Speaker 1: Good evening, and welcome to another edition of The Cajun
Speaker 1: Knight Live. I am your host, the Cajun Night Jacob Mook.
Speaker 1: We're gonna start off talking about some things going on
Speaker 1: in old Washington, d C. But before we do that,
Speaker 1: we're actually gonna talk a little bit about AI and
Speaker 1: why your electric bill might be higher this winter season
Speaker 1: than ever before because of AI. Some people are not
Speaker 1: gonna feel this. Some people are absolutely not gonna see
Speaker 1: any real difference or change in their electricity bill. That's fine,
Speaker 1: But if you live around somewhere that's got a AI
Speaker 1: data center, it's very possible that you're gonna see an
Speaker 1: increase in your electric bill through something that you had
Speaker 1: nothing to do with, and that's just the way it
Speaker 1: shakes out. Then we're gonna talk about the bill that
Speaker 1: was just passed in Washington, DC. And of course there's
Speaker 1: things going on around Trump right now. There always is.
Speaker 1: There just always seems to be things going on around Trump.
Speaker 1: And I'm not even saying that that's necessarily a bad thing.
Speaker 1: Some of this he has brought on to himself full tilt.
Speaker 1: Some of it is just people talking just to talk,
Speaker 1: and it's Trump derangement. Syndrome on both sides. I'm not
Speaker 1: a huge fan on that topic of how he mentioned
Speaker 1: that Rob Reiner Rip was suffering from Trump derangement syndrome
Speaker 1: and then refer Trump referred to Trump's self in the
Speaker 1: third person in a press conference with that, And I
Speaker 1: don't know if he thought he was being funny or what.
Speaker 1: In my opinion, it was in poor taste, you know,
Speaker 1: seeing is how he and his wife are just brutally
Speaker 1: murdered allegedly by their son or whatever. It's a mess.
Speaker 1: It's a mess. We're gonna talk about some things with
Speaker 1: the US gov. We're gonna talk about some things of
Speaker 1: what's going down in Venezuela. Then we're probably gonna talk
Speaker 1: about the Russia Ukraine conversation because apparently Russian diplomats are
Speaker 1: making their way to Miami this weekend to discuss possible
Speaker 1: ceasefire terms. We'll see how that shakes out. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of time between now and then, but we'll see
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Speaker 1: let's get into it here. So this is from Bloomberg.
Speaker 1: That's basically saying AI data centers are sending power bills soaring.
Speaker 1: Wholesale electricity costs as much as two hundred and sixty
Speaker 1: seven percent more than it did five years ago in
Speaker 1: areas near data centers. That's being passed on to customers
Speaker 1: because of course it is. And again this is not
Speaker 1: for everybody. If you happen to live somewhere around a
Speaker 1: data center, you're you're gonna you're gonna eat some of
Speaker 1: this cost, you know, And this works two ways. We
Speaker 1: talked about this on the cult I think a while back,
Speaker 1: actually probably two years ago. So around my area, we
Speaker 1: have a lot of heavy industry. We have a lot
Speaker 1: of chemical plants or refineries, all these things, and a
Speaker 1: lot of these places produce their own electricity, right, they
Speaker 1: have their own cogin units, and whatever electricity they make
Speaker 1: that they don't use, they will actually sell back to
Speaker 1: the city that they have found themselves in, and that
Speaker 1: goes a long way, especially whenever you know, these types
Speaker 1: of facilities have the potential for leaks and explosions and
Speaker 1: whatever else. It doesn't happen often, but it absolutely is
Speaker 1: a thing that does happen from time to time, and
Speaker 1: it goes over a long way to smooth over relations
Speaker 1: with the local population if you're helping them with their
Speaker 1: bills in multiple ways, or helping them with infrastructure. Right,
Speaker 1: if some new highway gets poured and it was a
Speaker 1: collection of four or five plants that compile money together
Speaker 1: to pour this new road, the local city is a
Speaker 1: lot more forgiving when things go sideways, because boy, they
Speaker 1: will eventually go sideways. So instead of these data centers,
Speaker 1: they're actually drawing more power rather than producing their own.
Speaker 1: So this is making a lot of certain areas that
Speaker 1: have higher electricity bills. Let's get into it here. Data
Speaker 1: centers are proliferating in Virginia in a blind A blind
Speaker 1: man in Baltimore suddenly contending with sharply higher power bills,
Speaker 1: don't know where the blind guy comes from. But let's
Speaker 1: get into it here. The Maryland city is well over
Speaker 1: an hour's drive from the northern Virginia region known as
Speaker 1: Data center Alley. But Kevin Stanley, a fifty seven year
Speaker 1: old who survives on disability payments, says his energy bills
Speaker 1: are about eighty percent higher than they were about three
Speaker 1: years ago. They're going up and up, he said. You
Speaker 1: wonder what is your breaking point? It's an increasingly dramatic
Speaker 1: ripple effect of the AI boom, as energy hungry data
Speaker 1: centers and send power costs to records in much of
Speaker 1: the US, pulling everyday households into paying for the digital economy.
Speaker 1: The power needs of the massive complexes are rapidly driving
Speaker 1: up electricity bills, piling onto rising food. Rising prices for food, housing,
Speaker 1: and other essentials already straining consumers. That's starting to have
Speaker 1: economic and political reverberations across the country as utilities and
Speaker 1: local officials wrestle over how to divvy up the costs.
Speaker 1: Yet those same facilities are a lynchpin of US leadership
Speaker 1: in the global AI race. Yeah, that's the big thing
Speaker 1: right now. We've talked about that before. A Bloomberg News
Speaker 1: analysis of wholesale electricity prices for tens of thousands of
Speaker 1: locations across the country revealed the effect of the AI
Speaker 1: boom on the power market with unprecedented granularity. Okay, the
Speaker 1: locations and prices were tracked and aggregated monthly by grid status.
Speaker 1: An energy data analytics platform, Bloomberg analyzes data in relation
Speaker 1: to data center locations from dc Byte and found that
Speaker 1: electricity now costs as much as two hundred and sixty
Speaker 1: seven percent more for a single month than it did
Speaker 1: five years ago in areas located near significant data center activity.
Speaker 1: About two thirds of the power grade consumer in the
Speaker 1: US runs off of state or regional grid where the
Speaker 1: system operators manages to the trading of energy. These wholesale
Speaker 1: commodity costs are passed onto households and businesses on their
Speaker 1: utility bills, which then include other charges to maintain and
Speaker 1: expand the network that can affect even customers who aren't
Speaker 1: in close proximity to data centers, since their energy relies
Speaker 1: on the same grid every day. Wholesale electricity prices are
Speaker 1: measured in real time by location's marginal pricing points on
Speaker 1: the power grid called nodes. LMPs are primarily made up
Speaker 1: of the cost to produce the energy and congestion. Analyzing
Speaker 1: data from twenty five thousand nodes used by seven regional
Speaker 1: transmission authorities, Bloomberg News estimated how much wholesale prices in
Speaker 1: the lower forty eight states have changed since twenty twenty. So,
Speaker 1: I mean, looking at the graph here, you could see
Speaker 1: how it's just gone up overall in every area where
Speaker 1: you see a yellow dot. And if you're not watching
Speaker 1: this right now, you need to go to Cajun Knight
Speaker 1: on Patreon. But essentially all of these areas are going
Speaker 1: to see rises in their electricity bill, especially as we
Speaker 1: are getting into the winter months when you're expecting to
Speaker 1: do so anyway, So I thought that was a little
Speaker 1: interesting tidbit that was worth talking about because now, as
Speaker 1: of a couple of months ago, they were talking about
Speaker 1: how AI demand is driving up energy costs for everyday Americans.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about it over here as well. Let's listen.
Speaker 2: In the digital age ramps up, the cost to keep
Speaker 2: our electric life running is also on the rise. Demand
Speaker 2: for artificial intelligence, among other products, means massive data centers
Speaker 2: are growing in certain parts of the country. In areas
Speaker 2: near those data centers. A new analysis from Bloomberg News
Speaker 2: found wholesale electricity costs more than doubled over the last
Speaker 2: five years, and the bill is being passed on to
Speaker 2: every day Americans like you and I. So let's bring
Speaker 2: in Leonardo Galletti, and investigative data and data visualization reporter
Speaker 2: at Bloomberg News. Leonardo, thank you so much for joining us.
Speaker 2: You made maps to show not only the increase, but
Speaker 2: where those price jumps are really happening across the country.
Speaker 2: Walk us through what we're seeing here. I want to
Speaker 2: pull up one of those maps, Hi.
Speaker 3: So thank you for having me so, as you can
Speaker 3: see in this map, you know, wholesale prices more than
Speaker 3: doubled since twenty twenty. In some markets, the increases have
Speaker 3: been very different depending on you know, which area we're
Speaker 3: talking about. And so that's really the question we wanted
Speaker 3: to ask ourselves for this story, is to what extent
Speaker 3: is AI impacting the power market and the prices that
Speaker 3: people pay for electricity every month across the country.
Speaker 2: And I'm looking at almost solid yellow there towards the
Speaker 2: east coast, and then again a lot of yellow on
Speaker 2: the west coast, and then a lot kind of in
Speaker 2: the middle of the country, especially by Texas. This is
Speaker 2: an incredible amount of data to break down. How did
Speaker 2: you go about doing this?
Speaker 3: Yeah, so, you know, we actually used very granular data
Speaker 3: on both locations of data centers across the country and
Speaker 3: wholesale electricity prices that are measured in real time for
Speaker 3: tens of thousands of locations. These are called nodes that
Speaker 3: are located across the country, and so you know, by
Speaker 3: putting these two data sets together, our analysis was able
Speaker 3: to show that essentially, the closer and area is to
Speaker 3: major data center activity, the much more likely price increases
Speaker 3: are to happen.
Speaker 2: And that's so frustrating for people who live in those
Speaker 2: areas because they didn't sign up for these data centers
Speaker 2: to come into their backyard, yet they're paying for It's
Speaker 2: interesting because you were also the photographer for the team
Speaker 2: and went into some of these communities that were impacted
Speaker 2: in Baltimore specifically, what did they tell you about how
Speaker 2: these hikes are impacting their lives.
Speaker 3: So, you know, Baltimore, as we found in the data analysis,
Speaker 3: is one of the areas that is most affected across
Speaker 3: the country, even though it's not necessarily the closest to
Speaker 3: data centers, So it's close to Northern Virginia, which is
Speaker 3: a major data center hotspot, and it happens to be
Speaker 3: on the same grid as you know, the areas with
Speaker 3: you know, data center Alley, which created a ripple effect
Speaker 3: where now people in Baltimore are experiencing extremely high price increases,
Speaker 3: sometimes double what they were paying in twenty twenty. And so,
Speaker 3: you know, we spoke to people and photograph people from
Speaker 3: very different demographic and different walks of life, and they
Speaker 3: all express the same concern and frustration for the prices
Speaker 3: that they were paying every month. But what I think
Speaker 3: is interesting is that even though prices increased for everybody
Speaker 3: in that area, some of those people are more affected
Speaker 3: than others. They're more now faced with much bigger strain
Speaker 3: and having to make significant sacrifices like, for example, choosing
Speaker 3: between buying food or basic necessities or paying their power bill.
Speaker 1: So, like I said, the AI market has actually gone
Speaker 1: into the negative impact on American pocket books. Now, I'm
Speaker 1: not saying that every single person in America is going
Speaker 1: to notice these spikes. I am saying that a sizable
Speaker 1: chunk will, and hopefully it's not that bad. Right, hopefully
Speaker 1: it's an extra twenty or thirty. However, uh over two
Speaker 1: hundred percent is that's a bit much. I think we
Speaker 1: can all acknowledge that. And the only real I mean
Speaker 1: even close to this that I have. So we got
Speaker 1: hit with a hurricane couple years ago, right Hurricane fran scene,
Speaker 1: if I'm not mistaken, and I actually put that on
Speaker 1: the Cajun Night YouTube channel. This hurricane wrecked the area
Speaker 1: of the plant that I was working at at the time,
Speaker 1: and they had to send power company individual workers from
Speaker 1: different states to try to get in here and redo
Speaker 1: these The problem is that these power lines and these
Speaker 1: poles were set up in the middle of bayous, like
Speaker 1: legitimate bayous, and they had to get special equipment just
Speaker 1: to get out to it to make the repairs to
Speaker 1: the poles, to get power back to these people. A
Speaker 1: buddy of mine that I worked with, who was a
Speaker 1: local his house, his personal electricity bill was eight hundred
Speaker 1: dollars a month for like six months because the power
Speaker 1: company started charging the locals extra to cover the cost
Speaker 1: of all that excess work that was done. That's an
Speaker 1: extenuating circumstance, and I get that, but that's that's still wrong, right,
Speaker 1: that's fucked. Now cut to AI that so many people love,
Speaker 1: and so many people would say, oh, I'm willing to
Speaker 1: pay that for the AI. So many people are not.
Speaker 1: So many people are not. I know, I'm not so
Speaker 1: I yeah. Anyway, I thought it was interesting, so of
Speaker 1: course I saw that we need to bring it up.
Speaker 1: Now let's get into some politicken. Today the House passes
Speaker 1: GOP healthcare bill without ACA extensions. So here's what we
Speaker 1: need to know about this, all right. The House has
Speaker 1: passed the GOP backed healthcare bill that does not include
Speaker 1: an extension of expiring tax credits that help millions of
Speaker 1: Americans pay for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act.
Speaker 1: The bill faces an unclear future in the Senate, where
Speaker 1: it would need support from several Democrats to pass. GOOP
Speaker 1: leaders unveil the bill, known as the Lower Healthcare Premiums
Speaker 1: for All Americans Act. The way they name these bits
Speaker 1: of legislation, it's a bit on the nose, you know. Anyway,
Speaker 1: Last week it would expand association health plans with lower
Speaker 1: premiums for some Affordable Care Act and rollees, and in
Speaker 1: act reforms aimed at decreasing drug costs. But the exclusion
Speaker 1: of an extension of the Affordable Care Act tax credits
Speaker 1: sparked a revolt by a handful of moderate Republicans earlier
Speaker 1: in the day, none of whom ultimately voted against the bill.
Speaker 1: Four GOP members signed a Democratic Discharge petition to force
Speaker 1: a vote on extending the subsidies for three years, seeing
Speaker 1: up a final vote early in the new year. The
Speaker 1: moderates have argued that letting the subsidies expire on January
Speaker 1: first will lead to price hikes for millions of Americans
Speaker 1: and give Democrats a potential political issue heading into next
Speaker 1: year's midterm elections. Yeah, the midterms. I keep going back
Speaker 1: and forth. If I actually care about the mid terms,
Speaker 1: they seem nominal rights. It's the pendulum swinging to whatever
Speaker 1: opposite and sometimes the same direction as whatever the executive
Speaker 1: branch has going on. I don't think that it's as
Speaker 1: big of a deal as the politicians always make it
Speaker 1: out to be. It is for them, some of them
Speaker 1: might get primaried and lose their seats, but like other
Speaker 1: than that, it's not a big deal at least not
Speaker 1: from what I can tell. But sure it's gonna give
Speaker 1: some party leverage in the midterms. Sure anyway, The successful
Speaker 1: discharge petition was a direct rebuke of House Speaker Mike Johnson,
Speaker 1: who has refused to bring an extension up for a vote.
