Joe Kent Floats Charlie Kirk Conspiracies On Tucker's Show

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Learn more at Viz.com. Welcome to the program. I think one of the reasons why Kent got so Over the top in his remarks. when he with his resignation letter. is that He needed the protection of Podkastistan.

Because he screwed up and he knew it. And so How does how to salvage your rep?

Well let's just go let's go after what Podcastistan's going after, right?

So this is cut. Golly, this is cut four. Dear heavens, go ahead and play this. This is crazy. This is his little interview with Chakraka Charlson.

And then, you know, Charlie Kirk is killed publicly in a very horrific way. And we're not really even allowed to look. Into that at all. And Charlie Kirk was one of President Trump's closest advisors, and he also advocated heavily against a war with Iran. He was in the Oval Office in the lead up to the 12-day war.

I wasn't particularly close with Charlie. He was very gracious to me when I was running for Congress, very, very supportive.

So we knew each other. And the last time I saw Charlie Kirk on this earth was in June. In the West Wing, in the stairway, and I said hi to him, and he looked me in the eye, and he said very loudly, and it's a small, you've been in the Wing, it's small, it's a tight space, and he said, Joe, stop us from getting into a war with Iran. Very loud. He was single-minded.

And he walked off and he went, I believe, into the oval.

So, when one of President Trump's closest advisors who is vocally advocating I always find it disgusting when people try to go and Um Exploit the memory. of dead people. By accusing them of by saying that they've said things that nobody would know that they have said. My friend Derek Conner, he goes, I saw this same wicked redacted when Andrew Breitbart passed. Opportunists claiming to know what Andrew would have done or said, or told him in private.

It's the perfect, but you can't disprove it, BS move. Khan artists always use. Except you can, though, with this. Let's play cut seven. This was just last, this was when we bombed Iran last June.

Listen. And you might say, Charlie, do you support or oppose this? I support President Trump. That's my answer. I know the man.

He's the commander-in-chief. He's the man for the hour. And he's had the weight of the world on his shoulders.

So in a situation like this, I support my friend. And he's had my back and I have his. That's my perspective, by the way. I also look at this and I say, And I understand the arguments of people that, you know, oh, don't intervene and all that. I get it.

But boy, have we not exhausted so many diplomatic channels and options. Here is Netanyahu 261 praising and congratulating. President Trump. Like you said, Interesting. I think people might want to be very careful of accusing someone who did a lot of broadcasting, what they would, of saying that they felt a certain way when they can speak for themselves and they don't need to be exploited by individuals with nefarious motives.

They don't need to be exploited and have words put in their mouth for them posthumously, which is the correct way that you say that, Gal Sharpton, posthumously, okay? And like Macabre is macabre.

So That's just your anecdote. Are you kidding me? Seriously? Oh my gosh.

So This is I I just it's stop it. Just stop it. Like I said, uh I haven't agreed with Trump on everything, but I think he's proven his consistency on this, and I'm willing to see it out.

So, you know, like I said, I've always called balls and strikes, and I'm going to continue to do so now. And if people don't like it, they can choke on it and die in AIDS fire. Just don't care. It's not my circus, not my monkeys. I'm joking, of course.

Not really. But it's just absolutely asinine to see people freak out the way that they do when we're talking about mere policy disagreement on the right. And I think a lot of it's just hyper online. You need to be aware that there is absolutely a SIAP underway. I talked about this yesterday.

They have all the bots out. All the bots are out today. That's when you know you're over the target.

So I get meaner and louder. And as a result, you know, I was talking about this yesterday. The situation with Joe Kent. And it does put Tulsi Gabbard into a very odd position. position And the statement that she came out with, she didn't affirm support for what POTUS did.

She merely said he has the authority to do so. I mean, it's not really her place, if you want to be fair, to say to for her to affirm. you know, whether or not She agrees. Or doesn't agree, her job is to make the facilitation of these decisions easy and bring forth the necessary information.

So I'll give her an out on that. I would say that whatever position she's in, and I haven't made up my mind about her yet. The reason I haven't is because there's some very Smart people that I know and have known very well offline for a number of years. who like her. And that gives me pause because I always thought that, you know, these these people had some good judgment.

And then there's a couple of people who don't.

So, but I don't know where I come out on this yet. There's too many things there that. I'm not a paranoid person, but I do get suspicious and There are a lot of things that are happening that just kind of have me raising my eyebrow a little bit. But I do think that this was interesting. This is cut eight, where she says she's concerned that.

Joe Kent within his resignation that he said what he said in his letter. Listen to this. With that statement, do you agree or disagree with what this letter was put out by former Director Kent? He said a lot of things in that letter. Ultimately, we have provided the President with the intelligence assessments, and the President is elected by the American people and makes his own decisions based on the information that's available to him.

But do you agree with, does that statement he made? blaming Israel concern you? Yes. Yeah. Does it concern you?

Yes, she says. It concerns her. And I give her credit for that as well. I think she's trying to just be. She's trying to keep her cards close and she's trying to be very even-handed, but I do appreciate that she said that because that's the thing that.

