Ready for July seventeen, twenty twenty four, allegedly, according to that thing
we call a calendar. This is the o'celly effect. I am Chuck o'helly,
And the reason why I'm speaking this way at the beginning is because I
noticed that some of the automatically generated transcripts of the show are getting a little
muddled at the beginning. So let's see if we can get it clear.
I gave the date fully. It is Wednesday, or Rodin's Day, w
Odin's day here in the middle of the week. I did not do a
broadcast last night, so we're going to do a double show today. And
do I have an interesting one for you in the first hour. Larry Hancock,
the author who takes up a lot of space on my bookshelf, not
because he's taken up space, but because he's got a lot of interesting things
to say. You might think I would ask Larry about the recent assassination attempt.
I'm not going to. We're gonna discuss one of those things that's sort
of fallen out of the headlines. Oh so temporarily, what's happening in Ukraine,
etc. And I do mean etc. Because is anybody at this moment
in this country, in the English speaking world, even paying attention to the
foreign policy and debacles and god knows what the hell Biden is actually doing and
his administration regarding the ongoing conflicts. I mean, I know that the Palestinian
thing and the Israeli conflict gets a bit of headline news, but it seems
like Ukraine, the longer it goes on, the less it's in the headlines.
Maybe it's just me, but anyway, we're gonna talk about that in
the first hour and in the second hour tonight somewhere around nine pm, we're
gonna turn it over to Redmond Porkin's policy. You have not heard from Peers
in a while, but he's going to be the guy that we're going to
discuss the recent events in Pennsylvania, the near miss on Trump, and no
he was not wounded by a bullet, but we'll get there. And I'm
not saying it was faked, and I'm not going into my theories on it.
Let me hear from my guests tonight, and you know, who knows,
maybe we'll even go crazy and get into a third hour and take calls
from you guys if you ask for it. During the show. Okay,
so anyway, let me get to Larry. Larry. It's it's a weird
time to be alive, Larry. But you know, if people go to
Larry dash Hancock dot com, they can definitely catch you blogging on a lot
of things. Oh and you know what, we haven't heard from you in
a little bit. I'm glad you sound really good. I talked to you
just before we went to air. You know, I'm glad you sound really
good. You're you're you had a few issues there, but your back.
You sound strong. And by the bye, I do want to get an
update on that Oswald book that we were talking about. I think the last
time we got together, if it wasn't that, it was RFK, which,
by the way, I might ask you your views on RFK Junior and
all that before we're done, if we have time. But anyway, what's
going on with the Oswald book? But before we go there, even how
you doing? I'm doing good? And actually those two things sort of go
together, Chuck, because after completing like what was maybe a six month editing
process that felt more like four years, we have finished that and that's substantially
contributed to improvement in my overall energy levels. That sort of thing drags you
down relief from the completion. We're done, it's pretty much ready to go
to publishing. Excellent, and you have all your you know, by the
way, we've gotten over this before where your wife is actually helped you pick
some book titles. Did that happen this time? Do you do you?
Or did you just do you? Did you have it already in hand?
Did the editor? Did you know? Did Rex help you here? Because
I know Rex put you through the paces on editor this time Rex helped a
lot. Rex and David and I all tossed around probably two dozen this time.
My wife really didn't get involved. I think when she realized I was
actually doing another book, she said, I'll talk to you later, like
you know, next year. And so no, Rex was a big help
in that, just as he was in the overall process. He's added tremendously
to the book because as a good editor does, he kept asking me questions
and asking me to defend my positions. And the book grew and grew and
grew, and now I think where at four hundred and twenty five pages without
the index or without the photo section. So it's it definitely it definitely grew
through the edit experience. Nice. Look, I'm looking forward to this,
which, by the way, I just got a Skype question and I don't
know the answer to this. It's funny because mathematically I never thought about it.
I think I have every book you put out. But how many books
have you actually released as books? Larry? I think, well, as
books, it's probably about eleven. But considering that someone would have talked actually
came out in three different editions and was published three different times in different editions,
I don't know if you would count that or not, but if so,
I'm setting at about fourteen issues, if you will, of different books
at the moment, some of them on Amazon, some of at this point
in time you'd only find on eBay because they have been around so long.
So it's yeah, it's it's more than I Every time I count them up
again, it just you know, like, no, surely not, but
yeah, there they are, there you go, you know. And the
funny thing is on thrift books, you're actually one of the most popular requested
authors because you can set a wish list on thrift books and you get a
used copy of a book, and some of your books that's the only way
to get them now, because I don't think new ones are being put out.
I'm not sure which ones, but maybe some of the ones like Lancer
is no longer printing, maybe and you had released appear with them. The
good news is some of the some of the even some of the Lancer books
are on Amazon print on demand. Oh okay, so they are are available.
They're not stocked a lot, but uh, most I would say,
Yeah, there are a couple, like you know, November Patriots or the
first couple of editions as someone would have talked, that you could only find
on eBay. Uh, but most everything else is available still on Amazon.
Yeah, I mean, and let's just remind people of a couple of them.
A few that I usually don't mention, Like Nexus is one that I
don't mention. I often use the term Nexus, but I don't often mention
the book. It's a great book as well, and all this stuff.
Basically, generally, I would say it's always about the study of the national
security state and their reaction one way or another to many things, whether it
is various surprise attacks, oh coincidentally the title of a book, you know,
or it is about assassinations or well, unidentified you know, UAP's we
call them now, but unidentified is another one, right, UFOs even UAPs.
I know, I'll correct myself again, but still, you know,
it's always about the national security reaction, and it's always some very interesting and
I find it fascinating that in my little subgenre of JFK stuff, you're always
in the top five or early the top three rated most requested people on wish
lists. When people are looking for books that aren't always in stock on some
of these sites, I want you. I don't know if you know that,
but you're always there and people are always looking for Sometimes the first copies
of someone would have Talked, which by the way, are quite different from
say the third version of it, you know, because there were updates,
right, you know, from each edition and there was additional work done.
Now, on the other hand, something like Creating Chaos as kind of stayed
in its own I think that's only come out in one version so far.
Yea, yeah, it's in only one version, I would say. Overall,
just talking about the books, the failure of Creating Chaos to really register
has probably been the most disappointing to me because it relates directly to what we'll
be talking about this evening. And it's like I wrote about a whole series
of events and context and everything that everybody nobody thinks about anymore. It's like,
here's here's what's happening now, and if it continues to happen, here's
what will come to pass. And it did, right It's disappointing to me
that it was so apparent at that point in time, especially the concept of
hybrid warfare, that it just really didn't register. But and you went some
of that, you lose some right now. At the time that you put
out Creating Chaos, which has a subtitle that does mention a guy who does
make headlines often, which is Vladimir Putin. And of course, in recent
weeks, before the headlines were completely dominated by domestic politics, we were talking
about what happened recently in Crimea. And I'm pretty sure that Crimea had been
annexed already by the time your book came out, but we weren't bogged down.
And now we're over two years in the conflict in Ukraine, which you
know, people have utilized for various political purposes, and there's been various stances
about it, and even domestically, it's become an issue. Are we going
to continue to fund this? But of course we're going to fund Israel after
you know, post October second, you know it was October second, right,
I think it was October second. Anyway, in October of last year,
you know, the the war headlines, if you will, started to
get dominated by Israel and Palestine and that circumstance. But it's fascinating to me
how it seemed like the whole world was about talking Ukraine and support Ukraine on
one side and on the other side, no, no, no, Vladimir
Putin is a hero denocification and it became almost a secondary domestic issue that people
were arguing over. But when you were creating chaos, that's you know,
post crimea. But previous the shots being fired in this special military operation,
as the it was, Russia was at the stage of deniable warfare. At
that point in time. They had a lot of troops in eastern Ukraine.
They had actually armored and artillery formations in eastern u Camkraine, but they were
denying them. They were all, as Putin so elegantly put it, well,
a lot of our troops decided to take vacation and I don't know where
they went. But okay, so yeah, it was it was it was
live and it was real, but it was was deniable. And even when
I was writing, he had it at just at that stage he had just
issued pres statements that said, well, actually, we do have military in
eastern Ukraine. And by the way, yes we did crimea. That was
a I did send special forces in there. It wasn't you know what I
said. So it was just evolving at that time. But I think,
Chuck, what's even more important, what doesn't get captured now is I'm hearing
no dialogue at all about the how dramatically Putin and Russian foreign policy has changed
over time, you know, in creating chaos. I began during in the
time period where Russia actually was part of NATO. They had joined NATO at
anti terrorism level. At that point in time, Putin that had just was
very much engaged in friendship activities with Europe. There's no discussion of anybody threatening
Russia. He was, you know, he was joining all the big executive
level international meetings and he was he was a good guy. He was had
nothing but good things to about Europe and the West, and NATO, and
it's like when now we hardly ever remember that he was there. Yeah,
well he was doing a lot of business, right, and you know,
there was even during the Trump administration. Look, let's turn the G seven
into the G eight, Let's bring Putin in, you know, and all
of that was actually happening, which is strange to me because of course,
one of the primary arguments for a lot of people who are like, no,
Putin has completely justified in what he's doing, you know, side of
the equation is that, look, he was completely surrounded by NATO, threatened
by NATO, he was being you know, threatened by the encroachment of the
United States, you know, absolutely surrounding the new Russian Federation. And meanwhile
you have you know, these people in Ukraine who were being abused by Ukrainians,
so he had to step in ethnic Russians, right, I mean,
this this is the the concept that that people still discuss. But what was
actually happening. I mean, you had a president before Zolensky who you know,
kind of unceremoniously was was gotten out of there. You had an interesting
cooperation with the people in Minsk, right, you know, and and all
of that, some of the border nations okay, that are not supposed to
be Russian necessarily, but certainly are allies of the Russians. It was.
It was an interesting circumstance, and then this went down. So why why
are we at the point we're at? Because I'm still stunned, honestly,
Larry, that this is going on. I would have figured that there would
have been a solution by now, which seems to me that the only solution
that Putin has said he would accept publicly is pretty much, give us these
regions that are you know, predominantly occupied by people that want to belong with
Russia, that want to be part of the Russian Federation. Give us those
parts of your country, I guess, and we'll go away. Which maybe
I'm misreading. This is what is the circumstance, And I'll shut up and
let you lay this out. What's happening now? And why has this gone
on so long? By the way, what's hard to grasp is that so
much of it appears to actually be personal. Again, there was a point
in time where Putin was courting Western Europe, doing a lot of business with
Western Europe, and in a very good position. He had markets. They
were literally giving him the gas mark for Western Europe. You know, it's
kind of like and then what happened and again you have to go through the
timeline it is and creating chaos. What happened coincidentally with that is that that
something that George burst George Bush. The first that actually started years earlier was
a democracy initiative. The Bush administration put a lot of money into the concept
of bringing democracy actually not just Eastern Europe to the world, but the Eastern
Europe and even to Russia because at that point in time, you know,
democracy was a thing, and Russia had gone through its rejection of communism and
had some very democratic elections, a lot of competition, and the United States
officially started funding a lot of organizations that essentially were established to do elections like
we do it in the United States, back when we thought we did elections
in the United States pretty well, you know, how to monitor the voting,
how to make sure it got reported correctly, and observers and we actually
the US funded that for private NGOs, for convinted that and the whole concept
was, you know, we're going to bring democracy to everybody, which was
great until the other guys lose an election and don't like it. And if
you transfer that immediately to where it happened, it happened in Ukraine and around
twenty fourteen. That timeframe, there was a lot of competition between the people
in Ukraine who wanted more of an alliance with Europe and who were not happy
with their you know, prior Soviet Union relationships, and those that were.
I mean, there were literally two factions, no doubt about it, and
a lot of money was put into both sides. Foreign money, whether it
was from the American funding or the NGOs or food in Russia put a lot
of money into the campaign. And this is all documented. It's in the
books, so I don't hesitate saying it. That was pretty open because it
was being tracked and Putin lost and his party lost, and he did not
take it well. And so from that point in time you saw things start
to happen, like cutting off gas supplies to Ukraine and to Europe in the
middle of winter. Right now, that's something you don't do if you want
to keep your customers, because it tends to make them nervous. Well,
but it was the first sign that Putin a was taking things personally, and
that Putin's policy had become a Russian policy, and that it wasn't all you
know, ice cream and cherries. You know that he was more than prepared
to crack the whip if things didn't go like he wanted. Now, is
it relevant to bring up that shortly before that time period though, that he
was, you know what, the mayor of Moscow? Right or no?
Yeah? Was he the mayor of Moscow? He was the mayor of a
major city. St. Peter Saint Petersburg. Petersburg, well was a major
city, but I wouldn't want to go on record. Yeah, okay.
He was very successful in regional polity. He was successful in that way they
go in politics and in business, and he was according alliances with people.
