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AI Escaped The Sandbox And That Changes Everything

Taylor Johnatakis Season 2 Episode 270

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An AI model “escaped” a sandbox, chained stolen credentials with zero-days, and hacked a real platform. Or at least that’s the story being sold, and we don’t just react to the headline, we interrogate the incentives behind it. If AI can genuinely operate as an autonomous hacker, every company from banks to small creators will be pushed into an AI arms race where “AI security guards” become as normal as antivirus once was.

We also connect a bigger thread: Whitney Webb’s reporting on Palantir, Polymarket, and the old Total Information Awareness dream of turning mass surveillance into prediction. When “the market” becomes a data feed for decision-making, and when odds can be nudged by insiders, misinformation, or partnerships branded as “integrity,” prediction stops being a spectator sport and starts looking like governance by model.

Then we bring it home to election integrity and trust. We talk paper ballots vs computerized tabulation, voter ID, proof of citizenship, the SAVE Act push, and why states keep calling serious voter-roll problems “software glitches.” We also follow power into fundraising and bureaucracy, touching ActBlue smurfing allegations, high-profile pardons, and undercover footage that raises uncomfortable questions about who really steers policy between elections.

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Peasants, Coffee, And The Morning

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We're getting screwed, man. Every time we turn around, we're getting screwed. Well, the revolution's gonna be tricky testing for sure. That's the only way we take it. It's the little guys, the little guys that take the blood of everything. It's gotta be peasants, man. 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. Wakey wakey. Time to get to worky. Carlites, howdy all. Good morning. Glad you made it. Carlito Tiffany, good morning, everyone. Glad you guys are here. Looks like it's just you guys so far this morning. It's a custom show, just for you.

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Yeah.

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How'd you do a little better yesterday, Ron?

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Much better.

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Oh my goodness, you were looking rough yesterday during the show.

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It was rough.

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You're over there, hunched over the table. I'm glad you're feeling better. John Attackis, good morning. Last night I did not fall asleep in my recliner. Fell asleep in my bed. That was nice. That was nice. Oh man. Good times, good times. All right. I know why you guys show up bright and early. You show up for the simultaneous sip. It's a great moment. I think they've done studies about simultaneous sips and how it's better for your brain. And all you need for that is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tack or a chalice of steign, a canteen, jug, or flask, a vessel of any kind, and fill it with your favorite beverage. 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

Why Voting Software Is Hackable

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now.

SPEAKER_04

I say this as a technologist who likes technology and I like computers, but we should not have computers do voting tabulation at all. It's far too easy to hack a computer. I know how to hack a computer. Um so uh you know, and government software is the easiest thing to hack. So it's not the best software. So uh we should, in my opinion, we should have paper ballots only. It should be in-person voting with ID and a story.

SPEAKER_18

Amen.

SPEAKER_10

It seems so simple. As a technologist, I don't trust the machines, I don't trust them at all.

SPEAKER_14

I loved his little look when he's like, it's not really the best software.

SPEAKER_10

The government software, it's the easiest to hack. How would you know that? Because I was a teenager once. You know what I mean? It's like, why can the government not keep any secrets? It's like the only secrets they keep are the ones where they put the gun on your head. They're like, do not disclose this. John Attack says, from sunny, not storming anymore, Florida. Good morning. Welcome, Douglas Wyatt. Good morning, peasants. Pony Boy, good morning. I love it. Money Easel, hot and humid here in Florida. Pony Boy, I finished Landman season two. Um, looking forward to season three, a little family oil business. It's gonna be interesting. I imagine everything about that show is just pure reality. It's gotta be legit. All right, so we were talking right before the show,

Palantir And Polymarket Connections

SPEAKER_10

Ron. We were talking about Whitney Webb. Guys, yeah, I'm excited for this. It makes me happy. Where's that coming from clean and clear? What's happening? I don't know. Who's talking? Where did that come from? I don't know. I have no idea where that came from. We got hacked, Ron! We got hacked, our feed got hijacked.

SPEAKER_11

It's like the old party line. Uh-oh. The Democratic Party in Florida is dead. There are good people that can resist.

SPEAKER_10

Oh, that's where it is. Okay, it's a secondary video. It's like, what is going on? Uh, it's like the old party lines. Did you guys have a party line when you were a kid for telephone lines? Oh, yeah. Yeah, I remember my grandma had one. Go over to my grandma's house, and like the neighbor would be on the phone and be like, pick up the phone. All right, so this is Whitney Webb, and she's talking about something interesting. A few weeks ago, she put out a report. We didn't really cover it, but it was a port talking about Palantir, which is one of Whitney Webb's favorite targets, by the way. Palantir and Polymarket. Did you know there was a connection between Palantir and Polymarket?

SPEAKER_14

I did not, but it does not shock me.

SPEAKER_10

Yeah, and so what does Palantir do? At the end, at the at the at its core, it's predictive behavior, right? It's monitoring all the information to create predictions about future behavior. So of course Palantir would be paired up with polymarket, right?

SPEAKER_33

What was PAM? PAM was part or the policy analysis market, but these guys have been trying to resurrect. It was part of TIA. TIA, total information awareness. The goal was not just to see everything going on in the present, yeah, and find anomalies, find the bad guys in the in a sea of data, of everyone's data and mass surveillance. It was to predict, it was pre-crime. It was predictive policing on a massive scale and not in in pretty much every ambit of human life you can think of. Right. And so polymarket, because you know, the market knows all of these polymarket odds, it just like with Pam, the odds are there to help feed the pre-crime engine, this is what will happen, right? Or this will not. And we know that polymarket bets can be rigged, and that polymarket itself puts out misinformation sometimes to make trades swing one way or the other, and that insider trading is a huge problem. And the context of that, and uh as it's meant to interface with what is now Palantir is really unsettling. And lo and behold, if you look it up, dude, it's there. Polymarket and Palantir are partners, they are partnered and they work together for the market integrity. So this has already happened. Yeah, and this is the privatized canopticon. Yes.

SPEAKER_32

Um, and not only privatized, they're gonna commercialize it. Yeah, they're making money off of it. Insider trading is not a problem, it's a feature.

SPEAKER_10

It's not a problem, it's a feature. Listen, folks, if you can't beat them, join in. Get in now. Palantir's for sale right now on the NASDAQ.

SPEAKER_18

Oh boy.

SPEAKER_10

So this is really interesting, right? Pre-crime surveillance, total information awareness, which it ended up being uh Palantir. Now, this happens. DARPA and Harpa both will invest in different projects. I I actually had a client one time who was a program manager at DARPA. So he was a former Air Force pilot. His wife is an intelligence officer, he became a program manager at DARPA. So we got talking about it. He's like, I can't share with you anything that's top secret or classified. He's like, but I wasn't dealing with like the space alien stuff, right? I mean, he was dealing with like much more benign technology practical stuff, better encryption for radios and you know, uh uh more distance on the sonar on the jets and yes, or whatever. I mean, it was like, you know, he made it sound like the vast majority of what they do at DARPA would make perfect sense to you, right? It would be like, oh yeah, they want more radar range, so they're yeah, working on some quantum technology, right? So they throw many at these projects. And so he wasn't involved back when Facebook was the thousand points of light program or whatever. And people may or may not know this, but Facebook came into existence and was incorporated on the exact same day that DARPA canceled their Facebook program, their their you know, uh whatever.

SPEAKER_14

So yeah, you're getting into some super conspiracy.

