January 23, 2025 • 45 mins
Could a presidential pardon be a greater threat to democracy than 9/11? Get ready for a rollercoaster of revelations as we uncover former President Trump's shocking decision to pardon 1,500 individuals involved in the January 6th insurrection. We unpack the implications of this unprecedented move, exploring how it challenges the very fabric of democracy. Alongside this, we take a satirical journey inspired by Dave Chappelle's skits, drawing uncanny parallels between political absurdities past and present, and critiquing the media's role in these unfolding narratives.
Fast forward to the political chaos of 2025, where controversial statements from Trump, an Elon Musk presidency, and Biden's ceasefire negotiation between Israel and Hamas add fuel to the fire. We navigate the turbulent waters of misinformation, examining Musk's alleged Nazi salute that sparked intense public debate. By analyzing current events, we question the accountability of today's political figures and the integrity of democratic institutions under such tumultuous leadership.
As our exploration deepens, we confront the intricate web of media manipulation and political propaganda, from TikTok bans to Trump's alleged financial maneuvers. Our discussion reveals a nation grappling with information control and political self-enrichment. We untangle the complex threads connecting Trump's family and figures like Jeffrey Epstein, shedding light on the intertwining of money, power, and politics. Join us as we unravel these narratives, emphasizing the critical need for transparency and the relentless fight to preserve democracy.
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Speaker 1 (00:19):
One, two, three, four no longer a joke.
Trump is actually pardoned theinsurrectionists.
The joke is become real.
We've been warning you foryears that, while the title of
this podcast was tongue-in-cheek, we need to add an S to it.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Pardon the insurrectionists.
Now, that's our continuation.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
He's done it.
It's official.
We'll get to that momentarily.
So it has been quite a week.
Uh, the jack smith reportdropped tldr.
He fucking did it.
Um, I think that's pretty clearat this point.
There was a lot of evidence tosuggest that trump would have
been likely found guilty if hehad ever made it to trial.
(00:59):
But because a bunch of idiotsin america to defeat America by
voting for the insurrectionists,he's not going to be held
accountable for those actions.
And one of his first acts whilehe was in office.
By the end of the day, he hadissued numerous pardons to what
like a I don't know a thousandpeople, a thousand criminals.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Oh, it was like 1,500 , 1,600.
1,500, 1,600?
.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
1,500, 1,600.
All of them Plus and maybe alittle bit more than a dozen
commutations.
This included clemency forindividuals who were engaged in
violent activity on January 6th,including assaulting police
officers.
Individuals from the OathKeepers who were found guilty of
seditious conspiracy Fucking.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Proud Boys Enrique Tarrio.
Yes, I heard while I waslistening to Legal as Fuck,
because, well, I have a crush onPopock.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Legal AF.
They don't call it Legal asFuck.
But yeah literally he was likeTarrio's already pouring it up
in Miami, celebrating that legalas fuck um.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
But yeah, literally he was like.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
I will tell, ben is already pouring it up in miami
celebrating, right I will tellben to inform um michael popock
that you indeed have a crush onhim, um, but yeah, so trump was
asked about uh the pardoning ofthe individuals convicted on uh
convicted of violent crimes onJanuary 6th and his comments, of
(02:27):
course, are extraordinarilyinfuriating.
I hate this fucker.
What were we thinking, america?
What were you guys doing?
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Relating to events that occurred on January 6th
2021.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Okay, and how many people is this?
Speaker 3 (02:42):
I think this order will apply to approximately
1,500 people, sir.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
So this is January 6th.
These are the hostages,approximately 1,500 for a pardon
, full pardon, full pardon.
We have about six commutationsin there where we're doing
(03:07):
further research.
Nice to see you again.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
All right, that's Trump signing the pardons, even
though he had previously said,before he took office, that they
would discuss pardons on anindividual basis.
They would look at theaccusations, the crimes that
individuals were convicted of,before receiving a pardon, and
it turns out, as per the usual,that was a total fucking lie.
(03:39):
He signed a blanket pardon fornearly all of them, all of them
with a handful of commutationseven the ones that fucking pled
guilty to assaulting fuckingpolice officers like I just
literally can't like it'sextraordinarily disheartening.
(04:03):
Look, these are traitors to theUnited States of America.
Let's be clear regardless ofwhat they were convicted for,
what they were doing at theCapitol on January 6th 2021, is
attempting to stop thelegislative branch from
transferring power from onepresident to the other, and that
is the very definition ofattack on the United States and
attack on the Constitution andan attempt to basically
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overthrow democracy.
The enemy transfer of powerwithin effect in democracy.
Now, I know this soundshyperbolic, I might have said it
a couple of times on here, butso 9-11, while he held, is the
most impactful attack on theUnited States, or at least
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terrorist attack on the UnitedStates, in American history.
I think it's number twoactually, because, regardless of
how successful Al Qaeda mighthave been on 9-11, even if the
plane had hit the Pentagon andanother plane had hit the
Capitol and another plane hadhit the White House and the two
towers, so on and so forth, itwas extraordinarily destructive
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and a lot of people died.
And if they had managed to killCongress and kill military
officials and somehow evenmanaged to take out the
president, a plane thatsuccessfully struck the White
House, our democracy would havesurvived right.
We would have just elected newofficials.
We would have elected a newpresident, we would have
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appointed new military officialsto take the positions of those
who were lost and democracywould have continued.
Yes, it would have been anextraordinary tragedy and it
would have definitely harmed theUnited States, but our
democracy wouldn't have ended ifthe attack on the Capitol had
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been slightly more successful,in terms of the fact that the
insurrectionists were at theSenate chambers within five
minutes of entering the buildingand they were just barely led
away by one specific blackCapitol police officer.
If they had made a right turninstead of a left turn to chase
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the police officer away, it'sentirely possible that they
could have not only keptCongress hostage but maybe
killed members of Congress,prevented the peaceful transfer
of power and Trump would havebeen a dictator.
And that would have absolutelyensured the end of our democracy
, because after that, wecertainly would not have had a
2020 election.
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And I mean you think about thatin the context of the fact that
we knew what happened.
We all watched it play out liveon television and then, four
years later, we, through theelectoral process, we put that
person back in power.
It's absolutely mind-boggling,insane, like I don't understand
what people were thinking likewhy people's memories are so
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short.
Um, obviously, propaganda issuper effective.
I feel like not that theDemocratic Party are the bad
guys in this regard, I guessjust because we have two sets of
standards for each party.
I feel like I expected theDemocratic Party to spend more
time ensuring that the memory ofJanuary 6th never let the
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public's mind, and they decidedfor electoral purposes, I
suppose to no longer focus onJanuary 6th, on a violent
insurrection that nearly endedAmerican democracy, and they
left the space, and all of theright-wing media filled it with
the idea that January 6th was ahoax, or it was led by Democrats
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, or there were the FBI.
It was a psyop and all of thatbullshit, all of that or and you
know contradictory messagessaying the people who did attack
the Capitol on January 6th,they were hostages, they were
innocent, it was show trials.
And the problem with likeleaving opportunities for
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Republicans to spreaddisinformation is, if enough
people say it over the course ofenough amount of time, it tends
to change people's minds or atleast cloud their ability to
discern fact from fiction.
And it's just an unfortunateerror in judgment on behalf of
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the Democratic Party, justletting Trump off the hook for
this politically, because I meanagain, this is just.
We're at a point in time whereI don't understand.
Like this is the only personI've ever seen that doesn't face
any political consequences.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
This was literally anyone else, anyone else all
Howard Dean did was give afucking hearty, and he was out
of there, we got him out ofthere, ty.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
He was out of there, we got him out of there, ty.
He was done career over.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
I don't even know if he's still alive.
I've heard zero about HowardDean since then nothing.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
we've heard nothing from him, just done out of the
public spotlight forever, likeyou said, and when you said it I
was like actually I don't knowif he's alive either, so it's
entirely possible he might nolonger be with us.
I wouldn't know, because noone's going to be like.
Rest in peace, howard Dean,when he passes.
He's not going to get.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
No, he's going to get all the accolades that Herman
Cain got.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
You're right.
It's not going to be flags athalf staff commemorating the
death of Howard Dean.
Yeah, it's.
We live in the most insane oftimes.
