WEBVTT - Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #43 0:00:01.720 --> 0:00:07.160 Also media. 0:00:08.119 --> 0:00:11.440 This is it could Happen here Executive Disorder, our weekly 0:00:11.480 --> 0:00:14.040 newscast covering what's happening in the White House, the crumbling world, 0:00:14.080 --> 0:00:16.279 and what it means for you. I'm Garrison Davis today 0:00:16.280 --> 0:00:18.759 I'm joined by James Stout and Robert Evans. Yes, this 0:00:18.840 --> 0:00:23.040 episode recovering the week of November nineteen to November twenty fourth. 0:00:23.520 --> 0:00:26.840 Boy, this year's just blown by yeah fast, yeah, yeah. 0:00:26.840 --> 0:00:29.080 They sped up the time stream. You know what else 0:00:29.080 --> 0:00:33.320 sped up the time stream watching something on Twitter blow 0:00:33.400 --> 0:00:35.760 up again. We can't seem to stop talking about this 0:00:35.800 --> 0:00:39.800 fucking website and I'm tired of it. But the big 0:00:39.800 --> 0:00:45.040 news this week from Elon Musk's fucking vanity propagana app 0:00:45.200 --> 0:00:47.680 is see Everything Happen That they introduced a new feature 0:00:47.720 --> 0:00:50.479 to let you know the location of the account and 0:00:50.720 --> 0:00:52.919 also the number of like name changes, like how many 0:00:53.000 --> 0:00:55.640 username changes it's had since the account has started. I 0:00:55.680 --> 0:00:59.600 would say within sort of progressive and liberal circles. The 0:01:00.000 --> 0:01:02.959 i'm an interpretation of what's happened is best summarized by 0:01:02.960 --> 0:01:07.399 this Daily Beast headline. Top MAGA influencers accidentally unmasked as 0:01:07.480 --> 0:01:10.959 foreign trolls, No shit, Now, as is often the case, 0:01:11.400 --> 0:01:14.080 this isn't entirely accurate. Not to say that there's not 0:01:14.080 --> 0:01:16.640 a shitload of foreign trolls who are making money by 0:01:16.680 --> 0:01:21.000 pretending to be American MAGA influencers. There definitely are. We've 0:01:21.040 --> 0:01:23.720 known about this since well before this Twitter change. One 0:01:23.720 --> 0:01:26.600 of the most prominent people on Musk's Twitter, Ean Miles Chong, 0:01:26.959 --> 0:01:28.840 is a Malaysian man who has never been to the 0:01:28.920 --> 0:01:33.440 United States and publishes nothing but MAGA content. Now, what's 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:36.320 happened here? You can find going through there's a bunch 0:01:36.400 --> 0:01:39.199 of threads. There's threads on Blue Sky, threads on Twitter, threads, 0:01:39.240 --> 0:01:42.000 and various articles that are basically all copies of each 0:01:42.000 --> 0:01:44.720 other that are collecting a bunch of these accounts that 0:01:44.760 --> 0:01:46.640 have been busted, right. One good example would be the 0:01:46.760 --> 0:01:50.400 Magination verified account, which has almost four hundred thousand followers. 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:53.960 Started in twenty twenty four, it's had five name changes 0:01:54.040 --> 0:01:57.000 since October twenty twenty five, and it is based in 0:01:57.120 --> 0:01:59.200 Eastern Europe Non EU. 0:01:59.440 --> 0:02:02.000 Yeah that's a nation, yeah yeah, yeah. 0:02:02.040 --> 0:02:03.920 A lot of people have taken to mean like it's Russian, 0:02:04.040 --> 0:02:07.720 right yeah. Another account is the Ivanka news Trump, which 0:02:07.840 --> 0:02:10.520 displays as Ivanka Trump, even though it has nothing to 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:12.960 do with her, which it does note in its Twitter bio. 0:02:13.320 --> 0:02:16.120 The account was started in twenty ten, it has had 0:02:16.200 --> 0:02:19.240 eleven user changes since August of twenty twenty four, and 0:02:19.280 --> 0:02:20.960 it is apparently based in Nigeria. 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:22.080 You have to see it. 0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:25.359 You're seeing like aload a shitload of stuff like this right, 0:02:25.400 --> 0:02:27.880 and it's being taken unfortunately. I think this is a 0:02:27.919 --> 0:02:30.560 mistake and I hate to be like the hey, guys, 0:02:30.560 --> 0:02:32.919 stop being happy about this, but you should because you're 0:02:32.919 --> 0:02:36.080 wrong about what's happening here. Most people are like the 0:02:36.160 --> 0:02:39.400 Daily Beast account posts some liberal Twitter account being like 0:02:39.440 --> 0:02:42.320 this is total armageddon for the online right. It's looking 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:44.560 like half of their large accounts were foreigners posting as 0:02:44.600 --> 0:02:47.560 Americans all along. Now, let me clarify a couple things. 