#154: White House Correspondence Dinner Manifesto / Civil War Between Empire & Homeland

0:01 Welcome to another episode of Come Together. What's up everyone, we are back for another solo episode. I can't believe it's already been 5 episodes since my last solo one, but cheers. And it's been a lot of fun. It's been an amazing week, week and a half. It's been truly, truly nuts. And I wanted to talk about some things, including obviously some breaking news over the weekend and a lot of, you know, President Trump getting there was a shooter rather at the White House correspondents dinner. And he wasn't actually, I don't think ever, I don't think he made it to try to get it to Trump, but obviously he was there for that.

0:55 And actually as of just a couple of minutes ago, it's 2:45 on April 26th and Sunday afternoon, just a couple of minutes ago, I the manifesto of the shooter or the attempted shooter, I think he shot, he tried to shoot one person. He shot one person rather once, one guard, Secret Service member, That's the word. And yeah, but the guy's fine. He got shot in the chest, who's wearing a full of a bulletproof vest, thank God. And I think that was it. And the guy has been killed. I don't even think that he was expecting this to be a suicide mission as far as this manifesto goes. But it's also really interesting and important to note that the manifesto is only being released in part at the moment, as according to the New York Post two hours ago. And I want to read it and maybe talk about it a little bit, or at least kind of just.

1:55 I think this is. Really interesting because his manifesto felt like it wasn't written by someone that was haunted by, you know, a chemical imbalance in their brain. Doesn't sound like someone who is on hormone blockers or is particularly unstable or unwell. And this seems to be pretty thought out and pretty intentional. And it feels a little bit more like the Luigi mangion guy, a little bit more down his lane than say some kind of mass shooter or some kind of even the kid that the kid that shot that, that that tried to shoot Trump or that hit his ear in Butler, that didn't feel like the same thing.

2:44 And maybe it's because of the fact that there actually is a manifesto and because of the fact that we can get an insight into this guy's head. His name is the alleged, the alleged gunman's name is Cole Allen. And there's some crazy. Some. Crazy stuff on on X about an account two years ago that just tweeted his name. Just tweeted the name Cole Allen and like and that was it. And I don't think that tweet like was it had ever given, had ever been given any context. But that also doesn't necessarily mean anything. Again, anything in a vacuum, kind of anything in a vacuum could be portrayed or twisted however you want it to be.

3:26 Just like I saw yesterday that Caroline Lovett said before, maybe an hour before the actual event happened for the incident, that that, that, you know, she goes, it's going to be a typical Trump speech. There's going to be comedy. There's going to be great bits. There'll be shots fired. And like, everyone on Twitter immediately went nuts. Like no. Are you kidding? She's in on it. But. Come on man, just twist the words in my opinion. I feel like that's something you could apply Occam's Razor to. Let's let's read this for a second. Hello everybody. So I have. So I may have given a lot of people a surprise.

4:06 Today let me. Start off by apologizing. To everyone whose whose trust I abuse. On to why I did any of this I. Am a citizen of the United States of America. What my representatives do reflects on me and I'm no longer willing to permit PETA. Whatever rape, whatever is right, I guess. Rape is already said the word and traitor. I hope YouTube doesn't take me down and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes. So this is obviously very politically motivated. Obviously this gentleman, this person, this teacher, I think actually is, you know, obviously I think he feels a lot of. What the whole?

4:57 Of a lot, a lot of the country that can't say anything feel I, I, I really believe that's true. I don't think that I think that it's very clear based on how unpopular Trump's become just a year and a half after his presidency. And apparently, by the way, this isn't just Trump. I want to make that clear. I'm actually reading this awesome book called Unstable majorities continue by Morris Fiona Fiorina. Excuse me. And, and this gentleman makes a really interesting point that it's extremely uncommon, at least in the last 20-30 years or maybe more 4050 years to, for a president to kind of make these promises that they can't really live up to.

5:41 And a couple of years, you know, and, and even despite whatever popularity they had going into the presidency, by the midterm, people are usually pretty disillusioned. And obviously this seems to really strongly be the case over here. But this obviously I think is another step up because this isn't something say this isn't something that we're saying is like, Hey, you know, how how come you bailed out the banks, which was really a bad enough thing as it is, and that there were no arrests. It's not as bad as a 20 year Middle Eastern war for really no stated reason, even though it's pretty bad. But I mean, we're talking about like, I mean, the, the, I think the Epstein thing is too big to be pushed under the rug.

6:30 And whether or not it's being temporarily kicked down the kicked down the even though the cans being kicked down the road a little bit with the Iranian war, I think that enough, I think that the same forces that swung the election towards Trump this past election, the same forces are going to absolutely crush the administration and in administrations to come. I think that the voice is, I think the voices on the Internet are so loud. And I think that events like this reinforce that. And listen, you know. I keep on, I keep on thinking. This every couple of weeks, every every month or two. But I just think about how many of these really significant events, the missing scientists, the Epstein list, Trump's. So this is Trump's third assassination. You know, third would be assassin. This is like a.

