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Trust in media.

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I hate to break it to you, but you've been living in a Truman Show for your entire life, and the sooner you realize

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what's actually going on, the better.

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So it is now it's today Easter Monday, which is obviously a very holy day in the Christian faith.

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And today, this morning, the pope passed away. Woah. Holy fuck. That's pretty crazy.

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So if you are not familiar with so

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I have thoughts. I love Christianity. I love the Christian religion.

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I love not all Christians, but, I I mean, I love everybody. I love everybody.

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But there's obviously been some issues around the Christian

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the religion of Christianity, the organized religion of Christianity we all know about, the pedophilia scandals, the little boys that are molested.

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Well, we don't all know about

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all the scandals, but there is I remember years ago reading Mario Puzo's book, The Last Dawn, where he basically let bro.

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It it literally blew my mind because he talks so much about the

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interplay between the pope and

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the secular powers, where I was like, oh.

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It's like what he's laying out here is is just like a power,

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like, play it's just a way to influence a lot of people.

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But then I read this book called project

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Operation Gladio.

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And if you're not familiar with that,

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that is a mind bender.

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Operation Gladio, the unholy alliance between the Vatican, the CIA, and the mafia by Paul l Williams.

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And I've already quoted from that book in my book.

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It's wild. Basically, every pope

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since the, I think, at least the early seventies, probably the sixties, have basically been controlled by the CIA so that the CIA can run their

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drug money through the Vatican Bank, which doesn't have any oversight.

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And so if you go against the CIA and the drug cartels, which is obviously they're in the cahoots with each other, then you're not gonna last long as a pope as pope John the first found out.

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Or maybe he didn't, but he died

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under very mysterious circumstances.

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So it's a very interesting world that we live in.

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So let's get to it. I'm gonna talk about trust in media,

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and we'll see how far we can get if this is the only chapter we do it today. So here we go.

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Let's do it.

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Trust in media.

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The other big part of the red pilled worldview is a lack of trust in the media.

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We've all heard the term fake news. This is what that term implies,

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that the media is partisan and lying and have abandoned their fourth estate responsibilities

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as a check on power.

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Sidebar here.

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I've started paying a lot more attention to Danish media, just being a Danish citizen who happens to live in America,

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And I am shocked and appalled actually at just how awful the media is now that I know what I know.

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Now that I live in America

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and I know what's actually happening in America and seeing how that gets represented in the European media.

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The European media is every bit as bad as the American fake news media. It's horrible. It's awful.

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The big difference being that

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I think upwards of 80% of the population in Denmark actually still have

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has trust in the media.

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That's pretty it's insane. It's mind boggling.

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Like, people are just, like, gobbling up all of the propaganda and all of the brainwashing and all of the gaslighting,

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and they

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think that's reality. It's

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crazy to realize.

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Alright. Back to the book.

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We need a shared understanding of reality to be able to work as a community and create our future together.

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And we need someone to hold powerful people accountable.

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And we don't have that

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at all. There's a phenomenon dubbed the Gell Mann amnesia

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effect.

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I bet you've experienced

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it. It goes like this.

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You read an article about a topic that you know something about, and you realize how little the journalist who wrote it knows about your topic.

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It's an oversimplification,

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it's misleading, or downright wrong.

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Then you proceed to turn the page and read an article about some other topic that you're not an expert on, and you promptly forget what you just noticed, and you trust that this article surely is telling the truth.

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But of course, it isn't. I've had this experience many times. You probably have too.

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After Trump got elected, I was seriously concerned about the survival of The US democracy.

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A thriving democracy depends on an informed citizenry, and so I signed up for a paid subscription to the Washington Post.

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Democracy dies in darkness,

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as their slogan says.

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Better shed some light. I quickly learned the errors of my ways.

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Article after article, I saw the same pattern.

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There's some tiny bit of real data.

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They write a whole article of narrative interpreting the thing, and then buried in paragraph seven is the real nugget of information that the whole article was based on.

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But when you go check out the source, it turns out that it doesn't support the narrative of the article.

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Try it yourself. Read almost any article carefully.

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Ignore any adjectives, assertions,

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generalizations,

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loosely defined or undefined terms, and see what you're left with. A fun game.

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I'll walk you through an example so you can see how this works.

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Try to look beyond the Trump piece and just notice the machinations

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at work. Imagine it was Kamala or Obama or Trudeau or whoever your favorite politician is.

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I just pulled a random headline from CNN dot com today, 09/20/2024.

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Headline,

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Trump leads and his party follows on vaccine skepticism.

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What does that mean exactly?

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What does vaccine skepticism

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mean exactly?

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Does it mean that you have questions about the value of some of the vaccines administered to children?

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Rejecting them all? Having questions about the immunity from liability for vaccine manufacturers?

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What does it mean? That's not clear, but it's clearly bad.

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What does it mean that he leads and the party follows?

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None of this is clear. But okay, it's a headline.

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Continuing the article.

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More than four years ago, former president Donald Trump's administration

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accelerated the development and rollout of the COVID nineteen vaccine.

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Okay. Nothing much here. Statement of fact.

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The project, dubbed Operation Warp Speed, likely saved millions of lives.

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Oh. This is an assertion, and one that I personally question.

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I think it's more likely that millions of people died because they were prevented from receiving

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known effective treatments early on so that an emergency use authorization could be given to the COVID vaccines.

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So the exact opposite.

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Article again.

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But a substantial number of Republican voters now identify as vaccine skeptics, and Trump rarely mentions what's considered one of the great public health accomplishments in recent memory.

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What is a substantial number?

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What does it mean to identify as a vaccine skeptic?

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What's the implication of Trump rarely mentioning this?

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And the fact it was one of the greatest health accomplishments in recent memory is another assertion not backed by anything.

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Note how they repeatedly state assertions as fact to make it appear as if the question of the efficacy of the COVID vaccines

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and vaccines in general is a subtle issue. It's not. Far from it.

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Here's another article from yesterday, 09/29/2024.

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Headline. Trump lambasts

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immigrants using false homicide claims.

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Note the word lambasts,

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a very loaded word. Immigrants itself is also value loaded. Are they legal or illegal immigrants?

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Is their status disputed?

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And the claims are deemed false right there in the headline.

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The stage is clearly set.

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The article goes on.

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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, in a speech that repeatedly painted a dark caricature of immigrants,

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seized on a recent report to claim falsely that thousands of immigrants with homicide records had been allowed to go free by the Biden administration.

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Repeatedly painted a dark caricature of immigrants. Woah. What's that strong?

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What did he say exactly?

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How many times did he say it exactly?

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Seized is another one of their favorite words. It sounds dangerous, suspect, and manipulative.

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Imagine they'd instead said something neutral like Trump, quoting a recent government report, raised concerns about immigrants with criminal records being allowed into the country and remaining free.

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Or if they were Trump friendly, they could have said Trump, quoting a recent government report, raised valid and reasonable concerns about some illegal immigrants with criminal records being allowed into the country and remaining free.

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Notice the addition of valid and reasonable and illegal to add support.

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Same set of facts, very different narrative.

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All of this really matters. Narrative is everything.

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These words bypass your mind's defense mechanism and seep right into you as truth.

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Trump's a bad guy who hates immigrants, when there's plenty of evidence to support the opposite.

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But that story is never told in the media.

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Let's continue.

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They're coming into our cities and our small towns.

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Here in Pennsylvania and all over the country, Trump said in a speech that meandered widely

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and made several other unsupported assertions.

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These towns are petrified. Even if they are not there yet, they will be there.

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Note the use of meandered widely and made several other unsupported assertions,

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painting a picture of Trump as off his rocker.

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Trump cited a new letter from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement to falsely suggest that more than 13,000 immigrants convicted of homicide had been let into The United States on President Joe Biden's watch and then released.

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But allies of Vice President Kamala Harris and nonpartisan experts

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say Trump is badly misrepresenting the data.

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Falsely. Again, they're asserting the conclusion without backing it up. Also note nonpartisan

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experts. Who are these experts? What are they experts on? What are their credentials?

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And what does it mean exactly that they're nonpartisan?

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You can be nonpartisan

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and still part of the blob because the blob is beyond party. It's intentionally

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reinforcing an outdated, irrelevant left right paradigm.

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Instead of trusting experts because someone claims they're experts and nonpartisan,

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can we just look at the facts directly?

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The people he cited entered The United States over several decades, including during the Trump presidency.

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And while they are listed as non detained, that means only that ICE is not detaining them.

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In many cases, they are being held by another agency and are often serving prison sentences.

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Alright. So now we're getting somewhere. We're hearing some of the pushback.

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We still haven't heard exactly what Trump claimed or what the letter says, but let's keep going.

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The data in this letter is being misinterpreted,

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a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE, said in a statement.

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The data goes back decades and includes individuals who entered the country over the past forty years or more, the vast majority of whose custody determination was made long before this administration.

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The spokesperson added, it also includes many who are under the jurisdiction or currently incarcerated by federal, state, or local law enforcement partners.

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Great. So now we're hearing some details about the claim.

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I looked to see if I could find the original statement from DHS.

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Nothing on DHS's gob. Nothing

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on dhs.gov.

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Nothing on their official x account, nothing on YouTube.

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Not clear if it was a written statement or an oral statement, nor exactly when and how that statement was made.

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A spokesperson for the DHS doesn't say much. Hard to determine what the statement is based on.

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I don't trust the government on this.

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Also, what does it matter that it also happened under Trump's watch or before?

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If murderers are indeed entering the country,

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and if the question of whether we should allow more or fewer people to enter the country without adequate

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vetting

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is a point of differentiation in this election,

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then it's still relevant.

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Could we look at what's true and what exactly each candidate plans to do about it?

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Can we now hear exactly what Trump claimed and what the letter says so we can compare?

