Pardon The Insurrection
Where we discuss the ongoing Congressional and criminal investigations of the January 6 coup orchestrated by the former President. And because insurrection wasn't enough, we'll also cover the Department of Justice espionage investigation, investigations relating to other members of Congress, and more. Don't worry, we're not handing out any pardons.
Pardon The Insurrection
Trump Actually Pardoned The Insurrectionists
Could a presidential pardon be a greater threat to democracy than 9/11? Get ready for a rollercoaster of revelations as we uncover former President Trump's shocking decision to pardon 1,500 individuals involved in the January 6th insurrection. We unpack the implications of this unprecedented move, exploring how it challenges the very fabric of democracy. Alongside this, we take a satirical journey inspired by Dave Chappelle's skits, drawing uncanny parallels between political absurdities past and present, and critiquing the media's role in these unfolding narratives.
Fast forward to the political chaos of 2025, where controversial statements from Trump, an Elon Musk presidency, and Biden's ceasefire negotiation between Israel and Hamas add fuel to the fire. We navigate the turbulent waters of misinformation, examining Musk's alleged Nazi salute that sparked intense public debate. By analyzing current events, we question the accountability of today's political figures and the integrity of democratic institutions under such tumultuous leadership.
As our exploration deepens, we confront the intricate web of media manipulation and political propaganda, from TikTok bans to Trump's alleged financial maneuvers. Our discussion reveals a nation grappling with information control and political self-enrichment. We untangle the complex threads connecting Trump's family and figures like Jeffrey Epstein, shedding light on the intertwining of money, power, and politics. Join us as we unravel these narratives, emphasizing the critical need for transparency and the relentless fight to preserve democracy.
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One, two, three, four no longer a joke. Trump is actually pardoned the insurrectionists. The joke is become real. We've been warning you for years that, while the title of this podcast was tongue-in-cheek, we need to add an S to it.
Speaker 2:Pardon the insurrectionists. Now, that's our continuation.
Speaker 1:He's done it. It's official. We'll get to that momentarily. So it has been quite a week. Uh, the jack smith report dropped tldr. He fucking did it. Um, I think that's pretty clear at this point. There was a lot of evidence to suggest that trump would have been likely found guilty if he had ever made it to trial. But because a bunch of idiots in america to defeat America by voting for the insurrectionists, he's not going to be held accountable for those actions. And one of his first acts while he was in office. By the end of the day, he had issued numerous pardons to what like a I don't know a thousand people, a thousand criminals.
Speaker 2:Oh, it was like 1,500, 1,600. 1,500, 1,600?.
Speaker 1:1,500, 1,600. All of them Plus and maybe a little bit more than a dozen commutations. This included clemency for individuals who were engaged in violent activity on January 6th, including assaulting police officers. Individuals from the Oath Keepers who were found guilty of seditious conspiracy Fucking.
Speaker 2:Proud Boys Enrique Tarrio. Yes, I heard while I was listening to Legal as Fuck, because, well, I have a crush on Popock.
Speaker 1:Legal AF. They don't call it Legal as Fuck. But yeah literally he was like Tarrio's already pouring it up in Miami, celebrating that legal as fuck um.
Speaker 2:But yeah, literally he was like.
Speaker 1:I will tell, ben is already pouring it up in miami celebrating, right I will tell ben to inform um michael popock that you indeed have a crush on him, um, but yeah, so trump was asked about uh the pardoning of the individuals convicted on uh convicted of violent crimes on January 6th and his comments, of course, are extraordinarily infuriating. I hate this fucker. What were we thinking, america? What were you guys doing?
Speaker 3:Relating to events that occurred on January 6th 2021.
Speaker 4:Okay, and how many people is this?
Speaker 3:I think this order will apply to approximately 1,500 people, sir.
Speaker 4:So this is January 6th. These are the hostages, approximately 1,500 for a pardon, full pardon, full pardon. We have about six commutations in there where we're doing further research. Nice to see you again.