7:29 Crazy historic time. I mean, this is this time period and, and we, we've kind of the only reason I think that we're really able to process. We don't even process it. I think that things are just so hard for so many people on a regular basis and people are so busy with their day-to-day lives and lives are getting harder and harder to live year after year that people are so focused on being, you know, on, on just trying to keep their head above water that they don't really have time or effort until they kind of snap. And when you do snap this, you know, I mean, we have, we have 3 assassination attempts. I mean, this is it's nuts, but there's been very little response from any of the representation of the people, anyone that was, you know, that any accountability for promises that were, you know, made or broken. And, you know, Pam Bondi being fired might be one thing, but I don't think her replacement was much better. As he steps in and goes, we're closing the buck on the Epstein case and everyone else is like, I cannot believe that. Like, like that's what got bounty fired to begin with, you know, like, I mean.

8:41 I mean, you can't. Really argue that she was like doing much else. That was like bad bad I guess. This is so blatant. It was so dumb and it was she looks so bad. And then the guy's going to come in. It's just basically swap. It's not swapping out of policy, it's swapping out of face and people aren't going to buy that. I don't, I, I don't know anyone that buys that for even a minute. OK, Anyway, so I'm a citizen of the United States of America. What my representatives do reflect on me, reflects on me. And I'm no longer willing to permit a whatever, whatever and a traitor to coat my hands with his crimes. Administration officials not including Mr. Patel.

9:22 They are targets prioritized from highest ranking to lowest Secret Service. There are targets only if necessary and need to be incapacitated non lethally if possible. Akai hope they're wearing body armor because center mass with shotguns messes up people who aren't. And interesting that he actually that that was released and that was actually the only case of any kind of damage was a non lethal shot. Because according to Trump, at least last night during his post event press conference, he he said that he said that that if not for the body armor that it would have been a lethal shot.

10:03 So it's pretty crazy. He seemed to have thought that through. And then hotel security not targets at all if possible, AKA unless they shoot at me etcetera. Rebuttals 2 objections Objection 1 is interesting. So he's already kind of planning out for people to just. Argue with him. Hey, you don't need to do it like this. You don't need the violence we don't need. We don't need this to be the case. As a Christian, you should turn the other cheek. As a Jew, I don't can't pretend to know what he should do or not as a Christian, so I'm not going to comment on that rebuttal. Turning the other cheek is for when you are your when you yourself are oppressed. I'm not the person raped in a detention camp. I am not the fisherman executed without a trial, right? Like I guess he's obviously talking about the fisherman from Venezuela that were allegedly bringing drugs which turned out to just be like marijuana and they were going to Colombia, not United States.

11:00 But they were blown up obviously without a trial on the orders of Pete Hegseth, perhaps Marco Rubio too, I believe. I'm sure nothing happened to that. They say so anyway, and I'm not a schoolgirl blown up or a child starved or a teenage girl abused by many criminals in this administration. OK, that is fair. Again, this seems to emphasize, to me at least, the inconsistencies and what seems to be coming to our head, which is American, the America, the homeland in America, the empire. And the empire has its agenda, which is to survive.

11:42 And the homeland now, I think is being woken up to the fact that if it does not act out or not or act back out, that it will not survive. And I think that just like, or a company or a corporation or an institution or a university or a government fights, it's not one individual person. You can't point to one person if you have a church or a synagogue, if you have a, a band, right? I mean, think about the Eagles that are still playing now and you have only a few of their original members. What makes them the Eagles, right? And that's a, and that's a, and that's a question that people have very strong feelings about. And I, I totally get that.

12:25 America, the homeland, but the But the name the Eagles. Persists because. There's something about the existence of that music of the name that regardless of who's playing it, there seems to be something that that that like wants to keep that entity alive as long as possible. Maybe that's any original founding member. Maybe it's a founding member's family. I don't know. And I'm sure that it's a case by case basis. But the point is that America the homeland, I believe, I think that America the homeland and America the empire are coming to a conflict right now because. For a long. Time, America, the empire was able to thrive while America the homeland was doing relatively well and there were obviously little schemes to go ahead and make people think that things were going well.

13:16 You know, obviously, and I heard this, I heard. Crap, I don't remember who said this. So don't take take this with a grain of salt, but that every maybe Scott Horton or Dave Smith that every for the last I think 20 years, every presidency's stock performance, S&P 5, you know, whatever it is, performance was always breaking and always at all at all time high. It just keeps on happening because inflation is going up. But there has been a mass deceit of the public in the name of economic. Hey everyone, real quick, if you're enjoying the show, click. Subscribe and rate the show 5 stars helps a ton. Thanks so much.

