Berlin, stop rubbing your ATMs. Adam Curry, John
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It's Sunday, January 11th, 2026.
This is your award-winning GiveOnNation media assassination
episode 1833.
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In the morning, everybody.
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I'm John C.
Dvorak.
It's a crackpot on Buzzkill.
In the morning.
Well, I don't know about that, but it
is definitely Dimension A and Dimension B back
on deck, as if it ever went away.
Yeah.
So they're lined up in, uh, last night,
or the night before, whatever, in Calgary to
sign the petition to separate.
Yeah, they expected a small event, and thousands
of people showed up.
Here's the problem I have with it.
I thought this was already on the ballot.
I have no idea.
What do they, what do they want?
They want independence?
Yeah.
What do they want?
No justice, no, no peace?
No oil, no, what was it?
No, no something, no oil, no, I don't
know.
I didn't hear it.
Forget the oil one.
I didn't hear it.
No justice, no oil, or what is the
one with the oil?
There's a bumper sticker.
Did, did we have a chant?
Did we have a chant?
Would have.
Alberta splitting off?
I don't think so.
I don't think there was a chant.
I don't think so.
Maybe a chance.
A chant.
No, no.
A chant?
No, they're Canadians?
Just a complaint.
It's just a complaint.
There's no chant.
Where's our chant?
We're not gonna chant at all.
Man, this is so tiring.
When the quad swings.
What, what, which of, what column are you
looking at?
Well, I'm looking, I'm looking at all, I'm
looking at the quad screen.
That's all kind of the same.
What happened just as a, maybe a smaller
side.
Let me just play.
This was, this was, I couldn't get any,
of course, I mean, because it's all Minneapolis,
Minneapolis, Minneapolis, Minneapolis, Minneapolis, Minneapolis, Minneapolis.
By the way, between, in Oakland, between January
1st and January 5th, there were five murders.
None of it covers, no protests.
I think Chicago's already had 13, 13, 14
deaths.
Who cares?
You know, they're black.
Who cares about those black people?
They're black.
Who cares?
No, this is, this story, which Carolyn Levitt
posted or retweeted from an interview that was
translated from something in some, some, I guess
it was Spanish.
And of course, there's not a single report
that I could find on it this morning.
So I had to go to the well,
to WION, because they're always on top of
the news.
The alleged witness account was also shared on
social media by the White House press secretary.
In the interview, the guard allegedly described how
U.S. forces use technology unlike anything he
has ever seen.
He said that all their radar systems shut
down without any explanation.
It was followed by a lot of drones
flying over their positions.
He claimed that a helicopter arrived moments later,
deploying what he estimated were just 20 U
.S. troops into the area.
But he said that these few men came
armed with something far more powerful than guns.
The guard claims that the U.S. troops
shot with precision and speed.
He said, and I'm quoting, it felt like
each soldier was firing 300 rounds per minute.
At one point, U.S. troops launched another
weapon, according to the guard's account.
It was like a very intense sound wave.
And he felt like his head was exploding
from the inside.
He claimed that the Venezuelan side started bleeding
from the nose, while some were vomiting blood.
They were unable to move.
An estimated 100 Venezuelan security forces were killed
in the January 3 attack.
The White House press secretary, Caroline LeVette, has
shared the account on social media.
However, the White House has not confirmed whether
the administration was verifying the veracity of the
eyewitness account.
Now, I have the clip that triggered all
this.
And I think this is almost word for
word what she stole from this guy.
This is the Maduro security guard's second half.
And I noticed it says second half.
He wanted to bring it in second half
of show.
Yeah, I didn't expect you to drop it
at the beginning.
Well, it's it's it's second half of show
material.
I disagree.
For 18 years, I've been talking about directed
energy weapons.
Yeah, OK.
Yeah, they had a beam.
It's called LRAD.
But OK, you know, you can mock me
all you want.
I'm not blocking you.
I'm just saying.
Mocking, mocking.
I didn't say block, mock.
Oh, I'm sorry.
I normally block.
Yeah, well, that's that's your go to.
That's my style.
That's your go to.
I normally just block.
Someone literally sent me a forward from from
a reject from your email server.
It said suspicious.
Blocked due to suspicion.
Yeah, there's a lot of that.
That's good.
This is OK.
Anyway, this is this came floating around.
This is passed around the net.
I don't know where Carolyn got it, but
the WIO and person obviously, they just took
this verbatim.
Everyone did the ones that did it.
It came it came from an interview that
is in Spanish.
Yeah.
And this is the guy who did the
interview.
A security guard that was protecting Maduro has
spoken and you got to hear what he
said.
It's in Spanish, but I'll translate.
Also, Trump announced that, you know, the cartels,
they're going after him in Mexico.
The whole vibe of Latin America has changed
because of what happened in Venezuela.
And now that we're getting firsthand accounts from
people, they were there.
The soldier says they didn't hear him coming.
He says the Americans had technology superior to
anything they've ever seen.
Everything that they were using for radar, for
anything was completely taken offline.
They had drones and the drones were taking
out bases and taking out things faster.
They didn't have no technology.
They've never had to fight against drones.
He also talks about that there was only
eight helicopters.
There was only 20 men that were sent
in and those 20 men killed hundreds of
their men.
And none of those soldiers were injured.
He talks about, it felt like they were
firing 300 rounds a minute.
Nothing they've ever seen, nothing that they can
compete with.
And then he also talks to the fact
that the Americans had some kind of sonic
shock boom that was sent out and everybody
immediately started bleeding profusely out of their nose.
They couldn't even gather themselves because whatever was
sent at them, made them fall to their
knees and vomit blood out of their mouth
and out of their noses.
They were incapacitated immediately.
He says he never wants to fear, never
wants to go through that again.
Doesn't want to have to fight with the
Americans again.
He's sending warnings to everybody out there that
you think you can fight the Americans.
You don't even know what their weaponry is
like and what they're capable of.
20 men took out hundreds and that's starting
to spread all through Latin America.
And now they're not saying, if you want
me, come and get me anymore.
They're like, oh shit.
Especially after Trump says, hey, Mexico, you're on
the list too.
So you put the second half because you
don't believe it?
You're right.
I don't believe it.
I mean, it's not that we don't have
this sort of weaponry, but I don't think
it was necessary.
And I think it's just to scare the
hell out of these guys.
I think it was planted.
That's possible, but it's about time we had
this technology.
I mean, they've been experimenting with it long
enough.
Yeah, no, I agree.
And I think we should use it on
Minneapolis.
Let's see it in action.
That would be a practical use.
Let's see it in action, man.
But more interesting maybe to me is 300
rounds a minute.
I mean, that's five rounds a second.
What barrel melting device is that, that you
can hold in your hands?
And how do you even, it has to
be a belt or a really big magazine.
That actually sounded kind of odd, but LRAD,
that's real.
I mean, they have been experimenting with it
for a long, long time.
And remember, we had the, maybe that was
what we were experimenting on our own people
in the embassies, everyone getting sick.
That's possible.
I'm just doubting the whole thing.
Well, we'll see.
Including the 300 rounds a minute.
And it's too much opportunity to hit your
own men with this stuff.
I mean, there's 25 guys.
Why can't you just believe that we're awesome?
You're anti-American, man.
I think we're pretty awesome.
This is American ingenuity.
Actually, if you think about it, it's an
awesome thing to do, which is to create
a bullcrap narrative that...
It just doesn't seem like Carolyn Leavitt would
do that.
It just doesn't seem like she...
No, I don't think she had anything.
I don't know.
She may have been freelancing.
She doesn't, maybe she was part of it,
part of the scheme to just frighten the
enemies without having to shoot a shot.
Maybe, maybe.
Perfect CIA material.
They like to do that kind of thing.
Yeah.
Well, remember, they had the cancer gun.
They showed that in what, 1979 or something
during the hearing about MKUltra.
Yeah, the church hearings.
Yes.
Remember, they had the cancer gun.
They held it up.
Look at this thing.
We shoot you with this.
No, it was a heart attack gun.
I'm sorry.
The heart attack gun.
Yeah.
No, but you know, hey man, if we
can go to the moon, why wouldn't we
be able to do this?
Yeah, your point well taken.
Yes, yes, yes, yes.
I know, I'm slowly getting you.
Slowly, slowly, slowly.
I'm bringing you to the did not land
side.
Eventually, you'll get there.
Once they get to the math of the
stuff they destroyed, maybe.
So, do you want to talk about Venezuela
or do you want to like jump on?
Do I have Venezuela clips?
Oh, I got tons of Venezuela clips.
I'm not so much about Venezuela, but about
the big meeting.
And my buddy was there at the big
meeting.
The big meeting of all the oil dudes.
Oh, I have an oil saga clip.
Well, let me play the opener, just a
positioning clip.
President Trump today meeting with oil executives at
the White House just hours ago.
After the U.S. military seized another oil
tanker linked to Venezuela.
New video from U.S. Southern Command showing
the seizure of that tanker in the Caribbean.
The third one this week.
U.S. troops were pulling down ropes from
a helicopter and then taking control of that
ship.
During his meeting with oil executives, the president
saying that he wants quote total access to
Venezuela's oil.
All of the companies here today are going
to be treasured partners in bringing the nation
of Venezuela back to life, restoring its economy
and generating great wealth for their companies and
for their people and also great wealth for
the American people.
Meanwhile, the U.S. has now sent a
delegation to Venezuela in a first step toward
restoring diplomatic relations after the capture of Nicolas
Maduro.
So the video was kind of interesting.
I saw our guy there.
It's not the oil baron himself.
It's the oil baron's partner was there.
So I saw him and he basically went.
I think the president asked him.
So what do you think about Venezuela?
And he went, yeah, a lot of shale
there.
He didn't say we're going to go right
away, Mr. President.
But in the video, Tucker was there.
You see Tucker standing around in that meeting?
That's interesting.
No.
Yeah.
Now, it's even more interesting that the word
on the street is he actually had a
private lunch with the president and then the
president said, hey, come on, hang with these
oil guys.
So there's some reason for that.
Well, of course, you know, Tucker's Team Trump.
He's just he's doing his thing, whatever he's
been told to do, I presume.
I presume.
OK, so what you got?
Well, I got a couple of I got
three clips.
For one thing, I just started this mild
clip.
You know, they have a this is a
Venezuela guy in Venezuela.
And this is the report for I went
to Al Jazeera to get a bunch of
stuff.
Because if you want anything, you got to
go outside the M5M USA.
Yeah, because all they're talking about is that
woman in Minnesota.
And I just thought it was interesting that
they actually have boots on the ground in
Venezuela, a guy floating around reporter.
We don't have anybody.
Where's our people?
Where's ABC, CBS and CNN?
Roaming.
That's a good point.
We don't I don't think I don't think
I've seen a single report from any of
our big networks.
I see another two or four.
Oh, you don't go.
I don't want to go there.
I'm going to get killed.
So we have to.
I don't know about that.
So this I do.
I think it's a budget thing.
This is because there's no money.
Oh, well, there's that, too.
Yeah, whatever we got to do.
We got to do this.
And then you might be stuck there for
a couple of days of hotel costs.
Oh, yeah.
Save your credit card receipts.
Oh, wait.
Yeah, OK.
So here's the Venezuelan reporter from Al Jazeera.
Is there a report?
Venezuelans have endured decades of financial hardship.
But after Washington's promise to roll back oil
sanctions, there's cautious optimism for an economic turnaround.
Norris Soto reports now from the capital, Caracas.
Venezuela has the world's largest known oil reserves,
and yet its economy has been plunged into
uncertainty.
For millions, life has become a daily struggle.
Ana has lived through years of crippling sanctions,
shortages and inflation.
While many others left, she chose to stay.
She holds on to the days when the
local currency was worth something and her dreams
felt possible.
The hardest part of starting a business in
Venezuela is economic instability.
We work based on the U.S. dollar.
If we had a stable currency, everything would
be less difficult.
Well, how about a stable coin for you?
It's coming.
And I'm telling you, stable coin is floating
around now here.
Now, this is the ones that got my
attention, these clips.
This is.
If you remember, we played a clip from
Rubio last show about the three step stages.
Yeah, there's three stages of what they're going
to have to do.
First, you got to do this thing and
do that.
And this is one of the stages.
And this is the Venezuela.
They're already releasing prisoners.
Oh, there you go.
Right groups say Venezuela's government has released another
group of prisoners.
They're urging authorities to free more detainees.
The release has been a long held U
.S. demand and comes less than a week
after former President Nicolas Maduro was captured by
the U.S. About a thousand political prisoners
are believed to be held in jails across
Venezuela.
Yeah.
Big news in the in the Jesus world.
Everyone's talking about the pastors they released, supposedly.
Yes.
Well, they're doing that.
That's not being covered by our media.
800 pastors were released from jail.
No.
Well, it's it's covered by like the 700
pastor media.
Which I don't follow.
Pastor News Network, PNN.
I follow it.
So, yeah, you would.
So and then there's this little gem, which
is another kind of an interesting gotcha.
This is the Venezuela oil saga.
Continues clip.
President Trump has moved to tighten U.S.
control over revenue from the sale of Venezuelan
oil.
An executive order aims to prevent legal claims
on the funds by putting the money beyond
the reach of the courts.
The administration says the purpose is to ensure
economic and political stability in Venezuela and to
curb illegal immigration.
It says the money will be the property
of Venezuela, but will be held in U
.S. treasury accounts.
Mr. Trump signed the order after meeting with
more than a dozen oil executives at the
White House in an effort to raise 100
billion dollars in investments to fix Venezuela's oil
infrastructure.
Wait a minute.
So it's being put into treasury accounts.
Owned by Venezuela.
That Russian money in the EU, anybody?
That's interesting.
Of course, I thought so.
Of course, that's the perfect way to say,
and now we're going to put some, you
know, we'll sell you some T-bills and
then we'll give Venezuela some T-bills for
your money.
No, we'll give them the stable coin backed
by T-bills.
Well, they can do that.
Yes.
That's coming.
But the whole thing to come.
The whole thing about the, about now we're
not, because Trump is fearful.
He's like with good reason of all these
liberal judges.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, they just slam the hammer down and
say, no, now you got to return the
money or whatever.
I ain't got the money.
They've got the money.
Some judge is going to get Maduro out
of jail and he'll probably go, no, I
don't want to go.
It's dangerous out there.
I like it in here.
Don't let me go.
I did read that J.P. Morgan, I
guess J.P. Morgan has a couple of
banks or a couple of, what do you
call them?
Banks.
Banks in Venezuela?
Could be.
Yeah.
So everybody's in on this and they're not
telling us the whole story, which is too
bad.
I did come across an interesting article about
New York representative Richie Torres, who has proposed
a law.
Let me see.
Let me see the exact.
I don't think they have a name for
it.
Oh, yes.
The Public Integrity in Financial Prediction Markets Act
of 2026, because he says, I don't think
it's OK if it were to be that
way, that anyone inside the administration can make
money on the exact timing of the invasion.
Four hundred thousand dollars.
That's good.
Yeah.
Because, you know, that was probably Jared.
He said, watch this.
Jared would be the smartest one to do
that.
He would.
And then what are you going to do?
What's going to happen?
Hey, if only we had an inside track.
Where's our boots on the ground?
Come on, people should have let us know.
