[00:00:08] Sometimes our biggest accomplishment of the day is not throwing something at our TVs. The Kate Dalley Show starts now. Do you have any people through circulation American Journal? We do have people who submit pieces to American journals.
[00:00:50] This, I think, gets into the kind of getting into the details, Mr. Chairman, that I'd like to get into in executive session. At CBS, we had been contacted by the CIA. As a matter of fact, by the time I became the head of the whole news and public affairs operation in 1954, ships had been established, and I was told about them and asked if I'd carry on with them. Would you say that continues today?
[00:01:16] Well, yeah, I would think probably for a reporter it would continue today, but because of all of the revelations of the period of the 1970s, it seems to me that a reporter's got to be much more circumspect in doing it now, or he runs the risk of at least being looked at with considerable disfavor by the public. I think you've got to be much more careful about it. Wow, that was comforting, huh, in those congressional hearings.
[00:01:43] Oh, I'm sorry, we can't talk about the real in-depth stuff because we have to keep it secret. And then, yeah, we just have to make sure people don't realize how deeply entrenched the CIA is in our media. And that was from the 70s, folks. Welcome. I've got Dr. Duke Pesto with me. Hi, Duke. How are you? Hey, good, Kate. How are you today? Oh, you know it's a Monday in January. It's a Monday in January. This is like the longest month.
[00:02:11] And because of all the stuff going on, it seems longer, doesn't it? It just seems crazy. And now we're almost at the inauguration, right, which is coming up. And it's coming up in, what, a week? So I just can't believe we're here. I don't even know where last year went. I really don't. It was a blip. It was a blur. It feels like that. Is it for you? Oh, yeah, yeah. Well, every year you get older, the quicker the years go.
[00:02:40] There's no doubt about it. Why is that? I wonder why. Who knows? Anyway, yeah, something to think about. But it does go faster. All right. So where do we start today? I'm so sad. You know, I interviewed Tulsi Gabbard. And in order to secure her nomination, she had to change her position on something. And the New American came out with this.
[00:03:07] She actually changed her position on FISA on one of the most important sections called Section 702 of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. She was against it. She was definitely outspoken about this program hurting our Fourth Amendment, which is supposed to be constitutionally protected right. The government's supposed to protect that right.
[00:03:34] But the overreach of 702 in the surveillance of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, FISA, she did a 180 on this. And she basically came out and said, because she was very principled against this. And then she came out and said, she supports now Section 702 saying the program is crucial and must be safeguarded to protect our nation while ensuring the civil liberties of Americans. I want to barf right now. I'm serious.
[00:04:04] If I hear that one more time from somebody, a safeguard to protect our nation. Really? Is it really? Can they prove that? Oh, my gosh. I hear so many on our right try to say that about the 702. And she had to change her position to get the nom. Yeah. I mean, it's going to be very interesting.
[00:04:25] Ever since the election was won and the enthusiasm for that mellowed over the last month and a half, there are some worrisome things going on. Right. I mean, some of these experiments, some of these nominees are problematic. And as you said, as you said yourself, the you wonder who's going to win. Trump isn't going to win every battle. Some of these nominees are going to be.
[00:04:54] Re co-opted, let's just say, by the Republican deep state. That's just going to happen. And everybody for a long time thought that Tulsi might be one of those. Now, you actually had a chance to interview her on the air. Yeah, I did. How'd that go? And what was your impression? It went good. I think she was kind of bugged. To tell you the truth, that I asked her at the time if she was going to be she was considered one of the nominees for vice president to run with him.
[00:05:22] So she was sort of bothered that I asked her that. But she was a good sport about it. And she basically said she didn't know, which I knew she knew because from some of my sources, I mean, she was being, you know, already talked to about it. But whatever. I just really wanted to ask her about it and kind of put her on the spot a little bit. But, you know, there's something. OK, she's very Democrat. Tulsi is a Democrat to her core. She grew up a Democrat.
