Hiding pics and and brainwashing the masses (08-09-2024--Hour2)

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[00:00:28] All right, let's go to the phones here and get Dean on the program. Hello, Dean.

[00:00:33] Hi, Pete.

[00:00:34] Hey, how are you?

[00:00:34] Sound good today? Because it's a Friday, right?

[00:00:37] Yes, sir.

[00:00:38] Hey, I'm a big proponent of freedom of speech because I always felt it was like sort of a binary kind of thing. Either you have freedom of speech or you don't. I mean, there's no middle ground. So unless that's a flawed assumption, the way I handle it is I shut off all social media.

[00:01:04] So and then everybody can have all the freedom of speech. So and then everybody can have all the freedom of speech they want. But I still have to make my own decisions and don't have to deal with all the consequences.

[00:01:14] But you where are you saying you deactivate your own personal social media accounts?

[00:01:22] Yeah, I'm not on Facebook. I'm not. I don't go to Twitter. I don't do any of them. And I because I'm a soul. I believe in freedom of speech. And, you know, it's what people do with freedom of speech that I that I have the issue with. And if you can't depend on what you're hearing, you know, you should either find a source that you're satisfied with. Or like I listen to WBT. I listen to, you know, your your news and your updates and everything.

[00:01:51] And that's good enough for me. Well, we appreciate that, obviously. But you're relying on us to monitor all of these different streams of information and then curating the stuff to provide to you. Right.

[00:02:04] Well, I don't actively seek it or look for it or go to interpret it. If it if it comes to me, I you know, that's what freedom of speech is. I mean, I have to you have to have freedom of ears to you.

[00:02:17] You know, you either listen to everything or you don't, I guess.

[00:02:23] Well, I'm not sure. I'm not sure I've ever read of the freedom of ears in the Constitution.

[00:02:29] It's it's you know, if you don't have freedom of speech, I guess you don't have freedom of ears. There's another thing that goes together. So right.

[00:02:37] Right. Because it's what you're being said. Yeah. So I just you know, you I don't think you can do away with it if you're going to have freedom of speech.

[00:02:45] So what you've got to do is all of a sudden become selective and you've got to start to discern for yourself.

[00:02:51] Well, yes, absolutely. And that should always be the case.

[00:02:56] The problem is when people insert themselves into the mix to prevent you from hearing things and they will use technology in order to mask various various outlets from the public or starve them of advertising revenue.

[00:03:13] So they can never compete. And so people will never hear those messages.

[00:03:17] Dean, I do appreciate the call. It's very loud in your car, I think.

[00:03:21] It's not sure if you're driving a truck or something. It's very, very loud.

[00:03:28] James Lynch over at National Review.

[00:03:31] He's got a story headline.

[00:03:34] Google admits to omitting Trump assassination attempt from search autocomplete feature.

[00:03:44] All right. So give the details here.

[00:03:47] But you guys remember that? Remember, like I'm old enough to remember when that when that guy tried to murder Donald Trump and everybody was like, oh, my gosh, like, look at that picture, all the momentum.

[00:03:58] And remember that?

[00:04:00] Like, oh, he just won the election, people were saying.

[00:04:04] It was a long time ago.

[00:04:06] Anyway, an attorney for Google's parent company admits that the autocomplete tool, do you know what that means when I say autocomplete?

[00:04:17] If you go to Google, and look, I rarely use Google as a search engine.

[00:04:24] I've talked about this before.

[00:04:25] I use the web browser Brave, and it's got its own search engine inside of it.

[00:04:32] They also have partnered with DuckDuckGo as a search engine, which doesn't collect your information and all that.

[00:04:40] Because Google has corrupted its search results.

[00:04:46] And in doing so, it guides users to certain outcomes and certain links.

[00:04:52] And it collects a lot of information on us in the process.

[00:04:57] Anyway, when you start to type something in, like if you start typing in totally awesome guy, it automatically defaults to a picture of me.

[00:05:06] No, I'm kidding.

[00:05:07] No, if you start typing in, you know, Trump assassination, it'll autocomplete for you.

[00:05:14] It'll just fill in that bar.

[00:05:16] Now, you have the option to like, oh, no, that's not what I meant to type.

[00:05:19] And you could just keep on typing, and it won't automatically take you someplace.

[00:05:24] But these autocomplete features are now prevalent all over the place.

[00:05:27] And Google's autocomplete tool for its search function did not include the assassination attempt.

[00:05:35] So when you started to type it, and then they would pull up this little menu underneath of all of the, like, and then you could just click on one of them.

