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Day before the election, we have everything you need to keep up to date on today's program, including the death of our first patriot in the fight to save our republic, Peanut the Squirrel.

Also, Dave McCormick joins the program, running to unseat Bob Casey for Pennsylvania's Senate seat.

We talk also to, in the full version of the program, Selena Zito, who

puts her money where her mouth is on today's program.

How's this election going to turn out?

And Jeffrey Tucker is on to talk about the real-time censorship potent on the internet archive and how trustworthy the lost info might be if it's ever able to be recovered.

You don't want to miss it.

Oh, Roseanne Barr is also on the full show.

Worth the download too.

Go and get out and vote tomorrow if you haven't already.

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We just learned that they have euthanized Peanut.

And the raccoon as well.

And the raccoon as well.

I am so sorry.

This must be really difficult for you.

It not only tears my family apart, but Peanut was the cornerstone of our nonprofit animal rescue.

And 10 to 12 DEC officers raided my house as if I was a drug dealer.

I was sat outside my house for five hours.

I had to get a police escort to my bathroom.

I wasn't even allowed to feed my rescue horses breakfast or lunch.

I was sat there like a criminal after they interrogated my wife to check out her immigration status, then proceeded to ask me if I had cameras in my house, then proceeded to go through every cabinet, nook, and cranny of my house for a squirrel and a raccoon.

They got a search warrant?

They got a search warrant.

Four departments and a judge signed off on a search warrant for a squirrel and a raccoon.

And then they took them and killed them.

Why did they go through all that to get a search warrant for an animal that had been with you very safely and the world witnessed this for seven years?

Why now suddenly did they show up with a search warrant and take these animals?

We haven't a clue.

We don't know who made

the complaints.

Again, Peanut was an indoor squirrel not harming anybody.

He's been with us for seven years.

Not a single complaint was ever filed for this animal.

We had him for seven and a half years.

He became the world's most famous squirrel.

We weren't hiding him by any means.

He was all over TikTok.

He became the first scroll on TikTok to ever hit a million followers.

He did every news station around the world.

He's helped people.

He's helped kids gather joy.

And then we started a non-profit animal rescue called Peanuts Freedom Farm to help animals like Peanut fight a good fight when they're in a neglected case or they're sitting in a slaughter auction.

And he was the cornerstone of our life and our organization.

We used his platform to help raise money for the 300 animals we have at our sanctuary.

Chapter 1

Propaganda Wars by Glenn Beck

Welcome to Clown World.

I rest my case, Your Honor.

What

the hell is that?

Now,

do I...

feel bad for them?

Yes, I really feel bad for them.

Do I think this is the weaponization of government?

Yes.

Some anonymous person made a complaint, apparently said he might have rabies.

The person came in without the permission of the people and grabbed him and he bit him.

Of course he did.

My dog might bite you too if you are aggressive to my family.

What the hell is this?

Now, I don't know about you, but I suspect

Karen.

That's who I suspect.

All Karens should be investigated today.

And let me make this promise.

If Donald Trump is elected.

Oh, all the Karens will be investigated and probably

put in a camp someplace.

They're already building it.

You know they are.

This is an insane story.

Insane.

And

it is

so bizarre when you're talking about the actual content of what occurred here.

You're talking about a squirrel and a raccoon looking as a pet, all of that.

It is also one of the most egregious abuses of government power I can ever remember.

It's like one of those things similar to like women's sports where we talk about the transgender issue.

There's a million different things that are really important about the transgender issue.

Women's sports is not probably number one.

The fact that, you know, a lot of medals get taken away, it's dramatic.

I have kids.

I have a girl who this might happen to.

So it's concerning, but it's not the most serious part.

It's the part, though, that brings it home

the most.

Moms and dads are like, wait a minute, my daughter's going to get hit in the face with a volleyball at 120 miles an hour.

What are we talking about here?

Right.

Right.

This is kind of, in a weird way, sort of the same.

It is.

You don't think about it, it's a squirrel being killed.

Like, they get run over 9 trillion times a day.

Can you stop

just holding up the squirrel while you forget Fred the raccoon?

I know.

He's getting the shaft on this one.

Poor Fred.

Poor Fred.

But I mean, like,

if they will do this to a family that

has documented all of this, millions and millions of people follow this.

They see the squirrel is this most little adorable thing, like jumping around on its owners.