[00:05:50] She totally believes government is there for us for our savior. Right. At the same time, the one thing that I really liked about her was that she was outspoken on Section 702. And she cited privacy violations and misuse by intelligence agencies. And she was always talking about that, which everyone should have been talking about that on the right and the left. OK, but she was very outspoken.
[00:06:15] She even introduced a bill called Protect Brave Whistleblowers Act to repeal Section 702. And she called the provision an insanity and a direct threat to American civil liberties, which it is. OK, because everything's done, quote unquote, under the safety of Americans. Don't ask us anything else. It's just safety. Believe us. You know, trust us. We need these tools. And so basically she came out. She totally switched it up.
[00:06:44] And she said, if confirmed as director of national intelligence, I will uphold Americans' Fourth Amendment rights while maintaining vital national security tools like Section 702 to ensure the safety and freedom of the American people. OK, that is like saying jumbo shrimp. This is not this whole sentence does not make sense. You can't uphold our Fourth Amendment rights and protect those while still maintaining everything that abuses them.
[00:07:13] This is this is asinine. It's like saying I'm going to make you a slave in order to free you. Yes. It is really weird when you think about it. Right. And one thing that I think is interesting is how, relatively speaking, Trump has been very quiet the last what since since really the since Christmas. He's been pretty quiet, low key. Not sure where he is on some of this. And there's a lot of things going on in the in.
[00:07:41] First, I want to repeat something I said before the holiday break is that it is amazing how he has got all this extra time. Trump to kind of be president. And when you look at how completely rudderless this country is. And I was kind of taken aback today when when Biden gave his one of his farewell talks and he spent the entire time bragging about his foreign policy achievements. We're talking about Tulsi. Right.
[00:08:09] And she's basically saying we're going to get rid of spying on you by spying on you. And I just think about how close how very Democrat that was, because I got Biden talking about he's got great success in Afghanistan and Ukraine and Israel. I mean, OK, I'm going to blow the I'm going to blow the world up. Right. And you're going to love it because it's the best thing that could have happened. Yeah. We just did these tremendous things, which is the exact opposite.
[00:08:37] They've done horrible, insane things abroad. And yet you're being told it's amazing. I know it's just it's never ending. It is never ending. It's the biggest psyop. It's just insane to me that they can sell this to the American public. I don't know how. And I don't think people really the majority of the country is buying it. They know he's a joke. They know that that the whole presidency is a joke.
[00:09:01] But at the same time, I look at this, I think, you know, come on, Tulsi, stand up for this. Stand up for this because, you know, it's right. I remember Obama lying, lying, lying to the American people before he was before he went in as president. And it was I'm going to get rid of the spying. I'm going to do all this. So a lot on the right decided to vote for that cad because they believed him. Right. Oh, yes. I'm something new and different. Right. He gets in. He doesn't end it.
[00:09:31] He expands it. And so they always will. Because why? Because you're going to be very controlled in these positions. That's just the bottom line. You know, I think that's exactly it. And it does this this Trump administration, particularly in the next two years, especially in the first two years, is going to test whether or not there can be any real pushback against the global state. I mean, this is going to be very interesting because Trump has got two battles to fight, assuming
[00:10:01] he wants to fight them. One of them is the globalists. Right. Who who certainly are setting the setting the playbook for the American deep state. There's no doubt about that. And second of all, number one, how much pushback does he will he have in his own government? Those are the two things we have to see. There are some worrying tendencies, as we've talked about on your show over the last few times. Things that like you just brought up today with Tulsi that makes you scratch your head a little bit.
[00:10:30] Does, doesn't it? Well, because it's the same club. I mean, you've got people in government and Trump described why he is only going to pick certain people and they are part of the club because he trusts that they're part of the club. And even though I know that that makes zero sense, OK, because, you know, you can't change anything with the club that put everything in place. They're not going to take everything out. OK. But he was trying to say, well, these people are vetted and they should be in because they've
[00:11:00] been in. OK, that it just doesn't make any sense. And so when I see Tulsi turn on this, when I you're going to notice more of this. And this is why the answers are never in federal government. They can't. The deep state cannot un-deep state itself. It won't. And it will refuse to. And it will only go in one direction. So I don't see it going any other way. I mean, I think it's insane to. Well, there are there are people out there that say, well, it'll slow. It'll slow down for a while. I don't think so.
