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een just massive incompetence? Well here's the fun part. Oh, one more. Dan Bongino is not happy with NBC News because Dan Bongino was amplifying Tucker Carlson's concern that what we're seeing in the news suggests that there's some interest by bad people to assassinate Trump. That everything we've seen leading up to it is creating an impression that there might be even something more extreme if t…

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xperience. He was Secret Service, right? He used to be Secret Service. So he knows what protecting a president or anybody looks like. So he was apparently putting some layers onto that idea, layers of credibility that we should literally think about Trump's physical safety more. And there was an NBC News that mocked him and threw him in the same category with Alex Jones as a disgraced conspiracy theorist. That's what they called Alex Jones: disgraced. That's what they call me too. That's what I call myself. I like to call myself disgraced cartoonist.

So the story is if you were a Democrat and you looked at the story you'd say, "Huh, Dan Bongino is claiming something without evidence and then NBC News doing their job as a news organization called him out for being a conspiracy theorist like all those other conspiracy theorists and you should watch out for those guys." So that's what you think if you were a Democrat. If you're a Republican you probably have seen the smart people say that NBC is essentially a CIA tool and that that's the reporting. So NBC News is considered, with The Washington Post I guess, two of the primary ways the CIA does propaganda in this country, which is completely legal. The CIA is completely legal to run propaganda through our own news entities. It's not ethical but it's legal.

So now that you know that NBC News is considered an owned news organ by the CIA, who do you think you'd worry about assassinating Trump from within the country? Are you worried that the FBI would do it? Are you worried that a judge would do it? Some judge? Are you worried that a regular police officer would do it? Now if you're worried about it at all you're probably thinking about our own CIA because you have some questions about Kennedy's assassination, right? You have some questions.

Now I don't know if the CIA was involved with the JFK assassination. I only know it looks exactly like it. And I think RFK Jr., who certainly has looked into it, believes there's a connection. So now does it make sense? Dan Bongino, who's an expert in this field, used to — his job — says he sees the environment creating what looks like an elevated risk. Is that unreasonable? He's an expert. He's showing his work. Everything he tells you he can back up with this happened, this happened, and together I'm feeling an elevated risk. Now that's not a certainty. It's a risk. And that risk would absolutely be from the CIA if it's real at all. And if the CIA wanted to cover it up, who would they send? NBC News.

So if you happen to know the landscape of the actual real news situation, it looks like the CIA is covering for themselves.

If you're a Republican and you — did you miss me? I wonder if it was the topic. If I said masks are really good for you do you think it would have glitched? Just asking. Does anybody think that if I said hey everybody get your boosters, get your boosters, do you think we would have a technical problem? I don't know. Maybe. Hard to say. But you know I haven't started yet. Let's see if we can make a YouTube glitch again. Anybody want to see if I can make it glitch again? I'm just getting started. All right, let's see if we can make the deep state show its hand. Now it could be a coincidence. Coincidences do happen.

All right, we're going to clip this next part. So the clip is going to start right after I put my hand down. Are you ready? All right. I'd like to describe to you with my double whiteboards how I see the landscape of the country in the news, etc. I'm going to take it from two perspectives. Number one, what is the situation for Republicans? Situation for Republicans as I see it. Yeah, I'll move that in your way. Looks like this.

As you know, not everybody has good information and sometimes we all believe things that aren't true, including me. On the Republican side this is how I see the landscape. Sometimes there are rumors that are started at grassroots level and these rumors could come from anywhere. These are just three examples. Could be from Reddit or somewhere on X. It's a bunch of BS. And sometimes that BS trickles up to leadership and famous people. And so you'll get some Republicans who will believe some of it and they'll get Republican voters to believe it. And then the Democrats will criticize them for being wrong about something that's wrong.

Right now this looks about it. Does that kind of capture the Republican side of things? I'm trying to get it out of my own way here. See, would you say that largely captures what happens? No, I'm not saying that everything Republicans believe is wrong. Nothing like that. I'm saying that when they're wrong — because everybody's wrong, right? — but when they're wrong it usually looks like this. It bubbles up from some rumors. Some politicians pick up on it. Republicans say, "Oh, other people are saying it too." And next thing you know there's some BS and then the Democrats pounce and they fact-check you and they make you look stupid and then they say all Republicans are dumb because some of them believe this stuff. So that's basically the landscape.

All right, but what does the landscape look like on the other side? Does it look like this? Not as much. No, it looks a little different. It's way more complicated but it looks sort of like this. This would be the Democrat news landscape, if I can get out of my own way. All right, so I think most of you can see it now.

