Take a look behind the curtain with a real whistleblower, an American patriot. Prepare to embrace the uncomfortable truth, because this program has no time for comforting lies. Here is civil liberties enthusiast, Second Amendment defender, and recovering FBI agent Kyle Serif. Well, hello my friends, and welcome to the Kyle Serafin Show. Today is Tuesday, it is May the 14th.
I was just looking at the clock and I thought, Oh my God, I can't believe we're this far into the year this year just keeps, like flying across and the chaos is not complete yet. So I can only imagine that there is another shoe to drop. We're going to be talking today about the fixer, Michael Cohen, like we talked about yesterday. Yesterday we kind of highlighted some contrast in the courtroom. Today I want to talk about the panic that must be out there on those who thought this was the
kill shot. I think this trial is the first, I think it's the first of of several taste that the political left in the mainstream media are going to get about how this attempt to jail or smear Donald Trump in court is going to backfire on them tremendously. And they're starting to get that sense. And the only people that are panicked are the people that are paying attention, that actually
have any kind of sanity. It doesn't seem to to to worry the, the Democratic establishment doesn't seem to be worrying Joe Biden very much despite his terrible performances. So we're going to get into a little bit about that. We'll talk about sort of the way that the the system works in favor of its preferred
candidates. We're going to talk about the Election Integrity Task Force, which is a DOJFBI sort of cooperation and talk about how the FBI is ready to protect the LGBTQIA plussers because Pride month's coming. You guys probably didn't know, but we are t -, 2 weeks out from the most important month of the year, that is June, also known as Pride Month. Really, really gross. I want to give you a taste about some.
Some propaganda that seems to be running around out there in the world about encrypted applications and your ability to secure your comms. I highly recommend that you do such a thing. And there's some kind of smear campaign going on against my favorite application, which is called Signal, so we'll talk a little bit about that. Before we do, let's go ahead and thank my friends over at Catholic Vote. Here's one, it's in the show
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Number one, you've seen the FBI target Catholics. Why would they target Catholics specifically, especially the the Rad Trads as they called them, the radical traditionalist Catholics, those people who adhere to the actual tenants. And then the second piece of it is the the sort of need to come down on those who will embrace higher authority. There's this push they they've highlighted who the problem is.
And then of course we've got these like fake Catholics like Nancy Pelosi, like we showed yesterday and Joe Biden and others. Actually, Fauci was a fake Catholic, a number of them that need to be this country needs to be saved from and so maybe saved by Catholics. That's the recommendation. All right. I'm going to get directly into the stuff.
We'll we'll talk about some of the other sponsors a little bit later on. I want to get started right away with this because the walls must be closing in. Must they not? How many times have we heard about this? The walls are closing in and it's almost all over for Donald Trump. He's not able to just keep it together. And yet the man continues to surge in polls. It's it's almost like the people that are coming after him don't understand how public sentiment works.
And it's like they don't realize just how bad the alternative looks, especially in light of grocery bills and filling up at the gas. It's going to get worse. By the way, those of you who go to the gas pump are going to see that we're coming into the sort of the, the general, the general malaise of of of walking into summer and seeing that the the prices increase, you're going to have a higher demand and so on. So your your pump prices are going to increase.
People are going to feel that more and more and that's the thing they're going to remember as they go to the polls in November. They are fighting that uphill. So here you go, this is coming from NBC. I'm going to kind of cover from left to right. I don't know if that's left or left to right on my screen, but I'm sort of like from like most reasonable to most wild and
inarticulate takes. And we're gonna finish of the three of these an opinion piece written by Norm Eisen who wrote a book called Trying Trump. He's a totally non partisan guy at the Brookings Institute. That's a total loony left winger. But I just want you to show you like how much they got to try to sell their own base on what this looks like. So the benefit, the benefit of Mr. Trump long time fixer Michael Cohen testifies in the
hush money case. This was the much awaited testimony their their star witness. The so-called kill shot if they were going to have one. This is the nail in the coffin. I think it fizzled. I don't think it was what they hoped. And the problem is, is because they chose Michael Cohen to be the one who delivered it. And Michael Cohen's credibility, yeah, it's it's it's awful. It's really awful. So he was a longtime friend and fixer and lawyer.
He turned on on Donald Trump sometime around 20/17/2018. He he's the guy who supposedly made hush money payment. He testified that he was making hush money payments to Stormy Daniels before the 2016 presidential cycle. The entirety of his of his quote, UN quote evidence is his personal testimony, his recollections, and then sort of the the actual records of payments being made.
That's kind of tough. That's kind of a tough sell from a guy who's a convicted liar who's serving time for lying for weeks, the Manhattan Criminal Court in New York City. Donald Trump's defense attorneys have sought to puncture Cohen's credibility with the jury, and even witnesses paid him as a hot head, as self interested and untrustworthy. They they don't have to try particularly hard, do they, when the guy is self admitted. I've actually got some fun, fun
clip of that. It's got a kind of annoying laugh track in the back, but we'll play in a second here. I said I didn't know Michael to be an especially charitable person or a selfless person, said Hope Hicks. He had the the ability to handle individuals who are challenging. That was sort of his job. The thing is, he's also made some pretty stupid statements. He said you're a billionaire, just pay for it. We'll fix the stuff up. He's he's out there making sort of the recommendations to.
Does that make him the one that's responsible for it? I got this video. This is the man that they are trying to prop up as the hero of the Democrat Party. That's going to solve this problem for you. I'll just let him say it in his own words. It's much more compelling than anything else we could say. I've been convicted on five counts of tax evasion. There's one count of misrepresentation of documents
to a bank. There's two counts, one dealing with campaign finance for Karen McDougal, 1 count of campaign finance violation for Stormy Daniels, as well as lying to Congress. By total, the crimes for which you were sentenced would bring a maximum of 70 years. Yes or no. Yes. Yet you were going to prison for three years, yes or no? Yes. We expect to go back and ask for any sort of reduction in sentence.
Yes. The way the Rule 35 motion works is what you're supposed to do is provide them with information that leads to ongoing investigations. I am in constant contact with the Southern District of New York regarding ongoing investigations. Strict in New York. In their statement, there are sentencing memo says this Cohen's criminal violations in the federal election laws were also stirred like others crimes
by his own ambition and greed. Cohen privately told friends, colleagues and including seized text messages that expected to be given a prominent role in the new administration. When that did not materialize, Cohen found a way to monetize his relationship and access with the president. So yeah, like I said, annoying laugh track, but but you get the point of it. First of all, the the Southern District of New York and and even the the documents that are out there talking about this guy.
Yes, you guys are just asking why isn't he in jail? He he actually had to leave jail to come do this. He got two years plus a year of house arrest as you may have just seen on the video graphic. There are some bombshells though that came out of his testimony, which you know, that's exciting. We always like to have a good bombshell. How about this bombshell? The locker room talk defense was actually Melania Trump's idea. Michael Cohen testifies. This is like I said working left to right.
This is ABC News. So this was the the information that he wanted to share about putting a spin on the Access Hollywood tape. The the so-called grab them by the pee tape that that you could hear that hot mic from a 2005 video. Now here's the thing that I that I have a problem with. I don't know how many of you have spent time around immigrants to this country, particularly women, who are learning English as a second,
third, fourth language. But the idea of calling it locker room talk specifically and saying that that was the defense that was that was concocted by Melania Trump, that's a really weird take. That's kind of a uniquely American phenomena to to sort of argue that there is such a thing as talk that men have in locker rooms. I don't know how much time she spent in men's locker rooms. Most of the time that I've spent in locker rooms, there's no talking at all. It's actually really weird.
