Colleges & Universities Are Making A HUGE Payday Off Pharma Price Gouging
Major colleges and universities receive huge federal grants to help develop prescription drugs. But what you may not know is that these colleges also get a cut of the drugs’ profits, which is why they are teaming up with Big Pharma to keep the costs of your medications sky high. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.
Link - https://www.levernews.com/universities-are-making-billions-gatekeeping-your-meds/
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Major colleges and universities receive huge federal grants to help develop prescription drugs. But what you may not know is that these colleges also get a cut of the drug's profits, which is why they're teaming up with the ugliest part of big pharma to keep the cost of your medications as high as possible, because they're making a percentage on those costs. I've got Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins with me to talk about this. Wow. How has, I just, when I saw this, I'm wondering how has UCLA, NYU, Stanford University, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, how have they been under the radar in this? To where we didn't know that they are the little gremlins, the secret little gremlins that are doing business with the ugliest part of big pharma who wants to keep drugs as high as they can, who wants to keep drug prices as high as they can. How have we missed this? I mean, we do this every day.
I know, and I love that you're saying that because that is the exact same reaction I had with this story. We've covered this story for 20 years. And I learned so much from this article that I didn't know, and it's shocking to me.
Farron, until you gave me this story, I would've said.
Right.
But these are university administrators that are part of keeping the cost of drugs sky high, right?
Yeah. Because what happens here, we've talked about this part, obviously the federal government comes in and they say, hey, college, UCLA, because that's one of the worst offenders here.
Oh, good God.
UCLA, we've got millions of dollars we want to give to you because you've got brilliant scientists and they're working on a cure for this cancer. So here's millions of dollars, UCLA, you make this cure, it's taxpayer money, but you get it for free. UCLA goes and does it. So, okay, we've got this wonderful drug, and here's the part we didn't know. They do sell it to pharmaceutical companies, which everybody knows, but the university keeps the patent.
Right.
And every time somebody has to pay $200,000 a month for this cancer treatment, that university is getting a rather sizable percentage.
Oh, yeah, you think?
Of those drug sales. So in addition to getting your tax dollars, they get a cut of the drug sales.
That's the ugliest part of it. The university has gotten your tax dollars to do the research. Okay. Then they say, I got this patent and what is it, Xtandi?
Xtandi. I believe that's how it's pronounced.
Yeah. Okay. So it's a prostate cancer drug that is sometimes the only thing keeping a person alive that it costs, did I, is it 2 million a year? Is it $200,000?
$200,000.
$200,000 a year for that person to buy that drug. And the college sold it for $520 million to the drug company. And the drug company says, hey, thank you for that. We're gonna give you royalties. So secretly the university is trying to stay under the radar, and they're trying to be the lobbyist to keep drugs high. It's not just, UCLA by far is the worst offender. Somebody ought to go there and just clean house. But it's also Chapel Hill. It's also NYU. It's Stanford, that they have a direct interest in making sure that people have to pay as much as possible for a drug that might keep 'em alive.
Right. And the colleges have offered the dumbest and most insulting excuse for this. They say, well, we use this money because we gotta keep up the grounds. We gotta keep up the buildings and we give people scholarships to come here, and this helps pay for that. No.
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Generation Z Fears Losing Their Political Voice With Biden's TikTok Ban
Young Americans are becoming more politically active than ever, but President Biden is ready to silence their voices by signing the ban on TikTok a few weeks ago. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.
Link - https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/25/gen-z-tiktok-ban-politics-instagram/?guccounter=1
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Young Americans are becoming more politically active than ever, but President Biden is ready to silence their voices by signing a ban on TikTok a few weeks ago. You know, the irony to me is the people advising Biden, they're saying, go to TikTok. He's all over TikTok. It might be the only place that he has a way to connect to a certain generation, by the way, which I think is remarkable, I just can't even get my arms around this. Biden is loading up on TikTok, and Carville is out there saying, the people he's trying to appeal to are stupid and lazy and won't go to the polls. Right. Those two stories don't seem, but that's what Carville did. He said, the young people in this country are so freaking stupid. They're so lazy that they're gonna, the destruction of Earth is gonna be on their shoulders. At the same time, Biden is loading up on TikTok with these people that he says, are stupid and lazy. Right?
Well, yeah. And not just putting their own content out there. They have had White House meetings with these TikTok influencers. We understand how valuable it is, how vital it is. Also, my name is on the legislation that's gonna kill it. And look, even my children who are in their very early teens have come home and said, ah, so mad that Biden did this. So they know and they know that, hey, he's the guy who signed it and yes, that is going to be held against him. But the most important thing is we've talked about multiple times, it's all based on BS. There are no known security threats from TikTok, according to the Homeland Security.
The NSA.
Yeah. But what we do have is a generation that has become insanely politically active through TikTok, all kinds of new influencers on both the left and the right. They're out there putting news and information out for people every day. And that could come to an end.
Part of the backstory is Biden knows that Trump is going to double, triple down on TikTok. I mean, that's what he's afraid of. And the point being, these kids don't have any other source. They're not watching television media pablum. You think they're gonna tune into MSNBC or Fox News? Hell no. They're not watching the nightly news. These are kids, some of them have not even had the benefit of going through a civics class, because the big cuts in education are we just want to teach kids how to read and write. We don't care about anything else. So they didn't even have the benefit of that, which is disturbing to me in and of itself. So kids have to figure this out themselves. And the way they're doing it, apparently, is on TikTok. And the very age group that's doing it is, there's so many ironies here, the very age group that's doing it is the very age group that the big mouth, the loudest voice for the Democrats, James Carville, is saying, they're remarkably stupid. They're remarkably lazy. You aren't even gonna show up for the election and you're gonna destroy this country. There's so many ironies mixed up in there, I can't even begin to talk about it.