[00:05:42] Like these various options, or are you trying to complete this search term or this search term?

[00:05:47] And they give you like, you know, five, six, seven different options.

[00:05:50] And it wouldn't pop up in that.

[00:05:53] Oh, come on, Pete.

[00:05:54] This is such not a big deal, you know.

[00:05:58] But the admission came after the apparent search issues drew controversy online.

[00:06:03] Alphabet, which is the parent company, their lawyer, informed the House Judiciary Committee that bugs in Google's autocomplete tool prevented it from predicting searches about the attempt on Trump's life.

[00:06:17] The built-in protections that Google installed for searches related to political violence were, he said, out of date.

[00:06:25] And it prevented the search autocomplete feature from generating results on the assassination attempt against Trump now, what, three weeks ago?

[00:06:34] Google's autocomplete feature experienced similar issues when users searched for President Donald.

[00:06:41] Google's account for President Donald.

[00:06:43] And some other related terms.

[00:06:45] The attorney said that the bugs were fixed after they were brought to Google's attention.

[00:06:51] Google also claimed that an algorithm error was responsible for broadcasting news stories about Vice President Kamala Harris when users searched for Trump's name.

[00:07:06] Because that could totally happen, I guess.

[00:07:10] What?

[00:07:11] Have you noticed that all of these errors, they always go one direction?

[00:07:17] You never hear somebody goes and tries to type in Kamala Harris and all of a sudden it brings up all of this pro-Trump stuff.

[00:07:22] You never hear that.

[00:07:24] It's always the other way around.

[00:07:25] Trump himself and many conservatives strongly criticized the apparent issues with Google searches to the point where Google felt compelled to issue a lengthy statement addressing accusations of political censorship.

[00:07:41] They said, quote, after the horrific events in Butler, Pennsylvania, those predicted queries should have appeared but did not.

[00:07:48] Once the issue was flagged, we started working on improvements and they are already rolling out.

[00:07:53] You can see many relevant predictions now.

[00:07:55] Now, the issue with the President Donald search autocomplete applied equally to other presidents, such as President Obama.

[00:08:05] So if you tried to type in President Barack Obama, it would take you to Kamala Harris.

[00:08:12] Well, I guess that actually is true.

[00:08:14] That does make sense.

[00:08:18] I kid, I kid.

[00:08:20] They're totally not the same person.

[00:08:21] Google is not the only major tech company to face scrutiny over how it's handling the assassination attempt on Trump.

[00:08:27] Meta, the Facebook parent company, faced blowback for suppressing the images of Trump, the fist pump in the air thing.

[00:08:35] Trump told Fox News that the CEO of Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, called him personally to apologize.

[00:08:45] Trump said he actually apologized.

[00:08:48] He said they made a mistake and they're correcting the mistake.

[00:08:51] He also noted Google did not call him about the search issues.

[00:08:55] A spokeswoman for Meta previously clarified that Facebook's fact-checking systems were erroneously applied to the image of Trump after doctored photos began circulating that resembled the real photos.

[00:09:11] So that's why they had to soft-sensor the real photo, not because it made him look totally awesome, not because it inspired people to be like, wow, look at that guy get shot in the head and is up there like, yeah!

[00:09:26] You know, no, no, no.

[00:09:28] It wasn't because of that.

[00:09:29] It was because there were some fake photos that looked like that real photo, which made him look awesome.

[00:09:35] And so we had to shut them all down just, you know, to be safe.

[00:09:40] Again, always in one direction.

[00:09:42] And by the way, maybe, just maybe, I wouldn't be so sensitive to this story if we didn't see this story about the major news outlet telling media people to bury the photo.

[00:09:55] Because it could help Trump.

[00:09:59] Pete, welcome to the program.

[00:10:01] Hello, Pete.

[00:10:02] How are you?

[00:10:04] Great, Pete.

[00:10:05] Hope you are.

[00:10:05] I am.

[00:10:06] I cannot complain.

[00:10:06] Well, I do complain, actually.

[00:10:08] I've made a pretty good living at it so far.

[00:10:10] So anyway, but doing all right.

[00:10:11] You do it as well as anyone I know, Pete.

[00:10:13] Thank you.

[00:10:14] Good for you.

[00:10:15] Hey, I think we're so blessed here, Pete.

[00:10:18] I went from the cult of Trump now to the cult of Musk.

[00:10:21] Hmm.

[00:10:22] The reason being is if Elon Musk didn't exist, we'd be right worried back a few years ago with the essentially ship.