Here's Vice President Vance debunking the the fake
fake Bloomberg story.
Which we reported on on the last show,
and we immediately said, we don't know, but
it was Bloomberg.
You think Bloomberg would have some.
Did it actually come from Bloomberg?
Are we sure?
I got it from Bloomberg.
So Bloomberg reported on it.
Yeah, here it is.
I've heard a couple of things.
One that I was kept out of the
planning for the Venezuela operation.
That's false.
And another that Tulsi was kept out of
the planning for Venezuela operations.
That's completely false.
We're all part of the same team.
And one of the things that is really
amazing about that operation is that we kept
it very tight to the senior cabinet level
officials and related officials in our government.
And we kept this operation secret for a
very long time.
I'm very proud of that.
I think it suggests that the team works
very well together.
Looking ahead, what is my role?
Look, my role is going to be whatever
the president asks me to do.
Well, every single, or I should say every
other day, I'm chairing the meeting that we
do on this among White House principals to
talk about next steps.
He kind of let something loose there every
day.
I mean, every other day.
So they have a meeting every other day.
It's a staff meeting.
Well, every single, or I should say every
other day, I'm chairing the meeting that we
do on this among White House principals to
talk about next steps to try to ensure
that Venezuela is stable.
And as the president has directed us to
do, to ensure that the new Venezuelan government
actually listens to the United States and does
what the United States needs it to do
under our country's best interests.
So I'm going to be as involved as
the president wants me to be.
So far, that's been very involved.
And I'll keep on doing that so long
as the president asks me to do it.
Yeah.
You know, I think all of this is
really everything, including the sonic weapon.
I think it's all meant to intimidate the
drug cartels.
People have no idea.
The drug cartels have better weapons than most
of these South American countries have in their
military.
There's so much money in this.
It's hard for people to fathom how much
money really goes around in the drug networks.
And I hope it's tax free.
Oh, yeah, it's tax free for sure.
So this morning on Face the Nation, Margaret
Brennan had our Secretary of Energy Chris White
on the show, and she actually spoke about
the three point plan of which was one
releasing the prisoners.
OK, so Secretary Rubio said there's a three
point plan, stabilize, rehabilitate, transition.
This sounds indefinite.
Even when you heard some of those oil
executives, Chevron's leadership, they're already in Venezuela, we
should say, said it'll take 18 to 24
months to even increase oil production by 50
percent.
So how long is this American involvement?
Because he's saying there it's at least a
year and a half, two years.
They've been there for 100 years and likely
Chevron is going to be there 50 years
from now.
But the United States government, how long does
that role continue?
You heard the third part of Rubio's question,
which is transition.
We want to bring a representative government to
the people of Venezuela.
I think then you'll see the full sovereignty
back to the government of Venezuela.
We don't have a legitimate government of Venezuela
today.
We'd like to move and get there.
But America's there as a timeline.
Twenty five years this country's gone in decline.
Yeah, President Trump out of the box creative
intervention has allowed us to change the game.
But I don't know the timeline of that.
It's not weeks.
It's more months.
Could be a year or two.
Could be more.
Whatever, we're working on it.
Of course, way before CBS got into the
Citgo deal, which we pegged immediately, Paul Singer,
huge, huge Trump donor who completed his acquisition
of Citgo in December.
Maybe it was his prop bet.
That came up in the conversation.
So back in November, a U.S. judge
backed a bid by an American hedge fund
to purchase Citgo Petroleum.
The Treasury still has to approve that deal.
The hedge fund is actually run by a
big Trump donor, Paul Singer.
Boom.
Do you want to preserve?
Come on, Barry Weiss.
If you're going to listen to us for
your stories, just give us some credit.
Hedge fund is actually run by a big
Trump donor, Paul Singer.
Do you want to preserve Venezuelan ownership of
Citgo?
Do you want to have America have a
financial stake in it?
Trump bought a big portion of Intel company.
Do you want to own portions of oil
companies?
Again, that's going to be up to American
businesses.
That's certainly a very real possibility.
The Citgo sale is part of bringing redressed
accreditors of the United States for the Venezuelan
government.
And of course, one of the capital providers
in that transaction is a hedge fund provider.
There's lots of American investors and American refining
entrepreneurs that are involved in that.
So to take Venezuelan-owned refineries that are
in the United States and legally, through an
auction process, transfer them to American owners and
American entrepreneurs in the refining business, I think
that's fantastic.
It's pretty contentious what's going on here because
the president's asking basically to help put the
shale producers in America on their back foot,
if not out of business to some degree.
Because if he's, you know, depending on what
price they sell this oil for, market prices,
you know, that basically hurts the shale producers.
They're all like complaining.
The oil barons, like he's happy for America
and for Venezuela, but he's not happy about
his business, to which I say, oh, I'm
sorry.
I'm sorry.
One plane less.
He's going to burn me for that comment.
Probably.
Nah, it's OK.
But even the shale producers, you know, they
say, hey, if you pay us, we'll go
and we'll explore.
We'll go see what's going on.
So now it comes down to, all right,
is all that money going to Venezuela?
Are you going to pay us to go
and explore some stuff?
Because no one's really too, like, jumpy about
it.
It seems even just looking at, because I
watched that whole session with the president, you
know, besides the cordialness of, oh, Mr. President,
you're awesome.
It didn't seem like everyone was like, yeah,
this is great for us.
No.
Then, of course, there's the question of corruption.
There's concern about corruption here, though.
Will there be Americans installed on these boards?
And how do you respond to these allegations
that some Trump donors are going to get
preferential treatment?
I can assure you that is absolutely not
the case.
Absolutely not the case.
That means it is.
Sounds to me like it's completely the case.
Totally the case.
Wow.
So what?
Me, yeah, me protested a bit too much.
I can assure you, absolutely.
Are going to get preferential treatment.
I can assure you that is absolutely not
the case.
And he even has a laugh tale in
there.
What a loser.
Listen to him.
I can assure you that is absolutely not
the case.
Absolutely not the case.
Think of what President Trump has done for
the American oil and gas industry.
He's driven down the price of oil.
He's dramatically- There's an oversupply of oil.
And now you're going to put more on
the market.
Exactly.
That's not good for American oil and gas
companies.
It makes it less profitable for them to
actually go and invest in drill baby drill.
Exactly.
Democrats and President Biden are fantastic for American
oil and gas companies.
He listens exactly to whatever she says.
But what he's saying- It's a good
bit.
Yeah, but what he's saying here is exactly
what the oil baron has always told me.
He said, I love that President Trump is
our president, but it's really bad for my
business.
He says, Democrats are good for the oil
business.
Republican presidents are bad.
All you have to do is look at
the day Joe Biden was elected and look
at- Go some- Anyone can go
back and do this.
Look at the day Joe Biden got in
office and look at this at the same
time.
Look at the stock chart for Exxon.
Oh, huge- To the moon.
To the moon!
That's not good for American oil and gas
companies.
It makes it less profitable for them to
actually go and invest in drill baby drill.
Exactly.
Democrats and President Biden are fantastic for American
oil and gas companies because they try to
restrict the supply to something that's essential to
life, which only has one possible impact, which
is to drive up prices and grow profitability.
So President Trump is no helper to the
oil and gas industry.
And certainly, there's no corruption, preferential placement of
people.
There's none of that.
I can assure you of that.
I'm in the center of this.
How are you going to decide the contracts?
Is the treasury going to approve the Citgo
dominance there in that?
That went through a large auction to buy
- Are you going to bring to Congress
the decisions you're making about which firms get
assets?
Absolutely.
That was an auction open to all American
firms.
There were many bidders, including the coalition of
bidders you mentioned.
We want those assets to get as much
money as possible, to go back to the
creditors of the Venezuelan government.
And we want American refinery assets- Who
are the creditors?
Oh, that would be the oil companies.
We want those assets to get as much
money as possible, to go back to the
creditors of the Venezuelan government.
And we want American refinery assets owned by
Americans.
They're going to increase the throughput, drive down
the price of gasoline in America.
By the way, Citgo is pretty small.
They're a small player compared to the other
big boys with the refinery.
Citgo is pretty small.
So, it's not a huge deal, but it
was nice for his buddy.
I think the president, he knows exactly what's
going on.
He talks a big game about drill, baby,
drill.
Everyone's saying no, no, no.
Our shale returns are diminishing.
So, I think the only way to really
do it is to give everybody a little
taste, a little piece of the action, and
set up shop over there.
That would be the future.
It's just not in the shale from everything
I understand.
There's a lot of product you can get
from this heavy crude that you can't get
from shale.
Oh, yeah.
No, it's great.
And what's interesting is this, I think this
directly has also affected Iran, which seems to
be a little less than the video might
show.
I talked to Lex yesterday, you know, his
wife Fariba.
She has her mom and her sisters live
in Tehran, although they haven't been able to
talk to him because the phones have been
cut off, not just the internet, but phones
in general.
And he says, yeah, you know, if you
stay inside, you're going to be okay.
It's not all over the country yet.
It's definitely real.
And he says, there's no leader.
There's no one who stood up and said,
this is it.
But the reason why this affects Iran is
because of these ghost ships, where in essence,
or in reality, Venezuela and Iran were swapping
oil.
Because Iran, doesn't Iran have light crude, the
sweet stuff?
If you're set up to refine heavy crude,
that's what you do.
I don't believe they were swapping oil.
That's what I've heard.
That's exactly what they were doing.
Yeah, but why?
What would be the point?
Well, they don't have, I don't know.
You know what?
I don't know.
I don't know enough about it.
But this is what I've understood is that
Iran was sending their light over.
Venezuela has no ability to, or very little
capacity to refine the heavy stuff.
That's all done here.
So low output on refinery.
But anyway, it's all the drug.
It's just drug money.
Oil is drug money.
Hey, I got some drug seller, put it
in oil, ship it over the year, ship
it over there.
It's just like a really slow Bitcoin.
Moving all over the seas.
It's crazy.
This stuff I've never, I mean, we were
always into pipelines.
But now you see these ghost ships and
everybody pumping it from one ship to another,
painting new flags, new name, new transponder codes.
You know, and a lot of American companies
I think are involved in this.
It's not just like the Russians did it
and the Venezuelans and the Chinese.
There's American corporations involved in this stuff.
There's money to be made.
There should be.
It's literal money.
I mean, it's all arbitrage.
It's amazing.
It's dirty, but it's an amazing business.
Really?
So what do you have in Iran?
Because, you know, so that's, I have a
couple of other boots on the ground, but
that was the main one.
I have the Al Jazeera clips, which I
thought would be interesting.
Okay.
Might as well start with those.
Iran one and two AJ.
Iran's government is intensifying a crackdown on protests
against a severe economic crisis, which are now
into a second week.
More than 200 people have been arrested.
Rallies are taking place in towns and cities
across the country, with demonstrators setting fire to
buildings.
The attorney general has warned that those involved
in the unrest could face the death penalty.
Well, a nationwide communication shutdown has been in
place since Thursday, but some people are managing
to post videos of the rallies online.
Protests began over the soaring cost of living
and plunging value of the local currency.
Al Jazeera's Tahir Asadi has more from the
capital, Tehran.
It's now two weeks we have been witnessing
protests across Iran in different cities, including here
in the capital.
The unrest flared up into violence in several
locations, leaving fatalities and injuries, both from protesters
and security forces.
Arrests are reported, even though when it comes
to numbers, we don't have any confirmed information.
The protests actually started in the economic hubs,
such as the Grand Bazaar, against the country's
worsening economic situation.
It quickly spread to other cities.
Parking rallies initially scattered, but now in more
cities we see it's going on.
The state response started by recognizing the right
of people to peacefully protest.
But as the situation started to escalate, the
state has been trying to draw a line
between protesters and what the Iranian Supreme Leader
Ayatollah Khamenei called saboteurs, against whom he said
the Islamic Republic will not give in.
Yes, it's the big Satan doing it.
It's America.
Stop it.
Stop doing it.
Yeah, they finally got around to blaming us
and Israel.
I'm actually shocked that it started to get
covered by our PBS, for example.
I have a clip.
I have a total of four here.
By the way, there's another.
That was another guy from Al Jazeera on
the street in Tehran reporting, you know, reporting
as opposed to our NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN
people.
Where are they?
There's not one of them on the street
in Tehran.
So they're just making it up and, you
know, just kind of giving us glossing over
everything.
Well, there's no there's no benefit to the
intelligence organization.
So there's so why would they go?
They had there's no safe house for them.
There's nothing.
Here's part two of that report.
The Supreme National Security Council of the country
called it a joint American-Israeli plot to
destabilize the country.
As the security measures have tightened off, the
Internet shutdown, which started on Thursday night, continues.
And international calls are severely restricted.
It's happened following the escalation of protests in
the capital the same night, as we saw
many protesters taking to the streets.
And the mayor of Tehran said government buildings,
banks, mosques, public transportation vehicles and medical centers
were damaged.
Several protesters were arrested.
Also, speaking of the latest developments, the government
unveiled a subsidy scheme, which includes a monthly
payment of around seven U.S. dollars to
citizens available from today for the lower income
classes who are struggling to cover daily essentials
these days.
Public dissatisfaction exists whether or not people take
to the streets.
And many here are now watching to see
how the government will respond, not just to
the protests, but to the economic hardships that
they are facing in their daily lives.
You know, there's this narrative out on the
Internet, and I see it in the troll
room as well, that, you know, it goes
like this.
This isn't about oil.
It's about the petrodollar.
Well, let me tell you, the petrodollar, actually,
our deal with Saudi Arabia ended.
We didn't end like a year ago.
The 1971 deal, you price it in dollars
and we'll protect you.
That actual agreement ended.
And the petrodollar is over.
I mean, everyone's already trading in their own
currency.
That's why the stable coin gambit is being
set up.
So don't worry about the petrodollar.
It's just it's not it's not a thing
anymore.
People, it's.
So we have they shut down the Internet,
but there was, according to Grok, which would
know.
I asked about Starlink.
And and it would know because it's Starlink's
part of the Grok, the Grok empire.
The Grok, Musk, Grok empire.
Dave's over 10,000, maybe 20,000 terminals
have been snuck into the country.
They're illegal.
And Musk returned.
Iran was blacked out from the Starlink system.
Yeah, but Musk, Musk turned it back on.
Well, let's just remind everybody how that works.
Elon turns it on and you get six
months free.
After that, you got to start paying for
it.
That's exactly what he did in Ukraine.
Yeah, well, he's he's also said it's free.
Yeah.
And so now free with card.
So they got free.
And meanwhile, and then because somebody, one of
our producers, it is bull crap.
This is not a grassroots because otherwise anyone
on about the lack of Internet.
And once you get the terminals sending stuff
down, then you Bluetooth it between phones.
I mean, once you because they can't stop
that.
Mesh-tastic.
You make a mesh.
It's possible that they can have communications from
outside, inside, whatever.
And then, of course, they're all yelling.
This 2CTV guy has been yelling for democracy
and at the same time for this for
the Shah.
Let me just play.
They insert this clip for a second.
This is from let me see.
Where is this from?
This is France 24.
I have a comment on it.
A 13th day of protests in Iran as
anger on the streets shows no sign of
subsiding.
Despite the government shutting off the Internet, images
of motorcycles on fire and overturned police cars
are circulating on social media as crowds openly
defy the regime with cries of death to
the dictator.