Well, what gets me about this story too, is that a lot of people will say, okay, well, if you're not on TikTok, you can go to Instagram, you can go to Facebook. And actually.
No, you can't.
A very important thing is that Meta recently, just a couple months ago, they instituted a new policy where they no longer recommend social or political issues on their platforms. We saw our engagement personally at Ring of Fire.
Oh, it disappeared.
It dropped by about 95% overnight because they changed this policy.
Instagram. Instagram, think about it.
Yeah.
Your stories will do 120,000 likes or visits or whatever, you put it through Instagram.
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Polls Have Just Become Clickbait Creations For Corporate Media
Presidential polling is all over the place right now, making it hard to know who is actually in the lead. But is this because Americans are evenly split, or is the media just getting worse at polling? Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.
Link - https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2024/05/19/trump-biden-polling-swing-states-ignore-them/73705965007/
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Corporate Media Is Thriving By Selling Division In America
The American public is hugely divided on every issue – according to the media. But the truth is that the public actually agrees on MOST issues. The media sells you division to juice their ratings and make more money. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.
Link - https://www.axios.com/2024/04/09/america-politics-divided-polarization-data
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Dem Elites Write Off Large Portion Of Voters By Ignoring Economic Concerns
Democrats are making the same devastating mistakes that they made in the 2016 election by writing off large portions of the country as racists, instead of trying to understand economic concerns of these voters. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.
Link - https://lesleopold.substack.com/p/outraged-by-white-rural-rage?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
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Mike Papantonio & David Pakman Interview - "Suspicious Activity: A Legal Thriller"
Mike Papantonio and David Pakman discuss Pap's new book "Suspicious Activity: A Legal Thriller," his writing and more.
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Johnson & Johnson Hit With Fraud Case For Trying To Evade Talc Powder Liability
Johnson & Johnson has been hit with a new lawsuit accusing them of fraudulently using bankruptcy to avoid paying the victims who got cancer from their deadly products. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.
Find out more about talcum powder lawsuits at https://levinlaw.com/newsroom/talc-cancer-plaintiffs-file-class-action-complaint-against-johnson-and-johnson-for-fraudulent-conveyance/
Link - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-22/j-j-prepares-for-3rd-talc-bankruptcy-bid-by-moving-unit-to-texas
Link - https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN1K234U/
Link - https://news.bloomberglaw.com/bankruptcy-law/j-j-cancer-claimants-demand-more-money-before-third-bankruptcy
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New Report Uncovers Government Program Feeding War Contractors
A new report has uncovered the disgusting pipeline between the Pentagon and defense contractors – where the Pentagon sends TRILLIONS of dollars worth of contracts to these companies in exchange for getting lucrative jobs for themselves. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.
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A new report has uncovered the disgusting pipeline between the Pentagon and defense contractors, where the Pentagon sends trillions of dollars worth of contracts to these companies in exchange for getting lucrative jobs for themselves. I've got Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins to talk to me about that. Wow. This is like lobbying on steroids. You take a top general in the country, maybe in the world, and you give them to this little contractor over here, and they're supposed to be schooled up by that little contractor. Well, the little contractor is Raytheon, it's all the huge, it's all of the huge weapons manufacturers. And then that guy that you've sent over goes to the Department of Defense and gets trillions of dollars for those contractors. I mean, really? This is something that was put in place by Bill Clinton of all people.
Yeah. And it's really funny because a lot of times we talk about this revolving door between industry and government agencies, but this isn't even a revolving door. It's not something secretive. This is literally a government program. Okay. This is called the Secretary of Defense Executive Fellows Program. It is a documented thing that they do every year where they send about 20 of the top generals, the majors, the high ranking folks, and they send them off to the Boeings and Raytheons and Lockheed Martins for a year. And then those people come back and they tell the Pentagon what the contractor needs or what the contractor sees as the problems with the Pentagon itself. And every time, and this is a wonderful report by the Lever, which is by the way, just the best outlet out there right now.
No question about it. If you're not reading the Lever, you're just not getting news. If you think you're turning on MSNBC or CNN or ABC and getting the news there, you're kidding yourself. Lever has got the news.
Yeah. And so what they do is these people come back after spending a year at Raytheon and they say, well, Raytheon wants us, because now I work back at the Department of Defense, Raytheon wants us to contract them more. They want us to outsource all of our jobs over to Raytheon, and I think we should do it. Oh, and by the way, Raytheon needs more money. They're not getting enough from you, even though we have sent over the last 20, 30 years, $7 trillion to these contractors.
To contractors, yeah. Now it's not just weapons contractors. It's information contractors.
Yeah, tech companies.
Tech companies, all kinds of subcontractors, contractors that the Department of Defense sends these trillions of dollars to. I mean, it is so obvious. The general goes over there. He does the bidding for that little company, and then everybody sits when he's making his presentation like, oh, wow. That sounds objective. Hell, there's nothing objective about it. That general ends up getting a job at the end of the day for Raytheon. It's the worst system. And look, not only that, but they're dealing with companies like, well, what is it? L3Harris Technologies. That's one of the big ones. $22 million they had to pay because of false claims to the Department of Defense. They, arms trafficking in 2021. And so, Lockheed Martin, $18 million to resolve multiple allegations of fraudulent government contracts. These are the people that these generals are going to be sent to by the, they're working through the Pentagon. Pratt & Whitney, $52 million for defective jet engines, that are still getting money from the government. Enron, how about that one? How about Enron? We sent one of our generals to Enron.
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Bob Menendez Paints Wife As Criminal Mastermind In New Court Filings
Disgraced Democratic Senator Bob Menendez is planning on throwing his own wife under the bus during his criminal trial, according to recent court filings. Menendez’s lawyers want to paint the wife – Nadine – as a master manipulator who managed to con one of the most powerful men in the Senate. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.
Link - https://www.mediaite.com/news/bob-menendez-is-planning-to-throw-his-wife-under-the-bus-in-foreign-bribery-case-per-court-filing/
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The disgraced Democratic senator Bob Menendez is planning on throwing his own wife under the bus because of his criminal trial. According to recent court filings, Menendez lawyers want to paint the wife Nadine as a master manipulator who managed to con the good senator, one of the most powerful men in the Senate. What a bottom feeder. First of all, why don't the Democrats get rid of this guy? They know what a scumbag he is. But nevertheless, they have dinner with him. He shows up. He's one of, you know, let's put our arm around Menendez. He's one of us. Why won't they?
He's showing up and voting every day.
He's actually voting, and he's, this guy is a criminal from way back. He was acquitted one time. He just barely got by. No, it was a hung jury, wasn't it?
A hung jury, a hung jury.
It was a hung jury. Wasn't even an acquittal. Same kind of thing. This time we got him with gold bars, got money sewn into his jackets, buying cars. It's just the worst thing ever. Now he's saying, I was so unsophisticated that I got manipulated by my evil wife, Nadine. I mean, come on.
You know, he better hope that she ends up getting locked away forever because if he goes to court and makes that argument, uh, he's not ever gonna wanna face her again. I know if I ever blamed my wife for anything, even something like, hey, you forgot to sweep the kitchen when you said you were gonna sweep. Yeah, I'm never gonna hear the end of it. And he's literally going to court, he is in trial right now saying, listen, I'm just a lowly senator who was on the high ranking Foreign Intelligence Committee and what do I know? My wife is out there making these deals and getting these gold bars and all this cash and it's insanity to think that he didn't know this was happening and didn't know what he was doing.
Moreover, his pals, his Democratic pals who won't get rid of him, they understand that some of the information was national security information that was going to Egypt.
Yeah.
He engineered that. But nevertheless, now what is the argument that I'm hearing? Oh, well, they can't do anything. The Democrats can't do anything. Really?
Yeah. And I've heard a lot of people say, well, they are asking for him to resign. No, they're not. Okay. Look, don't say that to somebody who sits here all day consuming political news. I know that there's like one loud voice calling for him to resign and it's John Fetterman.
Fetterman is just, he's up in there.
Most others, which we've sat here and read the quotes from these idiots, well let's let the courts decide what to do.
Okay, well what could they do? There's gotta be, theres ethics folks.
They can oust him. They can hold a vote.
They can vote immediately.
Yeah, expulsion.
Immediately. There's nothing to prevent them from doing that. So don't contact us and say, we didn't have all the facts. Oh yeah baby, we got all the facts. Democrats could do this immediately. But nevertheless, oh, by the way, did you follow this where Santos, so Republicans get rid of Santos, have you followed his latest gig where he's supposed to, he's gonna start doing videos under the name Kitara, where he is a crossdresser drag queen? What's, tell, help me with this. What's that all about? Is there something in his history where he was Kitara the drag queen?
Yeah, he was back in, I think 2005, 2008 ish, somewhere around there. He did do some drag performances. And he's so desperate, by the way, to be in the spotlight.
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Retail Giants Have Found A Way To Keep Food Prices High Forever
The cost of groceries in America is out of control, and a new report says the prices can no longer be blamed on inflation or supply chain issues – Its all due to corporate greed. Grocery store chains used the pandemic to raise prices on everything, and those higher prices appear to be here to stay. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.
Link - https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/food-corps-blame-high-prices
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The cost of groceries in America is out of control and a new report says the prices can no longer be blamed on inflation or supply chain issues. It's all due to corporate greed. Grocery store chains used the pandemic to raise prices on everything and those higher prices are here to stay. Now what's so interesting about this, when I was reading this story, I thought about you because you were doing some of the first stories, I remember when we were saying, these prices go crazy, where you said, this is here to stay. They've used the pandemic as this big fraud and they're here to stay. Pick the story up for me, because you were early on in this story. I remember that.
Yeah. And listen, we had that period of super high inflation when we had the supply chain issues. So yeah, that was market trying to fix itself and it never does a good job of it. And while that happens, while inflation hits 10% on prices, the corporations come in and say, okay, well we gotta raise 'em 10%, but what if we raise 'em 20%? Because eventually that first 10% from inflation does go away. But that second 10% never does. That becomes the new base price. So they, the corporations that do this, their profits are already up that 10% on every good. But consumers think, oh, well the price came down because it was $3 last week, but now it's $2 and 70 cents. Well, it should be $2. You're getting screwed out of that extra 70 cents.
They learned from the healthcare story, didn't they?
Yep.
They learned from the healthcare story. And now we're seeing grocery prizes five times the inflation rate, where you've got families that are working two or three jobs and the White House could do something about it. You can have price control mandates. But really, the economists are saying, it's basically, it is some activity by the corporations, but we have an inflation problem that's here to stay, period, until something dramatic happens. Add that, this greed, I don't know how people even buy eggs and milk anymore. It's that bad.
Right. If it were just inflation, that would be difficult enough, but it would be manageable to a degree. With that price gouging that's coming on top of that, that as you said, is far more than inflation could ever dream of being, that's what's really killing these people because we know these grocery store CEOs every year, they're pocketing tens of millions of dollars because we're doing such a good job of making sure this single mother can't feed her kids because we're stealing extra money from her, for her eggs and milk.
How about the argument where you hear 'em, well, if we can get bigger? Okay. If Walmart or whoever, if we can just get bigger and more of a conglomerate, we can pass the savings onto you. That story. You hear that all the time. It's nonsense. It's just ridiculous. It sounds good. Yeah, they get bigger. Gee, I guess the economy of scale, they can give us better prices, right. Just the opposite is taking place.
Well, and it used to be, you had your, typically in a state you would have your grocery stores that you wouldn't see in any other state. Publix originally was only a Florida thing. Now it's all over the country. Same thing with Kroger's or Albertsons, which I think those two have now merged.
Right.
You used to have your Winn-Dixie's and your Food Worlds and all these options and slowly they've all been consolidated. So that's all you see. It's homogenous across huge swaths of the country because we don't have your little local grocers anymore.
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Lack Of Enthusiasm For Biden Causes Carville To Meltdown
President Biden’s poll numbers have gotten slightly better recently, but he’s still lagging far behind in voter enthusiasm. A new poll shows that even a majority of his own supporters wish that he wasn’t running, and that lack of enthusiasm could be very painful in November. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.
Link - https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4618925-62-percent-of-biden-voters-want-to-replace-both-candidates-on-the-ballot-poll/
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President Biden's poll numbers have gotten slightly better recently, but he's still lagging far behind in voter enthusiasm. A new poll shows that even a majority of his own supporters, I'm not making, this is what the polls show, a majority of his own supporters wish that he wasn't running and that lack of enthusiasm could be very painful in November. Now, again, I always ask, are we allowed to talk about this? Because people are gonna start crying and send us ugly hate mail because we're talking about this. Are we allowed to talk about this?
We have to, whether we're allowed to or not. And sometimes folks, we do have to address the ugly truth here. And this poll shows us that 62%, not of 62% of voters, 62% of Biden supporters say, man, I really wish it wasn't him. I wish it was anybody else on that ballot in November. But they say we're probably still gonna vote for him. You know, maybe we'll see what happens. But it's a lack of enthusiasm and that's horrible for Biden.
Yeah, it is. The enthusiasm issue is and the way it's manifesting itself, it's, let me, your enthusiasm issue. Fewer voters say in 2024 that the presidential race really matters, fewer voters than happened just the last cycle. Now you've got this crazy man Carville, James Carville, believing that we can just beat everybody into submission, which is just the opposite. This guy's gone nuts. He's this curmudgeon old lizard looking guy with his cap going on television and saying that the youth, that the effing, we'll play it, the effing youth are just stupid and lazy and this is gonna cost them the election. Now, really? Are you that desperate to where you send your biggest voice, James Carville, who's been the voice for the Democrats for decades now, and now he's out there saying these words, you effing young voters basically are so stupid and so lazy that you're not gonna show up for Biden. What the hell? I mean, when have we gotten to where that's what we ought to be doing in politics?
Yeah. Just screaming at these people that, eh, you've gotta do what.
I want to show, we'll show this. You'll see it and you go, what?
Are you kidding me? Is this the United States of America? Is this the nation that was founded on the principle that no person is above the law? And then you tell these young people, if you don't get involved right now in this election, they're gonna be involved in your life for the rest of your fricking life. And if Trump and Roberts and Alito and Gorsuch and Thomas and Leonard, Leo, and The Heritage Foundation, if they get a hold, there will be no government left. There will be no rights left. You'll live under theocracy. You'll end up Christian nationalism. But that's all right. You little 26-year-old. You don't feel like the elections important to me. They're not addressing the issues that I care about. Well, the New York Times, Harvard, well, sorry about the Harvard youth poll, which is a pretty good, well regarded thing. Guy named John Della Volpe. And very recently they gave youngsters the 10, 15 most important issues. Clocking in at number 14 was student debt. You wouldn't know that if you read the press. Number 15 was the issue of Palestine. High on the list was abortion, was interest rates, was housing, affordability, were all of these other things. You are being insufficiently served by the commentariat, and to some extent, you're being insufficiently served through Democratic messages. So my advice to tell these young people.
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DNC Forgoes Pledge And Funds Union Busting Groups
A new report has found that the DNC is paying millions of dollars to a group that also works to help major corporations fight labor unions. The DNC pledged years ago to never do business with any group that fought unions, but that pledge apparently means nothing. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.
Link - https://readsludge.com/2024/02/08/the-dnc-is-still-contracting-with-firms-that-fight-against-unions/
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A new report's found that the DNC's paying millions of dollars to a group that also works to help major corporations fight labor unions. The DNC pledged years ago to never do business with any group that fought unions. But the pledge, well, apparently means nothing. It's like the story that we did just the other day. What you hear about there, what you hear, we're gonna do this. It's has great appeal, doesn't it? Where Democrats come out, we're gonna stop this abuse of the labor unions. And then when you dig in, this story by Sludge, by the way, is incredible. The research they did on this is absolutely phenomenal. Pick it up.
Yeah. You've got this group, the Global Strategy Group that contracts with the DNC, pay them millions of dollars to go out there and do some advocacy here. Do some kind of research for us there. All sorts of things. Get us a little bit of legal representation. But they also are working with some of the biggest union busters in this country. I'm talking Amazon and Starbucks and even Google. And of course, the law firms that they're associated with that are by extension, getting money from the DNC as well. Just the worst of the worst that you and I have stood right here and gone after these law firms, because these are the biggest pro corporate law firms in this country.
Oh, these are the people I go to war with all the time. Covington Burling, I mean, good God. Look at the opioid crisis. Okay. When I was handling that case, it was Covington Burling on the other side of everything. The industry was killing 150 people a day. And working at Covington Burling was Eric Holder, who was the ex attorney general under the Obama administration. Who, oh, by the way, we gave everything to, said, Eric, here it is. Go prosecute somebody. Zero prosecutions. Okay. So now the DNC, they're out saying, we are the labor party, we are good for labor. And we now find out that the people they're working with are doing everything they can to undermine labor in this country. Right?
Yeah. Yeah.
Did I get that, did I overstate that?
No, absolutely not. They're paying these firms that are also the same ones that go out there and say, hey, we will teach you the management of this company, how to spy on people's social media to make sure they're not talking about unions. We'll give you the talking points to hold these big meetings where you tell 'em how evil labor unions are. That is literally right here in this report. And that is who the DNC is contracting with. We are working with these people who are actively, once again, going against our interest and our stated goals and our pledge. We said we'd never do it, but we're doing it.
