January 11, 2025 • 39 mins
Mark Zuckerberg has seemingly had a change of heart when it comes to free speech, but how real is his conversion to the free speech movement?
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Speaker 1 (00:18):
Alrighty y'all, welcome back. Good to be back. Hope y'all
had a graades. I had a pretty good week. It
started off really strong, and I'll tell you why. The
first thing that happened this week was we got a
Donald Trump press conference. Now, I has said in the
last episode that Donald Trump at his best is campaign Trump,
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and I think still that is mostly true. However, there
is a contender that we need to enter into the competition,
and that is press conference Trump. I had forgotten how
good press conference Trump was because we haven't had an
official Trump press conference in Soul long. Right, It's been
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four years almost since Trump was the president, and so
we haven't had an official Trump press conference. We've had
campaign press conferences, but that's still campaign Trump. It's not
president press conference Trump. Those are two different entities and
they're both really good. They're both really good. So Donald
Trump said a lot of things in this press conference
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that I think some of them were actual serious policy
and some of them were he was just trolling the media,
and he's known for doing this. He's known for this,
he does this quite a bit. One of the things
he talked about was he is going to change the
name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. Now,
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the media has been losing their mind over this. The
left has been losing their mind over this. And I
hate to break you to y'all, but there's like a
ninety five percent chance that this is a joke, and
that little five percent chance that it's not a joke.
Who actually cares? Really, who actually cares? What difference does
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it actually make whether or not Donald Trump changes the
name of Golf of Mexico. Forget whether or not he can,
because that's a debate that people have been having. Can
Trump actually do this? Who cares? It's funny, Just have
a laugh, enjoy it. Here's what it sounded like at
the press conference when he made this announcement. Take a listen.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
It's pretty great, and we're going to be announcing it
a future date pretty soon. We're going to change because
we do most of the work there and it's ours
we're going to be changed. You're sort of the opposite
of Biden, where he's closing everything up, essentially getting rid
of fifty to sixty trillion dollars worth of assets. We're
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going to be changing the name of the Gulf of
Mexico to the Gulf of America, which has a beautiful
ring that covers a lot of territory. The Gulf of America.
What a beautiful name, and it's appropriate. It's appropriate, and
Mexico has to stop allowing millions of people to pour
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into our country. They can stop them, and we're gonna
put very serious tariffs on Mexico and Canada because Canada.
They come through Canada too, and the drugs that are
coming through are at record numbers, record numbers.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
So I think what we're pretty clearly seeing here is
just a case of Donald Trump trolling. It really just
looks like he's trying to take a dig at Mexico
because him and the new President of Mexico, Claudia Shinbaum,
have been basically just feuding with each other online. He'll
say something snarky and she'll say something snarky back, like
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she responded to this by saying, why don't we just
call America Mexico America or something like that. It's really
stupid stuff. She is not as good at the as
Donald Trump is, and it is very very apparent. But
that's one of the things that he announced in that
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press conference. I don't know how serious it is. Who
cares how serious it is? Honestly, who cares? If you
wake up tomorrow and the name of the Gulf of
Mexico has changed, how is that gonna affect your life?
Because the Left are doing what they always did. They
are acting like this is gonna start a war. Donald
Trump is throwing words around and war mongering, and he's
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gonna make all of our allies across the country wanna
or across the planet, I mean, wanna attack us. And
we never went to war with anybody, So what's the
big deal. He's just cracking some jokes. He's just having
a good time. We do a little trolling. He's quoted
as saying that we do a little trolling, like the
American people voted for mean tweets and world peace. Here's
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the mean tweets. That's what it is. He's cracking some
jokes that the President of Mexico doesn't like. Boohoo, She'll
get over it. Nobody actually really cares what the name
of the Gulf of Mexico is, and he does have
a point. It is ours, and why is it ours?
Because we're the best hard facts, we're the best. If
we want it, we can have it. Mexico's not really
going to stop us. They're going to complain. We control
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most of it, We do most of the business there. Anyway,
who cares? Anyway, Let's move on to something a little
bit more substantial here. Trump has talked a lot throughout
the campaign trail about how he's going to bring back jobs,
he's going to boost the American economy, and a lot
of people have been wondering, Okay, well, how are you
actually going to do that? Well, part of that question,
a small part, but part of it was answered during
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this press conference where Hassan Sajuani. I don't know much
about this guy other than the fact that he's from
the Emirates and he is a billionaire. He announced in
that press conference with Donald Trump that he's going to
throw a twenty billion dollar investment into the United States
to build data centers. Now, this is something that's very good.
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This is an emerging industry that America has got to
get out ahead of the data centers. In case you
don't know, that's AI and whatnot. All of that stuff
needs an incredible amount of information. That information has to
be stored somewhere that somewhere is data centers. So having
those here in America is a good thing. Having money
coming in in order to build those that creates jobs,
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presumably for Americans. Once they're built, people have to operate them.
Those people will also presumably be Americans. So this is
a very good thing. Here's that announcement about this twenty
billion dollar and that is a big number. Twenty billion
dollar investment into the United States for data centers.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Thank you, mister President. There's been amazing news for me
and my family. When he was elected in November. We've
been waiting four years to increase our investments in US
to a very large amount of money. We are a
company operating in more than twenty countries around the world.
We have delivered more than forty five thousand luxury units
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and another forty five thous in the pipeline in data center.
We are in ten countries around the world in Asia, Europe,
and Middle East. And we're very, very excited now with
his leadership and his open strategy and policy to encourage
businesses to come to us. For the last four years,
we've been waiting for this moment and we're planning to
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invest twenty billion dollars and even more than that if
the opportunity in the market allow us. But at the moment,
we're planning twenty billion dollars in data center catering for
the AI and cloud business for the hyper scalers. Thank you,
miss Fast, Thank you very much. So nice.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
All right, I want to point your attention to how
he says we've been waiting four years to make this investment.
Leadership matters. People around the world can see who is
running our country and they make judgments based off of
that as to whether or not they want to do
business here. And for the last four years, the United
States is not a place where a foreign company would
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want to come in and invest. That is changing. Donald
Trump is getting results and he's not even the president yet.
So I mean, you can go and complain that he's
saying things that might aggravate Claudia Shinebomb from Mexico, but
the fact of the matter is he is getting results,
and big ones at that. All right, we'll be right
back after some ads. All right, Let's talk a little
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bit about these wildfires in California. This is a pretty
crazy situation because California is known for having some pretty
severe wildfires. This isn't necessarily uncommon, but these ones, it's
like four or five different wildfires, and at least one
of them was actually started by an arsonist, I believe
we know now because they arrested the guy who started it,
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but four or five, at least one of them was
started by an arsonist. The other four, who knows how
they got started. If I was a betting man, I
would say probably some of the other ones were started
by arsonists as well. But of course, it is California,
and they are known for having terrible forest management and
fire management and whatnot, so this very well could have
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just started naturally. But obviously, prayers for everyone in the
Los Angeles area, everyone in California. A lot of people
have lost their homes and people you would know to celebrities,
you know, not just random people, but people who traditionally
are able to get out of situations like this because
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they're the elites quote unquote, like I said, Hollywood celebrities
and whatnot, people who are usually fine. They're not fine.
This fire is burning Hollywood to the ground right now
and causing quite a bit of damage. Fifty billion is
the rough estimate when I last checked, like fifty billion
dollars in damages and they're still going as we speak.
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So obviously this is a really bad situation. But it's
made worse because of the incompetence in California and in
Los Angeles, and that, to me is one of the
biggest stories here, is the fact that Los Angeles has
gone so all in Los Angeles, in California has gone
so all in on the wokeness, on the diversity, on
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the equality ladi da di da. They have completely thrown
basic competence by the wayside. It's not even a factor
in their hiring decisions for any position anywhere. Right. They
couldn't care less about whether or not you can actually
do the job that you're being given, be that an
elected position, be that an appointed position like a fire
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chief or whatnot. They just don't care if you're actually capable.
All that matters is can you hit the diversity quotas?
