12/16/25: Fox War On Christmas For Data Centers, Trump Aide Unleashes On Admin, Pinochet Defender Wins In Chile

whole data center buying artificial trees. This is a perfect example of what we've talked about with the mindset around AI, which is you need to personally sacrifice so that the slop can continue so that you need to personally sacrifice, not just monetarily, but let's say the human experience putting up a tree in your house, you know, having fun with your children, decorating that, so that we can have this impersonal technology which the CEOs say is going to

take their job and to rip even more of that away from us. I actually can't think of a better kind of clip to that encapsulates that and what worshiping GDP really looks like, because that's what it is. That that is the explicit kind of view of what that means and of what people hold dear and why being you know, an anti AI disposition is so increasingly popular in American politics today.

being a lobbyist for AI data centers. She was pushing one in this one particular Arizona town and they overwhelmingly, i think unanimously the city council voted it down. But in any case, she was also welcomed onto Fox and Friends to make the case for AI data centers and how they are actually more eco friendly than they were in the past.

our own nuclear to power the future. We're actually using less water with AI Data centers and in the past. So that communication is bringing people together who just want efficient, proactive, good lives where their kids have a better life than they had. So this is I think a really important issue that has nothing to do with partisanship.

by the power usage of these AI data centers. And I also find it very interesting saga that she is framing this as a partisan issue, that oh, it's all these left wing people who are coming in and telling you bad things about the AI data centers, while the President is telling you the truth that this is a good thing for the American economy, etc. Because the reality is, as we've covered here extensively, you know, if you look at the Georgia elections, if you look at the Virginia elections,

if you look at local opposition to AI data centers being located here, it is very cross ideological and there is not a clear left right divide here. So that's something that clearly she and whoever's paying her are trying to push.

does she really believe this a shimatt. It's like, no, she just wanted to get I mean, it looks like she just wanted to get paid right in terms of her advocacy, and now she's like pro Trump now hilariously for big business reasons. I just want to put it all together just to show how corrupt so much of this is. I recently flagged this. I was reading through you know, I took interest in this de banking conversation. I think the conversation at in d banking is important.

We've talked about Lefang with this before. There were legitimate instances of political deep banking that happened, which are really concerning at a free speech level. These were weaponized by the tech guys who started saying that depbanking happened in order to loosen restrictions around their industry. Famously, we had the Mark Andresen moment on Joe Rogan, but there are many others. We had Mark Zuckerberg and others for pro crypto interests. And again I think there are real concerns

around industry specific for politics. But I could not get over as I was reading this new D Banking report only weirdos like me. This is the Office of the Comptroller from the Treasury, so they did a nine month investigation. They're going to look into who's getting D banked and you would be amazed to find that this new D Banking report signals out not just crypto and other industries, but pornography. Let's go ahead and put this up here

on the screen. The OCC's preliminary finding show that between twenty and twenty twenty three, nine banks made inappropriate distinctions among customers in the division of financial services on the basis of lawful business activities by maintaining policies restricting access

to banking services or requiring escalating reviews and approvals. Sectors subjected to restricted access included oil and gas, coal mining, firearms, private prisons, tobacco, eas cigarets, manufacturers, adult entertainment, and digital assets. Now let's stick with porn and with crypto. You know, there's this idea that these banks are ideologically opposed to porn and to crypto. These are some of the greediest people in the world. You think they don't want to

take their money. Do you know why they don't want to take their money with crypto? They're worried about KYC Know your Customer laws and specifically money laundering, which they have a legal mandate not to to help prevent and to help report to the FBI or to the US authorities on porn. It's the same thing what the banks

suddenly grew a conscience. Do you think that that's the banks are like, oh, my only fans, we can't be taking their money, or the banks are looking at human trafficking laws and at revenge porn laws, and at the internal enforcement of these gigantic conglomerates which are addicting all of these American men and which are flagrantly in violation of multiple trafficking laws on the books right now to help prevent women who are being exploited posted online international

rings which are profiting to the tune of billions of dollars, and are like, yeah, we can't take their money because to do so would actually be a violation, specifically of trying to protect all of these girls, of which these laws were passed on their behalf. Maybe it's the latter.