Speaker 1: He insisted earlier in the day that he has not
Speaker 1: lost control of the House. Yeah, he's he's holding on
Speaker 1: to that as of this moment. As of this moment,
Speaker 1: Johnson says Democrats a discharge petition will get a vote
Speaker 1: in January. House Speaker Mike Johnson said it's inevitable that
Speaker 1: the Democrats discharge petition on three year extension will be
Speaker 1: considered on the floor when lawmakers return in January. It
Speaker 1: will be on the floor that first week of January
Speaker 1: when we returned. Johnson's a report Wednesday night a bit
Speaker 1: repetitive here. We also said Republicans plan to hold additional
Speaker 1: votes on their health care policies when they return, and
Speaker 1: then he literally just said that again. House cancels Friday votes.
Speaker 1: House Republican leadership announced that Friday's votes have been canceled.
Speaker 1: Thursday is the House's last day in session for the year. Okay,
Speaker 1: so they're all taking a little Christmas break. How about
Speaker 1: that House passes GP healthcare plan. We already talked about this.
Speaker 1: In a two sixteen to two eleven vote, the House
Speaker 1: approved to build that the Republicans say, well, lower health
Speaker 1: insurance premiums for one hundred of Americans, but will not
Speaker 1: include an extension of expiring Affordable Care Act tax credits.
Speaker 1: I'm on board with this as of this moments, as
Speaker 1: of the way I'm reading this, YO, lower premiums for everybody.
Speaker 1: That sounds dope. I mean, it doesn't take somebody with
Speaker 1: a lot of wherewithal to know that our healthcare system
Speaker 1: is drastically overpriced. So lower premiums, hopefully lower costs in
Speaker 1: the medical field overall, sounds guccy. Sounds good on the surface. However,
Speaker 1: I'm sure there's a drawback to it that we're just
Speaker 1: not seeing yet. You know. Representative Thomas Massey of Kentucky
Speaker 1: was the sole Republican to vote against it. YO, Massy
Speaker 1: just be out here. Massey is just out there doing
Speaker 1: his damn thing. I'm not calling him a rhino a
Speaker 1: lot of I've seen a lot of people start to
Speaker 1: call Massi a rhino. I think he's more libertarian than
Speaker 1: a rhino, and sometimes libertarians can take the form of
Speaker 1: something a little more liberal. Than people feel comfortable with,
Speaker 1: and in some cases a little more conservative than people
Speaker 1: are comfortable with. And I get that. But Massey is
Speaker 1: just out here doing his own thing, inn't he. GOP
Speaker 1: leadership unveiled the plan less than a week ago as
Speaker 1: they've faced increasing pressure for moderates in their party to
Speaker 1: hold a vote on extending the Enhanced Premium Tax Credits,
Speaker 1: which lapse on December thirty. First, the tax credits help
Speaker 1: eligible people cover premiums for their health insurance purchases through
Speaker 1: the Affordable Care Act marketplace, but House Speaker Mike Johnson
Speaker 1: refused to put their bipartisan legislation on the floor to
Speaker 1: extend the subsidies with reforms like income limits, and Republicans
Speaker 1: on the House Rules Committee blocked their last ditch effort
Speaker 1: to amend the bill. In response, for modern Republicans signed
Speaker 1: onto a Democratic discharge petition. All right, we already kind
Speaker 1: of talked about that, So now let's hear from old
Speaker 1: Mike Johnson himself to give us a little bit more
Speaker 1: insight into the situation.
Speaker 4: Here.
Speaker 1: This is from Live Now Fox dropped a couple of
Speaker 1: hours ago as of time for recording. So let's see
Speaker 1: how this goes out right.
Speaker 5: Everyone you were watching live now and from Fox.
Speaker 1: Let's continue on Capitol Hill.
Speaker 5: We have Speaker Johnson speaking to reporters right now.
Speaker 6: Healthcare bill that will bring down the cost of healthcare,
Speaker 6: the Lower Premiums for All Americans Act does exactly what
Speaker 6: the title suggests. It will reduce premiums for all Americans
Speaker 6: by on average at least eleven percent overall.
Speaker 5: And that's just the beginning.
Speaker 6: There will be much more to come, more ideas in
Speaker 6: the first part of next year to bring down the
Speaker 6: cost of healthcare. And what the bill did in addition
Speaker 6: to the that tonight is it increases the quality of care,
Speaker 6: access to care. It gives persons more options, more flexibility
Speaker 6: in their health care.
Speaker 5: And also it adds transparency.
Speaker 6: We had the PBM Pharmacy Benefit Manager transparency piece to
Speaker 6: it as well. Now contrasts that with the Democrats covid
Speaker 6: Era subsidy that they wanted to extend that would only
Speaker 6: have impact seven percent of Americans. The bill we just
Speaker 6: passed impacts one hundred percent of Americans. Their version would
Speaker 6: impact seven percent of Americans, and it would cost taxpayers
Speaker 6: three hundred and fifty billion dollars. That is not the
Speaker 6: way to reduce the cost of health care. The Democrats
Speaker 6: do not want a solution. They just demonstrated because they
Speaker 6: voted against this bill. They want an issue for the election.
Speaker 6: It is based on a false narrative. The Democrats broke
Speaker 6: America's health care system when they gave us the ACA,
Speaker 6: the Unaffordable Care Act, fifteen years ago. They promised that
Speaker 6: premiums would come down, that access would increase, in quality
Speaker 6: of health care would increase.
Speaker 5: None of that happen because it's a flawed system.
Speaker 6: Their response right now is to toize and continue to
Speaker 6: shovel taxpayer dollars onto a broken system.
Speaker 5: We say enough is enough.
Speaker 6: The Republican Party is the party that is bringing the
Speaker 6: ideas forward to fix this crisis and fix this problem
Speaker 6: for everyone.
Speaker 5: It is a serious problem. We took a big step
Speaker 5: tonight to do that.
Speaker 6: We hope that this gets signed in the law quickly
Speaker 6: because it will have the desired effect. We hope the
Speaker 6: Senate and can get this done in short order. We'll
Speaker 6: be back in January to do much more of this,
Speaker 6: more policies, more ideas ahead, policy changes to fix the
Speaker 6: broken healthcare system again that was broken by the Democrats.
Speaker 6: So I'm glad the Republicans stood together tonight. Big night
Speaker 6: for us. We'll have another day on the legislative floor
Speaker 6: tomorrow and then we will probably wind up the year.
Speaker 5: So I wanted you to have that update.
Speaker 1: So you will let the subsidy?
Speaker 5: Will you let the subsidies expire? Prepared to let the
Speaker 5: House come home and.
Speaker 4: Let the subject.
Speaker 6: They got a sufficient number of signatures on a discharge
Speaker 6: petition for that subsidy, which is not good policy, as
Speaker 6: I've just explained, but it's inevitable that it comes to
Speaker 6: the floor for consideration. I think that seven legislative days
Speaker 6: have to toll. That's the rule. There's no way around that,
Speaker 6: and so it would be on the floor that first
Speaker 6: week of January when we return and bring it.
Speaker 5: It's not possible to do so.
Speaker 6: The discharge petition has a rule that cannot be broken.
Speaker 6: Seven legislative days must expire before it's considered on the floor.
Speaker 6: They could go by way of a rule to bring
Speaker 6: it to the floor in regular order, but that rule
Speaker 6: is not going to pass because again it's terrible policy.
Speaker 6: And that's what the Republican Party understands, and I think
Speaker 6: the American people understand when they get past the false
Speaker 6: narrative that the Democrats have tried to create. Chuck Schumer
Speaker 6: and Hakeem Jeffries and the other Democrats are going to
Speaker 6: try to say, by some stretch of the imagination, that
Speaker 6: the Republicans are responsible for the failed healthcare system when
Speaker 6: Republicans have not voted for that system for fifteen years.
Speaker 5: This is the Democrats creation.
Speaker 6: We have to fix it, and that's where we're going
Speaker 6: to do now, and we'll continue to do in the
Speaker 6: new year.
Speaker 1: Real quick. I'm not a big fan of the pointing
Speaker 1: of the finger like the politicians do all the time,
Speaker 1: but I will die on the hill of fuck Hakeem
Speaker 1: Jeffries and Chuck Schumer. Both of them are just dog
Speaker 1: shit human beings. Anyway, continuing work on the discharge petition.
Speaker 7: Does this active defiance from four of your own members who.
Speaker 6: Said this is a critical issue your mind, It's not
Speaker 6: an active defiance.
Speaker 5: I understand what they're doing.
Speaker 6: I understand that every member has a different district with
Speaker 6: different dynamics and and and and different demographics, and some
Speaker 6: of them felt like it was a really important thing
Speaker 6: to have a vote on the floor. I tried very hard,
Speaker 6: and they will all tell you that I tried very
Speaker 6: hard over the last several weeks and even through the
Speaker 6: weekend and as late as yesterday, trying to engineer away
Speaker 6: for them to have a vote on the floor so
Speaker 6: they could show that priority. But it was not to be.
Speaker 6: You know there, you've you've heard all the machinations of
Speaker 6: how it came about. There's no ill will here, there's not.
Speaker 6: This is not a challenge to the Speaker's leadership. It's
Speaker 6: a uh it's they're they're using the rules. Here's the reality, everybody.
Speaker 6: We have a small majority. We have a razor thin majority,
Speaker 6: a record small majority, and so things operate differently when
Speaker 6: you have a small majority.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 6: In the old days, a discharge petition would never be
Speaker 6: used by the majority party or anybody in it because
Speaker 6: the Speaker had a had a long stick that he
Speaker 6: would uh he would administer punishment for that.
Speaker 5: Okay, I don't have that because we have a small margin.
Speaker 5: So uh.
Speaker 6: Look, I love all these guys and and ladies that
Speaker 6: I worked with. I understand uh what their concerns are.
Speaker 6: We talked about it at length, that was in those
Speaker 6: rooms with them, and we had, as we say in
Speaker 6: the Deep South, here alas some intense fellowship, but it's
Speaker 6: all good. Everybody's in good spirits now and everybody understands
Speaker 6: what's happening. I don't know if you just saw that
Speaker 6: on the floor, there's there's great collegiality and and uh
Speaker 6: and in partnership and friendship on the floor and that continues.
Speaker 5: Did say did you mishandled?
Speaker 1: Did you handle mishandle this issue?
Speaker 5: I don't know. If you're a Republican college boy day well,
Speaker 5: I think two of them said as much.
Speaker 6: But I think if you talk to everybody across the conference,
Speaker 6: they'll say, I'm not sure how it could have been
Speaker 6: handled any differently or any better. It's a very delicate situation.
Speaker 6: Let's look at the reality. Healthcare is a very complicated issue.
Speaker 6: Healthcare and immigration are probably two most complicated areas of
Speaker 6: public policy.
Speaker 5: It's very difficult to get.
Speaker 6: Unanimous consensus, unanimous consent on a solution. We effectively have
Speaker 6: to have that unanimity think of it. It's a very
Speaker 6: very difficult thing, a very big challenge, and people get
Speaker 6: sometimes excited and emotional about these things because the stakes
Speaker 6: are very high for their constituents, mine as well, all
Speaker 6: of our constituents. What I'm promising to you all is
Speaker 6: that we will continue to do what we did tonight,
Speaker 6: and that is lower the premiums for everybody, all Americans.
Speaker 6: You're going to see that demonstrator. You're going to see
Speaker 6: that we'll continue and everybody will be working together.
Speaker 5: Thank you all. Have a bunch for.
Speaker 1: Okay, So before we get to the next topic of conversation,
Speaker 1: I see Royce has his hand raised and we're going
Speaker 1: to get to the chat after that. If anybody has
Speaker 1: anything they want to jump in on and ask, go
Speaker 1: for it, Royce, go ahead, brother.
Speaker 8: So this is probably going obviously you're going to fall
Speaker 8: in dead here is unfortunately, but I think one of
Speaker 8: the reasons why all of these things that these politicians
Speaker 8: do fail it's because they don't give a shit honestly
Speaker 8: about us, because it doesn't really affect them because they
Speaker 8: have so much money to do everything they want to.
Speaker 8: Whether it's through ill begotten gains or not, I don't
Speaker 8: know if they're so connected with the American people. So
Speaker 8: if it would be nice if we get into something
Speaker 8: to where all right, well, these people who are in
Speaker 8: politics and power need to for one month out of
Speaker 8: the year try to survive off of the lowest income.
Speaker 8: That way, Hey, maybe we are screw over the people.
Speaker 8: Maybe we need to give people more money or better
Speaker 8: benefits or better medical you know, they're just they have
Speaker 8: no skin in the game. Like they can talk all
Speaker 8: they want about Okay, well we're gonna do this for
Speaker 8: you guys, what we're to do for you guys. Well,
Speaker 8: I mean, since it doesn't affect them one way or
Speaker 8: the other, they can do what they did before and
Speaker 8: you know, and have like the Democrats that they'll walk
Speaker 8: out and then do their job for a number of
Speaker 8: weeks because they've gotten no skin in the game, like
Speaker 8: they give put some skin in the game, Like, let's
Speaker 8: circumcise this fuckers like you know.
Speaker 1: Now, no, I know what you're saying here. I'm assuming
Speaker 1: you didn't mean that to be let's wify them, right,
Speaker 1: I mean.
Speaker 8: Well, I mean I am the the Israeli handler, so
Speaker 8: you know.
Speaker 1: Just clearly Israeli handler. Yeah, from all the way from
Speaker 1: the deep state of Colorado, you know. But but uh no,
Speaker 1: I see what you're saying here, and I agree. The
Speaker 1: politicians are trying to be the well they were elected
Speaker 1: to be the mouthpiece and the legislative arm of the people.
Speaker 1: I would say ninety five to ninety nine percent of
Speaker 1: them have completely lost touch with their constituents from the
Speaker 1: word go. They are completely detached from anything that any
Speaker 1: you know, random citizen in Anywheresville, USA, actually is dealing with.
Speaker 1: So for them, it's all about the policy itself. It's
Speaker 1: all about who's back you're scratching, and what they can
Speaker 1: do to make the next election cycle better for them,
Speaker 1: and what kickbacks they're gonna get. It's yeah, I agree.
Speaker 1: I don't know if if this is true and the
Speaker 1: premiums go down for everybody, cool, I'm in favor of that.
Speaker 1: Don't really know what that's gonna do. As far as
Speaker 1: the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare or whatever else. I
Speaker 1: don't know what that's gonna do in regard to people
Speaker 1: that are in that kind of a situation. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't necessarily see this going positively for everybody overall.
Speaker 1: I might be wrong. I might be wrong, and this
Speaker 1: is the blessing in disguise to undo, like he said,
Speaker 1: fifteen years worth of damage that we have been dealing
Speaker 1: with this whole time. It's possible, But again, like he
Speaker 1: just heard him say, if the Democrats are so hardcore
Speaker 1: against and the Republicans are so hardcore for it, then
Speaker 1: at the end of the vote, everybody was cool with
Speaker 1: each other. Everybody was very like he said, there was
Speaker 1: collegiate you know, all everybody was cool. Everybody was having
Speaker 1: good time here. Whatever, it's all in act. It's all
Speaker 1: in act. There's a few of them that really are
Speaker 1: as shitty as they portray. Hakeem Jefferies is one of them.
Speaker 1: He is a shit human being that calls for the
Speaker 1: murder of his colleagues and has openly done so. But
Speaker 1: aside from like the ones in two and there's Republicans
Speaker 1: that are just as bad. Dan Crenshaw as one of them.
Speaker 1: Can't stand him, you know, for many reasons, but whatever.
Speaker 1: But aside from the ones that are more prolific in
Speaker 1: the dumb shit, the majority of them, it's a stage,
Speaker 1: it's an act, you know it. That's how this goes down.
