Episode 3038 CWSA 12/06/25

Hello people.

This is the pre-show before the show.

Some of you will be here.

Hello Outdoor Space Marcela.

You're very fast.

I'll start the actual show at the top of the hour.

Don't make me say 500 times how many things are broken this morning.

It's everything.

Everything that should be working is not working.

But I'll get into that at the top of the hour.

For now, I can see your comments and you can chat with each other.

All right.

So, I'm uh now coming to you through the studio, the Rumble studio, which um partially works, but not the audio.

Yes, I was all excited because my i.

Phone can operate as a microphone, which I would need to use to have good audio.

But the moment I needed to actually use it for real, it no longer shows up as an option.

And I' I'd love to tell you I'd love to tell you that I had notes, but I don't really have any notes because the printer didn't work.

So the sound doesn't So the microphone doesn't work and my other microphone doesn't work.

and my printer doesn't work and locals doesn't work if I use it without the rumble studio.

So, it's that kind of a day and I would be sitting in my normal place.

He said my body doesn't work if if I sit at my desk chair for 4 hours.

Uh I'm just crippled after that.

So, I had to get in different position.

So, my body doesn't work.

The printer doesn't work.

Don't have any notes.

The microphone doesn't work and the other microphone doesn't work and locals doesn't work.

But at least I have coffee.

No, I'm just kidding.

I don't have a coffee warmer over here, so I don't have coffee.

But at least the coffee has, you know, the simultaneous sip written here so that I'll I'll be able to do the simultaneous sip because I'll just read the coffee cup.

Oh, wait.

It's the wrong coffee cup.

It's the only one that the letters have come off of.

So, I don't have the simultaneous sip.

I don't have coffee.

I don't have a coffee warmer.

My godamn printer is broken.

Locals is on the on the fritz again.

Two days in row and two microphones don't work.

Both of them should.

How's your day so far?

Absolutely every thing is broken this morning.

Every thing.

So that's how I'm starting off.

But will I be able to compensate?

Probably.

I'll do my best.

I'm using digital notes.

You're going to have to do the simultaneous sip from memory.

And I'll pretend I'm drinking coffee.

And as long as I don't sit up and crunch over, my back won't hurt.

Although it does hurt right now.

So there's that.

Oh, look at that.

Tada.

That one works.

We have learned today that whatever you do, don't use the one broken mug.

I made a mistake of running it through the dishwasher.

Did any of you have that problem?

You ran it through the dishwasher and then took the letters off.

You're back in 2017 Periscope, huh?

Oh, those are the days.

But do you remember how bad Periscope was?

Periscope was a absolute disaster.

That that thing never worked and still we loved it.

All right, it's time for a show.

What do you think?

You guys ready?

All right.

If you're just joining us at the top of the hour, let me give you an update.

Um, I couldn't print out my notes cuz my printer is not working.

And I'm not using my microphone because I had to relocate because my back is killing me.

But I was going to use my i.

Phone as a microphone because it shows up as one of the options and that would be really good.

Except that doesn't work now.

Even though I tested it ahead of time, it no longer shows up as an option.

So, you're going to have bad audio.

My notes are going to be read from the digital device.

Uh, and uh I wish I had coffee.

But uh that wasn't going to happen today.

So I'm going to read the uh simultaneous sip because I now have a cup in which it is written there.

By the way, if you don't have your cup, what is wrong with you?

You ready?

All right.

All right.

Let's get ready for the simultaneous.

All you need is a copper mugger, a glass, a tanker, chalice or ste a canteen jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind.

Fill it with your favorite liquid.

Oh, wouldn't it be good if I had coffee?

And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure.

The dopamine of the day, the thing makes everything better.

Boy, it better.

It's called the simultaneous sip.

It happens now, although one of us is just pretending.

M wouldn't that be good if I have actual coffee?

M All right.

No, I don't really I don't need any coffee.

I had enough today.

All right, people.

Let's talk about the news.

And by the way, after the uh after this show, uh Owen Gregorian will be hosting a spaces event on uh on X.

And you don't need to pay for that.

You just need to show up and look for Owen Gregorian.

Just do a search, you'll find him.

I also um I reposted it.

So, if you go to my account, you'll find it.

The link after the show, it'll be a few minutes after the show.

All right.

In uh technology news, there's a Rice University professor.

Wow, I didn't even know that Rice had a university.

Do all the food groups have their own university or is just Rice?

Maybe just carbs.

Is there like a potato university?

I don't know.

Well, there's a rice university.

I know it's not about the rice.

I'm just joking.

Just joking.

Anyway, the Rice University chemistry professor James Tour, he says that there's a way for the US to get uh some uh some rare earth uh stockpiles because they figured out a new and efficient way to recycle the existing rare earths.

And apparently you can you can recover almost 100% of them.

So if you've got rare earth materials in your old devices, they can now quite easily with some kind of new new process recover it.

And did you know that Trump has already signed rare earth mining and uh resource deals with 11 countries?

So he's got 11 countries that have made deals with us and now we have this new recycling thing.

I gotta say, um, I don't know how long it takes before we can be independent with Rare Earth, but there's definitely activity and they're definitely doing the right stuff.

So, we'll see how far that goes.

So, apparently Tesla has rolled down a new software update for their vehicles.

And uh now I guess Grock is um part of the car.

So you can talk to Grock in your car and you can just tell it where you want to go and the full self-driving will uh kick in.

So basically, you just sit in your car and you say something like, "Uh, take me to Bob's house." And Grock would probably say, "Bob?

Bob who?" And then you say, "Oh, Bob, whatever." So, you would just talk to it and then it would start driving.

Is that wild?

What would be better than just talking to your car and having it drive you somewhere?

Everybody Everybody who experiences that and I have I have not yet experienced it, but everyone who does is is just blown away.

Like you can't imagine that anybody would use any other process.

the the thing I used to fantasize about is that I could take a vacation just by walking out to my car.

So, I'd just get in the car, you know, with a you maybe one one piece of luggage and I'd say the car, uh, take me on a scenic trip to some park or something and, uh, make sure that when it's lunchtime or dinner time that you find a nice restaurant to pull over for meals.

And I think it would just do it, which would be pretty amazing.

Anyway, I I I also saw that uh Elon is trying to figure out how to combine the stocks of uh well, there is I don't think is there stock there's no public stock yet for SpaceX, which is why it would be difficult to combine it with Tesla, which is public.

But he's trying to figure out how the Tesla stockholders can get some upside benefit from some kind of ownership or of uh SpaceX, which would be awesome.

Uh I'm a I'm a Tesla stockholder.

I don't have much, but enough to mention.

That'd be very cool.

All right, let's talk about everything that's corrupt.

I I feel like lately my podcast has the same theme.

Well, somebody stole a hundred million dollars and somebody else stole a billion dollars.

It's it's all just the same story.

All I'm doing is changing the names of the the organization.

Anyway, um I guess the US Department of Transportation told the uh told Tim Walsh, Governor of Minnesota, that they've got 30 days, the state has 30 days to revoke all licenses issued to illegals.

I think this is for commercial.

These are commercial driver's licenses.

So, they don't want the people driving trucks and doing commercial work to be illegal.

But um apparently onethird of all the non-domiciled commercial driver's license in Minnesota were issued to illegal immigrants.

Onethird.

So that's apparently going to be reversed.

Wall Street apes is uh posting on that on X.

According to Fox News, um the Minnesota fraud, which we keep talking about, the fraud seems to be in a variety of places in Minnesota.

So, the whole state of Minnesota appears to be just a criminal enterprise at this point, but they think that the total amount stolen might be as high as $8 billion.

Can Can you even Can you even hold that in your head?

That's the amount that's stolen within just the last few years.

I guess8 billion dollar.

I I keep telling you that there are too many people driving nice cars to make any sense for how many nice good jobs there are or even how many people have inherited it from their parents or whatever.

There just seemed to be way too many people who have nice houses and nice cars compared to the number of good jobs there are in the world.

And I kept thinking for years, by the way, for years I've thought this.

I I thought, what percentage of all the richlooking people, richl looking meaning you have an expensive car or a nice house, what percentage of them got it from crime?

And I've always assumed it was at least 20%.

And now I'm going to up that.

I mean, it might be as high as 50% of all rich people are criminals.

And you know, it's these these white collar corrupt NGO money laundering situations.

I I love it when stupid people come into the comments.

Let me let me repeat what a stupid person here says.

This is all in caps.

Uh, you believe everything you see on Fox News.

No, I don't.

You're just a idiot.

I don't believe anything I see anywhere.

And I don't believe you are as dumb as you're pretending to be.

But maybe you are.

Maybe you are that dumb.

Well, let's look at the other frauds.

say uh now there's some thought that there's a massive Obamacare fraud uh that would be not just in Minnesota but in 2023 according to uh Steven Moore uh maybe as much as one in three people who got Obamacare subsidies may have been frauds.

It's it's it's possible that $21 billion has been fraudulently taken out of the Obamacare um process.

21 billion dollar.

All right.

So, let's see.

We've got all kinds of fraud in Medicaid.

We've got it in uh basically every program that you could have fraud.

the SNAP, uh, driver's licenses, fraud, fraud, fraud.

How about, uh, the SBA, Small Business Association?

Well, the head of that, Kelly Laughler, uh, has required that everybody who's getting the the SBA benefits uh, have to essentially, um, provide evidence that they're legitimate.

So, it's sort of an audit.

I wouldn't call it a audit exactly, but uh Kelly Laughler is making sure that only people who deserve these SBA benefits, their loans, generally loans for small business, um are getting them.

So, what do you think she'll find?

Take a guess.

So, it's the beginning of the process and the SBA is trying to find out how much fraud there is in the SBA.

Just take a guess.

Where do you think that's going to come out?

I'm going to guess that onethird of all the loans are fraudulent.

Anybody want to take the other side of that bet?

Do do you want to bet that it's less than one/ird?

I'm going to say onethird of them are totally fraudulent because that would be similar to all the other frauds that like everything that's fraudulent.

Everything that hasn't been scrupulously, you know, uh, audited, it's just full of fraud.

Well, let's see.

Uh, but at least the DEA, you know, that organization, the DEA, uh, that are making sure that the drugs and, you know, are not coming into the country.

Oh, wait.

The top Obama DA official has been charged with laundering money for the Mexican drug cartels.

Oh, according to Zero Hedge.

So, the DEA is corrupt.

The Well, it's everybody.

Just everybody's corrupt.

Do you ever wonder why we couldn't stop the drugs coming from south of the border?

It's not a big mystery.

It's because of corruption.

Otherwise, I'm sure we could we we could have done a pretty good job of stopping it.

it.

Corruption's got to be the worst when people have money to bribe you, but also guns to shoot you and you know that they would do it if they have to.

How do you get past that?

Well, they can bribe anybody and they can kill anybody, but first they would torture you.

Yeah, I think uh I think that's a problem.

Well, we found out a little bit more about the pipe bomber.

Uh, the pipe bomber has admitted that he put the pipe bombs there.

He is described as a, as Jake Tapper would say, a uh, a black man who he thinks was white.

No, just joking.

But, uh, he did call him white before he knew he was black.

Um, I have to admit that I assumed it was a white guy.

I know, maybe I'm a little bit racist against white people, but when I hear that somebody is planting bombs, I just automatically think that's my people.

I go, that's my people.

Damn you, you're making me look bad.

And then I find out it wasn't wasn't a white guy this time.

It was a uh young black man who uh is being described as almost autistic.

Almost.

If he had been a little bit more autistic, apparently those bombs would have been functional.

I don't know if those were real bombs.

Uh, wasn't it Thomas Massie?

I saw a post on X where Thomas Massie was asking the question, uh, if a pipe bomb is made with a kitchen timer that that only goes up to an hour, uh, how likely is it that the that it was set for, I don't some number of hours?

