No Agenda Episode 1887 - "The Stick Works"

  No Agenda Episode 1887 - "The Stick Works"
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  Credits
    The Stick Works
    Executive Producers:
      Sir Onymous of Dogpatch and Lower Slobbovia
      Hans Mathre (switcheroo from Michele Mathre)
      Manuka Gold (the Manuka Gold Family)
    Associate Executive Producers:
      Sir DezzyDood of Liberty Village
      Wes Stewart
      Dame Melavation (Melanie Dries)
      Linda Lupatkin — Imagemakers Ink, Duchess of Jobs
      Christine Bonus (switcheroo from Sir Vivor of Aneurysm)
    Title Changes
      Sir DezzyDood of Liberty Village -> Baron
    Knights and Dames:
      Sir Skibidee of St. Petersburg, FL (Hans Mathre)
      Dame "Rebecca at the Mic" (Rebecca Haugh)
    End of Show Mixes:
      BDubz — Necessary Violins
      Jus Baker — Barn Door Wide Open
      Sir Johnny B — clickbait-circus
    Art By: Blue Acorn
    Mark van Dijk - Systems Master
    Ryan Bemrose - Program Director
    Back Office Jae Dvorak
    Chapters: Dreb Scott
    Clip Custodian: Neal Jones
    Clip Collectors: Steve Jones & Dave Ackerman
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  Shownotes
    📰 Topical Articles (no associated clip)
      Trump Wants To Revoke Broadcast Licenses Of Networks That Didn’t Air His Election Speech — ZeroHedge
      Washington is ready to ‘upend the rules-based world order’, HRW chief says — France 24
      Why the US is going after the International Criminal Court — DW
      Trump limits length of visas for students, exchange visitors, journalists — Al Jazeera
      Xi urges global cooperation on AI, warns against single-country dominance — France 24
      Ebola ‘spreading faster than any previous outbreak’ in DR Congo, WHO warns — France 24
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    00 🗳️ ELECTION INTEGRITY - 2020 DOCS
      A-STORY. Trump’s 7/16 primetime election-integrity speech and the ~58 declassified documents — played claim by claim against what the primary document ACTUALLY says (the 9 Trump SOTs each carry the doc-truth rebuttal). Brennan’s MSNBC rebuttal, the reactions (Fontes, Massie, China’s MOFA, Ty Cobb’s "predicate for an emergency" tell), and Trump threatening the networks’ licenses. The through-line: no document shows a vote changed — the real subject is the voter ROLLS + mail-in ballots as the attack surface. Plumbing, not party.
      📰 Articles & links (read/context — above the clips)
        Election fraud claims and threats to media: what to know about Trump’s address — France 24
        Key takeaways from Trump’s controversial speech on election security — Al Jazeera
        DOJ, DHS Launch Election Integrity Website — ZeroHedge
        White House Very Happy with John Solomon Election Reveal Operation — CTH
        Washington Journal — open forum on unsolicited mail-in ballots (caller segment) — C-SPAN
      Clips — 18
      00 Trump speech vs the documents
        01 Trump - China illicitly acquired 220 million voter files
          Source
          📺 Trump — White House (official)
          Trump (WH): claims the PRC carried out "the largest compromise of election data in history" — the illicit acquisition of 220 million US voter files. (Claim-vs-document rebuttal in Context / research below.)
          📎 Context / research
            CLAIM (verbatim): "…the People’s Republic of China carried out what is believed to be the largest compromise of election data in history, resulting in China’s illicit acquisition of 220 million U.S. voter files."
            DOC TRUTH → BS: the primary document says the voter data was "publicly available for download from the commercial websites" (motive "unknown"); a 2023 record says the PRC entity "had previously purchased" it. The "220 million" is a single line ("204,822,241 records, 2016") in a PRC catalog of "likely leaked, compromised data" spanning 2009–2018 that also lists ordinary commercial breach dumps. "Illicit acquisition / largest compromise" vs. a public/purchased aggregated leak — NOT a hack of election systems.
        02 Trump - FBI raw intel China tried to manufacture illegal ballots for Biden
          Source
          📺 Trump — White House (official)
          Trump (WH): says FBI raw intel from 2020, "buried by rogue bureaucrats," showed China even tried to manufacture illegal ballots for Joe Biden. (Doc rebuttal below.)
          📎 Context / research
            CLAIM (verbatim): "Raw intelligence obtained by the FBI in 2020, yet buried by rogue bureaucrats, stated that China’s activities even included an attempt to manufacture illegal ballots for Joe Biden."
            DOC TRUTH → BS: the FBI report is marked "NOT FINALLY EVALUATED," came from an uncorroborated third-hand walk-in source, was RECALLED the same day for source re-interview, and was internally DEBUNKED (the seized fake Chinese licenses were overwhelmingly teens dodging alcohol laws). "Buried by rogue bureaucrats" vs. recalled + debunked raw intel.
        03 Trump - analysts massaged the presidential daily briefing to withhold China info
          Source
          📺 Trump — White House (official)
          Trump (WH): claims an analyst email admitted they "deliberately massaged" the presidential daily briefing to withhold Chinese election activity. (Doc rebuttal below.)
          📎 Context / research
            CLAIM (verbatim): "One email among intelligence analysts admitted that they had, quote, deliberately massaged the presidential daily briefing to withhold information regarding Chinese activities related to the election."
            DOC TRUTH → OVERSTATED: the email actually says massaged "to avoid any direct links to the election" — inside a thread about downgrading/chopping a report’s CLASSIFICATION to feed the 45-day assessment; the recipient wrote "I’m not sure what to make of this." Trump adds the withhold-intent; the email is classification mechanics and ambiguous.