Speaker 1:All right, that's Trump signing the pardons, even though he had previously said, before he took office, that they would discuss pardons on an individual basis. They would look at the accusations, the crimes that individuals were convicted of, before receiving a pardon, and it turns out, as per the usual, that was a total fucking lie. He signed a blanket pardon for nearly all of them, all of them with a handful of commutations even the ones that fucking pled guilty to assaulting fucking police officers like I just literally can't like it's extraordinarily disheartening.
Speaker 1:Look, these are traitors to the United States of America. Let's be clear regardless of what they were convicted for, what they were doing at the Capitol on January 6th 2021, is attempting to stop the legislative branch from transferring power from one president to the other, and that is the very definition of attack on the United States and attack on the Constitution and an attempt to basically overthrow democracy. The enemy transfer of power within effect in democracy. Now, I know this sounds hyperbolic, I might have said it a couple of times on here, but so 9-11, while he held, is the most impactful attack on the United States, or at least terrorist attack on the United States, in American history. I think it's number two actually, because, regardless of how successful Al Qaeda might have been on 9-11, even if the plane had hit the Pentagon and another plane had hit the Capitol and another plane had hit the White House and the two towers, so on and so forth, it was extraordinarily destructive and a lot of people died. And if they had managed to kill Congress and kill military officials and somehow even managed to take out the president, a plane that successfully struck the White House, our democracy would have survived right. We would have just elected new officials. We would have elected a new president, we would have appointed new military officials to take the positions of those who were lost and democracy would have continued. Yes, it would have been an extraordinary tragedy and it would have definitely harmed the United States, but our democracy wouldn't have ended if the attack on the Capitol had been slightly more successful, in terms of the fact that the insurrectionists were at the Senate chambers within five minutes of entering the building and they were just barely led away by one specific black Capitol police officer. If they had made a right turn instead of a left turn to chase the police officer away, it's entirely possible that they could have not only kept Congress hostage but maybe killed members of Congress, prevented the peaceful transfer of power and Trump would have been a dictator. And that would have absolutely ensured the end of our democracy, because after that, we certainly would not have had a 2020 election.
Speaker 1:And I mean you think about that in the context of the fact that we knew what happened. We all watched it play out live on television and then, four years later, we, through the electoral process, we put that person back in power. It's absolutely mind-boggling, insane, like I don't understand what people were thinking like why people's memories are so short. Um, obviously, propaganda is super effective. I feel like not that the Democratic Party are the bad guys in this regard, I guess just because we have two sets of standards for each party. I feel like I expected the Democratic Party to spend more time ensuring that the memory of January 6th never let the public's mind, and they decided for electoral purposes, I suppose to no longer focus on January 6th, on a violent insurrection that nearly ended American democracy, and they left the space, and all of the right-wing media filled it with the idea that January 6th was a hoax, or it was led by Democrats, or there were the FBI.
Speaker 1:It was a psyop and all of that bullshit, all of that or and you know contradictory messages saying the people who did attack the Capitol on January 6th, they were hostages, they were innocent, it was show trials. And the problem with like leaving opportunities for Republicans to spread disinformation is, if enough people say it over the course of enough amount of time, it tends to change people's minds or at least cloud their ability to discern fact from fiction. And it's just an unfortunate error in judgment on behalf of the Democratic Party, just letting Trump off the hook for this politically, because I mean again, this is just. We're at a point in time where I don't understand. Like this is the only person I've ever seen that doesn't face any political consequences.
Speaker 2:This was literally anyone else, anyone else all Howard Dean did was give a fucking hearty, and he was out of there, we got him out of there, ty.
Speaker 1:He was out of there, we got him out of there, ty. He was done career over.
Speaker 2:I don't even know if he's still alive. I've heard zero about Howard Dean since then nothing.
