? Something we don't really want to mimic. Carl Leeds finally jumped in. Good morning, y'all. Got a message from Carl Leetz earlier. Big closing today. He's buying a house. Very exciting, very exciting. So, you know, why do I share that stuff with you guys? It's just to show, as peasants, you can't trust these guys. You can't trust these guys. Despite how much we do like Donald Trump, I personally like him. Thank you for my freedom, right? And despite how we do have some celebrity politicians that we do love. I mean, Pete Hexeth seems to be doing, he's really, you know, banging it around over there at the Department of War. We love these guys. At the end of the day, until we see the institutions really be cored out and we see this stuff really rooted out, root in stem and removed, and we see the disclosure of it, we're going to see more of this, right? You've got a group of intelligence officials that are mired up in degenerate talk on a chat room, getting money to go promote sexual deviancy all around the country. And you wonder why they were more than willing to cover up the COVID nonsense and get on board with that.

SPEAKER_10 38:24

The gaslighting will continue until morale improves.

SPEAKER_07 38:26

The gaslighting will continue until morale improves. Or you wonder why 51 intelligence officers were willing to sign on a on a paper that said that the Hunter Biden laptop has all the signs of Russian uh, you know, display. Does it also have the sign of uh prostitution and child sex crimes and embezzlement? You know what I mean? Like it sounds like degeneracy. It sounds like he might have an office space over there at the at the deep state intelligence offices. So very interesting. I can see why members of the quote unquote uniparty, whatever that means, that are that are have become the deep state, has become their benefactor, right?

Uniparty Benefactors And Ballot Weirdness

SPEAKER_07 39:07

When you go look and you study the history of Rome, I love the podcast. I can't remember his name, but it's called the History of Rome. It's a ginormous podcast, it's a hundred-plus hour-long series. But he goes through the history of the Rome, and one of the things he talks about at one point, he kind of describes the political culture in Rome in a certain time period, and he talks about how there's these benefactors, right? You've got the bomberos. Who are the bomberos? They were the firefighters, the fire department of the day. Well, the fire department, you know, Rome didn't have quote unquote civic services. What it was was the senators collectively made up the government. Are you talking about Dan Carlin? No, it wasn't Dan Carlin. It's uh I can't remember his name. Sorry, it's not not Dan Carlin. But, anyways, the senators kind of made up the uh social, like what we would consider social safety net types things and public services, like the fire department, the police department. These were typically, depending on what neighborhood you were in, you had a senator, and in that neighborhood, he owned most of the businesses and he owned a lot of the land and collected a lot of the rents. And so he would hire people to be the bomberos, to be the fire department. Okay, and if a fire broke out somewhere in his area, these guys would show up with their buckets and they'd start hauling slop out of the sewers and throwing it on the house to put the fire out. They were the firemen. Well, if you were on the wrong side of the senator, guess what? Firemen wouldn't show up at your place. Okay, right. And so what started to happen was different parts of the city and different parts of the economy had a benefactor. And it didn't just stretch to like the firemen. It was like if you were a shore worker and you were collecting stuff off the boats, right? Then you were you were a dock worker and you had a benefactor. There was some senator that had the sweet deal that paid the, you know, whatever, and he was your benefactor. And you always had to kind of keep him happy. That's what I feel like with the Uniparty is they've got benefactors. Somewhere along the line, you've got some deep state help. Either an election got rigged for you, some ballots got tossed into a trunk, and we just need to make sure you never enforce drug laws in XYZ area, or we need to make sure you never vote for this bill. You know, let the other senators talk it up or whatever, but we need you to we need you to carry some water for all this pork. We need you to carry the water for all this pork. And I, you know, when I think about someone like uh John McCain, guy campaigned on overturning Obamacare, and yet he comes out and gives the thumbs down on overturning Obamacare. That's the kind of thing where a benefactor makes a phone call and he says, All right, good job. Unfortunately, we got to this point. You're the last man, give me the thumbs down. Does that make sense? And unfortunately, as we've seen here, you've got sexual degeneracy, you've got drugs. Government's clearly involved in that at its genesis, right? Where it's starting. Without the government, no fentanyl on incognito, without the government, no cocaine making it across the border, circa Barry Seals scandal, right? Without the government, a lot of these the 20 million people that came into our country over the last four years isn't gonna happen. And I would venture to say that all those things tie together in elections. Here's another throwback, throwback thing. This is back when there was the referendum over Gavin Newsom, you know, no longer being the governor of California. The people of California have tried to throw him out of office. But yet, back when that referendum happened, there was this mysterious case that we could have said probably repeated itself to the people that didn't get caught of a gentleman who was found sleeping outside of a 7 Eleven with ballots in his car.

SPEAKER_23 42:44

Meanwhile, an investigation is underway after hundreds of recall ballots are found in the back of a man's car.

SPEAKER_22 42:50

Mail and ballots for the governor's recall race were found inside a car, parked at this torn 7-Eleven, with a man sleeping inside of it.

SPEAKER_20 42:58

So that's kind of the part where we're at now with this investigation. Is everyone wants to know two questions? Why were the ballots in his vehicle? What was his intent with those ballots? And that's what we're trying to figure out.

SPEAKER_22 43:09

It was an employee at the convenience store on Emerald Street near Hawthorne Boulevard that alerted police last Monday around 1045 p.m. about the man sleeping in his driver's seat. And stolen ballots weren't all police found inside the car. There was Zanax, a gun, meth, and other mail.

SPEAKER_20 43:27

He was arrested on several charges related to possession of the firearm, the narcotics, uh, the uh theft of identity theft, as well as receiving stolen property and some other charges as well.

SPEAKER_22 43:38

Several agencies, including Torrance Police, the U.S. Postal Service, and the LA County District Attorney's Office, are now investigating how these stolen ballots ended up inside a convicted felon's back seat. Police say most of the ballots were for Lawndale residents and a few for Compton.

SPEAKER_20 43:56

We have been working with the registrar's office to get them a list of all those. Uh names that were on those ballots so they can be notified and then new ballots can be resent to them in time.

SPEAKER_22 44:06

The election to recall of Governor Gavinuism is set for September 14th.