And like, it's...

It's crazy.

The fact they would do this knowing how visible it was just shows that they don't care.

You think they care about you?

These people have millions and millions of people watching their daily life with this.

They took the squirrel and murdered it

for no reason at all.

In the most visible way possible.

They will not care about what your little complaint is.

Let me just point out.

For no reason possible.

No reason.

Okay.

Let me just quote Jen

early voter Rubin from the Washington Post.

Oh, God.

Quote, the MAGA squirrel deserved to die.

Now, I think this is both

an absolutely ridiculous clown world story,

but I also think it is a microcosm of everything this election is about.

Everything.

You know, they they call Donald Trump vengeful they're going to get the MAGA squirrel and kill him

these people with peace in their hearts these animal lovers the ones who just love the planet take an innocent squirrel that if he had a MAGA hat on I can guarantee you he didn't know what the hat was not that he didn't know it was a MAGA hat he didn't even know it was a hat

And they kill him.

This is nuts.

Is that a squirrel joke?

You got a squirrel joke?

No, you just said it.

Is it nuts?

You said this is nuts.

That's the ultimate squirrel joke.

You made it and didn't even realize it.

I really am shocked by this, though.

Like, I don't know.

Do you get, I don't know, it's funny because I don't, were the parent, did the, did the people who, the parents, did the parents of the squirrel,

are their politics known at all?

Like, are they?

I don't know.

Apparently,

she deleted this post because she started to get hammered for it.

Okay.

But Jen Rubin, Washington Post, she seems to know it was a MAGA squirrel.

I haven't asked the squirrels in my area who they're for.

So there's no little teeny squirrel signs that I've seen for Trump around any of the trees that I have in my mind.

I have heard that particular squirrel peanut supports lower corporate income taxes.

So I am concerned.

But like, it became a political issue.

Everything is political.

But not because,

as far as I know, these were like big MAGA people who had a squirrel.

It's because the people who want your squirrel to live.

are conservatives.

The people who don't want the government to have the power to invade your home and take your pets and murder them for no reason,

that's now a political issue because the left wants the government to have that power.

They do.

They want them to be able to do that.

And they might say, well, I love my pet.

What are you talking about?

I'm voting for Kamala Harrison.

I love my pet.

It doesn't matter.

What you're advocating for is the power of the government to be able to do this stuff to you.

And you believe that it will never do it to you.

I got news for you.

You're selfish, by the way.

Incredibly selfish.

Incredibly selfish.

You don't care about anybody else because you don't think it might happen to you.

That's not, that is an incredibly selfish instinct.

You know, like, but you have that already.

Who did I see over the weekend talk about,

you know, people wonder how

people just in Germany just went full-fledged Nazi?

And he said, look, look what happened with COVID.

He's like, I'll bet you at least 30% of our population couldn't wait to turn a neighbor in

because it signaled their virtue.

First among them, Tim Walls, by the way.

Yeah.

Put a hotline up.

Put a hotline up.

Report your neighbors if they're not handling an illness the way you want them to.

That's unbelievable.

This man might be vice president of the United States after he did that.

Just that.

Forget the fact that he allowed cities to burn to the ground ground and all the other crap he's been doing.

Well,

this time they're not taking any chances.

They have put the National Guard on standby

in Seattle, Washington, Portland, and Washington, D.C.

You know, all those deeply red areas.

A lot of tiki tortures parades going on.

Oh, yeah.

Okay.

Yeah, they're worried about all the Trump supporters there, you know?

Well, Jesse Simolette was one of the first that let us know that MAGA Country isn't exactly where we think it is.

Sometimes it's downtown Chicago.

Sometimes it's Portland.

Portland, Oregon.

Right.

That's MAGA country for you.

Well,

we have infiltrated all those areas with the squirrels.

So.

And they are pissed.

All right.

No matter what it is that gets you out of bed in the morning.

Who would have thought the day before the election we'd be talking about?

We're talking about a legal story.

We're talking about a squirrel.

And like, it's so perfect to like the meme of like, what's distracting you?

Squirrel.

Like, it's actually coming true

in real life.

Oh, man.

It's going to be a tough couple days.

A couple weeks, a couple months.

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This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

Tomorrow, all eyes are on Pennsylvania.

That's our first sign of how things are going to be going.

And Dave McCormick is running for the Senate in Pennsylvania.