Obviously, trump being back inthe White House means absolute
chaos.
It didn't take long, but, as hewas sworn in on Inauguration
Day, there were a number of justabsolutely insane mishaps, like
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him taking the oath of officewithout swearing, with his hand
on the Bible.
But though it's entirelypossible that if he had touched
that Bible, he might have burstinto flames.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
But though it's entirely possible that if he had
touched that Bible he mighthave burst into flames, there
was a stack on the Resolute deskof executive orders.
I am more concerned about thosethat legacy media has not
(10:44):
talked about.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Right, we'll get to that as they come.
There were numerous executiveorders, however, that were
extraordinarily damaging.
One with Trump trying to endbirthright citizenship through
executive order.
I mean basically eliminating the14th Amendment, although the
Supreme Court already neuteredhalf of it as we speak, by not
(11:10):
only granting Trump presidentialimmunity but basically making
it nearly impossible to enforcethis section, disqualifying any
political official for acting inan insurrection without just
direct legislation written byCongress, any political official
for acting in an insurrectionwithout, um, just direct
legislation written by Congress.
So I mean I don't understand whywe have to write an acting
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legislation when, like the thingsays, if you aid engage in
insurrection, you are herebydisqualified.
I mean, I don't Supreme courtout here saving Trump's ass by
shitting all over theconstitution.
So it's entirely possible,while people are arguing on
Twitter and all of the socialmedia platforms that hey, he
(11:52):
can't do that by executive order, the Constitution, the Supreme
Court might say otherwise andI'm sure numerous other states
at this point are already suingthe Trump administration over
that executive order and it'slikely going to end up in court.
And, because it's aconstitutional issue, it's
likely going to end up in frontof the supreme court and they
might interpret the 14thamendment in ways that don't
(12:14):
make no goddamn sense.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
So for anyone that's what they do.
So I'm not, I would not besurprised.
No, and that's the whole point.
Like, the whole point of likedoing these anti-constitutional
laws, executive orders etc.
Is to get it in front of thecourt, right wanting the court.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
He's appointed two of three of his own justices uh
pre-vetted to, generallyspeaking, uh rule in a way that
is more advantageous to theRepublican party.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
And the fucking Republican party Right.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
And then Clarence Thomas and uh Alito.
They've both been bought andpaid for by a right wing
billionaire.
So you've got at least four, ifnot five, votes, generally
speaking, in favor of all kindsof Trump insanity going forward
for the next four years.
And I'm sure a couple of thoseare going to retire and they'll
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be replaced by even worse people.
Judge.
I have a alien cannon and judgeKazimierk in Texas, who is, who
sits on the Fifth Circuit ofAppeals, and he's yeah, he's
like the one judge in thecircuit, yeah, and so a lot of
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times Republicans will try andfile suits in his district
specifically because it'll go tohis court and he'll represent
all kind of ridiculous shit.
So Trump's also withdrawn theUS from the Paris Climate Accord
a horrific disaster forcombating climate change, even
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though we've recently seennumerous natural disasters here.
And climate change, even thoughwe've recently seen numerous
natural disasters here, not justover the course of the past few
years, but even as recently asa couple of weeks ago with that
massive fire on the outskirts ofLA there.
Just withdrawing the UnitedStates from the World Health
Organization.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Even the fucking CEO of Exxon was like yeah, no you
know when the oil company sayingyeah, don't, don't pull out of
the paris climate accords, yeah,not not great.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
They're not great at all.
We've got a brand new muslimban, although it's not.
It's disguised to appear asthough it is not a muslim ban.
It is, in fact, a muslim ban,um.
You know, if you're here in thecountry, um on a visa or such,
and you were engaging inpro-palestinian protests, you
are likely going to be deported,and I'm sure they're going to
(15:05):
extend that to American citizens.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
I was looking at you uncommitted.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Yeah, so Biden's executive order allowing
Medicare to negotiate lower drugprices, that's gone.
So expect to pay, you know,three, four, five hundred
dollars for a month's supply ofinsulin.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
kudos to all you trump voters out there who have
diabetes yes, and I want you tohave to look your nana in the
face.
Meanwhile.
You're like sorry, you can'tafford your insulin.
I voted for this.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
It's some fuckery out there, it's all, just just.
He's only been in office foryou know about the time you're
hearing this likely two days,and it's disaster after disaster
, and he's just gotten started.
It's unfortunate, but he didhave comments on where the
United States of America isgoing policy wise, and I'm sure
(16:04):
this is one of the mostimportant issues of our time,
which Trump is willing to comedown on one particular side of
the aisle and I don't think it'sgoing to make the price of your
eggs any cheaper whatsoever.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
This week, I will also end the government policy
of trying to socially engineerrace and gender into every
aspect of public and privatelife.
We will forge a society that iscolorblind and merit-based.
(16:47):
As of today, it will henceforthbe the official policy of the
United States government thatthere are only two genders male
and female.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Guys, I don't think that's going to make your
grocery prices cheaper.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
No, not when I saw it was like fucking $5 for fucking
dozen eggs.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
today, yeah, yeah, it's only two genders in America
.
That's um.
Gonna lower gas prices, gonnamake the price of homes cheaper,
I would imagine, becausethere's there are fewer genders,
uh, that need to be housed.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Um, I'm not exactly sure, of course.
I mean I'm pretty sure that,like just mandating that you
only recognize two genders, isgoing to bring our gas prices
way down.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Right.
Also, he snuck in there thathe's going to make America
colorblind, which doesn't meanthat race no longer exists and
no longer, you know, affectspeople in the United States.
It just means that they'regoing to ignore racism.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Ignore all of the racism.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Yes from here on out.
That's extraordinarily helpfulto anyone of any minority in the
United States who happen toalso vote for Trump.
You're fucked.
Congratulations.
You did it to yourself.
I mean, the Onion did the thing.
They're like America defeatsAmerica.
I think that's.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
That is pretty fucking spot on.
No, but really the thingthey're like America defeats
America, that I think that'sthat is.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
That's pretty fucking spot on no, but but really,
though, if you were concernedthat Trump wasn't focused on the
most important prioritiesfacing American citizens to this
day, I have some reassurancefor you that he absolutely was,
and we have a clip for you here.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
The Panama Canal, which has foolishly been given
to the country of Panama afterthe United States.
The United States I mean thinkof this spent more money than
ever spent on a project beforeand lost 38,000 lives in the
building of the Panama Canal.
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We have been treated very badlyfrom this foolish gift that
should have never been made andPanama's promise to us has been
broken.
The purpose of our deal and thespirit of our treaty has been
totally violated.
American ships are beingseverely overcharged and not
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treated fairly in any way, shapeor form, and that includes the
United States Navy.
And, above all, china isoperating the Panama Canal, and
we didn't give it to China, wegave it to Panama and we're
taking it back.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
This nigga's insane Ty.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
He's insane ty that's he's insane I swear to god,
just made my blood boillistening to that fucker and how
he lies, the way the rest of usbreathe endlessly he just
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throws shit out there just besaying shit.
It'd be crazy saying shitsaying shit that makes no
goddamn sense all right.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
So dave chappelle predicted this 20 years ago now,
I believe, on his showchappelle show, however you feel
about his sociological stanceson gender in the year of our
Lord, 2025.
He was ahead of his time inpredicting the political
landscape of modern day Americain a skit that he did that was
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called Black Bush.
It was like a play on.
Like you know, george Bush'sbehavior was absolutely absurd,
but if it had came from a blackperson, howard would have
sounded.
It was all kind of insane shit.
Like you know, he, like the Iraqwar, for instance.
He was like, yeah, we're goingdown there, we're going to get
(21:08):
these, get the oil.
And then it's like, like youknow, um, what was he saying?
Uh, oh, he's like, oh yeah,what's the un gonna do?
You ain't got no army, right,it was all kind of crazy.
We go into space, space, uh,just all kind of insane.
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And it's like a it's anabsolute 100 percent parallel to
the kind of insane shit trumpis doing now.
Except chapelle did it 20 yearsago and accurately predicted
the future.
Uh, just yeah, he'd just besaying shit, man, he'd just be
saying shit, uh.
And, generally speaking, it'sall lies.
I mean, we've had numerousinstances of this already.