14:07 Debt and slavery I think and you can and obviously you could talk about the fact that most Americans, I think 40% I saw the unusual whales that awesome Instagram, the awesome Twitter account posted the other day that nearly 40% of Americans don't have $500.00 cash for emergencies that's. Crazy, you know, and I totally and I actually totally hear that and I totally feel that, you know, I mean, I, I my life. Is such a fortune just to be able to? Kind of be an adult. I just kind of support two kids just. To support 3 kids just to be able to. Pay your mortgage and if.

14:52 I mean, by some chance you want to try to scrap together without having family help or you, you know, try to scrap together a down payment. I mean it could take decades. Based. On how much money? People are are able to put aside. And if you look at. Where the you know where the money's being spent and where the budget's going. A lot of, A lot of. It is going to America, the empire. So what happens is, or what I believe is happening is that this is a civil war not happening in America. This is a civil war between the philosophies of what America is. And these are the actual casualties of war. Same way.

15:40 And I actually, I can't believe that, you know, I'm saying that I'm just putting this together while I'm speaking right now. But the same thing with the missing scientists, you know, I mean, Trump announces a couple of months ago that he's going to, you know, and I mean, I know that it sounds crazy. I know that everyone's kind of quick, you know, like it sounds like sci-fi, but like this is real. I mean, the Pentagon, what are we talking about it if it wasn't real, you know, Obama and or at least that there is something to think about. And again, you know, whether or not anyone that is in politics, whether you like, whether they deserve to be believed at all is obviously not something that's taken for granted. But there's a reason why these slip UPS are happening. There's a reason why people are saying what they're saying. And when Trump says that, you know, Obama gave away classified information by saying the aliens are real and then goes ahead and orders the declassify, you know, the declassification of all these documents and then scientists, that's not true. I mean, you know, cuz scientists have been disappearing for since 2022, so it hasn't just been happening since then. But I think like four or five have have disappeared since. Then and like, and again, you know, and, and obviously we live in a time where all.

17:02 Information kind of be. We have an abundance of information and abundance, more than we could ever dream of. And none of it is all, and none of it is completely true, and you can't believe all of anything at face value. And So what you? Kind of have to do is use that abundance of information and take bits and pieces and try to sort together some kind of narrative that actually, you know, lines up. I actually think that, excuse me, Tim Dylan is incredible at this. I mean, he puts together these these incredible narratives, but. And he and and he just puts together news and philosophies and perspectives.

17:50 And is able to. Kind of blend them all into one. Coherent story as to what the state of America is today and. It's always changing and you can see through bullshit like I can't and one one of the. Reasons why I've spoken about before is because. I am very comfortable and I am very satisfied just kind of taking information. I'm not very sceptical. I I'm pretty accepting when it comes to information, and I've kind of had to learn to try to be more at least learn to listen to a couple of different perspectives before I even decide for myself what I think on anything. I'm back, I just took a quick break. I think that.

18:36 I think that. You know, especially when we talk about having to be wary of information that's given to us and that none of it's true, I mean. Even this manifest manifesto, we have no idea how doctored it was. We have no idea whether anyone messed around with anything or the way that it was released. And I mean, even the fact that it was partially released already means that someone decided to censor or hold back something or some of it. And I kind of hope the rest of it gets leaked and gets out because I think it's important. It's always interesting to understand because these acts are obviously acts of terror. I don't condone any of them. I don't think. Obviously in a perfect world that would never happen. But I think that in order, I think that at the end of the day, information is information.

19:24 In order to unders, in order to fix the problem, you have to understand what the problem is. In order to prevent more attacks like this, I think you got to understand the motive and the motive. Is very clear. The motive is super, super clear. And, and you know, the kids that he was talking about was the fact that we initially said that we're going to war in Iran to help liberate the people. And at least according to Glenn Greenwald's journalism or sources, that they were using AI assisted rockets. And that was one of the that was the missile that hit the children's school the first day of the war and killed over 120 mostly school kids.

20:07 I think that Americans aren't for it. I think that I think unfortunately, so many years of war, America, the homeland is kind of sick of it. And so the America, the Empire. Looks like it's on the verge of falling and is doing everything in its power to not fall, everything in its power to stay alive. But at the end of the day, without support of your homeland, of your heart, of the, the source of your funds, the source, the people that I don't even know whether or not that hold you accountable, but hypothetically hold you accountable. You could demand evidence, then you destroy evidence and then you just lose more credit credibility and then no one's going to support what you do.

21:05 Now, what does it look like for America, the empire to fall, you might ask? I think it means that our foreign policy and the people and the people that we have around the world, the military bases, our currency for American dollar ends up losing value. I think that I think that America, the empire is about to fall apart and America, the homeland is going to need some time to rebuild itself or redevelop itself. And it's going to take a lot of, it's going to take time because of such a what, what a precarious economic situation we've put ourselves into.