He is running against

Casey, who is, he's a dream come true.

Dave is a bronze star,

I guess,

recipient.

He went to West Point.

He was the CEO of Free Markets, a successful tech startup.

And he's now running for Senate.

God only knows why, but

he's been to war, so it won't be much different.

And Dave is joining us now.

Hi, Dave.

Hey, Glenn, how are you?

I'm really good.

I'm really good.

How are you feeling today?

You know, I feel great.

I mean, at home stretch,

this was always going to be a super heat race, but what's happening is it feels like there's a momentum shift.

And, you know, in my race, it's really a choice between change and the status quo.

And a guy who is me, in my case, a seventh generation Pennsylvanian, as you said, grew up in rural Pennsylvania, went to West Point, Ranger School, 82nd Airborne Division, Combat Tour in Iraq, and then ran a business in Pennsylvania against a guy that's been in elected office 30 years,

has, you know, comes from a famous political family.

He's been a weak leader.

When the bullets start flying, he ducks, and he votes 98.6% of the time with Biden Harris.

And so if people want the status, go ahead, tell them on the campaign trail, vote Casey.

If you want change,

that's what I'm running for to bring about change and hopefully work with President Trump and the White House to put forward a common sense agenda to get our economy back on track and

make ourselves energy dominant, which will be because of Pennsylvania's natural gas and secure the border and stop this scourge of fentanyl.

And so I think three-quarters of Pennsylvanians think that we're heading in the wrong direction, which is why I think President Trump will prevail, and I think I will too.

You know, because

your slogan is time for a change.

And I really think,

Dave, that

is coming.

You know, one way or another, deep change is coming.

If she wins, I think we are no longer the constitutional Republican four years that we are now.

And Donald Trump made some mistakes in his first term, but he's learned from them, and he has gotten uber sharp on everything.

He knows what he's doing, and he's talking about profound change.

What I don't understand is how people

see Kamala as an agent of change.

You know, I think

it's wearing off here in Pennsylvania.

I think Pennsylvania may be the one place where the Democrats would have been wiser to put Joe Biden forward because Biden had a claim to Pennsylvania.

He had campaigned here.

He knew every union leader, every county commissioner.

But Kamala Harris, in her own words, wants, in her own words, in the last three or four years, wants to ban fracking transition energy workers, mandatory buybacks of your guns, legalization of illegal immigrants, federal benefits for them, defund the police, eliminate private health care insurance.

I mean, this is a radical agenda.

that's completely out of touch with Pennsylvania.

And the more Pennsylvanians see that, the more that they're coming to the conclusion that we need the strength and common sense policies of President Trump.

But it's also a Bob Casey thing, because if, God forbid, Kamala Harris is in there, Bob Casey is a sure vote.

And, you know, somebody said this to me the other day, Glenn, which really

struck a negative chord with me.

But somebody said, are you running for the Bob Casey seat?

And I said, I'm not running for the Bob Casey seat.

This isn't an entitlement because his name's Casey.

You know, you've got got to earn this seat every single day, every election, and he's failed people across our great Commonwealth.

And

that's why I think you're seeing the movement in the polls.

What everybody would say is that there's a huge push in my direction and my race, but also President Trump's picked up some steam here as well.

And I think we're going to see that tomorrow.

How do you feel about the security of the election?

You know, I feel two things at the same time.

I feel like there's been an enormous effort.

Thousands of people will be at election sites, 7,000 observers, 500 lawyers.

I think there's a lot of vigilance, but we have to be vigilant because we've already seen cases where they're trying to suppress the voting in Bucks County by ending early voting early.

We've seen what looks to be fraudulent registrations in Lancaster County,

which the district attorney there is prosecuting.

So I think we've got a lot of focus, a lot of resources on it, which should give us some comfort.

But I also think that we've got to play whack-a-mole and be extremely vigilant to make sure any indication of cheating or fraud is dealt with immediately.

And

so I'm paranoid about it, but I also feel like we're very focused.

And this is one of the areas where President Trump's campaign and mine have been very coordinated.

Michael Lotley, who's the chairman of the RNC, has made Pennsylvania ground zero for his efforts.

So listen, let's talk about tomorrow or on Wednesday, but I feel like we're pretty focused on it.

We're talking to Dave McCormick.

He's running for Senate in the state of Pennsylvania.

