Google AI's Fake Assault on Sen. Blackburn; CNN Covers ISIS Terror; SNAP Fraud Hits $10B Amid Cuts

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Hey! What is up, Patriots? Happy hump day. Once again, I am amped up on some coffee, so we could be in for a wild ride or at least a fast-talking episode. Okay, okay. This is O'Connor's Quick Strike, and I'm John O'Connor. Three stories the mainstream media won't cover or will completely twist beyond recognition. Delivered in roughly 15 minutes. No fluff, no BS, no filler. Just...

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the unvarnished truth peppered with my own take on what's really going on. So we do this every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Glad to see you here. As I'm recording this episode and watching the tail end of the election results come in, I see nothing great to hang our conservative hats on. But let's be fair, all of these elections were pretty much a long shot. But fingers crossed, one or two of these could require a recount. Today is Wednesday, November 5th.

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and I've got a trifecta of institutional failure. Big Tech using AI to falsely accuse a conservative senator of sexual assault, the mainstream media literally running defense for ISIS-inspired terrorists, and your government lighting billions of your tax dollars on fire while people go hungry. Let's get into it. All right, we're going to start today with a story that perfectly encapsulates everything wrong with Big Tech and their systemic bias against conservatives.

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And this one is so blatant, so outrageous, that even Google had to pull the plug on their own AI platform after getting caught red-handed. Senator Marshall Blackburn from Tennessee, my current state, who's currently running for governor, just exposed Google for using their artificial intelligence to generate completely false defamatory statements about her. I mean, we're not talking about a difference of opinion here. We're talking about Google's AI literally accusing her of sexual assault.

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Something that never happened, completely made up, fabricated out of thin air by Google's so-called smart technology. And when Senator Blackburn called them out publicly, Google scrambled to shut down their entire Gem AI platform, just pulled it offline, gone. Now, Senator Blackburn talked to Breitbart News yesterday and she didn't hold back. She compared Google to a disobedient child. They'll push and push.

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and push, and then you slap their hand. And they're content with the hand slap. But they go back to pushing and try to continue to push out and get their way. And Google has seemed to do that. And she's absolutely right. This isn't the first time Google has been caught with anti-conservative bias. This is a pattern. A deliberate, systemic pattern of censorship and defamation targeting anyone on the right side of the political spectrum. But

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Here's where it gets even worse. Senator Blackburn brought receipts. During a recent Senate Commerce Committee hearing, she confronted a Google government affairs executive about the fact that their AI had also generated defamatory statements about conservative activist, Robbie Starbuck, calling him a child rapist and a serial sexual abuser. Let me repeat that. Google's artificial intelligence is out there calling conservative activists

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child rapists and serial sexual abusers. These are life-destroying accusations. These are the kind of allegations that can end careers and destroy families. And Google's AI is just throwing them around like confetti at conservatives. And you know what the Google executive said when confronted? He admitted that hallucinations, that's what they call it when their AI makes stuff up, are a known issue and the company is working to limit them.

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working to limit them. Not, we fixed it. Not, this will never happen again. Not, we're sorry. Just, yeah, we know our AI makes up false criminal accusations against conservatives, and we're working on it. Senator Blackburn explained exactly what's happening here. They have pushed against the boundaries and continue to try to push those boundaries out so they can be more reckless in how they are programming these platforms, she told Breitbart News.

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What they've done is to bias their AI platform against conservatives. And we now have one of their senior executives who admitted it is biased and that it hallucinates and therefore it has problems and makes up these fictitious accounts of occurrences that never occurred. Think about the implications of this for a second. Millions of people use Google search and Google AI every single day. They trust Google to give them accurate information. And now we know that Google's AI

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The technology they are pushing as the future of search is programmed with an anti-conservative bias so severe that it literally invents sexual assault allegations against Republican senators and conservative activists. This isn't a bug, this is a feature. This is exactly what Google wants their AI to do. Smear conservatives, destroy reputations, and manipulate information to favor left-wing narratives.

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Senator Blackburn has also pointed out that big tech companies think they can just cozy up to the Trump White House and avoid accountability. I think that some of these tech platforms are realizing that they can just go and say, hey, we're going to cozy up to the White House and then escape any type of responsibility, she said. And I think she's absolutely right. Just because tech CEOs are taking meetings with President Trump,

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doesn't mean they get a free pass for systemically censoring and defaming conservatives.

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Senator Blackburn laid out what needs to happen. Three things. First, hold big tech accountable. Second, protect children online and online privacy. Third, protect consumers and conservatives from this bias. This bias against conservatives needs to stop, she said. Period. End of story. Now, here's the thing that really gets me. Google is supposed to be this cutting edge technology company. They've got the smartest engineers in the world.