Speaker 1: So I don't know. I guess we'll have to wait
Speaker 1: and see how this shakes out. And again, what is
Speaker 1: this going to do for the situation in January? Because
Speaker 1: the government shut down, all that went away until January,
Speaker 1: So it's very possible We're gonna see yet another government
Speaker 1: shut down take place in the middle of January, and
Speaker 1: that one might last some new record length and whatever.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe this will be the lynchpin on
Speaker 1: that one. Maybe this will cool some of the tensions
Speaker 1: on that one. I who's to say? Anyway, Sam, I
Speaker 1: am glad to see you in here. Bro. How you feeling.
Speaker 4: I'm in I'm in a lot of pain. But good
Speaker 4: news is I found my glasses so I can see better.
Speaker 4: I was just gonna ask, isn't Crenshaw the one that
Speaker 4: fucked over his seal buddies.
Speaker 1: We're not gonna spend the entire episode on this, but
Speaker 1: I'll absolutely take a minute to explain my disdain for
Speaker 1: Dan Crenshaw. So, Dan, and now he's coming after Sean Ryan.
Speaker 1: So yeah, another fed a seal coming after another Seal.
Speaker 4: Again, that's not the first time.
Speaker 1: It's not because he tried screwing over Eddie Gallagher. So
Speaker 1: all right, here's the backstory to this. Dan Crenshaw at
Speaker 1: one point in time was a Seal. I'd be lying
Speaker 1: if I told you which team he was a part of.
Speaker 1: I've heard Seal Team six, I've heard you know, second
Speaker 1: Team I don't know. All I know is that yes
Speaker 1: he did. In fact, where he tried it on his chest,
Speaker 1: he lost his eye. He's the Republican out of Texas
Speaker 1: that has an eye patch all the things. And I
Speaker 1: gotta tell you, when he first took office, I liked him.
Speaker 1: I thought that was that's the kind of guy you
Speaker 1: want in these positions. It's dope cut two. Eddie Gallagher
Speaker 1: is a sailor, a Navy seal, who fell into a
Speaker 1: situation where they were trying to fry him for war crimes,
Speaker 1: even though all of the evidence was stacked showing he
Speaker 1: did nothing wrong. He played everything by the book. He
Speaker 1: didn't even step outside of the line of what could
Speaker 1: be considered acceptable behavior in a war zone, nothing like that.
Speaker 1: But because we so wait, wait, wait, wait, so because
Speaker 1: of somebody getting word that they didn't necessarily get the
Speaker 1: whole context to and ran with this story, Eddie Gallagher
Speaker 1: was about to get fried for war crimes that he
Speaker 1: did not commit. He reached out to Dan Crenshaw, his
Speaker 1: seal brother. Right, the seals are a very very small community.
Speaker 1: I think at any given time there might only be
Speaker 1: ten thousand of them period in the United States. Right,
Speaker 1: and so he reached out to Dan offline and was like, hey, bro,
Speaker 1: I know we've never really met each other whatever, but
Speaker 1: I am a seal in need. Here's the situation, here's
Speaker 1: the truth of the matter. They're trying to fry me.
Speaker 1: You go into bat for me would help me a
Speaker 1: lot right now. Instead of having his boys back, Dan
Speaker 1: Crenshaw led the charge to fry Eddie Gallagher alive, knowing
Speaker 1: the entire context. Yeah, so he had all the full story,
Speaker 1: He had all the context and still decided, you know what, Nah,
Speaker 1: screw that dude for no reason whatsoever. It didn't help
Speaker 1: him politically whatever. Cut two. Sean Ryan made a comment
Speaker 1: just a couple of weeks ago about how, you know,
Speaker 1: you have these politicians that get super rich out of nowhere,
Speaker 1: and it's because of their dealings with stock trading and
Speaker 1: all these things. And you know, they'll all invest in
Speaker 1: a certain company right before there's new legislation pass to
Speaker 1: help a certain industry, and so all those investments they
Speaker 1: just made just skyrocket, almost like they knew something was up.
Speaker 1: That's nothing new. Well, Pelosi has been the most prolific,
Speaker 1: but all the.
Speaker 4: Politicians that no the Act to criminaliza is called the
Speaker 4: Pelosi Act.
Speaker 1: Well, as this moment, yeah, as of this moment, it's
Speaker 1: not technically illegal, and there's ways around it. It's not you,
Speaker 1: it's your spouse that invested in all these it's there's ways,
Speaker 1: right whatever. So Sean Ryan, who was a Seal at
Speaker 1: one time then became a CIA asset for a bit
Speaker 1: cool cool, he had made this comment and he didn't
Speaker 1: name drop Dan Crenshaw outright, but he did say, you know,
Speaker 1: then you'll have these guys that are dropping like four
Speaker 1: hundred million dollars on these extravagant birthday parties and all
Speaker 1: these things. And it's like, how can you justify that
Speaker 1: when there's so many Americans that are in need, Like
Speaker 1: there's there's nonprofits for veterans that you could be given
Speaker 1: this money, especially you know, these types of politicians and
Speaker 1: our veterans. Whatever. So he didn't name Dan Crenshaw, but
Speaker 1: it's pretty obvious he was talking about Crenshaw. So Crenshaw
Speaker 1: then decides to DM Sean Ryan and said, hey, man,
Speaker 1: I've got some of my boys in Sealed Team six
Speaker 1: that said, you've been talking shit. I would appreciate if
Speaker 1: you kept my name out of your mouth and it
Speaker 1: wasn't threatening, but it also was a bit ominous, I'll
Speaker 1: give you that. So then they slapped Sean Ryan with
Speaker 1: legal paperwork, basically giving him a cease and assist to
Speaker 1: stop talking about this shit. So last week, Sean Ryan
Speaker 1: led out a statement to YouTube. It's like an eight
Speaker 1: minute monologue where he's basically, here's what happens, start to finish,
Speaker 1: here's my response, here's what Dan said. So basically, what
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you is, fuck you. I have the
Speaker 1: freedom of speech and I'm gonna continue saying whatever the
Speaker 1: hell I'm gonna say. And if you feel some type
Speaker 1: of way about that, then, like I guess I'll see
Speaker 1: you in court because I don't think you really want
Speaker 1: to go to court whenever. These things that I'm talking
Speaker 1: about are really damn against you. So yeah, anyway, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not a big fan of Crenshaw for multiple reasons.
Speaker 1: And then Crenshaw released a statement after that which made
Speaker 1: him look like a bitch. It's not that he released
Speaker 1: the statement. What up, Royce. I'm sorry, all good dude,
Speaker 1: But anyway, so I'm not a I'm not a massive
Speaker 1: fan of Dan Crenshaw anymore. But yeah, yeah, that's that's
Speaker 1: that's that one anyway. Yeah, weird tangent on that, And
Speaker 1: like I said, I want to make the whole episode
Speaker 1: about it, although we really could. Just that's the the
Speaker 1: over under on it. All right, So let's see, uh
Speaker 1: get into the chat here. Before we get to the
Speaker 1: next topic of discussion. Tony says he can't stay long
Speaker 1: early flight Tomorrow's kids are watching Harry Potter, so I'm muted. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that sucks. He also talked about he got his finger crush. Yeah, Royce,
Speaker 1: uh got his finger crush. For anybody who wasn't there
Speaker 1: for the pre show conversation anyway. Uh oh, that's another
Speaker 1: good one. I forgot to bring up. Bongino has stepped down.
Speaker 1: All right, all right, we're gonna bring that. We are
Speaker 1: absolutely gonna talk about that one. Hold on, continue bepep
Speaker 1: you and you know what, as a matter of fact,
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about that one. Yeah, we're gonna talk
Speaker 1: about that one next as a matter of fact, because
Speaker 1: the next one that have after that is talking about
Speaker 1: how fentanyl is now classified as weapon of mass destruction,
Speaker 1: and that's gonna take into a whole other side tangent.
Speaker 1: But anyway, all right, So we're gonna talk about Bongino next.
Speaker 1: Trump wants to say in character, even when that character
Speaker 1: is repulsive. Yeah, he really does. Tony said it, and
Speaker 1: I have to agree. Like, listen, I understand that we
Speaker 1: all voted him in because he's an asshole and that
Speaker 1: made us feel good. You know, in a certain regard.
Speaker 1: We like the pettiness and we like that he is
Speaker 1: so like, what you see is what you get, and
Speaker 1: if you don't like it, then tough titty. It is
Speaker 1: what it is. And there's something to be said for that.
Speaker 1: I get it. However, there's a part where committing to
Speaker 1: the bit can work to your detriment. And especially when
Speaker 1: we're talking about Rob Reiner and his wife, rip to
Speaker 1: both of them. And granted maybe they weren't the biggest
Speaker 1: fans of Trump. Ooh ah, somebody in Hollywood that's not
Speaker 1: a fan of Trump. That color me shocked, right, And
Speaker 1: then in a press he made some statement, he put
Speaker 1: a post on X or on truth social or whatever.
Speaker 1: It was basically saying that you know, yeah, he died,
Speaker 1: but he was also suffering from a long standing mental
Speaker 1: illness of Trump derangement syndrome. And it's like that's that's
Speaker 1: there's a time and place for you to make dark,
Speaker 1: humorous jokes. Maybe not the week that these individuals were
Speaker 1: brutally murdered allegedly by their son. Maybe now's not the time,
Speaker 1: right cut too. In a press conference, Trump basically just
Speaker 1: tripled down on the assholeness. And it's like, again, I
Speaker 1: see what you're trying to do here. There's a time
Speaker 1: and place and you're making yourself look atrocious right now,
Speaker 1: and it's it's yeah, it's not a good look, Sam,
Speaker 1: go ahead.
Speaker 4: Brother Rob is also he was a fantastic director. Uh.
Speaker 4: He actually directed my favorite movie, The Princess Spot and
Speaker 4: if I'm not mistaken, he also directed stand By Me,
Speaker 4: which are two which are two very outstanding movies. But
Speaker 4: he'll be he was seventy eight years old. He and
Speaker 4: I didn't know it was a son, but when I
Speaker 4: first heard it, I immediately knew it had to be somebody
Speaker 4: that he felt comfortable with because both him and his
Speaker 4: wife were murdered.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's not we don't know if it was
Speaker 1: his son. As of now, all evidence is pointing to that,
Speaker 1: and he's the one that's been taken into custody. So
Speaker 1: we'll see.
Speaker 4: So with all all of all evidence and everything, I'm
Speaker 4: just gonna say, fine, fuck it. Allegedly his son or whatever. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I just I feel like at that point the the
Speaker 4: the killer shouldn't get life or anything. It should if
Speaker 4: you kill your parents, it should automatically be death penalty.
Speaker 1: But if he can get a psych case out of it, right,
Speaker 1: and I don't know the backstory, I'm sure, so why don't.
Speaker 4: We execute the criminally insane?
Speaker 1: Because these poor people are dealing with a lot of
Speaker 1: mental issues and some of it may not be their faults.
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying that this is my personal justification.
Speaker 1: This is I'm playing Devil's advocate on this. I'm I'm
Speaker 1: it depends case by case. There are some people that
Speaker 1: I think criminally insane and like dangerously criminally insane. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they don't need to be a part of the human
Speaker 1: population anymore.
Speaker 4: Some of these people do what I say, case in point,
Speaker 4: uh Dahmer, Yeah, John Wyn Gacy, like you know that
Speaker 4: the Son of Sam, all the Serio kiders, they will
Speaker 4: all a lot of them get engaged and made while
Speaker 4: in prison to females. Do you know what the demographic
Speaker 4: of women fucking white love letters to the psychopathic sons
Speaker 4: of bitches.
Speaker 1: It's a lot.
Speaker 4: It's a lot, like it is the the the liberal
Speaker 4: of white women.
Speaker 1: Dude. So I had a neighbor. I had a neighbor
Speaker 1: who was dating two different prison inmates that are serving
Speaker 1: at different prisons, and she was like writing letters and
Speaker 1: she would be taking trips out to see them and
Speaker 1: all these things, and like one of them was like
Speaker 1: about to get out, and I was like, so are
Speaker 1: you trying to like be with this dude? Like what's
Speaker 1: the deal? And then right before he gets out they
Speaker 1: break it off and all this, and I'm like, you
Speaker 1: realize this dude has your address. You've been mailing with
Speaker 1: him correspondence for a while, Like how first of all,
Speaker 1: how the fuck did you meet this guy? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Programs and everything. Yeah, but like my school, we got
Speaker 4: to do pin pal systems with the soldiers and all.
Speaker 4: I don't know if they still.
Speaker 1: Do that anymore, but boyd, but yeah.
Speaker 4: We did that throughout Eleminu school. In middle school, I
Speaker 4: actually had a pen pal I actually corresponded up to
Speaker 4: like ten years in all, until he had a fatal
Speaker 4: h crashed with his plane because he was also a
Speaker 4: private pilot and all really cool, dude, But that's actually
Speaker 4: why I will never get in.
Speaker 1: A plane because of that.
Speaker 4: Well, there's more planes in the ocean there are boats
Speaker 4: in the sky, is all I'm saying. All a landing
Speaker 4: is is a controlled crash.
Speaker 1: That bitch ain't Oh my god, Sam, I've never heard
Speaker 1: that justification. But I mean, am I long?
Speaker 4: Planes are supposed to be in the sky, not at
Speaker 4: the bottom of the fucking ocean.
Speaker 5: Of space.
Speaker 1: There's more planes in the ocean than boats in the sky.
Speaker 1: So does that mean you're okay to take a cruise
Speaker 1: but not a plane ride.
Speaker 4: I mean, get me liquid up enough.
Speaker 1: I can look.
Speaker 4: I can float on the water. I can trace shoot pool,
Speaker 4: I can float on that bitch in the position of attention,
Speaker 4: I can float. Oh my god, I cannot fly. If
Speaker 4: God wanted me to fly, he would have put wings
Speaker 4: on my back, on my feet. And last time I checked,
Speaker 4: I ain't an angel and my name ain't Homies dude.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure there's more boats at the bottom of
Speaker 1: the ocean than planes. Like statistical planes are the safest
Speaker 1: way to travel, like, it's exponentially safer than cars.
Speaker 4: Okay, and the Titanic's pool is still full of water.
Speaker 4: What's your point?
Speaker 1: Okay, Sam? You you truly are just the spirit animal
Speaker 1: you know God? Yes?
Speaker 4: And also I love you? And now activating Agian mode.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, I gotta say that your eyes
Speaker 1: don't squint as much whenever you put the glasses on,
Speaker 1: So if anything, that's when you activate your American mode.
Speaker 4: Probably, But then again, this eye is my lazy eye,
Speaker 4: and but that's due to me getting dropped a lot, so.
Speaker 1: It'd be like that. Yeah, I'm pretty sure my left
Speaker 1: eye is my lazy eye, but that's because of the
Speaker 1: metal from the explosion, so I don't I don't know that.
Speaker 4: And I have a stigmatism, and yeah, not very good
Speaker 4: depth for session. But even without the glasses, I shot
Speaker 4: better than my drill instructors who on the the Morin
Speaker 4: Core Rifle team.
Speaker 1: So super Asian a stigmatism, death perception, the whole nine.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I blame my I blame my Japanese queen Flapino grandfather.
Speaker 1: Yeah I bet so. Uh all right, let's continue on here.
Speaker 1: Roy shared a meme of the Santa Let's see here.
Speaker 1: Oh fine, I'll release the Nautilust just gonna check it twice.
Speaker 1: Here you go. What's it's all readacted? Ah, I love it.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 9: That's great.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Hell uh midnight Kong. Glad to see you here, bro,
Speaker 1: he says. Here in Indiana, they keep trying to snag
Speaker 1: land for data centers, but the people aren't having it,
Speaker 1: thank god, thank god. The people are actually, you know,
Speaker 1: thinking critically and logically about this. They just did one
Speaker 1: in Louisiana, and I'm like, y'all, y'all are so dumb.