There's a bunch of old naked guys and you guys know exactly who you are. If you're listening to the show and you're the guy that just strips down to nothing and then wanders around with your kind of hanging body flesh, yeah, there's not a lot of quote UN quote locker room talk. There's there may be in some of that, like that the nicer clubs. I remember when I was a kid, I used to go for some reason. We had a membership to The Four Seasons to go swim there and and
play racquetball. Really weird. I I have no idea where the maybe my parents will tell me why we had that that connection to The Four Seasons. But I I remember those were nice locker rooms and then you have like 2 guys that like play racquetball or something on their their lunch break and they got their fitness in and then they would go back and they put on their suits and go back to work in Dallas, something like that. But yeah maybe those guys are bragging about things.
I just, I don't see a woman who moved to this country, is not a native to this culture, and didn't speak English as a primary first language. You can still hear her accent, obviously. I don't see that being very reasonable. It's not a plausible thing. Just in my personal experience, maybe she did come up with the idea and maybe he is testifying to the truth, or maybe he's just trying to make anything relevant and he's trying to bring in
people. He's trying to smear Melania as an enabler to something, is there not? I don't know when you, when you've been convicted of lying, when you've admitted to it and then you just heard him in his own words, talk about all the things that he was not truthful about. It doesn't ring very true. But this was an entire headline. Like I said, this is, this is coming from the front page of ABC News, that somehow this was
a revelation. And I don't know what that actually tells us because none of it has to do with money going back and forth in a way that was illegal. This is all about smear, it says. Yeah, he told him that the locker room talk defense was something that Melanie had recommended in order to get control over the story and minimize its impact on him and
his campaign. I don't know if you guys believe it. I mean, the jury's the one who has to believe it. Then the total piece, this kind of the smear piece concludes not just on Melania, although they have a very nice picture of her. It kind of concludes with Trump never cared about whether or not it would reflect badly on his wife or his family. The story of the Stormy Daniels thing, all he really cared about was whether it went, you know, negatively against his his political ambitions.
He never expressed news that the alleged affair might affect his family, only his White House run. There's a couple possibilities for why that would be right possibility. One is, is that Donald Trump is a very bad person and everybody hates him, and that's what they're trying to point out, and he just cares about power. That's kind of the the illumination that ABC News is attempting to point out, and I think Cohen is trying to share.
The second possibility is that the allegations are false. And so his family already knows what's true and what's false. And they understand that being Donald Trump means that a bunch of people are going to come at you and you're going to have to just deal with it. So maybe him and his wife kind of have an understanding. It's like, look, people are going to come out of the woodwork. I had a life before you. I've been married a couple
times. There's lots of allegations against me. This is what you're marrying into. Maybe that's part of it. And then maybe kind of the third possibility, which is that he knows it's not true. He's only interested in the politics of it. But he, he just kind of says I'm going to try to do something. People are going to take shots because they hate the the takes that I'm going to have.
You can't get really the the idea that Donald Trump, who has spent his entire life in the public view, has been kind of controversial. The guy had like pictures. I'd like my earliest pictures of Donald Trump was sitting on a golden toilet. You think that guy is like scared of people saying things about him that are negative. It just doesn't make any sense. I don't even know that it affected his White House situation.
The quote, the quote that they got in there because this is what they really wanted to put in. This is the real, the ugly piece. They wanted to kind of make the allegation that if he was already elected to as president, then it would no longer matter. And if he wasn't elected president, that he didn't care about the story, the Stormy Daniels story. It's just like all of this is weak. None of this stuff hammers home. These are all the bombshells.
I went through all the the news reports to try and find it. The only person that feels supremely confident about the way that this all lines up is a guy named Norm Eisen. And Norm Eisen. I'm going to throw him on the screen right now. I actually took a picture, cut the background, and threw it on the screen just so you could see the goofball that wrote this piece. It's an opinion piece. Michael Cohen propels prosecution of Trump past this critical threshold.
This is someone who has to believe this is true simply because his he's the editor of Trying Trump, a guide to his first election interference criminal trial. He's ACNN Legal Analyst and this is an opinion piece. Remember, whenever you can't publish the thing that you want, you you publish it as an opinion.
When you can't have a staff writer do something 'cause you can't be associated with saying that this is the case, you get someone like a Norm Eisen to come in and be your opinion editor and you put this there's an editor's note. The views expressed in his commentary are his own, but it
really is the view of CNN. And their hope is, is they can can compel the people that are already convinced that Donald Trump is guilty, that he's guilty, That's the hope and that this is going to be that kill shot. That final one is one person has described it as the bow that wraps up this case. The problem is the critical threshold is beyond reasonable doubt.
And having a guy who's perjured himself, who's gone to jail for lying, someone who has spent his time being dishonest in the public sphere by by the the statements of the Southern District of New York, which you just heard being read into the record. I think it was congressional
testimony. The the statements that he made were or that they made that they assessed was that he basically found a way to monetize his existence because he expected a political appointment when Trump got into office and he didn't get one. So he's like a scorned, jilted lover, but it's a jilted business partner. I guess in this case, this is someone that Norm Eisen has personally interviewed. And then he goes on to kind of
set the scene. This whole article is talking about how I originally believed that he wasn't going to be a good witness and that he was kind of a clown, but he turned out to be very candid, and he's very likable and he's very believable. We need you to believe what we're saying here. You need to believe that he's candid and that he's likable and that he's believable because we're trying to sell credibility for someone that the Trump's defense team has punched all the holes in.
And by the way, Michael Cohen has punched all the holes in based on his last couple years, There's a reason why he's doing tik toks with pictures of Donald Trump in jail on T-shirts, even though the judge told him to kind of stay out of this stuff.
He can't help it. The District Attorney has methodically bolstered Cohen's testimony beforehand with a series of credible witnesses and collaborating documents, corroborating documents generally and gradually narrowing the universe of uncorroborated evidence that Cohen would need to provide. So he just got to provide just a little bit. They've they've they've they've locked it all up. Except that they haven't. They haven't locked it all up. You basically have to believe
it's a he sheds, he said. She said situation where the guy on the other side of it has criminal lying in his background and perjury. Unbelievable. Literally it it cannot be believed the prosecution used the background to cooperate. Cohen's story that the Stormy Daniels payments were establishing this sort of scheme that they would have to do this catch and kill met. We've been hearing about this stuff for years and years.
They put together the CEO, David Pecker, the former publisher of the National Enquirer, who met with Trump's office in the 26th floor. You know, whenever you're trying to tell, like, a really good lie, you want to pepper in details that only only certain people would know. Like, oh, well, they met in Trump's office on the 26th floor. That's a credibility establisher because he's been to Trump Tower and he knows that the office is
on the 26th floor. And only people who have been in meetings like that would know this sort of thing. These are like little little snippets to try to catch this, to try to catch the the the imagination part of your audience. But none of that stuff is burden of proof evidence. You would need some validated e-mail right That had some bona fides from a computer expert showing hey I am telling you to do this thing you would need multiple witnesses in the room saying I heard him say this at
the same time. By the way, we also had it videotaped and audio taped him admitting to it some later time. There's a a statement about how they have the the prosecution paid played a tape from September 6th of 2016. This is the most the Eisen calls it, the most gripping stretch of testimony. But it is a a piece of tape that they played a conversation with Cohen recorded between himself and Trump discussing Pecker's repayment of the $150,000 in hush money he paid Karen McDougal.