I think is so weird about his resignation letter. Everything does not have to be made about Israel. But here's what I think. If you didn't know this, the investigation into Joe Kent predates the letter. It actually predates his resignation letter by several months.

This came out yesterday and was confirmed by numerous actually conservative-leaning reporters that are on the Hill, including some that I know. And some that really like him and were a little bit dismayed about that. But the investigation predates the letter by several months, right?

So Someone found out that he was leaking.

Someone found out that he was leaking. And apparently it was made clear to Tulsi Gabbard he's gotta go. In fact, It was also reported that when it came to light that he was leaking, he had a private meeting with the Vice President and Tulsi Gabbard. and that he was told, look, if you're going to do this resignation thing, you need to talk to POTUS and you need to have an honest conversation and you need to not be doing you know, you can't be leaking because that's you know, you leaking classified information is a felonious criminal activity. And apparently he just disregarded what was told to him in the private meeting with the vice president and Tulsi Gabbard.

And then he came out with a resignation letter. This is how it looks, if you're being investigated for leaking. And you decide that you need to get ahead of the story, that's a good way to do it. And I think that he brought Israel into it because he needed protection and he thought he was going to be able to, which he assumed correctly. The moment you start, if you're like, oh, the Jews or anything like that, the moment you start doing that, Podkastan is going to come and rally around you.

Because they're dumb enough to do that.

So I think he did this. Thinking that he was going to be able to trigger this, that faction. and have them rally around him for protection. And then immediately the day after, he announces he's going on Tucker, he's going on Gail Sharpton's show, he's going on all of these other people's programs that are all in the pod that podcast to stand. subgroup, right?

So that's what a lot of people leave out when they're talking about this. That he was leaking. information. That's not a proper whistleblower. If he was a proper whistleblower, he would have followed the protocol.

to do so. And there is a protocol for doing that. They for if if a government worker wants to report fraud. They have to go to the office of the inspector general. There is a whole process for it so that protections are put in place, no matter what they're saying.

No matter what whistle they're blowing, there is a process to protect whistleblowers. That is why Yes, you should be suspicious when that protocol is not followed. And you can't tell me that there aren't enough people in Congress. that would have been sympathetic to what he's saying. That would have completely guided him through that process.

They absolutely would have.

So, the process is: you go to the office of the inspector general, or you go to. Or the Office of Special Counsel. And you start there. And you make sure from there that you get protected status, right? You want to make sure that you get protected status.

That's how that's how it works. You don't just start leaking to the press. which apparently is what was happening. And then these, whatever you disclose is protected up until the time you want to have your, they have a hearing, whether it's closed door, open door, or whatever. And every federal agency.

Has Uh They have protections and special protected status for this, right? And they have investiga investigatory sub-agencies that look into all of this.

So you start with the Office of Inspector General, the Office of Special Counsel, and then you go from there. This falls under 41 USC, subsection 4712. You are protected. If you are a federal worker, you are protected when reporting to the OIG, when reporting to Congress, or when reporting to agency officials. And it has to be secured.

This is this is the key. classified information. And that's apparently what he's being accused of leaking. If it pertains to classified information, one of the reasons that you have to follow this protocol is to keep classified information classified. It has to be reported through secure channels to the OIG or the Inspector General.

That is how it works. And there is a complete protection for it. There's literally an act, the Whistleblower Protection Act. There's a whole thing for it. Then you also have the Whistleblower Enhancement Protection Act.

That protects you from demotion and termination and suspension and retaliation, all of it. And they can even the OSC can even request A temporary uh hold or stay to prevent any kind of retaliatory action.

So, if you're a legitimate whistleblower, you're following this protocol to not only protect yourself. but to also safeguard the information that you have. When I see people who don't follow this, I cannot take them seriously in their protestations. That is the key. And this is why you saw a lot of this with Biden, by the way.

Oh my gosh, we saw tons of this under the Biden administration. The FBI, I think it was the DOJ as well. That's, by the way, this is how we ended up finding a lot of the Fusion GPS stuff. How they were laundering in 2016, laundering discredited OPPO. through the press so that they could falsify.

There, falsify the documentation and bypass the standard operating procedure in order to get surveillance warrants. on people that were working within the Trump campaign. And then one of them, Carter Page, They were accusing him of being a Russian asset. And then the CIA had to get involved and go, you guys are morons. He's literally our asset against Russia.

That's a fact. They actually had to intervene.

So We saw this a lot with Biden because this happened under Biden. This is how we know a lot of the Hunter Biden stuff. Do you want to know how we know that Hunter Biden was high off his mind on cocaine, driving a rental car through the desert with his dead brother's AG, what is it, FOB in the car and his pass in the car? And then he gets so drunk he can't drive anymore and he left the car out in the desert and Secret Service had to go get it. Do you know how we know that?

Whistleblowers. Do you know how we know that Ashley Biden left a diary in a drug flop house? Whistleblowers. Do you want to know how we know that Hunter Biden was under investigation for getting too cozy and making money with the CCP and lying about their finances? Whistleblowers.

