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Trump's Bold Move: Dismantling the Department of Education and Battling Bureaucracy · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: More money per pupil than any country, and the Sun
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  Speaker 1: even close. We ranked near the bottom of the list
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  Speaker 1: in terms of success. Those are two stats. You don't
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  Speaker 1: want the most money spent per pupil and you're at
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  Speaker 1: the bottom of the list. And that's when we are
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  Speaker 1: like it.
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  Speaker 2: We're not. You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update
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  Speaker 2: with Ben Ferguson.
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  Speaker 3: Good Friday morning.
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  Speaker 4: Ben Ferguson with you, and it's so nice to have
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  Speaker 4: you on the forty seven Morning Update. And here are
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  Speaker 4: the big three stories we're talking about today. Donald Trump
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  Speaker 4: signs the executive order dismantling the Department of Education. So
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  Speaker 4: what does this mean for you in the state that
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  Speaker 4: you live in. It's going to have a big impact,
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  Speaker 4: and I'll break it down for you. Also, Hollywood going
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  Speaker 4: all in against Elon, even accusing him of quote killing
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  Speaker 4: people as they organize to terrorize Tesla owners and dealerships
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  Speaker 4: and finally attempted murder. Fifteen plus conservatives have been targeted
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  Speaker 4: by swatting attacks in a one week period.
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  Speaker 3: Who's behind it? I'll explain that as well.
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  Speaker 4: It's a forty seven Morning Update and it starts right now.
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  Speaker 2: Story number one.
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  Speaker 4: It is official the Department of Education has been significantly dismantled.
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  Speaker 4: In a new Donald Trump executive order, the White House
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  Speaker 4: says the initiative seeks to turnover education do families instead
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  Speaker 4: of bureaucracies.
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  Speaker 3: The President explaining it this way, Today.
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  Speaker 1: We take a very historic action that was forty five
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  Speaker 1: years in the making. In a few moments, I will
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  Speaker 1: sign an executive order to begin eliminating the federal Department
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  Speaker 1: of Education once and for all. And it sounds strange,
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  Speaker 1: doesn't it. Department of Education. We're going to eliminate it.
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  Speaker 1: And everybody knows it's right. And the Democrats know it's right,
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  Speaker 1: and I hope they're going to be voting for it
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  Speaker 1: because ultimately it may come before them, but everybody knows
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  Speaker 1: it's right. Then we have to get our children educated.
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  Speaker 1: We're not doing well with the world of education in
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  Speaker 1: this country, and we haven't for a long time.
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  Speaker 3: We haven't for a long time.
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  Speaker 4: The President said on the campaign trail that it was
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  Speaker 4: time to return education of parents and communities, and he
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  Speaker 4: also said in this executive order that it directs the
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  Speaker 4: Secretary of Education to quote, take all necessary steps to
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  Speaker 4: facilitate the closure of the Department of Education. Return education
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  Speaker 4: authority to each state while continuing to ensure the effectiveness
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  Speaker 4: and uninterrupted delivery of services, programs, and benefits on which
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  Speaker 4: Americans rely. In translation, he knows the fear mongering the
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  Speaker 4: left is going to do, claiming that a school will
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  Speaker 4: close and your kid will not be educated during this
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  Speaker 4: time of change, President making it clear in the executive
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  Speaker 4: action that is not an option. The order also directs
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  Speaker 4: that programs or activities receiving any remaining Department of Education
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  Speaker 4: funds will not advance DEI or gender ideology. Dismantling bureaucracy
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  Speaker 4: and empowering families is what this order is all about.
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  Speaker 4: Federal government control of education has failed students, parents, and teachers.
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  Speaker 4: The President saying this about the history of the Department
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  Speaker 4: of Education.
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  Speaker 1: President Carter created the Federal Education Department in nineteen seventy nine.
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  Speaker 1: It was opposed by members of his own cabinet, as
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  Speaker 1: well as the American Federation of Teachers, the New York
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  Speaker 1: Times editorial board, and the famed Democrat Senator Daniel Patrick moynihan.
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  Speaker 1: History has proven them right, absolutely right. After forty five years,
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  Speaker 1: the United States spends more money on education by far
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  Speaker 1: than any other country. And spends likewise by far more
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  Speaker 1: money per pupil than any country, and it's not even close.
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  Speaker 1: But yet we ranked near the bottom of the list
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  Speaker 1: in terms of success. It's an amazing stat Those are
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  Speaker 1: two stats you don't want spent for pupil, and you're
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  Speaker 1: at the bottom of the list. And that's where we are,
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  Speaker 1: like it or not, and we've been there for a
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  Speaker 1: long time.
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  Speaker 3: Just how bad is it? Well?
