WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.040 Welcome back to the deep dive. So we're looking 00:00:03.040 --> 00:00:07.259 at a stack of sources today that at first glance 00:00:07.259 --> 00:00:09.580 just looks like a mistake. It's a strange mix. 00:00:09.679 --> 00:00:11.560 It really is. You've got a chemical attack on 00:00:11.560 --> 00:00:14.779 a congresswoman, a 40 million dollar check from 00:00:14.779 --> 00:00:18.379 Amazon to the first lady and a dispute over what 00:00:18.379 --> 00:00:21.100 soccer. It feels disjointed. It does sound like 00:00:21.100 --> 00:00:23.260 a mess, but I think the mission today is to show 00:00:23.260 --> 00:00:26.399 that these aren't actually random, isolated events. 00:00:26.660 --> 00:00:30.859 They're all symptoms of a very specific political 00:00:30.859 --> 00:00:33.240 ecosystem we're living in. An ecosystem where 00:00:33.240 --> 00:00:38.039 violence, corporate tribute payments, and legal 00:00:38.039 --> 00:00:40.710 technicalities are all just... leverage points 00:00:40.710 --> 00:00:42.770 in the same game. Exactly. It feels like we're 00:00:42.770 --> 00:00:44.549 watching a split -screen movie. On one side, 00:00:44.630 --> 00:00:46.229 you have Minneapolis, which is looking more and 00:00:46.229 --> 00:00:48.369 more like a paramilitary zone. With federal agents 00:00:48.369 --> 00:00:50.490 and tear gas, yeah. And on the other, you have, 00:00:50.490 --> 00:00:52.390 what, champagne toasts at the White House with 00:00:52.390 --> 00:00:54.850 Jeff Bezos' lieutenants? And the thread connecting 00:00:54.850 --> 00:00:57.549 them is transaction. Everything is a deal, whether 00:00:57.549 --> 00:01:00.210 it's trading voter rolls for peace or trading 00:01:00.210 --> 00:01:02.869 a documentary deal for space funding. So we need 00:01:02.869 --> 00:01:05.150 to connect those dots for you to see the bigger 00:01:05.150 --> 00:01:09.730 picture of the 2026 landscape. Honestly, we have 00:01:09.730 --> 00:01:12.989 to start with the deal that went wrong, the escalation 00:01:12.989 --> 00:01:14.909 in Minneapolis. Yeah, we have to start there. 00:01:14.950 --> 00:01:17.090 It feels like the temperature just broke the 00:01:17.090 --> 00:01:19.150 thermometer. The headline that really grabbed 00:01:19.150 --> 00:01:22.290 everyone was the attack on Representative Ilhan 00:01:22.290 --> 00:01:25.370 Omar. She was at a town hall, you know, just 00:01:25.370 --> 00:01:28.409 doing a standard event. And this guy rushes her. 00:01:28.750 --> 00:01:31.370 Anthony James Kizmirsak. He rushed the stage 00:01:31.370 --> 00:01:33.790 with a chemical spray. Thankfully, her security 00:01:33.790 --> 00:01:36.150 was on it and she wasn't physically harmed, but 00:01:36.150 --> 00:01:38.569 the intent was pretty clear. It's terrifying. 00:01:39.170 --> 00:01:41.189 But what stuck out to me in the reading wasn't 00:01:41.189 --> 00:01:44.349 just the attack itself. It was the immediate 00:01:44.349 --> 00:01:46.409 reaction. Right. You'd expect, regardless of 00:01:46.409 --> 00:01:49.069 party, a simple, this is bad, we condemn this. 00:01:49.209 --> 00:01:51.670 But that's not what happened. President Trump's 00:01:51.670 --> 00:01:54.680 reaction was to call Omar a fraud. And then he 00:01:54.680 --> 00:01:56.599 actually floated the theory that she paid the 00:01:56.599 --> 00:01:59.299 guy herself. Paid him to attack her to generate 00:01:59.299 --> 00:02:02.379 