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It’s his life mission to make bad decisions. It’s time for Florida Man.
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So let’s see here. We’re going to start with because we got I feel like I feel like Florida man has been kind of quiet. So we’ve got one Florida arrested. He said he had a dirty bomb in his truck following a crash. He looks like a dirty bomb himself. Good night. This guy’s 43 years old. Yeah, he looks like if you pulled hair out of the shower drain, you know, when you’re cleaning your bathroom, that’s what he looks like. Look at him. He looks like that. Haines City. They said they were responding to a Publix Late Friday evening, there was a Chevy Silverado involved in a crash. And according to the release, officers made contact with the driver, 43-year-old Benjamin Johnson. He refused commands to exit the vehicle, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. He said that he had a dirty bomb inside his truck. Too long, didn’t read. No, he didn’t. Moving on. He didn’t. But he just he said he did. They got to take when when people say that they have to take all these precautions, too. It’s like, oh, now we got to shut down the whole city block. We got to bring in the bomb squad. All of it. Let’s see. I don’t want that one. But I do want this one. A Florida man is accused of choking a victim with an umbrella in a Home Depot fight. Oh, my gosh. A 66-year-old facing off against a 54-year-old. Ramon Rodriguez, 66, is accused of choking a 54-year-old man with an umbrella at a Home Depot. According to Monroe County Sheriff’s Office, victim told deputies that Rodriguez hit him with his truck as he exited the store. That seems like that was on purpose. I mean, how? And it led to a verbal dispute. So he said that he had pushed a shopping cart. The report states the victim told deputies he pushed a shopping cart into Rodriguez’s truck. Investigators say the confrontation continued inside the store. Then Rodriguez grabbed an umbrella upon entering the store used to perform to perform a rear naked choke on the victim, preventing him temporarily from breathing. And Home Depot staff had to intervene and separate them. And then Rodriguez left the store and went to the went to return to his construction site. And he was arrested on charge of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon. So he got in trouble for that, all of that. And that’s he got in trouble for it. Yeah, I don’t want to talk… Oh, golly. This is a Villages. I got a Villages story for a Villager. It’s like Minecraft. A Villager got caught with drugs in his prison wallet. I don’t know how else to say it. The son of a couple in the Villages was sentenced to 180 days behind bars for… Yeah. Cain, he had drugs in a baggie in his bum. And I guess he didn’t think that the deputies at Sumter County Detention Center, where he was booked, would find it.
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They weren’t going to notice.
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They weren’t going to notice, apparently. But guess what they did? So they do, because they did a body scan. And I guess this guy didn’t anticipate that there was going to be a body scan. Trying to figure out, like, the most… Nice way I can talk about this story. So they detected a foreign object in his lower abdomen, according to the rest report. And then when they did a strip search, they noticed, oh, well, you know, it’s not visible. So that means we got to go in. And that’s when this is so gross. I’m not even.
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I can’t believe you chose that one over the.
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I can’t read anymore. Basically, they they were able to get the contraband. And then he now has additional charges because you can’t bring. controlled substances into prison. And it’s so gross. They did not need to go into the level of detail that they did. He birthed three packages in his jail cell. And apparently the cellmate was like horrified. So there you go. We have our third hour on the way. There’s no coming back from this one. Stick with us. As we head into the holidays, it’s not just about gifts. It’s also about gratitude, reflection and protecting what really matters. your family, your future, and your financial security. So Colin Plume at Noble Gold Investments has explained how quickly things have changed this year. Markets, inflation, even job security. Your money should be working for you, not fighting against you. And with gold on the rise and the dollar slipping, it’s clear why generations have turned to gold and silver to help bring stability to their financial future. When you’re sitting around the table with your family, it’s only natural to think about protecting what you’ve built. So it’s still there for your kids and your grandkids. Before you check out for the holidays, though, do one smart thing for your future. Visit noblegoldinvestments.com slash Dana and download their free gold and silver guide. When you open a qualified account, you’ll receive 10 one-ounce commemorative silver holiday coins. Visit noblegoldinvestments.com slash Dana. That’s noblegoldinvestments.com slash Dana.