OK, but that's not what this is about. This is about something else. So they've set it up that, like, they may have paid for other stories, but that's not the thing that we're indicting. But if he had paid for those stories, then you know that he must have paid for this one too. That's not how it works in criminal prosecution. You actually have to prove that the actual crime that they are alleging was committed by the defendant beyond a reasonable doubt. Nobody could doubt that it was
not done. And this is the vague sort of statement you've got Cohen saying quote. I need to open up a company for the transfer of all of that info regarding our friend David doesn't. And then they put parenthetically Pecker, because he didn't actually say that. I've spoken to Alan Weisberg to set the whole thing up, Trump's voice says. So what do we got to pay for this 150? Pay with cash. That's the statement.
And that apparently is the kill shot on this man talking about paying off a Playboy model, which is not the allegation that's being done here. It's not the amount of money that is in question. We're talking about supposedly $130,000 with a totally different woman. It doesn't mean that Donald Trump doesn't do like, you know, dirt bag things that he hasn't in his past been kind of like a womanizing guy. I think we can all kind of see that's the way that he's run his life.
So what that's none of that is is is a criminal. None of that is a criminal piece of evidence proving the allegation that was done right here. And maybe that's why there's so much fear. Maybe that's why there's so much fear on the political left at the moment, right. They, they thought this was going to get it done. And you've even got guys like what's his name? Fareed Zakaria. Is that his name? I don't even know how to
pronounce this guy's name. The CNN commentator, this is popping up all over social media. They really thought that this was going to be step number one, that it was going to start building the brick wall that puts Trump away forever. And instead it ends up being this thing where they're like, Oh no, we've got a real problem. We're running Joe Biden, the oldest, lamest, most confused
man. And we're running him against a guy who's just like sitting in courtrooms and he's going out and speaking to rallies of 100,000 people in New Jersey. You know, he's brushing all the stuff off. It's not hitting the way they thought. Listen to this like this is real concern. I have to admit, none of this is playing out as I thought it would. Trump is now leading in almost all the swing states. But behind those numbers lie
even more troubling details. As someone worried about the prospects of a second Trump term, I think it's best to be honest about reality. I understand that polls are not always accurate, but in general they have tended to underestimate Donald Trump's support, not overestimated. I doubt that there are many shy Biden voters in the country.
The economy has been in a robust recovery for more than two years now, with unemployment hitting a 54 year low in 2023 and increasing only slightly since then. But Biden is getting little credit for it. The shift here is stuck on the question of who voters trust more to deal with the economy. Trump has a 22 point lead over Biden, according to an NBC poll from January.
This marks a 15 point bump for Trump compared to the same poll in 2020. Perhaps this is because inflation is a far more pervasive problem than unemployment, affecting all Americans every day. Perhaps it's because people's views on the economy now are largely derived from their broader attitudes towards the candidates. But whatever the reasons, it's a stunning reversal in the midst of a relentless stream of good
economic news on cultural. Hold on just one second, 'cause we can't just let that go. There's been a relentless stream of good economic news that we have made-up to tell you, yeah, the unemployment went right back to where it was before we had the COVID insanity. So the economy has basically recovered as far as employment goes. The problem is, is that your dollar buys less. I don't understand why aren't you happy? You all have jobs just because you're making less money and
you're unable to afford things. Like I told you guys yesterday, I went looking just to rent a suburban track home. It was going to be over $4000 and there were so many people that were in it that the guy decided not to rent out the house. We we can't buy a house because of the our our company that we've run here this this this podcast company. It's only been going for a short period of time and so apparently if you have W2 employment, you can wave it off. I remember being hired at the
FBI six months later. We bought a house under the VA's thing. They were like, you're good to go. You have somebody saying they're going to pay you. In the meantime, if you go out and generate your own revenue, they're like, oh, we need two years of track record for that. And that's fine. That's, that's whatever the VA rules are. I mean, the fact that you, I want to play that game is my own
business. The idea that it would cost $4000 for a regular home that's in a suburb where families are supposed to live, who can afford that? Honestly, who can afford $4000? Other than the the very wealthy, How many people can go out and spend $4000 when they have a family the size of mine and my family's not exceptionally large? If you owned it, it'd be one thing. If you were paying down on a mortgage, it'd be one thing. But it's pretty wild to think
about that. That's pretty wild to say that this guy's out here is that there's a relentless stream of good economic news. Or maybe people can just look and and realize that their experiences are real and the news that you're putting out is fake. It's fake and garbage and they don't trust it. You've destroyed your credibility. You've been doing it since 2020, at the very minimum since the COVID crises that was manufactured in the end of fear
porn, the amygdala porn. People are just aren't buying it. They just don't want to take what it is you're selling. And that's how you have this. Now imagine what was sold in 2020, because I, I, it's actually hard for me to deal with this. This is Biden's big problem is that few people expect change
from him. I I'm actually shocked that anybody thought there was going to be change from a man who's been in office for 50 years who has spent he's in his 80s and he spent since he was in his late 20s in public office. How did you come to the conclusion that that was your change candidate? You guys remember that that movie It was what's it called? Oh brother, Where art Thou, you know, and they've got George Clooney and there's the the Saki bottom boys. They get out of jail, whatever.
And they go and they're going to sing at this concert thing that they set up and they're all wearing the beards and they're wearing the beards on the stage. And the the political candidate that's kind of like the evil fat white guy that goes out there and says like we're not padding the flesh, we're we're mass communicating. He's the guy that takes over the radio station when they do the recording and he and he steps up and he says he wants to be he. We got to be that reform
candidate. We got to get some of that reform because people, when they see that their situation is not good, they would like it to be improved. And the way that you sell that is through the idea of change. The concept that you would try to sell Joe Biden over 80, feeble, stumbling, confused, trying to sell 1990s identity politics as this sort of like radical reformer. It's pretty incredible. It's a pretty incredible take. And so I found this article here that I thought was very
interesting. It says this big problem is that they they think that he's not going to bring change. They have a suggestion. By the way, this is from a guy named Zishan Alim. He's an opinion writer over at MSNBC. Again, this is the far left hard left. This is the the wild people that think that they can really sell you this idea. And and some of the stuff on here is great.
It says a new set of surveys were conducted by the New York Times, Siena College, the Philadelphia Inquirer, all of which found that Joe Biden is trailing former President DJT among registered voters in the five battleground states that they're caring about. In this case, it's Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia, Arizona and Nevada, all critical within about six months coming up on Election Day. There's still plenty of time for those numbers to change.