Speaker 1:we've heard nothing from him, just done out of the public spotlight forever, like you said, and when you said it I was like actually I don't know if he's alive either, so it's entirely possible he might no longer be with us. I wouldn't know, because no one's going to be like. Rest in peace, howard Dean, when he passes. He's not going to get.
Speaker 2:No, he's going to get all the accolades that Herman Cain got.
Speaker 1:You're right. It's not going to be flags at half staff commemorating the death of Howard Dean. Yeah, it's. We live in the most insane of times. Obviously, trump being back in the White House means absolute chaos. It didn't take long, but, as he was sworn in on Inauguration Day, there were a number of just absolutely insane mishaps, like him taking the oath of office without swearing, with his hand on the Bible. But though it's entirely possible that if he had touched that Bible, he might have burst into flames.
Speaker 2:But though it's entirely possible that if he had touched that Bible he might have burst into flames, there was a stack on the Resolute desk of executive orders. I am more concerned about those that legacy media has not talked about.
Speaker 1:Right, we'll get to that as they come.
Speaker 1:There were numerous executive orders, however, that were extraordinarily damaging.
Speaker 1:One with Trump trying to end birthright citizenship through executive order.
Speaker 1:I mean basically eliminating the 14th Amendment, although the Supreme Court already neutered half of it as we speak, by not only granting Trump presidential immunity but basically making it nearly impossible to enforce this section, disqualifying any political official for acting in an insurrection without just direct legislation written by Congress, any political official for acting in an insurrection without, um, just direct legislation written by Congress.
Speaker 1:So I mean I don't understand why we have to write an acting legislation when, like the thing says, if you aid engage in insurrection, you are hereby disqualified. I mean, I don't Supreme court out here saving Trump's ass by shitting all over the constitution. So it's entirely possible, while people are arguing on Twitter and all of the social media platforms that hey, he can't do that by executive order, the Constitution, the Supreme Court might say otherwise and I'm sure numerous other states at this point are already suing the Trump administration over that executive order and it's likely going to end up in court. And, because it's a constitutional issue, it's likely going to end up in front of the supreme court and they might interpret the 14th amendment in ways that don't make no goddamn sense.
Speaker 2:So for anyone that's what they do. So I'm not, I would not be surprised. No, and that's the whole point. Like, the whole point of like doing these anti-constitutional laws, executive orders etc. Is to get it in front of the court, right wanting the court.
Speaker 1:He's appointed two of three of his own justices uh pre-vetted to, generally speaking, uh rule in a way that is more advantageous to the Republican party.
Speaker 2:And the fucking Republican party Right.
Speaker 1:And then Clarence Thomas and uh Alito. They've both been bought and paid for by a right wing billionaire. So you've got at least four, if not five, votes, generally speaking, in favor of all kinds of Trump insanity going forward for the next four years. And I'm sure a couple of those are going to retire and they'll be replaced by even worse people. Judge.
Speaker 1:I have a alien cannon and judge Kazimierk in Texas, who is, who sits on the Fifth Circuit of Appeals, and he's yeah, he's like the one judge in the circuit, yeah, and so a lot of times Republicans will try and file suits in his district specifically because it'll go to his court and he'll represent all kind of ridiculous shit. So Trump's also withdrawn the US from the Paris Climate Accord a horrific disaster for combating climate change, even though we've recently seen numerous natural disasters here. And climate change, even though we've recently seen numerous natural disasters here, not just over the course of the past few years, but even as recently as a couple of weeks ago with that massive fire on the outskirts of LA there. Just withdrawing the United States from the World Health Organization.
Speaker 2:Even the fucking CEO of Exxon was like yeah, no you know when the oil company saying yeah, don't, don't pull out of the paris climate accords, yeah, not not great.
Speaker 1:They're not great at all. We've got a brand new muslim ban, although it's not. It's disguised to appear as though it is not a muslim ban. It is, in fact, a muslim ban, um. You know, if you're here in the country, um on a visa or such, and you were engaging in pro-palestinian protests, you are likely going to be deported, and I'm sure they're going to extend that to American citizens.