There there's something inconsistent about what we know about the bombs and the idea that it actually could have been functional.

So, it's still a mystery.

Um, I think one of the most impressive things about this story is that Mike Benz uh apparently had been sort of on to the uh you the notion that it might be a black guy from day one because his he had $300 sneakers, footwear.

Now, obviously, there could be people of any race who have expensive footwear, but if you were just doing a uh what would you call it?

An FBI profile and somebody said, "Oh, somebody with really expensive footwear," you'd probably lean black.

you know, um, in this case, obviously it doesn't mean that only black people wear good sneakers, but, uh, he would have been right if he'd made that guess.

And do you remember when, uh, Christopher Ray told us that the cell phone data was corrupt and then we found out that what was corrupt was apparently Christopher Ray or or the FBI.

So, let's see.

the SBA might be corrupt, the FBI.

And uh I think it's really clear at this point that they had that they were intentionally not pursuing it.

Now, I don't know why yet.

I'm guessing that the narrative didn't work.

um that if if the narrative did not support the idea that it was a bunch of mega people who were the dangerous ones that that they didn't just didn't want to put that out there.

So that's why I think it got stalled for several years.

But as soon as as soon as Bonino and um and Cash Patel fired the people who were in charge, soon as they got rid of all the people who were working on it that they solved it.

So I don't think we have to wonder what was going on there.

Clearly it was just corruption of some type.

So that was corrupt.

Let's see.

Uh and and now we're hearing that the pipe bomber may have believed or worried that the 2020 election was stolen except that we know that he was getting his bombs ready in 2019.

So that story doesn't hold together.

So pretty much everything we know about the pipe bomber looks like it could be fake.

If you're just joining, the reason I'm not in my regular chair is that I'm having just vicious back problems.

And so if I if I move out of this position or, you know, hunch over my computer too much on the desk, uh, I'll be in bad shape.

All right.

Uh, what else is happening?

So, apparently there's some kind of new government document.

Uh Trump's got this national security strategy document that just went out and he's he's mocking Europe.

So he's talking about Europe and he says quote their economic decline is eclipsed only by the real and stark prospect of civilizational erasure.

Civilizational eraser.

That that's that's what Trump is accusing uh Europe of doing.

basically erasing their own civilization.

He says if present trends continue the continent will be unrecognizable in 20 years and apparently uh they have lost their global share of GDP.

This is the European Union.

They've lost their global share of GDP that at one time in 1990 was as high as 25% of the global GDP.

Now it's down to 14%.

Uhoh.

I wonder if the European Union is doing anything else that could destroy their future.

Oh yeah.

Apparently they've got this uh new law that they're using to go after X and go after Elon Musk and they're finding him $140 million.

And I guess they're finding the company, but they're also finding Elon Musk personally.

And what was it that they wanted?

The European Commission says what they wanted uh or what they're complaining about is they say that X had a deceptive design of its blue check mark.

Does that sound real?

Do you think that X has a deceptive design for its blue check mark?

Well, I haven't noticed a problem.

Have you?

Is there anybody who doesn't know what the check mark is or may maybe this is old because they you know didn't they change what the check mark means?

What kind of problem is that causing?

That's ridiculous.

Um they also European Union says the X lacks transparency of its advertising repository.

really that that's a problem that Europe needs to worry about is lack of transparency of its advertising repository.

I don't even know what that means.

Doesn't sound like a big problem, but okay.

And they also accusing X of failure to provide access to public data for researchers.

Okay.

Do the other platforms do that?

What kind of data is this?

Now, I haven't heard uh you know, Elon Musk's response to the specifics, but I sus I suppose it's Um, you know, and Elon's pushing back very hard.

Michael Shelonburgger says uh that it's not about uh well he basically he says it's about censorship that the real the real purpose of the European Union is to control uh an American company and specifically to control the free speech of that American company.

So uh as Michael Shelonburgger points out that is very incompatible with NATO because we should not be battling NATO.

I mean they're NATO countries.

Why would we be why would we be be why why would the United States spend money and put its own people at risk to defend the European Union that is trying to take the free speech away from Americans our most cherished probably the most cherished of all of our rights.

I don't see Russia doing that.

I don't see China.

Well, maybe they are, but I don't know how what they're doing.

But why is the European Union trying to mess with our freedom of speech?

That's not cool.

U Elon Musk posted on X abolish the EU.

Do you think it's time to abolish the European Union?

I'm going to say we don't have to do anything because they're abolishing themselves.

As I just said, the uh the Trump administration's document that just came out basically says Europe is doomed and and if they just stay on their same course, which it looks like they will, uh they're not going to have a NATO, they're not going to have an economy, they're not going to have rights, and they will just flood their own zone with people from other countries who might be fine individuals.

individually, but uh if you bring in lots of them and you do it suddenly, which is the way they're doing it, then you're bringing in a culture.

There's a big difference between bringing in a person who might be just a fine person versus bringing in lots of people suddenly from places that are uh very different from your place.

That would be importing a culture.

And uh there's no reason to believe that that's going to go well.

So, you don't need to abolish the EU.

They're abolishing themselves.

So, the EU is corrupt and stupid and everything else is corrupt and stupid.

What about our news?

Um, you may have heard about this, but uh David Saxs has been the target of the New York Times hit piece.

And I won't go through all the things that they got wrong and and how bad they are, but it's pretty bad.

So bad that, you know, some other uh tech titans have weighed in to say this is basically this isn't cool.

It's so obviously just a hippie and doesn't seem to be trying to be news or useful.

It's just a hippie.

And yeah, I've seen some uh some speculation about why they would target him in particular.

And uh I guess Chimath from the all the all-in pod you know Chimath uh he was saying that uh that the reason for this uh hit job of what you would call a non-establishment figure is uh quote the whole point was to get enough chatter so that people like Sachs and other people in the future just say I'm not going to try this um you know they would be essentially frightened away from run doing anything useful for the Trump administration because it's too dangerous.

Now, the media has been doing that for years.

The media has been, you know, doing hit pieces on Trump supporters and Trump administration people trying to take him out one by one.

So, I don't know if it's any more complicated than the fact that both sides are trying to pick off uh the best people from the other side.

So when I see them doing a hip piece on somebody like Steven Miller or a hip piece on I don't know JD Vance hit piece on Sachs the first thing I say to myself is oh the other side must think these are the most powerful or influential people.

So they're trying to pick off their their best people.

That's all it is.

I I don't think you have to go deeper than, oh, this group of people do a really good job and make Trump look good.

That that's all you need.

And then you get to get a hit piece.

Uh I too have been the subject of hit pieces.

Bloomberg in the first uh the first term.

Uh have I ever told you that the mistake I made with Bloomberg?

If you ever become a public figure, let me give you this advice.

If somebody from a major publication says, "We'd like to do a profile on you." Warning, warning, warning.

That's the first warning.

That's that's a red flag.

And here's where here's where it's worse.

We'd like our reporter to spend the day with you.

Sort of, you know, see how you live and, you know, go through a day with you.

Do not do that.

You you will be you will be immediately flattered that some big entity wants to spend the day with you and write a big piece.

It's not going to go well.

It it is a hippie.

They would only do the stay all day with you unless it's a hippie.

That's the only reason to do that.

So do not let the media spend a day with you when you become a public figure.

If you're not a public figure, it might be different.

But if you're associated with a political side, do not do that.

I made that mistake.

Boy, was a bad hippie.

What about the Washington Post?

Well, the Washington Post is doubling down on their reporting about Pete Hegath and they are the only news entity who who is reporting this and everybody else is saying it's fake news.

But the Washington Post believes that Hegsath did give a order to kill them all regarding the Venezuelan drug boats.

Uh all the other entities say that didn't happen.

And in fact, the admiral the admiral in charge who would definitely know if it happened or didn't happen says didn't happen.

The admiral in charge says it didn't happen.

Now, if you were the admiral in charge, would you risk your entire career to lie about something that would have a high potential of being found out as a lie, like toward the end of your career?

Would you do that?

I wouldn't.

I wouldn't do that.

So, I I tend to believe that the admiral is telling the truth because it would be a bad time to tell a lie.

Um, so yeah, if he says it didn't happen, I'm going to say it didn't happen, too.

So, the Washington Post, corrupt and stupid.

The New York Times, corrupt and stupid.

Your European Union, corrupt and stupid.

We've got uh the SBA that we're probably going to find out is corrupt and stupid.

We've got the FBI, corrupt and stupid.

The DEA, corrupt and stupid people working for it.

Obamacare, corrupt and stupid.

Minnesota, the entire state, corrupt and stupid.

Um, and uh, the good news is there is some good news.

We'll get to it in a minute, but um, I I think I'm having too much fun being right.

How many of you remember me saying be before any of these stories broke?

So before you had heard anything that I'm talking about today, do you remember me saying that every big organization uh ends up being corrupt?

If there's a lot of money and there a lot of people involved and you're not auditing it really rigorously, what do I say happens every time?

It's always corrupt.

Every single time.

You don't even have to guess every time.

A lot of money involved, a lot of people involved.

Time has passed, you know, enough for people to figure out how to game in the system.

And there's no extensive audit.

It only goes one way.

All right, let's see what else is happening.

Um, got lots of stories today.

Oh, so Joe Biden was allowed to uh leave his bedroom and talk in public again.

And I'd like to do a quote of Joe Biden talking at some LGBTQ event.

And uh he did his his Joe Biden thing where he gets he gets angry like angrier than you think he ought to be for the topic.

And he said, and I quote, "We're the United States of America.

So, if you didn't know what country you were living in, Joe Biden is here to remind you that it is the United States of America, but apparently it's America.

All right.

I didn't know if I was going to do this, but I'm going to do this.

Uh, I've been fascinated by the the reporting of uh of uh Emerald uh Robinson.

And if you have not been watching Emerald Robinson's reporting, you're missing a really good show.

Now, the thing I don't know is what's true.

So, I don't know it's true, but damn is it interesting.

And it's so interesting I wanted to find the thread and just read it to you because if I try to, you know, give you the summary of it, you're going to miss some of the best parts, but let's see if I can find it first of all.

Here we go.

So, uh, Emerald Robinson has done lots of different threads on this.

This is a new one, but it goes over some territory that uh you may have heard before.

All right.

Now, remember, I'm not claiming that this is all true.

I'm not making that claim.

The what I will claim is that if it's true, holy hell.

I also think that it's the sort of thing I never would have believed maybe two years ago, 5 years ago.

It's the sort of thing I wouldn't have believed at all.

I'm not saying I believe it yet, but I don't see anything wrong with it.

The the people involved all seem credible, at least the ones who are named.

There are some whistleblowers who are not named.

So, that's that's always a red flag, the unnamed whistleblowers.

But, uh, let me just read what she says is reality.

Okay?

Uh, and pay attention to all this because it's it's just mind-blowing, but I don't know if it's real.

So, after I'm done, I'll ask you and then in the comments, you tell me.

Does that sound real?

All right.

So, Emerald Robinson on X.

Uh, number one, a few weeks before the 2024 election, Senator Mullen and former Senator David Purdue finally arranged a meeting between Trump adviser Susie Wilds and the one man who could explain exactly how America's election systems are rigged.

Who do you think the one man is?

Who who is the one man who actually would be able to know if the elections are rigged?

Well, the meeting took place at Mara Lago.

Susie Wells had publicly said that the election fraud was not real and that people who thought so were crazy.

That was that was a popular line of thought at the time.

After the briefing, she didn't know what to think because it sounds pretty credible.

And then she asked for a piece of cake.

She ate it slowly, which I love the writing that isn't that great writing.

The It goes from talking about whether the election was rigged and uh she had her mind changed and she had a piece of cake.