The protests have spread across Iran to over
100 cities.
Even reaching the conservative Mashhad, birthplace of Ayatollah
Khamenei.
The supreme leader responded by accusing the US
of interference.
The tyrants and arrogant people of this world,
when they are at the height of their
pride, they are overthrown.
Trump will also be brought down.
Tehran broadcast images of pro-government rallies on
Iranian television in an attempt to show it
still has support.
But videos filmed by locals show a shaken
regime with this statue of Revolutionary Guard Commander
Qasem Soleimani being destroyed.
Always a classic.
Or the Islamic Republic flag being torn in
half and Iranians chanting a new slogan, long
live the Shah.
In reference to the pro-Western Shah of
Iran ousted by the 1979 Islamic Revolution, his
son Reza Pahlavi urged Trump to help the
protesters.
Don't abandon the streets.
I assure you that victory is near.
According to NGOs, Iranian authorities cracked down on
protesters, arresting over 2,000 people and leaving
dozens dead.
Okay, so from boots on the ground, I
have a new source.
This source is great.
Squirrel Roz, she used to be GCHQ.
Now she lives in Virginia, supposedly retired.
By the way, I kept making a mistake.
The prince, who is not actually the crown
prince, he just calls himself that.
He lives in Maryland and he's had his
Potomac house up for sale for a while
until this whole thing kicked off.
Maybe he's taken it off the market.
But from what the sources say is he
wanted to go visit Trump at Mar-a
-Lago and Trump's like, nah, I don't want
to see you.
So that guy, and I don't even know
how.
Oh, that's a good sign.
Yeah, so that is a good sign.
And then from Lex, one other thing.
I said, hey man, what about the water?
He said, yeah, the water, it's been a
problem for decades.
You know, it rains.
It's like they're not having huge water issues.
There's always been management issues with the water.
But it's purely the economics.
The economics are the problem.
And you can't necessarily solve that with a
new leader.
No, you can't solve it at all.
It's like, you know, people expect when Trump
got into prices to all fall.
Wasn't going to happen.
And I do have some interesting news on
that.
But let's go to your other Iran clips.
Yeah, I got just before we played the
PBS clip, which is the first that at
least they recognize that something's going on as
opposed to the other networks.
I want to play, this is from a
podcast and it includes this guy, Pepe Escobar.
You know him, right?
He's been around for 100 years.
Yes, he's been around forever.
Works for RT.
So you can expect him to have nothing
but solid stuff.
And he's on this podcast and he starts
interviewing the podcasters who he thinks is in
Tehran.
And he's going to tell us that nothing's
going on because there's nothing going on.
In fact, there's a bunch of these podcasts
out there that counter all the other podcasts.
And they say, hey, I'm here.
Nothing is going on.
This is bull crap.
This is just a view.
Wait, wait, let me get this straight.
This is Pepe Escobar and he and he's
talking to someone he thinks is in Tehran
or someone thinks he's in Tehran.
No, no.
Pepe thinks the guy that's doing the podcast
is in Tehran.
Oh, OK.
And so Pepe turns around and says, let
me interview you for a second because that's
going to be different.
And I forget this guy's name.
I've got an exclusive.
I guess his name is Nimrod or something.
I can't remember his name.
OK.
All right.
So this guy, this is kind of amusing
because the guy's not in Tehran.
Nima, you are in Tehran.
Correct me if I'm wrong.
There are no protests in Tehran.
Number one, right?
Not right.
Let me put it this way.
Leading the witness.
I am right now.
I'm not in Tehran.
No, I'm not in Tehran.
But I came to the southwest of Iran
in the state called Khuzestan for 10 days.
I arrived in Khuzestan.
I was.
Yeah, exactly.
In the heart of that.
Wow.
Let me let me say I got here
in Iran on.
It was on December 20, if I'm not
26, if I'm not mistaken.
For 10 days, I was in Tehran.
And I saw what was happening in the
mainstream media and basically somehow in the alternative
media, the coverage of what is happening, what
is happening in Iran, what is happening right
now in Iran is somehow exaggerated as though
that all these protesters on the street, you
know, coming out and they want to do
regime change and all of that.
It's nonsense.
OK.
Nima.
Wow.
You're not there.
Wow.
That's amazing.
Wow.
That's so good.
I just found that to be hilarious.
That is good.
Yeah.
Great podcast.
It's a podcast industrial empire.
Sounds like our episode number one through 10
on Skype back in the day.
And by the way, if they cut off
the Internet, what's this guy was Nimrod guy
doing broadcast?
How's he getting his?
How's he getting it out?
Yeah.
All right.
So here's the PBS report, which it does
discuss it.
And I think it would then they had
good, good visuals.
And so I was kind of surprised.
And tonight's other headlines.
Tensions are escalating in Iran as protests near
a second week.
Today, Iran's attorney general warned that protesters could
face the death penalty.
President Trump has warned of retribution if peaceful
protesters are met with violence.
Despite efforts to clamp down on dissent, demonstrations
have grown fueled by anger with the hard
line ruling regime and the worsening economy.
Human rights watchers say at least 72 people
have been killed and more than 2000 detained
since the protests began.
Wow.
Just a top line surface report from PBS.
Not much else.
But at least it's something.
Here's what the president said.
Iran's in big trouble.
It looks to me that the people are
taking over certain cities that nobody thought were
really possible just a few weeks ago.
We're watching the situation very carefully.
I've made the statement very strongly that if
they start killing people like they have in
the past, we will get involved.
We'll be hitting them very hard where it
hurts.
And that doesn't mean boots on the ground,
but it means hitting them very, very hard
where it hurts.
Now, where does it hurt?
Very, very hard for Iran.
The only sanctions, I guess.
It can be the oil.
That's the only thing they've got, you know.
And by the way, I don't know what
he's going to do.
All of this oil and Iran and Venezuela
and Hezbollah.
From what I understand, Hezbollah is one of
the biggest drug networks.
It's all intertwined.
It's all related.
Probably the only people not involved in drugs
are Russia.
I wonder, can you get good drugs in
Russia?
Does anybody know?
There was an interesting comment.
I was watching you guys do analysis of
the cocaine trafficking.
No, it's the guy.
He was the guy who was interviewed by
what show was this?
The guy who's the head of Columbia.
Petro.
Yes.
He did a long interview.
I couldn't clip it because it was all
in subtitles.
I have the summary.
Go play the summary and I'll tell you
what I heard.
No, it's a written summary.
I have a written summary that someone sent
me.
Well, a couple of things came up in
the conversation.
One, he said that the Venezuelans had already.
He says those boats that were going to
that they were blowing up.
He says he didn't like the idea.
He says that none of that stuff was
going to the United States.
He says the Venezuelans long since stop shipping
anything to the United States because they put
a clamp as an agreement.
So the cocaine use in the United States
is down.
He says, but he says is way up
in Europe, in Europe and Australia.
Yeah.
Europe is so cheap.
It's the market has just been flooded with
cocaine.
And he says, and even in Russia, they're
starting to use it now.
But he said, but Europe was the thing
which follows exactly what we've been saying on
this show, which they're blowing up these boats
to screw with Europe.
Yeah, but I guess they're still getting so
much of it.
Doesn't make no one's noticing.
Well, but but no, no, the it's we're
screwing with Europe because the prices dropped.
The kids were here and I asked them
about it.
You know, I won't say that they're cocaine
users, but they're young.
They live in Europe.
Oh, no, it's so much.
It's it's you know, you can it's a
dime bag is a dime bag.
Literally a dime is so cheap.
So I got a summary.
So wait, let's stop there for a second.
What does this mean?
If you have the whole continent coked up?
Well, there's no first of all, less money
is flowing to the to the the city
of London, North Sea Nexus drug money networks,
less money because there's just too much of
it in the EU.
And yeah, if you know what, everybody needs
to be coked up in Europe.
And I'll tell you why.
I have a report.
Hold on.
This is a.
Where is it?
A report from a Dutch guy.
Hold on a second.
What did I file that under?
I got it here somewhere.
This was doing the rounds here.
Dutch guy explaining the housing problem in the
Netherlands.
This is how the grey replacement is taking
shape in the Netherlands.
If you're white and you can't find a
house in Holland, I have a life hack
for you.
Just learn a bit of Arabic and go
to the next municipality next door.
A Dutch newspaper brought the following story.
Thousands and thousands of Dutch people would figuratively
kill to get this apartment.
It's a beautiful studio in the center of
Amsterdam, one of the most coveted areas in
all of Europe.
But this Syrian man doesn't really bat an
eye.
He got this house from the government, but
he doesn't even live there because his wife
also got a house from the government and
he chooses to live there instead, while renting
out the studio at the same time.
The Syrian gentleman pays €700 of rent each
month for a studio in the very center
of Amsterdam.
But he then goes out into the public
markets and rents the studio out to other
people for more than double, more than €1500
a month.
But that's not even the worst story yet.
This Syrian man in Rotterdam got a very
big three-bedroom apartment, of course, from the
government.
He's 20 years old and he lives alone
in the apartment.
So one might think, why does a 20
-year-old Syrian man need a three-bedroom
apartment in Rotterdam?
What's he going to use the three bedrooms
for?
Well, the government said the Syrian man had
the right to three bedrooms because there was
an outlook for reuniting with his family.
The newspaper then asked the Syrian man if
he had a family, and he answered he
doesn't even have a girlfriend, no wife, and
no kids.
And apart from the apartment, he also gets
government benefit checks every month because he's not
declared okay to work yet.
However, he tells the newspaper that he does
work on the black market for cash.
Besides, he rents out the other two rooms
to other migrants for over €1000 per room
per month.
And all of the meantime, the Dutch First
Channel brings a news story that more and
more Dutch people, over 30, are living with
their parents amidst the housing crisis.
The story says that Dutch people wait with
getting children because they simply don't have a
house for themselves yet.
At the same time, the Syrian migrants get
free houses because their wife might come, but
they don't even have a wife.
It's complete madness, and this is a clear
example of how the Great Replacement is government
policy in Europe.
It's not an accident.
It's not because the people are stupid.
It's on purpose.
Yeah, and so this is why you do
a lot of coke.
Like, life's not worth living here anymore.
The government is corrupt.
They give everything to migrants, and you can't
get a house.
So, hey, look at this cheap snow over
here.
I think I'll make myself feel better.
That would be the way it works in
my mind.
And at the same time, it's screwing over
the drug money networks.
But listen to this.
So, as we played on the last show,
we had a boots-on-the-ground report
from some other network, I can't remember, someone
who was there.
So, President Trump talked with Petro of Colombia.
And here's the rundown as I've received it.
It lasted 42 minutes, and apparently, the Colombian
president agreed to eight points, an eight-point
plan.
One, implement bombings against FARC and ELN dissidents.
So FARC is the...
That's the big drug boys.
This is my favorite.
Start...
They're revolutionaries.
Yes.
Start fumigation with glyphosate on the crops.
That's a great idea.
I never even considered that.
Well, he pushes back on that one.
Oh, okay.
Lift the suspension of extradition of drug lords.
Guarantee free, transparent, and secure elections for the
opposition.
Okay.
Collaborate in the restoration of Venezuela.
They are bordering countries.
Strengthen security on the Colombia-Venezuela border to
combat groups like the ELN when they attempt
to cross the border, fleeing the new order
imposed by the United States.
Stop persecuting the opposition.
Okay, boss, we promise.
And peacefully and quietly abandon the Casa de
Nariño on August of 20...
What is Casa de Nariño?
I don't know.
Let me find out what that is.
On August 6, 2026.
Is that the government house?
What is that?
I have no idea.
Yes, the official residence of the president of
Colombia.
So there's definitely stuff afoot.
There's definitely stuff happening.
And we're not being told.
No, of course not.
Well, nobody in our media will do any
work because they're too busy harping on a
woman in Minnesota, as opposed to the dead
kids in Chicago and Oakland.
What is the Chicago kill list at?
Chicago.
No, Shot Clock, I think it's called.
Shot Clock.
I think it's the Shot Clock, yeah.
Yeah, heyjackass.com.
Let's take a look.
Oh, it's better than I thought.
Um, January to date, shot and killed, eight.
Shot and wounded, 40.
Total shot, 48.
Total homicides, 10.
So it's better than I thought.
Let's see, what was the 20...
Total homicides includes knifings.
Yeah, yeah.
And other...
Knifings, knifings.
Knifings, yes.
Yes, let me...
2025, Chicago.
Here's the list.
433 people killed, 1,592 wounded.
How you doing, Darren?
You enjoying that Chiraq there?
I do have...
I do...
So this is the whole dimension A, dimension
B.
And it's crazy to hear all these people
talking about, well, she had a...
Whenever someone starts with, well, you can clearly
see by the wheels turned that way.
It's like, okay, you're just trying to make
something go your way by a little piece
of video.
And there's all kinds of different angles.
And it is just...
We love over-analyzing.
It's like Charlie Kirk.
It was the exploding microphone.
It could never have been a 30-odd
-six.
There's no blood.
There is blood.
It's only out of the...
Over and over and over and over.
It's why you wear a white T-shirt.
So there's a couple different angles here.
Actually, I'd like to start with the fraud,
because that, of course, is now kind of
being downplayed or is just not making much
noise as it should.
And there was a hearing in the House.
This is Minnesota Representative Robbins talking about the
way fraud was handled in Minnesota.
Representative Robbins, do you have any examples of
how the Walz administration blocked investigators from moving
forward high-priority fraud investigations?
Yes, we do, Mr. Chairman.
I've met with whistleblowers and gotten documents from
them about how after the original CCAP whistleblower
report came out in March and April of
2019, subsequent to that, there was an Office
of Inspector General within DHS that had investigative
authority to do surveillance, warrants, and seize electronics.
And they were shut down.
They were told they could no longer do
criminal investigations.
They were told they could no longer meet
with the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension agents that
were assigned to them without supervisor's approval.
And instead, when they found...
One of the other members talked about how
they changed the language.
They went from calling it fraud to calling
it overbilling.
And they created an overbilling committee to all
the investigative agents now couldn't do criminal investigations,
and they had to flag issues for billing.
And then a committee would decide if any
of that overbilling would be recouped.
Committee appointed by Waltz?
No, appointed within DHS.
Oh, appointed by their own bureaucracy.
Yes, so they shut down criminal investigations.
They created a committee to call it overbilling
and decide if overbilling investigations would even try
to...
This is fantastic.
That's the way you do it.
It's not fraud, it's overbilling.
So Scott Besant, our Treasury Secretary, comes onto
the scene, and he did an interview with
the Rufo Show.
I think it's Rufo and something.
Rufo, it's on The Blaze.
Sat down for a half-hour interview, and
he laid it out very clearly, and he's
not messing around.
So Chris, first, thanks for having me, and
thanks for breaking the story, because it's clearly
something that's been going on and suppressed for
so long.
And you could see that the people in
Minnesota have been carrying this burden, and they
almost seem...
Say what?
Chris Rufo.
Chris Rufo, yeah.
...believed. But what we've found, two things.
Really, three.
One, this, as you reported, this waste, fraud,
and abuse in the system, bigger than anyone
thought, and we'll see where that goes.
Two, the leakage, and how does this get
out of the country?
Either if you were on public assistance and
you were sending money out of the country,
one of two things must be true.
