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[00:00:00] Well, folks, Steve Bannon has now been [00:00:02] totally exposed in the Epstein files. [00:00:03] We're going to get into what is actually [00:00:05] in the Epstein files and why is it that [00:00:06] the people who are like actual [00:00:08] conspirators with Jeffrey Epste, like [00:00:10] people who are working closely with [00:00:11] Jeffrey Epste are being overlooked in [00:00:13] favor of a broad broad conspiracy theory [00:00:15] about all of society. We'll get into all [00:00:18] of that, plus a big economic move from [00:00:19] the Trump administration. First, the [00:00:21] biggest story in the country right now [00:00:22] remains the disappearance of Savannah [00:00:24] Guthri's mother, Nancy Guthrie. [00:00:26] Information continues to move [00:00:27] unbelievably fast. If you are trying to [00:00:29] keep up, here is the answer. Finding [00:00:30] Nancy Guthrie. It's the Daily Wire's [00:00:32] first ever true crime podcast. It's [00:00:34] hosted by investigative journalist Lynen [00:00:36] Blake and it brings you new episodes [00:00:37] every day with the latest on the case. [00:00:39] Tracks the real leads, the real [00:00:40] developments, what changed, what it [00:00:41] means, and what is happening in real [00:00:43] time. No theories, no fanfiction, just [00:00:44] the evidence. This is the case that [00:00:46] America is following. Can't stop talking [00:00:48] about. Listen to Finding Nancy Guthrie, [00:00:50] a DailyWire true crime investigation [00:00:52] streaming right now at dailywire.com and [00:00:54] on that Daily Wire Plus app. There is a [00:00:56] palpable frustration out there in [00:00:58] American politics pretty clearly. It's [00:01:00] rooted in some ugly and unpleasant [00:01:02] realities. The reality that lots of our [00:01:04] major institutions blew up their [00:01:06] credibility on CO 19 and BLM and Russia [00:01:08] gate, for example. The reality that we [00:01:10] don't really have any idea how AI is [00:01:12] going to reshape the job market. The [00:01:14] reality that a ton of people in the [00:01:16] political class have zero scruples and [00:01:18] are totally willing to engage in open [00:01:20] corruption. But that frustration is [00:01:21] turning into something else before our [00:01:23] eyes in this country. And that thing is [00:01:25] nihilism. And that nihilism is rooted in [00:01:27] a gigantic lie. A truly gigantic lie. [00:01:30] That all of our problems in the United [00:01:31] States are intractable. That individual [00:01:33] problems that you may have or I may have [00:01:35] in the United States, that's all the [00:01:37] result of an evil system often led by [00:01:40] cohesive groups of conspiratorial elites [00:01:42] that you cannot succeed unless you [00:01:44] pierce that supposed matrix. And that [00:01:46] all of those who call for individual [00:01:48] responsibility and dutiful decency, [00:01:50] those people are actually part of this [00:01:52] evil matrix. Now, this stuff is not [00:01:54] solution-making. It is [00:01:55] thoughtproventing. It is success [00:01:57] preventing. It's a recipe for personal [00:01:59] and national disaster. And the result is [00:02:02] an increasingly incoherent and unhinged [00:02:04] politics and an entire generation of [00:02:06] young men and women who go looking for [00:02:08] meaning in all the wrong places and on [00:02:10] the very fringes sometimes turn to [00:02:12] violence. There's a story in the [00:02:13] Washington Post from a couple of days [00:02:15] ago that highlights this by a guy named [00:02:17] Peter Harriski. He writes, quote, "Amid [00:02:19] a wave of high-profile killings and [00:02:20] political violence in the United States, [00:02:22] investigators have been confounded [00:02:24] regularly by the absence of a [00:02:26] recognizable agenda, the asalants, in [00:02:28] several cases, shootings, a bombing, a [00:02:29] planned drone attack, resisted familiar [00:02:31] labels and categories. They weren't [00:02:33] Democrat or Republican or Islamist [00:02:35] militant or Antifa or white supremacist. [00:02:37] They were something new." In their [00:02:38] manifestos, according to the Washington [00:02:40] Post, these attackers declared their [00:02:42] contempt for humanity and a desire to [00:02:44] see the collapse of civilization. Law [00:02:46] enforcement officers and federal [00:02:48] prosecutors have begun to describe these [00:02:50] attacks as a contemporary strain of [00:02:52] nihilism, an online revival of a [00:02:54] philosophical stance that arose in the [00:02:55] 19th century to deny the existence of [00:02:57] moral truths and meaning in the [00:02:59] universe. Well, I mean, as the [00:03:01] Washington Post suggests right there, [00:03:02] that isn't actually anything new. [00:03:04] Societies that experience major [00:03:05] dislocations are often the breeding [00:03:07] ground for nihilism and violence. That's [00:03:09] been true going all the way back to [00:03:10] Dustki's Notes from the Underground, [00:03:12] which he wrote in 1864. But actually, if [00:03:15] you reread notes from the underground, [00:03:17] Dustyki goes further. He says that [00:03:19] nihilism doesn't just require social [00:03:21] dislocations or economic problems that [00:03:24] nihilism can arise particularly in [00:03:26] prosperous periods where everybody seems [00:03:27] to be doing pretty well. So he writes, [00:03:29] quote, I for instance would not be in [00:03:31] the least surprise if all of a sudden [00:03:32] apppropo of nothing in the midst of [00:03:34] general prosperity, a gentleman with an [00:03:36] ignoble, or rather with a reactionary [00:03:38] and ironical countenance were to arise [00:03:40] and putting his arms a kimbo say to us [00:03:43] all, I say, gentlemen, hadn't we better [00:03:45] kick over the whole show and scatter [00:03:46] rationalism to the winds simply to send [00:03:48] these log rhythms to the devil and to [00:03:50] enable us to live once more at our own [00:03:52] sweet foolish will? That again, says [00:03:54] Dustki, would not matter. But what is [00:03:56] annoying is that he would be sure to [00:03:58] find followers such as the nature of man [00:04:00] and all that for the most foolish reason [00:04:02] which one would think was hardly worth [00:04:03] mentioning. That is that man everywhere [00:04:05] and all times whoever he may be has [00:04:07] preferred to act as he chose and not in [00:04:09] the least as his reason and advantage [00:04:11] dictated. What man wants is simply [00:04:12] independent choice whatever that [00:04:14] independence may cost and wherever it [00:04:15] may lead and choice of course the devil [00:04:17] only knows what choice. In other words, [00:04:20] convince people that they don't have any [00:04:22] choices in life and what you are likely [00:04:23] to get is a nihilistic retreat into [00:04:26] barbarism specifically because people [00:04:28] want to lash out at their supposed lack [00:04:30] of choice. Now, you've heard me rail on [00:04:32] this show, a lot of other places against [00:04:34] what I've called the conspiracy theory [00:04:36] of society. That's the idea that [00:04:38] everything in life is controlled by [00:04:39] systems you can't quite identify and [00:04:41] that your problems are solvable only [00:04:43] through violence or through some sort of [00:04:45] pseudo revolution. Philosopher Carl [00:04:48] Pauper explained this again way back in [00:04:50] the mid- 20th century. He said, "The [00:04:51] conspiracy theory of society is the view [00:04:54] that an explanation of a social [00:04:55] phenomenon consists in the discovery of [00:04:57] the men or groups who are interested in [00:04:59] the occurrence of this phenomenon. [00:05:01] Sometimes it's a hidden interest which [00:05:02] has first to be revealed and who have [00:05:04] planned and conspired to bring it about. [00:05:06] The gods are abandoned, but their place [00:05:08] is filled by powerful men or groups, [00:05:09] sinister pressure groups whose [00:05:11] wickedness is responsible for all the [00:05:13] evils we suffer from, such as the [00:05:14] learned elders of Zion or the [00:05:16] monopouists or the capitalists or the [00:05:18] imperialists. And Carl Popro is writing [00:05:19] this in the midentth century. So none of [00:05:22] this is new. However, what we are [00:05:24] experiencing right now in the United [00:05:25] States is dangerous and stupid. Of [00:05:28] course, there are conspiracies out [00:05:30] there, but conspiracies generally have [00:05:32] specific people involved and evidence of [00:05:34] their involvement and a plan [00:05:35] effectuated. The conspiracy theory of [00:05:37] society that everything in your life is [00:05:39] out of your control and that there is a [00:05:41] group of manipulative elites who are [00:05:42] getting together behind closed doors to [00:05:44] figure out how to screw you, that is [00:05:46] something different. And that conspiracy [00:05:48] theory of society is finding [00:05:49] unbelievably fertile ground right now. [00:05:52] And there are a lot of people who are [00:05:54] promoting it for their own pure grift [00:05:56] and greed. They're doing it because of [00:05:58] the con. It turns out that this modern [00:06:00] wave of nihilism is not entirely [00:06:02] organic. It is, as the kids might say, [00:06:05] an op. It is fermented by influencers [00:06:08] and politicians who commit ideological [00:06:10] arson. So then they can pretend to be [00:06:11] firefighters. people who manipulate [00:06:14] their audiences into believing that [00:06:15] their problems are unfixable unless they [00:06:18] hand over more power and control to [00:06:20] precisely those same influencers and [00:06:21] politicians. After all, influencers can [00:06:24] get really, really rich off the nihilism [00:06:26] of crowds. Politicians can fment the [00:06:28] change they seek by channeling [00:06:29] nihilistic energy, at least temporarily, [00:06:32] until they're eaten by the movement that [00:06:33] they actually foster. I'm bringing all [00:06:36] of this up to discuss what I think is [00:06:38] the biggest news story of the day, the [00:06:40] Jeffrey Epstein scandal and people we [00:06:41] know were involved in it because it [00:06:44] shows the distinction between actual [00:06:46] conspiracy and the conspiracy theory of [00:06:49] society. I'm going to get to what the [00:06:51] point of all of this is in just a minute [00:06:53] because it ties into a really big thing [00:06:55] in the news that I think most people are [00:06:56] just sort of glossing over for [00:06:57] convenient reasons. First, you know, I I [00:07:00] was not sleeping in my bed last night. I [00:07:02] got to be honest with you, I'm extremely [00:07:03] tired. One of the reasons I am so tired [00:07:05] is cuz I did not have my mattress. When [00:07:06] I'm out of town and I'm not sleeping on [00:07:08] my mattress, it is so much worse because [00:07:10] my mattress was made just for me by [00:07:12] Helix. And you can do the same thing. [00:07:14] Sleep is really important. I know, [00:07:16] especially when I'm missing it. And so, [00:07:18] you really should go take that sleep [00:07:19] quiz from Helix Sleep right now. And [00:07:20] they will personalize a mattress just [00:07:22] for you. 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In fact, he plead guilty in 2009 [00:08:35] to state charges of soliciting [00:08:37] prostitution from an underage girl. He [00:08:39] was arrested again in 2019 on charges of [00:08:41] sex trafficking of minors and conspiracy [00:08:43] to commit sex trafficking of minors. And [00:08:45] so was Golain Maxwell, his longtime [00:08:47] partner in crime. Now, we know that [00:08:49] Jeffrey Epste had longtime relationships [00:08:51] with many rich and famous people. It [00:08:54] appears according to extensive in-depth [00:08:56] reporting from the New York Times that [00:08:57] Epstein made his money through grift. He [00:09:00] scammed rich people into giving him [00:09:01] money and then he used association with [00:09:03] those rich people to find other rich [00:09:04] people to scam. Here's what the New York [00:09:07] Times writes. Quote, "In his first two [00:09:09] decades of business, we found that Epste [00:09:11] was less a financial genius than a [00:09:12] prodigious manipulator and liar. [00:09:14] Abundant conspiracy theories hold that [00:09:16] Epstein worked for spy services or ran a [00:09:18] lucrative blackmail operation. But we [00:09:20] found a more prosaic explanation for how [00:09:22] he built a fortune. A relentless [00:09:24] scammer, he abused expense accounts, [00:09:26] engineered inside deals, and [00:09:27] demonstrated a remarkable knack for [00:09:29] separating seemingly sophisticated [00:09:30] investors and businessmen from their [00:09:32] money. He started small, testing his [00:09:34] tactics, seeing what he could get away [00:09:35] with. His early successes laid the [00:09:37] foundation for more ambitious ps down [00:09:39] the road. Again and again, he proved [00:09:40] willing to operate on the edge of [00:09:42] criminality and burn bridges in his [00:09:43] pursuit of wealth and power. Wrong by [00:09:45] wrong, says the New York Times, Epstein [00:09:47] climbed a social and financial ladder, [00:09:49] often using young women as a potent form [00:09:51] of currency. His girlfriends, lovers, [00:09:52] and even exes helped elevate his status [00:09:54] inside a bank, got him hired to track [00:09:56] down missing assets, and gained him [00:09:58] entree to prestigious organizations. And [00:10:01] says the New York Times, deliberately or [00:10:03] not, some of them enabled him as he [00:10:04] constructed a sex trafficking operation [00:10:06] that would later insnare hundreds of [00:10:07] teenage girls and young women. Now, here [00:10:10] has what has been alleged in the public [00:10:12] square that Epstein had a list of [00:10:14] clients, like an actual list, famous and [00:10:16] rich people to whom he traffked underage [00:10:18] girls. It has been alleged in the public [00:10:20] square that he blackmailed those clients [00:10:22] with pictures and videos of them with [00:10:24] said underage girls. It has been alleged [00:10:26] that he was working for foreign [00:10:28] intelligence services online. That's [00:10:30] usually said to be MSAD. Sometimes it's [00:10:31] the CIA or MI6 or the KGB in order to [00:10:34] manipulate the levers of both economic [00:10:36] and political power. Those theories [00:10:38] remain unsubstantiated by the evidence. [00:10:42] Evidence is our guide here. Those [00:10:44] theories have yet to be substantiated by [00:10:47] the evidence. That is not for lack of [00:10:49] trying. According to ABC News, [00:10:50] prosecution memos, case summaries, and [00:10:52] other documents made public in the [00:10:53] department's latest release of Epstein [00:10:55] related records show that FBI agents and [00:10:58] federal prosecutors diligently pursued [00:11:00] potential co-conspirators. [00:11:02] Even seemingly outlandish and [00:11:03] incomprehensible claims called into tip [00:11:05] lines were examined. According to ABC [00:11:07] News, the only person in this case who [00:11:09] truly alleged sex trafficking to men [00:11:11] beyond Jeffrey Epste was Virginia [00:11:13] Geofrey, who was found by prosecutors to [00:11:15] be noncredible. As ABC News reports, [00:11:17] Geffrey acknowledged writing a partly [00:11:19] fictionalized memoir of her time with [00:11:20] Epstein containing descriptions of [00:11:22] things that didn't take place. She had [00:11:23] also offered shifting accounts in [00:11:25] interviews with investigators, they [00:11:26] wrote, and had engaged in a continuous [00:11:28] stream of public interviews about her [00:11:30] allegations, many of which have included [00:11:32] sensationalized, if not demonstrably [00:11:34] inaccurate, characterizations of her [00:11:35] experiences. Those inaccuracies included [00:11:38] false accounts of her interactions with [00:11:40] the FBI, they said. Now, listen, maybe [00:11:43] more will be uncovered, and if it is, [00:11:45] then we'll cover that. For example, Gla [00:11:48] Maxwell just yesterday took the fifth in [00:11:51] her congressional testimony. Here's what [00:11:52] that sounded like. [00:11:55] >> Miss Maxwell, were you a close friend [00:11:57] and confidant of Jeffrey Epstein? [00:12:01] >> I would like to answer your question, [00:12:03] but on the advice of council, I [00:12:06] respectfully decline to answer this [00:12:08] question and any related questions. [00:12:12] My habius petition is pending in the [00:12:14] Southern District of New York. I [00:12:17] therefore invoke my right to silence [00:12:19] under the fifth amendment to the US [00:12:22] Constitution. [00:12:24] >> So maybe more will come out, but given [00:12:26] the evidence, here's what we do know. [00:12:29] There was in fact a Jeffrey Epstein [00:12:31] conspiracy with actual humans. We know [00:12:33] about it. It involve Jeffrey Epstein [00:12:35] working with rich and powerful people to [00:12:37] make money for himself to boost his [00:12:38] friends in order to ingratiate himself [00:12:40] to them as well. Some of this involves [00:12:43] potentially serious criminal activity, [00:12:45] which is why the prime minister of the [00:12:46] UK, Kier Starmer, may now lose his job [00:12:48] because he selected as his US ambassador [00:12:51] a man