sympathy. Which is, I mean, that's a heavy accusation 00:02:02.379 --> 00:02:04.859 to just throw out there. It is, but it fits a 00:02:04.859 --> 00:02:08.219 pattern we analyzed. It's this mirror image dismissal 00:02:08.219 --> 00:02:11.000 of reality. When there's a right -wing protest 00:02:11.000 --> 00:02:13.860 or attack, the narrative from one side is, these 00:02:13.860 --> 00:02:15.919 are paid actors. And then when there are left 00:02:15.919 --> 00:02:18.759 -wing protests in Minneapolis or Portland, the 00:02:18.759 --> 00:02:21.439 opposing side claims those are paid actors. funded 00:02:21.439 --> 00:02:24.000 by George Soros. Exactly. It's like nobody is 00:02:24.000 --> 00:02:26.340 allowed to actually be angry on their own anymore. 00:02:26.520 --> 00:02:28.680 Everyone has to be on a payroll. It just delegitimizes 00:02:28.680 --> 00:02:30.360 the event itself. So you don't have to talk about 00:02:30.360 --> 00:02:32.340 why it happened. If it's fake, you don't have 00:02:32.340 --> 00:02:35.500 to address the root cause. Precisely. But while 00:02:35.500 --> 00:02:37.620 the rhetoric is heating up, the actual actions 00:02:37.620 --> 00:02:41.819 on the ground are getting legally very precarious. 00:02:42.280 --> 00:02:44.139 We have to talk about the Ecuadorian consulate. 00:02:44.240 --> 00:02:46.919 This one stopped me in my tracks. Federal ICE 00:02:46.919 --> 00:02:49.639 agents trying to force their way into the Ecuadorian 00:02:49.639 --> 00:02:53.050 consulate. in Minneapolis. First of all, why 00:02:53.050 --> 00:02:55.569 is this such a red line? I know diplomatic community 00:02:55.569 --> 00:02:57.449 is a thing in movies, but can you break down 00:02:57.449 --> 00:02:59.629 the actual rules? Sure. It comes down to the 00:02:59.629 --> 00:03:02.210 Vienna Convention. You have to think of a consulate 00:03:02.210 --> 00:03:04.650 not as just a building in Minneapolis, but as 00:03:04.650 --> 00:03:07.610 a sovereign island of Ecuadorian soil. So U .S. 00:03:07.689 --> 00:03:10.030 law enforcement has no jurisdiction inside those 00:03:10.030 --> 00:03:12.250 walls? None. Not without explicit permission. 00:03:12.330 --> 00:03:14.210 So by trying to force their way in, they weren't 00:03:14.210 --> 00:03:16.819 just serving a warrant, they were... Well, they 00:03:16.819 --> 00:03:19.080 were essentially committing an act of aggression 00:03:19.080 --> 00:03:22.939 against a foreign country. Wow. And that suggests 00:03:22.939 --> 00:03:25.219 they're willing to risk a major international 00:03:25.219 --> 00:03:29.539 incident to get at whatever or whoever is inside. 00:03:29.680 --> 00:03:31.319 It seems like they're willing to break a lot 00:03:31.319 --> 00:03:33.020 of China to get what they want in Minnesota. 00:03:33.419 --> 00:03:36.699 Which brings us to this quid pro quo story. Right. 00:03:36.699 --> 00:03:39.479 So we have reports of Attorney General Pam Bondi 00:03:39.479 --> 00:03:41.520 telling the Minnesota Secretary of State Steve 00:03:41.520 --> 00:03:44.539 Simon basically Give us the voter rolls and the 00:03:44.539 --> 00:03:47.460 chaos stops. It was reportedly that stark. That 00:03:47.460 --> 00:03:50.199 sounds less like politics and more like a protection 00:03:50.199 --> 00:03:52.840 racket. Nice city you got here. Shame if something 00:03:52.840 --> 00:03:54.960 happened to it. Yeah, yeah. But what they're 00:03:54.960 --> 00:03:57.020 looking for in those rolls, it's about data mining. 