0:02:47.600 --> 0:02:50.920 For one thing, nothing that Elon has done here, nothing 0:02:50.919 --> 0:02:54.120 that Twitter has revealed has proven that these accounts exist 0:02:54.160 --> 0:02:57.480 in any particular country. I'm going to explain why a 0:02:57.520 --> 0:03:00.760 lot of people use something called a vp and a 0:03:00.919 --> 0:03:06.040 VPN masks the location that you're browsing and logging in from, right, 0:03:06.400 --> 0:03:08.880 and you can use a VPN to look like you're 0:03:08.880 --> 0:03:12.440 posting from almost any country on the planet, and there 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:15.520 is no evidence whatsoever that Twitter has done anything at 0:03:15.600 --> 0:03:18.119 all to deal with this right to like make sure 0:03:18.120 --> 0:03:21.520 that they're getting someone's actual location. A bunch of accounts, 0:03:21.560 --> 0:03:24.080 a bunch of like people have pointed out like, hey, look, 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:26.360 this is saying I'm from a country that I've literally 0:03:26.400 --> 0:03:29.320 never been to, Like here's my information. I'm very transparent. 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:32.600 And there have also been organizations, including liberal you know, 0:03:32.800 --> 0:03:36.880 coded organizations, that have been mistakenly identified as coming from 0:03:36.880 --> 0:03:38.960 a country that they are not set up. And for example, 0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:41.839 the Planned Parenthood account was showing us from Germany, which 0:03:41.920 --> 0:03:44.280 is ignited this conspiracy theory on the right that Planned 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:49.680 Parenthood is some European fucking influence op in the United States. No, 0:03:49.800 --> 0:03:52.840 they used a VPN because they're in danger because it's 0:03:52.880 --> 0:03:54.200 Planned Parenthood, right. 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:54.320 No. 0:03:54.440 --> 0:03:56.720 I mean I ran into a very similar situation because 0:03:56.760 --> 0:03:59.640 I mostly use Twitter to look at yowie now, and 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:02.720 when I was in Germany last month, it wouldn't let 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:04.800 me look at the AWI without putting in my government 0:04:04.840 --> 0:04:08.640 ID for like age verification, sure of course, and then 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:12.360 the state hits garrison, so obviously a non starter. I'm 0:04:12.400 --> 0:04:15.000 not I'm not, I'm not giving X. The everything app 0:04:15.200 --> 0:04:17.359 my government id to allow me to look at Yawi 0:04:17.400 --> 0:04:19.200 in Germany. Sure, so instead I had to put on 0:04:19.240 --> 0:04:21.520 the VPN so I'm back in the States and then 0:04:21.520 --> 0:04:23.719 I can look at the AYAUI. So it's basically the 0:04:23.720 --> 0:04:25.800 same situation between me and Planned Parenthood here. 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:29.599 Yes, I've said often that you and Planned Parenthood basically 0:04:29.680 --> 0:04:34.279 identical beings. What's happening here is it is worth talking about. 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:36.520 But it's worth talking about not because we suddenly know 0:04:36.640 --> 0:04:38.960 the truth that it's been revealed about. We don't really 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:41.880 know anything more than we did before this change came in, right. 0:04:41.720 --> 0:04:44.280 Well except Robert, I mean the biggest the biggest news 0:04:44.320 --> 0:04:46.400 is that the DHS has been a massad operation this 0:04:46.520 --> 0:04:50.320 last time. Yes, that's right, Yes, like we've always suspected. 