Conservative Review with Daniel Horowitz

We cannot wait until 2029 with a new Democrat president to somehow deal with political persecution when we have no tools in our arsenal. We must build for that today. Unfortunately, as Trump continues to make bad endorsements, we will be left with weak Republicans in red states to fight issues such as political weaponization. Moreover, we are not even changing things at the federal level. We’re joined by former FBI whistleblower Steve Friend, who is warning that the FBI has not structurally changed its modus operandi. He observes how problematic personnel under Biden have been given promotions, the open-ended investigatory mandate has not been limited, and at the same time, none of the misdeeds under Obama and Biden have been punished. Absent federal reform, Friend is advocating that state governments condition their working relationship with the FBI to a framework in which elected sheriffs are in charge of task forces targeting people locally. Friend also warns about the use of AI to turbocharge the very federal entrapment schemes that the FBI was using under Biden.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We all swore we’d move away from Big Tech, the biosecurity state, land-grabs, and technocracy under Biden. Yet it is reaching an entirely new level under the Trump administration, and nobody on the Right seems to care. We’re joined today by Patrick Wood, editor in chief of Technocracy, who breaks down the bad and the ugly of Trump’s new AI action plan, which empowers the very tech companies building techno-fascism to control our economy. He warns that they plan to create their own power grid to control us with data centers and then export it to the world. Relatedly, these same entities pushed the stablecoin legislation to ensure that our economy runs on assets they control rather than real currency. Finally, we discuss how AI is not the answer for general intelligence and is failing to live up to its hype, yet the masters of the universe want to accelerate its control because it cements their power.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today’s right-leaning media has acculturated a generation of Republican voters to focus on vanity and everything they can’t influence rather than virtue and what they actually can change. On today’s action-packed show, we cover everything from AI data centers and the increasing cost of living to judicial supremacism and failed immigration enforcement. Meanwhile, Congress is worse than ever and adjourned early without addressing the judicial coup against sovereignty just so they can avoid dealing with the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. If we don’t change our focus, we will be stuck with illusory victories, while the uniparty continues to rack up enduring victories.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today, I do a deep dive on all the harms of data centers. From sucking up our energy and water to national security and privacy issues, I debunk the case for new data centers. We are approaching artificial intelligence in the wrong way, opting for old-fashioned cloud storage in pursuit of a “generalized intelligence” rather than narrow AI that will actually help streamline industries. There is a reason China is not even competing in this fake arms race.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We begin with a quick free-for-all Friday, where we cover the latest news on vaccines, immigration, spending, and foreign policy. Next, we’re joined by Dr. Peter Chambers, a retired Army lieutenant colonel who is a doctor and a Green Beret and is now taking his impressive background to the campaign trail for governor of Texas. Dr. Chambers discusses his experience in Operation Lone Star and how Greg Abbott failed to actually stanch the flow at the border. He also explains his failures on medical freedom, which is a stark contrast from Chambers’ own experience, where he lost his job as a flight surgeon in the Texas Guard while offering informed consent on the vaccines. Chambers offers his vision for getting ahead of the asymmetric warfare against our country. He also briefs us on his recovery operation in Texas Hill Country and how, as governor, he would utilize retired special operators to create quick-reaction forces within county governments and the state Guard.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We are now at a "use it or lose it" stage of immigration enforcement. Today I discuss the amnesty bill written by Rep. Maria Salazar (R-Fla.) and why, in conjunction with Trump’s support for agriculture worker amnesty, it is a real concern. I also prove why the rebellion against Trump over Epstein is not real and will not change the current political trajectory. Next, we’re joined by George Fishman of the Center for Immigration Studies to discuss the lies of farm worker amnesty. Fishman wrote an important piece explaining how the same excuses for the farm industry are what led to the failures of the 1986 amnesty. It created a vicious cycle of amnesty and more importation of cheap labor by incentivizing farms never to mechanize and to continue relying on the cheapest labor the politicians are willing to import. We also discuss what it will take to bump up deportations. If we fail to do so, there is a real likelihood that Trump will make an aggressive push for amnesty at the end of his presidency.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What we are seeing now with the crack-up between Trump and the online Right is populism coming full circle. On today’s free-for-all roundup of news, I show how when you have no soul, principles, and forward-looking agenda, you just land in the same place. We are worse off in terms of corporatism in the GOP than we were even 10 years ago. We have a lost decade in primaries. The online crowd might be upset with Trump over Epstein, but they will never channel that dissent into anything useful. There is no long-term plan to build enduring victories on a single issue. Also, I go through the harms of AI data centers and how the entire premise is built on a misunderstanding of the utility of artificial intelligence.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We begin by noting how allowing states to enforce immigration laws is the most important proposition to stake out our future. This will allow us to ensure that there are still portions of America that remain American. Sadly, the focus from Congress and the White House this week is on meme coins and AI data centers. Next, we’re joined by Shannon Everrett, founder of American Truckers United, who has created a grassroots movement to warn about the flood of foreign truck drivers taking over the industry. This is both a labor and safety concern. They are driving down wages and supplanting the American trucker, but at the same time, many are not proficient in English and did not undergo the proper training. Shannon is pushing legislation to bar the recognition of non-domiciled commercial driver’s licenses for noncitizens and certainly the recognition of truck drivers who are here illegally or on tourist visas.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tucker and his ilk have found a way to monetize many of our grievances while ensuring we never solve them. The same people who foisted Trump upon us for 10 years without building a parallel movement on any other issue are now complaining that he is betraying us, but they are offering no path forward. Today, I explain why grievance-mongering without actually trying to solve the problem just creates a false dichotomy between communism and fascism. Meanwhile, with social media algorithms, these people are able to earn millions off the monetization of grievance, which disincentivizes them to actually follow through on their stated beliefs when it matters. From COVID and immigration to Ukraine, foreign influence, crime, and marijuana, I demonstrate how Tucker never focuses on his stated beliefs when they would actually matter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You might be observing the attacks on ICE agents and think that this is part of the culture of rioting.  But in reality, Antifa and similar “anti-fascist” actors have built a culture of militia, guns, and training that was thought to be endemic to the right, except they are using it as street-level muscle to enforce their anti-government insurgency and their preferred policy outcomes. That is the clarion warning of our guest today, Kyle Shideler, a homeland security and counterterrorism expert. Kyle explains how the tactics and issues of this insurgency are multifaceted, but their goal is to create enough violence to deter policies they don’t like. Sadly, the administration has not done enough to investigate, prosecute, and deter these terrorists. Moreover, our criminal justice system is the embodiment of anarcho-tyranny, whereby it is not strong enough to deal with the anarchy but is strong enough to deter or punish our defense against it or even our political and legal methods of countering it.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices