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art. How many hours of oxygen are left that you know of that you
can estimate right now on the submersible and is it a posta? Does it
have to be approved or regulator? Sure? So, so first of all,
it's an estimate, right because we know from the the data we were
using as the starting point was ninety six hours. We know at this point
we're approximately uh about forty forty one hours Latin, yes, and that have
to be approved or regulates submersible to go through anything that you know of.
Yeah, I'm not sure of the exact technical piece. And now we know
there's about there's about forty hours of breathable error left based on that initial report.
Again, that was just the initial report based on ninety six hours from
when the vessel. That's the sound of US Coast Guard officials updating the press
on the search and rescue efforts to recover the expedition vessel known as the Titan,
which was lost, or rather lost contact with its support ship just one
hour and forty five minutes into its dive. It's expedition dive that started on
Sunday. They were attempting to travel some thirteen thousand feet below the surface in
order to visit the wreckage and explore the wreckage of the Titanic, and just
some one hour and forty five minutes into the dive on Sunday, the support
ship lost contact with them. I have more audio about a previous expedition from
the same company, same ship that lost contact with this team just a year
ago, and also some audio that really explained how risky this was from the
beginning, particularly with the design of the ship. We'll get into all of
that, but as of that update, which was provided yesterday, June twentieth,
they had only forty hours of oxygen remaining out of a ninety six hour
supply of oxygen, which is scheduled to run out tomorrow, which would be
Thursday. Thursday, June twenty second is the estimated end of the oxygen supply
for those five individuals who are trapped inside of the titan There are reports of
knocking sounds being detected by Canadian air vessels. Search and rescue operation has become
an international affair of the Canadian search vessel, an aircraft that is able to
detect sounds underneath the ocean. Detected knocking or banging sounds that came at thirty
minute intervals. This has given hope to the search and rescue team that they
may be able to find those five individuals, including the pie, a Pakistani
billionaire and his nineteen year old son, a French explorer who is an expert
on the Titanic, and the fifth passenger, or rather the fourth passenger in
addition to the pilot, is a Dubai based businessman. There's a lot of
commentary that's going around about the nature of this particular incident and this potential tragedy.
There are hopes that they would be found alive. But when you can
just consider the vastness of the ocean, the depth, the pressure, the
danger that's involved for the search and rescue team, and even the limitations.
There was one particular navy vessel that was being used in the search and rescue
operation that could only go down two thousand feet. Well, they're estimating that
this vessel went down some thirteen thousand feet. They think that they got relatively
close to the Titanic, which tremendously complicates the search and rescue efforts. So
there, you know, this was a ski expedition in the first place.
But the commentary that's going on right now really hinges on two things. The
cavalierness which with which a lot of people are engaging the conversation about the potential
death of these individuals, and the fact that they're you know, billionaires and
the rich people doing rich risky things. I don't really want to comment there
just yet, and I don't know that I have a lot of commentary there
in the first place. I do you all know me well enough to know
that I side on the air on the side of humanity, thinking about what
it must be like for those five individuals who are trapped in that vessel,
if they're still alive at this point, hoping for some type of miracle,
hoping for a rescue. But I will give some thought to the riskiness involved,
the risk that they took in a vessel that was almost itself cavalierly put
together. I want you to listen to this report from a reporter on CBS
who ventured alongside the vessel a year ago. Now, he didn't go down
into the ocean with the same vessel, but he remained on the support ship
and he reviewed the waiver that you had to sign, as well as some
of the technology that was inside of the vessel. So I listened into the
twenty one description of the twenty one foot vessel that these individuals, these five
individuals are trapped in as search and rescue efforts continue, an experimental submersible vessel
that has not been approved or certified by any regulatory body and could result in
physical injury, disability, emotional trauma, or death. Where do I find
inside? The sub has about as much room as a minivan. So this
is not your grandfather's submersible. We only have one button. That's it.
