I still cannot get over why building 7 was "pulled"
1 2018-06-01 by NYC_Subway
And why was Larry Silverstein in charge of making that decision!? If I am a firefighter and just witnessed the most horrible terrorist attack, the last thing I would be thinking about is "pulling" or demolishing a building that is still in tact and might hold clues as to what happened. Could someone please give me just 1 plausible reason why building 7 was pulled? And when/how were they able to fit it with explosives? Why was a firefighter asking the building owner for permission?
121 comments
1 Red-Vagabond 2018-06-01
The entire event was a scam that drew the line between people in power and the working class.
Too bad the working class is too busy bickering about stupid shit to do anything about it. These "rich" peons have another thing coming.
1 Hermeticism 2018-06-01
I agree but it's more than that.
Since the 60s a revision had been building up.
In the late 1990s and early 2000s was the last stages of this revolution.
Rage Against The Machine type of revolution.
Then we got hit with the worlds biggest threat and it "united" all of us. If you were now a "reactionary" you were no different than a terrorist or were seen as unpatriotic.
They tried again with the Occupy movement but then AGAIN it was distraction and division before letting the full force get unleashed.
There is a wave of change coming. And the powers that be can keep trying to build flood dams. But their karma is going to come back.
1 NYC_Subway 2018-06-01
This is gold. So true. Remember the push to label anything anti-American as unpatriotic and almost terrorist sympathizing! And remember all the American flags people planted on their front yards lol WTF best brainwash of the century.
1 FartfullyYours 2018-06-01
I can remember when it was "unpatriotic" to question the 2003 Iraq invasion.
1 NYC_Subway 2018-06-01
I can remember a certain Pat Tillman who was killed by his own for questioning the war.
1 amandez 2018-06-01
Then his unit burnt his armor and personal diaries. Truly fucked up.
1 pahonu 2018-06-01
Link please?
1 amandez 2018-06-01
They've stripped his wiki page and links. Unbelievable. I can't find shit regarding this, yet it happened.
Lemme look deeper.
1 amandez 2018-06-01
I'll continue to update this as I go.
1 amandez 2018-06-01
White House Denies Request for Documents in Ex-NFL Player's Death
I'll continue to update this as I go. Waybackmachine is saying pages no longer exist. No shit.
It's all being wiped from memory.
History is "written" by the victors. Ha.
1 amandez 2018-06-01
Friendly fire via WA Post
1 amandez 2018-06-01
It's still that way. You know this.
1 FartfullyYours 2018-06-01
No, it isnt. Now it is antisemitic.
1 amandez 2018-06-01
Only on this sub.
1 butthole_slut 2018-06-01
I’m proud to be an American, because at least I know that I’m free....pfft
1 Slab_Happy 2018-06-01
As long as the vast majority of people are fed and have roofs over their heads (EBT, Section 8 housing) there won't be any revolution.
1 AaronMN22 2018-06-01
Material comforts placate the masses. Such is the genius of the elites’ façade.
1 TalkingJudasCow 2018-06-01
Current administration is not placating the poor. Time's they are a'changin'.
1 Hambone_Malone 2018-06-01
If your "revolution" is to implement some kind of communist world order then you are now my enemy. I can't believe some people in the "conspiracy community" want some form of state control or centrally planned economy. Skeptical of government, yet want to empower an even stronger more secretive and ruthless government in its place? Doesn't make much sense to me.
1 I_Am_The_Gift 2018-06-01
Or we want, ya know, an actual democracy rather than the oligarchy run by the rich, twisted fucks our government is currently controlled by?
1 Hambone_Malone 2018-06-01
You don't think those same twisted rich fucks wouldn't be your ruler in a proletarian dictatorship? Power corrupts my friend and the same predatory disgusting elites will rise to power no matter what kind of government is in place. You think Stalin, Lenin and the rest of those pieces of garbage were some working class heros? Psychopaths are drawn to power and when you give the state even more power like socialists do you get an even more corrupt ruthless regime that have no qualms in murdering people in the name of the greater good.
1 I_Am_The_Gift 2018-06-01
Who ever claimed they wanted communism? I said a democracy...
1 Hambone_Malone 2018-06-01
Why? You still want rulers? You want a tyranny of the majority?
