Ep. 759 - Social Media Has Negative Effects Internal Docs Show - American Perspective with Rick Thomas

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
A rare and balanced view on politics in today's world,
based on facts born of rationality, common sense, and logic,
providing context on today's events. This is American Perspective with
Rick Thomas.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Good evening, everyone, Welcome to American Perspective. It is with
heavy heart and a sad heart that I have to
announce that one of my Whiskey Warrior p ones, you'll
recall that Fat Pause that was his screen name, that

(00:47):
Fat Pause, was in a horrific car accident about a
week ago a little less but sometime last week and
mid to late last week, was in a car accident
and he's basically been in the hospital fighting for his
life over the last several days. And I have just

(01:10):
received word that, unfortunately, about well roughly two hours ago,
that Fat Pause has passed. So you know, it's things
like this, if if you are you know, if you

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are the family member or friend or whatever, you know,
whatever relationship you have with the individual, if the individual
passes via natural causes, meaning they've lived a full life,
and you know, the impact while still affected. Please don't

(01:54):
get me wrong on this, while the impact is still
still can't affect you. When tragedies like this happen, and
people are ripped away at a moment's a moment in
time that hits harder than I think any other way

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of passing, because oftentimes what you end up doing is
you end up thinking about, oh, you know, how many
how many times did I get the opportunity to say
something to that individual, to explain to them, to tell
them how much I love them, how much I appreciate them,
how much I you know, appreciated and loved, and you know,

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was that they made an effect on life. So whenever
somebody passes in a tragedy such as this one, you
don't get those opportunities any more. You don't get the
opportunity to say the things that you wanted to say.

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And we all know life gets in the way. I
mean everybody, including you, knowing, everybody gets to a point
where life goes in and you know, you just keep
thinking to yourself, Oh, you know, I've got tomorrow, I've
got you know, the next day or whatever. And then
the fact of the matter is is that you don't.

(03:26):
You really don't. None of us know outside of the
moment that we're living in. None of us know what
is coming next. So I'm just gonna say, in honor
of fat pause. Okay, in honor of fat pause, I'm

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just gonna say, take that time. We're coming up to Thanksgiving,
which is, you know, a big well for America anyway,
it's a usually a large gathering of your family. Take
the time, Take the time to say the things that

(04:09):
you want to say. Take the time to explain to
an individual how much they mean to you. Take that
time because tomorrow you may not have the opportunity. And
I know, you know a lot of people I kind
of get irritated to be I'm even doing it myself.

(04:30):
Things like this happen and everybody says, oh, yes, do
all this do to you know, take time, tell everybody
you love them, so on and so forth, and then
the next day it's all gone. It's it's forgotten about.
But I guarantee you that the person that is closest
to that individual who got taken by the by you know,

(04:51):
the tragedy, accident, or got taken quickly, let's put it
that way, that individual will remember for the rest of
their lives what they did not say. And I know
it sounds cliche, but you really should. You should tell people.

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Tell people when you know everything. Tell people how you
feel about them in terms of you know, especially if
you really appreciate them, because you never know. You never

(05:31):
know if you have tomorrow, you never know if you
have any time left with these individuals. You only live once,
as far as I'm aware, you only get one shot.

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And once it's gone, Man, it's gone. And nothing nothing
makes you feel that more so than especially if they
leave in a very rapid fashion, is the best way
for me to put it. So that being the case,

(06:21):
I moved Fat Pause Pledge of Allegiance to the front
of the line tonight. So in honor of him, I'm
going to have him read the Pledge of allegiance for us,
and after he is finished, I hope you don't mind,

(06:41):
but I will follow that with the moment of silence
in honor of his passing. So that said, if you
are of mine, please stand, remove your hat if you're
wearing one, place your hand over your heart, and follow

(07:05):
along with our good friend Fat Pause. May he rest
in peace with the nights Pledge of Allegiance.