Speaker 1: Y'all are so dumb. They the same ship that went
Speaker 1: down whenever they were trying to build a Tesla battery
Speaker 1: manufacturing facility in the parish that I live. And it's like,
Speaker 1: you know, on the surface, Oh, it's a green entity
Speaker 1: and it does this and this, it's so good for us.
Speaker 1: I'm like, have any of you ever looked at what
Speaker 1: a battery manufacturing facility does to the local environment. I'm
Speaker 1: not even a big hippie by any means, but like,
Speaker 1: it's a quick Google search away to see that that's
Speaker 1: a really bad idea. Data centers are the same way.
Speaker 1: It doesn't it's not bad for the environment, but it
Speaker 1: draws power it believe or not draws water for cooling
Speaker 1: and gives nothing back, nothing that's actually tangible or usable.
Speaker 1: It's so dumb. So yeah, at least people like you
Speaker 1: said in Indiana are actually thinking critically good things. Uh.
Speaker 1: Moving on, Daryl Cooper believes a quid pro quote between
Speaker 1: the US and Russia has already been reached. US gets
Speaker 1: regime change in Venezuela, Russia gets victory and possibly regime
Speaker 1: change in Ukraine. Okay, we're gonna be talking about the
Speaker 1: Russia Ukraine situation near and Venezuela here in a moment
Speaker 1: as well. Tony says, I've been opting out of getting
Speaker 1: photographed at the airport. It's super easy and totally works,
Speaker 1: just so you know. Okay, so everybody keep that in
Speaker 1: your toolbox. Absolutely yellow on the West coast, welcome. I
Speaker 1: don't know what that was about. Yellow on the West coast.
Speaker 1: I don't exactly know what that was about. But all right,
Speaker 1: oh oh the yellow for the map on the west coast. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: data centers are big on the west coast. Absolutely. So
Speaker 1: you saw that map, you saw it was the upper
Speaker 1: the northeast.
Speaker 4: All I heard was yellow on the west coast, and
Speaker 4: my mind went to the oh no.
Speaker 1: Oh wow wow, no, no, no, So anywhere there's data centers.
Speaker 1: And you saw the map earlier as we looked at
Speaker 1: the continental US, the northeast New England area super dense,
Speaker 1: the far West Coast super dense, and then pretty much
Speaker 1: up and down the Mississippi River super dense. So I
Speaker 1: mean there's there's areas that are sporadically higher from place
Speaker 1: to place, but those are the big ones as far
Speaker 1: as the power grid goes, and people that are going
Speaker 1: to see an increase in price.
Speaker 4: I do not see the map. That's why I was
Speaker 4: like yellow West Coast with sco Bay was the my
Speaker 4: line of stought.
Speaker 1: I see you, Sam, I absolutely see you anyway. All right,
Speaker 1: let's see here. How is everyone today? But Babba, I
Speaker 1: missed some of the stuff about Massy, but he is
Speaker 1: my favorite congressman. And there was a vote on military
Speaker 1: action for Venezuela that barely failed today twenty or two
Speaker 1: eleven to two thirteen. We are gonna be talking about
Speaker 1: Venezuela here in a bit. And I'm not I am
Speaker 1: not necessarily pro or anti Massy. I see him as
Speaker 1: the chaotic neutral as of this moment. Same way with Musk.
Speaker 1: I still feel the same way about Musk. I don't
Speaker 1: see him as an inherent evil or an inherent good.
Speaker 1: I see him as a chaotic neutral that's one step
Speaker 1: away from becoming a superhero and also equally one step
Speaker 1: away from becoming a super villain. Massy, as far as
Speaker 1: the political spectrum is concerned, he's listed as a Republican.
Speaker 1: He's just as liable to vote for a Democratic policy
Speaker 1: as hardcore as he is to vote for a Republican policy,
Speaker 1: Like there's really nothing standing in the way of him
Speaker 1: just doing whatever the hell he wants. But I think
Speaker 1: that that's the people of Kentucky love him is because
Speaker 1: he at least he seems to be very authentic, and
Speaker 1: I think the people are like craving authenticity in their
Speaker 1: politicians right now. So yeah, I'll take I'll take Massy
Speaker 1: for being what he is. Let's see female anime characters.
Speaker 1: What in the hell did Samson that Dwang and him?
Speaker 1: I don't know. With that oh, with that dog in him,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, made the glass make to where I can't
Speaker 1: be reading the female anime Catchers with that dog in him.
Speaker 7: The one that I was making fun of is the
Speaker 7: one at the in the middle of the fall White
Speaker 7: Side is uh Tina, Uh, I highly recommend you watch
Speaker 7: Full Metal Alchemist.
Speaker 4: Brotherhood so you get the joke, Jacob.
Speaker 1: Oh oh wait, yeah, yeah, she got that dog in
Speaker 1: her for sure, really fucked up how she has that
Speaker 1: dog in her But you know, hey, whatever is it bad?
Speaker 4: But that to me, that that was the That was
Speaker 4: not the darkest part of that anime. It. I laughed
Speaker 4: my ass off, but I.
Speaker 1: Was like, so for anybody who doesn't get this joke,
Speaker 1: long story short, this girl and her dog, her pet
Speaker 1: are like super super close and then through a wild
Speaker 1: chain of events, their souls in their.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they were transmutated into a camera, which, if you
Speaker 4: funny enough, Japan is making actual cameras today.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Though I've said that multiple times. So, uh the female
Speaker 4: that wrote for Male Alchemists, which it was a lady
Speaker 4: who wrote it. Some of the best animals are actually
Speaker 4: written by females, believe.
Speaker 1: It or not. Yeah, it's weird how that works out.
Speaker 4: And a lot of times there's a lot of the
Speaker 4: female writers a lot more pushing the agenda in certain aspects.
Speaker 4: As you expect, the sigils and the alchemical symbols that
Speaker 4: she has in that show are actual alchemical symbols.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're accurate, but uh yes, So the joke about
Speaker 1: that is that if they try to separate them, then
Speaker 1: they both die. So it's it's a whole that's bad
Speaker 1: man as far as it goes.
Speaker 4: It was one of the taboos because you're not supposed
Speaker 4: to be human transmutation, which is why the boys lost
Speaker 4: their bodies. But the is it when they did that,
Speaker 4: he committed it a taboo and he that's why he
Speaker 4: got his first a citation of beating an alchemy the
Speaker 4: state state done out the state sponsored alchemy his pocket watch,
Speaker 4: because that's what he did to his wife, and you
Speaker 4: only n that's what he did after you see what
Speaker 4: he did to his daughter.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for anybody who's not into anime, I get it.
Speaker 1: But for those that are into it, it's it's an art.
Speaker 1: For him, it absolutely is moving it can be. Yes,
Speaker 1: Elon is a super villain. Okay again, I'm not saying
Speaker 1: he is. I'm not saying he isn't. I'm saying that
Speaker 1: the the pumps are primed for that to go either way,
Speaker 1: literally out of misnotice. It's all I'm gonna say as
Speaker 1: far as Elon goes, not in the anime at all,
Speaker 1: just never been in my jam. I get it. I
Speaker 1: absolutely get it. To some people. Anime is ridiculous to
Speaker 1: some people. Anime as a source, I'm in the middle.
Speaker 1: I'm not like a super huge anime nerd, but I
Speaker 1: know enough about enough of them to where I can,
Speaker 1: like semi speak intelligently on it. So there's that anyway.
Speaker 1: All right, now, let's get back to the conversation at large,
Speaker 1: shall we. So Dan Bongino is leaving his post as
Speaker 1: FBI Deputy Director next month. This dropped just today. We
Speaker 1: were we were talking about it earlier today. Apparently there
Speaker 1: was some things about Dan Bongino's staff all quitting from
Speaker 1: out from under him or something along those lines. We
Speaker 1: didn't really know. I was doing research for the Kwansa
Speaker 1: episode that we're gonna shooting tomorrow, and like cool cool,
Speaker 1: cool cut too, Nah, dan Bongino quit and he apparently,
Speaker 1: according to what Trump said, he wants to go back
Speaker 1: to podcasting. He wants to go back to his show.
Speaker 1: I got a hard believing unless he starts talking about
Speaker 1: all the ill shit that they were doing. I got
Speaker 1: a hard time believing that he's gonna have a loyal
Speaker 1: listener base. But hey, I could be wrong. Let's read
Speaker 1: into it here. CBS News. Dan Bongino leaving his post
Speaker 1: as FBI Deputy Director next month. He will be leaving
Speaker 1: his role in January. He announced it on a social
Speaker 1: media post on Wednesday and direct quote, I want to
Speaker 1: thank President Trump, ag Bondi, and Director Portel for the
Speaker 1: opportunity to serve with purpose, he wrote on a post
Speaker 1: on x Most importantly, I want to thank you, my
Speaker 1: fellow Americans, for the privilege to serve you. Nobody asked
Speaker 1: you to take that position, None of the American people
Speaker 1: like although I will say whenever he and Cash Pttell
Speaker 1: took that spot like or they were offered it, and
Speaker 1: then when they were appointed to this position. I was
Speaker 1: one of the ones that was very excited about that
Speaker 1: right because both of them were conspiracy theorists. Both of
Speaker 1: them were very hard chargers as far as releasing the files,
Speaker 1: complete transparency, the government corruptions got to stop. And it
Speaker 1: wasn't just Epstein. They talked about a lot of different
Speaker 1: things on the conspiratorial take that I was hoping that
Speaker 1: they would push through with their positions in the FBI.
Speaker 1: To watch them turncoat as hard as they did, as
Speaker 1: fast as they did, was a slap in the face
Speaker 1: to the American people, honestly. But sure, yeah, Dan, You're
Speaker 1: welcome on behalf of the American people for the position
Speaker 1: that none of us actually asked you to take, but
Speaker 1: had a lot of high hopes, and you dashed them
Speaker 1: all against the rock. Anyway. President Trump appeared to confirm
Speaker 1: Bongino's exit earlier Wednesday, telling reporters Dan did a great job.
Speaker 1: I think he wants to go back to a show.
Speaker 1: FBI director Cash Hotel called Dan Bongino the best partner
Speaker 1: I could have asked for in helping restore the FBI.
Speaker 1: You didn't restore the FBI. Neither of you restored the
Speaker 1: FBI like at all. If anything, you showed how incompetent
Speaker 1: y'all are, and also how incompetent the FBI as a
Speaker 1: whole is. So I guess thank you for that. Sure
Speaker 1: writing on X not only completed his mission, he far
Speaker 1: exceeded it, Yo, What metrics are you using to make
Speaker 1: these statements? Cash, mister Patel, director Patel, whatever the fuck
Speaker 1: monikers you want to put on him with, what standard
Speaker 1: and metrics are you using to say that he completed
Speaker 1: his mission one year, not even one full year after
Speaker 1: taking that position, but also exceeded it. I would love
Speaker 1: to know.
Speaker 9: He did a great job of lying.
Speaker 1: What are you talking about?
Speaker 9: He exceeded everybody's expectations of complete and out bullshit.
Speaker 1: You know what, Royce, you might be onto something here.
Speaker 1: Maybe that is exactly what he's talking about. You know what.
Speaker 1: If that's the case, then yeah, he excelled at the job.
Speaker 1: For sure, we will miss him, but I'm thankful he
Speaker 1: accepted the call to serve. Our country is better and
Speaker 1: safer for it. Patel wrote again, by what metrics are
Speaker 1: you making such a statement? But okay? Attorney in general.
Speaker 1: Pambondi also thank Bonzino, writing on social media, Americans are
Speaker 1: safer because of a service? Again, in what realm do
Speaker 1: you believe that Americans are safer now than they were
Speaker 1: last year? I would love to know, because what we
Speaker 1: haven't had a car careening down Bourbon Street since we
Speaker 1: didn't have the Trump Tower shooting and car bombing situation.
Speaker 1: But we've had shootings, we've had fraud, we've had terrorist plots,
Speaker 1: we've had all these things. I just heard recently that
Speaker 1: they foiled a alleged terrorist plot that was supposed to
Speaker 1: go down New Year's Eve or New Year's time frame
Speaker 1: or something like that, and everybody's saying, see Candae, soone
Speaker 1: said there'd be a nine to eleven style event, and
Speaker 1: then the event that they're talking about is the thing
Speaker 1: in Australia, which I'm just gonna be the one to
Speaker 1: say it. Comparing the shooting on Bondai Beach to nine
Speaker 1: to eleven, I don't understand the actual logic is being
Speaker 1: applied to somebody who's making those connections. Gonna be honest,
Speaker 1: two gunmen that killed eleven people versus allegedly we all
Speaker 1: know nine to eleven was an inside job. I get that,
Speaker 1: but per the official narrative versus what was like five
Speaker 1: seven terrorists that killed thousands, I don't. I personally don't
Speaker 1: see the connection at all, But all right, sure, totally. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: apparently there was another terrorist attack that was supposed to
Speaker 1: take place, super alleged, super up in the air. If
Speaker 1: you start taking the sources away and start looking at
Speaker 1: it critically, I'm not really sure if it's exactly what
Speaker 1: they're making it out to be. But thank god we
Speaker 1: had Dan Bongino and cash betelling the FBI to foil
Speaker 1: this heinous plot. I don't know. I don't know, Royce,
Speaker 1: go ahead.
Speaker 8: I'm just curious.
Speaker 9: Think of this could be the first rat jumping ship.
Speaker 9: Possibly he since he's you know, on the inside of things,
Speaker 9: and you know, we don't know what he knows, but
Speaker 9: he definitely has more information. So it could he just
Speaker 9: try to preemptively bere like I've got to go over
Speaker 9: here now.
Speaker 1: Maybe, But at the same time, like once you're in
Speaker 1: the click and once you know the information, they're not
Speaker 1: just gonna let you quit, so you don't. You don't
Speaker 1: walk away from something like this is like the mafia.
Speaker 1: Just because you decide you're done, doesn't mean they decided
Speaker 1: that you're done. And I don't, I don't know. I
Speaker 1: everybody seems to be giving him the thumbs up in
Speaker 1: the approval to go. It also wouldn't shock me on
Speaker 1: a conspiratorial take. I understand that let me take off
Speaker 1: my Cajun Knight hat and put on my kid cult
Speaker 1: to conspiracy have for just a second here, It would
Speaker 1: shock me if Dan Bongino is dead within six months
Speaker 1: from some plane crash or or a random car accident
Speaker 1: or whatever the case would be, or oh, my goodness,
Speaker 1: he randomly suffered a heart attack the stress of the
Speaker 1: job was too much for him and he couldn't hack
Speaker 1: it or whatever. I could see that going down very heavily,
Speaker 1: especially if he's trying to go back to being a
Speaker 1: podcaster calling out government corruption when he was the former
Speaker 1: underboss to the FBI, Like, that's that's gonna be a
Speaker 1: hard transition. It's gonna be a very hard transition if
Speaker 1: this is true. If he did all of a sudden
Speaker 1: redevelop a backbone and decide that he can't be a
Speaker 1: part of this this malarkey anymore. I got a hard
Speaker 1: time seeing him making it back to the civilian sector
Speaker 1: and picking up where he left off.
Speaker 9: I agree, man, I don't think he can go back
Speaker 9: to being a podcast because he's gonna be his base,
Speaker 9: because a lot of his base it was very supportive
Speaker 9: of him, and I know that I wasn't and I
Speaker 9: know my aunt for sure is like no faith anymore,
Speaker 9: especially after the whole you know, Fstein, you know he
Speaker 9: definitely killed himself. Definitely, he definitely killed himself.