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:53.919 Yeah, so the the Department of Homeland Security account I 0:04:53.920 --> 0:04:57.880 think it was, got listed as having been based in Israel. 0:04:58.320 --> 0:05:00.560 This is not real, Like it's not this isn't even 0:05:00.760 --> 0:05:04.080 X fucking up. Somebody just edited a screenshot and there's 0:05:04.120 --> 0:05:06.880 so many of these going around, hundreds and hundreds of them, 0:05:06.960 --> 0:05:10.400 right that this just kind of got shuffled in to 0:05:10.520 --> 0:05:14.320 the flood and a lot of people didn't catch it right, 0:05:14.800 --> 0:05:17.320 and it just gets integrated into people's beliefs about the world. 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:17.560 Right. 0:05:17.640 --> 0:05:20.839 This is a standard story with how Twitter works now. 0:05:21.240 --> 0:05:23.400 And this is, by the way, is overall I think 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:26.040 beneficial to Musk and his kind of people, which is 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:29.680 that we know less every day about the world. There's 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:34.000 more disinformation about what's happening. People are less keyed in 0:05:34.040 --> 0:05:38.000 on reality and more just getting locked into different delusions. 0:05:38.400 --> 0:05:41.160 Like That's what the story is here, which is that 0:05:41.720 --> 0:05:45.239 this app and the way that social media in general works, 0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:48.000 particularly in this age, each of these changes, even the 0:05:48.000 --> 0:05:51.279 ones that get celebrated as having revealed something, are just 0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:55.800 fogging up reality, and they're doing it in such a 0:05:55.800 --> 0:05:58.039 way as to make it so that like no one 0:05:58.400 --> 0:06:00.719 knows anything about what's going on. Right, this is like 0:06:00.760 --> 0:06:03.479 that this is the standard playbook that you've been getting 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:05.480 out of like authoritarian regimes from forever. 0:06:05.560 --> 0:06:05.720 Right. 0:06:05.760 --> 0:06:08.440 What's important is not that just their propaganda be out. 0:06:08.560 --> 0:06:11.440 It's that there's not really any any way for there 0:06:11.480 --> 0:06:14.600 to be a consensus reality. Because if there'sn't consensus reality, 0:06:14.600 --> 0:06:17.880 then you can't put together a large enough block of 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:21.120 people who all believe basically the same things about reality 0:06:21.400 --> 0:06:24.200 to stop what's going on, right, that's what's happening here, 0:06:24.640 --> 0:06:27.279 And you're wrong if you're looking at this as good, 0:06:27.440 --> 0:06:29.560 if you believe that this has blown up the right 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:32.280 and that this has done damage to them, they're saying 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:35.400 the same things about you and about the left because 0:06:35.440 --> 0:06:38.200 a shitload of people use VPNs and you can always 0:06:38.400 --> 0:06:40.840 cherry pick a bunch of and I'm not again, none 0:06:40.839 --> 0:06:42.240 of that I'm saying is not saying that they're in 0:06:42.279 --> 0:06:46.400 a shitload like Elon has specifically incentivized foreign accounts in 0:06:46.400 --> 0:06:49.360 different countries to make money by getting into the US 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:52.120 culture war, right, That is absolutely a big part of 0:06:52.120 --> 0:06:54.360 how Twitter works today. No one's denying that. What I'm 0:06:54.400 --> 0:06:56.159 saying is that you don't know any more than you 0:06:56.200 --> 0:06:57.760 did before this came out, because you have no way 0:06:57.760 --> 0:06:59.760 of knowing if any of these accounts are based. Where 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:02.880 is saying they're based because of how VPNs work. That's 0:07:02.920 --> 0:07:05.280 what I'm saying. Yeah, that's what I've got to say. 0:07:07.520 --> 0:07:10.960 It's incredibly annoying. It's incredibly annoying that we have to 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:14.400 continue writing about eggs everything. The half of half of 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:17.360 Blue Sky is people just virtue signaling that they're not 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:19.840 using Twitter, and I'm being mad at Twitter. 