And that has become painfully obvious in Los Angeles as
these fires burn, because you look at people like their
fire chief, their governor, the mayor of Los Angeles, and
it's so obvious that these people are in these jobs
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simply because of what boxes they check. Now, the tip
of the iceberg here, of course, is Gavin Newsom. He
runs this state. La is the biggest most important city
in that state, far and away, no questions asked. It's
one of the biggest most important states in the entire
United States, only because it generates a lot of money
which then goes into California and is wasted and it's
a disaster. The point here is California is wasted on
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the Californians. But here's where the real root problem is.
They have not been able to really contain these fires
in any significant and noteworthy way, and one of the
reasons for that is they don't have any water. Their
fire hydrants are empty. The reason for this is because
for a long time, California has not been managing their
water properly. When they do their water management as a state,
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they focus on whatever makes the best headlines for the environmentalists.
That's because that's who's running the place. It is the
epitome of woke left garbage, and these are the full
results of that. So they don't have any water in
the fire hydrants, and that is one hundred percent Gavin
Newsom's fault because he's the governor of that state. And
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here he is just shirking the blame for that. He's
confronted on the fact that they don't have any water
in those fire hydrants, and he's just like, well, that's
actually not my job, that's not my problem. I don't care.
Take a listen to what he says here. It's unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
What is the situation with the water?
Speaker 5 (12:10):
Obviously in the palisage ran out last night and the
hydrants I was farmed. The firefighter in this block they
left because there was no water in the hydrant here.
The local folks are trying to figure that out. I mean,
just when you have a system that's not dissimilar to
what we've seen in other extraordinarily large scale fires, whether
it be pipe of electricity or whether it just be
the complete overwhelm of the system. I mean, those hydrants
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are typical for two or three fires, maybe one fire.
You have something at this scale. But again, that's going
to be determined by.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
The local So he kicks it down to the local authorities, which, okay,
fair enough, that's your escape move whatever. Well, what are
the locals doing at this point? And they're just throwing
the blame back and forth between each other. The lady
who's the chief of the fire department in LA is
just going back and forth with the mayor, trying to
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flip flame between the two of them. Either of them
wants to actually take responsibility for what's going on there.
So take a listen to the LA Fire chief saying, listen,
we have been begging Los Angeles for help for more
money because we knew we weren't prepared, and they completely
ignored us.
Speaker 6 (13:16):
Did the City of Los Angeles fail you and your
department and our city. It's my job to stand up
as a chief and exactly say justifiably what the fire
department needs to operate to meet the demands of the community.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Did they fail you?
Speaker 6 (13:31):
That is our job, and I tell you that's why
I'm here. So let's get us what we need so
firefighters can do their jobs.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Did they fail you?
Speaker 6 (13:38):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (13:41):
And you see she tried to kind of politic her
way out of that because she didn't want to have
to pin the blame on the mayor of Los Angeles,
I guess, but the reporter does a great job of
actually pushing her on this and like, Okay, that wasn't
the question. Did they fail you? And she's like, yeah, yeah,
they did. And you know what they really did because
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guess what Los Angeles, which is of course an area
known for having wildfires, which is in a state that's
known for having wildfires, did over the last couple of years.
They've been spending their time cutting their fire department budget
and sending their fire department equipment to Ukraine, of all places.
This is what happens when you put virtue signaling ahead
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of taking care of your people in your community. Like
I'm all about helping others, that's great, But if you're
helping others hampers your ability to help the people that
you're directly responsible for, Okay, then we need to take
a step back and reexamine because we can't help other
people at the expense of our own people here in
the United States. That's a problem. But like I said,
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they cut the fire department budget in Los Angeles, which
is quite possibly the stupidest thing you can do in
that area. If anything, you should be giving them more
money all the time because they refuse to manage their forests.
But there has been debate on this some outlets and
some left wingers. For some reason, I don't know why
this is becoming a partisan issue. It's ridiculous, but it is.
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Everything has to be partisan. Now left wingers are claiming
this has not happened. I've seen numerous times on Twitter
people say that's a myth. I've seen people try to
propose community notes that say the fire department budget wasn't cut.
So here it is from CBS News, which is not
a right wing source, saying funding for the city's fire
department decreased by seventeen point six million, or two percent,
between the twenty twenty four to twenty five fiscal year
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and the twenty twenty three to twenty four fiscal year,
according to city budget documents. So there's that. We know
that's true. Now that's one hundred percent correct. They cut
their budget, which is stupid. There's no good reason for
that except you're broken. You want to send money to
all the woke crap that you have been spending your
taxpayer dollars on. Here's another problem we mentioned, they sent
their equipment to Ukraine. Again, leftists had tried to claim
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that this is not true. ABC ten, which I believe
is the local ABC afffiliate in Los Angeles. Again, ABC News,
they aren't right wing by any stretch of the Imagination.
They're owned by Disney. They did a fact check of
this and according to them, according to ABC ten, yes
this did happen. So the sources they cided of the
Los Angeles County Fire Department, Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation,
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January eighth, twenty twenty five, wildfire press conference by Los
Angeles community leaders and Nova Ukraine, and the answer is true. Yes,
the Los Angeles County Fire Department donated surplus equipment to
Ukraine in March twenty twenty two. You know what would
be really helpful right now, surplus fire equipment. And they
say that surplus, but I wonder how surplus that actually is.
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I bet you they took stuff that they just didn't
happen to be using at that time, but had in
store for situations like this, because people in the past
have planned for disasters, and then people come in behind
them who don't care about planning for the future and
give their stuff to Ukraine and then say, well that's surplus.
Was it actually surplus or did somebody go in and
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plan ahead and so we had extra stuff for when
we need it, like right now. I don't know. I
don't work there, Thank the Lord, But where am I
going with all this? What's the actual point, Because to
a certain extent we know all this. Democrats run things poorly.
Democrats have been running Los Angeles and California for the
better part of thirty years. That is the point. You're
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going to be told over the next several months that
this is climate change. It's already started, it's been going
since the fire's kicked up the first time. We've been
told constantly that this is climate change. That is a lie.
This is not the result of climate change. Wildfires are
a natural thing. It's a natural part of the cycle
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of any environment because you have things die, leaves, brush,
what not, and then a wildfire will kick up and
that will clear that out and reset the ecosystem. That
is a natural thing that has been happening forever. The
problem here is not climate change. It's not even really
the fires. It's the fact that you have incompetent management.
When you have people who are not qualified to be
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running the most important parts of your infrastructure that are
more focused on virtue signaling than actually doing their job efficiently,
this is what you get. This is not climate change.
This is mismanagement, and everyone should be fired. I truly
hope this is a wake up call for Californians and
they start to demand better from their leadership because the
Good Lord knows they need it. All right, let's talk
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a little bit about something good, something positive. Facebook has
seemingly had a pretty significant change of heart when it
comes to being just a wildly woke left platform, and
of course anyone who's on social media is familiar with
kind of how Facebook has really just become sort of
the echo chamber for left wing thought that Twitter used
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to be before Elon Musk took it over. Now, the
younger people listening might not know this or might not
be as aware of this because you're not on Facebook.
You're on Instagram, which of course is owned by the
same parent company, Meta, which is run by Marcserberg. But
some of you older folks who are on Facebook more
are probably aware of this. I mean, we've all seen
the posts from our aunts and uncles. I'm in Facebook
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jail again. Can you see this, lighty do Everybody's got
that right wing uncle that says something that Facebook doesn't
like and then he gets put in quote unquote Facebook
jail where they start censoring him, they limit his reach,
or they maybe even take his account down entirely. This
happened to katih host Michael Berry, who ran a pretty big,
pretty successful Facebook account for a long time. He got
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whacked by Facebook and had to start all over completely
on a new Facebook page. Go follow him. He's great,
love the guy, fantastic hoast. Anyway, they work kind of
at the front lines. Meta was of sort of the
censorship that occurred right after the twenty twenty election. Twenty
twenty one kicked off, and of course they had been
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censoring the Hunter by the Laptop story in the lead
up to the twenty twenty election, and then January of
twenty twenty one, when Twitter throws Trump off of their platform,
Facebook and Meta do the same thing. He was off Instagram,
he was off Facebook for a while. I don't know
if that's still the case. I don't know even if
they let him back on, if Donald Trump would ever bother.