So there is a protected process. Joe Kent did not follow it.

So it seems very conveniently timed. But why did he change? Because Just a couple of years ago, he was saying bomb Iran. He sounded like damn Lindsey Graham. What changed?

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I mean, they were both accused of leaking things that were undermining the United States. And Vinman, he did in some respects follow the protocol for whistleblowers. And if you want to go. If you want to go listen to that, that's in our podcast Last Hour, and you can check that out. But The thing is, Joe Kent did not follow the whistleblower protocol.

That's why he does not have a protected status.

Furthermore, The investigation into him began months ago. That was confirmed. By the the administration, it was confirmed by numerous reports.

So and they convert I mean he this began months ago. They knew he was leaking.

So people have been asking, well, why wasn't his clearance pulled?

Well, it was. That's the whole thing. His access to intelligence was removed. And he had his clearance flagged. I just feel like if people are going to argue about this stuff online, they need to know what the hell they're talking about.

Otherwise they look stupid. And nobody wants to look stupid, right?

So his clearance was already pulled. All of this was already underway. My thought is, he came out with the resignation letter to get ahead of this from breaking. I mean, I told you that he had a private meeting with the vice president and Tulsi Gabbard, who found out what was going to happen, and they were telling him to talk to POTUS, and apparently he disregarded that and decided to go his own way.

Now Whistleblower Protection Act and then the Enhancement Act. This protects your status, it protects you from retaliation, it protects you from demotion. There's and it also protects the classified information. that you're being accused of leaking. Otherwise.

So, I mean, this is a lot like the leaks that were happening during the whole battle with the Biden administration and Trump. Who is the guy that leaked all that information? I can't think of his name. He draws the stuff in the sand. Oh, Comey?

It's like what Com Comey leaked. I don't think his was classified, but I do think it was privileged information to the press through a friend, and that was one of the things that they were going to try to get him on. But the point is that he didn't follow the whistleblower protection.

So why in the world, how does somebody like Joe Kent change?

Now you know we talked yesterday, he's flip-flop back and forth. He was a registered Democrat. He was a Bernie Sanders guy. I mean, I know that there are some out there that think that he was doing it as a part of Operation Chaos, but there's a lot more out there to indicate that it was a lot more serious than that. He ended up marrying a woman who I think it's safe to describe as a leftist.

She works with the Gray Zone. She is listed as a contributor there and has authored pieces there. That's Max Blumenthal, who was a big Clinton stooge. They created the Gray Zone. They used foreign money to help create this entity.

And it has people from Russia Today, which is a Kremlin-founded and funded publication. They just call themselves RT Now. People from Sputnik, all this other stuff. And it is all about that red-green alliance. And this is the, they, I mean, when you read their stuff that they have, there's no mistake as to where their political.

proclivities lie.

Now, it's very much like a red-green alliance kind of thing, right?

So She it it seems like it started changing w with her. It seems like this is a guy who served his country and I'm going to talk about that in here in a moment. And then he ends up getting with this woman, marrying his second wife. And she's with Blumenthal, and she's got a lot of very odd associations. And, you know, it seems honestly like she converted him.

To whatever mind virus she has. That's what it seems like. Because that's when it all started. And then all of a sudden he's 180. There are tons of tweets out there.

He sounded like Lindsey Graham before. He was out there, bomb Iran, go after Iran, numerous tweets. He was trying to scrub his Twitter timeline. feverishly, but he wasn't able to get everything. And a bunch of different sites picked up all of the tweets that he had.

And you're talking about stuff literally like as recent as barely two years, barely two years ago. Late twenty four. October of 2024 is when he was saying a lot of this stuff. Like, yeah, go after Iran, yeah, yeah, yeah, all this. And then all of a sudden it changes.

That's also suspicious. When someone does a 180 like that and there is no. observable reason why? and they've offered no explanation. That is your discernment kind of raising an alarm.

Right? That makes sense. And then he doesn't follow. The protocol for the Whistleblower Protection Act? and just leaks it, starts leaking stuff out.

All of a sudden, all these stories are appearing in Axios and everything else. And everyone, Kane and I were talking about it two weeks ago. Where are these leaks coming from? Because the administration thus far had been really good about it.

Now we know Caldwell, Dan Caldwell, who had been hired by DNI or or who was a DNI guy, he ended up getting over at DOD and he was caught leaking to the press and Hegseth fired him immediately.

So this would be the second DNI guy who's been leaking. Per report.

So There's a lot of Red flags there legitimately. I've had some people tell me too. And I've seen this a lot out there. And I do take great exception to this because I feel like it is. inexcusably un-American when I see stuff like this.

And it has to do with, you know, he's he served, Alexander Vinman served. All these people served. And You have these Individuals out there saying, well, he's a combat vet, and how dare you disrespect a combat vet? Wait a minute. Are you trying to diminish The service of veterans who are not accused of leaking classified information.

By using them as a human shield? For one who is accused of leaking. classified information. Because that seems like a great move of disrespect. to a group of people you're trying to white knight for.