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Say hi, Dan. Hey, how’s it going today? It’s going good, man. Tell us who you are and what you do. I’m Dan Morgan. I’m an attorney and a managing partner at Morgan & Morgan, which is America’s largest injury law firm.
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That’s pretty awesome.
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Why do you guys think you win so many cases? The insurance companies and other companies that we go against know that we’re going to take it to the end, that we believe in the case. So we fight for every dollar and we’re not afraid to go that extra mile for our clients. Are insurance companies like actually afraid of you guys? We don’t bluff. We take it to trial and we are not strangers of getting very, very, very large verdicts.
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Awesome. So how does someone get in contact with Morgan & Morgan? What would I do if I got into an accident?
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Probably the easiest way is dialing Pound Law. That’s Pound 529 from your cell phone. And our call center is always waiting to take your call. 24-7-365. Wow.
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Dan Morgan from Morgan & Morgan, America’s largest injury law firm. Thanks for coming by the show.
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Thanks for having me. Visit ForThePeople.com for an office near you.
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Who goes to Cinnabon? How many people go to a Cinnabon? I mean, yeah, I know, right? I think the last time I even physically saw a Cinnabon. Am I saying that right? Cinnabon. Cinnabon? Cinnabon? I don’t know.
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I think I’ve always said Cinnabon.
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Cinnabon?
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Even though it is an O-N.
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It’s C-I-N-N-A-B-O-N.
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Right. O-N at the end.
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It should be Bon. It’s Cinnabon, isn’t it? I don’t know.
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Should I be saying it with an accent?
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I don’t know. I just, it’s, you know, one of those little mall things. Actually, it was like in the early aughts. It was at a mall. I bring this up. Welcome back, by the way. I bring this up because there was a milkshake duck incident in Wisconsin over the weekend. Now, you might be asking yourself, Dana, the hell is this phrase milkshake duck that you said just right before we went to break and now again? Let me tell you the story of it. I’ll be very quickly. It’s 30 seconds and under. It was a joke that someone said, oh, here’s a little duck that loves milkshakes. And it’s a little picture of a duck with a milkshake. And then, you know, 15 seconds later, we regret to inform you that the duck is racist, meaning that people these people are discovered like the lady in the Chewbacca mask. Remember that whole thing? And then the Internet does its thing and they try to find some disqualifying event in that person’s life as a way to discredit them from receiving public modulation. That’s kind of it. I don’t know. It’s just it’s people mad because something good happens to someone and they want to just Deuce all over it, for the lack of a better way to put it. This is a little different, though. So this was in a Cinnabon. And it was a female server. And all I know is that the video starts already. The drama is in progress when the video begins, right? It’s like when you join a news conference. And it’s like, oh, we’re going to go take this live. Already in progress, right? It’s very similar to that. So this lady, she is… working the Cinnabon, right? And these two Somali customers are apparently harassing her. Now, the way that it went, the story goes is that they were harassing her because she wasn’t wearing a hijab. She wasn’t wearing a, basically dressing like a ghost with a slit for eyes. And they were upset with her. And they went back and forth, and then she decided to call them a racial slur. She called them the N-word. And it just continued to escalate from that point. I don’t even think, can we even play any of this?
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Yeah, we have.
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Okay, Steve spent an ungodly amount of time censoring this for you, so you all better appreciate it. Because he had to bleep out every… Listen.
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That’s… I am racist. So idiot for real. And you are an idiot.
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You are an idiot.
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I am racist. And I’ll say that to the whole entire world. Don’t be disrespectful. You ruined your life, by the way.
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Oh, you’re talking about respect? You’re talking about respect? You are fired from this place, mother f***er. You’re not going to be working here.
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Suck it.
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Suck what? Look how you f***ing look like.
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What’s wrong with you?