[00:11:29] Not if you look at the news on Greenland today. No, it won't. It's not slowing down. So we're only going in one direction. And I think it would be foolish at this point to say that these people inside the government that have been allowed to stay inside the gross D.C. are going to change what they've been a part of implementing and doing.
[00:11:55] And in this case, flipping on and making sure that that even Tulsi is not going to fight their big tools of control. It won't happen. You're exactly right. Now, we do have to take a pause on that. He's he's not in the position yet to fire anybody. Right. Right. Trump is not yet able to to change that. You're right. Unless unless he gets rid of many of those people, he's got he's not going to succeed
[00:12:23] in most of what he promised he would do for us. But this is it'll be interesting for sure. It is. Yeah, it is. Yeah. We're going to go to a break. We'll be right back. We'll talk about Greenland, TikTok, DEI, all the all the rest. And by the way, you can call in and join us. 888-673-1450. 888-673-1450. We'd love to hear from you. And don't be shy. It's fine. You can call in. And of course, be right back on Cape Daly Radio dot com.
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[00:15:23] Thank you, Kate. You bet. A couple things here. I share your concern about the Greenland comments today. Here you have Elon Musk, a South African, up and saying, hey, yeah, saying, hey, Greenland, if they want to become part of the U.S., they're welcome. A South African welcoming this situation. Look at the globalism. This all reeks of this internationalism, Kate. And one last thing here.
[00:15:51] Concerning the rhetoric coming out of Team Trump about the immigration situation. They're out there saying first business, first order of business is to get rid of the illegal, the criminal illegal aliens. I say no. That's the last group you want to depart. The first group are all the regular illegals. The last group, you know, you take them rapists, robbers and murderers. You throw them in jail. You get them incarcerated first, do their time.
[00:16:19] And then after that, you deport them after you've had a secured border with a new wall and 40,000 troops guarding that border while they're building that wall, Kate. Okay. Okay. Interesting thought. Or just deport them and let them be incarcerated someplace else, wherever they came from. You can't do that with a murderer because you have to look at the victims, their families. Are they going to be okay with that? To let somebody that stabbed somebody near to death on the street of Chicago and then he gets a free ride home back to Venezuela? I think not. Okay.
[00:16:49] Let's let Dr. Pesta respond too. Thanks for the call. You betcha. What do you think, Dr. Pesta? Two great topics. The first one is interesting. Yeah, I mean, it makes a great point that it is interesting that you have this so-called America First Movement, MAGA, make America great again. And what we're really hearing about is we got to take the Panama Canal.
[00:17:17] We've got to absorb Greenland. We've got to bring Canada into the American fold. Now, again, some of this is Trump, you know, trying to set the stage for a strong America globally. On the other hand, as the caller pointed out, this is awfully, you don't make America more distinct by swallowing up half the Western chemistry.
[00:17:45] That's not going to make that work. Yeah. The excuse in this, because this is not a tribal show, so we're just analyzing the news, is that Biden took a blowtorch to the reputation. So now we've got to take the reputation back, I think, which is a very kind of weirdly loaded statement. It's not that that should not be our concern. Our concern should be our country, what's going on inside of our country and not Greenland and not everywhere else.
[00:18:14] But we have so much to deal with here. Let's take another quick caller. I know I'm trying people. I'm trying. Hi, caller. Welcome to the show. Make it fast. Yeah, this Homeland Security and the intelligence communities and the deep state. I'll tell you exactly who it is. It's the Department of Public Safety. They're over all this. Interesting thought. I've got it mapped out. Okay.