named Peter Mandelen, who [00:12:52] allegedly forwarded classified [00:12:54] information to Epstein years before. [00:12:56] Much of it involved untored emails and [00:12:58] likely trafficking of overage women to [00:13:00] other men. But that conspiracy, you [00:13:03] know, the one that the evidence shows, [00:13:04] ugly and hideous as it is, is not the [00:13:06] one that's lighting up the internet and [00:13:07] animating the political discourse. It is [00:13:10] the big blownup conspiracy theory. The [00:13:12] conspiracy theory that involves everyone [00:13:13] at all times. Child trafficking to the [00:13:15] most powerful people in the world. [00:13:17] Blackmail allegations on the basis of [00:13:19] foreign intelligence services. That is [00:13:20] the big conspiracy theory that's making [00:13:22] the rounds. That presumably is why [00:13:24] Representative Thomas Massie, for [00:13:26] example, keeps talking about the men [00:13:27] he's going to name who are allegedly [00:13:28] involved in this sex trafficking ring. [00:13:31] Here is Thomas Massie with Roana [00:13:33] Grandstanding. [00:13:35] But what I saw um that bothered me were [00:13:38] the names of at least six men that have [00:13:40] been redacted that are likely uh [00:13:43] incriminated by their inclusion in these [00:13:45] files. So that's that's the first thing [00:13:48] that I saw. It took some digging to find [00:13:50] them. We went in there for two hours. [00:13:52] There's millions of files, right? And in [00:13:54] a couple of hours, we found six men [00:13:56] whose names have been redacted who are [00:13:59] implicated in the way that the files are [00:14:02] presented. [00:14:04] >> Okay. Now, one thing is very clear. [00:14:06] Thomas Massie has what's called [00:14:07] congressional privilege. If he wishes to [00:14:09] name the men, he can simply go on the [00:14:11] floor of Congress and announce them. He [00:14:13] could do that today. He is not doing [00:14:15] that for some reason that I cannot [00:14:17] discern if he truly believes the [00:14:18] allegations that he is making. [00:14:19] Presumably, this is why the deputy AG [00:14:21] Todd Blanch is calling out Massie and [00:14:23] suggesting that he's participating in [00:14:25] grandstanding. [00:14:27] It's not just obviously Thomas Massie. [00:14:29] The sort of big conspiracy theory of [00:14:31] society is why Democrats are suggesting [00:14:33] that the Epstein scandal is indicative [00:14:35] of the way our entire civilization [00:14:36] works. John Oaf, the embattled senator [00:14:39] from Georgia, Democrat, he's out there [00:14:41] suggesting that the Epstein class rules [00:14:43] the country. [00:14:45] But this is a government of, by, and for [00:14:48] the ultra rich. It is the wealthiest [00:14:51] cabinet ever. This is the Epstein class [00:14:55] [cheering] [00:14:55] >> ruling our country. [00:14:59] >> [cheering and applause] [00:15:02] >> They are the elites they pretend to [00:15:04] hate. [00:15:06] >> Okay, now I've covered all of this [00:15:08] before on the show. I'm sure we'll cover [00:15:09] it all again. But there's a reason I'm [00:15:11] talking about it today. Because amidst [00:15:12] all the hubbub, amid the great [00:15:14] conspiracy theory, the big broad [00:15:15] conspiracy theory, there's a person [00:15:17] who's escaped scrutiny, which is sort of [00:15:19] astonishing because his name is Steve [00:15:20] Bannon. Steve Bannon, of course, was a [00:15:22] chief adviser to President Trump during [00:15:24] the very beginning of his first term [00:15:26] before he was kicked out on his ass by [00:15:27] the president, being called sloppy [00:15:29] Steve. Steve Bannon was deeply in bed [00:15:32] with Jeffrey Epstein. He was, and that's [00:15:36] really important because it is [00:15:37] emblematic of this type of OP. Okay? [00:15:40] It's not just about what Bannon did. [00:15:41] It's about what Bannon has been doing. [00:15:43] Bannon is a person who promotes the [00:15:45] great conspiracy theory of society while [00:15:47] directly benefiting from it and while [00:15:50] being directly implicated in [00:15:51] specifically the kinds of conspiracy he [00:15:53] supposedly decries. So for example, here [00:15:55] is Steve Bannon who knew everything at [00:15:58] TPUSA talking about the Jeffrey Epstein [00:16:01] scandal in the broadest possible way. [00:16:04] Epstein is a key that picks the lock on [00:16:07] so many things, not just individuals but [00:16:10] also institutions. intelligence [00:16:13] institutions, foreign governments, and [00:16:16] who's work and who is working with him [00:16:17] on our intelligence apparatus and in our [00:16:20] government. [00:16:22] This grifty Mcgrifffaced grifter. My [00:16:25] goodness. [00:16:26] Wait until we get into the details of [00:16:28] Steve Bannon and Jeffrey Epstein. He [00:16:29] stands up there in front of a crowd at [00:16:30] SAS at TPUSA last year and says that [00:16:33] this is the skeleton key that picks all [00:16:35] of the locks. Steve Bannon was in the [00:16:37] room. Steve Bannon was working with [00:16:39] Jeffrey Epstein, as I suggested in my [00:16:41] speech at TPUSA late last year to the [00:16:43] chagrin of Steve Bannon. So, let me [00:16:45] start off with this. Who the hell is [00:16:46] Steve Bannon? Steve Bannon is a lifelong [00:16:48] grifter. He grifted his way up the [00:16:50] political food chain by making crappy [00:16:51] documentaries. First, he made a crappy [00:16:53] documentary about then Representative [00:16:54] Michelle Bachmann. Then, he made a [00:16:56] similarly crappy documentary about Sarah [00:16:57] Palin. He would use one documentary to [00:16:59] then make the next documentary. And then [00:17:01] he used that to make a crappy [00:17:03] documentary about Andrew Breitbart, a [00:17:05] person with whom I was pretty close [00:17:06] personal friends. And he happened to be [00:17:09] giving office space to Andrew Breitbart [00:17:11] when Andrew died. And the leadership at [00:17:14] Breitbart decided to hand him outsized [00:17:16] influence at Breitbart over my very [00:17:18] strong objections at the time. He then [00:17:20] proceeded to use Breitbart as a way to [00:17:22] leverage himself into Trump's orbit. And [00:17:24] then he parlayed that into his false [00:17:26] sengali image as chief strategist and [00:17:29] putting himself on the cover of [00:17:30] magazines and leaking to Maggie Haberman [00:17:32] at the New York Times. And then he was [00:17:33] fired by Trump and called sloppy Steve. [00:17:35] Right? That was his career trajectory. [00:17:38] He Steve Bannon is the kind of person [00:17:41] who while he was at Breitbart, Breitbart [00:17:43] had an embassy and the embassy was on [00:17:45] Embassy Row in Washington DC. It was a [00:17:48] fairly large building and Steve [00:17:51] literally took up residence there so [00:17:53] that he could live there rentree. Steve [00:17:55] is the couch surfer of American politics [00:17:58] who somehow grifted his way up the [00:18:00] chain. He also then spent years [00:18:04] subsequently allegedly defrauding [00:18:07] people. He was prosecuted and plead [00:18:09] guilty [00:18:11] in a case in which he allegedly [00:18:13] defrauded [00:18:14] people who were supposed to have been [00:18:17] donating money to build the wall. The [00:18:19] DOJ prosecuted him in 2020 along with [00:18:23] several other defendants in the we build [00:18:26] the wall scheme that raised more than [00:18:27] $25 million. The DOJ alleged at the time [00:18:30] defendants defrauded hundreds of [00:18:32] thousands of donors, capitalizing on [00:18:33] their interest in funding a border wall [00:18:35] to raise millions of dollars under the [00:18:36] false pretense that all of the money [00:18:38] would be spent on construction. Well, [00:18:40] that didn't happen. As it turns out, in [00:18:42] truth, Bannon and his compatriots [00:18:45] received hundreds of thousands of [00:18:46] dollars in donor funds from We Build the [00:18:47] Wall, which they each used in a manner [00:18:49] inconsistent with the organization's [00:18:50] public representations, according to the [00:18:53] DOJ. [00:18:55] But don't worry, there was more there. [00:18:57] Then of course he had a very bizarre [00:18:59] relationship with a person named Guo [00:19:01] Wengai who was suspected for a very long [00:19:05] time of basically being a front for the [00:19:07] CCP. He was found guilty in July 2024 on [00:19:13] multiple charges including fraud and [00:19:14] money laundering. [00:19:17] He of course had been close friends with [00:19:19] Steve Bannon. They'd appeared on a boat [00:19:21] together where they had declared that [00:19:23] they were going to create an alternative [00:19:25] government