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All right. Being that it is Saturday, immediately after the podcast will be a Spaces event. That's the audio-only event on X, and Owen Gregorian will be hosting that. You can find that on his X feed. Owen Gregorian. Just search for him, you'll find it.

Well, happy Flag Day and happy Trump's birthday and happy Mega King Day and happy what else is it? World War II victory day. Did I leave anything out? Happy gay pride month. Any other birthdays? Does anybody else have a birthday I can toss in there? We got a lot going on.

Well, apparently the Trump military parade will be at 6:30 p.m. Eastern time. So plenty of time to watch it. And it turns out that there will be more horses than tanks. I was worried that the parade would be a substantial part of the military and maybe be a target or something, but it doesn't look like that. It's a smaller spectacle than I imagined.

So when all of you heard it was going to be a military parade, what did you imagine? Because I imagined a bunch of missiles, you know, like Kim Jong-un does. But apparently there are no missiles. So here's what one chart I saw this morning said: 6,700 soldiers, which is not a lot but it's not a little. So a good chunk of soldiers. 31 tanks, 28 Bradley fighters, 16 Blackhawk helicopters, one Douglas C-47, whatever that is. There will be eight marching bands, 34 horses, and one dog. I can't wait to see the dog. There's just one dog.

Yeah. So we got 34 horses and only 31 tanks. So the good news is it's not meant to be overwhelmingly military. It looks like it's just about the right amount. If you had too much, it would look like you're trying to be a dictator. If you don't have enough, it would look like you're weak. So this might be just the right amount for Flag Day. So I'll say they got that right.

But today is also No Kings Day according to whoever decided that that is No Kings Day. Well, we'll talk about who's behind it. But apparently for No Kings Day, the idea is that it's sort of a protest movement to Trump's military parade because a military parade makes the Democrats think of dictators, which makes them think of kings, which makes them want to say no kings. So it's an anti-Trump sort of national event.

Apparently Wimo has announced that they will not be serving the area where the No Kings will be having their day in Los Angeles. Instead they're going to shut down service. So instead of ordering a Wimo, there's going to be way more walking than they expected. Yeah, I'll say it twice. There's going to be way more walking.

All right, so here's what General Flynn said about the event, the No Kings event. I'll just read you what he posted. So General Flynn, I've been in the intelligence game long enough to know a psyop when I see one. The No Kings protests aren't spontaneous. They're part of a broader strategy to undermine President Trump's administration. The NGOs involved—Indivisible, CHIRLA, Unión del Barrio, and others—are part of a network of nearly 200 organizations, many of which have ties to the Democratic Party's activist wing.

He says the FBI is sniffing around with Director Kash Patel probing the funding behind the recent anti-ICE riots in LA. Why? Because when protests turn into looting and arson, it's not about free speech. It's about intent to destabilize.

Now that's General Flynn, who knows what he's talking about, believes that the protests are meant to destabilize the country. They're not really an anti-Trump per se. I told you the other day that Chris Cuomo believes that China is behind the funding of the anti-immigration stuff anyway, and maybe this too. So why would China do that? Because the more protests

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and unrest there are in the United States, the better it is for China. According to the New York Post, Mayor Adams of New York City—no relation—is going to deploy thousands of cops for the No Kings Day. He wants to make sure that the outside agitators are handled because he expects a lot of outside agitators. Now I always wonder, if you're one of these groups that fund some big fake protest like…

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