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MainContent Media & Fake News

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uption in the world. Would you be surprised that the LA Times did a research and found out that there was a LA Fire Department after-action report about the Palisades fire? And do you think that that after-action report, which is basically the fire department reporting on themselves how they did, do you think that it was honestly reported what possible mistakes the fire department might have made?…

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orry. If you don't understand the news is and maybe always has been fake, you would be very confused about what you're seeing. Right? So that's number one. And I would say that Trump was the biggest reason that we understand the news to be fake. Not only did he tell us, but we could watch through his experience how often there were hoaxes in the news and you could really learn, oh my god, the news is not even real. That's number one.

How confused and lost would we be if Elon Musk had not purchased Twitter and turned it into X? Because I get most of my knowledge from X. If I had to depend on everything else, literally everything else, I wouldn't know what's going on. Now I might be in a bubble, so I have to watch out for the bubble problem. But without X there's so much context that I'd be missing.

Now what would have happened if Trump had not won the election? If Trump had not won the election, I think that X would have been destroyed. I think that people would still think the news was real. They would trust their elections were not rigged and they would have an entirely different view of what's real and what's not. And Trump just barely won. Well he would say he won by a lot, but if you consider the allegations of rigging, suppose there had not been some, I don't know if it's real, but the reporting is that there was some Serbian data center that had to be taken offline just in time or Trump would have lost. Now I don't know if that's true, but it does suggest that if it was, we were very close to losing everything and then we would again not know what was going on because we would be in the dark.

What would happen if DOGE had never happened? And I'll add Mike Benz to this point. What would happen if there had never been a Mike Benz and there had never been a DOGE? Would you understand how the NGOs and the USAID stuff were distorting everything we knew and everything we were doing? I didn't know about any of that stuff. And what are the odds that you'd be born in a time when both of these things would happen? DOGE and Mike Benz. We were very close to never understanding what was really happening, but now we're getting close.

What about the rise of independent media? Do you think we would know anything except for the rise in independent media, which mostly you get to see on X? Nope. Because corporate media will always have a limit on what they can do if they take advertisement for their business model. There's going to be entire domains where you can't trust what they say. And the only way that you would know what's happening is if an independent media grew up and that only was possible recently and mostly because of X.

In order for me to understand what's going on and then to try to tell you, I had to use Grok to summarize Mike Benz's posts because his posts are very detailed and it's hard to watch four hours of content and even though he summarizes it and he gets clipped, it's a lot. And so even this morning and really it feels like every morning there'll be some big complicated story about what's wrong with the world and I'll say, Grok, summarize this. And if Grok did not exist I'm not sure I'd be able to totally follow everything that Mike Benz says that puts things in context. So I happen to, you know, you have to be lucky that Elon Musk made Grok.

How would you have ever understood what a color revolution was and the fact that the people who were doing it to successfully overthrow other countries had very clearly used those tools against us? How would you know that without X, without DOGE, without Mike Benz? Very specific things had to happen at the same time for us even to understand that that's the world we're living in.

How would you have ever known that the censorship industrial complex had found a way to use the international tools and also to partner with Europe mostly to censor people in the United States? That's something we only just recently learned. So think about how sensitive the world was to all of those factors. And if any one of those had not happened, would we have already lost free speech? With the censorship and the color revolution already made it impossible to have a democracy and never get a real Republican elected. We were this close to losing everything. It almost seems like magic that all the right things happened at the same time, right? It's very unlikely that all of those things would happen at the same time, but they did. They did. Kind of amazing.

Speaking of Mike Benz and Grok and censorship, here's another one of those stories that you would not understand unless we had been given this new context and these new set of assets to understand the world. So there's this guy, Imran Ahmed, and I might have this wrong, but I think he's a Brit, and he's allegedly was part of the effort to, and apparently there's documentation that he said this directly, that he was in charge of trying to kill Elon Musk's Twitter for censorship reasons and that he was running quote black ops against RFK. So would you have known that there's this guy in another country who was part of a big industrial censorship complex that was working with the United States to essentially get rid of free speech in the United States?

Well, there's this guy named Norm Eisen who's an attorney who is associated with Democrats, but he's also associated with that entire foreign and now domestic color revolution. So he's sort of one of the architects of how to do a color revolution. And he's now the lawyer representing Imran Ahmed. So if you don't know the players, you don't really know what's going on. And as soon as you see that he's the lawyer for Imran Ahmed and then you see Mike Benz explaining the connection and the history and what both of them have been doing, all of a sudden it clicks in place. Click, click, click. Oh, all right.

So as Mike says, Norm Eisen specifically made internet censorship a cornerstone of his domestic color revolution playbook published in 2015. He literally published the technique for doing this. So we're not guessing what he's thinking. He wrote it down. And that playbook, the Norm Eisen playbook, called for state governments to set up social media censorship regulatory regimes, and we've seen this in California, New York, and Michigan try to do it, to specifically instruct his networks to quote find partners in Brazil's censorship apparatus. So I think the point here is that this color revolution thing is very obviously being used in countries that we're trying to control and Brazil was on that list I guess and that all of these efforts are staffed with ex-Obama people and there's no doubt about what side they're on. They're not trying to make things good for America. They're trying to make things good for the Democrats basically. So there you go.

Now here's another question I have. You know, we all live in a news bubble. So even as much improved as things are today, I would say things are much improved as I mentioned, the free speech and the context and all that. In my bubble, the allegation that our elections have been rigged, and you could pick any year, but let's just say rigging probably happens every year, sometimes more successfully than others. In my world, that's a proven fact. Not proven in court, but because of my bubble I've seen so many stories that are at least high credibility. I don't know how true they are, but they're high credibility about rigging that I would just say it's a fact now.

But if you're not in my bubble, how much of that do you ever see? I feel like the left never sees it. And what they see is the times when the claims are debunked because there are a lot of claims that do not check out. So I'm going to name a few things in my bubble. So in my bubble that Serbian data center thing is true. In my bubble there was Chinese technology in the voting machines. In my bubble there are credible reports of duplicate ballots that all look the same and widespread. There's a lot of it. In my bubble there were whistleblowers and undercover video proving that there was ballot stuffing and illegal stuff. In my bubble there's plenty of evidence that ballots should not have been counted in massive ways either because they didn't have the signatures, because they were sketchy looking, etc. And that's just a fact. And we have whistleblowers and we have multiple reports. Even people under penalty of perjury are claiming they saw it firsthand.

We've got that warehouse that's been locked for years because allegedly it's full of fake ballots. And all we'd have to do is get to it. And I think that's happening actually. We've got all kinds of allegations about Arizona. Too many to mention. We've got that video of Ruby Freeman, is it, who allegedly is doing something sketchy. I think she's being accused of counting the ballots three times. Now she won a court case for being accused of that. So the courts did not confirm that she's done anything illegal. So she's not indicted or anything, but if you're in my bubble she's accused of all kinds of things. There's the

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story of the water leak that was fake that was just used as a cover to get the observers out. Now I could go on and on and on, but how many of you are having the same experience that in your bubble you have massive, just massive stories about very credible stories that various parts of the election were rigged? That's your bubble too, right? But I bet almost nobody on the left is exposed to this…

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