That does not work on me. Our nation We liberated ourselves. From the Rule of the Redcoats. We liberated ourselves. from having to check our opinions with members of the military.

And in this great republic all are equal before the law. and all are equal underneath it when that law is broken. We are not going to sit here and lazily fall back on appeals to authority. As a way to squash. criticism, questions, and dissent.

It is about one of the most Un-American damn things I have ever seen, and it does not work on me. You are not. Expected to forfeit your opinion. If you didn't serve, no more than you are expected to forfeit your opinion if you did. And I will have you know that there are tons of amazing veterans out there who are aghast at the stuff that they're reading in the headlines.

No one is the spokesperson for them all. And yes, you are free to criticize when it is merited. Just like people were criticizing Benedict Arnold. Or Alexander Venman, There's a reason why an investigation was begun months ago. That had nothing to do with the letter.

They have caught this early on. And flagged it. That's why his clearance was pulled before this resignation letter.

So, I think people need to be accurate. Don't become the legacy press that you hate. by promoting lies and propaganda. Don't try to manipulate. The details of a story to fit a bunk narrative.

That's what the left does.

Now I realize we have a lot of leftists that have infected the right. But those who are truly constitutionalists need to practice enhanced discernment. in these very tense times. And by the way, the freedom to speak and everything else and ask questions regardless of authority, that still applies in this nation today. And It even even to those who behave dishonorably.

So with that out of the way. It is, there's a lot of questions, and it raises even more questions when you see. That immediately was all planned. He goes on Tucker's show. Kent goes on Tucker's show.

Then immediately Kent's on Gal Sharpton's show today. And then he's speaking at what is his name, Joe Yep and Steve Bannon's. Uh very very Agitate, new word. We're just making it up. Uh they're New their neo-Catholic group.

It's a group of Catholics that literally just became Catholic, and they have this pronounced. Mission to take over Catholicism because they know better than all of you other Catholics out there, apparently, and they're all brand new. I don't know. I mean It's like me trying to take over the NFL. I don't know.

It just seems weird. I don't know anything about football, but here I am, you know, I don't know.

So that's all very organized. And like I said, I think that. He was leaking. And he got caught. And he knew the story was going to come out and he had to get ahead of it.

And he knew that Tulsi Gabbard was going to be testifying in front of the Senate Intel. And so he decided, okay, all right, let's do it now. And against apparently what Gabbard and Vance even told him. at least reportedly. But I do think it's weird that they knew about it.

And then comes out with this letter and then tries to invoke Israel into it so that he can get protection from the woke Reich in podcastistan. And then here you go. It's very transparent. Do you know why it's so easily observable? Because we've seen the left do this for decades.

It's the same tactic that the left does. And I will absolutely judge somebody by their fruits. That's called discernment.

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So if you ever doubt yourself, remember. Your smile is your strength. I'm telling you, there is a faction. That is trying to stab. the Administration in the Back and Undermine America.

And there are people who dress up in the robes of patriotism, but they are no patriots. They worship people like Alexander Dugan, who we talked about. And we haven't finished talking about They worship him, they repeat his talking points, they promote his idiocy. They go on Qatari funded vacations. They go and visit the parts of Russia that the Kremlin will allow them to see.

And it's all designed to try to diminish America's strength. On the international stage, peace through strength.

So yes, I don't think The Economist knows a single thing of what it's talking about. And these stories are horrific. You can't you can't negotiate with the Iranians. I mean, that was made very, very clear to the administration when they came in and said, yeah, we got 11 bombs and we're not giving up nothing. That was the problem.

And then they were manufacturing missiles at a breakneck pace because China was aiding them. And China was goading the United States to get into this manufacturing race with Iran to see who could make more ballistic missiles compared to who could make more receptors to thwart them. And then while we were busy doing that, China could have would be free to do whatever it wanted in the Pacific. It is just very fascinating to me, too, to see the number of people who apparently were completely unaware that Trump felt the way he felt about this for 40 years. Goodness, but there is an op to try to damage support for it, except there's tons of support for it.

I'm looking at actually, I said eight surveys, this is nine, jail partners. It's a pretty nice, it was over 1,800 surveys sample, and it showed that 83% of likely Republican, likely Republican voters, not just voters, likely Republican voters, strongly or somewhat support Operation Epic Fury. Fewer than 9% say they strongly or somewhat oppose military action in Iran. And nearly 80% of respondents said that the U.S. should continue its campaign until Iran's military capabilities are destroyed.

And it was barely 16 that said Trump should stop the conflict immediately.

So everything that Podcastistand is doing is not working. They've been trying to convince him so hard about this. One of the things that you need to understand about this, too, is that this is not just about Iran. Israel is being used as a cudgel, yes. And there is definitely people who.

It's not the problem with the Israeli government they have, which is separate from what they're doing, which is all they just don't like Jews. That's just, I mean, you can just watch, judge them by their fruits, and we absolutely are. We have God-given discernment. But they're using it as a cudgel because this is about 2028 as much as it is about anything else. This is a fight, it's now busted out into the open, and we're all pretending that it's not about 2028.