Speaker 3 (07:23):
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States
of America and to the Republic for which it stands.
One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

Speaker 2 (08:11):
Ladies and gentlemen. I hope that your prayers tonight will
include Bonnie, his wife, who is also a longtime Whiskey
Warrior member. She's going to need all the support and
love that she can possibly get. And if all you
can give is a prayer or to a thought or
to that's fine as well. I might as well offer

(08:41):
a prayer right now. Dear Heavenly Father, we thank you
for the time that you gave us with fat Pause.
You know who he is, and we ask that you
receive him in your loving arms in heaven, and we
pray that you continue to comfort and console his family

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down here on earth. May they understand that the time
that you gave them with him is very important, and
that they remember with fondness all of that time that
they had to spend with him. Lord, we know accidents happen.

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We know incidents like this happen, and you call people
home from here on Earth at a moment's notice. We
just ask that you are able to comfort and keep
the family as they deal with this Your will with

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this incident, and that you comfort and keep them as
they move forward and heal from this incident as much
as they can. In Jesus name, we pray Amen. All right.

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All right, Well, that was a heck of a start
to the program. I don't know anyway, the Democrats are
now finding out that their shutdown stunt that they did

(14:18):
probably not a good thing, and they actually came out
on the short end of the stick with it. There
was a new poll out from you gov that from
the Economist and you gov they were partners in it.
It was a weekly survey from them that shows that
only eight percent of Americans actually believed Democrats quote unquote

(14:42):
won the government shutdown battle. So the survey asked respondents,
in your opinion who won the shutdown battle. Across the
board a plurality, thirty nine percent said that neither side
actually won, followed by thirty five percent who said that
it was only Republicans, and only eight percent actually deemed

(15:04):
the Democrats the victor. So even Democrats themselves were aware
that their side lost. Only fourteen percent of Democrats surveys
said Democrats won the shutdown battle, as twenty five percent
said Republicans and forty five percent said neither side. A

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slight majority. Fifty two percent of Republicans said that their
side won the shutdown battle, although twenty six percent still
say neither one. Forty six percent of independence said that
neither side won, but twenty eight percent did say Republicans won,

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and only four percent of Independence said Democrats won. So yeah, realistically,
I mean, let's just face it, nobody wins in these
kinds of battles. Let's just be honest about it. But
the reality of it is is that the American people
lose every single time government fights over programs that are unconstitutional,

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that are not part of the Article one, Section eight
area of responsibility. Anytime there is something that is done
by government that is outside of that that is unconstitutional, Yeah,
everybody loses. So yeah, anyway, well three Chevy's got some

(16:38):
really good advice. If you don't, given what I announced
at the beginning of the program, if you don't have
a will created, this is a good example of why
it's important to have it taken care of. So you
may want to you may want to make sure that
you have a will. All right, let's uh, let's continue
on here. Yeah, make sure you've got all of your

(17:02):
you know, beneficiaries updated on all your your stuff and
everything else. It's just uh yeah. Anyway, Pam Bondi has
announced that she will appeal the dismissal of the Comy
and James cases. You know, keep in mind, you know,
doing this appeal. If the government happens to win, that

(17:27):
would be a good thing, but there isn't. Chances are
not them winning and if that happens. If they don't win,
they have a bit of an up uphill road to
hoe when it comes to komy Letitia James is a
little bit easier. She can actually just get retried under

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a new attorney, under a new prosecutor, and that pretty
much takes care of that, which given all of the
information that has been coming out about her and her
life ing her fraud, she absolutely should now whether or
not Comy comys a little bit more of a stickier case.
But but yeah, so at least Pam Bondi is saying

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that she's she's planning on appealing it, which will be uh,
kind of interesting. But anyway, I don't know, honestly, I
don't know for sure if the judge would be upheld
in the way that the the judge dismissed both indictments,

(18:33):
ruling that the US attorney Lindsay Halligan, had been improperly
appointed and therefore had no lawful authority to bring charges
against them. So yeah, we're just gonna have to kind
of kind of see where this goes. But yeah, Tish James,

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on the other hand, though she actually can very well,
she's she's the easier of the two realistically for that
whole situation. All right, So really, really quickly, I want
to remind everybody about this. This video that was put

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out by six people.