They're selling the hope. But given that Trump is consistently leading by the national polls and that lead continues to get better, it gets better and better for for Trump as they continue to prosecute him. Right. We've got this one falling apart. I I no matter what happens, it's still, it's still garbage. And then you're going to have the two federal cases that are basically getting kicked back down the down the line. I don't know if they're going to
get decided before. They're certainly unlikely to get decided before the election. He's endured an unprecedented criminal trial. They have to let you know that it's unprecedented. Yeah. But that cuts against the the narrative when it's unprecedented. It's not like he did something that everybody else does and they all go to jail for it,
right? He didn't go out and kill a guy on Main Street. He didn't go out and beat somebody and body slam him in the middle of the street and like, OK, well, you're assaulted. This person that's on camera, it's it's game on. There's a reason it's unprecedented that we don't go after people for like old garbage things that happened before the last election. We're talking about payments that were supposedly made in 2016, almost eight years ago.
At this point, it says the surveys are worth taking seriously and digging into for clues as to the sources of Biden Biden's vulnerability. What do you think those clues look like? The the clues that he's vulnerable? Everything about the man is vulnerable. He's a walking vulnerability. He's confused. He he says dumb things all the time. He's his biggest battle on a daily basis seems to be with a teleprompter, right. He's consistently here. This is this is Joe Biden versus
teleprompter. Apparently they're not giving him his, his statements before he goes out and says him and he's been doing it so long, you can imagine the arrogance of someone who's been in politics for 80, you know for 50 years who goes, no, I do this all the time. Just just throw it on the screen. I'll be able to read it. I I got this.
You end up doing this statement where he apparently missed all the punctuation they didn't put in the, you know, take pause here, 'cause he'll say those out loud. And so you get this kind of mumble jumble garbage talking about Asian Americans, whatever the hell he's talking about.
I don't know, but it doesn't sound like he's making a nice statement about Asians. There is no singular Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific island identity and diversity in those cultures, the breadth of achievement and shape, the strength and fabric of this country. Huh. What, Joe Biden versus Teleprompter, Teleprompter 1 on this one. Now, the fun thing is this. He's trying to present himself as a change candidate, right? That's the hope.
You can't be the change candidate when you're the incumbent. They actually said that in the in the movie. Oh brother, we're out there as well. You can't be the reform candidate when you already are the person who's sitting in office. That makes it very difficult.
So they break it down here and they try to get into the the nitty gritty of what can we learn from these polls that basically say Biden. So like, rather than say that our guy is terrible, which is what the actual take we should be, what they're going to try to do is break it down. Said nearly 70% of voters said the US political and economic systems required major change or need to be torn down entirely.
Biden's not the guy for that. He's been there for 50 years doing it. There's no reason anyone would believe that voters perceive Trump is the kind of guy who would deliver those changes by a large margin, 70% of those people. So 70% of those surveyed said that the the economy and the political system need major change, and 70% of those people who said that also think that Trump would be the kind of guy who would deliver those kind of
changes. Only 24% perceive Biden as the guy who would do it. The tear it down. Voters can't be dismissed as totally fringe. They represent 15% of of registered voters and Trump leaves them by 32 points. So that's kind of like you're like really extreme fringe people that are saying the whole system is is garbage. OK, so this is the this is where they get into the actual the the nuts and bolts of the ideas.
If you want to be perceived as an activist candidate seeking sweeping change, that's not inherently good. There's a sizable chunk of people that would say that that would be bad. So now we go, OK, fine, so there's 43% of voters believe that Trump would bring good change. 24% of them said that Biden would bring good change. 32% said nothing would change if Biden was elected to a second term. Well, nothing changing. Sounds like not a good move. The best was the recommendation
that they came up with. What if we could just pitch something that that we haven't thought of before? What if there was a way to counteract the short term memory of the American voter to adopt something big and simple and buzzy that promises a change to the social contract? This is the recommendation of this writer, by the way. How about something like Medicare for All?
How do you feel about that? Or a new version of the Green New Deal. What if we took failing policies and government interventionalism and then we just sold it to you as more new bad ideas? What if we took the ideas that don't work and have never worked? What if we just made them buzzy and tried to get you? Essentially this article is acknowledging that people who are vote voting on the political left are without any ability to think critically and and they're first dimensional thinking.
So that kind of makes sense if we can just get you excited about something stupid that we previously promised that we can't deliver. The problem with trying to pitch Medicare for all if that is something that you think is is generally likable is that basically everyone on the political right thinks it's terrible. We already had Obamacare and they fought tooth and nail to get rid of it and it was a campaign strategy. You think that something that you cannot deliver is going to
be the best. Move it. All he's saying is, what if we could just lie to you long enough to get us back into office so Joe Biden can be there? It doesn't seem to be working. And it gets even worse when the man opens his mouth and says things like this. I'm not sure he's wrong in this case. I just don't think that the implications are good in what he's trying to argue. Listen to Joe Biden kind of make this pitch because this is a this is a interesting way to try to compel people to get the
female voters. Also look at the size of the crowd and the low level of enthusiasm. My name is Joe Biden. I work for Kamala Harris. I asked her to be my vice president. I knew I needed somebody smarter than me. E Yikes. He's trying to trot out that old joke. He's like, I'm I'm Joe Biden and I'm Joe Biden's husband. Like that used to be cutesy.
Probably 50 years ago when he was young, people cared what he had to say and he wasn't confused and he wasn't tripping over sandbags or falling on those way up the stairs or down the stairs. That the most lethal thing was him walking across the grass. And the possibility of him like sharding in his pants was a a very real possibility at any moment on camera. They got to keep the media pen further away, like all those things were were maybe cutesy to him. People thought that oh, it's
kind of quirky. Also, has anyone ever heard the so-called stutter that he supposedly has the speech impediment? I've never heard it. I've been wanting to hear it. I've been wanting to know what it was. All of this stuff kind of leads towards why we have to have federal intervention in the elections. They thought they were going to get the kill shot with Donald Trump. It's not happening. It's not happening in New York. It looks like it's going to be delayed in the federal stuff.
The Fanny sort of debacle down in Georgia is a complete mess. None of that has had the desired effect. We thought that we could pitch a Joe Biden campaign and he could just hang in there and win by default. That's not working. It's time to get the feds involved. And we're going to talk about election interference task force in just one second. Before we do that, how about we say a little suggestion? You guys find your own Tumblr. This is my my green one.
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That seems like there's somebody sent me an article today that said it's not that they are trying to stop election interference, it's that they are trying to control who is in charge of the election and who is who's running the elections. I think that's true. When you listen to this little testimony here, which was given last week by Merrick Garland. On either side of him, are the people that are really dangerous. You've got Chris Ray on one
side. You've got Lisa Monaco, who actually runs the DOJ on the other side. And what he says is listen to the people he's going to highlight because he's going to tell you all the good that your tax dollars are doing under the power of the DOJ, OK. But what you're going to hear are essentially the same argument that the suspendables have been making for months, maybe the last two years. These are fake threats. These are invented threats that they are using to justify their
existence. That's what they're doing. Every single one of these people where he says where the threat was versus where the person was that was arrested, they're not in the same state. This is Merrick Garland saying that the DOJ essentially is going to claim credit and they're going to to acknowledge that they're out there doing the great work of locking up people who are impotently screaming online or sending angry emails or letters perhaps to people and
threatening them. And then don't miss the fact that he missed quotes. Remember that if you were going to have a real threat, you'd someone, you'd say you need a knife to the throat. Just listen to the way he phrases it because it's kind of funny he has a little flop.
I don't know why we're not playing that over and over again, because it's kind of fun to say, All right, so again, hone in on where are the people that are being arrested and where are the people that they are threatening when they are being arrested for it. Here we go, public servants, the ones who administer our elections. Those threats and danger are democracy itself.