It should be like an elevator, you know. It shouldn't take a lot
of skill. The titan is the only five persons sub in the world that
can reach Titanic depths two point four miles below the scene. It's also the
only one with a toilet sort of. And yet I couldn't help noticing how
many pieces of this sub seemed improvised. We can use these off the shelf
components. I got these from Camper World. We run the whole thing with
this game controller. I you know, the only commentary I really will give
is the fact that there's no way on God's green Earth or in the blue
water that I would go down inside of a vessel that is guided by godown
two point four miles in a vessel that's guided by a game controller. That's
not even I mean it was. It looked like an off brand game controller,
like one that you would get a dollar tree. And I'm not trying
to make light of the situation or make fun of the individuals who are trapped
in this very dire situation. I just think that I would never I could
not possibly sign that waiver. I could not possibly put myself at that.
First of all, I don't have two hundred and fifty thousand dollars to take
that trip, okay. Second of all, if I had read the same
waiver that that reporter just read, I would quickly walk away for several reasons.
Number one is a vessel that has not been approved by any regulatory body.
And if there's any commentary to be given, it is the necessity for
regulation. Right. There's a role that regulation plays in society, and one
of the number one things that the rich do is use their wealth to get
rid of regulation. Now I don't I'm not asserting that as any implications in
terms of this particular story, but just generally speaking, regulations saved lives and
I just could not possibly again, don't have the two hundred and fifty thousand
dollars in the first place to be in that situation, but to put your
life into the hands of of such a risky endeavor. Listen to this same
report from CBS News about a year ago that indicates that when they attempted an
expedition a year ago, they got lost for two hours and forty five minutes.
The dive was a go. Reports on bottom, but that was the
last of the good news. I said, do you know where we are?
About? Then four seventy of the vow if you were lost or are
we There's no GPS under water, so the surface ship is supposed to guide
the sub to the shipwreck by sending text messages for in thirty degrees right,
probably thirty degrees, But on this dive communications somehow broke down. The sub
never found the wreck. We have a lost We have lost for two and
a half hours. Rush says he'll offer those passengers a free duover next year.
Yeah, that would have been That would have been enough for me.
I would not have needed a duover, not not after being lost two hours
and forty five minutes previously. But I digress. We're wishing the best and
hoping the best for the recovery of these five individuals. As international efforts to
recover the Titan continue, we'll keep you updated with more information. And the
left, we all know this to be true. The left, the left
weaponizes race. Whatever they're losing. An argument that does my grandfather a disjustice?
An injustice is disrespectful. I think he meant to say a disservice,
But who am I to judge? I mix up my words all the time.
That was Republican Senator Tim Scott, who was a presidential candidate. He
was performing in front of a Fox News audience of predominantly white, i almost
all white audience for a town hall meeting. He's running for president, knowing
full well that he won't even get one percent of the vote during the primaries.
But he is doing exactly what he is designed to do. The entire
purpose of Tim Scott's campaign is to provide racial cover for racists. As he
made this statement, the camera pan to the audience, and an audience full
of white, old conservative men and women were so happy to hear a black
man stand up there and say that the only reason we talk about race in
this country is because what the left weaponizes race whatever they're losing an argument.
Yeah, that's the only time we talk about race, Tim Scott. Not
when police officers are killing us, Not when the criminal justice system targets us,
Not when Flint still doesn't have any water, not when racists are marching
all around this country. Critical race theory is being used as a culture.
There's a war on blackness in the form of saying woke. You know,
we just we only mentioned it when we can't win a debate. Here's the
funniest thing about this is that these people don't actually want to debate the left.
They don't actually want. What they want are soundbites that they can use
and cut and take out a context. And we're dealing with a group of
people who don't have any basis and objective reality. They are willing to twist
and bend any truth into a talking point for the benefit of their political agenda.
Their hypocrisy is the point. So it's funny because one they do not
really want to debate in good faith. What they want is a performance.