Speaker 4 (19:23):
I'm Senator Alissas Hockin, Senator Mark Kelly, Representative.

Speaker 2 (19:29):
I did this again. Let me try and do this
because they've got to get this right. Where is it?
Here we go, Here we go. All right, I'm gonna
back this up and start this again, but I want
to remind everybody of this video.

Speaker 4 (19:44):
I'm Senator Alissa Slocken, Senator Mark Kelly, Representative, Chris Representative, Chrissy.

Speaker 5 (19:51):
Hulahan, Congressman Jason Crowe. I was a captain in the
United States.

Speaker 4 (19:54):
Navy, former CIA officer, former Navy, former paratrooper and Army ranger.

Speaker 2 (19:59):
Former until former Air Force.

Speaker 5 (20:01):
We want to speak directly to members of the military.

Speaker 4 (20:04):
And the intelligence community to take risks each day keep
Americans safe. We know you are under enormous stress and
pressure right now. Americans trust their military, but that trust
is at risk.

Speaker 5 (20:14):
This administration is pitting our uniform military.

Speaker 4 (20:17):
And intelligence community professionals.

Speaker 5 (20:19):
Against American citizens like us. You all swore an oath.

Speaker 2 (20:23):
To protect and defend this constitution. Right now, the threats
to our constitution aren't just coming from abroad, but from
right here at home.

Speaker 5 (20:30):
Our laws are clear. You can refuse illegal orders. You
can refuse illegal orders.

Speaker 1 (20:36):
You must refuse illegal orders.

Speaker 4 (20:38):
No one has to carry out orders that violate the
law or our constitution.

Speaker 5 (20:43):
We know this is hard and that it's a difficult
time to be a public servant.

Speaker 4 (20:46):
But whether you're serving in the CIA, the Army, or Navy,
the Air.

Speaker 5 (20:49):
Force, your vigilance is critical.

Speaker 4 (20:52):
And know that we have your back because now more
than ever, the American people need you.

Speaker 2 (20:57):
We need Okay. So anybody that watches this video, by
the way, and says that, oh no, they were just
reminding people of their constitutional responsibility, you can just go
jump off a cliff, because, to be honest with you,
you obviously do not understand and cannot understand plain English.

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Your English comprehension skills suck. And there's a gentleman by
the way who has posted a video and he discusses it.
His name is Buzz Patterson. Hat tip two three Chevy
for passing this on to me. But I want to
play his video, which kind of demonstrates a refusion of

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these people. Everybody.

Speaker 6 (21:54):
This is Buzz Patterson. I'm retired Air Force Lieutenant colonel,
retired Air Force pilot, that veteran and at one time,
I was the military aid to President Bill Clinton and
carried the nuclear football and actually lived in the White House.

Speaker 2 (22:10):
So I've been around.

Speaker 6 (22:11):
I was actually, during my military service, deployed to seventy
countries and fought in three wars. So I feel like
I've got a dog in this hunt. I am very
appalled at what the Sedition six has done with their video.
I think it's a violation of their oaths of office,
and especially in the case of Senator Mark Kelly, I
believe it's a violation of the u CMJ, and I

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hope that President Trump and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth
hold them accountable. They are violating and they are politically
using their positions to undercut the command of President Donald J. Trump,
and they're circummitting the chain of command. Congress and members

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of Senate are not in the chain of command. President
Trump is, however, is our commander in chief. So I
fully support going forward with whatever prosecutions are are warranted
and legitimate, and I think they are. On these individuals.
They use their positions military and in the intelligence community

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to explose, I think, and put a risk those of
us who serve in uniform. I think that what's going
to happen is because they violated the military chain of command.

Speaker 1 (23:25):
People are going to die.

