now. and i do want to note, my colleague elaine treene is in bedminster. they are jacked up, they are ready for this. and i do believe they they feel energized. they feel like this is going to give them the same boost in the polls that they saw from the manhattan indictment, the same boost in fund raising, but i will note. there are a number of people around him who are very serious, and very professional in this cycle. and they do not feel that way. the people that i have talked to who say that they are not sure that this is an ultimate positive. that the entire way that they believe that donald trump has bit when the election is by broadening his base. and, getting an indictment, in this federal investigation, is not a way to broaden his base. so, something to keep in mind is that well yes, this could in fact in fact energizes base, could bring in fundraising dollars, could boost up his poll numbers. there are still people who support donald trump, who don t
attractive to attack them. they are, however, quite a lot smaller than facebook in the united states. a lot smaller than instagram, a lot smaller than youtube. all of which do exactly the same kind of harm. and collect a lot more data. the chinese are able to buy data on every single american from oracle. so, the issue here is just gee on 40 trying to borrow slam tiktok in order to get some kind of political gain. but he s not wrong that this is harmful. he s also not wrong that states need to act. because the feds have not done their job. it s their job to do? because you and i have set, and generally speaking watched a lot of these congressional hearings on technology and phones and twitter and all the stuff. sometimes the people who are there to testify are amazing and brilliant, and have lots of good information. but they get stupid questions because we are not really up to speed on how we re supposed to regulate technology. let s be clear, internet platforms are the source of
platforms are the source of most of the fundraising dollars that come into candidates these days. it is the way the candidates communicate with the electorate. so as a consequence, there is no incentive right now for any politician to get on the wrong side of the internet platform. they fear that the internet platform can put its thumb on the scale, and push the politician out of office. that fear is preventing any kind of action in washington. you ve seen in illinois, in law to protect people from facial recognition. you ve seen in california a law to protect the citizens on data privacy. the thing that is going on with gianforte is a joke. it is not possible for the state of montana to implement this. it is, however, absolutely the right thing to call attention to parents. that their children are using a platform that is causing great harm. and they shouldn t be doing that. we ve got to, somehow, change the culture. so we stop accepting what technology companies tell us
classified documents and able to raise classified documents and able to raise i classified documents and able to raise 1 million. so we see at all of these raise 1 million. so we see at all of these flashpoints in regards to donald these flashpoints in regards to donald trump, he is able to turn that into donald trump, he is able to turn that into massive fundraising, and what that into massive fundraising, and what does that into massive fundraising, and what does that duke has it buys him the airwaves, it buys him advertisements across social media. realty advertisements across social media. really able to keep getting his message across. i think, love, nobody message across. i think, love, nobody will doubt that he has had a base that nobody will doubt that he has had a base that is uniquely loyal to him, so i base that is uniquely loyal to him, so i think. base that is uniquely loyal to him, so i think, again, even despite the fundraising so i think, again, ev
in hurricane andrew, early 90s, really completely wiped homestead florida off the map, changed a lot of people s minds about building cones, it revolutionized the way people think about adaptation and fortifying against these storms. i ve gotta wonder, don, if in will excel right that in any way. who knows. bill, you are with the cajun navy, they always come and help out in these situations. you re with them as they made rescues. tell us about it. yeah, so these guys are pretty much volunteers who take fundraising dollars, donations, one or $2, and they go out in their own boats and just try to help people. they ve been doing it on out of louisiana, these bat, and duck hunters, we thought in harvey around houston, and now officially a nonprofit. and they went out with a couple other groups including project dynamo, which is named after winston churchill s mission to