about this before now who was also a banker was me. Am I wrong? Did you see any news network, left or right, have a banker on who explained how a banker makes a loan? I'm literally the only person in the world who told you that. Do you know how many people knew it? Let me ask you this. Do you think Jamie Dimon didn't know this? Of course he did. Of course he did. Do you think Warren Buffett didn't know this? Of course he did. Do you think there's anybody operating at a high level in business who didn't know this? They all did. They all knew it. I'm the only one who told you. How do you even explain that? We don't even have anything like a news business. And probably you wouldn't have heard it from me except that I'm on the X platform, right? So once again the only place you could have seen something that was an approximation of reality was from me on the X platform on this.

Now let me say for those of you who are newer to what I do, every once in a while somebody says, Scott we hate it when you brag about being right. But I remind you that's what the show is. The show is I make predictions and I say what I think is true and then we check it later. And sometimes I'm horribly wrong and I tell you. Famously I said that Putin probably would not invade Ukraine because it would be just a horrible suicide run. But then he did, so then I told you 100% wrong. But when I get it right I tell you that too, because that should be part of your assumptions about how accurate I will be next time.

Well, we've learned today or yesterday that the Department of Justice was collecting data from the X platform, or I guess Twitter when they did it, maybe data on every person who liked or retweeted Trump when he was on Twitter. That's right. As part of the prosecution against Trump, Jack Smith's Department of Justice, they got access to — because they asked for it — everybody who interacted positively with the Trump tweet so they could make a list of all the Trump supporters and they could get a sense of who are the misinformation ones and the dangerous ones. I'm on that list. Most of you probably are too. I'm literally on that list. But unlike many of you I have a big account. Now they — I saw some lists of the top people on there and stuff. But how does that make you feel? The Department of Justice put me on a list of suspicious bastards because my political preference is well within the normal range of political preferences. That's horrible on a level that's hard to even put in your head.

Remember I started earlier by saying there's some things happening that are just so mind-blowingly wrong that they're just too many of them. Like I don't know how much outrage I can spare for this one because there are just too many. So at this point the regime can slip an outrage past us so easily. There's just too many other outrages. And if the outrages are not enough, we've always got UFOs to talk about to keep us distracted. Because we know the CIA, the government has used fake UFO reports to keep us distracted in the past. It sure looks like that's happening now.

All right. So here's a story that's way complicated but it's so important that I would recommend you take a deep dive in it because you won't really understand anything you're seeing in the world until you do. And it has to do with this great censorship octopus that was created after Trump won and Brexit won. And the people who said that shouldn't have happened got together — Obama apparently — and they created a way to censor people on the right through non-government means because the government can't censor. So they built this organization that created another organization of organizations until there were around 100 non-government organizations that were all in the business of hunting down people on the right. They didn't call it that. They would call it a misinformation, disinformation entity. They would say that they were looking to get better information. But the only people they ever fact-checked were on the right. They only found people on the right. At no time did they fact-check the hoaxes against Trump. They didn't do any of it. They never once fact-checked any hoax against Trump, of which there are about 20 of them. So it was always — and by the way there's evidence now that they knew they were political entities and not anything about disinformation.

So Kanekoa the Great has a great thread on this, and he references Mike Benz who's been the best at laying out all the entities because you really need somebody to be a tour guide on this story because it's just too hard to figure out who's doing what. But the basic idea, I'll just crib from Kanekoa the Great, who you should follow on X. He's a great follow. He has some of the best threads on the big stories so you can see sort of the bullet point version. So if you can finally understand complicated stuff.

So this started with the Department of Homeland Security, and they backed a censorship consortium. They had 120 analysts that censored millions of social media posts, mostly about elections and COVID. Elections and COVID, so two of the biggest concerns for the Democrats. And they outsourced the censorship to something called the Election Integrity Partnership, and that was comprised of four organizations. So you got the Democrat-led Department of Homeland Security with presumably Obama's blessing and orders. They create an entity that's outside of the government, and then that outside-the-government entity creates four sub-entities that include the Stanford Internet Observatory, the University of Washington Center for an Informed Public, Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, and Graphika. And they kind of quietly turned it from a misinformation thing int