4-8-25 - 9am - Reading Texts and The EU

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ryan. Now that they brought back the dire Wolf, I'm
gonna have to learn how.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
To sword fight. Why don't you already know how to
sword fight?

Speaker 1 (00:11):
I thought, all guys, I thought, I thought, like twelve
year old's learned the sword fight.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
And you never forget, and you never forget.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
That's right, you never forget a few text messages before
we get to the European Union? Which would you rather
have the EU and my diet tribe about the EU?
Or or text messages? Or just want me to shut
up and go away? How about that?

Speaker 2 (00:43):
I could do that you see see see see see
all of the.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
Above, gubern Eurber fifty five ninety. Why does NPR CPR
offer giveaways? Shouldn't they be championing the planet and reduce
the excess? How much energy does it take the fire
ceramic coffee mug, or refine the plastic materials for the
reusable bag or all the excess materials needed to host

(01:08):
their begathons? How many of the protest signs get recycled?
Well all of them? Yeah? How many use their fancy
Schmancy Stanley therpos or did they use a disposable cup
for their coffee? They didn't drink coffee. They had, they
had lattes. Did the protesters really need coffee as it's

(01:28):
not locally sourced? Too bad, I didn't get paid for
all the hbocracy. I find no that you could. You could,
uh six zero eight five. To understand why so many
people despise Trump and Musk, all you have to do
is look up a news aggregator like the Drudge Report.
You'd think Trump is the most despicable human on the

(01:48):
planet who only wants the demise of the United States.
As I click on my Google here, it is really
sad what they get by with. I think Trump Trump
loves this country and is trying to save it, and
I agree hundred percent. I oftentimes I didn't today pull
up the Drudge Report for that very reason. And as

(02:15):
I would tell you, you can rest your case, I'll grant
you a motion for some rejudgment because you've proven your case.
Here's a picture of Trump holding a needle on a syringe.
Take your medicine, turning the USA into the laughing stock.
Worse start to presidential term in modern history. The world
suddenly has plausible alternative to US treasuries. Tariff's conjure specter

(02:39):
of smoot Holliact, a depression Arab blunder. Well they don't
know their history, there, do they? Uh, Dal rebounds on
hopes for deals, wild swings magnified by headline bots, strained liquidity,
you mean headline bots like you Drudge black Swan investor
Warren Stock Marco will go down eighty percent when this
is all over. And then there's a oh there's a

(03:01):
photo of convicted fellow Peter Navarro. Trade spac gets messy,
must calls Navarro a moron. Let's see we got uh
unprecedented number of B two bombers a mass for an
Iranian strike. War has never been closer. The administration weighs

(03:22):
drone strikes on Mexican carteales. Well that's pretty good, uh,
President and Jerome Powell spar in new major fed tests
who will blink first? As the Financial Times, Oh there's
the dire wolf. What else is going on here? To

(03:45):
a discotheque collapse in the Dominican Republic? Amy Coma Barrett
siding against Trump sparks megafury USA. Just oh, dragon, United
States just had the windiest start to spring in fifty years.

(04:08):
We're not losing wind. It was the windiest year in
fifty years.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
Somebody had taco bell.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
Some too much taco bell going on out there, way
too much taco Bell. First wound transplant patient has miracle
baby and man dragon here is good news for you.
Man receives sperm transplant in groundbreaking experiment. Now that I thought.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
About what that means, I don't think so.

Speaker 1 (04:39):
No, Yeah, I don't think. I know. There's something about
I think I'll use my own thinking correct and I
don't think I want I'm not sure my partner in
this case camera, Honey, don't worry. We can have a kid.
I had a transplant. I gotta call Jeff at Rocky

(05:00):
Mountain Menskline. They can see if they're now offering sperm
transplants too. The day they start doing that is that
a Jeff and I have to have Mexican food together
again and have a long talk about the business practices. Yeah, Jeff,
you know the guys, Jeff, the CEO at Rocky Mountain
Men's Clinty. It's a wonderful human being. You know why

(05:22):
because he and I both love to go to this
dive Mexican place and eat Mexican food together. It's glorious.
We'll bring you along sometime Dragon. Suh, Yeah, we'll bring
you along. Twenty six fifty. Grastually is ninety one years old.
I ran a five K with him well eleven years ago,
and he was in excellent shape in his eighties. Uh,

(05:47):
twenty two fifty five, Mike. Now that Jenner Griswold is
going to be the Colorado AG, I won't be texting anymore.
Kamensky's going to have me in a Colorado prison somewhere
near Mason County. And Donna Chriswald I forgot about that
story yesterday. Jenna Griswold wants to run for the Attorney General.