Speaker 2:I was looking at you uncommitted.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so Biden's executive order allowing Medicare to negotiate lower drug prices, that's gone. So expect to pay, you know, three, four, five hundred dollars for a month's supply of insulin.
Speaker 2:kudos to all you trump voters out there who have diabetes yes, and I want you to have to look your nana in the face. Meanwhile. You're like sorry, you can't afford your insulin. I voted for this.
Speaker 1:It's some fuckery out there, it's all, just just. He's only been in office for you know about the time you're hearing this likely two days, and it's disaster after disaster, and he's just gotten started. It's unfortunate, but he did have comments on where the United States of America is going policy wise, and I'm sure this is one of the most important issues of our time, which Trump is willing to come down on one particular side of the aisle and I don't think it's going to make the price of your eggs any cheaper whatsoever.
Speaker 4:This week, I will also end the government policy of trying to socially engineer race and gender into every aspect of public and private life. We will forge a society that is colorblind and merit-based. As of today, it will henceforth be the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders male and female.
Speaker 1:Guys, I don't think that's going to make your grocery prices cheaper.
Speaker 2:No, not when I saw it was like fucking $5 for fucking dozen eggs.
Speaker 1:today, yeah, yeah, it's only two genders in America. That's um. Gonna lower gas prices, gonna make the price of homes cheaper, I would imagine, because there's there are fewer genders, uh, that need to be housed.
Speaker 2:Um, I'm not exactly sure, of course. I mean I'm pretty sure that, like just mandating that you only recognize two genders, is going to bring our gas prices way down.
Speaker 1:Right. Also, he snuck in there that he's going to make America colorblind, which doesn't mean that race no longer exists and no longer, you know, affects people in the United States. It just means that they're going to ignore racism.
Speaker 2:Ignore all of the racism.
Speaker 1:Yes from here on out. That's extraordinarily helpful to anyone of any minority in the United States who happen to also vote for Trump. You're fucked. Congratulations. You did it to yourself. I mean, the Onion did the thing. They're like America defeats America. I think that's.
Speaker 2:That is pretty fucking spot on. No, but really the thing they're like America defeats America, that I think that's that is.
Speaker 1:That's pretty fucking spot on no, but but really, though, if you were concerned that Trump wasn't focused on the most important priorities facing American citizens to this day, I have some reassurance for you that he absolutely was, and we have a clip for you here.
Speaker 4:The Panama Canal, which has foolishly been given to the country of Panama after the United States. The United States I mean think of this spent more money than ever spent on a project before and lost 38,000 lives in the building of the Panama Canal. We have been treated very badly from this foolish gift that should have never been made and Panama's promise to us has been broken. The purpose of our deal and the spirit of our treaty has been totally violated. American ships are being severely overcharged and not treated fairly in any way, shape or form, and that includes the United States Navy. And, above all, china is operating the Panama Canal, and we didn't give it to China, we gave it to Panama and we're taking it back.
Speaker 1:This nigga's insane Ty.
Speaker 2:He's insane ty that's he's insane I swear to god, just made my blood boil listening to that fucker and how he lies, the way the rest of us breathe endlessly he just throws shit out there just be saying shit. It'd be crazy saying shit saying shit that makes no goddamn sense all right.
Speaker 1:So dave chappelle predicted this 20 years ago now, I believe, on his show chappelle show, however you feel about his sociological stances on gender in the year of our Lord, 2025. He was ahead of his time in predicting the political landscape of modern day America in a skit that he did that was called Black Bush. It was like a play on. Like you know, george Bush's behavior was absolutely absurd, but if it had came from a black person, howard would have sounded. It was all kind of insane shit.