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  Speaker 4: Since nineteen seventy nine, the Department of Education, which does
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  Speaker 4: not directly educate students, has spent over three trillion dollars
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  Speaker 4: without improving student achievements as measured by Standardized National Assessment
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  Speaker 4: of Educational Progress scores. The federal taxpayers have spent around
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  Speaker 4: two in dred billion in additional education funding during COVID nineteen, which,
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  Speaker 4: given the substantial learning laws that resulted, typifies the ineffectiveness
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  Speaker 4: of the current federally driven model. Mathematics and reading scores
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  Speaker 4: are down in public schools as well, despite per pupil
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  Speaker 4: spending having increased by more than two one hundred and
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  Speaker 4: seventy five percent since nineteen seventies, indicating that more spending
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  Speaker 4: does not mean a better education for our kids in
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  Speaker 4: public schools.
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  Speaker 3: How bad is it?
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  Speaker 4: Thirteen year old's mathematics scores are the lowest they've been
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  Speaker 4: in decades. Thirteen year old's reading scores are the lowest
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  Speaker 4: since testing began over thirty years ago. Right now, and
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  Speaker 4: low performing students are following further behind.
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  Speaker 3: In twenty twenty three, thirteen Baltimore.
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  Speaker 4: Maryland high schools had zero students who tested proficient in mathematics.
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  Speaker 4: The Department of Education burden schools with regulations and paperwork.
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  Speaker 4: The President said as well, saying it's time now to
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  Speaker 4: allow the states and ultimately the parents to do what
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  Speaker 4: is best for their kids. To put in perspective, Biden's
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  Speaker 4: Department of Education added rules that imposed nearly three point
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  Speaker 4: nine billion in costs and four million, two hundred and
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  Speaker 4: thirty nine thousand, five hundred and thirty paper work hours.
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  Speaker 4: If you want to know what's killing our education system,
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  Speaker 4: it's clearly the bureaucracy of the federal government.
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  Speaker 2: Now, story number two, there is a.
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  Speaker 4: War happening right now against every Tesla owner in the
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  Speaker 4: country and every dealership and every employee Tesla, and it's
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  Speaker 4: being organized by the left. You may have noticed a
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  Speaker 4: trend that every time the left doesn't get what they want.
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  Speaker 4: There is money that comes in to organize quote activists
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  Speaker 4: to go after whatever it is they want to get
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  Speaker 4: rid of. You may remember the summer violence. We're even
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  Speaker 4: on TV as police stations were being burned to the
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  Speaker 4: ground behind reporters. They were calling the protest quote mostly
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  Speaker 4: peaceful protests. Well, now their new target is Tesla because
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  Speaker 4: of Elon Musk, a man that is totally saving the
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  Speaker 4: American people hundreds of billions of dollars finding waste, fraud
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  Speaker 4: and abuse. So what's the best way to get him
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  Speaker 4: to stop doing that work? Try to bankrupt his companies.
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  Speaker 4: John Cusack, for example, the famous actor, appeared on what
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  Speaker 4: they're now calling a Tesla takedown. They even have graphics
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  Speaker 4: and in essence of TV channel where they talk bad
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  Speaker 4: about Elon Musk and make people want to burn Tesla's
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  Speaker 4: or shoot them up, which is exactly what's happening all
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  Speaker 4: over the country. What did John Cusack actually say? He
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  Speaker 4: said that Elon Musk is quote literally killing people. Why
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  Speaker 4: would he say that to justify the extreme violence coming
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  Speaker 4: from those that have been activated. Here's what he had
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  Speaker 4: to say on acts about Elon Musk and Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 5: He said, you know, Musk is kind of this arch
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  Speaker 5: villain of late stage capitalism, and he seems like this
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  Speaker 5: clown and this buffoon. Like Alex said, you know, this
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  Speaker 5: is a man who made a sighile Nazi salute not
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  Speaker 5: only in public, but at a presidential victory party. It's
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  Speaker 5: good to remember that these are unprecedented times of mass
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  Speaker 5: criminality going on in the United States right now, and that,
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  Speaker 5: like Trump, Musk is a pathological liar. He's a criminal,
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  Speaker 5: he's a sociopath and a ghoul. And I mean those
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  Speaker 5: terms very precisely because who else would use his own
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  Speaker 5: child as a sympathy prop while literally taking starving aid
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  Speaker 5: away from people all over the world. He's literally killing people.
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  Speaker 5: People are going to die because of this madness. He's
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  Speaker 5: a man who threw eighty thousand people from the VA
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  Speaker 5: out of work indiscriminately. And as far as the plunder,
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  Speaker 5: I would urge everybody to really follow Bernie Sanders Fighting
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  Speaker 5: Oligarchy tour and listen to what he has to say,
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  Speaker 5: because the list of abuses is too big to even
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  Speaker 5: tackle within five or ten minutes. But I think it's
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  Speaker 5: important to know that not only are they trying to
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  Speaker 5: steal everything that isn't bolted down to the floor. But
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  Speaker 5: as they get into these systems and plunder, they're also
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  Speaker 5: He's also interested in the metadata. So when he gets
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  Speaker 5: into the treasury, the metadata is all the connections between
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  Speaker 5: all of us who are talking right now. Everything we've
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  Speaker 5: ever looked at online, every car we've ever tried to buy,
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  Speaker 5: or time, any movie we watched, anything we've done. All
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  Speaker 5: that stuff is metadata. Is like the new oil for
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  Speaker 5: these people.