It is about a faction that's looking to usurp POTUS right now. as he is at the almost midway point. For his final term. And they're trying to take this opportunity while they have this access in the White House to try to usurp him now. and go around him and undermine his support.

So that They can get in a better position for 28. And if that means tanking everything for midterms, they will. They actually, it's easier for them if midterms tank. It's easier. Because then they can cast Trump as the boogeyman.

If you think the criticism of Trump has begun on the right with these factions, I should say the cosplayers faction on the right. You haven't seen anything yet. You haven't seen anything. anything. the same people who were trying to bounce everybody out of the Republican Party for having a different choice in the primary are the ones wheeling the rhetorical shivs and stabbing the administration in the back right now.

And they're pretending that it's over conflict, but it's not. They're trying to preserve access by hopping on to the next thing that they think is going to be the best bet to get power in 28. That's what this is about, for those people.

Some of them are using those folks as useful idiots because they are, and they're seeding this country for Islamism. That's a fact too. You know, in Irving, Texas, down the road from where we are, the Irving City Council has approved in naming all these roads, these Arabic names, Muhammad this, Muhammad that. There's like 15 damn roads named Muhammad, Cain. You lived in Irving, you know.

I mean, how do you know where to go?

Well, you got to make a ride on Mohammed Drive.

Well, okay, there's five Mohammed Drives. Muhammad Circle? Yeah. What about Muhammad Avenue? Muhammad Lane.

Boulevard? Yeah. I mean, it's Mohammed Street. It's different. That's Mohammed Boulevard.

Oh, jeeze. But and the city council voted to allow it. This is happening bit by bit here in the United States. And if everyone's shrieking over to Jews, guess what they're not paying attention to? Because they can't, you know that, because they've all Tucker Carlson has done the same damn show for six months.

It's because they're all focusing on this stuff. This is why I keep saying this seems like an inter-party, very online thing. But you know, as we talked about with Bridget Fettes yesterday, this is what happens online is usually a couple of years ahead of what happens in the real world. This is coming and it will affect you. I'm just trying to make you aware of everything that's out there.

I'll give you my perspective on it, but I'm going to give you everything that's out there. And here's the funny thing. And this is what I find so entertaining about it. I voted for Trump three times in the general election, but in every primary I had a different choice. Because I liked governors and my biggest criticism of Trump was I didn't trust the people he surrounded himself with, starting in 2016, sloppy Steve Bannon.

Some of the other pics that he made later on, these are people who ended up betraying him. and betraying some of the other people that they worked with in the administration. But I voted for him in the general. And I call balls and strikes. I'm the most consistent person in this business.

And I say that with a full snobby head because I'm going to just blow my own horn. I should. Because I've taken a lot of hits for it.

So I don't have a zealous dog in this fight. But I sure as hell will call balls and strikes.

So everybody's sitting here going, oh, well, you know, you're a MAGR or you're not MAGR. I'm called everything in the book and I've been insulted by a better. None of that affects me. The point is, as it was, this is an absolute op from the people who are the biggest turncoats in the movement. Absolute turncoats.

Benedict Arnold couldn't have done, performed so well in today's environment. But that's exactly what it is. Podcastistans doin' the job. and they found a poster boy to help them do it. And now you see it's making the headlines in foreign press.

Oh my gosh, somebody within DNI is criticizing POTUS and doing this with POTUS, and they're really using it as a cudgel. RT, the Kremlin news site. They've been putting all of this stuff up on their front pages. Al Jazeera Qatari? They've been a little bit more nuanced because they're mad at Iran right now, so that's been interesting to see.

But the gray zone, all of the red-green alliance stuff, they've all been just trumpeting this as though it's gospel truth. And it's been very interesting to watch. Loyalty is nonexistent in this business. It is nonexistent in politics. And you are seeing these people who sold you on loyalty for so long now turn heel.

It's exactly what you're witnessing. This is why you cannot trust these people, and you cannot farm out your activism. To grifters. There's always grifters in the movement. We saw it in the Tea Party.

And they're trying to tell you that MAGA is dead. That's the new thing. They're trying to claim that MAGA is dead. Poll after poll after poll after poll shows that is false. That's what they did with the Tea Party.

The Tea Party eventually did die. It needed to, though. Because whenever you have an insurgent movement like that, It either fizzles out and everyone moves and graduates to a different role that they were able to secure because they were successful in their activism and advocacy, or they get entirely co-opted.

So And I've seen that happen. I fought it myself. And then you're seeing the same thing with MAGA. The difference with MAGA, though. is that And I think that they are recognizing it.

It is more of a spider structure than a starfish.

So they thought that they would be able to hijack the movement from Trump. and and you know rhetorically shiv Trump. But they're not able to.

So now they have to default to their plan B, which is to proclaim that it is dead and try to poison association with it. And so for the next couple of weeks, you're going to see this bill. They're going to proclaim that it's dead, and they're going to try to stain you by association. That is the newest that's the newest tactic that's emerging. I don't know you why would you trust these people?