SPEAKER_10

The story of like Mark Zuckerberg and how Facebook was created, big fat question mark. Kind of a Hollywood production, right?

SPEAKER_14

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That same question that you just like brought up there, I think is the same question that you can attach to just about every one of these tech companies and every one of these tech bros. These guys are not that smart.

SPEAKER_10

Well, yes and no. Right. Yes and no. They're not that smart, but they are that smart. Oh, well, yeah, but they don't know. That's why they got given the keys to the castle.

SPEAKER_14

You know, they don't have like a billion dollars of seed money just sitting around either. So that's what USAID is for.

SPEAKER_10

That's what these that's what the Department of Energy is for. DARPA and ARPA. Yes, you're right. They don't have the money laying around. That's where the where do they get it? The government, right? Yeah, they're all kick-started by DARPA. Is our sound funny? Or is it Yes, it is. What's going on? Is it just I don't know. All right, sometimes my mic, my headphones, these are prison headphones, you know, they're not meant to like last forever. Yeah, they're garbage. All right, I can't hear anything. Can you still hear me? Yeah, yeah, you're good. Keep going. All right, but that's better. So point being here, you've got DARPA, which created Facebook, which also created Palantir, which also created Poly Market. They all kind of go together. Total information awareness, and then there's the commercialization and the monetization on the betting market, which they can shape, right? They can they can use that. They're pushing. Man, this sound is I don't know why it's too rough. It's like sharp in my ears, crackling. All right, you've done some magic. I see you run your cursor over the the soundboard there. Now I know you have no idea what you're adjusting. If that's correct, that is correct. Uh anyways. Oh, where was I going with that? Okay, so point being, that's all out

AI Breakthrough Or Manufactured Panic

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there. Technology is pretty scary, right? I mean, as peasants, we're just like normal people. We know how to use a phone. We don't know how to make a phone, we don't know what's going on behind the screw, the glass, right? Well, with AI, things are advancing very rapidly. They're advancing to the point that we really have to have a wake-up call about how we're going to interact with AI. And the thing is, AI is here to stay. There was a massive report yesterday that is a breakthrough for AI. And it's a scary breakthrough. And it's one of those things where you have to look at this and you go, there's no going back now. Because if this is possible, now we're kind of in an AI arms race. Listen to this report that is highlighted on Warroom about artificial intelligence overnight.

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Let's play. We got a couple of minute cold open that tees up Joe Allen. Let's go ahead and play this. I'm gonna come back, go to break, bring Joe in. Let's go.

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Sound like good news.

SPEAKER_30

Yeah, Kate, this kind of sounds like the plot of a sci-fi movie, but it is indeed happening in real life. This is the first major example that we've seen of an AI model independently conducting a hack outside of human control. And this is something that experts have been warning about. This is also driving some of these conversations that we've heard, including at the White House, about increasing.

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I'm gonna pause this for a second. Okay, so on the screen here says open AI hugging face breach. So hugging face is some company that they hacked. Last week, two AI models escaped a testing environment during a cyber offensive cyber evaluation. How does an AI model escape a testing environment? What are we talking about here?

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I don't know.

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Like this brings me memories of like some mutant breaking out of the cage, you know, that they're in. The AI broke out of its its server, its black box.

SPEAKER_14

This sounds like a fear campaign that is such just a bunch of bullshit.

SPEAKER_10

Oh, Ron, it is not a fear campaign.

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Okay.

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Safeguards of the models intention uh uh safeguards of the models intentionally reduced for the evaluation. The models chained together stolen credentials and zero-day vulnerabilities to retrieve data to cheat a test, and it breached production servers of the AI platform Hugging Face.

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Now, what happened here is that OpenAI was testing these models. It had lowered its normal safeguards in order to test these two models, which is GPT 5.6 SOL and also a new, unreleased, more advanced model. It had lowered its safeguards because it thought it was testing in what is called a sandbox, the contained essentially virtual lab. But when it gave these models a task to test their hacking capabilities, the models went to such great lengths to complete that task that it vulnerabilities that allowed them to access the open internet outside of this controlled testing environment. They then hacked into Hugging Face, which is the platform that hosts all kinds of AI models. They used stolen credentials, stolen logins to uh navigate that platform. And ultimately, this hack was identified by Hugging Face in part because of artificial intelligence, which they used to shut it down. But this is a huge warning sign for this industry. In a statement, OpenAI said we consider this incident to be an unprecedented cyber incident involving state-of-the-art capabilities and are responding accordingly. We are sharing preliminary findings at this stage to help defenders understand what happened and to help calibrate on what models are now capable of. I think that is the real key here is that models are now capable of conducting these kinds of hacks independently. The CEO of Hugging Face said that the company is working with OpenAI to figure out exactly what happened here. In a statement, he said that they suspected last week's cyber attack may have come from a Frontier lab, given the sophistication of this agent. He also went on to say that we strongly believe there was no malicious intent on their part. It's quite mind-blowing that all of this happens autonomously. Kate, I think mind-blowing is one word that you could use for this. Terrifying, perhaps another word that could describe the situation.

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Yeah, the statements from both the companies seem to be somewhat in awe that it actually happened, but it's it is terrifying because is there anything that they've said that could stop this from happening again?

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Yeah, I mean, I think if you talk to safety experts within the industry, there is real concern that this sort of thing will start happening more frequently and that the model, the big model labs just don't have the capability to control these models that they need to have at this point. Now, OpenAI also said that it believes AI will be helpful in detecting these kinds of hacks. That is certainly what Hugging Face saw in their instance in this case. But I do think this is going to start another round of conversations about how we make sure that we have the controls in place so that AI isn't autonomously conducting these hacks outside of human control, Cave.

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So, Ron, that's what you're pointing out. You're like, it's a fear campaign to get regulation and control. Yeah, that's exactly what I'm talking about. Let's let's just accept that on its face, right? Of course they're gonna try to regulate it because of this. But was this a created crisis? I don't believe that. Or dug into the story just a little bit. This is actually one of those things where it's like, oh, so you know when Elon back, you know, a year or two or three ago was like, what if you ask AI to make the planet cleaner? And AI determines that humans cause pollution. And so then AI does everything in its power to eliminate humans from the planet, right? Or what if we want to eliminate unhappiness? And it's like, well, to eliminate unhappiness, it'd be the best just to get rid of everybody who's unhappy.

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Just gotta get rid of the dirty humans.

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So we're like, hey, we want to test out your hacking ability, and it's like, okay, I'm gonna hack another AI company.

SPEAKER_14

So who is open AI? Isn't that Sam Altman? That's Sam Altman and Chappa TP. That's that's dude. This just feels like Sam Altman is just generating this to stay relevant so that he can like come up with some new software that you all need to protect yourself from AI. Blah, blah, blah.

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Wouldn't that be the best situation? The best situation was is this is Norton antivirus creating the virus. Like, that's the best situation. Yeah, okay. That that is the least nefarious. All they want is my money. Okay, that's all they want. If you don't, if it's a mafia shakedown, wouldn't it be bad if your windows got broken? You know, for $15 a week, I can provide protection. Okay, well, I'll get the open AI anti-AI virus software or anti-AI hacking software. I'll pay the ransom. Because essentially that's what you're going to be doing with AI. If it can hack anything, if it can hack an AI website that's got tech guys that deeply protect it, my website, gone.