You were getting too much assistance because you
have excess funds to feed yourself, your family,
food, clothing.
Or you've got stolen money, and you're sending
that out.
But in either case, money needs to stay
in the U.S., or your benefits need
to be cut.
Three, how can we use the investigations in
Minnesota as a model for what's happened and
push it out to the other 49 states?
Because Minnesota is likely the most egregious.
Maybe not.
We'll see.
I have an open mind.
But the scale, just because of the population
sizes, California, Illinois, New York, that what's going
on here is a microcosm of what's going
on there.
And it's like someone on the panel said
today, benefits have been turned into businesses.
It is a cottage industry of teaching people
how to form multiple LLCs, how to game
the system, how to move money around.
And we'll see where the money goes.
I'm here because what Treasury does is follow
the money.
We follow the money.
And we have done it with the mafia,
where we were able to take them down,
Mexican drug cartels, and now these Somali fraudsters.
And we can always do it.
We'll see what kind of recoveries we can
get for the American people.
Yeah, I like it.
Sounds like he does make mean business.
I like it.
I like he's talking about the multiple LLCs.
They know exactly how this is being done.
501c3s are going after that.
They're going after all these financial networks.
You know, you always complain about Congress not
doing anything.
They're not.
They're full of crap.
It's all their moments there.
And I think that.
Yeah, the clip you played earlier is with
Comer.
Yeah.
My favorite.
Well, let's go to Margaret.
Also, by the way, before you do that,
I want to mention something that Besson did.
And I'm noticing this.
It's a rhetorical trick.
You might start picking up on it where
you say the following.
The trick goes like this.
Yeah.
And there's two things I want to talk
about.
I mean, maybe three.
He only mentioned two.
Yeah, he only mentioned two.
But they're always doing this.
I got two things to tell you.
Actually, three.
But at least.
Where is this?
And I'm hearing it over and over and
over.
Well, at least it's Milieu.
At least he didn't do.
I got two things to tell you.
One and B, like Biden did.
Right.
At least he's not doing that.
Biden, yeah.
One and B.
So the representative Ilhan Omar is out on
the trail to, of course, play all of
this down.
And she showed up this morning with Margaret
Brennan.
Well, the administration argues that they have to
do it because the state failed to, right?
The federal government and the state have been
working peacefully together.
And have brought justice.
I love how she talks.
To these 87 people that you've described.
None of this search that they have.
What?
What did you call it?
She swallows your words.
Conducted, has produced any sort of criminal activity.
They haven't been able to charge anyone as
of yet.
The administration also announced they're going to cut
food stamps to Minnesota because they say some
of the food stamp money had been in
Bezalel.
Are you confident that that- And those
are the things that are being litigated.
And it is, again, unconstitutional for them to
do so.
Is it unconstitutional?
How's it unconstitutional?
What are you talking about?
Food stamps are in the Constitution.
Unconstitutional for them to do so.
Is it, are you confident that the fraud
that has been discovered is no longer being
conducted?
Oh, that's a good point.
The troll, I'm saying she has a little
bit of a Christopher Walken type cadence.
That's, that's actually a- Yeah, maybe, I
can see it.
A little bit, a little bit.
You're confident that the fraud that has been
discovered- What are you going to do
about it?
Is no longer being conducted now.
Is there any justification for saying this food
stamp money is somehow being misused?
There are ways to investigate fraud, which we
have been doing in Minnesota, which the federal
government has been doing under the Biden administration.
There is no reason for them to use
this level of rhetoric.
There is no reason for them to fully
stop.
Who cares about rhetoric?
But what do you, rhetoric is just words,
lady.
These, the funding these programs, the only reason
they are doing that is for PR purposes.
And it is harming our state.
It is harming my constituents.
And it is creating the kind of chaos
and confusion that no one needs in this
moment.
Why doesn't the DOJ just go after the
whole brother story?
That's the strongest position they've got.
Well, the Congress, there was a, there was
a meeting of the Oversight Committee.
It was on C-SPAN.
By the way, your YouTube TV now has,
you notice this too.
Yeah, yeah, they have C-SPAN.
C-SPAN 1, C-SPAN 2, and the
rare C-SPAN 3.
Probably save C-SPAN's butt because that was
paid by cable companies and they, they don't
want to pay for it anymore.
So it's probably a cash infusion for C
-SPAN from Google.
That would be my guess.
So yeah.
Anyway, so they have, so I'm watching the,
just you turn it on.
Do you, I mean, it's like watching a
slow train wreck.
You can't really turn it off.
So you're stuck there watching.
And I'm watching Nancy Mace.
Great.
Nancy, is that her name?
Is it Nancy?
I don't think it's Nancy Mace.
I don't think it's Nancy, but she is
now.
Nancy Mace.
Mace and Luna are both on this committee
with, and it's headed by Comer.
So we know this is kind of a,
the oversight committee.
So they're, and this was one of the
subcommittees.
And they're going after, they're making a big
fuss, but they passed it off.
No, no, no, we just got to go
to the ethics committee.
We can't do it here.
They're passing off the guy, the one congressman
who's beating his wife and they want to
investigate that.
And then Omar and Mace is the one
who says, hey, you know, this has got
to be investigated.
She married her brothers.
She should probably be deported.
Yeah, but that's the department of justice.
Who cares?
Congress should just be doing what they're supposed
to do.
What they're doing is- Somebody should do
something about this, about this fraud that she
committed to become an American citizen.
Let's go on to the real fake news,
according to Elon, is that Nick Shirley was
all fake, was all fake, fake.
Because the administration and many conservative allies in
the administration argue that, that this is still
ongoing.
There was that conservative influencer who went out
and posted this video that went viral alleging
that daycare- How do they come up
with, just as a point of question, is
Nick Shirley a conservative?
I mean, is he wearing a MAGA hat?
Is he a registered Republican?
I mean, what- Not that I know
of.
He seemed just like a kid.
With an older handler dude named Dave, who
is not- He's a YouTuber.
Well, we don't know where Dave came from,
but- Dave could be a conservative.
Dave could be a plant.
They never- He could be CIA for
all we know.
Yes, yes.
It's a conservative influencer who went out and
posted this video that went viral, alleging that
daycare facilities were pocketing public funds.
And as you know, he went- Hours
where- What was that?
I couldn't, I didn't hear it.
Laugh Tale.
You listen to her.
Pocketing public funds.
Yeah, and as you know, he went-
That's a bad laugh tale.
Facilities were pocketing public funds.
And as you know, he went- Hours
where these businesses were not operating.
Yeah, CBS went out and- Which again
creates the level of confusion and chaos.
Oh, so CBS now says it's fake, okay.
That it's not necessary in a moment when
we are trying to deal with a serious
problem that needs serious people to be able
to address it.
But do you think, there was no recorded
evidence of fraud according to the CBS investigation
that was conducted, but- Really?
What?
I didn't, I mean, I saw a whole,
that, I didn't, did CBS conclude that?
That's news to me, all right.
But do you think there was no recorded
evidence of fraud according to the CBS investigation
- No recorded.
But Governor Walz did not run for reelection,
he dropped out of the race because of
all of that.
Because he wants to focus on defending our
state.
He wants to focus on getting out of
Dodge.
Focus on defending our state and not defending
a seat.
Do you think there has been a sufficient
level of accountability and ownership of the failure
to have oversight here?
Do you think this ends?
I mean, that is what we want.
So it is again, yep.
We want to collaboratively work with the administration
to try to make sure that there is
no fraud that's being perpetuated on our state.
What we do not want- I love
that, fraud perpetuated on our state.
No, it is your state.
Fraud that's being perpetuated on our state.
In our state.
What we do not want is the level
of terror, of confusion, of chaos that is
being created without any results in this moment.
All right.
Well, she makes a good point about no
results.
Yeah, that's true.
Well, here's the ethics committee thing that you
just brought up.
Very quickly before I let you go.
Because it's not that important.
Ethics committee is not important.
Very quickly before I let you go.
The chair oversight committee said that he wants
to refer you to the ethics committee.
I've been referred like 100 times.
So go ahead.
At your husband's income and net worth.
He said it was tied to private equity
investment funds.
But he seems to be insinuating that you
personally are tied into this welfare scam.
How do you respond to that?
Ever since I've gotten to Congress, they have
been doing these sort of weird ethics investigations.
None of them have yielded anything because I
have been as transparent as I can be.
And there is nothing wrong with any documentation
that I have ever provided to the federal
government.
OK, well, there she goes.
She's as transparent as she can be.
So now we go.
Because I do have some clips of this
stuff.
To the mayor of Minneapolis, who, of course,
showed up on Pooper Show, State of the
Union this morning as well.
We have all the Sunday morning shows.
Thank you very much, Steve.
Welcome back to State of the Union.
Joining us now to respond, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob
Fry and Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hare.
Mayor Fry, your response to what you just
heard from Secretary Noem?
She invoked you.
I have those clips later if we want
to listen to them.
You by name.
That was some wild and crazy stuff, you
know, sounds like she does.
Does he have an arrow in it through
his head when he said that?
Listen to what he says now, though.
It's good.
That was some wild and crazy stuff, you
know, it sounds like she doesn't believe a
single word that she is saying right now.
And I don't know if Donald Trump was
drinking a glass of water, if she'd actually
be able to speak, because here's the thing.
Oh, cute.
He's a ventriloquist now.
I don't know if Donald Trump was drinking
a glass of water, she'd actually be able
to speak, because here's the thing.
She's calling Minneapolis like this dystopian hellhole.
You know how many shootings we've had so
far this year?
Two.
And one of them was ICE.
Two shootings in a large city so far
this entire year.
And one of them is ICE.
This is a safe city.
ICE and Kristi Noem and everything they're doing
is making it far less safe.
Well, listen, you've had two shootings where a
week and a half in, you know, don't
make it sound like it was a whole
year.
You know, it's like...
Yeah, that's a good way he did.
He did that well.
He does it very well.
And by the way, during this time of
year when it's frozen solid outside, very few,
you know, there's not a lot of...
There's not a lot of killing going on.
People don't want to kill when it's cold.
It's too much work.
Here comes the Dimension B Zapruder analysis.
I want you to respond to what she
said about you telling ICE to get the
F out.
She says you and the leaders of Minneapolis
have been demonizing ICE officers.
And it is true that you've been critical
of Secretary Noem for her quick characterization of
the incident.
But you also said on Wednesday, quote, this
was a federal agent recklessly using power that
resulted in somebody dying.
Does your rhetoric need to change?
Yeah, yeah.
I said this was a federal agent recklessly
using power that ended up in somebody dying
because that was a federal agent recklessly using
power that ended up in somebody dying.
It's exactly what happened.
I mean, am I biased in this?
Of course, and I'm biased because I got
two eyes.
Anybody can see these videos.
Anybody can see that this victim is not
a domestic terrorist.
I mean, my goodness, she's like doing a
three or a four or five point turn.
This looks like somebody that's trying to get
out of there.
If doing a three point turn or a
four point turn is a domestic terrorist.
Make up your mind.
My wife is a criminal every single day.
Where's this three point turn thing anyway?
It's a four point turn.
Well, where's the, what turn?
She's just taken off like a rocket.
Yeah, but this is the dementia, dementia B.
Domestic terrorist.
I mean, my goodness, she's like doing a
three or a four or five point turn.
This looks like somebody that's trying to get
out of there.
If doing a three point turn or a
four point turn is a domestic terrorist.
And my, my wife is a criminal every
single day.
This, it does not make sense.
We've got to be operating from a point
of course, have this investigation.
It should be a neutral, unbiased investigation where
you get the facts, you know, and by
the way, I shouldn't be the one conducting
the investigation, nor should Christie know.
Uh, but you should have an entity that
is able to do it with some common
sense and operating in reality.
What he's referring, I'm sorry.
The FBI is doing the investigation, not Christie
Gnome.
No, but he's, this guy is, he's nuts.
Um, let's go to, I'm going to go
back in time.
Well, there's a lot of evidence that he
was involved in that.
I think it was a law firm that,
that, that was training these people to do
the fraud.
He may be a fraudster.
Hmm.
Interesting.
I didn't know that that's possible.
It seems like there were 280 people shot
in 2025 in Minneapolis, which doesn't seem like
a small number.
Um, let's go back to Christie Gnome because
he's referring to something that we brought up
in the last episode, which is about the
definition of domestic terrorists.
You said within hours of her being killed,
you said that she was a domestic terrorist.
How do you define domestic terrorist?
She weaponized her vehicle to conduct an act
of violence against a law enforcement officer and
the public.
How are you doing that?
How can you assert with certainty that she
was trying to hurt the officer as opposed
to she was trying to flee the scene?
If you look at what the definition of
domestic terrorism is, it completely fits the situation
on the ground.
This.
Okay.
So I looked it up and figured that
would be worth it because we talked about
it.
The definition is one of the few shows
that actually does the work.
Yes.
18 U.S. Code 2331 brackets five.
In order to be classified as domestic terrorism,
an act must meet all three of the
following conditions.
OK, so count.
OK, OK, OK.
The act itself, the act itself must involve
acts dangerous to human life.
And must check and must be a violation
of the criminal laws of the United States
or of any individual state.
I think we get a check on that
because you're absolutely you're hampering the work of
a federal agent.
The location.
This is the second criteria must occur primarily
within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States.
OK, I think that's easy enough.
And here comes the intent.
The acts must appear to be intended to
accomplish at least one of the following multiple
choice hands.
Now we have another group of hands.
There's only three, but now we get three
with sub.
No, no.
Well, it's three with sub.
Yes, subcategory acts, the location and the intent.
Hands on buzzers.
Candidates.
Here we go.
Intimidate or coerce a civilian population.
I don't don't.
I don't think it qualifies.
I'm not catching that.
I'm not getting that either.
Influence the policy of a government by intimidation
or coercion.
I think there's that.
I think you could check that box.
I think it's quest tracking these guys.
She was blocking their work.
She was intimidating the officers.
No, no, no.
We had we already had intimidate or coerce
a civilian population.
Influence the policy of a government.
I don't think it checks those boxes, but
the third box affect the conduct of governments
by mass destruction, assassination or kidnapping.
I think all three are kind of iffy.
But affecting the conduct of the government mass
destruction.
But is it have to match all three?
No, one of one of one of those.
One of those is actually four.
So now there you go again.
You just did what the rhetorical.
No, it was three.
But now there's no.
It's three criteria.
And of each criterion, it has to be
one of those.
So it's subcategories.
So it has to be one of the
subcategories.
Yes, it has to.
It has to be all three of the
main categories and one of the subcategories.
And the intent, I think, is the one
that is questionable.
Acts must appear to be intended to accomplish
at least one of the.
Oh, it's actually three.
I'm sorry.
Intimidate or coerce.
I know.
Intimidate or coerce a civilian population.
No.
Influence the policy of a government by intimidation
or coercion.
Yes, I think I think you're right.
She was trying to influence the policy of
the government, i.e. rounding up illegals by
intimidation.
And I think intimidation is there.
And then affect the conduct of a government
by mass destruction, assassination or kidnapping.
I don't think it's that now.
No, it was number two.
Number two.
That's right.
You go, you're moving on to the next
round.
There is, of course, no specific federal crime
called domestic terrorism.
So you can only prosecute for murder, arson,
weapons offenses, etc.