00:03:57.500 --> 00:03:59.300 The reports suggest they want to cross -reference 00:03:59.300 --> 00:04:02.039 state voter data with federal immigration databases. 00:04:02.360 --> 00:04:05.300 So they can find names on both lists, allege 00:04:05.300 --> 00:04:08.659 non -citizens voting, and then launch a purge 00:04:08.659 --> 00:04:12.030 before the 2026 midterms. That's the goal. So 00:04:12.030 --> 00:04:15.110 they manufacture chaos, or at least they refuse 00:04:15.110 --> 00:04:17.769 to de -escalate it to force the state to hand 00:04:17.769 --> 00:04:20.509 over data, which they then use to shrink the 00:04:20.509 --> 00:04:23.569 electorate. And Steve Simon refused. He did. 00:04:23.949 --> 00:04:26.790 But in the middle of all this high -level maneuvering, 00:04:27.110 --> 00:04:30.490 you've got the human cost, the Alex Priddy case. 00:04:30.769 --> 00:04:33.110 The shooting that set this all off. And there's 00:04:33.110 --> 00:04:36.620 new video. That's right. CNN and the AP released 00:04:36.620 --> 00:04:39.220 it. It shows about six minutes of footage right 00:04:39.220 --> 00:04:42.379 before the shooting, and it really contradicts 00:04:42.379 --> 00:04:44.740 the official narrative. How so? The scene was 00:04:44.740 --> 00:04:47.839 calm. Pretty was effectively just standing there. 00:04:48.120 --> 00:04:50.100 Wait, I saw people online talking about him having 00:04:50.100 --> 00:04:53.300 a broken rib from a fight with cops a week earlier. 00:04:53.379 --> 00:04:55.779 That was everywhere. And that's the counter -narrative. 00:04:55.939 --> 00:04:58.199 It turns out he did have a confrontation with 00:04:58.199 --> 00:05:00.439 federal officers the week before where he was 00:05:00.439 --> 00:05:03.060 tackled and injured. Supporters of the administration 00:05:03.060 --> 00:05:05.740 are using that to paint him as a habitual agitator. 00:05:05.839 --> 00:05:08.160 But what happened a week ago is irrelevant to 00:05:08.160 --> 00:05:10.259 whether lethal force was justified in that moment. 00:05:10.360 --> 00:05:13.480 From a legal and moral standpoint, yes. And the 00:05:13.480 --> 00:05:15.670 new video suggests he wasn't violent when the 00:05:15.670 --> 00:05:17.810 shooting started? So you have a calm scene turning 00:05:17.810 --> 00:05:20.930 deadly, a diplomatic incident, and an extortion 00:05:20.930 --> 00:05:24.089 attempt. It sounds like a total mess. Mess is 00:05:24.089 --> 00:05:26.910 the key word, and that chaos is causing fractures 00:05:26.910 --> 00:05:29.850 inside the White House. We're seeing a classic 00:05:29.850 --> 00:05:32.889 shark tank scenario. OK. Stephen Miller, who's 00:05:32.889 --> 00:05:35.810 been a primary architect of this hardline strategy, 00:05:36.209 --> 00:05:38.550 is apparently being frozen out of the Minneapolis 00:05:38.550 --> 00:05:41.170 discussions. Miller, frozen out? I thought he 00:05:41.170 --> 00:05:42.529 was the guy behind the curtain for all this. 00:05:42.810 --> 00:05:46.560 He was. But when things go wrong, you know, the 00:05:46.560 --> 00:05:48.399 president tends to look for someone to blame. 