        04 Trump - voting machines vulnerable and easily compromised
          Source
          📺 Trump — White House (official)
          Trump (WH): says the documents prove voting machines and ballot-counting systems are "vulnerable and easily compromised" and the government knew. (Doc rebuttal below.)
          📎 Context / research
            CLAIM (verbatim): "…electronic voting machines and ballot counting systems… They’re vulnerable and they’re easily compromised and people within our government knew that."
            DOC TRUTH → CONTRADICTS THE DOCS: the same NIC assessments say manipulation "would be difficult to manipulate on a wide enough scale to alter the election outcome" and "audits and paper trails very likely would uncover such an effort." The real line is a "capability to compromise" — "easily compromised" contradicts "difficult at scale."
        05 Trump - CIA reporting Maduro digitally rigged Venezuela and thats what they did
          Source
          📺 Trump — White House (official)
          Trump (WH): says CIA reporting shows a plot to digitally rig Venezuela’s 2020 election for Maduro — "and that’s what they did." (Doc rebuttal below.)
          📎 Context / research
            CLAIM (verbatim): "…the CIA obtained reporting of a specific plot to do a big number in favor of the corrupt Maduro regime in Venezuela. And that’s exactly what happened, conspiring to digitally rig their own country’s elections in 2020, and that’s what they did."
            DOC TRUTH → ASSERTED-AS-FACT BS: the CIA note "did not definitively confirm that large-scale electronic fraud was successfully executed"; the large-scale-manipulation scenario is explicitly a flagged "Devil’s Advocacy" exercise, and CIA’s baseline is that large-scale fraud did NOT occur. And it’s Venezuela — no US link. He states as fact what the document calls unconfirmed/hypothetical.
        06 Trump - Michigan Muskegon registration fraud pay play and cheat
          Source
          📺 Trump — White House (official)
          Trump (WH): cites FBI files on a Muskegon, Michigan voter-registration operation — canvassers signing false names for gift cards, "pay, play and cheat," which the Biden DOJ killed. (Doc rebuttal below.)
          📎 Context / research
            CLAIM (verbatim): "…FBI files detailing evidence of alleged fraud by a large-scale voter registration operation in Michigan… canvassers… signed voter registration forms in other people’s names… received gift cards… it was pay, play, and cheat… the Biden Department of Justice slow-walked the investigation and killed it."
            DOC TRUTH → REAL FRAUD, BUT REGISTRATION ONLY: these were fraudulent REGISTRATIONS caught at intake — no votes cast (the one ballot generated was shredded, never voted); DOJ framed it as canvassers padding counts for pay. Genuine registration fraud, but not a single altered vote. (This is the ONE substantiated example in the whole set.)
        07 Trump - DHS found 278000 noncitizens registered to vote
          Source
          📺 Trump — White House (official)
          Trump (WH): says a DHS review of voter rolls identified approximately 278,000 non-citizens registered to vote in federal elections. (Doc rebuttal below.)
          📎 Context / research
            CLAIM (verbatim): "According to the DHS review… they identified approximately 278,000 non-citizens who are registered to vote in federal elections."
            DOC TRUTH → UNSUPPORTED: an unsourced DHS one-pager with no methodology that combines two different counts (~250k from a 4-state file review + ~28k from SAVE across 25 states); the page’s own table sums to ~10,716, labeled "sample data." Presented as firm — and registration ≠ voting.
        08 Trump - we can never watch a stolen election again
          Source
          📺 Trump — White House (official)
          Trump (WH): the emotional close — protect voter data so "we can never be bought, hacked, and never watch a stolen election again." (Doc rebuttal below.)
          📎 Context / research
            CLAIM (verbatim): "…so we can never be bought, we can never be hacked, and we can never watch a stolen election again."
            DOC TRUTH → THE THROUGH-LINE: NO document in any of the four released tranches shows a single vote altered or an outcome changed. "A stolen election again" implies a prior stolen election the documents simply do not support — Trump’s OWN adviser conceded "zero evidence that someone flipped a vote in 2020, ’22 or ’24" (FactCheck.org).
        09 Trump - no mail-in ballots except, pass the Save America Act
          Source
          📺 Trump — White House (official)
          Trump (WH): the call to action — no mail-in ballots except for illness/disability/military/travel; phone your reps to pass the "Save America Act." (Doc / fact-pairing rebuttal below.)
          📎 Context / research
            CLAIM (verbatim): "So you would have no mail-in ballots except for illness, disability, military deployment, or travel… demand that they pass the Save America Act without delay."
            DOC TRUTH / FACT-PAIRING → THE BILL DOESN’T DO WHAT HE WANTS: the real bills are the SAVE Act (H.R.22 = proof-of-citizenship to register) and the broader SAVE America Act (H.R.7296 = federal photo-ID + mail-ballot ID). NEITHER bans mail-in ballots or limits them to illness/disability/military/travel — that restriction is Trump’s own wish, not in the legislation. The "no mail-in ballots except…" hook is the tell; the call-to-action asks people to pass a bill that doesn’t contain it.
      01 Brennan rebuttal
        01 Brennan - released docs sloppy, his own IC, grasping at straws
          Source
          📺 John Brennan — MSNBC (MSM)
          John Brennan (MSNBC): the "withheld info" was his own first-term IC run by Trump’s own appointees; nothing new came out; the "very sloppy" release actually shows Russia helping Trump — he’s grasping at straws for November.