Speaker 10: It's like you're lying, like everybody knows you're lying, bold, dying.
Speaker 10: So anybody who believed him before, they're like, why would
Speaker 10: we listen to you and support you when you were
Speaker 10: put into this position where you should have tried to
Speaker 10: do something about it and all and all you did
Speaker 10: instaid was all right, well we're going to I'm going
Speaker 10: to going to continue with the narrative, and why do you.
Speaker 1: Maybe he'll pick up like a murder mystery podcast. Maybe
Speaker 1: maybe that'll be his new stick or cryptids ooh, he might.
Speaker 1: He might get real popular in the cryptic community. Right,
Speaker 1: but my god, for him to even speak on anything
Speaker 1: political from this point forward, it's gonna be a tough sale.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a very hard, hard, tough sale. We'll
Speaker 1: see how it shakes out, Sam, whatch you got? Yeah?
Speaker 4: I don't see him being ever being able to get
Speaker 4: back in the conspiracy thing because everything he'll say will
Speaker 4: be look askewed and he's been he was a part
Speaker 4: of the system, and you can't trust somebody like that.
Speaker 4: And you're right, it's a lot like the mafia. Hilder.
Speaker 4: I personal believe it was the mafia that killed JFK,
Speaker 4: but with the hands in with the Secret Service, just
Speaker 4: because the mafia even had shit on Hoover and nine
Speaker 4: times of ten, the only way you leave the mafia
Speaker 4: is with a bullet and cement shoes. I can only
Speaker 4: tell you two people that I know of that gut
Speaker 4: away from the mafia and still alive. That Sammy and Michael.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Samy the Bull and Michael Franciso is the only
Speaker 1: two that I could think of. And I mean of
Speaker 1: the golden era of the mafia, not the not the
Speaker 1: ship that's happening today today.
Speaker 4: The mafia is still like, they still have backbone and all.
Speaker 4: But there there was a Southern mafia, like a Dixie
Speaker 4: mafia that they they are completely utterly destroyed. There is
Speaker 4: no more Dixie Mafia down here.
Speaker 1: Well, no, no, no. When we say like the mafia,
Speaker 1: I don't mean like the Jewish mafia, I don't mean
Speaker 1: the Russian mafia.
Speaker 4: I mean the Jewish mafia and the Italian mafia are
Speaker 4: really one and the same because Bugsy, because all of
Speaker 4: murder Ink were all Jews and Bugsy Siegell.
Speaker 1: And Myer Landski and like yeah, yeah, but they also
Speaker 1: operated separate but equally right they you can't bring up
Speaker 1: one without bringing up the other. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: like the Irish mafia you're talking about. Uh what was
Speaker 1: his name? Why do you know?
Speaker 4: He was an FBI inf mean, everything he did was
Speaker 4: for the FBI and uh, the guy, uh, the leader
Speaker 4: of murder inc. What was his name? He ended up
Speaker 4: working for the FBI when five Italians were found killed
Speaker 4: down here, which is why there was commbus day now
Speaker 4: that the FBI went to a healm and said, hey,
Speaker 4: we don't know where the bodies are, can you please
Speaker 4: find them? He had the guy I can't think of
Speaker 4: his name. I feel bad because I know his name,
Speaker 4: I just can't place it. He actually tortured, beaten and
Speaker 4: killed two of the k K members and took the
Speaker 4: third one, and it had the third guy lead him
Speaker 4: to the bodies.
Speaker 8: Bro.
Speaker 1: It was like within twenty four hours too. Yeah, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I remember. I can't remember this dude's name. He was
Speaker 1: a comedian who was like he thinks that we should
Speaker 1: have an Italian American from Jersey be the president. This
Speaker 1: whole thing with O'sollovan lauden Bro two Sicilians would have
Speaker 1: been there and back in twenty four hours with a body.
Speaker 1: That's how that would have gone down if as president.
Speaker 1: Listen I'm not saying I do this comedian whenever he
Speaker 1: made this case, though, real shit, I get it. I
Speaker 1: get it. Like the twin towers go down, everybody, the army,
Speaker 1: the Marine Corps, everybody deploys and gets up in arm
Speaker 1: to find one guy. One guy. Nah, dude, if a
Speaker 1: Sicilian would have been in office, two Sicilians from Jersey
Speaker 1: would have been there and back in twenty four hours
Speaker 1: they had done just like a hit found him in
Speaker 1: his cave with a baseball bat. That would have been it.
Speaker 4: And it's like, you know, okay, all right, can we
Speaker 4: get all Sylvester Stallone as president?
Speaker 1: Oh no, I do not want Italian Stallion to be
Speaker 1: the president. First of all, I could barely understand him
Speaker 1: when he speaks.
Speaker 4: Hey, now, I'm so you gotta get drunk. That's the
Speaker 4: way you can understand the slowing. Okay, But dude, of
Speaker 4: the jog, I fucking love Sylvestrich.
Speaker 1: I don't know what his political leanings are. That's the
Speaker 1: thing I heard somebody, Duwayne the Rock Johnson at one
Speaker 1: point in time was like making mention that he might
Speaker 1: go for a political run or something like that. And
Speaker 1: it's like, I'm not inherently against you. I do know
Speaker 1: you're a Democrat, and this is before the Hawaii fires
Speaker 1: and before the Blue roofs and all this stuff. And
Speaker 1: it was like, I don't know what your policies are,
Speaker 1: but you know, we're getting closer and closer to idiocracy
Speaker 1: by the day. I'll say that much.
Speaker 4: Oh then again, I voted for Affelman, so oh my god.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I saw this last election, Kanye West was on
Speaker 1: the ballot under the Birthday Party, and believe it or not,
Speaker 1: he got like nine thousand votes in the state of Louisiana.
Speaker 4: And it's like that, that's surprising. I thought he would
Speaker 4: have gone for the National Workers Party.
Speaker 1: Yeah, believe it or not, he's not a socialist, although
Speaker 1: his song where he's talking about the funny mustache man
Speaker 1: would lead people to say otherwise, No, apparently not apparently. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Australian Painter Party, if you will, failed art student,
Speaker 1: some might say. And also, yeah, I got I read
Speaker 1: a comment it was like, dude, go ahead.
Speaker 4: Bike, I do not like the guy. Well, I will
Speaker 4: say I have looked at his paintings. I had to
Speaker 4: do a whole report over him before my history class, which,
Speaker 4: funny enough, my history teacher was a Jewish man and like, dude,
Speaker 4: kind of glazed it. Man. I was like, that's kind
Speaker 4: of weird.
Speaker 1: Look, I'm not saying that he couldn't paint. I'm saying
Speaker 1: that he failed out of art school, which is why.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's a failed art student for one, and
Speaker 1: for two, it's not like his and I looked it up.
Speaker 1: There's like twenty two very famous paintings that Hitler did.
Speaker 1: They're not they're not incredible, They're good. They're they're they're
Speaker 1: very good.
Speaker 4: He should have been more of a land surveyor and
Speaker 4: like a Paennis of the landscape.
Speaker 1: He ended up going into architecture at one point in
Speaker 1: time and doing that type of art, which, okay, straight lines,
Speaker 1: especially with the brutalist architecture style, which is very straight
Speaker 1: lines and no artistic flair whatsoever. Sure, that's your jam.
Speaker 1: His paintings were not anything like groundbreaking by any means. Mean,
Speaker 1: fuck did the artists in the Renaissance were able to
Speaker 1: do things that made him look like a kindergartener with
Speaker 1: finger paint And it's like.
Speaker 4: Okay, at fourteen year old Leonardo da Vinci took a painting,
Speaker 4: made a painting of the gorgan Medusa, which in the
Speaker 4: Greek mythology she was always a Gorgan, the gorvan, the
Speaker 4: herbie and uh a maiden in in Iphidity's uh uh
Speaker 4: not ye into Athena's priesthood and everything I actually comes
Speaker 4: from the Roman myth But no, he actually made He
Speaker 4: actually did a painting and it looked so lifelike that
Speaker 4: his father fled in fear.
Speaker 1: But that's and a guy. Again we're talking about da Vinci, right,
Speaker 1: We're talking about like literally a legendary person both in
Speaker 1: the art world, all these things, right, right, right, But
Speaker 1: aside from him, there was also multiple artists from the
Speaker 1: Renaissance that that some people probably wouldn't even know, that
Speaker 1: were able to do things with way lesser techniques than Adolf.
Speaker 1: It's not only he was like a uh just a groundbreaking,
Speaker 1: mind blowing prodigy of art. He was an art student.
Speaker 1: He could paint ooh he still failed out. Still was
Speaker 1: a corporal in the in the you know, the the
Speaker 1: World War War, So.
Speaker 4: There there was a British soldier that actually had.
Speaker 1: Yeah I've read the reports, bro he he let him
Speaker 1: live and that was the whole thing. But I've heard
Speaker 1: so many people say, oh, that's why Hitler was a
Speaker 1: general in World War One. It's like, no, the fuck
Speaker 1: he wasn't. He was a corporal and he also wasn't
Speaker 1: a very good soldier at that I thought he.
Speaker 4: Was like their version of Alliance Schop. I didn't realize
Speaker 4: he was an n CEO.
Speaker 1: I don't know if corporal is an n CEO in
Speaker 1: the in the German military as of that time. I
Speaker 1: could be wrong, but like he My point is though
Speaker 1: he wasn't exactly like a leader of the troops by
Speaker 1: any means, and he wasn't a exceptional soldier. He was adequate,
Speaker 1: but like, yeah, he anyway, Anyway, we're not gonna we're
Speaker 1: not taking the whole episode to Adolf Hitler conversation, but yeah,
Speaker 1: it's I'm sorry, I love you too, Sam. Anyway, moving
Speaker 1: on here, don't know how Dan Bongino is gonna make
Speaker 1: it back into the civilian sector again. It's very possible
Speaker 1: that he gets scot here in the next few months.
Speaker 1: Continuing on, it says from Bongino, the biggest lifestyle change
Speaker 1: is family wise. It was a lot and it's been
Speaker 1: tough on the family. People ask all the time, do
Speaker 1: you like it? No, I don't. At another time during
Speaker 1: the interview, Bongino said, I gave up everything for this.
Speaker 1: Yeah you did. You lost your entire show, your listener base,
Speaker 1: your fandom, your everything, and you've lost all credibility by
Speaker 1: the masses. So yeah. Over the summer, Bongino clashed with
Speaker 1: other Trump administration staffers over a Justice Department and FBI
Speaker 1: review of the Epstein investigation. As a political pundit, Bongino
Speaker 1: had pushed the government to release more evidence on Epstein
Speaker 1: and suggested to cover up was afoot, but during this
Speaker 1: time atop the FBI, the agency's review found that Epstein
Speaker 1: had quote no client list, and there was no evidence
Speaker 1: to support changes or charges against others, finding that frustrated
Speaker 1: some Trump allies, y'all think, sources told CBS News at
Speaker 1: the time. Bongino attended a White House meeting in July
Speaker 1: with Attorney General Bondi and White House Chief of Staff
Speaker 1: Susie Wiles, which god Susie Wiles is also in hot
Speaker 1: water right now, basically saying today, I've seen so many
Speaker 1: reports saying that she claims that Trump speaks with the
Speaker 1: arrogance of a drunkard. I might be paraphrasing a bit,
Speaker 1: but you know, I don't disagree with her. But also
Speaker 1: if you're working in the White House in that regard,
Speaker 1: maybe don't shit on your boss. You know, I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't know Susie Wiles is. She's a person. She
Speaker 1: is a person. Focusing on the fallout of the review,
Speaker 1: That discussion resulted in a confrontation with Bondi. At the time,
Speaker 1: fan Gino was weighing whether to resign from his role.
Speaker 1: Weeks later, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey was tapped by
Speaker 1: mister Trump to share the role of co deputy director
Speaker 1: with Bongino. Typically, the FBI Deputy director role has been
Speaker 1: a career staffer at the bureau, but neither of the
Speaker 1: Trump administration's selections for the role had a history with
Speaker 1: the FBI before being appointed, which was the point. Right.
Speaker 1: In his role at the FBI, I bon Gino led
Speaker 1: a charge to re examine unsolved high profile cases, including
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty one DC pipe bombings, which, come to
Speaker 1: find out, was placed by a cop. But of course
Speaker 1: it was because of the jan sixers, and it was
Speaker 1: the violent insurrection, and except for the only person that
Speaker 1: was killed was a horrible, horrible accident and the pipe
Speaker 1: bomb that was found was actually planted by a badged
Speaker 1: DC police officer. What that's crazy, Like I said, moving
Speaker 1: on here. Earlier this month, the FBI arrested the man
Speaker 1: suspected of planting the pipe bombs outside of the Republican
Speaker 1: National Committee and Democratic National Committee headquarters on January fifth,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. Investigators have not revealed a potential motive yet,
Speaker 1: and core proceedings in the case have just begun. Could
Speaker 1: it be because it was an inside job and it
Speaker 1: was only put there to be found to further a
Speaker 1: certain narrative. I know, I'm just conspiracy theorist, but all right, Well,
Speaker 1: for years Bongino spread a conspiracy theory that the act
Speaker 1: may have been an inside job and that the bombs
Speaker 1: are planted by federal law enforcement, and that was later confirmed. Again,
Speaker 1: It's very possible that Bongino has just gotten sickened by
Speaker 1: the whole order of the day and has decided to
Speaker 1: go back and re establish his morals and re establish
Speaker 1: his backbone, and he's leaving because he sees this operation
Speaker 1: for what it is. It's possible, but the fact that
Speaker 1: you lean so heavily into it for months and months
Speaker 1: and months months, and now you're developing a spine like no,
Speaker 1: the time to be forthright and honest has passed. I
Speaker 1: don't know. It's who knows. He might have an insane
Speaker 1: comeback arc that's about to start for him. We can
Speaker 1: only hope him pray. You know, we will keep everybody
Speaker 1: posted as the Dan Bongino thing plays out here soon
Speaker 1: and hey, I'll be on the lookout to see what
Speaker 1: his career, what kind of turns his career takes next.
Speaker 1: But anyway, all right, the next course of action, just
Speaker 1: one pill, all it takes. Columbus Recovery Community praises Trump's
Speaker 1: order classifying fentanyl or fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction.
Speaker 1: That is a thing, that is the thing that just
Speaker 1: happened here. Trump has now declared a certain drug to
Speaker 1: be a weapon of mass destruction. Depending on who you ask,
Speaker 1: this could be because he is trying to come after
Speaker 1: Maduro in Venezuela, and he is saying that fentanyl is
Speaker 1: coming into our country from China via Venezuela. I gotta
Speaker 1: be honest with you, that doesn't seem to be accurate
Speaker 1: from my layman's perspective. Most of the drugs that are
Speaker 1: leaving Venezuela are actually headed to Africa and Europe. Yes,
Speaker 1: there are some boats that are absolutely on their way
Speaker 1: to America, and those have been getting the shit blown
Speaker 1: out of them, for sure, for sure. But Maduro himself,
Speaker 1: especially now that Trump has gone at it in this way,
Speaker 1: most of his shipments were supposed to be going to
Speaker 1: Africa and Europe. And if we're looking at where the
Speaker 1: fentanyl is coming from, we need to look at the
Speaker 1: JNNGC cartel or the Sinaloa cartel. They're the ones that
Speaker 1: are getting these shipments from China and cutting drugs with
Speaker 1: them to get better bang for buck on their profit margins.