0:07:20.320 --> 0:07:21.400 You know, it's the same. 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:23.720 Honestly, this will get me flat, But it's the same 0:07:23.760 --> 0:07:27.160 thing about like whether people are angry about substack or 0:07:27.320 --> 0:07:30.120 fucking Instagram or Twitter or whatever. Like, if you're using 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:34.280 social media, you're not doing yourself any favors. And they're 0:07:34.320 --> 0:07:37.880 all pretty supportive of bad things and bad people. And 0:07:37.960 --> 0:07:40.600 we use them anyway because that's the world. Like we 0:07:41.000 --> 0:07:43.600 spend dollars anyway, and let me tell you, dollars support 0:07:43.680 --> 0:07:46.160 some bad things. We pay taxes, and boy howdy, I 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:47.880 don't like where a lot of those taxes go. 0:07:49.960 --> 0:07:52.000 Yeah, but don't don't pretend. 0:07:51.760 --> 0:07:54.240 That because you pick the right social media app that 0:07:54.280 --> 0:07:57.200 you're not fucking your brain up and introducing yourself to 0:07:57.200 --> 0:07:59.080 a bunch of things that aren't true. We all do it, 0:07:59.600 --> 0:08:00.680 Like that's the problem. 0:08:01.880 --> 0:08:06.800 Yes, they're not good for humans broadly. Do you want 0:08:06.840 --> 0:08:09.120 to talk about something else it's not good for humans? 0:08:09.520 --> 0:08:12.520 Yeah, let's not talk about fucking X the every goddamn thing. 0:08:12.600 --> 0:08:13.239 Ye anymore? 0:08:13.320 --> 0:08:16.680 No, Unfortunately, I have I have something Robert which does 0:08:16.720 --> 0:08:21.440 relate to X great everything app. So let's talk about Axios. 0:08:21.640 --> 0:08:24.880 Oh yeah, are you guys familiar with Axios. It's the 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:27.280 use oatelet for people who hate paragraphs. 0:08:26.760 --> 0:08:27.720 People who love cocaine. 0:08:27.800 --> 0:08:31.800 Yeah yeah, yeah, for people reading the news while they're 0:08:31.800 --> 0:08:34.520 having a dump. That is what Axios is for. They 0:08:34.520 --> 0:08:36.640 ship out news for you to read while you're having a. 0:08:36.600 --> 0:08:39.400 Ship again, which makes cocaine even a bigger part of 0:08:39.440 --> 0:08:40.200 the picture here. 0:08:42.160 --> 0:08:44.640 No, it's it's like it's like the ADHD is like 0:08:44.800 --> 0:08:45.920 ideal news source. 0:08:46.720 --> 0:08:49.040 Yeah yeah, yeah, you do a line, you have to 0:08:49.040 --> 0:08:51.520 go take a ship, you catch up on your news. 0:08:52.760 --> 0:08:56.199 Yeah, it's that's what they called productivity. That's that's the 0:08:56.320 --> 0:08:59.800 Robert Evans grindset, the morning routine that everyone's been asked. 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:03.400 It's really it's really genius of fucking Axios to hit 0:09:03.480 --> 0:09:06.640 that demographic exactly because those people also have a lot 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:13.280 of money because they're all day traders. True true, Yeah, yeah. 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:14.440 I have I have polymarket on the Califi on the 0:09:14.440 --> 0:09:16.480 other Axios always pulled up. 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:20.000 That's split screening. 