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then it looks like an official structure because it would be and that would maybe make people more comfortable with it. Apparently the new hires also have to be according to the executive order approved by some of the DOGE team leads. I'm not sure why we need that because if the head of the OMB, well I guess it's because there'll still be a lot of Democrats in these agencies they might try to pul…

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p supporter with a Trump sign. But why was it that they ever thought a Trump supporter would be dangerous if FEMA knocked on the door to try to help them? In what world do you think it's dangerous to knock on the door of a Trump supporter? Does anybody live in that world? That's like a reality I don't understand.

If you told me the only thing that you know about the house is that it's a Democrat or Republican would one of those be scarier than the other? Well if it's an upscale house I wouldn't care. Upscale house nobody's going to be opening fire when you knock on the door. But let's say it's a low-income house. Would you be more afraid of a low-income Democrat or a low-income Republican in the context of a disaster in which everybody needs help and FEMA is helping everybody? In what world does a Trump supporter go nuts in that case even if they didn't like what FEMA was doing? You think they're going to pull a gun on you? In what world? That's so this is basically the fake news just ruined FEMA because they believed some kind of weird, I don't know, maybe that Trump supporters are part of the secret resistance of white supremacists hiding in the mountains or something. Crazy stuff. Crazy.

Well I saw a post today by Mike Cernovich that spoke to me so I want to read his post. It definitely feels like a sign of the times kind of indicator. And then I want to tell you what I reposted in the same vein or at least I hope it's in the same vein.

So Mike Cernovich posted on X, I think it was this morning or last night. He said I don't want to speak carelessly or with bravado but I'm not going back. I will not submit ever or in any way to what we lived under four years ago, a hostile occupying regime. I just won't.

Now that was exactly what I was feeling. So this is what Cernovich does. He finds the exact emotional lever and he found mine. So here's what I added to it because this is what I've been thinking about a lot in the last 24 hours even before I saw Mike's post.

I said yesterday I was remembering how innocent we were in 2016 or at least I was. We just preferred Trump. No big deal. Then came the shaming, the cancelling, the physical threats, the intimidation, the social stigmas, the economic attacks, the fake news, the corruption and eventually the revelation of the entire corrupt architecture of the country.

Now we're smarter and not so innocent. We're tougher. We're mad and we have reinforcements that are more powerful than anything we've ever seen. We're not just supporters with a preference this time. Now it's ride or die. We will protect the Constitution. We will right the ship. Decisions have been made. Decisions have been made. We're not going to lose this. All right we're going to protect the country. We're going to protect the public. We're going to protect the Constitution and we're going to make America great again and nothing is going to stop it.

Nothing. Speaking of things trying to stop things, you remember NewsGuard? So NewsGuard was this non-government organization that was going to help all the various countries get rid of their misinformation and of course it wasn't really a misinformation thing. It was a political censoring vehicle pretending to help you with misinformation.

So here's what happened. Apparently they had on their website, NewsGuard did, that Microsoft was one of the companies that they were helping with misinformation. Microsoft disavowed them in response. So I guess Ted Cruz, Senator Cruz, wrote to Microsoft and said is this real or are you really backing NewsGuard now that we know that it's just a completely illegitimate corrupt organization pretending to be about misinformation but really just being part of the uni-party crushing the opposition.

And Microsoft instead of what you might have imagined during the Biden administration but we don't know they just said you better take us off your website because we're not funding you and we're not working with you basically. I'm paraphrasing but Microsoft just said nope nope thank you Senator Cruz for bringing this to our attention. Nope NewsGuard don't associate with us.

Now would that have happened under Biden or do you think there's an awakening that has reached basically everybody in power at this point? I feel like there's an awakening.

So did you know, let's see, so how bad is NewsGuard? Let me give you some meat on the bones if you want to know how bad they are. NewsGuard claims that some outlets are misinformation and some are not. So here's the ones they call misinformation and then the ones they say are not. They said misinformation was The Federalist, The Daily Wire and Newsmax. They're called quote unreliable.

Well these are the outlets they think are reliable. The Jacobin, I don't even know what that is. The Atlantic. The Atlantic and The New Republic are deemed reliable. The Atlantic is literally the most famous propaganda, not even trying to be anything but propaganda. Now if you didn't know that you might say huh okay this is helpful. Here's a list of bad sites and good sites.

But anybody who's paying attention even a little bit knows The Atlantic is just a Democrat propaganda. I don't think it exists for any other reason. I doubt it's making money. Isn't it owned by Jobs's widow and doesn't it look like the only reason it's still alive is so they can write hit pieces on Trump? It's the most corrupt thing you could possibly imagine that first of all there is something that exists like that but secondly that NewsGuard has blessed it as an accurate source and says The Federalist is not.

Now I don't know about you but I've read a lot of stories in The Federalist. I don't remember any misinformation. Do you? Like I don't remember any. You know every news entity gets things wrong but what I mean these are all news sources that I have familiarity with. You know Newsmax may get things wrong. They may be biased in their attacks. Of course the news is biased but that's a big difference between bias and misinformation.

So yeah this is completely corrupt.

There is an account on X that has been getting some attention lately and it's an anonymous account and I would love to know who's behind it. It's the account is called Data Republican. We don't know if it's male or female or more than one person involved so it's anonymous. But Data Republican's been apparently doing some good work sniffing out things that the data indicates, looking for red flags.

And one of the things that Data Republican put on X, so you should follow Data Republican if you're on X. It's one word Data Republican. You should follow it and when I tell you this story you're definitely going to want to follow it. So the idea is that Data Republican discovered seven NGOs out of the massive thousands of NGOs. So this was hard. Found seven NGOs that seem to, that are partially funded by American taxpayers, that appear to be the key players within the so-called deep state uni-party.

And one of the ways that they're identifiable is that they all have something like democracy in their name. So democracy enhancing, democracy helping, universal democracy helping, the agency to democratize democracy and all good democracy things. So that's one of the signals that they're not giving like let's say foreign

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aid for AIDS or trying to help the poor. There's something about democracy and they're well-funded and there's seven of them. And that explains why Trump is being called domestically a threat to democracy. Do you see it now? So we had these NGOs that were originally set up to battle for democracy against let's say the Soviet Union. They might have a different model or against anybody else who was…

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