He just now got onto Twitter again and he hardly
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ever uses it, So who really cares about that? The
real emphasis is the fact that they weren't front and
center of this censorship regime that people have been complaining
about for a long time, the same regime that kind
of pushed Elon Musk to buy X. So I want
to play you a little bit of Mark Zuckerberg's announcement
where he says, look, this is what we were doing,
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this is what our goal actually was, and this is
what it turned into. And now we're going to undo that.
We're going to reverse some of those policies. So take
all of this with a grain of salt, because anytime
you have somebody like Mark Zuckerberg, who for a long
time has kind of been viewed as one of these
leftist elite oligarchs and then they all of a sudden
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have a change of pace right after an election, Okay,
that's worth a little bit of suspicion. But we're going
to give him the benefit of the doubt here because
I think he's earned it, and i'll tell you why.
So here, first listen to his announcement video, or at
least a portion of it, because I'm not going to
play the full five minutes, and then we'll get a
little bit more into the weeds.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
So we built a lot of complex systems to moderate content.
But the problem with complex systems is they make mistakes.
Even if they accidentally censored just one percent of posts,
that's millions of people, and we've reached a point where
it's just too many mistakes and too much censorship. The
recent elections also feel like a cultural tipping point towards
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once again prioritizing speech. So we're going to get back
to our roots and focus on reducing mistakes, simplifying our policies,
and restoring free expression on our platforms. More specifically, here's
what we're going to do. First, we're going to get
rid of fact checkers and replace them with community notes
similar to X. Starting in the US, after Trump first
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got elected in twenty sixteen, the legacy media wrote NonStop
about how misinformation was a threat to democracy. We tried,
in good faith to address those concerns without becoming the
arbiters of truth, but the fact checkers have just been
too politically biased and have destroyed more trusts than they've created,
especially in the US. Second, we're going to simplify our
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content policies and get rid of a bunch of restrictions
on topics like immigration and gender that are just out
of touch with mainstream discourse. What started as a movement
to be more inclusive has increasingly been used to shut
down opinions and shut out people with different ideas, and
it's gone too far.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Okay, So that's a little sneak peek. The full video
that he posted as available basically everywhere. It's on Facebook,
it's on YouTube, it's not hard to find. It's even
on Twitter. Just search up Zuckerberg and then scroll for
a little bit and you'll find it. So what he
is basically doing there is saying, listen, Originally, we had
all these great intentions, right, and we tried to implement
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policies and procedures and practices that were reflective of those
great intents. We want everybody to feel included. We want
everybody to have a great time, Lottie dot E do.
So we create systems to help do that, and then
that got out of hand, and that's how we ended
up where we are today. Okay. I have some sympathy
for that argument, because, as we all know, the road
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to disaster is paved with good intentions. That's common knowledge.
So I don't necessarily not believe Zuckerberg here. I'm inclined
to think that maybe he did have a sincere desire
to just build a nice, inclusive community, which you know,
Rainbow's in love and everybody's happy all the time, and
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things got out of hand, so people weren't able to
speak their mind, to have honest discourse. That's believable to me.
Maybe I'm naive. I think that has some merit. Does
that excuse what he did wrong? Does that excuse the
fact that Facebook allowed censorship and left wing nonsense to
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get out out of hand on their platform. No, not
at all. You are still responsible for the mistakes you made.
Even if the mistakes you made were good intentioned. The
fact that you wanted to do something good doesn't excuse
the fact that you did something terrible. If that was
the case, then Thanos would have been perfectly justified in
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the Avengers films because he just wanted everybody to have enough.
He just had the wrong way of going about that.
That's kind of the situation we're in here with Mark Zuckerberg.
He had good intentions, so he just snapped his fingers
and fifty percent of the content on Facebook disappeared. It
just so happened that that fifty percent of the content
was everybody that didn't agree with the wild leftists. Who's
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to say how intentional that was. Now one thing that
exacerbated this situation, which is already not a great one.
The moment you start censoring people because you don't like
what they say, that's a bad thing. Regardless of what
your intentions are. People should be allowed to speak out.
What made this worse was the fact that the Biden
administration stepped in and they in turn started pressuring Facebook
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and the people at Meta to be overtly political in
what they were censoring, which Zuckerberg claims was not his intention.
So take a listen to Zuckerberg on Rogan, because he
followed this announcement up with an appearance on jer Rogan's podcast.
I would encourage you, if you have two free hours,
go listen to that whole thing because it is very interesting.
But here he is talking with Rogan about the fact
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that the actual United States government was calling up his
people and pressuring them and yelling at them and cussing
at them, trying to get them to take down content
that the US government, as in the Biden administration, didn't like.
This is insane, this is illegal.
Speaker 7 (25:42):
Take a listen ex these people from the Biden administration
would call up our team and like scream at them
and curse, and it's like these documents there, it's all
kind of out there.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Did you record any of those phone calls?
Speaker 3 (25:57):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (25:57):
I don't think. I don't think we were, but I think,
I mean, there are emails, the emails are published, it's all,
it's all kind of out there, and and they're like
and basically it just got to this point where we
were like, no, we're not gonna We're not gonna take
down things that are true.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
That's ridiculous.
Speaker 7 (26:15):
They want us to take down this meme of Leonardo
DiCaprio looking at a TV talking about how ten years
from now or something, you know, you're gonna see an
ad that says, okay, if you took a COVID vaccine,
your eligible you know, like uh, for for this kind
of payment. Like so this sort of like class action
lawsuit type meme. And they're like, no, you have to
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take that down. We said, no, we're not. We're not
actually take down humor and satire. We're not gonna take
down things that are that are true. And then at
some point, I guess, uh, I don't know, it flipped
a bit. I mean, Biden when he was he gave
some statement at some point, I don't know, if his
press conference or to some journalists where basically was like,
these guys are killing people and and and I don't know.
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Then like all these different agencies and branches of government
basically just like started investigating coming after our company. It
was brutal.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
It was brutal.
Speaker 5 (27:07):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Okay, So Zuckerberg's whole point here is basically and this
is the way I take it, so again, grain of salt,
because this is my opinion on what he said, which
may or may not be true, so who knows. But
Zuckerberg's position is we wanted to sort of do the
best that we could to protect people and whatnot, and
that's noble. And we wanted to have a good safe
platform and follow the law and make sure we weren't
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doing any harm and that's noble too. And his claim
is we listened too much to the mainstream media. We
listened too much to the government because we thought we
could trust them, just like a bunch of other people
thought these mainstream media sources and the government are trustworthy sources.
Surprise they're not. Conservatives have known this for a long time.
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There's a bunch of people in the middle and kind
of towards the left that are just recently figuring this out,
people like Elon Musk, for example, because remember he was
a Democrat for a long time too, So these people
are just now starting to figure this out. And Zuckerberg
is saying, we aired on the side of caution here
and that was a mistake. We aired too much on
the side of caution here, and we did things that
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with the benefit of hindsight, we would not have done.
I am sympathetic to that argument. I am now there
is a strong argument also to be made that Zuckerberg
is just trying to cover his own booty because there's
a new administration in power and he made some enemies
with them when he was being an overt wild leftist,
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or at least when Meta was being an avert wild leftist. Hey, listen,
that might be the case. Who knows, And this is
what I tell everybody in situations like this, we really
don't know how sincere this change of heart is until
we see the full fledged results. It's going to take
time for this to play out, for their new content
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policies and their new enforcement policies to kind of roll
out and then start being enforced, and then we can
see did he actually mean this when a new Democrat
administration rolls in. If he flips again, then we'll know.
But until that happens, let's give people the benefit of
the doubt. Let's welcome the converts into the free speech
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movement because we do want more people, especially more powerful
people with big platforms. What's happening right now, at the
very least in this moment, is a good thing. Let's
just be happy about that, and then we'll see what
happens later down the road. Okay, So the last thing
I want to touch on today is Trump has been
finally formally sentenced in his New York business fraud case.
