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Welcome to the Bogosity Podcast
for the week of November 23 2025,
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the podcast that used
to love me but she died.
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This is your host, Shane Killian.
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Next week is Thanksgiving in the United States,
and that means no podcast.
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We'll have just a couple of podcasts for December,
and then our final break for our 2025 year in review!
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But for now,
let's micronize the News of the Bogus.
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And we have to start with the big Cloudflare
outage you couldn't have missed this week,
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where some 60% of websites all
over the world were unreachable.
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It's ironic, because the whole point of Cloudflare
is to make sure that sort of thing doesn't happen!
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On the 18th at 11:20 UTC,
Cloudflare began delivering an error page
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between the user and the host,
which was generally shown to be working.
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Cloudflare said on their blog:
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"The issue was not caused, directly or indirectly,
by a cyber attack or malicious activity of any kind.
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Instead, it was triggered by a change to
one of our database systems' permissions
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which caused the database to output multiple entries
into a 'feature file' used by our Bot Management system.
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That feature file,
in turn, doubled in size.
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The larger-than-expected feature file was then
propagated to all the machines that make up our network."
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Cloudflare had preallocated memory
for a hardcoded limit of 200 features.
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That should have been more than enough,
because typical use is about 60 features,
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although sometimes there
are spikes above that.
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This new configuration had a bug which
caused it to double the number of features,
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causing it to exceed
the allocated memory.
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But the more interesting part of the news is
how this bug got into the code to begin with.
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Well, that's not really an
accurate way to say it.
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It wasn't good code that
somehow got a bug added.
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It happened because they decided
to rewrite their code in Rust.
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Ironically, the primary purpose of using
Rust is to avoid memory allocation errors!
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Less than two months prior,
Cloudflare had posted a blog post titled,
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"Cloudflare just got faster and more secure,
powered by Rust."
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This wasn't any sort of hamfisted
error by Rust beginners. They wrote:
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"We weren't starting from scratch.
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We've previously blogged about how we replaced
another one of our legacy systems with Pingora,
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which is built in the Rust programming language.
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We've also blogged about Oxy, our internal
framework for building proxies in Rust.
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We write a lot of Rust,
and we've gotten pretty good at it.
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We built FL2 in Rust, on Oxy, and built a strict
module framework to structure all the logic in FL2."
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And they were well aware of the caveats,
quote:
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"Rust has strong compile-time memory checks and
a type system that avoids large classes of errors.
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Combine that with our rigid module system,
and we can make most changes with high confidence.
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Of course, no system is secure if used badly. It's easy
to write code in Rust, which causes memory corruption.
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To reduce risk, we maintain strong
compile time linting and checking,
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together with strict coding standards,
testing and review processes."
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Regardless of what the
Rust fans are saying online,
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this might not have been the same kind
of memory error Rust is made to prevent,
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but that didn't matter much to those of us
who were just trying to get our work done!
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But really, that isn't the big lesson.
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I mean, it should be a big lesson
not to go changing well-established
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and battle-tested legacy code with code
written in a brand new programming language.
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Rust is still a fledgling language, and specifications
are changing by the week in a pretty major way.
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Once Rust ends up with both stable specifications
and a stable compiler, that might be one thing.
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But no, the real problem is that we've
gone away from the fundamental principle
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driving the Internet's
creation: decentralization.
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The whole point was to route around
problems so this didn't happen!
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But this is the new infrastructure.
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CDNs like Cloudflare and AWS can go down—
as AWS did a few days before,
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although it wasn't as bad and
didn't cause as much attention—
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and moreover, they don't do anything to switch over
to alternatives like Internet backbone companies do.
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We've talked about before how,
as they were known at the time,
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Level 3 and Cogent made a deal
20 years ago to just allow traffic
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from one over the other's network as long
as things didn't get too far out of balance.
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But if Cloudflare goes down, it doesn't reroute
the packets through AWS or any other provider.
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So there's nothing to do if one of them goes down,
except for tons of people losing access.
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As Eric Florack said on PJ Media: "As designed,
the system could deal
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with one or two players going dark for
whatever reason, and still remain useful.
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Thing is, like the American government,
which was also designed as a decentralized entity,
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there's always some putz who believes
that things would go more smoothly
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if we were more centralized,
allowing the economies of scale to take over.
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The very nature of that style of operation is
that when problems occur, they're huge ones."
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That's been shown to be true of governments, power
grids, payment processors, all sorts of things.
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Remember when we covered a ton of businesses
worldwide going down at the same time
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just because they were all
running Microsoft Windows?