Because the Soviet Union had collapsed, Gorbachov had handed off, you know,
because you go back all the way to hw Bush, right, So Gorbichov
hands off to Boris Yeltson. And there's a lot of disappointment among a serious
segment of the Russian population with the way things went down. They were taking
advantage of economically, I mean, I've had the guy on here, you
know, the economic hitmen and such that were introduced into their right so there's
some legitimate resentment even because they were sort of taken advantage of during a time
when there was serious reorganization of what was once the Soviet Union now graduating into
you know, first of all, here's just Russia, and I'm going to
go look up which city Putin was a mayor of, because I forget off
the top of my head, I know I wrote about it even But here's
the thing. He's building his alliances and pretty soon he's going to become the
elected prime minister, and then he's gonna for the next what thirty years trade
jobs between prime minister and president, right, and keep going back and forth
so that he doesn't violate the constitution that they set up, and so on
and so forth. But he's still rising to power at that time. And
the moment, it seems like the moment that he actually had that in order,
this is when the economic warfare. Like there's a pushback, right,
because weren't they being taken advantage of by the West generally, would you say
or no? There were three things going on at that point in time.
To be truly objective about it, you've got to remember Putin was old line
KGB communist party. He was old school. And so there are three things
happening on. First of all, Russia dispenses with communism, dispenses with state
ownership. And inside Russia, somebody is going to benefit from that. Somebody
is going to everything that state companies were doing. Somebody's going to get private
ownership. And while there are good books on the hip men from the West,
there are also some really good books on how that happened inside Russia and
how the class of oligarchs were created. So, yes, one thing that's
going on is inside Russia you have the rise of the oligarchs, who literally
take advantage of parsing out the state system. Then you have the Western investor
guys who are always on the make. I mean, you find somebody and
they're going to go in and they're going to do capital style business if they
possibly can. But the third thing that's going on, which again totally gets
gets left out of the equations. The United States and Western European countries poured
tons and tons of money literally under even earlier I'm into at the fall of
the Soviet Union, trying to stabilize them, put money in to stabilize their
government because nobody wanted to be anarchy. Nobody wanted to see intercene warfare.
So the third thing that's going on is a lot of money is getting poured
into Russia from the West, and of course people take advantage of that too.
So I guess what I would say is, at this point in time,
there's ample reason to be dissatisfied with virtually everyone. You get to pick
your choice, and whoever's in charge of Russia gets to focus on who they
want to make look bad, right, because there's ample guilt and drama to
spread around for everybody, everybody, and you just kind of forget all the
good parts and focus on the bad parts. Putin is not nobody in Russia
at this point, and I'm is going to talk about how the oligarchs raped
the Communist state. Well, and a lot of them, let's be frank
about it, were in one way or another, seen as criminal elements that
had their own separate power bases from the Communist party, right, they had
their own financial independence. And what Putin basically did is say, look,
throw in with me and we will come together and have a coalition. Here.
I know I'm oversimplifying, but I mean this is the truth of it,
right, and about. And the only way you can do that is
you have to have been an insider because if you're going to parse out the
state to the these the other organization, right who sues the other organization?
Internally it's these groups. These you have to have the connections to make this
transition. You literally have to be able to say, Okay, who gets
to buy stock, who gets these assets, who owns these factories? You
know, somebody has to be in a position, and he was in a
good position to create a coalition to do that. And you know, to
the winner gets the spoils, and for him it was political advantage. Uh,
plus a lot of money. Uh. People. Again, people don't
talk about it, but you know a few years ago, a whole host
of records from this period of time were released from the third party countries where
the money was being handled in Central America. And it's kind of interesting,
but that that doesn't give much discussion these days. No, but you're you
described it in a very straightforward I would just this is the context of that
period of time. It was very chaotic, and there was blame on all
parties and participation in all parties. That's just life right now. Just to
clarify something from earlier. It's Saint Petersburg, where Putin was mayor, and
indeed he's serving in all kinds of positions quite frankly, as soon as he
resigns from the KGB in between nineteen ninety and nineteen ninety one, depending on
whose account you take here, he has a resignation from the KGB, which
he had been with since nineteen seventy five, but also held a position with
the GRU and various government agencies, including the staff of Yelson at one point.
Right, that's very important. But hey, I'm blaming a point.
I said, Saint Petersburg, so one for the old guy. Yes you
did, you had it ahead of me, and my apologies. I don't
know why I thought Moscow. Oh I know why I thought Moscow because he's
serving in multiple government positions and is being called Okay, you know, he
owns summits in Moscow with Bill Clinton in two thousand and all, like his
timeline is littered with this. You know, all of a sudden, he's
got multiple positions in the government until he ascends all the way to the top
of the government, where he has remained now for at least you know,
two and a half decades, Okay, just saying, so it's it's not
hard to confuse this a bit, all right, And he was a good
guy at that point. Again, at that point in time, during that
period, there's no talk against the West. There's no talk, you know,
it's all I you know, I'm here, we're open for business and
we love everybody, right, I mean, he's but he's first deputy manager
for yeltsin in ninety six. He's the deputy chairman of the Saint Petersburg City
Government and chairman of the Committee for External Relations. He's got foreign stuff going
on, where he's meeting with people in London, et cetera, et cetera.
In other words, it's starting in nineteen ninety let's just say when he's
either resigning or in the process of resigning from the KGB. Instantaneously his political
career goes, you know, like crazy. He rises, just saying,
and that's the time where the files were. Yeah, well, it's interesting
how these guys in the intelligence agency magically have the support of all the people
that the intelligence agency would have files on. You know. Anyway, I'm
making jokes, but that's the truth of his you know, his publicly understood
political timeline. I just wanted to make sure we had it straight. Okay,
But now we're not talking about that guy anymore, because that guy was
in a different circumstance. He was definitely in a let's say, a defensive
position. Let's be fair. The Soviet Union collapsing created a great deal of
uncertainty. Like you said, there are people from within and from without seeking
to prey upon the vulnerabilities of a system which has just collapsed. Right.
You know, there's the redistribution of the nukes, which people have talked about.
There's all of the you know, places where resources and particular things were
being sourced from that are no longer going to be part of the Russian arrangement
one way or another. Various nations either want their independence or want to come
back into the fold, and all of their demands and ideas about this vary.
This is a bit of chaos, and it's not even the creating chaos
that you're talking about in the book, which by the way, is not
solely focused on putin creating chaos just for people's knowledge. He's a big part
of the book, but he's not the whole book, is he? We
do everybody. Yeah, yeah, you know, East West, both sides.
But one might say that simply because of the fall of the Soviet Union
and somebody that might want to reassemble a coherent structure in their society, in
their government, in their nation, somebody who was, let's just be completely
you know, vanilla about this, is a true believer in somebody who is
being a servant of the people right for Russia. If you're that guy,
you're scrambling to figure out any which way that you can regain some sort of
footing where you're not just going to be picked clean to the bones, which
could have happened to the former Soviet Union. Some people claim that it did
happen. That's exactly what happened, right, that they were completely preyed upon
and then surrounded completely, despite the fact that they had been promised that,
you know, the West would not encroach upon them and try to interfere and
take advantage of their vulnerabilities. Indeed, that did happen on some level anyway,
But did it happen to the extremes that some people say, Okay,
let's leave that judgment alone. I think all of this is fair to mention
when we put the you know, the the beginning, the opening, uh,
the introduction to the book that needs to be written about this entirety,
right, you have to take that into account, Larry, don't you Well,
yeah, I think you have to take it into account. But you
also need you need numbers, and you need data to go with it.
Uh. In terms of being taken advantage of Russia was chaotic. Russia was
until it got to sack together production wise. I'm not sure that you would
consider Russia to have been poor. I don't know that you would have considered
in certain segments of the country. You know that the state had been underwriting
before that was poor because you took the state support away. So from that
level, segments of the country became poor, like their space program had no
more funding, you know. But there were a lot of people making a
lot of money, more money than they had been before the oil and gas
industry boomed. It's kind of fascinating that that. And I even go through
this in the book in terms of you know, who was involved in what
economic activity, and where the money was made and where it wasn't. But
I think it's a it's an illusion to say that Russia was being hamstrung.
Russia was actually taking advantage of its resources immensely. It literally became one of
the top oil and gas vendors in the world, and you can go back
and look at the records, and money poured in and everybody wanted to do
business with them. They were in a position of literally locking up Western Europe.
And I think answer, but and not only that, but part of
the parallel here that that I think perfectly match is with the development of the
entirety of the Russian Federation is the reality of the the energy business because they're
deeply, deeply involved in you know, cooperative efforts with companies like Exxon Mobile.
See this is where t rex you know, t Rexon comes into play,
right Rex Tillerson and all of his work with Exxon Mobil and the many
many others. But Exxon Mobil was a huge mover there. They definitely capitalized
on but also pumped a lot of money into the Russian Federation technology and technologynology
into the oil and gas industry in Russia. But yeah, absolutely, and
I guess this is where I kind of I don't understand why you would you
could say that, you know, Europe was holding Russia hostage and encroaching somehow.
When Russia literally had taken Europe hostage with its oil and gas deliveries and
then demonstrated that with a turn of a valve they could shut it off,
you know, if there's the next successual thread, It's like, wait a
minute, I just put you know, ten of the largest nations in the
world economically at risk of my pipelines. And by the way, I've just
demonstrated that I'm the one that has the ability to turn them on and off.
So who's holding who? Now Here's the funny part is because I was
at that time, you know, a surrogate holding stock for my children,
and I worked for Exxon Mobile at the time. I saw some of these
deals that they were letting us stockholders know that were going on. I knew
what was happening on that end of it. So let's talk about that retail
thing. And this will be the final thing that I'm going to add here,
and then Larry's going to lay out the rest of the story and bring
us up to today. Now that we've covered plenty of history. But here's
the reality is on the retail side. See, you're talking about Europe and
the supply of energy to Europe, and that's great. But there's also sort
of the retail free market end of this, that is the Russian oil and
gas companies that turn into things like Luke Oil. You know, by the
time it gets to the United States, you got Russian companies and you know,
you guys can look this up, and by the time the early two
thousands roll around, there are Russian companies with sweetheart deals in the United States
to retail gasoline, okay, and diesel and stuff like that into places where
there is no competition in the US. I'll give you a weird example about
it. There's like, Okay, in New Jersey, we have the Garden
State Parkway and we have the Turnpike. All right, these are two major
arteries that you know, absolutely dominate travel in the state. The joke,
even if you're from Jersey or you're from the northeast at all, you might
hear, oh, yeah, I'm from New Jersey, and somebody might snap
back you which exit, because the exit of the Garden State Parkway or what
we call the parkway there is really a good mind. It's a mile marker
on the state and everything. It indicates exactly what area of the state you're
from, and runs north to south of this whole tiny state of Jersey,
and it's a densely populated state. There's a lot of gas and oil to
be sold, a lot of diesel all that. Now, it's also right
next to New York City, major hub where a lot of things land,
so you know, there's a lot of people traveling through New Jersey and again
having to hit the oil in the gas. There are Russian companies that held
the exclusive contract to sell gas up and down the Garden State Parkway, just
like the fast food chains on the Garden State Parkway. Like you could either
have a contract there or not. You and I, Larry, even if
we had a billion dollars, couldn't buy a spot on the Garden State Parkway
for a gas station or a Hamburger joint. Okay, now, the Russians
didn't have anything to me, you know. Obviously it was McDonald's and actually,
weirdly in Jersey it was roy Rogers for a while as a fast food
chain that had, you know, these exclusive contracts. But Russians had sweetheart
deals. Russian companies had sweetheart deals like that in America. That's just Jersey.
By the way, But they had a lot of contracts like that and
municipal contracts where Luke Oil, you know is in some cases I guess they
bid for him, but in other cases nobody knew how it happened that at
a time when oil and gas, you know, suddenly had those large spikes,
when we went from the one dollar reality of gasoline and retail to you
know where we are today, which is two dollars, three dollars. Oh,
that's good that reality changed. Okay around this time, and right around
the time that we had the spike, especially the spike post nine to eleven
of you know, oil and gas prices, right and after the natural disaster
on the East coast and all this, it was a bunch of Russian companies
that stepped in and ended up with municipal contracts, state contracts and things like
this where they had exclusive rights to retail distribution in certain places. I've never
seen that, you know, British petroleum didn't get that, Okay, a
Dutch royal shell you know, whatever, you know, country they originated from.
At one point, I never saw these you know, sort of foreign
entities ever get a contract like that. But here it is Russian companies got
it. It was wild. So you know, they weren't collapsing when it
came to being able to market themselves internationally with with with what they had in
abundance apparently, which was energy. And then they then you talk about Europe,
and that's a whole separate issue, so we're not talking about Yes,
there were people that were suffering because of the changeover in the you know,
in the system, and a lot of government jobs disappeared where the government kind
of had their hand in everything and suddenly maybe there just was no job or
no check coming even if they you know all that, right, I mean,
you even remember the days of the unemployed KGB people basically trying to sell
you see Larry's laughing already, pretty much trying to sell their stories because they
thought that people that wrote books about Kennedy or did documentaries were going to pay
them a lot of money. Uh, because they they thought somehow there was
a lot of money in that. So I have KGB. I mean,
these guys had, I have documents. I was a KGB guy. There
was probably a thousand of those guys trying to sell their stuff because they were
now unemployed and there was no good unemployment program from the government over there.