Okay. If I look down this list of who's who of these corporations, of these law firms that are secretly in the dark, behind closed doors working to undermine labor. Out front, you have, at least we know, look, we know where the Republicans stand, right?
Yeah.
We know they're never gonna help labor. But here you got Democrats, blue dog Democrats, Wall Street Democrats out there with the audacity to say, you know, we're all for you. Let's sing Kumbaya together. And then Sludge finds out, no, that's completely nonsense. They talk about Global Strategy Group. The Global Strategy Group the DNC's put huge money behind, they are one of the worst. Covington Burling's another one. These firms are people that we see on the other side of our table all the time, because they're always working for corporations. And oh, by the way.
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Texas Man Shakes Up 2024 Election With Official Name Change
A man in Texas has legally changed his name to “Literally Anybody Else” in order to run for President. He said that he made the change to highlight the fact that most Americans want anyone other than Biden or Trump to be president for the next four years. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.
Link - https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4554645-texas-man-running-for-president-under-name-literally-anybody-else/
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A man in Texas has legally changed his name to Literally Anybody Else, that's in quotes, in order to run for president. He said that he made the change to highlight the fact that most Americans want anybody besides Biden or anybody besides Trump to be president for the next year. And he says, you know what? I look at the numbers, there's a lot of people that will vote for me. Go ahead.
I mean, if you really had him on all 50 state ballots and people just saw, oh, Literally Anybody, hell yeah, I'm gonna vote. This guy could become president if he were on all the ballots. And I do think that this is a humorous way, and to be honest, he's serious about it. He's filed with the FEC. But it's a humorous way to bring to light this big issue that we do have, which is.
300 million Americans.
Yeah. It doesn't matter who's ahead in the polls at any given point, all, not all, but most Americans still say, yeah, I'll vote for this guy over this guy, but I really don't want either of 'em. I want new people with new ideas because when you're running the same two people you did four years ago, those aren't new ideas. It's not a way to move the country forward. It's a way to either put us back to four years ago or continue what we've got. And everybody says we want new.
Yeah. He's coutning on the fact that what, 60% of the American public says, they're not at all enthusiastic about the choices they have. Not at all. He's saying, well, okay, have Biden, Trump, and Literally Anybody Else on the third rung, and I'm probably gonna get a lot of votes.
I imagine he would. Even writing in, which is one of the things he's actually encouraging people to do if he's not able to get full ballot access, is just write it in. Because now that that's my name, if you write it in, that could count as a vote towards him. So it's clever. It is very clever.
He's a disabled veteran. He is a veteran.
And a teacher.
And a teacher. The guy's not a nutcase. He actually understands there is that movement outside that says, wait a second, you got 300 million Americans and these two guys are our choice. Really? Farron Cousins, thanks for joining me. Okay.
Thank you.
That's all for this week. But all these segments are gonna be posted right here on this channel in the coming weeks, make sure you subscribe. I'm Mike Papantonio, and this has been America's Lawyer, where we tell you stories every week that corporate media can't tell you. They literally can't tell you because their advertisers won't let 'em, and they'll lose advertising dollars if they do. Or their political connections are so Democrat or so Republican that they can't even think about coloring outside the lines because they'll lose that influence. You know what? We color outside the lines every week here, and we hope you'll join us for that. See you next time.
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Child Labor Law Violations Hit Highest Point In Decades
A manufacturing company in Tennessee has become the latest in a long line of companies to be fined for violating child labor laws. The number of child labor violations in this country has now hit the highest point we’ve seen in over two decades. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.
Link - https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/03/25/tuff-torq-child-labor-fine/
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A manufacturing company in Tennessee has become the latest in a long line of companies to be fined for violating child labor laws. The number of child labor violations in this country has hit the highest point we've ever seen in two decades. I've got Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins to join me to talk about it. It seems like every week we're doing another story. Either the story is about the big scam, and that's bring in unaccompanied minors from Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, put 'em to work, pay 'em slave wages, put 'em in situations where they're losing arms or they're being killed. Right? I mean, this is a weekly story now.
It really is. And that's why it's so important to keep talking about these. The Labor Department, all the way back in September said, we've got over 5,000 incidents here where we've got children, sometimes as young as 14, that are operating heavy machinery, heavy machinery that you typically need a special license to handle. But we've got 14-year-old kids out here, which is what just happened in Tennessee, operating this equipment. They don't know how to use it. They have not been fully trained on it. But these companies are doing it and basically getting away with it because a small fine to pay for violating these laws is absolutely nothing. It's the cost of doing business for these folks.
6,000 minors working in violation of child labor laws. That's where we are right now. And so, I don't know how to say this any clearer. I say it all the time. Why the hell can't we be realistic about what's happening with immigration? Why is it that we can't see that as all this was taking place, the US Chamber of Commerce was pushing this administration, we need more immigrants. We need more immigrants. The associated industries where every major corporation in the country was quietly saying, we gotta get more immigrants in here. And at the same time, you had the talking heads making it look like it was some kind of big compassionate move. We're trying to save these people from awful places. Well, we've taken them and now they're just a tool. They're a disposable tool. That's really what we have. And it's gonna get worse before it gets better, don't you think?
Yeah. And I think people need to understand that these migrants that are coming in, even the ones on these temporary work visas, are taken advantage of by these companies. Like you said, typically they will pay them under the table, which means we can pay them less than minimum wage. And that's another benefit they have, by the way, with hiring these 14 and 15 and 16 year olds because even if they're regular US citizens, you can still pay somebody under the age of 16 below minimum wage for I think about six months.
Is it six? Yeah, I think you're right. I think it is six.
So you save so much money.
And then move them out after six months.
Exactly.
