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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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not physical danger but I got canceled. My reputation is destroyed. I'm all in. I got nothing left to lose. And if you look at how many people are risking their physical life, how about Musk? Do you know how much security Musk needs right now? A lot. Do you know how much risk the DOGE people are taking? A lot. Physical, career, reputation. A lot.

We've never seen any situation where so many I guess you'd call them normal people decided to ride or die. This time we feel that this is a 1776 moment ideally without the muskets. I think we can do this without the muskets so that would be first choice. But we are putting our lives on the line. We are genuinely putting our whole lives, our reputation, our economics, ability to feed the family and even our lives all on the line and no regrets. We're all in.

Now this is an example of what Greg Gutfeld calls the shared risk. I don't do it because it's a shared risk but boy does it help to know that I'm not the only person putting myself out there. That lots of people are putting everything on the line. Everything. Musk is risking everything. Everything. And he's doing it right in front of you. It's the most amazing thing I've ever seen.

So just think about the number of people that you know that are Trump supporters who have been in physical danger, career danger, social danger. It's a pretty big list and none of them are backing down. Look at Alex Jones not backing down. He's doubling down but he's not backing down. And you could probably make a list of 25 people that took a serious hit for doing what they thought was right and now we're not going to take it anymore. We're not going back. It's just not going to happen.

So Catherine Herridge was talking on a podcast recently. She said that, you know Catherine Herridge a well respected journalist, she said she got fired at CBS News and then made a choice to go independent. And she said her first investigation on COVID injury in the US military and she said that X was the only platform where they could put the results of their investigation. X was the only place an honest journalist could tell an honest story. Think about that. No other entity because most of them take pharma advertising so you know X maybe has some too but it's not driving any decisions. I don't know if there are any on X actually.

So did Catherine Herridge take some risks? Oh yeah. Yep Catherine Herridge took some risks. Now I wouldn't say that she's pro-Trump because she's such a good journalist. I don't know. That's exactly what you want. That's almost the definition of a good journalist or a great journalist is that you don't know who they support. They're just telling you what they found. So but she's brave and she had to pay.

Fox News has a story that I think is probably fake news but still useful. This would be useful fake news. The story is that I guess the Pentagon has some bills they paid $1,300 for coffee cups. I don't know how many coffee cups that was and I think that was like per coffee cup or something $1,300 and then an 8,000 percent overpay for soap dispensers. So DOGE is finding these kinds of expenses.

Now here's what you need to know. I did not do any research on this specific story. I'm going to give you a general statement. Since the 60s the same story comes out at least once a year. Oh the Air Force charges a billion dollars for a hammer. Oh this one screw for this door was $50,000. And every year since the 60s. Now you would first of all would you all agree that you've all seen this story, a version of the story every year you've been alive? It never stops.

And did you know none of them are true? Did you know that it's always the same reason? Let's say I'll give you an example just to, and by the way this is just a made up example but it'll give you an idea what I'm talking about. Let's say Air Force One had some special equipment that nobody else in the world had and some design things that didn't exist anywhere else and then later 20 yea

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rs later because the airplanes last a long time somebody says oh we need to add a cup dispenser or we need some cups that will fit the dispensers that are already on the plane or they need to be some special kind of cups that I don't know don't leak or something. Well to make that little tiny order of whatever it is that Air Force One needed but nobody else will ever need anywhere they might have…

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