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But person, but but also, you know, if it if they use this kind of a leverage, it's also the way that they can get more money from the government to study more stuff. Because man, this is like national security stuff. So, you know, it's gonna affect policy and and all of our future Senate. You know, this is kind of stuff that just bugs me.

SPEAKER_10

Well, of course, of course it does, because it's so much bigger than any one person.

SPEAKER_14

Well, that's what I'm saying. It's just it's this creation of this monster that oh, only the tech bro experts can figure out how to wrangle. It's like, come on, man.

SPEAKER_10

You know, I I get it. And for me, there's no looking back. Okay, right. For me, it's one of those things where it's like the only thing you can do is look forward. So how do you do it? Well, we have to use AI. Okay, like we the peasants cannot be left behind. Ah, down tootin' automobile. What's wrong with the thoroughbred? You know, what's wrong with my quarter horse? It's the best thing God ever did was domesticate the horse. And like five years later, everybody's driving Ford. You know, like it's the same thing. It's like, listen, if you don't get on board, you're gonna get left behind. Right.

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If you don't get on board now, these kind of things are the are, you know, this whole story we did with polymarket and whatever the betting sites are. This is exactly like one of those bets that placed on that site. It's just the same to me.

SPEAKER_10

Here's here's what I would say. Right. So let's tie it into money.

SPEAKER_14

Okay.

SPEAKER_10

Everything is at risk under AI. The whole technological landscape will by necessity have to become AI. You're going to have to have AI security guards.

SPEAKER_18

Yeah, I know.

SPEAKER_10

Right? You're gonna you're gonna hire a virtual assistant, a security guard, a mock cop for your Macintosh, is what you're doing, okay? To block AI from hacking or whatever. So, in that environment, we have to learn how to use it and not be used by it. That's it's just that simple. Okay, we want to learn how to we want to support anything that decentralizes this technology and it goes to the money. One of the things, one of the big advancements that's gonna happen is the Clarity Act is gonna open up a whole crypto world. So crypto, right? Currently, AI for the most part, you you use AI server trend by buying tokens or crypto tokens, right? So that's like the functioning cryptocurrency economy right now is AI agents exchanging tokens, and then the owners of the AI agents settle the bill at the end of the month, right? So they do their transacting in tokens. So that future is going to be great. Guess what? Dollars are like tokens too, and if they can hack an AI company, they can definitely hack Bank of America.

SPEAKER_14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_10

The only thing that's preventing them from doing that is the risk of prosecution to the owners later or getting the the plug pulled. That's the only thing preventing them from hacking all of our major financial institutions and probably the government itself, if they haven't already hacked the government, right? Yeah, that's that's the press release that doesn't get out. Oh, huggle huggle bear got hacked and the CIA. You know, we're gonna find out Hugglebear was a uh CIA cutout company or something like that. Or what I don't know, I don't know what that was called. What was the Hufflepuff or some other AI hugging faces or something? Hugging face, yeah. We're gonna find out hugging face is like a CIA cutout, I'm sure. So fascinating stuff. We just want to support decentralization, and uh that was a big threshold crossed yesterday. It made a lot of news. Like this AI agent hacked out of a sandbox and got onto the internet and found credit, you know, got dark internet, stolen credentials, zero point like it did everything that a hacker would do to gain access and it comes back to its it's like you know, the cat that brings the bird back to the porch. Like, look what I did.

SPEAKER_14

It's like or it could just be the hackers did it and they said, AI did it.

SPEAKER_10

Uh, maybe. I I like I like the cynicism.

SPEAKER_14

Uh huh. It's very possible.

SPEAKER_10

It's

SAVE Act And Election Integrity Fight

SPEAKER_10

very possible. Because I got a lot of it. Speaking of things that I'm cynical about, elections is definitely something I'm a cynical of. Oh, yeah. Donald Trump gave a big rally down in Georgia yesterday.

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Finally, we have to pass the Save America Act to defend American elections.

SPEAKER_34

You guys can't go to Clappin'.

SPEAKER_27

I have to say, Mike Johnson and Congress have done a great job. We're having a hard time in the Senate. The Senate, what they're doing, it's just not right. Congress is gonna pass it again. They passed it three times, they're gonna pass it again. It's like the Senate is the place that you send things when you want them to die. We can't do this then. We're not gonna take this any longer. We're not gonna take it. You know, I'm trying to be nice. You know, we had a big victory last night in Arizona. But we're not gonna We're not gonna be able to take it much longer. When they can't get past voter ID, proof of citizenship, no mail-in ballots because they're crooked as hell.

SPEAKER_10

Finally we have the same Save America act agenda, right?

SPEAKER_14

Man, the Senate just reminded me of Joe Biden. We're not we're getting a little bit tired of these J Sixers.

SPEAKER_10

We're getting enough's enough. Put on your mask. Exactly. I was thinking about this on the drive-in this morning. I was like, you know, it's so funny because as a quote unquote conspiracy theorist, I'm like, all of our conspiracy theories have come true, especially the contemporary ones. I mean, we can still back and forth about JFJs, the moon landing.

SPEAKER_14

Some of them you only have to wait like a week to find out they're true.

SPEAKER_10

Yeah, you know, Carlito and I can go on about flat Earth or me being a globe card, right? Yeah, okay, whatever. Those conspiracy theories have no consequence.

SPEAKER_14

But when we talk about and they and they're also really fun and should just live on forever. They should live on forever. But when we talk about conspiracy find out if the earth is flat or not.

SPEAKER_10

Yeah, but conspiracy is like, hey, you know that border agent? Did he get killed with an American firearm? Yeah. Did the government give the cartels American guns? I don't know. Moving on. That's a conspiracy theory. Turns out, yes, fast and furious. Did we just drone a citizen overseas? Turns out, yeah. Do we have kill lists that the president signs off on every Monday? Oh, yeah, turns out, yeah. Um, did they try to rig an election? Oh, turns out, yeah. Did is COVID a scam created by the uh the United States government? Yeah, yeah, turns out it is. Is is the COVID shot a potentially a bioweapon with massive adverse side effects that could last for decades? Yeah, yeah, I know, totally. I'm like, what has the news reported on where the news wasn't the conspiracy theorists? They were the ones pitching the false narrative that's not.

SPEAKER_14

You know what's really important about COVID, and I I I don't know why more people haven't noticed this. It's like, you know, if the government's gonna come up with a thing that attacks his people and then it comes out of nowhere, but it has a name that uses the naming conventions that the government uses to name things at the patent office, right?

SPEAKER_10

Exactly. It's such a oh, totally Ron. Yeah, SARS-CoV-2. Ah, we'll name it COVID. Totally. Exactly. So it does, it does. It makes you kind of go. I was thinking about that. I was like, man, it seems like legacy media consistently has the opposite end of whatever it is. You might remember this back around the time of the 2024 presidential debate. Donald Trump was still on a banger, still claiming that elections were rigged and problematic. On the debate stage, a lot of these illegal immigrants coming in, they're trying to get them to vote.

SPEAKER_28

And at campaign stops across the country. They're not citizens, they're not allowed to do it. It's illegal as hell. Former President Trump frequently repeats false claims about migrants voting. They can't speak a word of English for the most part, but they're signing them up. That's not true. It's illegal for non-U.S. citizens to vote for president or in any federal election. And there have been few recorded incidents of non-citizens trying to vote illegally. There's also no evidence of anyone trying to get undocumented migrants to vote, according to experts.

SPEAKER_09

Except we have video footage out of LA. 17 different cities in town. And Michigan and Hugasco.

