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Thiel: Lawsuit discovery proved the Army covered up reports favoring Palantir
“And then when you and then what you can do when you sue somebody is you get discovery and you discover, and you sort of discover what's going on in the sausage making factory that no one's investigated for 22 years. And there's a lot of stuff and we're sort of…”
Fryer: Police Study Found Racial Bias in Non-Lethal Force, None in Shootings
“And what we found was that on the lower level uses of force, there are racial differences that we couldn't explain. And we put them through formal bias test, and there is bias that goes on in the lower level uses of force. What we didn't find was any, that tha…”
Liemandt: Alpha 3rd and 4th Graders Outscore 50% of US High School Grads
“We have third and fourth graders who outscore 50% of the high school graduates in this country.”
Gallagher: Illegal Reedley biolab held Ebola, HIV, and tuberculosis samples
“Eventually it was discovered that these vials contained Ebola HIV, tuberculosis. There was a freezer labeled Ebola. It was like these silver Ziplocs inside and the CDC wouldn't test it, which is crazy.”
Hughes: 90% of New World Slaves Were Captured by African Tribes
“90% of the slaves that came to America or came to the new world, let's say, were originally captured and enslaved by other African tribes, by stronger African tribes, by victorious African tribes, and were sold to Europeans. Not at the point of a gun, but just…”
Hughes: 1619 Project Ignored Historian Leslie Harris's Fact-Checking Warnings
“They got this historian, Leslie Harris, who is a very respected historian and happens to be a black woman as well. Hey, like, look at this before we vet it. And she raised a huge red flag. She says, oh, hold on. This is totally not true, right? And they were l…”
Pentagon pays Google 47 cents annually for Gemini deployment
“They were the first of the big frontier AI companies to say, we want to work at Department of Defense. They were easy to work with on the contract. We're paying 47 cents For the whole year for all of this. So they're like taking, taking a loss to make sure tha…”
Carvalho: Brazilian Supreme Court forced critical journalists into US exile
“We have a number of journalists living in America right now that were critical of the government. And had to leave the country because the whole idea of combating fake news, for example, got into a, you know, if Biden was bad about trying to go into Twitter an…”
Stitt says 99% of people in Tulsa encampments chose to leave
“99% of the people, they just leave because this is a lifestyle and they haven't hit rock bottom yet. And they're literally just getting on the train tracks and walking on to the next community.”
Schmitt: FBI knew Hunter Biden laptop was real in November 2019
“The FBI authenticated and knew the laptop for Hunter Biden with all the crazy stuff in it could have, by the way, implicated Joe Biden in some bad stuff. They knew it was real in 2019, in November of 2019. The FBI starts having monthly, then weekly meetings wi…”
Schmitt: Biden administration censorship efforts began on day three
“We discover in the discovery that the censorship operation began on day three of their administration. They started taking down RFK Jr. They started taking down Tucker Carlson. A lot of these people who had opinions they didn't like were being shadow banned or…”
Machado: Maduro Imprisoned Over 2,000 People and Disappeared 44 in Venezuela
“So he has put over 2000 people in prison. Over 800 are still in prison. 44 people disappeared. We don't know where they are. Children, women that have been tortured and they are looking for me.”
Machado: The Venezuelan Opposition Won the July 2024 Presidential Election
“We already, the Venezuelan people, mandated the change of the regime in a presidential election that took place last year on July, 28th, and we won by a landslide.”
Vought: Trump Administration Is Using Reductions in Force Extensively
“The extent to which we've never really used reductions in force in the first term. That's something that is certainly something we've used extensively.”
Vought: Rescissions bill cuts $1B from CPB and $8B in foreign aid
“The first bill was the bare minimum of, and the easiest hurdle for them. Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a billion dollars. Dealing with their next two cycles of advanced funding, and then eight billion dollars in foreign aid, all of which was connected t…”
Vought: CFPB targeted Townstone Financial with redlining claims without evidence
“They went after a company called Townstone who had a podcast and was complaining as a private citizen about the extent of which there was crime in Chicago. You know, I think if you did a poll of anyone in the country in a diner, they would say, yeah, I think t…”
Hilton: California's 2016 Housing First law bans sobriety requirements for homeless shelters
“They passed a law in 2016, the only state in America to do it implementing in legislation this approach called Housing First. Which says that you've got to, the number one thing is, and it sounds like a sensible thing, of course, give homeless people housing, …”
Hilton: Developing 1% more California land would house 10 million people
“If we increase the development footprint of California from five percent to six percent, which would still put us really low in, in terms of other states, you could have housing for ten million people in single family homes on quarter acre lots”
Cotton: A Chinese spy targeted Representative Eric Swalwell and American mayors
“Probably the best example of that is Congressman from California, Eric Swalwell, who was targeted by a Chinese spy, apparently had a romantic relationship with her. She had similar relationships with mayors all across America.”
Gramm: Comprehensive Accounting of Taxes and Transfers Puts US Poverty at 2%
“If you count all transfer payments and taxes, only about two percent of Americans are poor, and most of those are people that have got a problem.”
Gramm: Real Top-to-Bottom Income Ratio Is 4:1, Not 16.7:1
“When you count all the transfer payments, you count all the income the census doesn't count, and you take into account taxes, the ratio of the top to bottom is four to one, not 16.7 to one.”
Phil Gramm: US Inequality Is Lower Today Than in 1947 After Transfers
“Actually, if you count all transfer payments and taxes income inequality is lower today than it was in 1947.”