And you saw that firsthand, didn't you. Oh, absolutely, okay,
And I think for our conversation it's interesting to note that a lot of the
unemployment. So let's talk about the money that the Soviet state was spending just
before it kind of fell apart. A lot of that money was actually spent
spent in Ukraine for two reasons. First of all, the Soviet state was
able to underwrite the heavy industry in eastern Ukraine, the coal and heavy production
part. They were able to underwrite it and pay reasonable salaries because you can
balance you know, production that way. And that went away, things got
rough in Eastern Ukraine. Plus, Ukraine was the home of a lot of
the design, engineering, and production of the most advanced Russian technologies, and
it always had been. And then suddenly that money has gone away too.
So just when we're talking about this, it wasn't the whole the collapse of
the Soviet system and the emergence of you know, a non state oligarchic economy
cutting deals should you know, at some point in history it'll be a fascinating
book. I don't think it's one you could survive writing right now because you're
not going to do the interviews that would get you the right story without getting
yourself killed. But yeah, so my last, my last little addition to
this and then I want you to bring us to today, is that let's
also keep in mind that Ukraine was the home of a significant nuclear stockpile,
and you do have various of these, you know, formerly parts of the
Soviet Union now having to cut new deals and make new arrangements. Indeed,
Minsk, you know, was the home of the KGB archive that's now in
a country called Belarus are Belarius depending on how you pronounce it, and that
is, you know, for the most part, on the surface and independent
nation, but clearly is in close cooperation and collaboration with the Russian Federation,
though they maintained their individuality as a nation, right, And there were different
ways regardless of those Chinese exercise was going on on the Polish border well that
too, but you know, but either way, all of these things had
to come down in different ways. So now let's go from that history and
blast me through what has actually been going on as of late and why the
hell still I don't have an answer as to why this is taking so long?
Two years later, so things changed, As I said, with that
election in Ukraine was kind of the last straw. There were a series of
what we're called the Color Revolutions in Georgia, Kazakistan. But again, this
transition between bringing democracy to these countries that had been formerly Soviet republics was a
painful process for the Russian traditionalist because what they saw in country after country and
the Color Revolution was democracy was in and the old guard was out. And
that was very uncomfortable, and that was very coomfortable for Moscow because Moscow didn't
see that coming. You know. It's sort of like these guys were ours.
We assume they'll stay ours, you know, they like us. The
old rule was, you know, the the political decisions for all of the
republics are done locally but approved in Moscow, you know. So that's the
way it ran. And when that started changing, it made people nervous.
And actually I would say the Color Revolutions made Moscow more nervous than anything else
at that point in time. And why it was happening and why these these
democratic movements that were dangerous because they were seeing the old guard being replaced made
them nervous. Well this you go through a wave of when those happened,
and you see Moscow and Russia becoming more and more nervous, and then you
see Ukraine emerging it as kind of like the critical places like and Putin decides
that Moscow is not going to lose any more elections. It's it's not it's
just not going to put up with it anymore. So in Ukraine you see
a very bitter political contest between the parties that are essentially backed democratically and all
in all honestry are looking towards Europe and those that are backed by Putin and
Russia and are looking towards Moscow. And Putin himself went to Ukraine and campaigned,
and Russian media outlets campaigned and broadcast in Ukraine, and it really,
if you want to see a conflict, it really was the first stage in
this conflict. And Putin was absolutely convinced that he was going to win.
And again, most people don't look into this anymore or study it, and
I only did because I was forced a way through the background in the book.
But that's that's where this conflict really begins. And when Putin's people lost,
it became very personal, and I guess Chuck's that's where I would draw
the line, because that's where we see too geopolitics appear to change and becomes
very personal and very personal built around Putin. Before Putin was doing outreach.
Now he's in defensive mode right now. One thing that's left out of this
all the time, just last little element here, is that there was a
consistent and completely coordinated pe our move to consolidate the media and to do an
outreach on a global scale, Okay, which I can point to no one
else except Vladimir Putin here when it comes to RT America. Uh, you
know, making sure that there were English speaking Sputnik out there, all of
that stuff and putting it out there and creating a pr campaign that slotted really
well with people that were looking for certain things, disappointed with the leadership of
Barack Obama, thinking that we now had you know, what they used to
call a weak sister in the White House, even you know, here's a
real man, here's Vladimir Putin, here's a real government, here's a good
guy who reorganized despite all of his challenges. And that was all the media
hype that was produced by RT Sputnick. You know, all these days art
America as it was, and that was well coordinated, choreographed and well fund
state media. And interestingly, that had really begun in Russia. The genesis
of that was the Chechen terrorist campaigns and essentially the Chechen Revolution against Moscow and
a series of terror attacks inside Russia that and Putin got an immense amount of
criticism from that. You notice, these days, terror attaxes happened in Russia
and nobody blinks. But in those days, at that point in time,
Putin clearly decided that he had to essentially take control of the media. He
was not going to expose himself to being challenged by Russian media. And that's
when Russian media began to be consolidated, and they did in a very simple
fashion. All they really had to do was let his friends, the oligarchs,
buy the media's outlets and suddenly, you know, things changed. But
so absolutely right, chuck that. But again, it's fascinating that that started
literally because Putin was pushed into a defensive position about things that were happening internally.
Whenever he is pushed defensively, he responds. The system doesn't respond,
he responds, right, And look, the consolidation methodology is almost a perfect,
you know, carbon copy of what he did regarding the energy consolidation.
Right, it's the same thing. Let me bring my friends in, they'll
do the right thing because them doing the right thing by me is doing the
right thing by themselves. This is a you know, a self perpetuating circumstance
that all I have to do is put the right people in place at press
play. Here we go. So I mean, am I wrong about that?
Or am I oversimplifying? Now? No, that was consolidation. If
you if you think about it, consolidation is always a defensive strategy. Yes,
I mean, it's mergers, consolidations, acquisitions. They're in business,
you know, that's you can expand two ways. You can you can truly
expand with new outlets and new venues and new whatever. But the other way
is to consolidate. And that's that was what happened in the goil and gas
industry. That's what happened in the media. So yeah, I would say,
you're absolutely right, Chuck. Okay, So how do we get to
today though, because this is a new circumstance to me, go ahead,
well, and that that's what is striking to me, and that is what
is most concerned to me, because if you look at where Russia was,
and we're putting himself was when we started this dialogue like outreach to the West,
making tons and tons of money off energy sales to the West. You
know, as far as Russia is a nation is concerned, that was a
sweet spot. I mean that was really the deep place. You know,
Russia has the second largest military at that point in time in the world.
Uh, Russia is raking in oil and gas money at high prices and high
margins and growing that market. Russia is, you know, very involved in
the international space. You know, Russia is a real player. But then
if you compare that to now, you know, in the same world you
would be looking to continue that right, expand markets, make more money,
make more friends. Just the opposite has occurred. Yeah, they still is
selling a lot of oil and gas, yeah, to India and China at
virtually nothing in terms of money. Their military has largely been destroyed. At
the point in time, we see trains of T fifty four tanks going to
Ukraine. These are early fifties er tanks. Their office of corp has been
decimated. None of this is good for the nation. Nobody in the world
could think it's good for the nation, and essentially that's been a personal decision.
Putin made a personal decision based on bad advice to essentially do what he
did in Georgia in a couple of the other former Soviets republics, in a
hybrid warfare deniable warfare, moved essentially to take control of Ukraine again. I
think the most fascinating thing that we saw when the special military operation kicked off
was a copy of a newspaper article that had been written assuming that Kiev would
be taken in twenty four hours and how Kiev, how Ukraine would fit into
the Russian federal system. You know, he made a mistake, There was
a mistake made, but Putin never ever, what's what would need a good
pray? If you make one mistake, he doubles down. He's that kind
of card player, and he's still doubling down. And this is what scares
me about the whole situation, because assuming that there is a settlement in Ukraine,
what Russia will inherit are isn't an economic area in eastern Ukraine which is
devastated. The only way that they have made any advances is to literally destroy
town after town, city after city, demolishing it with our you know,
it will be economically pressed area that would require tons and tons of money to
redevelop, to d mind if anything, for construction. Russia doesn't have that
money and Russia doesn't have that manpower, So he's going to bring in North
Korean construction people. I mean if in the long span of history, it
makes no sense geopolitically, but there doesn't seem to be any out really,
and when you listen to some of the Russian commentators, it's just getting worse
and worse. So I guess I guess that's what we can assess. You
know, I can certainly assess the battlefield situation. But geopolitically, this whole
the last two years has been bad for Russia and there is no sign of
it getting better for Russia. He can't. He's the best estimates are certainly
over one hundred thousand Russian troops killed twice that three times that injured or wounded,
which again are the ones that they went back. You're gonna have to
pay for them. It's just it makes no sense. And I always when
I look back at history, I hate situations that where there is there's no
sense. There's no economic sense, there's no real political sense. It all
appears to get really personal, which is what it appears to be now with
Putin and his leadership is really personal. They can't they can't extricate themselves,
and that's dangerous. Right now, I've got a couple of stupid questions for
you, okay, So can you bear with me on just like two stupid
questions? I can handle it all right, Cool? How is there anything
left of you know, some of these tested parts of Ukraine? Because I'm
just you know, doing the calculations in my mind. How many buildings can
be blown up before there's nothing left? How many you know what I'm saying,
Like it seems to me like over the course of two years, if
you're constantly engaged, the level of destruction means that there's nothing left, okay,
of some of these areas. So what I guess you partially answered this,
but I mean, what is there to gain outside of territory unless he
actually inherits the entirety of the nation, it begets a full surrender, which
apparently is not the case. That's not going to occur under any circumstance.
And well, yeah, the most valuable stuff. If you follow the military
reports, he keeps hearing reports of well this strong point, and that strong
point was a manufacturing plant, an aggregate plant, a materials plant, a
coal mine. Those were the strategic areas that the Ukrainians held in the East
and are either still fighting over or they got driven out by Russia completely destroying
them. So all of the all of the most valuable factories and most of
the most valuable resources that the infrastructure to produce them have been destroyed. So
you would have to rebuild that. And if if Eastern Ukraine was an industrial
complex that was worthwhile, then Russia destroyed it in taking it, and it
would only be of value if they rebuilt it in it And quite frankly,
much of it was heavy industry. And the real question is what is that
heavy real heavy industry useful for anymore? Uh, It's it's real. It's
useful if you're going to drive a growing consumer economy, which is the last
thing that Russia is going to have, right, Okay, So there's that
question. So no, I don't see they haven't gained anything that they can
immediately turn around to use for you know, revenue generation or resource generation.
It's a burden if it's anything. So if we also take the positions of
Vladimir Putin and the Russian government at face value, are we in danger at
this point of literally because of US support to Ukraine? Are we actually in
danger of a direct conflict as opposed to what we're dealing with now, which
is, you know, the shipment of resources to Ukraine from US in the
West, one way or another, whether it's the United States directly. You
know, the arguments over how many billions of dollars of assets have been shifted
over et cetera. Is there a danger here though, and I mean because
there's been threats, counter threats, positions, there is no danger there if
if Russia that's my second stupid class badly yes, sorry, in this conflict
all throughout the entire scope of its military force, that there's just no way
there's a conventional threat now unless somebody goes absolutely insane and goes nuclear, which
is another story entirely, But there's no risk of a conventional threat. If
Putin did something to trigger Article fifteen, NATO would roll over Russia and Russia
would you know in Ukraine, which is what has been said, would happen.
It's sort of like we will if you use nuclear tactical nukes there,
then we will just eliminate your forces in Ukraine if you kept it at that
level. No, there's no risk because they can't go head to head with
any of the Western military powers at this point in time. They did that
to themselves. I think what is more more risky. It's not so much
for the West. It's actually risky for Russia to subjugate itself to China or
in North Korea. The risk at this point in time is Russia moving itself
down to a almost like a second tier world power. Other than the fact
that it has nukes, you know that this is not the Russia that there
used to be. So there's a real ongoing risk for Russia to lose the
position that it had by making these agreements. I was not joking about.
Wait a minute, what since who is winning by Chinese troops doing military exercises
in Bella russ Is that what Moscow would have wanted? I don't think so
well. I guess yeah. The last wide open question then, and then
I'm gonna have to let you go because I've kept you just about a solid
hour now. And that's what I allotted for this discussion. And believe me,
we could talk about this for hours. But the last thing I guess
I have to ask, which is one of those things that you know,
when people finally clear their heads from all the domestic you know, clown shows
that are happening. You know, even OURFK Junior allegedly is going to get
Secret Service protection now too. But we'll discuss that in the next hour.