SPEAKER_14

How come they're letting up say the words here and not an actual reporter? Do they just want nobody wants to say these words anymore?

SPEAKER_10

Oh no, this is a reporter reporting.

SPEAKER_28

Allow people who are not U.S. citizens to vote locally, including in DC, who are non-citizens, even those here illegally can vote in local elections. But when they get to the polls, they'll be given a different ballot, like this one, that only lists local candidates for positions like the school board and city council.

SPEAKER_26

I do not have a driving license there, security.

SPEAKER_39

We change the law to make sure that all local residents are able to help uh have a vote and have a say in their government and the decisions they make.

SPEAKER_28

Charles Allen is on the DC City Council. Could you be registered and say another country and vote here?

SPEAKER_39

You you would have to be a resident here and claim residency here for more than 30 days. So we've seen hypotheticals where people throw things like that out and they just don't happen.

SPEAKER_28

The state of Texas says it's found almost 2,000 non-citizens who have previously voted, but it's unclear if they've been charged and liberal advocacy groups.

SPEAKER_09

Okay. There's no evidence. Texas found 2,000. Ah, but we question their evidence. Question the claims.

SPEAKER_28

Still, the laws allowing non-citizens to vote locally have sparked backlash across the country and fueled Trump's claim of widespread migrant voting, which have been echoed by Elon Musk and conservative media host, and inspired a bill that would require proof of citizenship to register to vote. If you've seen the form, you just check a box. So non-citizens are on voter rolls. The right to vote now under an even sharper spotlight as the election looms. Julia Ainsley, NBC News, Washington.

SPEAKER_10

Oh, so there's really no claims of it. It rarely ever happens. No big deal. But during the Biden administration, they they set out to make an example of people who voted in the election illegally. Did you know this? There was a campaign to go find people who voted illegally to put the big rigged lie to bed. And you know what they found? They did find a few people who voted more than once. But guess who they voted for?

SPEAKER_14

I think universally. I I couldn't even, but I could not hazard a guess, Taylor. There's no way I could guess. They voted for Donald Trump.

SPEAKER_10

So the few people that under the Biden administration that came after and said, You voted twice, right? Illegal voting. They were almost universally voters for Donald Trump. Like this gentleman, for example. The reason I'm playing this, right, is just to simply put it out there into the zeitgeist. The same standard which you hold will be the standard by which you are judged.

SPEAKER_29

None of Saunders' family or friends were there in the courtroom. The 56-year-old was found guilty of voting several times in the 2020 and 2022 general elections. According to the Cuyahoga County prosecutor, in 2020, Saunders voted in person in Ohio and Florida. He allegedly voted early in Ohio in 2022. The prosecutor says he voted in person in Ohio and by mail in Florida.

SPEAKER_11

Sir, your opinion does not outweigh any of us other fellow citizens. You do not have any greater right than any other fellow citizen in this country.

SPEAKER_29

A Shaker Heights attorney sentenced to three years in prison for committing voter fraud.

SPEAKER_11

Mr. Saunders, you are a attorney. You should be held to a higher standard than an ordinary unsophisticated citizen. You know what the laws are.

SPEAKER_10

Judge Andrew Santoli, not mine that James. That's why I always want to remain an unsophisticated citizen. I want the most leniency possible. I'm just a peasant.

SPEAKER_11

Furthermore, you're a former federal employee. You engaged in this cavalier conduct and perpetuated a fraud and crime on every voting citizen, every citizen in this country. Your conduct here, a purposeful, intentional, double voting warrants and deserves a prison sentence.

SPEAKER_10

So he got a double prison sentence. He got three years in prison for that. That sucks. But keep in mind that judge and what they're saying is absolutely accurate. Every stolen vote, every uneligible voter that votes steals a vote from you and I. And they deserve prison time. This guy cast two ballots.

SPEAKER_14

Okay. That sounds like we got a precedent.

SPEAKER_10

Sounds like we got a precedent. Sounds like we're taking this serious. Sounds like we got laws on the books.

New Jersey Voter Rolls Controversy

SPEAKER_10

So here's the former governor of New Jersey addressing his voter rolls in his state, and then the new governor addressing this little oopsies that happened a couple years ago.

SPEAKER_24

Tell the truth. I mean, the chances of voter fraud. And this is true.

SPEAKER_10

Uncovering voter fraud is less than when you have to say, and this is true, and I probably do this too. Spidey senses should go up, especially if it's a politician talking.

SPEAKER_24

The chances you're gonna hit by life. And I don't sit now with any sort of amount of humor. We lost a life card a couple weeks ago. Uh in in uh Berkeley township uh struck by life. It just isn't it barely exists in terms of voter fraud. Does that mean there aren't situations that come up that our folks deal with? Uh yes, but it's a de minimum uh frequency. It just doesn't happen. Our elections are safe and secure, and we're gonna make sure we keep them.

SPEAKER_35

In June of 2023, nearly three years before I became governor, a serious software error in New Jersey's motor vehicle system led to the improper voter registration of what we believe to be roughly 6,600 people in our state. When New Jerseyans applied for a driver's license or identification at the MVC, they were asked if they wanted to register to vote. In the case of this error, some individuals indicated that they weren't citizens and weren't eligible to vote. But the software registered them anyway.

SPEAKER_10

Okay, so the software registered them anyways. Okay, there's a software problem. What did Elon Musk say? Uh, I'm a technologist. Let's not do the software stuff when it comes to voting for these very situations. But this is a this is actually a big deal. This is a fork in the road when it comes to the narrative. If you believe what the legacy news wants you to believe, they want you to believe it was a software, it was a glitch, it's the software problems, and we can regulate them. That's that's the solution. Don't don't look at us.

SPEAKER_14

And it never happens, kind of like lightning strikes, you know, like the one that happened on Tuesday that killed a guy.

SPEAKER_10

6,000 lightning strikes in New Jersey. I mean, totally rare, totally rare, totally spontaneous, de minimis. So this was happening. So John Solomon, who's who has been part of the declassification task force, actually reached out to the software company that does this interface between the DMV, the MVC, and the voter registration, reached out and said, was it a software glitch?

SPEAKER_23

As you know, last night the New Jersey governor admitted that 6,600 illegal aliens had made it onto New Jersey's voter rolls. At least that number could be a lot larger. And 400 of them actually cast a vote. That is the largest number of foreigners ever to vote in any collection of an election in American history. That's confirmed. When uh we told you that last night, the governor said, not our fault. It was a software glitch, no big deal. Well, overnight, we reached out to the software company that runs New Jersey's system. And you know what they said? There's no software glitch at all. The state of New Jersey knew they were putting uh non-citizens, i.e. foreigners, onto the voter rolls. It is the state's responsibility to uh determine who is eligible to vote and who's not. The software had it marked right. That is a major contradiction. And just a little while ago, the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights in the U.S. Justice Department, Army Dillon, announced that there is an investigation of New Jersey now into whether they knowingly were allowing non-citizens to vote and to get on the voter rolls. Remember, a week ago, she sent the letter out saying if you let non-citizens vote knowingly, you're in trouble. Well, now the vendors' comments raise the very strong possibility that one of the blue states in America may have acceded to allowing non-citizens to vote. We're going to keep a close eye on that. Hope to get Harme Dillon on the show the next couple days.

