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smartphone or tablet. And again, thank you so much for

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your support. In the last hour I mentioned this limitation.

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I guess you could call it that a lot of

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leftists have when it comes to discussing political topics. And

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I understand this. I have sympathy for them because if

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I had to defend these positions, I would not be

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able to do so from a like a rational logical

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point of view, and so, like, I know, that's got

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to be difficult. However, their inability to articulate a cogent, logical,

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rational argument for a lot of their positions, they become frustrated.

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And when people don't go along with them because they

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have not been persuaded to go along with them, that

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then frustrates them and a lot of them get angry,

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and that then leads. You know, as I was going

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over in the last hour, Saul Olinsky's rules for radicals,

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this moral relativism that now you are justified in doing

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all sorts of things, even if it conflicts with your

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conscience or societal norms. You can blow through those guardrails

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if the quote greater good is on the line, and

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you hear Democrats saying these things. And again, I don't

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know if all democrats hashtag not all democrats. I don't

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know if all of them are aware that when they

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talk about the democracy, you know, and they say everything

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is a threat to the democracy. Trump is a threat

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to the democracy. We're losing the democracy. That's what they're channeling, like,

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that's that's the uh. The Olensky tactics are sort of

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the well spring from which they are drawing. And again,

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I don't know if all of them understand that. I

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suspect a great many of them have simply been essentially

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trained into speaking in these talking points, these little bumper

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sticker bromides, if you will, and they don't really, they don't.

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They don't convince. They may look good on your little

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poster board that you carry to the No King's protest,

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but you're not actually persuading it about anybody. I have

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seen a great many political signs at protests in my life,

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and I have never seen one that has prompted me

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to change my opinion about anything. Anything. All Right, it's there.

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It's like a placard at a panther game. Wait, I

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don't think you're allowed to bring those into the stadium,

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but if you could, Okay, It's like having a sign

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that says, you know, panthers. You've not convinced me to

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cheer for the panthers. You've not made a compelling argument.

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You've just screened at me about something you know. So this,

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this then leads to the censorship. This then leads It's

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a direct line because I can't stop or I can't

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persuade you that you are wrong. I can't recruit you

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to my side. I can't get more critical mass development

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around a particular policy or direction or nominee or whatever.

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I can't get enough people over here because they're listening

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to you. So stop saying what you're saying. And so

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now I'm going to, as Alensky says, right, pick the tar,

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get isolated, personalize it, and so now I'm gonna attack you.

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I'm gonna try to cancel you. I'm gonna make you radioactive.

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I'm gonna call you all the isms, all the names.

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Nobody's gonna want to associate with you, and then you'll

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shut up. But what if you don't shut up? Well,

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V had some vase. That's a terrible German impression. But

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uh yeah, there are ways that we can shut you up,

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particularly now if you're doing your yammering on social media.

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So little noticed story. A couple of weeks ago, the

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Trump administration officially dismantled the GEK. Do you know what

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the GEK was? The GEC. I call it the GEK

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because it sounds like some sort of regurgita, involuntary regurgitation movement. Anyway,

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it was called the Global Engagement Center. It was housed

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in the US State Department, and it became a tool

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of censorship against conservative voices. The State Department announced last

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month its decision to close the remnants of the GEK,

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an office that the Biden administration had rebranded last year

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after it came under scrutiny for contributing to the censorship

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of conservatives online. Right, they tried to hide this thing,

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this unit principal deputy spokesperson, Tommy Pigot. Pigott, Pigott, how

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would you pronounce it's Pigott Pigout. I don't know, Tommy Pigot,

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he said. The framework, initially launched by the GEK to

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counter so called disinformation, devolved into tools for politicals censorship

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instead of protecting Americans from foreign adversarial propaganda. Yeah, it

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didn't even do that, right, It didn't even do that

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if it ever actually was designed for that. That's what

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they said that the GEK was supposed to do, but

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for some reason, it spent all of its time ferreting out,

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you know, Ben Shapiro and Charlie Kirk and the Federalist

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and the New York Post. The Biden administration reshuffled the

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GEK into another named operation that they called the Frameworks

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to Counter Foreign State Information Manipulation or the fc FS

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I am or as I call Yeah, I'm actually not

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gonna call it fc I'm not actually no, I'm not

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going to do that, just to maintain the face license.