Dave,

Kamala Harris has said that she is not now against banning fracking.

She's turned that around, apparently.

Although she made a big speech over the weekend outlining the most expansive green energy, you know, global warming agenda, and she's bragging about that to her supporters.

Where is Casey on all of this, and do you believe either of them?

Yeah, listen,

I think it's both deceptive and disgraceful.

And I've talked a lot about this on the campaign trail.

You know, for your listeners, if they went to my website, davemcormickpa.com, they'll see I've laid out all my positions on energy and what we need to do and everything else.

But two points.

Number one, we should not trust them on this because Kamala Harris has had a long history of being

for eliminating fossil fuel consumption in general.

And Bob Casey has voted time and again for the FRAC Act, which essentially puts a huge burden on

fracking companies.

He's supported the closing down of the Keystone pipeline.

He's been absolutely in favor of all these restrictions on natural gas, the EPA mandate, which is going to create much more demand for electric vehicles at the expense of combustion engines.

But the most important thing to take away here is you don't actually have to ban fracking to ban fracking.

What you do is you put all sorts of red tape and regulations, you increase the liabilities, you make it harder and harder for private sector to invest.

That's what they're doing.

And so, you know, this whole conversation about ban or not ban, what we should be talking about is how we not

just have fracking, but we double, triple, quadruple the amount of fracking taking place in Pennsylvania because it's critical to our economic well-being.

It's critical to our national security.

And here's the irony, Blen, it's critical to the environment.

That natural clean gas exported around the world will be the best thing we could ever do to reduce carbon emissions.

So sorry to go on so long, but that is really an area where I think the Democrats are completely out to lunch, and Bob Casey

is a rubber stamp vote for all this extreme green agenda.

So we have

one candidate

talking about green agenda, which will change everything.

The other candidate has now floated, Donald Trump has floated even no taxes, no income tax.

The things that he is advocating for are massive, just massive change.

And in my view, pretty good.

Are you prepared to fight those fights in the Senate?

Yeah, I really am.

I'm prepared.

I mean, I think, and I say this all the time, I think we can't have incrementalism.

We can't have incrementalism in terms of dealing with our energy industry or in terms of our economy and the spending cuts we need to do to bring this terrible inflation in place.

So the economy of Biden, Harris, and Casey has been devastating for working families in Pennsylvania.

60%

of the families of Pennsylvania live paycheck to paycheck, and prices have gone up by more than 20% and wages haven't kept up.

So we've got to get rid of all incrementalism in terms of getting our country back on track.

And I'm going to fight those battles for a number of reasons.

I deeply believe we need to do this to save our country.

But, you know, I'm not doing this to become a career politician.

I've term limited myself, which many people said I should not do, but I'm going to do this for two terms if I'm honored enough to get the opportunity.

I'm not going there to make small changes.

I'm going there to shake things up.

I agree with a lot of the things President Trump has said in his agenda that he's laid out very specifically.

Kamley Harris has not laid out an agenda at all.

Donald Trump has done so.

And the place where I think we need the most dramatic change is the border.

And I'm going to say something here, Gunn, which has got me into some trouble, but I really believe it.

We not only need to secure the border,

finish the wall, go through the process of getting the illegal immigrants back across the border to their home countries.

I think we need to designate the cartels as terrorist organizations, day one, and go across the border with our drones, with our military, destroy the manufacturing facilities, destroy the distribution facilities.

This scourge of fentanyl has killed 116,000 Americans last year.

And to put that in perspective, as a guy who served in the military, we lost 58,000

men and women in Vietnam killed in action in eight years.

So last year in America, we had two Vietnams because of the cartels invading our country with fentanyl,

killing our innocent young people who don't even know they're taking fentanyl.

So that's the kind of tough, dramatic leadership I think we need.

And I think President Trump's going to bring that, and I'll be with him when he does.

Dave, thank you very much.

This is Dave McCormick.

He is running

for Senate in Pennsylvania.

You can find him at DaveMcCormickPA.com.

DaveMcCormickPA.com.

You can also follow him on Twitter.

Best of luck to you tomorrow, Dave.

Thank you.

Hey, thanks.

Thanks for having me.

Have a great day.

You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

What would the world be like if

all of a sudden you went into the library?

We were a

country based in books.

Try to think back with me, old timer.

And all of the books were suddenly gone.

And then

a month later, they're put back on the shelf and they open the library.