So you've got the CIA and the FBI and various Democrat operatives who feed their media. These are just some of the names we know are the illegitimate media. So these are the ones who are being influenced by Democrat leadership and various entities that they have some control over. So the media is fake news. But Democrats are not. They're completely unaware. They think that there's — the Democrats believe that both sides have their own fake news and that's really the whole story. "Oh we had a little fake news, sure, but you had a little fake news. Most of the news is true." Nothing like that is happening. No.

In the political world, nothing. The news about hurricanes is probably real but political news is coming from influencers. The media is completely corrupt and the right-wing media is only looked at by people on the right. So the left is completely unaware that there's any counter-narrative. They never see them. So they take their fake news and they get support from the other fake entities which they support. "Oh the ADL says you're bad too. Oh the media said you're bad but these other people, they agree." These are all funded by Democrats so they're funded to look like legitimate organizations but really they're just Democrat organizations to attack the other side.

What about the fact-checkers? Also funded mostly by Democrats. Also fake. So once you've got all of these other organizations from the media to these funded Democrat organizations, you've got a real big ball of fake news. That's why there are over 20 hoaxes on my hoax list that the Democrats all believe are real. At least 20 major hoaxes that went through this machine.

The outcome of this is that the Democrats are brainwashed. Literally. That is not to say that Republicans have only the truth. Nothing like that's happening. Republicans are also wrong about things quite often. But it is bubbling up from the bottom. It's not coming from the top. From the Democrats it's all top stuff. And so their poor voters don't have any idea what's going on. They think that this is some kind of a legitimate process and they don't have any way to find out it's not. They don't have a mechanism to know that it's not real because the only thing that's telling them it's not real are people like me. And they've already told you I'm a disgraced cartoonist and the ADL told you that I'm a Holocaust denier. That's what the ADL said. The leader of the ADL. I'm not just saying that somebody sent a tweet. The actual leader of the ADL labeled me a Holocaust denier.

Now I don't have to defend that. You know I'm not a Holocaust denier. But it shows you how the machine works, right? When you saw the Philip Bump interview in which he got completely demolished for being a fake news guy, you could see all of this finally being exposed. It was obvious he wasn't a genuine writer with real opinions. You could tell that it came from somewhere and he was supporting some kind of a machine.

All right, so that's what happens to the Democrat voters. Democrat voters get brainwashed and the Republican voters get shadow-banned so they can't fight back. I would be very surprised if this gets big traffic on YouTube, if you know what I mean. Watch the traffic it gets let's say on the X platform and compare that to the baseline and then watch what happens on YouTube and compare that to my baseline. Do you think they're going to be the same? Very little chance of that. Because most of the platforms, the media platforms — which I accidentally erased. This would say social media. They're going to make sure that the other side that has been brainwashed by the system, they're going to make sure they don't see me. Only the people who already agree with me are going to see me. And of course there's prosecutions going on so the Department of Justice is making sure that if you have an opinion such as the one I just expressed that they're coming after you.

So here's what is really, really interesting about this week. The entire gears of the machine are now obvious. You can see the entire Hunter Biden money-making scheme. It's all laid out. You can see every part of it now. The Philip Bumps of the world, the illegitimate people, are going to say "but, but, but you haven't made the case that there's a direct payment from Hunter Biden for any favors that went to Joe Biden." But we know he paid his expenses and that's the way it works. We know that there's not going to be a piece of paper. We know what influence buying and selling looks like. It's all laid out. But Democrats don't know it. Don't know it.

Here's what would change everything. I don't know if it'll happen but if you want some optimism, all it would take is to draw this diagram into a better form and then every time there's a story that could be better understood by this landscape you print it with a story and then you highlight the parts that have been activated. For example, some people say — I don't know if this is true but some say the FBI is more influencing The New York Times whereas the CIA is more influencing The Washington Post. I don't know if that's true but wouldn't it be interesting to see a story in the news where you could light up these parts and show which ones were involved? So once you could show the landscape and how different it is on the Republican side, you could possibly for the first time release some of the Democrats who in my opinion are just victims.

I have to say that in 2016 when I started talking about politics in public and you know it would be a big fight between one side versus the other side and to me it just felt like oh we just have different opinions. Different opinions, that's all. And we're fighting it out. That's the way it's supposed to work. But once I learned the entire landscape and I realized that their opinions are assigned to them and then they're solidified by this entire constellation of let's say people who are just slapping some paint on the turd, if you know what I mean. Once you understand the whole landscape you understand that they're not legitimate actors in a legitimate process. They're actually victims. And so I've started treating my Democrat brainwashed critics with sympathy and I just say I'm sorry they did this to you. Because that's my actual feeling. I don't feel like they're attacking me because they had some independent, well-articulated thought and they've decided that attacking me will help them in some way. Attacking me isn't going to help anybody.

I actually don't have any incentives other than to try to make things a little better before I leave this weird little ball they call the earth. I don't need your money, you know. And obviously I'm not doing it for reputation because I've been the most disgraced and maligned person in the United States probably this year who wasn't named Trump. So I'm only doing it because my payoff is if I make something better then I feel good about myself. That's it. So that makes me kind of dangerous.