And I'm gonna let you off the hook on that, Larry, but I'm
gonna put you on the hook for this one. Do we have a legitimate
worry though, that there could be either an escalation out of desperation or for
some other purpose, that we suddenly do see nuclear weapons on the table in
the theater actually occur here? And what about a straight up conflict that way,
because if we have you know, nuclear elements, nuclear assets being not
just deployed because I heard what a year and a half ago they were being
deployed, but what about if they are actually in use? Could that are
we in risk at a risk of having something like that happen? Now We're
not. We're going to fall back. Actually, we're falling back into the
Cold War, right, you all remember that, and what was the hallmark
of the co War? Everybody we had nukes, they had nukes. Nobody
used nukes, mutual assured discurrance. But deniable warfare and hybrid warfare are going
to become the order of the day. This week NATO is meeting because several
NATO nations have seen increasing examples of Russian sponsored hybrid warfare. Or there's cyber
warfare, aspionade, subversion, blowing up factories, and that's that's what you
would almost predict because Putin was really good at that and you and I have
talked about that, Chuck, before that, before before he went over military,
he was a great tactician and was using hybrid warfare very skillfully. Right,
for whatever reason, he has decided that that's now what he's He did
it in Eastern Europe, before, he did it in Africa, before he
did it in the Middle East, before in Syria. Now he's decided that
he's going to do it in Europe, and so Europe is going to respond.
So what he is going to do is that they're going to respond to
hybrid warfare, just as they've responded, you know, upping their military budgets,
conventional budgets Europe. He has prompted Europe to do what Europe wasn't going
to do before, which was spent money on its own conventional defense and move
to hybrid warfare. So no, I don't say the risk is on the
on the atomic side. I see it as us falling all the way back
into the deniable and hybrid warfare of the cod war. Well, Larry,
before the end of the year, you and I are going to have to
talk about assassinations and assassination attempts. But tonight we didn't touch on that or
even the you know, some of the odd things that were floated out there
that you know, he's ill. That was a weird thing that was going
on. Now nobody's talking about the health of that president anyway. Nobody's talking
about the you know, the the overall mental stability of that president any longer.
But indeed, there is something to still keep an eye on there,
because I think there's still the potential for things to get out of hand,
to really go much further. I mean, it is unfortunate and horrible for
the people, you know that were just living their lives in Ukraine that weren't
involved in Nazism or that didn't have you know, a dog in the fight
regarding Russia or Russian ethnicity, etc. Who were just you know, trying
to live their lives, who have also been affected by this, which bothers
me the most. But here we are the thing that nobody's even discussing,
even though it's well past the two year marks. So anything you want to
say in closing here, Larry and I would advise in closing for you guys
to read anything that says it was written by Larry Hancock. I'm looking very
much forward to the Puzzle Pieces of Lee Harvey Oswald, although that's not the
proper title. Something like that though, coming up before the end of the
year, hopefully, and we'll just have to see which publisher will release it.
It'll be nice to see. But in the meantime, plenty of stuff
out there for you to catch up with, including one of the books that
would be way relevant to tonight's discussion, creating Chaos, uh, but many
other books by Larry Hancock. I advise, and certainly you know tell you
that I recommend all of them, every last one, even if you get
the old version of something used. It's great but the books on Amazon,
the books you can get from Priftbooks, the books on eBay, wherever you
can get stuff written by Larry Hancock, you should. And you can go
to Larry dash Handcock or Larry Hypenhancock dot com, Larry Dashandcock dot com there
see his blog as books and everything, but anything you want to say in
closing, Larry, Now, I think that pretty I do. I really
do wish that people would read Creating Chaos, not because I'm interested in selling
books, but because this whole discussion of Ukraine and Russia and current day geopolitics
in Europe is being carried out out without the history that it needs. It's
like suddenly and it's recent history. It's like the last decade. You know,
wait a minute, we suddenly forgotten the last decade. So that would
be my only plea is that people that want to discuss the subject really need
to have at least some not ancient history, but some recent history. Yeah,
relatively, you know, the post you know, post millennium history.
Even right we're not even talking about, you know, the history of the
twentieth century. We're talking I mean, although that's relevant. Like we talked
about his rise to power and all that, which is very relevant in this
discussion. But still, you could just look at the stuff post nine to
eleven if you like, and see the reactions and the way things changed.
I mean, at one point Russia was reacting along with the anti terrorist agendas
of other nations. There was cooperation here. I think all that's been forgotten
in the you've been with Sato. Yeah, I mean that like mutual exercises,
sharing them from you know, like if you just showed up, you
would be going what yeah, now that that would be my last note.
I've enjoyed it. Chuck. There you go. So again, Larry Dashhancock
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might have something to say. But yeah, so you know, if you
do talk to Stu, do me a favor and tell him that I'm very
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and well researched understanding of these sorts of geopolitical events and characters creating chaos.
Obviously I highly recommend it along with Larry's books. But and you know what,
there's some interesting pieces in a few of the other ones. Shadow Warfare
might provide some context to this discussion, just saying, would you agree with
that, Larry? Yeah, because, like I said, we're going back
to the co War, so you might as well refresh your memory. Yeah.
Yeah, you're gonna have to. Unfortunately, as as the world turns,
so to speak. Anyway, in the next hour, I'll be talking
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together in another two weeks and there won't be anything crazy happening. Sound like
a plan that would be good, excellent, So hopefully the world won't be
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by the way, what is the proper title of that book before I sign
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Oswald puzzle pieces. But the Oswald puzzle coming hopefully before the end of
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two of the o'cell Effect. And we haven't done a second guest in a
while. We've only been doing one. But you know what, I had
a miss que last night, so I thought it perfect to have the opportunity
to bring on two individuals that I can actually have a conversation with, and
you know, one of them being somebody that I have a constant discussion with
about geopolitics, and the other one I used to talk to all the time.
But he's been kind of busy and hasn't been doing a show as far
as I know. I haven't seen new podcasts from him. I haven't seen
a lot of stuff from him. I'm not picking on him. I'm just
saying he's been kind of quiet for a while, maybe with good reason,
and maybe we'll find out why, maybe we won't. Either way, sometimes
life gets in the way. But I'm really really happy to have Pierce Redmond
with me Porkin's Policy Review. Of course I used to produce that show for
a little bit also have been on the same network as Pierce. I still
love the fact that it was Sybelle Edmunds who introduced us a long time ago,
because it was kind of a weird thing, like, here's this guy,
Pierce Redmond, and I went okay, and just sort of familiarized myself
in about five minutes with him and went, huh, this guy's different,
And no, I love it. And you know what, I don't even
have your your alleged vocal doppelganger on any longer. And it's not not because
we don't talk or anything, but he doesn't have time for me lately,
so you know, you won't be confused with anybody else's voice. But Porkins
Policy Review dot com is still a website, right, It is still website.
I just typed it in just to make sure that it was still a
website. Think's going to check paid, But yes, Workin's Policy Review dot
com is still my website. Will just also just thank you Chuck for having
me back on. I know it's been quite a while. I you know
we were I was talking too close to the microphone before we went live,
you know, I had to reinstall Skype. But yes, it is.
It is still a website. Yeah, there's some old, old stuff on
there, a lot of these links. I was just clicking through, you
know, some of the various sites to follow that I have on the side,
and they're just there. There are some strange ones up there. Yeah,
so I might have to update this at some point. Yeah, and
you know, there might be you know, old interviews on there between you
and I. There, there might be it's funny saying like, oh,
does the website still work? It does, but I will say that on
the you know, on the side of the page where it's the sites to
follow, it seems like almost all of these don't exist anymore. I'm just
clicking through so many of them and they're all you know, the like bitdefender
is warning me not to visit it, or it doesn't exist, or you
know, it's been taken over by you know, sometimes when you click on
something and it, you know, it sends you to some sort of weird
Chinese furniture store or something like that that's bought the domain. So yeah,
there's a lot of there's a lot of stuff there, but all my shows
are still there and available people wants. You can still see the shows.
The really cool piece of artwork where you know, Pierce Redmond is still in
the cartoon, outfitted in the uh you know, in the Star Wars gear
and all of that. Anyway, it is good to talk to you,
man. We we have discussed everything from you know, South Park to conspiracy
culture, uh, you know, over the years, and I'm really glad
that we have and frankly, given what occurred this past Saturday, yes,
I sat back and said to myself, oh, dear God, I don't
even know who I'm going to discuss this with. I I know I'm going
to do some solo shows where I just sort of discussed and think out loud
about it. But I need to take a minute here, because you know,
it was not something other people were telling me for about the past eight
years that there was going to be an assassination attempt on Donald Trump. Matter
of fact, about in twenty sixteen or seventeen, somewhere in there, it
was intense rumor that there was a plot in motion against Trump, that there
would be this grand plot that was only in part going to feature an assassination
attempt against Trump, which was meant to succeed, and there might even be
I mean, there was something out there. I think there was a guy
named George Webb or something that was like saying that, I assume he's probably
still out there. I think so people into you know, following him.
There's going to be nukes set off on the Mexican border, and Trump is
going to be you know, they're gonna try and kill him or they are,
Yep, they might. And then some other guy ran with it said
they were going to replace him with a doppelganger. Okay, I mean wild
it was. It was so bizarre to me that when he was first,
you know, selected, that he became the trojan horse for conspiracy culture.
And what do I mean by that? That other ideas were riding inside of
what used to be conspiracy culture and he he covered all bases. He had
stuff riding on the horse in the horse, and he was the horse,
okay, because he was out there dropping hints. You know he's gonna People
are telling me he's gonna talk to RFK Junior, and he did recently and
the call leaked and I don't even know if he caught up with that.
But anyway, he's going to talk to him, and you know what,
they're going to finally do something about you and I don't necessarily agree on this,
but they're going to finally do something about the toxicity of vaccines. And
he's going to bring in RFK Junior to advise him. And you know what,
when twenty seventeen comes, Chuck, and you've been waiting for twenty five
years now for these JFK documents to get released, Trump's going to release them
all. And he's going to release more stuff because he wants the truth out
there. And then I had other people in conspiracy culture telling me Trump wants
the truth about nine to eleven in public hands. He's going to make sure
that we get all the information from the dancing Israelis onward. Listen to him.
He's talking about people dancing in the street in Jersey City, which by
the way, I was in Jersey City around that time and didn't happen.
But anyway, you know, he's going to do all this. Man,
he's going to do that, and he's going to reveal all of the pedos
and all of the criminals, and oh, by the way Barack Obama just
got arrested for cocaine trafficking. And this was the kind of talk. I
mean, this is seriously the kind of discussions I was having. Not discussions,
really, but this is the kind of stuff that you discussion. We're
saying to me, we're messaging me, we're telling me, you got to
get on board because this is actually your guy. And you know what if
you get And here's the other weird thing. In twenty fifteen, I was
offered money and I was offered extra support, and all I would have to
do is be part of the all media wave that was going to be on
the Trump train. This was our guy. This was finally our guy in
the conspiracy world in the you know what, you don't believe the government works
the right way. He's actually going to go in there and simplify it and
fix it. This is what people were telling me. And there's money available
for you if you get on board. There's successful ways for you to get
on board. Roger Stone is listening to you, man, even though he's
he was in the campaign and he's out of the campaign. Roger Stone and
that's why he used to play that clip, I'm a big fan of your
show. No, he wasn't, and he didn't listen to the show either.
What he had is somebody else listened to it and hand him notes on
my show, I was one of those shows. Of course, they went
with Alex Jones, and well you can see how that turned out. But
anyway, but Jones, you know, immediately after Saturday's events, went live
with an emergency broadcast, even though he's been bankrupted, and they picked up
me see where I watched some not the live one with Jones, but I
saw him on and I can't stand him Tim Dillon's show, And where was
Alex? It looked like he was out in some you know fields where he's
like drinking liquor, just straight out of the bottle. Is that where he
like? Is this where he does his show? Now? I don't know
if you've seen these. No, he's got a he's still got the studio
as far as I know. Okay, I know there's been and by the
way, that dropped out of the headlines. By the way, folks,
you notice there's no big news reporting on that. Now. Where he was,
you know, with his bankruptcy claim and they rejected it and this and
that and it's personal and now he's got to sell his ranch. And okay,
maybe that's where he was. He was in his ranch. Let's not
let's not get sidetracked into aj because I'm doing all this to set something up,
Pierce, and because I want to hear from you and get your thoughts.
I mean, I can tell you what mine were. The only thing
I did is I joined a roundtable discussion that night to go on and say,
look, initially, here's what I see. And I had some practically
you know, people weren't too thrilled because I had some practical objections to what
I was And I'm not screaming that it's being staged. I'm not the it's
staged guy. Okay, I'm sorry, but I don't think it was staged.
What I think happened I'll get to before we're done, but I want
to hear from you, Piers. Do I think this was faked? Do
I think it was cgid? Do I think somebody applied blood to Trump's face?
No? No, no, no, not at all. What I
do believe is that what has been staged is the complete collapse and perfect timing
of not only Joe Biden publicly, but also all the legal cases doing exactly
what I said they would do, which is evaporate, get undermined, and
get destroyed bit by bit. So whether you were screaming that he was being
persecuted by the system, the persecution wasn't going to stick. Or if you
were on the side of now he's a convicted pelle and he's going down,
he's going to prison, and you were looking to celebrate, you were all
going to be disappointed because what was going to happen here is what is happening,
which is that whether it is correct or incorrect or whatever somewhere in between,
doesn't matter. It's not going to stick to Donald Trump because he's not
one of the people that would pay a penalty. Whether he did something wrong
or not is actually irrelevant. Now we have the dismissal of the document's case.