That is why over the past three years, we have accelerated our efforts to combat the increase in threats against election workers, officials and volunteers that followed the 2020 election. Our Election Threats Task Force has secured the guilty plea of a man who threatened an election worker in Michigan. The defendant made vile threats saying that the election worker deserved a quote throat to the
knife. We secured a 3 1/2 year prison sentence for a man in Texas who threatened the lives of Arizona election officials and their children and advocated for a mass shooting of poll workers and election workers in precincts he believed had quote suspect results. We secured a 3 1/2 year prison sentence for a Massachusetts man for sending a bomb threat to an elections official in the Arizona Secretary of State's office.
We secured A2 year prison sentence for a man in Texas who threatened Georgia officials in the wake of the 2020 election, including threatening to quote, put a bullet behind the ears of an election worker. And we secured a 2 1/2 year sentence in prison for an Iowa man who threatened to lynch an election official in Arizona. Each of these cases should serve
as a warning. If you threaten to harm or kill an election worker, volunteer, or official, the Justice Department will find you and we will hold you accountable. The public servants who administer our elections must be able to do their jobs without fearing for their safety or that of their families. Wow. As Betsy L just said, the old throat to the knife threat. Nobody wants to see that. Nobody expects the old throat to the knife. How does that work exactly?
The guy holds out the knife, then you bring your throat to it. Does he grab you by the neck and he puts your throat up to the knife? I don't understand what he said. What this should serve to remind you of is that if you screw up, if you go and you threaten federal officials, then then we will hold you to account. That's actually not what it reminds me of. What it reminds me of is that the FBI and the DOJ specifically are interested in getting involved in federal elections.
And in order to do that they're going to need some scapegoats to justify it. This did not, did not constitute rampant and widespread threats. He named a dozen example, a half dozen examples. Rather they were people in Michigan threatening someone in Arizona.
They were someone in Iowa that was upset with somebody in Georgia. These are people that are across the country, tiny little one offs in populations of millions and millions and millions of people that thought that this last election was was trash, sorry, not the midterms, the one before that, the 2020, although I think people had some questions about the midterms too.
We're talking about a very, very, very small hand picked set of examples that gives them what we would call in the in the the investigative world a federal Nexus that gave them the federal Nexus for them to get involved in this and that's why they have to have an election integrity task force. Here's the real problem with the election integrity task Force. From my view, they've always had an election integrity task
force. Those people are supposed to go out and investigate fraudulent activities involved in our elections, but they don't want to investigate fraud. They have no interest in investigating fraud. They don't want to get involved in that piece.
The only thing that they want to do is get involved with cases of voter suppression, which are overwhelmingly following underneath the Civil Rights Division, which is run by that woman, Kristen Clark, who he said had lied about a domestic violence charge and being arrested. They're only interested in getting involved in the things that they're getting interested involved in, not in trying to shore up the stability and the security of our elections.
And that's been going on since 2019-2020. They didn't want to get involved in this. After January 6th and 2021, they removed people that they believed were Trump supporters. This is the famous example that we have people that I've met, people that worked in my old office, were removed from their jobs for the simple crime of having a lot of kids. And when you have a lot of kids, it's presumed that you are conservative and probably
religious. And if you're conservative and religious, it's presumed that you voted for Donald Trump. And if you voted for Donald Trump, it's presumed that you're not allowed to be on election integrity task force that would look for fraud. We asked a lot of questions when I was working for the Washington field office in January and February and March, going all the way.
Actually that's in 2020. But even in in in late November and December, we were asking the questions like, hey, are you guys seeing all these crazy videos? I didn't even have social media at the time. Are you guys seeing the videos of the lady who's, like running the stacks of papers through and then takes them and runs them back through again and then takes them and runs them back through again? Are you guys seeing this stuff? Are you seeing the suitcases thing?
I don't know what all this stuff meant. I know that there are people that are actually tasked with investigating it, and they weren't allowed to do that job, and if they were presumed to be a Trump supporter, they were pulled out. Why? Why was that? Because we have ideologically captured institutions in our federal government. They're supposed to be protecting us, but are now, in fact just looking to insert themselves where it's convenient
to them. And they're going to go after the impotent, yelling, raging clowns that exist across this country. There are many mentally ill people. There are many people that make stupid decisions and say things stupidly that lash out. We would get, you know, drunken phone calls from somebody and you call him back up and you go, hey, you made a threat and it was on a recorded line and this is what it was. And they're just absolutely, I was so drunk, blah, blah, blah.
Well, you may still be liable for it, but at least we understand that that's probably not going to happen again, especially when it's never happened before and it doesn't happen after. Maybe that guy actually did say throat to the knife, which is real possibilities. Like like, let's consider the possibility that he actually
read the quote correctly. What if somebody actually made the allegation that or made the made the threat that I am going to hold your knife or held your throat to a knife. It's like, OK, and you took that guy seriously and you put him in jail. That's your big, that's your big victory. It reminds me of so many of these pieces when I was working for the FBI, where a lot of this
stuff is just showy garbage. It's like we we talk a big game, but when it comes to put on the spikes, they're not doing the real work. If people heard Election Integrity Task Force, they would assume that they are trying to shore up the integrity of the elections. And instead they're trying to look for preferred outcomes for
their political candidate. And they're going to go, you know, focus all their efforts as we have, Steve, friends, you know, sort of moles inside the Bureau were telling us they're all their efforts are going to be 100% interested in just stopping voter suppression, which doesn't seem to be a real problem in this country. If you want to vote, you can vote. I don't know who is suppressing the vote, but it's not real. It does give them a reason to
get involved, doesn't it? It should make us very, very worried about funding new headquarters buildings for the FBI, about giving more information, more power, more authorities, bigger budgets, more staffing for this kind of garbage. They're serving one political master, and it turns out it's not really even the Democrat party. If you guys are being really honest, they're serving their own interests. It just turns out the Democrats are now behind the FBI.
They're against local policing. They're they're for federal policing because it centralizes their authority, and that's what they're for. And that benefits the FBI. So the FBI is willing to serve whatever master is willing to keep funding them. And at the moment, it's both parties. It turns out, as I shared yesterday on on social media, it's like Steve. Steve was showing how they're trying to do recruiting. I think their numbers must be down.
Steve Friend, who we always have on Fridays, was talking about how the federal government was advertising it right out of the open. The number of sick days, the number of vacation days and the number of paid federal holidays. It's 50 a year total days that you can take off from work. It's 50 a year. There are 52 work weeks in the
year, right. So they are making and by the way they shut down for the first week and the last week of the year you know going into New Year's and coming out of New Year's are basically skeleton crew only show up you know log in show that you were there and leave. People go to the gym and then they don't come back. That kind of stuff. Like, that's pretty standard.
And a lot of people who work in headquarters or in the, in the sort of federal sphere know about federal Friday, Federal Fridays. You show up, you know, you have coffee, you have a squad meeting. You go and do something. You find out some leads to go shag out somewhere. You find some reason to not be there. But imagine that federal Fridays every Friday. OK, So you could theoretically, like a lot of people blow off Friday afternoon every Friday
because they're federal workers. But 50 paid off days a year means you're on average working four days a week. And the people who work in our FBI headquarters that are agents that are doing this stuff, not the SES people that are making more money. I'm talking about the actual agents, like the program managers, the folks that are like running the actual, you know, the sort of the day-to-day operations of headquarters. They're making like 160 to $175,000 a year with locality pay.