She ate it slowly.

That's just good writing.

Uh then she made the decision Trump's team should be briefed, too.

All right.

So, the idea that the elections were rigged had not been getting through Susie Wilds.

Uh, she had been presumably not not taking that message to anybody because she wasn't convinced.

Now, she was convinced or at least convinced enough that she thought they needed to hear it.

That doesn't mean it's true, but that she apparently couldn't see a problem with it.

Uh, number three, in the end, the man, we we don't know who the man is yet, but the man who who by her telling is the one person who could figure out if this was if the elections were rigged.

Uh, in the end, the man stayed at Mara Lago for three days to brief everyone.

There was only there was there was only one man who Wilds trusted to confirm it all, Elon Musk.

A call was made.

The man found himself in a room with Musk.

So the the this is a man uh the man is not Musk, but he was put in a room with Musk because Musk would be good at figuring out if this was true or a bunch of BS.

Um Musk declined to sit through a full briefing and he said, "Uh just give me your data." That sounds very much like Elon Musk, doesn't it?

He wouldn't sit through the briefing, but he definitely wanted to see the data.

So Elon Musk read the AI summary.

So I guess he used AI to summarize a bunch of data that they gave him.

Uh so he read the AI summary of the technical data and then he picked up his phone and made a call.

Quote, "We have a problem.

It's true." Then Musk got on a plane to host a Trump rally in Pennsylvania.

You remember that Trump rally in Pennsylvania?

I believe that's the one where Trump's ear got shot.

It was October 17th, 2024.

Musk on stage and attacked Dominion.

Dominion being the hardware um the maker of the election machine hardware.

Uh, according to Emerald Robinson, Elon Musk said at the rally, quote, "There's always the question of Dominion voting machines.

It's weird that they're used in Philadelphia and Maricopa County, but not in a lot of other places." Doesn't that seem like a heck of a coincidence?

So, I guess that's what Elon said on stage.

Musk was warning us the system was rigged.

All right, number six.

uh how could this deal be stopped a few weeks before the election?

Now imagine you were them and you believe that the that the system was rigged in the past was also rigged for the future and an election is coming in a few days or you not a few days but not very long.

Uh the um how could this deal be stopped a few weeks before the election?

The man who briefed Musk had a team, Patrick Burn and Gary Bernston.

Now, you know Patrick Burn because he's been talking about the election rigging for a long time.

And uh he uh he says he has all the receipts and has been deeply involved to the point of he wouldn't be guessing.

So, if the things that Patrick Burn says in public are true, and he does seem very credible, I don't know if it's all real, but he seems credible.

If that stuff is real, we're in a lot of trouble.

Or we were.

All right.

So, the election is coming up in a few weeks and this group of people including Elon Musk uh and Patrick Burn and Gary Bernston believed that the system was riggable and probably would be rigged again in the coming election a few weeks away.

Uh they had worked for let's say this team had recruited a dozen people who knew how the rig system was built in Venezuela.

They had worked for Smartmatic, that would be the software part of the election systems, and Maduro, the head of Venezuela.

So allegedly, there were a dozen people that they could find who had inside personal knowledge of how the machines were rigged.

Now, that's a hell of a claim.

Um, this group of whistleblowers were hiding in a hotel in Gastad, Switzerland before the 2024 election.

That's where General Flynn flew to see them.

Flynn asked, "How long has election fraud been going on?" They said, "Venezuela now rigs it in 72 countries for the last 20 years." All right.

know uh th this is uh this is where it gets to the point where I say really 72 countries just Venezuela and they've been getting away with it for 20 years that's a hell of a claim and you you can see why it's hard to just embrace this entire narrative completely because there are parts of it that could be true that could be But boy, you'd really have to you'd have to take a big bite on this to believe that Venezuela of all places was controlling the elections in 72 countries for 20 years.

It's a big claim.

All right, we'll go on.

The whistleblowers from Venezuela had video uh meetings with M's team and Trump's team to explain technical details of the election fraud.

So, do you believe that Trump's team and Elon Musk were briefed by the whistleblowers in the technical part of how it was done?

That's the claim.

The most important detail, the Dominion IP addresses had been located.

So, I don't know how that is connected to everything, but apparently if you have the IP addresses, that gives you a little bit of a a backdoor into figuring out who did what.

Beyond that, I don't know exactly how the IP address part fits into it, but apparently it gives you some visibility into something that they hadn't had before.

And uh they bought these IP addresses for $15 in Bitcoin from an anonymous Japanese account.

Okay.

Uh the relevant data and IP addresses were now verified.

Okay.

That's when Senator Mullen came to the rescue again.

a cyber security team got the data.

Now I don't know who the cyber security team was but let's call them hackers.

So once the the understanding of how the hacking happens and the IP addresses were available, I guess that means the cyber security team could hack into the existing system and do their own damage that would be separate from whatever the alleged bad people were going to do with the system.

Three days before the 2024 election, Dominion's office in Serbia, so that's where some ser some servers were, was hit.

Their computers were useless.

So I interpret this as they hired a bunch of hackers who now had enough information with the IP addresses and with understanding of how the systems worked that they could hack in and basically take down the back operation that was going to do the rigging.

So, they were all ready to rig the 2024 election and unbeknownst to them, the good guys hacked in and crashed their systems and that and that would be why Trump won.

Allegedly on election day, nobody knew if cyber security team had been successful knocking out the Serbian computers.

Everybody in Mara Lago had to wait for the results without certainty.

The man who had briefed Musk flew to Oslo that day.

um his team would flee the USA if they failed.

So the the thinking was that these whistleblowers would literally be murdered um if if things went south.

Uh Emerald says, this is an Emerald Robinson uh long post that she posted today.

Imagine the moment on election day Trump had no idea if he would win.

So Patrick Burn watched results from from.

Qatar or Qatar if you prefer.

So Patrick Burn got out of the country because he must have been worried about what could happen to him.

Gary Bernson watched from Switzerland.

So two people who knew the most about this left the country because they thought they would get killed basically if things went south.

All of them would be hunted down if the 2024 election fraud was successful.

Uh meaning that the bad guys got in charge again and all of them would and the USA would be finished.

Number 12, Trump was upset with his own staff after Elon Musk verified the fraud was real.

So again, that's a big claim.

Is it true that Elon Musk could and did verify that the fraud in the past election was real?

It's a big claim.

I if Elon Musk says that's true, then I will believe that's true.

It's not something he would lie about.

Um but I haven't heard him say that.

Um he'd been now this is talking about Trump.

Trump had been gaslit for four years by his team to drop the topic.

In fact, his staff hired a Cuban intelligence asset in 2020 to quote investigate the fraud to lie to Trump that her elections were fair.

Okay, that again, that's a big claim that his staff hired somebody to essentially lie to him.

Uh you you'd have to show me some evidence of that one.

Uh number 13, that's the thing about Trump.

He always hired the wrong people.

This is Emerald Robinson's opinion.

His own adviserss had tried to keep him from meeting with the team that saved the 2024 election.

Uh people like Boris EP and Chris Le Seevita had blocked the truth at every turn.

Again, these are allegations.

I don't know what's true.

Let's call the team that and Emerald says number 14.

Let's call the team that saved the 2024 election the three musketeers.

Uh, that's the man who briefed Musk and Gary Bernston and Patrick Burns.

Um, I've now interviewed them many times along with Smartmatic whistleblowers from Venezuela.

I've confirmed key facts with the ODNI.

So, so she's she's done the work.

That doesn't mean it's all true, but she's definitely done the work.

Uh, here's where the story gets really wild.

It's wilder than that.

Okay.

The three musketeers were also the ones who warned Trump about election fraud after the 2020 election.

Where do you think Cydney Powell and Rudy Giuliani got their information about Smartmatic and Judge Janine got them connected?

Number 16.

So, Trump had good intel about the fraud 2 days after the 2020 election.

So, you can see why he was so insistent that it was fraud, that it was rigged.

But then Trump called in Kushner to quote, "Gather a legal team to handle it all." Kushner's team was briefed next, but they dismissed the intel and did nothing.

Again, these are allegations.

I don't know what's true.

Rudy and Sydney were hung out to dry with no help.

Yeah.

does.

If if this is true, then Rudy and Sydney were hung out to dry with no help.

Number 17.

Let's return to 2024.

Trump is one.

It's Christmas.

The whistleblowers from Venezuela are moved from Gastad to Bahamas on tourist visas to protect them.

They're being hunted by the cartel.

They need to get into the USA to testify and bring down the rigged voting machines.

It's February 2025.

Time is now up.

With their visas expired, the whistleblowers would be sent back to Venezuela and killed.

So Patrick Burn got a catamaran out of Florida and sailed in the worst storm possible to the Bahamas in order to smuggle them all into the USA.

Jesus.

Uh, number 19.

Why is this happening?

After all, Trump's now back in office.

The most important whistleblowers in American history are stranded because team Trump does not have his act together again.

Finally, Tom Hman saves the day and sends two guys from DC to bring them all into USA.

Number 20, it's April.

Trump authorizes task force on election fraud.

Uh the DOJ, CIA, DHS, DNI guys meet the whistleblowers.

Then the agencies start a fight over who has control of the investigation.

Of course, none of those guys return for interviews or casework.

They disappear.

Team Trump fails again.

21.

What's going on exactly?

Says Emerald Robinson.

Our intel agencies are so compromised that none of them really want to investigate election fraud because they're involved in rigging the elections, too.

And Trump didn't bother to fire all these people.

22.

It's June.

Two whistleblowers are so upset with the handling of the investigation, they leave the USA in secret.

It's all about to fall apart.

Tulsi Tulsi Gabbard has to bring new guys from the three-letter agencies to start all over.

Those guys are shocked beyond belief after the interviews.

It's July.

The invest the investigation report uh the investigation report is done.

Tulsi prepares to bring the full report on 2020 and 2024 to Trump.

Trump's own White House advisers tell Tulsi to not include the 2020 evidence.

So she gives Trump a partial report.

Trump is now angry with Tulsi because of leaving out the 2020 stuff.

So Trump gets tired of waiting for these reports.

He wants to know if Venezuela really runs Americans America's election.

So, at this point, Trump is not yet convinced that this whole Venezuela thing, the narrative is correct.

So, he's still he's still looking for confirmation.

Um, so who does he finally call to brief him?

Who does Trump finally call to brief him?

Well, the three musketeers, of course.

Not the CIA or DNI.

Uh, that's when Trump decides it's time to overthrow Maduro.

Oh, does everything make sense now?

That's when he decided he needed to overthrow Maduro.

Maybe.

Maybe.

How did the Three Musketeers do all of this?

Well, Patrick Burns spent $80 million of his own money to protect America.

Houses, cars, Bitcoin, all gone now.

Gary Bernston mortgaged his house.

They're all broke now.

No one has been paid back by Trump or Trump admit at all.

Not one cent.

And that's the end of the threat.

End of the thread.

Now, show me in the comments.

Does that ring true?

Because it does connect all the the dots.

doesn't mean it's true, but it does a good job of wrapping everything up in a nice little package, doesn't it?

I'm just looking at your comments to see if you believe.

Is the Kraken real or is this just more Kraken?

I don't know.

Uh yeah.

And then I I imagine if you were to look for, you know, another source or you you tried it with AI, it probably would tell you that the credibility is low.

That's my guess.

So, let me let me say again as clearly as possible.

I don't personally know if any of that's true.

How would I know?

I just know it's a hell of a a complete story.

And there's nothing there that's impossible.

None of it's impossible.

And we've just gone through how many years of, "Oh my god, I didn't think that was possible, but it happened." So, um, I always go back to my question.

And my question goes like this.

What would be the purpose of of electronic voting machines except to rig an election?

What would be the other reason?

They're not faster.

They're not cheaper.