But

you're not sure they put all the books back.

You're not sure what happened to any of those books.

You're not sure if any of those books were changed.

How could you trust history?

Well, we're in a digital age now.

And there is something that I don't really understand that's been going on for the last few weeks.

It's archive.org.

On October 8th,

the servers were hit with a denial of service attack, and it took down the service, but also

led to catastrophic failure.

This is the way people go back and say, okay, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.

Is that what they really said?

Wait, they believe that now, but what did they say back in, you know,

2016, 2020, last week?

Remember how everything was changed on Kamala Harris overnight?

They just started changing.

You've lost now the ability to go back and see what does the original story say.

Now, is this just a,

I don't know,

a coincidence?

A really, really bad coincidence?

Because there's some other things that have changed.

That look like if it is, it's a pretty big and bad coincidence.

Jeffrey Tucker is with us.

He's the founder and president, Brownstone Institute.

Jeffrey, how are you?

Good.

And Glenn, thank you for describing this problem so well.

You have a way with metaphors.

You know, it's,

I don't, I don't think I understand the depth, and I've read up on it a bit this weekend, and it seems like some people are saying it's no big deal.

It's going to be fixed.

Other people are saying, no, no, no, no, this is a really big deal.

Well, I got a communication from

the company itself that said

there's no big deal.

We have been

from the 8th of October, we've been mirroring the entire Internet just that we can't make it live yet because

we're not quite stable.

And my initial feeling was, oh, good, okay.

But,

you know,

we've all lost trust in basically everything.

So I decided to respond to the guy, and I said, well, I guess I'm a little confused.

If you have been

mirroring all the internet since the 8ths,

but why can't you make that at least alive in a read-only mode?

And I didn't get an answer.

So

I feel like I might be onto something.

And

I still smell a rat here.

First of all, there is the issue of timing.

I mean, they have been involved in mirroring websites

since the browser was invented in 1995 and I can see on archive.org now websites that I built in 1995 1996

they're there and all and this has been you know consistently mirroring the the internet since since that time until of all things

you know, 30 days before

what many people consider to be the most

momentous election in modern times.

And suddenly a DDoS attack hits the site and they stop.

And here we are

now.

And people kept thinking is, oh, it's a temporary glitch.

It'll come out.

But the company kept saying, no, well, it was worse than we thought.

And we're working really hard.

Oh, now here's a read-only.

version so you can't uh so it's not it's not real time but you can read all the archives.

Well, I went to the site.

I'm not sure if I was the first one to notice this, but I think I was the first one to really sound the alarm that nothing is available since October 8th.

And so we don't know.

And

just keep in mind, so they mirror...

prominent websites several times a day, sometimes four or five times a day, so that you can tell the difference between the morning headline and the afternoon headline.

And I've used this tool quite frequently to discover, for example, all the Kakami edicts issued by the CDC

from 2020 that they deleted a year later.

Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to, I found it was the CDC that

imposed the

rent moratorium, pushed for all the filtration systems that later turned out to be a huge waste of time, all the craze plexiglass stuff that right festoomed the world and another thing Glenn that they that they did and I think this was on March 12 2020 was urge the entire country

to and in the in the in the language of a mandate you know they you could never tell in those days what was all what was required and what wasn't but in the language of a mandate mail in ballots okay

so

in other words, sending our election systems, the very core of what it means to be a democratic society, into dramatic upheaval in ways that everyone

knew would lead to massive fraud.

So that happened on March 12th.

Was it with the permission of the Trump administration?

I doubt it.

But in any case, after the election that November, that...

that instruction went away.

So it's only thanks to archive.org that we know this.

Another example is the World Health Organization, for a period of,

I would say, a fortnight, completely changed this definition of herd immunity to exclude natural immunity.

Right.

They said that you can only obtain herd immunity through pharmaceutical products.

Right.

I mean, yeah.

So,

and they changed it, and then they changed it back again.

So, we can, we only, and I've

discovered a lot of these things, but only by using archive.org.

So, this is extremely important.

As we speak, there are three weeks, three full weeks of the Internet missing.

Now,

I have a little bit of a coda here.

Before this interview was about to take place, I did a decided to check on the status of the real-time mirroring and where we stood and what was available in real-time.

And I looked at Brownstone.org, our website, and I found that that it's still not being mirrored.