00:05:48.680 --> 00:05:51.259 So Miller, seeing the writing on the wall, tried 00:05:51.259 --> 00:05:54.100 to pivot. And blame who? He's now blaming DHS 00:05:54.100 --> 00:05:56.860 Secretary Kristi Noem. claiming her department 00:05:56.860 --> 00:05:59.899 didn't follow proper protocol. The classic, I 00:05:59.899 --> 00:06:02.699 didn't do it. She did it. Exactly. But no one 00:06:02.699 --> 00:06:04.800 isn't taking it lying down. She's saying she 00:06:04.800 --> 00:06:07.079 was just following direct orders from Miller 00:06:07.079 --> 00:06:09.319 and Trump. So now she's in the hot seat. A very 00:06:09.319 --> 00:06:11.199 hot seat. She just had a two hour meeting with 00:06:11.199 --> 00:06:13.259 the president. And while he says she's doing 00:06:13.259 --> 00:06:16.379 a good job, Democrats want to impeach her. And 00:06:16.379 --> 00:06:19.000 even some GOP senators like Tillerson Murkowski 00:06:19.000 --> 00:06:21.480 want her gone. It's fascinating how quickly they 00:06:21.480 --> 00:06:23.519 turn on each other. But OK, I want to pivot now. 00:06:23.800 --> 00:06:25.910 We're going from the streets of Minneapolis to 00:06:25.910 --> 00:06:29.629 Hollywood. Hey yes, let's talk about Melania, 00:06:30.050 --> 00:06:33.589 the documentary. This story blew my mind. Amazon 00:06:33.589 --> 00:06:36.529 pays 40 million dollars for a documentary about 00:06:36.529 --> 00:06:39.949 the First Lady, directed by Brett Ratner, of 00:06:39.949 --> 00:06:42.790 all people. It is a staggering sum. That's the 00:06:42.790 --> 00:06:45.410 highest figure ever paid for a dock distribution 00:06:45.410 --> 00:06:47.910 deal. And get this. Twenty eight million of that 00:06:47.910 --> 00:06:50.930 goes directly to Melania Trump. Forty million. 00:06:50.990 --> 00:06:52.810 And this is a movie directed by a guy who was 00:06:52.810 --> 00:06:55.329 basically canceled years ago and his last Trump 00:06:55.329 --> 00:06:58.329 documentary. Totally flawed. It did. And by all 00:06:58.329 --> 00:07:00.750 accounts, this new film is playing to empty theaters 00:07:00.750 --> 00:07:03.670 in the UK. Amazon has even embargoed reviews 00:07:03.670 --> 00:07:05.970 in the U .S. Which is never a good sign. It's 00:07:05.970 --> 00:07:08.129 a sign they know it's not a masterpiece. So if 00:07:08.129 --> 00:07:11.189 the movie's a dud and they overpaid. Why? Amazon 00:07:11.189 --> 00:07:13.250 doesn't like throwing money away. This is where 00:07:13.250 --> 00:07:15.509 you have to put on your lobbyist hat. If you 00:07:15.509 --> 00:07:17.329 view this as a movie deal, you're right. It's 00:07:17.329 --> 00:07:20.269 a disaster. But think about Amazon's vulnerabilities. 00:07:20.470 --> 00:07:23.589 They're terrified of two things, antitrust regulation 00:07:23.589 --> 00:07:27.029 and heavy handed AI regulation. Because the administration 00:07:27.029 --> 00:07:30.329 could regulate their data centers into unprofitability. 00:07:30.610 --> 00:07:32.589 Exactly. They need the administration to look 00:07:32.589 --> 00:07:35.389 the other way. But even more specifically, look 00:07:35.389 --> 00:07:38.430 at Jeff Bezos's other big venture, Blue Origin. 00:07:38.720 --> 00:07:41.759 The space company. Right. There's about $20 billion 00:07:41.759 --> 00:07:44.519 in annual space funding that the government hands 00:07:44.519 --> 00:07:47.959 out. And Blue Origin wants a big slice of that 00:07:47.959 --> 00:07:50.439 pie. I see where this is going. If you pay $40 00:07:50.439 --> 00:07:53.240 million for a documentary, which is basically 00:07:53.240 --> 00:07:55.579 a direct transfer of wealth to the first family, 00:07:55.899 --> 00:07:59.259 and in return, you secure favorable AI regulation 00:07:59.259 --> 00:08:02.480 and, say, a $2 billion contract for Blue Origin. 