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And just in case you've forgotten what that case was
all about, because most people stop paying attention to it
because Trump won and it doesn't matter, and the dirty
little secret is it never actually did matter. And we'll
get to that in a minute. But here's the quick summary. Essentially,
what happened, and I'm not a lawyer, is Donald Trump's
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lawyer created a the non disclosure agreement with Stormy Daniels,
who is an adult film star who allegedly had an
affair with Donald Trump and was going to talk about
it in twenty fifteen twenty sixteen, and tank his chances
of winning. So he created a non disclosure agreement donald
Trump's lawyer, and then Donald Trump paid that lawyer for
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that non disclosure agreement. And you know, it's a pretty
common thing that people do all the time. It's completely legal.
You're allowed to have non disclosure agreements, You're allowed to
pay people for those non disclosure agreements. There really was
no crime here. But apparently the New York jury and
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district attorneys and prosecutors and judges all think that this
constitutes election fraud. Somehow, I never understood this. A lot
of legal scholars never understood this. Whatever, this is the case.
As it stands, Donald Trump was found guilty. Nobody actually
really cared. Nobody ever did. That's why he won despite this.
So Donald Trump has officially been sentenced in this case,
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and it's the sentence that I want to get to
that really exposes the fact that this was all just
political nonsense. So, of course we've heard since the actual
conviction came down several months ago, donald Trump is a
convicted felon. We can't let a convicted fellon back in
the White House. Look how terrible this is. The Republicans
are voting for a convicted fellaon supporting a convicted fellain.
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This is just such a terrible crime that he did,
he stole the election, etc.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
Etc.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
We've all heard this constantly, right, so much so that
it's just become white noise, and we all tuned it
out and ignored it. Now, if you listen to the
mainstream media, if you listen to all those people that
are saying those things, you would think that this is
such a serious crime that Donald Trump actually needs to
be punished, right, Like if he used business fraud to
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steal the election, like the claim is surely that would
at least come with a fine, right, he would at
least get fined, if not jail, Because remember this is
thirty four felony counts that Donald Trump got found guilty of. Well, no,
there actually is no fine, There is no jail time,
There is no punishment at all. So the sentence that
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was given down is unconditional release. And that might not
be the technical term for it, I don't remember exactly,
but apparently Trump will not serve any jail time, he
will not pay any fine, he will not even have probation.
So essentially they say you're guilty, you did this crime.
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You're a convicted felon, Go about your day, have a
good time, Thank you very much, goodbye. What is the
point of this if that's where we get Like, for
months we have heard that we have to do this.
This is the defense of democracy. This is incredibly important.
Nobody is above the law. He is so not above
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the law that we're going to convict him of his
crimes and literally give him no punishment. How much sense
does that make? How concerned are we supposed to be
with him breaking the law supposedly because I still don't
believe he actually did anything wrong. I understand he is
legally a convicted felon, so I'm not going to say allegedly,
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according to New York, he did break the law according
to the state of New York. We'll see if that
conviction stands. Because now Donald Trump can actually go appeal
his conviction. And I think as a lot of other
legal experts, which I am by no means a legal expert,
but a lot of legal experts seem to be of
the opinion that Donald Trump will be able to appeal
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this conviction and pretty easily get it overturned. Because this
is pretty clearly a political indictment. It always was. This
is political actors who are in these positions of power,
that we're trying to use their power in order to
swing the twenty twenty four election. And since it didn't work,
now they just say, oh, well we lost, go about
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your day, here's your conviction, and we're done with you.
Makes no sense to me whatsoever. So here's the statement
that Donald Trump put out about this. He said, the
radical Democrats have lost another pathetic, Unamerican witch hunt after
spending tens of millions of dollars wasting over six years
of obsessive work that should have been spent on protecting
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New Yorkers from violent, rampant crime that is destroying the
city and state, coordinating with the Biden Harris Department of Justice,
or he calls it the Biden Harris's Department of Injustice,
in lawless weaponization and bringing completely baseless, illegal and fake
charges against your forty fifth and forty seventh President me
I was given an unconditional discharge. That's the technical term there,
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it is unconditional discharge. The result alone proves that, as
all legal scholars and experts have said, there is no case.
There never was a case, and this whole scam fully
deserves to be dismissed. The real jury, the American people
have spoken and by re electing me with an overwhelming
mandate in one of the most consequent elections in history.
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As the American people have seen, this case had no crime,
no damages, no proof, no facts, no law, only a
highly conflicted judge, a star witness who is a disbarred, disgraced,
serial perjurer, and criminal election interference. Today's event was a
despicable charade. And now that it is over, we will
appeal this hoax, which has no merit, and restore the
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trust of Americans in our once great system of justice.
Make America great again. Now, the point he makes there,
I think is really important, the fact that they wasted
so much time, so much resources going after this ridiculous
charge where they had basically turned what may have been
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a bunch of misdemeanors that the statute of limitations had
already expired on. They strung them to some weird election
law and basically tried to convert them into felonies so
that they could charge Trump with them because the statue
of limitations had not expired on the weird felonies that
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they basically manufactured here. All the time that they were
doing that, they could have been going after actual criminals.
And this is a point that has been made for
a very long time, basically since this case started. There
are people that are like straight up going and murdering
people that are getting minimum sentences, if they're even charged
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at all. They're letting them out on bail, letting them
back out onto the streets, and completely ignoring them. I mean,
the crime in New York is insanely high, and they're
not prosecuting it. Felonies are bumped down to misdemeanors. This
is a common problem that people keep talking about constantly,
and yet they spend so much effort going after Donald
Trump for something that literally nobody could have ever possibly
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cared about. Rich billionaire spends money to cover up an affair.
Who cares? Is it good that Trump did this?
Speaker 2 (36:56):
No?
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Does it actually matter? Also? No, between Trump, his wife
and the lord. This case is the perfect example of
how the justice system has one hundred percent been weaponized
on a political bias. I mean Alvin Bragg, the DA
who is pushing this case, who also pushed the Daniel
Penny case. He has downgraded and estimated sixty percent of
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felony cases to lesser charges. So there is clearly a
discrepancy in first of all the laws that they're choosing
to enforce and secondly who they're choosing to enforce them on.
And I think everyone can see that now, because again,
if this case was such a big deal that it
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warranted all the time and all the effort and all
the money that was spent on it, and all the
news and all the press coverage that we got about this,
you would think it would warrant at least a fine.
Like I understand, you can't throw the man in jail
because he won the election. Obviously we all knew that,
But can't she at least hit him with a fine
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that's not going to hamper his ability to take office.
He can appeal that fine and whatnot while he's the president,
I think, unless I'm mistaken and there's some weird rules
about what appeals you can and can't make as president,
but I don't think there are. This right here is
exactly why conservatives have started to distrust our institutions so much,
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especially in big blue cities like New York. We can
look at what's going on and clearly see that this
is biased against us. Institutions that are supposed to protect
everybody in this country have become tools used by those
in power to push a narrative. People are tired of it.
They want top down reform, and I hope they get it.
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I hope they get it. I know they'll get it
from the dojed because Trump is going to come in
and he's going to clean house. Let's just cross our
fingers and hope the effects of that trickle down, because
this is actually dangerous for a society. This is not healthy.
This is not the sign of a society that's doing
well and poised to last. So let's hope we get
a reversal of course here pretty quickly.
Speaker 6 (39:06):
All right.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
That is all I have got for us this week.
Thank you guys very much for listening, for tuning in again.