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Not so fast.

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Even so, Trump spent much of his two hour speech on elaborate descriptions of the individuals purportedly roaming the nation, calling them stone cold killers, worse than any of our criminals, monsters, and people who have no heart and don't care who they kill.

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Elaborate descriptions and some quotes.

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It's not clear from the context who exactly he was talking about.

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If he's talking about members of Venezuela's Terendia Raco gang, for example, his descriptions sound pretty accurate.

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If he's talking about regular folks with no criminal background,

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it's obviously obsessive. So, who's he talking about?

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We need to know the context to judge the statements. Will we get it? We shall see.

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But note how the way this is presented makes it seem like he's unhinged and cold and paints immigrants in a bad light with broad brushstrokes,

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especially if that's the view you already have of him because you've been told over and over again by the media that he's a racist, he hates immigrants, and he's literally Hitler.

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If that's your view, then you'll see all of this as confirmation of what you already know to be true and just accept it all at face value.

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That's the point.

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I have a friend in Venezuela who tells me the claim that Venezuela is emptying their prisons and sending the inmates to America

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is a 100%

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true. Is a 100% true.

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Venezuela is safer than it's ever been because all the criminals are gone.

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I haven't verified this statement further, but I trust my friend, and it sounds plausible.

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He's not particularly involved in US politics.

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He's just sharing what he's observing in his own country.

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Sometimes statements that sound awful can actually be true.

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In that case, which is more awful?

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The saying of it, the fact itself, or the people who allowed it to happen?

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Back to the article.

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The ICE letter, which has also been cited by other conservatives,

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was sent on September 25 by Patrick J. Lechleitner,

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the agency's deputy director,

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to representative Tony Gonzalez, Republican from Texas, in response to his request for information on non citizens who are on ICE's

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docket and have been charged with or convicted of a crime.

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And here, they actually link to the letter. Oh, that's helpful.

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So, I'm guessing now we'll hear exactly what the letter says and how it compares.

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Not yet. Article.

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While Trump focused much of his speech in Erie on immigrants, he hit on several other themes that have made regular appearances in his stump speech,

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including the notion that he would easily win the election if Democrats did not somehow rig the system.

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Wait. What? Now they changed the subject from immigration to election fraud?

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Note the use of somehow to make it seem preposterous and silly.

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Several other themes that have made regular appearances is pretty patronizing.

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Contrast that with this way of saying the same thing.

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Aside from immigration, Trump also brought up important topics like the need for a secure and trustworthy election process,

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something Democrats have systematically

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opposed.

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Same set of facts, completely different narrative.

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Are you starting to see how the sausage is made here?

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The correct opinions are constantly being assigned to you by the media.

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Unless you do the hard work

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of actually reading the letter and listening to Trump's speech or reading the transcript,

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then you have no idea what is really going on here.

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The only thing that's clear is how the Washington Post sees it and how you're supposed to see it

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too. And nobody has time to do this work. We're screwed.

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Next, the article turns to Trump criticizing Kamala's mental acuity.

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Given her performance, it doesn't seem like an unreasonable thing to bring up to me,

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Especially after four years of Biden, where his obvious cognitive decline was being hidden from the public by the media and his administration, including Kamala.

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Are we being told the truth about Kamala?

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What would make us believe that we are? I'm gonna quote this paragraph.

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Harris, since the beginning of the campaign, has dismissed such comments as part of Trump's longtime playbook of personal insults and derisive comments about individuals and groups.

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She has said that she is seeking to turn the page from Trump's politics of putting people down to a new era of lifting people up.

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Notice how this avoids addressing whether there's any truth to his statements.

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Personal insults and derisive comments about individuals and groups.

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Well, some individuals and groups deserve to be insulted and derided.

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Like, on a human level, they deserve love. But, like, in the public sphere,

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it's, like, insult and derision is called for in some cases.

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People lying and stealing from the American people, for example. People cheating in elections,

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if indeed they do. Criminal gangs like Trendoragua,

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and people intentionally

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allowing them to enter the country, if indeed they do so.

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Which, obviously, Trump believes and has reason to believe that they do.

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But by stating it this way, we're again left with the impression that he is just unhinged and angry.

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But what if his anger is justified?

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After all, they've been going after him with everything they've got since before he took offers.

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Maybe he's seen how the game is really played and it makes him angry.

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Let's continue with the article.

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Few issues have become as heated during the campaign as immigration, an area where polls suggest voters trust Trump more than Harris.

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As Trump and his running mate, senator JD Vance, for Republican from Ohio,

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have unleashed ever harsher rhetoric about immigrants, Harris has sought to deflect criticism that she and Biden took an overly permissive approach to the issue that led to repeated scenes of chaos at the border.

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Note the words used,

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unleashed, ever harsher, and rhetoric

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versus deflect criticism, overly permissive,

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repeated scenes of chaos at the border.

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Another way to phrase the exact same of facts could be something like this.

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Trump and Vance have pointed to legitimate concerns about the serious problems caused by the flood of ever more problematic illegal immigrants

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unleashed by the Biden Harris Administration's

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inscrutable

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and dangerous policy on the border,

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practically asking and even paying for millions of people,

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many of whom are criminals, to come to The US, completely unvetted and unsupervised.

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This is adding a significant financial, logistical, and law enforcement burden on local communities who have no say in the matter at the expense of tax paying citizens who have been here for decades and even generations.

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registering to vote illegally.

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Know the difference.

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I'm not saying this is a true statement of fact, but I guess it's a fairly accurate representation of the view of Trump, Vance, and many of their supporters.

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And it represents how the exact same publication might talk about the exact same set of facts if they were with Trump instead of Kamala.

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See how it works?

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See how powerful language is in shaping our perception?

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The narrative just seeps right into our brains and settles there.

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And the more the same narrative gets repeated from multiple directions and not seriously questioned,

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or alternative

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interpretations presented,

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the more it just gets to be taken as fact.

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Oh, that's the truth. Obviously.

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This is the core of the divide in America right now.

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We have been consistently fed a very specific,

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narrative. That's what's creating divide.

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and Europe, where Europeans still believe so much in the media, and they haven't woken up to this fact where in The US, at least 70,000,000, like,

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all of Americans

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voted for Trump and are seeing past this BS that's happening in the media. Right?

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In Europe, that hasn't happened yet.

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And so there's that's creating a massive rift between America and Europe, and it's completely unnecessary.

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But it's hard when,

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you know, when yeah.

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government sponsored. So

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back to the manuscript.

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When people come together to make sense of reality, they're very powerful.

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Crowdsourcing is a beautiful thing.

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The media and the expert class have no monopoly on truth, knowledge, or skill.

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In fact, journalists are often the least skilled, as we saw with the Gell Mann amnesia effect.

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Let's do a bit more of the article just for fun.

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Harris visited the southern border on Friday, stressing the enforcement oriented approach taken by the administration over the past year that has led to a sharp drop in the number of border crossings.

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She also criticized Trump for urging congressional allies to torpedo a tough bipartisan immigration bill earlier this year.

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See how gentle all of the common language is, stressing the enforcement oriented approach that led to a sharp drop in the number of border crossings?

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That seems like an admission that the number was too high, though.

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So why was the number high to begin with? How did that happen?

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They don't go there, of course.

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Torpedo, a tough bipartisan immigration bill? Torpedo sounds bad.

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Trump clearly doesn't want to shore up the border.

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Note how the bill is just declared to be tough and bipartisan.

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I just did a little research, and it looks like the reason they call it bipartisan is that it was negotiated by James Lankford,

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a Republican senator from Oklahoma,

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Murphy, a Democrat senator from Connecticut, and Kyrsten Sinema, an independent senator from Arizona.

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So one Republican was part of crafting the bill, hence it's bipartisan.

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It's certainly not a lie.

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It's also a bit misleading.

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Since the right worldview includes plenty of RHINOs,

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in name only, who are Republicans on paper but really are beholden to the blob, I bet it's easy to find a single Republican that you can get to cosponsor any bill so you can call it bipartisan,

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especially since Democrats have very strong party loyalty.

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And the Republican party split between MAGAs who are pro Trump and the RHINOs who hate Trump.

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But by saying the bill was bipartisan, they imply that there was a broad consensus

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and that Trump did his usual thing and created chaos to suit his own political agenda.

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But is that what happened?

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I have to admit that I haven't looked deeply into this.

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I have a company to build and a life to live.

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But a quick search turned up this relevant criticism from King Paxton, attorney general of Texas, one of the states negatively affected by the Biden administration's immigration policies.

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the Biden senate immigration bill is a complete disaster.

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The open borders policies it enshrines would destroy our country.

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In addition to encouraging nearly 2,000,000 illegal aliens annually

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to enter the country, paying over paying out over $1,000,000,000

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to the toxic NGOs that settle illegal immigrants

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all over the nation,

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empowering Majorcas to abuse the asylum process on his arbitrary whim, and ending catch and release,

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this bill that gives Biden and Majorcas everything they want does something far more sinister.

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It requires that legal challenges to these provisions be heard by the highly partisan

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They know exactly what they're doing.

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Texas has been able to create major slowdowns to Biden's open borders doctrine

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because our constitutional system allows us to sue the federal government in fair venues.

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What Biden, Mallorquez, and the senate uni party in the swamp want to do is prevent

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the Texas AG and

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and all other state AGs from acting as a check on the federal government's tyrannical abuses of power.

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For the record, as attorney general, which

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is a top law enforcement official in the country elected, or not elected, but selected by people who are elected.

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That is unthinkable.

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It is un American.

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This bill is an unacceptable mess that no serious leader could even think about passing.

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He also included this image of a passage in the bill, and I'm just going to read the highlight here.

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Judicial review. Notwithstanding

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any other provision of this act, judicial review of any decision or action in this section shall be governed

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only by the United States District Court for the District of Columbia,

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which shall have sole and original jurisdiction to hear challenges,

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to implement this section.