1 NYC_Subway 2018-06-01
This is every disinfo agents go to argument when discussing ways to rid ourselves of a tyrannical government. Fortunately, its not just us "conspiracy community" folks who want a change. Everything else, including social media and blockchain technology have aligned themselves in a way for us to ensure fairness and accountability across the board. We are almost there and our rulers know this and are acting like spoiled selfish little kids who don't want to share their games with their poor neighbors.
1 Hermeticism 2018-06-01
Right?
Like where did anyone on here mention replacing what we have with communism, haha
I think we can all agree that we would never implement a communist "government", after being able to rid ourselves of the corruption.
1 RemixxMG 2018-06-01
Relevant user name.
1 depleteduraniumftw 2018-06-01
You watched Rage Against The Machine videos on Moloch Television.
1 Step2TheJep 2018-06-01
If you are referring to 9/11, how far have you looked into the symbolism of what took place that day?
1 gallopingbuttocks 2018-06-01
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Jewish%20Lightning
1 ashzel 2018-06-01
Lucky Larry!
1 TheBirdmanArises 2018-06-01
record deletion
1 Inam9797 2018-06-01
Building 7 was demolished to hide evidence of how the Twins were demolished. It was the command center for the 2 main demolitions, and they chose to destroy that evidence rather than have it discovered and have some very, very difficult questions to answer.
You know they were in a tough bind when pulling it and having to come up with an explanation for its unexplainable collapse was seen as preferable to having to explain what investigators would have found in the basement had they left it standing.
1 TheLatchKey 2018-06-01
93 was intended to hit into building 7 but something happened causing the plane to crash. They still decided to "pull it" even though there was no catalyst for the collapse to happen. This was the biggest mistakes ever made and with the rise of the internet age the lies get exposed at an exponential rate.
1 TupacsFather 2018-06-01
Exactly. Something went wrong, but they wen't ahead with it anyway.
1 orwelltheprophet 2018-06-01
While the official WTC I and II stories are impossible, I always felt the 9/11 movement would do better focusing on WTC VII and the Pentagon.
In the aftermath of 9/11, I think it is somewhat unlikely we will have the option of electing a good person as President. We will be forced to deal with the newest bride of this 21st century monstrosity of a government. Obama...McCain...Romney...Clinton...etc. All sociopaths?
1 Ikonovich 2018-06-01
I like how you mention 1 president, 3 non presidents, and leave out the current president.
1 orwelltheprophet 2018-06-01
The jury is still out on the current president. So far, they are all extreme war mongers. That says a lot.
1 colordrops 2018-06-01
Has Trump stopped the drone attacks? Ni Has he pulled out everyone from the middle east? No. He is continuing the war monger policies of Obama, who was continue the war monger policies of Bush.
Trump has had plenty of time to stop this and he hasn't.
The jury is not still out.
1 billymayshurr 2018-06-01
Trump actually cut funding to Syrian rebels after he got office, though he's still supporting the Saudi and Israel regimes like you said. North Korea talks could be promising at least, we'll see.
1 ajarndaniel 2018-06-01
Civilian deaths by drone strikes have spiked with Trump. We're already seeing what he is: Another war-puppet of a president, sucking Satan's cock like his predecessors.
I can't believe anyone takes the role of president seriously. You've noticed they all recite lines written for them by other people? How foreign policy in particular follows a smooth curve from one president to the next? Yeah.
1 billymayshurr 2018-06-01
I agree he's a Zionist puppet but at least so far we haven't had entire countries (Libya, Syria, Iraq) added to list of destabilization. One of the things he ran on was to stay out of Syria and he's tried his hardest but the damn lies about gas attacks keep pulling him back in.
1 monkeyfear 2018-06-01
Presidents are like gameshow hosts to take the critical punches instead to the people controlling the MIC & private fed "money on the backs of working slave income taxpayers".
1 sssgg 2018-06-01
I've heard others say 93 was crashed intentionally to make up a bogus story of some people fighting back.
This makes more sense than a third plane into WTC7, to me.
1 colordrops 2018-06-01
Why does that make more sense?
1 ZiggyAnimals 2018-06-01
Look up the trajectory of 93. It takes it no where near NYC. Crashed intentionaly makes tons more sense considering.
1 tumblingfumbling 2018-06-01
Fascinating explanation!
But wasn’t 93 headed for Washington?