They're not easier.

So why?

I only know one reason for machines.

Given that paper would be more reliable and, you know, easier to audit and everything else.

The only reason I can think of is that you intend to rig an election.

Now, I've been saying this for several years in public that there's no other reason that has even been presented for why there would be machines.

I'm not even saying I would agree with it or don't agree with it.

Nobody's even tried to make the argument that there's some legitimate reason.

So, if nobody's going to make the argument that there's any legitimate reason for them, what am I supposed to think?

Well, I don't know if Emerald Robinson's narrative got all the details right, but I know it would be perfectly consistent with observations, and it would be consistent with essentially everything we know to be true.

And it would be consistent all the way through to why is Trump so uh intent on overthrowing Maduro?

And the reason might be that Maduro has been controlling our elections and Republicans will never be able to win again unless he's overthrown.

So this could be as much about domestic elections as it is about narco votes.

cuz are aren't you saying to yourself, "Huh?

Are is blowing up these boats really going to is that really going to change the world?" Um, but it makes a lot more sense if you believe that the real intention is to depose Maduro and maybe and maybe also get more information about whether the machines are rigged.

80 million votes alone.

Yeah.

I mean, just the fact that the total number of votes and the way they came in was non-standard, this would explain that.

So, um, so that's, uh, Emerald Robinson's take.

Um, I've been enjoying quite a bit reading her narrative, not knowing if it's true, but I'm enjoying it, and she's put a lot of work into it that looks like really good work.

So, I just wanted to, you know, make sure that you had at least uh some knowledge about that that narrative and her work.

Okay.

Did you did you enjoy that?

How how many of you enjoyed the reading of Emerald's work?

I want to make sure she gets the credit because I'm just reading her work.

All right.

Tell me in the comments if you if you enjoyed that or not.

Well, let's talk about the climate hoax.

Uh, the LA Times has now gotten a big opinion piece about how uh the climate hoax is falling apart.

There's an Opad.

Uh, Steve Mallaloy of Junk Science is calling this out.

And I I guess the point here is that it's not just the LA Times that's allowing an opinion to an opinion piece to debunk the climate hysteria, but that uh you know there was that big paper that was recalled and uh a lot more people are willing to say, "Hey, this climate stuff looks sketchy." Now, if I tell you that if you believed uh all the Venezuelan you election machine stuff, if you believed that, how hard would it be to believe that the the climate stuff was always It'd be pretty easy to believe, wouldn't it?

If you'd never seen how wildly unlikely reality is, you would probably wouldn't believe that it's even possible that the whole climate thing could be fake.

and fake for 20 years and all the scientists would be either lying or mistaken or covering their ass.

But it's totally possible.

It is totally possible that this has never been real and that a trillion dollars has been fraudulently moved around because people tried to make you think it was real.

Uh let's see what what else.

What about Minnesota's uh state disability numbers?

Oh, well it looks like uh Eric Nordy is writing about this in a that the new license application soared 283%.

Basically all the all the uh signals were there that there was a some kind of massive state disability fraud going on and it was a Somali Somali fraudulent thing.

So let's see the state disability is bad.

SBA will probably look bad.

Basically everything that's a big pile of money is money laundering.

In other news, Leticia James uh did not get indicted, which is weird because you've heard, you know, the old saying that you can indict a ham sandwich.

So, the grand jury uh looked at the evidence and said, "Ah, this is bullshit." And I we don't know their reasoning, but probably it was because it's such small potatoes and probably because it looked like it was a political hippie.

That's my guess.

But we don't we I don't think we have a way to know what the grand jury was thinking.

We only know that they decided not to go forward with it, which is unusual.

I don't think that's the worst thing in the world.

Um, and I also don't mind that the uh the Department of Justice tried, you know, they tried and if it doesn't work, it doesn't work.

I do think that justice would have been served if she had been treated the same way Trump was because correct me if I'm wrong but uh Trump had no victim at all.

Right?

In her case there was a victim but a very small one.

You know it was a bank and it wasn't that much money for a bank but it was way more than Trump cost anybody.

He didn't cost anybody anything.

the banks were happy to work with him again if they had a chance.

So, I I would have been more entertained if things had been harder for her.

But, um I also don't mind if the if the grand jury process works the way I wanted to.

So, that would be fun.

All right.

Um what else?

Inflation doesn't look so bad.

Apparently, according this is according to O One American News, uh that if you look at the core index, it's only 2.8% this year, which wouldn't be that bad.

Um I think people would disagree about whether inflation is bad or not, but doesn't look too bad.

And then also um Jeffrey Small, a partner at Retirement Income Source, is predicting that the Fed will not cut rates next week, but they might wait until January, but everybody expects them to cut rates.

So inflation seems to be roughly under control.

Uh interest rates look like they might be coming down and uh that's all good.

Here's some more good news.

AT&T is scrapping its DEI policies, uh, including worker training that called racism a uniquely white trait.

New York Post is writing about this.

Taylor Herslick.

Well, this is a uh to me this completes a a circuit because when I worked for the phone company um it was right after the devestature AT&T got broken up into these separate local phone companies and I worked for one of them Pacific Bell and Pacific Bell was just flatout racist.

Just absolutely flat out not hiding it.

completely overt, flatout racist against white men.

And uh I had to live through that.

It's the reason I'm a cartoonist is because I couldn't get promoted.

They told me that directly.

They said, "We can't promote you because you're white and male." And when I tell that story, I've been telling it for, I don't know, years.

But when I used to tell the story, people didn't believe it.

people people believe, especially black Americans, they thought I was making it up because they couldn't process whether you're white or black, you couldn't process the fact that the boss would tell me directly, you cannot be promoted because you're white and male.

I was told that directly.

And the reason I was working for the phone company is that I had been working for a bank and they too told me directly in San Francisco, we cannot promote you because you're white and you're male.

Now, but now it's 2025 and people have been I I think uh exposed to how that whole world was working.

Now you know it's true, right?

Uh wouldn't you agree that that is no longer even a wild idea that the that I was told directly in completely clear language that they were going to discriminate against me with no end in sight.

Now it's completely believable, isn't it?

So, if you wait long enough, I had to wait decades to be to be uh cleared.

But there it is.

Uh you remember uh American Eagle, the clothing uh company.

And remember they had uh Sydney, what's her name?

Um Sydney Sweeney, right?

So, Sydney Sweeney did the provocative uh campaign and apparently it was really good for sales.

So, their sales are up 136% since the Sweeney ads.

That's pretty good.

So, what have we learned from that?

People like breasts.

I know.

I know.

Surprising, isn't it?

But if you pair breasts with uh pretty much anything, people will pay attention.

So, uh there there's your lesson for the day.

Breasts.

We like them.

Well, there's a new Trump administration uh uh what would you call it?

A new uh fee for illegals who are caught coming into the country.

they will now be imposed a $5,000 $5,000 apprehension fee so that uh any illegal migrant caught in the country will have to pay $5,000 to pay for their own apprehension.

Now, the first thing I thought is how many people coming across the border have $5,000?

I mean, they would be coming here because it's hard to get $5,000 where they were.

But if they're including people who have been working here for a while, which presumably it would, they might actually have $5,000.

Or at the very least, it would scare them into self-epporting because they wouldn't want to be on the on the hook for $5,000.

But we'll see.

I I don't know how much of that you're going to be able to collect, but if you could actually collect it, it would it would be big dollars pretty soon.

Well, the Supreme Court is going to take up the case of birthright citizenship, the the question of whether you're automatically an American citizen if you're born in this country, you know, no exceptions.

And uh you know what that makes me think?

It makes me think that maybe Trump is not an authoritarian.

If you were an authoritarian, would you need to go to the Supreme Court to get permission to uh say that uh people born here in some cases are not are not uh citizens.

I mean that's pretty good pretty good evidence that he's not an authoritarian.

He just has to wait for the Supreme Court to tell him whether he can do it or not.

And if they say he can't do it, he's definitely not going to do it.

Do Do any of you think that if the Supreme Court says boom, you cannot do this?

Well, you can't block them from being citizens.

The Constitution is clear.

If it says that, and I sort of suspect they will, are you going to think they use an authoritarian?

That'd be a pretty weak authoritarian.

All right, in other news, Marjorie Taylor Green was on 60 Minutes and she's talking about a heated conversation she had with Trump over the Epstein files.

And what Marjorie says is, "We did talk about the Epstein files." And uh he meaning Trump was extremely angry at me that I had signed the discharge petition to release the files.

And Marjorie says, "I fully believe that those women deserve everything they're asking.

They're asking for all of it to come out.

They deserve it.

And he was furious with me.

He said it was going to hurt people." How do you feel about that?

First of all, do you think that she's accurately relaying what happened?

I'm going to say yes because I find Marjorie Taylor Green to be very credible in terms of, you know, truthfulness.

I I don't think she would lie about something like that or anything else.

I mean, she she doesn't seem like somebody who's dishonest.

Um, but that would suggest that everything you suspected was true.

That the reason we haven't seen the files that is that there are important people who are able to say, you know, if this comes out, you're in trouble or don't ruin my life or something.

But it's definitely about important people.

And how does that make you feel?

Yeah, I think almost all of you are in favor of the the files being released even if it completely destroys families and lives that otherwise would not be destroyed, right?

Wouldn't most of you say, "Well, let the chips fall.

You know, they did what they did.

If they want to defend themselves, they can." You know, if if they want to say, "Well, we were just buddies and I didn't I didn't do anything wrong," they can.

But the moment their their names come out, presumably there will be women young women women who were young women then but not so much now.

Um who will say, "Yeah, now that his name is out, that guy abused me." Well, you don't recover from that.

That would be the end of your business life.

It would probably be the end of your marriage if you're married.

Um it would destroy people.

But do the victims have that right to destroy these lives even if a few extra people got destroyed who may have just been sucked into the I don't know the the airplane ride or the island but didn't do anything beyond that or do you believe that there's no such thing as an innocent person who flew on the plane and went to Epstein Island?

It's kind of hard to believe they'd be totally innocent.

Yeah.

So, I don't know.

That's So, at least at least we know the answer, which feels partially satisfying.

I mean, the people who need to be satisfied are the victims, and they're definitely not satisfied.

And, uh, I feel like this is a this is a tough one.

Remember, we don't know what Trump knows.

So, he knows who the people are and he probably knows them personally.

Some of them are probably personal friends because, you know, he knows everybody important anyway.

But what if he's literally just protecting some people because he doesn't think that they did anything wrong, but they would be lumped in with the people who did definitely did things wrong.

What?

How would you feel about that?

And I'm not saying that that's the situation, but suppose you knew somehow.

Suppose somehow you could know that he's really protecting people who didn't do anything wrong.

Do you think in that case you'd still want to see the names because it would destroy them?

Their lives would be destroyed.

That's a tough one.

You know, if I put myself in that position, I hate to say it, but it might depend who those people were.

You know, if there were people who genuinely were good people and just found themselves, you know, trapped into this wrong situation, it would be hard to throw them under the bus.

On the other hand, it's the only way we'll get past it.

So, it could be that uh you know, if if I didn't know them personally or have any connection to them, I might say, "Well, you know, you made your choices.

Life is tough.

You're going to have to deal with it.

It's not for us to fix." Yeah, it's a tough one.

I I have some empathy for the situation that it puts Trump in because he doesn't want to destroy innocent people.

Um, and here I am here I am making an assumption that some of them might be innocent.

I don't know that.

Maybe they're all guilty.

But, uh, I wouldn't want to destroy innocent people if I could avoid it.

Yeah.

Anyway, there there's no good answer.

Every every answer is very unsatisfying in this this case.

But the only way we'll get past it is is just see all the see everything.

So, I guess I would be in favor without knowing who those people are.

Um I I'll make you a deal.