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So they tried to hide this thing, the GEK. They

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tried to give it a different name and oh, now

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we're totally going to look at just the foreign people,

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the foreign adversaries, because Congressional Republicans defunded the GEK in

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twenty twenty four. They shut down the GEK after widespread

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backlash among conservatives against the agency over the pressure that

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it put on social media companies to censor disfavored points

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of view. Because again, this is the natural trajectory, there

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is an authoritarian mindset. Do what I tell you to do.

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Oh you're not going to do what I tell you

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to do, all right, shut up. Oh you're not going

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to shut up. I'm gonna make you shut up. I'm

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gonna censor you. That's the trajectory. The Daily Wire sued

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the State Department in December of twenty twenty three, alongside

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the Federalist and the State of Texas because of the

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gek's support for the quote Global Disinformation Index or the GDI,

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that is a British organization that attempted to pressure advertisers

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into defunding right wing news sites. This was something the

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Biden administration really took advantage of. They used foreign allies

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to go after their domestic opponents, so they would use

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the British GDI in order to try to silence conservatives

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in America. The lawsuit argued the State Department violated the

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First Amendment by supporting third party organizations that were engaging

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in censorship and targeting media outlets. The GEK collaborated with

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the Election Integrity Partnership that's a group of organizations that

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work together on censoring election related speech. Beginning in twenty twenty,

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the EIP targeted conservative voices, and the GEK worked with

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so I mentioned the GEK and the dismantling finally of

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this censorship apparatus by the Trump administration. Good job on

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the Trump administration for that much appreciated. Then there was

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this story a few days later, thanks to the oversight

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of Chairman Jim Jordan. This is, by the way, a

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press release from the House Judiciary Committee. Google promises to

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offer all creators who had previously been kicked off of

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YouTube due to political speech violations on topics like COVID

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nineteen and elections, they will have an opportunity to return. Now.

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I have heard that this isn't exactly like an amnesty,

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so not everybody is being allowed to return, But this

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is what Google told the Judiciary Committee. They were like, okay, fine,

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I know we censored a bunch of people at the

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behest of the Biden administration vi them off of our platform.

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And you know, some people who were these YouTube content creators,

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that was where they were making their money. They made

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a living off of the YouTube platform. And then they started,

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you know, questioning some of the COVID stuff. And I

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don't know every single person that got booted. I don't

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know what every person was saying. Okay, So I don't

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know if there were violations of policy or whatever. I

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do know that the Biden administration was in constant contact

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with the with these tech companies and flagging content and

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telling them take it down. And some of the content

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that they were flagging what's true they were censoring, like

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the Great Barrington Declaration. They put out, you know, a

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fatois against those doctors that signed the Great Barrington Declaration

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that was against the lockdownes. So stuff that actually was

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true that doctors were saying was stuff like that was

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also getting demonetized and censored. So Google says, okay, fine,

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we'll let some of these people back on. They also

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acknowledged the following. Number One, the Biden administration pressured Google

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to censor Americans and remove content that did not actually

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violate YouTube policies. That's a problem, right If YouTube's got

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a platform policy that says you can't talk about xyz

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and then they kick you off even though you did

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not talk about xyz, well you're not in violation of

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their policies. But when the Biden administration comes calling you,

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bend the knee. See, I don't believe that Google will

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not bend the knee once again in the future. Okay.

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Number two, they acknowledge the Biden administration censorship pre pressure

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was quote unacceptable and wrong. Number three, public debates should

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never come at the expense of relying on quote unquote authorities.

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Number four the company will never use third party fact

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checkers like the GEK or the GDI or the FCF

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whatever whatever whatever, right, which were basically like shadow governments.

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These were people that were connected to all the Democrat

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and geos and think tanks and former administration officials that

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you know, migrate over to like you know how it

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works over in like England, they've got they call like

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the shadow government, so like they have all of so

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like I don't know, all of the different offices they

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call them weird things like the Home Office is one

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of them, and so the government that's in power, they've

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got their you know, home secretary. Okay, well there's the

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political coalition or parties that are not in power, and

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they will have a shadow home secretary because of the

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volatile nature of their politics. Like you can have like

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a no confidence vote or something and then the coalition

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falls apart. Now you're out of power, and so you

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call for a new election and all of a sudden

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everything gets shifted around, and now you've got all new

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people in there. And so the idea is that you've

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got a home secretary ready to step into the role. Right,

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So they are shadow government, and like that's what these

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fact checking organizations were operating as. And this revolving door.