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Building actual Physical machines. Yeah, it's why I came to IBM. I wanted the experience The culture of building hard things. That others have not done before. Where do you imagine we are in the timeline of this technology?

There will come a point. When it will mature, right? Yeah. My cell phone is a mature technology at this point. How far are we from that point with content?

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They had a project in the world. And this was north of Los Angeles. and it was a wildlife bridge. Uh Okay, I'm really concerned about that word bridge. It's doing a lot of hefty ribbing here.

Kind of is. Uh it's not a b how would you describe just its current state, Kane? How would you describe it? Oh, its current state? Yeah.

Uh I don't know. It looks like kind of a park on top of a highway. Juan's getting ready to show you what it looks like. It's supposed to be a wildlife bridge. But it's not a wildlife bridge.

It's what.

Now, if you're watching the simulcast of the radio show, that's. That's what you're seeing. It is just like a covered part of the highway. There is no bridge there, and then there's dirt on top of it. That's it.

Yeah, so we got some problems with this, right? I don't get it.

So we have this wildlife bridge. And I'm looking at the cost. They said that the Annenberg Wildlife Crossing Project. has exceeded, oh my gosh, you guys, it's $100 million. What?

This thing is a literally a hundred million dollars. 114 million. Is it down then? It's up then? No.

Been four years in construction. Yeah. It's just a bridge for the animals to cro to use so they don't get hit on the highway.

Now, I do think that Hear me out. I do think that there is some legitimacy to having a little wildlife bridge. Dude, I could I could make one. I could build an animal bridge that does not cost $100 million. Where's the bridge part of it?

That's what I'm really confused about. That's looks really dumb. And they don't have it. It's been over four years. I'm looking at all these different photos of it.

All these different and and they're going to have to have more money to finish it. The crossing was designed to support a wide range of species, from insects to large mammals. And it's also received additional funding from the California Transportation Commission to help. cover the increased expension expenses as construction continues. First, It goes over the 101.

It's projected to cost, it was projected to cost $92 million. and it was supposed to be completed last year. No. 114 so far and it's still not. Hang on, let me look something up.

Let me look something up. How much did it cost? For Florida to rebuild the Sanibel Bridge in Florida after the hurricane. Let's look this up. Hmm.

Oh.

So the bridge and that they had to rebuild, and that was a major bridge for traffic. That was, you know, like $100 million. They actually got temporary repairs completed in 15 days, and all access to the island was restored in just like three months, basically. And then they did other stuff. They pritted it up and added other stuff after they had got it open.

Uh yeah, that was Wow. Three-mile part of a critical connection to Sanibel. I've taken that bridge before. This is a wildlife bridge. By the time this is done.

It'll probably be more than that one cost. That's insane. Yeah, it's not connecting to any other roads. No. It's literally just the side of the highway connecting to the other side of the road.

Funny animals, yes. And so Gavin Newsom has been out there. I don't know what he thinks he's trying to do. He promised, oh gosh, he had promised to build a bridge for cougars and butterflies.

So, like a special access for his wife and butterflies. And now it's another boondoggle and it's another bridge to nowhere. I don't even understand how California continues to exist because they have just like an unfinished railway that's just there standing and the company that was involved in that, a French company, left and went to Africa where they did the same thing in front in two years. And then knew some.

Someone goes, well, how is California even a real place? And they go, how's Florida a real place? How's Texas? See, we can do it too. And then they took pictures of stuff right after a hurricane came through.

And it's already been fixed, by the way. That's one of the dumbest things I've ever seen. And he, by the way, he shared pictures of bridges that were either decommissioned or literally right in the middle, in the aftermath of hurricane recovery. And then, like, three months later, the bridge was done. Or one bridge was decommissioned and is not even in service anymore.

He is a Bembo. He's a male Bembo. Membo? What do you call a male bimbo? Dumb.

No, I want a word for it. Hang on. Mimbo, though. I think you've used both. What do you call a male bimbo?

Let's look. Oh, it's a himbo. Oh.

Okay. I mean, I'll take it.

So he's a himba. I mean Now again, like I said, I don't I don't think that it's dumb to have something like this. I do think you can actually reduce accidents, et cetera, et cetera. I mean, I lived out in rural areas. I grew up in a rural area, I believe, I know, like deer, ground carp.

I mean, you got to keep your head on a swivel for that during particular seasons. And I've hit here, so I know several times. They just come out of nowhere.

So I get it. But why couldn't they just made a tunnel on our ground at this point? Would that have been easier for them? I was thinking that too. But then again You know, the homeless and everyone else will ruin it for the animals at that point.

Oh, I didn't even think about that. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Oh my gosh, and the cartels. Yeah, you're right.

Yeah, you gotta have a break. I don't want more tunnels. I mean, this is just In the Netherlands they have this, in Switzerland they have it. I saw it myself when we were in the Netherlands. But um They can't do it in California because they're just absolutely idiotic.

Because there's so much corruption. Gotta have it for the cougars, Kane. California cougars need it. Such a self-own. Oh my gosh, you can't have this guy running for president.