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Oh, my gosh. Like, why does this keep happening? I would have I was already bored. I was already bored. So it’s the Cinnabon employee. And apparently what happened and it doesn’t show that, you know, nobody’s in the right here, but there’s some just chill for a second. Listen to the whole remarks before everybody clenches their butts. First off, I think the Somali couple are trash. I think they’re absolute trash. I think it is rat-tastic to walk into a Cinnabon with the purpose of starting problems, right? If you don’t like the fact that a woman isn’t wearing a hijab, then go to a Muslim country where they’re wearing a hijab. You know, good grief. And he was, at the very beginning of this exchange, he was sexualizing her With his remarks and you can kind of hear them in the beginning. He sort of tells on himself in the beginning of the clip because you can kind of hear it. He’s sexualizing her with his remarks. And again, all of it is because he feels as though his point is that her not having the head covering and all of that. invites sexualization. And so he’s telling her that because she disrespectfully doesn’t wear a hijab, that that means he is entitled to sexually slur her. So he’s a piece of, he’s a thug. These two, they’re absolute thugs. Now, does that mean when you’re at work, does that mean that you can do what she did? I don’t think she did herself any favors. First off, you’re an employee at work. And this is where I think you got to draw the line. You are at work and you are wearing the company apron and the company has the right to say, we don’t think that you should have reacted that way. Now, I don’t know if she’s the manager or not. The manager should have stepped in. At the very least, I probably would have called the police. to come and handle the situation and would have had them permanently barred from the store. I would have called police and said, these people are sexually propositioning me. They are harassing me. And I would have… You never, ever, ever want to give the people who are the aggressors the opportunity to turn the tables on you and make themselves look like they’re the victims. And her behavior, her response allowed for that to happen. Now, I don’t think that you need to say slurs or whatever. I think the company, they didn’t like the way that she handled it and they have every right to fire her. I think it’s kind of ridiculous that there’s a GoFundMe that started because, again, when you’re working a job and I’ve worked many a job where I’ve had to handle many a rowdy person. I mean, when I was in college, I was a cocktail waitress. on Friday and Saturday nights and going through school. And so I’ve seen, I’ve seen and I’ve, you know, I’ve handled some things. You can’t respond to situations like that. It’s just not professional. And I don’t care if it’s a Cinnabon or where it is, you know, you got a job to do. And so I feel like, She, more than anything else, she can’t control what the customers do, but she can control what she does and she can control her reactions. Had she just called the police and handled it that way, I think she would still have her job. Plus, I also think that somebody probably would have created a GoFundMe for her anyway, and she would have been maybe even more awarded for her behavior than this because she didn’t make herself look great, right? Yes, she was the one who started being victimized, but then with her behavior, These two Somalis that are absolute trash. She ended up making them look like the victims because then they could say, oh, it’s a racial slur. Because apparently, and this is in leftist world, you can sexually proposition a woman. You can even commit battery. But and that’s considered less than if she were to say something demeaning about, you know, any kind of any with any sort of racial aspect, then immediately that is that’s considered worse. So, I mean, it’s. The GoFundMe that they have for her is like $19,000 at this point. And everyone said, oh, well, she’s a racist employee, blah, blah, blah. But all the people that are spending it, they’re literally forgetting. And they’re leaving out how the man and the woman were immediately walked in and started it. They immediately walked in and started harassing her. And they started sexually slurring her. But here’s what’s funny, and I have this on my rundown. This is what’s funny. Here’s the other reason that I really don’t care about this chick. And I have this. It’s on our rundown here. Kane, what does this show you in this link that I have? Oh, she has a Biden-Harris sign in her yard. It says women’s choices on the ballot vote Democrat. Her name is Crystal Therese. This is a photo that she has on her own social media of all the Democrat signs in her yard. She has photos of herself on social media wearing Democrat stickers. She is a major Democrat. So I really don’t care. I’m not going to donate to some racist Democrats. Go fund me. She’s a Democrat. So I like to watch them fight with each other. There you go. She voted, probably voted to bring all the Somalis into Wisconsin. She probably voted for this. So this is what she has. Juan showing you right now. That’s the photo of her own signs in her own yard. And then she bragged in other posts about how she was a Biden supporter and then how she was a Harris supporter because she supported Harris in the last election. So it gets into all of that. It’s very funny. So I just don’t care. I don’t care. She’s a Democrat. Are you surprised? I’m not. I’m not at all. But I think it’s, I think it’s goof. I don’t know. I just think, you know, people need to, you have to behave a certain way at work. 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I’ve got Dan Morgan here on the pod.