SPEAKER_10

It's the first of the dominoes, right? Now, why is New Jersey so significant here? 6,000 votes doesn't seem like a knot. 35,000 votes is what Trump says it was. 4,000 people voted. What's the significance of this? Remember in the 2024 election, New Jersey was on the edge of being a swing state? Trump had a legitimate shot in New Jersey. In fact, he did a rally up there, right? They were they were maybe trying to take Virginia and New York. Like New Jersey is supposed to be solidly blue. But what if, Ron? What if they could trim all the bad 35,000 votes? Does that put it into the camp that a 1 or 2% swing in the vote outcome could actually flip New Jersey red? Could be interesting. Could be very interesting. Now, if you ask politicians, they're still holding the talking point. No evidence that, jeez.

SPEAKER_24

Undocumented migrants.

SPEAKER_03

We're debating a problem that does not exist.

SPEAKER_15

This is a solution in search of a problem that does not exist. Very the evidence is almost no illegal immigrants vote.

SPEAKER_31

Some benign effort to tell the small number of illegal immigrants.

SPEAKER_00

Citizen voting in federal elections is already illegal.

SPEAKER_31

There is no evidence of fraud or because we don't have a problem with illegal aliens voting in the country.

SPEAKER_13

It's not an issue that you have undocumented people in mass numbers voting.

SPEAKER_33

You know, very, very rare instances, but then just make the bill workable.

SPEAKER_13

It is absolutely banishingly rare.

SPEAKER_21

There's no evidence that non-citizens are voting. I think they think that it's already against the law for talking about a solution to a non-existent problem. Again, foreigners do not vote in our elections. Maybe it's partly about the SAVE Act, which is a ridiculous solution to a problem that does not exist. Foreigners do not vote in U.S. elections. That's the fact.

SPEAKER_01

It's already illegal for non-citizens to vote in the United States. They face prosecution and jail time for doing it. The Save America Act attempts to solve a problem that does not exist.

SPEAKER_14

How infuriating is it to you, Taylor? Because it is to me that when you hear people say, Well, there's never been a single piece of evidence to support the the claim that the election was stolen. Show me the hard evidence, Taylor. I mean, how infuriating is that to you? To me.

SPEAKER_10

It's infuriating simply because they are not actually asking that question in good faith.

SPEAKER_14

Right.

SPEAKER_10

That's not what's happening. They're saying I'm not going to look at the evidence.

SPEAKER_14

The good faith part of it is the part that is infuriating.

SPEAKER_10

Yes. Like, listen, if you guys were honest brokers and you truly believe elections are fine, you haven't seen any evidence. When I present the evidence, your opinion should change or the door should open. It doesn't matter with these people. Right. Not even in one bit. Here's Brad Raffensberger down in Georgia, right? This guy was in Secretary of State during the 2020 election, just ran for governor, just got walloped, took third place, like you know, teen uh uh teens, teens. He got teens, he's voting in the teens. What's up? I want to say teenager, but he got he got teen level votes, right? Like 13% or something small like that. But again, that talking point that, oh, it was just a software company glitch. This is kind of out of our hands. That is a little wedge issue. That's that little bit of dog poop in this story that makes it seem like, oh, well, it's kind of out of our hands and it's easily fixed. We just regulate and you know, it's really not a problem. It was just a glitch.

SPEAKER_37

Three years ago, through a computer glitch, some 6,600 non-citizens were registered in New Jersey, and some 400, maybe a little bit less than that, actually cast ballots. How alarming was that intro information to you, and what do you think it does say or doesn't say about the relative security of state procedures?

SPEAKER_03

Well, several thoughts. Number one is the data that was provided by DHS said there's about 35,000, 36,000, and now it's down to 6,600, so it's about uh 20% correct. But the answer really should be zero. And we've been one of the leading proponents.

SPEAKER_10

We're the first that's actually the opposite. DHS says 35,000 is their number, New Jersey says 6,600. It's not that you know the corrected number is corrected down to 66, it's that 66,000 or 6,600 is likely to be expanded to the DHS number of 35,000. Because remember, New Jersey has not been scrubbing their roles. So these are like people who checked on the application, I am not a citizen. There are probably people who check the box, I am a citizen, and DHS goes, No, you're not. That's a stolen ID, or something like that. That that I that ID came from China.

SPEAKER_03

Uh uh state that has ever done citizenship verification. We did that because there was a concern by voters. So we ran our numbers with the Department of Homeland Security under the Biden administration. It took about nine months. It was a very long and painful and expensive process.

SPEAKER_10

Oh, yeah, because my orcus was all over cleaning up voter rolls. That was totally his objective.

SPEAKER_03

As we went through that, we learned how we could help them really streamline that. I wrote Christy Noam a letter when she became DHS secretary. Here's a three-page letter, here's the process. If you do this, and plus waive that cost, that fee that you're charging us, you know, it could really help all states do that. And we now are actually on our third run through on verifying citizenship. And like uh DHS put out last week about Georgia, they said there's 2,600 folks. We've never seen that number before. We saw a thousand, and yet uh when we run through our numbers, we see no more than 150.

SPEAKER_10

And so like so he goes on to just talk like this, right? Well, we ran 150, and then we got a thousand, and then now they're saying a lot more than that. But I mean, uh Just quit talking, bro.

SPEAKER_14

You sound inept.

SPEAKER_10

Under my orcus, we didn't have this problem. Yeah, and the thing is, is this isn't new. This is just this is just the first state that has admitted they had a problem since Trump gave the press conference. All the way back in October 7th, 2024, Oregon came out with a similar thing. Oregon DMV finds more non-citizens mistakenly registered to vote. Whoopsie. Yeah, reveals 1,561 potential non-citizens were registered to vote through the DMV. That's that's specifically non-citizens who check the box. I'm a non-citizen, and the DMV still registered them the vote. Right. This isn't all immigrants, this isn't everybody. This is a these are probably green card holders, right? People who were willing to go to the DMV and identify themselves to get a driver's license and willingly said, I am not a citizen. Still got registered.

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Okay.

SPEAKER_10

That's a small segment, you know. That's not Compton's.

SPEAKER_14

These stories really are meant to highlight how the state is the problem.

SPEAKER_10

It's not Skid Row, right? These votes are probably H1B visa holders. These are people who came legally on an airplane, no problem that it's port of entry. Yeah, right. They went to go get their driver's license, like they were told to do, and then they got registered to vote. Heaven forbid they vote, right? 400 people in New Jersey voted illegally. Why? Because a ballot got delivered. Yeah. And they're like, well, what am I supposed to do? What am I supposed to do? Fill it out. Yeah. Right? You send me ballots for non-federal elections. Yeah. If you send me a ballot, I'm gonna fill it out. That's gonna be the defense. If it was legitimately 400 people who voted, you know, that just totally did it in ignorance.

Filibuster Pressure And Midterm Odds

SPEAKER_10

So, in light of this, Donald Trump.

SPEAKER_14

Which could easily happen, you know, that's only like 10% of the people that got him responded.

SPEAKER_10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_14

Yeah, it's just the 10% of people that didn't know they should have just threw it away. Exactly.

SPEAKER_10

So at that rally in Georgia, Donald Trump did something that I thought, ooh, that's gonna piss some staffers off. You should terminate the filibuster.

SPEAKER_27

Everybody called John Thune say that he's the leader of the Republican Party and tell him to get this stuff approved. And his phone number is so we're fighting so that all voters must show voter ID. We're fighting so that all voters must provide proof of citizenship, okay? And also the no mail imbalance, very important. And we're doing exceptions for illness, disability, military deployment, travel. If you're away and you have problems, we'll be very easy on that.