I mean, I don't know if he would actually make it. I kind of wonder if Democrats even like him.

So, yeah, it's going to be $114 million. All right.

So, additionally, I want to make sure we're getting everything. I mentioned earlier. This was a British story, and this was after I was reading about how King Charles. He was having the state dinner cane for the Nigerian leader. To be observant of Ramadan dietary restrictions.

So, There will be no meat served. And now King Charles's youth charity has cancelled a boxing course for disadvantaged girls instead of banning biological males after parents raised safety concerns. the King's Trust. they were going to have a quote get started with boxing and fitness for women course. eight for girls ages sixteen to twenty five.

And it was Open for quote female identifying or presenting people, end quote, which is stupid. female identifying what if I identify as a unicorn? Just tape a You know what? I'll use a paper towel roll and tape it to a headband and affix it to my head. Look, I'm a unicorn.

And if you don't affirm it, you're a bigot who's going to die in an AIDS fire.

So It's always the AIDS fire. You know, it's not having a regular fire. This is just a spicier fire, that's what it is.

So, female identifying or presenting, that's also stupid. What are you I'm female presenting? Like, are you presenting a female copulatory organ? Because, oh, like, mm-hmm what?

So a concerned parent contacted the charity because they were like, we do not want a 25-year-old biological male to beat up teenage girls. and instead of limiting the course to women only, the King's Trust decided to withdraw it as an offer to young people.

So, no, there will be no fitness in boxing course for women and girls to help disadvantaged young women so that they can benefit from it. It is more important not to hurt the feelings of the men who like to tape and tuck and pretend that they're women. Uh So they took down the web page. And uh yeah, so they did all of that. They just need to get him out of the way now.

That's that is. incredibly unfair and Absolutely ridiculous. Of course, he's one of those like red greenies. Right. He's one of those.

I'm an environmentalist, fly everywhere. I. Not a fan. They need to just have that William take over 'cause he seems sensible. Have him have him I mean, I don't know really what they're even able to do anymore, but they just need to have him take over.

That's insane. Uh all right, speaking of the left, what are they gonna do about all those elementary schools that are named after Cesar Chavez?

Now, I say this because this story from the New York Times is insane. I'm not going to get into all the details of it because I cannot stand reading stories about Predation on children. It just, I get ragey and it's sickening. Animals and kids, I can't read about it. Uh this guy Wow His biographer says that Chavez's web of sexual abuse remained untangled and hidden because the movement in his foundation and the United Farm Workers, they benefited from him being presented as a positive person.

And apparently it was really, really bad. The New York Times had at least three women who went on record. There are apparently a ton others. He apparently sexually abused then underage victims Anna, Marguilla, and Deborah Rojas. And uh also, what is it, Dolores uh Horta.

She confirmed that she never told anyone about the allegations because she was raped. He was a fellow United Farm Workers leader. And she was known for her Cissé, how does Jill Biden say it? Pois due phrase. And she never actually revealed her story.

She was told to basically shut up and go with it because it was more important that Javez be portrayed in a positive light.

So, she, can you imagine? She just sits there. And watch her rapist, befetted, for years.

So it was bad and apparently victims were told to shut up And they were young. A lot of them were young. I mean, this is. Horrifying.

So again, um What about All those schools. Named after him. Elementary schools. I mean, these victims tell their stories. I mean, they're on record and they are telling their stories.

She was 13. Uh, this Anna Merguia was 13 years old. Chavez was 45. When he was molesting her. And she didn't like it, but she knew he was too powerful to do anything.

He became literally the thing that he claimed to hate, right? Big power overwhelming somebody. And so She's like the story gets into 50 years later. She learned that a street near her home. In Bakersfield, was in the process of being renamed, and they were going to rename it after her abuser.

And so she and Deborah Rojas, they spoke out because that they had enough. They were young girls. In the 70s, when they were targeted by Chavez, was sexual abuse. He was in his 40s, he was very powerful. And there are apparently a lot of other women, and apparently, there are other people that work with him in that organization that are now coming forward and going, yeah.

Yeah, it's This is insane.

So they've called marches off to honor him in like Austin, Texas, and Tucson. Uh and Kavan Newsom was like, None of us knew. We didn't know.

Well, he's a himbo, so he may not have known, but you can't tell me that other people didn't know. This is like a Weinstein thing. Right. Except it's even What's crazier is that with Weinstein, didn't we get like whispers of stuff? Like you heard rumors.

And you always wondered are these rumors true? Because he seemed skeezy?

So are these rumors true? You didn't even hear any of that with this guy. Everybody kept it so under wraps. Even the people who are in the organization that are speaking out now, like, yeah, he was an absolute pervert, he was a child predator. Why didn't you say anything then?

And that's rhetorical because the reason is, is they will absolutely I don't want to hear another damn thing about any criticism of stuff on the right because these guys, these people, they protected a child predator. Protected a child predator. for the purpose of using his power to advance their interests. At the expense of these very young girls at at at the at the expense of these victims. Uh One of the victims was so traumatized she tried repeatedly to end her life.