When he said he was gonna wouldcall up putin and have the war
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in ukraine ended in 24 hourshe's been president for longer
than 24 hours at this pointguess what?
He did not call putin.
There is no uh agreement tohave the war new fall.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Who this?
Speaker 1 (22:05):
who this?
But in fact he did call uhpresident xi in china convinced
him or at least he said that hewas convincing him to ensure
that the war in Ukraine ended,and I'm assuming what that means
is send more aid and weaponsand such to Russia to help Putin
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try and take over the rest ofUkraine Also.
So Biden did manage to finallyget a ceasefire between Israel
and Hamas successfully.
They practically used thelanguage that Biden had
suggested over the course ofnegotiations over the past year
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and a half, over the course ofnegotiations over the past year
and a half.
So kudos to Biden for doingthat, although to some degree, I
expect the ceasefire to onlylast long enough to get the
hostages back, and thenNetanyahu will continue to try
and level Gaza to the ground.
So kudos to everyone who votedfor Trump because, biden, he
could get the ceasefire on yourtimeline, even though he's been
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working on it endlessly.
So that's exciting.
Yeah, it just man.
Disaster after disaster.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Whew, good God we're not even through January yet
Nope, we're three weeks in.
And we've got it has alreadybeen a shit show.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Yeah Well.
Yeah, look, we're like just twodays into the Trump
administration and it's been ashit show.
So there were numerousinauguration scandals, but one
that was very unfortunatepertained our actual president,
Elon Musk, where he made a Nazisalute and everyone on the
Internet Twice.
Yeah well, the people set theinternet ablaze, Numerous people
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pointing out the fact that itwas an extraordinarily obvious
Nazi salute, with othersdefending it, saying he was just
sending out his heart.
We will let you decide foryourselves.
Hail Hitler.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Ironic.
Looks extraordinarily similarto the hell hitler salute.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
I don't know I'm getting nazi vibes, I mean you
know not, not trump quotinghitler nearly verbatim over the
course of his 2024 campaign?
If that didn't do it for you,well, that should make it pretty
clear there.
It's extraordinarily hard toargue now.
A lot of people were saying,well, he's just, you know,
elon's just autistic.
Uh, yeah, I know a lot ofpeople with autism.
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None of them are nazis.
Yeah, and look so.
And I think we played a videoon a previous episode where
Elon's father was talking abouthis Elon's mother and her
parents being part of the Naziparty in Canada and they didn't
like the way the things weregoing, so they ended up moving
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to South Africa.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Apartheid South Africa.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
When have you ever heard of anybody being like yeah
, I want to go to apartheid,it's awesome.
Only a fucking Nazi would saysome shit like that Would say
some shit like that.
And then, when apartheid failed,guess what happened?
They got the fuck up out ofthere.
That shit let you know.
But yeah, it's extraordinarilyfunny watching millions of
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people across the United Statescome to realize that the
wealthiest man on the planet whois an immigrant, by the way is
not only pro-fascism but astraight up Nazi.
Endless information thatsuggests that he is not a good
person, that he is a bad actorand he is out engaging in the
(25:54):
most egregious behavior possiblein order to gain power to do
horrific things to the UnitedStates.
And he bought him a presidency.
So the Nazis won.
It took them nearly 80 years,but they finally figured out a
(26:18):
way to be victorious by slippingthrough the cracks and biding
their time and amassing afortune.
And now the president of theUnited States is what we?
We got our first president fromAfrica.
Unfortunately, it's a white guyfrom apartheid.
So yeah, ace job, ace job,america.
You, you did it.
We have one fucking job.
And Ace job, america, you didit.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
We had one fucking job.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
And we fucked it up.
Yep, and I say we, and what Ireally mean is them fuckers.
Because I voted for KamalaHarris, I voted for Joe Biden, I
was going to vote for Joe Bidenagain, but a bunch of insiders
in the party and the mediadecided that they only wanted a
one term presidency out of Biden.
And they got that and ensuredthe electoral victory of Trump.
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So here we are.
You know one other thing aboutTrump pardoning the
insurrectionists a couple ofthings Right.
So, typically speaking, infascist countries, you know it's
all over when the militiasbecome a substitute for law
enforcement.
And trump pardoning his ownprivate army, or at least the
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some of the people who led theinsurrection are all, for all
intents and purposes, part ofhis army.
Um, it does two things.
It says that if you're willingto break the law in my name, you
won't be held accountable,which gives people license to
engage in violence in all kindsof ways that maybe law
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enforcement would be heldaccountable for, and now these
people won't.
And then two like if you're aRepublican member of Congress,
you were there on January 6thand you saw a mob attempt to
murder you in cold blood inorder to keep Trump in power.
It is like a flash.
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It is like a flashing redsignal saying, hey, trump's
probably going to try and killyou again.
Saying, hey, trump's probablygoing to try and kill you again.
Right, because so.
I would assume.
A lot of Republicans inCongress are like, well, we're
not going to do anything toimpede Trump's wishes, which
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means he's going to beemboldened to do more and more
insane shit because there won'tbe any resistance If they're
going to become a rubber stampto that.
Well, at some point Trump isgoing to feel like well, why do
I even need the rubber stamp?
Why don't I just get rid ofcongress and become full-on
dictator?
Speaker 2 (28:35):
exactly, exactly, which is exactly what he around
Congress to do, whatever evilfuckery he wants to do right and
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he's going to find a way also.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
So over the course of the past weekend, there was
just an unlimited amount ofinsanity surrounding the TikTok
ban that was passed by Congressand signed into law by President
Biden.
But if you're media literate,you would know the origin of the
TikTok ban began with the Trumpadministration and for proof,
(29:25):
like we have a video here ofTrump on numerous occasions
setting his support for the banon TikTok, when I wanted to
disable TikTok three years ago,I was met with opposition from
rhinos Democrats and everyoneelse.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
They actually went to court in an effort to stop me.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
We're looking at TikTok.
We may be banning TikTok.
We may be doing some otherthings or a couple of options,
but a lot of things arehappening, so we'll see what
happens, but we are looking at alot of alternatives.
With respect to TikTok, we gavethem until September 15th.
Speaker 4 (30:03):
After that they got a closed shop.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
All right.
So the ban went into effectthis weekend, although President
Biden said he wasn't going todo anything to enforce it.
Even so, tiktok decided to shutitself down and, after which,
american users were greeted witha response saying it was
(30:29):
basically unfortunate thatTikTok shut down, but they were
working with the Trumpadministration to get the issue
resolved and hopefully bringTikTok back to Americans.
Now Biden is still in office atthis point, right?
So Biden saying that he wasn'tgoing to enforce the ban means
that there was no outside forceresponsible for TikTok shutting
(30:54):
down.
They just made the decision toturn the fucking thing off.
And then the very next day,sunday, while Biden was still in
office, they cut TikTok back onand said thanks to the Trump
administration, the issue withthe ban was resolved and they
would be resuming service in theunited states.
(31:15):
This was a fucking propagandaploy, uh, to win trump some
favorability with young votersand young americans who use
tiktok and create content andwhatnot.
It's straight up bullshit.
So if you're using tiktok as wespeak, you have ample evidence
to suggest to you that, eventhough tiktok wasn't shut down,
(31:39):
uh, because it's property ofwell I know bite dance isn't
technically property of thechinese, uh communist parties I
mean 60 of bite dances.
Owners and investors areamerican companies like black
rock yeah, but what you canassume from that is that it is
(32:03):
in fact an arm of the, thechinese government.
I'm sorry.
That's the only way that thiscould even possibly happen that
they would shut it down and tryand make Biden look bad and give
credit to Trump for bringingyou back, even though he didn't
have any involvement whatsoeverwith the shutting down or the
services coming back online.
It's a.
(32:24):
It's a fucking psyop.
Now I have been hearing, havebeen hearing, uh, I've been
seeing some videos of contentcreators on tiktok posting
videos and those videos beingdeleted or suppressed.
Yeah, it's not dissimilar fromwhat eli must did to twitter
(32:44):
when he took over suppressed alot of left-leaning accounts and
amplified a lot of right,right-wing accounts.