        02 Brennan - raw unverified intel weaponized against elections
          Source
          📺 John Brennan — MSNBC (MSM)
          John Brennan (MSNBC): on The Atlantic’s line that raw unverified intel was "fashioned into a weapon against American elections" — raw intel must be evaluated; Trump’s team cherry-picks and redacts to misrepresent, which analysts see as anathema.
        03 Brennan - I briefed Trump in 2017, it wasnt Russia, China China China
          Source
          📺 John Brennan — MSNBC (MSM)
          John Brennan (MSNBC): first-person — in the 2017 briefing HE personally gave Trump, Trump insisted it wasn’t Russia influencing the election, "maybe it was China, China, China." The "target on his back" beat.
        04 Brennan - where is the backbone, GOP wont admit Biden won 2020
          Source
          📺 John Brennan — MSNBC (MSM)
          John Brennan (MSNBC): the title beat — frightened GOP senators (Jay Clayton, Tuberville) won’t admit Biden won 2020; "where is the backbone?" If it runs to November it’s a death knell for a fair election.
      02 Reactions
        01 Adrian Fontes - Mullin jail threat, go suck on a salt lick
          Source
          📺 Adrian Fontes — MSNBC (MSM)
          Adrian Fontes (MSNOW): the AZ Secretary of State answers DHS Sec. Mullin’s threat to jail non-compliant election officials — Mullin "can go suck on a salt lick," and the threateners are ignorant of how elections actually work.
        02 Rep Massie - we won all the damn elections
          Source
          📺 Rep. Thomas Massie — MSNBC (MSM)
          Rep. Thomas Massie (MSNOW): a Republican undercuts his own party’s fraud narrative — the GOP controls every branch, so "we won all the damn elections"; the real fraud is broken fiscal promises.
        03 China MOFA - pure fabrication, US intel found no 2020 meddling
          Source
          📺 CBS / Anna Coren — CBS News (MSM)
          CBS / Anna Coren (CBS): Beijing calls the allegation "pure fabrication"; the correspondent debunks the "largest compromise" claim on the record — US intel found no 2020 meddling, and the public voter data can’t alter votes.
        04 Ty Cobb - predicate to declare emergency around midterms
          Source
          📺 Ty Cobb — PBS NewsHour (MSM)
          Ty Cobb (PBS): Trump’s own former WH counsel names the "tell" — the speech is the legal predicate to declare an emergency around the midterms (ICE/Guard at polls, seizing machines like 2020) to prevent a peaceful transfer.
      03 Trump vs the networks
        01 Trump - networks refuse to air his election speech, revoke their licenses
          Source
          📺 Trump — NYPOST (?)
          Trump (NYPOST): NBC and ABC refused to carry his election-fraud speech — he frames it as a plot to protect the radical left and says "fraud like this should mean a revocation of their licenses."
    01 🛡️ POLITICAL TERRORISM MINISTERIAL
      The State Dept "Resurgence of Political Terrorism" ministerial: Rubio frames radical leftism as "a distinctive and unique evil" that envisions "a world without God" and attacks pipelines/railroads/power grids; Bessent goes off-script to reveal he was the subject of an assassination attempt and points Treasury’s "full weight of authorities" at far-left terror’s financial lifeblood (with the NBC4 record of the Ryan English Capitol plot).
      📰 Articles & links (read/context — above the clips)
        "Enemies Of Our Civilization": Rubio Unveils Visa Curbs On ‘Far-Left Terrorists’ — ZeroHedge
        Germany news: Minister warns of high terror threat — DW
      Clips — 6
      00 Rubio - distinctive and unique evil
        01 Rubio - distinctive and unique evil, revolt of the worst against the best
          Source
          📺 Marco Rubio — STATEDEPT (?)
          Marco Rubio (STATEDEPT): names radical leftism "a distinctive and unique evil," a "revolt of the worst against the best" by those who cannot build — poisonous resentment out to tear down what greater men built.
        02 Rubio - the world communism envisions is a world without God
          Source
          📺 Marco Rubio — STATEDEPT (?)
          Marco Rubio (STATEDEPT): the WGTDT beat — communism isn’t idealism; the world it envisions is small, gray and drained of everything noble: "a world without God."
        03 Rubio - they attack pipelines railroads power grids, they despise the West
          Source
          📺 Marco Rubio — STATEDEPT (?)
          Marco Rubio (STATEDEPT): the news hook — they attack pipelines, railroads, power grids and laboratories, the symbols of achievement: "This is the nature of the terrorism we face today. They despise the West. Because the West is great."
      01 Bessent - assassination-attempt bombshell
        01 Bessent - Treasury full weight of authorities on far-left terror lifeblood
          Source
          📺 Scott Bessent — NYPOST (?)
          Scott Bessent (NYPOST): at Rubio’s ministerial — political terrorism is "transnational in design, and far left in doctrine," so at Trump’s direction Treasury brings "the full weight of our authorities" against its financial lifeblood.
        02 Bessent - subject of an assassination attempt by a left-wing activist
          Source
          📺 Scott Bessent — NYPOST (?)
          Scott Bessent (NYPOST): the bombshell — goes off-script to reveal he was the subject of an assassination attempt by an adult left-wing activist two hours after being sworn in, and dares the doubting press to attend the August sentencing.
        03 NBC4 Washington - Ryan English arrested Capitol Molotov plot to kill Johnson Hegseth Bessent
          Source
          📺 NBC4 Washington — NBC4 (?)