00:08:02.699 --> 00:08:04.600 And that $40 million isn't a loss. It's the best 00:08:04.600 --> 00:08:06.939 investment you've ever made. It's just the rapper. 00:08:07.040 --> 00:08:09.779 It's lobbying disguised as content acquisition. 00:08:10.120 --> 00:08:12.379 Tribute might be the word for it. I think so. 00:08:12.519 --> 00:08:14.600 And the premiere was held at the White House. 00:08:14.860 --> 00:08:18.720 Who is there? Amazon CEO Andy Jassy. Tim Cook 00:08:18.720 --> 00:08:21.920 from Apple. Tim Cook. Apple usually tries to 00:08:21.920 --> 00:08:23.899 stay out of this stuff. Well, Apple is terrified 00:08:23.899 --> 00:08:26.319 of tariffs. They need to stay in the president's 00:08:26.319 --> 00:08:28.279 good graces to keep their supply chain moving. 00:08:28.360 --> 00:08:32.120 So they show up. They applaud. And. The timing 00:08:32.120 --> 00:08:34.340 this premiere happened just hours after Alex 00:08:34.340 --> 00:08:36.919 Brady was killed in Minneapolis. That's the dystopian 00:08:36.919 --> 00:08:39.240 part. Champagne popping at the White House with 00:08:39.240 --> 00:08:41.840 tech billionaires while a city is literally on 00:08:41.840 --> 00:08:44.519 fire over a police shooting. It just highlights 00:08:44.519 --> 00:08:46.620 the deep integration. It's not just about movies. 00:08:47.019 --> 00:08:50.559 Amazon hosts the web servers for the ICE. databases. 00:08:51.000 --> 00:08:53.679 And the DHS biometric system that holds data 00:08:53.679 --> 00:08:58.139 on 270 million Americans. This is a fusion of 00:08:58.139 --> 00:09:00.600 big tech infrastructure and federal law enforcement. 00:09:00.799 --> 00:09:03.539 Which puts that quid pro quo voter roll demand 00:09:03.539 --> 00:09:06.039 in a whole new light. If they get that data, 00:09:06.299 --> 00:09:08.240 it's probably going right onto an Amazon server. 00:09:08.340 --> 00:09:10.539 That's a very likely connection. It's a lot to 00:09:10.539 --> 00:09:13.539 process. Usually this is where we say, at least 00:09:13.539 --> 00:09:15.980 there's the game on Sunday. We look to sports 00:09:15.980 --> 00:09:19.129 for an escape. I'm guessing we can't even do 00:09:19.129 --> 00:09:21.370 that today. Unfortunately, yeah. The politics 00:09:21.370 --> 00:09:23.389 are bleeding into the stadiums. The Super Bowl 00:09:23.389 --> 00:09:26.210 is coming up. Seahawks versus Patriots in San 00:09:26.210 --> 00:09:28.370 Francisco. And usually the president shows up, 00:09:28.710 --> 00:09:30.549 right? Tries to look like a regular guy. But 00:09:30.549 --> 00:09:32.909 Trump is skipping it. His official excuse is 00:09:32.909 --> 00:09:35.710 that it's too far away. Too far? He has Air Force 00:09:35.710 --> 00:09:38.149 One. San Francisco isn't that far. It's a weak 00:09:38.149 --> 00:09:40.649 excuse. The speculation, and I think this is 00:09:40.649 --> 00:09:43.509 solid, is that he knows he would be booed. Massively. 00:09:43.710 --> 00:09:46.409 A stadium full of 70 ,000 people booing him on 00:09:46.409 --> 00:09:49.549 live TV is an optic he can't afford. Especially 00:09:49.549 --> 00:09:51.549 with the Minneapolis situation, it's a tough 00:09:51.549 --> 00:09:54.509 look. But looking further out, to the World Cup. 00:09:55.110 --> 00:09:57.629 We're hearing rumors of European boycotts. Is 00:09:57.629 --> 00:10:00.549 that real? Or just noise? It's mostly noise. 