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Centralization is bad.
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But instead of getting rid of the kind
of centralization that still exists,
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like with DNS and IP addresses,
we keep adding on more centralization.
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We covered how it was exactly this that allowed a
clandestine government operation via social media actors
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to take down Parler,
which was intended to be a competitor to Patreon.
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Now we know a wide-scale
outage is possible.
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Are you really telling me there are no governments
out there ready to take advantage of that?
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They were scribbling a lot of notes that day,
I'm sure!
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We must decentralize.
It's the only way forward.
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Or we'll move backward into the dark ages
where every word was controlled by the state.
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Presenting: the greatest
game this side of Yuggoth!
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You are H.P. Lovecraft's
cat, and your name is Ni***
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...Right.
We can't say that on a podcast.
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Anyway,
that's the point: Your name is a joke to him.
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So now, you are out for revenge!
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Using the Necronomicon,
you come to the present day to buy a gun
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to go vanquish him once and for all.
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But the Necronomicon is devious,
and it summoned Lovecraft's monsters as well.
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Now, in a crumbling world,
you must fight for the revenge you seek.
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Fight monsters.
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Gain allies.
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Buy guns and armor for
yourself and your team.
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Defeat the bosses of each level.
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Then get your revenge
against Lovecraft himself.
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Play Lovecraft's Cat!
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The link is at cat.bogosity.tv.
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Yeah, we're doing cat.bogosity.tv,
not...that other one.
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What, you want me to get kicked
off the Internet or something?
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We've talked a couple of times
about the trend of companies
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deincorporating in Delaware to move
somewhere else, generally Texas.
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Used to be, Delaware was the
place you wanted to incorporate
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because they were by far the most
business-friendly state in the country.
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That was actually a major selling
point that the state bragged about.
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Then came the Biden family
corruption of the court system
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and all sorts of businesses found
themselves the victim of blatant lawfare.
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Tesla wasn't the first, but it was the first to
gain nationwide if not worldwide attention.
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The stockholders' decision to move
the company from Delaware to Texas
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was one that ended up being
mirrored by several others.
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Aside from other Elon-based companies
like X and SpaceX, those making the move
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include Chevron, Yum! (who owns KFC),
Oracle, HP, McAfee, and many others.
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Some estimated 200 companies
have relocated to Texas since 2020.
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And now, we can add one more to the list. Paul Grewal,
the chief legal officer of Coinbase, posted on X:
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"Today Coinbase is announcing our decision
to leave Delaware and reincorporate in Texas.
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This decision was not made lightly,
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but we'll always do what's best for our customers,
our employees, and our shareholders.
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Coinbase is not the first company to make
this decision. We surely won't be the last."
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How many of you are old enough
to remember Ross Perot?
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One of the sayings he was famous
for was the "giant sucking sound,"
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to describe jobs moving
from the US to Mexico.
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What we have here is a Ross Perot "giant
sucking sound" from Delaware to Texas!
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In fact,
the Internet now has a term for it: "Dexit"!
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But this also goes into what I was saying in
the previous segment about decentralization.
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Having different states that
businesses can move to
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if one of them gets too difficult to
deal with is a feature, not a bug.
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Quote: "Competition
among states is healthy
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and it empowers businesses and
innovators that are on ambitious paths.
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Texas' corporate legal framework
offers the right mix of efficiency,
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predictability,
and fairness to be our home for incorporation."
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At the very least, having clear, stable rules
lets you know how you can move forward,
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without the constant fear of some crooked
little judge getting their sights on you.
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Quote: "What we are seeing is a return
to a free market economy in all things,
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including regulation
and judicial review."
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We can only hope.
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If you're on the Wi-Fi in
a coffee shop or hotel,
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anyone on that network can
get access to your traffic.
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Do you really trust all
of those strangers?
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For that matter,
do you really trust your ISP?
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A VPN can protect you from prying eyes, disguise
your location, and even foil government censors.
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and they don't log connections
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Travelling abroad, just VPN home and don't worry
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Back at home,
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I swear, every time a new technology comes around the
government finds a way to make it sinister and evil.
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With all of the societal
benefits that come with AI,
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one of them will not be making it easier for police
to bypass the Fourth Amendment and spy on everyone.
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But that's exactly what's going
on with Flock Safety cameras,
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whose initial target was HOAs and gated communities who
needed good security systems over a fairly large area.
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The idea was to read the license plates
of everyone who entered the community,
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so unauthorized people could be
found before they caused trouble.