          NBC4 Washington (NBC4): the contemporaneous record — Ryan English drove from Massachusetts to the Capitol with Molotov materials intending to "kill Scott Bessent," having first targeted Pete Hegseth or Mike Johnson.
    02 🚨 ICE - BORDER - FAR-LEFT TERROR
      ICE / border / far-left terror: a Democratic U.S. Senate nominee (Talarico) breaks with his party and concedes its border failure; Sen. Collins breaks with Trump over the DHS halt on ICE traffic stops; and a White House brag — 14 straight months of zero illegal-alien releases, apprehensions down 94%.
      📰 Articles & links (read/context — above the clips)
        Minnesota Democrats Pardoned a Convicted Child Rapist. President Trump Deported Him. — WhiteHouse.gov
        Canadian Woman Detained By ICE For Attacking Teens Wearing Trump Pants — ZeroHedge
      Clips — 4
      01 1- Talarico - Democrats took the border for granted, open borders no solution
        Source
        📺 James Talarico — MSNBC (MSM)
        James Talarico (MSNOW): a Democratic U.S. Senate nominee faults Biden for failing to secure the border — "National Democrats took the border for granted. We stopped showing up there."
      02 2- Talarico - eighth-generation Texan, Paxton born North Dakota raised in California
        Source
        📺 James Talarico — MSNBC (MSM)
        James Talarico (MSNOW): flips the "not a real Texan" attack — he’s an eighth-generation Texan while "Ken Paxton was born in North Dakota, raised in California," yet Texas is "a state of mind."
      03 Collins - breaks with Trump, DHS halt on ICE traffic stops is the right way
        Source
        📺 Sen. Susan Collins — NYPOST (?)
        Sen. Susan Collins (NYPOST): breaks with the administration — with the Biddeford shooting probe unfinished, the DHS halt on ICE traffic stops "is the right way" and the whole Maine delegation wants an independent IG probe.
      04 WH - 14th straight month zero illegal aliens released, apprehensions down 94 percent
        Source
        📺 White House — NYPOST (?)
        White House (NYPOST): the border-stats brag — new DHS/CBP numbers show a 14th straight month of zero illegal-alien releases and border apprehensions down 94%.
    03 ☢️ IRAN WAR - HORMUZ
      The Iran war grinds into its fifth-plus day around a CLOSED Strait of Hormuz. Military analysts say airpower alone won’t win — break the economy (Kharg Island + the Strait) and the regime breaks; escalation and events (first US deaths in Jordan, a tanker’s smokestack struck, an American freed, tolls "off the table"); ground-invasion talk; and the oil market shrugging it off (United’s CEO).
      📰 Articles & links (read/context — above the clips)
        Is the Strait of Hormuz still Iran’s trump card? — DW
        Gulf exporters turn to pipelines as Hormuz risks grow — DW
        Oil pipelines around the Strait of Hormuz won’t end the threat to Middle East crude exports — CNBC
        Civilian infrastructure hit as US and Iran escalate attacks across the Middle East — France 24
        Power, desalination plants hit in Kuwait — France 24
      Clips — 14
      00 Military analysis
        01 Lt Gen Kellogg - aerial strikes alone wont do the job, control the economy and they break
          Source
          📺 Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg — Fox News (MSM)
          Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg (FOX): airpower alone never wins — neutralize Iran’s two leverage points (Kharg Island’s oil and the Strait) to control the economy, and the regime breaks.
        02 Gen Jack Keane - no real division, the guys with the guns are in control
          Source
          📺 Gen. Jack Keane — Fox News (MSM)
          Gen. Jack Keane (FOX): dismisses talk of an exploitable regime split — the leadership is far more unified than people think, and "the guys with the guns are in control," all committed to rebuilding Iran.
        03 Victoria Coates - leaked report 9pct back status quo, change brewing inside Iran
          Source
          📺 Victoria Coates — Fox News (MSM)
          Victoria Coates (FOX): a leaked internal report shows just 9% of Iranians back the status quo — the regime is trying to assess its own collapse (90M people, valueless currency, can’t export oil) as Trump keeps pounding infrastructure.
        04 Vice Adm Moret - new phase of the conflict, tit for tat escalation
          Source
          📺 Vice Adm. Moret — CBS News (MSM)
          Vice Adm. Moret (CBS): the sober counter — a second wave is a tit-for-tat marking a new, more aggressive phase of the US–Iran conflict, five straight days with both sides climbing the escalation ladder.
        05 Rep Adam Smith - Trump creating perpetual global chaos, most unpopular war
          Source
          📺 Rep. Adam Smith — MSNBC (MSM)
          Rep. Adam Smith (MSNOW): the dissent — Trump keeps thinking "a few more bombs" mean he wins, with no evidence, creating perpetual global chaos and an oil-region war that grinds on with no exit.
      01 Escalation and events
        01 Leavitt - Iran still wants a deal but violated the MOU by firing in Hormuz
          Source
          📺 Karoline Leavitt — PBS NewsHour (MSM)
          Karoline Leavitt (PBS): Iran "very much continues to talk" and still wants a deal, but the strikes resumed because Iran violated the MOU by firing on commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz.
        02 ABC Portnoy - 2 US servicemen killed in Jordan, 16 dead in the Iran war
          Source
          📺 ABC / Stephen Portnoy — ABC News (MSM)
          ABC / Stephen Portnoy (ABC): the first US combat deaths in weeks — two service members killed in Jordan defending against Iranian missiles and drones, a third missing; 427 wounded and 16 now dead in the Iran war.
        03 Fox Tobin - Hellfire missiles down tanker smokestack, Iran calls Hormuz its red line
          Source
          📺 Fox / Mike Tobin — Fox News (MSM)
          Fox / Mike Tobin (FOX): with the blockade active, US aircraft fired Hellfire missiles down the smokestack of a tanker headed for Kharg Island after it ignored warnings; the US also struck near Tehran.
        04 ABC Longman - Iran frees detained American as US keeps hammering Iran
          Source
          📺 ABC / James Longman — ABC News (MSM)
          ABC / James Longman (ABC): Iran frees detained Iranian-American Dena Karari as "a gesture of goodwill" — but it won’t reopen the Strait; the US has hit Iran a fifth straight day.
        05 Energy Sec Wright - there will not be tolls through the Strait of Hormuz
          Source
          📺 Energy Sec. Chris Wright — CNBC (MSM)
          Energy Sec. Chris Wright (CNBC): shuts down the 20% Hormuz toll idea flatly — "that’s off the table"; Trump is the master negotiator telling the world others must share the load: "there will not be tolls through the Strait of Hormuz."
        06 Nathan Sales - three-part plan to crush Iran's economy, blockade sanctions coalition
          Source
          📺 Amb. Nathan Sales — Fox News (MSM)
          Amb. Nathan Sales (FOX): a three-part plan to open the Strait on US terms — deny Iran the ability to shoot at shipping, maximum economic pressure ("crush their economy, $435 million a day"), and an international escort coalition.
      02 Ground-invasion talk
        01 Iran - Retired USAF Brig Gen: preparing the battlefield for a ground invasion
          Source
          📺 Retired USAF Brig. Gen. — Fox News (MSM)
          Retired USAF Brig. Gen. (FOX): CENTCOM is now hitting operationally significant targets — railways, bridges, coastal radar — blocking Iranian resupply and Hormuz threats, and "might be preparing the battlefield for a ground invasion."
        02 Iran - Retired USAF Brig Gen: strike at the heart of the regime in Tehran
          Source
          📺 Retired USAF Brig. Gen. — Fox News (MSM)
          Retired USAF Brig. Gen. (FOX): Trump is beyond his patience after months of bad faith — Bandar Abbas is "a down payment," and he hopes Trump follows through "to Tehran as well, to strike at the heart of the regime."
      03 Oil markets
        01 United CEO Kirby - oil prices not as high as feared amid the Iran-Hormuz risk
          Source
          📺 United CEO Scott Kirby — CNBC (MSM)
          United CEO Scott Kirby (CNBC): he was right the Iran war would keep the Strait from reopening, but underestimated how resilient the oil market has been finding workarounds — "the oil prices aren’t going to be as high as we feared."
    04 🍁 CANADA WILDFIRES - TRADE PRESSURE
      Trump blames Canada for the wildfire smoke choking US states (and the World Cup final) and threatens tariffs; Amb. Hoekstra says it IS America’s position and to take the president seriously "at your own risk"; Doug Ford and PM Carney fire back and flip the blame onto US climate policy.
      📰 Articles & links (read/context — above the clips)
        Trump rips Canada as wildfire smoke spreads, says U.S. will add pollution cost to tariffs — CNBC
        Glyphosate sprayed on land before the wildfires — CBC
      Clips — 5
      01 Trump - holding Canada responsible for wildfire smoke invading US with filthy polluted air
        Source
        📺 Trump — France 24 (MSM)
        Trump (FRANCE24): holds Canada "responsible" for not maintaining its forests as the US is "invaded" by filthy polluted air over the World Cup final, and threatens to add the pollution cost to tariffs.
      02 Amb Hoekstra - Trump threatening tariffs on Canada over wildfires IS Americas position - Global News
        Source
        📺 Amb. Pete Hoekstra — GLOBALNEWS (?)
        Amb. Pete Hoekstra (GLOBALNEWS): confirms without hedging — tariffs over the wildfires ARE America’s position; "the president sets America’s position," pressed on how (Section 232).
      03 Amb Hoekstra - take the president serious at your own risk - Global News
        Source
        📺 Amb. Pete Hoekstra — GLOBALNEWS (?)
        Amb. Pete Hoekstra (GLOBALNEWS): rebuffs the skeptics who note prior threats fizzled — "not taking the president of the United States serious, you do that at your own risk."
      04 Doug Ford - Ontario Premier hits back stop chirping and send help instead
        Source
        📺 Doug Ford — France 24 (MSM)
        Doug Ford (FRANCE24): the Ontario Premier fires back at the "chirping" US politicians — rather than complain, "send help, because we have done the exact same thing for our American friends."
      05 Carney - Canadian PM blames Trump policies over wildfire smoke dispute
        Source
        📺 PM Mark Carney — CTV (?)
        PM Mark Carney (CTV): flips the blame onto US policy after GOP lawmakers charge Canadian "inaction" is making "American lungs pay the price" — pointing at US "prohibitions against clean energy."
    05 👁️ SURVEILLANCE STATE - FLOCK CAMERAS
      The surveillance state via Flock cameras: Tucker’s 1984/telescreen frame, the $2,500-camera-vs-$100k-cop incentive, Harris County’s 3,700 readers and 500 murders, Flock staff spying on a daycare 1,000+ times, and gunshot mics silently flipped over-the-air to listen for voices.
      📰 Articles & links (read/context — above the clips)
        The Grooming Gang Cover-Up: 250,000 Reasons "Online Safety" Is A Scam — ZeroHedge
        UK proposes voluntary overnight social media curfew for older teens — Al Jazeera
        Germany massively expands federal police powers — DW
      Clips — 5
      01 Tucker - 1984 cameras and the telescreen, stripping privacy is the key to enslaving them
        Source
        📺 Tucker Carlson — TUCKER (?)