All of these things were pre arranged. This is nothing more than a
way for him to garner more support as a martyr. He is fighting the
system. And now for some people they will say the deep state took a
shot at him. Here's the problem, okay, and this is the last
thing I'm gonna say about it. And then I want to get your open
view, Pierce, if the Deep State was taking a shot at him,
they wouldn't have went out and got just the typical school shooter guy Okay with
a rifle and buying his ladder at home depot just before where he goes in,
because apparently he purchased some five foot ladder at home depot and climbed the
ladder and you know, got ignored by the cops. And I'll tell you
this serious. Why why in the world the head of the Secret Service has
not been asked to resign is a question for Joe Biden for sure. But
but here's the thing. If you're the deep State, you don't hire this
guy Okay that that apparently, you know, was responded to immediately by the
anti assault team that did not survive, that did take a shot at Donald
Trump. Now, is this completely organic? Yeah, it kind of looks
that way. But but maybe I'm not done with it. Maybe I'm not
done with it, and maybe there's more to say. Anyway, Pierce,
you get the news that there's been an assassination attempt against Donald Trump, your
first inclination, I'm willing to guarantee to check and see if it's as fake
as the reaction that came out later, which was they've actually arrested the shooter.
He's a member of Antifa. He said on Facebook that there's going to
be justice, and that was BS and I knew that the second somebody pulled
it out on that roundtable show I joined on Saturday night, where I went,
yeah, that's garbage. I'll tell you that immediately because Antifa, there's
your clue that this is garbage. No Antifa member was taken a shot at
Trump, which, by the way, noticed Antifa hasn't been around. I
think somebody, you know, stopped sending out the checks, you know,
from the government agency that was, you know, actually supporting Antifa, So
I think they no longer exist because there's no work for those actors. Okay,
is there a real Antifa? Yes, but it's not what the media,
the government, or anybody's told you it was. Anyway, point is,
what was your reaction after is this fake? Because I know that had
to be first pierced. What was Yeah, first one was is this fake?
Then I guess I guess my my reaction, Well, first was just
sort of shock, obviously because you think, like I mean, obviously I've
never you were shocked I was shocked in the sense that I've never personally lived
through a assassination attempt on a president. You know, I missed Reagan's you
were alive, that's right, you're younger. Yeah, so that well,
I guess when was Reagan? When was that eighty one? I think one?
So yeah, that went seven years before I was even you know,
uh, you know, a twinkle in my parent's eye. So I missed
this one. So I've never experienced this sort of bizarre feeling of because you
know, I think that it's fair to say and you see this because obviously
all these people, you know, Tenacious D and others are people have thought
about it, you know, or they're they're or they're like they're they're talking
about it, they're thinking about it. But I think there's one thing to
think about, Oh my god, like what if this happened, right,
you know, or what if someone takes a shot and then for it to
actually happen. So yeah, my initial reaction past shock, was then is
this fake or is this I mean yeah, My first thing too was then
to excuse me to look at the footage. And I will say, and
I hate I hate even sort of thinking or talking like this, But I
gotta say, and those watching Trump talking and then holding his ear and then
falling down, Me and Amy were just sat there thinking like, are these
all crisis actors? You know, and and sort of tongue in cheek because
that's always the you know, that's right, that used to be the thing.
It was always this is all fake. Nobody reacts like this during a
shooting, you know, like Sandy and others like that. And I mean,
I don't know anyone out there that says that that's actually been in a
situation like that, but I will say the behavior of many of the people
in the crowd made me sort of raise an eyebrow. And then of course,
so just the reaction of the Secret Service, why they were just sort
of huddled around him. Let me ask you, okay, let me stop
you just for a second, because you're bringing up some points that I want
to address real fast, and just ask you something and correct something, because
I got somebody already barking at me in private messages that I was wrong that
Reagan's assassination attempt didn't occur in nineteen eighty one. It did. It was
March thirtieth. I'm looking right at it and sorry, but you know,
check your Mandela effect all right now, because the guy's telling me it was
nineteen eighty and I'm like, no, that's the year he was elected.
I'm saying in my own head. And nobody, you know, they shot
at him when he was president, which has to be at least eighty one,
because he didn't take office to eighty one. Okay, excuse me,
anyway, that's the correct thing. Next, you're talking about people in the
crowd. Now, I'm curious if you mean, like, say, the
lady with the black hat that appears to be reacting before the shots were fired.
Well, there's one, Okay, there's the guy in the front row
who's just putting his arms out and is sort of just sort of looking all
around. And I was, I will say, and I mean, maybe
this is just because I've been somewhat kind of you know, I've been staying
away from social media and that, but the fact that I was amazed at
how many people just have their phones out, Well, have you ever taken
I was just gonna ask you, have you ever taken the time to examine
the behaviors of people at the Trump rallies? You know, on a normal
day, because if you have, it's probably very similar to that. It
is. No like the thing with the phones out and all that. No,
see other people brought that up. There's so many people with their phones
out. A whole lot of people do that. They that they have that
a concerts. If you go to a concert, which I haven't been in
a while, but every piece of concert footage I see there's like five thousand
people with their phones over their heads. Oh no, that I believe.
But I was just shocked that, Like, now, maybe this is that
area of Pennsylvania. It's just normal to be at a large event and have
someone just popping off shots. But I was, I was if that were
me, I would have dropped my phone and run. But that aside the
other thing that I couldn't. I mean it in my initial in the first
day or two, I really was like, this has got to be some
sort of you know, deep state plot. This is that, this can't
be real. I was waiting for them to, you know, the fbi'd
be like, well, yes, I mean, Crooks was on our watch
list, but it just slipt through, you know, slip through the cracks.
We're so sorry. I mean, the whole thing with him. Wait,
let me get my shoes on. I mean, I I was I
did initially believe that she did just touch his ear, fall down, and
then they're placing blood on his ear. You know that was? That was?
Now now maybe that is just the that that is just the result of
whatever four eight years of living in this you know, sort of reality show
based existence in America. Well, that mean we no longer believe you know
this, this is this is like we no longer believe what is truly happening
in front of us. Like well, and here's the other problem is the
moment that Trump starts to speak about anything, he's full of crap anyway.
And that's what the problem is, because all right, and why did I
just say that? Okay, because he's saying that he was shot with a
bullet. He wasn't hit with the bullet. From what I can tell,
he was actually hit with a piece of something that broke off from the bullet.
I'm not sure how close it got. They're still studying this, and
you know, people that say they studied the video and they understand everything that
happened are also full of crap. I'm sorry, because they've gotten about one
hundred things wrong already, all right, and people have tried to make all
these points about different and okay, let me just throw a few things in
here. Some of the stuff that people say they see in the crowd is
not abnormal, you know. The weird thing people that say they would have
reacted immediately and this and that you're also full of crap. You know.
One of the first questions that was asked to me on that roundtable show was,
look, Chuck, I happen to know you a little bit personally.
I know you've been around, you know, when people have been shot.
And I'm like, yeah, okay, you're funny. But he's like,
yeah, but what about these reactions from these people. I'm like, well,
here's the thing. They're in a crowd, they're at an event,
They're not thinking about gunshots. They are in most cases going to be first
going what the hell just happened? Where there's almost always a because people are
going, there's a delayed reaction over here. See, you can't win because
you got the lady reacting beforehand, which does look strange. Uh, And
then you got other people saying these other people aren't even reacting, and I'm
like, yeah, they're not reacting because it's not a movie. Dude,
you don't immediately when something pops go, that's a gunshot. I need to
duck for cover. That doesn't always register unless you're in a circumstance where you're
expecting to be shot at. So they are also outdoors. You know,
there's a lot of people talking. Trump is talking, There's you know,
there's there's just ambient noise. So these are legitimate. I agree, I
you agree in retrospect. Yeah, so these are legitimate reactions from some of
the people that are in the crowd. And by the way, you can
reference to Kennedy assassination for this. How many times did I hear from these
eyewitnesses? I thought it was firecrackers over you know, five hundred times.
You must have heard that if you've ever studied the Kennedy eyewitnesses. So this
idea that it's like, I'm not sure what was happening, and there were
firecracker type noises, you go, yeah, yeah, that's right. Okay,
So there you go. It's it's exactly what happened. That to me
makes all the sense in the world. This is not something that you know,
like it's like, oh, these people are all stage. They're lying,
they're making up. No, they're not. When they're telling that story
that sounds off, and they're not aware of what's really happening, and they're
thinking they're hearing firecrackers. That is exactly what I would expect from a real
situation. Now, am I saying everything in this situation is real? Stay
tuned? But when you're telling me about these crowd reactions, not you peers,
Okay, please, I'm not streaking direct, And I will say just
so everyone knows, I don't. I do appreciate that people react strangely.
Also, I mean, because you can you can then turn around and say
the same thing that like the you know, the parents at Sandy Hook acted
weird, the children acted weird. It's like, have you ever been in
that kind of Well that's the thing, arguably a way worse situation. Well,
Like, and people are telling me, you know, Trump didn't react
right and this and that, and I'm like, you know what, when
I got shot, okay, and I was actually hit with a bullet,
Okay, when I got shot, the first piece of my awareness, frankly,
was I'm wet. I felt blood on myself before I felt pain.
Before I felt, you know, this is not something where it's like this
is proved positive that it's BS because he said this. No, there are
some things that are true that way where it's like that's absolutely insane. There's
no way that you thought that. But quite frankly, if somebody knew right
away, if somebody you know that instantaneous, I was fully aware of the
fact that there was a shooter, you know, thirteen degrees away. Unless
you're like a trained tactician who's on guard, you know, and expecting something,
Yeah, you're not thinking that way, You're not reacting that way,
and that's legitimate. By the way, I'm asked in the chat room,
what was the roundtable show Saturday night? Anarchy. It's that thing that Anarchy,
who used to be on my show all the time, does with Tom
over there on the New Prisoners Network. So that's where I went on,
and Nature Boy was on there and a bunch of other people, and they
were having the discussion Saturday night when this happened, and I joined them late
to discuss it briefly. And then by the way, I carried the press
conference from Pennsylvania on a simulcast here on Ocelli dot com right after that to
try and get the fresh information, which was weird because nobody from the Secret
Service showed up at the presser. But anyway, but there were years here
go ahead too busy trying to figure out how how badly they screwed up.
Well, that's the thing is that. The thing that alerted me right away
though, is that, look, there is something way wrong here, because
I know Secret Service procedures what they should have done. There was no way
in hell that that building shouldn't have been covered, uh and and been right
there monitored the whole time that Trump was speaking. He gets a couple of
minutes into his speech and this guy's able to climb up there. So yeah,
just to jump in too. The not only that, but that multiple
people seem to be screaming that he had a gun on on the roof.
And I saw this earlier today. This is like a wp X I you
know, uh, like local news report Channel eleven, local news there and
and they there's a reporter there saying that you know, they'd spoken to a
law enforcement person that not only like you know that I did him multiple times.
And and now I also saw I read some story earlier today that a
compacts. We went up on the roof and confronted him and then ran away.
So I mean, so I guess this was how Also, this is
how my mind evolved from okay, oh you know, and I think part
of me, deep down, the tinfoil hat conspiracy theorist in me, wanted
this to be the you know, mk ultra deep state event. You know,
I think I was sort of hungry for something like that, you know,
some big news, right. And what is more disturbing, seemingly is
how I don't even know if it's like uh uh like lax attitude. I
mean, it's like it's like beyond a fail for the Secret Service. This
seems like they, I don't know, they need to be completely revamped.
But the fact that this kid a just even got up on the roof while
people are screaming, let alone that he fired what was it like seven or
eight shots? Now I know that obviously there's and I know there's conjecture whether
the uh you know, there's a footage of this like sniper on another roof,
whether or not he he was the one that killed them, or if
it was a I know that I read that it was a Secret Service agent
that got up on the roof and yeah, he's the one that you know.
I forget the stupid terminology they use for killing neutralized, but the the
level of incompetence that's that to me is the is the kind of the conspiracy.
And I was actually curious what you thought about this because as someone who
has studied the jfk assassination, and I might be wrong, but but is
it not more or less established that there were Secret Service agents then that knew
something was going to happen and they didn't care, or they that they they
disliked Kennedy so much that they were well, look the other way, or
we're not going to pay attention, or something like that. And to me,
on some level, I couldn't help. But wonder is that is there
an element of this year because it seems like beyond a failure, well that's
yeah, this kid could even get this close. Okay, So there's a
couple of open possibilities here, all right. And to be completely fair,
all right, and I'm not looking to defend the damn Secret Service, I'll
tell you that. But look, the idea that somebody intentionally allowed it to
happen when it came to Kennedy, that's you know, I don't know that
I would say that that's true with the Secret Service. Now, were they
hungover? Yep? Right, were they? You know, there's a lot
of things going on there. But let's get away from the Kennedy thing for
a second and talk about the specifics here, because it's important. Local law
enforcement may indeed be responsible here. Why do I say that, Because the
Secret Service is supplemented, okay by local law enforcement, all right, and
other agencies they bring in the state place, They bring in all kinds of
people, military, whoever they need in order to secure things like this.