Anyway, once you understand the model and if we have a way to communicate it. So here's the key point. It's not good enough that I explained it to you. That doesn't help anybody. It would only be good if this could be operationalized, turned into a sort of a standard way of explaining things so that whenever Democrats come in and they're victims, they've been brainwashed, you could show them something.

Now the ideal form — I'll just brainstorm a little bit — an ideal form would be some kind of a graphic that's maybe not exactly this but something in that nature where you could click on any part of it to validate that it belongs on here. In other words you could click on one of these groups and you could say here's a news story that shows you why they're not legitimate. Here's a news story that shows they get all their funding from Democrats, right? So if you could do that. You know, here's the fact that Philip Bump is ever involved in the story. If you knew the landscape as soon as you saw his name you say ah, it's a Philip Bump situation. As soon as you turned on the news and you saw any one of these designated liars — you know, Schiff, Swalwell, you can make the list yourself. There's some people that the news calls in because they know it's not true but they need people who are willing to say literally anything in order to get somebody on TV who will support the narrative.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, concludes my double whiteboard explanation of how everything works.

Now having now completed that presentation, I try to make a beginning and end because I'm going to clip it. So would you let's double back to my first claim. All right, my claim before I started this was I'd like to have at least one thing brewing in my life that could change the world. That could change the world. If Democrats learned what happened to them — and we're almost there. We're almost to the point where you could actually present them with the full machinery of what put them in the situation they're in. Now some of them have been also educated by the education system. I should have put the education system up here. College. But college has turned into one of the brainwashing operations. So that probably belongs up there as well. But if you didn't know that college is a brainwashing operation — maybe not intentionally, it just sort of evolved that way — you wouldn't really know why you even have opinions.

People actually don't know why they have opinions. They think that they thought of them themselves. That's not how anything works. People don't come up with their own opinions. They're assigned. And they're assigned based on what you have access to on your own. Right? If you had access to your own information maybe it'd be hard to assign it but we don't. I can tell you, you tell me who you voted for and I'll tell you what information you have access to. And you just won't even let yourself look at the other stuff. So that's how our opinions are assigned. The fact that we don't have a way out. We don't look at other stuff.

Now this group, again I will compliment you because I think it's warranted. The people who watch this kind of content are not like any of the people I talked about, right? This group is far more likely to identify BS on their own side than other people. And identifying it on your own side is the hard part. Identifying BS on the other side, well that's children's play. That's children's play. Everybody can tell the other side is lying. The hard part is knowing when your side is lying. Right? Because they have the inside track on influencing you. So watch out for your own side. They're the dangerous ones.

And let me say it a different way. If Republicans were not believing a whole bunch of things in addition to things that are true, the Democrats could not suppress them. It's only because there's so many Republicans who do believe that they could be completely discounted by the other side. So is there anything that's happening right now that would change that situation where Republicans seem to be believing in a lot of — what would change that and what would his name be? Yeah, you're ahead of me. Vivek is not just really good at what he does like Trump. He's changing the narrative. Everybody who saw Vivek talk about climate change just went up a level in their ability to explain their side. Am I right?

If you were copying Trump and saying it snowed yesterday so climate change is a hoax, you look like an idiot. I'm sorry. You might even be right but you would look like an idiot if you repeated what Trump said about climate change. Which I'm not saying Trump's wrong about anything. I'm saying that the way he expresses it is in the least scientific terms you could ever have. When he talks about windmills he jokingly says you know if the wind stops blowing you can't watch TV and the crowd loves it. Don't repeat that. No, that's just something Trump says. Don't repeat that.

But when you watch Vivek talk, every argument he uses is really close to perfect because he just has the skill. So if you copied Vivek's arguments for anything the Democrats would be unarmed. Because their whole game is making you look like a chimpanzee for believing the most ridiculous. And Vivek doesn't buy that. He doesn't buy into that. He actually uses arguments that can be checked. He uses things we all understand and he doesn't support anything he can't defend with a strong argument. But that's not the case for most Republicans. Republicans have consistently over time had points of view that they didn't defend even in a halfway rational way really. But he does. So he can basically fix your weakest part of the Republican Party by at least showing you what a good argument looks like. And you just follow his arguments and you will be fine and the entire party will be fine.

This is why I say that the candidates who are running this time, it's a whole different thing. They're

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actually changing the world while they run. And maybe Trump did a little of that too but I've never seen so much actual real world change at least the way we think about things. Then I have from RFK Junior, Vivek, and Larry Elder. I like to put him in the mix too with his family message. Very, very positive stuff. So that's the positive part. So ladies and gentlemen, I believe I have talked about…

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