And it is indeed the Federal Bureau of
Investigation whose jurisdiction this falls under.
So I think I think they can make
a case.
Unless you believe in the three point turn
theory.
If you look at what the definition of
domestic terrorism is, it completely fits the situation
on the ground.
This individual, as you saw in the video
that we released just 48 hours after this
incident, showed that this officer was hit by
her vehicle.
She weaponized it and he defended his life
and those colleagues around him and the public.
The question is, I don't doubt.
My position is I wasn't there.
I didn't see it.
Who's this?
Some people.
Jake Tapper?
Yes, attacker, attacker, tapper, not pooper.
So what is he?
He says, what is he?
He's not interviewing her anymore.
He's part of it.
What kind of a question was that?
Let's do it again.
And he defended his life and those colleagues
around him and the public.
The question is, I don't doubt.
My position is I wasn't your position.
I didn't see crap about your position.
Some people say it was trying to hit
him.
Stop the presses here.
You can't do that.
My position is this a political debate?
This is your position?
It's his position.
I'm telling you.
How is it?
Why does he have a position?
He's supposed to be reporting.
He's doing an interview of somebody.
But now he has a position.
So he's this is a partisan interview.
A gambling?
Come on, CNN.
Yes, that's the worst.
They got to get the Ellison's have got
to take this operation over sooner than later.
Let's continue.
Some people say, no, she was clearly trying
to move her car and flee and get
away.
I don't know.
What I'm saying is, how do you know?
How can you assert for a fact within
hours before any investigation?
This is what happened.
The facts of the situation are that the
vehicle was weaponized and it attacked the law
enforcement officer.
He defended himself and he defended those individuals
around him.
That is the definition.
When there is something that is weaponized to
use against the public and law enforcement, that
is an act of domestic terrorism happened in
our in our shores.
It happened here in our country.
You don't get to change the facts just
because you don't like them.
We will continue to look at this individual
and what her motivations were.
We know that there was throughout that morning
she had harassed and impeded law enforcement operations
that raises the suspicion level with all of
these law enforcement officers as far as paying
attention to what her capacity is.
And as you see on the videos, and
they've proven out that this law enforcement officer
took the action that his training prepared him
for and he worked to make sure that
he could save his own life and those
around him.
Now, let's just look at the true culprits
here because these are it's first the whole
the whole thing is sad.
It's sad all around.
But these are people who've been mind controlled
by their elected representatives.
This is the Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota, Lieutenant
Governor Flanagan.
If you are sick and tired of...
Wait a minute, Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota, that
was Ellison.
Keith Ellison.
No.
I'm sorry, not the Lieutenant.
She is...
Wait, I have it here.
Where was she?
She's the like the under governor or something
like that.
She's the Lieutenant Governor.
OK, Keith Ellison is the Attorney General.
Yes.
OK, there we go.
We're sorry.
All your points are wiped off the board
now.
Everything you got right about domestic terrorism, you
lose those points.
OK, I can start over and still beat
you.
Going to the culprit, the type of people...
Yes, this woman.
This is the clip.
This clip was before our last show.
This is when I brought it up about
them inciting.
Yes.
This woman is disgusting.
If you are sick and tired of your
government being ransacked by Donald Trump and his
minions, literally taking away health care from your
neighbors, stealing food off of the table from
seniors and children and generally being uncool with
the fact that our neighbors are being disappeared.
P.S. Without due process, it is just
called kidnapping.
Then show up and use your voice.
Put your body on the line and use
nonviolent direct action, which is one of the
most important tools in our toolbox to say
I am not OK.
I will not go silently into the night.
I will join arms with my friends, with
my neighbors and with people who generally believe
that folks should be able to afford their
lives, should be treated with dignity and as
human beings.
The key phrase there is put your body
on the line.
Yeah, that's what she said.
What kind of governance is this where you're
encouraging?
What kind of government do you have in
Minnesota where you're encouraging people to go out
and riot?
The only kind I can imagine is one
that is thoroughly corrupt all the way through
and she must be corrupt as well.
Why else would you do that?
Unless you're afraid that the gig is up.
By the way, there's a great mini series.
I think it's on Netflix.
It's called Struck by Lightning.
It's like three or four episodes about James
Garfield, who was elected president almost kind of
as a fluke.
And he was assassinated three months into his
presidency.
That shows you, and that was 1948?
1848.
1848, I think.
The corruption, because that's what it all, the
corruption of New York and the Port Authority
and just all of these, everybody, all corrupt,
all drunk, all womanizing.
And you just sit there and you watch
it go like, it's only gotten worse.
It's just they covered up better.
They do a better job of covering it
up.
That's the idea.
You learn something.
It's a great series.
Tina and I were just like, holy crap,
no wonder we're in such dire straits.
Anyway, we'll go back to...
The country's always been this way.
Yes, well, all countries are.
I mean, yes, all countries are.
We just have prettier politicians generally these days.
So back to our Ice Barbie and Jake
Tapper, and he's going to do something, a
nice little trick they do over there at
CNN.
I know that you'd like to make me
the topic of this and not what happened,
but I did ask a Democratic senator just
a few minutes ago about AOC's comments, and
I don't actually even know what you're talking
about when I ask questions.
Hold on, maybe we should play that first.
Hold on a second.
Yeah, I'm not following this at all.
The officer appeared to have fired three shots,
the first one through the front windshield, the
second and third through the side window.
What is the justification for the second and
third, given that the officer was out of
harm's way?
You're watching the same videos that I am,
correct?
Yeah.
Yeah, you're watching the same one, so you
see how quickly the situation unfolded, how the
officer was in front of the vehicle when
she sped off, how she ran into him,
and how he had to take quick action
based on his training to defend himself and
his colleagues around him.
Once he's out of harm's way.
That's very clear and factual from the videos
that you can see.
It's nobody's interpretation.
We don't get to change it because we
can see it with our eyes and we
can build on the evidence that we have
on the ground.
You see how everyone is saying we can
see it with our eyes.
I have eyes.
I can see it.
I saw it with my eyes.
I saw something different.
I mean, what color is the dress?
The question is why- doesn't fit somebody
and what they're trying to do to continue
to defraud people in their city and in
their state, continue to take advantage of individuals
and to allow criminals- I don't know
what you're talking about.
That's what Mayor Frye and that's what Mayor,
Governor Walz are doing every day by diverting
the attention and trying to attack a law
enforcement officer.
They're allowing the criminals to go by without
examination.
Are you saying that the second and third
shots, because you just said it happened very
quickly.
Are you saying- I didn't say anything
at all.
I said, watch the videos.
And watch how quickly this unfolded and know
that law enforcement officers every day in this
country are in difficult situations where they have
to make split second decisions to protect themselves,
the public and their colleagues and that they
have to rely on their training.
That's exactly what this officer did and I
know that the left and I know the
crazy activists in this country that are trying
to undermine our way of life will attack
and try to destroy a law enforcement officer.
I'm asking a question.
It's just unacceptable and we're not going to
let that happen.
I'm asking a question is when he's out
of harm's way, what is the reason for
the second and third shot through the window
when he is out, he's not in the
line of sight of the car?
This investigation will continue to unfold and more
and more information will come forward.
She's no good at this point.
What I would appreciate is everybody's- I
know exactly what she should have said.
She should have said he already hit her
with the car.
He had no idea if she was going
to back up and run him over.
She had- he- as far as
- he didn't have that much time to
think about it because it had been dead.
Well, could she have backed up?
She already hit him.
How much would it take for her to
back up and run him over?
He didn't have any time to think about
this.
It was not worth taking a chance.
Can you tell me, Jake, can she-
could you tell me could she not have
run him over?
No, because she was a poet.
Poets don't do that.
So I don't know what the AOC refer
- the reference is, but he's going to
call a- call an equivalency here.
And there really isn't an answer other than
you saw the video.
I want you to ask- I want
to ask a question about the rules of
how law enforcement is allowed to engage when
feeling threatened, per your assertions.
And by the way, he's going to yip
her on this one.
She has no answer for it.
Because I want to show some video to
you right now and ask, what is the
appropriate response for the police officers in this
situation?
Do you know what he's showing?
No, probably the pepper spring or- Those
are law enforcement officers being physically attacked.
By this standard, would any of those officers
be justified in shooting and killing the people
causing them physical harm?
Every single situation is going to rely on
the situation those officers are on.
That they know that when people are putting
hands on them, when they are using weapons
against them, when they are physically harming them,
that they have the authority to arrest those
individuals.
The president pardoned every single one of those
people.
And make sure that they're getting justice for
their actions going forward.
President Trump pardoned every single one of those
people.
And every single one of these investigations comes
in the full context of the situation on
the ground.
She's very combative.
Yes, she, yeah, I agree.
And she's not doing it well, but-
No.
I mean, there's other ways.
She should have just thrown the Ashley Babbitt
thing right at him.
That would have been good.
Yeah, that could have been good.
So, well, there was one police officer that
just shot an innocent woman who wasn't unarmed,
who wasn't hitting him.
Shot him dead.
And he didn't get prosecuted, did he?
Did he, Jake?
Say her name, Jake.
Say her name.
So he could have done, she could have
done that.
She could have pulled the Ashley Babbitt card.
Could have, yes.
She could have also said, and if she
was really a, if she was a J
.D. Vance or somebody who was quick on
her feet, she would have said the following.
Well, those cops knew that those were FBI
agency, FBI guys beating them up.
So they knew it was a wink, wink,
nudge, nudge.
They weren't going to shoot them.
You know what?
You are now the new Kristi Noem.
I hereby nominate you as a director of
the DHS.
It doesn't take a genius to have these
answers.
You would look good in the cowboy hat
and the camo.
You'd be great.
Listen, Jake.
Yeah, just the dresses don't work.
Listen, Jake.
We saw you at the birthday party of
the assistant director of CIA.
We know, we know what you're up to.
We know whose team you're playing on.
So we had to go to France 24
to get some of this information.
Well, there's a coalition of organizations and rights
groups that are organizing these demonstrations.
The biggest one, the ACLU, which most of
our viewers will know, they're the main driving
force behind it.
But they have called for an entire weekend
of process, a process across the country.
Around 1,000 of them are so expected.
There was one here in D.C., just
down by the White House there a little
earlier that we were at.
But the big one here that we are
expecting is going to be taking place on
Sunday when protesters will be gathering near the
National Mall before walking down towards the headquarters
of ICE, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
That's part of the Department of Homeland Security.
But the biggest one by far that we've
seen on Saturday is in Minneapolis, where that
shooting of Rene Goods took place just a
few days ago.
There have been hundreds of protesters gathering in
a central park there before then moving on
and marching through the streets so long past
the site of where Rene was fatally shot
just a couple of days ago.
People chanting her name, shouting justice for Rene.
And there's also a vigil being held there
with a significant amount of flowers and candles
being placed at the site where she was
fatally shot.
So they for now have been mostly peaceful.
There have been a couple of pepper balls
fired towards protesters.
That mainly though outside of an ICE detention
facility inside of Minneapolis, which has really become
a flashpoint of these demonstrations.
That is where these officers come face to
face with the protesters who are protesting their
stay in Minneapolis.
The ACLU, man.
What happened to them?
I remember when I used to...
They were taken over by the communists.
I used to donate to them and I
think it was when President Trump put the,
in hindsight, very smart travel restrictions on coming
into the United States during COVID, which immediately
was called a Muslim ban.
I hate Muslims.
And that was the ACLU.
And then they called me and said, hey,
how come you haven't donated?
I said, well, are you supposed to organize
protests?
Is that your charter?
Well, we have to.
It's important.
You remember that call?
Yeah.
It was during the era of the show.
You talked about it.
I recorded the call.
You got all bent out of shape because
you used to give them a lot of
money, I guess.
A lot of money.
Well, for you.
It was my $10 a month.
For you, it was a lot of money.
Yes, it was.
And so you're giving them a lot of
money and they call and bitch and moan
that you're not giving them more $10 bills.
Yes.
And the next thing you know, you're complaining
about it on the show.
Of course, I remember that.
I thought this was very funny.
I guess I should really play the jingle,
but we'll play this.
You'll say theirs.
Here's my question.
Where is everybody?
Hold on.
Let me play the warning.
This woman.
Everybody needs to be warned before we play
these kinds of a clip from the view
will be played.
Shelter in place.
Let me just say this.
Here's my question.
Where is everybody?
Where is everybody else?
We come to everybody's aid.
Yeah, we help everybody.
Yeah, NATO.
They came and helped us after 9-11.
Where is everybody?
Because what did NATO do?
Just what did NATO do for us after
9-11?
Come and help us.
Come on, NATO.
Come on and help us.
They helped us do what?
Just listen to the clip.
They came and helped us after 9-11.
Where is everybody?
Because where are...
You're worrying about Greenland right now.
Well, I'm not on board for Greenland.
Where is the government?
We are...
Do you realize we don't have a government?
Oh, you mean...
We don't have...
...all their power away.
Yes, I know.
What are you bitching about?
This is a huge and should be our
biggest bitch right now.
It is.
Because all of this is happening because there
is no one doing checks and balances.
Where is the government?
Why aren't they doing their job?
And let me tell you, I feel like...
You know, he hinted yesterday.
Okay, so she basically feels that NATO should
come and help us.
They need to save us.
And I remember the French, we invented Freedom
Fries because the French didn't want to help
us right away.
They didn't help us right away.
So we got all bent out of shape
and call them Freedom Fries.
Yes, yes.
So, yeah, it seems...
But yeah, it's an obvious ploy.
And, you know, this would be another thing.
Oh, we can impeach him over this and
just keep moving along, doing all that.
It's also boring.
I mean, it is.
I do have my...
I do have a Minnesota clip.
Okay, let's do your...
The Minnesota public citizen woman.
This week, series of shootings by federal agents
enforcing President Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration has
sparked a weekend of protests.
There were rallies and demonstrations across the country.
They were organized after a woman was fatally
shot by an immigration and customs enforcement agent
in Minneapolis on Wednesday.
And a customs and border protection agent wounded
two people the next day in Portland, Oregon.
Lisa Gilbert is the co-president of Public
Citizen, a progressive advocacy group that helped organize
today's protests.
Lisa, what are you hearing from around the
country about turnout and whether or not there
have been any problems or troubles?
Well, turnout has been amazing.
We're holding 1,000 plus events, peaceful, lawful
vigils around the country in this astounding moment
where people are reacting to an atrocity.
It was organized in only 48 hours.
And so the massive numbers we're seeing, the
number of people turning out, telling their neighbors
to turn out, all of it just demonstrates
the real magnitude of the outrage that I
think people are feeling.
Yeah, the outrage, okay.
It's the outrage.
The thing is...
Yeah, like Brock.
The thing is we'll never...
These two dimensions will never see eye to
eye, ever.
I just don't see it.
How can we ever create cohesion?
These are the same generalizing liberal white women
who you clip on TikTok.
Yeah, it's the same people.
So how do we deal with them moving
forward?
You have to have a world war.
A world war?
Wouldn't a civil war be good enough?
We got to have a world war?
No, a civil war is impossible to do.
Well, what do we need a world...
How would a world war help?
That way it unites the country.
A civil war doesn't unite anything.
You want a world war, like everyone said,
they got a common enemy and everyone's got
to get it together because we're all going
to die.