[00:10:31] Okay.

[00:10:32] And the reason why it's a unique situation, because the guy is brilliant and probably the most brilliant man in the world, plus the richest man in the world on top of it.

[00:10:41] The guy can pretty much do whatever he wants.

[00:10:45] Okay.

[00:10:46] You know, they can threaten him with a space program and all that stuff, government contractors.

[00:10:51] But, you know, there's no way in the world Russia or China wouldn't welcome that guy with the red carpet.

[00:10:56] No question about it.

[00:10:57] So I just think we're in a great situation.

[00:11:00] I'm so happy that he's doing what he's doing and opening up because I just saw where more people get their news from X than any other source, even BT, believe it or not.

[00:11:09] That's crazy.

[00:11:10] I know.

[00:11:12] It hurt my feelings when I didn't see that.

[00:11:14] But anyway, the other thing he's talking about, if you've seen this, is starting a search engine.

[00:11:20] Yes.

[00:11:22] And, you know, as long as he doesn't do a bias one way or the other, I'm good with it.

[00:11:27] I want total exchange of freedom with ideas and debate.

[00:11:31] I think it's good for the health of the country, the health of the world, in fact.

[00:11:34] Right.

[00:11:35] And Elon Musk, it's always important to keep in mind that Elon Musk was not some sort of right winger.

[00:11:40] I mean, this guy who, you know, has been developing electric vehicles.

[00:11:44] He was the darling of the left for a very, very long time.

[00:11:47] But the things that he has seen in the weaponization of government has him greatly disturbed.

[00:11:56] It's not that he's some sort of, you know, big Trumpian kind of character.

[00:12:01] It's that he is scared for what is in store.

[00:12:06] And I watched his interview with Jordan Peterson a couple of weeks ago.

[00:12:10] And he talks about the woke mind virus is what he calls it.

[00:12:15] And it claimed one of his own kids.

[00:12:19] And so he's that's his mission is to kill it, to kill this woke mind virus, he says.

[00:12:25] And part of that is what he's doing with Twitter, with X.

[00:12:29] I just wish he hadn't renamed it.

[00:12:32] That's all.

[00:12:33] Well, yeah, I guess he wanted to give it its new identity.

[00:12:35] I can understand that.

[00:12:36] But you're right.

[00:12:38] He is in a unique position to do this, obviously.

[00:12:41] Yeah.

[00:12:41] Well, he has like you've heard the term screw you money.

[00:12:46] Like, that's what he's got.

[00:12:48] And that gives him this unique opportunity to not care about what other people or even governments have to say about him or to him or whatever.

[00:12:59] He can go right around them.

[00:13:01] And now he's got this social media platform that he wants to develop into a true marketplace.

[00:13:07] And so we'll see if it's successful.

[00:13:09] I think, you know, he's still got some problems because there's a lot of remnants in the code that that still throttle certain people and political views.

[00:13:21] And so but but I'd like to think that he is making progress.

[00:13:24] Yes, I think so.

[00:13:26] But but even to a larger point, the money is absolutely without critical.

[00:13:30] But it's that what's inside of his head is the biggest thing.

[00:13:33] It's his brain power.

[00:13:34] Yeah.

[00:13:35] Yeah.

[00:13:35] If you haven't if you haven't had a chance, go check out his interview that he sat for with Jordan Peterson.

[00:13:41] It's on the Jordan Peterson podcast.

[00:13:42] It's it's like an hour and a half.

[00:13:44] And it's fascinating to listen to his to his philosophy and how he came to it and his life story that he gets into.

[00:13:51] Because Peterson is a clinical psychiatrist.

[00:13:54] So, yeah.

[00:13:55] So they get into a whole bunch of like philosophy and stuff.

[00:13:58] It's it's very interesting.

[00:13:59] Pete, I appreciate the call.

[00:14:01] Sure.

[00:14:02] All right.

[00:14:02] Take it easy.

[00:14:04] Yeah.

[00:14:05] Musk is a unique character.

[00:14:07] Unique person, as we all are.

[00:14:09] But I don't know what what the landscape would look like right now.

[00:14:14] I mean, because you've got to go back.

[00:14:16] Remember, you know, he came along and he gave access to guys like Glenn Glenn Glenn Greenwald and Schellenberger and Taibbi gave him access to Twitter emails.

[00:14:31] Remember, which which started ripping down the walls that that had masked the censorship and the algorithms that Twitter was using.

[00:14:40] And they published a series of exposés called the Twitter files.

[00:14:47] That's right.