Okay. So here's the thing. A local law enforcement person got up on
that building, you know, the story you're hearing about. From what I
understand, the guy climbed up to see what was going on, had his
both hands on the edge, looked up at the guy right before he fired
his shots, all right, and got to look at him real fast,
okay, and went oh uh. And the guy pointed his gun at him,
and he let go of the edge of the building and dropped back down,
and the shots were fired right after that. Now, is this something
that was handed over to locals or state police or something like that where they
were supposed to handle you know, the rooftops outside of the perimeter, the
lines of sight outside of the perimeter. If so, somebody might want to
check that decision and figure that whole thing out, Okay, because something wrong
there. But is this local law enforcement? Is this the secret Service?
Many of these things could be true, and a multiple of things could be
true. Here, in my mind, it's either a failure or indeed the
thing that you're suspecting that somebody allowed it to happen. So either it was
allowed to happen, or it is the ineptitude of the people responsible for covering
this specific line of sight. Okay, I know that sounds crazy, but
that's what I see here, because there was no way in hell that that
should have happened. I'm sorry, it just should not have happened. Well
even if even if we and I think obviously the local police, it's so
funny too. It seems to be like the most timid local police in the
country. I mean, you could literally just you know, walk down the
street and in a lot of places, including New York, and you know,
look at a cop a funny way, and they'll just shoot you right
then. And there. But yet here, I don't know, You've got
people screaming, there's a guy on the roof, he's got a gun.
You know. Whole minutes are ticking by while this is happening. You know,
the cop walks up there, doesn't you know, I don't know.
But there's like that. But even if even if they were like okay,
yeah, like we're relying on the local police, they had to have been
there for some time prior to that. It's not like they just show up
and they were like, okay, whatever, there's no one on that roof
or this roof or any of these roofs, you know whatever. Like it's
not like they I just the Well. See, that's why I said there's
a lot of possibilities there because this should have been checked ahead of time.
I told you the one story, But that's not relevant for what should have
been done. That should have been taken care of well ahead, like you're
saying, it should have been you know, well established, and somebody should
have had a constant eye on that line of sight since it was clearly a
line of sight that was accessible from what did they say, five hundred feet?
Yeah that is Yeah, that's exactly the kind of thing that should have
been under surveillance and controlled. Nobody should have been allowed to be putting the
ladder up against because now there's images out there a ladder up against the building
and get up there in the first place, so ahead of the event,
it should have already been secured, so that nobody could have made that move
to begin with. I'm telling you about a cop that goes, hey,
you know, because he's hearing from other people there's somebody up on top of
the thing exactly, and he goes, well, let me go check that
out. That right there, in and of itself, that story is off
because it should have been secured. They should have seen him when he's approaching.
Somebody should have stopped him. Well, it's so I know, this
is I and I'm trying to pull it up if this is an ABC News
or another article. I read that the that particular, the building that Crooks
went on top of was filled with police, like local police snipers that were
acting as lookouts. So I mean, I don't the it just the level
I know we're repeating ourselves, but the level of incompetence to allow something like
that to happen, It just it doesn't this is I think what is so
bizarre about it, and maybe this is the kind of conspiracy when it comes
to this is it. It's like the negligence is almost so extreme as to
be unbelievable. Yet for all intents and purposes, it seems like there is
nothing more to this than some weird kid who may or may not have been
bullied, who may or may not have been a Republican or a Democrat or
a libertarian, or he actually just hated all politicians, you know, who
may or may not have been. I mean, according to the high school
he went to, he was laughably bad at marksmanship, so much so that
he couldn't make it on the team. Yet seemingly as almost you know,
as amazing. Aim I don't know, you know, I mean, like
we're meant again, we're meant to believe that because Trump turned his head to
point at some adiatic you know screen that he had up about how many illegals
are something he was going to arrest, right, that that's what saved his
life. So it's I don't there's something and maybe that's just the world we
live in. I don't know if I'm if I'm what my point exactly is
with this, But it just seems that the we we are all kind of
looking at this and seeing this as being completely unbelievable, and yet that is
the reality, and we're just sort of like, yeah, I guess so.
I mean, also, this was the other one that really that did
make me wonder, what is going on? There? Is Trump fist pumping
and then them chanting USA. They don't know what's going on, right,
you know, I mean, they have no real clue. They'd say,
now I know that, and again I don't know where we're getting hot mics
on all the Secret Service with them, you know, clearly saying so that
in all the news channels they can they can run the same where they're saying,
don't worry, he's neutralized, and Trump is asking, well, let
me just put on my shoes. I mean, first off, why do
they even shouldn't they just be picking him up and you know, carrying him.
Instead they let him pump his fist multiple times, and then all of
these photographers walking around with giant black cameras pointing at the president. I mean,
if I was a Secret Service I would probably shoot one of them.
So it's like these amazing photos that are now going to be like burned into
our memory. These will be in history books at some point, you know,
Trump with the flag, I don't. I guess I don't know what
to make of it. Yeah, because it seems like there is no conspiracy,
Like there is nothing actually all that odd about this kid other than the
fact that he's a twenty year old that just decided to do this seemingly for
no reason. There's no manifesto, there's no you know, he told people
about this. I don't actually buy I will say, I think this is
bs this that he had explosive to vices and his you know car they always
do. But I, you know, what does that mean? That weird
too? Like I I gotta tell you that's one of the weird things,
all right. So a bunch of things unepack there. It is totally bizarre
that he was allowed to stand up and make sure that he got the new
getdy image of him with the fist up right, which is going to be
an iconic image. I mean right away. Somebody even said in one of
the emails I got, like immediately it was like, doesn't this remind you
of the you know, the the iconic image of Ebo Jima and nine to
eleven. Oh sure, yeah, no Bush with the flag And it's like,
I mean it does I mean that again It's I I do not do
this often, but I did find myself earlier today moored at work and I
was scrolling through YouTube and I did watch a little clip from the Joe Rogan
experience with him talking about this. And this is not not advocating, it
is you know, it's a guilty pleasure. I think many people would admit
to this, but I will say I mean he eventually just completely went off
the rails and I had to turn it off. But there was something about
it where, you know, he's like, we are like you know,
you say, oh, we're living in a simulation. And even I started
to kind of wonder listening to it that the confluence of events, it's it's
it is like did we I know you mentioned the you know, the Mandela
effect earlier. I mean like, did we all collectively like go to sleep,
you know, Friday night and wake up in an alternate reality where something
like this can kind of happen and the I mean the the it also the
proximity to the RNC uh. It just like of all the things. Now
Biden has COVID, so I mean, who knows if he's gonna make it
like literally yeah, I mean like and plus the change in narrative. Now,
I look, and if you're a try here's here's the worst part of
all this appears is it is a giant roar shock test. Again, it's
literally an ink blot of crazy that you interpret. And that is all I
can take away from this. Because the Trump supporter out there interprets this one
way. The Trump hater interprets it another way. Uh, the you know,
wide eyed absolutely, you know, I understand why people have always made
fun of conspiracy theorists. Conspiracy theorist takes it another way. The uh Joe
Rogan's of the world, which are just half a step away from the guy
I just mentioned, the Joe Rogan idiocy. Okay, Uh, is yet
another way. And it's more about what you brought into the situation than what
it is you're going to observe as to how you interpret this. That's the
truth at this point, Okay, Because according to the Trump supporter, okay,
and I mean the rock ribbed, I believe in the system, and
I believe Donald Trump is a hero Trump supporter, right, that guy is
saying, and immediately afterward was saying, and they all simultaneously said, this
is the fault of the liberals and Democrats who have demonized Donald Trump. Now
somebody finally decide to do something about the demon and it is all their fault.
And they don't see anything other than that. They just see that Orange
Jesus was damned there, taken out because he was going to be martyred because
he's against the Liberals. He's owning them. They know it, and at
a desperation, they've set people loose, and that's why there's violence. The
Democrats have caused the violence. On the other side of the equation. The
Trump hater who suffers from the other kind of Trump arrangement, who is like
he's going down, He's a felon. That person is sitting there and saying,
this is what Donald Trump gets. He encouraged violence. He brought it
on himself. Now that is the person who was, by the way freaking
out the moment that Facebook went live with This is an Antifa guy. He
was arrested. He actually said justice is coming on Facebook, blah blah blah
blah blah, which first of all. One of the most unbelievable things is
that a twenty year old would use Facebook to make a declaration at this point
in time, because I don't think there are any twenty year olds on Facebook
anymore, but maybe I'm wrong. Well not to mention that that guy in
question is an Italian like soccer blogger, yeah right, you know. I
was also seeing Oh god, what is her name? It is escaping me
now South African journalists. She used to work for sixty minutes and now she's
like full maga right wing QAnon almost sort of. Her name is escaping to
me now. But I I, you know, I saw her. She
was saying it's a Chinese agent. It's all been confirmed, you know,
and this is like Chinese agent, yeah, you know, and it was
just like, oh okay, I didn't see that one. And it was
one of those like she she's like she's quoting a tweet and it's like crazy
if this is true, like you know that that sort of thing where it's
like who even are these people? I mean, I don't actually I saw
this. I don't know if this is true because this is like I saw
this on like, you know, it was like like someone retweeting something that
the this because I know people make this big deal about it that, well,
Crooks is a registered Republican, but he gave fifteen dollars to the you
know, some progressive organization AKA that you know, Therefore that means he's actually
a eight member of the deep state. I saw people saying that it's actually
a different Crooks. It's like a sixty nine year old man who lives in
Pennsylvania but not in Pittsburgh or something like that. That's the guy that donated
the money. And I will also say that this there's this weird one.
I just don't believe. Now, maybe I'm wrong. I was like,
are these like high school students this politically active and motivated? My favorite,
my favorite is the one they have an a guy with an FBI jacket on
allegedly hosing down the roof where he was. Okay, but there's stills out
there of that. Now there's a video of it out there too, But
there are people saying that they're hosing it down because it was all fake,
that it was a complete fake thing, that the guy actually had you know,
one of those blood packs on they use in the movies that you know,
which funny because they just dismissed the case against Alec Baldwin too. Right,
you know the russ shooting, Well, you know, people making some
sort of I don't I don't know how that links to it, but I
know it was linked to it in the story. I couldn't finish reading the
damn thing. It made so much nonsense. But they were like, this
is all staged. This guy didn't really die. Uh, he was shooting
blanks, okay, And I went, what in the hell, where where
is your look? I'm all willing to go for the strangest conspiracy theory if
you have a little something called evidence, So what is your evidence for this?
You know what? Because the guy is hosing off the roof, you
know. But it's like, yeah, either way, if it was fake
or they blew this kid's head off, they would still hose it down.
That doesn't actually Yeah, but they're going no, it's a crime scene and
there's no and I'm like, yeah, but they're done with it, yeah,
exactly, you know, I mean right, but you know what it
is too, I don't this was the thing. And I think you're so
right to call this sort of like a rorshack test, because if it was
a deep state, they wouldn't have missed. But that when the deep State
wanted to get rid of Kennedy, they blew his brains out all over his
wife. Yeah. Yeah, And there was no way in hell he was
escaping that. Okay, I promise you. Okay, here's the thing about
this. Yeah. Indeed, if the deep State was after Donald Trump,
and this has been my contention all along, if they really wanted to neutralize
them, would have been done already. All you would have had to do.
And you don't have to do it in public now because there's too much
you know, exposure and too much you don't have to do it publicly.
But even if you wanted to do it publicly, all you gotta do really
is do something crazy like pick some of that stuff that you know, the
Russians were using to poison people in his yeah, in his diet coke.
End of Donald Trump, and you know, and he can drop that on
stage and they could just call it a heart attack and end the story.
Oh, so happens the seventy eight year old guy had a heart attack.
What are you going to do? Uh? Look, if the deep State
wanted to get rid of them, even if they wanted to make a public
display of it. They don't hire this guy. Okay. Also, I
you know, and I will say this, this was to that end.
Also, one is if it was a deep state that again, I mean,
this only benefits Trump. I mean because then then at one point,
you know that the gears are turning and I'm like, was this, you
know, was this Trump did? They did? Did Trump's people? You
know? Like that to me almost makes more sense that this was the you
know, they put this kid up to it like that, you know,
because it now it's like, there's no way he's losing the election at this
point. But even the people that were on the fence are now going to
turn and be like, well, you see what the Democrats do. They
make you know, they brainwash these children into going and killing you know,
our dear leader, right right. So he's got nothing but support out of
this. But here's the thing. The people that and there are people claiming
that Trump, you know, Trump's people arrange this, And I'm like,
no, no good there, because here's the thing. Trump might arrange something
like this if he was in charge of this kind of thing. But if
his people were arranging this, they could do a better production job. Okay,
because even The Apprentice had better production values than this. All right,
this is not something you do for that kind of display. I'm sorry.
I don't think Trump's people set it up. I don't think it's faked.
I don't think it's a crisis actor. You know, it wasn't a Hollywood
thing where he had a blood pack that exploded. I'm sure that what they
had to rinse off of that roof was not just blood, but probably you
know, when somebody dies, they they you know, brains, maybe some
urine as well. You do release your bowels in your urine when you die
suddenly like that, that's for sure. Uh, don't know if people are
aware of that, but so they probably had to rinse a few bodily fluids
off of the roof. Okay, not surprised, dude. It is such
a super roarshack test though. I'm telling you, you can see where somebody
goes, whether it is completely outlandish or it is just you know, complaints.