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They've got unlimited resources. And yet somehow, somehow, their AI just keeps accidentally generating false criminal accusations against conservatives. But I guarantee you, you won't find Google's AI calling Nancy Pelosi a child rapist. You won't find it accusing Chuck Schumer of sexual assault. You won't find it generating defamatory statements about AOC or any other left-wing politician.

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No, these hallucinations only seem to happen when the target is a conservative. Funny how that works, isn't it? And this is exactly what Senator Blackburn means when she says Google acts like a disobedient child. They get caught doing something wrong. They apologize. They promise to do better. And then they turn around and do the exact same thing again. Because they know there are no real consequences. Oh sure.

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They had to pull down Gemma AI this time. But how long until they launch the next version? How long until they're back to programming anti-conservative bias into their systems? How long until the next hallucination destroys another conservative's reputation? The truth is, Google and the rest of big tech believe they're untouchable. They believe they can manipulate information, censor conservative voices, and even generate false criminal allegations.

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And there's nothing anyone can do about it. But Senator Blackburn is fighting back, and she's not alone. More and more conservatives are waking up to the fact that big tech isn't just biased. They're actively weaponizing technology against us. This is information warfare, folks. And the battleground is your search results, your social media feeds. And now, apparently, AI-generated lies designed to destroy conservative voices. So what can you do?

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First, stop using Google. Use Brave, use DuckDuckGo. Use any search engine that isn't actively trying to manipulate you. Second, support politicians like Senator Blackburn who are willing to stand up to big tech and demand accountability. And third, spread the word. Tell everyone you know what Google is doing. Because the mainstream media sure as hell isn't going to cover this story. They are too busy carrying water for big tech and running interference for their anti-conservative bias.

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Senator Marshall Blackburn exposed Google's dirty little secret. Their AI is programmed to lie about conservatives. And now that truth is out. Google is running scared for the moment. Two. All right, I'm gonna start this off by saying I'm gonna butcher some of these names. But what I'm about to tell you is one of the most egregious examples of media malfeasance I've ever seen. Last Friday, Halloween morning.

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The FBI raided homes in Dearborn, Michigan and arrested five people, including two 20-year-olds named Momed Ali and Majed Mahmoud. Told you I might have butchered that. FBI Director Cash Patel announced they'd had thwarted a potential terrorist attack planned for Halloween weekend. On Monday, the DOJ unsealed a 73-page criminal complaint. And folks, this wasn't some internet tough talk. These guys had three AR-15s.

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two shotguns, four handguns, over 1,600 rounds of ammunition, tactical vests, and GoPro cameras, presumably to film their attack. The FBI had recorded encrypted calls where they discussed an attack, like the 2015 Paris attacks that killed 130 people. They used code words like pumpkin and pumpkin day for Halloween, and they'd been scouting LGBTQ nightclubs in Ferndale, Michigan.

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driving there multiple times in September to pick targets. This was real. The FBI stopped a massacre. So, what does CNN do? On Monday, CNN publishes an article casting doubt on the entire investigation, framing it as a possible Islamophobia. They quoted Dearborn residents, who had zero inside information, claiming the FBI was unfairly targeting Muslims. Then, after the 73-page complaint dropped with all the evidence,

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CNN quietly deleted their article, just scrubbed it. It's gone. But CNN wasn't alone. On Saturday, before the complaint was unsealed, the Associated Press and CBS News ran stories claiming there was no plot and these were just gamers talking trash online. Their only source? Defense attorney Amir Makled, who represents one of the suspects. Of course, a defense lawyer says his client is innocent.

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But these news organizations based entire stories on one activist lawyer's claim with zero corroboration. These kids are gamers. Gamers are weird in the way they talk to each other, McLeod said, and the media ran with it. Except gamers don't stockpile 1,600 rounds of ammunition. Gamers don't scout LGBTQ nightclubs while discussing ISIS attacks. Gamers don't practice with AR-15s at gun ranges while planning mass murder.

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Here's what really happened. The media saw a chance to make Trump's FBI look bad and protect the members of an increasingly radicalized community. Dearborn is represented by squad member Rashida Tlaib. So they ran interference for potential terrorists. When that 73 page complaint was released with surveillance footage, encrypted messages, weapons purchases, target reconnaissance, everything, CNN just deleted their article and hoped nobody would notice.

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Red State caught it. Conservative outlets caught it. But most Americans who watch CNN or read the AP got the first story. No plot, just gamers, FBI overreach. And then never saw the retraction. This is why people call them fake news. The media literally provided cover for ISIS-inspired terrorists to score political points against Trump. They would rather Americans die than give Trump's DOJ a win.