00:10:00.909 --> 00:10:02.970 We looked back at the history and countries almost 00:10:02.970 --> 00:10:05.470 never skipped the World Cup over politics. Really? 00:10:05.629 --> 00:10:07.830 Even with everything going on? Listen to this 00:10:07.830 --> 00:10:11.840 list. 1934 World Cup. Fascist Italy under Mussolini. 00:10:12.200 --> 00:10:15.279 1978. Argentina under a military junta that was 00:10:15.279 --> 00:10:18.379 disappearing its own citizens. 2018 in Putin's 00:10:18.379 --> 00:10:22.259 Russia. 2022 in Qatar. So the moral bar for FIFA 00:10:22.259 --> 00:10:25.750 is basically underground. It seems so. Nations 00:10:25.750 --> 00:10:28.250 rarely boycott over politics. They boycott over 00:10:28.250 --> 00:10:31.149 logistics or direct war. So unless the US withdraws 00:10:31.149 --> 00:10:33.049 from NATO and starts a war in Europe, the European 00:10:33.049 --> 00:10:34.889 teams are going to show up. So the games will 00:10:34.889 --> 00:10:37.389 go on. But the rules of the political game are 00:10:37.389 --> 00:10:39.009 changing. We have to touch on the elections. 00:10:39.750 --> 00:10:42.710 2026 is coming fast. And it sounds like the Democrats 00:10:42.710 --> 00:10:44.809 just tripped over their own shoelaces in Virginia. 00:10:45.090 --> 00:10:47.970 That's a charitable way to put it. It was a massive 00:10:47.970 --> 00:10:51.210 unforced error. Democrats wanted to redraw the 00:10:51.210 --> 00:10:53.750 district maps there to pick up about three congressional 00:10:53.750 --> 00:10:55.450 seats. Right get rid of the old gerrymander. 00:10:55.549 --> 00:10:58.009 But they messed up the timing. A judge blocked 00:10:58.009 --> 00:11:00.269 the new maps because the law says you have to 00:11:00.269 --> 00:11:02.210 vote on the changes before an election cycle 00:11:02.210 --> 00:11:05.169 starts. They didn't vote until October after 00:11:05.169 --> 00:11:09.289 early voting had already begun. Oops. Oops. Because 00:11:09.289 --> 00:11:12.110 of that timing error, the current maps stay for 00:11:12.110 --> 00:11:15.250 2026. That easy path to three seats is gone. 00:11:15.509 --> 00:11:18.029 Such a waste. Check the calendar, guys. But Florida 00:11:18.029 --> 00:11:21.070 seems a bit more hopeful for Democrats. Surprisingly, 00:11:21.370 --> 00:11:24.090 yes. Florida's been trending red, but there's 00:11:24.090 --> 00:11:26.990 an opening. The Senate seat held by Ashley Moody, 00:11:27.090 --> 00:11:29.710 who was appointed, not elected. And appointees 00:11:29.710 --> 00:11:31.210 are usually more vulnerable, right? Exactly. 00:11:31.629 --> 00:11:33.750 And the Democrats have a new challenger who just 00:11:33.750 --> 00:11:37.110 entered the race, Alexander Vindman. Vindman. 00:11:37.370 --> 00:11:39.490 Wait, the whistleblower? The lieutenant colonel. 00:11:39.590 --> 00:11:42.710 The very same. Retired lieutenant colonel, Iraq 00:11:42.710 --> 00:11:45.850 war vet, central figure in the first Trump impeachment. 00:11:46.429 --> 00:11:49.429 That is a fascinating choice. It is. Florida 00:11:49.429 --> 00:11:53.429 is tough. But Vindman brings huge name recognition. 