Speaker 6 (23:27):
They undercut the underpinnings of the military, which is good
order and faith and trust in their leadership. And in
my estimation, what they did was treason is and seditionists,
and I hope they are prosecuted to the full extent. Again,
my name is Bus Patterson. I served in combat. I've
served for twenty years and I am outraged by what

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has happened by the Democrats, and I fear for what's
going to happen to our young soldiers, sailors, airmen, and
marines if they choose to violate what is a legal
order which will ruin their lives and ruin their careers.
Thank God, guys, God bless see it.

Speaker 2 (24:07):
So there you have it, and I'm right along with
buzz See. At a very minimum, folks, at the minimum
they violated are eighteen USC. Section twenty three eighty seven,

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which pretty much says that you can't do what these
people did. I mean, there is absolutely no way that
you could sit and look at these individuals and be like,
what was your intent with all of this? I have
had so many conversations with people about it, and it

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all comes back to the same thing is intent. They weren't,
regardless of what they say, they weren't just merely reminding,
merely reminding the military about this. No, Mark Levin, several
other pundits, they all agree this was a targeted and

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purposeful use of their position, their position and their you know,
rank or whatever, in order to demonstrate or in order
to attempt to foment disloyalty and insubordination within the ranks.

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They essentially, as three Chevy just pointed out, they were
trying to plant a seed, which in and of itself
is a violation of eighteen USC. Twenty three eighty seven,
because all you have to do is attempt, have the
intent and attempt to do what these people are doing.

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And anybody with a brain pretty much knows that this
is what's going on. Well, we all know based on
yesterday that Mark Kelly is going to be investigated by
the Department of War that he will may if that
investigation comes out the way that it should. If that

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investigation comes out the way that it should, he would
get called back to active service and face a court martial.
That being said, the FBI has now thrown their hat
in a ring. The Epic Times posted this earlier today.
The FBI is seeking to interview the lawmakers in the

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illegal orders videos, and yeah, they absolutely should because again
eighteen USC. Twenty three eighty seven, go ahead and look
it up. Read it. Now there is some question and

(27:19):
Pete Hegseth actually called Mark Kelly out because Mark Kelly
posted a photo of his dress whites with his military honors,
and again just trying to point out he's using his
he's using his authority, he's using his position in a

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such a way to sort of foment disloyalty within the ranks.
And that photo that he posted apparently he wasn't paying
attention because the photo that he posted appeared to be
backwards and incorrect. Yeah, so anyway, the uh you know,

(28:10):
posting the photo being having it backwards like somebody was saying, oh,
he took it in a mirror. It was a mirror image,
but the the you know, the metals were out of
order and things like that. I mean, this has been
all over social media, all over social media, and uh,
if if it was just one ribbon, I haven't taken
a close enough look and actually matched up the ribbons

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and things like that. So admittedly I am not of
a position to where I can speak authoritatively on whether
or not the Navy ribbons were in the correct order.
I'm only reporting to you what other people have point
have pointed out as possibilities. So if he screwed up

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the ribbons, like he actually put you know, one or
two ribbons out out of order, then yeah, that would
be a bit of a problem for sure, But it
is an and would not be a good example of
what he is trying to or attempting to point out.
But I can tell you that Mark Kelly has his

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account on X has been going wild with pointing posting
photos of him back in the day, you know, flying
and or being next to planes, and trying to like
hype this up and say, oh, this is nothing. This
is you know, this whole thing. This is nothing. No,
this is very serious, folks. He literally broke the chain

(29:37):
of command. He literally broke the law in particular with
his other five cohorts in particular. And anyway, oh, I
have it on a authority from one of my whiskey
Warrior p ones that the ribbons actually were We're in

(30:01):
the wrong order. Not just backwards. Now, I may have
to like grab that photo or get a hold of
that photo and then walk through it and see exactly
just to confirm everything, confirm everything that is that is there,
because that that sounds like that's a bit of a

(30:23):
bit of a problem. If it's if they are completely
in the wrong order and not just a reverse image
of themselves. Yeah, that would be a that would be interesting.
And Pete Hegseth obviously who is being beat up right
now on X because a lot of people are saying,
oh no, no, it's just a reversal. He would be

(30:43):
right in his position on that. Well, anyway, this guy,
these six I'm telling you, they should all go down
for at a minimum title eighteen United States Code twenty
three eighty seven. All of them should be found guilty
of that. So oh no, i'man being told the wrong rows.