The latest copy they have is from October 8th.

But then I went to the New New York Times

and boom,

two

instances of mirroring the site yesterday.

Now, I have not had time to research how many other sites are being mirrored and which ones are not being mirrored.

But let me just put it this way:

how can you not smell a rat?

You know,

it's looking pretty bad.

So

I can understand a longer term

problem

that

we're just taking pages out of books in a library.

And what are you talking about?

That page never was there.

I can understand that longer term.

What do you think their short term, if they are turning it back on, what would you think the short-term advantage, what did they do?

Well, based on the evidence that

I'm seeing now,

it's only

the sort of

massively popular, sort of regime-friendly publications that are being mirrored, and others are not.

And that would be consistent

with the Biden-Harris administration's agenda for the Internet, generally speaking, because in

I think it was about two years ago, they issued a thing called the Declaration on the Future of the Internet

that that excluded the traditional

injunction that it should be

a place of free expression and that there should be free speech on the Internet.

That's every declaration on the Internet future always had that.

They deleted that and changed it into what they called a stakeholder model.

Oh, geez.

And they, and they mention, and by the way, they put all this in, you know,

fake calligraphy, you know, with a fancy pants border, you know, as if to codify it into all of the human mind and all this gibberish.

But the stakeholders they mention

are the usual suspects.

So

major NGOs

and nonprofits, universities,

large large companies, and government.

Okay, so those are the stakeholders that are going to control the content.

Now you read the Declaration on the Future of the Internet, it's clear that what they want is to turn the entire Internet in some version of 1970s television, replacing 800 numbers with

credit card fields.

I mean, that's it.

So everything

else is slated for some kind of termination.

And that includes Rumble and X and Substack and probably your site and mine and everybody else.

And that's the long-term vision.

Getting from here to there is not going to be easy because the First Amendment stands in their way.

So as a result of that, you have to find surreptitious methods

of obtaining the same results incrementally.

So one of those, and here again, yeah, call me a conspiracy theorist if you want.

One incremental part of the method would be to eliminate the mirroring of sites,

the sites slated for termination in real time, so that in effect you don't exist.

Nothing I've posted since October 8th exists in the official Internet Archive.

And that's probably true for you too.

So

our activities day to day, our writings are not being recorded by the Internet's big engine.

And incidentally, yes, there are other alternatives to archive.org, but nothing that mirrors the entire World Wide Web in real time.

All the other engines require sort of manual operation by users and are not in any sense comprehensive.

So this is the only one,

which is tragic.

There should be hundreds and thousands of these, but there's not.

Google can do it, but they stopped their services

of running real-time caching of websites

last year, I think.

That's interesting.

So things are tightening up.

And

in my article with Debbie Lehriman, we also chronicled the fascinating way in which internet search has changed.

You've undoubtedly noticed this.

I think most of us do really have.

You go to Google now, and you don't get crowd-sourced, community-curated content of credible sources

as Fed.

The old algorithms used to look at how much a site is linked into.

And if people found it useful.

That was the driving force.

It was imperfect, but at least it was democratic.

And you could cross-check that with a website called

Alexa, which has been around since 1995.

It was acquired by Amazon

in 2000.

And the idea of Alexa was that it had public rankings of web traffic.

And a practical example of this: if there's a website that says

Glenn Beck is a bad guy, and you should have nothing to do with him,

you might be slightly bugged by that, but then you could look up at Alexa and notice that this website is hardly ever seen by anybody, hardly ever used by anybody.

Therefore, it would be unlikely to be, this might be unlikely to hit.

So it would not have any kind of impact on the public mind, right?

And so you would dismiss it.

Now,

Glenn Beck is a jerk website just started last week, can be gamed to be the

second

research, the second link on Google under your name.

And you don't know if this is a big website, a small website,

some troll website started last week, or something read by 10 million people a a day.

You wouldn't know.

Because Amazon shut it down after buying it.

They had it for a few years and then they just shut it down.

They didn't sell it.

They just went dark, which is unusual.

Jeffrey, I'm unusual.

I'm out of time, but I would love to further this conversation with you and

stay in touch with what is going on with the mirroring of all of the sites.

I hope you're wrong, but I don't dismiss very much anymore.

it's crazy.

Jeffrey, thank you so much.

You got it.

Thank you.

Brownstone.org.

That is Jeffrey Tucker.

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