00:11:53.929 --> 00:11:56.009 And more importantly, running him gives voters 00:11:56.009 --> 00:11:58.870 a very specific chance to poke Trump in the eye. 00:11:59.029 --> 00:12:01.690 It turns the election into a referendum. It makes 00:12:01.690 --> 00:12:04.669 it personal. It does. And with the unrest over 00:12:04.669 --> 00:12:07.570 ICE and Moody not being part of the powerful 00:12:07.570 --> 00:12:11.129 Cuban voting bloc, there's a path. Analysts now 00:12:11.129 --> 00:12:13.330 rate Florida as the eighth most likely Senate 00:12:13.330 --> 00:12:15.909 seat to flip. That's significant. So let's pull 00:12:15.909 --> 00:12:18.309 all this together. We've got a White House that 00:12:18.309 --> 00:12:21.250 is chaotic and aggressive, but at the same time, 00:12:21.350 --> 00:12:23.409 it's completely open for business. Exactly. If 00:12:23.409 --> 00:12:25.129 you're Amazon, if you have 40 million dollars 00:12:25.129 --> 00:12:28.690 for a documentary, you can buy. access and protection. 00:12:28.809 --> 00:12:32.490 It's this weird mix of authoritarianism and transactional 00:12:32.490 --> 00:12:34.970 capitalism. And meanwhile, the machinery of normalcy 00:12:34.970 --> 00:12:37.149 just keep chugging along. Super Bowl happens. 00:12:37.269 --> 00:12:39.590 The World Cup planning continues. The elections 00:12:39.590 --> 00:12:41.850 proceed. Determined by procedural mistakes in 00:12:41.850 --> 00:12:43.870 Virginia or celebrity candidates in Florida? 00:12:44.129 --> 00:12:46.769 It's jarring. It feels like we're waiting for 00:12:46.769 --> 00:12:49.070 the other shoe to drop, but maybe the shoes just 00:12:49.070 --> 00:12:50.889 keep dropping one by one and we're just getting 00:12:50.889 --> 00:12:53.129 used to the noise. Well, what's the one signal 00:12:53.129 --> 00:12:55.129 you should really be watching next week beyond 00:12:55.129 --> 00:12:57.899 all the noise? What's that? Watch the silence. 00:12:58.120 --> 00:13:00.639 The silence. Look at who isn't speaking out. 00:13:00.639 --> 00:13:03.360 We saw Tim Cook at the White House. We see Amazon 00:13:03.360 --> 00:13:06.559 cutting checks. The silence of the corporate 00:13:06.559 --> 00:13:09.000 class in the face of this institutional breakdown 00:13:09.000 --> 00:13:11.860 is the loudest signal. It tells us they've decided 00:13:11.860 --> 00:13:14.100 the chaos is profitable, or at least manageable. 00:13:14.279 --> 00:13:16.720 That seems to be the bet they're making. They 00:13:16.720 --> 00:13:18.559 are betting that the system won't break. It'll 00:13:18.559 --> 00:13:20.820 just stretch to accommodate them. Which really 00:13:20.820 --> 00:13:22.679 makes you wonder. We always ask, at what point 00:13:22.679 --> 00:13:25.960 does the system break? But listening to this... 00:13:26.190 --> 00:13:28.590 Maybe the system doesn't break. Maybe it just 00:13:28.590 --> 00:13:32.190 adapts to a new, much uglier shape. And the question 00:13:32.190 --> 00:13:35.809 for you is, if history shows the world will still 00:13:35.809 --> 00:13:38.370 play soccer in a dictatorship and corporations 00:13:38.370 --> 00:13:42.250 will pay millions to appease a leader, what is 00:13:42.250 --> 00:13:45.129 the line that actually can't be crossed? Is there 00:13:45.129 --> 00:13:47.570 one left? That is a heavy thought to leave you 00:13:47.570 --> 00:13:50.830 with, but I think it's the right one. As you 00:13:50.830 --> 00:13:54.190 watch the news this week, ask yourself, is this 00:13:54.190 --> 00:13:57.700 the new normal? And are we okay with that? Indeed. 00:13:58.080 --> 00:14:00.340 Thanks for diving deep with us today. Stay safe, 00:14:00.620 --> 00:14:02.080 keep your eyes open, and we'll catch you on the 00:14:02.080 --> 00:14:02.379 next one.