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Like Ring doorbells,
they were initially considered to be a great idea,
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giving homeowners a secure way
to deal with strangers at the door,
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make sure parcels were properly delivered,
and so on.
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Then Ring started making deals
with the devil to offer video to cops,
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sparking a controversy that
taints the company to this day.
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Flock Safety has gone the same way.
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They started actively marketing
their cameras to police departments
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so they could follow cars around
everywhere with no warrant required.
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They also made a centralized database
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where police departments could follow people
even when they were outside their jurisdiction.
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Aside from the major Fourth Amendment violations
and the problems that always stem from them,
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it also didn't take long for them to be abused,
such as a vengeful cop boyfriend
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using his access to the system to stalk a
girlfriend who had gotten a medical abortion.
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It's a serious problem when police have
unfettered access to that sort of information.
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And it's such a big problem that
even the local police are realizing it,
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at least when it comes to federal agencies
grabbing more power than they should have.
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Now, CBP and ICE,
and I wouldn't at all doubt it if other agencies
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like the FBI and DHS were doing this, too,
are using Flock Safety to perform searches
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they otherwise wouldn't be allowed to
do themselves under the Constitution.
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It's gotten so bad that two Washington cities,
Redmond and Lynwood, shut off their cameras entirely.
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In Redmond, it was a unanimous act
of City Council to shut off the cameras.
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The Lynnwood Police Department has also
turned off their cameras, citing similar concerns.
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Police Chief Cole Langdon said,
quote:
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"Flock cameras have already proven
to be an invaluable investigative tool
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in solving crimes and
keeping our community safe.
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However, it's equally important
that we maintain the public's trust."
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Yes, you should have thought of that before
you put the cameras up to begin with!
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Unconstitutional spying is unconstitutional spying,
whether it's done by your people or the feds.
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Redmond's police chief, Darrell Lowe, said there was no
improper access of the cameras in Redmond on his watch,
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but how would they know?
There's no guarantee that Flock Safety
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even notifies local cops if their
data is searched by others.
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Another problem is,
Flock can't really be trusted.
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They've been caught
illegally installing cameras,
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and in Evanston, Illinois,
it was caught reinstalling the cameras
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after the city ordered them removed
as a violation of state privacy laws.
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Meanwhile,
the EFF and the ACLU are suing over the cameras.
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The Supreme Court has already ruled that warrantless
tracking of cars and license plates is unconstitutional.
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That shouldn't change just because a third party
is the one enabling them to do the tracking.
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Hopefully the courts
will see it that way.
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And now it's time to decarboxylate
this week's Biggest Bogon Emitter.
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So we need to say something about all
the Jeffrey Epstein stuff going around,
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not that it's possible that
you've missed much of it.
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But we'll focus on someone
we've covered several times over
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and shown to be just a horrible
human being all around:
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Stacey Plaskett, honorary Congressional
representative for the Virgin Islands
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who somehow managed to finagle her way into
a senior position in the Intelligence Committee.
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She also sits on the Ways and Means
Committee and the House Budget Committee.
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Turns out, during that 2019 hearing where
Donald Trump was accused of hiding an affair
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to engage in election
tampering blah blah blah,
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she was actively texting with Jeffrey
Epstein to get the proper response
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to difficult questions being put to
serial perjurer Michael Cohen.
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The texts show Epstein influencing Plaskett's
line of questioning, for example, quote:
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"He's opened the door to questions re who
are the other henchmen at Trump Org."
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She replied: "Yup.
Very aware and waiting my turn."
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And yes, this was after he became
a convicted child sex offender.
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Here's what the sorry-ass corrupt
official had to say for herself:
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PLASKETT: There are a lot of people
who have done a lot of crimes,
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and as a prosecutor,
you get information from people where you can.
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I've interviewed confidential informants,
I've interviewed narcotics,
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drug traffickers, and others,
and that doesn't mean that I'm their friend.
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KILLIAN: I don't know how gullible she thinks we
are, but when you interview CIs and drug traffickers,
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you do it in the formal environment
of an interrogation or a deposition.
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She was texting back and forth with
him as questioning was going on,
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with nothing that had to do with any facts,
but tactics as to how to question the witnesses!
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It was clearly inappropriate, but try getting the
party flunkies like Hakim Jeffries to admit that.
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KAITLAN COLLINS: But do you think it was appropriate
for her to be texting with Jeffrey Epstein
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11 years after he pleaded guilty?
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JEFFRIES: I mean, I have not had a conversation
with Stacey Plaskett to discuss this issue
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because we've been focused today on
making sure that there was a decisive vote
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as it related to the Epstein
files and the release.