And lest anybody think that's not a lot of money, that's a ton of money because I made $90,000 a year and we had a home and we had two kids and we had a third on the way. We had a little backyard. We had super nice neighbors. I had a reasonable commute. We lived in a very, very nice area, like one of the most expensive counties in the country in Fairfax County, on 90 to $100,000 a year, one income family. If you think you can't get by on
like 165 to $170,000. They are living well if they want to, unless they're driving like BMWs, like idiots or something that they have tons of money that like leveraged out of their eyeballs. But these people could live very, very well and they're working four days a week and you're paying for it. I'm paying for it now. Pretty wild. Pretty crazy. Like I said, I don't know that it's all about whether or not it's one particular party. It seems like they're just
favorable outcomes. And that's how you get stories like this, which comes from our friend Steve Baker over at The Blaze. Why did the most powerful Veterans pack endorsed Harry Dunn, the phony hero of January 6th? You guys remember Harry Dunn?
He's like 6 foot eight. He's like 300 something pounds it says out of the 22 candidates that are out running for this Maryland Third Congressional District seat, out of the 22 candidates, this group called Vote Vets decided to back a civilian non veteran, no service record who was a hero of January 6th that was a liar as reported by our buddy at The Blaze. Now you guys know we get Steve Baker on the time we're part of. We're a little bit biased towards his reporting, but this
I think is really useful. He's reporting on other Democrats being pissed. Juan Dominguez, West Point grad, G4 veteran. He's unhappy that this political action committee called Vote Vets decided to endorse former US Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn, who's not a veteran. There are at least two other candidates in the crowded Democratic primary race who are veterans.
Vote Vets describes itself as a political act of a progressive political action committee that, quote endorses veterans and national security professionals who champion everyday issues that affect the lives for those who served and their families and this country. There are three combat vets that are in that race, 3 veterans that have spent time in combat theatres, and as this guy says that's quoted. His name is again Juan Dominguez.
Dominguez says that he'll be fine if any of the veterans were being endorsed, If the money from the veterans group that's supposed to go and back veterans was actually backing a veteran in the race, but it doesn't. He said it. It's also strange because Dunn doesn't even live in the district. So you've got a guy that's not a veteran who forget all the lying stuff like that, doesn't even
live in the district, you know? And he's definitely said some things that were some some serious whoppers. And his heroic stand on January 6th is pretty crazy. He's borderline illiterate. If you've ever read anything he's written, the question is this quote, How can any person who doesn't live in our district possibly know what the schools are like, what the economic situation is like on the ground? What are the most important issues facing certain
communities? You could ask some of those questions, but if you haven't lived it, if you haven't coached sports in this community, if you haven't gone to religious services in this community, list goes on and on. How do you, how do you represent a district you don't live in and they're pissed. It's because the fix kind of shows up, as in this is what a uniparty would look like. This is what channeling back channel money.
This is the real concern that they talk about, that they're worried about money getting funneled through these sort of political action committees to their preferred candidates, whether or not they have any sort of benefit to the people that live in those areas. And and if you listen to Steve Baker's reporting, he's been calling this for quite a while, that this was the payoff. This is the payoff.
It's the set up. It's like pull the guy out of the Capitol Police, a job that he should have been able to hang out and retire in, but he claims he can't. He's too dumb because he lied. He perjured himself. So he won't be able to do law enforcement jobs, but he could obviously be a liar in Congress. That's fine. Nobody cares about liars. We just found out about the dudes who got gold bars in their jackets.
And you know, if you're if you're as long as you're a Democrat, you're fine being a liar in Congress. They won't remove you for that. That's a Republican move. So there you go. His performance was is that he was an actor playing a role. And the other thing that's really interested, interesting I think is that he's had no promotions in his job. He was by all accounts a very, very low capabilities Capitol Police officer, which is to begin with a very low capabilities organization.
I call them the, you know, the National Mall cops for a reason. They're essentially glorified security guards. He never was promoted above private first class. And yet he got all these commendations and and and recommendations for heroism. He got the Congressional Gold Medal, the Presidential Citizens Medal, the second highest civilian honor from from Joe Biden. He's been given all these kind of things. He was allowed to do an incredible amount of media, was
he not? He was out there talking to CNN and The Associated Press and New York Times and Rolling Stone and everybody everywhere he went and suddenly and and they all gave him an option to to promote his candidacy. So he's been given a ton of in kind donations to promote the fact that he's running for office. But like how many other people in that race are getting a lot of time and how come there's no critical concern about the things that he said that are false.
Remember the story about how he said he said that, like somewhere between 20 and 50 people were chanting the N word at him? Then they couldn't find any evidence of it. One person yelled the N word off camera in a place that nobody could hear. Baker went through all the tapes on this kind of stuff. It just didn't happen. There's an entire article about the N word that never was. It's very weird. It's and it's it's interesting to just note the the sort of the
money in play and how it works. The preferred candidates are getting stumped right in. They get pushed right where they are. I guess that's why guys like we played this the other day, but that's why guys like the Ragin Cajun are very concerned because Trump is sort of the the upset to that, like a lot of the establishment doesn't like what he's about, left or right. We've seen that and they thought they had the kill shot on him. It's just not working.
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All right. So let me, let me push on this thing that is that has really got me going. Like I said, it's all about money. It's all about the the sort of the agenda. This is a really good one. I saw this and I was blown away. This is coming from ABCI, saw this first thing. It's on the main page for ABC's today. Foreign terrorist organizations could target Pride Month events, FBI and DHS again. Can we find more reason to get
federal involvement? Can we get more of this sort of establishment stuck in nonsense and can we make up threats that we have to go after? It doesn't matter whether it's election integrity, which is a preferred outcome. Again, it's about voter suppression there. They're not going to actually go after, you know, the actual integrity of the election. That would be too much work.
We could just go after people that we think are trying to keep our friends from voting, even if that doesn't exist. And then this one, which is made-up. Now, I worked on counterterrorism based like we were paid by the the by the the critical incident response part of the FBI. It's called CERG Critical Incident Response Group. But our money came from counterterrorism funding. That's where Surg answers to the
counterterrorism division. That's where they get their money out of. So I spent three years doing surveillance on this. I have never once heard of a single jihadi group or even a white supremacist group, which were the two biggest groups of people that we would watch. I've never heard of a single one of them that was targeting anybody during Pride Month or ever targeting some LGBTQIA plus
organization. I did spend time on the ground in Portland where we had some pretty wild stuff going on and a lot of those people seem like they were gender confused. So that's wild. But here's the allegation. Foreign terrorist organizations may seek to exploit the LGBTQIA plus DASH related events and venues, including 2024 Pride Month celebrated in June, says FBI and Homeland Security in a
public service announcement. Organizations like ISIS may seek to exploit the increased gatherings associated with the upcoming June 2024 Pride Month. There's two things that are there's two angles we could take this at angle. Number one is if they tell you it's coming, it's definitely not coming because they just want to round up fear and they want to get some sympathy for these groups.