        Tucker Carlson (TUCKER): the philosophical spine — grounded in Orwell’s 1984, without privacy there’s no intimacy; people who fear being overheard stop saying (then thinking) what they believe. "Stripping privacy is the key to enslaving them."
      02 Tucker - Flock cameras 2500 dollars vs 100k police officer the incentive
        Source
        📺 Tucker Carlson — TUCKER (?)
        Tucker Carlson (TUCKER): why Flock is metastasizing — a cop costs $100k/yr (up to $7M a career) while a Flock camera contract runs ~$2,500. "You can certainly see the incentive," with privacy nowhere in the math.
      03 Tucker - Harris County 3700 readers still 500 murders not to keep you safe
        Source
        📺 Tucker Carlson — TUCKER (?)
        Tucker Carlson (TUCKER): tests the safety promise — Harris County has 3,700+ readers yet 500+ murders in 2025 with murders rising over a decade; the point of the readers "is probably not to keep you safe."
      04 Ben Jordan - Flock staff viewed daycare gymnastics 1000 times nobody fired
        Source
        📺 Ben Jordan — TUCKER (?)
        Ben Jordan (TUCKER): FOIA’d audit reports show Flock employees — grown men, not officers — viewed a community center’s cameras 1,000+ times, including the pool, daycare and children’s gymnastics room; nobody was fired.
      05 Isaac - Flock gunshot mics silently flipped to listen for voices
        Source
        📺 Isaac — TOMMYG (?)
        Isaac (TOMMYG): a campus SOT — ~48 Flock "gunshot detectors" that Flock said would delete everything else were silently flipped by an over-the-air software update to listen for voices.
    06 ✡️ ISRAEL - INFLUENCE & AID SPLIT
      The Israel influence + aid split: 103 House Democrats vote to cut Israel aid (only Massie among the GOP), the anti-Semitism-vs-policy debate, Fetterman’s red line, Wes Moore’s "no such thing as unconditional aid," and VP Vance telling Rogan an Israeli-funded campaign is attacking him over the Iran deal.
      📰 Articles & links (read/context — above the clips)
        Vance says Israeli campaign tried to sway US opinion against Iran diplomacy — Al Jazeera
        Epstein linked to Israeli ‘deep state’, US intel, says Vance: What we know — Al Jazeera
        Germany may make it illegal to deny Israel’s right to exist — DW
      Clips — 4
      01 CBS panel - 103 House Dems vote to cut Israel aid, anti-Semitism debate
        Source
        📺 CBS / Major Garrett — CBS News (MSM)
        CBS / Major Garrett (CBS): the House failed Massie’s amendment to cut Israel aid — 103 Democrats voted yes, only Massie among Republicans — then a panel debates whether questioning aid is anti-Semitism or policy disagreement.
      02 Sen Fetterman - would leave Democratic Party if it turns anti-Israel
        Source
        📺 Sen. John Fetterman — CNN (MSM)
        Sen. John Fetterman (CNN): his red line is the Democratic Party turning officially anti-Israel; he calls the cut-aid vote "symbolic" but warns the anti-Israel tilt accelerates after the midterms. "I’ll always proudly stand with Israel."
      03 Gov Wes Moore - no unconditional aid, Netanyahu committed war crimes
        Source
        📺 Gov. Wes Moore — MSNBC (MSM)
        Gov. Wes Moore (MSNOW): "there is no such thing as unconditional aid" — every dollar gets pressure-tested; Oct 7 can never be condoned, but denying food as a cudgel and West Bank settler violence "is a war crime."
      04 VP Vance - Israeli-funded influence campaign attacking me over Iran deal
        Source
        📺 VP JD Vance — Joe Rogan Experience (podcast)
        VP JD Vance (JRE): tells Joe Rogan a "very discreet, extremely well-funded" campaign — people "quite literally paid" via a former Trump-campaign figure tied to Israeli-government elements — is attacking him to derail the Iran deal.
    07 🤖 AI BUBBLE
      The AI bubble: Databricks’ Ali Ghodsi on runaway enterprise AI spend + the cheap open Chinese Kimi K3 (out of GPUs everywhere), OpenAI’s Bret Taylor on Apple’s trade-secret suit and the post-"glowing-rectangle" hardware push, China regulating AI romance to fix its birth rate, and Erin Brockovich on data centers draining aquifers.
      📰 Articles & links (read/context — above the clips)
        The White House is dictating access to frontier AI models, shifting power from tech giants — CNBC
        Microsoft’s Nadella rips Anthropic’s Fable restrictions in staff meeting: ‘Doesn’t make sense’ — CNBC
        SoftBank sinks 8% as Japanese chip stocks track Wall Street AI sell-off — CNBC
        Elon Musk’s Memphis AI empire is the epicenter of the data center backlash — CNBC
        The Atlantic: "generative AI engineering disaster" (@js) — The Atlantic
      Clips — 5
      01 Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi - Fortune 500 exec AI costs exponential will go bankrupt, out of GPUs everywhere
        Source
        📺 Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi — CNBC (MSM)
        Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi (CNBC): every enterprise is panicking over runaway AI spend (a Fortune-500 exec told him he’ll go bankrupt), so mundane work routes to cheap open models — Databricks has physically run out of GPUs worldwide.