SPEAKER_07 44:12

I wonder how he got the ballots. I was set up, man. Set up, man. My drug dealer gave me these ballots to deliver to Squeaky down the road. It's all the same thing. It all ties in together. Right? It all ties in together. You've got again. I get so fr sometimes. I get so frustrated with the show. Why can't we just hit these great clips? But when you peel the peel the layers back a little bit, it's like, I don't like what I'm seeing here. Why isn't Trump acting fast enough? Look what he's up against, man.

SPEAKER_10 44:44

He's gonna there's sharks everywhere.

SPEAKER_07 44:46

There's sharks everywhere. You don't have no idea. You got you got the drug dealer with the meth that's also hustling ballots. You know what I mean? Like this is this is stunning. Oh man. And you know, you wonder why they took it from Spencer Pratt. He's gonna get rid of all the ballot harvesters, the meth heads out there, and he'll get rid of the drug dealers, and that means that the FBI's gonna get caught. It just is wild.

Why Socialism Feels Normalized Now

SPEAKER_07 45:11

Unfortunately, in America, we have a problem, right? We have the rise of the socialists, and this is one of the things I worry about. It's my working premise. So this is my narrative, my made-up fiction here. This is this is the the map that I'm working off of. The the idea for me is that the communists, the worldwide communist, right, the whole world politically can really be described as an eternal struggle between individualists and collectivists, right? You could go into the Bible, you could go into ancient Roman history, and you're gonna see the same theme. It's individualists who typically support things like capitalism, natural law, family, etc. etc.

SPEAKER_10 45:55

Self-reliance freedom.

SPEAKER_07 45:57

Self-reliance freedom. These themes are very common in the individualist political ideologies, and then you have collectivist ideologies, these will show up in the form of corporatism, socialism, communism, uh fascism, uh, religious theocracies. Anytime you're asked to sacrifice a view, the individual self, on behalf of the collective, the people, your comrades, the state, the church, the whatever, you've you've kind of crossed that line. And it really wraps itself because you'll have individualists, and then we have one thing that we're collectivists, military. We're collectivists for military. And so it kind of creates it, it's a tension back and forth. The United States, for the most part, broke that tension for almost a hundred years. It became about you, the individual, right? America was a land of freedom, a land of opportunity, and you had to take that opportunity. It was never going to be given to you. And all of our stories and myths and legends, from Paul Bunyan to Annie Oakley to Johnny Appleseed, Johnny Appleseed, Jim Bridger, all of our frontiersman heroes, they all have that same pick yourself up by the bootstraps, young man, head west, find your way in life, find your purpose, kind of thing. We've we've since had a much uh we've since had infiltration of collectivists into the government. And you know, we can go into great detail. You might not even call them collectivists, you might just call them hardcore communists, right? Trotskyites or Leninists or Marxists or whatever. But either way, it's my belief that on a whole, on a whole, the collectivists oftentimes will cheat. They're cheaters, right? They understand that to control the masses, because they're interested in the collective, they're interested in the masses. The individual thinks about his personal logic. He thinks about the carrots and sticks of his life. Well, and it has to stand up. A human nature has to work, it has to stand up. The collectivists oftentimes have this big, a much bigger universal view of things. And so what happens is when the collectivists start cheating, you know, just a couple ballots in some guy's trunk. It's just one election here, one election there. Eventually they start to pick off some of these levers of power, and pretty soon they start to design the system itself where they can cheat in the open and nobody can do anything about it. Like in California, ballots showing up for weeks after the election day. It's like right in the open and nobody can do anything about it. So I'm a little bit concerned that in the United States, that the socialists have gotten more and more popularity. And what happens is as the socialists become more and more popular in the general zeitgeist, they can cheat more and more aggressively because the plausible believability that they are they are presenting the viable candidates and the viable political solutions, solutions increases. And I don't think that we ever are ever like, you know, there's a lot of people that genuinely believe the United States is 60 to 70 percent conservative, Trump voting, Trump oriented. But yet, why do we keep losing elections to these hardcore socialists? I think a lot of it has to do with the zeitgeist. There's low voter turnout, all these factors.

SPEAKER_10 49:08

It is programming.

SPEAKER_07 49:09

Yeah, for sure. So let's listen to CNN talk about what I consider the concerning rise of socialists.

SPEAKER_25 49:14

When we talk about Democratic socialists, how are they viewed inside the Democratic Party?

SPEAKER_14 49:19

Yeah, you know, you mentioned New York, you mentioned Vermont, obviously. There's the DC mayor, we've seen it in Pennsylvania as well. The Democratic Socialists seem to be doing considerably better than they used to be, and they have the chance to knock off, in fact, Democratic incumbents in Congress. And part of the reason for that, why we're seeing these Democratic Socialists having such good chances or downright, outright winning nominations, is take a look here. Net favorability among Dems. Democratic Socialists of America, look at that. A plus 17-point net favorability rate among Democrats. That is actually better. That is better than how congressional Democrats are viewed by Democrats at just plus four points. So no wonder that Democratic Socialists have such a good chance because simply put, they are a better brand at this point than Democrats in Congress.

SPEAKER_25 50:04

Among Democrats, it's interesting to see who they like more. All right, and you've used this number before. I always find this fascinating. When you compare socialism to capitalism, how are they doing right now?

SPEAKER_14 50:16

Yeah, how are they doing right now among Democrats? You see this Democratic Socialist America more positive than congressional Democrats. And I'll tell you, take a look at the trend line, the favorable rating among Democrats on socialism. Look at this. In 2010, they were about equal. 50% had a favorable view of socialism. 51% said the same about capitalism. But capitalism has absolutely fallen through the floor. Look at this. It's now just 42% of Democrats who have a favorable view of capitalism. Socialism, on the other hand, up like a rocket. Look at this. Two in three Democrats have a favorable view of socialism. So socialism is on the rise among Democrats. Capitalism is on the decline among Democrats. And again, this is part of the longer-term trend in which we are seeing Democratic socialists doing considerably better among Democrats, electing a mayor right here in New York City, for example.

SPEAKER_25 51:05

And as we said, there are primaries next week with Democratic socialists self-proclaimed on the ballot. What are the prediction markets saying about how they may do?