Every time that we've heard the FBI, remember, they were also warning that there was a possibility of terrorist attacks at churches because of eclipse. I was like, Oh well, that's going to be the safest place to be. The other possibility is they're trying to let people in ISIS and and Al Qaeda and all the other groups know where to go so that they can get, you know, like the sound bite that they need so they can justify their existence.
Last February, ISIS quote called for followers to conduct attacks on unidentified soft targets. Here's the best part, although the attacks and targets were not specific to the LGBTQIA plus venues, but but we've made them about that because that's what we're interested in. Like, we think about gay all the time, says the FBI. Probably. We're so obsessed with gay, we assume that everybody is targeting gay because we're targeting gay. We want to hire gay. We want to be gay.
We want to put gay on the wall. It's not just gay. It's gay and trans and LGBTQ, whatever the heck it is. It's it's a focus that makes no sense to regular people. And so what's the only evidence in this entire article? You want to know what it is? Nearly eight years ago, ISIS applauded the June 12th, 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting where a gunman killed 49 wounded 53 at a gay nightclub in Orlando. That was in 2016. That was a long time ago.
And they also have to admit that there's no evidence that ISIS actually directed that attack or had direct knowledge of the attack because the shooter called 911 and then pledged his allegiance to ISIS over the phone. So maybe ISIS and none of these people have anything to do with
this, but we have big names. Former senior counterterrorism director at the National Security Council said that the LGBTQ plus communities have long, long been the target of terrorist groups without any evidence of them actually being targeted. And that's something no evidence required. It's almost like it's like a Trump trial. You could just. Go with no evidence but feelings and also words and also just
trust us bro. There seems to be this pattern of just trust us, bro, from these groups that have lost all the credibility, they've lost their ability to make these kind of claims. It's almost like identity politics is not that effective anymore, you know, like why would you even pay attention to it? I'll take it that way. I got a couple more that I want to round up with here and this one is just a fun little sort of
swing back. Look, we're always in a time of where the pendulum is. I think the pendulum has maxed out at peak stupid, at peak retarded in this country. Which is why you have an FBI claiming, with no evidence and no actual allegations and no actual threats and no history of it, that we've got some danger going on. That you've got a a man who's in his 80s, who's been in political office for 50 plus years as your, quote, UN quote change candidate, and maybe you can just keep the vote.
Was dumb enough to hang out and come back the other way. And I think that he actually is the radical and revolutionary dude, despite the fact that he can barely walk around. That's the take. The fact that you think that a guy who it's always been built into the cake, and all the Donald Trump voters that I'm aware of, they're looking at it and going, yeah, he's not the moral paragon of virtue. He's a guy that had a better economy.
That's all there is. You got people that are talking about a relenting stream, right, of good economic news, even though you don't seem to know. And so it all has to start coming back at some point. And this seems like an interesting little shift, a little data point.
UNC Chapel Hill University of North Carolina moves to shift funding away from DEI programs towards you're never going to guess what are they directed towards the University of North Carolina. Chapel Hill Board of Trustees voted Monday to redirect $2.3 million from funding A Diversity Equity Inclusion program at the university towards public safety efforts. Holy moly, they're taking money from DEI to fund the police. Is that not a signal that we are
starting to the swing back? And if nothing else, there was that great, poignant moment of a bunch of frat guys standing around a flagpole trying to ward off the angry trannies and the weirdo Antifa's and telling them not here, not on this flag. We may be a bunch of Bros who like to have keggers, but we also understand that that only happens in America. And they went what if we had more cops instead of more
retarded nonsense? And University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, which by the way, is pretty left if you've ever been to Chapel Hill. I was shocked that even though it's in North Carolina and I had this sort of vague conception in 20, let's see, 2016, I was there for a wedding with a buddy and I'd been there for, you know, at Fort Bragg for a little while, Pope Air Force Base or now Pope Army Airfield.
And yeah, it's, it's, it's decidedly and hard left in that area, the sort of Raleigh Durham area. And yet they're taking money from DEI and putting it in favor of cops. I'm just going to say that is an interesting little harbinger in a place that should be, that should be pretty hard on the left. So it's worth knowing that we are starting to see the swing. It's not going to be, it's not going to be clean. It's not going to be fast and it's not going to be easy.
And there will be bad information abounding and there will obviously be a ton of bad news as the thing swings. We're still far, far, far to the left in this country. But I think this is a fun little indicator of where things could be going. And by the way, I I left this off. I meant to throw this up earlier, but check this out. This is this is the the banner that we're going to send to the FBI just so they know that that the the terrorists don't really want to go after the gays or the
trannies. All of loves equality. Don't you think that there's like a rooftop party somewhere that these these folks are are late for I don't know maybe in Iran. Anyway I I said that picture my buddy George Hill sent me that. I just, I just love the way it looks. I just love the lack of being in touch with anything. All right.
Here's our last little piece. We're going to wrap the sucker up. Supposedly secure messaging app Signal, launched with government funds headed by propagandists now running NPR Report. That's who they're citing. This is coming from the Daily Caller. Guys, you should always be suspect of the things that you want to read, especially the sources that you want to
believe. This is from Haley Gomez who is their general assignment reporter and she is reporting on the dangers of Signal or the possible dangers of Signal. The things that are alleged in this article are very interesting. I'm going to debunk them for you, or at least I'm going to at least give you a contour piece of information. Do your own research as you choose. I use Signal everyday. This doesn't dissuade me. With over 100 million users.
Encrypted messaging services like Signal is being touted as private and secure. However, a new report revealed the app was allegedly not only launched with government funds, but is headed by NP Rs CEO Catherine Mayer.
Christopher Ruffo, conservative actors senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Poverty Research, released a piece on Monday about the alleged connections between U.S. government mayor and Signal. The platform, which prides itself on privacy for users, has been endorsed by notable figures including NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.
Tesla, SpaceX founder Elon Musk and former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Signals Technological Foundation which was originally funded quote UN quote in part by government resources. The technology which is used in the Facebook messaging app WhatsApp and apparently got a $3,000,000 grant award from a group, A government agency called Open Technology Fund, sometime between 2013 and 2016 according to Voice of America.
The irony and amusing thing of quoting Voice of America, which is like funded by the State Department, AKA funded by the CIA, and has always been a propaganda tool, that's really funny to me. I don't know why they thought that was a really credible source. The fact that $3,000,000 in grant awards were used by a government agency, almost all of these things were set up by
government agencies. By the way, my friends who worked for the CIA would tell me that you should always use what was called Wicker ME, which was funded and created. Now it's under Amazon's logo. They actually brought it under Amazon Web Services, but Wicker ME was funded by, yeah, the CIA. That's how it got started. So a lot of these things were done with money. The encryption technologies were set up with with government funding. They threw a lot of money around, just like they fund a
lot of different projects. That doesn't mean that there's a problem specifically simply because there's some money involved in it, or that somebody that you don't like politically is involved. It turned out that privacy used to be something that the political left really cared about. That's number one. And #2 and #2, the smear campaign that's going on. Again, Signal specifically I find to be very enlightening when you consider who's doing it.