(06:09):
When I saw that, you know, my first thought was
it was not what you think it is. I imagine
many Colorados when they saw that our Secretary of State,
who cannot maintain our voters machines, who can't run that
very basic office, now wants to be the Attorney general.

(06:31):
And you may think that My first thought would be,
how can that woman who is so incompetent think she
can be the age? That was not my first thought.
My first thought was, Oh, you can't get a real job.
You just want to stay on the government teak for
as long as you can. That's all they do. I mean,

(06:53):
look at all of them. Is there anybody in Colorado
that has not? You know, first of all, every state,
like I tell you, every Congressman and every senator at
the federal level dreams of being president. Every state rep
and state senator out the Pulit Bureau dreams of being governor.
Everybody who becomes a county commissioner dreams of becoming a

(07:15):
state rep Er, a state senator, or they dream of
becoming governor, or they dream of becoming the attorney general.
They dream of They always want to just government, government, government.
Government drives me roops freaking crazy. Now this is true

(07:39):
twenty six fifty. I don't think many people are able
to see the opportunity in what Trump is doing. Many
can't think past federal funding anymore and can't imagine any
other way to run the country. It's too hard to
consider how to run programs at the state and local level,
or even going out on your own and feeding people
in your neighborhood that need help is easier to consider it.
The federal government detached from myself type of high level
thing I guess I was raised. If you need something

(08:01):
or someone you need, you know, needs help, You roll
up your sleeves and you get her done. No, we
don't do that anymore. We just we've outsourced everything to
the federal government. Let's see, Uhi wants to know Mike?
Whose farts are worse? MB or dragon dragons?

Speaker 2 (08:24):
It's hard to say because we're in completely different studios.
So even if I were to let one rip right now,
you would never know. And if you were to let
one rip right now, I would never know.

Speaker 1 (08:33):
That's true. Do you think they get hereed? If I
let one rip? Where the microphones two directional? Too directional?
Do your Liam sixty four or seventy seven wants to
know Mike? You do your Limburger's ever fart? By the way,
I love the tech voice to text because lion Burger

(08:54):
is spelled leon as in the first name and then
a space and then the word burger as an amberger
leon Berger. Uh, yes, they do. The younger one sometimes
looks up like what was that? The older ones? The
older is silent and deadly. Oh my god, and they're burbs. Oh,

(09:24):
good grief. Where we're going to go next? What I
was like, Oh I was I was gonna TK about
the European Union. So let's get serious for a moment.
But I need a sipodite coat before we.

Speaker 2 (09:36):
Do get serious. Why I start now because we're almost done.

Speaker 1 (09:43):
So I thought, you know, as we serious for a
little bit, you know what the bugaboo I've got about
free speech in the First Amendment. And I do believe that,
I believe this very sincerely, that God intended for mankind
to live in freedom, to live in liberty. That's why

(10:04):
we have individual salvation. My salvation does not depend on
yours and vice versa. But that's what collectivism is. Collectivism
is that some higher power, not God, not Christ, but
government will regulate your life and regulate your life in

(10:25):
ways that you can even possibly imagine. Well, the European
Union a political governing body that, when you think about it,
was never really elected in any meaningful sense by the
very people that it governs. Just a bunch of elites,
the people in the parliaments of the different countries. They decided, hey,

(10:47):
let's just form this union and let's let's let them
tell us what to do, once again advocating their own
responsibilities to a higher power. Well, they're now preparing to
find must social media platform X over a billion dollars
in euros and what's the charge failure to sufficiently censor

(11:12):
content that the European Union says is disinformation. Now, it's
all grounded in. If you've ever gone onto a foreign website,
you've encountered the Digital Services Act, which requires you to
go through before you can even ever get before you
can ever get to the content on the page you have,

(11:32):
because they'll do it as a pop up. Even if
you've got a pop up blocker on your on your laptop,
it will still the landing page will still require you
to go through and either give away all your privacy
rights or exercise some of them, accept some cookies, reject cookies.
I mean, it's just and all. That's part of part

(11:54):
of the Digital Services Act and the enforcement grounded in
that DAS is being framed as a matter of legality, transparency,
and of course public safety, because you've always got to
throw in public safety, because that's to catch all for
everything while we're doing it to keep you safe. But
in reality, unless you're hypnotized by all the bureaucratic euphemisms