0:09:20.040 --> 0:09:22.920 You have one of those Apple like flat grass glass 0:09:22.960 --> 0:09:25.600 touch screen panels. But it's just for doing coke off 0:09:25.640 --> 0:09:27.120 of you've just got lines kind off on. 0:09:28.679 --> 0:09:31.880 Yeah, it's because the metaglass is a contact right looping 0:09:31.920 --> 0:09:39.480 Axio screen at your Axios and use that left for 0:09:39.480 --> 0:09:43.960 people who are taking cocaine. Has seemingly been duped into 0:09:44.080 --> 0:09:48.160 running a Russian wish list as a proposed piece plant 0:09:48.240 --> 0:09:51.080 in Ukraine. Yeah great, this is what happens when you 0:09:51.080 --> 0:09:54.600 do journalism the speed of paranoia. But this has come 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:57.760 at the same time as Trump has proclaimed via truth 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:02.320 the medium of a truth on through social that Ukraine 0:10:02.920 --> 0:10:05.720 was not showing suficient gratitude for what we had like 0:10:05.720 --> 0:10:07.520 eleven month of him failing to end the war. 0:10:07.760 --> 0:10:08.920 Yeah. 0:10:09.080 --> 0:10:15.000 So this twenty eight point plan was first published by Axios, 0:10:15.520 --> 0:10:18.000 and it was pretty much immediately rejected by a number 0:10:18.040 --> 0:10:21.320 of Senators, led by Senator Angus King, who were at 0:10:22.320 --> 0:10:27.319 a security conference in Halifax, Halifax, Canada. Not og Halifax, 0:10:27.320 --> 0:10:32.520 shout out yeah Halifax Junior. The senators pretty much immediately 0:10:32.559 --> 0:10:34.800 said that the US was not the author of the document. 0:10:35.440 --> 0:10:38.160 Rubio quote made it very clear to us that we 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:40.520 are recipients of a proposal that was delivered to one 0:10:40.559 --> 0:10:44.760 of our representatives, said Senator Mike Grounds. So what they 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:46.800 are saying is that the US didn't write to document 0:10:46.840 --> 0:10:50.120 and it was delivered to them. One can safely assume 0:10:50.200 --> 0:10:55.400 by Russia. Right, Rubio using X the Everything app then 0:10:55.480 --> 0:11:00.680 attempted to deny this. So what it appeared years has 0:11:00.720 --> 0:11:05.080 happened is that this plan was drafted by Russian special 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:08.160 envoy dmitriev probably was Steve Witkoff. 0:11:08.240 --> 0:11:09.200 Sure that sounds right. 0:11:09.320 --> 0:11:11.760 So Wickkoff is Trump's what is I think he's a 0:11:11.760 --> 0:11:13.680 special envoy to Russia at this point. 0:11:14.080 --> 0:11:17.199 Yeah, I believe he's an onvoid of Russia. Yeah, Warren 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:19.040 Zevon wrote a song about guys like him. 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:23.400 Yes, yeah he has. He has not covered himself in 0:11:23.440 --> 0:11:25.400 glory in his time doing this. He's kind of a 0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:28.400 useful fool. He's formerly like a real estate. 0:11:28.080 --> 0:11:32.800 Guy that'll prepare you to deal with Vladimir Putin, having 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:35.640 sold houses during the subprime mortgage crisis. 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:39.079 Yeah. Yeah, Like it's pretty much what he's doing here, right, 0:11:39.120 --> 0:11:43.120 Like he's consistently been duped and pretty much has become 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:45.120 an advocate for the Russian point of view a lot 0:11:45.120 --> 0:11:49.280 of the times. In this case, it seems that it 0:11:49.360 --> 0:11:55.600 was then strategically leaked to Axios. Right when Barak Ravid, 0:11:55.720 --> 0:11:59.360 who authored the Axios article, posted it on Eggs the 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:04.280 Everything web site. Steve Whitcoff responded saying, quote, he must 0:12:04.280 --> 0:12:07.560 have got this from K. This is very funny because 0:12:07.559 --> 0:12:11.080 we have Steve Witcoff right negotiating a peace process which 0:12:11.080 --> 0:12:14.040 affects millions of people, and he also doesn't know how 0:12:14.040 --> 0:12:17.439 to use the DM button on X the Everything website. 0:12:17.559 --> 0:12:20.839 To be fair, X the Everything I've just changed their 0:12:20.920 --> 0:12:24.199 DMS and the whole the whole user interface for the 0:12:24.280 --> 0:12:26.360 DMS is completely different. Now you have to put in 0:12:26.400 --> 0:12:28.160 like a pass co and they claim to be encrypted, 0:12:28.160 --> 0:12:30.079 and it's much uglier to look at. 0:12:30.200 --> 0:12:36.280 So in defense in defense of Steve, instead you can 0:12:36.360 --> 0:12:37.080 instead leak. 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:41.160 The safer, more secure option might just be to do 0:12:41.200 --> 0:12:41.920 it all in public. 