Um, I you know, for the peoplewho were saying TikTok is this
valuable commodity and it's theway to get information out to
the world, I got to tell youlook, I don't know how long
that's going to last, because ifthey can pull the plug on your
(33:04):
individual videos as they seefit, it really just becomes a
propaganda arm, and we've gotenough of that between meta out
here suppressing posts referringabout issues in the United
States, politically andotherwise.
It's not looking great, ty.
(33:43):
We're going to be in for a longfour years here, because
mainstream media is not going todo us any favors.
They're not going to do theirjobs, and now social media is
bought by a bunch of eitherright-wing billionaires or under
the control of foreignadversaries who are, in essence,
probably trying to bribe Trumpin a favorable US policy at the
(34:05):
expense of the American public.
It's going to be rough.
It's going to be rough, butyeah yeah it's just, yeah, it's
I.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
I can't, I, I'm still just like I don't know.
Really, I'm just trying to wrapmy head around all of this and
how the right has co-opted everymedia outlet platform.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
Washington Post journalists are quitting.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
Kim Jong-un.
He's jealous right now of he is.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
He's like damn y'all.
You guys are doing better overthere in America than I do over
here in North Korea.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
Yeah, like, like, seriously, like there is no from
Prince to.
You know, the TV, news, socialmedia, they've all been co-opted
by the right wing, and thegaslighting and the lies that we
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are going to be bombarded withfor the next four years, it's
going to be fucking insane, likeon next, next level insane.
I mean, hitler was able to doit like with just fucking the
stormer, you know, like hedidn't have all of these
(35:45):
platforms that are availabletoday to they didn't.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
But so, in theory, I guess the analog for social
media and TV news outlets suchas Fox at that time would have
been newspapers and radio.
And one of the first things theNazi Party did when they came
into power, even though they wona minority of the vote, is they
took over media, radio andprint journalism specifically.
(36:16):
Now, they didn't outrightcontrol all the media outlets to
begin with, but they werepumping disinformation through
various channels that they didhave control over, and they took
the Steve Bannon approach offlooding the zone with shit
Right.
So, even though there wereoutlets, you know, printing out
(36:38):
accurate information, there wasso much disinformation mixed in
with what people were consumingand it was difficult to discern
truth from untruth, fact fromfiction, and they use that to
kind of empower themselvespolitically.
And, you know, by the timethere was another election they
(36:58):
were, they won that handily, andthe rest was history.
Uh, you know, the united statesis about to experience a similar
state.
Uh, I mean, we're in the age ofdense information as it as it
is, but it's only going to getworse from here.
And so there's this.
I know this is soundsridiculous, but there was a
video game.
(37:18):
Um, once upon a time.
I mean, I guess it's been over20 years now since the release
release of this video game thatalso kind of accurately
predicted in, in some ways, whatwe're experiencing was it's
called metal gear solid right,uh, two, I believe.
Um, so the premise of the gameis that there's a secret
(37:41):
organization working behind thescenes, um, that's puppeteering
numerous governments across theworld.
A handful of rich people used amassive fortune to create
numerous agencies and companiesand all kinds of things to
orchestrate a plan to kind ofcontrol the flow of information
(38:04):
all across the world, because ifyou control people's access to
information, you can controlwhat they think, what they do,
how they act, so on and so forth.
And it culminated in a plan tocreate, like this massive ai
machine that could automaticallyfilter out anything that they
might find harmful to, whatevertheir plans were, and then
(38:26):
replace that information withinundane things that kind of
distract the masses.
Long story short, you couldlook at it as like a counterpart
to how social media today works, with all of the people in
control at this point, pledgingtheir loyalty to Trump and doing
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whatever he deems, whatever herequires of them, in order to
maintain power in exchange forfinancial gain.
It's just, it's extraordinarilydisheartening.
I just and I know Biden theother day used the word
oligarchy.
I'm not entirely sure Americanseven know what that word means,
and I can tell you that theydon't they likely don't.
(39:10):
And by the fact that, likeGoogle searches for the word or
oligarchy skyrocketed and thisis like a similar.
This is similar to how, onelection day, you know google
searches for the phrase didbiden drop out, uh, hit their
peak, not, not.
Not when biden dropped out, notover you know the course of the
(39:33):
weeks when kamala harris wasnamed the nominee, not during
the dnc convention.
Like this is how littleattention people pay.
Like the phrase didn't didbiden drop out, the google
searches for that phrase hit anabsolute peak on fucking
election day.
That's.
That's where this country is interms of and tariffs like.
Speaker 2 (39:54):
Right after he was elected, searches for what are
tariffs?
Speaker 1 (40:00):
people waited until after they voted to figure out
what the fuck it was that theyvoted for.
I can't like dumbest country,but let's um explain how dumb it
is.
It is Cause it's even worsethan you could possibly imagine.
(40:21):
So, over the course of theweekend, a couple of days before
uh by, or rather, trump wassworn into office, he launched a
shit coin called, you know,trump.
He's got a Trump meme coin, uh,the value of which skyrocketed
to, I think, somewhere over $60billion in one evening.
(40:43):
I don't know what it's sittingat now, but it reached a peak to
where the valuation of Trump'sshares of his coin was somewhere
around 60 to 70 billion dollars, after which, um, melania Trump
launched her own meme coin,which destabilized the Trump the
(41:04):
value of the Trump coin.
So investors lost numerousbillions of dollars after seeing
it skyrocket to absurd amountsand then it dropped like 60
percent, like the next year.
Well, that was thanks to melania, right?
Um.
So that gambit enriched melaniaand trump and his family in the
(41:25):
inner circle to the tune oftens of billions of dollars.
Trump is now officially abillionaire, at least on paper.
Um, you know, I don't know howmuch of the value of the coin
For the first time in his life.
Speaker 2 (41:36):
Yeah, he's an actual billionaire.
Speaker 1 (41:38):
Yeah, I don't know how much of the coin they've
sold off at this point, but lastI checked a couple of days ago
it was more than $500 million.
So he's basically taking a $500million bribe because we don't
know where a large majority ofthe money that was pumped into
Trump's pocket and it's nearlyuntraceable.
(42:15):
It's not completely untraceable,but it's difficult to untangle
that Well it will be with thisincoming DOJ, so yeah, oh yeah,
this is never going to getinvestigated, but this was
basically Trump enrichinghimself to the tune of billions
of dollars through the WhiteHouse, and that's what it is At
(42:37):
this point.
Anyone who wants Trump to be anaudience to their demands or
their wishes or negotiations,they've got to have a way to
basically ensure that they endup with a favorable result.
Just by purchasing some of hisshit coin or engaging in
(42:59):
business dealings with him, suchas what the UAE Is that where
the new Trump Tower is going?
Speaker 2 (43:09):
The Emirates probably yeah emirates probably, yeah.
Speaker 1 (43:18):
So for all those people who out there, who were
irate that hunter bidenshouldn't have a job because his
dad was president, well, you'vegot trump and his family
enriching themselves withbillions of dollars from unknown
origins.
And that's not even countingthe 40 million dollars bezos
sent to melania trump inexchange for her life rights.
Speaker 2 (43:34):
Well, you did know, like.
You know, like, at first shewas like, oh, she wasn't going
to live at the White House, shewas going to.
But after she was on like Foxand Friends, and after the Bezos
deal was, she was, oh yeah, I'mgoing to live at the White
House, I'm going to.
Yeah, it'm going to, I'm goingto live at the White House, I'm
(43:56):
going to.
Yeah, it was nothing but abribe, because we've seen her
more in the past.
Speaker 1 (44:03):
Yeah we have been here, we've seen, yes, we've
seen her more since she got that40 million dollars in Bezos
than we've seen since they leftthe White House in 2001.
Than we've seen since they leftthe White House in 2001.
Yeah, it's wild, but you know,look, I would say that part of
(44:26):
the reason Melania even ended upmeeting Trump in the first
place was due to an introductionthrough Jeffrey Epstein when
she was a model, and I'massuming she was paid to engage
in activities with Trump.
And so it all comes full circle.
Money was probably theincentive to get her with Trump
in the first place, and nowmoney is incentive for her to
move back into the White Housewith Trump now that he's been
(44:49):
reelected.
Speaker 2 (44:51):
They said that she's going to live in her own
apartment in the White House.
Speaker 1 (44:58):
Well, for now, right, because if Trump somehow
manages to end birthrightcitizenship considering we don't
even know how Melania got hersshe's likely to be deported
along with JD Vance's wife.