      02 Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi - Chinese Kimi K3 on par with Fable and GPT and fully free, game changer
        Source
        📺 Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi — CNBC (MSM)
        Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi (CNBC): ranks Moonshot’s Kimi K3 — only the two priciest US frontier models beat it, yet it’s cheap AND fully open/free, the disruption tell for the trillion-dollar-valuation thesis.
      03 OpenAI Chairman Bret Taylor - no interest in other companies trade secrets on Apple lawsuit
        Source
        📺 OpenAI Chairman Bret Taylor — CNBC (MSM)
        OpenAI Chairman Bret Taylor (CNBC): flatly denies any interest in Apple’s secrets amid its Friday trade-secret suit, and pivots to why OpenAI chases hardware — moving past the "glowing rectangle" to conversational-AI form factors.
      04 Carnegie Matt Sheehan - China regulates AI chatbot romance to fix birth rate
        Source
        📺 Matt Sheehan — CBS News (MSM)
        Matt Sheehan (CBS): with China’s birth rate at a record low, new rules discourage AI-companion relationships to nudge people toward real families — anti-addiction buckets, minors’ limits — to fix the birth rate.
      05 Erin Brockovich - AI data centers use 30 million gallons of water, wells running dry
        Source
        📺 Erin Brockovich — SRS (?)
        Erin Brockovich (SRS): the real cost is water — up to 30M gallons per data center, draining aquifers and municipal supply so residents’ wells run dry, sited in already drought-restricted states.
    08 🌴 CUBA - REGIME-CHANGE PUSH
      The regime-change wave reaches Cuba: on tape Trump says "Cuba’s next"; opposition leader Rosa María Payá calls the regime a US national-security threat and points to the "Freedom Accord" transition plan; the exile Orlando Cabrera’s counterpoint — after 67 years, "the real embargo is internal."
      Clips — 3
      01 Cuba - Trump: 'Cuba's next'; Paya: the regime is a US national-security threat
        Source
        📺 CNN — CNN (MSM)
        CNN (CNN): the regime-change wave — after Venezuela and Iran, Trump on tape: "And Cuba’s next." Opposition leader Rosa María Payá calls the regime a US national-security threat sitting on billions while Cubans go 26 hours with no power.
      02 Cuba - Rosa Maria Paya: Freedom Accord, the Castro regime must leave by force
        Source
        📺 CNN / Rosa María Payá — CNN (MSM)
        CNN / Rosa María Payá (CNN): Cuba holds 1,200+ political prisoners; the newest hope on Calle Ocho is the "Freedom Accord," a transition plan for the day the regime falls — the Castro family and generals must leave "on their own accord or by force."
      03 Cuba - Orlando Cabrera: the real embargo is internal
        Source
        📺 CNN / Orlando Cabrera — CNN (MSM)
        CNN / Orlando Cabrera (CNN): the exile counterpoint — back from his first trip since 2019, he answers the "US pressure only deepens the crisis" critique: after 67 years, "the real embargo is internal."
    09 🏛️ DOMESTIC
      Domestic grab-bag: Trump fast-tracks CDLs for veteran truckers while pulling "illegal alien" drivers; SC Senate hopeful Ashley Webb promises to be "an angry senator, their worst nightmare"; and Sen. Duckworth trashes Hegseth’s new troop testosterone screening as "performative bullshit."
      📰 Articles & links (read/context — above the clips)
        FCC Head Carr Moves To Reshape TV Ownership Rules, Save Local Broadcasting From Being ‘Mouthpieces’ — ZeroHedge
      Clips — 3
      01 Trump - fast-tracks CDLs for veterans over illegal-alien truckers
        Source
        📺 Trump — NYPOST (?)
        Trump (NYPOST): "historic action" to pull "illegal alien" truck drivers off the roads and replace them with veterans — any American who drove a heavy truck in the military "will automatically be eligible for a commercial driver’s license."
      02 Ashley Webb - 'I'd be an angry senator, their worst nightmare'
        Source
        📺 Ashley Webb — NYPOST (?)
        Ashley Webb (NYPOST): asked what qualifies her for the SC Senate seat, the Dem activist lists losses, songwriting and "transparency," and lands it: "I’m just an angry citizen now… I’d be an angry senator, their worst nightmare."
      03 Duckworth - Hegseth's testosterone screening is 'performative bullshit'
        Source
        📺 Sen. Tammy Duckworth — MSNBC (MSM)
        Sen. Tammy Duckworth (MSNOW): on Hegseth’s new troop testosterone screening — "it sounds like gender-affirming care to me… why stop at testosterone?" — "just one more performative bullshit from the least qualified SecDef in our history."
    10 🎭 SERENDIPITY & CULTURE
      Serendipity & culture: the man trapped 8 hours in a porta-potty tank chasing a Mountain Dew, the "I have to poop" speeding montage, Trump’s face headed for a $1 coin, Hegseth’s testosterone tests, and Count Binface stealing the show at UK PMQs / the Clacton by-election.
      📰 Articles & links (read/context — above the clips)
        Why Dana White thinks much more of UFC’s future will be Power Slap and boxing — CNBC
        Leather jacket worn by Nvidia CEO goes for just under $1 million at Sotheby’s — CNBC
      Clips — 5
      00 Serendipity
        01 NY Post - man trapped in porta-potty tank 8 hours retrieving Mountain Dew - NY Post
          Source
          📺 NY Post — NYPOST (?)
          NY Post (NYPOST): a porta-potty crew finds a man who’d spent ~8 hours down in the tank of a locked unit retrieving a Mountain Dew bottle he’d dropped — "I’m in here" — before crews cut him out.