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These five American citizens were planning a mass casualty attack on LGBTQ nightclubs. They had the weapons, the plan, and the date, and CNN's first instinct was to suggest the FBI was being Islamophobic. Your media, working overtime to keep you safe. One. All right, final story. And this story is the one that really got underneath my skin, so if you're someone who

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plays by the rules and pays your taxes, this is probably gonna agitate you. Last week, Just the News published an investigation into the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, that's SNAP, what we used to call food stamps. About 42 million Americans receive these benefits, and right now, because of the government shutdown that's been going on since October 1st, those benefits are being cut.

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The Trump administration announced that it has exhausted all the contingency funds and can only pay out 50 % of November SNAP benefits. Millions of families are going to get half of what they expected. And starting in December, if this shutdown continues, there might not be any benefits at all. Now, Republicans are blaming Senate Democrats for refusing to pass a funding bill. Democrats are blaming Republicans for not extending enhanced Obamacare subsidies.

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everybody's pointing fingers while hungry families suffer. We've covered that before. Remember Kathleen Clark saying families will suffer, but it's one of the few leverage times we have? Yeah, that's what we're dealing with. But here's what just the news uncovered that should make everyone furious. For every dollar of SNAP benefits lost to fraud, it costs agencies an additional $3.72.

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That's not the dollar that was stolen. That's the additional costs in investigation, reporting, administrative overhead, data exchanges, all of it. So when a fraud occurs, taxpayers are on the hook for nearly five times the amount that was actually stolen. In just the first quarter of 2024, January through March, there were 177,000 fraud incidents reported across 46 states.

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New York alone had over 16,000 cases and that's just what got reported and caught. The federal government has increased spending on retailer integrity and anti-trafficking efforts by 350 % from 2012 to 2023. You'd think that would help, right? Wrong. Snap overpayment errors surged to over 10 % by 2023. That's 10 billion in improper payments in a single

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Think about that. We're spending hundreds of millions more on fraud prevention and fraud is getting worse. But this just gets worse. The CDC and Census Bureau found that SNAP recipients have disproportionately high rates of obesity and diabetes. In the highest SNAP zip codes in Staten Island, obesity rates hit 35 to 40 percent and diabetes prevalence reaches 14 to 18 percent.

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So we're spending billions of dollars on a nutrition assistance program and the people receiving it are getting sicker. The program isn't providing nutrition. It's enabling people to buy junk food that's literally killing them. Some states have figured this out. Nebraska was the first to ban the purchase of soda and energy drinks with SNAP benefits back in May. Iowa, Indiana, Arkansas, Idaho, Florida, Texas, and West Virginia, 12 states totaled

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have implemented or are implementing restrictions on buying candy and sugary drinks with food stamp money. But the federal government, they're not doing anything. They're just watching fraud explode, watching health outcomes deteriorate, and throwing more money at the problem. And here's the cruel irony. While all of this fraud is happening, while billions are being wasted, while people are getting sicker instead of healthier,

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The government is cutting benefits to millions of families because Congress can't agree on a budget. So if you're a single mom who's actually struggling to feed your kids, who's using SNAP the way it was intended, you're getting your benefits cut in half. But if you're one of the fraudsters gaming the system, stealing benefits through identity fraud or EBT card skimming, you're probably still getting your full cut because the government has proven completely incapable of stopping you.

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This is your government at work. This is what happens when bureaucracy runs amok, when nobody's accountable, when there's no incentive to fix the broken systems. Google can deploy AI that falsely accuses senators of sexual assault, but somehow can't fix the bias problem they admit exists. The FBI can stop ISIS-inspired terrorists in Michigan, but the media immediately runs defense for them.

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And the federal government can spend $10 billion a year on improper SNAP payments while cutting benefits to people who actually need them. It's broken, all of it, from top to bottom. Our institutions are broken. Big tech is broken. The media is broken. Federal assistance programs are broken. And the American people are the ones who pay the price. All right, that's our Quick Strike for Wednesday, November 5th. Three stories.

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three examples of institutional warfare against conservatives and common sense Americans. Google's AI is manufacturing false sexual assault allegations against Republican senators. The media is providing cover for ISIS terrorists because protecting Islamism means, hey, they can attack Trump. And billions in taxpayer money are vanishing into fraud while families go hungry during a government shutdown. This is why people are fed up. This is why trust in institutions is at rock

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bottom. Because at every level, big tech, mainstream media, federal bureaucracy, the system is rigged against you. I'm John O'Connor. We'll be back Friday with three more stories the mainstream media won't touch. Until then, stay informed, stay vigilant, and don't let them gaslight you into thinking any of this is normal.