She was a fucking immigrant too, and that concludes this
episode and Barron, and Barron.
Yeah, we can tack on a coupleof Trump's kids, because, well,
(45:24):
it's funny, the Republican Partyhas all this hate for
immigrants and yet Trump marriedtwo of them and knocked them up
multiple times.
And that concludes this episodeof Part of the Insurrection.
One, two, three, four no longer a joke.
Trump is actually pardoned theinsurrectionists.
The joke is become real.
We've been warning you foryears that, while the title of
this podcast was tongue-in-cheek, we need to add an S to it.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Pardon the insurrectionists.
Now, that's our continuation.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
He's done it.
It's official.
We'll get to that momentarily.
So it has been quite a week.
Uh, the jack smith reportdropped tldr.
He fucking did it.
Um, I think that's pretty clearat this point.
There was a lot of evidence tosuggest that trump would have
been likely found guilty if hehad ever made it to trial.
(00:59):
But because a bunch of idiotsin america to defeat America by
voting for the insurrectionists,he's not going to be held
accountable for those actions.
And one of his first acts whilehe was in office.
By the end of the day, he hadissued numerous pardons to what
like a I don't know a thousandpeople, a thousand criminals.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Oh, it was like 1,500 , 1,600.
1,500, 1,600?
.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
1,500, 1,600.
All of them Plus and maybe alittle bit more than a dozen
commutations.
This included clemency forindividuals who were engaged in
violent activity on January 6th,including assaulting police
officers.
Individuals from the OathKeepers who were found guilty of
seditious conspiracy Fucking.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Proud Boys Enrique Tarrio.
Yes, I heard while I waslistening to Legal as Fuck,
because, well, I have a crush onPopock.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Legal AF.
They don't call it Legal asFuck.
But yeah literally he was likeTarrio's already pouring it up
in Miami, celebrating that legalas fuck um.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
But yeah, literally he was like.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
I will tell, ben is already pouring it up in miami
celebrating, right I will tellben to inform um michael popock
that you indeed have a crush onhim, um, but yeah, so trump was
asked about uh the pardoning ofthe individuals convicted on uh
convicted of violent crimes onJanuary 6th and his comments, of
(02:27):
course, are extraordinarilyinfuriating.
I hate this fucker.
What were we thinking, america?
What were you guys doing?
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Relating to events that occurred on January 6th
2021.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Okay, and how many people is this?
Speaker 3 (02:42):
I think this order will apply to approximately
1,500 people, sir.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
So this is January 6th.
These are the hostages,approximately 1,500 for a pardon
, full pardon, full pardon.
We have about six commutationsin there where we're doing
(03:07):
further research.
Nice to see you again.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
All right, that's Trump signing the pardons, even
though he had previously said,before he took office, that they
would discuss pardons on anindividual basis.
They would look at theaccusations, the crimes that
individuals were convicted of,before receiving a pardon, and
it turns out, as per the usual,that was a total fucking lie.
(03:39):
He signed a blanket pardon fornearly all of them, all of them
with a handful of commutationseven the ones that fucking pled
guilty to assaulting fuckingpolice officers like I just
literally can't like it'sextraordinarily disheartening.
(04:03):
Look, these are traitors to theUnited States of America.
Let's be clear regardless ofwhat they were convicted for,
what they were doing at theCapitol on January 6th 2021, is
attempting to stop thelegislative branch from
transferring power from onepresident to the other, and that
is the very definition ofattack on the United States and
attack on the Constitution andan attempt to basically
(04:24):
overthrow democracy.
The enemy transfer of powerwithin effect in democracy.
Now, I know this soundshyperbolic, I might have said it
a couple of times on here, butso 9-11, while he held, is the
most impactful attack on theUnited States, or at least
(04:45):
terrorist attack on the UnitedStates, in American history.
I think it's number twoactually, because, regardless of
how successful Al Qaeda mighthave been on 9-11, even if the
plane had hit the Pentagon andanother plane had hit the
Capitol and another plane hadhit the White House and the two
towers, so on and so forth, itwas extraordinarily destructive
(05:09):
and a lot of people died.
And if they had managed to killCongress and kill military
officials and somehow evenmanaged to take out the
president, a plane thatsuccessfully struck the White
House, our democracy would havesurvived right.
We would have just elected newofficials.
We would have elected a newpresident, we would have
(05:32):
appointed new military officialsto take the positions of those
who were lost and democracywould have continued.
Yes, it would have been anextraordinary tragedy and it
would have definitely harmed theUnited States, but our
democracy wouldn't have ended ifthe attack on the Capitol had
(05:52):
been slightly more successful,in terms of the fact that the
insurrectionists were at theSenate chambers within five
minutes of entering the buildingand they were just barely led
away by one specific blackCapitol police officer.
If they had made a right turninstead of a left turn to chase
(06:13):
the police officer away, it'sentirely possible that they
could have not only keptCongress hostage but maybe
killed members of Congress,prevented the peaceful transfer
of power and Trump would havebeen a dictator.
And that would have absolutelyensured the end of our democracy
, because after that, wecertainly would not have had a
2020 election.
(06:39):
And I mean you think about thatin the context of the fact that
we knew what happened.
We all watched it play out liveon television and then, four
years later, we, through theelectoral process, we put that
person back in power.
It's absolutely mind-boggling,insane, like I don't understand
what people were thinking likewhy people's memories are so
(06:59):
short.
Um, obviously, propaganda issuper effective.
I feel like not that theDemocratic Party are the bad
guys in this regard, I guessjust because we have two sets of
standards for each party.
I feel like I expected theDemocratic Party to spend more
time ensuring that the memory ofJanuary 6th never let the
(07:23):
public's mind, and they decidedfor electoral purposes, I
suppose to no longer focus onJanuary 6th, on a violent
insurrection that nearly endedAmerican democracy, and they
left the space, and all of theright-wing media filled it with
the idea that January 6th was ahoax, or it was led by Democrats
(07:48):
, or there were the FBI.
It was a psyop and all of thatbullshit, all of that or and you
know contradictory messagessaying the people who did attack
the Capitol on January 6th,they were hostages, they were
innocent, it was show trials.
And the problem with likeleaving opportunities for
(08:11):
Republicans to spreaddisinformation is, if enough
people say it over the course ofenough amount of time, it tends
to change people's minds or atleast cloud their ability to
discern fact from fiction.
And it's just an unfortunateerror in judgment on behalf of
(08:34):
the Democratic Party, justletting Trump off the hook for
this politically, because I meanagain, this is just.
We're at a point in time whereI don't understand.
Like this is the only personI've ever seen that doesn't face
any political consequences.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
This was literally anyone else, anyone else all
Howard Dean did was give afucking hearty, and he was out
of there, we got him out ofthere, ty.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
He was out of there, we got him out of there, ty.
He was done career over.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
I don't even know if he's still alive.
I've heard zero about HowardDean since then nothing.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
we've heard nothing from him, just done out of the
public spotlight forever, likeyou said, and when you said it I
was like actually I don't knowif he's alive either, so it's
entirely possible he might nolonger be with us.
I wouldn't know, because noone's going to be like.
Rest in peace, howard Dean,when he passes.
He's not going to get.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
No, he's going to get all the accolades that Herman
Cain got.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
You're right.
It's not going to be flags athalf staff commemorating the
death of Howard Dean.
Yeah, it's.
We live in the most insane oftimes.
Obviously, trump being back inthe White House means absolute
chaos.
It didn't take long, but, as hewas sworn in on Inauguration
Day, there were a number of justabsolutely insane mishaps, like
(10:15):
him taking the oath of officewithout swearing, with his hand
on the Bible.
But though it's entirelypossible that if he had touched
that Bible, he might have burstinto flames.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
But though it's entirely possible that if he had
touched that Bible he mighthave burst into flames, there
was a stack on the Resolute deskof executive orders.
I am more concerned about thosethat legacy media has not
(10:44):
talked about.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Right, we'll get to that as they come.
There were numerous executiveorders, however, that were
extraordinarily damaging.
One with Trump trying to endbirthright citizenship through
executive order.