And so the Trump administration here taking significant pressure from the porn industry and others, which again are salivating at the idea of access to the legitimate banking system, and now effectively pressuring our largest financial institutions to basically take their money and look the other way. I can't think of anything worse. You know. Look, you know, tobacco, fine, whatever, I get it. You know, that's one of those where you know, I think tobacco is horrible smoking. Obviously, it

kills a lot of people, the industry, et cetera. That's one which again I get not wanting, you know, especially with lawsuits and everything, you don't necessarily want to be connected to that. But with pornography and with crypto, like we said, the banks don't care about conscience. They're doing it for a reason. It's not ideological, it's.

So yeah, it's not like they're out here being some like good lefties like we're gonna, you know, not work with the And it is interesting to me, uh, going back to the Mark Andresen Rogan appearance, and just to remind people, he used the conservative perception and probably a time it was like legitimate, legitimate reality that there was ideological debanking to then launch a war on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which had actually stood up Rogi Chopra,

who was ahead of that agency, stood up against ideological debanking. But they he found it to be a useful construct. And then even some of the examples that he offered that he was like, oh, this person was de banked just because they're like a conservative and they like Trump, and then you dig one layer Dee burn and it's like or maybe they were committing like scams and fraud.

I think people need to really remember, especially crypto is rife with all kinds of scams and rug poles and fraud and money laundering, Like none of it's being prosecuted anymore under the Trump administration.

as well. You remember David Sachs and his tweet he was talking about like, oh, if you don't want to black George Washington, then we've got to make sure States can never regulate AI and we could just do whatever we want to do. So you know, similar kind of bait and switch going on here as well.

It's just like weed I talked about yesterday. You can defend weed rescheduling all you want, and if it was done through a real process, I would look, I would fight it, but I would I'd be like, okay, so be it. But this is literally because the White House tea the staff were about to talk about was hired by a weed company whenever she was outside of office and then brought that former client to the Oval office who has billions of dollars at stake and whose stock

massively profited. That's it. That's the only reason that this happened. Because a bunch of multimillionaires hired pro Trump X campaign officials, donated or and or hired to the Trump campaign and then got their way to the Oval and then did a corrupt deal in order to get it done. Like

that's it. It's the same thing here with porn. It's because I mean, also, you know, you kind of have to understand if you're saying banks should disregard KYC regulations whenever it comes to you know, like crypto and others, then you know, oh, okay, well it is kind of difficult. Let's say, to apply it to the pornography industry for them in general. They want to make it as easy as possible for all of these vice industries to do business.

I think that's disgusting in an era where the very basics of life have never been more on affordable or unattainable for a lot of younger people, and that these are the very things which are destroying them from the inside out. And you know, this is a big talk from the administration which cares about Christianity or moral purpose or any of that. I have never seen a more socially libertarian administry, Not even the Biden administration did shit

like this. Let's go to C four, you know, just again, just to give you an example, Trump is now considering wiping federal gambling winnings taxes. Let me explain something again. There's no such thing as gambling winnings. Only four per They did a study one hundred of thousands people who did sports betting. Four percent of people had a profit after five years four percent, ninety six percent. You're gonna lose, You're a loser, one hundred percent. Now, all this will

do is give casinos and sports betting companies free advertising. Saying, by the way, when you have this parlay which you're definitely going to hit. It will also be tax free. It is a gig gigantic giveaway and brand you know benefit to these gambling it's so repulsive, like loosening restrictions on weed, porn, gamble. It's literally like they're personally attacking me. But look, this is not this isn't about me, Okay at the end of the day, like you can live

your life the way that you want. But but and this is just my opinion. I think that the government should not make it easier easier for multi billion dollar industries to corrupt you, to corrupt the people around you, to corrupt your community. The point of the government of our society is to promote human flourishing. There's nothing about this which does any of that. All it does is vastly enriched people who wake up every single day thinking about how to milk you for as much money as possible.