21:46 Now, if America the empire fails and ceases to become a priority and America goes from being the world's policeman, which I remember even learning about in, in middle school. I don't remember if I talked about this in the podcast before. I remember learning about that in middle school in like a history textbook or something, or a social studies textbook. And I was, and I, I was even curious then I was like, why are we the policeman? Like who made us the policeman of everyone else? And I remember that foreign policy was explained to us pretty much as there are bad people in the world and we want to make their lives better, so we go there and we help.

22:30 Make their lives better. And I never obviously I, I'm in 3rd, 5th, 7th, 10, you know, 9th, 10th grade. Obviously this is all getting kind of, you know, I mean, this is the history textbooks, these are the, this is the American education. So it, you know, and, and, and I, I mean, I don't know whether I'm looking back on it now with my new lens and my new perspective and therefore ascribing A motive for my train of thought, because I don't think that I was really even thinking very much at that point. I was more thinking about how I hated school and how I want to be home and how I want to be playing, playing basketball and hanging out with my friends. But I did think like, it's kind of weird that like, like who made America as opposed to because we, you, you also learn about other countries and you also learn about England and you also learned about Europe and you also learned about Russia and China a little bit. You, you learn about the fact that they exist. You learn about the fact that we had a Cold War and that World War 2 was, I mean, I, my World War 2 education, unfortunately was primarily around the Holocaust and very little around the actual war, which is obviously important for some reasons and lacking for other reasons. Mainly the fact that if you only focus on one aspect of a World War, then you forget the context of the rest of it and allow history to repeat itself because you haven't learned from it. So once you can, obviously, you know, so it's important to revisit a war or revisit history and try to understand its fullest context.

24:01 That's actually what I really like about a lot of Darryl Cooper's work. If you listen to the Martyr Maid podcast, it's really uncomfortable for a lot of people because he puts himself in everyone's shoes. And individuals, especially people who identify with the tribe or with a particular group or with a particular entity, find it very, very uncomfortable to hear that the entity, that they're a part of the organization, the life this this Organism that they're a part of could do something wrong. And so obviously they have a very vehement response, almost like an allergic response to any kind of concession that, hey, you know, the way that people that have historically been on my side have acted, acted in a way that I'm not comfortable with or think is appropriate. But I'll still support the idea if the idea is at its core is good and the way that it's meant, the way that it's carried out is bad.

25:02 I heard a really, it was actually an awesome. It was a debate I keep on talking about, I guess, quote UN quote forbidding characters with Glenn Greenwald and Tucker Carlson. And man. However, I just mentioned a minute ago Darryl Cooper. Sorry about that. And he was happy 'cause I had this very, very interesting debate. And I kind of wish you would do more of these rather than talk about the war, though, you know, every three times a week. I understand from his perspective while he's doing that. But he had this incredible debate with a, with a company. In San Francisco. I believe it's near Silicon Valley. And the company helps you once you're going through the process of IVF pick, you know, with IVF in vitro fertilization, you get, it's artificial insemination and artificial, I guess it happens from, you know, externally, outside, you know, not naturally. And you take the healthiest embryos, the ones that have the highest chance of being healthy and thriving and succeeding and living.

25:58 And you select it. And you could select whether you're whether you're going to be a boy or a girl or if it's going to, you know, maybe some certain characteristics, you could weed out some genetic diseases like, or traits like Down syndrome. And Tucker was having this debate with this guy about whether or not we should be able to kind of pick, for example, once we have that that information, we could we also have information as to what the kids jeans look like for height or for eye color, hair color, stuff like that. And Tucker, you know, Tucker was, was against the idea and the guy was essentially saying it's not too different from what we're doing right now.

26:38 You're not altering any jeans. The only possible selection of genes that you can pick from are still from you and your wife. And you're not changing anything. It's just that you have the, the information that you had before is a little more detailed now. And so you could make a little bit more the you as a parent can make more of a decision as to what that's going to be. People don't like that. People say that. It's kind of taking God out of the equation. I don't know what I think of it yet. I think I have to think about it a little bit more. But one thing that they were talking about, and this is where it ties into the, that is where it ties into what I'm talking about the rest of the time is the the, the guest and I. Have to pull up his name because I don't want to not do him justice but he.

27:24 Here we go. I'm sorry, I'm just going to call this yeah up real quickly. Kian Sadeghi, the CEO of Nucleus Genomics. And it's an awesome podcast. You should absolutely listen to it. It's philosophical, it's deep, it's inquisitive, it's speculative about technology and the way that it's implemented throughout society, which is always a really interesting conversation. And OK, I forgot his name already, but Kian said there's, you know, there's three pretty much more outlooks that people have. And I hope I understood this correctly. I definitely understood the 1st 2. I don't think I understood the 3rd. So I'm not going to try and explain it, do a bad job with it. But the first idea was it's basically consequentialism. And that is the concept that if it turns out OK, then everything along the way is justified.