SPEAKER_14 51:13

Yeah. This to me is one of the more stunning trends, right, that I have seen in covering politics over the last 15, 16 years. And if you believe the prediction markets, it's not going to just stop suddenly. It may extend into next week because just take a look at the chance that Democratic Socialists win in dem primaries, house primaries here in New York. You go to New York 7th District, right? You got a Brooklyn Borough president who at this point looks like an underdog, looks like an underdog compared to a Democratic Socialist. And then you may get a Democratic incumbent in Northern Manhattan get knocked off. That's closer to a 50-50 race. But the bottom line is this. The bottom line is this. Next week in New York may be a very good one for Democratic Socialists. Mayor Mamdani endorsing them. His political star is rising, and he may bring a few Democratic socialists along with him and put them in a Congress.

SPEAKER_07 52:04

This is one of the big concerns I have. It's just that it becomes normalized. Remember a couple months ago, I was on the airplane with the two Zoom waffins, right? And they were like super supportive of Mandami. And I was like, okay, the one girl's like, you know, the Palestinian Jewish conflict, I'm really on the side of the Jews, but I just think Mandami's great. And I think his wife is amazing. And then we find out his wife has all these nasty chats talking about the Jews, you know. Yeah. It's just super inconsistent. But it's this zeitgeist that socialism is cool, that it's the solution to all of our problems. And listen, if you're over 40, it's hard to sympathize with someone who's in their 20s that's even a hard worker, has a good job, totally priced out of the housing market. Right? Totally priced out of so many things that just a generation ago we could we could afford. And two generations ago was like affordable.

SPEAKER_10 52:54

You know, I was actually just talking to my wife about this and how this is and it was because it was Father's Day. I just told you I wasn't going to talk about Father's Day, but I'm going to talk about Father's Day. So fathers over time have been getting hit a little bit hard, and it's be and because of our financial and economic policy in this country. And what I'm talking about is like when I grew up, I was like, well, I just want to be able to do what my dad did for our family. And I have noticed that I've not been able to do that. And I don't think that our kids are going to be able to do what we did for them either. And I was thinking about this, and then and it's like, you know, this is an attack on um us as people, individuals, because over time we are unable to do what our fathers did for us, and so it makes us feel like we aren't quite um able to achieve that manhood because we can't support or provide for like generations past and prior, and over time every generation has that same impact. Uh-huh. And I was like, dude.

SPEAKER_07 54:08

Yeah. You know, obviously, getting talking to me, and it's like a lot of it ties into the money, right? The ability not to be able to save, but also it's just the hard policies. Like you have a government that is dripping drugs out onto the streets. Okay, well, that's going to take out some sons and daughters that would otherwise be able to, you know, have a decent life. That's going to take out fathers.

SPEAKER_10 54:32

But what does that do to a nation when all of the men in the nation get comp get hit at, you know, mentally, psychologically, daily, continuously, every day for the rest of our lives. It neuters them. I know. It neuters them completely. This is what this is what my discussion was last night was about, you know, the neutering of America.

SPEAKER_07 54:53

Yeah. I think that communism often, and uh, who was it that wrote about this? He wrote 1984. Uh uh Orson. Orson. Orson. George Orwell. George Orwell. George Orwell. Sorry. George Or Orwell wrote about this. It's like it's always with the women, right? It's always with the women. Oftentimes Marxism, collectivism, socialism, these isms will start out with a man, and he's essentially a cult leader, right? But the women drink the Kool-Aid. They become absolutely indoctrinated with it. And I think because biologically it kind of harkens to the mama bear, protect the kids kind of thing. And a lot of socialist women don't have any kids or have very few kids. And so they start to project that that that parental caring onto everybody else. I know better, you know, trust mom kind of thing. And just imagine, just imagine society.

SPEAKER_10 55:45

Just imagine if each generation was able to do better than the prior. And then how would that change people's mindsets and just their the way that they would thrive mentally?

SPEAKER_07 55:57

Yeah. The other thing too that that women don't do, and I think this is psych, you know, in psychology, this is pretty well established, is women don't take into consideration the violence factor. When women solve problems, it's either amongst other women or it's amongst juveniles who they can, you know, the the violence factor doesn't come into play. With men, we have to take into account a violence factor. If you and I have in a disagreement, the status quo is walk away. Does that make sense? It's just choose not to associate or do business because there's a cost. And I think that it in normal everyday life, those conversations get left to the men, right? Those conversations get left to the men where I have to find a space in the world where I have my property line and you have your property line and we have to agree not to cross it. Women don't necessarily take that into account, right? They don't take that that final stage into account, which I think is why a lot of times the world gets to a crazy place and they don't understand the use of force.

SPEAKER_10 57:04

Well, I think it's that because the men understand the consequences of force better than the women do.

SPEAKER_07 57:10

Yes, absolutely. They understand the consequences of the world. Yes.

Iran Talks Israel Pressure And Strait Threats

SPEAKER_07 57:17

Speaking of use of force and consequences for bad actions, Daddy came to town right last week. Remember, Trump walked into the G7s and says, I'm the boss. Everybody laughs. Well, he is the boss, okay? He's bossing around Israel, he's bossing around Iran. We had some huge developments this weekend when it comes to peace. So let's first see where we were at yesterday morning. Trey Yanks talked to Donald Trump, and and the talks with Iran were meh, so so, like maybe weren't gonna happen. And we got reports that the Iranians walked out of the meeting in Switzerland, and there was all kinds of, you know, we're closing the strait and all kinds of bluster talk.

SPEAKER_18 57:55

Yeah, hey guys, good morning. I just spoke with President Trump for more than 20 minutes, and he gave some new insight and reaction about the ongoing talks that are taking place in Switzerland and the threats coming from the Iranian regime. President Trump telling Fox News that the U.S. may take over the strait in the future if they have to and collect tolls. The president described this as the United States being the guardian angel of the Strait of Hormuz and the Middle East. And the president said ultimately that would involve the U.S. taking 20% of the oil that passes through the strait. Remember, this comes in reaction to the Iranians saying they will close the Strait of Hormuz in response to Israeli strikes against Hezbollah in Lebanon. President Trump tells Fox News he spoke with Iranian officials overnight and said you close it and you won't have a country. He went on to tell these officials you won't even make it back to your effing country. Now, earlier today, Iran's president Masood Pazeshkin said this about Iranian enrichment of uranium. The president also reacting to that. Take a listen.

SPEAKER_19 59:12

He had made a complete 100-degree turn. He was saying that Iran must surrender unconditionally. Iran has no right to do this, it has no right to do that.