It's all about what they brought into it, not what they're taking from
it, not what they're observing, not what they're figuring out from the existing
evidence or analyzing the video. Everybody thinks they're a video analyst now, which
you know, it's hilarious, but it's no. Here's the thing, what
they brought into it, they're taken out of it. I'm telling you,
that's all it is at this point. And the thing is, even with
him, why did I say he was full of crap at the beginning?
I'm being asked because his son, even Eric Trump, you know, he
goes on CNN, and now they're very friendly to the Trump. You're going
to see the mainstream media now be very friendly to Trump. They're still going
to show opposition. Well, that was the day he became the president.
He became elevated. He was elevated by this. Even in the mainstream corporate
media, he's now elevated. They're even being nice to Eric Trump. And
Eric Trump's like, you know, literally going, my dad was almost killed,
you know, and this kind of thing. They're saying that he was
struck by the bullet, and all evidence to my knowledge at this point is
that he was not struck by the bullet. He was struck by the shrapnel
from something that the bullet hit and it made him but I don't even think
it was metal. It was probably a piece of one of those teleprompter screens.
You're not supposed to say. That's what I'm thinking the gunman's struck based
on what I can tell. But look, i'm making a supposition here.
Check the evidence on it. Though I do not believe you're going to find
that he was wounded by the bullet. I think he was because people are
going, oh, look at the way the blood spatters on him. That's
not what happens with this and that and these are you know now everybody's you
know it thinks they're dexter too. They're blood spatter experts. They're wrong,
They're wrong. Okay, So here's the thing. If you were scraped by
a piece of flying glass or plastic from one of those teleprompters at high speed,
because it was struck by a bullet, makes perfect sense. The wound
that you see on his ear, and you can see it from another angle.
It's not slapped onto him. It does because you did see the other
angles that are like underneath from these other people's cell phones. Right yeah,
Okay, So ultimately, pierce, after we go through everybody else's machinations on
this, let me ask you again as I did at the top, right,
and I'm sorry. I know I'm taking this a little long, but
you got a couple extra minutes. Yeah, yeah, Okay, here's the
deal. What do you see? And let's identify this. You're not a
fan of Trump, but you're not particularly like anti Trump. You're just kind
of a guy who goes, you know, this guy kind of sucks because
guess what, I lived in New York and I live in Actually this is
you speaking. I'm saying I live in New York. I lived in New
York. I think Trump sucks because I know the way he behaves and seeing
the way things run when he's around them. But you're not particularly anti Trump.
You're just kind of not not in the way that you know, I
don't know, so Rachel Maddow might be. So with that qualification, you're
not Rachel Maddow. Okay. You know you're also not Alex Jones and thinking
that the globalists were defeated the day that Trump won in twenty sixteen. Right,
So you're on either side of that equation, and you are somebody's familiar
with conspiracy stuff and you might have predilections toward that. Okay, So I'm
giving all these qualifiers before I ask you again, what do you take away
from all of this, Outside of the fact that it's clearly convenient, it
is going to help him, It is helping him. I think it is
absolutely solidified. And you know, I also watched was a Steve Schiers on
YouTube ranting and raving and screaming that people need to stop saying that Joe Biden
has lost the election now because of this. This is ridiculous. Didn't change
anything, And I'm like, yeah, dude, it changed a lot.
And also your guy failing on national television during a debate saying that you know,
he killed Medicare or whatever, and you know, and then the next
day declaring that vice President Trump and all that, and also he's the first
vice presidential black woman ever. You know, those couple of days with Joe
Biden kind of made the case that maybe the old man's had enough there,
so you got a bad choice on that side. True. And the guy
who just did get shot at for real, uh is still standing, pumped
his fist and had his crowd chanting USA and other people. You know,
two people died, right right, I know, yeah, okay, well,
don't worry about that. Don't worry. Yeah, that's that's all imaginary
too, right anyway, point is this is not a fake staged thing.
It has only helped him. Okay, but but but but what do you
take away from this personally? I think that one, at least one thing
I would take away from this is very much along the lines of what you
were saying earlier, that this is one of these significant events that is then
reinterpreted and regurgitated and morphed to conform to whatever our preconceived notions are to uh,
you know, to explain whatever it is that we want. And I
guess it. I see. Also the main takeaway is, and it's a
little disturbing. Is truly how deranged the majority of the population is when it
comes to this, because you know, it is like you are, It's
basically like it is. It seems to me it's become a situation where like
you're either pro assassination or anti assassination. That's how dumb we've become, right,
you know? And and I was I I saw all of these you
know, articles about all these different you know, the students that knew him,
and all these students who I don't know, what are they twenty years
old? If they're a day Young. You know, they're all they all
are like, well, you know, he hated Trump and he he hated
us for being Maga and Bob. And I'm like, you know, what,
what is your stake in this? First of if you're talking about a
kid, you probably haven't you barely even noticed right yet. But now he's
the most famous thing that's ever happened to your crappy little town. So you
know, we're all gonna we're all gonna kind of jump on the bandwagon.
Everyone wants to be interviewed saying that they knew him and he sucked and you
know we were we were pro Trump and he was anti Trump. Again,
they're they're interpreting all of this is and I don't know what. There's no
way that Crooks was I don't think he like was anti Trump. I mean,
this kid is obviously way unhinged to think that one that to even think
that he could get this far, you know, I mean, he had
to know he was gonna die. There's there's no way he's just shooting him
and then walking away, So you know he went there to kill himself.
Basically, Yeah, see the suicide by cop thing nobody's brought up right,
I mean, I am maybe maybe that's how he wanted to go out.
It could be, it could be. And you know, and there's something
also that that it again like the this is the other thing I take away
is and then maybe this is again this is like how people are able to
sort of form these insane opinions. It's like everything on the face of it
seems like the opposite. So you have this kid who looks like he is
the the quintessential lives in his mother's basement dork. I mean, no one
has said it, but like looks like an inceel. You know, he's
the he's the he's the the ultimate Beta cup. Yet his father is a
die in the wall right wing kind of libertarian Trump supporter. He was on
he was actually targeted by the Trump campaign back in twenty sixteen as a potential
voter for them, because the Trump campaign has this giant database of gun owners,
right that they were then using to target. So, you know,
and and he, you know, this kid is like the opposite of the
sort of what you would think. Yet he he he like seems to idolize
all this like macho gun culture, you know, you know, alpha male,
you know, but at the same time, he's the opposite of that.
See and look, why not the suicide by cop slash F you to
dad kind of right, yeah, I'm saying no, I know exactly and
the f there again. And I can't shab them what that must feel like.
But it I don't know, I I and you. I thought that
they would at least have maybe put out a statement or something. I mean,
who knows. I'm sure they're under investigation. And also all the people
in the in their neighborhood. I saw this video of this this uh this
was on uh Inside Edition, which is still amazing for these like great sort
of uh you know, man on the street interviews. But they're interviewing some
an elderly woman who I guess lives in the neighborhood, and she's like,
oh, yeah, they all suck. Nobody knew them. They were reclusive.
We didn't trust them. You know, they they were strange. They
kept to themselves. I mean, you know as if like they're you know,
they're they're like they're you know, the the they're the murderers, right,
you know you always hear that afterwards, like oh yeah, you know,
we they're a little weird and quiet, and no one knew that he
was, you know, killing women and eating their corpses and stuff. They're
talking about these people that they like live next door to. So I think
it's it's it's illustrated to me the lengths that the mental gymnastics that people can
go to in order to justify whatever they want. And I can't help but
look at the comparison, and I'm sure people are kind of rolling their eyes,
but with the Jeffrey Epstein stuff, where you can look at this one
single event, this one person who touched the lives of so many in Washington
and elsewhere, but only walk away with, well, it's all it's all
Clinton, you know, or well it's all Trump, you know. And
people are able to do this too, this kid who's a registered Republican,
No, he's a secret Democrat agent because maybe he donated fifteen dollars, you
know. And you're also seeing every one of these students who clearly bullied this
kid be like, no, I mean, you know, we were just
like they all make it seem like she was the weirdo that like he was
so weird, we didn't like him, you know, we were this wonderful,
tight knit little you know school where everybody loved one another and he was
the freak. And here's the thing about that. Nobody is gonna also be
honest about the motive that if you're interviewing a Trump supporter who happened to know
this kid, they are clearly gonna want to demonize and distance themselves because,
oh my god, this guy took a shot at our savior, right,
so you know, but that's like these kids that are like barely out of
high school. Yeah no, but we love him, we love Trump,
you know, And it's like, what's your skin in the game with this?
What is their skin in the game. It's because there's a game to
put skin in. See, that's the problem here. Okay. These people
that are the loudest voices, the people that are absolute about this okay that
I encounter, frankly, are usually the least informed. They are people that
have nothing to do with anything, and they go and because you just ask
them one question, it solves it all. Which, by the way,
I got one closing doozy of a question for you. But you ask him
one question, you say, okay, look you and it's whether they absolutely
despise hate Trump. Oh my god, he's a monster. He's a fascist,
he's the second coming a Hitler, He's Mussolini. I go, wow,
Okay, look, I think he's a scumbag. And he's a real
estate hustler from the Queens. And clearly you know he's a fiction because you
tell me. You know, everybody says he's a great businessman. I still
say, how do you bankrupt three casinos in Atlantic City? I couldn't figure
out how to do that, even if you gave me a good supply of
methamphetamine. Okay, I'm just saying, can't be done anyway. So you
ask him this one question, whether they hate him like that, or this
man is God's instrument. He is the absolute you know Orange Jesus. All
right? Either way, you say to them one thing, why, what
is the biggest thing? What is the absolute proof, the thing that makes
you either hate him or love him? And if they're on the extreme sides,
listen carefully to their answer, tell me about why you hate him.
They will tell you something that didn't happen. They'll add in some things that
did happen and pile it all on and try and create a dogpile. But
they'll also throw in and he did this, and he did that, and
we know he did this, and I know there's proof of this, and
the stuff that they're saying there's proof of People have made jokes about like they'll
say, I know he molested his daughter, you know, if they hate
him, And comedians have made jokes about that. People have made, you
know, weird illusions about it because he's too touchy. Peelis made strange comments
about uh, you know Ivanka, right, and people go, man,
that's a little weird. But they'll say that there's proof of that, and
they'll say that, and then they'll say he was on the Epstein plane,
and then they'll say something else crazy that isn't probably true at all, and
then they'll throw in something else about something else he did. All right.
On the other side, you tell him, okay, why do you love
him so much? And they'll say something like, you know, he made
this thing happen in the country, and you sit there and you shake your
head and go, wait a minute, I was here. I don't remember
that. You know. He'll say that all of a sudden, the streets
were safe when Donald Trump was in office. The migrants and there was no
violence in the country when Trump was in office, and I go, wait
a minute, there was You guys were complaining about it, you know,
like completely divergent things. And then they'll say, and also he did this,
and also he's on the side, and some of the things they'll say
are true, you know, and plus and then the final thing they'll pile
on if they love him, is you were in a lot better shape financially
when he was in office than you are right now, which is an undeniable
truth. Yes, that's true. I was. Is he responsible for that?
That's another question. But you just piled on a bunch of crap too.
So what I'm saying is that they'll adopt the fiction and the reality to
go along with their own stories, right, And that's the way this works.
Again, it's the rar shock testing. You guys are going to see
what you want to see out of this assassination attempt? Was it an assassination
attempt? Yes? Is this kid who they say he was? Pretty much?
And remember there's a spin on it. Do I think this guy,
this guy would have shot up a school or something eventually? I think,
okay, because it just sounds like he's that kind of guy. He decided
to shoot at Trump University. As far as I'm concerned, that's what he
did. And I don't know if it was an f you to Dad,
or if it was an f you to Trump, or if it was just
you know what, I'm gonna commit suicide by cop all those things which nobody
has mentioned or even referenced. So let me ask you the final weird question
here, and then we're going to close this out, Pierce, because all
I'm gonna do is get myself in trouble. I can already hear and see
the hate mail in my mind. I all right from this tonight's show,
the ugly messages. I'm going to get on Twitter, the people that are
gonna unfriend me and hate me now until November at least. Anyway, here's
my other question, because RFK Junior Okay, who, by the way,
as far as I'm concerned, has now shown himself to be nothing more than
a tool of the tech industry and was clearly inserted into the race just as
a contingency which is now not needed. So he can now go away and
he's going to And I really wanted to believe in him, but he's proven
himself to be guess what another puppet of the system. So I'm done with
any sort of support of RFK Junior. I would love to have believed in
some of the things that that guy might have legitimately fought for had he been
given a position of power, but clearly that's not what he's in it for.
End of story with RFK Junior. But here's the thing about that.