        02 Florida trooper - drivers keep using the poop excuse for speeding, you almost made me poop - NY Post
          Source
          📺 NY Post — NYPOST (?)
          NY Post (NYPOST): a montage of extreme-speeding drivers all give the same excuse — "I have to poop" — as an unmoved trooper explains you still can’t do 120 in a 70 and blow a stop sign. "You almost made me poop."
        03 Ruhle - Trump face on a $1 coin think about his impact on our money
          Source
          📺 Stephanie Ruhle — MSNBC (MSM)
          Stephanie Ruhle (MSNBC): a commemorative $1 gold coin with Trump’s face is being minted this fall — likely illegal (an 1800s law bars the living on currency) — tying his legacy to the money you pay more with amid inflation.
        04 Hegseth - testosterone tests for troops over 30 not about artificial enhancement - NY Post
          Source
          📺 Pete Hegseth — NYPOST (?)
          Pete Hegseth (NYPOST): announces annual testosterone-deficiency screening for warfighters 30 and older (under-30 voluntary, TRT the member’s choice), pre-empting the "artificial enhancement" read.
      01 UK PMQs - Count Binface
        01 UK PMQs - Count Binface joke candidate vs Reform in Clacton by-election
          Source
          📺 UK PMQs / Count Binface — UK PARLIAMENT (?)
          UK PMQs / Count Binface (UK PARLIAMENT): the joke candidate takes on Reform in the Clacton by-election — the perennial satirical foil stealing the spotlight from Westminster’s serious contenders.
  Clips and Art
    Art
    Clips
      00 Trump - China illicitly acquired 220 million voter files.mp3
      00 Rubio - distinctive and unique evil, revolt of the worst against the best.mp3
      01 Rubio - the world communism envisions is a world without God.mp3
      02 Rubio - they attack pipelines railroads power grids, they despise the West.mp3
      00 Bessent - Treasury full weight of authorities on far-left terror lifeblood.mp3
      01 Bessent - subject of an assassination attempt by a left-wing activist.mp3
      02 NBC4 Washington - Ryan English arrested Capitol Molotov plot to kill Johnson Hegseth Bessent.mp3
      00 CBS panel - 103 House Dems vote to cut Israel aid, anti-Semitism debate.mp3
      01 Sen Fetterman - would leave Democratic Party if it turns anti-Israel.mp3
      02 Gov Wes Moore - no unconditional aid, Netanyahu committed war crimes.mp3
      03 VP Vance - Israeli-funded influence campaign attacking me over Iran deal.mp3
      00 Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi - Fortune 500 exec AI costs exponential will go bankrupt, out of GPUs everywhere.mp3
      01 Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi - Chinese Kimi K3 on par with Fable and GPT and fully free, game changer.mp3
      02 OpenAI Chairman Bret Taylor - no interest in other companies trade secrets on Apple lawsuit.mp3
      03 Carnegie Matt Sheehan - China regulates AI chatbot romance to fix birth rate.mp3
      04 Erin Brockovich - AI data centers use 30 million gallons of water, wells running dry.mp3
      01 Ashley Webb - 'I'd be an angry senator, their worst nightmare'.mp3
      00 UK PMQs - Count Binface joke candidate vs Reform in Clacton by-election.mp3
      AI countng to 100.mp3
      AI Foibles Spelt with X.mp3
      AI Husk Mile Away.mp3
      AI Husk OG 100.mp3
      Berkeley K9 Ban KQED.mp3
      CANADA SMOKE vs Trump NHK.mp3
      CDC Director New 1 npr.mp3
      CDC Director New 1 npr TWO.mp3
      Cenk on Israel.mp3
      Centcom Iran attacks kills npr.mp3
      Dems and Israel 1 Journal.mp3
      Dems and Israel 2 Journal.mp3
      FIFA Spanish player bbc.mp3
      IRAN SUrvival BBC.mp3
      ISO cruise donate.mp3
      ISO cruise Mission.mp3
      ISO Zuck doubt.mp3
      Lindsey Graham Sister npr.mp3
      Link Lauren Gay News.mp3
      MAHA Censorship.mp3
      MAHA Project defuse rand paul.mp3
      SDA and Communism NPR.mp3
      SDA and Communism TWO NPR.mp3
      Surrogacy in DE WTF BBC.mp3
      Trio Protest Bay Area.mp3
      UKRAINE blows up Rusia warehouse NHK.mp3
      WTF Research for China hearing ntd.mp3
      01 Trump - FBI raw intel China tried to manufacture illegal ballots for Biden.mp3
      02 Trump - analysts massaged the presidential daily briefing to withhold China info.mp3
      03 Trump - voting machines vulnerable and easily compromised.mp3
      04 Trump - CIA reporting Maduro digitally rigged Venezuela and thats what they did.mp3
      05 Trump - Michigan Muskegon registration fraud pay play and cheat.mp3
      06 Trump - DHS found 278000 noncitizens registered to vote.mp3
      07 Trump - we can never watch a stolen election again.mp3
      08 Trump - no mail-in ballots except, pass the Save America Act.mp3
      01 Brennan - raw unverified intel weaponized against elections.mp3
      02 Brennan - I briefed Trump in 2017, it wasnt Russia, China China China.mp3
      03 Brennan - where is the backbone, GOP wont admit Biden won 2020.mp3
      01 Rep Massie - we won all the damn elections.mp3
      02 China MOFA - pure fabrication, US intel found no 2020 meddling.mp3
      03 Ty Cobb - predicate to declare emergency around midterms.mp3
      00 Trump - networks refuse to air his election speech, revoke their licenses.mp3