SPEAKER_18 59:24

President Trump during our call responded directly to those comments by Iranian president Masood Pazeshkin. President Trump told Fox News he better watch his mouth, he better shape up, or we'll take over the rest of the country. And so clearly the president reacting directly to these comments from Iran's president, Masood Pazeshkin. And also President Trump talked about the broader memorandum of understanding, indicating this is just a ceasefire extension. This is not the final deal with the Iranian regime. And the president says he holds the cards and maintains a variety of options if the Iranians don't make these serious commitments at the negotiating table. He said I have a 60-day option and I can do whatever I want after that option. So again, President Trump leaving a variety of considerations on the table and says that the United States could become the guardian angel of the Strait of Hormuz and collect tolls itself while taking oil around 20%, the president says. As it relates to oil, President Trump also said that 19 million barrels of crude oil exited the Persian Gulf yesterday as a result of this memorandum of understanding with the Iranians.

SPEAKER_07 1:00:32

Wait, it exited the Persian Gulf or the Strait of Horbuz. I thought the Persian Gulf wasn't shut down. What's going on?

SPEAKER_10 1:00:39

Doesn't it always feel like we're on the verge of another war? Yeah, it does kind of feel that way.

SPEAKER_07 1:00:45

Now, JD Vance, as far as I'm concerned, this is the first time we've heard this in a real explanatory capacity. There's been a lot of well, the what the what don't trust what the Iranians are saying through their propaganda. The negotiators know what's really going on. You mean like the president? But we don't know what's going on with the negotiators, right? We hear all these, we're on the verge of a peace still, peace still, peace still. And then Iran says something crazy. Trump says something crazy, and it's like, well, I guess we're back to square one. Well, apparently the talks were always progressing. And JD Vamps breaks it down that these guys were trash talking, and that's unacceptable.

SPEAKER_13 1:01:20

What we told the Iranians yesterday is when you guys engage in what us millennials might call trash talk, you can't expect the president of the United States not to respond and not to correct the record. So when they say things that aren't true, the president is going to respond to it. I'm going to respond to it. Americans are going to respond to it. When they make threats that aren't rooted in reality, they have to accept that the president of the United States is actually going to set the record straight. That's all that happened. So, yes, there was a little bit of threatening, there was a little bit of whining, but at the end of the day, the talks continued and we made great progress. What we told the Iranians yesterday is You're trash talking.

SPEAKER_07 1:01:57

No trash talking. You're beat. The score is 101 to 1. You've lost. Kartlit says maybe Iran will be the 51st state. I don't want them. I don't want them. I don't want to deal with Iran. They can just go be their own country. I don't want to have anything to do with them. Oh my goodness. So the other big thing that was a big impediment to these talks, and it was really more of a domestic issue here in the United States, was the idea that Trump basically did all of this effort, cut Iran off from Obama's nuclear deal, and put them on this multi-year hiatus where they're developing and enriching uranium and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And then eventually we finally get to this peace deal, and it's the exact deal that Barack Obama had before. Should have never ripped it up. And a lot of this was premised around the idea that the Trump administration and the United States was going to be paying Iran to sign this peace deal. And J.D. Vance put this to bed because this was circulating all over in the media. We had city senators and others that were making this claim, and it's just not true.

SPEAKER_13 1:03:01

I've seen some misreporting about frozen or unfrozen Iranian assets. One of the other things that we wanted to do, and you know, wasn't as high of a priority for us for obvious reasons, but we wanted to make sure that we set up a process where if we ever unfreeze Iranian assets, we can ensure that those that that money, that Iranian money, goes to help the people of Iran and not to fund terrorism. So Jared Kushner actually came up with a with a very interesting solution with the Qataris, where basically, again, if there is any frozen Iranian assets that are unfrozen, then we have approval over that process. The Qataris have approval over that process. And then the money would actually go to buy American soy, American corn, and American wheat for the benefit of the Iranian people. And as much as I see some of the press misreporting on this, and of course, you know, buttressed by what the Iranians are saying, or not all Iranians, I want to be clear. There are a lot of Iranians who are telling the truth about what happened yesterday, but you see some social media reporting that gets this wrong. But fundamentally, what Jared and the Qataris and the entire team here in Bergenstock accomplished is to me a classic Trump deal. Where if Iranian assets are ever unfrozen, they're gonna go to make American farmers richer and to feed the Iranian people. That's a very, very good and very classic Trump deal that's great for our people, great for the people of Iran.

SPEAKER_07 1:04:32

I've seen so we're we've taken all their frozen assets and we're going to give them our GMO-infused soybeans and corn. This is perfect. That's awesome. I hope they don't get the first cut of the organic stuff. I hope they get, I hope they get the uh ethanol waste product for their corn. Yeah. At full price, by the way, no discounts. That's a phenomenal little deal there. The other thing that JD Vance said was he addressed the situation with Israel. Now, a couple months ago, Tucker Carlson did the interview with Ted Cruz, and then he did a follow-up interview with Mike Huckabee, and he addressed things like the Greater Israel project, where Israel wants to take over like parts of Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, I think even down into parts of territory of Egypt, right? This is the Greater Israel idea. And the JD Vance last week also touched on the fact that, hey, listen, Israel, you can't kill your way out of every problem you have. And Trump even mentioned this, and this is a big deal for Trump to say something like this. You know, when you want to take out one terrorist, you knock out a whole apartment building, and lots of innocent people who have nothing to do with that terrorist lose their lives. That is a damning statement from the president of the United States. It's essentially confirming that Israel's committing war crimes.

SPEAKER_08 1:05:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:05:47

Right? It's a big deal. And so JD Vance was asked about Israel. Is Israel in a box or are they going to be able to pursue their Greater Israel project and their Greater Israel agenda?

SPEAKER_13 1:05:57

What we're trying to do is to say, first of all, Israel. Israel and every other nation in the region has the right of self-defense, but we want to make sure that everybody has that right of self-defense in the background where we're talking about how to de-escalate these conflicts rather than spiraling out of control. Sometimes what'll happen is that is that if if the conflict spirals out of control, that's worse for everybody's self-defense and worse for everybody's security. But we're trying to go to all Israel and every security is protected, and that's going to require some coordination with the Lebanese armed forces, and also it's going to require the Iranians.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:33

Does the U.S. want Israel to withdraw forces from southern Lebanon?