All right.

Make you a deal.

Um, I will be strongly on the side of full disclosure, but I will also be strongly on the side of defending anybody who doesn't have, you know, really solid accusations.

So, if there are people who don't have any women making specific accusations, but they were just somehow got dragged into that world, um, I I'll I'll defend them, but only if they don't have a specific criminal allegation.

If they have a criminal allegation, not my problem.

That that's between them and the law and the accusers and and the public.

I'm not going to defend anybody who who has a legitimate, you know, criminal allegation.

That's just not that's not my problem.

So, that's the best I can do.

All right, it's 8:13.

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I hope you got something out of this.

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I had to relocate because my back is

killing me.

But I was going to use my iPhone as a

microphone because it shows up as one of

the options and that would be really

good. Except that doesn't work now. Even

though I tested it ahead of time, it no

longer shows up as an option. So, you're

going to have bad audio.

My notes are going to be read from the

digital device.

Uh, and uh I wish I had coffee.

[laughter]

But uh that wasn't going to happen

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I don't need any coffee. I had enough

today.

All right, people. Let's talk about the

news.

And by the way, after the uh after this

show, uh Owen Gregorian will be hosting

a spaces event on uh on X. And you don't

need to pay for that. You just need to

show up and look for Owen Gregorian.

Just do a search, you'll find him. I

also um I reposted it. So, if you go to

my account, you'll find it. The link

after the show, it'll be a few minutes

after the show. All right. In uh

technology news, there's a Rice

University professor. Wow, I didn't even

know that Rice had a university. Do all

the food groups have their own

university or is just Rice?

Maybe just carbs. Is there like a potato

university? I don't know. Well, there's

a rice university. I know it's not about

the rice. I'm just joking. Just joking.

Anyway, the Rice University chemistry

professor James Tour, he says that

there's a way for the US to get uh some

uh some rare earth uh stockpiles

because they figured out a new and

efficient way to recycle the existing

rare earths. And apparently you can you

can recover almost 100% of them. So if

you've got rare earth materials in your

old devices, they can now quite easily

with some kind of new new process

recover it. And

did you know that Trump has already

signed rare earth mining and uh resource

deals with 11 countries? So he's got 11

countries that have made deals with us

and now we have this new recycling

thing. I gotta say, um, I don't know how

long it takes before we can be

independent with Rare Earth, but there's

definitely activity and they're

definitely doing the right stuff.

So, we'll see how far that goes. So,

apparently Tesla has rolled down a new

software update for their vehicles. And

uh now I guess Grock is um part of the

car. So you can talk to Grock in your

car and you can just tell it where you

want to go and the full self-driving

will uh kick in. So basically, you just

sit in your car and you say something

like, "Uh, take me to Bob's house." And

Grock would probably say, "Bob? Bob

who?" And then you say, "Oh, Bob,

whatever." So, you would just talk to it

and then it would start driving. Is that

wild?

What would be better than just talking

to your car and having it drive you

somewhere? Everybody Everybody who

experiences that and I have I have not

yet experienced it, but everyone who

does is is just blown away. Like you

can't imagine that anybody would use any

other process. the the thing I used to

fantasize about is that I could take a

vacation

just by walking out to my car. So, I'd

just get in the car, you know, with a

you maybe one one piece of luggage and

I'd say the car, uh, take me on a scenic

trip

to some park or something and, uh, make

sure that when it's lunchtime or dinner

time that you find a nice restaurant to

pull over for meals. And I think it

would just do it, which would be pretty

amazing. Anyway, [clears throat] I I I

also saw that uh Elon is trying to

figure out how to combine the stocks of

uh well, there is I don't think is there

stock there's no public stock yet for

SpaceX,

which is why it would be difficult to

combine it with Tesla, which is public.

But he's trying to figure out how the

Tesla

stockholders can get some upside benefit

from some kind of ownership or of uh

SpaceX, which would be awesome. Uh I'm a

I'm a Tesla stockholder.

I don't have much, but enough to

mention. That'd be very cool. All right,

let's talk about everything that's

corrupt. I I feel like lately

my podcast has the same theme. Well,

somebody stole a hundred million dollars

and somebody else stole a billion

dollars. It's it's all just the same

story. All I'm doing is changing the

names of the the organization.

Anyway, um I guess the US Department of

Transportation

told the uh told Tim Walsh, Governor of

Minnesota, that they've got 30 days, the

state has 30 days to revoke all licenses

issued to illegals. I think this is for

commercial. These are commercial

driver's licenses. So, they don't want

the people driving trucks and doing

commercial work to be illegal. But um

apparently onethird of all the

non-domiciled commercial driver's

license in Minnesota were issued to

illegal immigrants.

Onethird.

So

that's apparently going to be reversed.

Wall Street apes is uh posting on that

on X.

According to Fox News, um the Minnesota

fraud, which we keep talking about, the

fraud seems to be in a variety of places

in Minnesota. So, the whole state of

Minnesota appears to be just a criminal

enterprise at this point, but they think

that the total amount stolen might be as

high as $8 billion.

Can Can you even Can you even hold that

in your head? That's the amount that's

stolen within just the last few years. I

guess8

billion dollar.

I I keep telling you that there are too

many people driving nice cars to make

any sense for how many nice good jobs

there are or even how many people have

inherited it from their parents or

whatever. There just seemed to be way

too many people who have nice houses and

nice cars compared to the number of good

jobs there are in the world. And I kept

thinking for years, by the way, for

years I've thought this. I I thought,

what percentage of all the richlooking

people, richl looking meaning you have

an expensive car or a nice house, what

percentage of them got it from crime?

And I've always assumed it was at least

20%.

And now I'm going to up that. I mean, it

might be as high as 50% of all rich

people are criminals.

And you know, it's these these white

collar corrupt NGO money laundering

situations.

I I love it when stupid people come into

the comments. Let me let me repeat what

a stupid person here says. This is all

in caps. Uh, you believe everything you

see on Fox News. No, I don't. You're

just a idiot. I don't believe

anything I see anywhere.

And I don't believe you are as dumb as

you're pretending to be.

But maybe you are. Maybe you are that

dumb.

Well, let's look at the other frauds.

say uh now there's some thought that

there's a massive Obamacare fraud uh

that would be not just in Minnesota but

in 2023

according to uh Steven Moore

uh maybe as much as one in three people

who got Obamacare subsidies

may have been frauds.

It's it's it's possible that $21 billion

has been fraudulently taken out of the

Obamacare

um process. 21 billion dollar.

All right. So, let's see. We've got all

kinds of fraud in Medicaid. We've got it

in uh basically every program that you

could have fraud. the SNAP,

uh, driver's licenses, fraud, fraud,

fraud. How about, uh, the SBA, Small

Business Association? Well, the head of

that, Kelly Laughler, uh, has required

that everybody who's getting the the SBA

benefits uh, have to essentially,

um, provide evidence that they're

legitimate. So, it's sort of an audit. I

wouldn't call it a audit exactly, but uh

Kelly Laughler is making sure that only

people who deserve these SBA benefits,

their loans, generally loans for small

business, um are getting them.

So, what do you think she'll find? Take

a guess. So, it's the beginning of the

process and the SBA is trying to find

out how much fraud there is in the SBA.

Just take a guess. Where do you think

that's going to come out? I'm going to

guess that onethird of all the loans are

fraudulent.

Anybody want to take the other side of

that bet? Do do you want to bet that

it's less than one/ird? I'm going to say

onethird of them are totally fraudulent

because that would be similar to all the

other frauds that like everything that's

fraudulent. Everything that hasn't been

scrupulously,

you know, uh, audited, it's just full of

fraud.

Well, let's see. Uh, but at least the

DEA,

you know, that organization, the DEA,

uh, that are making sure that the drugs

and, you know, are not coming into the

country. Oh, wait. The top Obama DA

official has been charged with

laundering money for the Mexican drug

cartels.

Oh, according to Zero Hedge. So, the DEA

is corrupt. The Well, it's everybody.

Just everybody's corrupt. Do you ever

wonder why we couldn't stop the drugs

coming from south of the border?

[laughter]

It's not a big mystery. It's because of

corruption. Otherwise, I'm sure we could

we we could have done a pretty good job

of stopping it. it. Corruption's got to

be the worst when people have money to

bribe you, but also guns to shoot you

and you know that they would do it if

they have to. How do you get past that?

Well, they can bribe anybody and they

can kill anybody, but first they would

torture you. Yeah, I think uh I think

that's a problem.

Well, we found out a little bit more

about the pipe bomber. Uh, the pipe

bomber has admitted that he put the pipe

bombs there. He is described as a, as

Jake Tapper would say, a uh, a black man

who he thinks was white. No, just

joking. But, uh, he did call him white

before he knew he was black. Um, I have

to admit that I assumed it was a white

guy.

I know, maybe I'm a little bit racist

against white people, but when I hear

that somebody is planting bombs, I just

automatically think that's my people. I

go, that's my people. Damn you, you're

making me look bad. And then I find out

it wasn't wasn't a white guy this time.

It was a uh young black man who uh is

being described as almost autistic.

Almost. If he had been a little bit more

autistic, apparently those bombs would

have been functional. I don't know if

those were real bombs. Uh, wasn't it

Thomas Massie? I saw a post on X where

Thomas Massie was asking the question,

uh, if a pipe bomb is made with a

kitchen timer that that only goes up to

an hour, uh, how likely is it that the

that it was set for, I don't some number

of hours? There there's something

inconsistent

about what we know about the bombs and

the idea that it actually could have

been functional.

So, it's still a mystery.

Um, I think one of the most impressive

things about this story is that Mike

Benz uh apparently had been sort of on

to the uh you the notion that it might

be a black guy from day one because his

he had $300

sneakers,

footwear. Now, obviously, there could be

people of any race who have expensive

footwear, but if you were just doing a

uh what would you call it? An FBI

profile

and somebody said, "Oh, somebody with

really expensive footwear," you'd

probably lean black. you know, um, in

this case, obviously it doesn't mean

that only black people wear good

sneakers, but, uh, he would have been

right if he'd made that guess.

And do you remember when, uh,

Christopher Ray told us that the cell

phone data was corrupt and then we found

out that what was corrupt was apparently

Christopher Ray or or the FBI. So, let's

see. the SBA might be corrupt, the FBI.

And uh I think it's really clear at this

point that they had that they were

intentionally

not pursuing it. Now, I don't know why

yet. I'm guessing that the narrative

didn't work.

um that if if the narrative did not

support the idea that it was a bunch of

mega people who were the dangerous ones

that that they didn't just didn't want

to put that out there. So that's why I

think it got stalled for several years.

But as soon as as soon as Bonino and um

and Cash Patel fired the people who were

in charge, soon as they got rid of all

the people who were working on it

that they solved it. So I don't think we

have to wonder what was going on there.

Clearly it was just corruption of some

type.

So that was corrupt.

Let's see. Uh and and now we're hearing

that the pipe bomber may have believed

or worried that the 2020 election was

stolen except that we know that he was

getting his bombs ready in 2019. So that

story doesn't hold together. So pretty

much everything we know about the pipe

bomber

looks like it could be fake. If you're

just joining, the reason I'm not in my

regular chair is that I'm having just

vicious back problems.

And so if I if I move out of this

position or, you know, hunch over my

computer too much on the desk, uh, I'll

be in bad shape.

All right. Uh,

what else is happening? So, apparently

there's some kind of new government

document. Uh Trump's got this national

security strategy document that just

went out and he's he's mocking Europe.

So he's talking about Europe and he says

quote their economic decline is eclipsed

only by the real and stark prospect of

civilizational

erasure.

Civilizational

eraser.