28:19 That kind of is the way of the Americans right now, I feel like. And the way that America has been implementing any kind of policy for at least as long as I've been following politics. So maybe the last 7-8 years then and you know, and I kind of heard that sentiment phrased by Carmelo Anthony one time when and this was kind of always his mentality throughout his career, whether he was on the Nuggets or whether he was. On the Knicks or? Actually, I got to see him in one of his first games at the. On the trail. Blazers, which is a ton of fun in Portland and that place. Loved him by the way. I mean, there was so much love and respect for him, but. He was known for being an audacious kind of guy.

29:00 He would take these high risk, quote UN quote clutch shots. He'd put himself into relatively precarious situations in bass on the court. And he said, and he said an interview one time, it was there's no such thing as a as a bad shot that goes in. And I fundamentally disagree with that. I think that there's absolutely such a thing as a bad shot that goes in, and that actually leads into the next type of philosophy, which is that we have no real control over the outcome. And the only thing that we could really control are the means of how we get there. And yeah, you can kind of plan for something or plot for something. But realistically, and I think that if one thing has been made clear in the last 10 years, 15 years of our lives on planet Earth, it is that man plans, God laughs.

29:52 It is impossible. It's next to impossible to predict what the heck is going on and what the heck is going to go on. And So what the moral philosophy would be is we can't really, you know, we could try and steer the ship in the direction that we want it to go, but ultimately it's more important and most important that the way that we get there is done in a moral way. I definitely fall into that second camp as far as my temperament, my philosophy. It's kind of always the way that I was. I never really cared very much about winning or losing as opposed to feeling like it was close, it was competitive, it was fun.

30:33 I burned myself out of effort. You know, like the worst feelings ever. Whether you're playing basketball, whether you're rolling jiu jitsu, whether you're in school, whether they're doing your job and like you're just going through a slump and and you really feel like, yeah, I'm kind of passing through. But I'm definitely not living up to the standards of what I'm able to contribute and what I'm able to do. But because the. Standards are lower than what I'm capable of. I'm just going to kind of lower myself down to the bare minimum and get away with that. And I really, really try. That's one philosophy that scares the life out of me, scares the crap out of me. And I work really, really hard to, to the best of my ability, not live like that. To say that whatever, I, I don't know what my life is going to end up looking like.

31:17 I don't know what the podcast is going to turn into. I don't know what my family is going to end up looking like. I don't know what I'm going to look like in 10 years from now. I know that every step along the way is going to be intentional. I know I'm going to put my all into the day-to-day. Because if I'm not putting into my in my all into the day-to-day, then what the hell is going on? What am I? What am I even doing here? And people are afraid of success, myself included. And people are afraid to find out what happens exactly when you kind of outsmart the system or what happens when you realize that your job doesn't really mean as much as what you think it does or it or doesn't even require your full capabilities and your potential is so much more.

31:59 And how come you're not achieving that? And what's filling your time instead of you achieving that? And what's pulling at you? What will you know? I mean, I mean, we're a nation that is addicted. We're a nation that is divided and captured. And again, I actually, I'm sorry, I wanted to finish the the point that I was making on Tucker. In this debate. The American empire tends to look at decisions and I think a lot of people within America do too. I'm not trying to make this like a good guy, bad guy kind of thing. I think that like everything in life, there are tensions between philosophies where some aspects of it ring true and some of them have a, a, you know, a, a second side to it that is not necessarily great, not not really good, right.

32:46 And I mean, you can say that, man. I mean, I don't even, I, I don't even have to give examples. I think that if you're listening to this and you're even slightly aware of the last 2025, thirty years of American or world history, I think that what I'm saying generally tends to ring true. And So what our values have to be, and I think that, you know, and it's funny because that's the sentiment you hear a lot of times from people that are trying to preserve themselves are the ends justify the means. It's all for the greater good. You don't really hear individual great people say that. You don't really hear people that understand the concept of accountability and responsibility, say the ends justify the means in the same way. Because I think that either if they've lived their life through that, they would know that that's not the case. And if they're not ready to admit that yet, then they're certainly afflicting that type that that perspective on another, on the next generation, whether it's their kids, whether it's the people that are working for them, whether it's their students.

33:55 But the people that focus on that look inward. They said this is absolutely not acceptable. You know, it is absolutely not acceptable to say that you're going to liberate a people and blow up a school with 120 kids in there. And I'm not justifying anything that this guy did. I'm not justify and I'm not condoning it. And I and, and, and I think he was wrong. And I think that Carl Allen or whatever his name is, is, well, it is and was wrong. And I think he is a manifestation of some very, very real sentiments. The interesting thing to me is that it's pretty clear that as as far as the empire, America, the empire is concerned, it's pretty easy to tell who they are. The corporations that benefit from the comfort of being able to essentially rule over other countries and economies, banks, corporate news, Pharmaceutical industry, obviously the military industrial complex, obviously the oil, the energy and oil companies, obviously all of these people that embody and make up.