SPEAKER_13 1:06:37

Well, we want Israel's security to be protected, and we also want Lebanon's sovereignty to be protected. And this is going to be an ongoing conversation. The Israelis have been very clear they do not have territorial intentions on South Lebanon. The reason they feel they have to be there is because they're worried about Hezbollah fighters in South Lebanon firing into Israel. We do believe, of course, it's going to require a lot of hard work that we can get to a place where Lebanon's territorial integrity and sovereignty is protected, Israel's security is protected, and that's going to require some coordination with the Lebanese armed forces. And also it's going to require the Iranians to rein in Hezbollah. That's all the sort of things that we were talking about yesterday. And again, I think that we got much further.

SPEAKER_07 1:07:18

So now this Iranian deal has a lot to do with what's going on between Israel and Lebanon. It's a pretty big, pretty big deal. But sounds like they came away pretty good. This morning, uh barrel of oil was about $77. So it's coming down fast.

SPEAKER_11 1:07:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:07:32

Coming down really fast. Pony Boy says, You see, Germany wants to deport those refugees. Yes. Multiple countries in the European Union have voted to increase deportations. Even the EU voted to allow a pathway for deportations. I guess we'll find out if they've crossed the threshold where they can actually get rid of enough of these people. I don't know. I mean, it when Angela Merkel talked about we made a conscientious decision to import people because they won't vote for the right-wing parties. It makes me wonder if there's really the political will and capital at this point to deport those new voters. Because if that was the reason they brought them, you know, unless the AFL over in Germany can actually take power, I doubt you see any significant deportations. But I guess we'll see. Lindsey Graham chimed in on Face the Nation. Guy doesn't hate a camera, does he? Loves to loves to get on TV. Lindsey Graham chimed in on this deal, and I think this is something that we have to be concerned about. I think that we're going to see a situation where you have a lot of people on the neocon or the liberal con side of the aisle. This is the Uniparty, the people that want to maintain dollar dominance, the unipol the unipolar structure of the world right now. These guys are kind of rooting for this deal to fail. This would include your Lindsey Graham's, probably your Mark Levine's, and probably the entire Isra Israeli Kisnet would love to see this deal fall apart because they've got Big Brother America fighting at their at their backs. Here's Lindsey Graham.

SPEAKER_12 1:08:59

Let's try a diplomatic solution. I think it's going to fail. What happens next? I spent four and a half hours with President Trump Friday. Here's what I think will happen next. If this deal fails, President Trump is going to take the Strait of Hormuz over by force. The United States will control the Strait of Hormuz. We'll charge a fee for all those who go through through to pay for the operation. And we're going to expand the Abraham Accords in calendar year 2026. We're going to get Saudi Arabia to join the Abraham Accords, and which is the biggest change in 5,000 years in the Mideast. And if Iran contests control of the Strait of Hormuz by the United States, we'll obliterate them. So to all the people listening, if this diplomatic uh effort fails, President Trump is going to take the Strait of Hormuz. We're going to run it. We're going to try to get Saudi Arabia to join the Abraham, of course, and the Arab-Israeli conflict in 2026. And if Iran continues to attack Israel and Lebanon, the new policy will be we'll hit Iran. So to the Iranians, if you're listening, when you use Hezbollah to attack Israel, I think the new policy will be we will attack Iran.

SPEAKER_07 1:10:12

This guy doesn't sound like he, you know, we're on the verge of peace. He's like, it's gonna fail. It's gonna fail. And then we're gonna take over the Strait of Hormouths and we're gonna attack Iran. Yeah, that's been your plan for decades now, Lindsay Graham. So Trump's up definitely up against it. He is definitely up against it.

Public Show Wrap And Private Pivot

SPEAKER_07 1:10:30

All right, guys, we have reached the end of our public show. We are gonna jump over and do some private chat. We're gonna be talking about AI and some interesting developments in the AI economy. We're gonna be talking a little bit about uh how Bitcoin plays into that. And then we're going to see a real-world example in an American neighborhood of an AI data center that has, I would just say, overstepped its bounds just a little bit. So we'll be checking that out. We do need chatters, so if you haven't chatted this month, be ready bright and early tomorrow morning. We're pimping for chats. I'm starting a little early. We got the rest of the week. We need a couple more chatters for the week. And uh with that, we will talk to you guys again tomorrow. Bye. All right. All right, Ron. Don't forget, we have to do a raid on the way out the door here

AI Token Bills And Bubble Economics

SPEAKER_07 1:11:17

today. Okay, so AI, AI, AI. We have been told that AI is going to take over the world. And for a lot of corporations, they have been early adopters of AI. And the way that, for example, Claude AI works is you have to buy tokens, and the tokens allow you to use time on the servers to do whatever big projects you've got. You've got stuff like grok where you do a monthly subscription, you get access to the advanced grok functions. If you're using Chat GPT or regular Grok, you know, you get so many questions a day. And once they kind of reach their bandwidth, they're like, all right, take a break. Enough questions for you. And so there's a huge amount of energy expenditure that goes into running these AI systems and how those systems get used by different corporations. You know, to some of them, they make them profitable. To some of them, I think they're spinning their wheels. And that's what we're finding out through this news report that I'm going to play here is a lot of these companies are actually cutting back on their AI use because they're not getting the productivity that they thought they were going to get. This has huge impacts when we start talking about the valuation of these companies.

SPEAKER_23 1:12:18

I spoke with a VP at NVIDIA who first flagged this to me. He said, Oh, yeah, for months, our costs for my team have been more for AI than humans. So that was the first flag. And then we started to hear this coming out in droves. Uber's CTO said he already blew out his whole budget for 2026 just on AI-related costs. And obviously that means he's spending more on that than he's spending on human workers. And now I'm starting to hear, especially from startup founders, they're bragging about their AI bills being high because of kind of this sign of like, yeah, I'm really ahead of place. Like, I'm blowing so much cash on it. Exactly. But the whole point of this was supposed to be that it cut down on costs, expanded profits, especially for public companies, but it's unclear if that's going to be tenable.

SPEAKER_21 1:13:00

Yeah, when when is that curve? I guess is one big question. But you have some of the data you have in your report is kind of fascinating. Worldwide IT spending is expected to be up 13.5% this year compared to just last year, over six trillion dollars. Where is all this money going to?