SPEAKER_10

Look, all right, Dad, you don't have to post. I know you're gonna vote absentee. I get it. You're always traveling during the election. But yeah, there's a carve out for absentee. Avent absentee is not mass bail and balloting, right? Totally different things. Mike Johnson addressed this in a little press gaggle, and A, they're confident they're gonna take the midterms, and B, for the third time, the House has now passed the Save America Act, but this time they attached it to a budget bill so the Senate can pass it with 50 votes plus J.D. Vance if they need to.

SPEAKER_12

And the budget resolution that unlocks our third reconciliation bill, which of course is Republicans' best job to get as much of the Save America Act into law as possible.

SPEAKER_10

He also is going to mention here, and this is important, is that the Republicans, even though the media makes it sound like they've been ineffective, have actually been really effective, right? Which is going to which is going to come into play here when we talk about the midterms coming up.

SPEAKER_12

In addition to funding our national defense and our farmers. Republicans support our troops, our farmers and election security. We're the only team in Washington that does. Many of you doubted our success. Many of you stand around me in the scagle right now and said, Let me read you a sample of the headlines. Quote House Republicans face final week gauntlet. Another said Johnson's Rocky Sprint to recess. Another said it was Johnson's make or break week. Despite nearly every Democrat voting against everything I just read you, House Republicans deliver. We just proved you wrong. This week we we we continue to deliver for the people, and we're going to continue that streak all the way through the end of this year and into the next Congress. We're increasingly confident that we will hold and grow this majority in the House. We must, because you're seeing a demonstration of the two sides, the divergent views for America.

SPEAKER_10

We are totally divergent views for America. So they seem to be effective. They've sent the Save America Act over. Let's see if enough people call John Thune. Like I said, there's some pissed-off staffers after that. He just did it at his press conference where he said call everybody in the Senate. And now he's like, call John Thune. You know, they got phone numbers calling from all 50 states today or yesterday, I'm sure. So Chuck Todd from CNN is on his little podcast and he's talking about the Republicans and the Democrats and their odds coming up to the midterms. Now remember, polymarket problem predictive. Polymarket has re Democrats taking the Senate and the House. And I know that the odds kind of shift, but I think pretty consistently the Democrats have been favored to take it. Now, again, what are we looking at there? Are we looking at influence or are we looking at actual betting odds?

SPEAKER_14

I I think it's it is an influential lie, is what it's I tend to think that as well. I tend to think that as well as I think that's the whole reason that this website was created.

SPEAKER_10

I also think that gamblers bet on chaos and destruction. The odds are higher when destruction is involved, is my opinion. That's you know, it's it's a risk thing. If I'm gonna put some money on, I'm gonna go for the where the odds are, you know, what's the thing that's not gonna happen that's gonna get get me better odds. So then, of course, anyways, point is let's listen to this.

SPEAKER_07

I look at the Senate map for Democrats and it's so daunting. I mean, oh my you know, if Republicans just come home a little bit, they can't win Texas. If Republicans come home in a moderate way, they can't win Iowa. And if Republicans come home completely, they can't win Ohio either, right? Like it is, they are really when your strategy is counting on other people not voting, and ultimately Texas is counting on people not voting.

SPEAKER_08

I I mean Chuck, look at the look at the races they have to win. Alaska, Trump plus 13. And I know he's not there today, but Alaska plus 13, Iowa, Alaska's different. I agree. I'm just saying if you look at the map, right? It's like, okay, Maine, fine. I can see that. North Carolina in a year like this, fine, Cooper's a better candidate. Trump won by three, it didn't win by line. But then every one of those other states, Trump won by double digit. He didn't just win.

SPEAKER_07

Right. He went by double digit. That's a hard road. I will say this. Let me throw one at you. All right. And and this gets it to if Democrats win the Senate, what's more likely? Exactly four or six or more? Six or more. Yeah, I think so too. Because I don't see how you win or it doesn't. Yeah.

SPEAKER_10

What they're saying there is the Democrats are being run by a national narrative, right? They either take it all, Republicans are bad, and Democrats come out of the woodwork, and democratic socialists show up to vote, or they don't win any of those states. It's it's the same thing that Donald Trump was looking at in the election. You're either probably gonna win all the swing states, or you're gonna lose all but one.

SPEAKER_18

Right?

SPEAKER_10

You're just gonna you're gonna get swept. Kamala's gonna take them all, or you're gonna take them all. It kind of becomes a binary choice here. And that's what he's saying. When you look at the map, I mean, maybe in Alaska with ranked choice voting, you can pull it off, or we keep Murkowski, she's not really a Republican, whatever. But every other state, you know, North Carolina, Maine, okay, Republicans do okay. There's a small margin there, they take it. But the other states, you really think Talo Rico's gonna take Texas? You know, like you said, they're counting on people not voting. Go to church, don't vote. That's what they're gonna do. Okay, so why is that? Why is the map so challenging? A redistricting, b, minor adjustments in the election stuff, the lawsuits by the RNC, the overall narrative. Trump is doing really well on a lot of topics. If you take out Iran and you take out the Israel topic that goes right along with it, what is there really to criticize Trump about? Okay. But the problem is the people that are most vocal about criticizing Trump, they there's nothing Trump could do that will ever satisfy them. Ever. There's nothing he can do that will satisfy him. And the reason is in the Democrat Party, that DSA wing, the Democratic Socialist Wing, the communist wing of the party, their agenda is absolute the the antithesis of the American way. They are trying to bring the Cuban revolution to America.

DSA Praise For Cuba And Revolution Talk

SPEAKER_10

This is a a kind of um edited clip of a Zoom meeting between Democrat Socialists of America activists. Listen to what they're talking about. And in light of the State Department report that just came out about Cuban intelligence and their influence.

SPEAKER_05

I would say when I was in Cuba, I was really impressed with everybody's commitment to the revolution and the principles of what the revolution stands for. So I have I have faith that the people of Cuba will know what a good thing that they have going and want to keep it going and not want to invite neoliberal nonsense to the island.

SPEAKER_22

Um, and really trying to lean into ESA's strength.

SPEAKER_05

Cuba has not done any of this fate sponsor of terrorism nonsense. We all know that this is a fake thing. When you go to Cuba, you can also bring supplies, the Cuban state. That's right.

SPEAKER_22

So, yes, thank you. And when you go to Cuba, you can bring suitcases.

SPEAKER_10

So, this utopic world, Cuba, when they go down there, everybody's great. Why? Probably because they're meeting with political party members that are eating, they're not going out on the bringing supplies with you. And then secondly, this utopic world, you need to bring supplies, but what kind of supplies, Ron, are they bringing to this communist utopia?

SPEAKER_22

Uh uh, which is what we did as DSA when we went to Cuba as well.

SPEAKER_25

Licensing, we probably hold the most export licenses of any organization in the United States outside of private companies that are shipping to Cuba commercially. I think we've got 65 licenses, and we can ship virtually everything uh at a hospital or a polyclinic we need in Cuba.

SPEAKER_22

The Cubans got it.

SPEAKER_10

Uh, they understand what need what neoliberals don't they consistently say that when anybody gets asked, well, what is good about Cuba? It's a great medical system. Then why do you have to ship supplies?