of China. [00:19:28] well allegedly defrauded many many [00:19:30] people to the tunes of hundreds of [00:19:31] thousands or millions of dollars. [00:19:33] Steve was in his orbit [00:19:36] and that's who Steve Bannon is. And so [00:19:37] is it any surprise that Steve Bannon and [00:19:40] Jeffrey Epstein were pinging around? [00:19:42] Here are images again and and the reason [00:19:44] this is important is not just because [00:19:46] Steve is a trash human. The reason that [00:19:49] this is important is because Steve is a [00:19:50] person and there are many people in this [00:19:52] industry in the influencer and political [00:19:53] industry who will tell you that things [00:19:56] that they themselves are participating [00:19:58] in Steve Bannon [00:20:00] that that these are gigantic [00:20:02] conspiracies and that these gigantic [00:20:04] conspiracies are why you should give [00:20:05] them more power. Well, he is actively [00:20:07] working with Jeffrey Epstein. Okay, that [00:20:10] is that's crazy. [00:20:12] I mean, is the sad part is that it's not [00:20:14] crazy, but this is the OP. The op is [00:20:18] Steve Bannon working handinand glove [00:20:20] with Jeffrey Epstein and then turning [00:20:22] around and telling you that it's [00:20:24] intelligence op that encompasses all the [00:20:25] highest levels of government and it's a [00:20:27] child sex trafficking ring and who knows [00:20:28] better than Steve Bannon. What a bunch [00:20:31] of demoralization op [00:20:33] Seriously, [00:20:35] those are pictures of Epstein with Steve [00:20:37] Bannon. You know that I know a lot of [00:20:39] people who don't have pictures with with [00:20:40] Jeffrey Epste. In fact, the vast [00:20:41] majority of people that I know even in [00:20:43] the political industry do not have [00:20:44] pictures with Jeffrey Epstein. A search [00:20:46] of Steve Bannon in the DOJ's Epstein [00:20:49] files library produces 2,879 [00:20:52] unique results. A search of Epstein's [00:20:54] email box populates 526 results for [00:20:57] Steve Bannon. Steve Bannon was planning [00:21:00] to produce a Pro Epstein documentary [00:21:04] literally the day that Epstein was [00:21:05] arrested for sex trafficking. According [00:21:07] to the Hollywood Reporter, [00:21:10] according to the Hollywood Reporter, the [00:21:12] Epste funded doc was to feature [00:21:14] interviews with luminaries across media, [00:21:16] academia, and politics to reshape the [00:21:17] narrative. Among the high-profile [00:21:19] participants mentioned was Michael Wolf, [00:21:21] an Epstein pal and avid chronicler of [00:21:23] the Trump presidency who was advising [00:21:24] Epste at the time on how to handle [00:21:26] dealings with the presidency. [00:21:29] So, there is some two hours of the video [00:21:31] have been released. He apparently [00:21:32] interviewed Epstein for 15 hours. Did [00:21:33] Steve Bannon. Again, this is the guy who [00:21:36] is telling you he's the skeleton key [00:21:37] that unlocks everything. What a what a [00:21:40] true grift. What a true con. Because of [00:21:42] course, the solution to all of this is [00:21:44] that you need Steve Bannon to illuminate [00:21:45] the matrix for you and guide you out of [00:21:47] the wilderness as he launches a quick [00:21:49] sodic presidential run in 2028. [00:21:53] Early 2020 2019, Steve Bannon sits with [00:21:56] Jeffrey Epstein for 15 hours. We only [00:21:58] have about 2 hours and 15 minutes of the [00:21:59] tape. Here he was asking Epstein about [00:22:01] his fiscal expertise. [00:22:04] When I say no one understands the system [00:22:06] better than I do, it doesn't mean I [00:22:08] >> You always sound like a doctor you're [00:22:09] afraid is going to get sued for giving a [00:22:10] a thing. You're not you're not taking on [00:22:12] any liability. There's no contingent [00:22:14] liability here for [00:22:15] >> No, no, no. But the word understand is [00:22:17] the problem. I don't understand the [00:22:19] system. So that's I don't understand the [00:22:22] financial system. [00:22:22] >> Please stop. You cannot sit here and [00:22:24] tell me what we just went through. I'll [00:22:27] go through again the hedge fund [00:22:28] managers, the money managers, the [00:22:29] central bankers, the commercial bankers, [00:22:32] the heads of the investment banks, the [00:22:33] heads of all the trading desks, the top [00:22:35] uh economists, and I'll throw in the [00:22:37] business school lectures of Stanford. Of [00:22:39] all the top 200, 250, you can't name the [00:22:42] top of your head the guys are at least [00:22:44] at your level. You have to understand it [00:22:47] somewhat. [00:22:49] No, I'm sorry. We all don't understand [00:22:52] it. No one understands it. It's a [00:22:54] miracle. [00:22:56] It's this this that's part of the [00:22:58] problem. It's impossible to understand. [00:23:01] That word understand simply means if [00:23:03] this happens here that will happen [00:23:06] there. It's predictable. Understanding [00:23:09] means it's predictable. It's not [00:23:10] predictable. That's the problem. It's [00:23:12] very in complex systems. That was the [00:23:14] fascination. Is there a way to tease out [00:23:17] some level of predictability? [00:23:20] >> The whole purpose of this interview was [00:23:21] to rehab Jeffrey Epstein. Steve Bannon [00:23:24] asked Epstein about his ethics. Here's [00:23:26] what that sounded like. [00:23:28] >> We walked into that clinic where they're [00:23:31] giving that money out to these people [00:23:32] that are in the the most dire rates of [00:23:34] poverty and and and sickness and told [00:23:37] them that the money was coming from a [00:23:39] what are you class three sexual [00:23:40] predator? [00:23:42] >> Tier one. [00:23:42] >> Your was tier tier one's the highest and [00:23:44] worst. [00:23:44] >> No, I'm I'm the lowest. [00:23:46] >> You're the lowest. Okay. Tier one, [00:23:47] you're the lowest. [00:23:49] >> Um but a criminal. [00:23:50] >> Yes. [00:23:51] >> That the money came from them. What what [00:23:53] percentage of people do you estimate I [00:23:55] understand you don't like provill do you [00:23:56] estimate would say I don't care I want [00:23:59] the money for my children [00:24:00] >> I would say everyone said I want the [00:24:02] money for my children [00:24:03] >> did they know where the money came from [00:24:04] >> if I think if you told them I told him [00:24:07] the devil% the devil [00:24:08] >> himself [00:24:09] >> the devil himself said I'm going to [00:24:10] exchange some dollars for your child's [00:24:13] life [00:24:13] >> do you think you're the devil himself [00:24:17] >> no but I I do have a good mirror [00:24:20] >> it's a serious question do think you're [00:24:22] the devil himself. [00:24:24] >> I know. Why would you say that? [00:24:25] >> Because you have all the attributes. [00:24:27] You're incredibly smart. You remember [00:24:28] the devil is somebody knows what the the [00:24:31] devil's brilliant. You read Milton's You [00:24:33] read Milton's Paradise Lost. The [00:24:34] >> No, the devil scares me. [00:24:37] >> Oh my god. This is what Steve Bannon was [00:24:39] doing with his time after he was ousted [00:24:41] from the Trump administration was [00:24:42] figuring out ways to rehab Jeffrey [00:24:43] Epstein. They had some deep thoughts by [00:24:45] the way but Bannon and Epste on Socrates [00:24:47] which is what you need to hear from a [00:24:49] guy who is trafficking in minors and a [00:24:50] lifelong grifter. [00:24:53] Potentially one of the bad things to [00:24:55] teach children is how to write. [00:24:59] It's imp writing reading and arithmetic [00:25:01] was supposed to be everyone's supposed [00:25:02] to be taught but writing forces you into [00:25:05] a very narrow channel of thinking. You [00:25:07] have to write certain in a certain form [00:25:10] in a certain way in a certain linear [00:25:12] pattern. So your thinking becomes [00:25:14] somewhat narrow. The most interest the [00:25:16] reason I brought up writing is one of [00:25:18] the recent discoveries of mine with [00:25:20] respect to Socrates, Plato's and [00:25:21] Aristotle is they never wrote anything. [00:25:25] They spoke and people around who could [00:25:29] write wrote. Socrates could think. So [00:25:33] that that that was [00:25:34] >> Jesus of Nazareth was the same way, [00:25:36] right? Never wrote anything. [00:25:38] >> I thought he was a carpenter. [00:25:40] >> He he was a carpenter. Didn't he need [00:25:42] like a little carpenters tonight? I [00:25:43] don't get this, [00:25:44] >> but at least his written record. [00:25:46] >> Deep thoughts with these geniuses. Deep [00:25:48] thoughts with these with these moral [00:25:49] exemplars. By the