I mean basically eliminating the14th Amendment, although the
Supreme Court already neuteredhalf of it as we speak, by not
(11:10):
only granting Trump presidentialimmunity but basically making
it nearly impossible to enforcethis section, disqualifying any
political official for acting inan insurrection without just
direct legislation written byCongress, any political official
for acting in an insurrectionwithout, um, just direct
legislation written by Congress.
So I mean I don't understand whywe have to write an acting
(11:31):
legislation when, like the thingsays, if you aid engage in
insurrection, you are herebydisqualified.
I mean, I don't Supreme courtout here saving Trump's ass by
shitting all over theconstitution.
So it's entirely possible,while people are arguing on
Twitter and all of the socialmedia platforms that hey, he
(11:52):
can't do that by executive order, the Constitution, the Supreme
Court might say otherwise andI'm sure numerous other states
at this point are already suingthe Trump administration over
that executive order and it'slikely going to end up in court.
And, because it's aconstitutional issue, it's
likely going to end up in frontof the supreme court and they
might interpret the 14thamendment in ways that don't
(12:14):
make no goddamn sense.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
So for anyone that's what they do.
So I'm not, I would not besurprised.
No, and that's the whole point.
Like, the whole point of likedoing these anti-constitutional
laws, executive orders etc.
Is to get it in front of thecourt, right wanting the court.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
He's appointed two of three of his own justices uh
pre-vetted to, generallyspeaking, uh rule in a way that
is more advantageous to theRepublican party.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
And the fucking Republican party Right.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
And then Clarence Thomas and uh Alito.
They've both been bought andpaid for by a right wing
billionaire.
So you've got at least four, ifnot five, votes, generally
speaking, in favor of all kindsof Trump insanity going forward
for the next four years.
And I'm sure a couple of thoseare going to retire and they'll
(13:15):
be replaced by even worse people.
Judge.
I have a alien cannon and judgeKazimierk in Texas, who is, who
sits on the Fifth Circuit ofAppeals, and he's yeah, he's
like the one judge in thecircuit, yeah, and so a lot of
(13:40):
times Republicans will try andfile suits in his district
specifically because it'll go tohis court and he'll represent
all kind of ridiculous shit.
So Trump's also withdrawn theUS from the Paris Climate Accord
a horrific disaster forcombating climate change, even
(14:01):
though we've recently seennumerous natural disasters here.
And climate change, even thoughwe've recently seen numerous
natural disasters here, not justover the course of the past few
years, but even as recently asa couple of weeks ago with that
massive fire on the outskirts ofLA there.
Just withdrawing the UnitedStates from the World Health
Organization.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Even the fucking CEO of Exxon was like yeah, no you
know when the oil company sayingyeah, don't, don't pull out of
the paris climate accords, yeah,not not great.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
They're not great at all.
We've got a brand new muslimban, although it's not.
It's disguised to appear asthough it is not a muslim ban.
It is, in fact, a muslim ban,um.
You know, if you're here in thecountry, um on a visa or such,
and you were engaging inpro-palestinian protests, you
are likely going to be deported,and I'm sure they're going to
(15:05):
extend that to American citizens.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
I was looking at you uncommitted.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Yeah, so Biden's executive order allowing
Medicare to negotiate lower drugprices, that's gone.
So expect to pay, you know,three, four, five hundred
dollars for a month's supply ofinsulin.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
kudos to all you trump voters out there who have
diabetes yes, and I want you tohave to look your nana in the
face.
Meanwhile.
You're like sorry, you can'tafford your insulin.
I voted for this.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
It's some fuckery out there, it's all, just just.
He's only been in office foryou know about the time you're
hearing this likely two days,and it's disaster after disaster
, and he's just gotten started.
It's unfortunate, but he didhave comments on where the
United States of America isgoing policy wise, and I'm sure
(16:04):
this is one of the mostimportant issues of our time,
which Trump is willing to comedown on one particular side of
the aisle and I don't think it'sgoing to make the price of your
eggs any cheaper whatsoever.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
This week, I will also end the government policy
of trying to socially engineerrace and gender into every
aspect of public and privatelife.
We will forge a society that iscolorblind and merit-based.
(16:47):
As of today, it will henceforthbe the official policy of the
United States government thatthere are only two genders male
and female.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Guys, I don't think that's going to make your
grocery prices cheaper.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
No, not when I saw it was like fucking $5 for fucking
dozen eggs.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
today, yeah, yeah, it's only two genders in America
.
That's um.
Gonna lower gas prices, gonnamake the price of homes cheaper,
I would imagine, becausethere's there are fewer genders,
uh, that need to be housed.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Um, I'm not exactly sure, of course.
I mean I'm pretty sure that,like just mandating that you
only recognize two genders, isgoing to bring our gas prices
way down.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Right.
Also, he snuck in there thathe's going to make America
colorblind, which doesn't meanthat race no longer exists and
no longer, you know, affectspeople in the United States.
It just means that they'regoing to ignore racism.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Ignore all of the racism.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Yes from here on out.
That's extraordinarily helpfulto anyone of any minority in the
United States who happen toalso vote for Trump.
You're fucked.
Congratulations.
You did it to yourself.
I mean, the Onion did the thing.
They're like America defeatsAmerica.
I think that's.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
That is pretty fucking spot on.
No, but really the thingthey're like America defeats
America, that I think that'sthat is.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
That's pretty fucking spot on no, but but really,
though, if you were concernedthat Trump wasn't focused on the
most important prioritiesfacing American citizens to this
day, I have some reassurancefor you that he absolutely was,
and we have a clip for you here.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
The Panama Canal, which has foolishly been given
to the country of Panama afterthe United States.
The United States I mean thinkof this spent more money than
ever spent on a project beforeand lost 38,000 lives in the
building of the Panama Canal.
(19:07):
We have been treated very badlyfrom this foolish gift that
should have never been made andPanama's promise to us has been
broken.
The purpose of our deal and thespirit of our treaty has been
totally violated.
American ships are beingseverely overcharged and not
(19:29):
treated fairly in any way, shapeor form, and that includes the
United States Navy.
And, above all, china isoperating the Panama Canal, and
we didn't give it to China, wegave it to Panama and we're
taking it back.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
This nigga's insane Ty.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
He's insane ty that's he's insane I swear to god,
just made my blood boillistening to that fucker and how
he lies, the way the rest of usbreathe endlessly he just
(20:13):
throws shit out there just besaying shit.
It'd be crazy saying shitsaying shit that makes no
goddamn sense all right.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
So dave chappelle predicted this 20 years ago now,
I believe, on his showchappelle show, however you feel
about his sociological stanceson gender in the year of our
Lord, 2025.
He was ahead of his time inpredicting the political
landscape of modern day Americain a skit that he did that was
(20:46):
called Black Bush.
It was like a play on.
Like you know, george Bush'sbehavior was absolutely absurd,
but if it had came from a blackperson, howard would have
sounded.
It was all kind of insane shit.
Like you know, he, like the Iraqwar, for instance.
He was like, yeah, we're goingdown there, we're going to get
(21:08):
these, get the oil.
And then it's like, like youknow, um, what was he saying?
Uh, oh, he's like, oh yeah,what's the un gonna do?
You ain't got no army, right,it was all kind of crazy.
We go into space, space, uh,just all kind of insane.
(21:28):
And it's like a it's anabsolute 100 percent parallel to
the kind of insane shit trumpis doing now.
Except chapelle did it 20 yearsago and accurately predicted
the future.
Uh, just yeah, he'd just besaying shit, man, he'd just be
saying shit, uh.
And, generally speaking, it'sall lies.
I mean, we've had numerousinstances of this already.
When he said he was gonna wouldcall up putin and have the war
(21:53):
in ukraine ended in 24 hourshe's been president for longer
than 24 hours at this pointguess what?
He did not call putin.
There is no uh agreement tohave the war new fall.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Who this?
Speaker 1 (22:05):
who this?
But in fact he did call uhpresident xi in china convinced
him or at least he said that hewas convincing him to ensure
that the war in Ukraine ended,and I'm assuming what that means
is send more aid and weaponsand such to Russia to help Putin
(22:30):
try and take over the rest ofUkraine Also.
So Biden did manage to finallyget a ceasefire between Israel
and Hamas successfully.