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I don't know the truth here, but it seems like very valid criticism that the article in The Washington Post completely ignores.

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Again, if the Washington Post was truth seeking rather than partisan,

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instead of saying that Kamala criticized Trump for urging congressional allies to torpedo a tough bipartisan immigration bill, they could have said that she criticized Trump for pointing out what he saw as major flaws in the immigration bill.

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Or if they were on Trump's side, they might have said that she was miffed that Trump correctly prevented the passing of a border bill from the Biden Harris administration

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that would have been disastrous for America's ability to protect his own borders, possibly forever.

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Same set of facts, very different narrative.

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See the power of narrative. And this is just one article. Let's continue.

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He also falsely claimed that Harris prosecuted her political opponents like me.

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At one point, Trump again baselessly questioned whether Harris had really worked at McDonald's

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as he had done on several earlier occasions.

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Note again how they just postulate that the claims are false. How can you say that?

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The way I see it, the Biden Harris admin prosecuting their political opponents

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is exactly what happened.

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What basis does the Washington Post have to just state the opposite as fact?

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Do you see how we're constantly being told to not believe our own eyes?

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When Kamala Harris makes a claim, it's left unchecked.

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When Trump makes a claim, it's stated to be false.

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And then they bring in the McDonald's job thing in the same paragraph. How is that related?

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One is talking about political persecution through lawfare, which is a big deal.

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The other is about questioning something she's said about her past.

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They put the two together to draw a false equivalency and paint a picture of a man who just says random shit baselessly.

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Oh, and by the way, how can they claim that Trump's question about Harris' work at McDonald's is baseless?

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As far as I know, we've never been able to corroborate that story.

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No employment records, no w two forms.

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No one has come out and said that they were her colleagues or employer.

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Maybe she did work there and just don't have any records of it. Maybe she didn't and lied about it.

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Lying about this isn't the worst thing to lie about, but it's a curious thing to lie about, and it might point to a pattern of deception that's worth looking at.

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And again, no evidence for their claim that it's baseless.

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partisan hacks.

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Can you see why the right distrusts the media?

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Back to the article.

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After the rally, Erie County GOP Chair Tom Eddy said Trump's criticisms of Harris were designed to appeal to his most hardcore supporters with the goal that they would then persuade undecided voters.

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from the article, At these rallies, he's talking to his base, Eddie said.

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And I think the hope is that his base will go out and talk to other people.

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Alright.

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Now we have some person who claims to be able to read Trump's mind and tell us what his intentions were.

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Last I checked, we don't yet have mind reading technology.

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Also, the fact that this person is the GOP chair backs up my claim that bipartisan is a meaningless claim.

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He's probably another rhino.

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But Washington Post readers have probably never heard this term or think it's just another Trump smear for people who won't Brown nose him

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or something.

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And by speculating

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about why he might say that, the article conveniently

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avoids addressing the truth of his statements.

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Back to the article. Much of Trump's speech re upped issues he has cited at other rallies.

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He recited a poem about a snake that he uses to speak on immigration.

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He recounted a shooter's attempt to assassinate him in Butler, Pennsylvania,

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saying the city had now become a big tourist site.

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Lock her up! The crowd chanted after Trump called Harris stupid.

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So, he

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re upped issues he has cited at other rallies? Really?

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Did you expect him to have completely new material at every rally?

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Do you know how many rallies the man does?

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And if he did, I bet the line would be that his rallies are all over the place, and he keeps bringing up new stuff.

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He cited a poem about a snake?

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there's a link to another article

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about the snake poem. I'm gonna spare you from going through that article.

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The point of it is that if you rescue a snake and take it into your house, it might end up killing you.

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Seems relevant when talking about letting criminal migrants into the country,

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but the way it's presented here is made to seem silly.

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And again, in the same paragraph, they jump from reasonable concerns about immigration

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to the assassination attempt, which is a huge deal.

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But here, it's being made out to be almost trivial.

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If there'd been an attempt on Biden's or Harris's life,

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would it have been glossed over like this? I doubt it.

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Lock her up, the Kraut chanted.

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Stated just like that, there's no mention of why they might feel that way.

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Could they have a reason to believe that she's done something criminal while in office?

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Seems like a question worth asking.

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Back to the article. He repeated his false claim that then house speaker Nancy Pelosi

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turned down thousands of troops ahead of the January six twenty twenty one attack on the US Capitol.

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Remember, they still haven't told us exactly what Trump said, what the letter said, or how they compare.

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Instead, they bring in other unrelated issues.

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And, again, just state as fact that the claim is false.

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In this case, it looks like they might both be correct but also misleading.

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On 09/20/2024,

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the House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight

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released a document citing the transcript of an interview with General Mark Milley and others regarding January 6.

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In that document, General Mark Milley clearly states that on January 3,

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president Trump asks for troops to be present to make sure things are secure.

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01/03/2021.

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The president just says, hey. Look at this.

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There's gonna be a large amount of protesters here on on the sixth.

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Make sure that you have sufficient national guard or soldiers to to make sure it's a safe event.

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Poteau said, hey, I don't care if you use guard or soldiers, active duty soldiers, do whatever you have to do.

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00:30:37.385 --> 00:30:38.684
Just make sure it's safe.

448
00:30:39.385 --> 00:30:43.245
And then the colonel Earl Matthews of the DC National Guard says,

449
00:30:43.650 --> 00:30:48.790
the DC Guard could have gone in right away, but the secretary of the army did not give us the approval.

450
00:30:49.090 --> 00:30:53.590
There is concern about being anywhere near the capital because of perception that there would be militarization

451
00:30:54.130 --> 00:30:55.510
of the electoral process.

452
00:30:56.865 --> 00:30:59.605
Christopher Miller, acting secretary of defense, says,

453
00:30:59.985 --> 00:31:04.325
the president commented that they were going to need 10,000 troops the following day.

454
00:31:04.545 --> 00:31:07.605
I interpret it as a bit of presidential banter

455
00:31:08.145 --> 00:31:15.490
or president Trump banter that you all are familiar with, and in no way, shape, or form did I interpret that as an order or direction.

456
00:31:15.950 --> 00:31:17.710
On 01/06/2021,

457
00:31:17.710 --> 00:31:20.030
everyone was like, did you listen to the president's speech?

458
00:31:20.030 --> 00:31:25.250
I'm like, the guy speaks for, ninety minutes like it's Castro something. No. I've got work to do.

459
00:31:25.615 --> 00:31:32.595
I was cognizant of the fears that the president would invoke the Insurrection Act to politicize the military in an anti democratic manner.

460
00:31:32.894 --> 00:31:35.315
And just before the electoral college certification,

461
00:31:35.855 --> 00:31:44.020
10 former secretaries of defense signed an op ed piece published in the Washington Post warning of the dangers of politicizing and using, inappropriately,

462
00:31:44.320 --> 00:31:44.980
the military.

463
00:31:45.520 --> 00:31:48.260
No such thing was going to occur on my watch.

464
00:31:48.480 --> 00:31:53.060
There was absolutely no way I was putting US military forces at the Capitol, period.

465
00:31:53.565 --> 00:31:58.225
The operational plan was this: Let's take the DC National Guard, keep them away from the Capitol.

466
00:31:58.845 --> 00:32:08.540
No mention of Nancy Pelosi, but it does sound like Trump wanted the National Guard in there to protect the Capitol, but the DOD generals, who were no fans of his, didn't want to

467
00:32:08.840 --> 00:32:12.860
do that. So yes, perhaps the claim that Nancy Pelosi turned down the troops is false.

468
00:32:12.920 --> 00:32:20.300
I haven't seen definitive proof of that, but regardless, it's clear that someone disobeyed Trump's order to ensure the National Guard was there.

469
00:32:20.565 --> 00:32:25.065
You see how things are much less clear than The Washington Post would lead you to believe?

470
00:32:26.164 --> 00:32:27.144
Back to the article.

471
00:32:28.005 --> 00:32:33.304
Even though Trump acknowledged that he is running against Harris, he repeatedly brought up Biden.

472
00:32:33.559 --> 00:32:43.260
He reminisced about his June 27 debate against Biden, claimed Biden was a better candidate than Harris, and even surmised that if she does really badly, they'll probably put him back.

473
00:32:43.480 --> 00:32:46.860
Harris officially accepted the Democratic nomination in August,

474
00:32:47.164 --> 00:32:50.065
and there's no mechanism for installing Biden as the nominee.

475
00:32:50.524 --> 00:32:53.725
Acknowledge that he's running against Harris? That's such a weird thing to say.

476
00:32:53.725 --> 00:32:58.524
Why why would he not acknowledge that? There's no mechanism for installing Biden as the nominee.

477
00:32:58.524 --> 00:33:02.380
I love that they factored him of stuff like this. Of course, they're not gonna put him back.

478
00:33:02.380 --> 00:33:04.000
Trump is part stand up comic.

479
00:33:04.140 --> 00:33:10.160
I'm no mind reader, but I'd hear that as a joke, maybe referring to the fact that they swapped him out for Kamala just like that.

480
00:33:10.940 --> 00:33:11.440
Article.

481
00:33:11.794 --> 00:33:16.615
Trump even recalled the moment in their debate when the two presidents bickered about their golf game.

482
00:33:16.835 --> 00:33:19.554
The worst of all was when he said, I wanna play him in golf.

483
00:33:19.554 --> 00:33:22.455
Trump said, he wants to play me in golf. You ever seen him play?

484
00:33:22.755 --> 00:33:26.135
Trump then proceeded to imitate Biden. That guy can't play.

485
00:33:26.910 --> 00:33:28.750
And this is how the article ends.