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So they're like off. The one thing about the military rows, though,
it depends on it depends on the order of the
ranking of the individual ribbon. And usually what happens is
you only can place like three three ribbons or three metals,

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three or four medals, sometimes five medals. It just depends
on the size of the of the display as to
how many are in order. So realistically it's the it's
based on a a order process, ranking process in terms
of what's the most important, what is the highest honor.
For an example, the Congressional Medal of Honor would always

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be at the top of it no matter what. And
three chevies asking do service medals train the same from
one branch to another? Generally some of them. Some of
the metals absolutely do. For an example, things like the
the National Defense Service ribbon, that one is common across

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all the branches, which is a a red and yellow
and was issued to anybody who was involved in things
like desert storm and Afghanistan and that kind of stuff.
But some do not, so things like the Navy. The
Navy has their bronze stars, the Army has their bronze stars,

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and there'll be a different color type of ribbon in
terms of what it looks like. Generally speaking, though, if
you receive a bronze star, you know, or a silver
star or something like that, that's kind of at about
the same level per se, you know, from one branch
to another, but they will look a little bit different.

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They're not exactly the same across the board. And there
are things like, for an example, I was awarded the
Army Achievement Medal, which would be that specific to the
Army and in that I am in terms of my service.
That was actually the highest award that I was awarded.

(33:23):
That was my highest award as far as medals go,
so officially anyway, So yeah, I would have to actually
walk through it, but they have, I mean, there's guides
online and things like that, so anybody could actually take
that photograph and like walk through all of the ribbons
and figure out which one's higher. So yeah, uh, okay,

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So for those of you who've been questioning, and here
we're going to get to the meat of the show. Okay,
for those of you who have been questioning whether or
not social media is a problem, you're not wrong. Let's
just put it that way. Sorry, you had to take

(34:13):
a drink. Court filings, so let me back this up
for just a second. So there was a legal filing
in the US District Court for the Northern District of California,

(34:35):
and CNBC, by the way, is reporting this. So a
legal filing has alleged that Mark Zuckerberg's Meta, which is
the giant tech behind Facebook and Instagram, and uh yeah,

(34:57):
they apparently were running an intern study that purportedly showed
the negative mental health effects of its social media platforms.
You know, this is newly unredacted information. It came to
light as of last Friday as part of a larger

(35:19):
multi district litigation involving plaintiffs such as school districts, parents,
state attorneys general against social media giants like Meta, YouTube, Snap,
and TikTok. Now, according to the legal filing that came
in on Friday, Meta actually initiated this research. This research

(35:43):
is called Project Mercury, and they initiated it in late
twenty nineteen to explore the impact of its apps on
various aspects of particular users' lives, including things like polarization,
news consumption, users well being, and daily social interactions. Now,

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the lawsuit claims that when the initial tests of the
study allegedly showed that people who stopped using Facebook, as
an example, for a week reported lower feelings, meaning less
feelings of depression, anxiety, loneliness, and social comparison, Meta chose

(36:34):
to bury and halt the research. Now, a couple of
individuals they've got quoted here and Politico reported this, which
is amazing to me because it's left wing. But Politico
reported that the filing indicates or includes some communications between

(36:55):
the researchers that make direct comparisons between social media apps
and drugs. A Meta senior research shale him Inez Shayll
says Instagram is a drug. Another one another Meta employee

(37:22):
then allegedly responded to that same conversation and said, laugh
out loud. I mean all social media were basically pushers,
referencing drug pushers. So yeah. Now, the lawsuit alleges that

(37:45):
Meta never publicly disclosed the results of its deactivation study
and basically lied to Congress about what it knew. And
we already know that metalied, I mean we know metalized
to Congress all the time. Metaied to Congress about the
whole Hunter Biden laptop story that they weren't pre uh

(38:06):
they lied and said no, no, no, we weren't. We didn't,
we didn't do anything with it, and uh yet yeah
they uh they did. So all of this being the case,
it's uh and thank you, thank you for that three Chevy.