That that's that's what Trump is

accusing uh Europe of doing. basically

erasing their own civilization. He says

if present trends continue the continent

will be unrecognizable in 20 years and

apparently

uh they have lost their global share of

GDP. This is the European Union. They've

lost their global share of GDP that at

one time in 1990 was as high as 25%

of the global GDP. Now it's down to 14%.

Uhoh. I wonder if the European Union is

doing anything else that could destroy

their future. Oh yeah. Apparently

they've got this uh new law that they're

using to go after X and go after Elon

Musk and they're finding him $140

million.

And I guess they're finding the company,

but they're also finding Elon Musk

personally.

And what was it that they wanted? The

European Commission says what they

wanted

uh or what they're complaining about is

they say that X had a deceptive design

of its blue check mark. Does that sound

real? Do you think that X has a

deceptive design for its blue check

mark? Well, I haven't noticed a problem.

Have you? Is there anybody who doesn't

know what the check mark is or may maybe

this is old because they you know didn't

they change what the check mark means?

What kind of problem is that causing?

That's ridiculous. Um they also European

Union says the X lacks transparency of

its advertising repository.

really that that's a problem that Europe

needs to worry about is lack of

transparency of its advertising

repository.

I don't even know what that means.

Doesn't sound like a big problem, but

okay. And they also accusing X of

failure to provide access to public data

for researchers.

Okay.

Do the other platforms do that? What

kind of data is this? Now, I haven't

heard uh you know, Elon Musk's response

to the specifics, but I sus I suppose

it's

Um, you know, and Elon's pushing back

very hard. Michael Shelonburgger

says uh that it's not about uh well he

basically he says it's about censorship

that the real the real purpose of the

European Union is to control

uh an American company and specifically

to control the free speech of that

American company. So uh as Michael

Shelonburgger points out that is very

incompatible with NATO

because we should not be battling NATO.

I mean they're NATO countries. Why would

we be why would we be be why why would

the United States spend money and put

its own people at risk to defend the

European Union that is trying to take

the free speech away from Americans our

most cherished probably the most

cherished of all of our rights.

I don't see Russia doing that.

I don't see China.

Well, maybe they are, but I don't know

how what they're doing. But why is the

European Union trying to mess with our

freedom of speech? That's not cool.

U Elon Musk posted on X abolish the EU.

Do you think it's time to abolish the

European Union?

I'm going to say we don't have to do

anything because they're abolishing

themselves.

As I just said, the uh the Trump

administration's document that just came

out basically says Europe is doomed and

and if they just stay on their same

course, which it looks like they will,

uh they're not going to have a NATO,

they're not going to have an economy,

they're not going to have rights, and

they will just flood their own zone with

people from other countries who might be

fine individuals.

individually,

but uh if you bring in lots of them and

you do it suddenly, which is the way

they're doing it, then you're bringing

in a culture.

There's a big difference between

bringing in a person who might be just a

fine person versus bringing in lots of

people suddenly from places that are uh

very different from your place. That

would be importing a culture. And uh

there's no reason to believe that that's

going to go well.

So, you don't need to abolish the EU.

They're abolishing themselves.

So, the EU is corrupt and stupid and

everything else is corrupt and stupid.

What about our news? Um, you may have

heard about this, but uh David Saxs has

been the target of the New York Times

hit piece. And I won't go through all

the things that they got wrong and and

how bad they are, but it's pretty bad.

So bad that, you know, some other uh

tech titans have weighed in to say this

is basically this isn't cool. It's so

obviously just a hippie and doesn't seem

to be trying to be news or useful. It's

just a hippie.

And yeah, I've seen some uh some

speculation about why they would target

him in particular.

And uh I guess Chimath

from the all the all-in pod you know

Chimath uh he was saying that uh that

the reason for this uh hit job of what

you would call a non-establishment

figure is uh quote the whole point was

to get enough chatter so that people

like Sachs and other people in the

future just say I'm not going to try

this um you know they would be

essentially frightened away from run

doing anything useful for the Trump

administration because it's too

dangerous. Now, the media has been doing

that for years. The media has been, you

know, doing hit pieces on Trump

supporters and Trump administration

people trying to take him out one by

one. So, I don't know if it's any more

complicated than the fact that

both sides are trying to pick off uh the

best people from the other side. So when

I see them doing a hip piece on somebody

like Steven Miller or a hip piece on I

don't know JD Vance hit piece on Sachs

the first thing I say to myself is oh

the other side must think these are the

most powerful or influential people. So

they're trying to pick off their their

best people. That's all it is. I I don't

think you have to go deeper than, oh,

this group of people do a really good

job and make Trump look good. That

that's all you need. And then you get to

get a hit piece. Uh I too have been the

subject of hit pieces. Bloomberg

in the first uh the first term. Uh have

I ever told you that the mistake I made

with Bloomberg?

If you ever become a public figure, let

me give you this advice.

If somebody from a major publication

says, "We'd like to do a profile on

you." Warning, warning, warning. That's

the first warning. That's that's a red

flag. And here's where here's where it's

worse. We'd like our reporter to spend

the day with you. Sort of, you know, see

how you live and, you know, go through a

day with you. Do not do that. You you

will be you will be immediately

flattered that some big entity wants to

spend the day with you and write a big

piece. It's not going to go well. It it

is a hippie. They would only do the stay

all day with you unless it's a hippie.

That's the only reason to do that.

So do not let the media spend a day with

you when you become a public figure. If

you're not a public figure, it might be

different. But if you're associated with

a political side, do not do that. I made

that mistake. Boy, was a bad hippie.

What about the Washington Post? Well,

the Washington Post is doubling down on

their reporting about Pete Hegath and

they are the only news entity who who is

reporting this and everybody else is

saying it's fake news. But the

Washington Post believes that Hegsath

did give a order to kill them all

regarding the Venezuelan drug boats. Uh

all the other entities say that didn't

happen. And in fact, the admiral the

admiral in charge

who would definitely know if it happened

or didn't happen says didn't happen. The

admiral in charge says it didn't happen.

Now, if you were the admiral in charge,

would you risk your entire career

to lie about something that would have a

high potential of being found out as a

lie, like toward the end of your career?

Would you do that? I wouldn't. I

wouldn't do that. So, I I tend to

believe that the admiral is telling the

truth

because it would be a bad time to tell a

lie. Um, so yeah, if he says it didn't

happen, I'm going to say it didn't

happen, too. So, the Washington Post,

corrupt and stupid. The New York Times,

corrupt and stupid. Your European Union,

corrupt and stupid. We've got uh the SBA

that we're probably going to find out is

corrupt and stupid. We've got the FBI,

corrupt and stupid. The DEA, corrupt and

stupid people working for it. Obamacare,

corrupt and stupid. Minnesota, the

entire state, corrupt and stupid. Um,

and uh,

the good news is [laughter]

there [clears throat] is some good news.

We'll get to it in a minute, but um, I I

think I'm having too much fun being

right.

How many of you remember me saying be

before any of these stories broke? So

before you had heard anything that I'm

talking about today, do you remember me

saying that every big organization

uh ends up being corrupt? If there's a

lot of money and there a lot of people

involved and you're not auditing it

really rigorously, what do I say happens

every time? It's always corrupt. Every

single time. You don't even have to

guess every time. A lot of money

involved, a lot of people involved. Time

has passed, you know, enough for people

to figure out how to game in the system.

And there's no extensive audit. It only

goes one way.

All right, let's see what else is

happening.

Um,

got lots of stories today. Oh, so Joe

Biden was allowed to uh leave his

bedroom and talk in public again. And

I'd like to do a quote of Joe Biden

talking at some LGBTQ event. And uh he

did his his Joe Biden thing where he

gets he gets angry like angrier than you

think he ought to be for the topic.

And he said, and I quote, "We're the

United States of America.

So, if you didn't know what country you

were living in, Joe Biden is here to

remind you that it is the United States

of America,

but apparently it's America.

All right.

I didn't know if I was going to do this,

but I'm going to do this.

Uh, I've been fascinated by the

the reporting of uh

of uh Emerald

uh Robinson.

And if you have not been watching

Emerald Robinson's reporting,

you're missing a really good show. Now,

the thing I don't know is what's true.

So, I don't know it's true, but damn is

it interesting. And it's so interesting

I wanted to find the thread and just

read it to you because if I try to, you

know, give you the summary of it, you're

going to miss some of the best parts,

but let's see if I can find it first of

all.

Here we go.

So, uh, Emerald Robinson has done lots

of different threads on this. This is a

new one, but it goes over some territory

that uh you may have heard before. All

right. Now, remember, I'm not claiming

that this is all true. I'm not making

that claim. The what I will claim is

that if it's true, holy hell. I also

think that it's the sort of thing I

never would have believed

maybe two years ago, 5 years ago. It's

the sort of thing I wouldn't have

believed at all. I'm not saying I

believe it yet,

but I don't see anything wrong with it.

The the [clears throat] people involved

all seem credible, at least the ones who

are named. There are some whistleblowers

who are not named. So, that's that's

always a red flag, the unnamed

whistleblowers.

But, uh, let me just read what she says

is reality. Okay? Uh, and pay attention

to all this because it's it's just

mind-blowing, but I don't know if it's

real. So, after I'm done, I'll ask you

and then in the comments, you tell me.

Does that sound real? All right. So,

Emerald Robinson on X. Uh, number one, a

few weeks before the 2024 election,

Senator Mullen and former Senator David

Purdue finally arranged a meeting

between Trump adviser Susie Wilds and

the one man who could explain exactly

how America's election systems are

rigged. Who do you think the one man is?

Who who is the one man who actually

would be able to know if the elections

are rigged? Well, the meeting took place

at Mara Lago.

Susie Wells had publicly said that the

election fraud was not real and that

people who thought so were crazy. That

was that was a popular line of thought

at the time. After the briefing, she

didn't know what to think

because it sounds pretty credible. And

then she asked for a piece of cake. She

ate it slowly, which I love the writing

that isn't that great writing. The It

goes from talking about whether the

election was rigged and uh she had her

mind changed and she had a piece of

cake. She ate it slowly. That's just

good writing. Uh then she made the

decision Trump's team should be briefed,

too. All right. So, the idea that the

elections were rigged had not been

getting through Susie Wilds. Uh, she had

been presumably not not taking that

message to anybody because she wasn't

convinced. Now, she was convinced or at

least convinced enough

that she thought they needed to hear it.

That doesn't mean it's true, but that

she apparently couldn't see a problem

with it.

Uh, number three, in the end, the man,

we we don't know who the man is yet, but

the man who who by her telling is the

one person who could figure out if this

was if the elections were rigged. Uh, in

the end, the man stayed at Mara Lago for

three days to brief everyone.

There was only there was there was only

one man who Wilds trusted to confirm it

all,

Elon Musk.

A call was made. The man found himself

in a room with Musk. So the the this is

a man uh the man is not Musk, but he was

put in a room with Musk because Musk

would be good at figuring out if this

was true or a bunch of BS. Um Musk

declined to sit through a full briefing

and he said, "Uh just give me your

data." That sounds very much like Elon

Musk, doesn't it? He wouldn't sit

through the briefing, but he definitely

wanted to see the data.

So Elon Musk read the AI summary. So I

guess he used AI to summarize a bunch of

data that they gave him. Uh so he read

the AI summary of the technical data and

then he picked up his phone and made a

call. Quote, "We have a problem. It's

true."

Then Musk got on a plane to host a Trump

rally in Pennsylvania. You remember that

Trump rally in Pennsylvania? I believe

that's the one where Trump's ear got

shot. It was October 17th, 2024. Musk on

stage and attacked Dominion. Dominion

being the hardware

um the maker of the election machine

hardware.

Uh, according to Emerald Robinson, Elon

Musk said at the rally, quote, "There's

always the question of Dominion voting

machines. It's weird that they're used

in Philadelphia and Maricopa County, but

not in a lot of other places." Doesn't

that seem like a heck of a coincidence?