Speaker 1:Like you know, he, like the Iraq war, for instance. He was like, yeah, we're going down there, we're going to get these, get the oil. And then it's like, like you know, um, what was he saying? Uh, oh, he's like, oh yeah, what's the un gonna do? You ain't got no army, right, it was all kind of crazy. We go into space, space, uh, just all kind of insane. And it's like a it's an absolute 100 percent parallel to the kind of insane shit trump is doing now. Except chapelle did it 20 years ago and accurately predicted the future. Uh, just yeah, he'd just be saying shit, man, he'd just be saying shit, uh. And, generally speaking, it's all lies. I mean, we've had numerous instances of this already. When he said he was gonna would call up putin and have the war in ukraine ended in 24 hours he's been president for longer than 24 hours at this point guess what? He did not call putin. There is no uh agreement to have the war new fall.
Speaker 2:Who this?
Speaker 1:who this? But in fact he did call uh president xi in china convinced him or at least he said that he was convincing him to ensure that the war in Ukraine ended, and I'm assuming what that means is send more aid and weapons and such to Russia to help Putin try and take over the rest of Ukraine Also. So Biden did manage to finally get a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas successfully. They practically used the language that Biden had suggested over the course of negotiations over the past year and a half, over the course of negotiations over the past year and a half. So kudos to Biden for doing that, although to some degree, I expect the ceasefire to only last long enough to get the hostages back, and then Netanyahu will continue to try and level Gaza to the ground. So kudos to everyone who voted for Trump because, biden, he could get the ceasefire on your timeline, even though he's been working on it endlessly. So that's exciting. Yeah, it just man. Disaster after disaster.
Speaker 2:Whew, good God we're not even through January yet Nope, we're three weeks in. And we've got it has already been a shit show.
Speaker 1:Yeah Well. Yeah, look, we're like just two days into the Trump administration and it's been a shit show. So there were numerous inauguration scandals, but one that was very unfortunate pertained our actual president, Elon Musk, where he made a Nazi salute and everyone on the Internet Twice. Yeah well, the people set the internet ablaze, Numerous people pointing out the fact that it was an extraordinarily obvious Nazi salute, with others defending it, saying he was just sending out his heart. We will let you decide for yourselves. Hail Hitler.
Speaker 2:Ironic. Looks extraordinarily similar to the hell hitler salute.
Speaker 1:I don't know I'm getting nazi vibes, I mean you know not, not trump quoting hitler nearly verbatim over the course of his 2024 campaign? If that didn't do it for you, well, that should make it pretty clear there. It's extraordinarily hard to argue now. A lot of people were saying, well, he's just, you know, elon's just autistic. Uh, yeah, I know a lot of people with autism. None of them are nazis. Yeah, and look so. And I think we played a video on a previous episode where Elon's father was talking about his Elon's mother and her parents being part of the Nazi party in Canada and they didn't like the way the things were going, so they ended up moving to South Africa.
Speaker 2:Apartheid South Africa.
Speaker 1:When have you ever heard of anybody being like yeah, I want to go to apartheid, it's awesome. Only a fucking Nazi would say some shit like that Would say some shit like that.
Speaker 1:And then, when apartheid failed, guess what happened? They got the fuck up out of there. That shit let you know. But yeah, it's extraordinarily funny watching millions of people across the United States come to realize that the wealthiest man on the planet who is an immigrant, by the way is not only pro-fascism but a straight up Nazi. Endless information that suggests that he is not a good person, that he is a bad actor and he is out engaging in the most egregious behavior possible in order to gain power to do horrific things to the United States. And he bought him a presidency. So the Nazis won. It took them nearly 80 years, but they finally figured out a way to be victorious by slipping through the cracks and biding their time and amassing a fortune. And now the president of the United States is what we? We got our first president from Africa. Unfortunately, it's a white guy from apartheid. So yeah, ace job, ace job, america. You, you did it. We have one fucking job. And Ace job, america, you did it.
Speaker 2:We had one fucking job.
