David French
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And so this sort of idea that we have the best intelligence, we can absolutely know.
Look, I've helped...
I've helped approve airstrikes.
I've seen the intelligence.
I understand how difficult it is to get very, very precise intelligence.
And the idea that the military can now look at us straight.
I mean, Hegseth can look at us straight in the face and say, we absolutely know who all.
I mean, come on.
You know, are we really that naive still?
Let's see, wrong, stupid and harmful to the economy.
Yeah, I'm going to agree with that completely, completely and totally.
I mean, I think it's pretty clear that what we're looking at is that the Trump administration, especially in the Trump campaign, especially in during the election and the run up to the election, sort of used the free speech, land of the free kind of language to
to pull in a lot of kind of the anti-woke, heterodox sort of, so a lot of the people who'd been driven away from the Democratic Party by ideological intolerance and censorship and cancel culture, et cetera, and then presented itself as we are the
Champions of Liberty and free speech.
This is how you get a lot of these tech lords, you know, the ketamine crazed tech lords into the movement.
But anyway, you get kind of this tech world.
You get a lot of the heterodox sort of folks who are really tired.
And many of them have like been living in deep blue areas where they felt a lot of intolerance and cancellation, et cetera.
And then they're tied into this movement under this free speech and liberty banner.
Only really, as if they have eyes to see, to realize that everything awful about cancel culture, this administration has taken and has turned the dial again to 11.