35:08 And obviously there's there's, there's loads more and there's loads that I'm not even aware of and there's load. I'm sure that the more home, you know, I mean, there's, there's nothing new under the sun. And you know, I don't doubt that there is more than a lifetimes, there's several lifetimes of investigation and learning to do on these topics, on the topic of America, the empire versus America, the homeland. But those people aren't the people, those entities, those industries, the very, very short term Friedman esque economic policy of short term gains as a corporate shareholder responsibility at all other expenses is a philosophy, an economical philosophy that clearly seems to have failed.

36:00 Case in point, it's not the best thing because and especially when corporations. Aren't regulated and aren't. Subject to, to, to public scrutiny the same way that government is. They don't have the same responsibility to answer a FOIA act. They don't have the same responsibility to, you know, appear before the Senate or Congress. And then even if they're never held accountable, they're on the record for the rest of time supporting whatever agenda they're supporting. And people will know that for all time. And whether they're not actually held accountable, that still echoes, that still rings. And it's, and you know, it feels like we're at the verge of a breaking point. And I think that comes to show you, or that comes to show us that the moral philosophy of consequentialism is probably not the best one, or at least one.

36:51 That. Works for America. That works for a For a country as enormous as America and empire as enormous as America, the country of America is big enough. That we do need some time to rebuild and I think it could happen very quickly. I started saying this earlier. But I mean, I think about all the budgets and all the money that goes abroad in any capacity, you know, and people are upset about cutting off aid. I think that if we drove through Michigan and Wisconsin, the fly over states, you go to New York, you go to Florida, we go to, you know, Florida, which was so hot for, you know, for three or four years already is too expensive people to keep on coming down to. And California, I mean, even Seattle, WA, which most people really don't.

37:39 I mean, most people that I've interacted with in my life don't know much about or have much to do with or, you know, really feel like it's one of the big quote, UN quote American cities. It's unaffordable. It's crazy. I would love, I would have loved to buy a home in Seattle. It would have been awesome to move to, to, to Washington state. I lived there for a year and I had the best time of my life. And I'm going back this summer. And you can't and you can't afford to live there. And so I mean, you're looking at the poverty, you're looking at the poverty of the fly over States and the and affordability of the coastal States and the border states. I guess those are the ones you kind of go do.

38:19 I mean, if someone wants to move to Montana, someone wants to move to Texas, someone wants to move to Michigan, upstate New York, you could do it. And those are also, by the way, the awesome places for sure, but they're not the, you know, I mean, but as far as cutting foreign aid, drive around and see what Americans need. A drive around Asheville, NC, which is an enormously liberal city and filled with very cool, hippie, vibrant, creative, albeit expensive vibes. The brewery District, the fashion district, the arts, the you mean the music there? There's incredible music. They have the, what's the name of the, the Biltmore, you know, the Biltmore Hotel, which is, which is really incredible.

39:03 You know, the mountains are all around you and see what those see. Those people need help. Those people need aid. And one of the tribal things that I think you know, one of the things that are valuable about tribal, one of the aspects of being part of a community, whether it's a country or religion, is that you help out those that are closest to you if you can, how you can. And then you keep on helping outward and outward and outward more and more and more and more. And if you're lucky enough to be able to support those that are closest to you and you still have leftover or you still need more work than great, go ahead and keep helping other people out.

39:44 But it's gotten to the point where this there, there seems to be this inherent conflict. And most American people at this point are, are so tired and are so overworked and are so isolated and are, and are feeling, I mean, you know, I, everyone I talked to about Epstein and everyone I talked to about. Even like the. UFO stuff recently and I, you know, I'm talking about, you know, Orthodox Jews and very skeptical, sober minded people of a lot of these kind of things and not even sober minded because they're more skeptical than they are believing. And people just don't know what to do with the information that we're getting now. And what's interesting is the development of the would be Trump assassins where for the first one during his presidential run, while he will campaign felt you know, one way it could have been, you know, it could have been someone from the left.

40:39 It could have been someone from the deep state who is threatening to dismantle could have been whoever. I don't know, another country, right. The second time seemed to kind of been tied in with Ukraine somehow and some real deep state thing. And now this seems to really be like in the same spirit of again, I said this before like the Luigi mangion guy where he says, what are you doing? You are not, you guys are not accountable and you're killing us and you are making us feel and look terrible. And again, whether you agree with this guy politically or not, whether you, you know, like, like whether or not you obviously you got you, I, I, you, you should not condone this, but what do you think is going to happen? I don't know.

41:37 Like 14 scientists are missing whistleblowers. There's a whistleblower that was supposed to report to Congress the other day found of a drug overdose. So this guy that was, you know, had access. To top clearance classified information was going to you know, be go through the proper whistle blowing channels after by the way, assuming that he has Trump's approval even because Trump posted that he wanted to to release this this information. So it looks like he has support for the administration, ends up dead by drug overdose. Is this guy a druggie? Is this guy a drug addict?