[00:18:43] Emergency management, all that crap. Oh, yes. I'm well aware, actually, of that piece of it, the emergency part of it. Yes. And everything being put into emergency status, kind of like national security, so that you never get to find out what's going on. But interesting. Public safety. Interesting. Okay. Okay. So the whole Greenland thing, basically today's news was that everybody's clearing the way
[00:19:11] for the acquiring of Greenland. I think we already, we have bases there. We've had them there for over 50 years. I think that we basically already do control Greenland. But these talks are going to start happening on the 20, on the 21st, and that we are going to definitely acquire it. And really, it's not even as much about Greenland itself as once you get Greenland, then of course you would have Canada.
[00:19:39] And then, of course, Mexico, because then you don't have to build a wall because Mexico will just absorb it all. And you'll have a world government that now is over our constitution, which kicks the constitution to the curb. Because of a world government having to control a region. So. Nope. I think that's exactly right. I know we got a hard break coming up. Yeah, we do. It's right now. Yeah, it's coming up. Okay. We're going to go to break. We'll be right back.
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[00:23:14] Now, what should be glaringly obvious to people and shocking to people is we have so much going on right now in this country. Why are we focused on Greenland? Why is all the focus there? I mean, I think it's insane. If you know the direction we're going into regions, you start to understand that a bigger plan is unfolding. But aren't regular people going, why are we talking Greenland? What about America?
[00:23:43] We've got so many things here to deal with. The wall, the people coming over, the invasion at the border. We've got so many different issues. But, again, people are just talking about Greenland as if we're freeing a country that was in slavery. I don't understand this. Pesta. It reminds me of it. What? It sounds to me almost like a game of risk.
[00:24:07] What I mean by that is it's almost as if the Trump administration believes or has information that we really are on the cusp of World War III, something like that. But let's say there was the kind of provocation from Russia and China and North Korea and Iran that precipitated some kind of global conflict.
[00:24:30] At that point, I mean you would have to seriously consider if we fall into some kind of a global catastrophe when it comes to war. At that point, you would have to try to – what's the word? To acquire, if not protect, major assets like Greenland or Canada or the Panama Canal.
[00:24:56] It's almost as if they're playing – they're planning for defending the country. It's almost as if they seem to know something that the American people don't about where we're headed quickly. But isn't it interesting that this conversation really has never entered with – if you think about it from the 50s, you know, we were – people were hiding under their desks because we were about to get nuked.
[00:25:24] And then we were going to get nuked and then we were going to get nuked in every single decade. And now all of a sudden we need this strategic location because now all of a sudden Russia – now it's in the close proximity of Russia. I mean even back years ago, even Palin was like, I can see Russia from my house. But what's amazing is that now this is in the scope, right? And we already had bases there, right? So why now and why this?
[00:25:51] It makes no sense because we would have been talking about it through the ages. But now all of a sudden this is a big deal and it has to be because of the new regions they're putting forth, which is really scary actually because we lose our sovereignty as a nation at the helm of that. But that's what people should be asking is why now, right? Why Greenland now? Why is this the biggest topic of conversation all over the news moving forward into the presidency?
[00:26:19] It makes zero sense if you're just going to look at it as a standalone issue. Well, that goes back to my comment. It doesn't make sense. You're right in the concept of where we are right now. It either strikes me as some kind of a globalist wish list or they're gearing up or warning the American people that there's going to be significant global chaos and perhaps even war.
[00:26:49] So they're trying to prime the pump to some degree to get people used to it. Because the only way it makes sense to me is outside of the realm of what's going on in America. It's more like what they project is what the threats are going to be. I mean, it seems like they're almost like they're dropping this so that we get used to this idea. Yep, yep.
[00:27:15] And then if Canada is in the middle of that, why not just have Canada? And I know that there is a significant understanding. There should be a significant understanding that we have a lot of control over what actually happens in Canada on the bigger landscape, okay, and Greenland. But they want us to realize that we will be acquiring, right? I think this is one of the goals.
[00:27:45] Going into this presidency is one of the goals. And you guys know I don't have a problem with Trump. I have a problem with the agenda pushing forward. And I also have a problem with people not looking at this and being critical of this and saying, why are we doing this? That makes me crazy because we need to be very analytical about what's happening because it's being sold to us. And the excuse is that we have to position ourselves against Russia.