Or they're injured after six months. They're so plentiful. But it used to be corporations, we had to export the work, right? We had to go to India or China or Mexico. And so, the industry was, corporations were saving tons of money putting American workers outta work. But that wasn't even enough. You see, that wasn't even enough because in India, they started wising, they started getting smart. They said, no, you know what? You want to come here, we're gonna start raising what you gotta pay. So industry now says, well, we'll figure out another way. We'll open the borders, let everybody in and in there we got a whole new workforce. Right?
Yeah. And this actually goes all the way back.
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Justice Department Continues Pitiful White Collar Crime Cycle
After hitting a record low in President Biden’s first year in office, white collar prosecutions from the Department of Justice have slowly started to increase. The only problem is that the worst offenders keep getting away with the worst kinds of behavior. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.
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After hitting a record low in President Biden's first year in office, while white collar prosecutions from the Department of Justice have slowly started to increase, the only problem is the worst offenders keep getting away with it. Isn't that, that's the story, right?
It is.
Pick up the story. Yeah. Do you remember after the burndown, financial burndown, Wall Street stole eight, what $8 trillion from mom and pop? And then we had Obama comes in, oh, I'm gonna do something about this. This is gonna stop, and some people are gonna be prosecuted. Do you remember that?
Yep.
It's one reason I jump, do you remember me getting up first thing in the morning going on Fox News of all places to defend Obama because I was so convinced that he was gonna do something meaningful about all this? I mean, that was my talking point. How do we not do something about this? Time after time we heard, that was his point. Not just him, but virtually every president that runs, we're gonna do something. We're gonna clean up the white collar criminal problem in this country. Well, do you know what? After that was done, he let virtually everybody go. Nobody, none of those bankers, not one single banker went to prison. The documents and the conduct was overwhelming. It was criminality from top to bottom. Everybody walked free. It's just the new norm, isn't it?
It is. And on top of that, a couple years into Obama's administration, we had the BP Deepwater horizon.
Good. I forgot about that.
Obama came out and said, you just tell me who's to kick. Those were his exact words, tell me who's to kick.
Right. Right. As if he.
Well, nobody got their kicked. Everybody got off scot free, even with all of the horrible things we learned. And this cycle just continues itself. And so this story comes out and says, hey, look, we've actually had an uptick in white collar prosecutions. The DOJ actually prosecuted nine more people.
Nine.
Nine.
Not 90, but nine.
Nine more than we did the year before. So, hey, we're winning. But then as Public Citizen points out, you look at the numbers and you realize, wait a minute, wait a minute. Whoa. You're not actually prosecuting the big corporate people. You're prosecuting small business owners.
Put that in perspective.
People with less than 50 employees, you're going after the little local pizza joint on the corner. But you call that a corporate prosecution. Meanwhile, you've got the bankers, you've got the Boeing CEOs, you've got the pharma CEOs, they're killing people. And oh, well, we like them, but yeah, we're gonna get the little clothing shop around the corner.
76% of the prosecutions were for corporations that had fewer than 50 employees. Okay. The rest of the prosecutions, there weren't any. If you had a thousand employees, you weren't, you got something called deferred prosecution. Explain to the viewers what that means.
Yeah. This is basically the slap on the wrist. That is the DOJ coming to you and saying, listen, we know deep down you're good people, so we're not gonna hold you accountable. There's gonna be a fine, so give us some money and that's what they, the DOJ loves their fun money. And they get to spend that money that they bring in, that is essentially their big piggy bank. And so they would rather get the money by themselves new offices, new company cars, new computers.
Cool SUVs.
Exactly. And that is what they do because we've done that story too. But then these companies say, okay, well we won't do it again. Two years later, they'll be back in front of those DOJ lawyers saying, okay, we did it again.
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Trafficking Victims Made Victims Again By The DOJ
The Department of Justice recently announced a settlement with the parent company of adult website PornHub, after the company was found to be profiting off of human trafficking. This settlement is a slap on the wrist, at most. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.
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Woman Uses Phony Foundation To Steal $100 Million From U.S. Army
A civilian employee of the US Army has been arrested for allegedly stealing ONE HUNDRED MILLION dollars from the federal government. The employee was using a shell company to get millions in grants and payments from the government by lying about services the company was performing. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.
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Boeing CEO Resigns After Ignoring Multiple Safety Failures
The CEO of Boeing announced that he’s leaving the company at the end of the year. His announcement came after a string of mechanical failures on Boeing jets, which employees say were the result of years of cutting corners. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.
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The CEO of Boeing announced that he's leaving the company at the end of this year. His announcement came after a string of mechanical failures on the Boeing jets, which employees were warning about for years. They said, this is coming, this is coming. But it was during a time when there was cost cutting and cutting corners at every, every step of the way. This is an industry, Farron, that is making so much money they can't spend it all. Right. They're the war, they are the weapons war industry. That's what this story, I wish they had got into more details on it, but they're the weapons war industry. They don't make money on building jets. They make money on selling missiles that blow the hell out of three quarters of the world. That's what they do. And so they're making a ton of money, but they still want to cut corners so they can pay this cat an exorbitant obscene bonus every year, while the workers keep getting cut and cut and cut. Pick it up.
Or worse, depending on what happens to the workers, as we've seen. But like you said, you got over 150 employees for Boeing that in the last couple years have sounded the alarm to regulators saying, hey, listen, they're cutting corners here. They're using shoddy materials. They're not following regulations. This is subpar material on this jet that will fail. Will you do something? 150 employees telling regulators this and regulators say, nah. I mean, we've got all these big contracts with Boeing. We're kind of bailing 'em out already with the 737 Max. So we're just gonna let it be. And of course, what happens? People die.
Yeah.
It's obscene.