And so you have to have a world
war.
And if that gets rid of the Zeds
who can't read, you put them in the
army, it solves a lot of problems.
I got a great anti-Zoomer note.
Hold on a second.
I think I got that one too.
Yes.
I think it's exaggerated a bit.
From Stefan?
I don't know if it was Stefan.
When you read it, I'll know.
Well, he said, my generation was born in
93, 97.
Yeah, this guy.
Studied under the French system and English system
through primary and high school.
So he says, you know, they taught us
how to touch type, build the database, use
Excel and PowerPoint and websites, understand key components.
It was based on my comment that there's
no more computer science class.
Right.
So he says, when we entered the workforce,
all the hiring managers were shocked at our
computer literacy and thought this had to be
the smartest generation ever.
A year ago, I caught up with some
of my friends over Discord.
Mm-hmm.
Sus.
Who are now...
Not that smart.
Who are now a middle management in tech
companies, i.e. head of operations, customer support.
And they were telling me funny stories about
the new generation, how illiterate they are in
computers.
Some with IT degrees.
And he gives some examples.
I believe that.
I believe this too.
They did not know what or how to
open a command line on Windows.
I mean, I think that's iffy if you
need to know that.
Yeah, it doesn't take much to figure it
out.
They did not...
CMD.
Apple...
Was it Windows key or CMD?
There's a lot of ways.
There's more ways.
There's more ways than one.
That's as many ways.
How to touch type.
Well, that...
I mean, typing skills.
Do they even do typing class anymore?
I don't know.
I don't think so.
How to use Excel or PowerPoint.
That seems like a big issue if you
don't understand the basics of a spreadsheet.
And they didn't know how to troubleshoot when
something went wrong with the computer, i.e.
control, alt, delete.
They couldn't get to the task manager.
Task manager and processes.
And if all else fails, restart the PC.
They just froze like a robot.
Yeah, I can believe that.
The other thing is, I mean, but this
generation that he's discussing, the one he's part
of, do they know the difference between random
access and non-volatile memory?
Well, they're not going to have to know
because you can't buy it anymore.
There's no more RAM.
We're out of RAM?
When did that happen?
Well, this is from CNBC.
This has been going on for a couple
of weeks now, these stories.
AI memory is sold out, causing an unprecedented
surge in prices.
Prices for computer memory or RAM, this is
CNBC, are expected to rise more than 50
% this quarter compared to the last quarter
of 2025.
Because all the AI companies are buying up
the RAM.
There's no more RAM.
And RAM was getting dirt cheap.
That's what was so great about it.
It was getting dirt cheap.
You could put in a huge cache of
RAM.
24 gigs.
And yeah, it's beautiful.
I don't know about that much.
Well, let's take a little sidestep here and
let us listen to a report of the
most recent CES, the Computer Electronics Show, which
you used to cover, I believe.
Didn't you used to cover that?
Or were you more calm?
I used to go all the time.
Yeah.
Even though it's a pain in the ass
because it's crowded, the hotel rooms are high
priced.
It's cold.
It's cold in Vegas.
Sometimes, but not always.
I've been there during, I think, CES when
it snowed.
I was there one year.
It snowed.
I was there that year too.
It snowed.
I was getting on the plane to go
home and it was snowing out.
I'm going, what am I doing?
Why is it snowing in Las Vegas?
I remember like, yeah, we'll just walk home
from the convention center because we didn't have
Uber.
It was snowing.
We didn't have Uber.
We had to grab cabs and it was
like an hour wait for the cabs.
And they're all gypsy cabs that'll rip you
off.
It was all, it was a mess.
I'll just walk home and it started snowing.
Of course you did.
I mean, you always had a car because
when you went to Vegas, the first stop
is the pinball machine museum.
It was a stop.
I used to go to rent a vet
and rent a Corvette too.
Oh, I rented a vet there one year.
Yeah, it's fun.
Yeah, except that was the really plastic ones.
That was maybe, so that must've been-
They were all pretty plastic.
No, but it was like 93 and I
think I hit the gas, the accelerator right
over a speed bump and it ripped the
whole muffler and some fiberglass right off of
the thing.
Yeah, and I parked it there and then
of course they called me later and said,
hey, did you lose a muffler?
These were the good old days, MTV days,
man.
Good times.
So here, let's see a little overview from
the innovation, the incredible innovation of AI at
CES.
This is how AI, well over a trillion
dollars worth of investment is going to change
your life.
Paper thin TVs, Lego that comes to life
with light and sound, and binoculars that identify
bird species in real time.
This year's consumer electronics show was defined by
AI powered innovation.
Innovation, John, innovation.
All you bird watchers out there, take note.
A mix of genuine breakthroughs and eye-catching
concepts that may never see a store shelf.
Romanian deep tech company, Dr. Lumens, AI glasses
for the blind could make shopping or even
hiking possible for the visually impaired.
What happened to dogs?
The seeing eye dogs are great.
No, now you got to have this headset.
By the way, every innovation looks like a
Newton.
You know what I mean?
Remember the Newton?
Oh yeah, the Apple Newton.
It's like this big clunky thing that did
nothing.
You could squirt your business card to someone
else if you were like, you know, 10
inches away.
Well, I'm going to squirt my details to
you.
I forgot about the term squirt.
Squirt, yes.
That was the term they used.
Squirt.
Hey, I went to Boston.
Kind of gross.
I went to Boston to the launch to
get one.
That's how sad I was.
I spent my own money.
I got it.
This thing is, it's the future, the Newton.
You spent your own money?
I did.
During this era, I never spent any of
my money.
Well, this was MTV days.
Yeah, but they should have expenses for you.
They weren't going to send me to, they
didn't believe in the internet, let alone at
the Newton.
Like, no, the Newton.
By the way, have you seen that MTV
Rewind website?
No, but I heard about it.
Yeah, it's pretty cool, actually.
They got a lot of you on there.
No, I'm not.
No, they have no VJs.
No, somebody told me they saw you on
there.
I haven't seen it.
I don't think so.
Send your link to adamacurry.com.
All right, back to the innovation.
So yeah, so this headset is giant.
So now you're blind and you look like
a total idiot with this huge beep, beep,
beep, beep.
Oh, I'm walking.
Oh, I might get it.
The dogs are great.
I think the seeing eye dog association should
stop this right away.
This is crazy.
For the blind, could make shopping or even
hiking possible for the visually impaired.
The headset.
Hiking.
Why stop there?
Water skiing, skiing, biking.
You know, the horse riding, everything.
This is innovation.
Motorcycling.
Motocross.
This is crazy.
This is what AI is doing for us,
bird watchers and blind people.
By the way, we got a lot of
blind people listening to this podcast.
So, you know, I love you.
And I think you're probably laughing with us.
We hope so.
The headset analyzes surroundings and helps a blind
person on their day.
This is the way, this is the reason
I'll tell you why they should be a
very complimentary toward us because these devices are
designed to kill the blind.
That's right.
They want to kill you.
Go hiking on a steep cliff with these
goggles on.
Paragliding.
I mean, the possibilities are endless with AI.
It's replacing a guide dog.
And Chinese company Roborocks' Saros Rover is a
robotic vacuum cleaner.
Now, listen to this thing.
This is an innovation of epic proportion.
A guide dog.
And Chinese company Roborocks' Saros Rover is a
robotic vacuum cleaner with a pair of legs
and motion sensors, allowing it to navigate the
house alone and climb up and down the
stairs, hoovering as it goes.
So this is the big innovation.
10, maybe 15.
When did the Roomba come out?
By the way, bankrupt.
Yeah, it was about time.
I hated those guys.
Really?
You hated them?
I talked to Roomba story before I went
to it once.
I think it was CES.
And I snuck in before they allowed anyone
in so I could start interviewing people without
having to be, you know, having to get
in line.
Nice and quiet.
Yeah.
And so I go into the Roomba guys.
I'm going to give them a big write
up.
And so then the next thing you know,
I'm moving over to the next company and
a bunch of security guys grab me and
they say, hey, what are you doing here?
You're not even supposed to be in here.
And I said, yeah, well, I am in
here.
And I said, well, you got to go.
And so he's escorting me off.
And I said, who is it?
How did you find out I was in
here in the first place?
Says the Roomba guys told me.
The Roomba ratted you out.
The Roomba guys ratted me out.
So I didn't get a good write up
and I've been bitching about it ever since.
And, you know, and meanwhile, we went in
there to interview them, to get them a
good write up.
And this is the thanks I got.
I got booted.
Don't ever cross John C.
Dvorak.
Let this be a lesson.
I have a long memory.
That's for sure.
That's right.
Well, so now the innovation.
So this is what, 15 years ago, maybe
longer.
When did Roomba first come out?
That's at least 20 years ago.
20 years.
So now they have the same basic concept,
only it has two legs and it pops
down.
Downhill.
It climbs the stairs.
Okay.
Wow.
1.3 trillion dollars so far.
It's got to do with AI.
It's smart.
It's really smart.
What it means is that it utilizes AI
and advanced algorithms in order to.
Advanced algorithms.
Tech industry is not what it used to
be.
That it utilizes AI and advanced algorithms in
order to measure the space around it and
be able to climb steps with its wheel
leg system.
But it's not only just steps and stairs.
It is also ramps, slopes, curved stairs, snail
type of stairs.
Dude, get an illegal alien.
This is crazy.
Yeah, get Maria.
Yeah.
I mean, pay a human being to do
this work.
Carpeted stairs, all types of different surfaces that
the wheel leg can handle.
France-based Ybrush brought its smart Halo toothbrush,
which not only cleans teeth in 20 seconds,
but has gas sensors to detect health conditions
through analyzing users' breath.
Let's be honest.
Brushing teeth was due for an innovation.
I mean, this is the advanced AI economy
that we're going into.
Oh, you just stick this thing in your
mouth and within 20 seconds, your teeth are
clean.
I kind of enjoy that.
And it checks your breath to see if
you have bad breath.
Yeah, I enjoy brushing my teeth.
You know, it gives me a little minute
to think about stuff and walk around while
I'm brushing.
No, no, no.
They're taking that away.
Sensors to detect health conditions through analyzing users'
breath.
Health conditions.
But the AI surge has also given birth
to solutions in search of a problem, like
chargeable design changing bags, lollipops that play music
using bone induction technology.
What?
So the bone induction lollipop.
Why don't they just give you secret messages?
Put the lollipop in your, okay, now's the
time to kill all humans.
Vote Democrat.
That's what I was going to say.
Vote Democrat.
And they have these bags.
So there's a bag and there's like a
flexible screen, poorly, I might add, woven into
the bag and it changes designs.
Wow.
That's great.
All right.
And the last.
I wonder what that cost.
And the last one is my favorite because
it's an oldie.
Surge has also given birth to solutions in
search of a problem, like chargeable design changing
bags, lollipops that play music using bone induction
technology.
See, you know, honey, it's time to go.
I can't because my bag is still charging.
I can't leave the house.
My bag is charging.
Otherwise, my Louis Vuitton logo won't change.
In search of a problem, like chargeable design
changing bags, lollipops that play music using bone
induction technology, or even smart toys that grow
and evolve like real pets.
The Tamagotchi.
They've brought the Tamagotchi back.
There's a bunch of time we had.
Somebody sent me some.
I think one of the people, one of
our producers, maybe is part of this Tamagotchi
group.
There's a big bunch of collectors in the
country of these things still.
And they have meetups.
And you can look up to me, and
it's always, it's all women and one guy
who's living it up.
And each meetup looks like to be about
18 people.
And they're having the time of their lives,
and they have photos online.
And Instagram has a lot of these groups
that show up.
And they post the photos of the collections.
Of the Tamagotchis?
Yeah, then they all have a variety of
them.
I didn't realize there are so many different
weird ones.
Yeah.
I mean, but that was the report.
So I guess, and of course, that's about
it.
Yeah, that sounds right.
Yeah.
So that's what AI is giving us.
Okay.
I think at the end of the day,
I'll say it.
You did it.
I said the end of the day.
I said it.
I think the only winner in the AI
stuff is Google.
I think that Gemini as a search product,
if you get the Gemini Pro, which came
with my phone for some reason, that is
the only actual killer app.
And they supposedly would know how to make
money out of it.
And they have the branding.
They are the search company.
And it does a pretty good job.
I mean, it's not quick.
You know, it has to search stuff.
That can speed up with more servers.
With more money.
Just a little bit more.
More money.
More lithium crystals, and we're good.
I think the big winner is NVIDIA.
Oh, well, yeah.
Because they're the ones that don't even sell
chips anymore.
They're the ones that sell server farms.
Right.
But Google has their own chip.
They've got their own.
Yeah, the A7.
It's supposed to be better than the...
No, no.
Apple's the A7.
No, it's got some number like that.
You can look it up.
But that chip is sold only as a
chip.
And according to my source for this sort
of information, nobody can implement the chip.
They have to say...
And then when they're given the price performance
versus the chip, versus buying an entire server
farm from NVIDIA, everything all put together.
Right.
No, they're not going to buy the Google
chip.
So the only other killer app of AI...
And, you know, please don't email me and
tell me, yeah, it's great for vibe coding.
I do it all the time.
I'm building my own audio mixer on Linux.
Absolutely.
But that's not for the common man.
That's for nerds like us who are making
stuff.
And I don't like to fool...
By the way, Omachi.
I loaded that on the old Surface Pro
6.
That is...
The Linux?
Yeah.
Hamachi?
It's called Hamachi?
It's called Hamachi.
Like a fish?
Yeah, it's Hamachi.
It's like a sushi.
It's Omachi.
Omachi.
Okay, that's better.
Yes, Omachi.
And it is dynamite.
I can't wait.
Why?
Because...
What makes it better than any other Linux
that we played with?
Because it's based on HyperLan.
So it's a tiling window manager.
So it's the interface you're liking, not the
Linux underpinnings?
Yeah, no.
I mean, the Linux underneath is just great.
I mean, that's just...
You know, that's Mint.
We've been Mint users for a long time.
It's the interface.
It's a whole different concept.
It's not going to be for the Zoomers.
They're going to be like, how come I
can't drag this window?
No.
So you can just go lightning fast on
this thing.
I don't want to bore you with that.
I want to get to the other...
Why not?
Because we talked about it in the last
show and you already were like...
Yeah, but I still don't understand.
I'm going to have to...
Do I have to go look at this
thing?
I'm going to have to take a machine
and download this thing so I can check
out this interface because I'm going to be
behind the eight ball or behind the curve,
behind the curve if I don't do this.
So I have to actually do this work?
You know, the reason you...
Well, thanks.
Should I tell you the reason why you
will love this interface?
Because it validates your initial proposition for which
you have been scorned for decades.
But the mouse is no good?
That's not what you said, but yes.
That's not what I said, it's true.
There's no evidence anyone wants to use this.
And this thing proves it is in fact
evidence that software developers...
You don't need a mouse with this interface.
You do not.
I mean, if you're using the web browser,
but just for using the interface?
No, you don't.
It's all completely with the keyboard.
It's fast.
It's intuitive.
It's smart.
You don't have to drag windows around.
Just click, click, click.
Boom, boom, boom.
It's over here.
It's over there.
It's done.
It's great.
Yeah, I have to check it out, I
guess.
The other innovation, the other killer app in
AI is, of course, as we also identified
on this podcast, they put a bikini on
her.