So, I guess that's what Elon said on

stage. Musk was warning us the system

was rigged.

All right, number six. uh how could this

deal be stopped a few weeks before the

election? Now imagine you were them and

you believe that the that the system was

rigged in the past was also rigged for

the future and an election is coming in

a few days or you not a few days but not

very long. Uh the

um how could this deal be stopped a few

weeks before the election? The man who

briefed Musk had a team, Patrick Burn

and Gary Bernston.

Now, you know Patrick Burn because he's

been talking about the election rigging

for a long time. And uh he uh he says he

has all the receipts and has been deeply

involved to the point of he wouldn't be

guessing. So, if the things that Patrick

Burn says in public are true, and he

does seem very credible, I don't know if

it's all real, but he seems credible. If

that stuff is real, we're in a lot of

trouble. Or we were. All right. So, the

election is coming up in a few weeks and

this group of people including Elon Musk

uh and Patrick Burn and Gary Bernston

believed that the system was riggable

and probably would be rigged again in

the coming election a few weeks away. Uh

they had worked for let's say this team

had recruited a dozen people who knew

how the rig system was built in

Venezuela. They had worked for

Smartmatic, that would be the software

part of the election systems, and

Maduro, the head of Venezuela. So

allegedly,

there were a dozen people that they

could find who had inside personal

knowledge of how the machines were

rigged.

Now, that's a hell of a claim.

Um, this group of whistleblowers were

hiding in a hotel in Gastad, Switzerland

before the 2024 election.

That's where General Flynn flew to see

them. Flynn asked, "How long has

election fraud been going on?" They

said, "Venezuela now rigs it in 72

countries for the last 20 years."

All right. know

uh th

this is uh this is where it gets to the

point where I say really 72 countries

just Venezuela and they've been getting

away with it for 20 years that's a hell

of a claim and you you can see why it's

hard to just embrace this entire

narrative completely because there are

parts of it that could be true that

could be But boy, you'd really have to

you'd have to take a big bite on this to

believe that Venezuela of all places was

controlling the elections in 72

countries for 20 years.

It's a big claim. All right, we'll go

on. The whistleblowers from Venezuela

had video uh meetings with M's team and

Trump's team to explain technical

details of the election fraud.

So, do you believe that Trump's team and

Elon Musk were briefed by the

whistleblowers in the technical part of

how it was done? That's the claim. The

most important detail, the Dominion IP

addresses had been located. So, I don't

know how that is connected to

everything, but apparently if you have

the IP addresses, that gives you a

little bit of a a backdoor into figuring

out who did what. Beyond that, I don't

know exactly how the IP address part

fits into it, but apparently it gives

you some visibility into something that

they hadn't had before.

And uh they bought these IP addresses

for $15 in Bitcoin from an anonymous

Japanese account. [snorts] Okay. Uh the

relevant data and IP addresses were now

verified.

Okay. That's when Senator Mullen came to

the rescue again. a cyber security team

got the data. Now I don't know who the

cyber security team was but let's call

them hackers.

So once the the understanding of how the

hacking happens and the IP addresses

were available, I guess that means the

cyber security team could hack into the

existing system and do their own damage

that would be separate from whatever the

alleged bad people were going to do with

the system. Three days before the 2024

election, Dominion's office in Serbia,

so that's where some ser some servers

were, was hit. Their computers were

useless. So I interpret this as they

hired a bunch of hackers who now had

enough information with the IP addresses

and with understanding of how the

systems worked that they could hack in

and basically take down the back

operation that was going to do the

rigging. So, they were all ready to rig

the 2024 election and unbeknownst to

them, the good guys hacked in and

crashed their systems and that and that

would be why Trump won. Allegedly

on election day, nobody knew if cyber

security team had been successful

knocking out the Serbian computers.

Everybody in Mara Lago had to wait for

the results without certainty. The man

who had briefed Musk flew to Oslo that

day.

um his team would flee the USA if they

failed. So the the thinking was that

these whistleblowers would literally be

murdered

um if if things went south.

Uh Emerald says, this is an Emerald

Robinson uh long post that she posted

today. Imagine the moment on election

day Trump had no idea if he would win.

So Patrick Burn watched results from

fromQatar or Qatar if you prefer. So

Patrick Burn got out of the country

because he must have been worried about

what could happen to him. Gary Bernson

watched from Switzerland. So two people

who knew the most about this left the

country because they thought they would

get killed basically if things went

south. All of them would be hunted down

if the 2024 election fraud was

successful. Uh meaning that the bad guys

got in charge again and all of them

would and the USA would be finished.

Number 12, Trump was upset with his own

staff after Elon Musk verified the fraud

was real.

So again, that's a big claim. Is it true

that Elon Musk could and did verify that

the fraud in the past election was real?

It's a big claim. I if Elon Musk says

that's true, then I will believe that's

true. It's not something he would lie

about. Um but I haven't heard him say

that.

Um he'd been now this is talking about

Trump. Trump had been gaslit for four

years by his team to drop the topic. In

fact, his staff hired a Cuban

intelligence asset in 2020 to quote

investigate the fraud to lie to Trump

that her elections were fair. Okay, that

again, that's a big claim that his staff

hired somebody to

essentially lie to him.

Uh you you'd have to show me some

evidence of that one. Uh number 13,

that's the thing about Trump. He always

hired the wrong people. This is Emerald

Robinson's opinion. His own adviserss

had tried to keep him from meeting with

the team that saved the 2024 election.

Uh people like Boris EP and Chris Le

Seevita had blocked the truth at every

turn. Again, these are allegations. I

don't know what's true. Let's call the

team that and Emerald says number 14.

Let's call the team that saved the 2024

election the three musketeers.

Uh, that's the man who briefed Musk and

Gary Bernston and Patrick Burns. Um,

I've now interviewed them many times

along with Smartmatic whistleblowers

from Venezuela. I've confirmed key facts

with the ODNI.

So, so she's she's done the work. That

doesn't mean it's all true, but she's

definitely done the work. Uh, here's

where the story gets really wild. It's

wilder than that. Okay. The three

musketeers were also the ones who warned

Trump about election fraud after the

2020 election. Where do you think Cydney

Powell and Rudy Giuliani got their

information about Smartmatic and Judge

Janine got them connected?

Number 16. So, Trump had good intel

about the fraud 2 days after the 2020

election. So, you can see why he was so

insistent that it was fraud, that it was

rigged. But then Trump called in Kushner

to quote, "Gather a legal team to handle

it all." Kushner's team was briefed

next, but they dismissed the intel and

did nothing. Again, these are

allegations. I don't know what's true.

Rudy and Sydney were hung out to dry

with no help. Yeah. does. If if this is

true, then Rudy and Sydney were hung out

to dry with no help. Number 17. Let's

return to 2024. Trump is one. It's

Christmas. The whistleblowers from

Venezuela are moved from Gastad to

Bahamas on tourist visas to protect

them. They're being hunted by the

cartel. They need to get into the USA to

testify and bring down the rigged voting

machines.

It's February 2025. Time is now up. With

their visas expired, the whistleblowers

would be sent back to Venezuela and

killed. So Patrick Burn got a catamaran

out of Florida and sailed in the worst

storm possible to the Bahamas in order

to smuggle them all into the USA.

Jesus. Uh, number 19. Why is this

happening? After all, Trump's now back

in office. The most important

whistleblowers in American history are

stranded because team Trump does not

have his act together again. Finally,

Tom Hman saves the day and sends two

guys from DC to bring them all into USA.

Number 20, it's April. Trump authorizes

task force on election fraud. Uh the

DOJ, CIA, DHS, DNI guys meet the

whistleblowers. Then the agencies start

a fight over who has control of the

investigation. Of course, none of those

guys return for interviews or casework.

They disappear.

Team Trump fails again.

21. What's going on exactly? Says

Emerald Robinson. Our intel agencies are

so compromised that none of them really

want to investigate election fraud

because they're involved in rigging the

elections, too. And Trump didn't bother

to fire all these people.

22. It's June. Two whistleblowers are so

upset with the handling of the

investigation, they leave the USA in

secret. It's all about to fall apart.

Tulsi Tulsi Gabbard has to bring new

guys from the three-letter agencies to

start all over. Those guys are shocked

beyond belief after the interviews.

It's July. The invest the investigation

report uh the investigation report is

done. Tulsi prepares to bring the full

report on 2020 and 2024 to Trump.

Trump's own White House advisers tell

Tulsi to not include the 2020 evidence.

So she gives Trump a partial report.

Trump is now angry with Tulsi because of

leaving out the 2020 stuff. So Trump

gets tired of waiting for these reports.

He wants to know if Venezuela really

runs Americans America's election. So,

at this point,

Trump is not yet convinced that this

whole Venezuela thing, the narrative is

correct. So, he's still he's still

looking for confirmation.

Um,

so who does he finally call to brief

him? Who does Trump finally call to

brief him? Well, the three musketeers,

of course. Not the CIA or DNI. Uh,

that's when Trump decides it's time to

overthrow Maduro.

Oh, does everything make sense now?

That's when he decided he needed to

overthrow Maduro.

Maybe.

Maybe. How did the Three Musketeers do

all of this? Well, Patrick Burns spent

$80 million of his own money to protect

America. Houses, cars, Bitcoin, all gone

now. Gary Bernston mortgaged his house.

They're all broke now. No one has been

paid back by Trump or Trump admit at

all. Not one cent. And that's the end of

the threat. End of the thread. Now,

show me in the comments.

Does that ring true?

Because it does connect all the the

dots. doesn't mean it's true,

but it does a good job of wrapping

everything up in a nice little package,

doesn't it?

I'm just looking at your comments to see

if you believe. Is the Kraken real or is

this just more Kraken? I don't know.

Uh

yeah. And then I I imagine if you were

to look for, you know, another source or

you you tried it with AI, it probably

would tell you that the credibility is

low. That's my guess.

So, let me let me say again as clearly

as possible. I don't personally

know if any of that's true.

How would I know? I just know it's a

hell of a a complete story.

And there's nothing there that's

impossible.

None of it's impossible. And we've just

gone through how many years of, "Oh my

god, I didn't think that was possible,

but it happened." So,

um, I always go back to my question.

And my question goes like this. What

would be the purpose of of electronic

voting machines except to rig an

election?

What would be the other reason? They're

not faster. They're not cheaper. They're

not easier.

So why?

I only know one reason for machines.

Given that paper would be more reliable

and, you know, easier to audit and

everything else. The only reason I can

think of is that you intend to rig an

election. Now, I've been saying this for

several years in public

that there's no other reason that has

even been presented for why there would

be machines. I'm not even saying I would

agree with it or don't agree with it.

Nobody's even tried to make the argument

that there's some legitimate reason. So,

if nobody's going to make the argument

that there's any legitimate reason for

them, what am I supposed to think? Well,

I don't know if Emerald Robinson's

narrative got all the details right,

but I know it would be perfectly

consistent with observations,

and it would be consistent with

essentially everything we know to be

true. And it would be consistent all the

way through to why is Trump so uh intent

on overthrowing Maduro? And the reason

might be that Maduro has been

controlling our elections and

Republicans will never be able to win

again unless he's overthrown. So this

could be as much about domestic

elections as it is about narco votes.

cuz are aren't you saying to yourself,

"Huh? Are is blowing up these boats

really going to

is that really going to change the

world?" Um, but it makes a lot more

sense if you believe that the real

intention is to depose Maduro and maybe

and maybe also get more information

about whether the machines are rigged.

80 million votes alone. Yeah. I mean,

just the fact that the total number of

votes and the way they came in was

non-standard,

this would explain that. So, um,

so that's, uh, Emerald Robinson's take.