1 Paprika_Nuts 2018-06-01
Wouldn't this kind of decision already been taken in the planning phase? Seems odd to leave the ending to such a complex plan/conspiracy up to last minute debate.
1 tau_decay 2018-06-01
Because radical Muslims are nice and would never fly planes into buildings and kill thousands of Americans.
Yes, we all saw the thing happen live on TV and all evidence confirms - but muh never ending mental gymnastics...
1 ajarndaniel 2018-06-01
Many of us saw three buildings come down basically identically when only two planes were involved.
You're not gonna convince anyone of this horseshit here.
1 Inam9797 2018-06-01
Possibly. I don't believe the people directly responsible for activating the Twins demolition scheme were the same ones who planned "9/11" though. They were victims in a sense and doing what they thought best at the time.
Though you can be sure all 3 buildings already had their method of demolition calculated and in-place long in advance, and it had nothing to do with any conventional means of demolition much less absurd and borderline retarded "fire" theories.
1 showmeurboobsplznthx 2018-06-01
I'm waiting another 15 years and hoping someone involved spills the beans on their death bed
1 Step2TheJep 2018-06-01
'Spill the beans' to who?
1 WhydoesNASAlie 2018-06-01
Neo’s expiration date.
1 Step2TheJep 2018-06-01
And that is just the beginning of the Matrix -> 9/11 rabbit hole.
1 russianbot01 2018-06-01
Even if there was a "plausible reason" to pull it, how could you rig it for implosion floor by floor in just a few hours (and while it was supposedly on enough fire to threaten collapse)? Impossible.
1 TupacsFather 2018-06-01
It was originally intended to be hit by flight 93, but something wen't wrong.
1 flyPeterfly 2018-06-01
The 'plane' that wrecked and left no plane wreckage
1 colordrops 2018-06-01
It was rigged well before the day.
1 SandyBeachman 2018-06-01
The insurance papers rubbed against the mortgage papers and started a fire.
1 Opheliattack 2018-06-01
Underrated comment
1 TheRiseofMindhawk 2018-06-01
The insurance papers rubbed against the mortgage papers and those rubbed against the us constitution, the talmud and 12 hours of banking records, and started a fire.
ftfy lol
1 ashzel 2018-06-01
It could literally be just money. Some people are just that rotten.
1 NYC_Subway 2018-06-01
money is of no issue when you are the issuer
1 RecycledSpoons 2018-06-01
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgcQJxmx028
This should put all notions that the building came down because of fire to rest.
1 Warden_de_Dios 2018-06-01
People say this is evidence of wtc7 being demolished with explosives and then other people say this is evidence of the floors collapsing seconds before the whole building came down due to fire.
This video is the love child of evidence and and roschach test at this point.
1 pipefighter597 2018-06-01
This link doesn’t work anymore..... weird
1 billymayshurr 2018-06-01
This video is fake, edited disinfo, similar to videos showing missiles hitting the Pentagon. It was a controlled demolition but I wouldn't use this video as evidence.
1 NYLON_G 2018-06-01
There is no justifiable reason for Bldg 7 to be "pulled". It was "pulled" because that was in the "plan". The plan to create a "new Pearl Harbour"
You seriously dont believe a camel hugger in cave pulled off the worst atrocity in the history of the country surely?
1 the_mcgee 2018-06-01
In the same manner of as the drills that were occurring on the same day were training for. Just...
1 CubicalWarriorSTL 2018-06-01
Pull as in pull the fire crews. It didn’t mean pull the building down.
The building collapsed because of the fire. People claim that’s impossible but it just happened in Brazil. Buildings fail when they burn for long periods of time.
1 namelesssoulless 2018-06-01
Yeah but thats when theyre fully engulfed and even then rarely and not after burning for like a day
1 NYC_Subway 2018-06-01
uhh no, the building was brought to the ground immediately after he told them to pull it
1 CubicalWarriorSTL 2018-06-01
No, that’s not true. They pulled the crews at 3:30. The building is collapsed at 5:21. That’s almost 2 hours later.
1 sssgg 2018-06-01
Why are you down voting and ignoring the truth? Other person is right. It was left to burn without firefighters hours before it came down
1 CubicalWarriorSTL 2018-06-01
Because facts and logic break their BS theory.
The building collapsed because they couldn’t control the fire.