Okay. 350 deaths just in two fatal crashes. 350 deaths. Not to say, what else is there? And okay, so not one time have they been criminally prosecuted. Okay. They always get these sweetheart deals. We're gonna defer prosecution. Can you get it right? No, Mr. CEO, you're not going to prison. If you killed that many people, you'd be in prison tomorrow. But we have a Department of Justice that is so tied to white collar, I mean, here's what happens. They're looking for jobs. You got lawyers there that are looking for jobs. Either that, or the lawyers with the Justice Department are career lawyers. They're tired. They don't have to work that hard. They're at GS, whatever the hell that is. And they're making all the money that they need, so they don't do anything to go after these folks. The other part, like I said, the other, two different divisions. One is the career person. Hell, why work hard? Right. I'm gonna be paid anyway. And then the other folks that are looking for jobs with corporations like this. So they kill all these people, no criminal prosecution, just like we saw with opioids. They killed 150 people a day for decades, Farron. The Department of Justice had everything they needed to prosecute, but they didn't prosecute. And we see it constantly. It's just a way of life in this country. But in this case, the 737 Max 9, what a disaster.
Yeah, absolutely. We're dealing with a company that there is no question they were intentionally making bad airplanes.
No. Which is the part of the criminal intent.
Right.
Which flows all the way to the top. Right?
Absolutely. And these non prosecution agreements from the DOJ are actually only meant for basically first time offenders. Okay, this is your first time doing something bad. You didn't actually even hurt anybody. So we will give you a non prosecution agreement here. But with companies like Boeing, these are repeat offenders. They should not even qualify for these non prosecutorial agreements.
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New Book Labels Rural White Voters As "Threat To Democracy"
A new book by authors Paul Waldman and Tom Schaller claims that voters in the South are actually the biggest threats to Democracy. Mike Papantonio is joined by Independent newspaper publisher Rick Outzen to explain why that’s not actually the case.
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Biden Signs Expansion Of Warrantless Surveillance Program
President Biden has signed an expansion of Section 702 of FISA – a powerful tool that gives the government the ability to spy on digital communications without a warrant. FISA has been abused constantly over the years to spy on activists, journalists, and sometimes even members of Congress. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.
Link - https://www.wired.com/story/section-702-reauthorization-expansion/
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President Biden has signed an expansion of Section 702 of FISA. It's a powerful tool that gives the government the ability to spy on digital communications without a warrant. FISA's has been abused constantly over the years. We all know about it. It's been used to spy on Americans. They've had hearing, after hearing, after hearing, where they've proven that it's not just foreign agents they're looking at. They're looking at Americans. They're looking at mom and pop with these mechanisms. Pick it up from there.
Yeah. So now we get this not just a reauthorization of 702, but the expansion of it. And that is what is so horrifying here, right? We're more than 20 years past when we launched this war on Terror with the Patriot Act and the domestic spying operations. We've ended those conflicts and we're still doing this. This doesn't make any sense. And I think that's what Americans need to understand is if we've ended our war on terror, if we're the winners of that conflict, why are we still doing this today? Why are we still allowing the federal government to sit there spy on us? Labor unions, environmental activists, protestors of any kind on both sides of the isle.
Journalists.
Journalists, members of Congress have been swept up in this.
Yes, yes.
And what they do, and what this expansion allows them to do to a larger degree, is if they get this information about an American citizen, they hold it. They don't use it.
50 years.
Years until they need it. Right. 50 years they can hold it now. And so when it does come out, oh, well this guy's causing a lot of trouble for the corporations. He's a union activist. Let's see if his name is in the 702 database. They search for it and then they destroy the people.
Farron, it's even worse than that. Okay. That's bad enough. But what this also does is it broadens the definition of what electronic service provider is. Okay. If you're taking a look at what they mean by this, it's virtually anybody who has anything having to do with storing information about you or about me. It could be virtually any entity that stores information. That's how far this has expanded. They're trying to say, well, it's not just the tech companies that we're gonna warlord over. It's gonna be anybody. Could be your local cleaner that stores information on the folks that come in there and get their laundry taken care of. It could be anybody. And that's the expansion where it's called the ECSP. It's the electronic service providers, basically in the country. And this opens the door to all of them. They're all gonna be somebody, hey, when the NSA calls, you better give us that information. Right?
Yeah. And people, if you think well, oh no, it's only for people that have contacts with outside foreign people that are targets. Go back and look at the hearings where innocent Americans have been swept up in this every single year. It can happen to you and it may have already happened to you.
Well, you're gonna get the comments, oh, well, I'm not worried about it. I'm not doing anything wrong. That is so childlike thinking. I mean, think of how childlike thinking that is. I'm not doing anything wrong, therefore, what am I worried about? Right.
Yeah.
That is somebody who hasn't taken a civics class, hasn't taken a history class, and has really low information about what the government is capable of doing.
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Staffers Resign From Biden's White House Citing Harassment & Abuse
Several members of President Biden’s White House Advance Team have resigned following an investigation into complaints of verbal harassment and abuse of the staff. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.
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DOJ Reaches Settlement With Larry Nassar Victims Just Ahead Of 2024 Olympics
The Department of Justice has reached a $139 million dollar settlement with the victims of Doctor Larry Nassar. This settlement happened because the FBI repeatedly failed to take action on the numerous complaints they received from gymnasts about Nassar’s abuse. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.
Link - https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/23/politics/usa-gymnastics-fbi-larry-nassar-settlement/index.html
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The Department of Justice has reached $139 million settlement with the victims of Dr. Larry Nassar. This settlement happened because the FBI repeatedly, repeatedly failed to take any action whatsoever on the numerous complaints that they received from the gymnast about Nassar's abuse. They heard it firsthand. They heard the stories firsthand. They had pictures. They had videos. FBI had everything they needed. They had girls lined up saying that this guy is a predator. They did nothing. And you know what? The agent or the agents who failed to do nothing, there were no sanctions. I mean, they got their retirement, they moved on and had they done what they should have done, hundreds, hundreds of people would've been protected from this predator.