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Say hi, Dan. Hey, how’s it going today? It’s going good, man. Tell us who you are and what you do. I’m Dan Morgan. I’m an attorney and a managing partner at Morgan & Morgan, which is America’s largest injury law firm.
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That’s pretty awesome.
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Why do you guys think you win so many cases? The insurance companies and other companies that we go against know that we’re going to take it to the end, that we believe in the case. So we fight for every dollar and we’re not afraid to go that extra mile for our clients. Are insurance companies like actually afraid of you guys? We don’t bluff. We take it to trial and we are not strangers of getting very, very, very large verdicts.
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Awesome. So how does someone get in contact with Morgan & Morgan? What would I do if I got into an accident?
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Probably the easiest way is dialing Pound Law. That’s Pound 529 from your cell phone. Our call center is always waiting to take your call. 24-7-365. Wow.
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Dan Morgan from Morgan & Morgan, America’s largest injury law firm. Thanks for coming by the show.
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Thanks for having me. Visit ForThePeople.com for an office near you.
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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It’s time for Dana’s Quick Five.
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Okay, so first up… This guy, well, this is not how this works. When you go to a bank, what do you deposit in a bank? You deposit money, right? Not meth. This guy from Ohio tried to deposit meth into the bank’s drive-thru in their little pneumatic tube system thingy. According to law enforcement. 46. Dude, drugs and evil make you old. Jason Smith was booked on drug-related charges. It occurred earlier this month. The bank employee called deputies to say someone just deposited a crystal-like substance. Kind of looks like meth. They sent a baggie up the chute. Not unlike the guy who… was in our Florida man headline. Just, yeah. Baggy up the chute and they, they tested it on site and they determined it was in fact methamphetamine. He apparently sent the package. He, how do you mess up and send the wrong thing in the chute? I am fascinated by how that accident happens. Do you, are you so high that you don’t know the difference between cash checks and meth? Who does that? This is so weird. So he’s in Monroe County Jail. He’s and he’s in super big time trouble. So just power outages cause cell doors to open at the South Central Correctional Center. How is that the default setting for when the power goes out that the prison doors open? I thought that was only like in movies, but apparently that’s a real thing. Okay.
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I don’t get it. I don’t get it. The default should be closed.
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Yeah.
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You would think.
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It’s the South Central Correctional Center. They had a power outage in two of the housing wings and all the doors opened. It caused all the doors to open. And this was in Lickin, Missouri, Kane. They and then shockingly, some of the inmates refused to return to their cells and cause property damage. So just feels like if the power goes out, the door should stay closed, I think. Yes. So I don’t know. A man was accused of stalking a minor and throwing Molotov Molotov cocktails in somebody’s house. This is a hot mess. This is Fox to Detroit. Let’s see. Oh, gosh. He’s got one of those haircuts where they put the bowl on the head and they just do the bangs right around the front. He’s got one of those 90s haircuts, right? Those wannabe Vanilla Ice haircuts. That’s what he’s got. 25-year-old Alex Newmar was charged with the Molotov cocktail possessing, manufacturing, etc.
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Last question. I’ve been personally, not to make it about me, but I have been criticized as being a tool of Qatar. And I just want to say what you already know, which is I’ve never taken anything from your country and don’t plan to. I am, however, tomorrow buying a place in Qatar. Please pay a high check. And I’m doing that because I like the city. I think it’s beautiful. But also to make the statement that I’m an American and a free man and I’ll be wherever I want to be.