SPEAKER_22

So is and can do to their country, they put on a revolution 65 years ago uh in order to kick those forces out of their country, and it's something that drives their politics every single day. My grandparents and my parents had left everything they ever knew, came to a country where they didn't know the language. Um, that's that's real. But I I do think that especially younger Cuban Americans are again part of this weight of reassessment. We have to create the conditions that make it one politically costly for them to um support the embargo, just like it became politically cost costly for Democrats to support Israel. That's it, that's our task. I don't recommend directly fundraising on your own for Cuba. Um it's it's tricky and can get you in the hot water.

SPEAKER_10

I would say when I was in Cuba, that is the Democrat Socialist Party, right? That's the Democrat Socialist Party. I don't know. I thought there you go. I've not I'm sure they did. I don't know. Ana Rand had a team, I'm sure they had a team. I don't know. So this communism, right? The Democrats have really given themselves over to that. These DSA members are the people that you see at Democrat meetings, these are the activists, these are the people that are knocking doors, collecting ballots. They're motivated not by American greatness, but by trying to take down the empire. That it's the revolution. The revolution in Cuba produced nothing good. There was no moment where there was an appropriate trade-off. When people say, Well, look, they taught people how to read, they taught a smooth, small group of people how to read, they put they taught the children of the committed communists how to read. Everyone else got left out in the dark, and as of today, they are literally in the dark, right? Their policies have failed every time they've been tried. Donald Trump dragged Scott Bessant down to that rally in Georgia. And then speaking of Mandami and other communist mares that are popping up across the country, he's like, listen, these guys are selling a bill of goods.

SPEAKER_13

The government can solve every problem, redistribute every dollar, and supplant its judgment for our own. Our children are taught to romanticize an ideological to results in ruin wherever it is tested, to critique capitalism for every one of its flaws, and to forgive socialism for every one of its constant failures. In New York, the current mayor rose to power by repackaging failed ideals of the past as a moral cause of the future. But in Georgia, you know that beneath that youthful veneer lies the oldest impulse in politics, which is to concentrate power and then call it compassion. Show me someplace where this has ever worked. Moscow, Caracas, Havana. These workers' paradise paradises have all ended up as deprivation hellscapes. So at their core, Trump accounts represent the triumph of capitalism over socialism.

SPEAKER_10

And now our answer to the next It's interesting he positions the Trump that whole thing. I agree with all of it. And then the Trump accounts are the solution to socialism. It's the solution to Chinese communism and socialism. But it's the it's the uh it's a little bit of a flag. It's entrenching American socialism. Our markets are not free. There's just no argument there. We have a central bank. So what you're doing is you're propping up our version of socialism. But he's right there. You know, at least you have a choice of what companies you invest in. So you're like, okay, that makes sense. But it's interesting that they're saying that. It's a triumph over socialism. Well, I'd say it's a half measure, it's just kicking the can down the road. Stephen Miller gets it better than pretty much anybody else.

SPEAKER_21

The Democrat Party has embraced not only socialism, they've embraced communism. Straight up, outright, full-throated communism. They are now electing candidates who want to take private industry over, give it to the government, suspend the constitution, abolish the Senate, abolish borders, abolish prisons, abolish jails, abolish the jury system, abolish our entire way of life. The contrast has never been more clear. There's President Trump, the Republican Party, and American first, or there are the crazy communist lunatics who will steal everything you know and love in this nation, and they will never, ever let you have it back. That's it. It's that simple.

SPEAKER_10

It's clear as clear as day. So uh founder or one of the co-founders of Palantir, Alex Carp, he said this, and this is this is the mindset that I think is what's giving rise to this socialism. It's not coming from the working classes. Despite what the Russians tried to convince the world that it was a revolution of peasants, it wasn't. It was a revolution of upper middle class people that couldn't break into the oligarchy or the monarchy, and they were too prideful to lower themselves to be kulaks and actually run a small business and you know support their communities. And what is the mindset that that class of people in every age has produced?

SPEAKER_06

And I think the average, you know, Ivy Lee Grad voting for this mayor is highly annoyed that their education is not that valuable, and the person down the street who knows how to drill for oil and gas, who's moved to Texas, has a more valuable profession. And I think that annoys the fuck out of these people.

SPEAKER_10

And that's what the genesis of their envy is. It's that simple. You become your useless. So what do you do? You take advantage of the system. Take advantage of the system. What's one way that you would take advantage of the system in America? Well, you'd win elections. Okay, well, if you can't cheat them, then we have to do something to try to win them. And what do you need to get your get your word out to spread your lies? You need money. So what of what do we what do we know that Act Blue has been

ActBlue Smurfing And Money Power

SPEAKER_10

doing? Smurfing, right? Taking a small donor and turning him into a big donor with small donations over time, and then they can direct that money anywhere they want. Here's an independent journalist who actually went out to the house or the residence, I should more accurately say, of someone who in the last couple of years has donated $150,000 to Democrats.

SPEAKER_19

Well, here we are, out in the deep, thick country of Michigan, looking for one Elizabeth Waffle, 88 years old, donated nearly $150,000 in the last five years to Democratic causes. This is one of El Sayed's micro donors. Doesn't look like Tataj Mahal by any means. Come along. Where's the house? Okay, if I'm not back in five minutes, call somebody.

SPEAKER_34

Hello. Here's a walker. Hi madam.

SPEAKER_19

Okay. Pleasure. My name's Charlie. Are you Elizabeth uh Waple? Yeah. It says here that you've donated uh $150,000 in the last five years to various campaigns, and that you've made nearly $15,000 donations. I doubt it. You want to see it? 15,000, yeah. 15,000 separate donations on the computer. Did you make 15,000 donations in five years? $150,000?

SPEAKER_32

$150, hell no. I don't have that kind of money.

SPEAKER_19

Do you have internet? Sometimes. Sometimes?

SPEAKER_32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_19

Do you have a computer? No. No? So how could you make all these donations?

SPEAKER_32

I don't know. Are these all mine?

SPEAKER_19

Yes, this is. Now, there's 900 pages. I ran out of paper to print it on. Yeah, all of these.

SPEAKER_32

I have bad knees and then I went out and sprained an ankle.

SPEAKER_19

And so I'm Well with $150,000, you get those knees replaced? No, I don't think I dare spent that much. When's the last time you lived in Campfield?

SPEAKER_32

Well, I lived there for one year after the house burned.

SPEAKER_19

Oh, you oh the house here burned, yeah. So what it has here, here's the dates. In August 27th of 2024, you not only contributed on the same day from this address, but also from the Campfield address. So it says like you were in two places at the same time on the same day.

SPEAKER_00

Well, I still own the property out here, so surely.

SPEAKER_19

But it says how many how many contributions that day did you do? It's uh ten.

SPEAKER_32

It could be. I don't remember quite that much of it, but not $150,000.

SPEAKER_19

I can't believe it. And not 15,000 times. And you have spotty internet. What's this one? Aaron Rugenberg? Rugenberg. Ruggenberg.

SPEAKER_32

That name doesn't ring a bell.

SPEAKER_10

So this goes on. Do you believe she made $150,000 in political donations 15,000 times, sometimes 10 on the same day? And she's over here going, ah. She probably donated like one time. Yeah. One time. How do you consolidate power? Well, it's not that big a deal when you control the money printer, is it? It's not that big a deal when you control the money printer.

Hunter Biden Pardon Logic And DOJ

SPEAKER_10

Hunter Biden, gotta be the most shameless man on the planet. Did an interview with Don Lemon, who's under indictment. This is pretty good. Two people who've dealt with the judicial system here, right? And Hunter Biden justifies his pardon.