1 AlvinItchyCock 2018-06-01
If you listen to full the recording in context he is saying to pull the crews that are in the building. Whether they demolished the building or not is a separate issue.
1 GMPollock24 2018-06-01
Ok, for the record I don't believe the official 9/11 story. But if you are looking for 1 plausible explanation as to why a building would be "pulled", it could've been a safety issue to leave it standing.
Again, I don't believe this to be the case...but it is a reason to demolish it.
1 NYC_Subway 2018-06-01
what safety issue!? That day was full of chaos and pandemonium. Causing any further destruction should have been the last thought on any firefighters brain. Yet in the middle of all this craziness, they decide right then that dropping another building is the right thing to do!? And how could they have been sure it was fully evacuated by that point? It was literally like an hour after the other buildings fell.
1 Robbycranker 2018-06-01
Enron evidence was housed in the security and exchange office in building 7 all was lost. Cheney was involved in Enron
1 subdep 2018-06-01
I can’t believe no one has mentioned this yet.
The reason is most likely tied to the fact that WTC 7 held some critical offices to National Security. Namely, the CIA.
My theory: WTC 7 was always rigged for demolition in the event that the CIA office had to be evacuated by all personnel. The last person to leave starts the timer, leaves, and notice is given to the Fire Department that the decision has been made to pull the building, so it gets evacuated by all FD personnel.
1 NYC_Subway 2018-06-01
ok now this is a plausible explanation, but then it implies Larry Silverstein was CIA if he was the one who gave the order.
1 subdep 2018-06-01
Not necessarily. He definitely has a CIA handler though who probably told him what to say.
1 Step2TheJep 2018-06-01
Do you have any evidence whatsoever to support this speculation?
1 CaptainButtChocolate 2018-06-01
It was home to the financial records of big corporations. Select companies had their debt erased along with the building.
1 brglynn 2018-06-01
And pulled during a terror attack. And the amount of time to rig an office building, esp in Manhattan, for demo takes more than 30 mins.
1 Ls2323 2018-06-01
It takes weeksactually.. with drilling into concrete pillars and fuse-wires everywhere. It's not like the movies where they just slap on a remote-controlled stick of c4 to a pillar and off you go...
1 Homegrone18 2018-06-01
Ive soent a lot of time thinking about this and how it fits. And believe you me that i dont believe the official explanation. Wtc7 was definately rigged to blow but the decision to do that wasnt a primary part of the overal plan. As if it was a plan b option.
So was it pulled to hide some kind of corporate intel or aomething along those lines? Possibly. But why the whole building? Maybe part of the plan was to burn certain areas and if maybe that wasnt successful then the killswitch could have been used.
Was it pulled for aome type of public safety concern? Super duper minimal possibility. Mostly because this could have been executed later after the madness with the consultation of many other people when things calmed down the next day or through the week.
Money? This is my best guess and i think it fits occams razor. Why was larry involved so much? I guess because he was in on it but for the insurance payouts. He got twice back in insurance for all 3 buildings if im not mistaken. TWICE. So he didnt just get paid back and compensated for the destruction. He sued again and got a second double dip. This guy made out like a bandit. And this is one of the facts we dont need to theorize. I mean, go double check that i am recalling it correctly, but its not a theory. It happened. My guess is he insisted on being given a killswitch for wtc7 and the option to pull. That order was relayed to those capable of execution and when larry made the call they followed his order. Then larry got paid.
1 Kendle_C 2018-06-01
He wasn't a firefighter, he was part of the demolition team. It was pulled exactly like the other towers, minus the jets. You're not so dense as to think they were executing a professional demolition shortly after the other towers were dropped? Much work needs to be done in advance to demolish a building. 911 was murder, mass murder, and the conspirators should be hanging from the spikes on the memorial, Larry should be on the highest one, upside down, naked like Mussolini.
1 Entropick 2018-06-01
Hear! Hear!
1 NYC_Subway 2018-06-01
if it was a demo team how and why were they using public communications?
1 Kendle_C 2018-06-01
When you're committing a crime you maintain radio silence. Your point is not clear at all. Talk about a needle in a haystack. Non sequitur. What's your point? Are you defending the murderers?