Um, I've been enjoying quite a bit

reading her narrative, not knowing if

it's true, but I'm enjoying it, and

she's put a lot of work into it that

looks like really good work. So, I just

wanted to, you know, make sure that you

had at least uh some knowledge about

that that narrative and her work. Okay.

Did you did you enjoy that? How how many

of you enjoyed the reading of Emerald's

work?

I want to make sure she gets the credit

because I'm just reading her work.

All right. Tell me in the comments if

you if you enjoyed that or not.

Well, let's talk about the climate hoax.

Uh, the LA Times has now gotten a big

opinion piece about how uh the climate

hoax is falling apart.

There's an Opad. Uh, Steve Mallaloy of

Junk Science is calling this out. And I

I guess the point here is that it's not

just the LA Times that's allowing an

opinion to an opinion piece to debunk

the climate hysteria, but that uh you

know there was that big paper that was

recalled

and uh a lot more people are willing to

say, "Hey, this climate stuff looks

sketchy."

Now, if I tell you that if you believed

uh all the Venezuelan

you election machine stuff, if you

believed that, how hard would it be to

believe that the the climate stuff was

always It'd be pretty easy to

believe, wouldn't it? [laughter]

If you'd never seen how wildly unlikely

reality is, you would probably wouldn't

believe that it's even possible that the

whole climate thing could be fake. and

fake for 20 years and all the scientists

would be either lying or mistaken or

covering their ass. But it's totally

possible.

It is totally possible that this has

never been real and that a trillion

dollars has been fraudulently

moved around because people tried to

make you think it was real.

Uh let's see what what else. What about

Minnesota's

uh state disability numbers? Oh, well it

looks like uh Eric Nordy is writing

about this in a that the new license

application soared 283%. Basically all

the all the uh signals were there that

there was a some kind of massive state

disability fraud going on and it was a

Somali

Somali fraudulent thing. So let's see

the state disability is bad. SBA will

probably look bad. Basically everything

that's a big pile of money is money

laundering.

In other news, Leticia James uh did not

get indicted, which is weird because

you've heard, you know, the old saying

that you can indict a ham sandwich. So,

the grand jury uh looked at the evidence

and said, "Ah, this is bullshit."

[laughter]

And I we don't know their reasoning, but

probably it was because it's such small

potatoes and probably because it looked

like it was a political hippie. That's

my guess. But we don't we I don't think

we have a way to know what the grand

jury was thinking. We only know that

they decided not to go forward with it,

which is unusual.

I don't think that's the worst thing in

the world. Um,

and I also don't mind that the uh the

Department of Justice tried, you know,

they tried and if it doesn't work, it

doesn't work. I do think that justice

would have been served if she had been

treated the same way Trump was because

correct me if I'm wrong but uh Trump had

no victim at all. Right? In her case

there was a victim but a very small one.

You know it was a bank and it wasn't

that much money for a bank but it was

way more than Trump cost anybody. He

didn't cost anybody anything. the banks

were happy to work with him again if

they had a chance.

So,

I I would have been more entertained if

things had been harder for her. But, um

I also don't mind if the if the grand

jury process works the way I wanted to.

So, that would be fun. All right. Um

what else? Inflation doesn't look so

bad. Apparently, according this is

according to O One American News, uh

that if you look at the core index, it's

only 2.8% this year, which wouldn't be

that bad. Um I think people would

disagree about whether inflation is bad

or not, but doesn't look too bad. And

then also

um

Jeffrey Small, a partner at Retirement

Income Source, is predicting that the

Fed will not cut rates next week, but

they might wait until January, but

everybody expects them to cut rates. So

inflation seems to be roughly under

control. Uh interest rates look like

they might be coming down and uh that's

all good. Here's some more good news.

AT&T is scrapping its DEI policies,

uh, including worker training that

called racism a uniquely white trait.

New York Post is writing about this.

Taylor Herslick.

Well, this is a uh to me this completes

a a circuit because when I worked for

the phone company um it was right after

the devestature AT&T got broken up into

these separate local phone companies and

I worked for one of them Pacific Bell

and Pacific Bell was just flatout

racist. Just absolutely flat out not

hiding it. completely overt, flatout

racist against white men. And uh I had

to live through that. It's the reason

I'm a cartoonist is because I couldn't

get promoted. They told me that

directly. They said, "We can't promote

you because you're white and male." And

when I tell that story,

I've been telling it for, I don't know,

years. But when I used to tell the

story, people didn't believe it. people

people believe, especially black

Americans, they thought I was making it

up because they couldn't process

whether you're white or black, you

couldn't process the fact that the boss

would tell me directly, you cannot be

promoted because you're white and male.

I was told that directly. And the reason

I was working for the phone company is

that I had been working for a bank and

they too told me directly in San

Francisco, we cannot promote you because

you're white and you're male.

Now, but now it's 2025 and people have

been I I think uh exposed to how that

whole world was working. Now you know

it's true, right?

Uh wouldn't you agree that that is no

longer even a wild idea that the that I

was told directly in completely clear

language that they were going to

discriminate against me with no end in

sight.

Now it's completely believable, isn't

it? So, if you wait long enough,

I had to wait decades to be to be uh

cleared. But there it is. Uh you

remember uh American Eagle, the clothing

uh company. And remember they had uh

Sydney, what's her name?

Um

Sydney Sweeney,

right? So, Sydney Sweeney did the

provocative

uh campaign and apparently it was really

good for sales. So, their sales are up

136% since the Sweeney ads. That's

pretty good. So, what have we learned

from that?

People like breasts.

I know. I know. Surprising, isn't it?

But if you pair breasts

with uh pretty much anything, people

will pay attention.

So, uh there there's your lesson for the

day. Breasts. We like them.

Well, there's a new Trump administration

uh uh what would you call it? A new uh

fee for illegals who are caught coming

into the country. they will now be

imposed a $5,000

$5,000 apprehension fee so that uh any

illegal migrant caught in the country

will have to pay $5,000

to pay for their own apprehension.

Now, the first thing I thought is how

many people coming across the border

have $5,000?

I mean, they would be coming here

because it's hard to get $5,000 where

they were. But if they're including

people who have been working here for a

while,

which presumably it would, they might

actually have $5,000. Or at the very

least, it would scare them into

self-epporting because they wouldn't

want to be on the on the hook for

$5,000.

But we'll see. I I don't know how much

of that you're going to be able to

collect,

but if you could actually collect it, it

would it would be big dollars pretty

soon.

Well, the Supreme Court is going to take

up the case of birthright citizenship,

the the question of whether you're

automatically an American citizen if

you're born in this country, you know,

no exceptions. And uh

you know what that makes me think? It

makes me think that maybe Trump is not

an authoritarian.

If you were an authoritarian,

would you need to go to the Supreme

Court to get permission to uh say that

uh people born here in some cases are

not are not uh citizens.

I mean that's pretty good pretty good

evidence that he's not an authoritarian.

He just has to wait for the Supreme

Court to tell him whether he can do it

or not. And if they say he can't do it,

he's definitely not going to do it. Do

Do any of you think that if the Supreme

Court says boom, you cannot do this?

Well, you can't block them from being

citizens. The Constitution is clear. If

it says that, and I sort of suspect they

will,

are you going to think they use an

authoritarian?

That'd be a pretty weak authoritarian.

All right, in other news, Marjorie

Taylor Green was on 60 Minutes and she's

talking about a heated conversation she

had with Trump over the Epstein files.

And what Marjorie says is, "We did talk

about the Epstein files." And uh he

meaning Trump was extremely angry at me

that I had signed the discharge petition

to release the files.

And Marjorie says, "I fully believe that

those women deserve everything they're

asking. They're asking for all of it to

come out. They deserve it. And he was

furious with me. He said it was going to

hurt people."

How do you feel about that? First of

all, do you think that she's accurately

relaying what happened? I'm going to say

yes because I find Marjorie Taylor Green

to be very credible in terms of, you

know, truthfulness. I I don't think she

would lie about something like that or

anything else. I mean, she she doesn't

seem like somebody who's dishonest. Um,

but that would suggest that everything

you suspected

was true. That the reason we haven't

seen the files that is that there are

important people who are able to say,

you know, if this comes out, you're in

trouble or don't ruin my life or

something. But it's definitely about

important people. And

how does that make you feel? Yeah, I

think almost all of you are in favor of

the the files being released even if it

completely destroys families and lives

that otherwise would not be destroyed,

right? Wouldn't most of you say, "Well,

let the chips fall. You know, they did

what they did. If they want to defend

themselves, they can." You know, if if

they want to say, "Well, we were just

buddies and I didn't I didn't do

anything wrong," they can. But the

moment their their names come out,

presumably there will be women young

women women who were young women then

but not so much now. Um who will say,

"Yeah, now that his name is out, that

guy abused me." Well, you don't recover

from that. That would be the end of your

business life. It would probably be the

end of your marriage if you're married.

Um it would destroy people.

But do the victims have that right to

destroy these lives even if a few extra

people got destroyed who may have just

been sucked into the I don't know the

the airplane ride or the island but

didn't do anything beyond that

or do you believe that there's no such

thing as an innocent person who flew on

the plane and went to Epstein Island?

It's kind of hard to believe they'd be

totally innocent.

Yeah.

So, I don't know. That's So, at least at

least we know the answer, which feels

partially satisfying. I mean, the people

who need to be satisfied are the

victims, and they're definitely not

satisfied. And, uh, I feel like

this is a this is a tough one. Remember,

we don't know what Trump knows.

So, he knows who the people are and he

probably knows them personally. Some of

them are probably personal friends

because, you know, he knows everybody

important anyway.

But what if he's literally just

protecting some people because he

doesn't think that they did anything

wrong, but they would be lumped in with

the people who did definitely did things

wrong.

What? How would you feel about that? And

I'm not saying that that's the

situation, but suppose you knew somehow.

Suppose somehow you could know that he's

really protecting people who didn't do

anything wrong.

Do you think in that case you'd still

want to see the names because it would

destroy them? Their lives would be

destroyed.

That's a tough one. You know, if I put

myself in that position, I hate to say

it, but it might depend who those people

were. You know, if there were people who

genuinely were good people and just

found themselves, you know, trapped into

this wrong situation,

it would be hard to throw them under the

bus.

On the other hand,

it's the only way we'll get past it. So,

it could be that uh you know, if if I

didn't know them personally or have any

connection to them, I might say, "Well,

you know, you made your choices. Life is

tough.

You're going to have to deal with it.

It's not for us to fix."

Yeah, it's a tough one. I I have some

empathy

for the situation that it puts Trump in

because he doesn't want to destroy

innocent people.

Um, and here I am here I am making an

assumption that some of them might be

innocent. I don't know that. Maybe

they're all guilty. But, uh, I wouldn't

want to destroy innocent people if I

could avoid it.

Yeah. Anyway, there there's no good

answer. Every every answer is very

unsatisfying in this this case. But the

only way we'll get past it

is is just see all the see everything.

So, I guess I would be in favor without

knowing who those people are. Um I I'll

make you a deal. All right. Make you a

deal. Um, I will be strongly on the side

of full disclosure,

but I will also be strongly on the side

of defending anybody who doesn't have,

you know, really solid accusations.

So, if there are people who don't have

any women making specific accusations,

but they were just somehow got dragged

into that world, um, I I'll I'll defend

them, but only if they don't have a

specific criminal allegation. If they

have a criminal allegation, not my

problem. [laughter]

That that's between them and the law and

the accusers and and the public. I'm not

going to defend anybody who who has a

legitimate, you know, criminal

allegation. That's just not that's not

my problem.

So, that's the best I can do. All right,

it's 8:13. Um,

I'm going to say a few words privately

to my locals, beloved subscribers. I

hope you got something out of this. if

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So, I just couldn't do it for another

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