486
00:33:28.750 --> 00:33:42.405
We still don't know exactly what he said, what the letter said, how the two compare, what the true number of criminal immigrants the Biden Harris administration have let in, all of which would be great to know, but they'd rather make Trump look stupid because that's their real business,

487
00:33:42.805 --> 00:33:43.305
gaslighting.

488
00:33:44.245 --> 00:33:45.385
What's the truth?

489
00:33:46.165 --> 00:33:50.325
Would you like to dive into that together since the Washington Post won't do their jobs?

490
00:33:50.325 --> 00:33:54.485
Let's do it. First off, the report dated 09/20/2024

491
00:33:54.485 --> 00:33:55.545
opens with this.

492
00:33:56.000 --> 00:33:58.480
Thank you for your 03/13/2024

493
00:33:58.480 --> 00:34:00.500
letter to the Department of Homeland Security.

494
00:34:00.640 --> 00:34:03.940
I'm responding on behalf of the Department and apologize for the delay.

495
00:34:05.040 --> 00:34:09.860
Talk about delay. Six months to report these numbers. Seems like a long time.

496
00:34:10.005 --> 00:34:12.344
You'd think they have these numbers ready by

497
00:34:14.244 --> 00:34:15.144
now. Continuing.

498
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Highlights are mine.

499
00:34:17.204 --> 00:34:19.224
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement,

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00:34:19.525 --> 00:34:25.144
ICE, recognizes the importance of its relationship with its law enforcement partners to carry out its mission.

501
00:34:25.460 --> 00:34:28.199
In recent years, however, as you know, some jurisdictions

502
00:34:28.500 --> 00:34:35.079
have reduced their cooperation with ICE to include refusal to honor ICE detainer requests, even for noncitizens

503
00:34:35.539 --> 00:34:40.440
who have been convicted of serious felonies and pose an ongoing threat to public safety.

504
00:34:41.915 --> 00:34:47.054
ICE recognizes that some jurisdictions are concerned that cooperating with federal immigration officials

505
00:34:47.355 --> 00:34:49.855
will erode trust with immigrant communities

506
00:34:50.395 --> 00:34:53.935
and make it harder for local law enforcement to serve those populations.

507
00:34:54.635 --> 00:34:55.135
However,

508
00:34:55.530 --> 00:35:00.990
sanctuary policies can end up shielding dangerous criminals who often victimize those same communities.

509
00:35:01.610 --> 00:35:06.590
This seems like an indictment of sanctuary city policies in support of Trump's tougher stance on immigration.

510
00:35:07.130 --> 00:35:08.190
Back to the letter.

511
00:35:08.705 --> 00:35:12.245
Despite the challenges of operating within a broken immigration system

512
00:35:12.865 --> 00:35:16.805
and in the face of an enormous workload and consistently limited funding,

513
00:35:17.105 --> 00:35:20.245
DHS continues to enforce the law to secure our borders.

514
00:35:20.385 --> 00:35:32.000
We are removing and returning record numbers of migrants who are unable to establish a legal basis to remain in The United States and prioritizing for removal those who present national security and public safety risks

515
00:35:32.300 --> 00:35:33.840
and recent border crossers.

516
00:35:34.780 --> 00:35:37.947
From mid May twenty twenty three through the July

517
00:35:37.947 --> 00:35:38.955
2024,

518
00:35:38.955 --> 00:35:43.615
DHS removed or returned more than 893,600

519
00:35:43.675 --> 00:35:44.175
individuals,

520
00:35:44.875 --> 00:35:47.755
including more than 138,300

521
00:35:47.755 --> 00:35:49.455
individuals in family units.

522
00:35:49.915 --> 00:35:56.530
The majority of all individuals encountered at the Southwest Border over the past three years have been removed, returned, or expelled.

523
00:35:57.310 --> 00:35:57.810
Alright.

524
00:35:58.430 --> 00:36:03.310
So questions. Why is there such an enormous workload and consistently limited funding?

525
00:36:03.310 --> 00:36:05.250
Is that a Biden administration policy?

526
00:36:05.550 --> 00:36:09.375
I don't know, but it seems like something the administration should want to fix.

527
00:36:09.935 --> 00:36:17.475
Removing and returning record numbers of migrants begs the question why they were there in the first place and what we're doing to keep them out.

528
00:36:17.855 --> 00:36:22.595
Maybe building a wall and implementing a remain in Mexico policy would help.

529
00:36:23.310 --> 00:36:26.130
Removing or returning almost 900,000

530
00:36:26.190 --> 00:36:30.690
individuals in a little over a year seems like a lot. Like, like, a whole lot.

531
00:36:30.830 --> 00:36:34.850
It's almost 60,000 per month or close to 2,000 per day.

532
00:36:35.115 --> 00:36:39.135
How are that many people getting in that need to be removed or returned?

533
00:36:39.595 --> 00:36:43.135
And how many are not being caught and removed or returned?

534
00:36:43.595 --> 00:36:44.895
I'd love to know.

535
00:36:46.075 --> 00:36:49.135
Back to the letter. Your letter requests the number of noncitizens

536
00:36:49.435 --> 00:36:54.670
on the ISIS docket convicted or charged with a crime. As of 07/21/2024,

537
00:36:54.670 --> 00:36:58.589
there were 662,566

538
00:36:58.589 --> 00:36:59.089
noncitizens

539
00:36:59.390 --> 00:37:04.609
with criminal histories on ICE's national docket, which includes those detained by ICE

540
00:37:05.075 --> 00:37:06.295
and on the agency's

541
00:37:06.674 --> 00:37:07.174
nondetained

542
00:37:07.474 --> 00:37:07.974
docket.

543
00:37:08.434 --> 00:37:11.954
Of those, 435,719

544
00:37:11.954 --> 00:37:16.595
are convicted criminals, and 226,847

545
00:37:16.595 --> 00:37:18.134
have pending criminal charges.

546
00:37:18.750 --> 00:37:23.250
Over half a million noncitizens with criminal histories that ICE knows about.

547
00:37:23.550 --> 00:37:25.970
Again, that seems like a large number to me.

548
00:37:26.190 --> 00:37:29.330
But, hey, I grew up in a country with only 5,000,000 people total.

549
00:37:29.790 --> 00:37:33.115
There's a paragraph about how they determine who to detain or not detain.

550
00:37:33.115 --> 00:37:36.575
You can find the doc and read on your own. Then, there's a table of data,

551
00:37:37.355 --> 00:37:39.295
basically saying that there are

552
00:37:39.674 --> 00:37:42.795
425,431

553
00:37:42.795 --> 00:37:46.174
convicted criminals that are currently not detained by ICE.

554
00:37:47.450 --> 00:37:50.349
That seems like a large number. And then they say this,

555
00:37:51.210 --> 00:37:54.510
quote, you also requested ICE's current detention capacity.

556
00:37:54.809 --> 00:37:59.390
Under the DHS appropriations bill enacted on 03/23/2024,

557
00:37:59.530 --> 00:38:01.710
ICE enforcement and removal operations

558
00:38:02.255 --> 00:38:04.575
is funded at 41,500

559
00:38:04.575 --> 00:38:09.215
beds through the rest of the fiscal year, which is an increase from 34,000

560
00:38:09.215 --> 00:38:11.875
in financial year 2023.

561
00:38:12.175 --> 00:38:14.195
So, they have 600,000

562
00:38:14.575 --> 00:38:17.615
plus possible criminals and only 41,500

563
00:38:17.615 --> 00:38:18.115
beds.

564
00:38:18.440 --> 00:38:21.180
Now remember what the article said. Back to the article.

565
00:38:21.240 --> 00:38:27.900
Quote, Trump cited a new letter from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement to falsely suggest that more than 13,000 immigrants

566
00:38:28.280 --> 00:38:32.860
convicted of homicide had been led into The United States on president Joe Biden's watch and then released.

567
00:38:33.744 --> 00:38:37.765
That number comes from the table here stitching together the header with the relevant detail row.

568
00:38:38.865 --> 00:38:41.744
But, like, out of those 425,000

569
00:38:41.744 --> 00:38:45.025
convicted criminals, there's 13,099

570
00:38:45.025 --> 00:38:46.724
that are convicted of homicide.

571
00:38:48.440 --> 00:38:51.180
So back. And this was the Washington Post's rebuttal

572
00:38:51.560 --> 00:38:52.860
quote from the article.

573
00:38:53.080 --> 00:38:58.220
The people he cited entered The United States over several decades, including during the Trump presidency.

574
00:38:58.680 --> 00:39:03.375
And while they are listed as non detained, that means only that ICE is not detaining them.

575
00:39:03.375 --> 00:39:05.635
In many cases, they are being held by another agency

576
00:39:05.935 --> 00:39:07.795
and are often serving prison sentences.

577
00:39:08.095 --> 00:39:15.635
The spokesperson added, it also includes many who are under the jurisdiction of or currently incarcerated by federal, state, or local law enforcement partners.

578
00:39:16.290 --> 00:39:17.750
End quote. Fair enough.

579
00:39:17.890 --> 00:39:26.310
This still begs the question, what are these people doing in The US still, and how many exactly are currently incarcerated by federal, state, or local law enforcement?

580
00:39:26.370 --> 00:39:27.510
Do we even know?

581
00:39:27.730 --> 00:39:32.230
Isn't the job of ICE to detain and deport noncitizens who commit murder and other crimes?

582
00:39:32.505 --> 00:39:35.244
And what about the total number of over 600,000

583
00:39:35.385 --> 00:39:39.085
criminals or individuals pending criminal charges who are still in the country?

584
00:39:39.305 --> 00:39:43.244
If that's the number of noncitizens who have committed crimes, how many noncitizens

585
00:39:43.625 --> 00:39:45.085
are there in the first place?

586
00:39:45.545 --> 00:39:48.740
Alright. So let's turn to what Trump actually said.