42:17 Is this guy, I mean, two weeks beforehand. Now, it's hard to speculate because I think that humans are humans. And I would be, for example, terrified. I'm terrified of even recording this kind of stuff and talking about this stuff. I'm a scared person in general. I've talked about that before. This guy just happens to be, you know, a drug addict. Let me pull up. What the article I saw about that said. OK, this seems to be a New York Post article. The Air Force Intelligence officer and would be UFO whistleblower Matthew James Sullivan passed away from an alleged overdose.

43:00 Coincidentally, he was about to testify about the UAP phenomenon. This is a 23rd UAP whistleblower who has mysteriously passed away. According to the Northern Virginia Medical Examiner, the. Cause was ruled by accidental drug overdose, A fatal mix of alcohol, Xanax or Alprozalam. OK, I'm not going to say the pharmaceutical name, but muscle relaxant and imurpine. Imurpine. I know what that is, sorry. Sullivan had deep experience across Air Force Intelligence Agency, National Air and Space Intelligence Center and NSA. He claimed involvement in the government's secret legacy UFO program, a crash retrieval operations, and said he had personally seen non human craft in US possession.

43:48 Weeks before his death. He agreed to testify before Congress in November 2024 to blow the lid off the program. Representative Eric Burleson from a Republican from Missouri called the timing of grave concern and referred the case to the FBI, who is sure to be on top of it with Cash Patel out the door. Suspicious circumstances citing suspicious circumstances, potential foul play and national security risks. Yeah, yeah. But you know, you know, nothing to look at over here, nothing to look at over here. I don't know. This is nuts. This is nuts.

44:30 And we're kind of heading towards this. There is going to be some kind of reckoning, some kind of climax when people feel like they have really nothing else to lose. It's really. Interesting, I was actually thinking about this from a different perspective, but this applies to this conversation for sure. Our sense of morality. Our morality could deepen based on our level of security and comfort. So in places for example, where everyone everyone has plenty of food, someone stealing a slice of pizza is not the biggest deal in the world and probably will be looked at as a misdemeanor. Whereas if you're in a society where a missing slice of pizza could be the difference between whether a kid makes it or not and whether or not.

45:23 And obviously that's a extremely dramatic case, but I'm just making up a case in point that the morality, you know, the moral consequences of someone stealing food is going to be much graver. We have, I think, been Americans have been particularly tolerant of the fact that our politicians have been so full of crap because at the end of the day, everyone could kind of still point to a system, a route to. Success and say listen like whatever they're doing like I don't like it. I don't like any more than you do, whatever it is, but. I'm fine. There's something really for me to fight, you know, like, OK, fine, I'll vote the other way next time as if that will make a difference. Or I'll post about it on social media as if that makes a difference.

46:10 But when things become more extreme, when people are when, when gas is so expensive, when people feel. A form of economic slavery Between debt, nearly 40% of Americans said they have less than $500 in cash savings. That's one. That's one point. And then the second point was the number of Americans using buy now, pay later for groceries has more than doubled in the last. Two years, as per the Hill. Yeah, that's when morality starts to become a little bit less liberal, and that's when behavior begins to become more extreme. And when politics and politicians go from screwing people's pockets to their kids or trafficking their daughters, that's a different level of morality. That's a different.

47:02 That's a different level. And I think that it's going to keep. On going on. The the LendingTree. Survey covered by The Hill showing 29% of users now financing food purchases versus 14% previously Gen. Z leads in trend at 38% Gen. Z 38% of them almost 40 almost 4 out of 10 people can't afford to pay their grocery bills, which. Is why they're buying by now, which is why they're paying on buy now, pay later. That's not an economy. And so the Empire keeps on trying. To do its. Thing and it's starting to get a lot of pushback and you want cooler heads to prevail. But when driven to such extremes, I don't know that that's going to be the case.

47:52 And I want people to come together and I want good conversations and I want healthy conversations. But you can't be surprised when something like this happens. Anyway, some food for thought. Just posting about this because it's all happened last night and I had a lot of luck going around in my head about this and. We will see you in another 5 episodes. Few more episodes coming this week. I hope guys. Hey guys, I hope you enjoyed that episode. I'm going to read the full manifesto that was just released. I just came across and if you want to hear the full manifesto and not the short summary that I posted earlier in the episode or I started elaborating on, here we go. Hello everybody.

48:33 So I may have given a lot of people a surprise today. Let me start off by apologizing to everyone whose trust I abused. I. Apologize to my parents for saying I had an interview without specifying it was for quote most wanted UN quote. I apologize to my colleagues and students for saying I had a personal emergency quote. Sorry, open parentheses. By the time anyone reads this, I probably most certainly do need to go to the ER, but can hardly call that not a self-inflicted status. Close parentheses. I apologize to all the people I traveled next, to all the workers who handled my luggage, and all the other non targeted people at the hotel who I put in danger simply by being near.

