s illegal. But yeah, when my government wants to keep me better informed and tell me that the interest rate on this loan is the same as this one and you know what's in the food—yeah I like all that. So I could not be happier about that. That's pure golden age stuff. You don't get that. You don't get this without Trump and without RFK Jr. I think.

Meanwhile I saw a story. Sam J over in Twitchy is writing there's some Democrat who is on the floor of Congress I guess talking about openly organizing a shadow government. So he actually had names of all the Democrats who would operate as a shadow government. But it sounds worse than it is. What he meant was that for every appointed person in the Trump administration that there'd be somebody who would be their critic. You know somebody whose job it was to make sure they didn't go too far and do bad things. That's fine. It basically he's just using a colorful way to say that they're going to be critical of things that Trump does. So it sounds like a much more shadowy terrible thing but really it's just they're going to make sure they have critics for everything Trump does.

Brendan Carr at the FCC is working against the big censorship cartel. And he notes that—this is on X—he notes that Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft and others have played a central role in the censorship cartel as he calls it. Now if you don't know about NewsGuard, my understanding is it's an external entity that the big tech companies used as their source of what's information and what's disinformation. Except NewsGuard is just a censorship organization that will politically censor anything they don't like and every reason. So he says the Orwellian named NewsGuard along with the quote fact-checking groups and ad agencies are enforcing the one-sided narrative. In other words they're censoring one side of the political conversation. And so he wants to dismantle this what he would call a cartel of these fact-checking disinformation people.

And he says that the big tech's liability shield—that's called Section 230. Now Section 230 lets them not be sued, the big tech companies, if all they're doing is passing along information so they're not the ones creating it. But if you are using these fake NewsGuard or fake fact-checkers or working with advertisers to limit one kind of speech and promote another, then you're just censors. And he's asking for more information so we can take a look at this and maybe dismantle it.

Michael Shellenberger of course is the superstar reporter who helps us understand this whole news thing. And Mike Benz of course one of the strong voices there. By the way if you're not following Mike Benz, B-E-N-Z, and Michael Shellenberger—sounds just like it spells—you're not really well informed. And I'll say Glenn Greenwald as well. So there's some people you need to follow or you're just not going to know anything. They're one layer below the reality that you can see on TV. So if you can't get to that lower level of base reality where everything's rigged and you know exactly how everything's confusing, so you got to get to the Shellenberger, Benz, Greenwald level of understanding of the world and then everything starts making sense. At the same time it's kind of wonderful. Couldn't do it without X.

David Sacks points out another systemic problem we have. He had a good monologue that was on X I saw that the executive branch is in charge of a whole ton of people who work for the government except that it can't fire them. So there's a whole bunch of the government that can't be fired