SPEAKER_23 1:13:20

Well, a lot of it is going towards token costs, which is basically like the currency of AI use. Also, of course, subscriptions. If you've got an enterprise contract with OpenAI, with Anthropic. So a lot of it is going towards these AI labs. The thing is, though, the queries that I'm putting into AI, those don't cost very much. It's for the people who are coding or using an autonomous agent overnight. But at some companies, especially the tech ones like Meta, they're encouraging that high token use because, again, they want to see and seem like they're really ahead in the AI.

SPEAKER_07 1:13:52

So these companies are just spending away on AI and they're not necessarily getting more productivity out of what they used to just get with their engineering floor. Yeah, they're not getting value that they but these engineers are spending like no dickens on these tokens and uh the AI expenses more than the human capital. And I don't see Uber posting record profits. I don't see a lot of these companies posting record profits. In fact, most people who look at the stock market will tell you there's only seven companies that are really driving the stock market highs.

SPEAKER_10 1:14:22

Oh man, you know, in my business, I always tend to think that you know we need to be able to add value to our projects in order to cover our expenses and it makes us you know profitable, it helps the project go forward. These guys are acting like the spending is the value.

SPEAKER_07 1:14:39

Yes, the spending is the value. Sorry, this has the hallmarks of the dot-com bubble. Yeah, right. So it's worse. It's gonna be during the dot-com bubble. If you could secure a nice email or a nice domain name, pets.com being like the flagship one.

SPEAKER_10 1:14:53

Hey, it's like in the beginning, you could get Snickers.com, Coca-Cola.com, Sprite.com, you could get them all because nobody had any of them.

SPEAKER_07 1:15:02

Yes. So you could get these domain names, and then you could create a business model like pets.com. We're gonna service pets or whatever. It never went anywhere. In fact, if you go to pets.com today, what is it even? What is pets.com? Probably nothing. It's probably a placeholder.

SPEAKER_10 1:15:17

Yeah. This website is for sale.

SPEAKER_07 1:15:19

Oh, it takes you to Petsmart. So Petsmart eventually got it.

SPEAKER_10 1:15:22

There you go. Well, that means Pet Smart just bought that one.

SPEAKER_07 1:15:25

They bought it, right? But pet but pets.com raised, in fact, let's let's just look here. Let's let's use AI to tell us.

SPEAKER_10 1:15:32

Well, I remember when there was uh it was like a a gold rush on the domains, and people were just registering domains, and then they would try to sell them, and you know, domains would sell for a million dollars, and so it just fed the frenzy of more people jumping in there, and there's just a shark fest until people figured out you know, these domains can really be anything we want. It doesn't have to be, you know, Coca-Cola.com. We could just be Coca-Cola Inc.com and we can get around all that. And pretty soon that whole thing of like buying up domains, it just all evaporated.

SPEAKER_07 1:16:08

It just evaporated, yeah. But what we got left with was a massively increased internet, you know, structure. Like yeah, uh, the internet became huge because before as a utility, it grew for sure. It was really niche. And Jeff Bezos mentioned this. He goes, you know, the dot-com companies came and went, but the internet stayed. Like that's what made the internet ubiquitous and got it kind of going. Was all these companies were like, great, let's raise capital, and they built some internet thing, and even if the company went away, the infrastructure stuck around. Yeah. And he said the same thing was gonna happen with the AI. Sir, maybe Chat GPT-4 doesn't make it true, everything, but every company absorbing AI and figuring out how to use it is going to be the infrastructure that wants to be able to do that. So yeah, well, that's what happened with pets.com. Pets.com raised approximately 180 million in total funding during the dot-com era. This is the late 90s and early 2000s. So 109, that's basically like a half a billion dollars that they raised, just basically off their name. And uh yeah, pets.com went public near the peak of the bubble, but declared bankruptcy in November 2000, just nine months after IPO, becoming a classic symbol of dot com excess. Note that the total race figures can vary slightly by source due to how post-IPO shares are are calculated. That's pretty interesting. So, anyways, you've got kind of a dot-com era happening. Jack Maulers described this. This is a this is a problem because what we're being sold about AI and the reality of AI are two different things. And you can say both statements at once. And we kind of played with this a little bit last week. On one hand, you're saying AI is gonna take over all the jobs, right? So it justifies this massive valuation on these companies because look, AI, this AI company is gonna be worth all of your engineers, it's gonna be one thing. So take that entire engineering budget, take it, give it to AI, you'll be paying them instead of your engineers. And so this company is now worth all of this money.

SPEAKER_10 1:18:16

Right. But that's not value added, that's value stolen.

SPEAKER_07 1:18:19

Yes. Now, on the other end, the bond market is looking at going, well, all those engineers that have 30-year mortgages, if you take their jobs, they're gonna default on their houses and crash the economy. So then the AI people are like, Well, we won't take all the jobs, there'll still be plenty of jobs. So you've kind of got these two premises, and both can't be true. Jack Mollers describes this perfectly.

Bitcoin As The Hedge Narrative

SPEAKER_07 1:18:39

You can see the stress in the system everywhere.

SPEAKER_06 1:18:41

Like you have these AI companies that are trading at the most insane valuations ever, right? Like the multiples on these businesses are absolutely insane. And in order to justify these multiples, they have to uh talk about their growth story. So six months ago, they're saying, well, the multiple is reasonable for us to trade a hundred times sales because our software is going to be doing all of the labor in the market. You won't need lawyers anymore, you won't need accountants anymore, you won't need customer support agents anymore. And then everyone goes, Well, wait a second, you're gonna take everyone's jobs? If you take everyone's jobs, the whole system is built on debt. So everyone's gonna default on their mortgage, default on their car note, default on their student loans. All of these bank balance sheets that are writing these loans at par as if everyone's gonna be able to pay them back. There's gonna be a delinquency crisis, which is what we're seeing credit card delinquency, mortgage delinquency, everything up because AI is taking the jobs, people are less uh in abundance financially, and that's going to crash this whole thing down. And so then the AI companies say, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, we're not gonna take everyone's jobs, everyone's gonna still have jobs, everyone's gonna be able to afford all these loans they took out. The white-collar worker, the person with the socio not socioeconomic status in Manhattan that has a $250,000 salary with a law degree and a nice condo, like they're good, they're good, they're not gonna default on anything. You say, okay, well, then your valuation has to come down because you're not gonna be able to grow into this valuation. You're like, no, no, no, because if the valuation comes down, then you know, 96% of American GDP growth in the last four quarters is AI and tech. And so if the valuations come down and they can't keep raising the capital and plowing into the economy, well, then it crashes this way. So it's like, okay, you've told me two things. They contradict each other. One's not true. Either you are gonna be one of the most valuable companies in the world, you do deserve the multiple, but you're gonna take everyone's job, everyone's gonna default on their loans because this whole system is built on credit and debt, and these bank balance sheets are gonna be functionally insolvent and they're gonna have to print the money to make up for the fact that all these people that took out all these loans no longer have jobs and aren't productive because a clawed subscription and clawed tokens can do what they do, and the system collapses this way. Or everyone uh keeps the jobs, AI isn't as valuable as it's being marketed, it shouldn't continue to get uh plows and plows and plows of trillions of dollars to build out and GDP drastically reduces in growth, and we're not producing enough growth to grow our way out of the debt. But it's like as a Bitcoiner, I'm chilling. You guys tell me which which one, you guys tell me. So I see the stress everywhere. Bitcoin's just telling us the truth. And until they print the once they print the money, it's a story as old as time. Bitcoin's the most fixed asset. So when there's an abundance of new fiat competing for a fixed amount of thing, the scarcest thing goes up the most. Super simple. Um, but until then, we're just watching stress.