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This has been the case in Democrat circles for my

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entire adult life. They just I saw it first with

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John Edwards, right, he got a scholarship. Basically, they create

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in the UNC Chapel Hill campus, they create a little

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was it the Center for Poverty and Work or something

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like that, and they give them some one hundred and

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fifty thousand dollars annual salary and it's just like a

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it's like a no show job. And they so you're

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basically just giving him money so he can make his

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bills while he runs around doing speeches and gets ready

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to launch his next presidential campaign. And it's the same idea,

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except with all the different people that actually work in

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the bureaucracy and would get these appointments and would fill

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these roles in a Democrat administration. They just go off

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to a think tank and then they generate I don't

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even know, a white paper here or there, they give

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some speeches, right, and so this was operating as this

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shadow government, these fact checking groups, and finally they acknowledge

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Google acknowledged Europe's censorship laws target American companies and threaten

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American speech, including the removal of lawful content. As I mentioned,

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the Biden administration was relying on the EU and Britain.

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They were relying on those nations to target American companies

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tech companies to censor Americans because the Biden administration couldn't

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directly do it. So they would go after these tech

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companies and their advertisers and they would say, if you

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want to do business and you want your platforms to

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be available in the EU, you have to agree to

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our rules. Well, they don't have the First Amendment over there,

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and so they will censor you. You make a joke

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about the prophet Mohammed over there, you're going to jail

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you to make the phone calls to Google and YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter.

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Sometimes you just have to call your CIA if you're

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the White House. And that is apparently what occurred during

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the Biden administration in late twenty fifteen early twenty sixteen

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see at the specific request of the Vice President, Joe Biden.

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Twenty fifteen, he was still vice president, so Trump hadn't

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won yet his first election. So think let's go back

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and think about that timeframe. What was in the news

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in twenty sixteen, because Biden wasn't running, right, he was

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not running for office. Hillary Clinton was the anointed one,

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as the Party of Democracy cleared the field for Hillary

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the most qualified candidate ever until Kamala Harris came along.

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Do you hear her say the other day at some interview,

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she's hawking her book and it's like one hundred and

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seven days is the name of it. How I lost

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in one hundred and seven days something like that. Anyway,

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she was and she said, some people have told me

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that I'm the most qualified presidential candidate in history. And

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the interviewer like laughed, thinking she was joking, and she wasn't.

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Who would say that Thomas Jefferson could write like in

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Latin in his right hand and Greek with his left

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hand at the same time. Not that that's a qualification

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for president, but still, I don't think you're the most

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qualified person to ever run for president. That seems like

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a bit of a stretch, you know. Anyway, at the time,

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Joe Biden is the vice president, and they requested, actually

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he requested specifically him the CIA Berry, an embarrassing intelligence

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report that detailed the poor view that the Ukrainian government

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had of his diplomatic efforts, as well as the business

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dealings of his family in that country. Huh interesting. So

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the business dealings that then Trump started asking about with

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Hunter Biden Ukrainian energy company Barisma, and your visit over

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there where you're like, you need to fire this prosecutor

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or we're going to withhold all the money, like all

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of that stuff. Biden had traveled to Kiev in December

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of twenty fifteen ostensibly to meet with leaders of the

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fledgling democracy and to deliver a warning against quote the

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cancer of corruption aka the Biden crime family. And I'm

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just kidding it. I threw that last part it and

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during an address to the Ukrainian Parliament, he condemned the

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pervasive poison of cronyism, corruption and kleptocracy. That's Joe Biden

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saying that, yes. But behind the scenes, Ukrainian officials expressed

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quote bewilderment and disappointment that the Vice president had crossed

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the Atlantic almost exclusively to deliver a generic speech. Officials

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close to then President Petro Poroshenko had hoped for guidance

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in support of or against specific officials within the Ukrainian government.

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They discovered instead that Biden had no intention of discussing

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substantive matters. Those were all direct quotes from the CIA

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brief after Biden comes home members of the poor. Sheenko

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administration quote privately mused at how American media treated the

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alleged ties of his family to corrupt business practices in

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the Ukraine. It was in their minds over in Ukraine,

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the Poorshenko administration, it was evidence of a double standard

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within the US government towards matters of corruption and political power.

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Because of course it was. That's why it looked like

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that is because that's what it was, right, and the

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Ukrainian government is like, here's this guy coming over here

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lecturing us about corruption, and look at the media coverage

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of his own kid with barisma. So all of that

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was the determination of a twenty sixteen report that was

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prepared by the CIA and has now been reviewed by

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Real Clear Politics. Philip Wegman, the reporter on the story.