Those people are my enemies.

to discourage, but they don't want to outright ban. Oftentimes what you do is you actually tax it, you make it more expensive, or you make it more difficult. Here, you're going in the opposite direction, Like instead of doing a vice tax, you're doing like a vice text credit, you're doing like a vice encouragement, actively trying to funnel people into something that we know is fundamentally rigged, exploitative, predatory, and damaging. So yeah, I mean, you know, come get

your Christian nationalists. This is it is really pretty wild what's going on here. But it's the whole administration, the core foundation. There are no foundational principles outside of just like a money grop, I mean, that's what it is. It's just like a heist. They are taking everything that's not nailed down. Everybody's in it for their own bag. Like you know, even the foreign policy is run for a bunch of oligarchs. Bag the domestic policy, the economy

is run for them. That's the whole thing. And so you know the fact that the gambling and the poor industry and whatever getting their seats at the table and getting their taste no surprise.

up here on the screen. This is a New York Times write up of a multi page interview that Susie Wiles has been sitting with Vanity Fair for over the last year, in which she gets candid about the entire Trump presidency admits that many of the things that the White House set are lies, admits that Elon is using ketamine. She criticizes the president. She says that the vice president is a conspiracy theorist who his conversion to away from never trump Ism was political. She says Trump has an

alcoholic personality. So let me read from the New York Times write up of this lengthy vanity fair profile. President Trump's chief of staff said she tried to get him to end his score settling against political enemies after ninety days in office, but acknowledged the administration still ongoing push for prosecutions has been fueled in part by the President's

desire for retribution. So number one, the mortgage fraud case against Letitia James or against James Comy, all of that, it's not about the case, it's political retribution from the president. She just tweeted it out. That's an old meme from

the twenty tens. Is just tweeting out what you know, as journalists, we've been working on this story, trying to prove that this is the true reason why Trump is doing this, even though yes, it's obvious we need evidence, and now we have the White House chief of staff He's like, oh yeah, He's doing it for political retribution purposes. That's what these prosecutions are about. Okay, let's sit with that.

Let's sit with that as we continue again for over eleven interviews that she's given the Vice president, she said, quote has been a conspiracy theorist for a decade. His conversion from Trump critic to ally was based on, on principle,

what was sort of political. Elon Musk is an avowed ketamine user in odd duck whose actions were not always rational and left her quote aghast Russ's vote the budget director quote is a right wing absolute zealot, and the Attorney General Pambondi quote completely whiffed in handling of the Epstein files. She continued, by the way, to say about Venezuela,

this is my personal favorite. She said here about the boats, that the policy of the United States is that or for Donald Trump is to quote blow up as many boats as possible until Maduro decides to leave office. That's what she said. So admitting none of this is about drugs, it's not about fentanyl, which is all bullshit and which again I knew that I've been saying that here. But to have the White House Chief of Staff just come out and be like, oh, yeah, yeah, it's all fake

and it's about regime change. Ok. Thank you, thank you, Madam Susie Wiles. You know, I mean continuing here. Describing Trump as an alcoholic personality with respect to quote operates with the view that there's nothing he can't do. That's not usually something I would describe as an alcoholic. But okay, she said, so much of her job revolves around the

president's personality and stream of consciousness public comments. She said that during the whole tariffs thing that the Vice President jad Vance was sent into convince Trump to pump the brakes on tariffs, and she said that there was a huge disagreement that they were deciding. People were predicting disaster on usaid. She thinks no rational person could think the USAID process was a good one. Nobody. I mean, the whole thing is crazy and we're just scratching the surface.

I haven't even been able to I haven't been able to get even all of them just yet, what these comments are. But trashing the cabinet admitting the Epstein files is a huge problem. Says she can't understand why Gleane Maxwell was moved to a different prison, says that the Epstein files was mishandled says that Venezuela is really all about regime change, that usaid was a disaster, that she was a keep in mind, you know, part of why this is so crazy is it's not just about telling

the truth. This White House, her employee, Caroline Leavitt took to the podium to defend every single part of this bullshit at the time, as the official part of the admitted, and she's admitting that in private. Oh my god, we were a gas by it. We were disgusted. We tried to move off of this policy. The prosecutions are political. I mean, how is that going to play in court? How is this going to play if this is a

true court? James comy, congratulations, you just got acquitted, all right, Letitia James who they've tried to indict what three more times?

controversial Trump two point zero policies. She's effectively undercutting here everything from the day one j six rioters pardons up into Venezuela, where she's just giving the game away, that the blowing up of the bots isn't about drugs, it's about regime change. On the political retribution piece, let me read a little bit of this, so she said, quote, we have a loose agreement that the score settling will end before the first ninety days are over, she said

at the time when that did not happen. By August, she told mister Whipple that I don't think he's on a retribution tour, but said that Trump was aiming at people who did bad things and coming after him. In some cases it may look like retribution, and there may be an element of that from time to time.