[00:14:48] Right.

[00:14:51] Sorry.

[00:14:52] I said it.

[00:14:53] So it's my fault.

[00:14:54] But, yeah, they did a whole series of reports on it.

[00:14:57] And.

[00:14:58] We got a peek behind the curtain.

[00:15:01] And I don't know if we would be as far along in the fight to dismantle these systems that were erected to silence half of the country.

[00:15:12] Half.

[00:15:12] I mean, that's what they were designed to do.

[00:15:15] Because if and I've got another story here.

[00:15:19] Anatomy of a brainwashing operation.

[00:15:21] This one's a little bit more recent.

[00:15:23] All right.

[00:15:23] So talking about censorship, it's still sort of a carryover from the first hour.

[00:15:27] But more examples in different ways.

[00:15:29] Soft censorship, hard censorship.

[00:15:33] And Bob said, because I use the the web browser instead of like Internet Explorer or Chrome.

[00:15:41] I use Brave.

[00:15:43] And by the way, just a quick back story on Brave.

[00:15:46] The guy who made it.

[00:15:48] Brendan Eich.

[00:15:50] He was the founder, the creator of Mozilla Firefox.

[00:15:55] The Firefox browser.

[00:15:57] The company Mozilla.

[00:16:00] He developed it.

[00:16:01] That was his baby.

[00:16:03] And then he got forced out because you remember when California.

[00:16:08] This is going back now 20 years.

[00:16:10] California did the Prop 8 vote.

[00:16:12] Remember that?

[00:16:13] It's a defining marriage as one man and one woman, I believe.

[00:16:16] And he had donated like five hundred dollars to the pro Prop 8 campaign.

[00:16:21] So he was in favor of.

[00:16:24] I think maybe it was a constitutional amendment or something.

[00:16:28] I forget the details, but he had made a donation to support the idea of traditional marriage.

[00:16:36] And then the donor list got hacked or leaked or something.

[00:16:41] And then the left started targeting people.

[00:16:43] They targeted him and Mozilla fired him.

[00:16:47] The guy who made Firefox got fired by these, the, his, you know, fellow board or the board members, I guess.

[00:16:55] They fired him because of that political donation.

[00:16:57] He was like one of the original victims of quote unquote cancel culture.

[00:17:02] And so he went off and built a new browser and it's called Brave for obvious reasons.

[00:17:08] So that's the one I use.

[00:17:09] And it's awesome.

[00:17:10] It blocks everything.

[00:17:12] Like it blocks every single pop up.

[00:17:15] I get notices from all sorts of websites, all crying like, oh, we see you're using a blocker.

[00:17:20] Like, I don't care.

[00:17:21] And I just go right through it.

[00:17:22] It's awesome.

[00:17:23] Anyway.

[00:17:24] And no, I don't even get paid to tell you that.

[00:17:26] But you can leave tips.

[00:17:27] This is a neat feature.

[00:17:28] They've, they've worked in crypto into, so you can attach your crypto wallet to your account.

[00:17:38] And then you can actually put money into content creators accounts.

[00:17:44] So it's a way to offset the fact that you're not seeing pop up ads.

[00:17:49] So you can directly fund websites and content creators and that sort of thing.

[00:17:55] It's an interesting concept.

[00:17:56] It's the, that's the, that's the model.

[00:17:58] Anyway, they, yeah.

[00:18:00] Brave is the name of the browser.

[00:18:02] Highly recommend.

[00:18:03] Okay.

[00:18:04] An unnamed photo editor at a major news outlet believes it is danger.

[00:18:10] Oh, hang on a second.

[00:18:11] I meant, I told you all of that about Brave because I have a message here from Bob.

[00:18:14] And Bob says that Bing and Google, both the search engines, both refused to return stories about Tim Walz's military service and comments about carrying weapons of war.

[00:18:31] And apparently there was a block or a blackout from Tuesday until Thursday night.

[00:18:36] I do not know if that's true.

[00:18:37] That's what Bob is reporting.

[00:18:42] Jan says, I use a lot of different browsers.

[00:18:44] I have to admit Brave is not the most convenient, but I do like it the best.

[00:18:48] Oh, I found it to be very convenient.

[00:18:49] I love, so there are, what do they call them?

[00:18:52] The add-ons or extensions.

[00:18:55] They're called different things, but they're not part of like the base program and you can then add stuff that you want to add.

[00:19:01] And I added a reader view.

[00:19:05] And so the reader view, it makes the website you're reading look like an Adobe document basically.