What they want is a spectacle, something that they can just generate clicks off
of. And how do they generate those clicks well by engaging in some of
the most dishonest, a historical and genuine's arguments that they can come up with.
But most importantly to me, the price of being a black conservative is
just too high for me. It's just too rich for my blood. You
have to give up so much of your soul, you know, to be
on stage in a room full of white people saying things to make them feel
better and to feel better about themselves, especially because what they want to hear
that black man say is anything he can come up with to undermine the fight
for justice on behalf of black people. He is literally there to make white
folks feel good. And what makes those white conservatives feel good is to see
a black man who will attack the black community. That's what makes them feel
good. That is what gets you the big checks. That's what gets you
a nice home and a nice car, with a nice bank account and everything
that you need. Gives you a nice notoriety, it gets you the ability
to run for president on the Republican ticket, knowing full well you'll never win,
but you'll get enough support to sell a book, to become a New
York Times bestseller, right to get the fame that you desire so much.
I'm sorry, the price of being a black Conservative is just too high.
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Welcome back. I want to read to you from Pro Publica, who
has been doing some amazing reporting over the last year into the corruption of our
Supreme Court, particularly Justice Clarence Thomas and now Justice Samuel Alito, who took
a luxury fishing vacation with GOP billionaire who later had cases before the Supreme Court.
Again, this is reporting from Pro Publica. Definitely suggested you check out
their publication generally speaking, but this report specifically. In early two thousand and
eight. July two thousand and eight, Samuel Alito stood on the river banks
in a remote corner of Alaska. The Supreme Court justice was on a vacation
at a luxury fishing lodge that charged more than one thousand dollars a day,
and after catching a king salmon nearly the size of his leg Alito posed for
a picture. To his left, a man stood beaming Paul Singer, a
hedge fund billionaire who has repeatedly asked the Supreme Court to rule in his favor
in high stakes business disputes. Singer was more than a fellow angler. He
flew Alito to Alaska on a private jet. If the Justice charted the plane
him self, the cost would have exceeded one hundred thousand dollars one way.
In the years that followed, Singer's hedge fund came before the Court at least
ten times, in cases where his role was often covered by the legal press
and mainstream medium. In two and fourteen, the Court agreed to resolve a
key issue in a decade long battle between Singer's hedge fund and the Nation of
Argentina. Alito did not recuse himself from the case and voted with the seven
one majority in Singer's favor. The hedge fund was ultimately paid two point four
billion dollars. That's not a bad return on investment. To get you a
justice, a Supreme Court justice on your side. Continuing on, Alito did
not report the two thousand and eight fishing trip on his annual financial disclosures.
By failing to disclose the private jet flighter flight Singer provided, Alito appears to
have violated a federal law that requires justices to disclose most gifts. According to
ethics law expert. Again, that's reporting from Pro Publica. And unfortunately,
this which in any other generation would be a tremendous story, headline news,
it would be a major controversy. This story barely noticed. It barely goes
notice because one the nature of our twenty four hour news cycle, but also
because we have become accustomed to this level of corruption from our Supreme Court justices.
We just got through talking what maybe a month and a half two months
ago about Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his luxury gifts and vacations that he
took and received from another Republican billionaire donor. And despite his actions, Clarence
Thomas and now Samuel Alito, despite their actions being clear ethics violations, nothing
has been done, No accountability has been brought to them, because well,
the Supreme Court seems to be above the law. I mean, how else
do you interpret this. Any other level of our federal judiciary would be held
accountable because they actually have ethics codes, they actually are held to account they
can be held accountable. But it is our Supreme Court that has demonstrated that
it simply does not have to abide by the same law as lower courts,
as the same ethics measures as the lower courts, and the just glaring quid
pro quo that we've seen take place with these two particular conservative justices, and
the fact that if they have led to in this case with Samuel Alito,
led to awards of two point four billion dollars for this billionaire, right he
spent half a million dollars courting and flying out Samuel Alito to turn around and
get two point four billion dollars worth of a decision from the Supreme Court.
