Luke Thomas

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Digital Social Hour · Luke Thomas Breaks Silence on Charlie Kirk’s Death | DSH #1572 · 16 Oct 2025 podcast

they need to be skeptical of power.

Joe Rogan, in my judgment, one of his problems is that he used to be very skeptical of power, but then he has on people like Peter Thiel, like J.D.

Vance, like Donald Trump, but more than that, Elon Musk, these guys who pull powerful levers in society.

And it's like, dude, it's one thing if, let's say you're Joe Rogan, and who do you want to get on?

You want to get on me, because I'm an archeology professor at the University of Wichita, or whatever.

You know, you can reasonably trust that I'm going to come on here and just geek out about archaeology.

I don't have an agenda to push other than, for the most part, probably just archaeology, right?

Or a physics professor, something like that.

But a political actor has a very different level of what they're trying to do in terms of manipulation.

They have a goal about what they want this experience to yield for them.

you have to treat them very skeptically and to me one of the things that was missing from his show more recently was that instinct something he used to have but the conspiracy theorists around palantir you know i don't know what exactly what some of these particular theories are but i would say building a surveillance database with the most modern technology and this is the key

where there used to be, for example, IRS data that was siloed off and not given to Homeland Security, right?

These things, for example, were very separate.

But what if you begin to combine these databases?

That's what the project of Doge was.

Doge was a project in data theft.

That's what it was.

It was data theft.

They cut out a minuscule amount of the budget.

It didn't matter anyway because the one big, beautiful act added potentially $5 trillion in extra debt to the budget.

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