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  Speaker 4: Isn't it amazing that this is John Cusack literally accusing
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  Speaker 4: Elon Musk of doing exactly what the Democratic Party was
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  Speaker 4: doing to conservatives while on social media, and now saying
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  Speaker 4: it because of these accusations, which are absolutely bogus and insane,
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  Speaker 4: that now you are justified to go out and attack
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  Speaker 4: Tesla owners and the dealerships. Even the Daily Show in
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  Speaker 4: other news outlets getting in on the action. This is
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  Speaker 4: the host, and you can hear the audience cheering the violence, Jim.
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  Speaker 3: They're taking to the streets or the parking lots.
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  Speaker 6: Should I be FBI and ATF now investigating multiple cases
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  Speaker 6: of possible arsen targeting Tesla's and cyber trucks.
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  Speaker 2: The dramatic video shows multiple cars and flames.
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  Speaker 3: Police say the attacker used molotov cocktails.
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  Speaker 2: It's the latest in more than a dozen instances of
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  Speaker 2: arson and vandalism targeting Tesla.
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  Speaker 6: The same suspects shot more Teslas with a gun. Tesla
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  Speaker 6: cyber trucks were set on fire in Kansas City, and
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  Speaker 6: earlier this month, shots fired in a Tesla dealership in Oregon.
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  Speaker 6: Cyber trucks on fire in Seattle.
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  Speaker 5: Wow, you guys like petniacs of domestic terrorism, Jim.
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  Speaker 4: You can hear the audience. They're so excited about this
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  Speaker 4: type of violence.
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  Speaker 3: Thank goodness.
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  Speaker 4: The Attorney General, Pam Bondi has stepped in announcing charges
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  Speaker 4: for Tesla attacks and warning against domestic terrorism, saying quote,
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  Speaker 4: if you join this wave of domestic terrorism against Tesla properties,
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  Speaker 4: the Department of Justice will put you behind bars.
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  Speaker 3: Thank goodness, law and.
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  Speaker 4: Order is back at the Department of Justice and at
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  Speaker 4: the FBI.
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  Speaker 2: And finally, story number three.
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  Speaker 4: If there's anything that's become clear in the last two months,
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  Speaker 4: is that the left has become completely unhinged. Now you
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  Speaker 4: can add attempted murder plus fifteen conservatives have been targeted
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  Speaker 4: by swatting attacks in a single week. A series of
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  Speaker 4: swatting incidents targeting conservative commentators and journalists have transpired nearly
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  Speaker 4: every evening since March the eleventh. This according to the victims,
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  Speaker 4: who are sharing video, surveillance footage and photos of the events,
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  Speaker 4: sparking questions as to who is engaging in what Representative
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  Speaker 4: Andy Ogles described as domestic terrorism and attempted murder. THEI
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  Speaker 4: Director Cashptel, and the Attorney General Pam Bondi and Secretary
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  Speaker 4: of Homeland Security Christinomes have also reacted to the wave
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  Speaker 4: of dangerous crimes. In terms, swatting refers to an anonymous
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  Speaker 4: attacker targeting someone for making a false call to emergency services,
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  Speaker 4: using anonymous tools like Google Voice or VPNs to make
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  Speaker 4: it appear the call is coming from a certain location
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  Speaker 4: and telling authorities a murder or hostage event is transpiring
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  Speaker 4: at a particular address. Swatting is designed to prompt swat
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  Speaker 4: teams to arrive at the targeted home and descend on
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  Speaker 4: the unsuspecting victims, which in the past have led to
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  Speaker 4: deadly encounters and murder charges for the offender. At the
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  Speaker 4: time of this story breaking, there has been at least
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  Speaker 4: fifteen figures already in conservative politics and media that have
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  Speaker 4: reported being swatted within the course of the last week.
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  Speaker 4: The string of swatting ensigns seemingly began on the evening
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  Speaker 4: of March eleven, with info Wars reporter revealing in an
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  Speaker 4: early morning ex post that six to eight police officers
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  Speaker 4: used a pacism to call me by name and order
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  Speaker 4: me to walk out of my house. I was handcuffed
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  Speaker 4: in the middle of the street, presumably at gunpoint, though
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  Speaker 4: I couldn't tell because the lights being shined in my face.
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  Speaker 4: I was then led into the house, where my wife
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  Speaker 4: was woken up, and we were informed that they received
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  Speaker 4: a call from someone pretending to be me threatening to
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  Speaker 4: kill my family. Then after that many others received the
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  Speaker 4: exact same treatment. Another reporter was swatted not once, but
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  Speaker 4: twice in a single day, and many other journalists are
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  Speaker 4: now saying it's very clear they were all targeted in
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  Speaker 4: a coordinated attack. Federal government now saying very clearly they
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  Speaker 4: are gonna hunt down those who are making these calls
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  Speaker 4: and putting conservative commentators lives at risk.
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