1 NYC_Subway 2018-06-01
Lol dude I’m the OP of this thread how could I possibly be defending them. I do understand your apprehension tho as /r/conspiracy is full of disinfo agents. I was asking from a “that’s a good suggestion but let’s refine and make it perfect by attacking its main points”
1 Kendle_C 2018-06-01
Ok, I'll stop reserving a memorial spike for you. Seems to me the NSA already knows who pushes for justice on the mass murder, and more importantly, they know who produce false theories, distractions and general shilling against same. An analysis will show the IP of said parties, where their located, and the web that connects these parties, finally a forensic financial analyst could follow the money to the planners and perpetrators, cementing the connection to PNAC.
Then interrogations should proceed until these is no reasonable doubt as to who did it. Finally we can make some neckties and rent a crane to escort them to the spikes. It could be a pay per view show benefiting the victims and their families.
1 hamtaylor 2018-06-01
I believe WTC7 was meant to go to down in the smoke of the twin towers. No questions asked.
When the smoke cleared, they realized they fucked up. They evacuated to avoid questions, then blew the rest of the charges. 9 seconds later the building was gone.
1 pot_the_roast 2018-06-01
Has anybody here looked into building eight? If so what do you think caused it, to me it almost looks like a direct energy weapon... it looks like someone just scooped out the whole middle of the building
1 flyPeterfly 2018-06-01
Think you're thinking of building 6
1 pot_the_roast 2018-06-01
Yeah i couldn't remember which one it was, i knew it was a number next to 7 haha but its certainly scary shit, makes me wonder if building 7 is just a distraction
1 flyPeterfly 2018-06-01
Super weird and scary shit for sure. Don't think 7 is a distraction as most never even knew about it. It still isn't well known. But 6 deserves much more attention than it gets for sure
1 pot_the_roast 2018-06-01
That's what I'm thinking, 7 was the go to for "conspiracy theorists" but even among that group 6 is virtually unheard of I honestly only heard about it from the Talk is Jericho podcast and was like... damn haha. I do think it's a good thing that more people are learning about 7 and it being a controlled demo but I really want more info on 6 I really can't imagine what could've done that to a structure
1 flyPeterfly 2018-06-01
Yeah it's crazy. I heard about it here I think, and I think it was this video by Dana Durnford - guy is super intense and I love it. He does a lot of Fukushima vids which are pretty great. That video has some crazy pictures, like the one from the thumbnail here
That guy is standing inside the hole and you can count the floors as Dana shows. It's all missing material. Fucking nuts
1 pot_the_roast 2018-06-01
Thats sweet imma check those out tomorrow thanks bud!
1 the_mcgee 2018-06-01
Insurance.
1 sssgg 2018-06-01
Because pull it meant pull firefighters out of the building. Listen to the entire exchange and you understand the context of the statement.
1 Holiman 2018-06-01
You mixed your commen sense in with my conspiracy theories.
1 yellowsnow2 2018-06-01
They had been planning on how to demolish the building since the 1980s. Asbestos and problems with the aluminum facade being bolted directly to the steel beams creating electro galvanic corrosion.
In the 1980s they used an entire floor for a team engineers to plan out how to demolish the buildings. After a year the team was dismissed. The total cost was going to be $6 billion in 1980s money.
Basically it was to expensive and to dangerous demolish publicly.
1 CubicalWarriorSTL 2018-06-01
I don’t buy it. Asbestos is safe as long as it’s not tempered with. You can encapsulate it in Place. Many buildings have asbestos. It’s only an issue when you tear it down or remodel it for the most part.
I worked on several projects in Vegas where many of the buildings had asbestos. We didn’t tear the building down. We just didn’t touch the asbestos.
1 Holiman 2018-06-01
One question did you know pull it was a code word in demolition before the 9/11 event?
1 BallsmahoneyOGer 2018-06-01
"pull it" is not used in demolition.
1 Holiman 2018-06-01
I have never worked in demolition so cannot speak to the truth of this however truthers often cite this as the OP seem's to have done. My point is the person who said "pull it" was unlikely to have known demolition terminology.
1 know_comment 2018-06-01
isn't the obvious reason that it wouldve been pulled to keep it in its footprint and avoid it toppling onto other buildings? i'm pretty sure that'll be the story about the twin towers too, when they admit they were all demolished with internal charges
1 CubicalWarriorSTL 2018-06-01
Have you ever been to New York? When they toppled they damaged buildings blocks away. As in tore big holes in granite. I’ve seen it. The damage is mind boggling.