way, there are a lot [00:25:51] of accompanying texts all in the Epstein [00:25:53] files showing the deep relationship, the [00:25:55] abiding relationship between Bannon and [00:25:56] Epstein, including April 2019, Bannon [00:25:59] scheduling media trading with Jeffrey [00:26:01] Epstein. Again, April 2019, Bannon [00:26:03] laying out the film process, how it [00:26:06] would work. [00:26:08] And then again, April 2019, Jeffrey [00:26:11] Epste asking if Woody Allen could join [00:26:13] his media training. [00:26:15] And then again, April 2019, [00:26:18] Steve Bannon coaching Jeffrey Epste on [00:26:20] how to handle questions from Alan [00:26:21] Dersowitz. [00:26:24] And then again May 2019, Steve Bannon [00:26:27] booking plane tickets to the island. [00:26:31] And then again, July 2019, Bannon asking [00:26:33] Epstein if they could film on the [00:26:36] island. Remember [00:26:38] this is a person who then went out and [00:26:40] retailed that the skeleton key to all [00:26:43] politics was there. He knew what was [00:26:45] there because he was part of it. [00:26:47] This is the difference between the giant [00:26:49] conspiracy theory that is a [00:26:50] demoralization op where you don't have [00:26:52] control of your life because there's a [00:26:53] group of elite people behind the scenes [00:26:54] controlling things and real conspiracies [00:26:57] meaning people combining for a nefarious [00:27:00] purpose. Jeffrey Epste and Steve Bannon [00:27:03] were combining for a nefarious purpose. [00:27:04] rehabbing of Jeffrey Epstein. And by the [00:27:06] way, Epste was strategizing with Bannon [00:27:09] on how to rehab Bannon after Bannon got [00:27:10] his ass kicked out of the [00:27:11] administration. In December 2018, there [00:27:14] are texts between Epstein and Bannon in [00:27:17] which Epstein texts him. If you Google a [00:27:19] picture of the word idiot, a picture of [00:27:20] Donald Trump comes up and Bannon texted [00:27:23] back pop-up picture signed. Remember, [00:27:25] this is the great Trump loyalist, the [00:27:27] person who says Trump is gonna run for a [00:27:28] third term. Epstein wrote, "If you have [00:27:30] a moment, you should meet my friend [00:27:31] Nicole. She is great." And Bannon wrote [00:27:33] back who? And Epste wrote back Nicole [00:27:35] Junkman, Countest. And Bannon wrote [00:27:37] back, "Where does she reside?" And [00:27:38] Epstein said, "London." And he says, [00:27:40] "Next time I'm there certainly. Love [00:27:42] converting aristos to our righteous [00:27:43] cause." [00:27:46] And then later in the same day, Epstein [00:27:47] texted, "Donald Trump Jr. says his dad [00:27:50] is a regtor. I think he should have said [00:27:52] regular." And Bannon wrote back, [00:27:53] "Brilliant," which is one of Bannon's [00:27:55] favorite words. [00:27:57] Then in March 2018 texts in which [00:28:00] Epstein says, "I received a bunch of [00:28:01] calls that Donald is losing it." And now [00:28:03] people are worried or usually quite [00:28:05] calm, more than worried. And Bannon [00:28:06] wrote back, "Today was embarrassing. He [00:28:08] had no idea what was in the bill and [00:28:09] tried to back out of it." And then they [00:28:11] talk about reinvigorating Davos. [00:28:15] And then you have Epstein trying to [00:28:17] advise Bannon on exactly how to get back [00:28:20] in. [00:28:22] And then of course you have the gross [00:28:23] texts between Bannon and Epstein. [00:28:26] Early 2018, Steve Bannon, quote, "Hell [00:28:28] is Paris Fashion Week." Jeffrey Epstein, [00:28:30] quote, "There's nothing left in my [00:28:32] testicles, but a speck of dust and a [00:28:33] puff of air." Steve Bannon, I'm putting [00:28:35] up a poster of you in my apartment. [00:28:39] November 2018. Jeffrey Epstein. Short [00:28:41] notice for Jet Charter, but we can for [00:28:43] tomorrow morning to Paris, lunch in [00:28:45] Paris, then fly you to wherever. Steve [00:28:46] Bannon, what a life. You are a pretty [00:28:48] good assistant. Jeffrey Epstein, [00:28:51] massages not included. [00:28:54] Just disgusting. Just truly disgusting. [00:28:59] December 2018. Jeffrey Epstein. I should [00:29:01] start my own reality TV show. Bannon [00:29:04] says, "Trump is reality TV. You are [00:29:05] film." Epstein. It makes Lion King look [00:29:07] like a PBS documentary. [00:29:09] Bannon, you and the pride. Jeffrey [00:29:11] Epste, the pride of Eastern Europe. [00:29:14] Bannon, mother Russia would argue [00:29:15] Ukraine is Russian. [00:29:19] Okay. [00:29:21] And the reality of course is that all of [00:29:23] this was allowing Bannon to live higher [00:29:24] on the hog than he otherwise would have. [00:29:26] It was an attempt to rehab Jeffrey Epste [00:29:27] and then he was going out just a couple [00:29:29] of years later and pretending like he [00:29:31] wasn't in on this and that he knew [00:29:33] nothing about it except for the gig [00:29:35] except he knew everything including the [00:29:37] entire gigantic conspiracy theory that [00:29:39] has now become the big ball of wax on X. [00:29:42] So what is all of this? What is all of [00:29:45] this? It is a demoralization op. That's [00:29:48] what all of this is. It is an op that is [00:29:50] designed to make you believe that great [00:29:52] conspiracy theory of society that your [00:29:54] life is not in your own control. It's [00:29:56] why people are ignoring the actual [00:29:58] conspiracies that are in the Epstein [00:30:00] files. The conspiracies between Peter [00:30:01] Mandelson and Jeffrey Epstein. The [00:30:03] conspiracies between Steve Bannon and [00:30:04] Jeffrey Epstein. [00:30:07] The conspiracies between other foreign [00:30:10] officials like in the French government [00:30:11] and Jeffrey Epste. The stuff that [00:30:12] actually there's evidence for. [00:30:15] It's an op designed to make you believe [00:30:18] that great conspiracy theory of society [00:30:20] and it is being run by literally the [00:30:22] same people in on the conspiracy with [00:30:24] Jeffrey Epste in the case of Steve [00:30:26] Bannon. It is a con and it is a scam. [00:30:29] Now that con and scam aren't relegated [00:30:31] to Steve Bannon. Of course, the pool [00:30:33] right now is really, really warm for [00:30:35] tons of influencers and politicians who [00:30:37] wish to promote the idea that society is [00:30:39] rigged and that if you follow their [00:30:41] particularly crappy advice and give them [00:30:43] attention and therefore cash, you will [00:30:44] somehow break the matrix and your life [00:30:46] will become better. It's a lie. Again, [00:30:48] it's not relegated to Candon, we live in [00:30:50] a time that is rife with the con. Which [00:30:53] brings us to one of the sad stories of [00:30:56] the day. A person who calls himself [00:30:58] Clvicular has been arrested. [00:31:01] Clvicular is um better known, you know, [00:31:05] at least in his ID, as Braden Peters. He [00:31:07] is a 20-year-old and uh and Braden [00:31:10] Peters, who seems like a truly sad human [00:31:12] being. He has 700,000 followers on [00:31:15] TikTok, and he spends his days punching [00:31:17] himself in the face, taking meth, [00:31:19] self-sterilizing, [00:31:21] and then calling it looks maxing. [00:31:24] And he makes a lot of money off of his [00:31:26] kickstream. Apparently, [00:31:29] it is all about vanity for him. And [00:31:31] again, it is all about demoralization. [00:31:33] The idea is that women are all horrible [00:31:35] people. You should not aim for getting [00:31:36] married and having a family. That's a [00:31:38] sucker play. That's a loser play. You [00:31:40] should look smack like this That [00:31:43] way you can mo people, which is to say [00:31:46] that you can humiliate them or over [00:31:48] you're the alpha male if you if you [00:31:51] treat yourself [00:31:52] like an extraordinarily affeminite man [00:31:55] at a salon 27 hours a day and then go [00:31:59] out drinking and look depressed in the [00:32:01] corner so that you're not gesturing. [00:32:04] I know there are people who actually are [00:32:06] doing this sort of stuff and following [00:32:07] this sort of stuff. If you think that [00:32:09] I'm exaggerating when I when I discuss [00:32:11] Clvicular, who again was arrested and [00:32:13] the reason he was arrested is because as [00:32:14] a 20-year-old, he was apparently [00:32:16] carrying around fake ID and prescription [00:32:18] drugs. [00:32:20] And we'll see how the Justice Department [00:32:21] works for him. Well, it turns out that [00:32:25] the just maxing didn't work. He has now [00:32:27] been jailmaxed. And anyway, here he was [00:32:30] explaining looks m for those of you who [00:32:32] speak English, looks maxing means making [00:32:33] yourself look good. But