587
00:39:48.740 --> 00:39:53.560
I downloaded the video and transcribed it so I could find the exact quotes. Here's what he said.

588
00:39:53.700 --> 00:39:55.400
In total, during her term,

589
00:39:55.700 --> 00:39:58.980
she let in 13,099

590
00:39:58.980 --> 00:40:04.395
convicted murderers. Some of them had murdered 10 people. Some murdered seven. One murdered six.

591
00:40:04.535 --> 00:40:10.315
What I'm looking at these, these are stone cold killers, and they land in people that are worse than any criminal we have.

592
00:40:10.375 --> 00:40:13.415
And these killers are stone cold monsters, and they have so little heart.

593
00:40:13.415 --> 00:40:17.355
They have no heart, and they don't care about when or how they kill.

594
00:40:17.900 --> 00:40:20.220
They wake up the following morning. They don't even remember.

595
00:40:20.220 --> 00:40:22.320
So it's just like a routine part of life.

596
00:40:22.780 --> 00:40:23.280
And

597
00:40:23.820 --> 00:40:31.245
then he plays a campaign video from 2018 with a convicted criminal laughing about killing cops, saying his only regret is he didn't kill more of them.

598
00:40:31.325 --> 00:40:33.105
Here's what the article said again.

599
00:40:34.285 --> 00:40:47.780
Even so, Trump spent much of his two hour speech on elaborate descriptions of the individuals purportedly roaming the nation, calling them stone cold killers, worse than any of our criminals, monsters, and people who have no heart and don't care who they kill.

600
00:40:49.280 --> 00:40:53.460
What they're saying isn't outright false, but it's far from accurate.

601
00:40:53.920 --> 00:41:01.540
Spent much of his two hour speech on well, I collected all the portions I could find where he described the criminals, and it amounted to just under fifty seconds.

602
00:41:01.895 --> 00:41:03.994
Is that much out of two hours?

603
00:41:04.535 --> 00:41:05.194
You decide.

604
00:41:05.815 --> 00:41:08.694
Elaborate descriptions is another one of those loaded words.

605
00:41:08.694 --> 00:41:10.795
Trump briefly describes some characteristics

606
00:41:11.095 --> 00:41:12.954
of the worst of the criminals in question.

607
00:41:13.175 --> 00:41:16.214
Would be a more accurate and neutral way to describe what he did.

608
00:41:16.214 --> 00:41:19.150
But then, that wouldn't make him look evil, would it?

609
00:41:19.930 --> 00:41:29.230
Individuals purportedly roaming the nation is another phrase that, a, doesn't make it clear he's talking specifically about hardened criminals and, b, makes it seem like he's hallucinating.

610
00:41:30.095 --> 00:41:41.395
The letter from the DHS doesn't say during what time period the criminals and possible criminals entered the country, whether they had a criminal history before they got here, or whether any criminal history was ever assessed.

611
00:41:41.790 --> 00:41:44.210
It also doesn't say what non detained means.

612
00:41:44.510 --> 00:41:56.505
If the supposed statement that I cannot find the source for is accurate that these are numbers covering forty years or more and that non detained could mean that they're in jail somewhere, then it looks like Trump misinterpreted the numbers.

613
00:41:56.505 --> 00:42:00.925
And, by the way, so did Senator Tony Gonzalez to whom the letter was directed.

614
00:42:01.225 --> 00:42:05.805
Maybe ICE could have been more specific, given that it took them six months to produce a four page letter

615
00:42:06.185 --> 00:42:09.085
five pages if you count the CC list on page five.

616
00:42:09.400 --> 00:42:17.420
The takeaway from all this is that, one, the media works overtime to present a narrative that is consistently against Trump and the right wing worldview.

617
00:42:17.800 --> 00:42:25.205
Two, they rarely do the kind of investigative work that I just did to even attempt to present the facts and get at the

618
00:42:25.505 --> 00:42:29.745
truth. Actually, scratch that. It's not rarely. It's freaking never. They never do that.

619
00:42:29.745 --> 00:42:38.805
Three, the focus on pointing out any errors in what Trump says while obfuscating the real issue he's pointing to, in this case, immigration and criminal noncitizens.

620
00:42:39.690 --> 00:42:40.970
This is not a book about Trump.

621
00:42:40.970 --> 00:42:45.470
It's a book about principles, and there's no question that Trump's strength is not accuracy,

622
00:42:45.849 --> 00:42:48.829
something I don't love since one of my core values is integrity.

623
00:42:49.210 --> 00:42:59.085
However, the distinction I see is that Trump tends to be directionally accurate, meaning that while the details are incorrect, he's pointing towards something that is both true and relevant.

624
00:42:59.545 --> 00:43:05.965
In contrast, in my experience, the Democrats, the corporate media, and the government are lying to obscure the truth.

625
00:43:06.570 --> 00:43:07.790
There's a big difference.

626
00:43:08.090 --> 00:43:11.150
As you start to pay attention, see if you notice the same pattern.

627
00:43:11.690 --> 00:43:12.190
Hoaxes.

628
00:43:12.890 --> 00:43:15.070
Phew. That was quite the journey.

629
00:43:15.530 --> 00:43:18.350
I did the work routinely for close to a year, I think.

630
00:43:19.025 --> 00:43:23.605
In the end, I wasn't able to keep that kind of effort up while also building a software and coaching business.

631
00:43:23.665 --> 00:43:30.565
No normal human being with a life has the time to do that, which is why the techniques used by corporate media work so well.

632
00:43:30.785 --> 00:43:36.530
But it is really worth the effort to do it for just a period of time in order to learn all the tricks they use.

633
00:43:36.990 --> 00:43:39.090
Another recurring pattern is the hoaxes.

634
00:43:39.310 --> 00:43:42.990
I'm going to look at just one of the hoaxes in an effort to demonstrate how it works.

635
00:43:42.990 --> 00:43:45.170
My point is not to say, this is true.

636
00:43:45.310 --> 00:43:51.285
My point is to demonstrate the mechanics of how hoaxes work and how the media uses them to tell you what to

637
00:43:51.585 --> 00:43:53.845
think. Even if you think Calvin's off his rocker,

638
00:43:54.224 --> 00:43:56.865
understand that a big chunk of the country agrees with this.

639
00:43:56.865 --> 00:44:00.085
It's worth it to at least understand how they see the world.

640
00:44:00.390 --> 00:44:01.990
The other side is not your enemy.

641
00:44:01.990 --> 00:44:10.490
It's your neighbor, your uncle, your aunt, your niece, your nephew, your sister, your brother, your parents, your children, your coworker, your barista, your local police officer.

642
00:44:10.789 --> 00:44:14.890
It's worth understanding how they see the world, even if you disagree completely.

643
00:44:15.829 --> 00:44:17.505
Alright. So what's a hoax?

644
00:44:17.805 --> 00:44:19.505
A hoax is a frequently spouted,

645
00:44:19.805 --> 00:44:27.105
officially accepted lie built around real events, but where what happened is twisted to mean the opposite of the truth.

646
00:44:27.565 --> 00:44:36.849
Hoaxes are often easily debunked, but that doesn't matter because they match a narrative that has already been planted in people's minds, and the media and the intended targets

647
00:44:37.150 --> 00:44:42.530
won't look up the original source and see what was meant. Hence, they continue to work.

648
00:44:42.910 --> 00:44:43.410
Kamala,

649
00:44:43.710 --> 00:44:51.255
during her debate with Trump, did quite the feat and managed to cram in a whole slew of hoaxes in the span of just two minutes and six seconds.

650
00:44:51.474 --> 00:44:52.935
Here's what she said, quote,

651
00:44:53.474 --> 00:44:56.855
I was at the Capitol on January 6. I was the vice president-elect.

652
00:44:57.155 --> 00:44:58.755
I was also an acting senator.

653
00:44:58.755 --> 00:45:05.120
I was there, and on that day, the president of The United States involved incited a violent mob to attack our nation's capital,

654
00:45:05.900 --> 00:45:06.640
to desecrate

655
00:45:07.660 --> 00:45:10.860
our Nation's Capital. On that day, a 140

656
00:45:10.860 --> 00:45:14.715
law enforcement officers were injured and some died. I can't keep this going.

657
00:45:14.955 --> 00:45:19.615
And understand, the former president has been indicted and impeached for exactly that reason.

658
00:45:19.835 --> 00:45:21.855
But this is not an isolated situation.

659
00:45:22.155 --> 00:45:23.455
Let's remember Charlottesville,

660
00:45:23.995 --> 00:45:29.520
a mob of people carrying tiki torches spewing antisemitic hate. And what did Trump say?

661
00:45:29.680 --> 00:45:34.820
There were fine people on each side. Let's remember that when it came to the Proud Boys and militia,

662
00:45:35.120 --> 00:45:38.580
the former president said, stand back and stand by.

663
00:45:38.880 --> 00:45:44.740
So for everyone watching who remembers what January 6 was, I say, we don't have to go back.

664
00:45:45.165 --> 00:45:49.025
Let's not go back. We're not going back. It's time to turn the page.

665
00:45:49.165 --> 00:45:53.405
And if that was a bridge too far for you, well, there is a place in our campaign for you.

666
00:45:53.405 --> 00:45:55.905
To stand for country, to stand for our democracy,

667
00:45:56.205 --> 00:46:04.130
to stand for rule of law, and to end the chaos, and to end the approach that is about attacking the foundations of our democracy because you don't like the outcome.

668
00:46:04.590 --> 00:46:12.770
And to be clear on that point, Donald Trump, the candidate, has said, in this election, there will be a bloodbath if the outcome of this election is not to his liking.

669
00:46:15.285 --> 00:46:16.505
Alright. End quote.

670
00:46:17.525 --> 00:46:18.505
Let's do inventory.