Speaker 1: I can't really find much about Venezuela in this, but
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about how fentanyl could could be used
Speaker 1: as a weapon of mass destruction. There was an incident
Speaker 1: where Russian special forces pumped an entire theater full of
Speaker 1: fentanyl powder or fentanyl gas for lack of better words,
Speaker 1: not exactly gas, but like powdered form, drop of point.
Speaker 1: It's not like saying sarin gas. It's not actually a gas.
Speaker 1: It's the same thing with the fentanyl thing. And instead
Speaker 1: of trying to negotiate with the terrorists that were holding
Speaker 1: these people hostage in the theater. They just said, we'll
Speaker 1: kill everybody with fentanyl. We'll talk about that here in
Speaker 1: a minute. So I don't know, but uh yeah, Trump
Speaker 1: has now classified fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction.
Speaker 1: Before we play this clip and read the article, Sam,
Speaker 1: what you got a lot.
Speaker 4: Of the facts we use fat in our medical field
Speaker 4: and everything. I don't know how I know that our
Speaker 4: hospitals use it or like for surgeries and all. Oh
Speaker 4: as a they'll use a bit of it for anesthesia.
Speaker 4: And I know that because I was talking to the
Speaker 4: nurses today about it every time I'm at the hospital,
Speaker 4: or I knew things about medical.
Speaker 1: For cocaine, they'll use cocaine as a lookal topical aesthetic.
Speaker 4: Do you know what the do you know who the
Speaker 4: biggest buyer of the of the cocaine in America? And
Speaker 4: when I say cocaine, I mean like the plant and everything.
Speaker 1: Coca Cola, isn't it.
Speaker 4: It's Coca cola.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's Coca cola.
Speaker 4: They actually so that's why they legally can say they're
Speaker 4: using original taste for coke for coca coat because they
Speaker 4: don't use the don't because in the beginning they did
Speaker 4: use cocaine. Hell, we had cocaine gums old in general
Speaker 4: and everything. But no, so see now they take the
Speaker 4: plants that they will take, they will pick the leaves
Speaker 4: off of the stems and everything. They will put the
Speaker 4: well on the patching.
Speaker 1: They will have their bro You driving through a rough
Speaker 1: because you're drinking everything.
Speaker 4: Yes, sir, I didn't realize that it was a bad area.
Speaker 4: But they will filter the coat. They'll filter it through
Speaker 4: the leaves and that's why they you you do get
Speaker 4: traces amount of the That's why you get a lot
Speaker 4: of the balls and everything. Not really a buzz, but
Speaker 4: that's why the flavors. What I mean, not from what
Speaker 4: I've done with my research fantastic.
Speaker 1: It's basically like decaf coffee, Like, yeah, it's still coffee beans,
Speaker 1: but there's no caffeine for these. It's like, yeah, it's
Speaker 1: coca leaves, but there's no cocaine.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like teasing. It's like to tease to all
Speaker 4: the cocaines.
Speaker 11: Basically, oh, my uncle, like he's not my actual uncle,
Speaker 11: but I go up with him as a fang phone.
Speaker 11: He actually got off of cocaine by drinking a ungually
Speaker 11: amount of coca cola.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's if it works for you, you know,
Speaker 1: But anyway, anyway, So, but cocaine is used in the
Speaker 1: medical industry, so are a lot of opiates, right, And
Speaker 1: this is all designated and classified and all the things.
Speaker 1: It's restricted, it's taxed, all the shit. Finnanyl will still
Speaker 1: be used in these regards, but as far as the
Speaker 1: street drug of fentanyl yet now it's a weapon of
Speaker 1: mass destruction. So we're gonna read about this now. This
Speaker 1: is from a local news station here, and we're gonna
Speaker 1: play this little clip about it first, and we're gonna
Speaker 1: read about it. Let's learn together. And Donald Trump signed
Speaker 1: a sweeping executive order Monday declaring fentanyl a weapon of
Speaker 1: mass destruction. This is an unprecedented move here. It's designed
Speaker 1: to treat the synthetic opioid crisis as a national security
Speaker 1: threat rather than a public health issue.
Speaker 12: And it is a move that Columbus recovery community is
Speaker 12: pre tonight as they hope it leads to more lives saved.
Speaker 12: Ten TV's Brin Caswell shares the emotional story of a
Speaker 12: Columbus woman who has been deeply affected by the drug.
Speaker 13: Mister Devan and then Zach.
Speaker 14: Grief never goes away, but as time passes it changes,
Speaker 14: some days sting more than others.
Speaker 13: Well needs to be on FaceTime, like every night.
Speaker 14: For Alex Gold. Today is one of those days.
Speaker 13: My brother passed away a little over five years ago
Speaker 13: from an overdose. It was a percocet laced with fetanel
Speaker 13: and it was just one pill and that's all it takes.
Speaker 14: Today is what would have been Zach's thirtieth birthday.
Speaker 13: It's Russian roulette, you know, every time, every time you
Speaker 13: pick it up, you might not even know you're picking
Speaker 13: it up.
Speaker 14: Zach was battling addiction before overdosing at twenty four. He
Speaker 14: battle Alex knows personally.
Speaker 13: I started using heroin when I was fifteen. I did
Speaker 13: use fetanol, it wasn't the choice, but after I was
Speaker 13: addicted to heroin, I was using that daily.
Speaker 14: Monday, President Trump signing an unprecedented executive order.
Speaker 12: Were formerly classifying fentyl as a weapon of mass destruction.
Speaker 14: A declaration Alex believes will save lives.
Speaker 13: And I think that it absolutely is a weapon of
Speaker 13: mass destruction. It doesn't matter what the circumstances are fetanyl
Speaker 13: will take people's lives.
Speaker 14: The White House says. The move targets the fetanyl crisis,
Speaker 14: killing tens of thousands nationwide, largely driven by cartels. It
Speaker 14: expands federal power, allowing military and intelligence tools to be
Speaker 14: used against traffickers. Just last week, the deacs one hundred
Speaker 14: thousand counterfeit fetanyl pills in central Ohio.
Speaker 13: We're talking about our kids, our families, our neighbors, like
Speaker 13: we're talking about our lives.
Speaker 14: As Alex's life continues, addiction doesn't define her days, he does.
Speaker 1: So you know, a PSA for anybody who's never heard it,
Speaker 1: drugs are bad. Okay, just don't do just don't do
Speaker 1: especially these days, because you don't know what is and
Speaker 1: is not going to be laced with something. Even if
Speaker 1: the person you're getting it from somebody you trust, you
Speaker 1: don't know where they got it from. So as far
Speaker 1: as that goes, like, look, just just don't do it.
Speaker 1: Just don't do it. So simple. So this article kind
Speaker 1: of goes more in depth with it and kind of
Speaker 1: reiterates what was just said. But let's let in the
Speaker 1: world to remove. Okay, that just went that scared the
Speaker 1: Jesus out of me. I didn't know that was going
Speaker 1: to play. So now let's read into the White House
Speaker 1: presidential press release. Here. This is the Presidential Action Executive
Speaker 1: Order Designate Fentanyl as a Weapon of Mass Destruction by
Speaker 1: the authority invested in me a President, by the Constitution.
Speaker 1: In the Laws of the United States of America. It
Speaker 1: is hereby ordered Section one, Purpose and Policy elicit. Fentanyl
Speaker 1: is closer to a chemical weapon than a narcotic Two
Speaker 1: milligrams an almost undetectable trace amount is equivalent to ten
Speaker 1: to fifteen grains of table salt, constitutes a lethal dose.
Speaker 1: Hundreds of thousands of Americans have died from fentonyl overdoses. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I saw was something saying it was like four hundred
Speaker 1: thousand just in the last few years. It's it's pretty insane.
Speaker 1: And I don't even know if that was a verified source.
Speaker 1: I just do you hear these crazy stories? How. I
Speaker 1: have a buddy I served with who died from an
Speaker 1: accidental fentanyl overdose very similar to the story we just heard,
Speaker 1: and that was in Ohio. My boys in Indiana, like
Speaker 1: it's a thing. I went to his funeral. It was.
Speaker 1: It was horrible. And his parents were cops. Like his funeral,
Speaker 1: the reception was hailed at the local Fraternal Order of
Speaker 1: Police you know house in Indiana. His dad was a cop,
Speaker 1: his mom had worked for the police department. It wasn't like,
Speaker 1: you know, these were there's a family that was all
Speaker 1: broken up about like, no, these are good people, and
Speaker 1: he was a good person. I don't know if he
Speaker 1: started like experimenting with drugs recreationally. I don't know if
Speaker 1: he was out one night and just decided to take
Speaker 1: like a little hit off a joint and didn't know
Speaker 1: what was I don't know the full extent, but I
Speaker 1: do know that it was an accidental o d from fentanyl.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I absolutely can resonate with this one. The
Speaker 1: manufacturing distribution of fentanyl, primarily performed by organized crime networks,
Speaker 1: threatens our national security and fuel when in the world
Speaker 1: is this red thing on my screen and fuels lawlessness
Speaker 1: in our hemisphere and at our borders. The production and
Speaker 1: sale of fentanyl by foreign terrorists, organizations, and cartels fund
Speaker 1: these entities operations which include assassinations, terrorist attacks, and insurgencies
Speaker 1: around the world, and allow these entities to erode our
Speaker 1: domestic security and the well being of our nation. The
Speaker 1: two cartels that are predominantly responsible for the distribution of
Speaker 1: fentanyl in the United States engage in armed conflicts over
Speaker 1: territory and to protect their operations. Further, the potential for
Speaker 1: fentanyl to be weaponized for the concentrated, large scale terror
Speaker 1: attacks by organized adversaries is a serious threat to the
Speaker 1: United States. As President of the United States, my highest
Speaker 1: duty is the defense of our country and its citizens. Accordingly,
Speaker 1: I hereby designate illicit fentanyl and its core pre cursors
Speaker 1: chemicals as weapons of mass destruction. Section two the implementation.
Speaker 1: The heads of relevant executive or executive departments and agencies
Speaker 1: shall take appropriate actions to implement this order and eliminate
Speaker 1: the threat of illicit fitanyl and its core precursor chemicals
Speaker 1: to the United States. This includes the following actions. Attorney
Speaker 1: General shall immediately pursue investigations and prosecutions into fentanyl trafficking,
Speaker 1: including through criminal charges, as appropriate, sentencing enhancements, and sentencing variances.
Speaker 1: The Secretary of State and the State Treasury shall pursue
Speaker 1: appropriate actions against relevant assets and financial institutions in accordance
Speaker 1: with applicable laws. For those involved in or supporting the manufacturer, distribution,
Speaker 1: and sale of illicit fitnyl and its corporate cursor chemicals.
Speaker 1: The Secretary of War and Attorney General shall determine whether
Speaker 1: the threats posed by illicit fentanyl and its impact on
Speaker 1: the United States warrant the provision of resources from the
Speaker 1: Department of War and the Department of Justice to aid
Speaker 1: in the enforcement of Title eighteen by the United States Code.
Speaker 1: As consistent with ten USC two eight two. The Secretary
Speaker 1: of War, in consultation with the Secretary of Homeland Security,
Speaker 1: shall update all directives regarding armed Forces response to chemical
Speaker 1: indict or incidents in the homeland to include the threat
Speaker 1: of illicit fentanyl and to ensure the United States use
Speaker 1: the full array of appropriate counter fentanyl tools. The Secretary
Speaker 1: of Homeland Security, as consistent with applicable laws, and in
Speaker 1: coordination with the head of relevant Agencies as appropriate, shall
Speaker 1: identify threat networks related to fentanyl smuggling, using weapons of
Speaker 1: mass destruction and non proliferation related threats intelligence to support
Speaker 1: the full spectrum of counter fentanyl operations. Okay, so it
Speaker 1: goes into some of the definitions of what it means
Speaker 1: by elici fentanyl. It means fentanyl that is manufactured, distributed,
Speaker 1: or dispensed, or possessed with intent to manufacture, distribute, or
Speaker 1: dispense in violation with Section four oh one and four
Speaker 1: oh six of the Controlled Substance Act. The core precursor
Speaker 1: chemicals means the core chemicals that create alica finnyl in
Speaker 1: its analogs such as pie peradone or the other PI
Speaker 1: paradon based substances. General provisions is Section four doesn't really
Speaker 1: The general provisions is pretty much give the backstory to
Speaker 1: all of the other kind of conversational pieces here, go ahead,
Speaker 1: raven So.
Speaker 15: I actually my cousin's husband died of a fentanyl overdose easily.
Speaker 15: He took one hit of heroin, which obviously I don't condone,
Speaker 15: but he was a recovering attic and he, I guess,
Speaker 15: bought some heroin from somebody that he knew, and it
Speaker 15: was a small, like super small dose, but it had
Speaker 15: he was overweight and he had like medical conditions. He
Speaker 15: died like right right away. Also, like two buddies of
Speaker 15: mine from the Marine Corps had issues where shit was
Speaker 15: laced and they died. Also, fentanyl is definitely one of
Speaker 15: those things that killing off people. I think it was
Speaker 15: introduced for the sole reason to kill off the drug population.
Speaker 15: That way, it just lowers numbers and just be like, oh, well,
Speaker 15: just is kind of happening.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I fully agree. Honestly, we talked about the second
Speaker 1: Kingsman movie, The Golden Circle. I think fentanyl is the
Speaker 1: thing that instead of poisoning people and putting them into
Speaker 1: like basically a coma and poisoning in that way, it's
Speaker 1: it's literally something that can be laced into I've even
Speaker 1: heard reports of it being laced into weed, and it's
Speaker 1: it's even the smallest amounts that you wouldn't know about
Speaker 1: until it's too late.
Speaker 15: And it has. So they used fentanyl as in the
Speaker 15: hospitals to help with when you have like extreme nausea
Speaker 15: and vomiting. I actually am highly allergic to it and
Speaker 15: had a really serious life threatening reaction to it, and
Speaker 15: it was a small dose, and it's it's one of
Speaker 15: those scenes that if you're not going to know you're
Speaker 15: allergic to it until you have it, and once you
Speaker 15: have it, it's like a life or death kind of
Speaker 15: a situation. So I do agree with you. I think
Speaker 15: it's something that was introduced to be able to help
Speaker 15: manage the population. And it's a big issue. I mean,
Speaker 15: it's killing people off left and right. Kids are the
Speaker 15: ones that it's getting the most of. Yeah, children are
Speaker 15: the ones that are experimenting. I don't know if you
Speaker 15: ever heard a couple of those stories that came out
Speaker 15: the last few years of the girls that one of
Speaker 15: her friends gave her a pill and she thought it
Speaker 15: was like a tunnel or something like that, and I
Speaker 15: think it was like a half of a oxyar or
Speaker 15: an adderall or ecstasy or something like that, and it
Speaker 15: was laced with fentanyl and it killed her pretty much
Speaker 15: right then and there. Yeah, lots of children have died
Speaker 15: from it.
Speaker 1: That is absolutely horrible. So I am in agreement that
Speaker 1: this should be listed as a WMD. And just so
Speaker 1: we're all clear, there is at least a case of
Speaker 1: it being used as a weapon fentanyl itself. So let's
Speaker 1: talk about this here. This is the Arms Can Association
Speaker 1: arms IS and Weapons Russia uses opiate based gas on militants.
Speaker 1: When they say opiate base, that's not exactly accurate. It
Speaker 1: was fitting on gas. Let's read this here. So this
Speaker 1: is from two thousand and two. If I'm not mistaken,
Speaker 1: Russian law enforcement authorities stored a Moscow theater October twenty sixth. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is This was posted November one, two thousand and two.