Gramm: ProPublica fabricated income metric for Buffett tax calculation
“They took his actual taxes, but they didn't take his actual income. They made up an income by saying what would his income have been if he sold every asset he owned every year and paid taxes on it.”
Gramm: US Has the Most Progressive Tax System in the World
“If you look at the actual tax data based on how we define income, The tax system is very progressive, and it's the most progressive tax system in the world.”
Gramm: Confiscating All Billionaire Income Wouldn't Fund US Government for a Week
“If you took every penny of income of billionaires in America, You couldn't fund the 1920, the 2022 government for a week.”
Orca Bio clinical data shows practically zero transplant-related patient mortalities
“Well, we'll see, but the data so far suggests that we can bring it down to practically zero, right? Zero transplant related mortalities.”
Solana: San Francisco Tax Dollars Fund Activists Who Shut Down Bay Bridge
“Taxpayers in San Francisco are being forced to fund organizations that, for example, are shutting down the Bay Bridge. That's just crazy, and nobody knew that until we went and Filed an information request and was like, they're getting paid by the city.”
Ferguson: Jewish students are intimidated and singled out at Stanford
“Jewish students are being intimidated and threatened, singled out in some classes on the Stanford campus.”
Lonsdale: China censors Hollywood films intended for US audiences
“They tell me there's two different looks that Chinese get for every one of their movies. One look is things where they say before it comes out, if you have to censor these or can't go to China, but the other look is things you have to censor for American audie…”
Lonsdale: US Pensions and Endowments Finance Chinese Military Innovation
“We have lots of U.S. Pensions, U.S. Endowments financing their military innovation right now still.”
Balaji: Silicon Valley Bank collapsed because it bought U.S. Treasuries
“Neither of those things are what blew up the bank. What blew up the bank is that they bought treasuries.”
Glock: Cities building homes for every unsheltered person saw homelessness increase
“And yeah, San Francisco, Arizona, these other states and cities, they built enough homes for every single unsheltered homeless person in the street. 1015 years later, they have more homeless people in the streets.”
Glock: National Academy of Sciences found Housing First fails to improve health
“You know, as I often cite, the National Academy of Science said, there's no evidence that these housing first units improve the health of the homeless.”
Glock: 70% to 80% of Americans oppose unconditional free housing without sobriety mandates
“When you tell average Americans about this, we do the polls, do you think, ah, you know, basically free homes should be given out with no sobriety or mental health treatments to people on the street? Overwhelming. 70, 80% of people say, of course not. Again, a…”
Meyer: Four homeless people die daily in LA, exceeding military combat mortality
“Well, and so just San Francisco and LA alone, I mean, four people, four homeless individuals die on the streets of LA every day. That death rate is higher than the death rate in Iraq and Afghanistan for soldiers.”
Kutcher argues architecture exists to bypass end-to-end encryption for CSAM.
“I think people need to realize and recognize that end to end encryption is great and valuable, but there's no reason why we can't create a carve out for this. And the architecture exists to create a carve out for this.”
The US military has deployed autonomous weapons since the 1970s
“We've had autonomous weapons since the seventies and eighties. You know, you think about, like, the Aegis system that defends a carrier when it senses an incoming threat coming at the speed of a missile, it's firing off to protect the ship, and you don't have …”
The Pentagon issued an RFI for space-based missile interceptors
“We just did a RFI for space-based interceptors, which is how do you put something in space that could take something down in space.”
Hughes: Universal Abolitionist Principle First Originated in 18th-Century West
“But where do you get the first abolitionist sentiment? In other words, the first principle of slavery is wrong for all time, no matter who you are. You get that in the West. You get that in America and in Britain in the 18th century. You know, from Quakers and…”
Hughes: Nikole Hannah-Jones Claimed Black Americans Fought Alone for Civil Rights
“In Nicole Hannah-Jones's flagship essay was also that black Americans essentially fought alone in order to secure our civil rights. That was, that's the exact wording. Yeah, that we fought back alone.”
Helberg: Pax Silica Countries Are Growing 4% YoY Versus 1% for G7
“The Paxilica countries are growing roughly around four percent year on year compared to G seven countries that are growing somewhere in the zone of one percent.”
Lonsdale: Europe Is Poorer Than All US States Due to Slower Growth
“Which is what happened to Europe, by the way, is they don't realize they're the poorest relative to all of our states because we've just been growing so much faster for the generation.”
Helberg: China Criminalized Due Diligence on Official Economic Indicators
“You know, their data is really falsified, and they actually tried to hide their books so much so that they've made it illegal for people within China to ask too many questions or do due diligence on their economic indicators.”
Sandler: Drexel's settlement forced Milken's firing and barred employee contact
“Part of the deal with the government was they had to get rid of Michael Milken Not only did they have to get rid of Michael Milken, but under the deal they made with the government, no employee of Drexel was allowed to discuss any business matter with Mike.”
Bevirt: Chinese aerospace facilities are scaling for thousands of aircraft yearly
“A few weeks ago, I was in China, and I saw firsthand how fast they're moving... They are, in China, I saw production facilities that are scaling for thousands of aircraft per year.”
Loeffler: SBA Uncovered $9B in COVID Fraud in California, $430M in Minnesota
“Turns out, four hundred and thirty million dollars of fraud in Minnesota. Then we go to California, nine billion dollars of COVID era fraud.”