[00:19:13] And you can edit it and you can highlight stuff.

[00:19:18] It's awesome.

[00:19:19] And so that's what I print out for my shows.

[00:19:21] So I don't get all of the photos.

[00:19:23] You can block all the pictures.

[00:19:25] So I don't have all of that.

[00:19:26] I just have the text because I work, I'm old school.

[00:19:29] I got paper.

[00:19:30] I got paper.

[00:19:31] I got handwritten notes.

[00:19:32] I got highlighters.

[00:19:32] I highlight too much too.

[00:19:33] This is one of my, I got to work on it.

[00:19:37] I highlight too much stuff in the articles.

[00:19:41] Anyway, I should just start printing it on yellow paper.

[00:19:45] So this way everything is highlighted and just save the highlighter ring.

[00:19:50] Anyway, Fox News reported that an unnamed photo editor at a major news outlet believes it is dangerous for the media to highlight the historic photo of President Trump standing tall after the assassination attempt.

[00:20:02] They called it free PR for the Trump campaign.

[00:20:06] And Axios media trend assessment right after the shooting argued that the quote overuse of the image can pose risks.

[00:20:17] And they cited unnamed photographers who reportedly told Axios that promoting the viral photos could be a form of photoganda.

[00:20:30] Photoganda.

[00:20:32] Huh?

[00:20:32] Photo.

[00:20:35] Yeah.

[00:20:36] Like propaganda, but it's a picture.

[00:20:38] So it's photoganda.

[00:20:43] I did not make up the term.

[00:20:46] But they're very, very worried because they say the Trump campaign is going to use the photo to further their agenda, despite the photographer's intent of simply capturing a news event.

[00:20:56] So note, note the concern here, right?

[00:21:00] This is, I talk about this all the time and you've heard me say it before, right?

[00:21:05] One of the biggest frustrations I have with reporters is this act that they, that they always play.

[00:21:14] They, they just cannot stop doing it where they pretend that they are not participants in the political arena.

[00:21:21] And they are, they absolutely are.

[00:21:25] They choose stories.

[00:21:26] They go after stories.

[00:21:27] They put up headlines.

[00:21:29] They post the stories onto the internet and stuff.

[00:21:31] And then the political campaigns of the opponents will take those articles in the headlines and use them in their campaign ads.

[00:21:38] And we never hear any of these concerns about, oh, I don't know if I want my article to be used in that campaign or campaign attack ad.

[00:21:47] But, oh, you know, maybe I should write this headline a little bit less clickbaity, right?

[00:21:54] Which is what they do, by the way, right?

[00:21:57] The, the news outlets that are all so concerned about misinformation and disinformation.

[00:22:03] They're the same ones that post these headlines that are misleading in order to get you to click on their site and read the story.

[00:22:10] And this has been going on since before computers were even invented, since the newspapers were first out there being hawked on the streets.

[00:22:19] Hawked or hawked?

[00:22:20] Is it hawked?

[00:22:22] Hawked, I think.

[00:22:23] Not in hawk.

[00:22:24] Anyway, you know, the, the, the paper boy on the corner never screams.

[00:22:28] Absolutely nothing happened today.

[00:22:30] Read all about it.

[00:22:31] Right?

[00:22:32] So they, they, they sensationalize the headlines.

[00:22:35] Those headlines make it into the political campaign ads.

[00:22:39] Unexpectedly, I'm sure.

[00:22:41] But now there's concern.

[00:22:43] Now there's concern that Donald Trump's photo is so awesome that it might inspire people to vote for him.

[00:22:50] And we can't have that.

[00:22:51] So let's not share this photo.

[00:22:54] Russ says browser differences are fascinating.

[00:22:56] I usually use duck, duck, go, but may look into brave.

[00:23:02] If only father less clumsy.

[00:23:08] Name.

[00:23:09] If, oh, if only for the less clumsy name.

[00:23:13] Uh, anyway, I got into a heated discussion with a more liberal friend around the Jussie Smollett incident.

[00:23:19] I pulled up a search on my browser versus his Google and he was stunned at what he hadn't seen.

[00:23:26] Now he's a campaign volunteer for the Libertarian Party.

[00:23:30] Oh, nice.

[00:23:31] There you go.

[00:23:33] Well, this gets to a piece here at hotair.com.

[00:23:39] Citing work done by Matt Orphalia, who often works with Matt Taibbi.

[00:23:45] Matt Taibbi, as I mentioned earlier, one of the guys who did the Twitter files.

[00:23:49] And he.