Speaker 1:And we fucked it up. Yep, and I say we, and what I really mean is them fuckers. Because I voted for Kamala Harris, I voted for Joe Biden, I was going to vote for Joe Biden again, but a bunch of insiders in the party and the media decided that they only wanted a one term presidency out of Biden. And they got that and ensured the electoral victory of Trump. So here we are.
Speaker 1:You know one other thing about Trump pardoning the insurrectionists a couple of things Right. So, typically speaking, in fascist countries, you know it's all over when the militias become a substitute for law enforcement. And trump pardoning his own private army, or at least the some of the people who led the insurrection are all, for all intents and purposes, part of his army. Um, it does two things. It says that if you're willing to break the law in my name, you won't be held accountable, which gives people license to engage in violence in all kinds of ways that maybe law enforcement would be held accountable for, and now these people won't.
Speaker 1:And then two like if you're a Republican member of Congress, you were there on January 6th and you saw a mob attempt to murder you in cold blood in order to keep Trump in power. It is like a flash. It is like a flashing red signal saying, hey, trump's probably going to try and kill you again. Saying, hey, trump's probably going to try and kill you again. Right, because so. I would assume. A lot of Republicans in Congress are like, well, we're not going to do anything to impede Trump's wishes, which means he's going to be emboldened to do more and more insane shit because there won't be any resistance If they're going to become a rubber stamp to that. Well, at some point Trump is going to feel like well, why do I even need the rubber stamp? Why don't I just get rid of congress and become full-on dictator?
Speaker 2:exactly, exactly, which is exactly what he around Congress to do, whatever evil fuckery he wants to do right and he's going to find a way also.
Speaker 1:So over the course of the past weekend, there was just an unlimited amount of insanity surrounding the TikTok ban that was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Biden. But if you're media literate, you would know the origin of the TikTok ban began with the Trump administration and for proof, like we have a video here of Trump on numerous occasions setting his support for the ban on TikTok, when I wanted to disable TikTok three years ago, I was met with opposition from rhinos Democrats and everyone else.
Speaker 4:They actually went to court in an effort to stop me.
Speaker 3:We're looking at TikTok. We may be banning TikTok. We may be doing some other things or a couple of options, but a lot of things are happening, so we'll see what happens, but we are looking at a lot of alternatives. With respect to TikTok, we gave them until September 15th.
Speaker 4:After that they got a closed shop.
Speaker 1:All right. So the ban went into effect this weekend, although President Biden said he wasn't going to do anything to enforce it. Even so, tiktok decided to shut itself down and, after which, american users were greeted with a response saying it was basically unfortunate that TikTok shut down, but they were working with the Trump administration to get the issue resolved and hopefully bring TikTok back to Americans. Now Biden is still in office at this point, right? So Biden saying that he wasn't going to enforce the ban means that there was no outside force responsible for TikTok shutting down. They just made the decision to turn the fucking thing off. And then the very next day, sunday, while Biden was still in office, they cut TikTok back on and said thanks to the Trump administration, the issue with the ban was resolved and they would be resuming service in the united states.
Speaker 1:This was a fucking propaganda ploy, uh, to win trump some favorability with young voters and young americans who use tiktok and create content and whatnot. It's straight up bullshit. So if you're using tiktok as we speak, you have ample evidence to suggest to you that, even though tiktok wasn't shut down, uh, because it's property of well I know bite dance isn't technically property of the chinese, uh communist parties I mean 60 of bite dances.
Speaker 1:Owners and investors are american companies like black rock yeah, but what you can assume from that is that it is in fact an arm of the, the chinese government. I'm sorry. That's the only way that this could even possibly happen that they would shut it down and try and make Biden look bad and give credit to Trump for bringing you back, even though he didn't have any involvement whatsoever with the shutting down or the services coming back online. It's a. It's a fucking psyop. Now I have been hearing, have been hearing, uh, I've been seeing some videos of content creators on tiktok posting videos and those videos being deleted or suppressed.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's not dissimilar from what eli must did to twitter when he took over suppressed a lot of left-leaning accounts and amplified a lot of right, right-wing accounts.