Speaker 1: So October twenty sixth, two thousand and two. After pumping
Speaker 1: gas into the building where Chessian militants were holding more
Speaker 1: than seven hundred people hostage, many hostages rescued, but one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifteen to one hundred and seventeen hostages died
Speaker 1: from the effects of the gas, according to the media reports.
Speaker 1: So there was give or take like twenty I'm I
Speaker 1: don't remember all the details on this one, but later
Speaker 1: there was like twenty gunmen that were holding these people hostage,
Speaker 1: seven hundred of them, and it killed a seventh of
Speaker 1: the people that were there. One out of every seven
Speaker 1: people died from some sort of a fentanyl overdose. Oopsie, Daisy.
Speaker 1: I mean, Russia's never been like one to really care
Speaker 1: about their civilian population. Look what's going on in Ukraine.
Speaker 1: But we'll get to that in a bit. Anyway. Despite
Speaker 1: Russia's early reluctance to name the gas, help Minister Yuri Schevchenko,
Speaker 1: I think I killed that one set in a press
Speaker 1: conference on October thirtieth, that it was based on the
Speaker 1: opiate fentanyl. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Speaker 1: listed fentanyl as an incapacitating chemical agent. The death toll
Speaker 1: in Russia's early reluctance to identify the gas have raised
Speaker 1: concerns that the use of the substance might violate the
Speaker 1: Chemical Weapons Convention. So even if you're using this chemical
Speaker 1: that is just all up and down the streets in
Speaker 1: America right now, if you're using it as a weapon,
Speaker 1: it very well might go against international war crime law,
Speaker 1: same as like using mustard gas that's fun, which Russia
Speaker 1: ratified in nineteen ninety seven. Chevchenko said, no chemical substances
Speaker 1: that could fall within the International Weapons Convention were used
Speaker 1: in the course of this operation. It wasn't like a
Speaker 1: horrible weapon. It was fentanyl. So now come around twenty
Speaker 1: four years later, twenty three give or take, we now
Speaker 1: are listing fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction, and
Speaker 1: I'm all for it. The CWC does not prohibit riot
Speaker 1: control agents define as chemicals that can produce rapid excuse
Speaker 1: me this, I'm direct quote this one. A riot control
Speaker 1: agent is defined as chemicals that quote can produce rapidly
Speaker 1: inhuman sensory irritation or disabling physical effects which disappear within
Speaker 1: a short time following termination of exposure end quote. Although
Speaker 1: so it bans the use of such agents in warfare.
Speaker 1: Some analysis expressed concern that the gas used in the
Speaker 1: theater might violate the CWC because of the fatalities it caused. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would agree if this gas that is seen as
Speaker 1: non lethal killed one out of every seven exposed more
Speaker 1: than yeah, Yeah, I'd say it's a it's probably a
Speaker 1: little more detrimental than what they led on to. It
Speaker 1: is unclear whether the CWC member states, including the United States,
Speaker 1: which has its own non lethal chemical agent program, will
Speaker 1: decide to challenge Russell's use of the gas under the convention.
Speaker 1: Now that was again, this is back in two thousand
Speaker 1: and two, right, this is right after nine to eleven
Speaker 1: took place. We had bigger fish to fry at that moment.
Speaker 1: But when we talk about fentanyl being a weapon of
Speaker 1: mass destruction, we yes, we do need to talk about
Speaker 1: it in the street drug sense a one hundred percent.
Speaker 1: But even as a chemical agent itself, there is precedence
Speaker 1: for it being used as a weapon. And yeah, I
Speaker 1: would argue to say that if it's able to kill
Speaker 1: over one out of every seven people exposed to it
Speaker 1: in this way, I don't think it's a crazy thing
Speaker 1: to classify it as a WMD. I support this even
Speaker 1: further now, all right, So with all of that, it's said,
Speaker 1: releases being it's being spun in the narrative of trying
Speaker 1: to hurt Venezuela because that's the situation here. It's about
Speaker 1: hurting the Venezuelan cartels because that's where the fentanyl's coming from. Again,
Speaker 1: that's not exactly accurate, but it depends on which new
Speaker 1: source you're going to. There is such a push towards
Speaker 1: what I still as of this moment and very subject
Speaker 1: to change. As of this moment, I believe that American
Speaker 1: military is gearing up for a full scale invasion, if
Speaker 1: not some sort of a kinetic war in Venezuela. We
Speaker 1: have bob multiple boats, we commandeered an oil tanker, and
Speaker 1: now we had an almost outrageous mid air collision between
Speaker 1: Jet Blue plane and a military jet. Let's talk about
Speaker 1: it here, so the key points here. A Jet Blue
Speaker 1: flight reported a near mid air collision with a US
Speaker 1: military tanker over the Caribbean Sea. The Jet Blue pilot
Speaker 1: stated the military aircraft did not have its transponder turned on,
Speaker 1: which you only do that if you're flying some sort
Speaker 1: of a combat mission. That goes against a lot of
Speaker 1: international aviation laws. For you to not have your that's
Speaker 1: basically driving without a license plate. That's against the law everywhere,
Speaker 1: unless you're on like your own private land or something
Speaker 1: like that. In the air, nah, if you don't have
Speaker 1: your transponder on, pretty much every country with a standing
Speaker 1: air force is going to declare you a threat. So
Speaker 1: to say that a US military tanker didn't have their
Speaker 1: transponder on, that would lead some myself included, to say
Speaker 1: that it was probably flying some sort of a covert
Speaker 1: military operation. The US Air Force has confirmed it is
Speaker 1: aware of the report and is reviewing the matter. Oh
Speaker 1: I'll bet they are. The Jet Blue flight nearly collided
Speaker 1: with the US military tanker over the Caribbean c on Friday.
Speaker 1: According to air traffic control audio from the incident, the
Speaker 1: plane had just taken off from willem Stead, Carassal, which
Speaker 1: is the capital city of Venezuela, en route to JFK
Speaker 1: International Airport in New York when pilots reported that an
Speaker 1: Air Force tanker jet headed off into Venezuelan airspace, passed
Speaker 1: directly in front of the commercial flight, possibly at a
Speaker 1: distance as close as two miles. That may not sound
Speaker 1: like it's that crazy as far as a midair collision goes,
Speaker 1: but you got to keep in mind how fast these
Speaker 1: planes are moving. That's pretty damn close. That's not full
Speaker 1: on plane chicken with a plane, but that's close enough
Speaker 1: to get your hackles raised, for sure. The Air Force
Speaker 1: said it was investigating. We are aware of the recent
Speaker 1: reports regarding US military aircraft operations in the Caribbean and
Speaker 1: are currently reviewing the matter. Military aircrews are highly trained
Speaker 1: professionals who operate in accordance with established procedures and applicable
Speaker 1: airspace requirements. Colonel Emanuel l Ortiz, the public affairs chief
Speaker 1: at the US Southern Command, told USA Today in a statement.
Speaker 1: Safety remains a top priority and we are working through
Speaker 1: the appropriate channels to access the facts surrounding the situation.
Speaker 1: Jet Blue confirmed its reports to or It reported the
Speaker 1: incident to the government. Safety is our top priority. Our
Speaker 1: crew members are trained on proper procedures of various flight
Speaker 1: situations and We appreciate our crew for promptly reporting the
Speaker 1: situation to our leadership team. We have reported this incident
Speaker 1: to federal authorities and will participate in any investigation. As
Speaker 1: with Jet Blue told their government and the statement to
Speaker 1: USA today. Communication between the military and the civilian aircraft
Speaker 1: has been a central issue in aviation safety since the
Speaker 1: start of the year. A mid air collision between an
Speaker 1: American Airlines regional jet and an Army Blackhaw helicopter has
Speaker 1: been blamed in part on the helicopter flying without broadcasting
Speaker 1: its location to surrounding aircraft. That was the one that
Speaker 1: took place in DC. Everybody remembers that right right around
Speaker 1: Reagan International Apparently they were flying some night mission in
Speaker 1: and around DC is a training operation, and they just
Speaker 1: so happened to hit the plane that was about to
Speaker 1: come down. It was a mess. It was a whole mess.
Speaker 1: And it's also we played a video of this on
Speaker 1: the Cult of Conspiracy to say that that black Hawk
Speaker 1: there was really nothing they could do. They couldn't evade
Speaker 1: it too. There are air shows where black Hawks are
Speaker 1: cutting triple backflips and all these things that Blackhawk pilot
Speaker 1: seeing this plane coming could have dropped, could have barrel roll,
Speaker 1: could have done anything to get out of there, and
Speaker 1: didn't because the pilot, in my opinion, was lacking But whatever. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's not a good look. This whole situation with the
Speaker 1: plane almost hitting. Yeah, this is the one in DC.
Speaker 1: There's a picture of it on the screen right now.
Speaker 1: This situation of a military fuel tanker almost hitting a
Speaker 1: plane going in around Venezuela and airspace ties in I
Speaker 1: think to the situation of fentanyl being classified as a WMD.
Speaker 1: So with that, this is from Al Jazeera. I understand
Speaker 1: you have to test your source. I get that, but
Speaker 1: let's talk about this now. Venezuela a not so covert
Speaker 1: CIA disaster in the making. A few weeks ago slash
Speaker 1: months ago, Trump acknowledged that there are now CIA assets
Speaker 1: in Venezuela doing something. He didn't exactly acknowledge what. But
Speaker 1: if we're going to go off of the track record
Speaker 1: of what it looks like whenever a coup takes place
Speaker 1: in South America, it's pretty obvious what the CIA is
Speaker 1: trying to do there right now. They're absolutely trying to
Speaker 1: start a rebellion against Maduro in various ways. I don't
Speaker 1: know if that's gonna go over that well, because Maduro
Speaker 1: has been at least strategic in a few regards. One
Speaker 1: of them would be any civilian that is capable of
Speaker 1: carrying a weapon is now a member of for lack
Speaker 1: of better words, let's call it, the Venezuela National Guard.
Speaker 1: And they're not like you know, the weekend warrior types
Speaker 1: that we we have with the American National Guard. It's
Speaker 1: more like they get two weeks of training in a
Speaker 1: uniform and a weapon, and like they're now a part
Speaker 1: of it, and that's it. And you will see these
Speaker 1: parades of people walking down these streets for Maduro and it's, uh,
Speaker 1: it's not good. It's if these if again, I said this,
Speaker 1: I think last night on The Cult Live, if we
Speaker 1: were to get into an actual boots on the ground
Speaker 1: kinetic war in Venezuela, this would be an absolute blood bath.
Speaker 1: And I don't mean that it's like a cool thing,
Speaker 1: like yeah, we go fuck them up. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: that wouldn't be good at all. This would be to
Speaker 1: try to put it into a fair comparison here, this
Speaker 1: would be an NFL team playing a junior flag football league.
Speaker 1: There's there's no way this is gonna go well for them,
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be bad for all involved, honestly, so
Speaker 1: I'm yeah. But as we get closer, let's read into
Speaker 1: it here. Venezuela doesn't even produce fentanyl, but Washington is
Speaker 1: still going forward with a regime change efforts in Caracas
Speaker 1: as part of its war on drugs. Yes, they don't
Speaker 1: produce fentanyl, but the reports are basically saying that it's
Speaker 1: being used as a hub to ship fentanyl. But let's go.
Speaker 1: On Saturday, the Routers news agency published an exclusive report
Speaker 1: claiming that the United States is poised to launch a
Speaker 1: new phase of Venezuelan related operations in the coming days.
Speaker 1: The report cited four US officials who spoke on condition
Speaker 1: of anonymity. Two of the officials said covert operations would
Speaker 1: likely be the first step in this new action against
Speaker 1: Venezuelan President Maduro. This was less shocking than news, given
Speaker 1: that more than a month ago, US President Trump himself
Speaker 1: announced that he had authorized the CIA to conduct covert
Speaker 1: operations in Venezuela, a rather unique approach, since one does
Speaker 1: not normally broadcast actions that are supposed to be secret.
Speaker 1: Yet I have to agree with that one hundred percent
Speaker 1: usually don't like tell the world old that you're doing
Speaker 1: secret spy shit in a country. While you're doing secret
Speaker 1: spy shit in a country. I thought that was very odd. Anyway,
Speaker 1: It's no secret that the US has been overseeing a
Speaker 1: massive military build up in the region, with about fifteen
Speaker 1: thousand US troops currently stationed there under the guise of
Speaker 1: fighting narco terrorism. I don't necessarily think it's a guy's
Speaker 1: but I think they're also gear enough for what happens next.
Speaker 1: They're kind of using the narco terrorism as a it's
Speaker 1: to get everybody where it needs to be, you know,
Speaker 1: it's the reason for the stage. Since early September, Trump
Speaker 1: has also presided over wanton extra judicial executions in the Caribbean,
Speaker 1: c repeatedly ordering the bombing of what he claims are
Speaker 1: drug trafficking boats. Again, I wouldn't call these executions, but
Speaker 1: you know, you have to look at the source. Is
Speaker 1: it confirmed that these boats were carrying drugs in the
Speaker 1: first place. Jacob doesn't know this. I don't know that
Speaker 1: for a fact. I'm going off with the reports of
Speaker 1: other people here. But you know, every one of these boats,
Speaker 1: none of the families of these poor fishermen, if they
Speaker 1: are fishing boats, have come forward in some sort of
Speaker 1: a big press release to show how evil America is.
Speaker 1: If anyway, if anything, trende' Irawa and Cartel de Soul
Speaker 1: have both mentioned that, like damn it, we've lost a
Speaker 1: shipmentt so like yeah, yeah, I would say these are
Speaker 1: drug boats. But all right, in addition to violating both
Speaker 1: air national and US law, that's not true. The strikes
Speaker 1: have produced little to show them for themselves beyond terrorizing
Speaker 1: local fishermen. That's the very incorrect statement. Start to finish again,
Speaker 1: we have to test the source, and this is Al Jazeera,
Speaker 1: a Katari news outlet owned by the Qatar royal family.
Speaker 1: Take that with the grand of salt. To be sure.
Speaker 1: The US has never met a quote war on drugs.
Speaker 1: It didn't love. That's accurate, given the convenient opportunities the
Speaker 1: whole drug war narrative offers for wreaking havoc world wide,
Speaker 1: the militarization in the Western hemisphere, the criminalization are criminalizing
Speaker 1: poor Americans and all sorts of other good stuff. That's accurate.
Speaker 1: That's accurate. Never mind that US financial institutions have for
Speaker 1: decades reap profits from the international drug trade, or that
Speaker 1: the CIA drug connection is as old as the agency.
Speaker 1: As an article on the New York Times website puts it, again,
Speaker 1: very accurate, very accurate. It come as no surprise by
Speaker 1: now that the president, who campaigned on keeping the US
Speaker 1: out of wars and then promptly bombed Iran, has now
Speaker 1: found another conflict in which to embroil the country. And
Speaker 1: as is part of the course in the US imperial
Speaker 1: but belligerents, the rational for aggression against Venezuela doesn't hold
Speaker 1: water kind of but not really, not really.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 1: For example, the Trump administration has strived to pin the
Speaker 1: blame for the fentanyl crisis in the US on Maduro.
Speaker 1: But there's a slight problem, which is that Venezuela doesn't
Speaker 1: even produce the synthetic opioid in question. Now it comes
Speaker 1: from China. We know that for a fact. But China
Speaker 1: and the US just signed an end to the tariff war,
Speaker 1: so we can't like get after them on this regard.
Speaker 1: We gotta find Someboddy. That's how this goes. You gotta
Speaker 1: have a boogeyman. Nevertheless, one November thirteenth, US Secretary of
Speaker 1: War Pete Hegseth, Pardon, they fucked up, and they're trying
Speaker 1: to make it pithy. The US Secretary of Defense Pardon.