671
00:46:18.565 --> 00:46:26.825
We have, one, the insurrection hoax, two, the fine people hoax, three, the stand back and stand by hoax, and four, the bloodbath hoax.

672
00:46:26.964 --> 00:46:27.785
That's impressive.

673
00:46:28.160 --> 00:46:31.140
To understand hoaxes, think about the Nigerian prince scam.

674
00:46:31.200 --> 00:46:37.220
Why do scammers continue to mention Nigerian princes even though everyone already knows about the Nigerian prince scam?

675
00:46:37.360 --> 00:46:41.860
Precisely because it self selects for people who are gullible enough to go along with it anyway,

676
00:46:42.295 --> 00:46:47.835
either because they're so uninformed they haven't heard of it or willing to suspend disbelief anyway.

677
00:46:49.415 --> 00:46:54.055
The fine people hoax. Let's start with an easy one, the fine people hoax.

678
00:46:54.055 --> 00:46:57.675
The hoax says that after the Charlottesville riots in 2017,

679
00:46:58.059 --> 00:47:02.720
Trump said that the neo Nazis and white supremacists were very fine people.

680
00:47:03.420 --> 00:47:06.319
Here's Biden announcing that he was running for president

681
00:47:06.779 --> 00:47:08.640
because of the fine people hoax.

682
00:47:11.805 --> 00:47:16.145
Charlottesville is also home to a defining moment for this nation in the last few years.

683
00:47:16.365 --> 00:47:22.705
It was there, on August 2017, we saw Klansmen and white supremacists and neo Nazis come out in the open,

684
00:47:23.020 --> 00:47:24.320
their crazed faces

685
00:47:24.780 --> 00:47:28.800
illuminated by torches, veins bulging and bearing the fangs of racism,

686
00:47:29.260 --> 00:47:30.720
chanting the same antisemitic

687
00:47:31.100 --> 00:47:33.520
bile heard across Europe in the thirties.

688
00:47:33.980 --> 00:47:38.320
And they were met by a courageous group of Americans, a violent clash ensued,

689
00:47:38.675 --> 00:47:40.935
and a brave young woman lost her life.

690
00:47:41.075 --> 00:47:47.575
And that's when we heard the words of the president of The United States that stunned the world and shocked the conscience of the nation.

691
00:47:48.035 --> 00:47:51.895
He said there were, quote, some very fine people on both sides.

692
00:47:52.630 --> 00:47:54.650
Very fine people on both sides?

693
00:47:55.030 --> 00:48:03.290
With those words, the president of The United States assigned a moral equivalence between those spreading hate and those with the courage to stand against it.

694
00:48:03.590 --> 00:48:09.095
And in that moment, I knew the threat to this nation was unlike any I had ever seen in my lifetime.

695
00:48:09.474 --> 00:48:13.414
I wrote at the time that we're in the battle for the soul of this nation.

696
00:48:13.474 --> 00:48:15.494
Well, that's even more true today.

697
00:48:15.875 --> 00:48:21.630
We are in the battle for the soul of this nation. End quote. So what did Trump actually say?

698
00:48:21.630 --> 00:48:24.130
Here's the relevant part of the transcript.

699
00:48:26.670 --> 00:48:30.705
And I encourage you to go watch and the whole clip yourself, by the way,

700
00:48:31.265 --> 00:48:36.085
because it's so crazy how they've just turned this to mean something completely different from what he said.

701
00:48:36.545 --> 00:48:42.385
Quote, and you had some very bad people in that group, but you also had people that were very fine people on both sides.

702
00:48:42.385 --> 00:48:51.510
You had people in that group that were there to protest the taking down of, to them, a very, very important statue and the renaming of a part from Robert e Lee to another name.

703
00:48:51.650 --> 00:49:01.030
And you had people, and I'm not talking about the neo Nazis and the white nationalists because they should be condemned totally, but you had many people in that group other than neo Nazis and white nationalists.

704
00:49:01.170 --> 00:49:04.315
Okay? And the press has treated them absolutely unfairly.

705
00:49:04.694 --> 00:49:08.315
Now, in the other group also, you had some fine people, but you also had troublemakers.

706
00:49:08.694 --> 00:49:13.355
And you see them come with the black outfits and with the helmets and with the baseball bats.

707
00:49:13.415 --> 00:49:17.790
You got a you got a you got a lot of bad you had a lot of bad people in the other group too.

708
00:49:18.270 --> 00:49:18.850
End quote.

709
00:49:19.790 --> 00:49:30.610
Trump was clearly condemning neo Nazis and white nationalists while also saying that there was a legitimate disagreement between fine people over tearing down the statue and renaming the park.

710
00:49:30.945 --> 00:49:33.925
That's not how the media and the Democrats tell it, and yet

711
00:49:34.305 --> 00:49:39.365
everyone who was there and anyone who bothered to actually watch the video or review the transcript,

712
00:49:39.745 --> 00:49:44.405
all two minutes and twenty eight seconds of it, would instantly know the truth.

713
00:49:45.080 --> 00:49:50.780
And yet neither Kamala or Biden or the journalists in the media have bothered to do so. Or

714
00:49:51.160 --> 00:49:59.580
worse and more likely, they have, and yet they continue to spread this hoax because it's working, and they know that most people will never find out the truth.

715
00:50:00.605 --> 00:50:01.664
Think about that.

716
00:50:02.525 --> 00:50:03.025
Like,

717
00:50:03.325 --> 00:50:05.345
going off script here for a sec. Like,

718
00:50:05.964 --> 00:50:06.704
they will

719
00:50:07.164 --> 00:50:19.070
lie this blatantly about something that's this obvious if you just take two and a half minutes to actually look at what the guy said and that they will perpetuate that lie for eight years and counting.

720
00:50:19.770 --> 00:50:23.070
Eight years. They'll just continue saying something that's

721
00:50:23.690 --> 00:50:24.430
an outright

722
00:50:24.810 --> 00:50:26.270
lie and misrepresentation

723
00:50:26.650 --> 00:50:30.935
of exact like, the exact opposite of what he actually said, and it was so obvious.

724
00:50:31.635 --> 00:50:36.994
And that's the media. That is what the media is. Just never forget that. Never forget that.

725
00:50:36.994 --> 00:50:40.375
You cannot trust these people. You cannot trust the media whatsoever.

726
00:50:42.050 --> 00:50:42.550
Alright.

727
00:50:43.090 --> 00:50:49.270
Back to the script. The insurrection. This is a big one. Was January 6 an attempt at insurrection?

728
00:50:49.810 --> 00:50:53.430
Was it a peaceful protest gone wrong, or was it something else entirely?

729
00:50:53.994 --> 00:50:56.095
If you're certain it was an attempted insurrection,

730
00:50:56.474 --> 00:50:57.695
how do you know?

731
00:50:58.395 --> 00:51:04.974
Would you have ever thought to use that word if it hadn't been fed to you over and over and over again by the media?

732
00:51:06.155 --> 00:51:08.575
Seriously, would you? Would you have used that word?

733
00:51:10.109 --> 00:51:13.170
As I was writing this, I wanted to get to the bottom of it.

734
00:51:13.230 --> 00:51:17.329
So I went into detail about why the media claimed it was in his direction,

735
00:51:17.630 --> 00:51:19.630
and I found it to be pretty weak sauce.

736
00:51:19.630 --> 00:51:26.964
The argument comes down to the fact that Trump said we'll be wild about the January 6 protests, and that in his speech, he said,

737
00:51:27.345 --> 00:51:32.645
quote, and we fight, we fight like hell, and if you don't fight like hell, you're not gonna have a country anymore.

738
00:51:33.105 --> 00:51:37.125
Yet, in the same speech, he also explicitly called for people to, quote, peacefully

739
00:51:37.700 --> 00:51:39.880
and patriotically make your voices heard.

740
00:51:40.660 --> 00:51:44.119
So in order to believe that Trump intended to cause an insurrection,

741
00:51:44.420 --> 00:51:48.920
you have to ignore peaceful and hear fight like hell and will be wild

742
00:51:49.380 --> 00:51:51.240
as implying physical violence,

743
00:51:51.714 --> 00:51:55.255
even though both could just as or more easily be heard as nonviolent.

744
00:51:56.194 --> 00:52:01.575
You can easily imagine fight and wild without violence. You cannot have peaceful with violence.

745
00:52:01.954 --> 00:52:03.815
You see the selective interpretation.

746
00:52:04.670 --> 00:52:13.890
You also have to believe that he wanted to cause a violent insurrection, even though we saw earlier that he deliberately asked for the National Guard to be ready to prevent any violence.

747
00:52:14.270 --> 00:52:18.210
But there's even more things you'd have to believe in order to believe that January 6 was an insurrection.

748
00:52:18.995 --> 00:52:19.655
For example,

749
00:52:19.955 --> 00:52:25.655
Trump supporters, the most heavily armed part of The US population, decides to conduct an insurrection

750
00:52:26.195 --> 00:52:28.055
by leaving all of their guns at home.

751
00:52:28.915 --> 00:52:29.415
And

752
00:52:29.955 --> 00:52:37.569
that you can take over the most powerful country in the world with the most powerful military ever to exist by trespassing

753
00:52:37.869 --> 00:52:38.369
unarmed

754
00:52:38.750 --> 00:52:40.049
in a government building.

755
00:52:40.509 --> 00:52:46.049
And you'd have to believe that obstructing or delaying an official proceeding is enough to overthrow the government.

756
00:52:46.349 --> 00:52:47.569
But wait, there's more.

757
00:52:47.865 --> 00:52:52.045
Remember my heuristic about assuming the government is guilty unless they're forthcoming with everything?

758
00:52:52.505 --> 00:53:00.925
In this case, there was forty four thousand hours of surveillance video that didn't get released until November 2023, almost three years later.