of itself is wild to undercut jd Vance. Trump may not really care that much about that, but to say, you know, oh yeah, of course he converted to trump Ism because it was.

with a bunch of different administration officials. Other officials spoke to this reporter as well, So this was all this whole project. This whole write up was greenlit by the administration, even though you know, I would be very so prize if they knew the extent of what Susie Wiles was saying here.

the agenda of the president. You're never supposed to be the main character. Ever, that's the job of the principle. I know this sounds like kind of servile, but like in a certain way, like that's the job, right, That's what you do as a staffer. And so for sitting for eleven interviews here, eleven interviews and just letting loose about your thoughts about how Pam Bondi's an idiot, she

said completely whift on Epstein. I mean, if the White House Chief of Staff thinks this, How can we as citizens have any confidence in our government if the White House Chief of Staff is openly saying that what the President is saying is a lie, Is that many cabinet members are idiots or incompetent? Is that doge which was held up as a central pillar of the administration there at the time, what she was quote aghast by it? First of all, what are you doing in that job? Lady?

What are you even doing? If you think this you should leave right? What does it say about you that you think all of this and that you're sticking around to quote do something about it because you're obviously you're not doing a very good job. You actually don't have that much influence if that's what you think that you're doing. And then second, yeah, I just I cannot get over how you can just openly admit so many things which

again we all know are true. But there is a difference legally, first of all, in a court of law to say that you have a political prosecution. But second, like on regime change, that's got to be one of the most consequential policies of the entire Trump administration. And to just come out and be like, our flimsy bullshit pretext is in fact, the bullshit is amazing. I mean it's shocking to the cares well.

that's a big problem for Pete Hegseth. That's a big problem for that admiral what was it, Admiral Bradley who was kind of thrown under the bus. That's a big problem for all of the seals that were involved in this policy.

Mister Vance, by contrast, she said, understood the sensitivity because he himself was a conspiracy theorist. She said so again, saying directly, when Pam Bondi told you that this was on her desk, she was lying, there is no client list. It's sure as hell was not on her desk. That is what she had to say about that. And then she says that she has read the Epstein documents and acknowledged Trump's name is in them. Quote, we know he's in the file, and he's not in the file doing

anything awful. Nothing awful, Sager. So rest easy there. But neither apparently, this is one more part on this. Neither apparently is Bill Clinton. Asked about Trump's claims going back years that Clinton had visited the Epstein island as well, said there is no evidence. Asked if there's incriminating evidence about Clinton and the files as Trump has suggested. She says the President was wrong about that. So she's saying

Trump is lying. Trump is in the files but not doing anything awful, and that he is lying about what the files contained with regard to Bill Clinton.

to happen now. I have no idea I have. I mean, how could you ever enter a cabinet meeting again when I mean Susie Wilds, who I guess is one of your technically kind of your boss, is out there just trashing you, uh in the public. It's amazing, But that's the world we live in. Is Cash Patel sitting for interviews about his love life with Stephen Miller's wife, who's dressed casually for some reason. This entire thing, I don't know. I don't know what is happening to this uh, to

this government. But yeah, we're being confederacy and I don't even have work. I'm literally speechless. How retarded this is. It's crazy. It's fucking crazy.

president is a conspiracy theorist. I mean, what more could you possibly get into this series of interviews.

having guys. Absolutely so let's put this up here on the screen. Why the Chilean left fail you discuss some of the policies over the last five years, some of the rise here of Jose Antonio coast about how exactly this all came to be. Why don't you break some of it down for us and maybe what it means for the region and if anything, for the United States.

tried to distance himself from the dictatorship. Cost is like he says that, like, you know, he condemns the human rights abuses, but that you know, his legacy and especially Pinochet's economic legacy were great. His brother actually was one of the Chicago boys that advised Pinochet and like installing this neoliberal model. The country is known as like the cradle of neoliberalism. And so his brother, Migekas, actually served as the president of Chile Central Bank during the dictatorship.