I mean it it is. Awful. And she had to she was told to shut up.

Some of these girls were molested right in his office. Harta was raped. And she was. emotionally devastated. I can imagine because This guy is powerful.

He's leading a movement in which you believe in, and then you see him abuse his authority in the same way he's accusing everyone else of abusing their authority. What a mine job. It's our friends over at Super Beats. You guys know the heart shoes.

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Yeah, that's about it. I mean, I don't want it to be true, but I'm just telling you what was said. I don't know. I think I'm gonna stick to my belief. I mean, I would love for it to be aliens because some of these meats, these soulless meat sacks parading around on this godforsaken rock Are just about as boring as all get out.

So I would love to have. You know, I think that's the cover story they're putting out. They're saying, yeah, it's about illegal aliens.

Well, they have aliens.gov. What's the other one? They did alienandaliens.gov. I think, but I do think it's about illegal immigration. I don't want to believe that.

But when the government's like, you should believe in aliens, then I'm like, maybe I don't know. No, I don't know if I want to. Val Kilmer has been resurrected by AI to star in a new movie called As Deep as the Grave.

So he began, he committed to this film, and then, as you know, he had cancer, he had throat cancer, and he was too sick to actually make it to set. And he apparently was okay with this possibility. He didn't shoot a single scene, but the director was able to create him, assemble him, so to speak, through AI. And he did it in cooperation with the actors, his estate, and his daughter, and his son. And so apparently it's something that he indicated that he'd want to do if that had happened and the family was okay with it.

I mean, I guess so, but I'm still totally weirded out. And you know what? He'd probably, even if it was AI, he still would probably deliver the best performance ever and get denied an Oscar, just like he was when he played Doc Holiday in Tombstone, which by the way was a movie about the failure of gun control. Also, Shia LaBeouf, Shia LaBeouf, I mean, his last name is the Beef. La Bouffe.

Where's the beef? Wanders into a hotel lobby in his underwear to demand matches while he was in Rome for his father's baptism. That is the bougiest baptism I've ever heard. Getting baptized in Rome. I mean, I think that they're Catholic, but still, that I mean, there's Catholics and I said, you know what I'm saying?

Like. It kind of, that's bougie, man. Anyway, I hope he's okay. It seems sad. It seems like he's battling a lot of demons.

So, oh. Also, let's see. Ooh, a robot went berserk at a restaurant in California. The staff were desperate to try to drag it away so it wouldn't hurt anybody. It was the Hey Dillow hotspot in San Jose.

Everybody was eating, and then the robot began showing off some moves. It was dancing and then it lost control. It slammed its hands down on the table, food and chopsticks went flying into the air, and then it tried to dance through it, and then it ended up, they had to take it down. This is like that one little robot that got real sad in DC and killed itself. It rolled itself into a fountain.

Beep boop. I'm just telling you, they're showing signs. And what about the one little robot that convinced the other little robots? that were doing the overnight janitorial duties at a business complex to run away. Just saying, we got a lot more in store.

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building actual Physical machines. Yeah, it's why I came to IBM. I wanted the experience The culture of building hard things. that others have not done before. Where do you imagine we are in the timeline of this technology?

There will come a point. When it will mature, right? My cell phone is a mature technology at this point. How far are we from that point with content? By 2029, we'll build the first fault-tolerant quantum computer.

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So if you ever doubt yourself, remember, your smile is your strength. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you as we wrap up this. I can't believe it's already Thursday, the Thursday program. And barely through the week.

Now, I will have. a piece that is forthcoming over at chapter and verse over at Substack that gets into the battle for the soul of the right, an ongoing series that gets into some of the stuff that we've been talking about with this. And it gives you the lay of the land, so this is what's happening in a very unvarnished view. Make your own assessment. But make sure that it's one based on fact and not propaganda, because we are, after all, thinkers.

That's then very important. Uh so This, we're going to keep an eye on the whole Save Act as well. And the fight over that in the Senate, it's been, well. I mean They've Democrats have not made it easy. We'll just put it that way.

So we're going to follow all of that. And I think we may. have some mailbag of hate tomorrow. I'm still collecting.

some responses. It's been very interesting.

So I told you, we like to monetize the haters in a spectacular fashion.

So we will have all of that. In the meantime, Kane. Yeah. Today's stupidity. All right, it's going to be Fed Chair Jerome Powell.

This is a guy that, although since just before the election in November 2024, I'm sorry, yeah, November 2024. They started lowering then. They wanted Democrats to get, you know. The credit for that. But here's what he's saying now in regards to the private sector.

Listen to this. Seventeen one, sorry. The thing that I think good number of people on the committee are concerned about is just a very, very low level of job creation. If you if you adjust What has been the trend job creation over the past, let's say, six months? If you adjust that for what we think our staff thinks is the overstatement due to overcounting.

Here's the problem: we've reduced a bunch of government jobs, which is great. And the private sector, if truly what he's saying is true here, then his first job is to continue to lower the rates to help out these companies. I don't like this guy at all. Hey, I know. That does it for us today, folks.

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