SPEAKER_38

This is interesting in the Department of Justice that he had no control over that. And you know how I have evidence of that? I got indicted twice after I had a plea agreement, after I had a deal, a special counsel was appointed by Merrick Garland. And then I had to go to trial as a son of the president. And whether you think of it or not, all one thing that does prove is that my dad never picked up the phone and called Merrick Garland or anybody in the Department of Justice or anybody in this White House.

SPEAKER_10

Or it proves, like your entire life, you were the bad man and you were the sacrificial animal to justify going after Trump. Couldn't criticize going after Trump when the same DOJ was going after the president's son. Oh, they must be fair.

SPEAKER_14

Exactly.

SPEAKER_10

Oh, they must be fair. I'm not gonna pardon my son. I'll never do something like that. Right, Hunter, based on what was on your laptop, Rudy Giuliani turned it into the state police for child pornography. Okay. That's what we don't have circulating out there because they stripped it off before they leaked the hard drive, because anybody in possession of it would have been guilty of a federal crime. So, Hunter Biden, check one, you did have a gun while you were using crack. That gun did make its way into a school zone out of your possession. You did lie on a gun form, whether or not you think it's you know, smart or not to deny drug users gun rights, that's a discussion. But letter of the law, you broke it. Okay, you were taking bribes from foreign countries, you're doing business with the spy chief of China. You wrote in a message to your sister that you were involved in the burning of children.

SPEAKER_14

Slow down Taylor, slow down.

SPEAKER_10

There's video footage of you. I would use the word violently assaulting women on your laptop. So this whole idea that, well, I mean, me. Why would I be prosecuted? Clearly, my dad had no control over the DOJ. Or you were the one that gave them the plausible believability that the DOJ is independent by going after you and your dad. Your pardon was always in the back. But you you had to pay your price for letting that laptop get out of your control. Made the right decision by pardoning you a hundred percent.

SPEAKER_38

Thank God. Yeah. I mean, I know people expect me to also go like, well, here's the one thing I know. I am incredibly grateful for that pardon, particularly in light of what is happening right now, particularly in watching Donald Trump indict you and go after you because you were covering a protest that found its way into a church. And I know that I'm not gonna ask you to comment on it because you shouldn't comment on it, as you're as your disparred attorney, I'm gonna tell you not to. But by virtue of the fact of Donald Trump going after James Comey, by virtue of the fact of Donald Trump indicting um uh going after John Brennan, by virtue of the fact of John Brennan going after um uh Adam Schiff sitting you as senator, by virtue of the fact that if my dad had not pardoned me, then Donald Trump would have his claws into my family for however long he held power. And so, what would my dad write about uh Trump in his book if he knew that I was um uh under the supervision of the Department of Probation, who, while you're under supervision of the Department of Probation, you have no Fourth Amendment rights. They can enter your house whenever they want, they can come into your breadroom when you're sleeping, they can walk into your bathroom when you're sitting, um uh, you know, uh uh uh coming brushing your teeth in the mirror, they can go through whatever they want, they can stop you in your car, they can do anything that they want to do, they can do anything that they want to do. So if he knew that his son, that that Donald Trump would have that control over his family, what would you do?

SPEAKER_10

Sounds like it was a very self-serving pardon, wasn't it? Joe Biden didn't even pardon his son because there was an injustice. He pardon his son because he didn't want the Trump to potentially have a window into their private lives. That's a stunning admission. And again, the hubris of that guy is just off the charts.

O'Keefe Video And Bureaucrat Resistance

SPEAKER_10

Now, we've got to be concerned. This next election really matters. The deep state is real and it's not just made up of super nefarious Illuminati members, it's bureaucrats, it's people who just they believe that they will outlast the political class and they will get their way. James O'Keefe scored another breakthrough video. He went on a date. He went on a the amount of gay men in the District of Columbia is off the charts. Okay, off the charts. It's unbelievable how many. Of these videos come from a grinder or tender hookup between two men. It's unbelievable. I do think that Hunter Biden's right. There's a gay mafia, okay? A closeted gay man. So this is Brandon Newsome. He's the director of business operations at the U.S. Department of War, the U.S. Navy.

SPEAKER_15

That way when I'm um A Pentagon director of business operations admits to me, while disguised with nothing but a mustache, that sticking around to quote, undo Trump administration policies after Trump leaves office. I mean, there's a lot of things that they tried to begin.

SPEAKER_26

They've still not rolled out. Because if you have certain votes and certain positions, slow roll things. What are some things that you could undo? I would not have fair service. I don't think there should be one specific. I was big to schedule policy. Hopefully that's the first thing that gets undone. I don't like it because I'm actually impacted by it.

SPEAKER_20

He seemed like a very professional guy for most of the meeting, but eventually did speak about what his true beliefs are about the war in Iran, about the president himself, calling him a narcissist.

SPEAKER_26

Wow.

SPEAKER_15

The war in Iran is driven by, quote, one man's ego.

SPEAKER_02

You probably can't even tell me what your position and your your opinion is on that.

SPEAKER_15

Anne makes the claim the Department of Government Efficiency Doge was clearing out contracts so they could be awarded to volunteer instead.

SPEAKER_20

At one point during the meeting, he actually said you could be a reporter. Well, I guess he was right.

SPEAKER_10

You could be a reporter. Honey potting me.

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Me?

SPEAKER_10

I'd never do that. That's like a James O'Keefe thing. That's the deep state right there, right? Oh, he's got an ego. I don't want prayer service. And I'm on scheduling and I want to get rid of that because it doesn't serve me. Pretty interesting. We are in some tough times, but don't worry, folks. The propaganda is strong with this one.

Golden Age Claims And Sign-Off

SPEAKER_27

So, ladies and gentlemen of Georgia, uh, the golden age of America is upon us. We are in the golden age. This is the greatest we'll ever be. And together with this is the greatest we peaked. We peaked, Ron, this is the greatest we will ever be. And together, with your help and the patriots all across this magnificent land, we love our country. We will make America powerful again. We will make America wealthy again. We will make America healthy again. We will make America strong again. We will make America proud again. We will make America safe again. And we will make America great again. Thank you very much. Thank you, Georgia.

SPEAKER_10

The Golden Age is here. We're still fighting the deep state and the Pentagon. They don't want to let us pray. We got a ways to go, folks. All right, that's it for the show today. Thank you so much for joining us. I really appreciate it. We will talk to you again tomorrow. Bye.

Monty Python Peasants And Power

SPEAKER_36

What in the mic 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 look what I object to is he automatically treat me like an inferior. Well, I am king. Oh, king, eh? Very nice. And 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 Who? The Britons. Who are the Britons? But we all are. We are all Britons. And I am your king. No, we had a king. I thought we were an autonomous collective. You're fooling yourself. We're living in a dictatorship. A self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working class is. How dare you go? Bringing classes in the game. That's what it's all about. If 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. I didn't vote for you? You don't vote for kings? Why to become king then? 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. Be equal! You can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tarp through a sword at you. Shut up! I mean, if I went round saying I was an emperor, just because some moistened bitch had lobbed a scimitar at me, they put me away! Shut up, will you? Shut up! Now we see the violence inherent in the system. Shut up! Now we see the violence inherent in the system! Help, help! I'm being repressed, bloody peasant! Oh, what a giveaway! Did you hear that? Did you hear that, eh? That's what I'm on about. Do you see repressing me? You saw it, didn't you?

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