Speaker 1:Um, I you know, for the people who were saying TikTok is this valuable commodity and it's the way to get information out to the world, I got to tell you look, I don't know how long that's going to last, because if they can pull the plug on your individual videos as they see fit, it really just becomes a propaganda arm, and we've got enough of that between meta out here suppressing posts referring about issues in the United States, politically and otherwise. It's not looking great, ty. We're going to be in for a long four years here, because mainstream media is not going to do us any favors. They're not going to do their jobs, and now social media is bought by a bunch of either right-wing billionaires or under the control of foreign adversaries who are, in essence, probably trying to bribe Trump in a favorable US policy at the expense of the American public. It's going to be rough. It's going to be rough, but yeah yeah it's just, yeah, it's I.
Speaker 2:I can't, I, I'm still just like I don't know. Really, I'm just trying to wrap my head around all of this and how the right has co-opted every media outlet platform.
Speaker 1:Washington Post journalists are quitting.
Speaker 2:Kim Jong-un. He's jealous right now of he is.
Speaker 1:He's like damn y'all. You guys are doing better over there in America than I do over here in North Korea.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like, like, seriously, like there is no from Prince to. You know, the TV, news, social media, they've all been co-opted by the right wing, and the gaslighting and the lies that we are going to be bombarded with for the next four years, it's going to be fucking insane, like on next, next level insane. I mean, hitler was able to do it like with just fucking the stormer, you know, like he didn't have all of these platforms that are available today to they didn't.
Speaker 1:But so, in theory, I guess the analog for social media and TV news outlets such as Fox at that time would have been newspapers and radio. And one of the first things the Nazi Party did when they came into power, even though they won a minority of the vote, is they took over media, radio and print journalism specifically. Now, they didn't outright control all the media outlets to begin with, but they were pumping disinformation through various channels that they did have control over, and they took the Steve Bannon approach of flooding the zone with shit Right. So, even though there were outlets, you know, printing out accurate information, there was so much disinformation mixed in with what people were consuming and it was difficult to discern truth from untruth, fact from fiction, and they use that to kind of empower themselves politically. And, you know, by the time there was another election they were, they won that handily, and the rest was history.
Speaker 1:Uh, you know, the united states is about to experience a similar state. Uh, I mean, we're in the age of dense information as it as it is, but it's only going to get worse from here. And so there's this. I know this is sounds ridiculous, but there was a video game. Um, once upon a time. I mean, I guess it's been over 20 years now since the release release of this video game that also kind of accurately predicted in, in some ways, what we're experiencing was it's called metal gear solid right, uh, two, I believe.
Speaker 1:Um, so the premise of the game is that there's a secret organization working behind the scenes, um, that's puppeteering numerous governments across the world.
Speaker 1:A handful of rich people used a massive fortune to create numerous agencies and companies and all kinds of things to orchestrate a plan to kind of control the flow of information all across the world, because if you control people's access to information, you can control what they think, what they do, how they act, so on and so forth. And it culminated in a plan to create, like this massive ai machine that could automatically filter out anything that they might find harmful to, whatever their plans were, and then replace that information with inundane things that kind of distract the masses. Long story short, you could look at it as like a counterpart to how social media today works, with all of the people in control at this point, pledging their loyalty to Trump and doing whatever he deems, whatever he requires of them, in order to maintain power in exchange for financial gain. It's just, it's extraordinarily disheartening. I just and I know Biden the other day used the word oligarchy. I'm not entirely sure Americans even know what that word means, and I can tell you that they don't they likely don't.
Speaker 1:And by the fact that, like Google searches for the word or oligarchy skyrocketed and this is like a similar. This is similar to how, on election day, you know google searches for the phrase did biden drop out, uh, hit their peak, not, not. Not when biden dropped out, not over you know the course of the weeks when kamala harris was named the nominee, not during the dnc convention. Like this is how little attention people pay. Like the phrase didn't did biden drop out, the google searches for that phrase hit an absolute peak on fucking election day. That's. That's where this country is in terms of and tariffs like.