(38:26):
All of this, uh, all of this being the case,
it's now kind of questionable. And we've seen this, I
mean we know, it's it's a lot easier to be mean,
it's a lot easier to act tough when you're online. Okay,

(38:48):
it's uh, it's just this is crazy. This is crazy
that that that there was actually research done. Do you
try and you know, cover this up? So apparently another
internal review and an internal memo said that the Instagram

(39:12):
chief at the time, Adam Mussi, doesn't want to hear
about it and freaked out when presented with the internal
review about how the app Instagram in particular, was essentially
getting kids hooked on it with dopamine hits. One of
the researchers reportedly stated, so yeah. Now, Meta of course

(39:41):
said in a statement that they strongly disagree with those allegations,
which rely on cherry picked quotes and misinformed opinions in
an attempt to present a deliberately misleading picture. But you
know as well as I do that we all have,

(40:02):
you know, evidence of when kids get hooked on social media.
There's several studies out there that have all shown the
exact same thing that when kids get hooked on social media,
they they tend to, you know, disconnect from their families,
they disconnect from outside reality and life. We all know that.

(40:28):
I mean, it's even happens with adults. There's times where
even I get so involved with conversations that are going
on on social media that there's times when I get
sucked into the vortex. Of course, for me, it's mostly
going on taking on democrat more on leftist lunatics. But

(40:49):
that's that part of the case that they basically, I mean,
these people seem to understand that are don't seem to
understand that this actually does affect people's lives, especially when
you are so wrapped around it that you have to

(41:11):
sit there and be like, oh, I got a thousand
likes today or whatever. You'll hear the kids saying this
all the time. You'll hear the kids like, oh my gosh,
I put a video up and I've gotten over a
million hits and over one hundred thousand likes and I
just did love it. Anyway, So for Mena to actually

(41:33):
sit there and say, oh, no, no, no, this isn't
addictive at all. Yeah, okay, sure, so yeah, anyway, we'll
have to kind of see what this does. I'm not
exactly sure what the lawsuit is actually even about, other
than you know, what does that actually about? But one

(42:02):
of the spokespersons for Meta said, the full record will
show that for over a decade, we've listened to parents,
researched issues that matter most, made real changes to protect teens,
like introducing teen accounts with built in protections, providing parents
with controls to manage their teen's experiences. But evidence that

(42:24):
is cited in the new unsealed filings is citing testimony
from former and current Meta employees who are basically saying
things like the filing citing testimony from Instagram's former head

(42:46):
of safety and well being saying that Meta had a
seventeen time strike policy before suspending accounts linked to trafficking
of humans for sex. Really, seventeen, it's like having the
twelve strikes rule in Seattle over stealing a car, he testified.

(43:13):
This guy, Jack jayaka Moor anyway testified that means that
you could incur sixteen violations for prostitution and sexual solicitation
and upon the seventeenth your account would be suspended. And
he said, by any measure across the industry, that is
a very very high strike threshold. The legal brief continued

(43:38):
and talked about the study and it showed that people
who stopped using Facebook. I already said this, but anyway,
you know, had less feelings of depression, anxiety, loneliness, and
social comparison. Social comparison, by the way, refers to people
determining their self worth based on how they are similar.