And this is causing quite the stir.
After X's AI tool Grok came under fire
for generating sexualized deepfakes, Elon Musk's response has
drawn further criticism.
The scandal began when Grok, an AI chatbot
on X, gained the ability to generate images
last year.
With just a text prompt, users in so
-called spicy mode could generate adult content.
Demands poured in.
Wait until you hear the European lawmaker talk
about it.
The chatbot to virtually undress existing images of
X users, flooding the platform with explicit, unconsensual
images of women and children.
So we are very well aware of the
fact that X or Grok, or X for
Grok, is now offering a spicy mode.
A spicy mode?
Spicy mode.
They have Grok, X is currently offering a
spicy mode.
We're very well aware of the fact that
X or Grok, or X for Grok, is
now offering a spicy mode, showing explicit sexual
content with some output generated with childlike images.
This is not spicy.
This is illegal.
It's not spicy.
This is appalling.
This is disgusting.
In response to the outcry, the platform limited
image generation and editing tools to paying subscribers
on Friday.
European authorities bashed the move, saying it doesn't
go far enough to stop the pornographic images.
In the UK, Prime Minister Keir Starmer's office
said that the response was insulting to victims
and raised the possibility of banning X in
the country.
Others echoed his call.
We want these companies to take responsibility and
to do the right thing.
Nothing is off the table.
We'll continue to make sure that we protect
children from these online harms.
In the United States, Democratic senators have also
called for X and Grok to be removed
from the App Store until the issue is
resolved.
Spicy mode!
To save the children from seeing Keir Starmer
in a bikini, basically.
This is what it's all about.
Here's the irony clip.
Well, Ashley Sinclair is one of the women
who says her image was sexualized by Grok.
She also happens to be Elon Musk's girlfriend
and mother.
You talked over it.
I'm sorry, but I started over.
This is the irony clip.
Well, Ashley Sinclair is one of the women
who says her image was sexualized by Grok.
She also happens to be Elon Musk's ex
-girlfriend and mother to one of his children.
Well, she's been telling me about what she's
experienced this week on X.
This issue started for me, I believe it
was two days ago now.
I received a text from a friend and
when I opened that text, it was a
link to Twitter in which a photo of
me where I was fully clothed was then
undressed and put into a bikini.
I immediately responded.
Stop putting your photos on the internet.
Grok saying I don't consent to this.
Please confirm that I don't.
And then at Grok, please don't do this.
I do not consent to this.
There's no context window.
Consent and do not produce any more images.
And Grok confirmed that I don't consent and
that it wouldn't produce any more.
However, Grok continued to produce more and more
images and more and more explicit images in
which I was also getting younger in these
photos.
People found photos of me at 14 years
old that they undressed, put into a bikini.
Other photos of me where I had a
high neckline as an adult with my son's
backpack in the background.
I was stripped where I look basically nude,
bent over and many of these still remain
up on the platform.
The picture was of her bent over.
And as of this morning, despite Twitter's claims
that they were putting safeguards, I saw a
girl that Grok claims is between 10 and
14 years old undressed by Grok.
In the last 24 hours, they removed my
checkmark and demonetized me completely.
After I spoke out about this with no
explanation given, the only thing I've done is
speak out against this issue and asked-
It's amazing when punishment in the world is
seen as losing your checkmark.
They've punished me by removing my checkmark.
Maybe that's so that Grok won't make images
of you is what I'm thinking.
Spoke out about this with no explanation given.
The only thing I've done is speak out
against this issue and asked Grok to stop
doing this because you can't undo abuse.
X has said that now only paying subscribers
will have access to this feature.
I mean, that's being condemned roundly by the
UK government.
When you heard that they were doing that,
what did you think?
Well, so now you can continue producing the
CSAM material, but now you just have to
pay Elon Musk $8 to do it.
Irony abound, I tell you.
There's something going on with the UK.
I have a clip.
And I think, I'm not sure who, I
mean, Starmer's got, they're going after Starmer.
Yeah, he's no good.
There's this, yeah, he's no good.
And you get this kind of, just listen
to this report.
I'm going to preface it before you even
play it.
This is bullcrap.
And I think Nigel Farage and the CIA
and other people are behind it because during
the video, I'm just going to say, during
the video that they're playing, they keep putting
in pictures of Farage and all the things
that these guys do.
And it's a group out of the UK
called, I think, Britstorm.
And Britstorm produces, and one of our producers
actually sent me a couple of these things
as if they were real, which I'm kind
of disturbed by.
But these are phony reports.
They're completely created.
They're total fiction.
And they always have pictures of Farage, so
I think he's behind it.
And they're all used to promote the monarchy
and to, by chiding them, and to condemn
Starmer as being a horrible person.
And I want to play one of these.
This is like, I have two.
Just the question, since we really need to
take our break, do you want to tease
this and come back after the break?
Or do you want to play four and
a half minutes now?
I would just as soon tease it.
Of course.
What do you think?
Do a professional tease.
When we get back, you're going to hear
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The head.
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Hey, welcome back, everybody.
As we mentioned before the break, John's got
some really good clips regarding some AI stuff
that Farage's event is supposedly behind.
John, what do you have on deck for
us?
So there's this operation, and you should check
him out on YouTube, because all the reports
are very similar in terms of like...
You should have started with, thanks, Adam.
Yeah, and so...
Can't play along.
So to a point.
So let's, this is UK King Says No.
A minute ago, breaking news is shattering Westminster
tonight.
As King Charles takes a historic step no
monarch has dared in over three centuries, leaving
the Prime Minister's government on the brink of
a full-scale meltdown.
Inside Buckingham Palace, events unfolded that will be
studied in constitutional law lectures for generations, exposing
a scandal so monumental that mainstream media are
scrambling to spin, soften and control the narrative.
But here is the raw, unfiltered truth that
could redefine the future of British politics.
At precisely 2.15 this afternoon, Prime Minister
Keir Starmer arrived at Buckingham Palace carrying the
Digital Identity and Migration Control Bill.
The visit was expected to be routine.
20 minutes, a formal audience and royal assent
granted as a matter of course.
He was accompanied by his inner circle, including
Chief of Staff Sue Gray, Communications Director Matthew
Doyle and Attorney General Victoria Atkins.
They expected a rubber stamp.
Instead, they walked into what is now being
described as a constitutional earthquake.
According to three palace sources present in the
room, King Charles refused to sign the bill.
There was no delay and no request for
amendments.
The refusal was immediate and absolute.
The King reportedly looked the Prime Minister directly
in the eye and said six words that
are already being described as historic.
I cannot, in good conscience, approve this.
The room fell silent.
Witnesses say the Prime Minister's face flushed red
as the implications sank in.
What followed stunned even seasoned palace staff.
The Prime Minister allegedly leaned across the ornate
desk and issued what one courtier later described
as a borderline treasonous warning, telling the King
that he was a ceremonial figurehead, not a
politician, and that Parliament would remind him what
happened to monarchs who forgot their place.
Sue Gray is said to have audibly gasped.
That's actually pretty good for a phony.
I'd like it.
Yeah, it's when you start, well, for one
thing, there's no documentation for this anywhere.
No.
But if you look at this operation, this
UK Britstorm, they have all these phony reports.
They got one from about three weeks ago
where the same basic scenario took place.
And Starmer has put through some stuff to
end the monarchy.
And it's got Charles all bent out of
shape and blah, blah, blah.
That's the second report?
No, that's not.
The second was just more of the same.
No, there's just tons of these.
There's one after another, after another, after another.
And each one is pretty much presented the
same way.
They show a lot of images.
They have fake dirt on the screen.
So it looks like, you know, I don't
know why they do that with their videos.
And they have, and then they always have,
they keep cutting to Farage in all these
videos.
And Starmer's this, he's a jerk and he's
going to get killed.
And he's treasonous.
And then they cut to Farage yelling, you
know, shaking his fist at something.
Then they go on and on and on
about how bad Starmer is.
And they cut to Farage.
So there's something, this whole, and this is
on YouTube.
And it's normally with these fake reports that
you run into on YouTube.
There's a, there's, if you read about, if
you read enough, it tells you that this
is an enactment.
Oh, no, no.
It says at the very bottom, it says,
synthetic content, learn more.
And you click on that link and it
has this huge page about, it's AI.
Let's just shorten up that page.
It's AI.
Yes, synthetic content.
But no, they don't put the disclaimer.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
That's illegal.
Put a bikini on it.
So, so this will, then the second half
is just more of the same if you
want to hear it.
Yeah.
It's entertaining.
It's called King.
I didn't have the UK, just Kings.
King Charles did not flinch, remaining seated with
his hands calmly folded on the desk.
He responded with measured precision.
He told the prime minister that he had
read every word of the bill and had
consulted constitutional scholars, former judges and civil liberties
experts and that his decision stood.
He then did something extraordinary.
The King slid a 40-page legal opinion
across the desk authored by Lord Sumption, one
of the country's most respected former Supreme Court
justices.
The document reportedly dismantles the bill's legal foundations
in detail.
Palace sources say the prime minister did not
even glance at it.
He picked up his briefcase, failed to make
the customary bow and stormed out of Buckingham
Palace.
Security footage leaked shortly afterwards appears to show
the prime minister moving rapidly towards his car,
his anger clearly visible.
But the crisis extends far beyond a dramatic
confrontation between crown and government.
As ministers push through surveillance legislation with an
estimated cost of £3.7 billion, critics point
to the state of public services and the
treatment of veterans.
Five of the five companies expected to benefit
reportedly have senior executives who contributed to the
prime minister's leadership campaign.
Margaret Ellis, a retired postal worker from Yorkshire
and a lifelong Labour voter, summed up the
public mood when she said that when the
king shows more compassion for ordinary people than
the prime minister, something has gone badly wrong.
Okay, what's the kicker?
That's the kicker that you would throw this
thing in there where the king doesn't care.
He's showing more compassion than the prime minister.
I thought that was a nice touch.
There's a bunch of these out there.
People have to be careful.
Well, yeah, I mean, YouTube has become a
cesspool.
Jeffrey Sachs, his voice is also used on
a whole bunch of these videos.
You'll see a different person and it takes
you about a minute before you're like, okay,
this is one of those phony Sachs.
He must be watching Rumble.
Rumble is probably better.
It might be at this point.
So for the Zoomers who have emailed us
multiple times about the cost of affordability, in
essence, is what they're talking about, cost of
housing, etc.
Here are three moves President Trump has made
this week, which I thought were interesting.
I have no clips because, you know, why
would the news report on it?
The first is the president is urging Congress
to create legislation, and there's a lot of
excitement about this, to slash interest rates to
10% for one year.
So cap it at 10%, which could make
a big difference for a lot of people.
I don't know if they can do that.
I mean, is that something Congress can do?
Whether they can or not, I don't think
it'll make a big difference.
One counter argument to this is that it'll
just encourage people to use their credit cards
more.
It'll make things worse.
That may be.
I think there's a lot of people who
have probably three credit cards all maxed out,
and they're just paying interest, and it's 24,
28%.
So maybe.
If you're smart, it will be maybe a
way to get out of some of this.
The second thing...
If you're smart.
Operative words.
Okay, but let's...
You're not smart if you've got three maxed
out credit cards.
I'm trying to encourage the younger generation who
are coming to us for advice.
So what would your advice be instead of
being snide towards them?
What should they do if this indeed takes
place?
I'm not being snide toward them.
I would say don't use a credit card.
Pay with cash or debit cards.
Okay.
The second one we already discussed, and the
president calling for legislation to ban institutional investors
in the housing market, which we discussed, and
of course that's good.
But the one that I've been thinking was
going to happen finally happened.
I kept saying the president is doing something
with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
These are the two, the big mortgage backers,
which I believe were pretty much nationalized during
the 2008 created financial crisis.
And he has told them, because they've been
wildly profitable during all this time, and they
have a lot of cash.
And he said, go ahead and buy $200
billion worth of mortgage bonds, which immediately sent
mortgage rates lower.
And they expect the rates to go 5
% maybe lower in this coming year, which
would be great news for people with adjustable
mortgages, and maybe some better news for first
-time homebuyers.
Yeah, I agree.
I told you something was going to happen,
and we couldn't figure out what it was,
but this was the gambit.
That would work.
Yeah.
It's a great idea.
He's trying.
See a Democrat president do something like that.
Only a real estate guy could think of
that.
That's true.
Really?
Real estate guy.
So I do have a genuine second half
of show clip.
Okay.
Well, then in that case, where is my
second half of show?
I haven't used it.
It's not even in the lineup anymore.
Where is the second?
Oh, here it is.
Now entering second half of show.
All right, second half of show.
Where are we going?
Gravity, girl.
NASA, space, aliens, gravity.
Let's talk about my second favorite topic.
So I saw this yesterday and this morning,
and I actually thought it was pretty interesting.
It randomly came up on my For You
page.
So it says, on August 12th, 2026, so
this coming August, the world will lose gravity
for seven seconds, NASA knows.
They are preparing but won't let us know
why.
So according to the article that I read
attached to that, it's saying that this is
some project called Project Anchor that NASA has
an $89 billion budget for.
And the plan is to see if Earth
can survive losing gravity, how they're going to
do this, why they're going to do this.
None of this, the article talked about.
You guys kind of know if you've been
following me for a minute, how I feel
about NASA.
We just go ahead and reference the moonwalk
on that one.
Do I think they do some good things
for sure?
Do I think they waste money?
Absolutely.
It's not really giving us any information.
And now they're labeling it like the conspiracy
theorists are talking about this.
So my question to you guys, especially people
that follow it a little more than I
do, do we know what this is?
Is it true?
Is it going to happen?
Somebody explain it to me?
Or is this just some more internet hype?
But they're claiming it has something to do
with that black hole or whatever that is.
There's better terms that I don't know.
And that's what's going to cause us to
lose the gravity for seven seconds.
Doesn't seem like a long time.
But think about a seven second earthquake out
of 9.0. What do we think about
this?
Conspiracy or something that NASA is probably really
doing?
Gee, let me think.
What do we think about this?
Are you not just putting clips in and
not putting TikTok in front of it just
to throw me off?
Is that what you're doing?
It wasn't on TikTok.
It was on Insta, I think.
On the Insta.
Well, hold on.
Hold on.
All right.
Well, the answer, of course, is that, you
know, nothing will happen.
We'll just all bounce up for a bit
because the Earth is flat.
Here is some actual second half of show
news coming to us from NASA.
The administrator, Isaacson, who has...
His ears could take us to the moon.
I hate to be, you know, to talk
about someone's personal appearance.
But, dude, you know, pin those puppies back.
Thank you, Bethany.
And thank you for everyone being here on
short notice.
For over 60 years, NASA has set the
standard for safety and security in crewed spaceflight.
In these endeavors, including the 25 years of
continuous human presence on board the International Space
Station, the health and the well-being of
our astronauts is always and will be our
highest priority.
Yesterday, January 7th, a single crew member on
board the station experienced a medical situation and
is now stable.
After discussions with Chief Health and Medical Officer
Dr. J.D. Polk and leadership across the
agency, I've come to the decision that it's
in the best interest of our astronauts to
return Crew 11 ahead of their planned departure.