the way that you [00:32:34] do that is apparently by hitting [00:32:35] yourself in the face with a hammer. I'm [00:32:37] not even kidding you. We live in a [00:32:38] society so stupid and nihilistic that [00:32:40] people who are admired by a great many [00:32:43] young people hit themselves in the face [00:32:45] with hammers. I wish I could make this [00:32:47] up. It is not possible to make this up. [00:32:49] Here he was explaining looks maxing. [00:32:52] Well, the objective is to get better [00:32:54] looking because that's going to allow [00:32:55] for more opportunities, allow for better [00:32:58] overall treatment. You know, just that [00:33:00] subconscious bias in people that you're [00:33:02] leveraging by, you know, becoming better [00:33:04] and better looking is really worth all [00:33:07] the effort that you put in. [00:33:09] Yeah. The effort apparently includes [00:33:12] taking crystal meth so that you are very [00:33:14] skinny and also steroiding yourself to [00:33:15] the tune of auto sterilizing [00:33:18] which is which is apparently a thing [00:33:19] that he did. He self sterilized because [00:33:20] he took so many so many of these drugs. [00:33:23] He also has a very deep philosophy. His [00:33:26] philosophy is nihilistic idiocy. He [00:33:28] explained that that political philosophy [00:33:30] to Michael Moles. [00:33:32] >> This next election cycle, who's going to [00:33:34] win? It's going to be Gavin Newsome [00:33:36] against JD Vance because JD Vance is [00:33:39] subhuman and Gavin Newsome bugs. [00:33:41] >> Is JD Vance is subhuman? [00:33:43] >> Yeah. [00:33:43] >> What What makes you say that? [00:33:45] >> Uh he's got a very short total facial [00:33:48] width to height ratio. He's obese. Uh [00:33:51] very recessed side profile. Whereas [00:33:54] Newsome is like 63 Chad. So, [00:33:56] >> so you're JD is very tall. JD is got to [00:33:59] be [00:33:59] >> Well, still [00:34:01] Gavin Newsome obviously mogs him to [00:34:03] death. [00:34:03] >> So, you think you're a Newsome head. You [00:34:05] prefer Newsome to the vice president. [00:34:06] >> I'm just telling you who's going to win. [00:34:08] >> Do you prefer him though? [00:34:10] >> Um, [00:34:12] honestly, [00:34:14] it's it's hard to say, but Newsome being [00:34:18] that much more of a moger and like [00:34:20] having a president who's like fat and [00:34:24] especially that young. You think he's I [00:34:25] don't think he's fat. [00:34:26] >> I would say [00:34:26] >> he's a bigger guy for sure. [00:34:28] >> It's just like it's just embarrassing. [00:34:29] Like how are you you fat and you expect [00:34:32] to like lead a country? You can't even [00:34:33] be in shape, you know? [00:34:35] >> So you like you got let's say you got to [00:34:37] vote. It's 2028. [00:34:39] >> I'm voting for Gavin Newsome. [00:34:40] >> You're voting for Gavin Newsome. [00:34:42] >> You can't be that you can't be that [00:34:43] subhuman. Yeah. Clvicular a great moral [00:34:46] lynchpin of our society. Here he was [00:34:49] talking about how Charlie Kirk wouldn't [00:34:50] have been murdered if you were better [00:34:51] looking. Would Charlie Kirk have gotten [00:34:54] assassinated if he were Chad? Well, [00:34:56] probably not. And here's why. [00:34:57] Good-looking people experienced [00:34:58] something called the halo effect. So, [00:35:00] it's quite possible that if Charlie were [00:35:01] to be betterl looking, someone wouldn't [00:35:03] have hated him enough to assassinate [00:35:04] him. What happened to him is quite [00:35:06] terrible, and this might be an [00:35:07] insensitive video to make. But, I'm [00:35:08] really trying to bring awareness to how [00:35:10] brutal the black pill is. Looks really [00:35:12] are going to determine the quality of [00:35:13] your life to a high degree. So, if [00:35:15] you're not doing everything you can to [00:35:16] maximize them, you're missing out. [00:35:19] Yeah. Notice the black pill. The black [00:35:20] pill is the big thing these days. is the [00:35:22] black pill. Whether it's Steve Bannon or [00:35:23] whether it's Andrew Tate, whether it's [00:35:24] Clavvicular or whether it is a myriad of [00:35:26] influencers and politicians, the idea [00:35:28] that you are not in control of your own [00:35:29] life and the only way to get out of that [00:35:31] is to give these people your money and [00:35:32] watch their crappy content and join [00:35:34] their crappy scams and give them more [00:35:37] power and then they will go out there [00:35:39] and tell you how now you have escaped [00:35:41] the matrix while you are legitimately [00:35:43] giving them money to do so. I mean, it [00:35:44] is a con from beginning to end. And [00:35:47] again, this is this is very big in the [00:35:49] in the world of the internet, which is [00:35:50] why you should definitely keep your [00:35:52] teenagers off the internet and off of [00:35:54] social media. [00:35:56] Andrew Tate spent this week explaining [00:35:57] why he doesn't read books because, you [00:35:59] know, in the real because the real world [00:36:01] is a big conspiracy. It's just there [00:36:03] there's a gigantic conspiracy out there [00:36:05] and no one can succeed unless you give [00:36:08] him money at his real world scam [00:36:10] factory. If you do that, then maybe you [00:36:12] can succeed and you can be just like [00:36:13] Andrew Tate, a miserable man who wanders [00:36:16] the globe trying to evade criminal [00:36:17] charges while renting cars that he [00:36:19] pretends that he owns and occasionally [00:36:23] gets hit with yet another charge. [00:36:25] Exciting stuff. Exciting stuff. Here was [00:36:28] Andrew Tate explaining just yesterday, I [00:36:31] believe, why he doesn't read books and [00:36:32] why books are for losers. [00:36:35] >> Basically, I'm too smart for books. [00:36:38] Listen, let's let's hit the road. [00:36:41] >> Yeah, I'm uh I'm too smart for books. [00:36:43] So, uh Twitter's upset about that. [00:36:45] There's obviously some broke dude who [00:36:48] reads books who's really upset by the [00:36:51] fact that I have a $110 million car [00:36:54] collection and $400 million of property [00:36:58] around the world. I'm one of the most [00:37:00] well-known relevant people. I'm one of [00:37:03] the most famous people on the planet. I [00:37:06] get asked to do podcast, right? This is [00:37:09] thetick. First of all, the inflation of [00:37:10] the wealth is insane. There have been [00:37:11] full investigations into how much money [00:37:13] he actually has. But I have no doubt [00:37:14] that he can find an enormous number of [00:37:16] disaffected young men who believe the [00:37:18] world is stacked against them and [00:37:19] therefore wants to buy into what he [00:37:21] calls the real world, which I believe is [00:37:22] his new name for Tate University [00:37:25] or Hustler UN. He keeps retitling it. [00:37:28] You are running out of time. You are [00:37:30] going to wake [music] up one day at some [00:37:31] point in the future and you're going to [00:37:32] hate yourself because by the time you [00:37:34] realize how important that was, it is [00:37:35] going to be too late. We tell you how to [00:37:38] get rich now. Earn money the same day [00:37:40] you join. You will have money in your [00:37:41] bank within 24 hours. This is your [00:37:44] chance. Time is running out. Join the [00:37:45] real world now and start making money [00:37:47] today. [00:37:49] Wow, what a pitch. What an amazing [00:37:51] pitch. By the way, his past efforts, for [00:37:54] example, Hustler University, it turns [00:37:56] out they're gigantic alleged scams. [00:37:58] Here's the thing. If you follow these [00:38:00] people, and they've created little media [00:38:02] empires for themselves, and they've [00:38:04] created little echo chambers for [00:38:05] themselves, and in some cases, large [00:38:06] echo chambers for themselves based on [00:38:08] their scam. If you listen to what these [00:38:10] people say, and you do what they [00:38:11] recommend, you are likely to be [00:38:12] miserable in your life. I'm not [00:38:14] directing this at Steve Bannon or [00:38:16] Clvicular or Andrew. I don't give a [00:38:17] about those people, but there are a lot [00:38:19] of young men, particularly young people [00:38:21] generally, who are buying into this [00:38:24] miserable thought process. truly [00:38:26] miserable because the people you're [00:38:28] watching are miserable losers. Truly [00:38:30] miserable losers. Steve Bannon is a [00:38:32] thrice divorced, couch surfing con [00:38:34] artist who cannot properly wear a [00:38:35] non-rinkled shirt. Cleavvicular is a [00:38:37] misguided 20-year-old high on drugs and [00:38:39] apparently self-ststerilized who punches [00:38:41] himself in the face in order to looks [00:38:42] smack while spending his evenings [00:38:44] hanging out with low IQ racist adults. [00:38:47] The very definition of hell. Andrew Tate [00:38:49] is a career con artist who have [00:38:50] artificially inflates his own wealth in [00:38:52] order to sucker demoralized young men [00:38:54] into giving him more of their money and [00:38:56] attention and who to date has made [00:38:58] approximately zero lives marketkedly [00:39:00] better and who has to pretend that he's [00:39:02] experiencing a true sense of life [00:39:05] fulfillment by renting expensive cars [00:39:07] and walking around shirtless with a [00:39:09] cigar in a madeover Bucharest industrial [00:39:11] warehouse. [00:39:13] Here is what is going to make you [00:39:14] happier and this is why all of this [00:39:15] matters. Here's what's going to make you [00:39:16] happier. Stop listening to these chaos [00:39:19] and demoralization agents. Instead, we [00:39:22] all need to understand that we are [00:39:23] privileged to live in the greatest [00:39:24] country in the history of the world. [00:39:26] Take the white pill. Your choices are in [00:39:28] front of you. Yes, life has obstacles. [00:39:31] And in politics, it's our job to [00:39:32] overcome them collectively. We can do [00:39:34] that. But most of the obstacles in your [00:39:36] own life are things that you can [00:39:37] overcome. The biggest decisions in your [00:39:39] life. Getting married, it's a thing you [00:39:41] can do. Having kids, it's a thing you [00:39:43] can do. Taking care of your own kids, [00:39:44] that's a thing you can do. Joining a [00:39:46] church, that's a thing you can do. [00:39:47] Bettering your skill set to get a job, [00:39:49] starting your own business, being a [00:39:50] useful part of society and a fulfilled [00:39:52] human being. The vast majority of those [00:39:55] decisions are decisions you can make, [00:39:56] which makes you one of the more [00:39:57] fortunate human beings on planet Earth [00:39:59] in its history. Do not get taken in by [00:40:02] this conspiracy industrial complex, much [00:40:04] of which is being promoted specifically [00:40:06] by people who are conning you over it. [00:40:08] Steve Bannon just being exhibit 1A in [00:40:11] the pantheon of con artists who are [00:40:13] attempting to blackpill you for their [00:40:14] own specific benefit. All righty. [00:40:17] Meanwhile, in other news, the president [00:40:19] of the United States has now repealed [00:40:21] landmark climate findings from the EPA. [00:40:25] This is a very, very good thing. The [00:40:27] Trump administration, according to the [00:40:28] Wall Street Journal, is planning to [00:40:30] repeal the Obama era scientific finding [00:40:32] that serves as the legal basis for [00:40:33] federal greenhouse gas regulation, [00:40:35] according to US officials in the most [00:40:37] far-reaching roll back of US climate [00:40:39] policy to date. The reversal targets a [00:40:41] 2009 endangerment finding, which [00:40:43] concluded that six greenhouse gases [00:40:45] posed a threat to public health and [00:40:47] welfare, which was a way for the EPA to [00:40:49] use the Clean Air Act to regulate carbon [00:40:51] emissions. They said that clean air the [00:40:53] clean air act somehow was was connected [00:40:55] with carbon that carbon was endangering [00:40:57] people which which is really really [00:40:59] stupid. EPA Minister Lee Zeldon quite [00:41:02] properly said this is the largest act of [00:41:04] deregulation in the history of the [00:41:05] United States. So this removes the [00:41:07] regulatory requirements to measure, [00:41:08] report, certify and comply with federal [00:41:10] greenhouse gas emission standards for [00:41:12] motor vehicles and repeals associated [00:41:14] compliance programs, credit provisions [00:41:15] and reporting obligations for industries [00:41:17] according to administration officials. [00:41:19] Now, this won't apply to rules governing [00:41:21] emissions from power plants or oil and [00:41:22] gas facilities. [00:41:25] Well, the reason this is good is because [00:41:27] those regulations are costing the [00:41:28] American taxpayer and industries [00:41:30] legitimately tens of billions of dollars [00:41:32] every single year. Now, that doesn't [00:41:35] mean every company is going to take [00:41:36] advantage of the new set of freer [00:41:39] regulations because many of them are [00:41:40] worried that the minute a Democrat gets [00:41:42] elected, these things go right back in [00:41:43] place. But for the moment, it does [00:41:45] relieve pressure on a lot of the [00:41:46] companies that are attempting to operate [00:41:48] efficiently in a modern economy. [00:41:51] So, President Trump had already moved [00:41:53] toward that. Officials say the roll back [00:41:55] equates to more than $1 trillion in [00:41:57] regulatory cuts. They said that [00:41:59] rescending the finding would result in [00:42:00] an average per vehicle cost savings of [00:42:02] more than $2,400. You want to you want [00:42:03] to lower cost, you want to make things [00:42:05] more affordable, get rid of useless [00:42:06] regulations that do not actually achieve [00:42:08] that which they seek to achieve. [00:42:10] That is a big move by President Trump [00:42:12] and the administration. A welcome move. [00:42:15] President Trump. I think he's throwing [00:42:18] out numbers, but you know, I'd rather [00:42:19] that we that we shoot for the stars and [00:42:21] and if we miss, then then we still end [00:42:24] up with a moonshot economically. Here [00:42:26] was the president with Larry Cuddlo on [00:42:27] Fox Business talking about the growth [00:42:29] rates that he is pursuing. [00:42:32] >> We should be at 15%. If I'll tell you, [00:42:36] if our new head of the Fed, who I think [00:42:38] is going to be great, and he's he's a [00:42:41] really high quality person, but if he [00:42:44] does the job that he's capable, we can [00:42:47] grow at 15%. I think more than that. [00:42:51] >> Now, again, that that is highly [00:42:53] unlikely. The United States has not [00:42:55] grown at 15% any year that I can [00:42:58] remember. I think historically, it's [00:43:00] just not really possible since we're [00:43:02] such a gigantic economy. With that said, [00:43:04] obviously deregulation is a huge part of [00:43:06] what President Trump is trying to do, [00:43:07] and that is a very, very good thing. [00:43:09] Now, it'll be interesting to see what [00:43:11] the newly selected Fed chief Kevin Walsh [00:43:13] will do if he is in fact confirmed as [00:43:15] the new head of the Federal Reserve. [00:43:17] According to the Washington Post, [00:43:18] President Trump's choice to lead the [00:43:20] Federal Reserve has spent years [00:43:21] criticizing the central bank's enormous [00:43:22] bond portfolio. Any push to [00:43:25] significantly shrink the Fed's $6.6 [00:43:26] trillion balance sheet of bonds and [00:43:28] mortgage back securities could actually [00:43:30] push mortgage rates higher, working [00:43:31] against the president's goal. that would [00:43:33] that would amount to him taking assets [00:43:34] that the Fed currently owns and pushing [00:43:36] them back out to the broker middleman [00:43:39] which essentially leads to a sort of [00:43:41] deflation in the dollar and higher [00:43:43] interest rates. So the question is [00:43:46] whether that can be solved for by [00:43:47] generally lowering the overnight [00:43:49] interest rates. He's sort of push [00:43:50] pulling with regard to the economy and [00:43:52] it'll be interesting to see whether that [00:43:53] works or not. That that is Worsh's [00:43:55] entire strategy is shrink the balance [00:43:56] sheet of the Federal Reserve while [00:43:58] simultaneously lowering the interest [00:43:59] rates at which banks are lending out the [00:44:01] money. That that that is the goal that [00:44:03] he is attempting to solve for. And what [00:44:06] that really is is a bet that more [00:44:08] liquidity in the economy while [00:44:10] simultaneously divesting the Federal [00:44:12] Reserve of a bunch of government [00:44:14] subsidies that what that's going to do [00:44:15] is cause more investment in the private [00:44:17] sphere. Again, all of this policy is [00:44:19] having an incredibly salutatory effect [00:44:21] on, for example, the Dow Jones [00:44:23] Industrial Average, which closed at over [00:44:25] 50,000 for the first time over the [00:44:27] weekend and is now trending up toward [00:44:29] 51,000, which is pretty unbelievable. [00:44:33] And whether that's reflected in the [00:44:34] labor markets is going to be the big [00:44:35] question for President Trump. And this [00:44:37] is something that