(44:02):
It's kind of like comparing yourself to the Joneses. Okay,
So anyway, social media is a danger. Is a danger here, folks.
So Hm Sarah Arsatcha Haworth, who was the executive director

(44:22):
of the Tech Oversight Project, made a statement saying Mark
Zuckerberg has blood on his hands. He has known for
over a decade that pedophiles and sex traffickers were targeting
children on his platforms, and instead of fixing the problem,
what he did was worse than nothing. He killed safety features,

(44:43):
buried internal research, and then lied about it to Congress.
I remember when he was on being asked to testify
in Congress several years back. So the lawsuits also, like
I said before, has also accused YouTube, Snap and TikTok

(45:05):
of safety failings as well, especially when it comes to
protecting young users. So this is a big thing, big thing. Well,
this is the only report that has come out and
talked a little bit about this, you know, safety and

(45:26):
things like that. There's another report out. This is amazing.
This is an amazing report. Oh my gosh, it is
so amazing. Here's the result of the report. There was

(45:46):
a report that came out that says that locking up
criminals reduces crime. I'm not kidding. I am not kidding.
I'm not kidding here. Uh yeah, so this this, uh

(46:08):
City Journal, City Journal came out with this with this report.
City Journal's tie fort Gang and James Wilson's James Wilson's
Thinking about Crime, which is the name of the report,

(46:28):
forms the backbone of fort Gang's new article. And yeah,
so this is what fort Gang reported. Violent crime is
overwhelmingly the work of a small group of repeat offenders.
That is, it is highly concentrated. Apparently, according to the report,

(46:51):
in New York City in twenty twenty two, just three
hundred and twenty seven people. Okay, think about this, three
hundred and twenty seven people accounted for a full third
of all of the shoplifting, with more than six thousand

(47:12):
arrests between those three hundred and twenty seven people in Oakland,
which is a point one percent of the population. That
means four hundred people committed a majority of the city's homicides. Wait,

(47:34):
four hundred people committed the majority of the city Oakland's homicides,
according to the article, In twenty fourteen, data showed that
three quarters of state prisoners had at least five prior arrests.

(47:58):
Nearly five percent had thirty one arrests or more, a
larger share than those imprisoned after just a single arrest.
The writer concluded, the case for an incapacitation first approach
to crime control follows directly from these indisputable facts. Well,

(48:21):
this follows right alongside the whole idea. By the way,
that thirteen percent of the population, in terms of a
particular race, a thirteen percent of the population commit over
fifty percent of the violent crime in the entire country.
I mean, seriously, guys, this is just anyway. Violent crime.

(48:51):
They predicted would continue the slow but long lasting decline
that had started in the mid nineties, except for a
twenty twenty to twenty twenty three spike caused by bad
but likely purposeful policy decisions related to COVID in BLM. Well,
the authors have basically made it. They've nailed it. So yeah.

(49:21):
According to research performed by Grock and double checked by
the author here, psychiatric hospitalization rates have plummeted since nineteen
sixty three. Yeah, so here, this is where I'm coming
in with all of these school shootings and everything else.

(49:44):
JFK wildly underfunded the Community Mental Health Act, which resulted
in a radical reduction in institutional capacity. By twenty twenty five,
the US itself will have fewer than twelve public psychiatric
beds per one hundred of the population, down from over
three hundred before Kennedy and Congress shifted the responsibility for

(50:08):
mental health care to communities. Now, think about the killing
of Irina Zaritzka in Charlotte this year. The perpetrator was
mentally ill. Instead of being institutionalized like you should have been,
he was left on the streets where his condition was

(50:29):
exacerbated by drug abuse. Yeah, and you wonder why we're
having all these problems. You wonder why we're they're having
all these problems with this these people. I'm telling you,

(50:54):
you know, it seems like since Donald Trump's gotten into office,
we are now learning about all of these wonderful things
that we should have been knowing about for a very
long time. But it all seems to dispute and refute
the Democrats narratives that they have constantly had. Well, apparently

(51:23):
I talked about this last night shifting gears a little
bit here. Apparently last night or yesterday Alon Musk's X
began showing where account locations have been on X and
you know all those people like, for an example, all
of the Gropers, the Nick Fuentes Gropers, and some of

(51:49):
these other you know, MAGA division accounts that sit there
and say that they're against Trump and against MAGA and
all this other stuff. Well, apparently somebody actually went through
and found that many of these accounts that are claiming

(52:10):
to be Mega yet are pushing division in the conservative
movement had actually been exposed as being operating from India, Pakistan,
and a bunch of other nations like Iran, China, et cetera.
And popular influencers with known identities are pointing out all
of the foreign fakers that are out there. So, uh, yeah,

(52:37):
you got to kind of ask the question. Yeah, So,
for an example, conservative commentator Gunther Eagleman on X said,
who knew that an Austrian has been running a Republicans
against Trump psyop page?