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I mean, I think it’s such a crazy flex. You know, you’re so America first that you’re just going to buy dune front property in Doha just to prove that you’re so American. I’m so American. I’m going to buy communist control property in China because I can. So I’m my own man. American. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. That was a guitar. I’m sorry. Verbal typo. Tucker Carlson in Qatar. They had something there. I don’t know. And he was out there talking to their leader there and saying that he’s, you know, he’s a free American. And because he’s a free American, he’s going to show that he’s a free American by buying property in Qatar, in Doha, dune front property. In a country that’s 90 percent populated by slave labor because of their laws. I don’t know if you get, you know, they have like a whole system, right, where it’s basically indentured servitude. I wrote about it over at Substack. That’s why it’s very important to make sure you sign up for that stuff, because, you know, you get all of this information over there. It’s also in one of my recent columns for the Washington Examiner. Sorry, Washington Times. I have a piece in the Washington Times that late last week that ran and it gets into all of that because it’s I just think that’s a really weird flex. You know what I mean? That’s a weird flex to just go and I’m so American. Look how American I am. I’m going to buy property and cut her. In Doha, I’m going to buy property here. I mean, okay, that’s an interesting flex. I mean, one day you’re wrestling demons in bed, and the next day you’re buying sand front property in Qatar, you know. I don’t know. Just curious about all of that. You know what else I’m curious about, too? Kane, where does one go to church over in Qatar? Oh, that’s a good question. You know, Christ is king and all. So where do you go? to church in Qatar. They actually, the churches are all, they have to stay outside of Doha. And they can’t actually, I mean, the fines are pretty big if you try to proselytize, just gotta say. You can’t have Christian symbols near Muslims. You can’t do anything like that. You can’t try to convert a Muslim there. I mean, you could be put to death in Qatar if you try that, by the way. You can’t share your faith or any of your faith’s materials with any Muslims in Qatar, and that includes casual discussions. And you could be in prison for up to five years. By the way, you cannot organize anything. You cannot promote Christianity. You can’t proselytize at all because you could go to jail for a decade. So I’m just wondering, you know, grace is king. Where do you go to church over there?
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You also are not allowed to enter into a civil marriage.
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Yeah, you can’t get married over there. You can’t even be a citizen in Qatar. You can’t even you can’t even get because you have to be a Muslim to be a citizen in Qatar. So, you know, I’m just like, I’m just really curious about this. How… Just, you know, I’m wondering. And I talked about this in my piece. We were talking about all of the influencers that went over there during Thanksgiving. And… I wrote, hopefully, if any of them were gay, they kept it a secret because it’s illegal to be gay over there. One of them was gay, standing on the balcony. I guess maybe he had to keep that a secret so he didn’t get thrown off the balcony that he was doing a selfie on. I’m just curious. But it’s very heavily restricted. In fact, they only have a few what they call religious events. They call them religious complexes because they can’t even say church. They can’t even say church. They can’t say like, you know, they can’t even say Christian complex. It’s just a religious complex is what they call it. And they are partitioned off way outside of Doha to be away from all of the Muslim citizenry. And they can’t identify. They can’t put up a cross. They can’t say anything. And you can only be a Christian quietly inside of the building. far away from the citizenry that’s it that’s it and you can’t criticize any of the policies there like for instance you can’t talk about how a actually the majority population in Doha is the slave labor that they use to build it that’s a fact that’s and if you criticize it you’re going to be punished That’s you can’t do that. It’s the kafala employment system. And if you criticize anything, like if you were to criticize the kafala employment system while you’re over there, you’re going to be punished under penal code, penal code article 259. And that’s punishment for anybody who opposes questions or doubts Islamic tenants of the way that they run the country. And if you criticize it online, then that’s a cyber that violates their cybercrime statute. Law number 14 passed, finalized in 2014. That’s online content that challenges any of the social values or norms that they have over there. Only Muslims can be Qatari citizens, etc. And there’s no alcohol over there. They had some at F1, but it’s only in Qatar. There’s like a couple of very specially licensed hospitality venues of which the influencers were made sure that they took selfies of themselves in there. So I’m just, you know, just going to say. So