0:12:41.960 --> 0:12:45.000 And to do it in public. Yeah, So so Steve 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:49.680 of course using a code name there K will never know. Yeah, 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:53.719 because we can possibly tell that Careal Dimitria my might 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:56.680 be using K as a code name also the first 0:12:56.720 --> 0:13:00.120 letter of his first name. So it seems very like 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:02.840 that either Dmitrie of someone else in Russia decided to 0:13:02.880 --> 0:13:07.320 leak this plan to Barakraavid or Dave Lawler, knowing it 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:10.600 would be raised at a press conference of belling that Trump, who, 0:13:10.600 --> 0:13:12.880 according towards the Post, seems to have very little detailed 0:13:12.920 --> 0:13:15.920 knowledges and negotiations. Would probably see this as a quote 0:13:16.000 --> 0:13:18.800 unquote deal that then he could claim for himself, right, 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:22.560 and it worked. I want to talk about how Axios's 0:13:22.600 --> 0:13:24.600 model makes that possible. 0:13:24.720 --> 0:13:24.840 Right. 0:13:25.160 --> 0:13:28.080 I'm very well aware that Barackravid was a member of 0:13:28.080 --> 0:13:30.920 the eighty two hundred unit in Israel. If people I'm familiar, 0:13:30.960 --> 0:13:36.559 that's like a sigint Israeli intelligence unit. This is widely known. 0:13:36.600 --> 0:13:40.280 I've seen this being discussed in sort of relation to this. 0:13:41.280 --> 0:13:44.440 The thing is, he doesn't need to be nefarious for 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:48.000 this to happen, and I think the most likely option 0:13:48.200 --> 0:13:52.360 here is that the Axios model is to do insider 0:13:52.440 --> 0:13:55.520 journalism and then rush to be the first to post 0:13:55.559 --> 0:13:58.520 it on social media and then get a bazillion clicks 0:13:58.880 --> 0:14:03.400 for your z seventy eight word article. Right. That is 0:14:03.480 --> 0:14:05.840 how That is their entire business model. 0:14:06.240 --> 0:14:07.920 It is the name of their whole game. 0:14:08.000 --> 0:14:11.040 Yeah, that's why they don't use paragraphs. It's news for 0:14:11.040 --> 0:14:13.200 people who are like waiting for their coffee at Starbucks 0:14:13.240 --> 0:14:16.240 or whatever the problem is in this case, states are 0:14:16.280 --> 0:14:19.440 or nonstate actors, right, can effectively place a leak and 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:23.080 they know that Axios will rush it to press probably 0:14:23.120 --> 0:14:26.520 in minutes, if not ours. And with the way that 0:14:26.640 --> 0:14:29.800 the United States executive branches right now, it seems very 0:14:29.800 --> 0:14:31.680 clear that that they can get it in front of Trump, 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:34.760 then they're going to get a reaction one way or another. 0:14:35.080 --> 0:14:40.120 So it seems that Rubio was effectively cut out, that 0:14:40.360 --> 0:14:42.760 the United States Secretary of State was effectively cut out 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:46.400 of this whole process. And there's a lot of reporting about, 0:14:46.440 --> 0:14:48.440 like I don't want to do kremlinology for the Trump 0:14:48.520 --> 0:14:53.040 White House particularly, but it shows how these news outlets, 0:14:53.080 --> 0:14:55.000 these news outlets are sort of don't fact check that 0:14:55.080 --> 0:14:57.120 rush to press, to do everything for social media can 0:14:57.120 --> 0:15:01.000 effectively be used right in a way that the benefits 0:15:01.000 --> 0:15:04.120 in this case Russia, but any number of organizations could 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:04.720 do the same thing. 0:15:05.600 --> 0:15:10.280 Robert mentioned some kind of like Wartimes warn that some 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:14.040 kind of Wartimes song, And I was wondering, where is 0:15:14.120 --> 0:15:16.200 the country of Zevon? You said, there's like a song 0:15:16.240 --> 0:15:17.400 about Warren Zevon. 