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I'm thankful for the work of Representative Massie,
of Ro Khanna, but most importantly, the survivors.
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COLLINS: Do you plan
to talk to her about it?
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JEFFRIES: I think that we successfully
defeated a resolution that lacked any basis,
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was not credible, and was being brought by an
individual who was trying to weaponize this issue
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to reinvigorate his own failed
gubernatorial campaign in South Carolina.
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It was rejected on a bipartisan
basis on the floor today.
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That's the end of the story.
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COLLINS: I was just asking if you personally
believe messaging with Jeffrey Epstein,
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who is, at that point, a registered sex offender, is
appropriate for a member of the House Democratic Caucus?
00:19:45.580 --> 00:19:49.820
JEFFRIES: That's the third time that you've asked me this
question, and I'm going to give you the same exact answer.
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Our focus today is on making sure that
the Jeffrey Epstein files were released.
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If you want to have a conversation with Stacey Plaskett
about it, I'm sure she'd be willing to talk to you.
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It was an illegitimate effort to try to remove her
from the House Committee on Intelligence,
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and that was defeated
in a bipartisan way.
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KILLIAN: Right,
it's always someone else's fault, isn't it?
00:20:13.660 --> 00:20:19.740
But remember this quote from him that is
most telling about the kind of person he is:
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"That's the third time that you've asked me this question,
and I'm going to give you the same exact answer."
00:20:26.140 --> 00:20:30.140
He just admits that he's going to
keep giving you the runaround on it.
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The big question is: why is she still
allowed to sit on the committee?
00:20:34.140 --> 00:20:39.580
And does anyone really believe that was
the only time Epstein was coaching her?
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As for the King of De Nile, Jamie Raskin, let's listen
to a very short clip of him trying to defend her:
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RASKIN: They've arraigned a Democratic member
for taking a phone call from her constituent,
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Jeffrey Epstein in the middle
of a hearing, and of course,
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I-I-I don't think there's any rule
here against taking phone calls.
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KILLIAN: Yeah, that's about all
of his whinnying I can stand.
00:21:03.020 --> 00:21:08.165
Here's what James Comer had to say in
response to his bad faith red herring strawman
00:21:08.165 --> 00:21:12.298
(geez, how many dishonest tactics
can Raskin put into one sentence?):
00:21:12.298 --> 00:21:17.654
COMER: Jamie Raskin's full of crap.
He's the definition of Congressional hypocrisy.
00:21:17.654 --> 00:21:23.740
Can you imagine if that were Donald Trump or
me or some Republican that Raskin doesn't like
00:21:23.740 --> 00:21:27.900
that was texting with Jeffrey Epstein,
a convicted sex offender
00:21:27.900 --> 00:21:31.340
who the Democrats have
now become obsessed over
00:21:31.340 --> 00:21:34.700
because they hope and pray that he has
something to do with Donald Trump?
00:21:34.700 --> 00:21:39.420
If we were texting with him during a
committee hearing? I mean, it's preposterous!
00:21:39.420 --> 00:21:45.180
Remember, Jamie Raskin appointed
Stacey Plaskett to be on the impeachment,
00:21:45.180 --> 00:21:48.060
to be an impeachment
manager of Donald Trump.
00:21:48.060 --> 00:21:53.966
And here we find out she was communicating with
Jeffrey Epstein in a plot take down Donald Trump.
00:21:53.966 --> 00:21:58.860
So for Jamie Raskin to try to defend that
on the House floor in front of America
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is par for the course for Jamie Raskin,
but it's the definition of hypocrisy.
00:22:04.220 --> 00:22:10.011
KILLIAN: So, Epstein, who just happened
to have his little island in the Virgin Islands,
00:22:10.011 --> 00:22:17.100
also had the ear of an important committee member—
the ranking member of the Intelligence Committee!
00:22:17.100 --> 00:22:21.900
Add to that revelations from a couple years ago,
published in Business Insider,
00:22:21.900 --> 00:22:26.860
that revealed she helped him
get $300 million in tax incentives
00:22:26.860 --> 00:22:31.980
and be able to fly people to his island
without going through customs.
00:22:31.980 --> 00:22:37.100
He also gave money to Jeffries,
whom he called "Brooklyn's Barack."
00:22:37.100 --> 00:22:44.540
And yet, they're trying to use this as a brickbat
against Trump. It's as sleazy as it is slick.
00:22:44.540 --> 00:22:50.540
So all of that makes Stacey Plaskett and the other
Democrats this week's Biggest Bogon Emitter.