People are also trying to tout Telegram as the alternative. The problem is, is Signal is always end to end encrypted. Telegram is by default not encrypted and that is where the real difference is. Signal is a privacy app on purpose. Telegram is like this mixed social media slash sometimes if you enable it, secret message, chat option. I despise Telegram. Anybody who tries to use with me, I don't want it. The folks over at Project Veritas really liked it for some
reason. I always thought it was dumb. It it may be, maybe it's easier. But the fact the matter is, is it's certainly not more secure now. I saw you guys in the chat talking about the Tucker Carlson claimed the FBI was able to access his signal messages. Here's the thing about that, OK? And this is really important to understand, the device and the app are not the same thing. The app sending end to end encrypted technology.
Let's just go full screen here. When you are sending technology or you're sending a message, there are two parts of it. There's the receiver and then there's the transmission signal, as far as anybody can tell, puts the message itself, the information that you are transmitting.
It encrypts it and it is protected while the data is in motion from point A to point B. In other words, the federal government as far as I was ever aware and we had access to do stuff like you know grab information, you could not breach the the encryption that was in the tunnel between those two phones. That doesn't mean that you can't
compromise the device, right. So they were things people talked about Pegasus which was a an NSO spyware capability that was actually were for non-us based phones. There was another one called Phantom that was also an Israeli spyware same company NSO that created that you can compromise the device and see whatever is on it. Just like I'm opening up my own phone, I can open up a copy of
your phone on a computer. That doesn't mean that the device, if the device is compromised it, it ruins the ability of the app to be able to protect it. But that doesn't mean that they can catch the data in transmission. They actually have to know and compromise your specific device. That takes some work, and it takes, generally speaking, some legal purpose. I know we don't necessarily believe that, but that's true.
It's what it has. And here's the guy that I wanted to kind of quote on this 'cause I think this is really useful. This is a guy named Matthew D Green. I just started following him on Twitter as well. He teaches cryptography at Johns Hopkins. This is the space he operates in. He ran this debunking thread the other day and I thought it was worth us kind of discussing it. Only because we should listen to voices that have no skin in the game.
And this is the stuff that all my friends that deal with this type of information, that deal with cryptography, that deal with end to end encrypted technologies. The reason why the FBI actually wants cracks on all these things, what they called the Going Dark Initiative. It's because of this. Telegram launched a pretty intense campaign to malign Signal as insecure, he claims, with some assistance from Elon Musk.
That's really dubious, actually. The goal seems to get activists to switch away from the encrypted Signal on mostly to to the mostly unencrypted platform of Telegram. First, the Signal Protocol, the cryptography behind Signal, which is using WhatsApp and several other messengers. It's open source, it's been intensely reviewed by third parties, and when it comes to cryptography, it's pretty much the gold standard. It's open source, It's available
to anybody. Telegram by contrast does not end to end encrypt conversations by default. You actually have to manually start the end to end encryption. You do the same thing on on on Twitter. By the way, folks, you can actually do start it and end to end encrypted, but it's not the default setting. Anybody who uses Telegram, the server is probably a magnet for intelligence services. Yeah, there are all kinds of
compromise apps. There are all kinds of Ch, s s sitting in on some of these larger chat groups. That 100% happens and there's plenty of evidence in federal court that can back this kind of up. Signals client code is open source. You can download it right now. You can examine the quote the code and the crypto libraries if you don't want to do that many other experts have. The fact the matter is, is that it's had a lot of eyeballs on it.
A lot of people have reviewed it for its capabilities. It's very interesting that you've got Daily Caller out there sort of reporting that signal is not secure. You can never guarantee security, but the data in motion, it's the hardest way for them to catch it. If you use basic cryptography and signal is a good choice. As I said, it's the one that I use on every single day. It's the one that the suspendables use when we communicate. It also is way more functional.
It allows anybody, if you have ever had a problem where you you've tried to have an interaction with somebody with an Android phone. You can have the Android and the apple. They have the same thing. You can use the reactions like like thumbs up, you know, smiley, laughing, whatever. You can do all the emoji stuff. You can transmit files up to 100 megabytes, which is nice. You can downsize it up, size it, you can have back and forth. You can have response to specific things.
Swipeable, really, really useful. You can edit, you can delete, you can master delete your own text. So if you text somebody something and you want to get rid of that, you can hold it down and you can unsend it. Basically, which Apple imessages recently sent, it's a really good way to communicate with people across platforms, no matter what kind of phone they
have. It's very interesting to me when they start pushing against this, I wonder why they want everybody on Telegram. I wonder why people are interested in going that way. And again, once again, all bets are off if somebody compromises your phone individually. But that takes a lot more work than gathering all the data that's in that's that's in motion.
Data in Motion is where you would easily be able to have like NSA collection individual phones and compromising every individual device and maintaining those. That takes a lot more work and it's much more unlikely for the average person. I don't know if it's unlikely for me and the and the suspendables, but for whatever it's worth, all right. A lot of heavy stuff going on today. A lot of heaviness.
I want you to kind of remember that the the reason that we're in any of this in the 1st place is because we should have kids and we have an entry to the future that we want our kids to have. Sort of the same sort of fun that we had when we were little. I have this little video. My dad was a was a T-ball coach and a baseball coach and a soccer coach and a basketball coach.
And I remember him always trying to get kids to do this thing like organize really aggressive and capable sports instead of doing what he called bunch ball. Bunch ball was like everybody runs to the ball. This is T-ball doing soccer bunch ball. I'm going to run this twice. It's also got poco music. Just a little bit of a taste of something kind of fun to kind of take our minds for a moment as we go off into the world and you guys can appreciate this.
The audio show you'll only hear one round of the the poker, but I might run this video twice you got There's a ton going on in this video clip, so just start looking at a different kid every single time it goes. The. The guy, the kid who's playing batter, takes a swing, hits the ball and then immediately runs up the third baseline and then cuts across to the to the second base. He skips first base all together. Another kid gets waved in kind of half assed by the by the the.
The batting coach Slash should be third base, but he's like the home plate coach. That's pretty funny. One little kid takes a ball to the face and he's down for the count. Nobody seems too concerned about it. And then if you watch the kids on the sideline in the blue team are sitting there and there's like this little blonde girl that looks like she's probably somebody's little sister who's getting beaten with a bat that nobody's paying attention to because they're all watching the
chaos on the field. It's just insanity. Kids are are kind of the reason why I think so much of this stuff is fun. It's the reason why I care what happens in this country. Otherwise, I would just go retire to a go mountainside somewhere and just, you know, load shells. But instead, I want to see this thing swing back. I want to see us have a little bit more money put into cops and public Safety instead of the DEI
agendas because of that. Because we should be able to protect and have this fundamentally goofy American experience of having little kids running around and learning about fair play and hitting each other with baseballs in the face. I remember catching a baseball in the throat when I was young and I thought I was bleeding down into my lungs. It was like one of the worst things that couldn't speak for for for a couple of hours just
caught it like full speed. It was a grounder that jumped off a rock and caught it in the throat. It's like, those are the things I remember about being a kid. And I think that a lot of us know that that's what we want, that's what we want to get back to all this political drama and garbage. It's the worst, yeah, and maybe social media is a big part of it, so maybe we start cutting that out. I've started doing that.
I don't know if you guys could tell, but I'm less and less on there and I'm more and more happy. And I've also got a maybe not only did I almost break a thumb, I think I almost broke one of my toes. It's all black and blue. I dropped some wood on it the other day, or a hammer. I don't remember dropping anything on it, but something fell very heavy on my toe. And it's all purple and blue and.
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