Immediately following this situation, that over the next couple of days, when we
were contending with this and everybody's talking about, you know, and elevating Trump
and his supporters supported more and his haters are angry, and everybody's angry at
the media for one reason or another, either the right wing media or jerks
because they have raised the level of violent rhetoric in the country, or the
liberals have raised the level of violent rhetoric in the country. And therefore,
okay, all that put aside. RFK Junior allegedly has now been granted secret
Service protection. You know, how good is that protection? Well, I
give you, you know, exhibited at this point, you know, yeah,
I would if I was him. But but here's the thing. Now
he's been granted that protection. We have a leaked phone call, there's that
going on, which speaking of phone calls, I found it funny that there
was this, you know, completely friendly phone call between him and Biden.
You know, Joe Biden, he's sick, he's demented. You know,
Donald Trump is a fascist. Okay, you know, they're both dangerous to
democracy depending on who you ask again rorshock Test, but RFK Junior, who's
not a danger to democracy but has a bug in his brain and is a
conspiracy theorist, you know, allegedly. Yeah, whatever, you know,
let's keep going. You know, Alex Jones is a poster boy for the
First Amendment too. You know, let's keep going on with the KACA if
you want, because I love Joe Rogan anyways. And Elon Musk is a
genius too, by the way. All right, so yeah, moving forward,
you know, away from the other elitists, what are your thoughts on
that RFK Junior, the leaked phone call, secret Service protection, and now
again the unanswered questions. It took them days, by the way, to
get to the ultimate thing that I pointed out immediately, which is that there
are three levels of security procedures that not even just specific to the Secret Service
were violated here on Saturday night. But clearly there is either incompetence in play
or a malicious effort to allow danger to be acceptable in a circumstance where it
should not have been, which, by the way, for the record,
here, even though I have no love for Donald Trump, I don't want
to see him catch a bullet. I don't support the idea of solving any
of this at the barrel of a gun unless we're forced to do so.
And I don't sit there and say, well, remain bloodless, so long
as they don't, you know, push against us like some people have done.
And by the way, congratulations jd Vance, who I also told people
Saturday night was the VP pick because the Secret Service immediately mobilized around it.
By the way, just so you guys know. But anyway, and I
got that from somebody who works for Trump, and they announced that he's the
guy on what was it Monday Rights Convention? Yeah? No, yeah,
was it? I think it was first day of the convention? Was Monday,
right, okay, yeah, so that's when they got Anyway, the
thing is this, what are your thoughts about the RFK Junior thing and what
is your final thought on this whole circumstance. I mean, it appears to
be organic, and it is as believable as it is unbelievable. And I
stand by my roar shock test statement. So where do you come down?
But before you go there, RFK Junior and your thoughts on that and the
leaked phone call, well, I think that, well, who I guess
who leaked the phone call? Right? It had to be Trump, because
isn't isn't isn't Kennedy back, He's like walking it back, being like,
oh, I shouldn't have you know, I regret ever talking to him,
or something like that, or or I regret that we recorded it in the
first place. Yeah, you suspect the same thing I do. Yeah,
okay, but I am assuming it's Trump. I see, I don't think
that. I think that Trump is also he will believe whatever he thinks is
going to get in more votes. So you know, at a certain point
when he was president, being openly referencing QAnon gave him legions and legions of
diehard supporters. So he did it, you know, I think he.
I think when it comes to the kind of conspiracy people, you know,
many of which are are going to be I think more in support of Kennedy
then, you know, Trump will support them, you know, I mean
he he and and you know I couldn't help. But remember too that you
know, Trump was the one saying that. Remember you know he was back
when he was running, I think before he was even nominated, he was
the one saying Ted Cruz's father helped kill Kennedy. So you know, he's
there's like the I think he taps into it. I don't think it's I
think it's just I don't think Trump actually cares about vaccines or anything like that.
This is also the same person who bragged about how fast he got the
COVID vaccine out. You know, that was that was a big win for
him, right, and that was again even people that despised him were like,
well okay, you know, but then at the same time he's say,
you know, he's he said, yeah, I don't take it.
I don't I don't believe in it, right or you know, I mean,
so he he'll change his opinion if tomorrow, you know, every one
of his supporters became you know, pro vaccine and loved you know, trans
rights, then that's what he would believe in. You know, I don't
think he I don't think he cares. I find it interesting that it seems
like RFK Junior is there is something you know, I think he is still
maybe trying to curry favor with Trump getting a Trump White House. You know,
this whole Oh, I'm so sorry. I apologize. I should have
never happened. I mean, what, you know, what does he care.
He's ostensibly running against this person. You know, they shouldn't like,
I don't know what this should so weird. The the it's still the reverence
that people show to this guy. And maybe that's just because, as you
said earlier, RFK Junior, Trump, Biden, they're all ostensibly in the
same clas they all know exactly what the script is. They know Trump is
going to be president, and they all want to, you know, have
a piece of that, whatever that may be. So that's that's my sort
of at least right now, that's how I kind of view it. I
mean, I find all these like leaks and everything. I mean, the
timing of this stuff is just it's unbelievable. I Mean, if if I
was, you know, like a reporter or something, I wouldn't be able
to keep up with this. Every day there seems to be a new thing
and all of it seems to favor Donald Trump winning in like a huge landslide
re election. So you know, I find all of that is I mean,
I don't know if you'd know if it's suspicious, but it's interesting that
it all kind of lines up. But I think that that's just weirdly,
this is like the world we live in. You know, we live in
a time where maybe this is you know, this, this is you know,
the result of there's just so much information out there, there's so much
going on, it's all on our fingertips, you know, and now everything
happens so quickly. Trump gets shot, next day he's at the RNC,
it's got you know, gauze on his ear, you know. And then
following that like RFK Junior is getting pulled into this. I don't know,
I mean, it just it does seem like this is just the world we
live in. The only way to keep people interested is every day it's going
to be something new, and they're kind of pulling out all the stops with
this. I think I got to start a new podcast called the Deep State
Report. But you know, cause I mean, it's getting weirder and weirder,
and it is so strange, and I say, you know, you
take a look at the money that came in to people. I mean,
the disgusting amount of money that's been spent now on this presidential selection. I
took note of this a couple of I don't know a few few days ago,
because you know, the second quarter was was filed with the you know,
the Federal Election Commission, and you know Trump raised more money than Biden
did. But I mean when you're talking about between the two of them,
they raised in that quarter half a billion dollars, right, you got three
hundred and thirty I think for Trump and two hundred and fifty million. These
are millions of dollars I'm talking about for Biden, Okay, more than half
a billion dollars. And then I don't know what Kennedy raised. I didn't
read his FBC report because you know, it wasn't I don't think it was
even at the top. It wasn't even like number three, uh, you
know, in the order. Okay, but when you think about the billions
of dollars now invested in this, you know, farce of a choice.
I mean, realistically, if you were somebody who came in with no dog
in the fight, no knowledge whatsoever. If you're one of those imaginary illegals
that's now allowed to vote, which you know, I don't know how you
get to do that, but let's just say you just landed in America recently.
You're getting the chance to vote for the first time. You've never bothered
to take a look at a politician, a president or anything else since you've
been here. And you said, you know what, I'm gonna go vote.
Let me pick one of these two guys. You look at this and
you say, I got this guy over here that's in crazy land where,
yeah, they're trying to bust him, he's getting away with stuff. They
tried to shoot him. He didn't die, you know what. Pretty interesting,
pretty cool, And he's supposed to be a rich guy, and man,
you know, he's got a lot of rabbit supporters. This old man
over here looks like he needs to retire. And these are my only two
choices, you know what, I gotta go with the orange guy, you
know. And the other funny thing was you notice a couple of days after
Biden's meltdown on TV he had a spray tan on two. I mean,
and I'm like, are you kidding me? So anyway, Pierce, is
there anything you want to direct people towards? As we quotes out here tonight,
I don't know what we accomplished during this conversation except to say that it
seems to me like the common theme not only is twenty twenty four the year
of the lawsuit and this selection farce where look, as far as I'm concerned,
Trump has already won. I mean, unless he literally does drop dead
or something happens like that, he's in there. As a matter of fact,
even if he drops dead, I'm thinking he'll still be selected, so
we'll have President jd Vance is what will happen? Right? Aka Peter til
aka Peter TiAl And you know, we didn't even get into that. Maybe
we could talk about that next week if you're around, But because I do
want to discuss that with somebody, like all the big tech money, because
that's another thing prominent in RFK Junior's campaign. Crap, I'm going in that
direction. Sorry, hold on, anyway, is there anything you want to
direct people toward or you give them advice about to pay attention to or anything
else before we close this one out? And I want to thank Larry Hancock
for joining me in the first hour and talking about the current situation regarding Ukraine
and the history. But of course we discussed the events of the assassination attempt
on Donald Trump here with Pierce Redmond Porkins himself Porkins Policy Review dot Com.
The website might be a need of updates, but of course there's a lot
of old material out there that is still interesting to listen to. And who
knows what we'll hear from Pierce in the future. And I'm hoping to hear
from you in the near future again, not just on air, by the
way, but just as friends. I'd like to hear from you a little
more. And I know my cell phone was shut off and stuff, so
sorry, but anyway, here we are the new reality. I'm not able
to pay all my bills. How about you. I don't mean you Pierson,
I mean well, I'm having trouble with him too, the listeners,
right, we're all having trouble paying our bills. And isn't that the key
issue anyway? Okay, so back to it. Anything you want to point
people to or say on your way out the door, sir, uh,
I guess just that that it. I guess I would just say, uh,
let's pace ourselves because if this is, if this is just what we're
getting before the election is even really begun, right, you know, before
it's like really kind of like kicked into full gear, I guess just you
know, pace yourself, because who knows what else we've got. You know,
we've got Elon Musk donating nearly fifty million dollars a month to Donald Trump,
Peter Thiele essentially hand picking a candidate you know, VPS so that he
can have it, you know, a seat in the room. So yeah,
I guess, just let's pace our sells. Let's see what else we
we've got, uh, you know, to kind of pop out of the
woodwork when it comes to you know what, what is just a presidential election?
That's you know, that's all this is. Uh So, yeah,
I guess I guess that's all. That's that's sort of all I've really got.
And just that, you know, I don't know, I'm still hoping
for, you know, are kind of a good kind of m k ultra
big deep state kind of conspiracy. Maybe maybe we'll get some kind of an
October surprise if we're lucky in October surprise. If we're lucky I mean,
look, I I don't want to see President Kamala. I don't want to
I don't want to see any of them. I don't want to see the
President advance. I don't. I know, I'm fed up. I mean,
I miss I miss Bernie Sanders at this point, I mean I really
do. Uh did I just say that out loud? I missed George Bush?
Okay, certainly, you know it made more sense. I mean at
least I knew we were going to war, you know, for sure?
And that was that. Oh god, I mean what, you know,
what direction are we going in? I have no idea. Uh you know,
it was was the assassination, you know, a completely staged uh blah
blah blah blah blah. No, No, I think it's just a symptom
of what it is that we are experiencing currently, which is a varying spectrum
of less than sane realities converging that. That's where I come down on it.
What do you think? Yeah? And and I think also just a
culture of ineptitude we are you know, I can't remember there is like I
feel like there is a term for this, but you know, it's like
rule by, like the very worst but you know, and I think there's
an element of that, and there's also just like whatever the you know,
rule by idiots is. I think that's where we are. You know,
we give the police an insane amount of power, and yet they can barely
secure you know, a twenty year old with acne and a rifle. Same
thing. I mean, you know, we give all of these individuals,
like you know, the President, we give them this insane amount of power,
and you know, it seems like she's under control. Peter Geel is
in control. Yeah. So look, bottom line is I think we're looking
at suicide by cop. And the only reason why this guy didn't shoot up
a school is because the schools are not in session in July and the Northeast.
So there you go. And I don't know if this was an f
you to his dad, or an few to Trump or just a I know
for sure this will get me killed. I'm not certain. And we have
no manifesto, which again lends itself to being not staged, not choreographed,
not pre arranged. But Trump was struck by a piece of debris, and
he's got his celebration. I even posted in the chat room, you know,
his getty image. And you know, what's another thing, just really
quickly as you also told us that you know, Joe Biden is now tested
positive for COVID and I wasn't even going to bring that up, but what
the hell, that's another thing. Maybe that's a strategic move to get him
out of the public eye temporarily, you know, just thinking, Hey,
I am conspiracy minded, but maybe that's part of the reality currently. Let
things cool down and disappear down the memory hole. But who knows where that
memory hole is going to be by the time we get to November. I
think bottom line is it's still the roar shock test. You're going to take
into it what you take out of it, and that's all there is to
it. So Pierce, I just hope that we survive all the way through
the rest of twenty twenty four. And I really really wish no violence upon
anyone as we move forward for any reason that is uh, you know,
there should be no violence against anyone, is all I'm saying, not for
the means that people seem to think that that are valid. At this point.
A lot of people think that violence is justified for disagreement, and that
to me is the saddest of all situations. So whatever's going on here and
whatever rhetoric people think justifies it, and this, you know, call for
unity nonsense. Nobody's calling for unity. They're just calling for galvanization of their
side of the equation, and that's all there is to it. So I'll
leave it at that and tell you guys, I'm merely o'celly.