SPEAKER_07 1:21:52

Yeah. I listened to Michael Saylor being asked, I think I might have played it last week when Michael Saylor was being asked about uh, you know, is it if you're buying Bitcoin for your company, is there enough Bitcoin for other companies? And he's like, that's like saying, is there enough room at the bank for all the companies, or is there enough electricity for all the companies? He's like, every company, whether you're a local restaurant like Steak and Shake or a Mom Pop or a small construction company or a tech company, you should be putting Bitcoin on your balance sheet. Because just like Jack Mahler says there, one of these stories isn't gonna work out. Right? Either it's gonna take all the jobs and we're gonna have a debt crisis and they're gonna print their way out of it, or we're gonna keep the jobs and AI is overvalued, and you're gonna have a crash in the market and they're gonna print because too big to fail. Anthropic, we need anthropic in the government. You know what I mean? Like Palantir, we can't get rid of it, right? They're gonna have to print to bail them out because they've become so integral to the economy. So you're kind of in this like, no matter which way you go, as a Bitcoiner, you sit back, oh, this is gonna look good for me. And the reality is AI is here to stay, it's gonna do some incredible things, whether it crashes or not. In my opinion, of course, it's gonna crash. Everything crashes. Is it gonna be full on dot-com like horrible crash, or is it gonna be like just you know, eventually the valuations take it?

SPEAKER_10 1:23:11

You're just gonna have to reboot now and then.

SPEAKER_07 1:23:13

Yeah, we just have to reboot now and then. So Donald Trump was being interviewed. This was about two weeks ago, and he was being asked about AI on the Axios show. Intelligence as a weapon.

SPEAKER_17 1:23:24

Well, if improperly used, it could be. Uh, if properly is, I will tell you one thing, it's so big. Yeah, it is big, like nobody's I mean, bigger than the internet, it's bigger than any. I've seen the different things come along. It's an age where people like you, if we're nice smart people like we are, we watch and we see what's happening. This AI is incredible. Now, it's unbelievable for good. You're gonna have medical cures coming up twenty-five years early because of it. You're gonna have other things happening, but you have to watch, you know. We have a situation with anthropic, and we didn't like what they were doing. And so far, I think they behaved very responsibly to our request. Do you view anthropic and to a degree its CEO Dario Amade as a threat to national security? Well, not now, but a week ago, maybe. I was with him yesterday. He made a speech, I made a little speech. We were in the room on the G7. And seems like a nice guy, smart guy. But he responded to us very quickly. Because, you know, it's tremendous liability. People get put in prison immediately for that. You know, you can't play games with it. And he responded very responsibly, I thought, so far, I think he will.

SPEAKER_07 1:24:53

The scandal with Anthropic was they basically had their own little bill of rights for the for the uh the AI machine that the Pentagon was using, and the Pentagon was like, uh, no, if we give it an order to kill somebody, it can't turn around and be like, oh, I'm sorry, that person's on the DEI scale, their human life value is too high. You know, they have to be like, nah, we're not doing that. So that's pretty, I think that's pretty interesting, right? AI is going to be big, just like Jeff Bezos said. This AI boom, whether it ends up being a dot-com bust on in the markets, the infrastructure is going to be in place, right? Just like the internet. If you weren't on it online by 2004, 2005, by 2012, you dang sure were. And by 2022, it's synonymous. You get your business, you get your domain name, you're on the internet. That is the dot-com era. That was what it gave us.

SPEAKER_10 1:25:43

I remember being pre-smartphone and thinking, uh, you know, I don't know if I need one of those, you know.

SPEAKER_07 1:25:50

Yeah, now you can hardly imagine life without it. Right. Yeah, it's totally. I remember when I got my first iPhone, I got the second iPhone. And I remember thinking, I don't have to turn on my laptop very often. Yeah. Like I can get my emails, I can communicate, I can get on the web. I was like, I don't have to turn on my laptop hardly at all.

SPEAKER_10 1:26:09

I was a late adopter to the smartphone.

SPEAKER_07 1:26:11

And I'll be honest with you, that last six or seven years that I was doing excavation and septic before I went to prison, I didn't turn on my laptop for weeks at a time. Like there was no need. I didn't need to be on the internet. I could everything I needed to do, I could pretty much do from my phone. So it's incredibly incredibly powerful. I do envision a future where when you go open a business, no matter what the business is, you know, you do your incorporation, you get your domain name, and then you get an AI agent that is there to help do your accounting and your bookkeeping. You know, you're gonna have these little like small businesses.

SPEAKER_10 1:26:47

What you just said there is that you're gonna get your AI agent, it's gonna be issued by the state.

