01:00 Israel won’t accept hezbollah: https://www.ft.com/content/4d30b0fb-db32-4c22-8ebb-e979520753f9
18:00 Kiev Grim News: Rus Advance Rabotino, Congress Hardens Stance, Hyperinflation Fear; US Isolated Gaza, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBrwRIEoBmc
23:00 News: F*** the EU: Alleged audio of US diplomat Victoria Nuland swearing
35:00 NYT: Talk of a Trump Dictatorship Charges the American Political Debate, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=153538
42:00 Trump – dictator? https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/09/us/politics/trump-dictatorship.html
44:00 Trump will be a dictator, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/11/30/trump-dictator-2024-election-robert-kagan/
50:00 If Trump is going to be a dictator, why isn’t the stock market crashing?
55:00 The rise of secular gurus in an age of conspiracy theories
1:08:00 Information withheld from Joe Biden because his advisors don’t trust him, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1F7rafiMYOc
1:12:45 Growing censorship in the West, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lets-talk-about-some-news-live/id1442883993?i=1000637852460
1:15:30 Any way back for gurus such as Bret Weinstein, https://www.patreon.com/DecodingTheGurus/posts
1:24:40 Top PornHub staff admits to inserting “gay” and “trans” themes into mainstream porn to “convert” straight men, https://twitter.com/michaeljknowles/status/1732536604802089165
1:42:00 Red Scare: Bohemian Hipsterism x Reactionary Tradcaths, https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/red-scare-
1:47:00 My Third Day Without Adderall, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=153531
2:06:00 Alex Jones gets his Twitter account restored
2:10:00 Mike Benz: Election Rigging via Illegal Government Censorship, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BQSdP4Jc9I
2:16:00 WEHT to Gonzalo Lira?
2:35:00 Questioning hero systems and dropping out of organized religion
2:53:00 The rise of secular gurus in an age of conspiracy theories
3:08:20 Tucker Carlson: Ep. 47 Gonzalo Lira, https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1733581286256607619?s=20
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