[00:28:12] They have been using Russia for over 70 years as they're about to come take us over. They can't take us over. And so I just this whole excuse is what I have a problem with. The whole excuse of why we're doing this now. Never before. Now. It's just too strange. No, I agree. There's. I guess where is this messaging coming from? I mean, obviously, Trump. Interesting. Yeah.
[00:28:39] I do believe that Trump is oftentimes says outrageous things with a complete. I think of that line from Hamlet. There is a method to his madness. Oftentimes when Trump says outrageous or non sequitur kinds of things like this. Well, we're going to take the pet. We're going to take the Panama Canal Canal back. We're going to take. He doesn't really mean he's going to do it.
[00:29:05] He's just negotiating a position from which he can do some other things. So I don't know if that's what this is now or I don't know if it does find it interesting that we kick the show off with this. The idea that you have Elon Musk pushing for this, right? Not Trump. Yeah. And his father is also a little concerning. Or his grandfather, I'm sorry, was behind the first real outward projection of turning
[00:29:35] these lands all the way up to Greenland into a region. So really graceful talked about that last Thursday on the show. And he had a plan, his grandfather, to turn this into a region. Because why? Because this stems from the Club of Rome. The design was to have these certain areas all over for governmental control. You would turn everything into a region. So no country would be able to.
[00:30:02] We're not spreading our constitution, in other words, to Canada and Greenland. What we're doing is we're sort of losing that in the face of a higher law coming into play because it's a region. And I did an extensive show on that my first day back from Christmas break. And that's really what's at the helm. The excuses that were being sold, people should wonder about the timing and why now and why
[00:30:30] all of a sudden and what's going on. And of course, they're always going to turn it back to national security. You just can't know. Just know that we see things you don't. And therefore, we need to do this. Because everything has to be sold on an excuse. Otherwise, we wouldn't accept it. And pieces come together for these type of plans. And before you know it, we're sitting here in a region. And everyone's going to wonder how it happened. This is how it happens. We're sold on these ideas. Which, by the way, right now, I would just love it if Trump would just protect my constitutional,
[00:31:01] right? You know, protect my rights, okay? Use the Constitution as a guideline. This is what you're supposed to do. Not going in. This doesn't mean America to me going in and acquiring these countries. What would mean America is shoring up America. And so that's what I really wish would happen. We're going to go to a break. We'll be right back. I want your comment on that, Dr. Pesta. Right when we come back. Don't go anywhere. Kate Daly Show. KateDalyRadio.com. There you go.
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[00:32:40] And you had some comments about what I was talking about about Greenland. Because it's just like just now they're being used. Just now we're talking about Greenland as we have to go rescue them. Well, before the break, I was going to say that I think the tone is wrong. I would like Donald Trump, after everything he's told us for the last 12 years, to start with America. Come out. All the chatter should be about America. This is how I will do what I promise. This is how we will make America great.
[00:33:09] This is how we will throw off the deep state. That's what I want to hear. So the fact that all the talk and chatter now seems to be globalist, that's the bad tone. You said before the break, start with America. Let's get that going. We're going to spend two years shoring up all the problems, removing all the regulation. Gutting it. Right? Gutting government. Gutting out the agencies that should not exist.
[00:33:39] Let's take care of business. We haven't done that. And I know there are people still stuck on this thing that we did it when he was in last time. We didn't. We still have the same thriving, growing government that we should not have in America. So let's get busy cutting down agencies and putting things in a real perspective of the Constitution, how we're actually supposed to run the country. But people have become far too tribal. And they go tribal and they just put their head in the sand and they just say, well, we won.
[00:34:09] So therefore, everything we're about to do is good. And if we can't be more critical than that, we deserve everything we get. So I don't know what else to say. I mean, I was critical of the USMCA treaty when he was in office last time. And everyone knows that I actually like him. But the USMCA treaty? Are you kidding me? And we were very critical of it. And it should have never been implemented. And that was the groundwork, the structure after NAFTA for what we're dealing with now.