SPEAKER_07 1:26:51

Yeah, issued by the state. It'll likely be like a market for that. But like literally, like if you own a coffee shop, what can the AI agent do? It can do your accounting, it can do your contracts, it can do your ordering, it can do your scheduling, it can make sure the state gets its cut. It can make sure the state gets its cut. Yeah, it can do so many things, right? And I think that that's the infrastructure we're gonna be left over with. In 10 years, you're gonna go to a coffee shop, and that coffee shop's gonna have AI integrated into the management system of it, right? And that's something that's that's going to be the residual effect. Now, right now, if you're a coffee shop, you probably can't afford the Claude tokens to set up that AI agent, you know. So something's gonna change. It'll be really interesting. Now, these AI agents and these data centers that go with them have a real

Data Centers Surveillance In Neighborhoods

SPEAKER_07 1:27:38

world cost. Now, I am not anti data center. I see some of the complaints about data centers and I see the locations are being put at it. I'm like, it is kind of out in the middle of nowhere. And I I don't know, like I'm I'm torn. And I and there's a lot of false stuff, like how much water they take. Like there's there's the truth, and then there's the overblown Aaron Brokovich story of it. You know, it's taking all the water everywhere. We went through the same thing with fracking. You know, a lot of the problems with fracking turns out it wasn't fracking at all. It was the communists that are running the county res reservoir and they kept draining it because they're trying to save some, you know, like in California, the smelt, you know, the little fish. And it had nothing to do with with uh you know, whatever it was they were bl the fracking that was happening nearby had everything to do with poor management for the public water supply. But yet the news and the propagandists blamed it on the fracking, right? Because fracking bad turns out didn't end up doing all the things that they said it was doing. Not saying fracking's perfect, not saying anything's perfect. These data centers are the same way. Everything's messy. This, however, I find ridiculous. And this is one of the reasons why we do have building codes and zoning codes, and the one responsibility of a town council or city council you'd think would be to prevent stuff like this from happening.

SPEAKER_26 1:28:55

Guys, I should have actually informed you to wear something that would have covered your face a little bit more, like sunglasses or something. Why? Um, because they have facial recognition in these and artificial intelligence facial recognition in these cameras so they can see you and they'll figure out who you are. I'm Jake Fortz, and I'm the resident here in Iowa Street in Lowell, Massachusetts, and you're at my humble abode. So that is the largest part of the data Harley Group data center here in Lowell. In Massachusetts, in theory, you can't have a surveillance camera looking at somebody's backyard. And what the hell is that doing in the middle of a residential neighborhood? Without saying too much being in camera view. Um Why do you have to say that? These cameras are high-tech, they're a thousand dollars a pop. You have to be guarded on what you say around here just because there is so much surveillance and what you do. Come back and actually see like the fishbowl of which I live in. For me in this neighborhood, it started uh 11 years ago.

SPEAKER_07 1:29:51

He's just driving down his road and he's just driving straight into like a gap. It's like a hundred feet in the air.

SPEAKER_26 1:29:58

Yeah. They came and they started lying immediately. Ten years ago, they put the two diesel engines. So if you're looking over here, you can see four diesel engines. The furthest two uh were never supposed to be there. Actually, none of these four were supposed to be there. It didn't explode until they got the AI in there. So when Markley came, they told us that it was going to be one thing, that it wouldn't have a big impact on the community, and that it was gonna be Netflix. And it has been anything but that. They've repeatedly changed the site to the point where uh this neighbor, Eileen, who has two water tanks in her backyard, they just popped up there during COVID. They started construction, didn't ask, but it's always do and ask for forgiveness later with the company. These two engines here were the first two to go in. These went in in 2016, and that's when we said, What the hell are you doing? That's not where these were supposed to be. Everything that was mechanical was supposed to be on the other side of the facility. And by the way, don't worry about these folks because they sold out in December to them. Markley owns this, they own all of this. We're the last two privately owned houses on this street, and nine, Prince Ave is the last privately owned residence on Prince Ave. When he is done acquiring at cheap cutthroat rates, then this will cease to exist. He already has a plan, which he slipped in 2017, to build another building on the other side of the parking lot where the parking lot is. So we're those people parking. He needs to come this way.

SPEAKER_07 1:31:23

I can't believe that. So this this community in Massachusetts, of all places, Massachusetts, has no building or zoning codes. So they just put a data center right up the neighborhood. This little residential guy's just totally boxed in. That is that is, I think, one of those polls that over time this stuff's gonna get worked out. It's like a nuclear power plant. Like they're gonna go, okay, you can't just build there, you're gonna have to get a license, and these licenses can only go to certain places or something. But very, very interesting. That that's a problem. That's a problem. So, all right, guys, that's it for us today. Just some stuff to consider when it comes to AI. And of course, no matter who's right in this situation, the people who are into sound money and Bitcoin are gonna win. So, all right, guys. Deplorable D says 2016. Sounds like this is a cabal-style data center taking over neighborhoods. I know, right? That's crazy. All right, guys, thank you so much. We're gonna head out with a raid. Go ahead.

SPEAKER_10 1:32:17

You're gonna go somewhere with some chill music.

SPEAKER_07 1:32:20

Ooh, synth wave radio, beats to chill. Awesome, awesome. From Lo-Fi Girl. Wonderful. All right, guys, go on over there and say hi, and we'll talk to you guys again tomorrow. Bye.

Monty Python Peasant Politics Outro

SPEAKER_15 1:32:56

What night lives in that castle over there? I'm 37. What? I'm 37. I'm not old. Well, I can't just call you ma'am. You could say Dennis. I didn't know you were called Dennis. Well, you didn't bother to find out, did you? I did say sorry about the old woman, but from behind, you're not subject to it. Do you automatically treat me like an inferior? Well, I am king. Oh, king, eh, very nice. How'd you get that, eh? By exploiting the workers, by hanging on to outdated imperialist dogma which perpetuates the economic and social differences in our society. If there's ever going to be any progress, how'd you do? How do you do, good lady? I'm Arthur, King of the Britons. Whose castle is that? King of the British the Britons. The Britons! We all are. We are all Britons. And I am your king. No, we have a king. I thought we were an autonomous collective. You're fooling yourself. We're living in a dictatorship of self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working classes. That's what it's all about. Only people would please good people. I am in haste. Who lives in that castle? No one lives there. Then who is your lord? We don't have a lord. What? I told you. We're in a narco-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week. Yes. But all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special bi-weekly meeting. Yes, I see. By a civil majority in the case of purely internal affairs. Be quacked or by a two-thirds majority in the case of quack. I order you to be quacked. I'm your king. You don't vote for king? The lady of the lake. Her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water. Signifying by divine providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. That is why I'm your king. Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony. But you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart through a sword at you. I mean, if I went round saying I was an emperor, just because some moistened bitch had loved a simitar at me, they put me away. Shut up, we shut up. Now we see the party. I'm on the back.