We'll see where this goes. Trump is definitely going to appeal,
so we'll see if it holds up, and we'll be
following the closely. And yeah, that's all I got. Once again,
Pray for California. Thanks for tuning in, and I'll see
y'all next week. Thank you very much,
Alrighty y'all, welcome back. Good to be back. Hope y'all
had a graades. I had a pretty good week. It
started off really strong, and I'll tell you why. The
first thing that happened this week was we got a
Donald Trump press conference. Now, I has said in the
last episode that Donald Trump at his best is campaign Trump,
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and I think still that is mostly true. However, there
is a contender that we need to enter into the competition,
and that is press conference Trump. I had forgotten how
good press conference Trump was because we haven't had an
official Trump press conference in Soul long. Right, It's been
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four years almost since Trump was the president, and so
we haven't had an official Trump press conference. We've had
campaign press conferences, but that's still campaign Trump. It's not
president press conference Trump. Those are two different entities and
they're both really good. They're both really good. So Donald
Trump said a lot of things in this press conference
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that I think some of them were actual serious policy
and some of them were he was just trolling the media,
and he's known for doing this. He's known for this,
he does this quite a bit. One of the things
he talked about was he is going to change the
name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. Now,
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the media has been losing their mind over this. The
left has been losing their mind over this. And I
hate to break you to y'all, but there's like a
ninety five percent chance that this is a joke, and
that little five percent chance that it's not a joke.
Who actually cares? Really, who actually cares? What difference does
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it actually make whether or not Donald Trump changes the
name of Golf of Mexico. Forget whether or not he can,
because that's a debate that people have been having. Can
Trump actually do this? Who cares? It's funny, Just have
a laugh, enjoy it. Here's what it sounded like at
the press conference when he made this announcement. Take a listen.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
It's pretty great, and we're going to be announcing it
a future date pretty soon. We're going to change because
we do most of the work there and it's ours
we're going to be changed. You're sort of the opposite
of Biden, where he's closing everything up, essentially getting rid
of fifty to sixty trillion dollars worth of assets. We're
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going to be changing the name of the Gulf of
Mexico to the Gulf of America, which has a beautiful
ring that covers a lot of territory. The Gulf of America.
What a beautiful name, and it's appropriate. It's appropriate, and
Mexico has to stop allowing millions of people to pour
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into our country. They can stop them, and we're gonna
put very serious tariffs on Mexico and Canada because Canada.
They come through Canada too, and the drugs that are
coming through are at record numbers, record numbers.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
So I think what we're pretty clearly seeing here is
just a case of Donald Trump trolling. It really just
looks like he's trying to take a dig at Mexico
because him and the new President of Mexico, Claudia Shinbaum,
have been basically just feuding with each other online. He'll
say something snarky and she'll say something snarky back, like
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she responded to this by saying, why don't we just
call America Mexico America or something like that. It's really
stupid stuff. She is not as good at the as
Donald Trump is, and it is very very apparent. But
that's one of the things that he announced in that
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press conference. I don't know how serious it is. Who
cares how serious it is? Honestly, who cares? If you
wake up tomorrow and the name of the Gulf of
Mexico has changed, how is that gonna affect your life?
Because the Left are doing what they always did. They
are acting like this is gonna start a war. Donald
Trump is throwing words around and war mongering, and he's
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gonna make all of our allies across the country wanna
or across the planet, I mean, wanna attack us. And
we never went to war with anybody, So what's the
big deal. He's just cracking some jokes. He's just having
a good time. We do a little trolling. He's quoted
as saying that we do a little trolling, like the
American people voted for mean tweets and world peace. Here's
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the mean tweets. That's what it is. He's cracking some
jokes that the President of Mexico doesn't like. Boohoo, She'll
get over it. Nobody actually really cares what the name
of the Gulf of Mexico is, and he does have
a point. It is ours, and why is it ours?
Because we're the best hard facts, we're the best. If
we want it, we can have it. Mexico's not really
going to stop us. They're going to complain. We control
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most of it, We do most of the business there. Anyway,
who cares? Anyway, Let's move on to something a little
bit more substantial here. Trump has talked a lot throughout
the campaign trail about how he's going to bring back jobs,
he's going to boost the American economy, and a lot
of people have been wondering, Okay, well, how are you
actually going to do that? Well, part of that question,
a small part, but part of it was answered during
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this press conference where Hassan Sajuani. I don't know much
about this guy other than the fact that he's from
the Emirates and he is a billionaire. He announced in
that press conference with Donald Trump that he's going to
throw a twenty billion dollar investment into the United States
to build data centers. Now, this is something that's very good.
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This is an emerging industry that America has got to
get out ahead of the data centers. In case you
don't know, that's AI and whatnot. All of that stuff
needs an incredible amount of information. That information has to
be stored somewhere that somewhere is data centers. So having
those here in America is a good thing. Having money
coming in in order to build those that creates jobs,
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presumably for Americans. Once they're built, people have to operate them.
Those people will also presumably be Americans. So this is
a very good thing. Here's that announcement about this twenty
billion dollar and that is a big number. Twenty billion
dollar investment into the United States for data centers.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Thank you, mister President. There's been amazing news for me
and my family. When he was elected in November. We've
been waiting four years to increase our investments in US
to a very large amount of money. We are a
company operating in more than twenty countries around the world.
We have delivered more than forty five thousand luxury units
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and another forty five thous in the pipeline in data center.
We are in ten countries around the world in Asia, Europe,
and Middle East. And we're very, very excited now with
his leadership and his open strategy and policy to encourage
businesses to come to us. For the last four years,
we've been waiting for this moment and we're planning to
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invest twenty billion dollars and even more than that if
the opportunity in the market allow us. But at the moment,
we're planning twenty billion dollars in data center catering for
the AI and cloud business for the hyper scalers. Thank you,
miss Fast, Thank you very much. So nice.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
All right, I want to point your attention to how
he says we've been waiting four years to make this investment.
Leadership matters. People around the world can see who is
running our country and they make judgments based off of
that as to whether or not they want to do
business here. And for the last four years, the United
States is not a place where a foreign company would
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want to come in and invest. That is changing. Donald
Trump is getting results and he's not even the president yet.
So I mean, you can go and complain that he's
saying things that might aggravate Claudia Shinebomb from Mexico, but
the fact of the matter is he is getting results,
and big ones at that. All right, we'll be right
back after some ads. All right, Let's talk a little
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bit about these wildfires in California. This is a pretty
crazy situation because California is known for having some pretty
severe wildfires. This isn't necessarily uncommon, but these ones, it's
like four or five different wildfires, and at least one
of them was actually started by an arsonist, I believe
we know now because they arrested the guy who started it,
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but four or five, at least one of them was
started by an arsonist. The other four, who knows how
they got started. If I was a betting man, I
would say probably some of the other ones were started
by arsonists as well. But of course, it is California,
and they are known for having terrible forest management and
fire management and whatnot, so this very well could have
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just started naturally. But obviously, prayers for everyone in the
Los Angeles area, everyone in California. A lot of people
have lost their homes and people you would know to celebrities,
you know, not just random people, but people who traditionally
are able to get out of situations like this because
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they're the elites quote unquote, like I said, Hollywood celebrities
and whatnot, people who are usually fine. They're not fine.
This fire is burning Hollywood to the ground right now
and causing quite a bit of damage. Fifty billion is
the rough estimate when I last checked, like fifty billion
dollars in damages and they're still going as we speak.
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So obviously this is a really bad situation. But it's
made worse because of the incompetence in California and in
Los Angeles, and that, to me is one of the
biggest stories here, is the fact that Los Angeles has
gone so all in Los Angeles, in California has gone
so all in on the wokeness, on the diversity, on
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the equality ladi da di da. They have completely thrown
basic competence by the wayside. It's not even a factor
in their hiring decisions for any position anywhere. Right. They
couldn't care less about whether or not you can actually
do the job that you're being given, be that an
elected position, be that an appointed position like a fire
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chief or whatnot. They just don't care if you're actually capable.
All that matters is can you hit the diversity quotas?
And that has become painfully obvious in Los Angeles as
these fires burn, because you look at people like their
fire chief, their governor, the mayor of Los Angeles, and
it's so obvious that these people are in these jobs
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simply because of what boxes they check. Now, the tip
of the iceberg here, of course, is Gavin Newsom. He
runs this state. La is the biggest most important city
in that state, far and away, no questions asked. It's
one of the biggest most important states in the entire
United States, only because it generates a lot of money
which then goes into California and is wasted and it's
a disaster. The point here is California is wasted on
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the Californians. But here's where the real root problem is.