And so you know, there's a lot of polarization around this. People on the left will say that, you know, will condemn the human rights abuses and like a lot of the legacy of the economic policies, and people on the right will say, oh, look, but we had this great economic growth afterwards and this kind of this kind of flaws and some of these arguments. So that's a bit of the rundown for the moment for the United States. Cost Almost all right wingers in Latin America, you could

describe them as neo conservatives. They worshiped the United States. They hate Russia, China, I run blah blah blah blah. This guy like is going to be really good for

the current administration. He loves me. Lay a lot of like posting after the election was showing how like geographically the continent of South the South America is like divided along the middle between right and left governments, and Melay, what he did is that he posted like the the like western half that are like conservative governments, this like tech bro like futurism stuff with like skyscrapers, and then the leftist governments are a bunch of like Brazilian favollas.

So that's to give you an idea.

the embrace of Malay. Also says he wants to consult with Bikelly with regards to to crime. So, I mean, this is a pretty dramatic turn what led to it?

anyone can really say, a committed democrat, he's not. He said, he's not interested in like trying to take over all the institutions, persecute his opponents, and like govern for life like Pinochet, and in general you can he even also say that like the candidate that he defeated was the Communist Party candidate. She was nominated by the Communist Party,

but for communists, honestly, she was pretty moderate. She was really critical of like human rights abuses by like Maduro and Artaica in Latin America, which is I said, like in some other time that it's rare for like leftists to openly like celebrate Maduro. It's also rare for them to be stridently critical of him too, So that's something interesting in Chilean politics, and I think that explains a lot why so many people were willing to gravitate towards him.

As for the failings of the current government, current President Gabriel Borodich, he won in twenty twenty one, he was seen as like the shining star on the international left. The country was like trying to rewrite his constitution and he said he was going to ury neoliberalism. That didn't really work out, and we can talk some more about that, but in a nutshell, I like to say that he was basically like the Chilean Mam Donnie. And to be clear, I like him and mom Donnie. I think both of

them like on a personal level. They seem kind of like nice guys and charismatic, et cetera. And Bodich actually did some really good things in my opinion. He raised them minimum wage like twenty percent the forty poorest Chileans, the bottom forty percent of Chileans now have access to free healthcare. Pensions are a little bit less miserly, which historically were terrible in Chile. And the best thing actually is that there's a gradual reduction in the work week

from forty five to forty hours. That's something that unions had been demanding for decades, really really good stuff. The problem is that the broader political environment after the pandemic shifted two issues that really benefited the right. There was

a crime wave. Some of that had to do with the fact that there were these like mass protests in twenty nineteen that led to the Constitutional Convention, similar to twenty twenty here with BLM like there was backlash against the police and that led to officers like not one even like police high crime areas. There's also been a broader reconfiguration of the drug trade in South America, favoring like Asian and European markets, so that's led a lot

of organized crime to move into countries like Chile. There was inflation, and even though the government rage them in a wage the truth is that the increase was roughly in line with previous governments, so in relative terms, like people's buying power went down. And finally this is always the kryptonite for progressive governments. There was this huge migration surge,

especially in ilegal immigration. The country's immigrant population is double to one point six million, is around three hundred thousand undocumented, mostly Venezuelan's now in Chile. And that doesn't sound like much here, but that's enormous in Chile, considering that the country's whole population is around twenty million. And so how

did a Boord handle that? Similar to with Biden, his government had like the lowest amount of deportations in history, around half of the previous government and like, for example, with Biden, like you can say, for instance that Biden apported a lot of people at the border. Within the country not so much. And so there was this every single time, including in Latin American countries, you see this divide between people who are more college educated and more

working class. And every single time the more college educated people have a reluctance understandably so for like you know, humanitarian reasons to not really want to like do think things like deportations, whereas working class people feel, you know, they have concerns over crime, strains the social services competition with illegal labor. So it it bords. To his credit, he did like militarize the northern border to try to stem new arrivals. But people really resented the fact that

the government was not really keeping up enforcement. And Sokas has this trumpst program. He wants to build a border shield of walls, ditches, and.

against Latin American leftism. Is that something that we're going to see again? What do you think?

I mean, who knows. Maybe cous could be apprehensive about this though, because the thing is, you know, the president, you set for this. It's like, okay, you know, maybe we're you like it if it's against Maduro, but it's like, you know what, if they can do it to Maduro, right, they can do it to anybody.

discussion around that. The leading conservative candidate now in Peru for twenty twenty six said that Peru should just give citizenship to Venezuelans so that they can vote for him. It's a talk about importing voters.