(12:18):
they use, is more chilling. It's this supernational regime that
is trying to punish a private company for failing to
endorse or to enforce ideological conformity. The EU wants ideological uniformity. Now,
don't get me wrong, Democrats in this country would love

(12:40):
the same thing, and quite honestly, I think there's some
conservatives that would like the same thing. I don't. I
don't want ideological uniformity. I like the clash of ideas.
I'd like to win in the clash of ideas, but
I like the clash of ideas. Now, steak is not
a monetary penalty. Yes, a billion dollars muscle, just reach

(13:02):
in his pocket and pay that instead. What's most dangerous
about this is a new vision of the digital public square.
So under the guise of technocratic of all the technocrats
that run the EU, under their guise of their objectivity,

(13:23):
is they're trying to export a bureaucratic morality that demands
and requires silence on particular matters that the European elites
find uncomfortable. Now, what could possibly make European elites uncomfortable? Oh? War,
and not just the war between Russia and Ukraine, but

(13:47):
war in general. Because the war in Ukraine has exposed
the weakness of NATO, and I think more frightingly has
exposed the individual defense capacity of the individual nations that
make up the EU, including the UK, which is not

(14:07):
part of the EU. Immigration or like they used to
call it, or still do call it migration, and which
is hard for us to comprehend. But you know, we're
the United Stated. We operate under a system of federalism,

(14:28):
so we know that we the people hold ultimately all
the power. But we in our Social Compact, have said
we're going to have three levels of government, local, state,
and federal, and we're going to delineate the powers for
each of those. And we formed states. We took the
colonies and formed these states. And that's why we're called

(14:50):
the United States of America. Remember how Joe Biden knows
you used to call say we're by golly, we're the
United States of America. Well he didn't know what he's
talking about. We are a federation. We are a federalism
of states. Fifty states have come together and those states

(15:12):
have granted above them at the federal level certain powers,
limited and enumerated powers, and then they have delegated below
them for local jurisdictions, local municipalities, counties, subdivisions, all of
those things. They've delegated them certain authorities and powers. So
really it's us the state. If you wanted to put

(15:34):
it in terms of the power, it's you and me,
the people, and then the states, and then the federal government,
and then kind of the municipalities to kind of operate
the local level. That's not the EU at all. They've
taken sovereign nations. It would be like the United States, Mexico,

(15:57):
and Canada deciding that we wanted, on our way to
a one world government, that we wanted a governing body
to oversee the president and the Congress, or to oversee
the Canadian Parliament, or to oversee the Mexican Congress and
the Mexican President, and we would form the North American

(16:18):
Union and they would govern us. We would never accept that.
We would never well, we should never accept it, I
should say, just these days, I'm not really sure whether
we were that's smart enough. We should never accept that
because that takes away our power as the voters. I

(16:40):
don't want some overall archeam government to form a new
union between these three countries. No, we're a sovereign nation
on our own. Leave us alone. But in Europe. They
took all these on there's thirty some countries in the
EU and they gave the EU all all of this

(17:00):
sovereign power over them. He was so stupid. So what
they're truly trying to do is, in addition to raising
these uncomfortable questions about war and immigration, it's also raising
the question about the erosion of national sovereignty among each

(17:21):
of the members of the EU, and Musk is defying
it his refusal to muzzle Descent. Shadow Band critics that
he used Global's agenda. That makes them a heretic, And
like all heretics and bureaucracies, he's got to be broken financially,
publicly and legally.

Speaker 3 (17:39):
Hey, Mike Jenna can't run for governor if she hasn't
won an attorney general race.

Speaker 1 (17:45):
I know, you have to follow the you have to
follow the protocol, right, there are certain protocols You've got
to be, you know, a little peon and then you
get to be a pon plus and then the pon
plus plus, and then you get to become pon plus
plus plus, which is the governorship.

Speaker 2 (18:01):
Oh, I.

Speaker 1 (18:09):
No, I'm not gonna do it. No, I'm not gonna
I'm gonna lie to you do it. I'm gonna go
back to the EU for a minute. Why is this
important to understand what the EU is doing, Because if
they had the opportunity to do this in this country,
which they tried back during COVID, they would take that
and they would implement it and they would make it

(18:31):
part of statute and part of the regulatory scheme, so
that we would have the same kind of censorship that
the EU is trying to do on Musk, we would
have it here now, once you think about the grievance
list that the EU has against Elon Musk, and by
the way, Elon Musk may have pooped in his mess
kit too when it comes to the tariffs. Yeah, I