They have not been able to really contain these fires
in any significant and noteworthy way, and one of the
reasons for that is they don't have any water. Their
fire hydrants are empty. The reason for this is because
for a long time, California has not been managing their
water properly. When they do their water management as a state,
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they focus on whatever makes the best headlines for the environmentalists.
That's because that's who's running the place. It is the
epitome of woke left garbage, and these are the full
results of that. So they don't have any water in
the fire hydrants, and that is one hundred percent Gavin
Newsom's fault because he's the governor of that state. And
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here he is just shirking the blame for that. He's
confronted on the fact that they don't have any water
in those fire hydrants, and he's just like, well, that's
actually not my job, that's not my problem. I don't care.
Take a listen to what he says here. It's unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
What is the situation with the water?
Speaker 5 (12:10):
Obviously in the palisage ran out last night and the
hydrants I was farmed. The firefighter in this block they
left because there was no water in the hydrant here.
The local folks are trying to figure that out. I mean,
just when you have a system that's not dissimilar to
what we've seen in other extraordinarily large scale fires, whether
it be pipe of electricity or whether it just be
the complete overwhelm of the system. I mean, those hydrants
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are typical for two or three fires, maybe one fire.
You have something at this scale. But again, that's going
to be determined by.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
The local So he kicks it down to the local authorities, which, okay,
fair enough, that's your escape move whatever. Well, what are
the locals doing at this point? And they're just throwing
the blame back and forth between each other. The lady
who's the chief of the fire department in LA is
just going back and forth with the mayor, trying to
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flip flame between the two of them. Either of them
wants to actually take responsibility for what's going on there.
So take a listen to the LA Fire chief saying, listen,
we have been begging Los Angeles for help for more
money because we knew we weren't prepared, and they completely
ignored us.
Speaker 6 (13:16):
Did the City of Los Angeles fail you and your
department and our city. It's my job to stand up
as a chief and exactly say justifiably what the fire
department needs to operate to meet the demands of the community.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Did they fail you?
Speaker 6 (13:31):
That is our job, and I tell you that's why
I'm here. So let's get us what we need so
firefighters can do their jobs.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Did they fail you?
Speaker 6 (13:38):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (13:41):
And you see she tried to kind of politic her
way out of that because she didn't want to have
to pin the blame on the mayor of Los Angeles,
I guess, but the reporter does a great job of
actually pushing her on this and like, Okay, that wasn't
the question. Did they fail you? And she's like, yeah, yeah,
they did. And you know what they really did because
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guess what Los Angeles, which is of course an area
known for having wildfires, which is in a state that's
known for having wildfires, did over the last couple of years.
They've been spending their time cutting their fire department budget
and sending their fire department equipment to Ukraine, of all places.
This is what happens when you put virtue signaling ahead
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of taking care of your people in your community. Like
I'm all about helping others, that's great, But if you're
helping others hampers your ability to help the people that
you're directly responsible for, Okay, then we need to take
a step back and reexamine because we can't help other
people at the expense of our own people here in
the United States. That's a problem. But like I said,
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they cut the fire department budget in Los Angeles, which
is quite possibly the stupidest thing you can do in
that area. If anything, you should be giving them more
money all the time because they refuse to manage their forests.
But there has been debate on this some outlets and
some left wingers. For some reason, I don't know why
this is becoming a partisan issue. It's ridiculous, but it is.
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Everything has to be partisan. Now left wingers are claiming
this has not happened. I've seen numerous times on Twitter
people say that's a myth. I've seen people try to
propose community notes that say the fire department budget wasn't cut.
So here it is from CBS News, which is not
a right wing source, saying funding for the city's fire
department decreased by seventeen point six million, or two percent,
between the twenty twenty four to twenty five fiscal year
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and the twenty twenty three to twenty four fiscal year,
according to city budget documents. So there's that. We know
that's true. Now that's one hundred percent correct. They cut
their budget, which is stupid. There's no good reason for
that except you're broken. You want to send money to
all the woke crap that you have been spending your
taxpayer dollars on. Here's another problem we mentioned, they sent
their equipment to Ukraine. Again, leftists had tried to claim
(15:55):
that this is not true. ABC ten, which I believe
is the local ABC afffiliate in Los Angeles. Again, ABC News,
they aren't right wing by any stretch of the Imagination.
They're owned by Disney. They did a fact check of
this and according to them, according to ABC ten, yes
this did happen. So the sources they cided of the
Los Angeles County Fire Department, Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation,
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January eighth, twenty twenty five, wildfire press conference by Los
Angeles community leaders and Nova Ukraine, and the answer is true. Yes,
the Los Angeles County Fire Department donated surplus equipment to
Ukraine in March twenty twenty two. You know what would
be really helpful right now, surplus fire equipment. And they
say that surplus, but I wonder how surplus that actually is.
(16:42):
I bet you they took stuff that they just didn't
happen to be using at that time, but had in
store for situations like this, because people in the past
have planned for disasters, and then people come in behind
them who don't care about planning for the future and
give their stuff to Ukraine and then say, well that's surplus.
Was it actually surplus or did somebody go in and
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plan ahead and so we had extra stuff for when
we need it, like right now. I don't know. I
don't work there, Thank the Lord, But where am I
going with all this? What's the actual point, Because to
a certain extent we know all this. Democrats run things poorly.
Democrats have been running Los Angeles and California for the
better part of thirty years. That is the point. You're
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going to be told over the next several months that
this is climate change. It's already started, it's been going
since the fire's kicked up the first time. We've been
told constantly that this is climate change. That is a lie.
This is not the result of climate change. Wildfires are
a natural thing. It's a natural part of the cycle
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of any environment because you have things die, leaves, brush,
what not, and then a wildfire will kick up and
that will clear that out and reset the ecosystem. That
is a natural thing that has been happening forever. The
problem here is not climate change. It's not even really
the fires. It's the fact that you have incompetent management.
When you have people who are not qualified to be
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running the most important parts of your infrastructure that are
more focused on virtue signaling than actually doing their job efficiently,
this is what you get. This is not climate change.
This is mismanagement, and everyone should be fired. I truly
hope this is a wake up call for Californians and
they start to demand better from their leadership because the
Good Lord knows they need it. All right, let's talk
(18:25):
a little bit about something good, something positive. Facebook has
seemingly had a pretty significant change of heart when it
comes to being just a wildly woke left platform, and
of course anyone who's on social media is familiar with
kind of how Facebook has really just become sort of
the echo chamber for left wing thought that Twitter used
(18:48):
to be before Elon Musk took it over. Now, the
younger people listening might not know this or might not
be as aware of this because you're not on Facebook.
You're on Instagram, which of course is owned by the
same parent company, Meta, which is run by Marcserberg. But
some of you older folks who are on Facebook more
are probably aware of this. I mean, we've all seen
the posts from our aunts and uncles. I'm in Facebook
(19:09):
jail again. Can you see this, lighty do Everybody's got
that right wing uncle that says something that Facebook doesn't
like and then he gets put in quote unquote Facebook
jail where they start censoring him, they limit his reach,
or they maybe even take his account down entirely. This
happened to katih host Michael Berry, who ran a pretty big,
pretty successful Facebook account for a long time. He got
(19:31):
whacked by Facebook and had to start all over completely
on a new Facebook page. Go follow him. He's great,
love the guy, fantastic hoast. Anyway, they work kind of
at the front lines. Meta was of sort of the
censorship that occurred right after the twenty twenty election. Twenty
twenty one kicked off, and of course they had been
(19:52):
censoring the Hunter by the Laptop story in the lead
up to the twenty twenty election, and then January of
twenty twenty one, when Twitter throws Trump off of their platform,
Facebook and Meta do the same thing. He was off Instagram,
he was off Facebook for a while. I don't know
if that's still the case. I don't know even if
they let him back on, if Donald Trump would ever bother.