Speaker 2:Right after he was elected, searches for what are tariffs?
Speaker 1:people waited until after they voted to figure out what the fuck it was that they voted for.
Speaker 1:I can't like dumbest country, but let's um explain how dumb it is. It is Cause it's even worse than you could possibly imagine. So, over the course of the weekend, a couple of days before uh by, or rather, trump was sworn into office, he launched a shit coin called, you know, trump. He's got a Trump meme coin, uh, the value of which skyrocketed to, I think, somewhere over $60 billion in one evening. I don't know what it's sitting at now, but it reached a peak to where the valuation of Trump's shares of his coin was somewhere around 60 to 70 billion dollars, after which, um, melania Trump launched her own meme coin, which destabilized the Trump the value of the Trump coin. So investors lost numerous billions of dollars after seeing it skyrocket to absurd amounts and then it dropped like 60 percent, like the next year.
Speaker 1:Well, that was thanks to melania, right? Um. So that gambit enriched melania and trump and his family in the inner circle to the tune of tens of billions of dollars. Trump is now officially a billionaire, at least on paper. Um, you know, I don't know how much of the value of the coin For the first time in his life.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he's an actual billionaire.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't know how much of the coin they've sold off at this point, but last I checked a couple of days ago it was more than $500 million. So he's basically taking a $500 million bribe because we don't know where a large majority of the money that was pumped into Trump's pocket and it's nearly untraceable.
Speaker 1:It's not completely untraceable, but it's difficult to untangle that Well it will be with this incoming DOJ, so yeah, oh yeah, this is never going to get investigated, but this was basically Trump enriching himself to the tune of billions of dollars through the White House, and that's what it is At this point. Anyone who wants Trump to be an audience to their demands or their wishes or negotiations, they've got to have a way to basically ensure that they end up with a favorable result. Just by purchasing some of his shit coin or engaging in business dealings with him, such as what the UAE Is that where the new Trump Tower is going?
Speaker 2:The Emirates probably yeah emirates probably, yeah.
Speaker 1:So for all those people who out there, who were irate that hunter biden shouldn't have a job because his dad was president, well, you've got trump and his family enriching themselves with billions of dollars from unknown origins. And that's not even counting the 40 million dollars bezos sent to melania trump in exchange for her life rights.
Speaker 2:Well, you did know, like. You know, like, at first she was like, oh, she wasn't going to live at the White House, she was going to. But after she was on like Fox and Friends, and after the Bezos deal was, she was, oh yeah, I'm going to live at the White House, I'm going to. Yeah, it'm going to, I'm going to live at the White House, I'm going to. Yeah, it was nothing but a bribe, because we've seen her more in the past.
Speaker 1:Yeah we have been here, we've seen, yes, we've seen her more since she got that 40 million dollars in Bezos than we've seen since they left the White House in 2001. Than we've seen since they left the White House in 2001. Yeah, it's wild, but you know, look, I would say that part of the reason Melania even ended up meeting Trump in the first place was due to an introduction through Jeffrey Epstein when she was a model, and I'm assuming she was paid to engage in activities with Trump. And so it all comes full circle. Money was probably the incentive to get her with Trump in the first place, and now money is incentive for her to move back into the White House with Trump now that he's been reelected.
Speaker 2:They said that she's going to live in her own apartment in the White House.
Speaker 1:Well, for now, right, because if Trump somehow manages to end birthright citizenship considering we don't even know how Melania got hers she's likely to be deported along with JD Vance's wife. She was a fucking immigrant too, and that concludes this episode and Barron, and Barron. Yeah, we can tack on a couple of Trump's kids, because, well, it's funny, the Republican Party has all this hate for immigrants and yet Trump married two of them and knocked them up multiple times. And that concludes this episode of Part of the Insurrection.
