Contempt

The city of Las Vegas just sent me a $42,000 bill to access public records about Flock Safety surveillance cameras. Over 200,000 records. 1,323 hours of processing time. Thirty-three work weeks of delay, plus a price tag designed to make sure I go away. I am not going away.Today's show is built around one word: contempt. Four stories, one theme.A fake AI-generated soldier named Jessica Foster racked up over a million Instagram followers and hundreds of thousands of likes while posing with Trump, Putin, and Zelensky. The whole operation was a funnel to an OnlyFans foot fetish page. The army has no record of her. She never existed. But the propaganda infrastructure she proved is possible absolutely does.Gas prices are climbing toward four dollars nationally and five dollars here in Las Vegas. Crude oil is near $120 a barrel. Goldman Sachs is projecting years of triple-digit oil. And the president stood in the Oval Office and said, on camera: "We make a lot of money when oil prices go up." He was not talking about you.Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth told the country that families of fallen soldiers told him "finish the job." One of those fathers, a music teacher from Columbus, Ohio who lost his only son, says he said no such thing. We have what he actually said. It is nothing like what Hegseth claimed.And the president, with bruised hands and swollen ankles, is telling rally crowds he will live to be 200 years old.This is what contempt looks like. Follow the Ignition News on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Substack.