He just now got onto Twitter again and he hardly
(20:13):
ever uses it, So who really cares about that? The
real emphasis is the fact that they weren't front and
center of this censorship regime that people have been complaining
about for a long time, the same regime that kind
of pushed Elon Musk to buy X. So I want
to play you a little bit of Mark Zuckerberg's announcement
where he says, look, this is what we were doing,
(20:34):
this is what our goal actually was, and this is
what it turned into. And now we're going to undo that.
We're going to reverse some of those policies. So take
all of this with a grain of salt, because anytime
you have somebody like Mark Zuckerberg, who for a long
time has kind of been viewed as one of these
leftist elite oligarchs and then they all of a sudden
(20:55):
have a change of pace right after an election, Okay,
that's worth a little bit of suspicion. But we're going
to give him the benefit of the doubt here because
I think he's earned it, and i'll tell you why.
So here, first listen to his announcement video, or at
least a portion of it, because I'm not going to
play the full five minutes, and then we'll get a
little bit more into the weeds.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
So we built a lot of complex systems to moderate content.
But the problem with complex systems is they make mistakes.
Even if they accidentally censored just one percent of posts,
that's millions of people, and we've reached a point where
it's just too many mistakes and too much censorship. The
recent elections also feel like a cultural tipping point towards
(21:34):
once again prioritizing speech. So we're going to get back
to our roots and focus on reducing mistakes, simplifying our policies,
and restoring free expression on our platforms. More specifically, here's
what we're going to do. First, we're going to get
rid of fact checkers and replace them with community notes
similar to X. Starting in the US, after Trump first
(21:56):
got elected in twenty sixteen, the legacy media wrote NonStop
about how misinformation was a threat to democracy. We tried,
in good faith to address those concerns without becoming the
arbiters of truth, but the fact checkers have just been
too politically biased and have destroyed more trusts than they've created,
especially in the US. Second, we're going to simplify our
(22:18):
content policies and get rid of a bunch of restrictions
on topics like immigration and gender that are just out
of touch with mainstream discourse. What started as a movement
to be more inclusive has increasingly been used to shut
down opinions and shut out people with different ideas, and
it's gone too far.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Okay, So that's a little sneak peek. The full video
that he posted as available basically everywhere. It's on Facebook,
it's on YouTube, it's not hard to find. It's even
on Twitter. Just search up Zuckerberg and then scroll for
a little bit and you'll find it. So what he
is basically doing there is saying, listen, Originally, we had
all these great intentions, right, and we tried to implement
(22:56):
policies and procedures and practices that were reflective of those
great intents. We want everybody to feel included. We want
everybody to have a great time, Lottie dot E do.
So we create systems to help do that, and then
that got out of hand, and that's how we ended
up where we are today. Okay. I have some sympathy
for that argument, because, as we all know, the road
(23:18):
to disaster is paved with good intentions. That's common knowledge.
So I don't necessarily not believe Zuckerberg here. I'm inclined
to think that maybe he did have a sincere desire
to just build a nice, inclusive community, which you know,
Rainbow's in love and everybody's happy all the time, and
(23:39):
things got out of hand, so people weren't able to
speak their mind, to have honest discourse. That's believable to me.
Maybe I'm naive. I think that has some merit. Does
that excuse what he did wrong? Does that excuse the
fact that Facebook allowed censorship and left wing nonsense to
(23:59):
get out out of hand on their platform. No, not
at all. You are still responsible for the mistakes you made.
Even if the mistakes you made were good intentioned. The
fact that you wanted to do something good doesn't excuse
the fact that you did something terrible. If that was
the case, then Thanos would have been perfectly justified in
(24:20):
the Avengers films because he just wanted everybody to have enough.
He just had the wrong way of going about that.
That's kind of the situation we're in here with Mark Zuckerberg.
He had good intentions, so he just snapped his fingers
and fifty percent of the content on Facebook disappeared. It
just so happened that that fifty percent of the content
was everybody that didn't agree with the wild leftists. Who's
(24:43):
to say how intentional that was. Now one thing that
exacerbated this situation, which is already not a great one.
The moment you start censoring people because you don't like
what they say, that's a bad thing. Regardless of what
your intentions are. People should be allowed to speak out.
What made this worse was the fact that the Biden
administration stepped in and they in turn started pressuring Facebook
(25:07):
and the people at Meta to be overtly political in
what they were censoring, which Zuckerberg claims was not his intention.
So take a listen to Zuckerberg on Rogan, because he
followed this announcement up with an appearance on jer Rogan's podcast.
I would encourage you, if you have two free hours,
go listen to that whole thing because it is very interesting.
But here he is talking with Rogan about the fact
(25:28):
that the actual United States government was calling up his
people and pressuring them and yelling at them and cussing
at them, trying to get them to take down content
that the US government, as in the Biden administration, didn't like.
This is insane, this is illegal.
Speaker 7 (25:42):
Take a listen ex these people from the Biden administration
would call up our team and like scream at them
and curse, and it's like these documents there, it's all
kind of out there.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Did you record any of those phone calls?
Speaker 3 (25:57):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (25:57):
I don't think. I don't think we were, but I think,
I mean, there are emails, the emails are published, it's all,
it's all kind of out there, and and they're like
and basically it just got to this point where we
were like, no, we're not gonna We're not gonna take
down things that are true.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
That's ridiculous.
Speaker 7 (26:15):
They want us to take down this meme of Leonardo
DiCaprio looking at a TV talking about how ten years
from now or something, you know, you're gonna see an
ad that says, okay, if you took a COVID vaccine,
your eligible you know, like uh, for for this kind
of payment. Like so this sort of like class action
lawsuit type meme. And they're like, no, you have to
(26:35):
take that down. We said, no, we're not. We're not
actually take down humor and satire. We're not gonna take
down things that are that are true. And then at
some point, I guess, uh, I don't know, it flipped
a bit. I mean, Biden when he was he gave
some statement at some point, I don't know, if his
press conference or to some journalists where basically was like,
these guys are killing people and and and I don't know.
(26:58):
Then like all these different agencies and branches of government
basically just like started investigating coming after our company. It
was brutal.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
It was brutal.
Speaker 5 (27:07):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Okay, So Zuckerberg's whole point here is basically and this
is the way I take it, so again, grain of salt,
because this is my opinion on what he said, which
may or may not be true, so who knows. But
Zuckerberg's position is we wanted to sort of do the
best that we could to protect people and whatnot, and
that's noble. And we wanted to have a good safe
platform and follow the law and make sure we weren't
(27:29):
doing any harm and that's noble too. And his claim
is we listened too much to the mainstream media. We
listened too much to the government because we thought we
could trust them, just like a bunch of other people
thought these mainstream media sources and the government are trustworthy sources.
Surprise they're not. Conservatives have known this for a long time.
(27:50):
There's a bunch of people in the middle and kind
of towards the left that are just recently figuring this out,
people like Elon Musk, for example, because remember he was
a Democrat for a long time too, So these people
are just now starting to figure this out. And Zuckerberg
is saying, we aired on the side of caution here
and that was a mistake. We aired too much on
the side of caution here, and we did things that
(28:12):
with the benefit of hindsight, we would not have done.
I am sympathetic to that argument. I am now there
is a strong argument also to be made that Zuckerberg
is just trying to cover his own booty because there's
a new administration in power and he made some enemies
with them when he was being an overt wild leftist,
(28:33):
or at least when Meta was being an avert wild leftist. Hey, listen,
that might be the case. Who knows, And this is
what I tell everybody in situations like this, we really
don't know how sincere this change of heart is until
we see the full fledged results. It's going to take
time for this to play out, for their new content
(28:53):
policies and their new enforcement policies to kind of roll
out and then start being enforced, and then we can
see did he actually mean this when a new Democrat
administration rolls in. If he flips again, then we'll know.
But until that happens, let's give people the benefit of
the doubt. Let's welcome the converts into the free speech
(29:14):
movement because we do want more people, especially more powerful
people with big platforms. What's happening right now, at the
very least in this moment, is a good thing. Let's
just be happy about that, and then we'll see what
happens later down the road. Okay, So the last thing
I want to touch on today is Trump has been
finally formally sentenced in his New York business fraud case.