0:15:17.640 --> 0:15:22.600 Jesus Garrison, Garrison, get out of you hears about discrimination 0:15:22.720 --> 0:15:26.000 in the workplace. Ah, I'm going to do a Woody 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:28.720 Guthrie thing in my next series. And Gary is just 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:32.040 going to sail straight past Garrison. You listen to Johnny 0:15:32.080 --> 0:15:33.760 Cash Garrison, I liked. 0:15:34.040 --> 0:15:34.960 I like Johnny Cash. 0:15:35.000 --> 0:15:37.360 Okay, James Cash. 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:40.440 That's what they call me. Here's the ads. 0:15:51.480 --> 0:15:52.840 And we're. 0:15:56.280 --> 0:15:59.800 New Doge news for the first time in who knows 0:15:59.800 --> 0:16:03.960 how the news being. There's no more Doge. According to 0:16:04.120 --> 0:16:08.280 a report in Reuter's, DOGE has disbended eight months before 0:16:08.320 --> 0:16:14.360 its scheduled expiration in July of twenty twenty seven. When 0:16:14.400 --> 0:16:16.840 asked about the status of Doge earlier this month, Office 0:16:16.840 --> 0:16:20.840 of Personal Management director Scott Poor told Reuters quote that 0:16:21.000 --> 0:16:24.880 doesn't exist, adding that DOGE is no longer a quote 0:16:24.920 --> 0:16:31.480 unquote centralized entity. Yeah. Boro has also said that the 0:16:31.600 --> 0:16:35.400 DOGE mandated hiring freeze is over and that there's quote 0:16:35.600 --> 0:16:40.760 no target around reductions unquote, meaning that the DOGE era 0:16:41.040 --> 0:16:43.680 rule of having to fire a certain number of people 0:16:43.720 --> 0:16:46.360 in order to be allowed to hire people is no 0:16:46.440 --> 0:16:51.000 longer in use as well. And this isn't really surprising. 0:16:51.120 --> 0:16:53.920 You have not really heard about many DOGE related stuff 0:16:53.920 --> 0:16:54.480 in a while. 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:57.360 They haven't been doing anything in a while. Musk has 0:16:57.400 --> 0:17:00.680 basically been out of the center loop of things. But 0:17:00.720 --> 0:17:03.280 also they did the things that they were needed to do, right. 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:08.080 They did up massacred large portions of government employees. Yeah, 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:11.840 did permanent damage to the administrative state and cost several 0:17:11.920 --> 0:17:14.359 hundred thousand people around the world their lives through cuts 0:17:14.400 --> 0:17:15.480 in USA. 0:17:15.840 --> 0:17:16.879 Yeah. 0:17:17.040 --> 0:17:20.800 Yeah, And like two former DOGE employees, including big Balls, 0:17:20.840 --> 0:17:24.119 now just work on web design for US government websites, 0:17:24.560 --> 0:17:27.840 and other DOG officials have moved to agencies which they 0:17:27.880 --> 0:17:31.920 administered cuts to. A former DOGE team member, Zachary Terrell 0:17:32.000 --> 0:17:33.879 is now the chief technology officer at the Department of 0:17:33.920 --> 0:17:37.320 Health and Human Services, And Jeremy Lewin, who assisted the 0:17:37.400 --> 0:17:40.000 slashing of you say it, now oversees foreign assistants at 0:17:40.040 --> 0:17:40.880 the State Department. 0:17:41.880 --> 0:17:43.120 Yeah. 0:17:43.320 --> 0:17:47.560 So those guys got jobs out of this. All of 0:17:47.600 --> 0:17:50.640 the people who got fired or got natively impacted by 0:17:50.680 --> 0:17:53.240 the government shutdown are probably not going to be coming 0:17:53.240 --> 0:17:55.000 out as well as mister big Balls here. 0:17:55.720 --> 0:17:55.920 Well. 0:17:55.920 --> 0:17:57.880 And there's some evidence that a number of folks who 0:17:58.000 --> 0:18:00.639 worked with DOGE are now feeling left in the wind 0:18:00.760 --> 0:18:03.600 and potentially in danger because there are a lot of 0:18:03.600 --> 0:18:06.119 people who want these folks to be prosecuted for what 0:18:06.160 --> 0:18:09.440 they did. Yeah, there's definitely talk about that. If there's 0:18:09.840 --> 0:18:12.960 another democratic administration, we'll see if they would ever have 0:18:13.040 --> 0:18:15.560 the big balls to do it. But there was an 0:18:15.640 --> 0:18:17.720 article in Politico recently and I'm going to read a 0:18:17.760 --> 0:18:20.760 quote from that Musk had not just been their visionary 0:18:20.800 --> 0:18:22.720 leader for them, he was their protector, the man who 0:18:22.760 --> 0:18:24.639 had an elect direct line to Trump, who they believed 0:18:24.640 --> 0:18:26.680 could pick up the phone and secure a presidential pardon 0:18:26.680 --> 0:18:29.240 if the worst came. Without his presence in Washington, they 0:18:29.280 --> 0:18:32.600 were suddenly exposed. A senior DOSE figure named Donald Park 0:18:32.640 --> 0:18:35.120 tried to reassure his colleagues that they were still brothers 0:18:35.119 --> 0:18:37.280 in arms and that Musk would continue to protect them. 0:18:37.440 --> 0:18:40.840 That led to another protesting and advising, guys, seriously, get 0:18:40.840 --> 0:18:42.720 your own lawyer if you needed. He LUNs great, but 0:18:42.760 --> 0:18:45.680 you need to watch your own back. Watch your backs, guys. 0:18:46.240 --> 0:18:49.760 Yeah, these guys would be some of the more like 0:18:50.040 --> 0:18:54.640 presumably very easy to prosecute and like obvious targets. Yes, 0:18:54.720 --> 0:18:58.240 another democratic administration's. 0:18:56.920 --> 0:19:00.240 Some really obvious crimes in terms of like protect action 0:19:00.320 --> 0:19:04.600 of information, you know, like some some pretty obvious rule 0:19:04.640 --> 0:19:07.080 breaking that went on that's not being prosecuted now, but yeah, 0:19:07.119 --> 0:19:08.960 they're right, it could be prosecuted in the future. 0:19:09.080 --> 0:19:12.159 Those like first three four months of the Trump admin. 0:19:12.320 --> 0:19:14.680 Ye what it really was just full steam ahead on 0:19:14.720 --> 0:19:17.280 the Silicon Valley version of things, right, like the move 0:19:17.320 --> 0:19:19.800 fast and brave things. Yeah, that's such a wild time 0:19:19.880 --> 0:19:21.680 to look back on, not only just in terms of 0:19:21.680 --> 0:19:23.960 how much damage they did, but the idea that if 0:19:23.960 --> 0:19:25.919 they were going to continue at that pace for the 0:19:25.960 --> 0:19:28.879 rest of the term. The government already is fundamentally different 0:19:28.880 --> 0:19:31.120 in some ways, but like how much worse that would 0:19:31.160 --> 0:19:34.879 have been? Yeah, Yeah, and if Musk's ego is in 0:19:34.960 --> 0:19:37.880 part what's sabotaged that from being complete and really kind 0:19:37.880 --> 0:19:43.080 of doing that more like Jarvin inspired project. Yeah, Hubris 0:19:43.200 --> 0:19:46.840 uh kills kills a man once again. But there is 0:19:46.960 --> 0:19:49.639 aspects of like the doge idea and this government efficiency 0:19:49.640 --> 0:19:52.560 thing which aren't fully going away like this, this still 0:19:52.640 --> 0:19:55.480 is an aspect of the Trump administration. There still is 0:19:55.600 --> 0:19:58.879 like some of those guys at the Auspice of Budget 0:19:58.880 --> 0:20:01.880 and Management and the Hair twenty twenty five guys who 0:20:01.920 --> 0:20:04.720 have a lot of this government efficiency quote unquote government 0:20:04.720 --> 0:20:07.919 efficiency type stuff that they're still working on, including at 0:20:07.960 --> 0:20:12.360 the Education Department, which last week the Trump administration took 0:20:12.400 --> 0:20:16.720 another step towards closing the Department of Education by shifting 0:20:16.760 --> 0:20:19.840 some of its duties to other federal agencies, which the 0:20:19.920 --> 0:20:25.000 Admin claims will quote streamline federal education activities on the 0:20:25.080 --> 0:20:30.879 legally required programs, and reduce administrative burden unquote. That is 0:20:30.960 --> 0:20:35.199 going to be done by these six new interagency agreements 0:20:35.680 --> 0:20:39.200 which have been signed with the Departments of Labor, Interior, 0:20:39.280 --> 0:20:43.480 Health and Human Services, and State. The Education Department writing 0:20:43.560 --> 0:20:46.119 in an announcement that this will quote break up the 0:20:46.160 --> 0:20:51.679 federal bureaucracy, ensure efficient delivery of funded programs activities, and 0:20:51.800 --> 0:20:54.720 move closer to fulfilling the President's promise to return education 0:20:54.920 --> 0:20:59.640 to the States. So by splitting up Education Department duties 0:20:59.680 --> 0:21:03.840