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It would have been a humiliating assessment for Biden, whom

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President Obama had entrusted with all things Ukraine. Remember he

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told Biden, like, you take care of all the stuff

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in Ukraine because your son is the expert on Ukraine,

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you know, I mean, obviously because he landed the gig

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at Barisma. So the Vice President and his team killed

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this report. They spiked it. In an email sent to

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the CIA on February tenth, twenty sixteen, an individual in

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the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said, quote,

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I just spoke with the Vice President slash nssay national

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Security advisor, and he would strongly prefer the report not

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be disseminated. The national Security advisor was Colin Kahl Kahl.

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These are the latest tranch of documents that were declassified

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by the CIA's director John Ratcliffe, as the Trump administration

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continues its review of how intel is collected and reported.

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Later on, Phil Wegman writes in his piece, what is

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striking is that a member of the intel community sought

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to clear a report with Biden and his team before

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presenting the information to the president. That's weird. That's kind

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of weird. Why would the VP get to veto a

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CIA report to the president? Weird? H I'm just I'm

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not even asking questions. I'm just saying it's weird. Why

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wouldn't it go to Obama first? Why would the Vice

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president get to spike anything? It's the Obama administration. He

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gets to see all of this intel generated weird. All right,

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hour here. Do you remember, I mean, I'm old enough

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to remember, but you may be too. Remember after what

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was the Hurricane Milton? Hurricane Milton, it's gone back aways.

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It was in Florida, And then there was another hurricane

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that hit North Carolina called Helene. Do you remember that, right? So?

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Do you remember the stories after the hurricanes about FEMA

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people not going to properties that had Trump signs in

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the yard or something, right, or flags Trump flags, that

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kind of thing. Matt Tayebe independent journalist writing at Racket

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News last November eighth, On the Saturday after the election,

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one of the more bizarre postscripts to Donald Trump's reelection

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emerged in the form of a FEMA decision to sideline

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one of its officials accused of telling FEMA workers to

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avoid Holmes advertising Trump while these workers were supposed to

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be canvassing for victims of Hurricane Milton in Florida. The

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Daily Wire spoke to multiple FEMA officials who produced screenshots

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of messages that said things like Trump sign no contact

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per leadership, which seems pretty clear to me, right, Trump

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sign no contact per leadership. Then FEMA administrator Diane Criswell

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testified after the election that this episode was simply an

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isolated incident, and she said it was unacceptable, it was heartbreaking,

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and said it was basically just one person, one eventually

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terminated disaster survivor assistant's crew leader named Marnie Washington. Remember this,

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I covered this story. Yeah. Well, she didn't like this much.

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She did not take the Cya maneuver lying down. According

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to Tayibe, she made a series of aggressive media appearances,

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saying repeatedly, my orders come from my superior, okay, and

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the instructions to the subordinates was to avoid homes that

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made FEMA workers uncomfortable because they had a Trump sign.

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That was That was her story. The Democrats generally maintained

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that decisions to skip over houses featuring Trump signs or

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signs about guns were legitimate and safety base. See Republicans

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blasted FEMA workers for comparing Trump voters to vicious dogs

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and suggested instructions like per leadership, no stop Trump flag

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or another one that said Trump signed no contact, per leadership,

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that this was indicative of a larger problem. It was

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n't till one off, It wasn't just Marnie Washington. Well

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A year later, the Privacy Office of the Department of

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Homeland Security is releasing a review of the episode. The

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new administration has found more than just the one isolated incident.

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It's described violations of the Privacy Act of nineteen seventy four, which,

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with a few exceptions, bars the collection of information about

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First Amendment protected speech like political science, DHS investigators found,

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in a near exact parallel to trends in pro censorship

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programs that a lot of the political controversy surrounding FEMA

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AID grew out of the vague way in which the

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agency's Disastro Survivor Assistance Field Operations Guide was written. In

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other words, the guidebook tells FEMA workers to rem move

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yourself from the situation if you feel threatened, if you're

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dealing with hostile individuals, right, something like that. But it's nebulous,

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and so FEMA employees they had wide birth to skip

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a house if a sign or a flag made them

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simply feel uncomfortable. The DHS report does not describe a

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huge number of instances, but does list examples from various

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efforts of FEMA people taking down political information. So like,

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that's not cool either, You shouldn't be getting like their

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voter cards and stuff. For that they collected prohibited information

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dating back to Hurricane Ida in twenty twenty one. And

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the problem is, how do you then change this, change

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the guide book right, because people are always going to

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then try to find a way around it to say

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I feel like this is a hostile environment. It's just

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a mess, all right. That'll do it for this episode.

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