Speaker 5 (52:59):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (53:00):
Yeah, so there you go. He also added that watch
the petty infighting stop now that foreign countries aren't pushing
slop under the cover of anonymity. There was another Republicans
Against Trump account which boasts a staggering nine hundred and

(53:20):
seventy eight two hundred followers, revealing that the anti a
Trump count was based in Australia. In Austria, yeah so,
by the way. Notably, after being caught, some of the
foreign based accounts posting as US posing as US citizens
began using a VPN to appear as though they are

(53:43):
in the United States. Users began to notice that there
was an exclamation point next to the account's location that
reveals that they are using a VPN. Yeah. One of
the most openly now this is this is a ex
account known as Maru. One of the most openly racist

(54:05):
accounts toward Indians posing as an American is actually run
from Bangladesh. Yeah. There was a conservative commentator and host

(54:26):
supposedly of yeah LFA TV's ungoverned Sean Farrish wrote on
his sharing a screenshot of another account saying that Mega
is dead brought to you by some tool in Europe,

(54:48):
and he shows the account because this guy posted or
this this account posted, you know, make America great for
Chinese students, Indian immigrants, so on and so forth. Yeah,

(55:08):
there's another person whose name is war Hamster on X
who basically pointed out call me old fashioned, but I
don't think folks from foreign countries should be allowed to
vote in our elections. Okay, I agree with that statement. Sure,
But apparently that X account war Hamster, which boasts nearly

(55:29):
twenty three thousand followers, is an account based in the UAE.
Oh yeah, here's another one. No Berg n h Berg

(55:52):
rights our tax money goes to Israel. They have over
one hundred k followers. The account is silenced serves. The
account's based in the Congo. Uh. Yeah. There was an

(56:17):
account called Megascope that got called out by Lakota Man
who basically this account, this Magascope account was berating Lakota Man. Now,
I'm gonna be honest with you. I don't like Lakota Man.
I blocked him a long time ago or muted him,
I should say a long time ago. But anyway, this

(56:39):
Magascope who blowsed fifty followers on X was actually based
in Nigeria anyway. Oh, and there was an account who
was an anti Trump account name by the name of

(57:01):
Ron Smith, who deleted itself after it was revealed that
that particular account was based in Kenya. There's another one
saying America American Voice who goes by the AT symbol
American guy X, who is actually based in India. Oh, folks,

(57:26):
this is just classic, just absolutely classic that this happened.
And you know, the thing about it is is that, yeah,
we are being we are being watched. I talked about
this before. We are being watched, we are being attacked,
we are being pushed by other countries in order to
try and take our virtues and take our country down.

(57:48):
So it's stuff like this. Social media by itself opens
up the opportunity for all of this, and uh, you know,
so don't believe everything you read on the Internet. That's
realistically where I'm going for this. And even it's not
even just America, it's other places like for an example,

(58:08):
Israel exposed was an account Matt Walsh exposed him that
they're based in Saudi Arabia. So yeah, uh yeah, people, anyway,

(58:28):
we've got to be aware of all of this. We
really do, all right, folks, Let's see last thing Ukraine.
There apparently is a peace plan that Trump and Ukraine
have agreed to. It what started out at twenty eight,
it got whittled down to nineteen. But unfortunately it's expected
to be rejected by Russia. So you know, which doesn't

(58:52):
really surprise anybody. I mean, those two are going to
be fighting for a while, I guess so anyway. And
also two good news, gas prices are apparently dropping. They're
creeping near the lowest level in four years. Ahead of
this weekend, the national average is hovering just above three

(59:13):
dollars per gallon. According to Triple A it's at three
dollars and five point five or five point five cents.
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