6/5/25: New travel ban announced, Putin issues new marching orders
The David Pakman Show
David Pakman
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🗓️ 5 June 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the show. |
| 0:08.7 | We have a very interesting situation here where we are starting to see a slice of MAGA turn |
| 0:16.2 | on Donald Trump because of this tech bro citizen database that Donald Trump is trying to get Peter |
| 0:22.7 | Teal to build for him. |
| 0:24.8 | We talked about this a little bit on a bonus show earlier this week. |
| 0:27.8 | It's getting more attention. |
| 0:28.8 | It's becoming more prominent of a discussion within the maga space where there are all sorts |
| 0:34.6 | of people who say this is a betrayal by Donald Trump. |
| 0:37.5 | So let's talk about it. |
| 0:38.5 | But big picture. |
| 0:40.0 | You know it's bad when even some of Donald Trump's most diehard supporters start to say, this |
| 0:47.4 | is not what we signed up for. |
| 0:50.3 | Not because Donald Trump compromised, not because Donald Trump went woke, but because he seems to |
| 0:57.7 | be crossing a line that even some of MAGA simply can't stomach. |
| 1:03.6 | What Trump wants to do and what he's moving forward on is building a centralized surveillance |
| 1:09.2 | database of American citizens, American citizens in this particular |
| 1:14.0 | case. |
| 1:15.3 | And the tech bro that's going to help him do it is Peter Thiel, born in Germany, relevant |
| 1:21.1 | because despite the rhetoric, two of the most important sort of clingers to this administration's second term have been |
| 1:31.5 | South African Elon Musk and German Peter Thiel. |
| 1:36.5 | And Peter Thiel and Palantir, his company, are now going to be building the architecture |
| 1:43.0 | of this digital authoritarianism right here |
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