They practically used thelanguage that Biden had
suggested over the course ofnegotiations over the past year
(22:50):
and a half, over the course ofnegotiations over the past year
and a half.
So kudos to Biden for doingthat, although to some degree, I
expect the ceasefire to onlylast long enough to get the
hostages back, and thenNetanyahu will continue to try
and level Gaza to the ground.
So kudos to everyone who votedfor Trump because, biden, he
could get the ceasefire on yourtimeline, even though he's been
(23:12):
working on it endlessly.
So that's exciting.
Yeah, it just man.
Disaster after disaster.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Whew, good God we're not even through January yet
Nope, we're three weeks in.
And we've got it has alreadybeen a shit show.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Yeah Well.
Yeah, look, we're like just twodays into the Trump
administration and it's been ashit show.
So there were numerousinauguration scandals, but one
that was very unfortunatepertained our actual president,
Elon Musk, where he made a Nazisalute and everyone on the
Internet Twice.
Yeah well, the people set theinternet ablaze, Numerous people
(23:56):
pointing out the fact that itwas an extraordinarily obvious
Nazi salute, with othersdefending it, saying he was just
sending out his heart.
We will let you decide foryourselves.
Hail Hitler.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Ironic.
Looks extraordinarily similarto the hell hitler salute.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
I don't know I'm getting nazi vibes, I mean you
know not, not trump quotinghitler nearly verbatim over the
course of his 2024 campaign?
If that didn't do it for you,well, that should make it pretty
clear there.
It's extraordinarily hard toargue now.
A lot of people were saying,well, he's just, you know,
elon's just autistic.
Uh, yeah, I know a lot ofpeople with autism.
(24:43):
None of them are nazis.
Yeah, and look so.
And I think we played a videoon a previous episode where
Elon's father was talking abouthis Elon's mother and her
parents being part of the Naziparty in Canada and they didn't
like the way the things weregoing, so they ended up moving
(25:05):
to South Africa.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Apartheid South Africa.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
When have you ever heard of anybody being like yeah
, I want to go to apartheid,it's awesome.
Only a fucking Nazi would saysome shit like that Would say
some shit like that.
And then, when apartheid failed,guess what happened?
They got the fuck up out ofthere.
That shit let you know.
But yeah, it's extraordinarilyfunny watching millions of
(25:31):
people across the United Statescome to realize that the
wealthiest man on the planet whois an immigrant, by the way is
not only pro-fascism but astraight up Nazi.
Endless information thatsuggests that he is not a good
person, that he is a bad actorand he is out engaging in the
(25:54):
most egregious behavior possiblein order to gain power to do
horrific things to the UnitedStates.
And he bought him a presidency.
So the Nazis won.
It took them nearly 80 years,but they finally figured out a
(26:18):
way to be victorious by slippingthrough the cracks and biding
their time and amassing afortune.
And now the president of theUnited States is what we?
We got our first president fromAfrica.
Unfortunately, it's a white guyfrom apartheid.
So yeah, ace job, ace job,america.
You, you did it.
We have one fucking job.
And Ace job, america, you didit.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
We had one fucking job.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
And we fucked it up.
Yep, and I say we, and what Ireally mean is them fuckers.
Because I voted for KamalaHarris, I voted for Joe Biden, I
was going to vote for Joe Bidenagain, but a bunch of insiders
in the party and the mediadecided that they only wanted a
one term presidency out of Biden.
And they got that and ensuredthe electoral victory of Trump.
(26:57):
So here we are.
You know one other thing aboutTrump pardoning the
insurrectionists a couple ofthings Right.
So, typically speaking, infascist countries, you know it's
all over when the militiasbecome a substitute for law
enforcement.
And trump pardoning his ownprivate army, or at least the
(27:20):
some of the people who led theinsurrection are all, for all
intents and purposes, part ofhis army.
Um, it does two things.
It says that if you're willingto break the law in my name, you
won't be held accountable,which gives people license to
engage in violence in all kindsof ways that maybe law
(27:41):
enforcement would be heldaccountable for, and now these
people won't.
And then two like if you're aRepublican member of Congress,
you were there on January 6thand you saw a mob attempt to
murder you in cold blood inorder to keep Trump in power.
It is like a flash.
(28:02):
It is like a flashing redsignal saying, hey, trump's
probably going to try and killyou again.
Saying, hey, trump's probablygoing to try and kill you again.
Right, because so.
I would assume.
A lot of Republicans inCongress are like, well, we're
not going to do anything toimpede Trump's wishes, which
(28:23):
means he's going to beemboldened to do more and more
insane shit because there won'tbe any resistance If they're
going to become a rubber stampto that.
Well, at some point Trump isgoing to feel like well, why do
I even need the rubber stamp?
Why don't I just get rid ofcongress and become full-on
dictator?
Speaker 2 (28:35):
exactly, exactly, which is exactly what he around
Congress to do, whatever evilfuckery he wants to do right and
(29:00):
he's going to find a way also.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
So over the course of the past weekend, there was
just an unlimited amount ofinsanity surrounding the TikTok
ban that was passed by Congressand signed into law by President
Biden.
But if you're media literate,you would know the origin of the
TikTok ban began with the Trumpadministration and for proof,
(29:25):
like we have a video here ofTrump on numerous occasions
setting his support for the banon TikTok, when I wanted to
disable TikTok three years ago,I was met with opposition from
rhinos Democrats and everyoneelse.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
They actually went to court in an effort to stop me.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
We're looking at TikTok.
We may be banning TikTok.
We may be doing some otherthings or a couple of options,
but a lot of things arehappening, so we'll see what
happens, but we are looking at alot of alternatives.
With respect to TikTok, we gavethem until September 15th.
Speaker 4 (30:03):
After that they got a closed shop.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
All right.
So the ban went into effectthis weekend, although President
Biden said he wasn't going todo anything to enforce it.
Even so, tiktok decided to shutitself down and, after which,
american users were greeted witha response saying it was
(30:29):
basically unfortunate thatTikTok shut down, but they were
working with the Trumpadministration to get the issue
resolved and hopefully bringTikTok back to Americans.
Now Biden is still in office atthis point, right?
So Biden saying that he wasn'tgoing to enforce the ban means
that there was no outside forceresponsible for TikTok shutting
(30:54):
down.
They just made the decision toturn the fucking thing off.
And then the very next day,sunday, while Biden was still in
office, they cut TikTok back onand said thanks to the Trump
administration, the issue withthe ban was resolved and they
would be resuming service in theunited states.
(31:15):
This was a fucking propagandaploy, uh, to win trump some
favorability with young votersand young americans who use
tiktok and create content andwhatnot.
It's straight up bullshit.
So if you're using tiktok as wespeak, you have ample evidence
to suggest to you that, eventhough tiktok wasn't shut down,
(31:39):
uh, because it's property ofwell I know bite dance isn't
technically property of thechinese, uh communist parties I
mean 60 of bite dances.
Owners and investors areamerican companies like black
rock yeah, but what you canassume from that is that it is
(32:03):
in fact an arm of the, thechinese government.
I'm sorry.
That's the only way that thiscould even possibly happen that
they would shut it down and tryand make Biden look bad and give
credit to Trump for bringingyou back, even though he didn't
have any involvement whatsoeverwith the shutting down or the
services coming back online.
It's a.
(32:24):
It's a fucking psyop.
Now I have been hearing, havebeen hearing, uh, I've been
seeing some videos of contentcreators on tiktok posting
videos and those videos beingdeleted or suppressed.
Yeah, it's not dissimilar fromwhat eli must did to twitter
(32:44):
when he took over suppressed alot of left-leaning accounts and
amplified a lot of right,right-wing accounts.
Um, I you know, for the peoplewho were saying TikTok is this
valuable commodity and it's theway to get information out to
the world, I got to tell youlook, I don't know how long
that's going to last, because ifthey can pull the plug on your
(33:04):
individual videos as they seefit, it really just becomes a
propaganda arm, and we've gotenough of that between meta out
here suppressing posts referringabout issues in the United
States, politically andotherwise.
It's not looking great, ty.
(33:43):
We're going to be in for a longfour years here, because
mainstream media is not going todo us any favors.