Now, I also want you to keep in mind that this is the same
court that we have to get of such a level of deference to that whatever
decision they make that becomes the law of the land, it's not law as
a result of Congress passing it and send it to send it, passing it
and then the President signing it into law. It's the law of the land
because it has the force of law, because we as a nation have agreed
to the power of the Supreme Court. I mean, we have acknowledged and
recognized with so much precedent that the decisions that they may carry the force of
law. But what happens when the people making those decisions are transparently corrupt.
Well, I'll tell you what happens. They continue to do it. It
becomes normalized, it becomes bait into the system, and then at that point
it becomes even more acute. You will find we are going to see more
and more instances of our Supreme Court justices, at least the conservative side,
because I can tell you one thing for certain, if this had been a
liberal leaning, progressive leaning justice, there would be some accountability. There will
be because Republicans have demonstrated that there are more than happy Conservatives are more than
happy to live in a perpetual state of hypocrisy. They do not care and
they won't even bat an eye about holding a liberal leaning justice accountable, while
just completely ignoring the fact that we have now concrete evidence that two conservative justices
on the Supreme Court have violated every ethical code you can imagine. But because
they sit on the Supreme Court, there's nothing anyone is willing to do.
There's nothing that anyone can do unless the US House of Representatives decides to use
its power to impeach these two justices, and we know that's not going to
happen because they're so busy trying to impeach Joe Biden over something frivolous, and
will explore those stories as well. Right after this, I learned something new
yesterday. I'm always learning, always studying, finding out something new, but
this, this particular thing that I learned new, just came into my timeline.
Ironically, just before Elon Musk decided to ban the word sis cis on
Twitter, I found a video on Instagram that explained the origins of the words
cis, which is just a Latin prefix that simply means on this side sis
gender simply means that you are on this side of the gender spectrum, as
opposed to trans which means you are on the other side of the gender spectrum.
Didn't know that it was, you know, I always loved learning something
new. Well, ironically enough, as fate would have it, later on
the day I learned what cists actually meant, you know, in terms of
the actual Latin definition of the prefix of Elon Musk to to Twitter and said
the following quote repeated targeted harassment against any account will cause the harassing accounts to
receive at minimum temporary suspicions. The words ciss or cis gender are considered slurs
on this platform. You heard that right, Using the Latin prefix cysts or
cis gender is now considered a slur on Twitter. Why, you may ask,
well, because there is an all out war against the ability of transgender
people to simply exist. This is just another detail in a war. It
is a detail in the propaganda campaign that is the leading tip of the spear
of this war. Right. It is the attempt to make everyone fear and
loathe and hate the trans community. And so now they have made up they
not they. Elon Musk specifically has declared that cists gender or cists the Latin
prefix. We're banning and canceling Latin prefixes, folks. That's where we are
now. Notice that when he came back to Twitter, the inward use went
up some five hundred percent. But he wants to make sure that we have
enough room for free speech for people to do that, and not to mention
that he's given power to people to miss gender individuals and to dead name them
anything that these brutish beasts on the other side of this equation of this argument
can use to harm, to be cruel, to insult someone who is transgender.
They will engage in it on Twitter without any ramifications. But if you
use the Latin prefix cysts as a way to describe a person who is not
trans, which are literally just the opposing sides of a Latin prefix right there,
the opposite sides of the same coin, you're either cysts on this side
of the gender spectrum or your trans only. But that's an insult. We
have reached the level of absurdity in this country that you know, not only
in this country, all around the world, that I don't know that we
can honestly come back from without some jolt to our system. You know,
the anger and hatred has become a hallmark it. Don't get me wrong,
We do know that anger and hatred and bigotry have long been a hallmark of
this country. But we're living in a renaissance. We're living in a time
where you can advance your career by how bigoted you can become. You can
make more money by how bigoted you can be. You are given the opportunity
to get more influence and more power based on how bigoted you can be.