[00:23:56] Anyway.

[00:23:57] Matt Orphalia.

[00:24:00] Did a deep dive on Twitter on the Biden campaign's brainwashing operation to convince Americans that Biden was mentally fit.

[00:24:09] In 2019 and 2020, the Biden campaign had data showing that Americans had already noticed that he was no longer all there.

[00:24:20] Biden operatives were deeply worried about the growing sense that Biden was a few cards short of a full deck.

[00:24:26] So they developed a strategy to counter this idea and worked hard to force big tech and the mainstream media to make it work.

[00:24:33] They adapted or adapted.

[00:24:37] Yeah, adapted strategies.

[00:24:39] I wasn't sure if it was a typo should have been adopted strategies.

[00:24:41] This is by David Strom over at hotair dot com.

[00:24:44] He says they adapted strategies that had been developed by the intelligence community to brainwash.

[00:24:50] And yes, that is the right term to brainwash enough people into rejecting the evidence before their eyes.

[00:24:57] It was smart, sophisticated and deeply disturbing.

[00:25:00] It was a very successful strategy and one they carried into the administration to convince people of all sorts of falsehoods.

[00:25:08] Their contempt for Americans and willingness to lie to us in the same way the CIA and the DIA lie to populations in hostile countries was breathtaking.

[00:25:16] The most obvious example is, of course, all the misinformation and disinformation they used during the covid pandemic.

[00:25:22] They concocted false stories, worked hard to censor competing narratives and even threatened big tech with serious consequences if they did not comply with the demands of the regime.

[00:25:33] Strom goes on to say, you and I may think that we know the meaning of the words misinformation or disinformation, but like all critical theorists, they hijacked words, change the meanings and then weaponize our ability to think clearly against us.

[00:25:49] What they mean by these words is anything inconvenient to us.

[00:25:57] Their techniques are highly sophisticated.

[00:25:59] They use tech tools and brute force threats against big tech companies.

[00:26:04] They were specifically able to target people they needed votes from and follow them across multiple platforms, feeding them disinformation to convince them of things that are clearly false.

[00:26:16] What is he talking about here?

[00:26:18] Well, as Matt Orphalia documented and he's got video, he's got Zoom call video of Biden administration officials talking about how they did this.

[00:26:33] And the campaign people and how they did it.

[00:26:36] They use the technology in the social media platforms, but also on the platforms that are not just social media like Google.

[00:26:44] And they drop cookies.

[00:26:46] This is the tech term, right?

[00:26:49] Basically trackers.

[00:26:50] And they drop it, which, by the way, brave blocks all that crap.

[00:26:53] So they they drop these things when you come to a certain site or you search for a term.

[00:26:58] And then they start following you around wherever you go and anywhere that you're looking for stuff.

[00:27:06] They start putting different videos in front of you, news stories in front of you, different clips.

[00:27:13] All to reinforce a counter narrative than the one you searched for.

[00:27:18] If you looked for Biden senile, for example, they would start showing you images of Biden not being senile.

[00:27:28] As Biden faltered, they created an alternate reality in which he was spry and coherent.

[00:27:34] They created a Truman show in which everything is manipulated to create a world that doesn't really exist.

[00:27:41] Americans are just waking up to the fact that they are fed a steady diet of lies.

[00:27:45] No matter what option on the menu they choose, with the exceptions of the special choices hidden by the proprietors of the information restaurant,

[00:27:52] they end up getting the same toxic intellectual food.

[00:27:57] You have to know enough to seek out what is hidden.

[00:28:01] Sites like HotAir.com, the Free Press, the Daily Wire, the Washington Free Beacon.

[00:28:09] By the way, I go to all of those sites.

[00:28:13] If you're not aware of these sites and their existence, you're going to get fed lies like cattle are fed corn.

[00:28:21] The, quote, establishment chooses your information diet and they know how to manipulate people through that diet.

[00:28:29] It's not just in the search terms.

[00:28:32] Once you search for something, they know what you're looking for.

[00:28:35] And if they want you to see it, then they'll let you see it.

[00:28:37] If they don't want you to see it, they want you to get a different idea.

[00:28:41] Then they bombard you everywhere you go.

[00:28:43] They basically stalk you online and they just bombard you with different information to disabuse you of the idea that, say, Joe Biden may be in cognitive decline.

[00:28:56] And that is why I suspect so many people were so shocked when they saw Biden in the debate performance.

[00:29:03] It's possible that millions and millions of people had literally never seen his condition until that night.

[00:29:11] All right.

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