(29:37):
And just in case you've forgotten what that case was
all about, because most people stop paying attention to it
because Trump won and it doesn't matter, and the dirty
little secret is it never actually did matter. And we'll
get to that in a minute. But here's the quick summary. Essentially,
what happened, and I'm not a lawyer, is Donald Trump's
(29:57):
lawyer created a the non disclosure agreement with Stormy Daniels,
who is an adult film star who allegedly had an
affair with Donald Trump and was going to talk about
it in twenty fifteen twenty sixteen, and tank his chances
of winning. So he created a non disclosure agreement donald
Trump's lawyer, and then Donald Trump paid that lawyer for
(30:20):
that non disclosure agreement. And you know, it's a pretty
common thing that people do all the time. It's completely legal.
You're allowed to have non disclosure agreements, You're allowed to
pay people for those non disclosure agreements. There really was
no crime here. But apparently the New York jury and
(30:40):
district attorneys and prosecutors and judges all think that this
constitutes election fraud. Somehow, I never understood this. A lot
of legal scholars never understood this. Whatever, this is the case.
As it stands, Donald Trump was found guilty. Nobody actually
really cared. Nobody ever did. That's why he won despite this.
So Donald Trump has officially been sentenced in this case,
(31:02):
and it's the sentence that I want to get to
that really exposes the fact that this was all just
political nonsense. So, of course we've heard since the actual
conviction came down several months ago, donald Trump is a
convicted felon. We can't let a convicted fellon back in
the White House. Look how terrible this is. The Republicans
are voting for a convicted fellaon supporting a convicted fellain.
(31:25):
This is just such a terrible crime that he did,
he stole the election, etc.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
Etc.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
We've all heard this constantly, right, so much so that
it's just become white noise, and we all tuned it
out and ignored it. Now, if you listen to the
mainstream media, if you listen to all those people that
are saying those things, you would think that this is
such a serious crime that Donald Trump actually needs to
be punished, right, Like if he used business fraud to
(31:52):
steal the election, like the claim is surely that would
at least come with a fine, right, he would at
least get fined, if not jail, Because remember this is
thirty four felony counts that Donald Trump got found guilty of. Well, no,
there actually is no fine, There is no jail time,
There is no punishment at all. So the sentence that
(32:14):
was given down is unconditional release. And that might not
be the technical term for it, I don't remember exactly,
but apparently Trump will not serve any jail time, he
will not pay any fine, he will not even have probation.
So essentially they say you're guilty, you did this crime.
(32:36):
You're a convicted felon, Go about your day, have a
good time, Thank you very much, goodbye. What is the
point of this if that's where we get Like, for
months we have heard that we have to do this.
This is the defense of democracy. This is incredibly important.
Nobody is above the law. He is so not above
(32:56):
the law that we're going to convict him of his
crimes and literally give him no punishment. How much sense
does that make? How concerned are we supposed to be
with him breaking the law supposedly because I still don't
believe he actually did anything wrong. I understand he is
legally a convicted felon, so I'm not going to say allegedly,
(33:16):
according to New York, he did break the law according
to the state of New York. We'll see if that
conviction stands. Because now Donald Trump can actually go appeal
his conviction. And I think as a lot of other
legal experts, which I am by no means a legal expert,
but a lot of legal experts seem to be of
the opinion that Donald Trump will be able to appeal
(33:37):
this conviction and pretty easily get it overturned. Because this
is pretty clearly a political indictment. It always was. This
is political actors who are in these positions of power,
that we're trying to use their power in order to
swing the twenty twenty four election. And since it didn't work,
now they just say, oh, well we lost, go about
(33:58):
your day, here's your conviction, and we're done with you.
Makes no sense to me whatsoever. So here's the statement
that Donald Trump put out about this. He said, the
radical Democrats have lost another pathetic, Unamerican witch hunt after
spending tens of millions of dollars wasting over six years
of obsessive work that should have been spent on protecting
(34:19):
New Yorkers from violent, rampant crime that is destroying the
city and state, coordinating with the Biden Harris Department of Justice,
or he calls it the Biden Harris's Department of Injustice,
in lawless weaponization and bringing completely baseless, illegal and fake
charges against your forty fifth and forty seventh President me
I was given an unconditional discharge. That's the technical term there,
(34:40):
it is unconditional discharge. The result alone proves that, as
all legal scholars and experts have said, there is no case.
There never was a case, and this whole scam fully
deserves to be dismissed. The real jury, the American people
have spoken and by re electing me with an overwhelming
mandate in one of the most consequent elections in history.
(35:01):
As the American people have seen, this case had no crime,
no damages, no proof, no facts, no law, only a
highly conflicted judge, a star witness who is a disbarred, disgraced,
serial perjurer, and criminal election interference. Today's event was a
despicable charade. And now that it is over, we will
appeal this hoax, which has no merit, and restore the
(35:23):
trust of Americans in our once great system of justice.
Make America great again. Now, the point he makes there,
I think is really important, the fact that they wasted
so much time, so much resources going after this ridiculous
charge where they had basically turned what may have been
(35:44):
a bunch of misdemeanors that the statute of limitations had
already expired on. They strung them to some weird election
law and basically tried to convert them into felonies so
that they could charge Trump with them because the statue
of limitations had not expired on the weird felonies that
(36:05):
they basically manufactured here. All the time that they were
doing that, they could have been going after actual criminals.
And this is a point that has been made for
a very long time, basically since this case started. There
are people that are like straight up going and murdering
people that are getting minimum sentences, if they're even charged
(36:26):
at all. They're letting them out on bail, letting them
back out onto the streets, and completely ignoring them. I mean,
the crime in New York is insanely high, and they're
not prosecuting it. Felonies are bumped down to misdemeanors. This
is a common problem that people keep talking about constantly,
and yet they spend so much effort going after Donald
Trump for something that literally nobody could have ever possibly
(36:49):
cared about. Rich billionaire spends money to cover up an affair.
Who cares? Is it good that Trump did this?
Speaker 2 (36:56):
No?
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Does it actually matter? Also? No, between Trump, his wife
and the lord. This case is the perfect example of
how the justice system has one hundred percent been weaponized
on a political bias. I mean Alvin Bragg, the DA
who is pushing this case, who also pushed the Daniel
Penny case. He has downgraded and estimated sixty percent of
(37:21):
felony cases to lesser charges. So there is clearly a
discrepancy in first of all the laws that they're choosing
to enforce and secondly who they're choosing to enforce them on.
And I think everyone can see that now, because again,
if this case was such a big deal that it
(37:43):
warranted all the time and all the effort and all
the money that was spent on it, and all the
news and all the press coverage that we got about this,
you would think it would warrant at least a fine.
Like I understand, you can't throw the man in jail
because he won the election. Obviously we all knew that,
But can't she at least hit him with a fine
(38:05):
that's not going to hamper his ability to take office.
He can appeal that fine and whatnot while he's the president,
I think, unless I'm mistaken and there's some weird rules
about what appeals you can and can't make as president,
but I don't think there are. This right here is
exactly why conservatives have started to distrust our institutions so much,
(38:26):
especially in big blue cities like New York. We can
look at what's going on and clearly see that this
is biased against us. Institutions that are supposed to protect
everybody in this country have become tools used by those
in power to push a narrative. People are tired of it.
They want top down reform, and I hope they get it.
(38:47):
I hope they get it. I know they'll get it
from the dojed because Trump is going to come in
and he's going to clean house. Let's just cross our
fingers and hope the effects of that trickle down, because
this is actually dangerous for a society. This is not healthy.
This is not the sign of a society that's doing
well and poised to last. So let's hope we get
a reversal of course here pretty quickly.
Speaker 6 (39:06):
All right.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
That is all I have got for us this week.
Thank you guys very much for listening, for tuning in again.
We'll see where this goes. Trump is definitely going to appeal,
so we'll see if it holds up, and we'll be
following the closely. And yeah, that's all I got. Once again,
Pray for California. Thanks for tuning in, and I'll see
y'all next week. Thank you very much,
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