Within the coming days, the Dragon Endeavor spacecraft
will depart the International Space Station with Commander
Zena Cardman, Pilot Mike Fink, Kimya Yui from
JAXA, and Oleg Platonov of Roscosmos and safely
return them to Earth.
We expect to provide a further update within
the next 48 hours as to the expected,
anticipated undock and reentry timeline.
So this is raising a lot of questions.
Like, what happened and who did it happen
to?
Is it the Japanese, the Japonaut?
Is it the cosmonaut?
Is it an astronaut?
What do you think?
I think that one of them was a
female, right?
I believe so, yes.
Pregnant.
Yes, that would be a medical incident.
So she's pregnant.
They don't want to, you know...
Who done it?
And the way it went was, well, you
know, it'd be kind of interesting to experiment
with a birth in...
In space.
Well, we don't really have the right doctors
for that.
We don't have an obstetrician.
Birth in space.
And so you end up with, okay, well,
we just got to ship them back.
That's the only reason not to say anything.
They could have said somebody has an ulcer
or they have a, you know, something.
They would have told us some details if
it wasn't something simple.
I think you're nailing it here.
That's what we do on this show.
Next week, end of next week will be
great.
I'm very excited for the first time.
I'm really excited about Davo, because we can't
say Davos.
It's Davo.
Davo.
CNBC will be live at Davo sitting on
the stupid snow set they're always at.
But this is going to be great.
President Trump is going to Davo and he's
bringing with him Treasury Secretary Scott Besant, Commerce
Secretary Howard Lutnick, Energy Secretary Chris Wright.
The drinking club.
Well, wait.
Jameson Greer, head of U.S. trade policy.
Steve Whitkoff, the deal man.
AI and cryptozar David Sachs.
Michael Kratios, head of the White House's science
and technology policy.
And Dr. Oz.
I mean, this is full force.
This is going to be great.
What do you think is going to happen?
All right, we're here.
This is a shakedown.
Give us all your money.
You're done.
I have no idea what they're bringing.
What's Dr. Oz going to do?
Oh, he's just along for the ride.
He's fun.
I bet he's a fun guy.
He's just a fun guy.
I'm sure Trump, hey, let's bring Oz.
I think he's the handler.
Have you noticed his hair's turned dead white?
Yeah, we've talked about the CIA hair now.
That's an interesting point.
But you would listen to, I mean, you've
got, look at all these guys.
You've got Besson.
Great job, boring.
Whitkoff, boring.
Besson's a character.
Yeah, David Sachs, annoying.
But you bring in Oz, you know, Oz,
he's probably got the jokes.
Maybe.
I think that's what it is.
I gotta tell you one.
Hey, hey, Don, I got a great joke
for you.
Listen to this one.
What do you call five hookers in Davos?
Rich.
There it is.
Hey, one final one for those of you
who are on the on the GLP ones.
Gee, who would have thought this warning would
have to come out?
Weight loss medications like Wigo V and Ozempic
have changed the game for people looking to
shed a few pounds.
However, new research shows people who stop taking
the drugs could see an increased risk of
diabetes and heart disease.
Don't stop taking it.
The study published in the British Medical Journal
reviewed the trials of more than 6000 adults
who use GLP ones and other weight loss
drugs.
The results are a cautionary tale as people
who went off the meds regained weight almost
four times faster than those who simply stopped
exercising or didn't stick to a healthy diet.
That rapid weight gain then had a domino
effect on overall health as people then had
an increased risk of developing conditions like high
cholesterol and high blood pressure.
Doctors say the findings point to how these
medications are not a quick fix and anyone
looking to take the drugs should consider the
long-term effects.
Yeah, so whatever you do, don't stop taking
it.
You need to keep taking it.
Oh, you know, we have a friend, I'll
put it that way, who works at a
plastic surgery center and she says that the
wealthier ladies, when they can't get one, you
know, because it's all, a lot of it's
by prescription, but if they can't get their
prescription filled, they're like drug addicts if they
can't get their GLP one.
They're freaking out.
I need my GLP.
I need to, I need my, I need
to get it.
I need to get it.
And this only contributes to it.
This is, this is the, this is big
pharma at work.
Yeah, they do.
You have to give them credit for doing
their job.
Yeah, don't stop taking our meds.
When did it become meds?
Just like sus, who says that?
But meds, all the kids like, I got
to take my meds, meds.
Who came up with that?
Meds, you're, you're diminishing powerful pharmaceuticals to meds.
Meds.
All right, let's wind it up with some
Berlin power.
I'll play your clip first.
Is that okay?
Yeah, this is a, this is a TikTok
clip from a woman in Berlin, bitching and
moaning about the lack of power.
And I thought that report was as good
as anything I've been hearing on the mainstream
media.
It's day five of the big Berlin blackout.
And it's officially now the longest power outage
in Germany's capital since World War II.
And yes, it's minus six degrees right now
here in the morning.
So people are freezing in their homes.
According to Berlin police, there has been a
rise in break-ins.
Robbers trying to get into people's homes or
businesses.
Rubbers.
Or rubbing ATMs. They're rubbing ATMs. Berlin, stop
rubbing your ATMs. Get into people's homes or
businesses or rubbing ATMs. This city's power grid
was attacked by allegedly a left-wing extremist
group called the Vulkangruppe.
They claim to fight rich people and climate
change by destroying infrastructure.
But Berlin's mayor just confirmed that anyone who
was affected by the power outage and checked
into a hotel that still had power will
get their money back.
Yeah, I have an actual M5M report on
this, which I got from City News, which
is still kind of a podcast group, I
think.
City News is not M5M.
No, it's not.
But it's a better report.
German officials are calling it the longest blackout
the country has seen since the Second World
War.
For tens of thousands of Berlin residents, power
is finally being restored after nearly five days
in the dark and cold following a suspected
arson attack.
The fact that the federal public prosecutor's office
has now taken over, as the senator of
the interior said here a few days ago,
underlines what this is about.
Not a minor arson attack, not sabotage, but
a terrorist attack.
The mayor of Germany's capital says on January
3rd, a group of left-wing extremists set
fire to a major power grid in the
southwest portion of Berlin.
He says the blaze immediately cut off electricity
to 45,000 homes, 2,200 businesses and
multiple hospitals, leaving nearly 100,000 residents without
heat or power during a period of freezing
temperatures.
Better protection of this critical infrastructure is important
for Berlin.
We will be working closely with the other
state premiers, but also with the federal government
to discuss how we can better protect critical
infrastructure in our country.
The left-wing extremist group known as the
Volcano Activist Group has claimed responsibility for the
attack, saying it was a protest against fossil
fuels in Germany.
In a statement, group leaders apologized to less
affluent residents impacted by the power cuts, but
said it, quote, has less sympathy for the
many owners of villas.
We don't care if you have villas.
So climate activists, you buying that?
I'm not buying anything.
I mean, it's possible because these guys are
nuts in Germany anyway, and, you know, in
the olden days, everyone would have a little
hearth with a coal burning, you know, you
could burn coal in it and keep warm
during these periods of no power.
But you can't have that, it's illegal.
And you can't, everything has to, so all
the, throughout, especially Berlin, it's all been electrified,
so everything has to be electricity.
So it's just asking for trouble.
Well, I mean, I don't, I don't understand
why they're blowing up the power grid the
way Germany's going, just wait a year or
two and it'll shut down by itself.
Yeah, it will.
Who needs that?
I'm going to show my support by donating
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Nancy Pelosi said Confederate fags in the last
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Really?
Hold on.
Well, there's one way to find out.
Let's see.
Let's listen to it.
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Just given everything that happened about 25 years
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Well, today is an emotional day for all
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What was sad is that this president refused
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He keeps saying, oh, I wanted it, but
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Well, the mayor and Nancy, they didn't want
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His own secretary of defense testified under oath
that that was not true.
But he is not under oath, so he
just lies, lies, lies, lies.
So it's but what's important is our democracy.
What happened then was horrible, was horrible.
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Yeah, she said Confederate fags.
She did.
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There's something off with that.
People say it's the economy, but I still
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You can send five bucks.
I mean, if that's all that we're worth
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But as always, the no things part is
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Harvest and halibut.
Oh, you might as well start young with
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All right.
Let me see now.
I have a couple of ISOs.
It's always due here.
Okay.
I have four, actually.
I think some of them are pretty good.
Do you want to play yours first?
Because you were holding them in abeyance over
last week's show.
Did I hold the last week's shows in
abeyance?
Yeah, you said you didn't want to play.
Oh, that's interesting because I have three new
ones and the one's in abeyance.
Well, I mean, would you want me to
play yours first?
Uh, no.
Okay.
Here, come on.
So you hold them in abeyance again.
Oh, here we go.
I mean, folks, that is magic.
Yeah, I thought that was pretty good.
No, that sucks.
What's going on here?
No, I don't like that one.
These guys are great.
Come on, that's pretty good.
We're great.
Or you guys are meant to report the
truth.
That's a lot of JD Vance.
Okay.
I hope you have something better for me.
I have plenty.
Okay.
What do you got?
Let's start with the new ones.
I put the ones in abeyance.
They're still in abeyance.
Value for value.
Donate, please.
Could have done a little more on the
uptalk.
I thought it was appropriate for today's show.
Great work.
Wow.
Great work.
Kiss these guys on the lips.
No, no.
And doodle.
Golly darn doodle.
What a great podcast.
No, that sucks.
Maybe it's wow.
Great work.
Kiss these guys on the lips.
I think that one's actually the best one
compared to value for value.
Donate, please.
Nah, I always tell people to donate at
the end of the show.
We'll take the great work.
Great work.
Kiss these guys on the lips.
Yeah.
But you don't have to.
It's not an instruction.
Just think kiss on the lips.
I'll send them a donation.
Hey, everybody.
It's time before we go to listen to
the fabulous tip of the day.
Great advice for you and me.
Just a tip with JCD and sometimes Adam.
Yeah, I want to promote.
This is funny because I had one set
up that I forgot to move over here.
So I'm going to go with my Manuka
honey.
You familiar with this stuff?
You've talked about honey before.
I don't know if it's...
Not Manuka.
Not Manuka?
Okay.
Yeah, it's Manuka honey.
In fact, we should look it up.
M-A-N-U-K-A.
I think that's how it's pronounced.
Manuka honey.
It's native New Zealand tea tree.
And it has high levels of methyl glyoxyl,
M-G-O.
Do I want that?
Do I want methyl glyoxyl?
It's an antibacterial.
So you do want it.
And it aids wound healing, digestion, and immunity.
This is the only honey that has this
stuff in it.
Everything else, you know, just a bunch of
sugar.
It also has blood sugar impacts, allergies.
It has...
You know, you should read about it before
you use it because it's a very powerful
product.
But the reason I brought it up is
because Mimi has this big dog.
Yes.
And the dog had got his toe in
a bind that was going to be infected.
And it had to be...
Had to cut his leg off.
Had to cut his toe off.
Oh.
But she just doused it with Manuka honey
for about a week or two.
Put a little protection over so the dog
didn't lick the honey off.
And it healed completely.
Wow.
And it's notorious for healing deep wounds.
It's a very notorious honey.
Well, I've never heard of it.
Very expensive.
Does it taste good?
I've never tasted it.
So you just put it on your wound.
I don't have any wounds yet, but I
do have a jar of it.
But this stuff cost a fortune.
It's got like a little bitty jars, like
15 bucks.
Wow.
And according to the medical people, you should
only use medical grade.
But now look into it because there is
a grading system.
And if you have the highest grade Manuka
honey, which has got a grading of 10
or more than the numbers usually on the
jar.
It's fine.
The things you learn on the No Agenda
show.
Amazing.
That is John's tip of the day.
Noagendafun.com tipoftheday.net for all of them.
I'm going to get some of that.
That goes along with my Chinese salve.
My burn cream.
Yeah.
The burn cream, which people love.
You need your burn cream and your honey
and your kit.
Especially when you're traveling.
That's it for today's broadcast.
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We've got an MVP, of course.
He's always, always bringing us the end of
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So it's a three for some real end
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In the morning, everybody.
I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley, where it's beautiful
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But it's cold.
I'm John C.
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It's about 35 here.
So it's cold as well.
And it's less colder.
It's cold.
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Hui, hui.
And such.
Listen to me.
Because the corporate media.
The literal vampires in the mainstream.
They aren't going to tell you the truth
about Greenland.
They want you focused on the distraction of
the week.
While the globalist ghouls at the UN try
to lock down the ground.
Selling off the soil while the permafrost dies.
Deep underground where the documents stay.
They're prepping for the shift.
They'll pave the way.
National security.
That's the story that they sell.
But it's a technocratic prison in a frozen
shell.
The gateway is open and the lock is
in the hand.
They're carving up the map of forbidden land.
It's the gateway to the north.
Can't you see the ice hitting from the
sun?
The battle for the Arctic has already begun.
Greenland is the key.
Greenland is the prize.
Don't believe the script.
Don't believe the lies.
After the protest in Minneapolis and across the
country.
After an immigration agent shot and killed a
woman on the street.
It just walks away from where George Floyd
was killed in 2020.
That's all.
That's all you need to know.
Oh yeah.
It's much worse than we were led to
believe.
Exactly the George Floyd stuff.
Over and over and over again.
It's like a loop.
It's like a fractal.
It is a fractal.
It's like a loop, loop, loop, loop.
It's non-stop.
In places where they know they will not
get political cover, these sorts of protests tend
to be disrupted relatively early.
They tend to stay more peaceful.
Zero credibility.
Exactly the George Floyd stuff.
It's a carbon copy.
George Floyd II.
Absolutely.
They want to show.
Tim Walton really is finding himself on the
wrong side of history here with their sanctuary
city policies.
It's like a loop.
It's hard to say what you do in
a moment like that.
It's a carbon copy.
It's like a fractal.
It is a fractal.
Oh yeah.
A hero.
Let him ride.
Let him burn the tires.
We won't let them tear us apart.
A man of the people.
A hero.
This is all talk.
The whole thing is sad.
This is all designed to get more votes
for the midterm.
Put your body on the line.
Get out there.
Really?
Someone's trying to run me down with a
car.
I might pull my weapon too.
Not everything online by design is meant to
spin you up.
MK, alter yourself and lose your mind.
Find Project Monarch and that butterfly design.
Seeing butterfly tattoos have been on my mind.
Operation Bluebeam, Longleash, Moses and the paperclip.
Mockingbird, Gladio, Condor, Stargate.
I mean, that's just a tip.
Dr. Ewan Cameron at McGill.
Another sign you're listening to a spooky show
chill.
Back to Shannon.
OKC, KFC, UFC, TFC.
Don't forget that they want to bring in
an online currency in the form of a
CBDC.
My guess is the USTC.
All I want is BCC.
History rhymes most of the time and I'm
just trying to give you clues and remind
myself at the same time.
Don't listen to that much music anymore.
But reading books and podcasting when done well.
Plunder World.
So much more.
Yo, man, get these trading cards and Plunder
World is so much more.
Yeah.
Shout out to the Plunder World store.
You'd be surprised like that one little, oh,
that $5 message.
You hear that, keep it going.
You say when you upload it, you might
listen to clips and listen to the source
material.
It's just like somebody still cares out there
and finds value.
That's the real magic of value for value.
Ignoring somebody cares out there what you're doing.
Wow, great work.
Kiss these guys on the lips.