(18:57):
if I can't pinpoint us a specific date, but there
were a couple of times on either this program or
on the weekend program where I said there's going to
come a time where Musk and Trump are going to
clash big time and it's going to be out in
the open. We may have hit that point yesterday, but

(19:18):
I'm waiting to see what fallout there is before we
talk about it. So the reason I focus on the
EU is again, whether it's at local state or federal level,
they would love to do the same thing. For example,
right here in Colorado, every opportunity they have they try

(19:40):
to limit the Colorado Open Records Act to keep us
from understanding or hearing or knowing what they are doing. Well,
that's a precursor to limiting what you and I can
say and do. And the Feds constantly doing this, just
like what we saw them do with COVID and Twitter

(20:01):
at the time, and Facebook, Google everything, trying to implement
censorship behind the scenes. So what is it that the
EU is upset about with Musk Seeveny. This sounds familiar.
They accuse X of failure or Musk himself of failing

(20:26):
to police content after the hamastacks on Israel. They accuse
him of amplifying certain political voices conservative obviously, and they
accuse him of insufficiently moderating speech in languages that the
Commission deems at risk. Now behind all those accusations is

(20:49):
the real charge. X is not a willing enforcement arm
of the European political experiment. X is not silence critics
of France's war policy. X has not silenced Germany's immigration stance.
X has not uh centored Romanians judiciary's exclusion of opposition

(21:14):
figures from running for office, and the same is true
about uh Marine lapin In in France. Instead, what has
X done. X has actually provided an opportunity, a stage,
a platform for dissent, and because it did that, we've

(21:37):
got to punish it. And the demand is pretty clear,
though it's not set out in the open Conform where
we're going to crush you. Conformed by labeling content that
questions the war in Ukraine as dangerous information disinformation, Conform
by suppressing voices that are critical of globalism, or by

(22:00):
suppressing a voice that is critical of open borders, Conform,
by suppressing a voice that is one of technocratic rule,
Conform by undermining political movements. They are skeptical of the
legitimacy of the EU itself. And if you refuse to

(22:21):
do any of those things, we will find you into extinction.
We'll excuse it, will exclude you from the European market.
We'll try to do even more so. Now the defenders
of the Digital Services Act, of course they're going to protest.
They'll say, this is not about censorship, but it's about safety.
It's not about ideology, it's about integrity, but When you

(22:47):
make those arguments face the facts, the arguments fall apart.
The European Union, for example, has not demanded algorithmic transparency
from platforms that are compliant with their demands, only from X.
It is not open. The EU has not opened proceedings

(23:08):
against outlets that pedal state approved narratives. They're only going
against the one X that refuses to privilege those narratives.
It does not find platforms that are aligned with the
worldview that comes out of Brussels. So it's not regulation,
it's retribution. And I don't think it's any coincidence whatsoever

(23:31):
that their hostility toward X intensified after must express support
for whom no, not Trump, not Trump, which is obvious,
but for those conservative candidates like Marine Lapin in France
and in Germany. Nor is it surprising that, as ex

(23:55):
users highlight the erosion of all these democratic norms in
places like Romania where the courts are actually banning opposition
leaders from running for office, the EU just gets matter
and matter and matter. So the digital service action has
become this velvet glove around this iron fist. It is
not designed to protect speech. It is designed to cut

(24:17):
off free speech to shape digital discourse into some sort
of prune, tree or bush version of democracy tightney trim,
very ornamental, utterly controlled by the EU and by the
bureaucrats and Brussels. And what's even worse, when you really
dig deep into the European the EU Council, they're just

(24:40):
a bunch of figureheads. When you really understand how Brussels works,
it's the bureaucrats that run everything. We think we have
a deep state, which we do. It's even worse than
the EU. So again, why should we care? Why should
you care? Why should the Trump administration nerving? Because the

(25:02):
fight against the Digital Services Act is not about Elon
Musk and it's not about X. It's about whether or
not countries that are committed to liberty will permit transnational
bodies to dictate the limits of expression. Because how can
you say that, oh, well, we're going to do it

(25:24):
here in the EU. Because I've got followers, and I
follow people and organizations that are not domicidle in this country,
they're domiciled in the EU. I follow some out of
I follow, for example, the Foreign Minister of the Chinese

(25:47):
Communist Party of Communist China. But if they start limiting
what I can see or what I can read. Now,
they're infringing on my rights. And just because it's a
transnational company, just because it's internationally based, it's domiciled here,

(26:08):
it's an American company. And you're trying to limit an
American company and what they can do, and therefore limit
what I can see or what I can write, or
what I can do. And if they can go after
a Musk at one point, then they can start coming
after me and you. And I think Trump gets this
when he talked about, you know, we got to protect

(26:28):
our geniuses. That's not just a compliment to Musk. I
think it's a signal that American sovereignty is going to
extend to defending American citizens from foreign censorship regimes, especially
when those regimes target our platforms for ideological non complaints.