They're not going to do theirjobs, and now social media is
bought by a bunch of eitherright-wing billionaires or under
the control of foreignadversaries who are, in essence,
probably trying to bribe Trumpin a favorable US policy at the
(34:05):
expense of the American public.
It's going to be rough.
It's going to be rough, butyeah yeah it's just, yeah, it's
I.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
I can't, I, I'm still just like I don't know.
Really, I'm just trying to wrapmy head around all of this and
how the right has co-opted everymedia outlet platform.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
Washington Post journalists are quitting.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
Kim Jong-un.
He's jealous right now of he is.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
He's like damn y'all.
You guys are doing better overthere in America than I do over
here in North Korea.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
Yeah, like, like, seriously, like there is no from
Prince to.
You know, the TV, news, socialmedia, they've all been co-opted
by the right wing, and thegaslighting and the lies that we
(35:22):
are going to be bombarded withfor the next four years, it's
going to be fucking insane, likeon next, next level insane.
I mean, hitler was able to doit like with just fucking the
stormer, you know, like hedidn't have all of these
(35:45):
platforms that are availabletoday to they didn't.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
But so, in theory, I guess the analog for social
media and TV news outlets suchas Fox at that time would have
been newspapers and radio.
And one of the first things theNazi Party did when they came
into power, even though they wona minority of the vote, is they
took over media, radio andprint journalism specifically.
(36:16):
Now, they didn't outrightcontrol all the media outlets to
begin with, but they werepumping disinformation through
various channels that they didhave control over, and they took
the Steve Bannon approach offlooding the zone with shit
Right.
So, even though there wereoutlets, you know, printing out
(36:38):
accurate information, there wasso much disinformation mixed in
with what people were consumingand it was difficult to discern
truth from untruth, fact fromfiction, and they use that to
kind of empower themselvespolitically.
And, you know, by the timethere was another election they
(36:58):
were, they won that handily, andthe rest was history.
Uh, you know, the united statesis about to experience a similar
state.
Uh, I mean, we're in the age ofdense information as it as it
is, but it's only going to getworse from here.
And so there's this.
I know this is soundsridiculous, but there was a
video game.
(37:18):
Um, once upon a time.
I mean, I guess it's been over20 years now since the release
release of this video game thatalso kind of accurately
predicted in, in some ways, whatwe're experiencing was it's
called metal gear solid right,uh, two, I believe.
Um, so the premise of the gameis that there's a secret
(37:41):
organization working behind thescenes, um, that's puppeteering
numerous governments across theworld.
A handful of rich people used amassive fortune to create
numerous agencies and companiesand all kinds of things to
orchestrate a plan to kind ofcontrol the flow of information
(38:04):
all across the world, because ifyou control people's access to
information, you can controlwhat they think, what they do,
how they act, so on and so forth.
And it culminated in a plan tocreate, like this massive ai
machine that could automaticallyfilter out anything that they
might find harmful to, whatevertheir plans were, and then
(38:26):
replace that information withinundane things that kind of
distract the masses.
Long story short, you couldlook at it as like a counterpart
to how social media today works, with all of the people in
control at this point, pledgingtheir loyalty to Trump and doing
(38:47):
whatever he deems, whatever herequires of them, in order to
maintain power in exchange forfinancial gain.
It's just, it's extraordinarilydisheartening.
I just and I know Biden theother day used the word
oligarchy.
I'm not entirely sure Americanseven know what that word means,
and I can tell you that theydon't they likely don't.
(39:10):
And by the fact that, likeGoogle searches for the word or
oligarchy skyrocketed and thisis like a similar.
This is similar to how, onelection day, you know google
searches for the phrase didbiden drop out, uh, hit their
peak, not, not.
Not when biden dropped out, notover you know the course of the
(39:33):
weeks when kamala harris wasnamed the nominee, not during
the dnc convention.
Like this is how littleattention people pay.
Like the phrase didn't didbiden drop out, the google
searches for that phrase hit anabsolute peak on fucking
election day.
That's.
That's where this country is interms of and tariffs like.
Speaker 2 (39:54):
Right after he was elected, searches for what are
tariffs?
Speaker 1 (40:00):
people waited until after they voted to figure out
what the fuck it was that theyvoted for.
I can't like dumbest country,but let's um explain how dumb it
is.
It is Cause it's even worsethan you could possibly imagine.
(40:21):
So, over the course of theweekend, a couple of days before
uh by, or rather, trump wassworn into office, he launched a
shit coin called, you know,trump.
He's got a Trump meme coin, uh,the value of which skyrocketed
to, I think, somewhere over $60billion in one evening.
(40:43):
I don't know what it's sittingat now, but it reached a peak to
where the valuation of Trump'sshares of his coin was somewhere
around 60 to 70 billion dollars, after which, um, melania Trump
launched her own meme coin,which destabilized the Trump the
(41:04):
value of the Trump coin.
So investors lost numerousbillions of dollars after seeing
it skyrocket to absurd amountsand then it dropped like 60
percent, like the next year.
Well, that was thanks to melania, right?
Um.
So that gambit enriched melaniaand trump and his family in the
(41:25):
inner circle to the tune oftens of billions of dollars.
Trump is now officially abillionaire, at least on paper.
Um, you know, I don't know howmuch of the value of the coin
For the first time in his life.
Speaker 2 (41:36):
Yeah, he's an actual billionaire.
Speaker 1 (41:38):
Yeah, I don't know how much of the coin they've
sold off at this point, but lastI checked a couple of days ago
it was more than $500 million.
So he's basically taking a $500million bribe because we don't
know where a large majority ofthe money that was pumped into
Trump's pocket and it's nearlyuntraceable.
(42:15):
It's not completely untraceable,but it's difficult to untangle
that Well it will be with thisincoming DOJ, so yeah, oh yeah,
this is never going to getinvestigated, but this was
basically Trump enrichinghimself to the tune of billions
of dollars through the WhiteHouse, and that's what it is At
(42:37):
this point.
Anyone who wants Trump to be anaudience to their demands or
their wishes or negotiations,they've got to have a way to
basically ensure that they endup with a favorable result.
Just by purchasing some of hisshit coin or engaging in
(42:59):
business dealings with him, suchas what the UAE Is that where
the new Trump Tower is going?
Speaker 2 (43:09):
The Emirates probably yeah emirates probably, yeah.
Speaker 1 (43:18):
So for all those people who out there, who were
irate that hunter bidenshouldn't have a job because his
dad was president, well, you'vegot trump and his family
enriching themselves withbillions of dollars from unknown
origins.
And that's not even countingthe 40 million dollars bezos
sent to melania trump inexchange for her life rights.
Speaker 2 (43:34):
Well, you did know, like.
You know, like, at first shewas like, oh, she wasn't going
to live at the White House, shewas going to.
But after she was on like Foxand Friends, and after the Bezos
deal was, she was, oh yeah, I'mgoing to live at the White
House, I'm going to.
Yeah, it'm going to, I'm goingto live at the White House, I'm
(43:56):
going to.
Yeah, it was nothing but abribe, because we've seen her
more in the past.
Speaker 1 (44:03):
Yeah we have been here, we've seen, yes, we've
seen her more since she got that40 million dollars in Bezos
than we've seen since they leftthe White House in 2001.
Than we've seen since they leftthe White House in 2001.
Yeah, it's wild, but you know,look, I would say that part of
(44:26):
the reason Melania even ended upmeeting Trump in the first
place was due to an introductionthrough Jeffrey Epstein when
she was a model, and I'massuming she was paid to engage
in activities with Trump.
And so it all comes full circle.
Money was probably theincentive to get her with Trump
in the first place, and nowmoney is incentive for her to
move back into the White Housewith Trump now that he's been
(44:49):
reelected.
Speaker 2 (44:51):
They said that she's going to live in her own
apartment in the White House.
Speaker 1 (44:58):
Well, for now, right, because if Trump somehow
manages to end birthrightcitizenship considering we don't
even know how Melania got hersshe's likely to be deported
along with JD Vance's wife.
She was a fucking immigrant too, and that concludes this
episode and Barron, and Barron.
Yeah, we can tack on a coupleof Trump's kids, because, well,
(45:24):
it's funny, the Republican Partyhas all this hate for
immigrants and yet Trump marriedtwo of them and knocked them up
multiple times.
And that concludes this episodeof Part of the Insurrection.
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