759
00:53:01.690 --> 00:53:03.710
Over the protests of Democrats because

760
00:53:04.250 --> 00:53:12.270
security concerns, which is one of the most convenient catch all phrases that sound good but can be used for anything without having to provide any specifics, like

761
00:53:13.130 --> 00:53:15.470
sources and methods in the intelligence community.

762
00:53:16.045 --> 00:53:18.065
So what did this show? Well,

763
00:53:18.525 --> 00:53:21.725
forty four thousand hours is a lot, and I haven't looked through all of it.

764
00:53:21.725 --> 00:53:25.745
But most of the clips I've seen show people peacefully walking through the Capitol

765
00:53:26.205 --> 00:53:28.785
with the Capitol Police quietly watching.

766
00:53:28.970 --> 00:53:34.269
There's no violence, no threat, no mention that they're not supposed to be there, no drama.

767
00:53:34.809 --> 00:53:40.910
There's no question that people in the front knew that they were breaking into the building, but imagine being someone further back.

768
00:53:41.049 --> 00:53:43.950
If you've ever been at a large event, you know what it's like.

769
00:53:44.325 --> 00:53:46.165
You cannot see what's happening at the front.

770
00:53:46.165 --> 00:53:48.825
Suddenly, the crowd starts moving in the direction of the Capitol.

771
00:53:49.045 --> 00:53:52.805
When you get there, you just follow the crowd into the building. You look around.

772
00:53:52.805 --> 00:53:56.505
The Capitol Police are there waving you in. We have that on video.

773
00:53:56.700 --> 00:54:00.880
There's no indication that you're committing a crime, let alone an insurrection.

774
00:54:01.660 --> 00:54:03.040
That's what they experienced.

775
00:54:03.579 --> 00:54:04.079
Now,

776
00:54:04.619 --> 00:54:06.800
they're serving long jail sentences.

777
00:54:07.420 --> 00:54:08.400
Is that fair?

778
00:54:11.234 --> 00:54:14.454
Why was the National Guard not deployed despite Trump's request

779
00:54:14.835 --> 00:54:18.454
that they were and despite the fact that they were ready and wanted to?

780
00:54:18.915 --> 00:54:20.855
Why was Ray Epps never charged?

781
00:54:20.994 --> 00:54:31.680
Ray Epps is a big guy in the crowd that is on video repeatedly saying, we'll go into the Capitol, into the Capitol, with the people around him pointing to him and chanting, fed, fed, fed, fed.

782
00:54:32.220 --> 00:54:35.920
They knew what's up. Search for his name. You'll find countless clips of him.

783
00:54:36.540 --> 00:54:42.105
What happened to him? Nothing. He's clearly instigating crime, yet he got a year of probation.

784
00:54:42.105 --> 00:54:47.005
And as far as I know, we've never gotten a straight answer to whether he's an FBI asset.

785
00:54:47.305 --> 00:54:49.404
That information needs to be table stakes.

786
00:54:49.785 --> 00:54:57.240
Speaking of feds, FBI agents or informants, I don't think we ever got a straight answer either to how many feds were in the crowd that day

787
00:54:57.620 --> 00:54:58.820
and what they were doing.

788
00:54:58.820 --> 00:55:03.380
The latest article I could find was from the New York Post dated 09/19/2023

789
00:55:03.380 --> 00:55:13.055
with the headline, FBI lost count of of how many paid informants were at Capitol on January 6 and later performed audit to figure out exact number colon ex official.

790
00:55:15.195 --> 00:55:16.095
Crime factory.

791
00:55:16.474 --> 00:55:22.070
This is important because we have indications from other episodes that the FBI is in the business of fabricating

792
00:55:22.930 --> 00:55:24.710
crimes. In his book, Terror Factory,

793
00:55:25.010 --> 00:55:30.930
Trevor Aronson makes the case that the FBI has, quote, built a network of more than 15,000

794
00:55:30.930 --> 00:55:41.244
informants whose primary purpose is to infiltrate Muslim communities to create and facilitate phony terrorist plots so that the bureau can then claim it is winning the war on terror.

795
00:55:41.625 --> 00:55:47.885
I haven't read the whole book, but if there's any truth to this, that would be a big deal and put into question a lot about the FBI.

796
00:55:47.944 --> 00:55:52.684
The plot to kidnap the Michigan governor, Gretchen Whitmer, in 2020 also involved

797
00:55:53.070 --> 00:55:54.050
FBI informants.

798
00:55:54.910 --> 00:55:58.610
As I was researching, I found an article from the Daily Beast with the headline,

799
00:55:59.310 --> 00:56:02.370
The right is rewriting the Whitmer kidnapping case.

800
00:56:02.670 --> 00:56:08.370
However, if you read the article, you'll see all the hallmarks of activist journalism that we've covered before.

801
00:56:08.705 --> 00:56:14.165
They're quoting sources and making postulates without backing any of it up with facts or doing any actual journalism.

802
00:56:14.705 --> 00:56:16.165
One statement stands out,

803
00:56:16.705 --> 00:56:21.205
quote, But her award to the Knoll brothers echoed a campaign of online commentary

804
00:56:21.745 --> 00:56:28.790
that cast the Whitmer plot as a hoax, even after most of its alleged participants were convicted or pleaded guilty.

805
00:56:30.609 --> 00:56:34.310
They're using the fact that some participants were convicted or pleaded guilty.

806
00:56:35.170 --> 00:56:38.070
We've seen how credible a guilty plea is already.

807
00:56:38.465 --> 00:56:42.005
These are poor people who can easily be intimidated by government prosecutors,

808
00:56:42.625 --> 00:56:43.365
end parenthesis,

809
00:56:43.905 --> 00:56:49.125
as evidence that is not a hoax. But that's not how the FBI instigated plots work.

810
00:56:49.265 --> 00:56:52.005
They wouldn't do them if they didn't routinely get convictions.

811
00:56:52.400 --> 00:56:56.580
The allegation against the FBI is that these crimes would have never been conceived of

812
00:56:56.960 --> 00:57:01.300
if the FBI hadn't been there to goad people into them and provide the supplies.

813
00:57:01.760 --> 00:57:03.380
Here's another quote from the article.

814
00:57:04.415 --> 00:57:07.555
When two men were acquitted in the scheme, a GOP gubernatorial

815
00:57:07.935 --> 00:57:09.635
candidate running against Whitmer

816
00:57:09.935 --> 00:57:16.835
baselessly asserted that the FBI conceived a plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer and preyed on Michiganders to push it along.

817
00:57:16.895 --> 00:57:17.714
End quote.

818
00:57:18.270 --> 00:57:19.650
Note the use of baselessly.

819
00:57:20.110 --> 00:57:22.130
Nothing to back up why it's baseless.

820
00:57:22.590 --> 00:57:23.330
As usual.

821
00:57:23.870 --> 00:57:25.650
They're accusing the GOP gubernatorial

822
00:57:26.030 --> 00:57:30.210
candidate of doing exactly what they are doing. This is straight up projection.

823
00:57:30.350 --> 00:57:33.330
Accuse other people of doing the exact thing that you're doing.

824
00:57:34.325 --> 00:57:36.404
I'm not going to dive deep into the Whitmer case here.

825
00:57:36.404 --> 00:57:38.724
I don't want this book to be longer than it already is.

826
00:57:38.724 --> 00:57:46.050
The point is, there are credible accusations of the FBI being involved in fabricating crimes, and January 6 very well might be one of them.

827
00:57:46.530 --> 00:57:51.030
There's also serious questions about a pipe bomb found near the DNC headquarters.

828
00:57:51.330 --> 00:57:54.370
Was that bomb planted by the FBI? We don't know for sure.

829
00:57:54.370 --> 00:57:59.030
But what we do know is that the FBI has been behaving very strangely in this investigation.

830
00:57:59.994 --> 00:58:12.255
Revolveneers and Thomas Massie have been on the case, and there are so many questions including why the FBI has only released degraded video material of the person planting the bomb, even though higher quality video exists,

831
00:58:12.700 --> 00:58:16.800
and why the FBI had seemingly deleted the video by 03/18/2022,

832
00:58:17.020 --> 00:58:19.120
even though this was a high priority investigation.

833
00:58:19.900 --> 00:58:24.240
Again, the assumption has to be that if the government is covering up the facts, they're complicit.

834
00:58:24.780 --> 00:58:28.400
How deep this goes, we don't know yet. But it's all sus as hell.

835
00:58:29.394 --> 00:58:38.214
My best misconception on January 6 at this point is that it was most likely instigated by the government so they could use it to impeach Trump to prevent him from running again.

836
00:58:38.595 --> 00:58:44.214
That would be totally in line with past behavior, and I'm far from the only one who's arrived at this conclusion.

837
00:58:44.570 --> 00:58:51.790
Their plan didn't work, but they did manage to imprison a bunch of regular folks peacefully protesting what they believed to be a stolen election.

838
00:58:52.170 --> 00:58:53.390
And also, by the way,

839
00:58:53.770 --> 00:58:58.190
they did manage to get a lot of people to really, really believe that this was an insurrection.

840
00:58:59.135 --> 00:59:01.234
The stand back and stand by hoax.

841
00:59:01.935 --> 00:59:05.454
The story here is that Trump, during the 09/29/2020

842
00:59:05.454 --> 00:59:10.675
presidential debate with Biden, was asked if he would tell the Proud Boys to stand down.

843
00:59:11.055 --> 00:59:14.755
Instead of doing that, he asked them to stand back and stand by.

844
00:59:15.110 --> 00:59:24.170
The media claims this as proof that he refused to tell him to stand down and instead used some kind of coded language to signal to them that he wanted them to be ready to attack.