honestly the all all [00:44:39] the people who are big AI advocates, [00:44:41] they really should start talking pretty [00:44:43] openly about what happens to the job [00:44:45] markets. There's an enormous amount of [00:44:47] dyspsia and concern about the transition [00:44:50] of the jobs markets. People in white [00:44:52] collar jobs particularly are feeling [00:44:53] very worried that they're not going to [00:44:54] be able to have a job because AI is [00:44:56] getting so good it's going to replace [00:44:57] their jobs. Now listen, this has [00:44:59] happened before. Giant technological [00:45:01] changes. New jobs that we have never [00:45:02] even heard of will be created and other [00:45:05] jobs will go away because the cost of [00:45:07] production will drop to zero. If you see [00:45:09] some of the new video technology that's [00:45:11] being made right now, the cost of [00:45:12] producing a movie is going to drop so [00:45:14] radically. It's going to it's going to [00:45:15] shred entire industries in Hollywood, [00:45:18] just to take a quick example. And you're [00:45:20] seeing this with regard to the legal [00:45:21] industry as well. [00:45:24] Maybe it's too early for the AI experts [00:45:26] to sort of predict what's going to [00:45:27] happen. But if they want less dispsia [00:45:29] and less risk of overregulation, then [00:45:31] they probably should start retailing [00:45:33] right now what the future economy looks [00:45:35] like in terms of jobs. I mean, on the [00:45:38] negative side of the ledger, the [00:45:39] president did threaten on Monday not to [00:45:40] allow the opening of a new bridge [00:45:42] connecting Canada with Detroit, which um [00:45:44] that that I don't get. Seems like if you [00:45:45] build a bridge, it should probably be [00:45:46] open. The Gordy How International Bridge [00:45:48] is close to completion after nearly 8 [00:45:50] years of construction paid for by [00:45:51] Canada. That cable state bridge, [00:45:53] according to the Wall Street Journal, [00:45:54] running 1.5 miles, marks a new piece of [00:45:56] trade infrastructure to alleviate [00:45:58] congestion at the Detroit Windsor [00:46:00] Ontario Gateway, which is the busiest [00:46:01] commercial land crossing in the United [00:46:03] States. And President Trump says that [00:46:05] he's basically going to keep that bridge [00:46:06] closed until he's able to leverage some [00:46:10] concessions out of the Canadians. [00:46:13] And this this this seems [00:46:15] counterproductive to me. It is cutting [00:46:17] off your economic nose to spite your [00:46:18] face. And at a time when you're seeking [00:46:20] economic growth, cutting off our chief [00:46:21] trade partner, because Canada is our [00:46:23] number one trade partner, that that [00:46:24] still seems like an own goal for no [00:46:27] apparent reason. And meanwhile, you [00:46:30] know, it seems that, as I've been saying [00:46:31] for years at this point, all any party [00:46:34] that wishes to win, all they have to do [00:46:36] is just be normal. And yet, that seems [00:46:38] like a very difficult thing for for [00:46:39] every party. I don't know why it's so [00:46:41] tough, but apparently it's very tough [00:46:43] for any of these parties to program into [00:46:45] normal land. [00:46:47] Texas right now looks to be shaping up [00:46:50] as a real doozy the Texas Senate race. [00:46:53] So, that one could theoretically tip the [00:46:55] position of the Senate in 2026. Right [00:46:58] now, if you were to sort of give odds, [00:47:00] you would suggest that Democrats are the [00:47:01] favorites in North Carolina. They are [00:47:03] the favorites in Maine. And they are the [00:47:04] favorites likely in Ohio. That one's [00:47:05] pretty close. And then they need to pick [00:47:07] one more off. And so, is that going to [00:47:09] come from Texas? Will it come from Iowa [00:47:10] where Jonie Ernst is stepping down? Is [00:47:12] it going to come from Alaska where Dan [00:47:14] Sullivan is is seen as somewhat [00:47:15] vulnerable? Texas. The Democrats seem to [00:47:19] be on the verge of nominating possibly [00:47:21] Jasmine Crockett as their Senate [00:47:22] nominee, which Republicans can only pray [00:47:24] for. or she would be an awful, awful [00:47:26] Senate nominee. It's pretty astonishing [00:47:29] that she is even competitive. According [00:47:31] to a new poll from the University of [00:47:33] Houston's Hobby School of Public [00:47:34] Affairs, she has 47% support ahead of [00:47:38] state rep. James Talerico, who's sort of [00:47:40] the latest hot thing for the donor [00:47:42] class. He's like the beta or of this [00:47:43] election cycle. [00:47:46] Crockett has strong favorability among [00:47:48] likely Democratic primary voters. The [00:47:51] chances, by the way, that she wins a [00:47:52] general election pretty low, but could [00:47:55] only be boosted by Republicans then [00:47:57] embracing a candidate with a lot of dirt [00:48:00] to him. That candidate would presumably [00:48:01] be Ken Paxton, the attorney general of [00:48:03] the state, [00:48:05] over John Cornin, the multi-term [00:48:07] senator. There's a three-way primary [00:48:10] that is occurring right now in Texas [00:48:12] between John Cornin, Representative [00:48:13] Wesley Hunt, and Ken Paxton. [00:48:17] It's a very narrow race. That same hobby [00:48:19] school poll showed Paxton holding a [00:48:21] seven-point lead over Cornin, 38% for [00:48:24] Paxton, Cornin at 31, Hunt at 17%. [00:48:30] Now, the reality is that the polls seem [00:48:32] to consistently show that if it were [00:48:34] Terico versus Paxton, for example, that [00:48:36] is a much closer race than Telerico [00:48:38] versus Cornin. Again, it is possible [00:48:40] that this just ends up being another [00:48:41] bear trap for Democrats and they pour [00:48:43] billions of dollars into a race that [00:48:45] they can't win. at the same time, why [00:48:48] Republicans would would seek the less [00:48:50] electable candidate for the Texas Senate [00:48:52] seat. That that is a that is a move that [00:48:55] I that I do not fully understand. Then [00:48:56] again, again, the Democrats are doing [00:48:58] the same thing. The Democrats refuse to [00:49:00] divide off from their more insane [00:49:01] positions. Kentucky Governor Andy [00:49:03] Basher, who wants to run for president [00:49:04] in 2028, no one understands why he [00:49:07] continues to be radical on the trans [00:49:09] issue. It it is amazing to me the [00:49:10] Democrats cannot divide off from the [00:49:12] single most toxic issue in their [00:49:13] portfolio. [00:49:16] But we rarely talk about the why. People [00:49:18] want to know what drives us. Especially [00:49:19] in a world with social media where where [00:49:21] everyone's looking for the next [00:49:23] authentic thing. Uh for me, that's my [00:49:25] faith. Uh most of the decisions I make [00:49:27] are based on that golden rule that says [00:49:29] we love our neighbor as oursel. And that [00:49:31] parable of the good Samaritan that says [00:49:32] everyone is our neighbor. [00:49:34] >> And so when I've taken actions like uh [00:49:36] vetoing the nastiest piece of anti-LGBTQ [00:49:39] legislation that ever came through my [00:49:40] state, I described it in those terms. I [00:49:43] said my faith teaches me that all [00:49:44] children are children of God. [00:49:46] >> Yeah. [00:49:46] >> And I didn't want people picking on [00:49:47] those kids. [00:49:49] >> Now again, what he is talking there is [00:49:51] about the transing of the children. Good [00:49:53] luck to Democrats if they decide to [00:49:54] embrace this position. All Americans [00:49:56] want is some semblance of normaly. They [00:49:58] are begging for it and no one will give [00:50:00] it to them. And that is why among many [00:50:01] other reasons there is so much political [00:50:03] dispsia at the moment. All righty folks. [00:50:05] Coming up we'll get into a little bit of [00:50:07] foreign policy. [00:50:09] The Chinese were handed control of Hong [00:50:11] Kong by the British. It turned out that [00:50:12] was a really bad decision. Remember, in [00:50:14] order to watch, you have to be a member. [00:50:15] If you're not a member, become a member. [00:50:16] Use code Shapiro at checkout for two [00:50:17] months free on all annual plans. Click [00:50:19] that link in the description and join [00:50:20] us. [00:50:21] >> Okay. [00:50:36] No, not even close. Two. Three. [00:50:39] Whatever. You know what? 2 3 4. [00:50:49] >> I cannot believe we're back here again. [00:50:50] Ben, [00:50:51] >> if the Ben Shapiro shows mom and Ben [00:50:53] after dark is a cool mom [00:50:57] >> Jay, [00:50:59] >> you know, like irresponsible [00:51:02] [laughter]