Right. And it's not just that they went to the FBI one day and the FBI ignored it. This was years of complaints they were making to the FBI, to the Department of Justice, like you said, providing all of this evidence and information. And the FBI did absolutely nothing. They dismissed it. They thought, oh, well these young women, they're making it up. You know, this guy, obviously can't do this.
12 people, oh, they just made it up. 20 people, oh, they just made it up. They had pictures for God's sakes. They had tangible evidence of what this guy was doing and said, eh, you know, we got other things to do. We're gonna, whatever that is. I have no idea. But the point to this whole thing is this is a pattern that we see with the FBI and it has to do with, if we look at opioids. Okay. They had tons of information to say that the company's manufacturing opioids were killing 150 people a day. They had the documents that showed the CEOs that made these decisions. This went on for a decade. FBI did nothing. PFAS, one of the, this chemical that now is in all of our blood, it's in all of our drinking water. They had all of the information to say, let's find out who's doing this. Let's prosecute, maybe even prosecute the people that are doing this. Zero happened for decades. I mean, we could go on forever. Money washing, terrorist money washing. HSBC caught for money washing, washing money for terrorists and drug cartels. They knew it was going on in the United States too. They did nothing. They just let it roll. Let it ride. And so, one point you say, what the hell do these folks do? I mean, this is the very thing they're supposed to do, keep predators like that off the street.
Yeah. And it does make me wonder too, why did they not take action? Why were they trying to protect this guy? Why were they protecting USA Gymnastics? I feel like there's more to this.
Do you have an answer? Because those are good questions.
I really don't. But there has to be a reason why the FBI did not do this. And I think that's what needs an investigation. And of course, I think that's why the DOJ came out with this settlement. Like, oh, okay, we screwed the pooch here. Here's a bunch of money. Go away. We're done with this issue. Nobody's gonna look into it now. We're not gonna get answers to those questions and we need them because there's more to this than we know.
Do you think it had to do with the influence of the world gymnastics?
It may have it. It may have been, we don't want to tarnish our reputation heading into an Olympic competition, then we are the focus of all this horrible behavior. Maybe it's about that image, or maybe it's something even grosser.
Either way, it's completely unacceptable.
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Alabama Power Giant Launches Pro News Propaganda Corporation
The largest power company in the state of Alabama has purchased their own “news websites” to help spread propaganda and to downplay the health risks of the toxins that they are dumping in the state. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.
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Survivors Of Dozier "Reform School" FINALLY Compensated For Decades Of Murder & Abuse
For decades, teenagers were abused and sometimes even killed at a reform school in a small Florida town. Those teenagers are now in their golden years, but their fight for justice was finally won thanks to legislation granting them some relief for their years of suffering. Mike Papantonio is joined by attorney Troy Rafferty to explain what happened.
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Facebook's Zuckerberg Pumped Millions Into Getting TikTok Ban
President Biden has officially signed legislation that says TikTok either has to be sold or be shut down within the next 12 months. The legislation is going to set up a massive legal battle, and the facts aren’t on the government’s side. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.
Link - https://www.npr.org/2024/04/24/1246663779/biden-ban-tiktok-us
Link - https://readsludge.com/2024/04/23/meta-shatters-lobbying-record-as-house-passes-tiktok-ban/
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President Biden has officially signed legislation that says TikTok either has to be sold or be shut down within the next 12 months. The legislation is gonna set up a massive legal battle, and the facts aren't on the government side on this. You'd agree with this?
I agree that the facts are definitely not on the government side. Look, this is something, obviously, we've seen it coming in slow motion and we have dissected this from every angle. And I think the most important one is that the talking point about, oh, China could use this to get your data. Even the government itself says that that's literally never happened and probably will never happen.
And they say we have no evidence of it.
Right.
You would think if this was going on the NSA or the FBI or the CIA might know about it. Look, this is just a product of the other tech companies saying, TikTok, we want you to go away. And there's really good, there's really good information that points in that direction with Facebook or whatever they're called today, spending millions of dollars to try to make this happen, right?
Yeah. Just in the last, or the first three months of this year, Meta, Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook, Instagram, all that, $7.6 million they spent on lobbying, more than they've ever spent in a single quarter. And even though they didn't specifically mention TikTok, they said they were lobbying on national security concern. Basically all the same thing they're using to trash TikTok. So, yes, I think at this point it is safe to say Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, is the driving force behind this ban.
Oh, of course. He's hired a bunch of lobbyists. He's put millions of dollars into doing away with his competition because it would increase his business by something like 50%.
Yeah.
I mean, the numbers are staggering, if he can do away with TikTok. And of course Congress buys into it because they're getting a lot of money, a lot of money being spread around by Meta. But it's clearly, this is a jihad by Zuckerberg. I don't think there's any question about it. And so you look at this and the arguments are, well, we're doing this because we're worried about security. We're worried about this company finding out about your personal data. Like, really? Like it's not out there already. Like Meta doesn't already have it. Come on.
Right. I've gotten multiple emails from AT&T in the last couple weeks letting me know that, hey, we had a big data breach. Your data was accessed by outside individuals. So we have that happening with our companies here, either by selling it to people or by just not having security to protect their own platforms. So I'm not gonna sit here and be worried about TikTok doing it when I'm getting emails every other week from American companies saying, oops, we accidentally gave your data away.
Right. Okay. So here's the argument. Simple argument. We're different. Instagram saying we're different. Can you identify anything that's different? Anything at all that's different about them spying on folks the same way that they're accusing TikTok of doing? Processing their data, selling the data, they're doing everything. But we're saying, oh no, we're different. The only difference is that Zuckerberg has spread around more money than TikTok. That's all that's going on here.
Yeah, absolutely. Meta has all the money in the world that they want to spend, and they're using it. This is what lobbying is all about. If you have the most money, you're gonna win the day.
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