It wasn’t a controlled demolition.
1 know_comment 2018-06-01
of course i've been to new york. it's impossible to demolish a building without damaging another. half of the highrises in nyc have nets on them because they're falling apart, but they can't be traditionally demolished, because a controlled demolition is not controlled enough to not affect other buildings in an urban setting. they literally have to pick buildings apart from the top down, and they've never done it on a building as large as the WTC buildings.
1 TheRiseofMindhawk 2018-06-01
a lot of good answers here
record destruction insurance free up the land
the differential in land price before and after the demolition of the entire complex is massive due to the fact they were condemned buildings filled with asbesthos
if they left it up it would still have to be destroyed and in another 5 hours it would have been a symbol of resilience, if it was still standing it would have been a huuuuuuge mess for the owners.
the first step to realizing what 9/11 is about is realizing they were condemned buildings the owner desperately wanted destroyed, not some national treasure or precious infrastructure.
Think about it, now this one guy and his descendants and friends have the 'freedom' sic tower, maybe the biggest perpetual free money fountain in the world, and that may print money for hundreds of years.
Dozens of people won't work a day in their lives from this money, and silverstein is a zionist over american, so you can expect all manner of israel/mossad hijinx in that building for sure. (just like you can the new white house probably btw fwiw)
building 7 was taken down because it was planned, because someone wanted to capitalize on the real estate price differential and avoid costly government regulations, and they wanted the power to rebuild things and profit off of it.
it's like buying an old car that can barely even move, throwing a rock at it, then claiming it was destroyed by religious fanatics from peru, and then using the insurance money to build an 18 wheeler and then calling yourself a national hero.
only there were 3000 people killed and it freaked everybody in the world t/f out.
1 Agent_Orange7 2018-06-01
That's not what "pulling" means. They meant pull the firefighters out because the building was beyond hope. "Pull" is not used in demolition to mean detonate. For that they use the word "shoot," not "pull."
1 ajarndaniel 2018-06-01
Why did Silverstein say pull 'it' rather than pull 'them', then?
1 Ls2323 2018-06-01
He meant to say 'pull out' to the firemen, not 'pull it'..
1 LetItRide_ 2018-06-01
Silverstein had drawn up plans for WTC7’s replacement well before 9/11. Like the other buildings it was riddled with asbestos and a white elephant that would require a very expensive refit to clear it.
Better to grossly over insure the building and demolish it.
The perps behind 9/11 needed Silverstein’s help to lease the whole site, he actually only owned WTC7, to change the security and maintenance crews and allow access to plant explosives, as planes alone would not bring them down. In effect the planes were the patsies.
Silverstein’s reward for his cooperation and silence, was a new asbestos free building and of course the enormous insurance payout for the whole site.
The “reward” for the responders and workers clearing the site, is continuing illness and death from the effects of inhaling the asbestos dust. Not sure, but I think I read that more fireman et al, have died since 9/11 from related health issues than died on the day, The “gift” that keeps on killing.
1 RobotCzars 2018-06-01
He didn't grossly over insure it. The financial backers actually wanted more insurance coverage. Larry actually wanted less.
Silverstein also wasn't the one who originally won the bidding to begin with. Vornado won but the owner didn't have enough financial backing to pay the price he bid. After several months the Port Authority gave up with them and went to the runner up, Larry, who still had backing issues to work out himself even.
That being said, Larry owed a mortgage on the buildings. The insurance payout had to pay for that. The actual contract also required that he rebuild the buildings along with paying the same rent payment even if a building wasn't there. Just to try and get enough to cover everything he had to go through lawsuits (lawsuits which he didn't win). So, for a guy who was so in on it...he's seems very out of the loop.
1 ajarndaniel 2018-06-01
It was filled with asbestos is one theory. Silverstein bought it, but instead of paying more than the building was worth to clean it up, he had it demolished and cashed out on the insurance - twice, I believe, since the WTC was considered two terrorist attacks.
1 subdep 2018-06-01
Not necessarily. He definitely has a CIA handler though who probably told him what to say.
1 I_Am_The_Gift 2018-06-01
Or we want, ya know, an actual democracy rather than the oligarchy run by the rich, twisted fucks our government is currently controlled by?