845
00:59:24.550 --> 00:59:26.170
Was it a truly sneaky

846
00:59:26.550 --> 00:59:30.250
dog whistle way to avoid denouncing them, or was it just clumsy wording?

847
00:59:30.705 --> 00:59:33.525
You be the judge. Here's the official transcript. Quote,

848
00:59:33.985 --> 00:59:40.965
Wallace, you have repeatedly criticized the vice president for not specifically calling out Antifa and other left wing extremist groups.

849
00:59:41.105 --> 00:59:52.500
But are you willing tonight to condemn white supremacists and militia groups and to say that they need to stand down and not add to the violence in a number of these cities as we saw in Kenosha and as we've seen in Portland?

850
00:59:52.880 --> 00:59:55.700
Trump, sure. I'm willing to do that. Wallace,

851
00:59:56.000 --> 00:59:59.059
are you prepared specifically to do it? Well, go ahead, sir.

852
00:59:59.465 --> 01:00:03.645
Trump, I would say almost everything I see is from the left wing, not from the right wing.

853
01:00:03.945 --> 01:00:04.445
Wallace,

854
01:00:05.225 --> 01:00:09.725
so what are you what are you saying? Trump, I'm willing to do anything. I wanna see peace.

855
01:00:09.865 --> 01:00:11.645
Wallace, well, do it, sir.

856
01:00:12.080 --> 01:00:14.420
Biden. Say it. Do it. Say it. Trump.

857
01:00:14.880 --> 01:00:15.940
You wanna call them?

858
01:00:16.320 --> 01:00:20.580
What do you want the what do you wanna call them? Give me a name. Give me a name. Go ahead.

859
01:00:20.720 --> 01:00:22.900
Who would you like me to condemn? Wallace.

860
01:00:24.015 --> 01:00:27.875
White supremacists and racists. Biden, Proud Boys. Wallace,

861
01:00:28.335 --> 01:00:30.194
white supremacists and white militias.

862
01:00:30.895 --> 01:00:31.395
Biden,

863
01:00:31.775 --> 01:00:32.994
Proud Boys. Trump,

864
01:00:33.295 --> 01:00:35.454
Proud Boys, stand back and stand by.

865
01:00:35.454 --> 01:00:42.490
But I'll tell you what I'll tell you what, somebody's gotta do something about Antifa and the left because this is not a right wing problem, this is a left wing problem.

866
01:00:43.590 --> 01:00:47.610
Biden, his own FBI director said, unlike white supremacists,

867
01:00:48.150 --> 01:00:52.330
Trump, this is a left wing problem. Biden, Antifa is an idea, not an organization.

868
01:00:52.550 --> 01:00:57.964
Trump, oh, you gotta be kidding. Biden, not a militia. That's what his FBI director said.

869
01:00:57.964 --> 01:01:01.105
Trump, well, then you know what? He's wrong. Wallace,

870
01:01:01.484 --> 01:01:04.865
gentleman, gentleman, no, no, no. We're done, sir. Moving into the next

871
01:01:05.500 --> 01:01:06.000
crosstalk,

872
01:01:06.380 --> 01:01:07.200
end quote.

873
01:01:08.620 --> 01:01:13.340
Seems like a clumsy choice of words to me during a heated portion of the debate.

874
01:01:13.340 --> 01:01:17.280
All three are talking over each other. Biden is interjecting multiple times.

875
01:01:18.060 --> 01:01:19.040
And by the way,

876
01:01:20.025 --> 01:01:24.525
Biden was never asked to denounce Antifa or tell them to stand down. Right?

877
01:01:24.825 --> 01:01:29.805
And he never nobody ever ever went back and say, hey. Like, that wasn't super clear.

878
01:01:29.865 --> 01:01:34.490
Stand by back and stand by. Like, we wanna hear you say stand down. He would, I mind reading.

879
01:01:34.490 --> 01:01:37.310
I'm speculating. I'm hallucinating. He would have totally done that.

880
01:01:38.569 --> 01:01:39.069
Anyway,

881
01:01:39.770 --> 01:01:43.950
so onto the script here. Compared to what Biden said during the twenty twenty election,

882
01:01:44.650 --> 01:01:51.845
quote, we have put together, I think, the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics.

883
01:01:52.865 --> 01:01:58.885
I kid you not. Joe Biden really actually said that. Is this a Freudian slip? Just a gaffe?

884
01:01:59.105 --> 01:02:02.885
It for sure is way stronger than what Trump said about the Proud Boys,

885
01:02:03.265 --> 01:02:04.890
but the media has completely ignored it.

886
01:02:04.890 --> 01:02:08.109
Had Trump said something like this, the media would have pounced on it.

887
01:02:08.170 --> 01:02:15.150
But since the media is part of the blob or the Democrat machine, they ignore this Biden quote just like they covered up Biden's dementia for years.

888
01:02:15.369 --> 01:02:20.349
It's important that you see how the media works, so you can spot and immunize yourself against the manipulation.

889
01:02:21.925 --> 01:02:22.964
The bloodbath hoax.

890
01:02:22.964 --> 01:02:30.184
Here's what Kamala said during her debate with Trump again, quote, and to be clear on that point, Donald Trump, the candidate, has said in this election there will be a bloodbath

891
01:02:30.645 --> 01:02:34.440
if this and the outcome of this election is not to his liking, end quote.

892
01:02:34.920 --> 01:02:42.460
She's implying that he's going to instigate violence if he doesn't like the outcome of the election, just like he supposedly did on January 6.

893
01:02:42.680 --> 01:02:46.300
Yikes. That sounds bad. But where did this idea come from?

894
01:02:46.695 --> 01:02:50.135
We came from a rally in Ohio on 03/16/2024,

895
01:02:50.135 --> 01:02:51.595
where Trump said this,

896
01:02:52.215 --> 01:02:52.715
quote,

897
01:02:53.255 --> 01:03:02.370
China now is building a couple of massive plants where they're going to build the cars in Mexico and think they think that they're going to sell those cars into The United States with no tax at the border.

898
01:03:03.170 --> 01:03:04.790
Let me tell you something to China.

899
01:03:04.850 --> 01:03:17.730
If you're listening, President Xi, and you and I are friends, but he understands the way I deal, those big monster car manufacturing plants that you're building in Mexico right now, and you think you're gonna get that, you're not gonna hire Americans and you're gonna sell the cars to us?

900
01:03:17.730 --> 01:03:18.230
No.

901
01:03:18.290 --> 01:03:24.685
We're gonna put a 100% tariff onto every single car that comes across the line, and you're not gonna be able to sell those cars if I get elected.

902
01:03:24.984 --> 01:03:28.205
Now if I don't get elected, it's gonna be a bloodbath for the whole.

903
01:03:28.265 --> 01:03:31.145
That's gonna be the least of it. It's gonna be a bloodbath for the country.

904
01:03:31.145 --> 01:03:33.885
That'll be the least of it, but they're not gonna sell those cars.

905
01:03:34.710 --> 01:03:35.350
End quote.

906
01:03:35.350 --> 01:03:41.930
So is he saying there would be violence, or is he using bloodbath as a metaphor about car production, the economy, and the job market?

907
01:03:42.390 --> 01:03:46.170
It's not entirely obvious, but there's nothing to indicate he was talking about violence.

908
01:03:46.725 --> 01:03:51.865
It's the same trick with January 6, where they ignored the peaceful part and seized on Wilde and fight.

909
01:03:52.405 --> 01:03:56.645
But you know what one could do to be certain? You could ask him, Mr.

910
01:03:56.645 --> 01:04:00.345
President, were you talking about physical violence or were you talking about the economy?

911
01:04:00.840 --> 01:04:05.900
My guess is he'd be very clear he wasn't talking about physical violence, and that would be the end of that.

912
01:04:07.400 --> 01:04:08.920
But the media doesn't want that.

913
01:04:08.920 --> 01:04:15.580
What they want is to leverage these hoaxes so they can paint a particular picture of Trump to make him seem dangerous and scary and unhinged and,

914
01:04:15.965 --> 01:04:17.265
quote, literally Hitler.

915
01:04:17.645 --> 01:04:26.865
And it works because, like with the Nigerian scam, the constituency they're targeting won't look up the original, think critical, or seek out alternative views,

916
01:04:27.165 --> 01:04:31.040
just like I didn't for most of my adult life. We've got lives to live.

917
01:04:31.040 --> 01:04:36.020
The media exists to do their job and bring us the relevant news, or that's what we thought.

918
01:04:36.960 --> 01:04:37.460
Alright.

919
01:04:38.160 --> 01:04:42.500
Whew. That was the end of that chapter. I hope you're enjoying this as much as I am.

920
01:04:44.595 --> 01:04:45.415
It's a lot.

921
01:04:45.715 --> 01:04:49.715
I mean, are you seeing how this works in the media? Because it's fucking crazy.

922
01:04:49.715 --> 01:04:51.735
Like, it's really bonkers. It's really insane

923
01:04:52.355 --> 01:04:55.015
what they're doing to gaslight everybody.

924
01:04:56.000 --> 01:04:59.700
But the thing is once you see it, you can't unsee it. And so

925
01:05:00.079 --> 01:05:02.099
in that way, it's just like, well, like,

926
01:05:03.200 --> 01:05:07.440
it's never gonna work on you again once you really get it, but I'm surprised.

927
01:05:07.440 --> 01:05:10.500
I'm shocked at how many people still don't really get it.

928
01:05:11.325 --> 01:05:13.585
So we'll see. We'll see. It

929
01:05:14.045 --> 01:05:16.785
speaks a lot to how the human psyche works.

930
01:05:17.005 --> 01:05:21.744
Like, we can read things and or see things or hear things, and it just can't penetrate because

931
01:05:22.445 --> 01:05:27.068
we're just living at a different energy frequency vibration, so it won't get in there.