Speaker 1: US Secretary of War, as per administration rebranding, which I support,
Speaker 1: took two x to assure his audience that the massive
Speaker 1: US military build up off the Venezuelan coast is a
Speaker 1: mission that defends our homeland, removes narco terrorists from our hemisphere,
Speaker 1: and secures our homeland from the drugs that are killing
Speaker 1: our people. Again, I'm not saying that's an incorrect statement
Speaker 1: from Hegseeth. What I am saying is that there's been
Speaker 1: nothing done towards the other cartels that are moving way
Speaker 1: more product into our country. And if it has been on,
Speaker 1: it's been so negligible that it hasn't even made headlines.
Speaker 1: You see what I'm saying here, And I understand they're
Speaker 1: pushing a narrative. Mainstream media is spinning this up to
Speaker 1: get people very invested in freeing the poor Venezuelan people
Speaker 1: from this evil dictator that's trying to kill American civilians.
Speaker 1: I get it. I get their plan. But also if
Speaker 1: it's the war on drugs and the cartels are all
Speaker 1: listed as terrorist groups. The Texas border has had multiple gunfights.
Speaker 1: We're not even talking about those anymore because it's all
Speaker 1: about Venezuela. Anyway. This is the same administration, of course,
Speaker 1: that was just threatening to starve improverished Americans by withholding
Speaker 1: essential food assistance. That's yeah, that wasn't the Trump administration.
Speaker 1: That was. That was the government shut down, and that's oh,
Speaker 1: we're not gonna start pointing the finger at which side
Speaker 1: of the aisle did that, because everybody just needed to
Speaker 1: collectively pull their head out of their ass on that one.
Speaker 1: But anyway, consider also the fact that Trump slash federal
Speaker 1: funding for gun violence prevention programs in a country where
Speaker 1: mass shootings have become a way of life. I don't
Speaker 1: think that's accurate, and if anything, I think we should
Speaker 1: be carrying more guns. That's how you stop a mass shooting.
Speaker 1: Look at Australia. If the civilian population was armed, how
Speaker 1: bad do you think that Bondai Beach situation would have been.
Speaker 1: I don't know this for a fact, but I got
Speaker 1: a hard time believing that it would have been made
Speaker 1: worse by more people armed and ready for something to
Speaker 1: take place. Food for thought, hard pillal swallow for some
Speaker 1: Poverty itself is a major killer in America, as is
Speaker 1: the domestic pharmaceutical industry speaking of opioids. However, none of
Speaker 1: these full blown crisis has merited a remotely gung ho
Speaker 1: response from the valiant defenders of the homeland. According to
Speaker 1: Rory's report on impending Venezuela related operations, two of the
Speaker 1: US officials consulting or consulted told the news agency that
Speaker 1: the options under considered included attempting to overthrow Maduro. That
Speaker 1: would be why the CIA is there right now. I'm
Speaker 1: fully in belief of this. If the plan succeeds, Rubio
Speaker 1: would join the leafy roster of US politicians who have
Speaker 1: propagated deadly havoc abroad in the interest of political gains
Speaker 1: at home. Yeah. Absolutely, and I honestly think that that's
Speaker 1: what's going down here. I don't know this for a fact,
Speaker 1: but they got to use something to be the false flag,
Speaker 1: and it's who knows. They may even have some sort
Speaker 1: of a false flag terrorist attack happened here where quote
Speaker 1: unquote Venezuelan nationals were found to be the perpetrators of
Speaker 1: these heinous acts on the American citizenry. That's very possible
Speaker 1: that that is coming down the pipe here in the
Speaker 1: next few months. I think it's a lot more likely
Speaker 1: that the CIA is going to try to overthrow a
Speaker 1: Dua by some means or assassinate him, either way that goes.
Speaker 1: If they don't do this right, then there will be
Speaker 1: a color color revolution on our hands of Venezuela, which
Speaker 1: military industrial complex will be happy about. But that doesn't
Speaker 1: necessarily mean that the American military will get involved. It
Speaker 1: doesn't not mean that either. I don't know's there's like
Speaker 1: four or five options of what might happen next. None
Speaker 1: of them are really positive. Some are less shitty than others,
Speaker 1: but it's yeah. So anyway, we are going to move on,
Speaker 1: but I am going to continue to report on the
Speaker 1: Venezuelan situation as time goes on. But again, with fentanyl
Speaker 1: being declared a weapon of mass destruction, I could see
Speaker 1: this also being a key thing. Or keep in mind,
Speaker 1: we invaded Iraq because they clearly had weapons of mass destruction.
Speaker 1: They didn't they didn't know they had seren gas bombs
Speaker 1: that America sold them sh but we won't to talk
Speaker 1: about that, right So, now that they keep saying that
Speaker 1: Venezuela producing fentanyl, which they're not shit. We don't talk
Speaker 1: about that. We're gonna say that they have manufacturing facilities
Speaker 1: making weapons of mass destruction in the way of fentanyl,
Speaker 1: and that might be the push that's needed to actually
Speaker 1: get some boots on the ground of Venezuela. I don't
Speaker 1: know this for a fact, but I could see the
Speaker 1: writing on the walls and it doesn't exactly look good anyway.
Speaker 1: Talking about writing on the walls here, let's talk about
Speaker 1: the UN reporting on the aid agencies warn Gaza response
Speaker 1: at breaking point as Israel urged to lift new restrictions.
Speaker 1: So this is a fairly recent report. It's from the
Speaker 1: seventeenth of December, actually from today as a time of recording.
Speaker 1: In a sharply worded statement issued on Tuesday, the Humanitarian
Speaker 1: Country Team, which brings together senior UN officials in more
Speaker 1: than two hundred local and international aid groups, called on
Speaker 1: the international community to press Israeli authorities to reverse measures
Speaker 1: that are choking humanitarian work, particularly in the Gaza strip.
Speaker 1: At the center of concern is a new registration system
Speaker 1: for international non governmental organizations introduced earlier this year. So
Speaker 1: eight groups say that the process is vague politicized and
Speaker 1: impossible to meet without breaching humanitarian principles. Under the current rules,
Speaker 1: dozens of organizations face de registration by the end of December,
Speaker 1: followed by the forced closure of their operations within a week.
Speaker 1: These organizations are not optional extras, the statement said. If
Speaker 1: they are pushed out, the humanitarian response will not survive.
Speaker 1: International NGOs, working alongside UN agencies and Palestinian partners, deliver
Speaker 1: around one billion dollars worth of assistance each year across
Speaker 1: the territory. Yet millions of dollars worth of food, medicines,
Speaker 1: hygiene supplies and shelter materials are now stuck outside of Gaza,
Speaker 1: unable to reach families in need. So I gotta tell
Speaker 1: you all, when I found this publication, I was actually
Speaker 1: looking for an update on what was going on in
Speaker 1: the Gaza situation. And of course there's a few skirmishes
Speaker 1: here and there. There's still some some strikes that are happening,
Speaker 1: not major though. I think it was like, I saw
Speaker 1: one report saying two people killed in Gaza from IDF.
Speaker 1: I saw something saying that eleven IDF soldiers were killed
Speaker 1: from Gaza fighters. I don't know. I don't know what
Speaker 1: to believe because the narrative has been spun to such
Speaker 1: a level where you honestly don't even know what source
Speaker 1: is credible anymore. So that's fair. But what I am
Speaker 1: saying is that for the civilian population in Gaza that
Speaker 1: have been struggling for this long, they are now saying
Speaker 1: that they need to lift the restrictions on the aid
Speaker 1: that can get to them. Otherwise these people, it's they
Speaker 1: are going to starve, they are going to be They're
Speaker 1: gonna die from exposure, whatever the case is. And I
Speaker 1: think that's always been net Yahu's plan in one way
Speaker 1: or another. And I don't think that's like a hot
Speaker 1: take either. But it's still the point where even the
Speaker 1: UN is recognizing the situation and telling Israel that they
Speaker 1: need to like let up a bit, they need it,
Speaker 1: they need to calm down. So as we're going on,
Speaker 1: I didn't want to give at least somewhat of an
Speaker 1: update on the Israel Goaza situation. Now, as we talked
Speaker 1: about earlier, US and Russia are supposed to hold talks
Speaker 1: on Ukraine war in Miami this weekend. In Miami. Let's
Speaker 1: get into it here. US and Russian officials are expected
Speaker 1: to meet in Miami this weekend as part of Trump's
Speaker 1: administration's pushed to bring an into nearly four years of
Speaker 1: war between Kiev and Moscow. According to two people familiar
Speaker 1: with the matter, as President Trump's efforts to end the
Speaker 1: fighting have faltered, the US has ratchet up pressure on
Speaker 1: Ukraine to make concessions that would end the war. The
Speaker 1: plan remains in flux, but if they go ahead this weekend,
Speaker 1: the administration will present the outcome of most recent round
Speaker 1: of discussion to Russian officials, who have not shifted much
Speaker 1: on their demands. Yeah, every time that Trump has made
Speaker 1: some sort of a deal that he said, this is
Speaker 1: gonna be the one, it's gonna be great. We're gonna
Speaker 1: make Russia come to the table, Zelenski has conceded more
Speaker 1: and more and more and more and more. And feel
Speaker 1: whatever way you want about Zelensky, I get it. But
Speaker 1: at first he was as stubborn and hard headed as
Speaker 1: Russia was like, no, we're not gonna make a concession.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be you're gonna leave Ukraine or we're gonna
Speaker 1: keep fighting. Then it was okay, fine, we will give
Speaker 1: you somewhat of the lamb, but not all that you've taken,
Speaker 1: you're given some of it back. It's gone on and on,
Speaker 1: and Zelensky has finally been like, look, whatever the fuck
Speaker 1: it takes to end this shit, Like, okay, can can
Speaker 1: we stop fighting now? Russia, on the other hand, has
Speaker 1: been like, nah, we're not gonna stop until we decide
Speaker 1: we're done. And depending on who you ask, some make
Speaker 1: it seem like they want the entirety of Ukraine. Some
Speaker 1: make it seem like they pretty much just want to
Speaker 1: take the territories they've taken and put up a DMZ
Speaker 1: type of situation. I don't know, let's read in here.
Speaker 1: The Russian delegation is expected to include the head of
Speaker 1: Russia's Sovereign Wealth Fund, kill Dmitriev. I don't know if
Speaker 1: that's how you pronounce it or not. According to one
Speaker 1: of the people familiar with the matter, both people were
Speaker 1: granted anonymity to discuss plans for next rounds of sensitive talks.
Speaker 1: Trump Administration Special Envoy Steve Witkoff there's a guy you
Speaker 1: need to pay attention to, and Trump's son in law,
Speaker 1: Jared Kushner are expected to represent the US side. That's
Speaker 1: that's a bit of a red flag on the play
Speaker 1: for me personally. Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are gonna
Speaker 1: be the let's call them mediators. Okay, sure, right. The
Speaker 1: White House did not immediately respond to your request for comment. Shocker.
Speaker 1: Wikoff and Kushner earlier this week held marathon talks in
Speaker 1: Berlin with Ukrainian and European officials to agree on US
Speaker 1: security guarantees for Kiev, territorial concessions and other matters. As
Speaker 1: Washington continued to pressure Kiev in it's pushed to in
Speaker 1: the war, the US has offered a mutual defense promise
Speaker 1: similar to the pledge it made to NAY members. While
Speaker 1: Ukraine had backed off its demand to immediately join the
Speaker 1: Transatlantic Alliance, Trump administration officials believe Russia will accept Western
Speaker 1: security guarantees and Ukraine's EU membership in a final deal.
Speaker 1: I don't know how they think that that's gonna go down,
Speaker 1: but okay. But Russian President Putin on Wednesday gave no
Speaker 1: signs that he had backed away from his desire to
Speaker 1: all but in Ukraine's existence as a sovereign state. There
Speaker 1: it is, there's the Vladimir we love there. He is
Speaker 1: just going at it because Ukraine is obviously Russian. This
Speaker 1: is a that we are forced into this. They made
Speaker 1: us invade them and attack them and killed them and
Speaker 1: all these they did this to us. We Yeah, sure,
Speaker 1: bro sure. Speaking of senior defense officials in Moscow, he
Speaker 1: said Russia would not back down from its mission to
Speaker 1: liberate its historic lens and predicted the European swine back
Speaker 1: in Kiev would ultimately lose power. Yeah, you're liberating the
Speaker 1: people of a country that clearly did not want to
Speaker 1: be Russian by all metrics and standards. I know people
Speaker 1: that live in Ukraine. None of them wanted to be Russian.
Speaker 1: None of them have ever wanted to be Russian. Hell,
Speaker 1: half of them remember what happened or what it looked
Speaker 1: like before the Soviet Union fell, when they would have
Speaker 1: to wait in line all day for half of a
Speaker 1: loaf of moldy bread and that was the only food
Speaker 1: that the government was going to be given them for
Speaker 1: the week, and they had to bring that to their
Speaker 1: families and say this is what we got. We got
Speaker 1: to make it work. And I understand that Russia right
Speaker 1: now is not the Soviet Union. I get that, but
Speaker 1: people who lived through communism don't forget it very quickly. See,
Speaker 1: Americans have a very short memory. The people in Ukraine
Speaker 1: do not. They do not anyway. And I understand the
Speaker 1: government's super corrupt, and yes, I'm not denying that at all,
Speaker 1: but the people would rather live in a corrupt Ukrainian
Speaker 1: government rather than a Russian dystopian government. That's like not
Speaker 1: even a hot take, but anyway. The US has said
Speaker 1: it expects to soon convene a group of Ukraine supporting
Speaker 1: military officials in the US to further hammer out technical
Speaker 1: details on security and territory. The US Russia talks in
Speaker 1: Miami appeared to be a separate effort. Ukrainian National Security
Speaker 1: Advisor rustam Umarov Sure is also expected to meet with
Speaker 1: the American delegation in advance of the US Russia sit down,
Speaker 1: said the first person familiar with the matter, added or
Speaker 1: adding that plans remained fluid. Yeah, they better be. European
Speaker 1: leaders have spent much of the past two weeks huddling
Speaker 1: to try and iron out specific plans for security guarantees
Speaker 1: for Kiev, including a demilitarized zone along the current front
Speaker 1: lines and troop pledges for training Ukrainian forces and monitoring
Speaker 1: any ceasefire. Yeah, I'm expecting a DMZ realistically even that,
Speaker 1: or they're just gonna keep going until one side finally
Speaker 1: decides enough's enough. And I don't think either side's gonna
Speaker 1: decide that anytime soon. One European official, also granted ananemity
Speaker 1: to discuss sensitive plomacy, said that the coalition troops would
Speaker 1: likely be tasked with operating aircraft and drones to survey
Speaker 1: the front lines, while some troops would be stationed in
Speaker 1: western Ukraine to help rebuild Ukrainian forces, not to serve
Speaker 1: on the front line. Okay, there it is. So that
Speaker 1: was from Politico, And again it's a lot to take in,
Speaker 1: and I get that. What is really to be said
Speaker 1: about the Ukraine Russia conversation as of now, same thing
Speaker 1: that they've been saying for the past year two three.
Speaker 1: This two week special military operation is about to hit
Speaker 1: its four year anniversary. Both sides have lost way more
Speaker 1: men in resources than they actually wanted. But again, I
Speaker 1: am at least grateful for the fact that Russia got
Speaker 1: seen as the paper tiger that it is, so the
Speaker 1: world could stop thinking that Russia's like the big bad
Speaker 1: guy of the world. It's not. It's not, and also
Speaker 1: China's military ain't neither. But you know anyway, all right,
Speaker 1: before we wrap up, go ahead and get to the
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