Rob Schneider
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got a grip on the culture and on communication and on power and the consolidation of that. And that became something when they started to make decisions that affected the society at large. That was something that... So was it specifically the pandemic for you that was the wake-up call? I think it was coming before that. Yeah, okay. I think it did come before that.
I think you don't realize the tentacles that... that really, when they say it's an oligarchy, remember Noam Chomsky says the United States is an oligarchy. It was like, oh, no, it's not. It's a constitutional republic. What does he mean? Well, he means that there are centers of power that are controlling how our government works. It's the underpinnings of it. And those people don't leave.
I think you don't realize the tentacles that... that really, when they say it's an oligarchy, remember Noam Chomsky says the United States is an oligarchy. It was like, oh, no, it's not. It's a constitutional republic. What does he mean? Well, he means that there are centers of power that are controlling how our government works. It's the underpinnings of it. And those people don't leave.
I think you don't realize the tentacles that... that really, when they say it's an oligarchy, remember Noam Chomsky says the United States is an oligarchy. It was like, oh, no, it's not. It's a constitutional republic. What does he mean? Well, he means that there are centers of power that are controlling how our government works. It's the underpinnings of it. And those people don't leave.
So when the pharmaceutical industry can buy off or can pay, be the largest contributor to not only a federal, a senator on the federal level or a congressman, but also on the state level, then that is power. When they can actually write the...
So when the pharmaceutical industry can buy off or can pay, be the largest contributor to not only a federal, a senator on the federal level or a congressman, but also on the state level, then that is power. When they can actually write the...
So when the pharmaceutical industry can buy off or can pay, be the largest contributor to not only a federal, a senator on the federal level or a congressman, but also on the state level, then that is power. When they can actually write the...
can write the legislation and hand it to a state legislature through the medical board that they control, all of a sudden these freedoms that I just assumed we had are illusory. And we are told what to do by this group. So that was a point to me around 2014 where I realized that there really was โ a fundamental problem.
can write the legislation and hand it to a state legislature through the medical board that they control, all of a sudden these freedoms that I just assumed we had are illusory. And we are told what to do by this group. So that was a point to me around 2014 where I realized that there really was โ a fundamental problem.
can write the legislation and hand it to a state legislature through the medical board that they control, all of a sudden these freedoms that I just assumed we had are illusory. And we are told what to do by this group. So that was a point to me around 2014 where I realized that there really was โ a fundamental problem.
And then when Obama allowed to have propaganda within the United States from government agencies in 2013, And what are you referring to there? Well, they had, well, there was always, you could, the CIA and the spy agencies could always use propaganda for other countries. But then there was, they had legislation passed in 2013. I'm sorry, I'm blanking on the name now. I'll come up with it.
And then when Obama allowed to have propaganda within the United States from government agencies in 2013, And what are you referring to there? Well, they had, well, there was always, you could, the CIA and the spy agencies could always use propaganda for other countries. But then there was, they had legislation passed in 2013. I'm sorry, I'm blanking on the name now. I'll come up with it.
And then when Obama allowed to have propaganda within the United States from government agencies in 2013, And what are you referring to there? Well, they had, well, there was always, you could, the CIA and the spy agencies could always use propaganda for other countries. But then there was, they had legislation passed in 2013. I'm sorry, I'm blanking on the name now. I'll come up with it.
But whether that propaganda could actually happen to Americans in America. So that would seem to be, That was different. I mean, it goes back to like Woodrow Wilson, where he ran on, I kept us out of war. And as soon as he got reelected, he got us into war. And then there was the propaganda that through Congress, it was approved that they could use propaganda in the United States.
But whether that propaganda could actually happen to Americans in America. So that would seem to be, That was different. I mean, it goes back to like Woodrow Wilson, where he ran on, I kept us out of war. And as soon as he got reelected, he got us into war. And then there was the propaganda that through Congress, it was approved that they could use propaganda in the United States.
But whether that propaganda could actually happen to Americans in America. So that would seem to be, That was different. I mean, it goes back to like Woodrow Wilson, where he ran on, I kept us out of war. And as soon as he got reelected, he got us into war. And then there was the propaganda that through Congress, it was approved that they could use propaganda in the United States.
And so what you really had, you had, you know, the burning of Belgian babies, and you had this, you know, the Hun is doing these horrible things that they weren't doing, and it was propaganda. But, you know, because you have to think about during World War I, Americans were mostly all farmers. And Europe was way over there. They have their hogs and their pigs to deal with and their farm.
And so what you really had, you had, you know, the burning of Belgian babies, and you had this, you know, the Hun is doing these horrible things that they weren't doing, and it was propaganda. But, you know, because you have to think about during World War I, Americans were mostly all farmers. And Europe was way over there. They have their hogs and their pigs to deal with and their farm.
And so what you really had, you had, you know, the burning of Belgian babies, and you had this, you know, the Hun is doing these horrible things that they weren't doing, and it was propaganda. But, you know, because you have to think about during World War I, Americans were mostly all farmers. And Europe was way over there. They have their hogs and their pigs to deal with and their farm.
They don't want to get involved in that war. So isolationism was a... not only a defendable, but a practical foreign policy at the time. And so Woodrow Wilson wanted to change that and did very effectively, but he did it through propaganda. So you start to see, when you start to see propaganda under Obama, and then you kind of see the shift.