00:22:56.140 --> 00:22:58.860
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And now let's hyperhampercamperflummoxificationalize
this week's Idiot Extraordinaire.
00:24:14.220 --> 00:24:19.660
And it's yet another one for RFK Jr.,
and I guess he's just gonna keep racking them up
00:24:19.660 --> 00:24:23.980
until someone comes to their senses
and removes him from his position.
00:24:23.980 --> 00:24:28.540
He has been a long-time proponent
of the just-as-long-debunked claim
00:24:28.540 --> 00:24:31.580
that childhood vaccines
can cause autism.
00:24:31.580 --> 00:24:39.420
He can't prove it, so instead he decided to shift the
burden of proof by changing the CDC website to say,
00:24:39.420 --> 00:24:44.300
"The claim 'vaccines do not cause
autism' is not an evidence-based claim
00:24:44.300 --> 00:24:50.060
because studies have not ruled out the
possibility that infant vaccines cause autism."
00:24:50.060 --> 00:24:54.780
I guess we also haven't ruled
out "alien space lasers," either.
00:24:54.780 --> 00:25:00.940
As we've covered, autism is a genetic disorder.
Vaccines are post-natal.
00:25:00.940 --> 00:25:03.900
There's not even an
opportunity for overlap!
00:25:03.900 --> 00:25:07.980
Or how about the claim that it was
caused by thimerosal in the vaccines,
00:25:07.980 --> 00:25:11.820
we took out thimerosal,
and it made no difference?
00:25:11.820 --> 00:25:16.700
He also added that health authorities have
ignored the studies supporting the link.
00:25:16.700 --> 00:25:22.380
Gee, that couldn't have anything to do with
those studies being proven fraudulent, could it?
00:25:22.380 --> 00:25:27.180
The horrible baby-killers at Children's
Health Defense touted the victory, saying:
00:25:27.180 --> 00:25:33.100
"The CDC is beginning to acknowledge the
truth about this condition that affects millions,
00:25:33.100 --> 00:25:39.144
disavowing the bold, long-running lie
that 'vaccines do not cause autism.'"
00:25:39.144 --> 00:25:44.300
So, when the government concludes
something you don't like, it's political,
00:25:44.300 --> 00:25:50.860
and when you maneuver your person in there to change
it arbitrarily, suddenly it's acknowledging the truth.
00:25:50.860 --> 00:25:55.260
"You can't trust the government—
unless it agrees with us!"
00:25:55.260 --> 00:26:00.300
He has also claimed that Tylenol taken
by pregnant women can cause autism,
00:26:00.300 --> 00:26:05.793
a claim backed up by absolutely
no scientific evidence whatsoever.
00:26:05.793 --> 00:26:08.540
Hopefully this will make
everyone learn the lesson,
00:26:08.540 --> 00:26:13.500
because as we've covered this isn't
just with RFK Jr. and vaccines.
00:26:13.500 --> 00:26:17.820
Another example is the psycho
ambulance-chasers at PROP
00:26:17.820 --> 00:26:23.500
putting misinformation about opioids and
addiction into the 2016 opioid guidelines,
00:26:23.500 --> 00:26:29.340
resulting in the torture and death of an
incalculable number of pain patients.
00:26:29.340 --> 00:26:36.860
And the FDA says vaping is just as bad as smoking
and the WHO says Wi-Fi causes cancer.
00:26:36.860 --> 00:26:42.300
By saying "studies have not ruled out the
possibility that infant vaccines cause autism,"
00:26:42.300 --> 00:26:48.940
they're really saying "we're a bunch of morons who
have no clue how science, logic, and reason works."
00:26:48.940 --> 00:26:58.140
As we've covered, autism is a side effect—and a necessary
aspect—of the reason humans are as intelligent as we are.
00:26:58.140 --> 00:27:01.660
The root cause of autism
happened millions of years ago,
00:27:01.660 --> 00:27:07.420
and if it didn't, we'd likely be little
smarter than chimpanzees, if that.
00:27:07.420 --> 00:27:11.500
Which...Well, it seems
some of us are, anyway.
00:27:11.500 --> 00:27:17.730
But if you think the CDC was some sort of gold
standard for scientific accuracy before RFK Jr.,
00:27:17.731 --> 00:27:21.980
well, you might just be as dumb as he is!
00:27:21.980 --> 00:27:28.197
So all of that makes RFK Jr.
this week's Idiot Extraordinaire.
00:27:35.340 --> 00:27:40.620
Well, that wraps up this "don't worry; they say it
isn't catching" edition of the Bogosity Podcast.
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