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And I, there, I, when I think of that time, I think of, um, cyberpunk, I think of Alternet, I think of the birth-

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these days hanging with the folks at AlterNet, who are very glad to have her services, which we're very glad about that.

So-

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When you compare this 20-year span, and specifically the period of time right before their respective midterms.

And by the way, this information comes to us from the great Sarah Burris over at AlterNet.

Uh, she writes here, "Under George W. Bush, adjusted for inflation, gas prices were about 3.69 a gallon.

For Donald Trump, they're at about 4.35 per gallon." So that's bad news for Donald Trump.

Insider unveils Trump's plan to declare martial law.

This is on a website called Alternet.

So take it for what it's worth.

President Donald Trump gestures during a press conference at the NATO summit in The Hague in June 2025.

possible.

I mean, you know, Google did this to, which owns YouTube, they did this to Alternet back, you know, 10 years ago, and Alternet was the number one progressive news source.

And they stopped spidering it, and Alternet lost 70% of their revenue in a month and went out of business or got sold, you know, to a for-profit company.

So and I know we've been shadow banned on Facebook and we were shadow banned on X.

You know, it's this is why billionaires are buying up the media.

We got to pay some bills.

Sarah from Alternet is here with Jody and me and you here at the Politics Bar on this Tuesday night.

Freshen your drink and come right back.

We'll be right back after we pay some bills at the Politics Bar.

Phoenix is very hot right now.

That's the voice of Sarah Burrus, by the way.

Currently with Alternet.

She has done a lot of great journalism.

Uh, it, it is very trivial with the old protocols to segregate and separate the different major long-haul providers, uh, which would then be the national access points, the metropolitan area ether, uh, sections.

AT&T can't talk to MCI, can't talk to PSINet, can't talk to Alternet, et cetera, et cetera, and keep it down that way as long as we really wanted to.

It would definitely take a few days for people to figure out what was going on.

Yeah, the, I mean, the L0pht guys were very prescient, and, um, you know, I'm, I'm sure it annoys them, heartbreaks them to no end that they were right.