it’s just so interesting to me. You’re going to flex so hard about being America first by buying property like Hamas does. You know, Hamas leaders, they stay in Doha just doing, I guess, you know, what Hamas leaders do. They started a trend, I guess. They started a trend. Get that. But it’s I think that the criticism got to him. I think that he’s I would talk to him about it, but he won’t come on my program to discuss it with me because I guess it’s not a safe space here. So I just thought it was interesting. But yeah, that’s I don’t know that. Does that prove that you’re more American than somebody else because you can go buy property in Qatar? Like, why wouldn’t you buy more property in the United States? Right. If you wanted to prove how American you were, by the way, criticizing someone’s speech is not denying your Americanness. In fact, that is the most American thing that you can do. If someone says something with which you disagree, you can verbally disagree. That’s pretty American. And I feel like that’s getting lost in all of this as well. It seems as though he’s bristling at just mere criticism and he thinks that it’s un-American to criticize him, but not un-American for the rewriting of history that he promotes. The rewriting of American history or the rewriting of the history of Israel, the rewriting of, you know, not just American history, but world history, World War II, etc., It’s just very, you know, it’s very fascinating to me. I see, you know, I saw there was another softball interview with that Fuentes kid. Kid, he’s like in his 20s, but he’s five foot two. So when we say Nazi twink, it’s like actually literally he’s fairy sized. But there was another somebody else did a super softball interview. Why are people so afraid to push back? Because his engagement is entirely fabricated. It’s all synthetic. There have been two deep dives. First, Data Republican did a huge deep dive on the Fuentes audience. Data Republican did. And then there was another separate deep dive into his background and his engagement and etc. And it shows that. It’s all literally fabricated. Every aspect of it is fabricated. And it’s a lot of foreign-based accounts that try to amplify the stuff that he says. There was Network Contagion Research Institute that released a forensic breakdown over his rise over the past year. And it was driven by synthetic amplification, foreign engagement clusters, and coordinated raid behavior. And it’s pretty wild. And that’s from Dow to Republican. There was another one that came out showing that His visibility is a coordinated illusion. It’s not grassroots. And it was driven by synchronized amplification networks, anonymous booster accounts, foreign engagement farms, and a media ecosystem that mistakes manufactured noise for genuine political momentum. And it manipulated X’s algorithms for him to massively outperform like all of these other individuals. So it’s I mean, it really it can be absolutely manipulated. A lot of the stuff that you see on social media, that’s why certain people they’ll have like major they’ll have huge audiences, but they don’t ever amount to anything in meat space. Right. Like when Fuentes says he was going to when he was campaigning against Trump in 2020 and in this last election. And he said that in 2020, wasn’t he? He said he was going to go to Wisconsin or something like that. And campaign against him. Nothing that he ever does actually moves the needle in real space because he everything is is all of his engagement is mainly online. Now, that’s not to say and I’m gonna be very careful. Don’t ignore the disaffected adult males, younger adult males who I think fall into this self victimization cycle. Because where you come from doesn’t direct where you’re going. And I think that is some of it. But his amplification has been like pretty much entirely synthetic. It’s pretty. And I would be curious to see some of Tucker Carlson’s stuff as well, especially when he was praising, oh, well, at least the trains run on time in Russia and all of this stuff when he was over there praising or when he sat down with Vladimir Putin and he didn’t really push back at all. And I think he was actually kind of embarrassed by the questioning. That wasn’t an interview. That was you just went over there to hold a microphone for someone. There was no genuine pushback. There was no engagement. I I always question these people who talk such a tough game. But then when they sit in front of someone that they need to ask hard questions of, they crumple. They don’t actually push back. They don’t actually ask the hard questions. Like I’ve seen three different every interview that I’ve ever seen of the Fuentes guy. Literally no one had the balls to actually ask hard questions and push back. Not a single one. And a lot of the people that engage in these interviews, they really do pretend that they’re such hard asses. And not a single one of them had the courage or the spine or the nads to actually ask the hard questions and push back and show what a fruit this dude is. I mean, literally. So I don’t know. There’s a lot of stuff that’s super, super inauthentic in social media. And his ascension, I guess, for the lack of a better way to say it, is one of them.
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