[00:34:40] And so, yes, these are pieces that were going to happen, right? But they're in play now. So the treaty is in and now it's the acquiring, sadly. Yeah, I think that's very well said. But, I mean, the optics, I guess is the way I would phrase it, the optics of this aren't good. No, no, no, no. Yeah. I mean, even if you understand.
[00:35:08] And look, I don't think it's a stretch for any president of the United States to say things like Greenland is essential for the security of the West or that the Panama Canal is our creation, which we sold to the Panamese people for $1. We should get special considerations. Absolutely, that makes sense. But that's not how it's being framed.
[00:35:37] It's we're going to acquire this. We're going to meld that. I mean, I don't want to see Western culture become one great big EU, right? Where everybody in the Western hemisphere uses the same money, the same borderlessness. We don't want that. We want more. We want more individual, strong nation states. We don't want to dissolve them. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well said.
[00:36:07] All right. Talk to me about DEI. Ugh, DEI. Oh, my gosh. This topic just drives me insane. But Zuckerberg. Well, I mean, on a more happy topic, it does seem like whether they're afraid of Trump or they've had a kind of an epiphany, Zuckerberg and Meta, Amazon and McDonald's, a number of
[00:36:31] other major, major corporations have voluntarily, before Donald Trump takes office, decided to remove or scale back dramatically the DEI policies that were so rewarded and jammed down the throats of people under Joe Biden. Yeah. Yeah. And also, TikTok. Where's that going? Supreme Court's talking about TikTok. Yeah. It's an interesting case because the lawyers are talking.
[00:36:59] One of the things I'm glad to hear is that a number of Supreme Court justices do recognize the espionage aspects of what goes on with TikTok because this is a very dangerous situation. On the one hand, there's no doubt that this is a very popular app and that the Chinese are recording and they are keeping records on, gathering information on, using the TikTok platform
[00:37:26] platform to engage in an espionage campaign against the United States. There's no doubt about that. On the other hand, it is a free market that people have signed up for. And even when you acknowledge to people that this is what the Chinese are doing, many Americans have no problem with that. So on the one hand, at least they're taking seriously the argument that this is a subversive company. On the other hand, you've got, do you really want to set this kind of a precedent?
[00:37:54] The Supreme Court saying this particular vendor cannot do business in this country. That's a big step to make. Yeah. Well, I don't know. Part of me thinks it's the Trojan horse to controlling more mass social media than they already do. Controlling it overtly instead of covertly. So up to this point, most of our social media has come by the way of government dollars, CIA dollars, intelligence dollars with a private face.
[00:38:21] And this is now a way to overtly say we are in control now of your freedom to choose where you want to go for your social media and bringing in the government for more control. So I wonder if it's that Trojan horse with this. I think it can be. I think all that's on the table here. And so what maybe one of the proposed solutions is going to be TikTok can exist, but it can't be owned by.
[00:38:51] But it can't be owned. But Chinese owned. It goes back to the other question, too, about the Chinese buying up so much of our farmland. I mean, on the one hand, it's a no. They've got the money. The seller seems fine selling to the Chinese. And yet it's a dangerous precedent from a regime that wants to more or less supersede America as the one great power in the world.
[00:39:18] Or, as I said a moment ago, the Panama Canal. We built it. And yet it's cheaper for Chinese Navy warships to go through it than American ships. Yeah. They're bilking. He's right. Trump's right. They're bilking us on that, taking advantage of our goodwill. But all of those questions, if they ended up at the Supreme Court, would be serious problems.
[00:39:42] Because no matter how you rule, it's going to set a precedent that could be misused down the road. Yeah. I just think we're sharing all the data with China anyway. So I don't know that it's like a huge threat. But I think it's something of, because it's pretty much like Instagram, you know. But this is a way they can say, well, it's Chinese, so therefore we're helping Americans by controlling what your choice is. I don't know. It's very, very weird. Thank you so much.
[00:40:11] Dr. Duke Pesta, always appreciate you coming on the show. Go check out the Dr. Duke Show. And, of course, I'll be right back. So, all righty. KateDallyRadio.com.