It is a renaissance of cruelty. It is a renaissance of white supremacy,
and it is a renaissance of bigotry like we haven't seen in our lifetimes.
And that's the entire point. The entire point is to control the population through
hatred and bigotry. They can they understand. Conservatives know full well that their
greatest mobilizing tool on their side of the aisle is hate. They know full
well that the best way to get people to the polls on their side of
the equation is either through bigotry, hatred, or fear. This is the
three tiers of their campaign. This is the three tiers of their entire ideology.
This is how they mobilize their groups. And Elon must now say,
you know, he purchased Twitter for the purposes of free speech, has now
waded into the conversation to say I'm going to use my forty four billion dollar
investment to penalize anyone who uses the scientific definition definition right, the designation the
Latin prefix systs that's a slur, but you know, the N word who.
We have to examine that on a case by case basis. Oh,
you mean, you know, mis gendering somebody, that's totally fine. You
know, dead, naming somebody, that's totally fine. But to refer to
them using the Latin prefix that is a scientist typic designator of those individuals who
are not trans that's a bridge too far. The absurdity of it all T
T T. Yes. Today, in The Patron's Only episode, I covered
the story of far right wing pastor Kent Christmas, which is an amazing last
name, talking about well, I'll let you hear for yourself. My best
interpretation of this clip is that he was calling for Christians to be more like
Muslims and put suicide bombs on their chests so that they could be good examples
of Christians. He seems to say, we took them out of context of
not me personally, but particularly right Wing Watch the team that pulled the clip,
and we discussed it yesterday. So let's listen to the clip. I
want you to hear for yourself. Did we misinterpret his words. You want
to know why the Muslim faith has had an advancements, It's because some Muslims
were willing to die for that believer. They were willing to strap bombs to
their chester. They believed in the afterlife. God give us some men and
women not get a hold of some passion up their spirit. That's that I
will lay down my life for the GoF sport. I'm not sure that there's
a lot of ways to interpret that other than him encouraging Christians to put suicide
vest on, and maybe not suicide vest but just violence particularly speaking. Did
you get the same impression, because apparently when he went back to church the
following Sunday, this just past Sunday, the kerfuffle, the rucks around,
the backlash was so much that he decided to claim that he didn't actually say
that. Listen in, I do not condone violence to anything as a solution.
And this last week, I don't know how many of you, how
many saw the posts that we are advocating that you would put on chess bombs
and to blow up things, and it created quite a firestorm. I have
to pause before I play anymore. It's the audible gasp in the audience.
That really trips me out because this is literally the same audience that sat and
heard him preach this the week before, but now that he's denying it to
like, how dare they accuse you of saying something that you literally said.
Let's keep listening. So I want to say we're peaceful, we're loving,
and that we believe in the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ as our greatest
weapon. And Paul said this, for the weapons of our warfare are not
natural weapons, but they are mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds.
So it's a shame that I even have to address this. But evil
people don't play by the rules. I'm sorry, I don't know if he's
describing himself here, because the rules say if you are called on video saying
something that you don't get to come back, well, unless you're a conservative
Christian, because they of course always come back and denied literally what they just
said the week before he took Maybe I heard him wrong. Let's listen one
more time. You want to know why the Muslim faith has had his advancements,
It's because some Muslims who were willing to die for that belief. They
were willing to strap bombs to their chester. They believed in the afterlife,
but God give up some men and women they don't get a hold of some
passion their spirit. That's I will lay down my life for the Gospel.
Not many ways that you can interpret that. It seems like a direct comparison
and a call to Christians, evangelicals, white evangelical specifically to engage in their
politics in the same fashion that quote unquote jihadis do right suicide bombers. But
you know, you know, when the heat came on, he decided to
back off and say I didn't really say that. Maybe that's a win in
itself. He's scared to stand by his own words. Kent Christmas Patron,
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