49:14 I apologize to everyone who was abused and or murdered before this, to all those who suffered before I was able to attempt this, to all those who may still suffer after regardless of my success or failure. I don't expect forgiveness, but if I could have seen any other way to get this close, I would have taken it. Again, my sincere apologies on why on to why I did any of this. I am a citizen of the United States of America. What my representatives do reflects on me, and I'm no longer willing to permit a pedophile rapist and a traitor to coat my hands with his crimes. Well, to be completely honest, sorry parentheses. Well, to be completely honest, I was no longer willing a long time ago, but this is the first real opportunity I've had to do something about it. close parentheses. While I'm discussing this, I'll probably over. I'll probably go over my expected rules of engagement, probably in a terrible format, but I'm not military. So too bad.

50:06 Administration officials not including Mr. Patel. They are targets prioritized from highest ranking to lowest. Which is crazy that Cash Patel was not included in his list of administration officials. Maybe because he knows that he's going to be fired soon and so he's not, you know, actively involved. I don't know. Or maybe there's other reason I don't know. Secret Service. There are targets only if necessary and to be incapacitated non lethally if possible. AKA I hope they're wearing body armor because center mass with shotguns messes up people who aren't. Hotel security not targets at all if possible, AKA unless they shoot at me.

50:47 Capitol Police, same as hotel security. National Guard, same as hotel security. Hotel employees not targets at all. Guests not targets at all. In order to minimize casualties, I will also be using a buckshot rather than slugs. Less penetration through walls. I would still go. Through most everyone here to get to the targets if you're absolutely necessary on the basis that most people choose to attend a speech by pedophile, rapist and traitor and are thus complicit. But I really hope it doesn't come to that. Rebuttals to objections. Objection 1. As a Christian, you should turn the other cheek. Rebuttal. Turning the other cheek is for when you yourself are oppressed. I'm not the person raped in a detention camp. I'm not the fisherman executed without trial.

51:28 I'm not the school kid blown up or a child starved or a teenage girl abused by many criminals in this administration. Turning the other cheek when someone else is oppressed is not Christian behavior. It's complicitly. It is complicity in the oppressor's crimes. Objection to this is not a convenient time for you to do this rebuttal. I need whoever thinks this way to take a couple of minutes and realize that the world isn't about them. Do you realize when I see someone raped or murdered or abused I should walk? Do you think rather than when I see someone raped, murdered, abused I should walk on by because it would be inconvenient for people who aren't the victim? This was the best timing and chance of success I could have come U with. Objection 3.

52:08 You didn't get the mall rebuttal. Got to start somewhere. Objection 4. As a half black half white person, you shouldn't be the one doing this rebuttal unless anyone else picking up the slack. Yield under objection #5 Yield under Caesar's. What is Caesar's rebuttal? the United States of America are ruled by the law, not by any one or several people. In so far as representatives and judges do not follow the law, no one is required to yield them anything so unlawfully ordered. I would also like to extend my appreciation to a great many people since I will not likely be. I would not be likely to be able to talk to them again unless the Secret Service is astoundingly incompetent. Thank you to my family, both personal and church, for your love over these 31 years.

52:53 Thank you to my friends for your companionship over many years. Thank you to my colleagues over many jobs, for your positivity and professionalism. Thank you for my students for your enthusiasm and love of learning. Thank you to the many acquaintances I've met in person and online, for short interactions and long term relationships, for your perspectives and inspiration. Thank you all for everything. Sincerely cold cold force friendly federal assassin Allen. PS Now that all that sappy stuff is done, what the hell is Secret Service doing? Sorry, going to rant a bit here and drop the formal tone like I expected. Hotel cameras at every bend, bugged hotel rooms, armed agents every 10 feet, metal detectors out the wazoo. What I got, who knows, maybe they're pranking me, is nothing. No damn security.

53:36 Not in transport, not in the hotel, not in the event. Like, the one thing that I immediately noticed walking to the hotel is the sense of arrogance. I walk in with multiple weapons and not a single person there considers the possibility that I could be a threat. The security at the event is all outside, focused on protesters and current arrivals because apparently no one thought about what happens if someone checks in the day before. Like this level of incompetence is insane and I very sincerely hope it's corrected by the time this country actually gets competent leadership again. Like if I were Iranian agent instead of an American citizen, I could have brought a damn MA deuce whatever that is in here and no one would have noticed. Shit actually insane. Oh, and if anyone is curious about how about how to doing something like feels, it's awful. I want to throw up.

54:25 I want to cry for all the things I want to do and never will. For all the people whose trust is betrays. I experienced rage thinking about the about everything this administration has done. Can't really recommend it. Stay in school, kids. That is the full manifesto of the gunman, Cole Allen, as obtained by the New York Post. Take with that as you will.