(26:50):
This is not some sort of endgame. It's a prototype.
Because if the EU succeeds in coursing X, how long
before they go after all the other platform in this country, Facebook, Instagram,
Alphabet any or an any other country. It is a
stepping stone to the one World government. And of course, hmm,

(27:13):
what else is located in the EU?

Speaker 2 (27:16):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (27:17):
Yes, the World Bank, the World Economic Forum devotes all
of that is a part of the European Union. They're
struggling for relevancy, they're struggling for power and control. The
goal is to export a European ideological consensus pro EU,
pro war, pro technocrats into every digital space all across

(27:40):
the Earth, regardless of the jurisdiction. Indeed, the EU's own
conduct belies its democratic pretensions, because while the EU lectures
other people about free expression, free expression, what does it
do The courts in the EU disqualify candidates fronting for office.
I'm even going out and giving a stump speech. They're

(28:03):
demanding orthodoxies, They're trying to put in mechanisms to concentrate
power in the institutions that a voter can't remove. It
is the whole theme that I've had in my head
for decades now about tyranny continues to try to overtake
the darkness of tyranny, continues to try to overtake the

(28:26):
lightness of individual freedom and individual liberty. And it's happening
right before our very eyes, among what we claim to
be some of our closest allies. And you wonder why
NATO's falling apart the Grand European experiment about mass migration,

(28:47):
illegal immigration just flowing from everywhere, and then a social
welfare system to not only make their own citizens dependent
upon the government, but to make those people that come
into the countries illegally from other places, from all these
craphole countries also dependent upon the government. Means that all
of those dollars spend on that crap, this money that

(29:08):
they can't and won't spend to defend themselves. Instead they
rely on us to do that for them. And do
they care about Communist China? No, they only care about
Russia because Russia is on their back door. Chime is
a little further away.

Speaker 3 (29:27):
Good morning, Michael Brown and Dragon. So you know all
this evilness that's going on in Colorado, tax paid abortions
and taking away parents' rights for under the guise of transgenderism.
The dams, I think are just doubling down because I
think they know that they're losing. But good God, I
cannot even believe what Colorado has become. Born and raised here,

(29:49):
but I want to get out first chance I get.
I'm blowing this pop stand it is.

Speaker 1 (30:00):
I know friends and family are still going to be
talking about it, but Colorado truly has become a craphole state.
It's I didn't get to it today, but I'll get
to it tomorrow about the how regulations are killing businesses
in this state. And restaurants, I think are a great
example of that because their profit margins are so narrow

(30:25):
and a restaurant takes in individuals one hundred and ten
percent of their time. We have a salesperson in this
building whose husband is a very well known chef in Colorado,
and they've they've shut down two of the restaurants. I
think they may have. I think they might be trying
to open another one, but not in Denver, and nobody

(30:49):
seems to care. I mean in terms of the the
a holes of the polit Bureau or Jared Polis, they
don't care. They're such ideal that they would rather destroy
the state and implement their Marxist agenda than they would
like watch us grow and prosper. And that gets back

(31:10):
to the whole mindset about the EU. They truly do
want to control how you live your life. They want
to control every aspect. I sometimes see these little short videos,
or you can go online and watch the polop Bureau
when they're debating an issue, and you look at them
and you think, who the hell do you think you are?

(31:33):
And why do you think that you cause you got
your little name tag on it says him, my name
is Michael Brown. I'm a state representative. Oh you know, BFD.
But you sit down there, and you stand up and
you give your little speeches and you have your little hearings,
and all of those yahoos just think that they're going
to control every aspect of your business, every aspect of

(31:55):
your life, your children, and everything else. And that's their belief,
that's their mindset. And then they walk out, they literally
walk out and can see from their parking lot the
destruction that they're reeking on on the state and just
totally ignore it. Oh look at the poor homeless people.

(32:16):
Oh look at those immigrants, Look at those people coming
here illegally. Oh look at the feces and everything else
on the streets. Oh look, we should rename the sixteenth
Street mall to sixteenth Street and pay some money for that.
And they don't even bat an eye. Yeah, California is
probably close to becoming a second place craphole state, because

(32:41):
we're rapping to becoming the first place Crapole State,